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To be followed by swarms of locusts that blot out the sun, earthquakes, rumors of war, and a false messiah. I believe I read about all of this somewhere.
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I wondered how long until Sergei would be back at it. I guess Putin is paying back his old friends, again... The Pakies love the MI17, but they cant fly them. Sergei will sell them junkers for western prices and everyone will be happy. Sergei will buy a new chalet, Putin will be happy, and the Pakies will get a few flights in their new aircraft and then crash them....
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An explosion has struck a busy shopping district in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, killing at least 21 people. The explosion was in the capital's Wuse district, near the popular Banex plaza shopping complex, and could be heard from miles away.
It is not yet clear what was behind the explosion, however police say they are securing a "crime scene".
"We saw the smoke and people covered in blood. It was just chaos."
Eyewitnesses at the scene described seeing body parts scattered across the area.
The area was packed with shoppers at the time of the blast, the BBC's Hausa service editor Mansur Liman reports. Many cars outside the shopping complex were burnt out and many windows were shattered, he adds.
One man told the BBC his driver was killed in the blast: "I was in the complex when I saw that the ground was shaking. I saw my driver dead and a lot of casualties."
Manzo Ezekiel, spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency, told AFP news agency: "You can see smoke billowing from the sky. It's a very crowded place."
Police spokesman Frank Mba said he could not provide details of the nature or extent of the damage.
[BBC] North Korea has promised "merciless" retaliation if a forthcoming Hollywood movie about killing Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... is released, say agencies.
The worst thing you can do to a short, pudgy totalitarian dictator with a bad hair cut is to mock him...
A North Korean foreign ministry front man said in state media that the movie's release would be an "act of war".
He did not mention the title, but a Hollywood movie called The Interview with a similar plot is due in October.
Hollywood actors James Franco and Seth Rogen star in the action-comedy film. They play a talkshow host and his producer who are invited to interview Kim Jong-un, and are subsequently recruited by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to assassinate the leader.
The film's teaser trailer, posted on Youtube, shows a lookalike actor playing Kim Jong-un, as well as fight scenes involving what appear to be North Korean tanks and helicopters, and a nuclear missile launch.
The North Korea front man was quoted by the state KCNA news agency as saying: "Making and releasing a movie on a plot to hurt our top-level leadership is the most blatant act of terrorism and war and will absolutely not be tolerated."
He added that the "reckless US provocative insanity" of mobilising a "gangster filmmaker" to challenge the North's leadership was triggering "a gust of hatred and rage" among North Korean people and soldiers.
"If the US administration allows and defends the showing of the film, a merciless counter-measure will be taken," the front man was quoted as saying.
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This is beginning to sound like a movie, i.e. "The Mouse That Roared".
Small country provokes a war with the US, so they can lose quickly, and then demand assistance rebuilding (as in the Marshall Plan). Peter Sellars at his best.
I'm just sayin'...
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Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, told Republicans Tuesday he could have an announcement within days on whether the House will file a lawsuit against President Barack Obama, challenging the executive actions that have become the keystone of the administration.
The lawsuit could set up a significant test of constitutional checks and balances, with the legislative branch suing the executive branch for ignoring its mandates, and the judiciary branch deciding the outcome.
Boehner told the House Republican Conference during a closed-door meeting Tuesday morning that he has been consulting with legal scholars and plans to unveil his next steps this week or next, according to sources in the room.
Boehners legal theory is based on work by Washington, D.C., attorney David Rivkin of Baker Hostetler LLP and Elizabeth Price Foley, a professor of law at Florida International University College of Law.
Rivkin said in an interview that in addition to proving institutional injury, the House would have to prove that as an institution, it has authorized the lawsuit. A vote by the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group would do so.
The suit would also have to prove that no other private plaintiff has standing to challenge the particular suspension of executive action and that there are no other opportunities for meaningful political remedies by Congress, for instance by repeal of the underlying law.
Professor Foley and I feel that if those four conditions are met, the lawsuit would have an excellent chance to succeed. This is particularly the case because President Obamas numerous suspensions of the law are inflicting damage on the horizontal separations of powers and undermine individual liberty, Rivkin said.
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I sense some frustration and desperation on the part of Boehner. A civil suit would be equivalent to Goldman suing O.J. for his assets. O.J. was running and around and playing golf before he got really stupid in Nevada and thrown in the slammer for conviction in a criminal case. This case is at best meant to harass and annoy and wrest some control away from Harry Reid, Obama, and Holder. No one will serve jail time.
What part of "The lawsuit could set up a significant test of constitutional checks and balances" did you miss? It's more like a constitutional version of laying the groundwork for establishing a RICO claim.
And yes - 'planning' doesn't mean anything. More likely he's running up a flag and seeing if the establishment GOP will salute it.
[ZeroHedge] Remember when in January 2014, Q1 GDP was expected to rise 2.6%? Well, here comes the final Q1 GDP revision and it's a doozy: at -2.9%, far below the -1.8% expected and well below the -1.0% second revision, it is an absolute disaster, and is the worst print since Q1 2009.
And while a bad GDP print was largely expected, the driver wasn't: personal consumption expenditures somehow crashed from 3.1% to just 1.0%, far below the 2.4% expected, meaning that all hope of a consumer recovery is dead. Finally, as a reminder, US GDP has never fallen more than 1.5% except during or just before an NBER-defined recession since quarterly GDP records began in 1947. Good luck department of truth propaganda machine, because even assuming 3% growth every other quarter in 2014 means 2014 GDP will be 1.5% at best!
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Bad for dems. Bad for the Beest as well. Costly 'lesson learned' for dem voting citizens, and... others voting for dems. The real challenge lies in their ability to actually absorb the lesson? I fear they will likely not.
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What little "recovery" there has been since 2009 has gone almost entirely to the 0.1%. For the rest of us, stagflation / depression. We will be having our "top men" revising the statistics before the next election to keep incumbents in office.
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3 headlines seen today, on the same page at Bloomberg.com:
-- Sales Pickup Shows Healing U.S. Real Estate Market
-- Housing Market Falters Amid Rising Prices, Lower-Paying Jobs
-- HUD Nominee Faces Senators as Housing Recovery Sputters
The MSM continues to beat the drum that extravagant real estate prices and rents are somehow good for the economy as a whole. Just the opposite is true.
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Are the numbers be manipulated strongly downward NOW so that they can be manipulated steadily upwards leading into the election? That way the Dems could claim they should be re-elected because their policies are working.
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Why, Pappy? If the policy was to have the Prez play more golf and the apparent result was a seemingly improving economy the target demographic would buy it.
h/t Gates of Vienna
Madrid, June 24 - A Spanish court on Tuesday decided to drop a case against high-ranking Chinese political and military officials on allegations of genocide in Tibet in light of new legislation making it more difficult for prosecutors to investigate crimes committed outside the country's borders. The meaning of "outside the country's borders" beginning to penetrate?
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Was it the 'mind your own business' from the Chinese, or the laughter?
The biggest problem with underemployment for lawyers is, they're capable of finding things to do that you don't want done.
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At least someone is figuring with the depressed economy, there are more things at home that need attention other than grand standing lawyers.
h/t Gates of Vienna
Britain may have to undertake military operations sooner than people think because of the rapidly changing security situation around the world, the head of the Army said.
Gen Sir Peter Wall said Britain now faced a growing range of threats, from attack by ballistic missiles, to terrorism and cyber warfare. The Chief of the General Staff also repeated warnings that any further defence cuts after the 2015 election would endanger the Army's new slimmed down structure. Jack of Norfolk, be not too bold, For Dickon, thy master, is bought and sold
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The armies of the rest of NATO have shrunk astonishingly fast in the last fifteen years, as quickly as the British armed forces have shrunk, they haven't kept pace with Germany or the others. The days of a massed conscript Bundeswehr are gone. Yes, they're more professional, but they're barely there, now. The new eastern members of NATO have been following the German example for the most part - the Polish Army is now unnervingly small. The Russians have always operated on the maxim "quantity has a quality all its own"...
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How many living in Britain have joined the Jihad All-Stars?
[Jpost] For most Westerners, Turkey is a hard nut to crack.
How can you understand a state sponsor of terrorism that is also a member of NATO?
How can you explain Turkey's facilitation of Kurdish independence in Iraq in light of Turkey's hundred-year opposition to Kurdish independence?
What is Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyep Erdogan trying to accomplish here?
Is he nuts?
Hamas, ISIS, and Al Nusra are three of Erdogan's tools, along with favouring Iraqi Kurdistan to separate them from their "Mountain Turk" cousins... The eminent prime minister has been busy in rcent years. Caroline Glick goes from strength to strength.
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A "rump" Kurdistan carved from Iraq can be pretty effectively neutered. And then used as a place to push Kurdish dissenters from Turkey, as well as a political club internationally - as in "See we support Kurdistan" all while repressing the Kurds in Turkey.
Problem for Turkey starts when Iraq resolves itself (i.e. sunni and shia run out of throats to cut on each other), and the Kurds set their focus North. An insurgency fed from a neighboring country, even a small one, can cause all kinds of havoc when there are large indigenous ethnic populations to support it.
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OS he might be covered a bit in the medium run as well. If Northern Iraq is recognized as an independent Kurd nation and is a part of the UN it works for Turkey. As you said he can dump Kurds into it as fast as he can, and when the situation quiets down and if the Kurds start supporting insurgents, Turkey is still a member of NATO.
Any bets that Turkey will milk that for all its worth if the Kurds cause issues? An attack on one is an attack on all.
[Huffpoo] Former Vice President Dick Cheney offered an extremely morose prediction about the country's future on Tuesday.
Asked on the Hugh Hewitt radio show whether he believes the United States could survive the decade without another attack on the homeland, Cheney said, "I doubt it."
"I think there will be another attack and next time, I think it's likely to be far deadlier than the last one," he added. "Imagine what would happen if somebody could smuggle a nuclear device, put it in a shipping container and drive it down the Beltway outside Washington D.C." Cheney should not be faulted. He's thinking worst case, outside the box. His and Bush's fault lies in not lining the Memorial Bridge with the heads of the FBI and National Intelligence Agencies immediately following 9/11.
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Strange, iff the GOP doesn't act ASAP to save its own arse, IT WILL BE GONE AS A MAJOR ESTABLISHMENT PARTY IN THE USoAMERIKA WIDIN THE SAME TIME FRAME.
Map clearly illustrates the ultimate target of destruction.
A nice little round-up by Pamela Geller at her blog links to a nice bigger round-up by the Washington Post. It's the Post which has the map Besoeker approves of.
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I share this strategy in hopes that it will work in the Middle East also! I stopped one of the world's largest terror organizations in Texas with a 2x4 all they need to do is figure out how to use one calling all carpenters!
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Been support those doing work in Jordan to prepare for this since mid last year. The Jordanians figured this might happen when the initial ISIS incursions were basically ignored by Obama, and Iraqi Shia under Maliki used it as an excuse to beat up Sunnis.
Jordan's military is as ready as they could be thanks to good prep, foresight, and US Contractors and US military training liaison officers and NCOs that have been silently working their asses off for the past year.
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Word has it that Maliki has rejected Lurch's call for a reconciliation government.
Tamerlane killed almost the entire population of Baghdad and left pyramids of heads 50-feet high at each of the cardinal points on the perimeter of the dead city. The Tigris ran black with the ink from manuscripts from the University of Baghdad thrown into the river.
I wonder if we are about to see a re-run of that massacre...unfortunately for Iraq and Muslims in general, there are going to be no winners in this one. Whoever thinks they won will actually be gaining control of a desolation and ruined society.
That's what happens when you fight over the succession to the prophet for 1200 years and there are no descendants to succeed him and haven't been for 1200 years...that never made sense to me...and it didn't make sense to any of my Libyan friends either.
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See also DAILY MAIL.UK > FROM SYRIA TO IRAQ, KENYA TO MALAYSIA, A NEW ERA OF ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISTS IS SPREADING FEAR + CHAOS ACROSS THE WORLD.
* SAME > ISLAMIST EXTREMISTS COULD [easily] SWEEP THRU AFGHANISTAN AS WELL AS IRAQ, SAYS [UK] EX-MILITARY CHIEF.
* TELEGRAPH.UK > "25,000 [Shia Muslim]INDIANS READY TO FIGHT IN IRAQ TO DEFEND SHIA HOLY SITES".
Wid another 100,000 Shia Muslim Indians pledging support - the tote of 125,000 is only part of approxi 50.0Milyuhn Shia Muslims in India.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [JPost] JCPA ANALYST: 1000 CHINESE JIHADISTS TRAINING IN PAKISTAN.
* TOPIX > [The Star Online] SOUTHEAST ASIA FEARS MILITANT FALLOUT AS MIDEAST CONFLICT WIDENS.
* RELATED SAME > Lim Kit Sung] SISIS MMILITANTS CAUSING HAVOC IN IRAQ ARE GETTING FUNDS AND RECRUITS FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA.
As I've been telling locals here on Guam, its no longer the US_vs-China in Asia -Pacific, but the US-vs-China-vs-Islam/Nuclear-Islam - iff its NOT Rising China that takes over Guam-WESTPAC iff the US pulls out, it will be Soon-to-be-Nuclear Islam or Nuclear Islam, which went Nukulaar ironically wid Western = JudeoChristian help + approval.
[Daily Caller] On Monday, the White House memo used to justify drone attacks on U.S. citizens was released, and it appears to confirm the worst suspicions of its libertarian critics. The Obama administration had sought to keep the memo secret, and now we know why: Because there are no checks and balances; there are no classified courts. Indeed, the memo reveals that the president of the United States ordered the targeting killing of U.S. citizens overseas "-- in violation of their constitutional right to due process "-- sans any type of oversight outside of the executive. Why would the Champ subscribe to a system of legal 'checks and balances' for drone activities? He fails to use 'checks and balances' anywhere else. Remember, he's "good at killing people".
He is the Lightbringer, in whose presence women faint and strong men grow weak at the knees. He is the smartest man in the room. And he's better, in his own experience, at everything, than the various experts with which he is surrounded. (In the military, they think logistics; in the executive suite, it 's personnel. It is left to the Reader to draw his own conclusions.)
There are as many checks and balances, and as much vetting, on the drone-zap list as there are on the no-fly list...
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Well, the NY Slimes sought out the memo, no doubt to clear the Lightbringer of all the scurrilous charges. Now that they have the memo, how long will it take them to report on its contents, and how can they spin it into something positive?
You gotta give the Pubs credit - they sure are good a drumming up bad news on Champ! Too bad half the country doesn't believe them. Or care.
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And the drones of the Left keep talking about Bush's "illegal" war. Never mind he went to Congress and the UN and got authorizations. It was all about power, never about morality, suckers.
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Shaykh Anwar al-Aulaqi and 14 year son got drone-zapped? al-Aulaqi might have been dirty but his 14 year old son was probably not. His son might have had little to say about being in Yemen. al-Aulaqi had reported links to terrorism (911) in the U.S. although I don't think he was ever adjudicated through our court system. The FBI let him go and he fled to Yemen as I recall. He was then accused in absentia of stirring up trouble in Yemen and the U.S. from afar. al-Alaqui was not the most lovable of citizens and most likely was guilty of scheming in nefarious activities but who will ever know now? Unilateral power plays are scary things. What criteria was used by Obama and his henchman to drone zap this guy. What about the next guy that mouths off and ticks off Obama? Suppose then, he extends his criterion to drone zap domestically to someone in the Tea Party. (assuming the IRS doesn't/can't trump enough up against them to jug them). Such decisions made in isolation and not subject to public scrutiny via the courts is similar to the FISA court or the TSA no-fly lists--there is no appeal.
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This entire PAK drone zap affair is little more than a beta-test for Champ's domestic dooms day scenario. It will be quite easy to sort it all out from the air. Just avoid targeting the Law Enforcement MRAPS.
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The proper way to do this is to try the person In absentia, have them found guilty, and then declare them an outlaw. Drone zapping an outlaw would be quite legal.
[Wash Times] Baghdad is surrounded by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and at least two key supply routes are under the Sunni radical organizations control.
Shafin Dizayee, a spokesman for autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government in Irbil, told McClatchy news service that the picture is no longer scary. It has become close to a nightmare scenario, where we see [ISIL] expanding and taking control of its borders.
Another Kurdish official, Jabbar Yawar of the Peshmerga militia, told the news service that the towns of Iskandariya and Mahmoudiyah, just 6 miles south of Baghdad, had fallen.
The city of Samarra, north of Baghdad, is also not faring well. An official who spoke only on the condition of anonymity because he wasnt authorized to speak publicly, told McClatchy that Iraqi security forces were having a difficult time defending the city.
[Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri] al-Maliki is tense. He is up working until 4 a.m. every day. He angrily ordered staff at his office to stop watching TV news channels hostile to his government, one Iraqi official told The Associated Press in a report Friday.
The Obama administration is sending 300 U.S. troops to Iraq to serve as military advisers in an attempt to help thwart a civil war. This has all the makings of a sectarian bloodbath of epic proportions. As the ISIL encirclement is completed, I suspect BIAP will come under heavy fire and be closed to commercial and military flights. A race to the Kuwait and Iranian borders will begin.
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This has all the makings of a sectarian bloodbath of epic proportions.
You just have to keep in mind, Besoeker, that the best metaphor for post Sykes-Picot ME is "The Island of Dr Moreau"
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Well g(r)om, perhaps we'll live to see the hard work of your lads at Dimona finally rewarded. When the evening news is interrupted with the reporting, please know that I will be on my feet and cheering wildly.
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When I was attempting to learn to play tennis, we were taught that if the opponent is crowding the net, smash a ball at their feet to drive them back a bit, setting up for the killer slam down the line.
this comes at a bad time for Iran because some of their best forces are in Syria or guarding the oil fields in the sunni region in sw Iran.
Still, they should be able to mobilize at least a division pretty quickly.
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"On to Tehran!"
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There is already a battalion of Iranian Quds in Iraq, and a motorized division supposedly marshaling over the border. It will get nasty if they enter - because Persians and Arabs do.not.like each other one bit.
The joke in the deck are the Shia militias. If they get loosed, especially Tater's bunch, they can be every bit as bloody as ISIS, except with Sunni heads on the pikes. Once that happens, there will not be any stopping it - and it becomes Lebanon on a much larger scale.
At that point, I say we as a nation just supply plenty of ammo, lob in cruise missiles on leadership targets, and sit back with popcorn, watching from Jordan and Kurdistan.
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This ISIS Group seem to be too organised/state funded to take this much of Iraq so soon.
ISIS was joined by Saddam Hussein's generals and lower some time ago, Thusosh Untervehr8552. At one point some of them would have gone through American training.
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At that point, I say we as a nation just supply plenty of ammo
This is another reason caliber commonality is so very important. 1 airdrop, 2 targets, instead of 2 airdrops and associated waste.
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Iskandariya and Mahmoudiyah, just 6 miles south of Baghdad, had fallen.
This is bad. By my reckoning, Iskandariya (AKA Alexandria) is halfway between Baghdad and Karbala, just more due south of Baghdad than Karbala. I don't know where the six miles south of Baghdad came from. Baghdad is being encircled and no surge on the horizon to lift it.
No wonder the Sunni minority conquered the Shia; what wusses.
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From Outlaw09 at Small Wars Council we see:
Ongoing events
1.In Europe reports are coming out concerning Iranian military movements and buildup on Iraqi border near Manadli next to Diyala province.
2. It appears that now ISIS has closed the ring around Baghdad with their troop movements being mobile forcing the ISF to not fully understand the battle space and making it harder to react to --basically it seems the ISF is just setting up checkpoints after checkpoints actually in effect creating new targets as the IAI/ISIS have 8 years of target practice against any form of checkpoint there is.
3. It now appears that the Syrian Air Force is actually bombing inside Iraq and the Iraqi's initially claimed it was US drones in order to cover up the Syrian involvement.
4. And this is extremely important if true to any degree---some European news reporters in the [b]KSA are indicating a very quiet KSA military alert for selected armored and AF units and some movement of units towards the Iraqi border.[/b]
5. Turkey is claiming they have stopped a total of 5300 recruits attempting to flow into the ISIS in Syria over the last six months.
Things are getting now out of control and a momentum is building that if it continues will expand into a Holy War as the three regional hegemones are getting involved-Syria, Iran and the KSA.
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One of things the news has not been talking about is how Maliki has antagonized the Kurds. He has spent the last 3 years purging Kurds from the army along with anyone who was trained by the US Army and replaced them with Shia militia leaders.
If you're wondering what happened to the army we trained there, that army disappeared long before Mosul.
This January, while no one was paying attention, Maliki cut off all payments to the Kurdish Regional Government, throwing the Kurdish economy into chaos. If you want to know why the Kurds aren't fighting harder, it's because they don't want to stick their necks out for someone who's stabbed them in the back so many times.
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ISF is closing the gates, or trying to, around Baghdad - I wonder how infiltrated the city is by ISIL. Close the airport, disrupt water and electricity, slow ground transport supplies in. No, they don't need to assault Baghdad, just need to start a panic.
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No matter wat your politics or slant, this is going to get most unpleasant for a great many innocent people. Sadly, it could have been prevented if only the communist kaffir bastard had listened.
I hope and pray all the U.S. personnel and other foreign nationals make it out of Iraq in one piece.
I have been wondering about that. Perhaps that is why Turkey is being so nice to the Kurds; trying to split them away from Maliki.
None of the regional players want ISIL to ultimately succeed. So I wonder what the Turkey and KSA plan is for the end game? Wipeout ISIL (who and how?) and leave JRTN in charge; that is, back to Saddam?
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What are the logistics involved in extracting the thousands of embassy staff if the airport is in insurgent hands and the runways have been disrupted?
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Well KBK old boy, it becomes a long, hot, dusty 500+ kilo slog straight south to a petrol stop in Nasiriyah and on to the Mutla Ridge [see happy snap] if you're lucky. All of that with the hope the Kuwaitis can hold the bastards off and there will be hots and cots down at Camp Arifjan until airlift from Al al Salem or Kuwaiti International can be arranged. Of course there's the Iranian border option, not my first choice. I'd wager the Kuwaitis would help U.S. personnel and foreign nationals....Iraqis however, not so much. All the makings of a colossal cock-up of the first order I'd say.
"Erbil: Iranian artillery bombed border's villages adjacent to the Iranian territory in Iraqi Kurdistan region. The website of the Union Patriotic of Kurdistan quoted an eminent Kurdish official as saying: The shelling experienced by this area started on Tuesday evening noting that Iranian forces also carried out an assault on Merkin village juxtaposed to the Iranian border Tuesday afternoon. The same source added that the artillery shelling also targeted the villages of Kanyah-Do, Saqar, and Sharki, without casualties."
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Thanks Pappy. Last check, the Kurds have no heavy artillery, no armor and no air force. If we are counting on the Kurds to counter ISIL then this better be remedied PDQ.
[Breitbart] HOUSTON, Texas--A tidal wave of immigrants entering the U.S. illegally each day has caused a dire situation which officials have called a "humanitarian crisis." But not everyone agrees with that label. "This is a manufactured crisis, not a humanitarian crisis," Zack Taylor, Chairman of the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO), told Breitbart Texas. Any action or inaction by the Congress of the United States, deemed to be counter to the long-term goals and objectives of the Obama regime, is met with a punitive counter-action.
Wait -- there's a national group of former border patrollers? Why do we never hear from them, as we do from various veterans groups?
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Pissing at the rail is strongly discouraged at the Rose & Crown. If you can't make it to the back, please take it outside. We're a pub of some standards.
[WND] Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., wasted no time in accusing the head of the IRS of lying to Congress, unloading a blistering barrage of accusations at a Monday night hearing.
"At a minimum, you did not tell the whole truth," during previous testimony, Issa told IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, scornfully adding, "We are wondering what your word is worth."
In his opening statement, Issa flatly told Koskinen he had given false testimony by promising to provide all emails of former IRS tax-exempt division chief Lois Lerner, while knowing two years of those emails were actually missing.
"You promised to produce documents," he said. "You did not."
"The committee requested all of Lois Lerner's emails over a year ago," said the chairman, noting the emails had been subpoenaed in August 2013 and again in February 2014. But, Issa accused, "You worked to cover up the fact they were missing and only came forward to fess up on a Friday afternoon after you had been caught red-handed."
"Did you hope you could run out the clock on this scandal? Perhaps you hoped Congress would never know it was missing emails."
Issa acknowledged Koskinen did not "personally did not destroy the emails. But by your actions and your deception, you now own this scandal."
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Koskinen's defense - he produced all the e-mails that still existed, which depending on what the meaning of the word 'is' is, is all the e-mails.
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As Issa said, they can get these jokers for contempt but Holder will do nothing about it. Holder is already cited for contempt as is Lerner. Where can things go from here to stop this administration's criminal conspiracy? You listen to the Democrats and they all say: "We didn't do nothin."
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As Instapundit points out, the House can impeach a high federal officer, such as a Cabinet member or equivalent. It's been done before.
So have the House impeach Mr. Koskinen and send it to the Senate for a trial. If I were the new House majority leader I'd dare Harry Reid to sit on it, obfuscate, and rant on the floor of the Senate. I'd remind him, "November's coming, amigo."
The House has a legitimate mechanism to handle a cabinet officer who is derelict or criminal in his/her duties, and it doesn't require Mr. Holder. But it could be applied to him...
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Not only a liar.
A shape shifting lizard partisan hack.
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I watched the thing. Aside from the politicians stumping, this guy was arrogant, told half truths, deceiving, and you could see he help every one of the congressmen in contempt. He is the poster child of what is wrong with the IRS. He knows he is above the law and cares nothing for the truth. He is the guy that walks into a bar and gets punched by some guy who says,"I hit him cause I did not like the way he looked at me." Pissant punk.
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#6: The unraveling could start by a criminal trial against the person in the IRS who failed to notify the Archivist of missing documents, the hard drives. Notification is the law. Can one and maybe some others will 'repent'.
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Koskinen translated:
"Two plus two makes five and the Emperor is fully clothed!
And if you peasants know what's good for you you'll swallow this and be seen and not heard!"
[Libya Herald] Reports that the leader of Ansar Al-Sharia in Benghazi has died in Jelaa hospital have been denied by a medical official in the hospital.
Earlier in the day intelligence sources told the Libya Herald that it had been confirmed that Muhammad Al-Zahawi had died in the hospital after being badly injured yesterday in a bombing raid by Operation Dignity forces. The source said, however, that he could not say exactly where or when Zahawi was supposed to have been maimed.
A medical official at the hospital, however, said there was no truth to the story. "When I heard the report, I checked out every room myself. He is not here," the official said
Rumours that a major Ansar figure was being treated in the hospital began to circulate yesterday when the Islamist militia moved in and took over security. Some observers felt there was more to this than concern about protecting the hospital, especially since it left Ansar in an exposed position.
The militia was still providing protection at the hospital, the official said this evening.
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[Dhaka Tribune] BNP Chairperson the loathesome Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... has threatened a return to hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... s and blockades after the Eid-ul-Fitr this year, should the government keep refusing to hold fresh elections under a neutral government.
The party would do well to remember that the violence unleashed during the hartals and blockades of 2013 cost many lives and crippled the country's economy. The BNP lost a lot of public sympathy because of the suffering their agitation caused to the common people.
BNP leaders should ask themselves: Why has the public simply accepted the January election, which was held without the participation of the BNP? It was probably because the public had grown weary of the BNP's campaign of hartals and blockades, during which innocent citizens, sometimes even children, were horribly burned to death.
An opposition party needs the goodwill and support of the public to win elections. There is no doubt that last year's senseless bloodshed cost the BNP the goodwill of the public.
Khaleda Zia should realise that recent murders and abductions have increased the BNP's political capital. With Awami Leaguers being charged with serious crimes, the AL is making the BNP look good. The BNP should try to continue to look good until the next election. This means making a commitment to avoiding hartals, blockades, and eschewing violence of any kind.
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[DAWN] The Emirates airline plans to file a suit over the damages caused to its reputation by the enforced diversion of its plane carrying Dr Tahirul Qadri ...Pak politician, and would-be dictator, founder and head of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran and Pakistain Awami Tehrik. He usually resides in Canada, but returns to Pakistain periodically to foam at the mouth and lead demonstrations. Depending on which way the wind's blowing, Qadri claims to be the author of Pak's blasphemy law. Other times he says it wasn't him... on Monday.
Official sources told Dawn that the airline had told the Civil Aviation Authority that it had been upset by the diversion of its flight EK-612 Dubai-Islamabad to Lahore, causing a great deal of inconvenience to passengers on the plane and those waiting at the airport to fly to Dubai.
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[Iran Press TV] A federal judge in Oregon ruled Tuesday that the Justice Department and FBI deprived 13 people of their constitutional right to due process by failing to disclose if and why they were included on the US No-Fly List.
Interesting decision and likely correct on constitutional grounds. The government maintains a list of American citizens barred from a lawful activity -- flying on an airplane -- for "national security" reasons. There's no way for a citizen to appeal being on that list, to know if she/he is on the list before it is applied at the airport gate, and (apparently, from what we've read before here on the Burg) to fix all the many, many mistakes in that list. That the list has those mistakes and is being handled by the most cynical, politicized, and corrupt administration in our republic's history doesn't help.
We have a right to national security. But part of that is that our citizens have their rights, and government has to exercise due process in limiting those rights. If the judge's ruling stands on due process, it's likely (IMHO) upheld on appeal.
US District Court Judge Anna Brown ruled that the FBI Terrorist Screening Center, which maintains the database, gives no adequate remedy for the 13 individuals to contest their inclusion on the list.
"Without proper notice and an opportunity to be heard, an individual could be doomed to indefinite placement on the No-Fly List," Brown wrote in her opinion. "Moreover, there is nothing in the ... administrative or judicial review procedures that remedies this fundamental deficiency."
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The one said we've destroyed AQ, so why all the need for continued security now that the emergency is over? /sarc off
[ZEENEWS.INDIA] More than 1,000 people were killed in Iraq between June 5 and 22 as Islamist militants swept through large swaths of northern and western Iraq, the UN said Tuesday.
At least 1,075 people were killed and 658 injured in the country during the 17-day period, Rupert Colville, a spokesman for the UN human rights office told reporters in Geneva, stressing that the numbers "should be viewed very much as a minimum."
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[VOA News] The United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... accuses the krazed killer group known as the 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... of wide-ranging human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... violations. Investigators say the Sunni Islamist group has killed hundreds of civilians and maimed many more since its invasion of Iraqi cities began early this month.
According to U.N. Sherlocks, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has been accumulating a large and grisly record of gross human rights violations since its invasion of northern Iraq early this month.
Human rights Sherlocks working with the U.N. Assistance Mission in Iraq say they have verified numerous alleged violations perpetrated by this group. But they assert that the numbers they cite of civilians killed and injured are underestimated.
The U.N. report finds at least 757 non-combatants were killed and 599 injured in Nineveh, Diyala and Sala al-Din Provinces between June 5 and 22. U.N. Human Rights front man Rupert Colville said these figures include summary executions and extra-judicial killings of civilians, police, and soldiers who were not fighting.
"At least another 318 people were killed, and a further 590 injured during the same period in Storied Baghdad and areas in the south, many of them as a result of at least six separate vehicle-borne bombs," said Colville. "Abductions continue to be reported in the northern provinces and in Storied Baghdad. These include a number of cases of foreigners, such as the 48 Turkish citizens kidnapped from Turkey's consulate when ISIL captured djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... ."
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We'd like to help but the new model LGBT military is in 'transition' and the DHS army can't deploy overseas because the local natives are restless. However, we might be able to spare some drones. One of which is now overseas consulting with NATO allies.
[Iran Press TV] At least one person has been killed in a boom-mobilekaboom in the western Syrian city of Homs, as the crisis continues in the Arab country.
Syrian media reports said that the kaboom took place on Tuesday near a candy shop in the neighborhood of Wadi Dahab, leaving over 20 people injured.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported the kaboom, saying that 14 people were maimed in the incident.
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[Dhaka Tribune] A Bangladesh-born youth has been found calling the British Moslems to join jihad, in a recruitment video for the Islamic Death Eater group, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
The youth who has been identified as Raqib lived at Aberdeen in the UK. BBC revealed the youth's identity in a video report early yesterday. The 13-minute video surfaced on Friday. The footage posted by accounts linked to the ISIS. The video shows them urging other British Moslems to join their war.
Quoting an acquaintance, the BBC report said Raqib had moved to the UK from Sylhet some years ago. The acquaintance said he had not seen Raqib for the past couple of years and believed that his family had moved to Leicester.
Raqib is identified in the video as "Brother Abu Bara' al Hindi." He says: "Are you willing to sacrifice the fat job you've got, the big car you've got, the family you have? Are you willing to sacrifice this for the sake of Allah? Definitely! If you sacrifice something for Allah, Allah will give you 700 times more than this."
Two of the six fighters shown in the film urging Moslems to join a holy war have been identified as Nasser Muthana and Reyaad Khan from Cardiff.
The men are believed to be among 500 Britons fighting in the conflict in Syria.
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[Tolo News] Officials reported that more than 40 Taliban krazed killers, 35 civilians, 13 coppers and nine Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were killed amid heavy festivities between turbans and the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province over the past four days.
An additional 40 civilians and 40 ANSF personnel have suffered injuries.
The festivities began in Sangin district of Helmand province when hundreds of Taliban hard boyz stormed police outposts, Helmand Governor's Spokesman, Omar Zwak, said on Tuesday. He added that more security forces have been deployed in Sangin to clear the area of krazed killers.
Zwak said more than 800 Taliban hard boyz including Arab and Pak hard boyz have attacked the district; the festivities still continue.
According to officials, more than 2,500 families have been displaced because of heavy festivities.
Self-identified Taliban front man, Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, confirmed the flare-up, but claimed more parts of Sangin have been captured by the Taliban.
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Thats what happens when Nato/US are removed.Another Iraq situation to begin.
The forces of evil Pakistan and Saudi will savage that country again.
How must those Soldiers/families feel when loved ones died in Iraq/Afganistan for Obama to throw these countries back to the wolves.
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The 'Bammer has got to be the worst US president ever. While this may give great comfort to Warren G. Harding and Ulysses S. Grant to move out of the cellar, it doesn't help us in the present at all.
[Libya Herald] The current security situation in Derna has made the prospect of holding tomorrow's elections there impossible, an official in the town has said.
The official told the Libya Herald on condition of strict anonymity that there had been no campaigning in Derna and no publicity for elections to the House of Representatives and that, tomorrow, designated polling stations in the town would remain closed.
He said the head teachers of Derna's schools had unanimously refused requests by the Higher National Elections Commission (HNEC) to use their schools as electoral centres. Five schools, to be used as polling stations, were bombed and one man killed in Derna ahead of February's elections to the Constitutional Drafting Committee. Classes were cancelled in the aftermath of the attacks and the town was forced to pay for repairs to the schools in the absence of government funding.
The official said many in Derna could see little point to the elections in the face of the current security crisis. He said the candidates who were standing in the Derna sub constituency were not known in the town and added that the government had consistently refused to take responsibility for the town's problems.
A resident in Derna, who also asked not to be named, said he had registered to vote but was well aware there would be no elections tomorrow. He said candidates had not been able to campaign because they would immediately become targets.
Another resident said he had not registered to vote and could not see the point given current conditions in the town.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the space pirate fleet to attack Zemblonia... HNEC member Said Al-Gosbi said the organization hoped elections would be able to proceed in Derna tomorrow and that technically the commission was prepared for voting there. He said, however, on the question of security in the town that this was out of their hands. He added that if voting did not go ahead in Derna tomorrow that elections would have to be held at a later date.
He said all but 16 of greater Derna's roughly 50 polling centres had been supplied with elections materials and added that in the case of any security problems HNEC staff were under instructions to immediately close their polling centres. He said the safety of voters and elections' staff was HNEC's number one priority.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: Pakistain Rangers, Sindh, on Monday claimed to have incarcerated Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! two suspected snuffies who were allegedly planning to carry out a kaboom in the metropolis and seized an explosives-laden cycle of violence.
The paramilitary force carried out a targeted raid in Mohammedanabad Colony, Quaidabad, while acting on a tip-off about the presence of the snuffies there.
On seeing the Rangers, the suspects tried to escape abandoning the explosives-laden cycle of violence, but the troops chased the fleeing suspects and arrested two Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain murderous Moslems, said the spokesperson.
The personnel seized weapons and explosives, he said. They also launched a search operation to arrest their accomplices.
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[DAWN] Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid said the government would take strict measures to tackle cranks individuals like Tahirul Qadri ...Pak politician, and would-be dictator, founder and head of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran and Pakistain Awami Tehrik. He usually resides in Canada, but returns to Pakistain periodically to foam at the mouth and lead demonstrations. Depending on which way the wind's blowing, Qadri claims to be the author of Pak's blasphemy law. Other times he says it wasn't him... to foil their efforts of spreading anarchy in the country, said a report published on Radio Pakistain.
He was speaking to media representatives outside the District Headquarters Hospital in Rawalpindi while visiting coppers who had been injured at the hands of Pakistain Awaami Tehrik (PAT) workers.
He said the world had seen how stick-wielding PAT workers had resorted to violence against police personnel on the directives of PAT chief Qadri, which was highly regrettable and condemnable.
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[DAWN] At least 47 suspected hard boyz were killed and 23 hideouts desroyed in air striked carried out on Tuesday by the military in North Wazoo and Khyber tribal region, according to statement issued by the Inter Services Public Relations.
Jet strikes carried out by the military in Mirali area of North Waziristan Agency killed 27 suspected hard boyz and destroyed 11 hideouts including a huge cache of arms and ammunition.
The ISPR statement also claimed that 20 hard boyz were killed and 12 hideouts were destroyed during the air blitz in Khyber tribal region.
Foiled suicide kaboom
Three people, including two security personnel and a civilian, were killed Tuesday in a foiled suicide attempt on a hospital in Spinwam area of North Waziristan tribal region, according to an ISPR statement.
Security sources said that a single cabin explosive-laden vehicle was intercepted by security forces near a checkpost outside the civil hospital in Spinwam area.
Soldiers on duty, spotted and fired at the vehicle causing it to explode 100 meters short of the checkpost.
The kaboom also caused damage to the roof of a nearby building.
The statement further said that one person also suffered wounds and added that huge losses would have occurred if the jacket wallah had not been intercepted.
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[Iran Press TV] Unidentified gunnies have opened fire on a Pakistain International Airlines (PIA) aircraft as it was landing in the volatile city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , officials say.
According to policeman Asghar Khan, flight PK 756 was carrying nearly 180 passengers traveling from Soddy Arabia
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[Iran Press TV] The United States continues to claim that it is trying to bring peace and justice to Iraq while terrorism is the modern way Washington has chosen to conduct its wars, a political analyst tells Press TV.
"The US has proved that traditional warfare does not work. Iraq was a dismal failure for the US; Afghanistan was a failure for the US. The only effective means they have to flex their muscles and to force policy out there now is terrorism," Mike Harris, Editor of Veteran's Today, said in an interview with Press TV.
[Iran Press TV] A large number of Iraqi volunteers have rushed to military recruitment centers to join the battle against forces of Evil from the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL).
On Tuesday, hundreds of volunteers gathered at the Federal Police Command headquarters in the capital Storied Baghdad to receive application forms and go through required medical tests.
Security officials in Basra say up to 100000 people in the province have registered to fight alongside government troops.
This comes as Iraq's top Shia holy man Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has called on all Iraqi people and political factions to unite and support the government and army in their battle against the terrorists.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Esquimeau village Jack was learning how to rub noses with Nootka's wife...... Iraq's army front man says security forces have the upper hand against the forces of Evil from the ISIL. General Qassim Atta says troops, in their latest battles, have conducted anti-terror operations against the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... forces of Evil in several locations across the country.
Iraqi media say over a dozen Takfiri forces of Evil have been killed as army warplanes pounded multiple targets in the town of Baiji --- home to the country's largest oil refinery. The area has seen fierce festivities over the past days.
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Volkstrummredux. (We all know how that turned out.)
[ZEENEWS.INDIA] At least 69 people were killed and 144 injured in fierce festivities Tuesday between Iraqi security forces and Sunni murderous Moslem groups even as 17 more Indians were evacuated from the conflict-ridden country.
A provincial police source, requesting anonymity, put the toll at 69 with 144 others being maimed after air strikes Tuesday, carried out by unidentified aircraft on two Iraqi cities in Anbar province, Xinhua reported.
The source said a plane bombed the area near the local government of Rutba city, where many civilian cars were queuing outside a fuel station, leaving some 50 people dead and 122 maimed.
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[VOA News] U.S. 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... on Monday pledged "intense" support for Iraq against the "existential threat" posed by a major murderous Moslem offensive pushing toward Storied Baghdad from the north and west.
Kerry pressured Iraq's top Shi'ite leaders on Monday to create a more inclusive government in order to face down the Death Eaters, who have captured vast territories in northern and western Iraq.
The United States' "support will be intense, sustained, and if Iraq's leaders take the steps needed to bring the country together, it will be effective," Kerry told journalists in Storied Baghdad.
"The future of Iraq depends primarily on the ability of Iraq's leaders to come together and take a stand united against ISIL....Not next week, not next month, but now," he said.
He said ISIL's "campaign of terror, their grotesque acts of violence and repressive ideology pose a grave danger to Iraq's future. ISIL is not, as it claims, fighting on behalf of Sunnis. ISIL is not fighting for a stronger Iraq. Quite the contrary, ISIL is fighting to divide Iraq and to destroy Iraq. So, this is a critical moment for Iraq's future."
The danger to Iraq, he said, is dire.
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Not if you believe the Daily Show's opening skit the other night...apparently ISIL is fixing potholes and rescuing kittens as opposed to Darth Cheney's approach. Then they giggled around the assassinations and executions and bombings for some sub-skit about Cheney crying.
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* WORLD NEWS > [HuffPo] IFF ISIS IS SUCH A THREAT, WHY NO AIRSTRIKES?
At minima, USAY, USN heavy airpower includ Drones could be BUFF'ing the ISIS/ISIL Hard Boyz while the Bammer's 300 SPECOPS Advisors are still in the process of arriving in-country - the US = US-Allies would be saving or helping a friendly Govt.???
As opposed to inspiring the Hard Boyz to ..
* WORLD NEWS > [DailY Beast] ISIS COULD OPEN A THIRD FRONT IN LEBANON.
* SAME > [Middle East Online] ISIL CONTROL OF IRAQ-SYRIA BORDER THREATENS TO EXPAND SCOPE OF WAR.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > AL-NUSRA FRONT PLEDGES ALLEGIANCE TO ISIL [ISIS], SAYS NGO |MIDDLE EAST EYE.
* DAILY MAIL.UK > COULD ISIS NOW BE TWICE AS POWERFUL? MEMBERSHIP OF EXTREMIST GROUP SAID TO DOUBLE IN SIZE AS IT MERGES WID AL-QAEDA'S 15,000
-STRONG SYRIAN OFFSHOOT [Al-Nusra] ON BORDER WID IRAQ.
[MINNESOTA.CBSLOCAL] A Minnesota man is in jail because he logged on to Facebook. Police say 26-year-old Nicholas Wig checked his profile from a home he broke into, and then he didn't log off. It happened June 19 in South St. Paul.
"World's dumbest criminal," the homeowner James Wood said. "I don't know."
Wood had come home to find his house ransacked. His credit cards, cash and watch were all gone. In their place, the thief had left a pair of Nike tennis shoes, jeans and a belt, that were all wet. Wood said it had been raining outside.
"I started to panic," he said. "But then I noticed he had pulled up his Facebook profile."
Wood posted to Facebook using Wig's profile, saying Wig had burglarized his home. He even shared his phone number to see if someone would call with information. Wig texted him later that day.
"I replied you left a few things at my house last night, how can I get them back to you," Wood said.
Wig agreed to meet with Wood later that night. Wood believes Wig was under the impression he would give him back some of his clothes he had left at his home in exchange for a recycled cell phone Wig had stolen.
Wood, at his friend's house, left for home. On his way back to his house he saw and recognized Wig, from his Facebook profile, walking on the street. He immediately called police.
"I've never seen this before," Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom said. "It's a pretty unusual case, might even make the late night television shows in terms of not being too bright."
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[VOA News] Cameroon's military has nabbed Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! 40 suspected 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... gunnies in the north of the country. Soldiers have also sealed off a market where they suspect Boko Haram may be hiding arms for use in the insurgency over the border in Nigeria.
"A gendarme [military] raid on the Maroua Central Market has led to the arrests of over 40 people," a state radio broadcaster announced. "The arrests are in connection with ongoing investigations into the activities of the Boko Haram group in the far north region of the country."
In an interview with the private Danay FM radio station, Maroua businessman Wanika Baba, said many of the arrested were his peers and there is confusion in the community.
He added that he does not understand what is happening as the military has had the market sealed for two days now and have arrested so many people. He said children and women are suffering from the closure and no one knows the fate of those arrested.
Colonel Nyemeck Pierre, who led the military raid, told VOA that the central government ordered the military action as part of its fight against Boko Haram incursions into Cameroon.
"It is the duty of the military to filter the population so that enemies do not infiltrate into Cameroon," he said in French, adding that the matter is complicated because along the border there are Nigerians and Cameroonians who belong to the same families and soldiers have to try to distinguish who is a krazed killer.
This is the first time Cameroon's military has carried out an operation on such a large scale in a single day.
Northern Cameroon has been plagued for almost a year with an influx of refugees and gunnies from strife in neighboring Central African Republic and the Boko Haram violence in northern Nigeria.
Authorities in Cameroon have been urging citizens along the border - particularly with Nigeria's Borno state - the heart of the Boko Haram insurgency - to cooperate with the government by providing information on suspected sympathizers with the Islamist sect.
The government here believes Boko Haram is now expanding its recruiting into Cameroon.
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[Dhaka Tribune] He was totally fit on Monday evening after the verdict date was announced at noon. But he suddenly fell ill at midnight in Dhaka Central Jail, hours before the top war crimes accused was supposed to be taken to the International Crimes Tribunal.
Upon doctors' advice, the jail authorities did not place him before the tribunal, and the verdict was postponed.
The tribunal considered it illogical to pronounce the judgement in absence of the accused.
Have another "Weekend at Bernies"...
It also ordered the jail authorities to submit a full report on Nizami's health condition as soon as possible.
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[DAWN] About 50,000 Paks have crossed into eastern Afghanistan to escape air strikes over the past 10 days and 435,000 have fled within their homeland, which could fuel the spread of polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... as many are not vaccinated, UN agencies said on Tuesday.
Pakistain's military gave residents of North Wazoo until the end of Monday to leave the remote mountainous region ahead of a widely anticipated major ground offensive by the army against myrmidons.
The local governing shura, or religious leadership in North Waziristan, has banned polio vaccination for the past two years, demanding a halt to US drone strikes, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The number of Paks who have fled to Afghanistan since military operations began on June 15 jumped from 7,000 last Friday to an estimated 50,000, Dan McNorton of the UN refugee agency told a briefing. Most are in Khost and Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... provinces.
"There was a temporary halt to military operations, to air strikes on Sunday ... So that why we have seen the figures rise particularly quickly in the last couple of days," McNorton said.
Most of the 435,000 displaced within Pakistain are in Bannu, Lakki Marsat, Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... and Tank in Kyber Pakhtunkhwa province, but some arrived in Punjab and Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... , he said.
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Give 'em a full set of inoculations as a prerequisite for registering for aid and such. That'll thin out the objectors considerably... just as Pakistanis are now required to get inoculated before flying out of the country.
Nb: a single sourced story from World Net Daily. It has the feel of something released for propaganda effect, though it is certainly plausible -- who knows what ugly things are to be found in Saddam Hussein's "sealed" WMD bunker... and Pakistan could likely be induced to share from their stash, for a price, as well.
WASHINGTON -- The well-organized army of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, claims it has access to nuclear weapons and a will to use them to "liberate" Palestine from Israel as part of its "Islamic Spring," according to a WND source in the region.
Franklin Lamb, an international lawyer based in Beirut and Damascus, said the move is part of the ISIS aim of creating a caliphate under strict Islamic law, stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to Iraq.
Lamb, who has access to ISIS fighters and sympathizers, said ISIS has been working with a "new specialized" unit organized at the beginning of 2013 to focus "exclusively on destroying the Zionist regime occupying Palestine."
This is why Israel is clearing Hamas so expeditiously from the West Bank. This is the thing they need to prepare to face.
Lamb added that the ISIS "Al-Quds Unit" is working to broaden its influence in more than 60 Palestinian camps and gatherings from Gaza, across "Occupied Palestine," or Israel, to Jordan and from Lebanon up to the north of Syria "seeking to enlist support as it prepares to liberate Palestine."
Lamb added that the ISIS "Al-Quds Unit" is working to broaden its influence in more than 60 Palestinian camps and gatherings from Gaza, across "Occupied Palestine," or Israel, to Jordan and from Lebanon up to the north of Syria "seeking to enlist support as it prepares to liberate Palestine."
ISIS is also know as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham. "Sham," or "Greater Syria," refers to Cyprus, Palestine, Jordan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel and southern Turkey.
ISIS also is known as DAASH, the Arabic acronym for al-Dawlah al-Islamiyah fi al-Iraq wa-al Sham.
The Sunni militant group, which has taken over much of the Sunni region of Iraq, could leave the Shiite-dominated region of the country and head toward Jordan and Turkey.
Lamb said that in Iraq alone, some 6 million Iraqi Sunnis recently have become supportive of the ISIS lightning strikes in the Sunni portion of the country.
Some of the Sunni supporters are secular, such as the Naqshbandia Army of former top officials of executed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. As WND reported, the Sunni group may have given ISIS access to its ongoing sarin production facility in northwestern Iraq.
WND also reported ISIS already has captured towns bordering Iraq and Turkey.
The militant group also has steamrolled through the Iraqi desert in the west and taken over the major al-Walid crossing with Syria and the Turaibil crossing into Jordan.
Lamb said ISIS has established a capital for its caliphate in the Syrian city of Raqqa.
"The Islamist organization believes it currently has massive regional support for its rapidly expanding "'revolution of the oppressed,'" Lamb said.
Meaning Saudi Arabia and the rich Gulf oil states?
ISIS estimates it will take 72 months to "liberate" "Occupied Palestine," or Israel, according to Lamb.
That'd be Saddam Hussein's generals thinking strategically, I s'pose.
Lamb quoted an ISIS member as saying: "Zionists call us masked, sociopathic murderers, but we are much more complicated and representative of those seeking justice than they portray us.
Nah. Y'all are just a new and improved version of standard issue jihadis: vicious land pirates who torture, rape, and steal with a religious gloss.
"Are we more barbaric than the Zionist terrorists who massacred at Dier Yassin, Shatila, twice at Qana, and committed dozens of other massacres? History will judge us after we free Palestine."
History needn't wait that long. The rows of headless bodies in Mosul are quite enough evidence for judgement to be rendered.
Lamb said ISIS can do what no other Arab, Muslim or Western backers of resistance have been able to accomplish.
He quoted the ISIS member as saying: "All countries in this region are playing the sectarian card just as they have long played the Palestinian card, but the difference with ISIS is that we are serious about Palestine and they are not. Tel Aviv will fall as fast as Mosul when the time is right."
Except that the Arab Jews of Israel are Jews first, and the Arab Israelis in the IDF have learnt a new way of thinking. Six years? You and your Saudi backers have forgotten in your elaborate planning that the enemy always has a vote.
The WND source said ISIS appears "eager" to fight Israeli armed forces "in the near future despite expectation that the regime will use nuclear weapons."
"Do you think that we do not have access to nuclear devices?" Lamb quoted the ISIS member as saying. "The Zionists know that we do, and if we ever believe they are about to use theirs, we will not hesitate.
Clearly the ISIS savants lack an understanding of the effects of a nuclear bomb. It's not just a bigger IED, guys.
After the Zionists are gone, Palestine will have to be decontaminated and rebuilt just like areas where there has been radiation released."
ISIS access to nuclear weapons could come from Sunni Pakistan, which is home to more than 30 terrorist groups. Pakistan possibly has transferred nuclear weapons to the chief bankroller of its nuclear development program, Sunni Saudi Arabia, as WND previously has reported.
The Saudis, who also have provided billions of dollars to ISIS, have threatened to acquire nuclear weapons if Iran were to develop its own.
The WND source said ISIS denies any interest in training and directing foreign fighters to attack Europe, claiming its goals are to establish the al-Sham caliphate and "liberate Palestine."
The source said the West, and especially the Israelis, may already be aware of ISIS plans and tactics to take over "Palestine." He said Western intelligence sources were in possession of an "encyclopedia of information" obtained by Iraqi intelligence less than 48 hours before Mosul fell two weeks ago.
He said an ISIS messenger who was captured and "under Iraqi torture" turned over more than 160 computer flash sticks with the detailed information.
"The U.S. intelligence community is still decrypting and analyzing the flash sticks," Lamb said.
He indicated that the information already has been handed over to members of Congress, some of whom are sharing it with the Israeli Embassy in Washington.
Good.
"The current sense on Capitol Hill is reported to be that the Obama administration is not in the mood to share anything with Israel these days and certainly not with the Netanyahu regime which it loathes," he said.
Golly. What a surprise that is!
Lamb said only time will tell whether or not ISIS reaches both of its objectives. He added that if the "Zionist regime"
...a telling language choice by an international legal type. Was he frothing at the mouth and twitching by this point, d'you suppose?
can be ejected from Palestine, it will set in motion "historic currents" that will be "rather different from the Ehud Olmert-Condoleezza Rice fantasy of "'a New Middle East.'
"In any event," Lamb said, "it is unlikely that Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Lebanon among other countries in this region are going to look much like what George Bush and Dick Cheney and their still active neo-con advisers had in mind when they were beating the drums for a U.S. invasion of Iraq, Libya and now Syria and Iran."
A little confused about who is sitting on the Washington seats of power these days, but that's ok.
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ISIL left out Dearborn, Michigan for their future conquests...
[Tolo News] A representative of presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah's campaign team on Tuesday confirmed that negotiations had begun with Independent Election Commission (IEC) officials following the resignation of Secretariat Chief Zia-ul-Haq Amarkhail amid accusations of fraud. The talks are being mediated by the United Nations.
The departure of Amarkhail was a condition the Abdullah team had set for rejoining the election process after they had announced their decision to boycott the election commission, which they accused of engineering large-scale fraud in cahoots with President Hamid Karzai. Following his televised resignation announcement on Monday afternoon, Abdullah held his own press conference in which he said the door had been opened to talks with election officials.
Syed Fazel Aq Sancharaki, a member of Abdullah's team, said that negotiations with nine IEC commissioners and the UN's special representative to Afghanistan, Yan Kubis, began Monday night. He said although nothing was settled, all the parties involved wanted to resolve the impasse currently facing the election process.
According to Sancharaki, Abdullah's demands before he is willing to return to normal relations with the IEC are that the cases of fraud he is most concerned with are fully investigated and the turnout numbers of the runoff be clarified. Abdullah has claimed up to two million ballots cast in the runoff could be invalid and maintained that the IEC's estimate that seven million Afghans participated is far higher than the true number.
"...our stance entering into negotiations is quite clear," Sancharaki said on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, a member of Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai's campaign team, Tahir Zaheer, said that no negotiations would change the result of the runoff. "Negotiations are a good thing, but no talks will change the outcome of the election," Zaheer said. "The people of Afghanistan made their decision on June 14."
Although the vote counting process is not yet completed, and audits for fraud still have to be done, many have claimed Ghani to be significantly farther ahead than his opponent. If that is the case, it would be a dramatic turn around from the first round, which concluded with Abdullah holding 45 percent of votes and Ghani only 31.6 percent. Ghani supporters have attributed the potential spike in support to higher turnout in friendly areas of the country as well as the candidate field shrinking from eight to two.
Political commentators and activists responded positively to the news of negotiations between Abdullah and the election commission on Tuesday. Afghanistan Democracy Watch head Zekirya Barakzai said the Afghan public was getting wary of the tensions between the two camps and resulting deadlock in the process.
"People are now tired of the tensions, they want a consensus to be made," Barakzai said. "Any institution that intends to mediate this issue could be effective if the two candidates agree on it."
On Monday, the Attorney General's office said that President Hamid Karzai has assigned a delegation to help resolve the election disputes and avoid a political crisis. However, it is unclear exactly the nature of the delegation's role will be, and whether or not it is a participant in the negotiations that began Monday night.
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[DAWN] Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain on Tuesday urged the federal government to avoid using 'state machinery' against Canada-based holy man Dr Tahirul Qadri ...Pak politician, and would-be dictator, founder and head of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran and Pakistain Awami Tehrik. He usually resides in Canada, but returns to Pakistain periodically to foam at the mouth and lead demonstrations. Depending on which way the wind's blowing, Qadri claims to be the author of Pak's blasphemy law. Other times he says it wasn't him... and his party Pakistain Awami Tehrik (PAT).
"We can differ with Dr Tahirul Qadri on his ideology, but he is a head of a political party and has huge following comprising young men, students, women and elders," he was quoted as saying in a statement issued by the MQM.
"We should respect his public support and avoid using state machinery against his party."
Hussain, during an interview today, condemned the killings of at least nine people including PAT supporters when they clashed with Punjab Police in Lahore's Model Town last week.
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[Dhaka Tribune] We applaud the court's decision to issue death sentences to eight members of the banned bad boy outfit Harkat-ul Jihad-al Islami, responsible for carrying out the kabooms in Ramna Batamul that killed 10 people 13 years ago. Their offence demands the most severe penalty of the land, and we hope the court's verdict will be executed without delay.
On April 14, 2001, two powerful bombs were blasted in the midst of the Bengali New Year celebrations in the capital's Ramna Park, killing seven people on the spot while three succumbed to injuries at the hospital. The court recently found 14 men guilty of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt — eight were given the death penalty — five are absconding — and six were sentenced to life imprisonment.
The culprits had reportedly carried out the attacks because the program was "anti-Islamic." Using religion as an excuse for such heinous crimes is shameful, and in no way acceptable.
Family members and loved ones of the dear departed have been awaiting justice for a very long time, and this verdict will perhaps bring them some consolation. We urge the authorities to do everything in their power to find the five absconders, and waste no time in carrying out the court's verdict.
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[ZEENEWS.INDIA] Iraq's top Kurdish leader warned visiting 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... today that a rapid Sunni Death Eater advance has already created "a new reality and a new Iraq," signaling that the US faces major difficulties in its efforts to promote unity among the country's divided factions.
The UN, meanwhile, said more than 1,000 people, most civilians, have been killed in Iraq so far this month, the highest corpse count since the US military withdrew from the country in December 2011.
Massoud Barzani ... hereditary head of the Kurdish Democratic Party, maybe a little too close to the Medes and the Persians for most people's tastes... , whose powerful minority bloc has long functioned as kingmaker in Iraqi politics, did not directly mention 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... , who is facing the strongest challenge to his rule since he assumed power in 2006.
But al-Maliki has made little effort beyond rhetoric to win the trust of his critics, who are led by disaffected Sunnis, Kurds and even several former Shiite allies.
Instead the Kurds have deployed their own well-trained security forces known as peshmerga and seized long-coveted ground of their own in the name of defending it from the al-Qaeda breakaway group and other Sunni faceless myrmidons who have swept through the north.
The Kurds are unlikely to be eager to give up that territory, including the disputed oil-rich city of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... regardless of the status of the fighting.
Al-Maliki, meanwhile, has been entirely focused on the security situation, spending hours each day in the main military command center, rather than politics, officials close to his inner circle say, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... because they weren't authorised to release such details.
Despite the attention, Iraq's mainly Shiite security forces have failed to successfully wage any successful counteroffensives against the Death Eaters.
Kerry traveled to Irbil, the capital of the self-rule Kurdish region today, a day after meeting with al-Maliki and other Iraqi officials in Storied Baghdad where he pushed for them to adopt new policies that would give more authority to Iraq's minority Sunnis and Kurds.
Kerry said after the Storied Baghdad meetings that all the leaders agreed to start the process of seating a new parliament by July 1, which will advance a constitutionally required timetable for naming a president, prime minister and a new Cabinet.
Al-Maliki's political bloc won the most seats in parliamentary elections in April but must assemble a majority coalition in the legislature in order to secure a third term for the Shiite leader.
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[DAWN] HE is neither a Lenin nor a Khomeini. But it is the mere folly of a ham-fisted government that has made a 'revolutionary' out of a charlatan.
Last week's carnage in Lahore and a panicky reaction by the administration on his arrival has provided Tahirul Qadri ...Pak politician, and would-be dictator, founder and head of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran and Pakistain Awami Tehrik. He usually resides in Canada, but returns to Pakistain periodically to foam at the mouth and lead demonstrations. Depending on which way the wind's blowing, Qadri claims to be the author of Pak's blasphemy law. Other times he says it wasn't him... with the spark he needed to ignite public outrage. But can he succeed?
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[reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... Tribune] Chicago is calling for a six-month moratorium on conversions of single-room occupancy hotels and residential hotels while it tries to figures out how to regulate the gentrification that has put thousands of very-low-income housing units at risk.
An ordinance that would prohibit for six months the issuance of any city building permits for the demolition or conversion of the buildings is expected to be introduced at Wednesday's City Council meeting by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and several aldermen.
Sometimes (often) there's a reason why things are the way they are. This gradual realization -- and the fallout of 9/11 -- did much to change my thinking and my politics.
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Shortage of flophouses isn't the issue.
In Chicago, the phrase "It's gonna cost ya" has a whole different dimension.
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This unpleasantness could all be easily remedied if Section 8 vouchers were simply amended to permit individual, nightly stays. Sort of a punch card system.
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Ah, yes Kelo, seize property without due process or compensation, right Justice Kennedy?
People who buy these overprices one bedroom 'condos' have money and independence, while those doing flophouse living are tied (indentured)to the government's tit. Why free men may actually vote the other guy. They got to protect their phoney baloney jobs.
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So you want to mess with the market and have non profit housing and further drive out producing renters? Fine have your drug infested sh*thole slums.
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Fine have your drug infested sh*thole slums.
Thing is, the Feral Govt will give you money for a drug infested sh*thole slum, but not for an upscale neighborhood. Beaks must be wet!
[DAWN] THIS is what happens when you allow your railways minister to control air traffic. Eyebrows were raised and there was talk of what angry steps an international airline could resort to when the aircraft carrying Dr Tahirul Qadri ...Pak politician, and would-be dictator, founder and head of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran and Pakistain Awami Tehrik. He usually resides in Canada, but returns to Pakistain periodically to foam at the mouth and lead demonstrations. Depending on which way the wind's blowing, Qadri claims to be the author of Pak's blasphemy law. Other times he says it wasn't him... was diverted to Lahore from Islamabad on Monday morning. It is said the brilliant idea came from the minister Khwaja Saad Rafiq. A top-of-the-line train-stopper among Pakistain's politicians, he apparently wanted to take his powers to altogether a new level. He did succeed in helping Islamabad avoid an unwanted guest, even if at the cost of some embarrassment to the country's civil aviation authorities and a little chaos in his own city of Lahore. The act brought back uneasy memories of the past: confused swirling around by planes on the Pak horizon and the dangers of sharing airspace with prominent people. At this rate, the reformists should soon be flying all by themselves.
This is one area where there has been a lot of activity and where the country has made progress. Fifteen years ago, when Gen Pervez Perv Musharraf
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[Tolo News] Members of the upper house of the Afghan parliament passed the Anti-Money Laundering Law with majority vote and without amending the law on Tuesday. The law now is awaiting the approval of President Hamid 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... The Central Bank of Afghanistan's Gov. Noorullah Delawari is expected to present the approved law at the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) conference in Gay Paree on Wednesday.
Delawari says that he is in touch with the president's office and expresses hope that the law will be available for him in Gay Paree to present to the delegation.
"After the approval of the law by both the House of Representatives and Senate, we were in touch with the president's office ensuring that the law will reach us tomorrow," Gov. Delawari said.
A number of analysts say the president should consider the time limit and sign the law as soon as possible so that Afghanistan is protected from being blacklisted from the international banking system.
"My demand from the president is to sign the law as soon as possible and ignore the administrative process and inform the Gay Paree conference," political commentator Mir Ahmad Joyenda said.
However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... a number of senators on Tuesday wanted to discuss a few articles with the possibility of amending them, but the fear of leading the country into being internationally blacklisted pushed the Senate to vote.
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Well I mean if I had starch in my spine and I was pressed, I'd say you'd be allowed to launder your own cabbage Deacon. However, you can't bake your own bread, if you catch my drift, well, that is unless to say, you are a damn fine baker, a fine, fine baker, in which case maybe a trial loaf is in order.
[DAWN] KARACHI: Five people, including a teenager, were found rubbed out in two different parts of district west within the span of a few hours on Monday, officials said.
They added that four victims found in the Mochko area appeared to be Baloch, while the one found in Manghopir could be Sindhi or Seraiki.
It appeared that they had been kidnapped somewhere and brought to a deserted place, several kilometres from the mud-road leading to Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... , where they were bumped off, according to City SSP Sheraz Nazeer.
The trussed-up bodies lying in the bushes near Arib Goth in the area adjoining Balochistan province were spotted by some local people who subsequently informed the police about their presence.
The police said more than a dozen spent bullet casings were found at the scene of the crime, indicating that they were rubbed out there with a 9mm pistol.There were between four and five gunshot wounds on the body of each victim, the officials said.
One of the victims aged around 14 years, two others were between 25 and 30 years while one was about 35-40 years.
All of them were clean-shaven and appeared to be Baloch, the police said.
SSP Nazeer said that no report of missing persons had been filed at any cop shoppe of the City division. However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... in reply to a question, he said that some bodies of missing persons, including krazed killers, had been found in the Mochko area in the recent past.
The bodies were shifted to the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... for a post-mortem examination. According to medico-legal official Dr Qarar Ahmed Abbasi, all the dear departed sustained multiple bullet wounds while one body also bore torture marks.
The bodies were brought to the hospital at around 11:15am, the officer said.
The MLO, who conducted the autopsies, added that it seemed they had been killed around eight hours before their bodies were brought to hospital.
Following the post-mortem examination, the bodies were shifted to the Edhi morgue for identification.
Investigation officer of the Mochko area Sub-inspector Ghulam Nabi told Dawn that one of the victims sustained around one dozen bullet wounds on different parts of his body. Another man received four bullet wounds in the head, he added.
He added that the boy wore a blue shirt while all the three men wore shalwar kameez.
Mochko abutting on Balochistan is one of those Karachi localities where 'missing' persons and Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... gang warfare victims have been found rubbed out.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Alamo, Davy was counting their remaining cannon balls and not liking the results... another young man was found rubbed out on Monday in the Manghopir area, police said.
They added that the man with a bullet wouÃÂnd in the head was found in Jam Chakro Goth.
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[VOA News] Malaysia's highest court has upheld a government ban against a Roman Catholic newspaper using the word "Allah" to refer to God. Claims that Islam is just another religion to the contrary, the god worshipped by Allanists is a different deity entirely. You can become a Moslem but you can't become something else, whereas a Presbyterian can become a Methodist without having his head chopped off or having to give birth to her children in a dungeon.
Then there's the contrast between "Allah is the greatest of all deceivers" (Qur'an 3:54), the Jewish God who can be negotiated with and keeps his bargains, and Jesus Christ, the sacrificial lamb of God for the sake of all mankind.
The Federal Court ruled in a four-to-three decision Monday that the church's Malay-language newspaper, The Herald, had no grounds to appeal a lower court decision last year that Allah should be reserved exclusively for Mohammedans, because if other religions use the word, it could be confusing and lead Mohammedans to convert. Apparently the least opportunity will lead to widespread conversion from Islam to most anything else.
At a rate of upwards of 6 million/year to Christianity without any encouragement whatsoever, according to this Al Jazeera interview.
Such conversion is illegal in Malaysia, ...what we call the Roach Motel Principle...
where more than 60 percent of the population of 30 million are Mohammedan - the country's official religion. Just over 9 percent are Christian. ... which leaves 31 percent to wallow in Hinduism, Taoism, Buddhism, Rosicrucianism, Arianism, or the worship of the Cretan Sybelle.
Monday's ruling ends a dispute that has been ongoing since 2007, when Malaysia's Home Ministry threatened to revoke the publishing permit of The Herald for using the Arabic word in its Malay-language edition. Christians will be be required to refer to God as "Elvis" or "The Great Bob."
The editor of the newspaper, Reverend Lawrence Andrew, said he is "disappointed" by the decision, and said the four judges who voted against the appeal "did not touch on fundamental basic rights of minorities." If I understand correctly, among the Hebrews the name of God wasn't to be spoken. Jews still often type it as G-d or G*d. They use circumlocutions such as YHWH (the initials expanded to 'Yahweh' but meaning something else) or 'Adonai' (our Lord) or 'Elohim' (Gods, plural).When Moses asked God what to call Him, He replied 'Ehyeh asher ehyeh' which translates as approximately 'I am what I am' or 'I will be what I will be.' From that we can guess that God's 'name' is whatever he pleases it to be. My guess is that it's not Allan (PTUI).
For centuries the Muslims have told their conquered Peoples of the Book that the God they worship is the same as Allah, removing an objection to conversion. It's telling that now they say otherwise.
Christian groups argue that they have used the word Allah to refer to God in their Bibles and songs for many years - long before authorities began enforcing the ban several years ago.
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which translates as approximately 'I am what I am' or 'I will be what I will be.' From that we can guess that God's 'name' is whatever he pleases it to be I dunno about that Fred, looks like a good case can be made for Popeye.
[ZEENEWS.INDIA] 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... arrived in Brussels Tuesday flying in from a visit to Iraq to attend NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... talks on a krazed killer assault which has sparked global alarm.
With attention already on crises in Ukraine and Syria, the Sunni jihadist offensive in northern Iraq has added to a packed NATO agenda with Afghanistan also a high priority.
His trip to meet Iraqi leaders in Storied Baghdad on Monday, followed by Kurdish officials in the autonomous northern region early Tuesday, had been shrouded in secrecy and unusually the top US diplomat arrived in Belgium on the US military plane he had used for security reasons.
Kerry was due to first have talks with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, before attending a dinner of foreign ministers from the 28-member alliance.
US President Barack Obama We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us... announced earlier this month that the US will scale back its troops in Afghanistan to 9,800 before withdrawing them completely by the end of 2016.
That will shape plans by other NATO members who have forces in Afghanistan on how many the troops to leave in the country, with a top US official predicting a total force of around 12,000.
But the formal meetings, which will open Wednesday, are also set to be "very, very focused on the situation in Ukraine," the official told news hounds.
The ministers would also discuss the implementation of new Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's peace plan, "the ceasefire efforts, and also efforts to negotiate with eastern players," the official said, asking not to be named.
The White House on Tuesday welcomed 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... 's call to his politicians to revoke his authorisation to invade Ukraine.
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Vladimir Putin's call to his politicians to revoke his authorization to invade Ukraine.
Old Russian custom: you've to be asked three times before accepting.
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Kerry's plan: take the Kurdish Pershmuga to Ukraine as a peace keeping force. He's also thinking about some crack troops from Nigeria to Iraq. Sure there's drawbacks, but no plan is perfect...
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Smile, be polite, then get on with business ignoring the dude, since he doesn't have anything of real substance to offer other than his self importance.
McALLEN, Texas (AP) �-- The U.S. government plans to turn an empty 55,000-square foot warehouse in South Texas into a processing facility for unaccompanied children who have entered the country illegally, according to construction permits obtained by The Associated Press through a public records request Monday. Its only a mile from the border. Send the kids over, then we will get the parents (the new Democrat voters) a do not go to jail card in a day or so.
[Korea Times] North Korea lashed out at an upcoming Hollywood action comedy about assassinating Kim Jong-un, saying it "shows the desperation of the US government and American society."
"The Interview," directed by Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen, is a tale about two CIA agents who travel to North Korea disguised as talk-show hosts to assassinate the leader.
Dave Skylark and Aaron Rapoport play the secret agents, and Korean-American actor Randall Park plays Kim Jong-un. Alas, no Arec Barrwin.
[Iran Press TV] Baghdad has not agreed to grant immunity from local prosecution to US forces that are being deployed to Iraq, which is fighting against Takfiri militants, reports say.
According to Iraqi local media reports, a government source on Tuesday rejected the claims after reports from the Pentagon said Iraq had assured Washington that US forces would not be subject to possible prosecution in Iraqi courts.
The source, whose name was not mentioned in the reports, said that granting immunity to US forces is a "baseless" claim made by "some media outlets." In that case they should be home tomorrow.
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"Transnational terrorist groups have developed effective intelligence and counterintelligence capabilities"..., warns DIA Director Michael Flynn
Statement Before the Senate Armed Services Committee
United States Senate 11 February 2014
Michael T. Flynn, Lieutenant General, U.S. Army
Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
(UNCLAS) "Globalization, rapid technological advancements, and an uncertain fiscal environment present new avenues of collection and threats from traditional nation-state intelligence services and non state entities to target U.S. national security information, systems, and personnel. Increased financial pressures due to resource cuts create potential vulnerabilities that foreign intelligence entities seek to exploit to identify vulnerable employees and contractors with access to sensitive and classified national security information.
Foreign intelligence entities conduct a wide range of intelligence and clandestine activities that threaten and undermine our national security interests and objectives worldwide. Such actors target our armed forces; our military and national security-related research, development, and acquisition activities; our national intelligence system; and our government's decision making processes. In addition to threats by foreign intelligence entities, insider threats will also pose a persistent challenge. Trusted insiders with the intent to do harm can exploit their access to compromise vast amounts of sensitive and classified information as part of personal ideology or at the direction of a foreign government.
The unauthorized disclosure of this information to state adversaries, non-state activists, or other entities will continue to pose a critical threat.
DIA is leading an Information Review Task Force to examine grave damage caused to Department of Defense equities and US national security as a result of the unauthorized NSA disclosures. An emerging threat that concerns the department involves the potential for foreign intelligence entities to compromise critical supply chains or corrupt key components bound for vital war-fighting systems.
Additionally, a few transnational terrorist groups have developed effective intelligence and counterintelligence capabilities--we have seen this manifest in Iraq and Afghanistan, and terrorist groups are now using and sharing the knowledge and experience they gained in those conflicts."...
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Flynn is no potted plant. If I had to guess [and it is only a guess] I suspect Mike Flynn and his deputy were beating the Iraqi warning drums a bit too hard. Their great sin however, may have been the attempted transformation of DIA from a featherbed for beltway senior grades to a more relevant organization focused on the warfighter. Plumpish old dem voting, greybeaver SES's have no desire for overseas tours I assure you. Their greatest daily challenge is making their way from the DIA cafeteria to the elevator and back to their offices with take-away boxes. DIA should be at the very top of the flush list.
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This administration has zero tolerance for debate, disagreement, or dissent. This is the mark of a tyrant. There is an old Irish curse appropriate to Bumble: "Gurab ecen mer dot munad in airecht!" In other words, "May you become so insignificant that it be necessary to point you by finger (preferably the middle finger) in a crowd!"
[Dhaka Tribune] Islamic bully boyz have kidnapped 60 more girls and women and 31 boys from villages in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , witnesses said yesterday. Security forces denied the kidnappings. Nigeria's government and military have been widely criticized for their slow response to the abductions of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped April 15.
There was no way to safely and independently confirm the report from Kummabza, 150 kilometers (95 miles) from Maiduguri, capital of Borno state and headquarters of a military state of emergency that has failed to curtail near-daily attacks by 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... fighters.
Kummabza resident Aji Khalil said Tuesday the abductions took place Saturday in an attack in which four villagers were killed. Khalil is a member of one of the vigilante groups that have had some success in repelling Boko Haram attacks with primitive weapons.
A senior local councilor from the village's Damboa local government told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that abductions had occurred but insisted on anonymity because he was not authorized to give information to news hounds. He said elderly survivors of the attack had walked some 25 kilometers (15 miles) to the relative safety of other villages.
The Damboa council secretary, Modu Mustapha, said he could not confirm or deny the abductions and directed a news hound to the council chairman, Alamin Mohammed, who did not answer phone calls or respond to text messages. The new kidnappings add to Nigeria's crisis over the April kidnappings and the ongoing violence from the Islamic bully boy group Boko Haram.
A strategy to rescue the girls appears to have reached an impasse. Nigeria's military has said it knows where they are but fears their abductors would kill them if any military action is taken. Boko Haram has been demanding the release of detained members in exchange for its hostages but President Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... has said he will not consider a swap.
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It can't be. Only white Americans (even those who arrived in the great migration of the 1890s) had slaves, because they have to pay reparations. That's what they bray in academia. /sarc off
[Iran Press TV] Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the current unrest in Iraq is a plot against the Moslem world.
The Iranian foreign minister made the remarks on Monday in a meeting with Sudanese Minister of Human Resources, Development and Labor Ishraqa Sayed Mahmoud.
Referring to the ongoing crisis in Iraq, Zarif said, "What is happening is a foreign conspiracy with the aim of preventing the strong presence of the Moslem world in the arena of regional and international developments."
Zarif added that Islamic countries must be vigilant and have a strategic view on the developments, noting that they should not allow enemies to sow seeds of discord among them.
The Iranian official further pointed to the relations between the two countries and said, "We have a strategic view of the relations between the two countries, and highly value our ties with the Sudanese government and people."
The Sudanese minister, for her part, called for further cooperation among Moslem nations, particularly Iran and Sudan, in the face of common challenges.
"Nothing can disrupt the trend of the age-old, friendly and brotherly relations between the two Moslem countries and Sudan will always remain allied [to Iran] and stand by Iran," the Sudanese official added.
Militants of 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... are wreaking havoc on Iraq.
Iraqi Premier 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... has repeatedly said that Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , Qatar and some other Persian Gulf Arab states are supporting the militancy in Iraq.
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"The committee had last week requested White House attorney Jennifer OConnor appear at Tuesdays hearing. After the Obama administration objected, the committee announced Monday that it was subpoenaing her."
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Of fok'n course they "objected." That was the entire purpose of giving her the White House post, so's she'd be covered, and not testify. She'll plead the 5th no doubt.
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'Brief testimony'.
It doesn't take long to say "Nya Nya".
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I recommend we hear more from IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. His deceit and contemptuous arrogance should be permanently etched into the minds of every voter.
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Ms. OConnor has experience dealing with Washington scandal.In the late 1990s, as lawmakers investigated various Clinton-era scandals, she was among the administration officials who testified in a House probe of whether the Clinton White House applied political pressure to help the Teamsters in a bitter strike.
[AmericanInterest] ISIS is bigger, badder, richer, and better organized than any jihadi threat the United States has faced thus far. Its rise represents a foreign policy disaster of the first order.
A group more radical than al-Qaeda, better organized, better financed, commanding the loyalty of thousands of dedicated fanatics including many with Western and even U.S. passports? And this group now controls some of the most strategic territory at the heart of the Middle East?
Welcome to President Obama's brave new world. After six years in office pursuing strategies he believed would tame the terror threat and doing his best to reassure the American people that the terror situation was under control, with the "remnants" of al-Qaeda skittering into the shadows like roaches when the exterminator arrives, Obama now confronts the most powerful and hostile jihadi movement of modern times, a movement that dances on the graveyard of his hopes.
Not a rant, but an honest assessment of the current situation. All the more scathing, especially given that the writer is a thoughtful liberal of the classical type. Like VDH, he's on my list to read when I have a few minutes to spare for that bigger picture good historians provide.
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And this group now controls some of the most strategic territory at the heart of the Middle East?
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The jihadi menace has always been real. Their plan has never wavered from supremacy and domination. The plan is guided by hatred of the civilization and particularly the West. Our MSM/Democratic Party/Progressives give them too much cover.
[ZEENEWS.INDIA] 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... on Tuesday urged Kiev to extend the shaky truce with gunnies in eastern Ukraine and launch talks despite them shooting down a helicopter with nine on board.
The Russian strongman said he had asked senators to rescind a resolution allowing him to invade Ukraine in order to encourage a "grinding of the peace processor" but vouched at the same time to always protect the interests of Russians in the neighbouring country.
"We will always protect ethnic Russians in Ukraine," Putin said after meeting Austrian counterpart Heinz Fischer in Vienna and inking a major pipeline deal. "I hope that armed forces will not be necessary for this."
Putin said the request to use the army in Ukraine was originally made due to the "situation in Crimea," the Black Sea peninsula Moscow annexed in March to a global outcry, and that he decided to recall it because he "wants to create conditions for the grinding of the peace processor."
In particular, he called on Kiev to extend the truce and begin negotiations with the east "about the future organization of Ukraine" which would grant more rights to its separatist regions.
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[ZEENEWS.INDIA] More than 50 people have been killed in two days of festivities in Central African Republic, witnesses and officials said on Tuesday, with foreign troops struggling to stop recurrent violence between Mohammedan and Christian communities.
Witnesses in Bambari, 380 km (236 miles) northwest of the capital Bangui, said an initial attack early on Monday by mainly Christian militia on its outskirts led to waves of reprisals by Mohammedan youths and fighting inside the town.
Bambari sits on a sectarian fault line now cleaving the country, where over a year of violence has killed thousands, forced a million from their homes and led to most Mohammedans fleeing into northern zones closer to Chad and Sudan.
The violence in the landlocked ex-French colony dates to the takeover last year of Bangui by the mostly Mohammedan Seleka rebel group, whose time in power was marked by a string of rights abuses, leading to the creation of the Christian militia.
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[Iran Press TV] 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... has urged the Iraqi prime minister to form a new government, and calls on Kurdish leaders to participate in the process.
Kerry made the remarks in a meeting with Masoud Barzani, the president of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in the Kurdish regional capital Erbil on Tuesday, wrapping up his two-day visit to Iraq.
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As per #3 + Maliki's appearance on CNN, IIUC Maliki is refusing to step down as it goes against the post-Saddam Iraqi Constitution, + argues that it is these calls for him to step down so that a new Obama/US-supported
"inclusive" Govt. can be quickly formed that is actually "unconstitutional" vee Iraqi law.
[DAWN] Police and troops fired warning shots Tuesday to break up a protest over food shortages by people who have fled a military operation against the Taliban.
The offensive has seen the northwestern tribal area of North Wazoo hit by more than a week of shelling and air raids, and more than 450,000 people have fled ahead of an impending ground assault, with many going to the nearby town of Bannu.
The World Food Programme (WFP) began distributing aid through a local aid group on Monday, but there was anger among refugees at long delays.
Anger at problems with food distribution spilled over on Tuesday, with people blocking the main road from Bannu to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... bustling provincial capitalBeautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. An AFP news hound saw around 500 people blocking the road and pelting security forces with rocks in protest, prompting police and soldiers to fire warning shots in the air to disperse them.
Mohammad Nazir Khan, a politician from the region, said many people who should be receiving aid were having problems with registration and documents.
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[ZEENEWS.INDIA] Turkey today said it has banned entry to more than five thousand foreign jihadists suspected of seeking to head to Syria to join radical Islamist groups fighting the Syrian regime.
You're doing it wrong, Erdogan: let them INTO Syria, just don't let them OUT...
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi only they haven't dumped him yet... said his Islamic-rooted government was taking "all the measures" to stem the flow of jihadists from abroad, who were "using Turkey as a transit point" to enter war-torn Syria.
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[Libya Herald] The former First Deputy President of the General National Congress, lawyer Juma Ateega, has claimed that member of Congress are constitutionally barred from standing in tomorrow's elections to the new House of Representatives.
Speaking on Aljazeera TV last night, he said that under the August 2011 Constitutional Declaration, which for the moment is effectively Libya's acting constitution, they were not allowed to present themselves as candidates. There could be court cases after the elections, he warned, to disbar any current members of Congress who were elected tomorrow.
A handful of Congress members of former members are standing although there has been a social media campaign to try and persuade voters to reject them.
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[ZEENEWS.INDIA] An overnight suicide kaboom in Beirut's southern suburbs, Hezbollah's main bastion, killed a security officer who had tried to stop the bomber, a Lebanese security source said Tuesday.
No one has claimed the attack, but an audio recording posted on YouTube by a Sunni murderous Moslem group said there would be more "strikes" if the Shiite movement does not pull out of Syria.
The kaboom happened at around midnight (2100 GMT Monday) near an army checkpoint and cafe where football fans were watching a World Cup match.
An army statement said a suicide kaboomer driving a white Mercedes "went kaboom! at an army checkpoint at the Tayuneh roundabout (in southern Beirut), wounding several civilians."
The official National News Agency reported 12 people maimed.
On Tuesday, a security source told AFP a high-ranking General Security Agency officer whom the army had reported missing had "been martyred."
Remains were undergoing DNA testing to confirm that they were indeed those of Abdel Karim Hodroj, the source added.
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Is this a second bombing, or an update on the first one to reflect a fatality?
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English glamour model (born 25 June 1985 in Bath, England) who rose to prominence after winning the second FHM High Street Honey competition in 2003. She was featured on the FHM list of 100 Sexiest Women four times, from 2004 to 2007.
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Happy Birthday Linda Cardellini, 39 Today !
Rose to fame as ER's Nurse Samantha Taggart. She used her television fame to find major motion picture success in Scooby-Doo in which she acted alongside Freddie Prinze Jr. She had supporting roles in the films Grandma's Boy and Brokeback Mountain.
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For Besoeker
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
North Korea
None of the regional players want ISIL to ultimately succeed. So I wonder what the Turkey and KSA plan is for the end game? Wipeout ISIL (who and how?) and leave JRTN in charge; that is, back to Saddam?
Well KBK old boy, it becomes a long, hot, dusty 500+ kilo slog straight south to a petrol stop in Nasiriyah and on to the Mutla Ridge [see happy snap] if you're lucky. All of that with the hope the Kuwaitis can hold the bastards off and there will be hots and cots down at Camp Arifjan until airlift from Al al Salem or Kuwaiti International can be arranged. Of course there's the Iranian border option, not my first choice. I'd wager the Kuwaitis would help U.S. personnel and foreign nationals....Iraqis however, not so much. All the makings of a colossal cock-up of the first order I'd say. 
[WND] Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., wasted no time in accusing the head of the IRS of lying to Congress, unloading a blistering barrage of accusations at a Monday night hearing.
...Pak politician, and would-be dictator, founder and head of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran and Pakistain Awami Tehrik. He usually resides in Canada, but returns to Pakistain periodically to foam at the mouth and lead demonstrations. Depending on which way the wind's blowing, Qadri claims to be the author of Pak's blasphemy law. Other times he says it wasn't him...
[Iran Press TV] A federal judge in Oregon ruled Tuesday that the Justice Department and FBI deprived 13 people of their constitutional right to due process by failing to disclose if and why they were included on the US No-Fly List.
[ZEENEWS.INDIA] More than 1,000 people were killed in Iraq between June 5 and 22 as Islamist militants swept through large swaths of northern and western Iraq, the UN said Tuesday. 
[Iran Press TV] At least one person has been killed in a 
made the prospect of holding tomorrow's elections there impossible, an official in the town has said.
[DAWN] KARACHI: Pakistain Rangers, Sindh, on Monday claimed to have 
[DAWN] Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid said the government would take strict measures to tackle 
Wazoo
[Iran Press TV] Unidentified 
[Iran Press TV] The United States continues to claim that it is trying to bring peace and justice to Iraq while terrorism is the modern way Washington has chosen to conduct its wars, a political analyst tells Press TV.
[ZEENEWS.INDIA] At least 69 people were killed and 144 injured in fierce 
[VOA News] U.S. Secretary of State 
[MINNESOTA.CBSLOCAL] A Minnesota man is in jail because he logged on to Facebook. Police say 26-year-old Nicholas Wig checked his profile from a home he broke into, and then he didn't log off. It happened June 19 in South St. Paul.
[Dhaka Tribune] He was totally fit on Monday evening after the verdict date was announced at noon. But he suddenly fell ill at midnight in Dhaka Central Jail, hours before the top war crimes accused was supposed to be taken to the International Crimes Tribunal..png)
Wazoo
[DAWN] 
[ZEENEWS.INDIA] Iraq's top Kurdish leader warned visiting Secretary of State 
Nouri al-Maliki
[DAWN] THIS is what happens when you allow your railways minister to control air traffic. Eyebrows were raised and there was talk of what angry steps an international airline could resort to when the aircraft carrying Dr 
Pervez 
[DAWN] KARACHI: Five people, including a teenager, were found 
[VOA News] Malaysia's highest court has upheld a government ban against a Roman Catholic newspaper using the word "Allah" to refer to God.
[ZEENEWS.INDIA] US Secretary of State 
...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...
[Korea Times] North Korea lashed out at an upcoming Hollywood action comedy about assassinating Kim Jong-un, saying it "shows the desperation of the US government and American society."
[Iran Press TV] Baghdad has not agreed to grant immunity from local prosecution to US forces that are being deployed to Iraq, which is fighting against Takfiri militants, reports say.
[Dhaka Tribune] Islamic 
[Iran Press TV] Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the current unrest in Iraq is a plot against the 
...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...
[ZEENEWS.INDIA] More than 50 people have been killed in two days of 
[Iran Press TV] US Secretary of State 
[DAWN] Police and troops fired warning shots Tuesday to break up a protest over food shortages by people who have fled a military operation against the Taliban.
[ZEENEWS.INDIA] Turkey today said it has banned entry to more than five thousand foreign jihadists suspected of seeking to head to Syria to join radical Islamist groups fighting the Syrian regime. 
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