[Daily Caller] The CIA's ongoing defiance of congressional authority continued during a closed-door meeting last week after Director John Brennan refused to tell lawmakers who authorized the illegal surveillance of Senate Intelligence Committee computers, which were used to compile a report on the agency�'s interrogation practices.
"I'm concerned there's disrespect towards the Congress," Senate Armed Services Committee chairman and Michigan Democrat Carl Levin said in a McClatchy report. "I think it's arrogant, I think it's unacceptable."
Hours before a closed meeting with Brennan and Director of National Security James Clapper on Tuesday, the committee received written notification that Brennan was refusing to answer questions posed to him by California Democrat and Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein. Well, we certainly know who he works for. Perhaps we should start there.
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All theatre. I am almost sure they really just laughed and laughed about Benghazi, IRS investigation, Iran and a few knee slappers about beheadings.
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Still collecting a paycheck, is he?
You could fix that, you know.
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Cut his salary specifically
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Senate Armed Services Committee chairman and Michigan Democrat Carl Levin said in a McClatchy report. "I think it's arrogant, I think it's unacceptable."
Pot calling the kettle black
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"Former FBI Islam expert John Guandolo has long warned that the federal government is being infiltrated by members of the radical Muslim Brotherhood. But Guandolo now warns that by appointing Brennan to CIA director, Obama has not only chosen a man “naïve” to these infiltrations, but also picked a candidate who is himself a Muslim.
“Mr. Brennan did convert to Islam when he served in an official capacity on the behalf of the United States in Saudi Arabia,” Guandolo told interviewer and radio host Tom Trento.
“That fact alone is not what is most disturbing,” Guandolo continued. “His conversion to Islam was the culmination of a counterintelligence operation against him to recruit him. The fact that foreign intelligence service operatives recruited Mr. Brennan when he was in a very sensitive and senior U.S. government position in a foreign country means that he either [is] a traitor … [or] he has the inability to discern and understand how to walk in those kinds of environments, which makes him completely unfit to the be the director of Central Intelligence.”"
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And the CIA probably has enough on every key Cogresscritter to ensue that the budget cuts will never cut deeply enough to really hurt.
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This is the same guy who cleaned up the State Dept. passport office mess [contractors looking at Champ's passport data]. Same guy who stood behind the curtain at the WH during Benghazi, then became the DCI. He's bad juju. Get rid of him NOW !
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Seventeen 100 bed facilities is probably already inadequate. Training 500 health care workers/week strikes me as ambitious, but since they don't need to be full-fledged RNs, will probably help the professionals. What really will make a difference is handing out hundreds of thousands of home health care kits with instructions in their use. James, i think it was, was asking the other day about bleach and using bleach-saturated cloth as a compromise between First World kit and nothing at all. I hope he sees this, and is comforted.
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But bottom line, the idea that this should be the American military's highest priority strikes me as madness, as does taking funding from actual military projects like Iraq and all those other places our troops already quietly are.
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But bottom line, the idea that this should be the American military's highest priority strikes me as madness.... trailing wife
Little more than sycophant Dempsey repeating what he's been told by the Champ. Remember, these are 'his people', his ticket to one day become Secretary General of the U.N., or win another Nobel prize, or both. "Madness" yes, politically motivated? Yes again, just like everything else Champ says or does.
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Military are subject to UCMJ. Desertion and failure to obey are usually not crimes associated with 'civilian' employees/hires who can say 'screw it' and bail. Your very expensively trained military are expendable for social justice liberal guilt projects. Isolation works, but is not considered an option by the bleeding hearts.
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I think we should deploy that Obama Youth Corps. Go call those volunteers to action. Get up, do something for Barry and Africa!
Let's Go Hollywood, lead the way! Show us not why we fight, but why we love! Got their six now Alec Baldwin? I knew it, big old dancing circus bear you!
[Tolo News] Raes Khudadad, the most wanted senior head of a major kidnapping network, was nabbed Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! in a special National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) operation in Kabul's fifth district on Sunday night, officials said on Monday.
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the most wanted senior head of a major kidnapping network, was nabbed
Since the rest of him wasn't wanted I hope they let it go.
[Tolo News] An appellate court in Kabul on Monday upheld death penalty sentences for five individuals convicted of gang raping four women in the Paghman district of the capital. The other two men were given 20-year prison sentences each, overturning the initial court's decision to put all seven to death.
The head of the Kabul appellate court, Sediqullah Haqiq, attributed the decision to alter the sentences of two of the criminals to a lack of evidence against them. The decision comes just eight days after a primary court in Kabul convicted the seven men in a case that has received nationwide attention.
Three more criminals, known as Mukhtar, Faizullah and Maiwand, have been tied to the incident by Sherlocks, but remain on the run.
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Sometimes Muslim justice has positive sides. in UK the gang rape that raped 1400 teen and pre-teen girls will walk free in 10 years top.
[Dhaka Tribune] A shopkeeper was held responsible by the mobile court for defying the law. For this, his grocery store was sealed off and the shopkeeper locked away Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! for three months. The mobile court was conducted upon allegations that he had kept chicken and fish along with soft drinks in his refrigerator.
Later it was also found that the licence of the store had not been renewed after June 2010 and that he had been using power connection designated for residential use. The mobile court also destroyed some products at the store which were termed sub-standard for not having BSTI labels.
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Good thing he lives in an enlightened democracy.
Some bad might have happened.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Notorious criminal Kailya Babu, prime accused in the Moghbazar triple murder case, was killed in an alleged shootout with detective police yesterday; but several witnesses claimed there was no fight and Babu was shot by police from close range.
Following Shah Alam Khandakar alias Kailya Babu's death, DB told journalists at a presser that they got information that Babu, along with his gang, was going to the Moghbazar area to kill Kailya Chand Mia, plaintiff of the triple murder case.
The detectives took position in the Bepari Goli near the Moghbazar Wireless area around 4am and were waiting for the criminals to arrive. Soon, a group of criminals opened fire on the law enforcers and a young man was killed in the "shootout." The dead man was later identified as Kailya Babu, DB claimed.
However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... Kailya Babu's wife Marium Begum, who identified the body at the Dhaka Medical College Morgue, told the Dhaka Tribune over phone that her husband had already been nabbed Please don't kill me! in Narayanganj on Sunday night by DB and so he could not be there in Moghbazar the next morning.
The latest incident comes only a day after a young man, not listed anywhere as a criminal, was killed in the capital's Mugda area. The Detective Branch (DB) of Police labelled that as a "shootout" as well.
Witness account
The Dhaka Tribune has talked to several people from the Bepari Goli area who claimed to have witnessed the entire incident.
A tenant of a building near which the alleged shootout took place, witnessed the incident from his balcony.
"The incident took place in front of the Marjana Printing Press near the Jamaat office. Around 2:45am, a microbus stopped near the press. Five men-- three in DB jackets and two in plain clothes -- got down from the microbus. They had with them a young man in handcuffs.
"They walked a few metres past the closed tin gate of the press. Then one of the men in DB jacket gave the handcuffed man a little push and told him to run.
"We know you can ran fast and vanish. Run...run..." the witness quoted the DB men as telling Babu.
"But sensing that he might be shot from the back if he started running, Babu started stepping back towards the DB men. One of them then hit Babu on the head with a bamboo stick and called him names for not running. But Babu would still not move. Then one of the DB personnel took Babu by his arm and started firing at him.
"I remember at least six to seven gunshots. But all of those shots were not fired at Babu. Some hit a nearby wall and the tin gate of the printing press," the witness said.
"After handcuffed Babu fell on the ground, the DB men screamed saying: 'Check whether he is carrying a bomb or not. Get the firearms from his hand."
Soon, some other men, who were waiting in the microbus, emerged at the scene and started firing blank shots at the walls of the nearby buildings with holding numbers 495, 510, 511 and 513. They fired at least 20 rounds of bullets in the air as well.
"While firing the gunshots, they were shouting: We have got two other criminals. Look for the others...run...search," the witness said.
This description is consistent with the DB's claim at the presser that they had picked up two other criminals during yesterday's raid.
Another witness watched the incident from the window of her kitchen in a flat on a nearby building.
"After the shooting, the DB men picked up the bullet shells from the ground. Around 4:15am, a van from the Ramna cop shoppe came there. Police in uniform got down from the vehicle and asked the DB men what had happened there. The DB men said there had been a shootout and asked the uniformed police to take away the body," she said.
Quoting one of the DB men, the witness said: "Take him direct to the medical... I think he [Kailya Babu] may survive."
Other witnesses said many had woken up in the middle of the night hearing the sound of the gunshots. But the DB men told them to stay inside and keep their doors and windows closed.
One of the witnesses said Babu had been wearing a green and white T-shirt and jeans trousers but no footwear.
They also reported seeing a "victory procession" in the area around 10:15am brought out by Kailya Chand Mia and some other local people. Apparently, they were celebrating the death of Kailya Babu.
DB's version
During yesterday's presser, DB Joint Commissioner Monirul Islam told news hounds that Babu could have been killed by bullets from either their guns or his cohorts'.
The team that conducted the drive was headed by DB Deputy Commissioner Krishnapada Roy and his deputy Abdullah Al Mamun.
Monirul claimed that the criminal gang, who opened fire on the DB team had seven to eight members. Four of them expeditiously departed at a goodly pace but DB caught Rajib-Al-Hasan, 27, and Al-Amin, 31.
According to DB, on the day of the triple murder, Rajib, who is a notorious criminal from Old Dhaka, provided arms and bullets to Kailya Babu.
Al-Amin, meanwhile, was wanted in a case filed in connection with the killing of a Ansar man at Moghbazar. Kailya Babu was involved with that murder as well.
The DB official also claimed that they had recovered a foreign-made pistol, three rounds of bullets, seven rounds of bullet shells, three rounds of shot gun bullet shells and a machete from the spot.
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several witnesses claimed there was no fight and Babu was shot by police from close range
Worked in Missouri.
[Iran Press TV] A Welsh political party leader says the Scottish independence referendum is a chance to redistribute power and wealth away from London city state.
In response to the YouGov Barometer poll, Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood said on Monday she was happy that more Welsh people recognized that Wales needed more powers.
"Just as is the case in Scotland, the referendum debate in Wales has further highlighted the need to rebalance powers and wealth in these islands away from where it has become concentrated -- in the London city state," she said.
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Scottish Independence. Is the sun finally setting on the Mighty British Empire?
By Mike Smith, 15th of September 2014
At its height in 1919 the British Empire was the largest empire in the history of the world. It was the foremost world power for over a century. The British Empire held sway over about 458 million people, one-fifth of the world's population and covered almost a quarter of the world’s land area. It is the reason why English is today the global language. It was termed “the empire on which the sun never sets”.
Now, on the eve of Scottish independence, that prospect seems very possible.
As a Nationalist, I support independence for any nation who desires it and if it is what the Scots want, then they should get it.
I am dead set against the globalist agenda of creating a One World Government and all their abominable creations like the League of Nations, The Commonwealth, The United Nations, The European Union, etc. should be dissolved as far as I am concerned.
Scottish independence might just be the trigger that will bring this globalist agenda to a halt and even reverse it.
Britain went from “British Empire” to “Great Britain” to “United Kingdom” to “United Kingdom and Ireland” to just “England and Wales”. I certainly hope so. I wish the Scots could pull off their independence and finally draw the curtain on the useless UK or “Great Britain”. Thinking back to what Britain did to the Boers, Rhodesia and South Africa, I will applause the destruction of the once “Great Britain”.
For me it will be funny enough to see the Union Jack without the Blue.
If Scotland gains its independence after the forthcoming referendum, the remainder of the United Kingdom will be known as the "Former United Kingdom" (F U K). In a bid to discourage Scots from voting 'yes' in the referendum, the Westminster has now begun to campaign with the slogan: "Vote NO, for F U K's sake".
Jokes aside…Scottish independence will be a serious stick in the spokes of the Globalist agenda. That is why their propaganda machine is going all out to prevent it.
The poor Scots are threatened with currency collapse, bankruptcy, irrelevance and isolation. They are told that if the leave the UK they will also be leaving the EU and NATO and will have to reapply for membership and might get blackballed.
A Scottish “Yes” also means exit from the EU and NATO
What do we threaten the Scots with next? Exploding haggises?
They are even using dead soldiers to bash the Scots.
Our soldiers lost their lives trying to preserve the UK. What will their families say?
My biggest concern is the impact Scottish independence will have on South Africa. No doubt other nations seeking independence like the Basque people of Spain, the Flemish in Belgium and the Afrikaners in South Africa are watching the Scottish referendum closely. If the Scots get their independence it will trigger a snowball effect that might just totally reverse the Globalist agenda and nobody will be happier than me. Shamelessly pilfered from Mike Smith's Political Commentary and blog.
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Scotland can at least hope that they end up in control of North Sea Oil. What has Wales got? Coal, nice beaches, and Castles. I'm a fan of two out of three but you can't run a country on them. They should hang tight and watch the Scots for awhile first.
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Ukrainian and pro Russian separatists exchanged artillery fire throughout the region north of Donetsk Sunday, while Ukrainian security forces have detained a number of individuals in Donetsk and in Ukraina they claim are spies, according to Russian and English language reports.
Ukrainian artillery units, mostly positioned at the airport, continued firing on targets in Donetsk, including firing on the Kuibyshevsky, Leninsky and Kirovsky districts.
According to a report in the pro Russian Voice of Sevastopol, militia counterbattery fire has killed a number of Ukrainian troops including nine from the Ukrainian territorial Defense Battalion Dnepr, while a "Right Sector" volunteer unit has lost half its strength. Militia say that a unit of the 93rd Mechanized Brigade has lost "several dozen" effectives.
Pro Russian militias say that civilian casualties in Donetsk are at least 20 dead.
An observer group from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe came under Ukrainian mortar fire while in Donetsk. One of the vehicles was destroyed by fire. Donetsk Defense Minister Aleksandr Zakharchenko reportedly claimed that the mortar unit was subsequently destroyed along with its fire control observer.
Further to the north of Donetsk increased activity by both sides was reported as Ukrainian forces are said to have tripled their number at the airport.
Militias also say that Ukrainian artillery fire from Zhdanovka hit the Khanzhonkovo district in Makeyevka.
Pro Russian militias say that fighting has taken place near Debaltsevo, and near the village Krasny Partizan and Zhdanovka between Gorlovka and Makeyevka. This area has been a severe point of contention between both forces as late last month when a Ukrainian unit attempted to take the area by storm, but instead was stopped.
Militias claim they have a Ukrainian military unit surrounded in the area.
Pro Ukrainian sources claim that pro Russian militias are preparing attacks in the region. According to Ukrainian military blogger Roman Burko, militias are marshaling forces near Gorlovka for an attack towards Dzerzhynsk. A separate attack is reportedly due to take place by militias towards Debaltsevo and Bakhmutivka.
A Ukrainian military unit identified as the Ukrainian 25th Brigade currently holds the area around Zhdanovka, which prevents, according to Burko, militias from unmolested maneuvers in the area. An attack on this unit would resolve the militia's problem.
Ukrainian security forces claim to have captured a number of spies and saboteurs in and around Donetsk.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has detained three individuals they say were conducting reconnaissance on Ukrainian deployments near the town of Volnovakha, which is between Donetsk and Mariupol. The three detainees were reportedly part of a Donetsk special forces unit called OPLOT. Arms and ammunition were also seized in the arrest.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has detained three individuals, one Russian and four Ukrainians, they say were operating under the direction of Donetsk officials and officials from the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB).
According to official Ukrainian information, the three are suspected of planning attacks on Ukrainian forces in Mariupol.
The detainees were identified as R.A. Aniskin, Russian, “C” Ukrainian, and a third individual who was not identified, but was apparently tied to Donetsk government officials.
The raid also netted four AK-74 rifles, four RPO-A “Shmel” rocket launchers, three RPG-22 grenade launchers and two mines with detonators.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has detained three individuals suspected of planning a guerrilla cell against Ukrainian forces. According to the news released, published by Burko, the group was to have five cells, and had invited trainers from the Russian Federation for help. None of the detainees were identified.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
A Russian State Duma deputy and Olympic gold medalist whose relationship with President Vladimir Putin has caused wide speculation has resigned from the lower house of parliament.
Alina Kabayeva, who won a gold medal in rhythmic gymnastics in 2006, said she was leaving the Duma to do other unspecified work.
Kabayeva, 31, has been a Duma deputy under the ruling United Russia party since she retired from gymnastics in 2007.
Reports of a romantic relationship between Putin and Kabayeva began in 2008 and have continued despite several denials and "no-comments" from her and Kremlin officials.
Kabayeva played a big role in the ceremony to light the torch at the Sochi Winter Olympics in February.
Putin and his wife Lyudmila divorced earlier this year.
[Al Ahram] The United States said Monday it "does not recognize" the first local elections in Crimea since Russia annexed the peninsula from Ukraine in March.
"The United States continues to condemn the Russian Federation's occupation and purported annexation of Ukrainian territory and its violation of Ukrainian illusory sovereignty and territorial integrity," State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf told news hounds, adding that Washington "will not acknowledge" results of Sunday's vote, which Russia's ruling party appears to have won convincingly.
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[Iran Press TV] Ukraine has offered restive pro-Russian regions a limited self-rule as fresh festivities breakout in the country's eastern regions.
According to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's website on Monday, he told top politicians that the offer would be part of the ceasefire agreement reached in Minsk.
It also said that he wishes to formally present the offer to parliament on Tuesday.
According to reports the bill also extends the rights of the people of Lugansk and Donetsk, permitting them to speak Russian in state institutions and to hold local elections in November.
The bill will also allow the regions to "strengthen good neighborly relations" between local authorities and their Russian counterparts, and promises to aid restoring the damaged infrastructure and to supply social and economic support to severely damaged areas.
Poroshenko also called on the pro-Russians to swiftly end the five-month festivities which has killed 2,700 people.
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[MIAMIHERALD] German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... says Russia must withdraw its troops from Ukraine for a peace plan there to work.
Merkel told Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... in a phone call late Monday that the complete withdrawal must accompany a securing of the Russian-Ukrainian border to prevent fighters and arms flowing to pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
She also welcomed talks between Russia, Ukraine and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... on free trade, and called for such trilateral talks to address the issue of natural gas deliveries from Russia to Ukraine.
Ukraine and the West have repeatedly contended that Russia is fueling the separatist uprising in eastern Ukraine with manpower, weapons and expertise, something that Moscow denies.
The cease-fire between rebels and Ukrainian troops took effect on Sept. 5 but has been violated repeatedly.
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[DAWN] SUKKUR: A police team led by an SHO had to pay the price for killing a man, stated to be a thief, some 18 months ago, as tribal elders have already imposed a fine of Rs5.4 million on three of the team's members while some others are yet to be 'prosecuted'.
SHO Gul Mohammad of the A-Section cop shoppe, Kandhkot, was the first official 'convicted' by a jirga (tribal court) that heard the case a few weeks after the death of Challo Bajkani, a resident of Qambar Bajkani village situated in the katcha area of Kandhkot, in firing by the police team. The SHO was ordered to pay Rs3 million to the heirs when the jirga after hearing the aggrieved side and the defendants found the entire team guilty of Bajkani's murder.
Another member of the police team, Nabi Dad Mangi, was 'convicted' in another jirga held a few months later and was ordered to pay Rs1.2 million to the heirs.
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[DAWN] Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday promised to rebuild houses of flood-affected people and said that the government would give them support till they return to their homes.
Addressing a gathering at a relief camp at Shershah Rural Health Centre, the prime minister said the government stood by the people and added that Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and he himself would continue to supervise the relief, rescue and rehabilitation process till all the people are resettled to their homes.
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[DAWN] Chairperson of Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP) Bilawal Baby Bhutto Zardari ...Pak dynastic politician, son of Benazir Bhutto and grandon of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. As far as is known, Bilawal has no particular talents other than being pretty and being able to memorize political slogans, but he had the good luck to be born into the right family and he hasn't been assassinated yet... announced on Monday his decision to take part in the 2018 general elections from late Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... 's seat of Ratedero.
"I will start my parliamentary politics from my family seat during the next general elections," Bilawal said to news hounds at Bilawal House, days ahead of his 26th birthday on September 21.
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[IsraelTimes] Lack of diplomatic relations and hostility to Israel don't stop several Islamic nations from (quiet) trade.
Trade in this case, being mostly Israeli exports. Direct trade is in the billions of dollars, while indirect trade (through third countries to scrub Israeli identification may be ten times that.
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Two weeks ago (seriously) Malaysia Airlines (yes, them) announced a 'Bucket List' contest. As in, "things to do before you die" (like SCREAM!)
They were giving away vacation packages.
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"There's always one more bug"
(also known as the law of F-35 software)
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I had assumed the next generation ship would be basiclly disposable. Make it of plastic, low in the water, with a minimal crew that are expected to evacaute rather than worry about damage control. Load it up with missiles and build an awful lot of them.
At some point such a ship could even become unmanned.
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Detroit: Free Lunch Army demonstrates: A local grass-roots organization dropped off more than 158,000 petition signatures calling for water shut-offs in the city to stop.
The People’s Water Board Coalition, made up of activists, members of AFSCME Local 207, and other groups, displayed more than a dozen boxes and called for a water affordability plan to be implemented。
Of the 174,000 active residential accounts in Detroit, more than 74,000 are past due with bills averaging about $570.
No mention of anyone actually {shudder} PAYING their bills.
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The latrine is getting full. Some people do need help but this should not be a way of life. A handout or hand up and out of the welfare system should be the goal. But that would eliminate about 46,496,145 Donk voters.
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.
[Dhaka Tribune] Notorious criminal Kailya Babu, prime accused in the Moghbazar triple murder case, was killed in an alleged 
Scottish Independence. Is the sun finally setting on the Mighty British Empire? 
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
[DAWN] SUKKUR: A police team led by an SHO had to pay the price for killing a man, stated to be a thief, some 18 months ago, as tribal elders have already imposed a fine of Rs5.4 million on three of the team's members while some others are yet to be 'prosecuted'.
