Trump Is A Mobster, Part Infinity
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"Taliban militants launched a series of attacks on as many as seven sites across the Afghan capital and in three other cites Sunday, targeting NATO bases, the parliament and Western embassies..."Image, a besieged Afghan parliament building...
âReports indicate the attacks have taken place in the vicinity of the U.S., German, British embassies."
"More than 10 explosions in all rocked the city, and heavy gunfire continued to be heard in the streets for hours after the first blast. Smoke rose over the skyline as sirens wailed."
"Militants holed up in one tall building were seen firing rockets in different directions, according to a witness on the scene. Some residents reported a blast near parliament as militants took over a nearby building and opened fire..."
"Ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker spoke to Candy (Crowley) while his embassy in Kabul was on lockdown. He said that the attacks showed that the US still needed a military presence in Afghanistan." ~~Candy Crowley, State of the Union Crib Sheet for Sunday April 15thSo here's what we're going to do...
CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) â The Secret Service says it has placed 11 employees on administrative leave for misconduct in Colombia, where they were working on security ahead of President Barack Obamaâs trip to the South American country.The other big story that occurred was a joint request for Cuban attendance at the next conference, which the US summarily opposes. That issue stands unresolved.
The agencyâs assistant director says the employees were both special agents and Uniformed Division officers. None were assigned to directly protect Obama himself.
The agency did not disclose the nature of the allegations. The Associated Press confirmed that the behavior in question involved prostitutes... ...The Secret Service says it regrets any distraction the situation has caused during the regional meetings. [More @ Salon]
It's not unheard of for agents to have "wheels up parties" when the president is on his way home from a trip, Issa, chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said on "CBS This Morning." At that point, he said, "you can sort of let your hair down." [More @ CBSNews]It's nice when the double standards of freaks like Issa show through, and they're too corrupt to notice.
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Syrian ceasefire ârelatively respectedâ as U.N. looks to observer mission"...but the government said protesters must seek permission..."
The second day of Syria's fragile ceasefire appears to have held, although reports emerged of scattered violence. According to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, violent clashes broke out early on Friday in Khirbel el-Joz, a northwestern village in the Idlib province near the Turkish border. Nonetheless, United Nations and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan said that the truce has been "relatively respected." Meanwhile, Syrian opposition leaders called for mass protests, which are expected after Friday prayers. An advance team of up to 12 U.N. observers are set to enter Syria if given the orders from the U.N. Security Council. The United States has also drafted a resolution that outlines plans for the observer mission, which is expected to come to a vote Friday. Ultimately, Annan's plan calls for 250 observers, but Russia's Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said, "The full-fledged mission will take some time to deploy." Syria has said it will accept the monitors who could arrive early next week. Annan's six-point peace plan includes the right to demonstrate, but the government said protesters must seek permission, [In Full]
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Fighting in south Yemen kills 50 so-called militantsMeanwhile, in Africa, the western-interested South Sudan breakaway 'government' is getting thirsty for (oil-rich) territory outside the expectations of their Western backers.
By AHMED AL-HAJ
Associated Press
SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Yemeni artillery and military aircraft backing pro-government tribesmen pounded al-Qaida fighters trying to battle their way into a strategic town in the country's south on Wednesday, while a suspected U.S. airstrike killed at least 12 militants, officials said.
The fighting near the town of Lawder started over the weekend when al-Qaida attacked an army post, sparking resistance from Yemeni troops and from armed residents.
The military claims that at least 165 militants have been killed in the past three days, including 38 on Wednesday, as al-Qaida continues a costly but determined assault aimed at expanding a swath of the south under their control. The officials said six civilians fighting alongside the army were also killed... [The mayhem, in detail]
South Sudan troops move into disputed oil townAlso See: Sudan: A nation split by oil Farid Omar looks at the geopolitics of Sudanâs recent succession.
By MICHAEL ONYIEGO and MOHAMED SAEED
Associated Press
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) -- After a day of fierce fighting, troops from South Sudan captured an oil-rich border town that is claimed by Sudan, whose troops withdrew under the onslaught, a Sudanese government minister said Wednesday.
The military advance by South Sudan into territory it claims but which is internationally recognized as Sudan's brought swift condemnation from the United States and Britain. Both nations, along with the U.N. Security Council, urged South Sudan to withdraw from the town of Heglig and condemned the bombings of South Sudan territory by Sudan... [More @ AP]
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The following manual was recently released by the Department of Defense. The manual was produced by the DoDâs Joint Personnel Recovery Agency (JPRA) and used by instructors in the JPRAâs Survival Evasion Resistance Escape (SERE) courses to train participants for the potential experience of detention. According to Jason Leopold and Jeffrey Kaye of Truthout, the manual was reportedly consulted during high-level discussions in the Bush administration regarding potential âenhanced interrogation techniques.â Several techniques described in the manual are mentioned in a series of controversial memos commonly referred to as the âTorture memosâ authored by Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel attorney John Yoo. [Doxs @ Public Intelligence]
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"A young man die today for a rubber ball in his head. I don't like this new Spain... I don't like nothing right now."I think this needs no transliteration.
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Turkey: 3 wounded from Syrian gunfire over border«o» The Iranians have offered to make a deal to stop producing their 30% enriched nuclear material and scale back their R&D efforts if there is an international agreement to provide materials and technology from other 'controlled' sources. For your information, weapons grade nuclear material is around 90% enriched, the Iranians have 30% enriched, and the West wants them to have no more than 15% enriched. The law of diminishing returns ABSOLUTELY applies here. It's a light-year leap from 30% to 90% and would require a HUGE investment of time, money, equipment, and low grade nuclear materials to produce weapons grade Plutonium, and the Iranians simply do not have the resources.
By Selcan Hacaoglu, Associated Press
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) â Turkey says Syrian forces fired across the border at a refugee camp, wounding a Turkish translator and at least two Syrian refugees.
A government official, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with government rules, says Turkey immediately summoned the Syrian charge dâaffaires and asked that the fire be halted. [More]
It's over, and Mitt Romney is going to be the GOP nominee for president.In OTHER News:
That's the growing consensus among Republican National Committee members who will automatically attend the party's national convention this summer and can support any candidate they choose.
Even some members who support other candidates begrudgingly say the math doesn't add up for anyone but the former Massachusetts governor.
"I would be surprised if Romney doesn't get the number he needs," said Jeff Johnson of Minnesota, who supports former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Bob Bennett of Ohio was more blunt.
"Look, Gov. Romney's going to be the nominee, and he's going to have enough votes," said Bennett, who is publicly neutral but said he supported Romney four years ago. [In Full]
FBI Sees American Universities Infected by Foreign Spies
âWe have intelligence and cases indicating that U.S. universities are indeed a target of foreign intelligence services,â Frank Figliuzzi, Federal Bureau of Investigation assistant director for counterintelligence, said in a February interview in the bureauâs Washington headquarters.â [BusinessWeek [h/t: RiskIntel]
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Europe is scratching its head over possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court will strike down President Obama's signature legislative achievement. As the judiciary and the Obama administration trade legal barbs over the high court's authority, the idea that health care coverage, largely considered a universal right in Europe, could be deemed an affront to liberty is baffling.«o» A UN brokered ceasefire has been declared in Syria and the Assad government has signed it willingly, but right now Syrian forces are attacking a number of suburbs of Damascus and the city of Homs attempting to secure territory before the ceasefire takes effect next week.
"The Supreme Court can legitimately return Obamacare?" asks a headline on the French news site 9 POK . The article slowly walks through the legal rationale behind the court's right to wipe away Congress's legislation. "Sans précédent, extraordinaires" reads the article. In the German edition of The Financial Times, Sabine Muscat is astonished at Justice Antonin Scalia's argument that if the government can mandate insurance, it can also require people to eat broccoli. "Absurder Vergleich" reads the article's kicker, which in English translates to, "Absurd Comparison." In trying to defeat the bill, Muscat writes, Scalia is making a "strange analogy [to] vegetables." [More @ Atlantic Wire via Yahoo!]
âI see no other option for a dignified end before having to scavenge through the garbage for my food,â (in other versions "I find no other solution than a dignified end before I start searching through the trash for food," [src]) the 77-year-old retired pharmacist from Karditsa wrote in the note found on him after he shot himself to death in Athens' main square yesterday morning.His note stated:
His suicide sparked demonstrations, recriminations, and a public debate on its significance. As people took to the square in commiseration and anger, Prime Minister Lukas Papademos expressed sorrow.But it IS right inside the ECONOMIC and SOCIAL acculturation of the OECD nations...
âItâs tragic that a fellow man has ended his own life," he said "In these difficult times for our society, we, both the state and the citizens, have to support the people next to us that are in distress."
The public suicide as a political statement is highly unusual in Greek political tradition.
âI have to say this is a little out of our political culture,â says Michalis... [Christian Science Monitor for more]
Darling,
It's been fun but let's be honest. You'll never win the lottery.
On the other hand, the chances are pretty good that you'll slave away at some miserable job the rest of your life. That's because you were in all likelihood born into the wrong social class. Let's face it -- you're a member of the working caste. Sorry!
As a result, you don't have the education, upbringing, connections, manners, appearance, and good taste to ever become one of us.
In fact, you'd probably need a book the size of the yellow pages to list all the unfair advantages we have over you. That's why we're so relieved to know that you still continue to believe all those silly fairy tales about "justice" and "equal opportunity" in America.
Of course, in a hierarchical social system like ours, there's never been much room at the top to begin with. Besides, it's already occupied by us -- and we like it up here so much that we intend to keep it that way.
But at least there's usually someone lower in the social hierarchy you can feel superior to and kick in the teeth once in a while. Even a lowly dishwasher can easily find some poor slob further down in the pecking order to sneer and spit at.
So be thankful for migrant workers, prostitutes, and homeless street people.
Always remember that if everyone like you were economically secure and socially privileged like us, there would be no one left to fill all those boring, dangerous, low-paid jobs in our economy.
And no one to fight our wars for us, or blindly follow orders in our totalitarian corporate institutions. And certainly no one to meekly go to their grave without having lived a full and creative life. So please, keep up the good work!
You also probably don't have the same greedy, compulsive drive to possess wealth, power, and prestige that we have. And even though you may sincerely want to change the way you live, you're also afraid of the very change you desire, thus keeping you and others like you in a nervous state of limbo.
So you go through life mechanically playing your assigned social role, terrified what others would think should you ever dare to "break out of the mold."
Naturally, we try to play you off against each other whenever it suits our purposes: high-waged workers against low-waged, unionized against non-unionized, Black against White, male against female, American workers against Japanese against Mexican against... [In Full]
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(Reuters) - A federal judge refused on Wednesday to block disciplinary action against a Marine who criticized President Barack Obama on Facebook and called him a "domestic enemy" in a posting to an internal military network.«o» The Taliban is on the warpath again with a bombing in a Northern province of Afghanistan near the Pakistan border killing 10 people including three US troops. They have also raided an Afghan security forces compound. The native security and militia forces there were all killed.
Marine Sergeant Gary Stein, 26, a meteorologist stationed at Camp Pendleton near San Diego, filed suit on Tuesday, saying the Marine Corps was violating his right to free speech. A Southern California congressman has rallied to his defense.
The Marines have said they initiated discharge proceedings against Stein after he posted political statements about Obama on a Facebook page he runs called the "Armed Forces Tea Party."
Military experts have said that by associating the name of his Facebook page with the Armed Forces, Stein was essentially putting himself in the position of publicly expressing his personal political opinions while in uniform, which Defense Department rules prohibit.
But at a hearing on the lawsuit in San Diego, District Judge Marilyn Huff said he also came under scrutiny for anti-Obama comments he posted to the military's internal network for meteorological and oceanographic information.
Huff said the online message posted by Stein read: "As an active-duty Marine, I have sworn to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. Obama is the economic enemy, the religious enemy, the domestic enemy." [More]
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