A woman has claimed that she was forced to strip naked at gunpoint when Department of Homeland Security officials inexplicably raided her Florida home at dawn - and left with nothing.
Kari Edwards posted surveillance footage on YouTube that she claims shows the 6am raid on her house in Homestead on June 10, as well as images showing the officers inflicted on her property.
She says the footage shows a SWAT team swooping in as a helicopter hovered overhead, before they smashed in her front door and deafened her cat with smoke grenades.
The Department of Homeland Security has not responded to MailOnline's requests for comment.
On the video she posted to her YouTube page, Edwards said she and her boyfriend were inside the home when the SWAT team burst in at 6.16am.
'Armed men... demanded that I drop the towel I was covering my naked body with before snatching it off of me physically and throwing me to the ground,' she wrote. 'According to my boyfriend, the agent with his assault rifle to my back kept eying me up and down like I was eye candy.' Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, I guess.
Edwards, who said she had previously worked for the DHS but has been disabled since 2006, recognized some of the agents as working for the federal agency and asked them for ID.
'The agent pointed at his uniform that read POLICE and said "Isn't this ID enough for you?",' she wrote. 'When I told him I could buy that up in Miami he called me retarded and said I was f***ing stupid.' Sounds like a good leftist response to logic. She added to PoliceStateUSA.com that she saw 'ICE', 'Gang Task Force' and 'Special Agent' on the men's shirts.
She said that she was put in handcuffs that were so tight 'I could not feel my hands' and said that agents refused to cover her body, even though she repeatedly asked.
The video is about 20 minutes long, but she claimed that the raid went on for two hours.
'My boyfriend, who is asthmatic, started having trouble breathing due to the lingering smoke created by the flash bang grenade,' she said, and agents helped him find his inhaler.
The team eventually handed her a warrant signed by Jonathan Goodman, a federal magistrate judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, she said.
The warrant authorized the agents to search for computers and electronics - with the agents suggesting it was for child pronography - but Edwards said they did not seize any items. Nah. They're part of a new HGTV show called "DHS Remodeling."
Images shared on Facebook shows burn marks on the ground of her home from the grenade, as well as damaged door frames, smashed shower doors and even a smashed sculpture.
Edwards said the incident was 'two hours of pure hell' and she has filed complaints with authorities.
'After filing complaints with the FBI, DHS-OIG, ACLU and the White House as well as calling the chambers of Judge Jonathan Goodman, I still have no answers as of yet,' she wrote on Facebook.
Since Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula, it has been clear that a conflict between Moscow and the Crimean Tatars was only a matter of time. Arguably, the Crimean Tatars, with an estimated population of only 250,000 (Ukrainian Census, 2001), cannot play an important role in the decision-making processes in Crimea. The prevalence of ethnic Russians, outnumbering Crimean Tatars by a factor of four or five, renders the Tatars a powerless minority on the peninsula.
From the minute Moscow took over Crimea, it has been clear that the Crimean Tatars will have to make concessions. However, few Crimean Tatars realized that the changes would impact them so soon. After barring the leader of the Crimean Tatars, Mustafa Cemilev, from entering Russia (censor.net.ua, May 2), other bans against wider circles of Crimean Tatars followed. Several thousand followers of the Hizb ut-Tahrir movement, which is banned in Russia, hastily left Crimea (vesti.ru, April 28). The party is not banned in Ukraine, but in Russia it was designated as an extremist organization and officially outlawed by a court decision (cisatc.org, November 13, 2008). Entire families of the movements members left Crimea, constituting a not insignificant portion of the general population of Crimean Tatars. It is also unlikely that any of the students from Crimea who are studying in the Middle East and Turkey will be able to return home (qha.com.ua, February 13).
The new situation will also have an impact on members of the Crimean Tatars jamaat in Syria, which has become one of the most combat-ready units of the Syrian insurgent group Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar and is also well known in Crimea, thanks to its emir, Abdul-Karim Krymsky (YouTube, May 13). The leadership and members of the Crimean Tatars representative body, the Majlis, which opposes the Russian occupation, have stayed outside of Crimea. Also, under pressure from Moscow, Crimean Tatars were coerced to not hold mass public events dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the deportation of their ethnic group to Central Asia in 1944 (mk.ru, May 17).
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Judicial Watch may catch a break. Maybe this whole investigation can get off the dime (I was thinking Lerner would have to be water-boarded to get anything out of her.)
Any bets on the Judge being removed from the bench by the empty suit and his cronies in DOJ prior to July 10?
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I wish him well.
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Maybe he will do what's right rather than what's political like Chief U.S. Judge John Sirica during Watergate. Nothing will ever get by Eric Holder with regards to appointing a special prosecutor. The present government can't be trusted. The only chance that this IRS scandal might have a chance of getting proper investigation is in the courts.
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Just to add to IRS miseries, at the beginning of June the suit against the IRS for discriminating against Jewish groups was allowed to go forward, per the JTA:
Federal judge rules Z Street case against IRS may proceed
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WASHINGTON (JTA) A federal judge ruled that a lawsuit challenging the Internal Revenue Services scrutiny of Israel-related groups may proceed.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. on May 27 dismissed U.S. government claims that federal courts lack jurisdiction over the lawsuit filed in 2010 by an Israel advocacy group, Z Street.
The lawsuit claims that IRS scrutiny of Z Streets application for tax-exempt status violated its freedom of speech.
Jackson accepted Z Streets argument that the group was not suing to gain tax-exempt status but rather because it alleged that the government was subjecting it to unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in assessing its application.
In its lawsuit, Z Street, which was founded in 2009 in part to counter the influence of J Street, cited a conversation that its legal counsel had with an IRS agent. According to Z Streets complaint, the IRS agent had said that applications for tax-exempt status from Israel-related entities are sent to a special unit in Washington to determine whether such organizations activities contradict the U.S. administrations public policies.
IRS officials in court papers have disputed this characterization of the conversation and said that it misstates the nature of their policy. The IRS has said that it gives special scrutiny to applicants that could provide resources to organizations in a country, such as Israel, that is at higher risk of terrorism.
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The usual nabobs in the Beltway will ignore it like they keep ignoring the maps in the Paleos school books on the ME. Intent is there not in the glib words of liars politicians.
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More than 100 more cases and 34 deaths from the new respiratory disease Mers have been reported by officials in Saudi Arabia.The cases date back to February and came to light after an analysis of hospital records.
The World Health Organization says there have now been 820 cases of Mers and 286 deaths.The exact source of the new infection is still uncertain, but camels are a prime suspect.The virus is from the same family as the common cold, but can lead to kidney failure and pneumonia.
[Real Clear Politics] ALAN COLMES: You know it's funny to me that conservatives talk about how much they love the constitution but when somebody exercises their constitutional rights they're declared guilty when they're not supposed to be. Simply because of the Fifth Amendment. Does invoking the Fifth Amendment indicate guilt? Every man's innocent until proven guilty. Some cases take more proof than others.
I mean, I love how conservatives always tell me how much they love and admire and basically want to have sex with the constitution — except they'd probably get paper cuts with that old parchment paper — but when somebody actually exercises their constitutional rights, it's a big problem. Like lots of liberals, Colmes seems to keep his mind stored in a gutter somewhere.
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Liberals either go for the sex or the homo in their insults.
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The Left only views the Constitution as an impediment to their power. They're right, that was the intent of the writers. Never allow the concentration of power as all of history as demonstrated the admonition - power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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"I would not look to the U.S. Constitution, if I were drafting a Constitution in the year 2012. I might look at the Constitution of South Africa," says Ginsburg, whom President Clinton nominated to the court in 1993.
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Come on Colmes, you can do better than that. Well, maybe you can't. How do you feel about Lois Lerner and spoliation of evidence or perjury. I don't know why I'm surprised when this guy comes across as an idiot. He is so consistent.
[Ynet] Syrian government forces captured areas near the border with Leb on Friday, cutting supply lines for opposition fighters as the army tightens its grip northwest of the capital, state media said.
Syrian troops are approaching the mountain resort of Zabadani, which has been under rebel control for two years, cutting it off from rebel-held areas in the mountainous Qalamoun region, state TV said.
State TV said troops in the Qalamoun region reached the edge of the Lebanese border town Tufeil. The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported festivities in the area on Friday.
[BBC] Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has extended a week-long ceasefire with pro-Russian separatists in the east for another three days.
He said he was hoping for progress on his peace plan.
Some rebel leaders in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions said they would observe the truce, but others rejected it.
Mr Poroshenko's announcement came hours after he had signed a landmark EU trade pact - the issue that has been the trigger of the recent crisis.
He said it was a "historic" moment, but Russia warned of "consequences" and that Ukraine would split in two.
The deadline for the ceasefire to expire was Friday at 22:00 local time (19:00 GMT).
Separatists in the east held talks on Friday with mediators, including Ukraine's former President Leonid Kuchma, Moscow's ambassador in Ukraine and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
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BUULO BARDE, Somalia -- Djiboutian-AMISOM forces have engaged in deadly skirmish with unidentified militiamen after an attack on police station in Hiraan regional district of Buulo Barde of central Somalia, Garowe Online reports.
Residents of Buulo Barde town say, on Thursday militiamen in military fatigues targeted the police compound, reportedly killing two Djiboutian peacekeepers and Somali government soldiers. Local reports unveiled that the attackers were killed on the spot but GO was unable to verify the exact number of casualty figures from Thursday raid.
African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) could not be reached for comment on the death of Djiboutian soldiers. No group has claimed credit for the attack.
Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab group was dislodged from a string of strategic towns in southern and central Somalia as a result of joint military campaign.
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GAROWE, Somalia -- The Vice President of Somalia's Puntland Government Abdihakin Abdullahi Haji Omar Amey disclosed that his government will respond to the aggression of Somaliland separatist administration on Thursday, Garowe Online reports.
There is no pile of rocks so worthless that someone won't fight over them...
Speaking at an event marking Somalia Independence Day of 26 June when northern part of the country attained autonomy from Britain in 1960, Vice President Amey told that they will not issue press statement on Sool and Sanaag issues but instead armed forces would confront attack and aggression perpetrated against Puntland by Somaliland.
"We will not condemn but what I tell Puntland people is that government's policy towards Sool, Sanaag and Ayn is apparent. We will brace up for it", said Amey.
Somaliland forces are said to have retreated from the historic town of Taleh to Hudur where they have been maintaining military presence.
Somaliland on Tuesday dispatched a delegation led by the State Minister for Presidency Hirsi Ali Haji Hassan to Taleh. Hassan was accompanied by trucks loaded with food on his visit to Sool region town of Taleh.
Following the election of Puntland's new leader Abdiweli Mohamed Ali Gaas, the state's neighbor to west, Somaliland beefed up soldiers presence in Sool and Sanaag regions.
Puntland and Somaliland have fought sporadic battles since 2002 over the control of territories mainly in Sool region.
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[Ynet] Analysis: The security agency is hoping that Palestinians seeking better conditions for themselves will give up the two men, while Netanyahu is keen to show that perpetrators were indeed Hamas.
Member of the press covering the abduction of 16-year-olds Gil-Ad Shaer and Naftali Frenkel and 19-year-old Eyal Yifrach had already come across the name of Marwan Kawasmeh on a Friday two weeks ago. We knew that two men were involved in the abduction, but were told they were both members of the Kawasmeh family. Some of the information about the two men had already been published, but had become lost in the mass of speculation and interpretation.
The censor was quick to block the information about the two kidnappers, since the Shin Bet was hoping to reach others involved in the abduction and use them to get more information that would lead to the boys. After all, the main purpose is to find the three teens and only afterwards find and punish the kidnappers. In the meantime, those connected to Abu-Eisha and Kawasmeh were jugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... and those who weren't had escaped.
Meanwhile, ...back at the precinct house, Don Calamari's lawyer was getting even redder in the face... the Shin Bet's assumption that the Hamas network in Hebron was responsible for the kidnapping has been confirmed. But so far the Shin Bet hasn't been successful in tracking down the abductors, who are probably still in hiding and looking for a way to escape the area when things calm down and the Israeli military operation is over.
At the current stage of the operation, when Shin Bet is still without a strong lead that could take them to the kidnappers, it is using police techniques by publishing their names and photos of their faces in the hope that someone on the Paleostinian side will step up and give them away.
Unlike the Wild West, where a reward would be offered for desperados's heads, the Shin Bet isn't offering one, but on the Paleostinian street it is well known that information on the whereabouts of the kidnappers would be generously rewarded. Paleostinians with a family member detained in Israel and want better conditions for him and for themselves may be tempted to come forward and provide the Shin Bet with information. This is the main reasoning behind the move.
Publishing the names and photos of the kidnappers also serves Israel's public diplomacy, mainly for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, because it proves it was Hamas who is responsible for the abduction of the three boys, and not some random act by otherwise innocent Paleostinians who acted on impulse.
This is exactly what Netanyahu needed to turn public opinion in Europe and the US against the reconciliation between the Paleostinian Authority and Hamas, which hasn't changed its terrorist ways.
An additional motive for releasing the identity of the abductors is to prove that the Shin Bet is making progress and not groping in the dark. But, as often happens, the breakthrough hasn't been achieved yet and therefore the Shin Bet is constantly shifting its methods and continues to work tirelessly.
[Ynet] Hundreds of people were evacuated as flames threatened residential in capital; firefighters battled to keep blaze from reaching Yad Vashem.
The Israeli authorities are investigating suspicions that a massive wildfire that threatened dozens of homes in Jerusalem on Wednesday was started deliberately.
Dozens of teams of firefighters battled the blaze, which raged through the Ein Karem and Kiriyat HaYovel neighborhoods, causing fears it would reach the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum. Firemen fought to stop the flames from reaching the museum, which had been evacuated.
A front man for the Jerusalem fire service said the organization is pursuing two major leads, the Israeli media reported Thursday - a group of children spotted fleeing the site of the fire as it started, and the possibility of arson.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Cynthia backed into the galley, the barbecue fork held in front of her. Jack! she called. Where the hell are you?... Fire Service Commissioner Shahar Ayalon told Israel Radio on Thursday that it was still unclear whether the fire was caused by negligence or arson. The initial assessment, however, is that the fire started in one place.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Cynthia backed into the galley, the barbecue fork held in front of her. Jack! she called. Where the hell are you?... Fire Service Commissioner Shahar Ayalon told Israel Radio on Thursday that it was still unclear whether the fire was caused by negligence or arson. The initial assessment, however, is that the fire started in one place.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Cynthia backed into the galley, the barbecue fork held in front of her. Jack! she called. Where the hell are you?... Fire Service Commissioner Shahar Ayalon told Israel Radio on Thursday that it was still unclear whether the fire was caused by negligence or arson. The initial assessment, however, is that the fire started in one place.
The brushfire erupted in the afternoon and spread quickly from the wadi to residential areas. Dozens of IDF personnel also turned out to help battle the blaze.
[DAWN] In a speech to large public gathering, Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) chief Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... on Friday criticised Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... and warned him of a 'tsunami march' to Islamabad on August 14 if his demands regarding alleged election fraud in the 2013 General Elections were not met, DawnNews reported.
In the speech to PTI supporters, Khan made four demands to Nawaz Sharif's government which he said he wanted to be addressed within one month.
He said that one million people will be gathered in the federal capital if his demands were not addressed.
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[IsraelTimes] The buses filled with soldiers from the squad commanders school stopped on the Trans-Judea Highway midday on Tuesday. Hundreds of soldiers descended carefully into the riverbeds north of the road, part of the village of Beit Kahil, north of Hebron.
The future commanders, carrying guns and unwieldy combat vests — some of them wearing antiquated flak jackets, unlikely to help much in the event of an attack — began a careful search of the area. Lines of soldiers moved between houses, peering into caves, wells, and courtyards. This time too, just like the previous 11 days, to no avail.
The night before, the soldiers had found a collection of hand grenades and sniper rifles in a home, but not the kidnappers of Naftali Fraenkel, Eyal Yifrach and Gil-ad Shaar, or the three teens themselves. The Hebron sector is huge, full of little canyons and hiding places that an entire army would have trouble searching fully — assuming, that is, the teens are still in the area. The kidnappers had enough time on the night of the kidnapping, June 12 — seven hours before the security services realized what had happened — and plenty of means of reaching every point in the territories, or within the Green Line, if they wanted.
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In the shadow of the World Cup, the kidnapping, the mass arrests throughout the West Bank, and the upcoming Ramadan, the hunger strikers understood their campaign just didn't interest anyone.
It's all about the ratings. They were unfortunate enough to run slam into The Beverly Hillbillies and Greenacres.
[DailyBeast] The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham is threatening to take control of Balad Airbase, Iraq's largest airfield and one of America's most important military outposts during its occupation of the country.
Today, Balad still has plenty of vehicles and aircraft on the base that any terrorist group would covet, including Russian-made transport helicopters, surveillance planes, and a fleet of pickup trucks fitted with heavy machine guns.
Now, that airbase is coming under fire—and is in danger of falling into the hands of ISIS, according to U.S. intelligence officers, internal reports from Balad, and outside analysts. Rooters reported Wednesday that the base was now surrounded on three sides by turbans and taking heavy mortar fire.
Even if ISIS were to gain control of Balad, there is no guarantee its fighters would know how to operate or maintain the aircraft that are stored there. But an ISIS takeover of Balad would be significant nonetheless. As NBC News reported Tuesday, Iraqi officers say without air support they are on an equal footing with ISIS fighters.
Some attacks on Balad already began this month. The last American contractors at Balad—many of whom were working to modernize the base to be ready for the F-16s—were flown by the Iraqi Air Force to Storied Baghdad on June 13 in a dramatic airlift operation reminiscent of the fall of the U.S. embassy in Saigon.
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Rooters reported Wednesday that the base was now surrounded on three sides by turbans and taking heavy mortar fire.
Which simply means nothing has changed in nearly a decade.
[AnNahar] EU leaders on Friday gave Russia three days to change policy on Ukraine or face the prospect of tougher sanctions as Kiev said it would consider a ceasefire extension with pro-Moscow rebels.
In a statement Friday, the 28 European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... leaders said Moscow had to take four steps, among them clear backing for the Ukraine government's peace plan, by Monday June 30.
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[BREITBART] Many of the unaccompanied minors flooding across the border are refugees fleeing violence in their Central American home countries and should be treated as such, according to Texas Republican Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee. ...U.S. Representative-for-life for Texas's 18th congressional district, serving since 1995. The district includes most of inner-city Houston. She noted for her lack of tact and intellect. She is a member of the Democratic Party, and almost its epitome... "Yes, in some instances these are refugees. And this report indicated that these children are not coming for immigration issues; they're being forcibly displaced. We ask Jordan to take the Syrian refugees, we ask Turkey to take the Syrian refugees, and all over the world there are refugees," she said at a presser Thursday, referring to a report from the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... High Commission for Refugees.
The Texas Democrat argued that much of the influx is due to violence in the unaccompanied minors' Central American home countries and human smugglers who lie about America's policies to get parents to pay for transport northward.
"Under the United Nations agency for refugees it is clear that a part of the analysis is whether or not persons can be returned to these places. It is well documented that there is much violence in Central America [from] where these parents were sending these children," Jackson Lee said, adding that she does not want children returned to those conditions but does want to abide by the law and have the cases adjudicated.
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She has a point. If we take all those Christians and give them to the UN to be placed in Jordan and Turkey, ya, what could go wrong. The influx would certainly stop. I'm with ya girl, next is to move all the welfare folks to Israel...
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Y'all want some little Honduran kids to go with your Syrians? We can throw in some goats...
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Send them back to Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico. This is a politician-manufactured crisis. In the meantime send them to Washington D.C. (WH lawn), San Francisco bay area (Nancy Pelosi's home), Illinois Congressman Luis Gutierrez's front yard, and Harry Reid's front yard, should be under consideration as destinations during the interim, until Operation Return-the-Children to Their-Rightful-Homes can be organized. Other people who should be considered to house them also. From the article: "All three want to use Latino immigrants to create a socialist America
Raul Grijalva is, like the President himself, a disciple of Chicago radical Saul Alinsky."
[AnNahar] One person was killed and two others were maimed Friday in an armed clash involving Syrian and Lebanese citizens in the Bekaa border town of Arsal.
"A Syrian gunman was killed and two members of the al-Hujairi and Ezzeddine families were hurt in a clash with machineguns between Lebanese and Syrian citizens in Arsal," state-run National News Agency reported.
It said the shootout broke out over "the splitting of spoils and money."
"A joint force from the army and the Internal Security Forces intervened, seizing various types of weapons and staging patrols in the town," NNA added.
On Sunday, a man kidnapped on May 27 at the hands of an gang was released in the outskirts of Arsal. "Blindfolded and handcuffed, Hasan Ahmed al-Ghawi was freed in Arsal's Wadi Hmayyed," NNA said.
An army commando force had raided Syrian refugee encampments in Arsal on June 18 and carried out patrols in the outskirts of the town in search for gunnies and wanted suspects.
The army had recently kicked off an operation to detain gunnies, who are accused of assaulting Syrian refugee camps in Wadi Hmayyed and abducting several Syrian and Lebanese citizens.
Ever since the Syrian revolt erupted in March 2011, Arsal has served as a key conduit for refugees, rebels and maimed people fleeing strife-torn Syria.
[Iraq Sun] Iraq plunged deeper into crisis as Syrian army aircraft bombed Sunni murderous Moslem targets inside Iraq even as Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014... rejected calls for forming an emergency government to help the country counter a surge by Sunni Islamist murderous Moslems.
The sectarian conflict in Iraq threatened to spill beyond its borders as warplanes of the Syrian Army bombed Sunni strongholds in western Iraq and Iran has reportedly begun to send in military equipment and is flying unarmed surveillance drones over the country.
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[CSMONITOR] British Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... is facing one of the most public defeats of his career in his opposition to whom will next head the European Commission.
His insistence that Jean-Claude Juncker is the wrong man for the job, despite the fact that most European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... leaders have rallied around the former prime minister of Luxembourg, has left Mr. Cameron isolated. Germany's Die Welt newspaper labeled him "the loneliest man in Europe."
Heading into the EU summit today, where the nomination of Mr. Juncker could be sealed, Cameron did not back down, but pushed even harder, positioning himself for a humiliating setback.
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[IsraelTimes] Two French Jews were sent to prison for placing a bomb in 2012 under the car of an anti-Zionist journalist in Paris.
Every group has its hotheads, but this lot went beyond the pale.
The two men, identified only by their last names, Bismuth and Benhamou, were sentenced on June 20 by a judge from the Versailles Correctional Tribunal to six months and 10 months in jail respectively, according to Agence Info Libre.
The two men, who are in their 20s, were part of a gang of four whom police arrested in 2012 on suspicion that they had placed an improvised explosive device under the car of Jonathan Moadab, a reporter for Agence Info Libre who is also an anti-Zionist activist.
According to Moadab, the four are members of the French branch of the Jewish Defense League, a movement classified as terrorist in the United States and Israel.
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The Dallas branch was infiltrated by the Commie garbage in the late 90's military (CID)was on their payroll inside job Clinton's on down the line! Shame they did not investigate VA system for past 19 years!
The data was not destroyed on purpose! The Gremlins got it!
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What do you mean the last 19 years? You should read what those in the immediate post-WWII had to say about the VA. See - The GI war, 1941-1945, by Ralph G Martin and read the epilogue (also a good run down of the Battle of Athens [TN]).
This company's solution was effective for me when I had a 1.5TB hard drive fail! Mail the drive's controller board to them. The copy the bad track map to the new controller board and flash the same BIOS on the new board. (no sensitive data on the board just a simple bad track map)
I did it for $49 including postage and customs to the fine Canadian company.
It worked great! I recovered every file. The rest of the computer was trash but the data was fine.
No fun for you, big boy! You will be holy, whether you want to or not.
[AnNahar] Hundreds of police and soldiers raided a huge red-light district in Indonesia's second-biggest city Friday to close down brothels before the Moslem holy month of Ramadan.
Scuffles briefly broke out between security forces and people protesting the raid in the area known as "Dolly" in Surabaya, on Indonesia's main Java island, where women advertise their services by sitting in brightly-lit shop windows.
"The raid was conducted to make sure that entertainment centers, including brothels, are closed during the whole month of Ramadan," said Irvan Widyanto, a Surabaya official responsible for maintaining public order.
Ramadan, Islam's holiest month, begins on Sunday in Indonesia, the world's most populous Moslem-majority country. The faithful are supposed to abstain from eating, drinking and sex from dawn until dusk during Ramadan.
The raid came about a week after the city's mayor announced the closure of Dolly, but gave the hookers and pimps in the network of narrow alleys a few more weeks before the red-light district is finally closed.
The bid to close Dolly has sparked fierce resistance from sex workers and others whose jobs depend on the red-light district, and they have staged regular protests. The government has pledged to give them financial assistance and training in new professions.
Some 500 police, soldiers and public order officers -- who assist police in maintaining peace but have fewer powers -- were involved in Friday's raid, an Agence La Belle France Presse news hound at the scene said.
One large brothel in the area was closed down permanently, said Widyanto. Scuffles broke out when public order officers sought to take down banners condemning the closure of Dolly.
Islamic hardliners also regularly carry out raids on bars and brothels during Ramadan.
[BUSINESSINSIDER] Two top student government leaders at the University of Las Vegas are requesting Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John Marshall ... return the "outrageous" $225,000 speaking fee she reportedly will receive for an upcoming speech at the school in October.
In a video circulated by the national Republican Party Friday, Elias Benjelloun, the UNLV student body president, and Daniel Waqar, the student government's public relations director, slammed the university's foundation for paying Clinton so much for the event.
"We really appreciate anybody who would come to raise money for the university. But anybody who's being paid $225,000 to come speak, we think that's a little bit outrageous. And we'd like Secretary Clinton — respectfully — to gracefully return the money to the university or the foundation," Waqar said on the Nevada political program "Ralston Reports."
This is the sort of "student request" that makes us old faculty guys chuckle gently, sigh, and tussle their hair, after which we tell them that they have a lot to learn...
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The article says the money is going to the Clinton Foundation and not her. However, a NYTs story from about a year ago said there is concern with the foundation and its management and finances--seems that they are fairly loose. NYT's story.
[Iraq Sun] Pressure continued to build Friday on Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014... , with the country's top Shi'ite holy man calling on political groups to agree on a new leader by Tuesday.
Iraq's recently-elected parliament is meeting Tuesday to begin the process of forming what many hope will be a more inclusive government that does not marginalize Iraq's Sunni minority.
Maliki is losing some Shi'ite allies. On Friday, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani called on political blocs to agree on a new prime minister, president, and parliament speaker by the Tuesday meeting.
The prime minister has rejected forming an emergency government, saying that would go against the country's constitution and the results of the April 30 parliamentary election.
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Is golf haram? Seriously? I dunno. I could make a case for it being totally taboo in a water stressed region, dunno. Golf courses drink water humans need, just like hogs are direct competitors with us upright walkers. But we have guns and superior vision.
[DAWN] In what seems to be a tit-for-tat response, the government is trying to tighten the noose around Pakistain Awami Tehrik (PAT) chief 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... , who has vowed to launch a movement to topple the incumbent PML-N regime.
The government seems to be using the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to twist the arm of one of its biggest critics, who recently arrived from Canada.
After initiating the inquiry against Dr Qadri, the FIA contacted the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and the Election Commission of Pakistain (ECP) to obtain information regarding Dr Qadri and PAT's tax returns, along with the details of his and his party's assets.
"We have received a letter from the FIA today, in which the agency has sought the details of the assets belonging to Dr Qadri and his party," a senior ECP official told Dawn.
He said that Dr Qadri had contested elections in 2002, thus the details of his assets were available in the official gazette issued 12 years ago. However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... he and his party did not take part in the 2013 elections, thus the records are not up-to-date.
The official said that the details would be provided to the FIA.
Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, the pastor had finally been wrestled from the pulpit. Y'got the wrong guy! he yelled just before Sergeant Malone's billy club landed... FIA Islamabad Director Iman Ghani refused to give details of the investigation being conducted by the agency.
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[THECOLLEGEFIX] A controversial, outspoken law professor who frequently bashes Republicans and specializes in poverty issues as a self-proclaimed champion of the poor earns $205,400 per year — for teaching one class per semester.
The University of North Carolina School of Law pays Professor Gene Nichol $205,400 annually for his one class per semester workload. On top of his teaching salary, he receives a $7,500 stipend as director of the law school's Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity.
Nice work if you can get it...
The News & Observer maintains a public database of public employee and educator salaries, and lists Nichol's salary at $212,900. Nichol, in an email to The College Fix, confirmed the figure is accurate.
Nichol is slated to teach federal jurisdiction this fall and constitutional law in spring 2015. He told The College Fix there is nothing unusual about his compensation.
"I'm a full time faculty member — doing all the varied things faculty members do," he stated. "That's the basis for the salary you quote. Beyond that, I'm paid $7,500 to run the poverty center — the same as all the other law school center directors."
Might be true. His "varied things" may bring great value to the law school. Perhaps, given the opportunity the newspaper gave him, he could explain that and get his side of it out there, so that he doesn't look like a Hillary-type leech...
When asked about his compensation compared to other law professors, Nichol said: "Several make a good deal more than I do at Carolina, some make less."
The News & Observer lists the UNC Distinguished Professor of Law Thomas Lee Hazen's salary at $222,000. However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... he is slated to teach four classes this fall, and two in the spring. UNC Distinguished Professor of Law Sarah Elizabeth Gibson earns $200,000 annually, and has a similar workload to Nichol at one class per semester.
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These are midway up the left's pay arc, where you pay people to leave you alone. It's the whole concept government is based on. The more you pay them, the aloner you get.
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Quick Google - average income NC returns
$45,570
Remember when the Left bitches about CEO salaries, it's not about any morality, it's about envy.
[FOXNEWS] The head of the Syrian moderate opposition is asking for more foreign aid as his rebels try to back a bloody insurgency even as they continue their so-far unsuccessful effort to oust Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath...
Syrian opposition leader Ahmad al-Jarba's plea Friday comes as the White House seeks to send $500 billion to the increasingly beleaguered moderate Sunni rebels who are facing two fronts in the protracted civil war.
Jarba told 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... that the krazed killers' march across the mostly non-existent border between Syria and Iraq has created confusion across the region, and he said the war against terrorism must be stronger than ever.
Kerry said the moderate rebels will be crucial in the cross-border fight against 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...
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[AnNahar] 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... (ISIL) on Friday executed and crucified one of its own men for corruption in Syria, a watchdog and jihadist sites said.
Photographs posted on websites showed the body and bloodied head of a bearded man with a placard reading: "Guilty: Abu Adnan al-Anadali. Sentence: execution and three days of crucifixion. Motive: extorting money at checkpoints by accusing drivers of apostasy."
The text is signed by "The prince of believers", thought to refer to ISIL chief Abu Baqr al-Baghdadi.
Before being crucified, the man was killed by three bullets to the head at Bab in the north of Aleppo province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Mainstream Syrian rebels and the al-Qaeda-linked Al-Nusra Front accuse the jihadists of ISIL of responsibility for a string of atrocities.
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....Motive: extorting money at checkpoints by accusing drivers of apostasy."
Obviously al-Anadali was a small-time piker. Had a assembled the proper Chicago style, community organizing, race hustle machine he might have survived.
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Could be g(r)om. At least ISIS has quality control and some degree of 'standards of conduct' enforcement. Thankfully, their investigation into al-Anadali's activities wasn't thwarted by a crooked, do nothing, attorney general. Something to be said for honor amongst thieves, as opposed to total tribal anarchy.
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they killed him and then crucified him? Boy, I bet he was really pissed at the second part
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That's what I was thinking, Frank. Either that, or they got it backwards.
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One article said that it was alleged that he extorted money at checkpoints by accusing of apostasy. I thought "alleged" is kind of a day late and dollar short since he was executed and crucified.
[AnNahar] Dozens of foreign diplomats have requested asylum in Canada, the daily French-language newspaper La Presse reported Friday, citing secret government documents.
They include 38 Afghanistan envoys and their families, from 2009 to 2014, as well as 16 diplomats from countries such as Syria, Iraq, Greece, Honduras, and even an American embassy staffer.
An American?!
Former head of Canada's consular affairs, Gar Pardy, told the Montreal newspaper this is an "unprecedented number" of refugee claims by foreign officials.
Experts said they are motivated by the hope for a better life, or are aware of rights abuses in their homeland that they can no longer support, or they have simply become accustomed to a North American lifestyle and do not wish to return home after their assignment ends.
Including the American?!
Immigration spokeswoman Alexis Pavlich noted that Canada has "one of the most fair and generous asylum systems in the world."
She would not comment on specific cases, citing Canada's strict privacy laws.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... she added: When a mission employee makes an asylum claim in Canada, his/her accreditation or diplomatic status is rescinded by the Department of Foreign Affairs... and he/she is processed in the same manner as all other asylum claimants."
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It's hard to see how you could expect a diplomat from Afghanistan to be willing to go home, considering the likelihood there will be a 'new' government when he gets there.
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I wonder what the American knows about Benghazi?
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Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- Armed drones. Mass graves. Kirkuk's effective annexation. The Iraq crisis escalated Friday.
A U.S. official confirmed to CNN that armed American drones started flying over Baghdad in the previous 24 hours to provide additional protection for 180 U.S. military advisers in the area. Until now, U.S. officials had said all drone reconnaissance flights over Iraq were unarmed.
Using the drones for any offensive strikes against insurgent Islamic State in Iraq and Syria fighters would continue to require approval from U.S. President Barack Obama. Drones don't fly or maintain themselves. Appears the 'mission creep' has begun.
[DAWN] There is a handlebar-mustached thug in all of us — or so says local Android app developer Pawail Qaisar, the creator of a mindlessly addictive game centered around everyone's current favourite, Shafeeq Gujjar aka Gullu Butt.
"Everyone is frustrated in one way or another," Pawail says, in an email interview to Dawn.com. "There is a Gullu in all of us."
While we are hoping Pawail is wrong about there being a vandal in all of us, the 10,000 downloads of his game 'Gullu' trumpet the appeal of the Gullu Butt phenomenon.
The first game released by Pawail's Lahore-based company Weird Science, 'Gullu' was created just days after the baton-wielding hooligan became the hot subject of discussion in the National Assembly and on every television show.
The game allows a user to play Gullu Butt by smashing the windows of a parked car with the swipe at the screen. The aim is to collect as many shards of flying glass as possible.
While there is no movement or progression from one scene to another, the developers have incorporated the elements of the scene as it transpired on that fateful day in Lahore. The frame shows rows of blind coppers in riot gear standing in the background as Gullu Butt takes center stage and smashes the windows of the car with a stick. A tiny lion denoting the Pakistain Moslem League Nawaz (PML-N's) evergreen mascot sits in one corner, staring at you without expression.
While the game is not without glitches — the lack of an 'exit' option for one — it is a good attempt by a new entrant considering the limited resources. The creators have also remarkably mimicked real-life Gullu Butt's pre-strike position to the tee.
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[AnNahar] The U.N.'s human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... office on Friday urged Israel and its adversaries to exercise restraint amid a crackdown on Paleostinians during a hunt for three Jewish teenagers missing in the West Bank.
"Clearly these boys need to be found, that's totally understandable, but the scale of operations and the number of people they are affecting is deeply disturbing," said its front man Rupert Coville.
"Yes, of course you Juices have a right to self defence and all that, but not if it means anyone else is in the least inconvenienced."
'Rather than denouncing this appalling attack, the Arab nations have the audacity to stand before you today and criticize Israel,' Israel's UN envoy Prosor says.
People have been paying attention to the nonsense in Syria/Iraq, g(r)omgoru. It took them a while to notice the excitements in Israel.
[NYDAILYNEWS] Rep. Charlie Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Rangel Congressman-for-Life from Harlem, who became what 20 terms in Congress turns you into ... , fresh off a tight primary win, is scrambling to amend his annual financial disclosure form after failing to report an all-expenses paid junket to China last year.
While members routinely update financial disclosures, Rangel's mistake stands out because was censured by the House in 2010 for ethics missteps including accepting improper trips to the Caribbean that were improperly funded by corporate donors.
Rangel was part of a 10-member delegation from the Congressional Black Caucus who took a free trip to China last August. Rangel, a decorated veteran of the Korean War, also took a separate, solo trip to Seoul, South Korea.
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Why? He's a Democratic member of Congress. As such he is above and exempt from the law.
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[BUSINESSWEEK] Iraq has bought used fighter jets from Russia and Belarus to battle Islamist faceless myrmidons after long delays in the delivery of F-16 planes from the U.S. left troops without air support, 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... said.
Maliki, in an interview with BBC Arabic yesterday, blamed the U.S.'s "long, very slow way" for delaying the delivery of 36 aircraft. "We shouldn't have just bought U.S. jets, we should have bought British, French and Russian jets to provide air support. If we had air support, none of this would have happened," he said, according to excerpts e-mailed by the BBC.
The MiG-21 is perfectly capable of suppressing a defenseless population. It's also useful in going after militants as long as the militants don't have heavy anti-air guns or Stingers...
The U.S is delivering the first F-16 aircraft "as quickly as possible" and has said all along that they'll be handed over in the fall, Army Colonel Steve Warren, a Pentagon front man, told news hounds in Washington yesterday. He also said that the remaining 200 of 500 Hellfire missiles approved for delivery to Iraq will be sent in the coming weeks.
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So the US dicks around and the Iraqis buy used Russian planes on eBay. Nice. (Saw some mention that they were Sukhois. Model seems vague. Journalists!)
Getting planes is one thing, but pilots, spares and maintenance is another. Who is going to fly them, "contractors"?
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Iran has an excessive pilot:airplane ratio these days...
Oh ho! And the Persians just so happen to fly Su-24s and 25s. So there is the little airplane ecosystem,complete with drivers (who probably don't mind killing Sunnis). No need for 'soviet advisors'.
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I expect Champ or Kerry to announce their intriguing new Iraqi-Iranian coalition within the next few days. Well, not so intriguing if you've read Alinsky and have been following ValJar.
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Could these dickheads in the white house be any more obvious? They are so intent on getting rid of Maliki they will throw the baby out with the bath water?
Geez we have zillions of F-16's parked in every Air Guardsman garage from here to Duluth and it takes SIX MONTHS to gas them up and get a 444 written?
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[WASHINGTONTIMES] In the world of gossipy politics, Edward Klein's new "Blood Feud" book is the gift that keeps on giving, the latest released excerpt pointing to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzla and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another James Baker ... 's supposed boozy rantings about President B.O. as a "feckless," inept leader.
Mr. Klein writes that Mrs. Clinton referred to Mr. Obama as "incompetent and feckless," and said he had "no hand on the tiller half the time," during a May 2013 dinner-and-drinks affair at a French cafe, Le Jardin Du Roi, located in the Westchester area of New York, the New York Postreported.
Mrs. Clinton, who had resigned as secretary of state months earlier, was asked by friends at the event to speak candidly about Mr. Obama, according to the book.
"When her friends asked Hillary to tell them what she thought — really thought — about the president she had served for four draining years, she lit into Obama with a passion that surprised them all," Mr. Klein wrote, citing unnamed sources.
"The thing with Obama is that he can't be bothered, and there is no hand on the tiller half the time," Mrs. Clinton reportedly said. "That's the story of the Obama presidency. No hand on the [expletive] tiller. Obama has turned into a joke."
Mrs. Clinton reportedly ranted about the IRS targeting of the tea party and the Justice Department's tapping of phone records from the News Agency that Dare Not be Named, the New York Post reported, citing Mr. Klein's book.
"All these scandals," she said, according to Mr. Klein's sources. "Obama's allowed his hatred for his enemies to screw him the way Nixon did. ⦠[He's] incompetent and feckless."
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Whoops: However, this is the pot calling the kettle black. I guess I will be sent to the gulag or re-education center to get my head straight. I should have said this is the frying pan calling the eggs scrambled or something. Maybe: "the skunk calling the rose stinky?"
It was hard for the average American to get any info on Obama in those two elections with every news agency from here to Pravda running cover for him...that and various legal shenanigans to hide his true identity vis a vis his birth certificate and his college transcripts.
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Actually, Pravda was a lot more truthful than the American press. They were calling him a communist in 2009. In 2012 they pointed out the Russian Communist party got 13% while the US Commies got 52% of the vote.
Al
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My gut says that Mr Ed Klein's book is designed to inoculate her against the worst of the Obama policies.
"Mrs. Clinton reportedly ranted about the IRS targeting of the tea party and the Justice Department's tapping of phone records from the News Agency that Dare Not be Named, the New York Post reported, citing Mr. Klein's book."
All that is left is for her to mention she resigned over disagreements with the Presidency over the Benghazi deal but that she kept quiet out of loyalty to the President and her career will be totally laundered.
[NEWS.YAHOO] A blackout cut power to much of Venezuela on Friday, snarling traffic in the capital Caracas and other major cities as authorities scrambled to restore electricity after the outage, which twice interrupted a presidential broadcast.
Pedestrians streamed into the streets of Caracas as the blackout shuttered the underground metro trains and left frustrated drivers honking in the chaos without stoplights.
Government ministers in the late afternoon said they expected power would be restored shortly. It was the second nationwide major electricity outage in less than a year.
"How am I going to get to my house? By the grace of God," said Pedro Mayora, 58, an accountant who was waiting outside the Metro to see how he would reach his home on the poor west end of the city.
Workers stood in groups outside evacuated buildings, some complaining of difficulty in communicating over congested cellular phone lines.
An outage at a power station in the center of the country led to other generation centers going offline, halting service in that region and in the Andes region in the west, Electricity Minister Jesse Chacon told state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
The problems extended to Maracaibo, Venezuela's second city, and the industrial center of Valencia.
The OPEC nation has suffered an increasing number of power outages in recent years, which critics have attributed to low electricity tariffs and limited state investment following the 2007 nationalization of the power sector.
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Worser to come. If the weathermen are right (for once) the area is in for a draught which will drop the water levels of the Caroni behind Guri Damn.
This complex provides most of the countries base load. When the water levels dropped a few years ago the government started spending money on a decentralized system based on (srsly) Cuban experience. Many 10 and 20 megawatt diesel gen sets and several larger GE combustion turbines on barges. Diesel consumption went thru the roof. Maintenance is spotty, lack of dollars for parts and the Venezuelan national inclination to hope for the best make this an Achilles heel for the regime. To add to the problems paying electricity bills is optional, hell even getting a bill is optional. A neighbor might very well serve as the local lineman/electrician.
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Considering how successful Cubes have been keeping the lights on, that's ominous. And Cuba basically runs on Venezuelan oil.
It's always amusing how places that believe in central planning never seem to plan out their infrastructure. (It's like 'Oh, sanitation, ooh, let think a minute...)
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"If only Oogo were still alive..."
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[NEWS.YAHOO] A group of Cuban migrants who were anchored in an open wooden boat off the Cayman Islands for nearly two weeks obeyed a local government order to sail away on Friday, continuing their risky sea voyage in a quest to reach the United States. The Caymans has a population of about 57,000. The population has doubled since 1990. Unless you're a physician or a financier you probably can't immigrate there. It's referred to in the plural, but but most everyone lives on Grand Cayman. There weren't any slums that I saw, but it's been awhile since I was there. There's not a lot of room for expansion.
The makeshift vessel carrying about 30 people arrived on June 14 off the south coast of the island of Grand Cayman, and could be observed drifting about a quarter of a mile offshore near South Sound, a fashionable strip of expensive oceanfront homes. I believe all the oceanfront homes in the Caymans are "fashionable," even the little ones.
The Cubans were given an ultimatum on Wednesday to depart or be taken into custody and repatriated, according to Acting Chief Immigration Officer Bruce Smith.
Five Cubans chose to come ashore and were detained, according to the Cayman Islands prison director Neil Lavis. The rest departed early Friday and their boat was no longer visible from the shoreline.
Some residents assisted the Cubans with food and water while they sheltered from rough seas before likely heading west to the coast of Honduras. Everybody we ran into was pretty nice. The crime rate was approximately zero, mostly itinerant Jamaicans tossed into jug for drugs.
Cuban boats smuggling people seeking to flee the communist-run island are frequently seen off the Cayman Islands, a British territory located less than 100 miles (160 km) south of Cuba. The U.S. is about 90 miles north of Cuba.
They are usually headed for Honduras, from where migrants make the long journey overland to reach the U.S. border with Mexico.
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Police in Russian republic of Dagestan have killed a suspected terrorist militant in the southeastern Khiv district.
The suspect was found by police and security forces in the village of Zakhit early on the morning of June 27. Police say he refused to surrender but let nine civilians, including four children, leave the house before opening fire. Police returned fire, killing the suspect.
Russia's National Antiterror Committee identified the man as S. Velikhanov.
The incident took place a day after two other alleged militants were killed in two separate incidents in Dagestan.
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Happy Birthday to Ingrid Seynhaeve, 41 Today !
Ingrid Seynhaeve was born in Menen, Belgium. She won the Elite Look of the Year contest in 1991 and appeared on the cover of Shape magazine. Ingrid is a skilled pianist and equestrian.
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Come to think of it, Dr. Steve, Alexander and the lads may not know the code necessary to layer naughty under nice. I imagine an email request to Fred Pruitt (see Email Me link in the yellow sidebar) will elicit that particular bit of information.
[Tolo News] Clashes in southern province of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... have claimed the lives of 35 civilians and maimed another 100. Residents of Helmand reported that in the initial days the Taliban stormed into their homes opening fire on the locals.
In a meeting with tribal elders from Helmand and Nirmroz provinces, Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... said that Helmand has been a major target for the gunnies claiming that the festivities were caused by foreign elements. Karzai called on the Afghan Taliban to avoid bloodshed and stop cooperating with the foreigners.
"The Afghan National Army (ANA), Afghan National Police (ANP) and Helmand governor have reported that foreign elements were directly involved in the Helmand festivities," Karzai said. "The foreigners are fighting against us. They do not resemble Afghans, nor do they speak our languages. Our people are the victims. This war is the war of foreigners and their objectives."
Meanwhile, ...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves... the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... (UN) expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... s over the loss of civilian lives in Helmand and demanded that the warring factions avoid the massacre of civilians.
"Many civilians have bit the dust or been maimed in the war," UNAMA Spokesman Nazifullah Salarzai said. "We are strongly concerned. We ask the warring factions to keep the safety of the civilians in mind."
Ministry of Interior (MoI) and local Helmand officials have said that the situation is now under control of the security forces, emphasizing that the gunnies tolerated massive causalities in Sangin.
"Police in Sangin have tried their best to save the civilians, but most casualties were due to Taliban's direct fire and mine kabooms," MoI Spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said. "About 250 Taliban fighters have been killed. The district is now under the control of the security forces."
The Helmand police are clearing the homes of the people from mines that were planted by the Taliban. Meanwhile, ...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves... Helmand residents have said that masked men are still present in the city and are killing innocent people.
"We are passing a difficult situation," a Helmand resident said. "We have lost our hands and legs in mine kabooms. Why are they killing Mohammedans?"
"They killed six to seven people two days ago and those who did not come out of their homes were killed," another Helmand resident from Sangin district said.
The clash between gunnies and Afghan forces started last Saturday in Sangin, Musa Qala, Nawzad and Kajaki districts of Helmand province. During their operation, the Afghan cops eliminated 250 gunnies and maimed another 90. Up to 25 ANA soldiers were also killed and maimed in the festivities.
Moreover, 30 ANP personnel were killed and another 40 maimed.
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[HOTAIR] With Republicans in Washington thus far successfully fending off bad boy tea party challengers in competitive races, odds makers are now indicating that the GOP has a better than even chance of retaking the upper chamber of Congress in November.
President Barack Obama Republicans can come along for the ride, but they've got to sit in the back... 's sinking job approval rating is not helping boost Democrats' chances. Speaking anonymously to The Hill, one Democratic Senator said Obama's "unpopularity" is troubling. "It's a tense time," the source said.
It is with this backdrop that Obama descended on Minnesota on Thursday where freshman Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) is seeking reelection. Franken has spent the last six years maintaining as low a profile in Washington as possible, shying away from national press and casting himself as a politician exclusively focused on the interests of his constituents.
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Senator Stuart Smalley [Franken], faux therapist, shying away from the Bummer? Must be up for re-election and needs time to solidify his prison base with his get the votes out effort. Well maybe out is not the proper word. His pet phrases SNL are appropriate for both Franken and the ONE:
"I'm in a shame spiral."
"You're only as sick as your secrets."
"Compare and despair."
"You need a checkup from the neckup."
"I am a human being, not a human doing."
"Pee-wee Herman: There but for the grace of God go I."
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Don't make fun, he's a first term Senator, with little real-world experience who could run to the left of Hillary. He'd wire in 90% of the slack vote.
[AnNahar] Iraqi forces fought for a strategically located university campus outside Tikrit Friday and bombarded the city in an effort to retake it from Sunni Arab murderous Moslems.
The military operation came after Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki conceded that political measures will also be needed to defeat the jihadist-led offensive that has killed nearly 1,100 people overrun major parts of five provinces.
In further fallout from the crisis, the president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region declared there was no going back on Kurdish self-rule in disputed territory, including ethnically divided northern oil city Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... now defended against the forces of Evil by Kurdish fighters.
Iraqi forces swooped into Tikrit University by helicopter on Thursday, and a police major said that there were periodic festivities between faceless myrmidons and security forces on the campus on Friday.
A senior army officer said that Iraqi forces were carrying out a major wave of air strikes against forces of Evil in Tikrit to protect the forces at the university and prepare for an assault on the city.
Iraqi troops are deployed in areas around the city for the assault, the officer said.
Another senior officer said taking the university is an important step in regaining control of Tikrit, the hometown of executed dictator Saddam Hussein, which was seized by Sunni Arab forces of Evil on June 11.
Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani said Storied Baghdad could no longer object to Kurdish self-rule in Kirkuk and other towns from which federal forces pulled out in the face of the murderous Moslem advance.
"Now, this (issue) ... is achieved," he said, referring to a constitutional article meant to address the Kurds' decades-old ambition to incorporate the territory in their autonomous region in the north over the objections of successive governments in Storied Baghdad.
Iraq's flagging security forces were swept aside by the initial murderous Moslem push, pulling out of a swathe of ethnically divided areas, including the northern oil hub of Kirkuk.
Despite Barzani's declaration, it is likely that the territory row will continue to haunt Iraq for years to come.
On Thursday, Maliki, who has publicly focused on a military response to the crisis, said political measures were also necessary, ahead of the July 1 opening of the new parliament elected in an April 30 poll.
The authorities have also purchased at least eight fighter jets from Russia, and six more that are currently stored in Belarus, in a deal valued by Vedomosti newspaper at up to $500 million.
Washington has urged Iraq's fractious leaders to unite in the face of the bully boys, and Hague echoed that message Thursday, saying the "urgent priority must be to form an inclusive government."
Washington has stopped short of calling for Maliki to go, but has left little doubt it feels he has squandered the opportunity to rebuild Iraq since American troops withdrew in 2011.
Maliki's security front man has said hundreds of soldiers have been killed since the offensive began, while the U.N. puts the overall number of people killed at nearly 1,100.
[AnNahar] A previously unknown jihadist group linked to 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... (ISIL) has grabbed credit for the Duroy Hotel suicide kaboom in Beirut.
The group calling itself the state of Damascus-Qalamoun said via twitter on Thursday that two ISIL members targeted General Security agents at the hotel in Raouche.
It also vowed to carry out more attacks against Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... and its agents, saying Wednesday's bombing was just the start.
The Saudi jacket wallahwent kaboom! at the hotel when he detonated his explosives during a security raid. His accomplice, also a Saudi citizen, survived the blast and is being questioned at hospital.
The General Security agency on Thursday circulated the picture of a Lebanese man, al-Monzer Khaldoun al-Hasan, accused of providing the Duroy Hotel bombers with explosives.
Media reports have said they were plotting to target al-Saha Restaurant in Beirut's southern suburbs.
Wednesday's attack was the third suicide kaboom in Leb in less than a week.
Syria's civil war has spilled into Leb on numerous occasions and inflamed sectarian tensions. A series of boom-mobiles have struck Shiite areas across Leb, killing dozens of people.
Sunni faceless myrmidons have grabbed credit for the attacks to avenge Hizbullah, which has sent its fighters to Syria to help Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... 's troops in their fight against the rebels seeking to topple him.
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[DAWN] IS it that the gunnies have brilliant strategists orchestrating their every move against the state of Pakistain or have they struck rich purely by chance?
Whatever the case, they have been left free to pursue their toxic agenda for so long that each time they strike it is to telling effect. In their attempt to pull Pakistain into the medieval age it would be a natural first step to isolate the country and separate it from the rest of the world.
It is in this context that their campaign against 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... vaccination needs to be seen. No different should be the case of the recent attack on 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... airport and the firing on a PIA aircraft as it came in to land at 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. airport.
The spurt in polio cases that followed the murderous attacks on polio workers by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain was followed by the World Health Organisation advisory requiring polio vaccination certificates for all travelling abroad from here after living or being here for more than four weeks.
If security is not tightened around all airports, the next incident could trigger a sterner response from foreign airlines.
Now with the start of the operation against the gunnies in North Wazoo and the consequent civilian displacement, there are renewed fears that the virus might forcefully raise its head in areas far and wide as the internally displaced are travelling to places as far away as Karachi in search of succour.
Admittedly, the government says that those being registered, for example, in Sindh are being vaccinated against polio but given how porous the interprovincial borders are, it would not be an exaggeration to say some carriers will still get through. Hence the need for enhanced vigilance.
The continued discovery of polio cases and the traces of virus from all over the country were being dealt with and the authorities were trying hard to keep the threat in check, also keeping the possibly devastating international repercussions in mind, when the Karachi airport attack happened.
It is in the nature of news that attacks on civil aviation targets are very dramatic and arouse huge interest: in this day and age so many people fly that a connection between an attack on an airport or an aircraft and most of the media users is immediately established.
And why wouldn't there be a connection? Most of us use airports and planes. Any threat to either appears to be a test of our own vulnerability. Before you draw misleading conclusions, this isn't an attempt to play psychologist as I have no such pretensions.
What is being attempted here is an explanation of why the media attaches significance to such attacks and threats and also why audiences are held captive by the episode while it lasts. Only a conclusion, a resolution would shift the focus of media users.
We all know over the years a number of Western and other foreign airlines have scratched off Pakistain from their schedules. Our link with the outside world is now mostly kept intact by our limping national flag carrier and Gulf-based airlines.
Even if the presence of a Gulf-based carrier's aircraft on the tarmac with a heavy passenger load was coincidental as the Karachi airport attackers launched their assault, with one passenger live-tweeting to the world the unfolding nightmare, it couldn't have provided an iota of comfort to passengers and airlines planning flights to Pakistain.
Therefore, it was no surprise after this week's firing (which claimed one life) on a PIA plane on its final approach to land in Peshawar, that the Gulf-based airline with the most frequent flights to multiple destinations in Pakistain suspended its flights to the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... capital
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[DAWN] AFTER the recent flurry of meetings between Pak and Afghan leaders and between the army and government, as well as the military's insistence that the North Wazoo operation will be against all hard boys, there's hope, finally, that the change in rhetoric on militancy will be matched with changes in state policy on tackling the scourge. On this point, the military leadership and the PML-N government have been unusually categorical: there will be no favourites or good Taliban/bad Taliban distinction in clearing out North Waziristan. Taking the military and the government at their word, the expectation still should not be that the military will rain down missiles and artillery on gunnies of every stripe. Instead, it is hoped the state is ready to sever ties with these elements and that no hard boy group, foreign or local, is allowed to maintain sanctuaries in the tribal agency.
Yet, is that truly the case? Will ties to the Haqqanis really be cut? What about Gul Bahadur and his long-term on-again, off-again relationship with the Pak military? Has it been finally and irrevocably ended or will expediency and a relationship of mutual convenience be allowed to revive ties again? Especially on the Haqqani front, the choice the military makes will have regional and international repercussions, given how the group is regarded by the Afghan and American governments. Surely, neither an Afghan government nor an American administration would demand that Pakistain militarily take on the Haqqanis given their proven ability to launch the most sophisticated and devastating of attacks. But what of the growing suspicion that perhaps the security establishment here is still shielding the Haqqanis and may have offered them safe passage out of the imminent battle zone or even helped physically relocate some of the Haqqani leadership in other parts of Fata? It is indeed encouraging that Pak foreign and security policy architects have at long last started to speak in specific terms of distancing the state from all hard boy groups. But the welcome clarity of language must be matched with clarity on the ground.
Similarly, the more purposeful and positive language between Pak and Afghan officials when it comes to ending cross-border militancy and sanctuaries on either side of the border is a welcome sign. So far, there had been little action taken by the Americans or Kabul against elements of the outlawed TTP operating from bordering Afghan provinces. The tensions over cross-border violence in the Kunar region in particular have soared in recent weeks and need to be urgently tamped down. For that to happen it will have to be largely a bilateral process and one in which patience, cooperation and good faith are preferred over the path of accusations and recriminations. It is possible. Both sides will find out soon enough if it is real or not.
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[AnNahar] The worst of the insurgency in Iraq is "over", a former general who commanded U.S. Marines and British forces in the 2003 U.S.-led invasion said Friday, in a rare note of optimism over the crisis.
Speaking on the sidelines of the annual conference of Iran's exiled opposition -- in which he was a guest speaker -- General James Conway said the gunnies who have overrun major parts of Iraq were unlikely to make any further significant gains.
The lightning offensive this month by jihadists from 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... (ISIL) and other turban groups has killed more than 1,000 people and displaced tens of thousands.
Until now, ISIL has primarily made inroads in Sunni Arab areas in the north of Iraq, supported by Sunni turbans that loathe current Shiite 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...
"The worst is over," Conway said. "The ISIS (as ISIL is often also called) are probably surprised themselves with their degree of success."
But "they will not mess with the Kurds, they will not be able to take Storied Baghdad and they can't go into the south where the oil fields are because it's all Shiite territory."
The Kurds already have their own autonomous region in the north and have defended key towns outside this area against the turbans after federal forces withdrew.
Conway said that the Kurds may take advantage of the current situation and "establish once and for all a separate Kurdistan."
Already, Kurdish fighters have been defending the ethnically divided northern oil city of Kirkuk from turbans, and the president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region declared Friday that there would be no going back on Kurdish self-rule in this locality.
Conway said he also feared that Sunni turbans who have been supporting ISIL so far would start pulling away.
"It's only been a marriage of convenience... There's going to be some fighting between them and the Sunnis."
[Iraq Sun] Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014... has said he supports an air strike on Islamist gunnies at a border crossing between Iraq and Syria.
In an interview to BBC, Maliki said the air strike was carried out on the Syrian side at Qaim crossing. However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... military and rebel sources told BBC the strike took place inside Iraq.
He said that he welcomed a Syrian air strike on Sunni turban positions as it left both countries "winners".
The Iraqi prime minister also said that he hopes fighter jets bought from Russia and Belarus will turn the tide against rebels in the coming days.
"God willing within one week this force will be effective and will destroy the terrorists' dens," he said.
He said that the process of buying US jets had been "long-winded" and that the advance of the ISIS gunnies could have been avoided if air cover had been in place.
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... (ISIS) and its Sunni Moslem allies have seized large parts of Iraq this month.
Iraq has been receiving support from Iran, with whom its Shia Moslem leaders have close links.
Speaking to the BBC's Arabic service in his first interview for an international broadcaster since the crisis started, Maliki said: "Yes, Syrian jets did strike Qaim inside the Syrian side of the border.
"There was no co-ordination involved. But we welcome this action. We actually welcome any Syrian strike against Isis... But we didn't make any request to Syria. They carry out their strikes and we carry out ours and the final winners are our two countries."
The air strikes come as Iran and the US are intensifying their presence in Iraq. A section of the 300 US military advisers have arrived in Storied Baghdad and surveillance drones are flying over northern Iraq. Iran is also reported to be flying drones in the country, controlling them from an airfield in Storied Baghdad.
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Pentagon tech sound NOISE IDIOTS got a way for ya to win-buy a giant piece of fly paper lay it on the ground have all the terrorists run over it and hit them with your DICK frequency and get the SUNDAY voice girl on it! After that have all the BLM agents run into their arms naked with flowing beards and all the idiots from Washington to Area 51 (fake beards if need be) let them start having butt and beard sex and drop a real bomb on them not a trolley car 9-11 HZ MUHAMMAD ONE!
Japan's former defense minister and national security adviser is quite optimistic about the Philippine peace deal with the MILF but his remarks about standing up to China may be more noteworthy.
The Moros have been infected with the same jihadist/fanaticism virus that has torn the ME apart...I wonder how long before Indonesia falls in to civil war also?
BTW, any news on the Buddhists jihad against Muslims in Burma?
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While Pershing was there at the time, it was General Smith that gave that order...
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My guess is it is not lost on this individual that her words can be considered a cause for war, since they want to use professional security services, such as federal law enforcement to steal property held by people, so to point out her desire to murder her political opposition is no stark reminder. She wants blood to flow and she wants the government to take, even more than it already does, the last line of defense of the individual: his firearm.
Miss Madrak fails to understand that she is at the front line as we speak, just as we are, and all it takes for the lead to start flying is one smug hothead from either side.
So, almost as if the message had been coordinated, which is likely has, a leftist writer does a three part series in which she ties oil companies to the National Rifle Association. You can read the series here and start with the last article first.
Her premise is that Global Warming is caused by oil and gas companies, which in turn support the National Rifle Association, which in turn suppresses the true feelings of hunters who really want to ban guns, even hunting rifles.
You don't believe me, do you?
While the issue in the article is weapons which can hold magazines of 11 or more rounds, the focus of the article is what are called sniper rifles, or guns with a bore of .300 or greater, or rifles which can kill at a range of 100 yards or more, or can penetrate body armor, which is all of them. In the article they are called terrorist guns. Neat trick, especially if you are totally unaware of guns and how they operate.
I can see it now. Anti gun fascists ban rifles onto which can be mounted a scope, or those with bores of .300 or more. Think about that. Guns with Picatinny rails or any rifle with a .300 bore or more. Makes me appreciate the notion of a rifle with open sights that can tag an individual at 300 yards or more, but well below the .300 limit for rifle bores.
What a mess that would be. The question is would such a ban, passed by a local legislature and signed by a chief executive, start a civil war. Rifle restrictions have been passed in Connecticut, New York and Maryland, so far to near zero effect. Civil disobedience thus far.
On a personal note, you can find photos of my homemade bipod for the Mosin Nagant M91/30 here, here, here, here and here. It has made a big difference at the range.
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Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Prices for pistol and rifle ammunition prices were lower across the board.
Prices for used rifles and used pistols were mixed.
Pistol Ammo
.45 Caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (7 weeks) (From Q1, 2014: .33 Each, -.04 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Munire USA, Tulammo, steel cased, .29 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Munire USA, Tulammo, steel cased, .29 per round (From last week: Unchanged (3 weeks))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (From Q1, 2014: .28 Each, -.03 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: I.Q. Metals, HSM, FMJ, Factory Seconds, .25 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Freedom Munitions, Store Brand, reloaded, .24 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged)
9mm Parabellum, 115 grain From Last Week: Unchanged (From Q1, 2014: .22 Each, -.02 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Glen's Army Navy Store, CCI Blazer, FMJ, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Ammunition To Go, Brown Bear, FMJ, .21 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (From Q1, 2014: .47 Each, -.07 each (!))
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo2U, GECO, FMJ, .40 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 250 Rounds: LAX Ammunition, Store brand, Reloaded, .32 per round (From Last Week: -.04 Each (!) After Unchanged (2 Weeks))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: -.02 Each (From Q1, 2014: .27 Each, -.05 each)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammo Sale, Tula, steel cased, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Lucky Gunner, Wolf, steel cased, .25 per round (From Last Week: +.01 Each (After Unchanged (3 Weeks)))
.308 NATO 145 grain, From Last Week: -.04 Each (!) (-.17 Each Over 3 Weeks) (From Q1, 2014: .47 Each, -.06 Each)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt, Silver Bear, steel cased, .41 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: SG Ammo, Silver Bear, steel cased, .45 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks) (From Q1, 2014: .25 Each, -.04 Each)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition Depot, Wolf, steel case, .21 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,080 rounds: SG Ammo, Red Army Standard, steel case, .22 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged )
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 weeks) (From Q1, 2014: .15 Each, -.05 Each)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: South Georgia Outdoors, Aguila, .10 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 325 rounds: Trop Gun Shop, Federal Champion, .10 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each)
Guns for Private Sale
Rifles
.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $620 Last Week Avg: $628 (-)
California (206, 211): Mixed Build AR-15: $750
Texas (330, 328): Mixed Build: $550
Pennsylvania (155, 167): DPMS: $625
Virgina (214, 214): Palmetto State Armory: $600
Florida (402, 416): DPMS Panther: $575
.308 NATO (AR-10 Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,210 Last Week Avg: $1,180 (+)
California (43, 44): Iron Ridge Arms: $1,100
Texas (52, 58): Detroit Gun Works: $1,450
Pennsylvania (26, 28): Smith & Wesson M&P 10: $1,200 (Same Gun)
Virginia (40, 42): Mixed Build: $1,300
Florida (76, 87): DPMS: $1,000
7.62x39mm (AK Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $524 Last Week Avg: $530 (-)
California (43, 49): Saiga: $500
Texas (54, 55): Zastava M-70: $500 (Same Gun)
Pennsylvania (50, 57): Saiga: $500 (Same Gun)
Virginia (76, 73): Czech VZ58 : $525 (Same Gun)
Florida (125, 120): Centurion C39: $595
7.62x54mm (Dragunov Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,134 Last Week Avg: $1,100 (+)
California (0): None Available
Texas (0): None Available
Pennsylvania (1, 1): Romak PSL: $1,400 (Same Gun)
Virginia (1, 0): Romak PSL: $1,200
Florida (6, 6): Romak PSL: $800 (!)
Pistols
.45 caliber ACP (M1911 Pattern Semiautomatic Pistol) Average Price: $420 Last Week Avg: $411 (+) California (145, 150): Auto Ordnance M1911A1: $500
Texas (216, 213): Llama: $450
Pennsylvania (197, 203): Para Ordnance: $400
Virginia (176, 161): American Tactical Imports: $400
Florida (388, 377): Llama: $350
9mm Beretta 92FS or other Semiautomatic Average Price: $434 Last Week Avg: $430 (+)
California (146, 146): Smith & Wesson SD9VE : $375 (Same Gun)
Texas (314, 309): Beretta 92F Compact: $430
Pennsylvania (209, 207): Glock 26: $415 (!)
Virginia (253, 242): Glock 19: $425
Florida (488, 505): Beretta 92FS : $525
.40 caliber S&W (Glock and other semiautomatic) Average Price: $410 Last Week Avg: $423 (-)
California (96, 87): Glock 23: $450
Texas (136, 141): Glock 22: $400
Pennsylvania (112, 116): Sig Sauer P250: $375
Virginia (125, 123): Glock 27: $450
Florida (222, 209): Sig Sauer P250: $375
[AnNahar] Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... on Friday demanded a clarification from 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... over allegations from security researchers that the kingdom is infecting and monitoring dissidents' mobile phones with surveillance malware.
The New York-based rights watchdog said surveillance software allegedly made by Italian firm Hacking Team mostly targeted individuals in Qatif district in Eastern Province, which has been the site of sporadic Shiite-led protests since February 2011.
"We have documented how Saudi authorities routinely crack down on online activists who have embraced social media to call out human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... abuses," said Cynthia Wong, HRW's senior Internet researcher.
"It seems that authorities may now be hacking into mobile phones, turning digital tools into just another way for the government to intimidate and silence independent voices," said Wong.
HRW said security researchers at the Toronto-based Citizen Lab have identified a malicious, altered version of an application providing mobile access to news related to Qatif, which if installed on a mobile phone infects it with spyware made by Hacking Team, which only sells to governments.
The spyware allows a government to see a phone's call history, text messages, contacts and emails and files from social media, HRW said.
The spyware also allows authorities to turn on a phone's camera or microphone to take pictures or record conversations without the owner's knowledge, it added.
Demonstrations in Eastern Province, where most of the mostly Sunni kingdom's two million Shiites live, erupted in 2011 alongside a Shiite-led protest movement in neighboring Bahrain.
They took a violent turn in 2012 and festivities between police and protesters have so far killed 24 people, including at least four coppers, according to activists.
If authorities in the absolute monarchy are targeting activists' mobiles with spyware, "it could indicate a ratcheting up of efforts to scrutinize online activism in an environment that is already hostile to the freedoms of expression and association," HRW said.
HRW said Citizen Lab could not confirm "whether Saudi Arabia or any other government has successfully deployed Hacking Team tools in Saudi Arabia, nor who may have been specifically targeted."
"However, women are made to be loved, not understood... given that the spyware is embedded in a doctored version of an existing application, potential targets are likely to have an interest in current affairs related to the Qatif governorate," HRW said, adding Hacking Team-linked servers have been found by Citizen Labs to be present in the kingdom.
The watchdog criticized the sale of such spyware tools to governments that are likely to use them against dissidents and called on companies manufacturing the software to "cease any support and sales to abusive governments."
[AnNahar] Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani ... Grand Mufti of Lebanon and the most prominent Sunni Muslim cleric in the country. An assassination attempt against Qabbani was foiled by Leb internal security forces in 2009 as part of the Eid al-Fitr celebrations in Beirut. In an interview broadcast in 2012, Qabbani stated that Jews were behind secularism, because they opposed the authority of the church, against Christianity. He also suggested that the attacks of September 11, 2001 were orchestrated by Jews in order to justify the persecution of Muslims worldwide. Qabbani is against the legalization of civil marriage in Lebanon. He has issued a fatwa declaring any Muslim politician who approves civil marriage legislation an apostate. Surprisingly, he is not considered very much of a nut by Moslem standards. announced on Friday evening that Sunday, June 29, is the first day of the holy month of Ramadan.
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... had confirmed earlier in the day that Saturday will be the last day of the month of Shaaban on the Islamic calendar, after observers failed to sight the crescent of Ramadan.
The holy month will also begin on Sunday in Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, religious authorities announced.
The month begins with the sighting of the new moon, which varies from country to country.
Ramadan is sacred to Mohammedans because it is during that month that tradition says the Koran was revealed to the Prophet Mohammed.
During Ramadan, Mohammedans fast from dawn to dusk and strive to be more pious and charitable.
The fast is one of the five main religious obligations under Islam.
[TIME] Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014... faced growing pressure Friday to make way for a new government, as the U.S. and its Middle Eastern allies turned to moderate Syrian opposition forces to curtail the growing influence of Death Eaters who control vast swaths of Iraq.
On multiple fronts, al-Maliki faced a country largely disintegrating before him. A top Shi'ite holy man urged the country's parliament to pick a new Prime Minister before Monday, which could lead to the ouster of the highly divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... al-Maliki, a Shi'ite who has been criticized for not reaching out to the country's Sunnis. Abdul Mahdi al-Karbalai, a holy man who represents Iraq's Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, urged a new leader even as he called for national unity in a country that is quickly fracturing between Shi'ites, Sunnis and Kurds.
"Iraqis have passed bigger crises than this in the past history," al-Karbalai, according to the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... . "We must not think of dividing Iraq as part of a solution for the current crises, the solution must protect the unity of Iraq and the rights of all its sects."
In the north, local officials in the largely autonomous Kurdish region defied the demands of religious and government leaders, suggesting they have no intention of giving up the power they seized when Iraqi troops fled as fighters from the Death Eater group ISIS advanced earlier this month.
"We have presented many sacrifices in the past," Iraqi Kurdistan president 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... told the Times. "Our lands have resorted to their origin identity."
And American support for al-Maliki continued to appear on the wane. In 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... , 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... stood beside Syrian opposition leader Ahmad Jarba as Jarba decried al-Maliki's leadership.
"The policies of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, after eight years in power, have resulted in greater division," Jarba said, according to a State Department readout of a news conference there. "Now the situation is very grave and there are sectarian militias ruling the country."
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A sweet human interest story about the man who keeps the "refugee camp" running. Buried in the midst if all that is this interesting paragraph:
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency says there are some 22,000 Palestinian refugees registered in Shatila, but only about 8,000 live there — comprising around 30 percent of the camp's population. The rest of the residents are a combination of Lebanese, Filipinos, Sri Lankans, and now a large contingent of Syrians who have fled the civil war next door, according to UNRWA.
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Honestly, there isn't much difference to many Conservatives in Mississippi right now I'm sure.
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After seeing all the crap the GOP leadership did in that election to nullify a majority of their voting party members, I will have nothing to do with the Republican Party. No money, no volunteering, nothing. I'm done, this was the final straw.
My support will end up either directly to a candidate, or to an effective third party or PAC that will support candidates principles I believe in. Like the Senate Conservative Fund, not the NRSC. Etc.
The GOP in DC is proving they are worthy of the title "The Stupid Party", because they have finally chased off a lot of conservatives for good.
According to news reports from the Bakool region in southern Somalia, a fierce conflict erupted on the outskirts of Hudur, the provincial capital of the region.
The battle was initiated when African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and Somali National Army soldiers withdrew from Hudur and were attacked by Al-Shabaab terrorist insurgents as they were passing on the periphery of the district. Although the precise numbers of casualties and losses have not yet been specified, residents nearby the town reported to Shabelle that severe fatalities were caused; judging by the sounds of the exchange of gunfire, they said.
Bakool is among the main regions where regular physical confrontations break out between the Somali National Army supported AMISOM force against the Al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Shabaab terrorist group operating in many areas of Somalia.
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residents nearby the town reported to Shabelle that severe fatalities were caused; judging by the sounds of the exchange of gunfire, they said.
Taking that 'logic' and considering the tendency of both African (and Arabs) to empty their magazines toward everywhere, most of Africa should have been depopulated by now.
[AINonline] June 25, 2014, 11:12 PM. Boeing has added to its portfolio of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft a multi-int platform based on the Beechcraft King Air 350ER. The companys Reconfigurable Airborne Multi-Intelligence System (Ramis) was originally developed as a demonstrator for the U.S. Army and is now being offered to customers.
Ramis combines imagery intelligence (Imint), electronic intelligence (Elint), signals intelligence (Sigint) and communications intelligence (Comint) sensors on the King Air twin turboprop, which has seven hours mission endurance. The system is modular, allowing for different sensors and combinations of sensors.
According to Boeing, Ramis fills a gap in the ISR platforms it now offers between the Insitu ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system at the low end and the Maritime Surveillance Aircraft, based on the Bombardier Challenger 605 business jet. At the high end is the P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft based on the Boeing 737-800.
At its St. Louis headquarters this week, Boeing Defense displayed for reporters the Ramis demonstrator it developed for the U.S. Army under a secretive program known as Yellow Jacket. When the Army discontinued the effort, Boeing returned government-furnished equipment and continued the development. It obtained supplemental type certification from the Federal Aviation Administration for the King Air modification. Mike Ferguson, Boeings Ramis business development lead, said the company has customers for the aircraft, but he declined to identify them.
A typical configuration would have an electro-optical/infrared sensor with full-motion video, wide-area imagery, surveillance radar and Comint/Sigint package. Among the sensors Ramis can carry is the CRI LodeStar wide area motion imagery (WAMI) system, which Ferguson described as a city-sized large-format camera. It takes a very detailed picture with a frame rate, so I can watch every car in a city moving and I can zoom in on little specific areas and watch one car driving while I still record the bigger image, he explained. What it allows you to do then is collect [imagery] over a large area and track multiple individual objects within that scene while recording the entire scene, so I can use it for forensic analysis afterward.
The demonstrator was configured with a Lighthouse 3 Comint/Sigint suite from Argon ST, a Boeing subsidiary. Broadband Ka/Ku-band satellite connectivity and flare/chaffe dispensers are offered as options. Ramis is by no means the first C-12 [King Air] multi-intelligence capability. Keep that in mind when you hear media and regime attempt to say they lacked intelligence relative to the full scope of the ISIL/ISIS situation in Syria and Iraq, the Texas/Arizona border, or fok'n anywhere else. If the regime lacked it, it was because they didn't desire it.
[AnNahar] U.S. special Mideast envoy Martin Indyk resigned on Friday after nearly a year of unsuccessful efforts to forge an Israeli-Paleostinian peace deal.
As the Germans say, "Geh mit Gott, aber geh!"
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... said in a statement that Indyk, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel, would return to his position as vice president and director of foreign policy at The Brookings Institution think-tank in Washington but would continue to serve as special adviser on Mideast peace issues.
"Ambassador Indyk has invested decades of his extraordinary career to the mission of helping Israelis and Paleostinians achieve a lasting peace. It's the cause of Martin's career, and I'm grateful for the wisdom and insight he's brought to our collective efforts," Kerry said.
"The United States remains committed not just to the cause of peace, but to resuming the process when the parties find a path back to serious negotiations," Kerry said.
Kerry appointed Indyk to the envoy post last July when Kerry announced a resumption in long-stalled peace talks with the goal of reaching a settlement within nine months. The negotiations collapsed before that target date.
With the grinding of the peace processor in hiatus, it is unclear whether Indyk will be replaced. His deputy, Frank Lowenstein, will assume the envoy position on an interim basis.
Indyk's resignation marks the second time Obama has lost a Mideast peace envoy following a failed bid to bring the parties together. Former Sen. George Mitchell stepped down from the post in May 2011 after two years of frustrating efforts to get negotiations going.
The latest effort, in which Kerry and Indyk had invested significant time and energy, collapsed in March when Israel and the Paleostinians each backed out of pledges they had made when the peace talks resumed. Each side blamed the other for the breakdown. The Paleostinians accused Israel of reneging on a promised prisoner release and continuing to construct Jewish settlements on disputed territory, and the Israelis accused the Paleostinians of seeking greater U.N. recognition. The Paleostinians then formed a unity government backed by the krazed killerHamas, always the voice of sweet reason, movement, which Israel refuses to deal with.
Indyk, 62, had taken a leave of absence from his job as vice president and foreign policy director of Brookings when he was appointed envoy on July 29, 2013.
At the time, he thanked President Barack Obama I inhaled. That was the point... and Kerry for "entrusting me with the mission of helping you take this breakthrough and turn it into a full-fledged Israeli-Paleostinian peace agreement."
"It is a daunting and humbling challenge, but one that I cannot desist from," Indyk said then.
Prior to joining Brookings, Indyk had served as former President Bill Clinton ...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of is... 's ambassador to Israel and was a key part of the 2000 Camp David peace talks. He was also a special assistant to Clinton and senior director for Near East and South Asian affairs at the National Security Council from 1993 to 1995. And he served as assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs in the State Department from 1997 to 2000.
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Cromwell said it longer, if not better: You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately... Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!
Getting rid of the rump Congress Parliament.
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So Indyk pressured Israel into releasing 26 terrorists last December and, with that success behind him, he now heads back to The Brookings Institute - mission accomplished.
For the Palestinians, who gave up nothing, it's rinse and repeat time.
[Iraq Sun] The United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said today that up to 10,000 people from predominately Christian communities in northern Iraq have fled their homes this week amid the ongoing violence in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
Those fleeing are from Qaraqosh " also known as Hamdaniya " a town of 50,000 people that is located 30 kilometres south-east of Mosul, where armed opposition groups seized control two weeks ago.
UNHCR said many of them have fled to Iraq"s Kurdistan region, which is already hosting an estimated 300,000 people from Mosul and the surrounding areas.
"They fled by bus, car and taxi into Iraq"s northern Kurdistan region on Wednesday night," UNHCR spokesperson Melissa Fleming told news hounds in Geneva.
"Many are women and kiddies staying with families, relatives and in schools and community centres, mostly in Erbil. They tell us they fled in a big rush, and didn't bring many belongings with them so that is a sign of how afraid they are."
Asked if Christians who were fleeing the fighting had been directly targeted because of their religion, Ms. Fleming replied that people said they were fleeing pre-emptively in the latest displacement.
"Certainly there is a widespread fear among the Christian community in this area. But, in this particular case, there was no specific targeting but rather pre-emptive flight for fear what would happen next," she stated.
UNHCR and its partners have distributed tents, mattresses and hygiene kits at schools and community centres in Erbil where the displaced families are currently sheltering.
Together with the Kurdish authorities and other humanitarian partners, UNHCR has helped to expand the Garmawa camp in Dohuk where more than 1,000 displaced people are now staying. More camps are being constructed in Kurdistan to accommodate the growing number of internally displaced families.
So far this year, an estimated 1.2 million Iraqis have been displaced by fighting, including from Anbar and Ninewa governorates, according to UNHCR.
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Who are the fucking idiots broadcasting on 9-11 you remember 911 don't cha? Christian fire and brimstone and not to save the country and fucking rag head ease like over father's day weekend on bands that work better at night along with tone and pitch sequences? If the quote GWEN network broadcasts at 10 and you get signals to shift or move up and down or they are intensified through everything who gets to use GWEN ? 10 khz for ARABIC RANTS?
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Lindsay Krout, a volunteer working in Mississippi, was barred from reviewing voter rolls in Lafayette County Mississippi Friday morning.
Lindsay said when she went to the Lafayette County courthouse this morning and was forced to wait for an hour. Then the county clerk told her the Secretary of State's office said the county had to redact the Social Security number and addresses from the voter rolls. The clerk said it will take until Wednesday to redact the information. And, the county will charge McDaniel supporters for the extra work.
Mississippi law states that the clerk must allow public viewing of the election documentation.
Lindsay said McDaniel supporters in Lowndes County and Lauderdale County faced similar pushback from the local officials. The clerks also said they would have to schedule the time so county officials could be present.
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Just encouraging the Tea Party to do as threatened and support the Democrat for Senate.
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And the GOP "leadership" that was so desperate as to hire Democrat apparatchiks to GOTV now has the gall to act surprised by voter fraud in the runout? Gimme a break. This election was dirty.
Haley Barbour and the puppeteers behind Cochran are running scared on this one - because the initial checks of just one county's voter records and rolls have produced 100's of improper votes allowed. Thats just one county. No wonder the GOP machine in Mississippi are trying to prevent We The People from looking at the voter rolls.
If the fraud is as large as first indicated, it could mean there are enough illegal votes to call the election into question. What happens after that?
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I doubt anything will happen, Old Spook. Just because enough votes were questionable to change the election result does not mean you can assume they would have. Nullify the election and have a 'do-over?' Given who runs things, I can't see that happening. Cochran will be the certfied candidate and should lose in the general election when the 50% of the party he stiffed stay home or vote third party.
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However, it will validate that this is all just a facade put up to keep the unwashed believing that they have something like a republic rather than the oligarchy it is. It becomes harder to keep the serfs in line when they start to act like the ruling class (everyone for themselves, screw the collective).
The elite American military counterterrorism unit that has been operating in the southern Philippines for over a decade is being phased out, the Pentagon's Pacific Command said.
The Joint Special Operations Task Force Philippines, formed after the 9/11 attacks, was established to help train and advise the Philippines in its struggle against militant groups linked to Al Qaeda. American Special Forces will continue to help Philippine security forces, but the size of the mission will drop in the coming months to a dozen or so advisers from its current 320 service members.
Capt. Masato Itoh said, "Our partnership with the Philippine security forces has been successful in drastically reducing the capabilities of domestic and transnational terrorist groups in the Philippines - to the point where they have largely devolved into disorganized groups resorting to criminal undertakings to sustain their activities."
The changing American counterterrorism role comes two months after the Philippines and the U.S. signed an agreement that would allow American ships, aircraft and military personnel to be stationed there - though officials have emphasized that permanent American bases would not be set up.
[DAWN] One-year-old Murad is the latest addition to Pakistain's 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... count that now stands at 88 reported cases this year, according to official sources.
Murad, son of Nisar Ahmed Khan, was taken to the hospital earlier this month when he was suffering from fever which lasted several days.
The doctor at this small clinic in the Khans' residential area near Gulshan-e-Buner treated the child, but when the fever persisted, the distraught parents took Murad to National Institute of Child Health (NICH), says Town Health Officer for Landhi Dr Siddique.
Once at NICH, the child was treated, and as part of protocol for all children under five, he was tested for the polio virus. When the tests returned positive the Khan family was in disbelief.
Like the other six cases from Sindh -- all from 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... -- Murad also belongs to a Pakhtun household. His family, which hails from Swat, did not however refuse vaccination, they say. In fact, Murad was administered the polio vaccine thee times since birth: once in March, then again in May and the last time in June. Earlier reports suggested that the child's family had refused vaccination, but the family refutes this allegation.
Despite the triple vaccination, Siddique confirms "the onset of the polio virus in the child started on June 6."
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Darn Juice! If it doesn't sterilize the victims, it doesn't work, anyway!
Or like the most recent whooping cough vaccine, it just doesn't work very well.
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A Christian mother formerly on death row in Sudan has taken refuge at the U.S. Embassy after being released from police custody for a second time. Meriam Ibrahim, 27, was sentenced to death on apostasy charges — the crime of denouncing Islam.
Bold text is mine. I suspect NBC has a Moslem working for them editing copy. She didn't, from what I've read, "denounce" Islam, though I suppose she could be said to have renounced it. But the story goes that she was raised as a Christian, not even that she converted.
The very act of renouncing it, or being raised as something else, counts as being a denouncer, according to some of our head-banging friends in the great schools of learning in Cairo, Qom and Peshawar...
She was freed Monday following international outcry, but rearrested a day later at Khartoum's airport while trying to fly to the U.S. with her husband, who is an American citizen, and two children, one of whom she gave birth to while in prison.
A video report by the BBC's Arabic service showed Ibrahim released for a second time late Thursday. But Ibrahim's passage to the U.S. may still be blocked as she now faces forgery charges relating to the emergency travel documents she attempted to use to get out of the country. According to Reuters, Ibrahim was released on the condition that she not attempt to leave the country. Speaking before Ibrahim was freed from custody, State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said Thursday that the woman had all the documents she needed to travel to U.S. "It's up to the government of Sudan to allow her to exit the country," Harf told reporters.
Khartoum -- The husband of a Sudanese Christian woman facing threats after her apostasy death sentence was overturned expressed relief on Friday that the family has been given refuge at the US embassy.
"Really, it's good," Daniel Wani, the American husband of Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, 26, told AFP by telephone, adding that embassy staff have been "very helpful and very nice."
He said his wife and two children, who could be heard in the background, are doing well at the heavily-guarded facility on the outskirts of Khartoum. Wani confirmed that they have sought the embassy's protection because of death threats against his wife.
In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said Ishag and her family were "in a safe location" and Sudan's government "has assured us of the family's continued safety."
Citing privacy considerations, she declined to specify further the location of Ishag, whose arrest -- and potential execution -- raised deep concern among Western governments and rights activists.
One of Ishag's lawyers, Mohanad Mustafa, told AFP late Thursday that the family had gone to the US mission after her release from a police station where she had been held since security agents stopped them from travelling to the United States on Tuesday. The family think the embassy "is a safe place for them," Musfafa said.
Ishag is charged with forgery and providing false information in relation to a South Sudanese travel document she used to try to leave the country, a day after an appeal court overturned her apostasy conviction and released her from prison. Following her release, she immediately went into hiding at another location because of the threats to her life.
Christian activists say her "alleged brother" stated that the family would carry out the death sentence if she were acquitted.
Ishag was born to a Muslim father and an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian mother. Her father abandoned the family when Ishag was five, leaving her to be raised by her mother, according to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Khartoum, which said she joined the Catholic church shortly before she married.
On May 15 a court convicted Ishag under Islamic sharia law that has been in force in Sudan since 1983 and outlaws conversions on pain of death.
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a "religion" that has to demand nobody ever leave it under penalty of death is a weak-ass cult, not a religion.
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[Iraq Sun] Photograph and satellite imagery indicate that Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) hard boyz have carried out mass executions in the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit, Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... reported on Friday.
ISIL, radical Islamists who want to re-create a medieval-style caliphate straddling Iraq and Syria, has stormed largely unopposed across much of northern Iraq, taking cities including djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and Tikrit, seizing border posts with Syria and advancing to within some 100 km (62 miles) of the capital Storied Baghdad.
New York-based Human Rights Watch said between 160 and 190 men were killed in at least two locations in and around Tikrit, the hometown of late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, between June 11 and 14.
The corpse count could be much higher, the organization said, noting the difficulty of locating bodies and getting to the area had prevented a full investigation.
Pictures posted on HRW's website showed a row of men lined up face-down in trenches being shot by gunnies.
"The photos and satellite images from Tikrit provide strong evidence of a horrible war crime that needs further investigation,'' Human Rights Watch emergencies director Peter Bouckaert said in a statement.
The rebels "and other abusive forces should know that the eyes of Iraqis and the world are watching.''
It was not immediately possible to get comment from ISIL.
The United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... said on Tuesday that at least 1,000 people, mainly civilians, had been killed and roughly the same number injured in fighting and other violence in Iraq in June as ISIL swept through the north. Victims included a number of confirmed summary executions committed by ISIL as well as prisoners killed by retreating Iraqi forces.
Human Rights Watch said ISIL posted about 60 photographs on its Twitter feed on June 14, showing fighters loading captives in civilian clothes onto trucks and then forcing them to lie in three shallow trenches.
HRW counted the bodies visible in the available photographs, estimating that ISIL killed between 90 and 110 men in one trench and between 35 and 40 men in the second.
Another photo shows a large trench with 35 to 40 prisoners shot, but Human Rights Watch said it had not been able to pinpoint the site.
A U.N. human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... front man said on Tuesday that ISIL had broadcast dozens of videos showing cruel treatment, beheadings and shootings of captured soldiers, coppers and people apparently targeted because of their religion or ethnicity, including Shi'ites and minorities such as Christians.
Northern units of Iraq's million-strong army, trained and equipped by the United States, largely evaporated after Sunni Islamist fighters led by the ISIL launched their assault.
In Tikrit on Friday, Iraqi army helicopters fired on a university campus in an effort to dislodge ISIL fighters, a day after launching an airborne assault on the city.
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"The photos and satellite images from Tikrit provide strong evidence of a horrible war crime that needs further investigation,'' Human Rights Watch emergencies director Peter Bouckaert said in a statement.
Satellite images? Anything recce images available from January thru May... or did the hard drive fail ?
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How horrible do these fanatics have to be before Amnesia International and Human Rights Watchfromasafedistance have to admit that maybe, just maybe, the US forces in Iraq were the good guys?
Or are their liberal fogged addled brains so conditioned that they can see the worst atrocities and go tut tut and then have a hissy fit when a US soldier spits on a dead body.
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How horrible do these fanatics have to be before Amnesia International and Human Rights Watchfromasafedistance have to admit that maybe, just maybe, the US forces in Iraq were the good guys?
You are assuming actual concern for fellow humans instead of using "Human Rights" to pound opponents.
[AnNahar] A detainee confessed on Thursday to storing a number of explosives and weapons in property he owns in the northern region of Akkar, announced the Army Command in a statement on Friday.
It said that Mahmoud Khaled revealed that he hid explosives and weapons buried in the ground of the property in the town of Fnaideq.
The army consequently raided the area on Thursday where it discovered a number of explosives, mortar shells, and ammunition.
It also seized a large quantity of metal balls that are used in preparing boom belts.
Also Thursday, the army raided another residence in Fnaideq where it seized 42 dynamite sticks, 34 120-millimeter and 80-millimeter mortar shells, 14 propellant charges for the mortar shells, and 36 stun grenades.
The army searched for the owner of the residence, Alaeddine Mohammed Kanaan, without finding him.
Thursday's raids come amid recent security developments in different regions in Leb.
[DAWN] Dispelling impression of attempting to topple the elected government, Pakistain Awami Tehrik (PAT) chief 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 Friday said it was 'too small' an agenda to follow and his objective was to change the system, DawnNews reported. "We'll settle for nothing less than world domination!"
Speaking to media representatives here, he said that his party was not interested in forming any grand alliance, refuting reports circling in the local media about a political alliance between the PAT and Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... 's Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) with Shiekh Rasheed and Chaudhries of PML-Q alongside them.
Also read: FIA likely to investigate assets of Qadri
Qadri said he never talked about forming the alliance because in such an alliance parties agree and disagree on achieving goals that the alliance was formed on the basis of.
On Thursday, however, he hosted a meeting of all the like-minded parties at his residence in Model Town, which was attended among others by chief of the Awami Moslem League (AML), Sheikh Rasheed, leaders of the Pakistain Moslem League — Quaid (PML-Q) Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Chaudhry Pervez Elahi.
During the meeting, consultations and discussions were reportedly held over the next plan of action to be taken regarding the formation of an anti-government grand alliance.
Speaking on the killings of his party's supporters in the Model Town tragedy, he said that the "deaders' blood will not go in vain."
Dr Qadri returned to the country from Canada on Monday soon after the tragic incident in Lahore in which 12 workers of PAT were killed in a clash with the Punjab police. At this, the holy man vowed to take Dire Revenge" for the blood of his workers by toppling the government, through what he called a 'revolution'.
Previously on May 30, the PAT chief and the PML-Q leaders had agreed to join hands to launch a struggle for "devolution of power" after a meeting held in London.
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They claimed that supporters of conservative McDaniel had connections to the Ku Klux Klan and that McDaniel had a 'racist agenda.' They also warned that black Democrats 'could lose food stamps, housing assistance, student loans, early breakfast and lunch programs and disaster assistance' if he were to become the Republican U.S. Senate nominee.
'Vote against the tea party. Vote Thad Cochran,' one ad said. 'If the tea party, with their racist ideas, win, we will be sent back to the '50s and '60s.'
MailOnline has learned that 'Citizens for Progress' is tied to a longtime Democratic political operative who was paid $44,000 to run racially explosive 'robocalls' in the same race.
A political action committee founded by former Republican National Committee chair and former Republican Gov. Haley Barbour made those payments.
The calls were placed in predominantly black and Democratic regions of the state during the final days before Tuesday's runoff, according to a political operative in Mississippi.
Mitzi Bickers, an Atlanta pastor and former president of the Atlanta school board, used the same nonexistent group name — 'Citizens for Progress' — in a 2013 campaign for a local sales tax proposal.
After it was reported that Bickers filed a fraudulent financial disclosure report related to the campaign, she resigned her post as a senior adviser to Atlanta mayor Kasim Reed.
The political 'super PAC' that paid her to run the robocalls is called Mississippi Conservatives, according to National Review.
Haley Barbour, the former governor, founded the PAC, which is now run by Henry Barbour, his nephew.
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'could lose food stamps, housing assistance, student loans, early breakfast and lunch programs and disaster assistance'
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'could lose food stamps, housing assistance, student loans, early breakfast and lunch programs and disaster assistance' if he were to become the Republican U.S. Senate nominee.
It worked for the Champ twice. It would continue to work for a him a 3rd, 4th, or 5th time if constitutionally permitted.
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Too bad the 'other side' is too stupid to play the same game, as it works. Someone skipped reading the 'Prince' back in school while others were consuming it.
"it is much safer to be feared than loved because...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of man, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by the dread of punishment which never fails" - Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
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Good coverage from the other side of the pond--the Mail Online. Here in the U.S., the lame stream continues their conspiracy of silence instead choosing to report on the Kardashian brood, the latest Hollyweirdo having a public breakdown and pushing the fudged data based global warming meme.
[Tolo News] Following a week of heavy festivities between the Afghan cops and Taliban krazed killers, the district of Sangin in Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province has been cleared of insurgency, said Ministry of Interior Spokesman, Sediq Sediqqi, on Friday.
Speaking on air with TOLOnews, Sediqqi said that more than 250 Talibs were killed in Sangin district. The Taliban launched major offensives in four districts of the province—Mosa Qala, Kajaki, Sangin and Nawzad—last week, causing several civilian causalities.
According to local official reports, the district of Sangin shouldered most of the burden from the fighting.
Sediqqi did not provide details about the exact number of civilian and Afghan force causalities, but stated that more than two-dozen Afghan officers were killed in Sangin only. Moreover, eight Taliban capos were also killed.
He added that further investigations are underway.
"Taliban first raided the local police outposts seven days ago," detailing the event. "Several foreign Death Eaters have been killed in the Sangin battle. The lesson learned from the Helmand clash is that the Taliban can no longer hold ground in Afghanistan."
Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa spent the day shopping for new underwear. Tonight was going to be a special occasion... according to the Helmand Police Chief, Abdul Qayoum Baqizoy, the Afghan forces have started a clearing operation in Sangin.
He said that they are slowly clearing the roadside mines that the Death Eaters had placed in the district.
A while ago, local Sangin officials had said that more than 800 Taliban krazed killers—including Paks and Arabs—had attacked the district.
Sediqqi claimed that Pak soldiers supported the Death Eaters in Helmand.
"We have evidence that shows that Pak soldiers were involved in the clash," he said. "We will share our concerns regarding this with the Pak government."
Pakistain borders parts of Helmand province creating border tensions between the two countries as more than 2,000 displaced families leave their homes and move across the border.
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[AnNahar] The jacket wallah who blew up an explosive vest at the Duroy Hotel and his accomplice had arrived in Leb from the Turkish city of Istanbul, a media report said on Friday.
"Abdul Rahman Nasser al-Shenifi, the would-be suicide bomber who survived (Wednesday's blast), told interrogators that he wanted to stage a suicide kaboom because he believes in 'the Sunni state'," LBCI reported.
Shenifi revealed he and his Saudi compatriot Ali Ibrahim al-Thwaini were supposed to blow themselves up at al-Saha Restaurant in Dahieh, a Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... bastion, "within days," before their plot was foiled by the General Security raid.
"Investigations revealed that al-Monzer al-Hasan, the man who provided the Duroy bombers with explosives, had visited them around four days prior to the hotel incident, accompanying them to an unknown destination for several hours," LBCI said.
A number of employees at the hotel recognized al-Hasan from his circulated picture, according to the TV network.
"The two Saudi suicide bombers had been at the Duroy Hotel since June 15, after having arrived in Beirut from Riyadh via Istanbul's airport," LBCI said.
"Investigators believe that Monzer al-Hasan has an assistant in Istanbul, who also helped the would-be suicide bombers," the TV network reported, adding that the Saudi duo had spent around five days in Istanbul and that al-Hasan himself had traveled several times to the Turkish city.
The TV network said investigations have highlighted a "key role" for al-Hasan in several suicide kabooms.
"It turned out that Monzer al-Hasan has links to several suicide bombers and kabooms and he acted as an intermediary between murderous Moslem groups and bully boyz sent by them," LBCI added.
According to Sherlocks, al-Hasan receives $50,000 for facilitating the mission of every suicide bomber.
"He provides them with explosives, locates the target and takes care of their accommodation at hotels or other places," LBCI said.
"He books their rooms through touristic agencies or firms and when the would-be suicide bomber arrives in Leb he would have Monzer al-Hasan's phone number and nickname and the latter would then guide him to hotel or specific place of residency," it added.
"Two days before the operation, he would give him the boom jacket or bomb-laden car and tell him how to get to the target," LBCI said.
On Wednesday, a Saudi suicide bomber detonated his explosives at his room in the Duroy Hotel in Raouche during a raid by General Security officers.
Wednesday's suicide attack was the third in Leb in less than a week and sparked fears of renewed violence in a country that has been deeply affected by the civil war in neighboring Syria.
Al-Hasan's picture was circulated by the General Security agency on Thursday.
[DAWN] AFTER you spray a stagnant pool, you get rid of the mosquitoes for a while, but unless the standing water is drained, the pests soon return to plague you again.
And so it is with the turbans the army is going after in North Wazoo currently. While we are told on a daily basis of our successes in the battle, it remains unclear what will happen after the bully boyz have been cleared from the area.
I have little doubt that our soldiers will evict or eliminate the Death Eater groups infesting our tribal areas, but holding territory is a whole different ballgame. This requires an administrative structure that will permit the hundreds of thousands of IDPs to return to their homes.
The problem here is that the tribal areas are largely autonomous, with little or no state machinery in place. And to ensure that the bully boyz do not return, a permanent security apparatus will have to take over from the army, especially as the authority of local tribal leaders has been severely degraded.
The list of what needs to be done is long.
Then there is the question of national cohesion to support the military in this existential war. In no other country I have heard of do politicians try to destabilise a government when soldiers are laying down their lives in a battle for survival. So for Qadri to bring his circus to Pakistain at this juncture is hardly the act of a patriot.
The last thing we need now is the distraction of political turmoil. True, the Punjab police gave Qadri and his followers an excuse for causing an uproar, but his Pakistain Awami Tehrik is clearly using the Model Town incident, tragic as it was, to raise the stakes and the temperature.
Another issue relates to the role snuffies have come to assume in the army's arsenal: for years, our generals and spooks have come to view them as a proxy force that allows them to pursue military and political ends while giving them the luxury of deniability.
He replied that it made military sense for a few thousand guerrillas to tie down several Indian divisions in Kashmire that would otherwise have been facing our troops on the Indo-Pak border.
Can our establishment be weaned away from this dependence? Already, there are credible rumours that Death Eater groups like the Haqqani Network were warned of the ongoing operation, and moved to another base near the Afghan border. Given the imminent exit of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... and Isaf forces from Afghanistan, it is hard to believe that our army would eliminate what it views as its assets.
But taking the optimistic and charitable view that the area will indeed be purged of the krazed killer jihadists that have controlled it for so many years with the Pak state's connivance, what comes next? After all, militancy did not appear spontaneously out of the blue.
From Zia's promotion of the Sipah-e-Sahaba against the Shia in the early 1980ss to the promotion of Islamist jihadists to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan, there has been a growing legitimisation and acceptance of Islamist militancy. Once the Soviets left, our military switched to supporting the Kashmiri uprising in the late 1980s, sending bully boyz across the Line of Control.
Soon thereafter, I recall asking a general about the use of these Death Eaters. He replied that it made military sense for a few thousand guerrillas to tie down several Indian divisions in Kashmire that would otherwise have been facing our troops on the Indo-Pak border.
Over the years, krazed killer views have come to be accepted and internalised in our classrooms, our TV chat shows, our defence forces, our judiciary and our administration. Indeed, our entire national discourse has been steadily moving towards the religious right.
In a recent column in the foreign pages of this newspaper, I cited an apt metaphor used by Michael Gove, the British education secretary, to describe his country's fight against Islamist terrorism. In a book written after the London attacks in 2005, he said it wasn't enough to fight off the crocodiles: the swamp had to be drained as well.
So how do we drain our swamp of the krazed killer poison that has been accumulating for years? Who will stop the Saudi and Gulf financing of our thousands of madressahs, and bring the curricula of these seminaries in line with modern needs? Who will force the private TV channels to tone down their hysterical broadcasts and their subliminal support of extremism?
The list of what needs to be done is long and formidable. In our schools, madressahs and military cadet colleges, intolerance and suspicion of everybody who does not follow the majority belief have become pervasive. Changing this mindset seems a Herculean task beyond the abilities or desires of our ruling class.
On the contrary, these values are now central to the ethos of most of our mainstream political parties and our military. It is this that provides a fertile breeding ground for extremism and militancy.
Looking ahead to the post-operation scenario, we may not have much to celebrate. While I support the army in its fight, its victory may well be a Pyrrhic one in which there are no victors.
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It is in China's interest to keep the swamp drained. Chinese investment may be part of the answer. In fact. Chinese promises may have been the impetus for the North Wazoo action.
[AnNahar] Nearly 1,000 illegal African immigrants in Israel on Friday staged a march towards the southern border with Egypt to protest against living conditions in their internment camp, public radio reported.
Israeli soldiers stopped the demonstrators, most from Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... and Sudan, nearly 300 meters (yards) from the border, it added.
The protesters, who are allowed out during the day, said in a statement that their march was in protest against their "inhuman and unlimited" detention in the Holot camp.
Holot houses some 2,300 immigrants.
Israel's construction of an electric fence along its border with Egypt has reduced the number of immigrants arriving illegally through the Sinai Peninsula to almost none.
The demonstrators were demanding to be able to leave Israel, and called on the U.N. refugee agency and the international community to take charge of their cases so they can immigrate to a third country.
The Israeli authorities require undocumented Democrats who have been in Israel for more than five years to live in Holot.
One demonstrator said the authorities present it as an "open facility", but it was "actually a prison".
Under legislation passed in December 2013, authorities can detain undocumented Democrats for up to a year without trial.
In February, Haaretz newspaper reported that Israel had started flying undocumented Democrats to Uganda with the authorization of that country's authorities.
The Israeli population and immigration office said that in late 2013 there were 53,646 African immigrants in Israel, 35,987 of whom were Eritrean, 13,249 Sudanese and the remainder from other countries.
Israel's construction of an electric fence along its border with Egypt has reduced the number of immigrants arriving illegally through the Sinai Peninsula to almost none.
Thousands of African immigrants rallied last year against the authorities' refusal to grant them refugee status.
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Israel's construction of an electric fence along its border with Egypt has reduced the number of immigrants arriving illegally through the Sinai Peninsula to almost none.
Why those clever juices. Who would have thought of such a thing?
[Ynet] Rocket fire comes after IAF liquidation attack in Gazoo; tensions remain high after day of festivities with Paleostinians.
Tensions were high Friday evening as six rockets were fired into from Gazoo into Israeli territory and a mortar shell went kaboom! near the border fence between Gazoo and Israel. Two of the rockets fired were shot down by the Iron Dome anti missile system while the other four fell in open areas in the Eshkol Regional Council.
No damage or injuries were reported as a result of the rockets or mortar fire, but the incidents concluded a full day of festivities between Israeli security forces and Paleostinian elements.
Just hours before the rocket attacks from Gazoo, the IAF launched an attack on a civilian vehicle killing two senior members of Al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees and supposedly connected to an increase in rocket attacks over the last two weeks.
Just hours before the rocket attacks from Gazoo, the IAF launched an attack on a civilian vehicle killing Muhammad al-Fasih, 24, from Gazoo City, and Osama al-Hassumi, 29, from Beit Lahia in the northern Gazoo Strip.
Both were senior members of Al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees and supposedly connected to an increase in rocket attacks over the last two weeks since the IDF began Operation Brother's Keeper searching for three kidnapped Israeli teens in the West Bank.
More than 20 rockets have been fired from Gazoo since the operation began.
Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon said one of the gunnies "has in recent days been responsible to rocket launching at southern Israel, and was planning additional terror attacks against the citizens of Israel."
"We don't intend to ignore any fire at Israel or any attempt to hurt our citizens and the IDF's soldiers. We will chase after, and strike with a heavy hand, anyone who hurts or plans to hurt us, as we have done today," he added, warning that Israel "views Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, as responsible for anything that happens in the Gazoo Strip, and it mustn't test our patience or resolve."
Earlier in the morning a military vehicle was lightly damaged by an bomb near the Gazook border fence. IDF tanks responded with fire on suspected myrmidon positions.
[DAWN] The National Assembly Standing Committee on Law, Justice and Human Rights on Friday decided to finalise and approve a comprehensive draft regarding the Hindu Marriage Bill 2014 in its next meeting to stop forced marriages of Hindu girls with Moslem men.
According to the draft, girls belonging to the Hindu minority will not be allowed to marry below the age of 18.
The committee meeting was chaired by MNA Chaudhry Mahmood Bashir Virk and was attended by its members and officials of the concerned Ministry of Law and Justice.
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[DFW.CBSLOCAL] "I've had a 7-year-old little girl from El Salvador with her mother come to my front door just in dire need, lost, needing help," says Linda Vickers, who owns a Ranch in Brooks County. "They wanted to get a ride to Houston; they didn't want me to call border control. This ranchland is ruthless. It's deep sand; it's hot; it's humid; it literally sucks the life out of a person."
Vickers says even though her ranch is about 60 miles north of the border, bands of undocumented Democrats are still crossing onto her land by circumventing border patrol check points.
"I have a set of dogs here that are a deterrent and they tend to put some of these people in trees. I've even had an MS-13 gang member in a tree up here in front," says Vickers.
House Minority Leader Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace... is scheduled to travel to South Texas on Saturday to meet with immigrant children at a detention facility and be briefed about the ongoing humanitarian crisis along the Texas-Mexico border.
Vickers wishes Pelosi or a member of her staff would come to her ranch to see first hand what everyday Texans are going through.
"I'd have to ask my husband if he'd have Nancy Pelosi on the property first," says Vickers, who's also a member of Texas Border Volunteers. "No. We'd have her here."
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Wonder what kind of dawns he's got? Annoyed Goldies? Peeved Poodles? Ummm.... probably not. Bet it's a pack of Rotties or one of those crazy hairy sheep dawg units. Maybe a couple of Czechs?
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Maybe she will have a botox-induced episode, get more confused, wander across the border, have to live with illegals trying to get into the U.S., get tossed in a Mexican clink, get released and sent to Guatemala, a person destined to wander without a country. Forgive me, I got carried away in my reverie.
The usual BBC map, etc. at the link. Hat tip to The Thing From Snowy Mountain.
[BBC] Iraq's 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... has told the BBC that he hopes jets from Russia and Belarus will turn the tide against rebels in the coming days.
"God willing within one week this force will be effective and will destroy the terrorists' dens," he said.
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And Vlad is laughing his ass off as he rides his horse off to kill a bear with his bare hands or is he riding his bear off to kill a horse with his bare hands? I forget but obviously the puss in the oval office just has his ass handed to him again. Which by the way is something that never happened as long as George had Dick to whisper in his ear...obviously Vlad respected (feared?) Rummy and Dick.
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Wow that plane looks like George Barris got ahold of it but good.
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.
A woman has claimed that she was forced to strip naked at gunpoint when Department of Homeland Security officials inexplicably raided her Florida home at dawn - and left with nothing.
[BREITBART] Many of the unaccompanied minors flooding across the border are refugees fleeing violence in their Central American home countries and should be treated as such, according to Texas Republican Rep. 
Nouri al-Maliki
David Cameron
[AnNahar] Hundreds of police and soldiers raided a huge red-light district in Indonesia's second-biggest city Friday to close down brothels before the 
Hillary Clinton
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[DAWN] There is a handlebar-mustached thug in all of us — or so says local Android app developer Pawail Qaisar, the creator of a mindlessly addictive game centered around everyone's current favourite, Shafeeq Gujjar aka Gullu Butt.
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... Grand Mufti of Lebanon and the most prominent Sunni Muslim cleric in the country. An assassination attempt against Qabbani was foiled by Leb internal security forces in 2009 as part of the Eid al-Fitr celebrations in Beirut. In an interview broadcast in 2012, Qabbani stated that 
Massoud Barzani
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[DAWN] One-year-old Murad is the latest addition to Pakistain's 
A Christian mother formerly on death row in Sudan has taken refuge at the U.S. Embassy after being released from police custody for a second time. Meriam Ibrahim, 27, was sentenced to death on apostasy charges — the crime of denouncing Islam. 
[DAWN] Dispelling impression of attempting to topple the elected government, Pakistain Awami Tehrik (PAT) chief Dr 
Nancy 
