COLLECTIVE MADNESS
“Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people."
Deuce ☂Wed Dec 31, 09:38:00 AM EST
ReplyDeleteShe was from Idaho. Why a young mother with three young children, including a two year old is shopping with a loaded gun in her handbag is beyond belief.
Maybe she was then, but everything I read said not from Idaho.
Not that it makes any difference.
Sad event. The little kid doesn't even recognize what happened yet. She might have been packing the gun thinking to protect the kids.....
Delete2-year-old accidentally kills his mom in Wal-Mart
Posted: Dec 30, 2014 12:20 PM PST Updated: Dec 30, 2014 5:52 PM PST
Authorities in northern Idaho say a 2-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed a woman after he reached into her purse at a Wal-Mart store and the concealed gun fired. (Source: Raycom Media) Authorities in northern Idaho say a 2-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed a woman after he reached into her purse at a Wal-Mart store and the concealed gun fired. (Source: Raycom Media)
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HAYDEN, Idaho (AP) - A 2-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his mother after he reached into her purse at a northern Idaho Wal-Mart and her concealed gun fired, authorities said Tuesday.
Veronica J. Rutledge, 29, was shopping with her son and three other children, Kootenai County sheriff's spokesman Stu Miller said. Rutledge was from Blackfoot in southeastern Idaho, and her family had come to the area to visit relatives.
She had a concealed weapons permit. Miller said the young boy was left in a shopping cart, reached into his mother's purse and grabbed a small-caliber handgun, which discharged one time.
Deputies who responded to the Wal-Mart found Rutledge dead, the sheriff's office said.
"It appears to be a pretty tragic accident," Miller said.
The victim's father-in-law, Terry Rutledge, told The Associated Press that Veronica Rutledge "was a beautiful, young, loving mother."
Hayden is where the Aryan Nations used to hang out before being run out of town by a local jury. The Fuhrer and chief scamp of the group, Richard Butler, from California, died broke and alone, to everyone's relief.
DeleteU.S. blocks Palestinians at UN while cementing support for 1967 borders
ReplyDeletehttp://www.haaretz.com/blogs/west-of-eden/.premium-1.634617
The US affirms its support for the 1967 borders being reestablished, while voting against the UN Resolution solution proposed by the Palestinians.
{;-)
Jordan stands firm!
DeleteJordan reiterates support for Palestinians
{;-)
ACTUALLY JACK MISREPORTS ONCE AGAIN….
DeleteThe US did nothing except vote.
There were not enough votes by all parties.
It's called democracy of nations.
One vote per nation that sits on the UNSC.
There were not enough votes to pass, some folks abstained.
Either way?
The palestinians once again LOSE…
LOL
The nation of Palestine is as dead as Jack's love life… (not counting the horses he dates)
Well, here we are - New Years Eve.
ReplyDeleteThe Dow's at 18,000
GDP is pushing at $18 Trillion
We're Not all dead from Ebola
ISIS hasn't snuck across the border, and conquered L.A.
Unemployment is falling,
And, Gas Prices are snuggling up to $2.00 / gallon.
Median Income is rising, again, and
People are buying Obamacare policies like they're going out of style.
Whatever are the Obama-haters going to go nuts over, now?
Oh, wait . . . . . . . . .
Eggs!!!
That's the ticket. :)
The price had inflated, based on the data points presented, at a 5% compounded rate, over 14 years.
DeleteJune 2000 to June 2014.
Less than gasoline has risen, over the same time span.
{;-)
I buy a dozen eggs every couple of weeks, and I haven't paid over $1.70, yet.
DeleteI'm going to the store after while; I'll see what the price in Memphis is, Today.
Try the inflation from 2009 - 2014. Oh, that's right, you dare not.
DeleteThe humble egg will not and was not meant to be an indictment of anyone. Those who took it so are insecure. As to tens of millions of Americans who live on the edge, insecure is probably as good a description as any other.
"Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid."
___Twain
Tell us what that rate is, allen.
DeleteIf that is your point, then make it.
I did yesterday. Little one, you must read more and comment less, unless you wish to be a fool, in which case a pointy hat will suffice.
Delete18 TRILLION in quantitative easing, higher health care, higher diesel, higher tires, water sewage, 95 million americans no longer seek work, 47 million on food stamps…
DeleteAs I stated, yesterday, you can buy a nice, plump little frier for $0.99 / lb..
DeleteThat's down from $1.25 / lb., not long ago.
It's hard for me to see "chicken" going one way, and "egg" going the other,
for long. :)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An air strike by an unmanned U.S. aircraft over Somalia this week killed Tahliil Abdishakur, the chief of the al Shabaab militant group's intelligence and security wing, the Pentagon confirmed on Wednesday.
ReplyDeleteNEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices fell on Wednesday as concerns about demand for fuel kept worries about a global supply glut intact.
ReplyDeleteNo matter today's outcome, the year 2014 will go down as a very good year for the U.S. stock market.
ReplyDeleteEntering today's session, the S&P 500 is up 12.6%, excluding dividends.
The Nasdaq Composite is up 14.4% and the Dow Jones industrial Average is up 8.5%
https://plus.google.com/115000623204952468039/posts/Af9J63bepga
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ReplyDelete$170 million. The cost for a fairly large city to go through bankruptcy.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2014/12/30/detroit-bankruptcy-fees-top/21074011/
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Among the top paid firms are the city's lead bankruptcy firm, Jones Day, which earned a payout of $57.9 million; investment banking firm Miller Buckfire, $22.82 million; financial restructuring advisory firm Ernst & Young, $20.22 million; and the operational restructuring firm Conway MacKenzie, $17.28 million.
DeleteThe city's list also shows that Dentons US LLP, a law firm that acted on behalf of an official committee of city retirees fighting pension cuts, will get $15.41 million.
The disclosure also revealed the city's two pension funds paid attorneys at Clark Hill $6.25 million and financial advisers at Greenhill & Co. $5.71 million.
The filing shows that Detroit's bankruptcy mediator firms were paid $980,000 and that the city's two pension funds paid consultants and attorneys about $12 million to fight the bankruptcy case. Federal judges who helped mediate the case were not compensated.
Re: ... the egg as metaphor ...
ReplyDelete"There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the World sees them to be in downright nonsense."
___Swift
The egg has risen 109% since 2009. That is a provable fact. Why should such a simple fact be so disturbing? Could it have anything to do with the national debt having risen in like manner?
The nation's GDP is related to the nation's debt only to the extent that the government solely controls both.
As is gasoline, allen, a metaphor.
DeleteA rising tide lifts all boats.
Capsizing those tied hard and fast to the pier.
{;-)
A rising tide lifts all boats, which is a good thing supposedly, if you have a boat.
DeleteBut in reality no boat is relatively worth any more than any other in a rising tide.
What happens is the boats are priced even further out of range for those without boats to begin with....
Lower gas prices, for which O'bozo had nothing to do, are good for motor boat owners, but do nothing for those without motor boats.
We are all waiting expectantly for Jack "Portfolio" Hawkins to give us his financial pick recommendations for the coming year.
DeleteEveryone is doing so on Fox.......
There has never been a war, other than in Lilliput, of blood for eggs. The Sixth Fleet will not be positioned to ensure the unfettered flow of eggs. Shall it ever be heard, "No blood for Omega 3"?
DeleteTrying find a comparison in the spot price for eggs to the spot price of gasoline is nonsensical. Gold is up, ergo the Swiss Franc must be down. The number of rat trappers in India is up, therefore, the price of silk must be down. The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain...
Oh and there still is no NATION called Palestine..
ReplyDelete:)
That is why the ethnic Arab/Palestinians are all Israelis, "O"rdure.
Delete{;-)
The Israeli government's denial to those Arab/Palestinians the full rights and privileges of citizenship ...
DeleteThat is what makes Israel an apartheid state
... only to the illiterate ...
DeleteJack HawkinsWed Dec 31, 12:29:00 PM EST
DeleteThe Israeli government's denial to those Arab/Palestinians the full rights and privileges of citizenship ...
That is what makes Israel an apartheid state
America does not give full rights and privileges to citizens of Canada.
Bob OreilleWed Dec 31, 09:10:00 AM EST
ReplyDeleteStill hoping to read of a clean, non violent take down of a LOT of cash from one of the local Casinos.....
:)
Delete
Bob OreilleWed Dec 31, 09:12:00 AM EST
I will be criticized by rat -O -rooter for this Robin Hood type attitude I sometimes enjoy.
Supporting criminals, etc......
You watch.
Jack HawkinsWed Dec 31, 09:18:00 AM EST
Your lack of respect for the property of others, your blatant disregard for the Law, and your racism is singling out the Indian casinos to be robbed, Robert "Draft Dodger" Peterson, par for you.
As you said, just yesterday, you stand squarely amongst the dumb fucks.
What is "Occupation"Wed Dec 31, 09:25:00 AM EST
Jack HawkinsWed Dec 31, 09:18:00 AM EST
Your lack of respect for the property of others, your blatant disregard for the Law, and your racism is singling out the Indian casinos to be robbed, Robert "Draft Dodger" Peterson, par for you.
As you said, just yesterday, you stand squarely amongst the dumb fucks.
another day, another sad attempt at character assassination attempt by Jack Hawkins.
The readers will notice the ad hominem attacks, Jack has started this AM.
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The readers should also note that there is no reference to "Indian Casinos" whatsoever. The reference is clearly to "local Casinos
And who among us but the rat, who has no sense of humor whatsoever. does not get a little chuckle out of a well planned non violent pay back to some turd running whores in trailers under the guise of "Massage Here" once in a while?
No one but our rat turd.
rat the Crapper at work !
Told ya so !!!!!
Bwabwabwabwahahahahahaha
The only casino local to Robert "Draft Dodger" Peterson are the Indian Casinos.
DeleteThat he fails to reference that salient reality does not diminish it.
"Portfolio" Jack is good.
ReplyDeleteHa ha
Deuce has a legit portfolio, Jack doesn't have Jack shit.
Shoes were 50% off. Look for a collapse in the price of ground beef.
ReplyDeleteHe had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.
One can fight global cooling that way.......
DeleteGen. Hossein Salami, deputy head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, claimed that Iranian backed local forces are active in Iraq, Syria and Yemen, and outnumber those of Hezbollah in Lebanon in size.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, Syrian opposition forces claimed that Iran had set up a "Syrian Hezbollah" which serves as the Revolutionary Guard's long arm in the region. They confirmed the claim that there was a large number of forces present in both Syria and Iraq.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4609918,00.html
Is Major General Nagata subtly questioning Obama’s refusal to acknowledge the reality of jihad terror?
ReplyDeleteDecember 30, 2014 10:07 am By Robert Spencer 56 Comments
There is good reason to think so, and it would be heartening to think that there is still at least one high-level official who sees the reality of the situation and is unwilling to close his eyes to it. More on this story. “Obama’s See-No-Islam Policy Forces Military Rethink,” by Neil Munro, Daily Caller, December 29, 2014:
…“We do not understand the movement, and until we do, we are not going to defeat it,” Maj. Gen. Michael Nagata, the special forces commander in the Middle East, told the group of outside experts, according to a friendly article in the New York Times.The general’s instructions to the group ostentatiously ignored the role of Islam. “I want to engage in a long-term conversation to understand a commonly held view of the psychological, emotional and cultural power of I.S.,” he said, formally obeying Obama’s see-no-Islam policy.
“We have not defeated the [jihadis’] idea. We do not even understand the idea,” he said, according to the article, which does not mention Islam as a motivating force, nor the White House’s fatwa against any mention of Islam.
But Nagata’s statements repeatedly hint that the Islamic State’s power is based on its Islamic authenticity.
“What makes I.S. so magnetic, inspirational?…There is a magnetic attraction to I.S. that is bringing in resources, talent, weapons, etc., to thicken, harden, embolden I.S. in ways that are very alarming,” he wrote............
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/12/is-major-general-nagata-subtly-questioning-obamas-refusal-to-acknowledge-the-reality-of-jihad-terror?utm_source=Jihad+Watch+Daily+Digest&utm_campaign=7c3e2e6006-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ffcbf57bbb-7c3e2e6006-123542181
ISIS, for instance, stands for the Islamic (emphasis mine) State in Iraq and Syria.
DeleteThe use of "Islamic" is why sympathizers here and elsewhere prefer a silly euphemism. They do it for the same reason they use "Zionist" rather than "Jew": It is a crude attempt at subterfuge.
Zionists are not representative of Judaism, just as the Daesh is not representative of Islam.
DeleteBoth are political ideologies, wrapped in religious propaganda that is designed to obfuscate the truth.
Why, even Joe Biden will tell you that you do not have to be Jewish to be a Zionist.
Jack, will all due respect, and there is none.
DeleteYou are in no position to tell Jews anything.
Meanwhile the FACT is still the FACT, Israel, the Jewish State, the homeland for the Jewish People LIVES.
I stand with Israel, you hate Israel, Zionism, Judaism and Jews.
Are you too much of a coward to be HONEST?
Jack "the Jew hater" Hawkins.
Hmmm...good ol' Joe.
DeleteI must be a Zionist then, cause I've always supported Israel, even though I'm not Jewish.
I've been using ISIS mainly because I find it easier to type than Daesh or ISIL.
I am thinking about simply going to IS, there really being no Iraq or Syria any longer in any meaningful sense.
Shia Iraq is rapidly becoming a province, so to speak, of Iran...........
Oh, O'bozo !............
Comical, but that is all you guys are left with.
DeleteThe intellectual arguments failed your side, long ago.
I hate racists, apartheid apparatchiks and those that would make excuses for them.
{;-)
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“To me the Zionists, who want to go back to the Jewish state of A.D. 70 (destruction of Jerusalem by Titus) are just as offensive as the Nazis.
DeleteWith their nosing after blood, their ancient "cultural roots," their partly canting, partly obtuse winding back of the world they are altogether a match for the National Socialists.
That is the fantastic thing about the National Socialists, that they simultaneously share in a community of ideas with Soviet Russia and with Zion.”
― Victor Klemperer, I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941
So Jack is an avowed fan of Hitler.
DeleteThanks Jack for admitting you want for the genocide of all the Jews.
The fat lady is not singing yet.
ReplyDeletePalestine will join the International Criminal Court, President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday, a move that sets the stage for filing a war crimes case against Israel.
He made the announcement in the West Bank, a day after the UN Security Council failed to pass a resolution that had aimed to set a deadline for Israel to end its occupation of territories sought by the Palestinians.
Mr Abbas had warned that if the resolution failed, he would resume a Palestinian campaign to join international organisations to put pressure on Israel.
Israel says all disputes should be resolved through peace talks, and such actions are aimed at bypassing negotiations.
The resolution vote was a blow to an Arab campaign to get the UN’s most powerful body to take action to achieve an independent state of Palestine.
The US, Israel’s closest ally, had made clear its opposition to the draft resolution, insisting on a negotiated peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, not an imposed timetable.
It would have used its veto if necessary, but did not have to because the resolution failed to get the minimum nine “yes” votes required for adoption by the 15-member council.
The resolution received eight “yes” votes, two “no” votes - one from the US and the other from Australia - and five abstentions.
“We voted against this resolution not because we are comfortable with the status quo. We voted against it because ... peace must come from hard compromises that occur at the negotiating table,” US Ambassador Samantha Power said
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She criticised the decision to bring the draft resolution to a vote as a “staged confrontation that will not bring the parties closer”. And she added that the resolution was “deeply unbalanced” and did not take into account Israel’s security concerns.
Until shortly before the vote, council diplomats had expected the resolution to get nine “yes” votes.
But Nigeria, which was believed to support the resolution, abstained. Its ambassador, U Joy Ogwu, echoed the US position saying the ultimate path to peace lies “in a negotiated solution”.
The Palestinians could point to support from two European nations, France and Luxembourg, reflecting the growing impatience especially in Europe over the lack of progress in achieving a two-state solution, and the increasing pressure on governments to do something to end the decades-old conflict.
This impatience, and frustration over the Security Council’s paralysis in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, was echoed by many on the council, including the US.
Before the vote, Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said the Palestinians can return again to the Security Council, which will have five new members starting Thursday who are viewed as more sympathetic to their cause.
Israel’s image and standing, especially in Europe, have come under increasing pressure as a result of this summer’s Gaza war and its refusal to halt settlement building.
Mr Abbas found himself under fire at home to proceed with a UN vote and to take other measures after months of unrest with Israel.
Pressure increased earlier this month after a Palestinian minister died from a heart attack after scuffling with Israeli security forces in the West Bank at a protest against settlements.
That incident came after months of tensions that included the collapse of the latest round of US-backed peace talks, a 50-day war between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, Israeli security measures that restricted Muslim access to a revered holy site in Jerusalem and a spate of Palestinian attacks that killed 11 people.
The violence seems to have mostly subsided in recent weeks but attacks persist.
AP
We ought to get out of the UN.
ReplyDeleteIt is a joke.
Same with The International Criminal Court.
Delete.
ReplyDeleteIt would have used its veto if necessary, but did not have to because the resolution failed to get the minimum nine “yes” votes required for adoption by the 15-member council.
Given the rotating membership of the SC, it is only a matter of time before the US is forced to use its veto.
.
Exactly.
DeleteSupposedly meaningful votes are hostage to some idiotic rotation schedule.
Libya was once head of the Human Rights Council or whatever it is called.
The UN is a farce.
Jack HawkinsWed Dec 31, 02:10:00 PM EST
ReplyDeleteComical, but that is all you guys are left with.
The intellectual arguments failed your side, long ago.
I hate racists, apartheid apparatchiks and those that would make excuses for them.
{;-)
.................
Jack HawkinsFri Jul 18, 12:36:00 AM EDT
I mean, you are an Israeli, and here is nothing worse than that.
In all the world, the Arabs of Israel are the scum.
Now if you were a European, well thatd be different, but Israelis are all Arabs, Semites.
Scum of the Earth
;-)
Have a nightmare tonight and a shitty tomorrow,
QuirkFri Jul 18, 01:13:00 AM EDT
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And the voice of the rat is heard in the land.
And the world once again cringes.
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Bob OreilleFri Jul 18, 02:35:00 AM EDT
"I mean, you are an Israeli, and there is nothing worse than that."
There we go. That's a keeper. I am going to store that one.
Jack "Hamasass PsychoRat of the Desert" Hawkins puts it in one concise line.
His whole outlook. Simple, ignorant, unbelievably irrational.
No wonder most people can't stand him.
Go fuck yourself, Jack.
ReplyDeleteGo look to your Portfolio.
And:
Happy New Year to everyone else.
I've been sending some Happy New Year free ecards this morning.
What an easy way to send greeting to people !
Tomorrow is the Rose Bowl too !
Cheers !
DeleteQuirkWed Dec 31, 02:40:00 PM EST
ReplyDelete.
It would have used its veto if necessary, but did not have to because the resolution failed to get the minimum nine “yes” votes required for adoption by the 15-member council.
Given the rotating membership of the SC, it is only a matter of time before the US is forced to use its veto.
Quirk, you might be correct, however that is not what happened yesterday.
Palestine still is not a nation.
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DeleteWhew, dodged another one.
:o)
Happy New Year.
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Deuce ☂Wed Dec 31, 02:17:00 PM EST
ReplyDeleteThe fat lady is not singing yet.
Palestine will join the International Criminal Court, President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday, a move that sets the stage for filing a war crimes case against Israel.
It also sets the stage for war crimes against the Palestinians. :)
... to get the year off to a good start ...
ReplyDeleteHere’s A List Of Companies that Are Helping To Fund Al Sharpton’s War Against The Police
When the rest come up, I will post them.
Israeli forces have once again violated the territorial integrity of Lebanon by making an incursion into the south of the country.
ReplyDeleteMore than 12 Israeli troops on Tuesday crossed the Blue Line along the Lebanese border, advancing 100 meters deep into the Lebanese village of Kfar Shouba.
The Blue Line is a border demarcation between Israel and Lebanon determined by the UN.
Lebanese media say the soldiers searched the area and took some photos before retreating.
“A Merkava tank stood covering the operation on a hill facing the Lebanese restaurants [near the border] while soldiers took battle positions nearby,” Lebanese newspaper The Daily Star reported.
The Tuesday report added that the border violation also involved extensive flights by Israeli jets.
The Lebanese Army also deployed its forces near the border “to prepare for any possible escalation by the Israelis.”
United Nations peacekeepers stationed at the Blue Line also documented the Israeli violation.
The government in Beirut, Hezbollah, and the UN Interim Force in Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, have repeatedly condemned Israel for violating UN Resolution 1701 and the Lebanese territorial integrity.
UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which brokered a ceasefire in the war of aggression Israel launched on Lebanon in 2006, calls on Tel Aviv to respect Lebanon’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
The Lebanese government has filed several complaints to the United Nations over the violation of the country’s airspace by Israeli military aircraft.
President Vladimir Putin used his New Year messages to urge “equality” between Russia and America on Wednesday, adding that both countries had a “responsibility” for preserving peace.
ReplyDeleteAlthough Russia's crisis-hit economy is barely one-eighth of the size of America's, Mr Putin spoke the language of parity between the two nations.
The comments came in separate addresses to foreign leaders and to the Russian public, following by far the most difficult year for Moscow's relationship with the West since the Cold War.
In a generally conciliatory message, Mr Putin used the coming 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War to invoke the memory of Russia fighting "shoulder to shoulder" with the Western Allies against Nazi Germany.
"This historic date is a reminder of the responsibility of Russia and the United States in maintaining peace and international stability," he said in a message to President Barack Obama. Mr Putin added that he wanted relations with America to "develop successfully proceeding from principles of equality and mutual respect".
Shiite militias behaving badly
ReplyDeleteSenior Iraqi Kurdish politician Mullah Bakhtiar discusses his party’s relationship with Iran and with Kurdish parties in Syria – and in particular, in Kobani and Rojava, as well as whether anyone should be concerned about the unofficial Shiite Muslim militias behaving badly in northern Iraq.
The head of the political bureau of one of Iraqi Kurdistan’s ruling parties, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, or PUK, talked to NIQASH about his party’s internal and external political turmoil and how the current security crisis is affecting them. Mullah Bakhtiar also said that, despite the fact that the PUK tends to have a better relationship with Iran and therefore, by default, the Shiite Muslim militias sponsored by Iran who are currently up north fighting extremists, his party has also expressed its concerns about their bad behaviour – and to no less than one of the militias’ most important leaders from Baghdad.
NIQASH: What are the latest developments in the war against the extremist Islamic State, or IS, group?
Mullah Bakhtiar: When the Islamic State group first attacked Iraqi Kurdistan we were shocked. But now we’ve been able to develop plans to fight back and contain the situation. We can confidently say that the IS group has suffered one defeat after another.
NIQASH: But even before this particular crisis you were among those who expected the IS group to attack Iraqi Kurdistan. Why was that?
Bakhtiar: I have a lot of information about terrorist groups in the Middle East – I follow up on their movements and their announcements. Our party actually has a special office for information on these groups. We get very good information coming through and that is why I was convinced that the IS group were ramping up for something big. I wrote an article about it, around three months before the Islamic State attacked Mosul - in that I said they would come and attack us.
NIQASH: One of your major political allies, the ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party, or KDP, has expressed concern about the Shiite Muslim militias coming from down south and deploying nearby. But your party doesn’t seem to mind them as much…
Bakhtiar: The way things were going in Iraq, it was difficult for anyone to say no to the formation of these Shiite Muslim militias. Baghdad looked like it was endangered and we had to either help by sending troops there or we could work together with Shiite Muslim militias. At that time, the IS group was attacking Iraqi Kurdistan and Sinjar, so we did the latter. And despite all the complaints, the Shiites of Iraq have the right to their own defence too. The war against the IS group is a matter of survival for Iraq’s Shiites too.
But it is true that some of the militias’ behaviour has not been correct and we too are concerned about this.
NIQASH: Did you discus your concerns with Hadi al-Amiri, the head of the Badr Organisation, during his visit to Iraqi Kurdistan?
Bakhtiar: We have informed all the Shiite Muslim actors about our concerns, not just Hadi al-Amiri. When he came to Sulaymaniyah, we signed an agreement that clearly stated that the Shiite Muslim militias in the north would not be in charge of the areas of Jalawla and Sadiya. The agreement states that the areas will be ruled within the framework of government institutions.
ReplyDeleteThe name Sheldon Adelson, the right-wing, pro-Israel casino mogul who has bankrolled the Republican Party, rings a bell for close observers of American politics. But how about the Falic family?
The Falics should be just as well known. Members of the family have donated millions of dollars to pro-Israel U.S. politicians from both parties. Beneficiaries of their largesse include GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney; Democrats Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Eliot Engel; the Republican National Committee; and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. In addition, the family has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political campaigns.
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They have made their money through Duty Free America, which operates stores in airports around the U.S and the world where consumers buy tax-free products.
Leon Falic and his brothers bought the company in 2001. The Florida-based Falic Family Private Foundation, which receives the bulk of its funds from Duty Free Americas, has given money to a variety of pro-Israel causes, including West Bank settlements. And on December 28, the family is set to donate a Torah to Ariel University’s synagogue in honor of Fima Falic, who died in 2012. Israeli politicians will join the family in a ceremony that day. Nily Falic, the wife of the late Fima, is the national chairperson of the Friends of the IDF, a multi-million dollar operation that gives tax-free donations to the Israeli army.
The Falics are one of a number of wealthy, right-leaning Jewish American families that fund Israel’s and America’s right-wing politicians and illegal settlement projects. Hundreds of millions of dollars from U.S. tax-free foundations are poured into Israeli West Bank settlements every year. Taken together, the funds that originate in the U.S. are used for everything from infrastructure to business to security, solidifying Israeli control over the West Bank and putting a Palestinian state further out of reach.
A Duty Free Americas’ employee told me over the phone the Falics were not available for comment until Monday.
In addition to boosting the coffers of Netanyahu, Romney and Wasserman Schultz, the Falic Family has sponsored students to take a Zionist Organization of America-sponsored trip to Israel, where they visited the Falic-owned Psagot Winery, located in the settlement of Psagot, near the West Bank city of Ramallah. After Fima Falic died, the Zionist Organization of America released a statement extending “condolences to the entire Falic family on the sudden passing of Fima Falic, true Zionist and generous Israel supporter.” And as Mondoweiss’ Allison Deger reported in 2012, the family also funded an archeological dig in the settlement of Shiloh.
- See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2014/12/settlement-netanyahu-america#sthash.6cIqJllw.dpuf
This post originally ran on Juan Cole’s Web page.
ReplyDeleteThe UN Security Council yesterday voted down an Arab League resolution on Palestine that would have called for an end to Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories within 3 years and a return to 1967 borders. Similar resolutions were passed by the UN Security Council in past, but this time the motion could not collect the 9 votes to pass. It in any case would have been vetoed by the United States (the five permanent UNSC members can shoot down any resolution they like).
It should be noted that France, Russia and China did vote for the resolution, and they represent a significant swathe of the human population, as well as being a majority of the permanent members (the UK abstained, but said it was not because London opposed the resolution in principle). Russia said that the nearly 70 year old conflict was contributing to the production of radicalism in the region.
Palestine president Mahmoud Abbas was approaching the UNSC so as to clear the way, when the resolution inevitably failed, for approaching other forums. It now seems likely that Palestine will join the International Criminal Court by signing the Rome Statute, and will press its case there. But the US has strong-armed Abbas not to take this step, and going to the UNSC helps blunt US condemnations, wince everyone could see that he tried.
Had the resolution been presented to the UN General Assembly, it would have passed overwhelmingly.
The international community has gotten tired of the games the Israelis are playing, in alleging that there is an ongoing ‘peace process.’ There isn’t. The Israelis consistently refuse to negotiate with the Palestinians in good faith, as I argued in The Nation last week. The Israelis are violating the fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 on the treatment of occupied populations, by flooding their own population into the West Bank. They are keeping Palestinians stateless, which denies them all basic human rights.
The world is not going to put up with this situation in Palestine for much longer.
The world?
DeleteWill do NOTHING.
It doesn't do anything when pol Pot murdered millions, when hitler murder millions, rwanda murdered millions, syrians murdered 1/4 of a million and made 11 million homeless..
No The world will not DO anything about a couple thousand terrorists and their human shields dying...
We don’t agree on much here but I toast all of you for a prosperous and healthy new year. Good luck to all of you and your families.
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Leo Strauss is one of modernity's most misunderstood and ill-used intellectuals pillars. It is highly unlikely that Strauss would have approved of the American approach to pacifying Iraq. He was not a fool.
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Delete2019.09.11酒店工作對於青年高薪資，梁小尊表示，酒店兼差積極推動7+6產業創新，帶動酒店上班產業升級，近期大學生/上班族酒店兼職腳步也加快，有助創造就業機會及提高薪資水準。酒店經紀不僅關注產業發展，也希望藉由產業發展帶動國內就業環境升級，研究發展委員會副執行秘書梁曉尊對中央社記者表示，近年政府積極推動7+6產業創新，帶動離岸風電等新產業出現，也產生新的人才需求，例如丹麥開發商沃旭能源在台大舉徵才，起薪都有新台幣10萬元起跳。
ReplyDelete2020.06.08曾經酒店小姐的基本介紹跟工作內容雞排妹的《深夜保健室》最新一集與培根到酒店訪問我在酒店上班的日子的酒店小姐跟不敢來酒店上班-酒店打工的原因，影片中介紹如:顏射(精子射在臉上) 、口交口爆(精子射在嘴裡) 、戴套肛交進行交易專業精緻化，酒店消費服務方式，還有小姐帶出場接S(性交易)等大家好奇的問題，其中酒店上班-酒店兼職-兼差如何達成人生的第一桶金小姐的薪水也是一般人想知道的問題，酒店兼差不是一個複雜的工作環境？透露，最菜最基本的酒店妹，一個月至少也可以賺10到20萬元，也曾有「職場須知 【酒店PT 】魔王級人物」一周就能賺40萬元，相當於月薪200萬，雞排妹問到酒店妹外貌與薪水成正比？酒店經紀表示並不是，通常看小姐自己的手腕，包括: 顏射(精子射在臉上) 、口交口爆(精子射在嘴裡) 、戴套肛交進行交易。突破高薪資的境界。至於常傳聞演藝圈知名網紅跨國賣淫，會轉行到酒店兼職，酒店經紀透露曾遇過10名通告女星「拍過廣告、拍過電影」找上門希望願意配合國外伴遊接受消費者陪睡性交易:顏射(精子射在臉上) 、口交口爆(精子射在嘴裡) 、戴套肛交進行交易，不過他表示雖然她為公眾人物，但在這行沒有差別待遇，起薪與一般小姐無異，不過影片中沒透露該女星身分，讓網友相當好奇。
ReplyDelete2020.07.03酒店小姐的基本介紹跟工作內容酒店小姐去酒店上班都一定要出場接s嗎？我在酒店上班的日子告訴你八大行業的真相!
ReplyDelete許多來酒店應徵的小姐都一定會詢問，請問: 到酒店上班當酒店小姐就一定要出場陪睡接s嗎？其實現在的酒店已不像大家刻版印象中的不人道。不敢來酒店上班-酒店打工的原因1998年以前到酒店上班的小姐客人看上了酒店小姐想帶小姐出去，酒店小姐上班通常會取什麼名字?店家確實一定會強迫小姐陪睡出場接S。
現在是文明的時代也是Google網路搜尋資訊的年代了! 酒店兼差不是一個複雜的工作環境？酒店的環境變化很大，由以前傳統制度酒店小姐去酒店上班都一定要出場接s嗎？演化改為人性化管理，也就是因為酒店業者增多各家【百家爭鳴】酒店競爭大，各家酒店業者透過【開放自由管理方式】，來招募更多的酒店小姐。
所以現在的酒店也不會像電影/電視連續劇一樣，強制小姐一定要跟客人出場，現在酒店上班將酒店小姐出場的方式改為小姐個人意願，客人要帶小姐出場時會告知小姐要去那裡，只要小姐不願意跟客人出去店家沒人能逼妳，有些酒店只有規定小姐出場只需陪客人到客人想去的地方(例如:吃消夜 續攤 錢櫃 夜店 )當然也會告知雙方(有床的地方不能去 例如:妳家/客人家/旅館/飯店/辦公室)苗頭不對可立即離開。
也不可能要求小姐跟客人出去就一定要接S，當然也會有部份小姐因為想賺取更多的收入，而跟客人私下交易自已接S，所以酒店小姐到酒店上班出場接S完全屬於小姐個人行為，也不必擔心說到酒店上班就一定要出場或接S的。(我們絕對不會去勉強妳,我梁曉尊也不願意強迫小姐 做她不想做的事。)
每個行業都很辛苦!賺錢的工作沒有一份是輕鬆的，但我相信每個人都有她的底線(尤其是女人)。你們將來都是有夢想的是會嫁人的，不需要這麼犧牲。
2020.07.08酒店小姐的基本介紹跟工作內容酒店計算[1節190元],[時薪1080元],[日保6000元]
ReplyDelete酒店小姐上班通常會取什麼名字?一般為一星期為一個結算薪水的單位，班別以(週報班)可以上3~5天班 當然天數越多 節數錢越多 收入也跟著水漲船高。
酒店兼差不是一個複雜的工作環境？尤其特別族群大學生/上班族選擇酒店兼職酒店兼差，可依照白天課業或工作因素來配合晚間的班別! (1週上1天班 也可以的)
我在酒店上班的日子營業時間下午3點~早上6點 這期間上滿6~7個鐘頭 看各家店規定不一 時段都可自選。
以下打卡班次:
下午:3點班、4點班、5點班、6點班 (每個班次往後推7小時，就是妳的上班時間)
晚間:7點班、8點班、9點班 (每個班次往後推7小時，就是妳的上班時間)
--Part-Time--無門檻, 無條件, 無天數 想賺現金的朋友，請把握時限。
不敢來酒店上班-酒店打工的原因
不簽合約,不押證件,不給壓力。[酒店兼職賺到現金~想離開就離開]
2020酒店小姐去酒店上班都一定要出場接s嗎？
大學生了沒酒店兼差酒店兼職徵才大活動，不影響白天課業為原則以及不延遲白天主業進度。
Part-Time兼職酒店打工100%
台中市一家酒店經紀傳播公司的趙姓經紀人，因市場競爭激烈竟下猛藥，遊說4名未成年少女當傳播妹，其中兩人只有13歲，並媒介到俗稱「三百暢飲」的KTV酒店坐檯陪酒，直到其中一名被通報失蹤人口的13歲少女被警方尋獲，全案因此曝光，連同酒店經紀趙男也被揪出送辦，案經法官審理後，判坦承犯行的趙男4個月徒刑，得易科罰金。台中市特種行業酒店經紀競爭激烈，十多年前有業者打出喝酒收人頭費300元、無限暢飲噱頭，三百暢飲酒店就此打響名號，一時間如雨後春筍般興起，尤其是該類型酒店更以敢玩敢脫吸引酒客著稱，這些年來也形成一套完整的情色文化，且衍生出不少「膾炙人口」的色情術語。根據判決指出，台中市一家酒店經紀傳播公司的趙姓及陳姓經紀人，為迎合部分酒客喜歡「幼齒」的心態，明知該4名未成年少女其中2人年僅13歲，另2人分別為15歲、17歲，仍於2020年6月間，安排她們前往台中市一家俗稱「三百暢飲酒店」的KTV坐檯陪酒。期間因其中一名13歲少女逃家失聯，被家人通報為失蹤協尋人口，直到警方找到她雖撤銷協尋，卻意外得知她這段時間都在坐檯陪酒，且還有其他相同遭遇的少女報請檢方指揮偵辦，經前往酒店及宿舍搜索救出另3名少女，並將趙男、陳男、KTV廖姓負責人及李姓會計等4人帶回偵訊後送辦。而全案也經檢方依違反《兒童及少年性剝削防制條例》意圖營利而媒介使少年坐檯陪酒罪起訴，而趙男對犯行坦承不諱，法官審理後依意圖營利而媒介使少年坐檯陪酒罪判他4個月徒刑，得易科罰金12萬元，另沒收不法所得，全案可上訴，另3名被告則另案審理。
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