“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."
Wednesday, January 07, 2015
Paris - Charlie Hebdo , Satirical Magazine Attacked: “Two black-hooded men entered the building with Kalashnikovs. A few minutes later we heard lots of shots."
Shots have been fired at French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in the heart of Paris Wednesday, with Paris officials reporting at least 10 fatalities. Witnesses at the scene reported seeing multiple masked gunmen.
Paris Police Say 11 Dead After Shooting at Charlie Hebdo Conal Urquhart @conalu 6:48 AM ET FRANCE-CRIME-MEDIA-SHOOTING
Firefighters carry an injured man on a stretcher in front of the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris on Jan. 7, 2015, after armed gunmen stormed the offices leaving at least 11 people dead.
Magazine was also attacked in 2011
Eleven people were confirmed dead after a shooting at the office of a French satirical weekly in Paris, police said on Wednesday.
The death toll was confirmed by Xavier Castaing, head of communications for the Paris police prefecture, according to the Associated Press. Earlier, Luc Poignard, a police union official, said two attackers escaped in two vehicles after opening fire at Charlie Hebdo.
The magazine was attacked with petrol bombs in 2011, a day after saying that the Prophet Muhammed would be its “editor-in-chief” for its next issue.
IDF sentences Hamas mastermind in June kidnap, murder of 3 Israeli teens to 3 life sentences
The IDF prosecutor said during the sentencing hearing that Kawasame did not see the boys as human and killed them because they were Jews.
Hussam Hassan Kawasme was convicted last week based on his confession of planning and financing the attack, including receiving NIS 200,000 from Hamas in the Gaza Strip, purchasing and providing weapons for the other terrorists, hiding the bodies and destroying evidence.
you remember this?
The incident that Rat called a false flag, that deuce said wasn't important and was USED as an excuse to go to war with Hamas?
No place in Israel for Abu Khdeir’s killers, Netanyahu says While condemning racist ‘mentality’ that led to Muhammed Abu Khdeir’s killing, PM charges that ‘on the other side, city squares are named in honor of such murderers’
Read more: No place in Israel for Abu Khdeir's killers, Netanyahu says | The Times of Israel http://www.timesofisrael.com/no-place-in-israel-for-abu-khdeirs-killers-netanyahu-says/#ixzz3O9AOJaxu Follow us: @timesofisrael on Twitter | timesofisrael on Facebook
Quirk, nice try but fail.
Killers, In Israel, Jewish or Moslem are convicted and sentenced to jail. they are not celebrated.
Once again, you have shown an immaturity on the subject.
Killers, In Israel, Jewish or Moslem are convicted and sentenced to jail. they are not celebrated.
Once again, you have shown an immaturity on the subject.
Immaturity? Spare me your bullshit.
I noted the murder. The trial is ongoing and I believe reconvenes on January 15. I am willing to wait and see if your prediction plays out. It should given the publicity the case has had.
If you want to get into the differences or similarities of how the two cases have been handled to date, I would be glad to do that. However, my question was a simple one.
Do you remember Mohammed Abu Khdeir?
I doubt you or Obumble had a clue as to who he was before consulting Google.
But I will still wait for the final verdict to see if you opinion plays out.
"Sick footballers"
Even Bibi and the Defense Ministry has the decency to call them what they are, terrorists (although admittedly, I have heard of no homes being destroyed yet).
They were insane footballers who, after arab murders of jews in Israel, used violence.
Footballers of all creeds and races have a horrible reputation world wide for violence, including murder.
I do not justify their behavior, nor does Israel or the vast majority of Israelis.
No excuse for the murder of the arab kid. PERIOD.
No excuse.
If convicted, they will serve time in jail.
They did not act under orders or were paid by a government agency. it was not an act of state terrorism. It was savage murder.
Murder occurs across the world and is punished the same.
Not all savage murder is terrorism.
there is no comparing what hamas PLANNED and paid for, and has done repeatedly, and planned to do enmass (the billion spent on the terror tunnels) with what 3 savages did to an innocent arab teenager.
Zionist Israel is part of the problem, not part of the solution. It is hardly a surprise to me that you seize on this to justify Israel’s actions against Gaza or support for the continue tragedies from the Middle East. Terrorism by a state or non-state actor ends the same, dead and the stolen lives of innocents. All religious fanatics justify their killing and atrocities. All the descendants of the religious fanatic, Abraham, at one time or another justify their murder with some form of entitlement coming down from Abraham.
Israel Pays Students For Pro-Israeli Social Media Propaganda
The move was publicised in a statement from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office, the Associated Press reported. Students will receive scholarships to "engage international audiences online".
According to Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz, the most recent proposition is being spearheaded by Danny Seaman, who was slammed by the media for writing anti-Muslim messages on Facebook.
Students will be organised into units at each university, with a chief co-ordinator who receives a full scholarship, three desk co-ordinators for language, graphics and research who receive lesser scholarships and students termed “activists” who will receive a “minimal scholarship”, the Independent reported.
He seems to me a rather laid back dude who tried his best to talk the Lord out of the fire bombing of Sodom and Gomorrah.
>>>20Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous 21that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."
22The men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the LORD. 23Then Abraham approached him and said: "Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked? 24What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people in it? 25Far be it from you to do such a thing -- to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?"
26The LORD said, "If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake."
27Then Abraham spoke up again: "Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the LORD, though I am nothing but dust and ashes, 28what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city because of five people?"<<<
And don't give me that stuff about Abraham and Isaac on Mt. Moriah. It's an etiological legend concerning the turning away from human sacrifice among this people.
“We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and new Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries”
SANAA (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded outside a Yemeni police college in Sanaa on Wednesday, killing 31 people and wounding dozens, the interior ministry said, less than a week after a devastating suicide bombing south of the capital.
Israel is, in fact, the world’s top violator of U.N. resolutions — pursuing nuclear weapons, illegally seizing Palestinian land and resources, carrying out devastating attacks on civilian populations and infrastructure as well as institutionalizing discrimination against Palestinians both within its legal borders and in the occupied territories. Despite this contemptuous disregard for international rules and norms, the U.N. has so far been unable to muster any kind of substantive response because of the U.S. veto, which is unlikely to change, despite the growing strategic cost for the United States.
With these realities, U.S. and Israeli politicians were correct in portraying the Security Council resolution as counterproductive. U.N. resolutions can establish Palestine as a legal entity — as they have already done repeatedly and unequivocally over the last 70 years — but the U.N. will never be able to do more than this, with the U.S. wielding veto power. And the Palestinians cannot truly live in a country that, for practical purposes, exists only on paper.
For his part, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared that Israel could “never, ever countenance” a fully sovereign Palestinian state. The world should take him at his word. There never was a two-state solution, and there won’t be one in any foreseeable future. Instead, that so-called solution serves only to enable Israel’s continued oppression, empowering cynics and hard-liners and perpetuating a never-ending cycle of conflict. The only viable resolution is to unite Israel and the territories into a single state.
Consider, for instance, that for more than 20 years Palestinians have been trying to convince Israel to settle for the land they captured in 1967 — though no existing U.N. resolution recognizes Israeli seizures from the Six-Day War as legitimate (although the proposed legislation implicitly would have). Instead, U.N. actions to date refer to the legal borders established in the 1947 General Assembly resolution, insisting that any territorial changes to that be achieved exclusively through negotiations.
The U.N. report preceding the 1947 resolution found that, Palestinians owned more than 94 percent of the property in Britain’s Mandate of Palestine and accounted for two-thirds of its population. Yet the resolution awarded 55 percent of the territory, including prime lands and resources, to Israel. The Palestinians, understandably, rejected this plan.
If Abbas really wants radical change for the Palestinians’ plight, he should dissolve the Palestinian Authority and hand control of the West Bank to Israel — as he has repeatedly threatened to do — and then encourage Palestinians to demand annexation with all rights, protections and benefits granted to other Israelis. Given the one-state reality on the ground, removing the illusion of sovereign Arab institutions would render Israel responsible for the population it has subjugated for the last 70 years. A failure to rise to this challenge would expose it as an apartheid state.
Israel justifies its mistreatment of Palestinians by claiming that Arabs are not its responsibility; whether they live within Israel or the occupied territories, they all ultimately belong in the unsettled West Bank and should be provided for by their own government — an attitude emphasized by Israel’s recent nationality law, which defines the country as an explicitly, perhaps exclusively Jewish state.
But in a unified Israel, Arabs would be the majority if afforded the same right to return that the Jewish diaspora has; there are 3 million registered Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. And demographic projections suggest Jews will soon be the minority even without considering the Palestinian diaspora. Accordingly, Palestinians would have much more leverage in a one-state scenario; their quest would then be for equitable power sharing and civil rights.
... most Israeli Jews vehemently oppose a single state. Thus an alternative amenable to all parties would be to reintegrate Gaza, the West Bank and Israel as a federation of semiautonomous states, with Jerusalem as its capital — a proposal not far removed from the vision of Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon. There still would have to be a substantial restructuring of territory, resources and relations between the two sides.
Either way, the first step would be to abandon the quixotic pursuit of a two-state outcome and, with it, a status quo that favors Israel at the expense of Palestinian suffering.
Is Israel a source of stability with its neighbors or an antagonist?
If Israel is as always pro-ported, the outpost of Western Civilization, then it is the example of what the West is to the ME. In that case, it presents a pretty ugly face to its neighbors. People aren’t stupid. They see the injustice.
Is Hamas a source of stability with its neighbors or an antogonist ?
Dang them, they keep shooting rockets all around the neighborhood, and their Charter calls for genocide and pushing the Jews into the Sea.
The American People may be dummies, as Gruber claimed, and they proved by electing O'bozo President twice, but they can see through this, which is why they support Israel.
Israel’s “in your face”, “up your ass” contempt for World opinion is surely indicative of far worse behavior with the up close and daily interactions with others in the area. The West pays the price with the blowback from the actions of our unofficial ambassador.
The Egyptian President just gave a speech in which he indicated it was the Moslem "in your face" and "up your ass" attitude that was "impossible" for the World to ever accept.
You see, the Moslems don't give a shit for World opinion. The only opinion they respect is their own, which is that all the World must become Moslem, and fuck you if you don't, we will kill you, infidel.
And that the Ashkenazi were not genetically linked to the people that were with Moses, or the 'Seed of Abraham".
I do believe that allen has claimed the Ashkenazi really were Semites, you know, Arabs. I believe the DNA researchers that dispute that cultural and political myth.
On average, all Ashkenazi Jews are genetically as closely related to each other as fourth or fifth cousins, said Dr. Harry Ostrer, a pathology, pediatrics and genetics professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and the author of "Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People" (Oxford University Press, 2012).
Maternal DNA Richards and his colleagues analyzed mitochondrial DNA, which is contained in the cytoplasm of the egg and passed down only from the mother, from more than 3,500 people throughout the Near East, the Caucusus and Europe, including Ashkenazi Jews.
The team found that four founders were responsible for 40 percent of Ashkenazi mitochondrial DNA, and that all of these founders originated in Europe. The majority of the remaining people could be traced to other European lineages.
All told, more than 80 percent of the maternal lineages of Ashkenazi Jews could be traced to Europe, with only a few lineages originating in the Near East.
By the way, idiot, what does the origin of Jews have to do with a poor French police officer begging for his life?
Nothing!
His family, you dolt, will not care about Judaism. I doubt the families of the other poor devils will think about that. You fascists have neither shame nor decency. You are as inhumane as your Muslim buds.
I am, as a descendent of Swedes (mostly), particularly concerned about the “in your face”, “up your ass” attitude of Sweden's Moslems to the indigenous Swedish women there.
Their attitude is that these blue eyed pretty blond Swedish girls are just there for the raping.
White House hesitates to call Paris attack 'terrorism'...
FLASHBACK: 'The Future Must Not Belong to Those Who Slander The Prophet of Islam'.............Drudge
WH Unsure Whether Murderous Rampage in France Is 'Terrorism'
'If based on this investigation it turns out to be an act of terrorism, then we would condemn that in the strongest possible terms, too' 9:08 AM, Jan 7, 2015 • By DANIEL HALPER Share
White House press secretary Josh Earnest refrained from calling the attack on a French magazine "terrorism" in an interview this morning on CNN: video
This writer spent some time in Israel witnessing personally the injustices perpetrated there by a people who had no rightful claim to the land, upon a people who did. Having gone there with a somewhat "pro-Israeli" bias, it soon became evident that any ruling class that skillfully engineers an economy where one segment enjoys an average 15 to 1 income advantage over another, under the same cost of living, cannot feign innocence when they experience the hatred and animosity from those whom they oppress.
Ban says he is with French people, describes attack as horrible, intended to divide.
No, there was no intent to divide; there IS an irreconcilable division directly related to Islam. Like some here, reality is not Mr. Ban's strongest suit.
"This writer spent some time in Israel witnessing personally the injustices perpetrated there by a people who had no rightful claim to the land upon a people who did."
This writer gets it wrong from the git-go.
He obviously has not read the history of the area, ancient or modern.
"Because of the long and varied history of the Jews," says the 2001 edition of World Book Encyclopedia, "it is difficult to define a Jew. There is no such thing as a Jewish race. Jewish identity is a mixture of religious, historical, and ethnic factors."
Thus, those who might have truly claimed to be of the genealogy of Abraham and of true Semitic origin became extinct as a discernible race, being replaced by the white Khazars of the Transcaucasus, none of whose ancestors, as Benjamin Freedman phrases it, have ever placed a foot in the land of Palestine. This causes a serious problem with modern Christianity's infatuation with the Jews and their "return to their Homeland," begging the question:
How can one return to a place where they have never been?
allenWed Jan 07, 12:21:00 PM EST Deuce ☂Wed Jan 07, 11:37:00 AM EST It was no surprise to me that the lobby would seize this to justify Israeli action. That is the disgusting part.
What is disgusting is that you brought Israel into a French matter. "The Lobby" had nothing to do with the murders or your prejudice.
Some of your pals murdered at least 12 French citizens for the crime of poking fun at your prophet.
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Deuce ☂Wed Jan 07, 12:49:00 PM EST Second comment on the thread, from the lobby:
What is "Occupation"Wed Jan 07, 07:21:00 AM EST Hamas, Hezbollah, Isis, Fatah, Islamic Jihad, Moslem Brotherhood, Al Queda...
What do they have in common?
They hate the west, Israel, Jews.....
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Deuce ☂Wed Jan 07, 12:51:00 PM EST No mention about Israel until the lobby brought it up.
No one has any proof that any of those groups are involved. My sense it is ISIS. Hamas, Hezbollah and Fatah are fighting Israel occupation of their territory. Hezbollah is fighting ISIS. Israel has bombed the enemies of ISIS.
“The murderers dared proclaim Charlie Hebdo is dead,” said Secretary of State John F. Kerry in Washington. “But make no mistake, they are wrong. Today, and tomorrow, in Paris, in France and across the world, the freedom of expression this magazine represented is not able to be killed by this kind of act of terror.”
Perhaps, Kerry is honestly stating his feelings on the subject of freedom of the press and 1st amendment rights . I wouldn't deny it.
However, the irony if not hypocrisy of his and for that matter the West's words versus its actions is palpable. We have seen Obama's prosecution of writers for doing their jobs. We have seen the prosecution of the guy in California for putting out the Mohammed video. We have seen the major newspapers and media outlets in this country refusing to publish the Mohammed cartoons of a few years back; and, in fact, blaming the cartoonists for being insensitive.
The First Amendment is just one more statement of rights sacrificed on the altar of the PC. A couple of weeks ago the DOJ indicated they would no longer be doing profiling. Homeland Security head, Johnson, today says they are still trying to 'determine the motivations' of the attackers despite everything that has been published and broadcast about the incident. Duh. It is unlikely we will hear much about terrorists and Islamic fascism coming out of the administration. And it is not only us, in the UK, some cities have no-go areas were they have pretty much ceded sovereignty to Muslims who practice sharia law.
Despite all these cries in support of freedom of the press, has anyone seen any major news organization show the cartoons the attackers were pissed about?
What is "Occupation"Wed Jan 07, 12:46:00 PM EST there is no comparing what hamas PLANNED and paid for, and has done repeatedly, and planned to do enmass (the billion spent on the terror tunnels) with what 3 savages did to an innocent arab teenager.
That cannot be right because each act resulted in death; therefore, they are equivalent, don't you know.
“It is time to honestly admit that Israeli society is ill – and it is our duty to treat this disease,” “The tension between Jews and Arabs within the State of Israel has risen to record heights, and the relationship between all parties has reached a new low,” he said. “We have all witnessed the shocking sequence of incidents and violence taking place by both sides. The epidemic of violence is not limited to one sector or another, it permeates every area and doesn’t skip any arena. There is violence in soccer stadiums as well as in the academia. There is violence in the social media and in everyday discourse, in hospitals and in schools.”
“I’m not asking if they’ve forgotten how to be Jews, but if they’ve forgotten how to be decent human beings. Have they forgotten how to converse?” - Reuven Rivlin, President of Israel
Where the government cannot or will not protect freedom of speech, there will be none. Where a government is hostile to freedom of speech, there will be none. Don't look for any new replacement in France or elsewhere in the West. Freedom of speech now necessitates having ones own private army.
Saw Lindsay Graham on CNN demanding that we restore funds to Homeland Security, this despite that the GOP is currently threatening to gut Homeland Security funding in response to Obama’s actions on immigration.
Once again, Ms. Graham is off the tracks. As we have seen from the Snowden release, the US tracks communications of everyone they can, friends and allies alike, we spend billions each year on intelligence, and yet they had no clue that this was coming. IMO, this is part of the problem, too much SIGENT and not enough HUMINT. I'm sure it has improved but right after 9/11 when we decided to knock down smoke stacks and share information between organizations, NSA, FBI, CIA, etc. the biggest problem we had was trying to make sense of the vast amount of information available. I think the problem still exists if only because of the millions of pieces of intel we pick up daily.
IMO, we will make little progress against terrorism until we get more HUMINT and before we emphasize profiling in our efforts. However, even with those changes every country will eventually suffer from a terrorist attack, probably multiple ones. It is inevitable. They may be directed or inspired by a particular group or they may be one-off lone wolves. If we get lucky we will identify the plots ahead of time; however, in most cases, it will be a matter of ‘when seconds count, the police are only minutes away’.
All we can do is track these guys down and make them pay.
In support of my point above, this is at least the third attack on Charlie Hebdo in the last few years. If we couldn't predict and prevent this latest attack we are either doing something wrong or we are incapable of preventing these one-off attacks and can only react.
It may not last for another week, or even a day, but, right now, Economic Confidence is the highest it's been since Gallup started tracking it in 2008.
Obamacare was sold on the proposition that all people should be insured. We put in the individual mandate to assure it.
When pushing Obamacare in 2009, we were assured that there where 49.1 million uninsured in the US.
In 2011, I seem to recall the number was the same.
As we approached the Obamacare launch, there were numbers out there of 41 million uninsured.
Last year, the Administration bragged that there were 8 million people that were signed up, this despite reports that a large number were from dental plans and didn't qualify and others that said that 40% of those signing up were merely people who previously had insurance transferring over to the Obamacare sites.
Afterwards there were reports that there was still 31 million uninsured.
The numbers never seemed to add up. Rather confusing.
Hopefully, we will get some real numbers in 2015 now that most of the provisions will be enforced.
Remember, if you take out the "illegal aliens" which Obamacare does not cover, the percentage of uninsured Americans is down to about 7.4%, and dropping.
So if we go by the 49 million originally quoted by the Obama administration is pushing Obamacare, you are saying there are 25 million illegal aliens and 24 million uninsured. I would be interested in where you got those numbers.
The asshat Governor of North Carolina made a big deal, the other day, of going to Washington to meet with Obama over getting Medicaid expanded in his state. Even Abbot, in Texas, is starting to talk about it.
This brings us to the important thing (remember, the main thing is to remember that the main thing is the main thing): eventually, ALL Americans will have Access to Affordable Healthcare.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S.-led air strikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria have damaged or destroyed 3,222 targets since August, including 58 tanks, 184 Humvees, 673 fighting positions and 980 buildings or barracks, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
Army Colonel Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, said he wasn't sure how many targets had been damaged versus destroyed, "but I'm confident that the destruction level is high. Our strikes are extraordinarily accurate."
Release of the target damage list came a day after U.S. defense officials confirmed they are looking into reports of civilian casualties caused by the strikes in Iraq and Syria and are conducting a deeper investigation of two cases involving fewer than five deaths.
As of 11 p.m. on Tuesday (0400 GMT Wednesday), U.S. and coalition air forces had conducted a total of 1,676 air strikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria since Aug. 8, and had used some 4,775 munitions, a Pentagon spokeswoman said.
Warren said U.S. and coalition forces had hit 3,222 targets in the air strikes but he declined to say what percentage of Islamic State equipment was destroyed.
"In order for us to do that we would have to release to you the exact number of tanks we believe the enemy has, the exact number of Humvees we believe the enemy has," he said. "We don't want our enemy to know how much we know about them."
Countries whose forces have participated in the strikes in Iraq are: Australia, Belgium, Britain, Canada, Denmark, France and the Netherlands. Those participating in strikes in Syria are Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
- 184 HMMWVs, the highly mobile multi-purpose wheeled vehicles known as Humvees;
- 26 armored personnel vehicles;
- 303 technical vehicles;
- 394 other vehicles;
- 79 artillery, anti-aircraft weapons or mortars;
- 41 staging areas;
- 11 improvised explosive device positions;
- 16 command posts;
- 92 checkpoints;
- 17 guard shacks;
- 980 other buildings or barracks;
- 673 fighting positions;
- 52 bunkers;
- 14 boats;
- 23 stockpiles;
- 259 oil infrastructure sites.
No aircraft were on the list, Warren said.
He said the Humvees were U.S. vehicles supplied to the Iraqi military and captured by militants as were some of the armored personnel vehicles. It was unclear whether any of the tanks were U.S.-made.
Warren said some vehicles had been hit while parked, while others were struck while engaged in combat. The boats were used by Islamic State to ferry supplies across the Euphrates River, he said.
Winning against IS is the easy part since we can define 'win' any way we want. To say we will 'defeat' them falls into the same category. To say they will be 'destroyed' is another matter altogether. Heck, the PKK and the FARC despite huge losses have been around for decades. Obama said AQ had been defeated. We know that was a bit of an exaggeration. To say there will be no IS in Iraq in six or seven months or a year, IMO, is naive. There might not be as many of them there but I suspect they will still be there. Their tactics may morph, they may not operate as openly, but they will still be there.
The most we can hope to do is contain it.
As long as they are still in Syria, they will still be in Iraq. They, or their affiliates, are already in Egypt, Libya, and Yemen. There was an attack at the Saudi border recently. SA and the UAE are concerned about IS attacks coming from Yemen. SA and the UAE have even convinced Qatar to drop their support for the Syrian militants including IS. There are those in Israel who worry that weakening Hamas too much in Gaza could lead to IS moving in.
Terrorism has been around for a very long time. It is the weapon of the weak. I expect IS, under one name or another, will be around for a while.
Paris Police Say 11 Dead After Shooting at Charlie Hebdo
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Firefighters carry an injured man on a stretcher in front of the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris on Jan. 7, 2015, after armed gunmen stormed the offices leaving at least 11 people dead.
Magazine was also attacked in 2011
Eleven people were confirmed dead after a shooting at the office of a French satirical weekly in Paris, police said on Wednesday.
The death toll was confirmed by Xavier Castaing, head of communications for the Paris police prefecture, according to the Associated Press. Earlier, Luc Poignard, a police union official, said two attackers escaped in two vehicles after opening fire at Charlie Hebdo.
The magazine was attacked with petrol bombs in 2011, a day after saying that the Prophet Muhammed would be its “editor-in-chief” for its next issue.
Hamas, Hezbollah, Isis, Fatah, Islamic Jihad, Moslem Brotherhood, Al Queda...
ReplyDeleteWhat do they have in common?
They hate the west, Israel, Jews.....
12 dead now.
ReplyDeleteHillary Clinton says we ought to 'empathize' with our enemies.
Shot guns, Kalishnikovs, rocket launcher....
Where'd they get all the guns?
Sounds like a group effort. They had a getaway driver.
The heretical thought wanders in that perhaps if these guys are caught alive they need a little water up the nose to reveal the organization?
This being one of those beyond a reasonable doubt situations where it is known that they have info that would save the lives of many others?
DeleteThe screaming silence of this blog when extreme islamists attack JEWISH or Israeli targets says it all.
ReplyDeleteStanding with Hamas, Fatah and Hezbollah is no different than standing with the GUN MAN that murdered a dozen in Paris.
Look in the mirror...
Hamas, Fatah, Hezbollah, ISIS, Boko Haram........all the same shit.
DeleteThe world is getting sick and tired of it, as the Egyptian President recognizes.
Yes the WORLD sees it for what it is..
DeleteElephant Blog Bar? naw...
IDF sentences Hamas mastermind in June kidnap, murder of 3 Israeli teens to 3 life sentences
ReplyDeleteThe IDF prosecutor said during the sentencing hearing that Kawasame did not see the boys as human and killed them because they were Jews.
Hussam Hassan Kawasme was convicted last week based on his confession of planning and financing the attack, including receiving NIS 200,000 from Hamas in the Gaza Strip, purchasing and providing weapons for the other terrorists, hiding the bodies and destroying evidence.
you remember this?
The incident that Rat called a false flag, that deuce said wasn't important and was USED as an excuse to go to war with Hamas?
yeah we remember.
I remember it.
DeleteThe Jews had murdered 3 of their own teenagers and blamed it on Hamas so as to go to war.......
Yup, I recall it well.
I never believed a word of it.
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DeleteI remember it.
This was a quick and just sentence for convicted terrorists.
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DeleteDo you remember Mohammed Abu Khdeir?
No doubt we will see the same justice meted out to his three confessed killers.
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No place in Israel for Abu Khdeir’s killers, Netanyahu says
DeleteWhile condemning racist ‘mentality’ that led to Muhammed Abu Khdeir’s killing, PM charges that ‘on the other side, city squares are named in honor of such murderers’
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Quirk, nice try but fail.
Killers, In Israel, Jewish or Moslem are convicted and sentenced to jail. they are not celebrated.
Once again, you have shown an immaturity on the subject.
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DeleteQuirk, nice try but fail.
Killers, In Israel, Jewish or Moslem are convicted and sentenced to jail. they are not celebrated.
Once again, you have shown an immaturity on the subject.
Immaturity? Spare me your bullshit.
I noted the murder. The trial is ongoing and I believe reconvenes on January 15. I am willing to wait and see if your prediction plays out. It should given the publicity the case has had.
If you want to get into the differences or similarities of how the two cases have been handled to date, I would be glad to do that. However, my question was a simple one.
Do you remember Mohammed Abu Khdeir?
I doubt you or Obumble had a clue as to who he was before consulting Google.
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I doubt you are correct, I posted about it numerous times here.
DeleteSick footballers burned the kid alive.
Should be executed if Israel had the death penalty.
You will not find me making any tolerance or excuse for savages.
spare me your bullshit.
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DeleteI take you at your word.
But I will still wait for the final verdict to see if you opinion plays out.
"Sick footballers"
Even Bibi and the Defense Ministry has the decency to call them what they are, terrorists (although admittedly, I have heard of no homes being destroyed yet).
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They were insane footballers who, after arab murders of jews in Israel, used violence.
DeleteFootballers of all creeds and races have a horrible reputation world wide for violence, including murder.
I do not justify their behavior, nor does Israel or the vast majority of Israelis.
No excuse for the murder of the arab kid. PERIOD.
No excuse.
If convicted, they will serve time in jail.
They did not act under orders or were paid by a government agency. it was not an act of state terrorism. It was savage murder.
Murder occurs across the world and is punished the same.
Not all savage murder is terrorism.
there is no comparing what hamas PLANNED and paid for, and has done repeatedly, and planned to do enmass (the billion spent on the terror tunnels) with what 3 savages did to an innocent arab teenager.
The satirical newspaper office had 24/7 Police protection until just a while ago.
ReplyDeleteThe protection was quietly pulled, then this attack.
One wonders if the perps got some inside info of this.
Zionist Israel is part of the problem, not part of the solution. It is hardly a surprise to me that you seize on this to justify Israel’s actions against Gaza or support for the continue tragedies from the Middle East. Terrorism by a state or non-state actor ends the same, dead and the stolen lives of innocents. All religious fanatics justify their killing and atrocities. All the descendants of the religious fanatic, Abraham, at one time or another justify their murder with some form of entitlement coming down from Abraham.
ReplyDelete... sickening ... pathetic ... relativism taken to the absurd ...
Delete"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
___Twain
Sodomy widens your anus for Jihad!
DeleteNow THAT'S fanaticism !
DeleteJack, an avowed supporter of Hamas speaks...
DeleteCut and paste that alleged vow, "O"rdure.
DeleteYou cannot do it, because your claim, your words, are lies.
Jack, are you now a coward as well as a supporter of the Hamas?
DeleteAn avowed Zionist and Israel hater you are...
You now are a spineless coward who over hatred in public the Jews..
Go fuck yourself Worm-tongue
You now are a spineless coward who over hatred in public the Jews..
DeleteCould you get that translated for us English readers?
Israel Pays Students For Pro-Israeli Social Media Propaganda
DeleteThe move was publicised in a statement from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office, the Associated Press reported. Students will receive scholarships to "engage international audiences online".
According to Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz, the most recent proposition is being spearheaded by Danny Seaman, who was slammed by the media for writing anti-Muslim messages on Facebook.
Students will be organised into units at each university, with a chief co-ordinator who receives a full scholarship, three desk co-ordinators for language, graphics and research who receive lesser scholarships and students termed “activists” who will receive a “minimal scholarship”, the Independent reported.
jealous? all that oil money and the arabs and their pals the palestinians don't do that?
DeleteOh right they do...
and it's funded by the hundreds of millions...
Why do you say Abraham was a religious fanatic?
ReplyDeleteHe seems to me a rather laid back dude who tried his best to talk the Lord out of the fire bombing of Sodom and Gomorrah.
>>>20Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous 21that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."
22The men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the LORD. 23Then Abraham approached him and said: "Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked? 24What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people in it? 25Far be it from you to do such a thing -- to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?"
26The LORD said, "If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake."
27Then Abraham spoke up again: "Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the LORD, though I am nothing but dust and ashes, 28what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city because of five people?"<<<
from Genesis 18:16-33
And don't give me that stuff about Abraham and Isaac on Mt. Moriah. It's an etiological legend concerning the turning away from human sacrifice among this people.
Delete“We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and new Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries”
DeleteForgeries, Tom?
DeleteThey are written from certain points of view, but that doesn't make them 'forgeries', whatever that might mean in your context, Tom.
DeleteKeep to politics.
Religion is politics.
Delete.
DeleteIn one instance, Abraham is a laid back cool dude who likes to dicker. On the other, he is merely an etiological legend.
Keeping to the politics, yassa.
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SANAA (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded outside a Yemeni police college in Sanaa on Wednesday, killing 31 people and wounding dozens, the interior ministry said, less than a week after a devastating suicide bombing south of the capital.
ReplyDeleteHe had no "11", which you could have supplied: blame the Jews. If you tweet, he may add this brilliant insight.
ReplyDeleteCHARLIE HEBDO MASSACRE: HOW THE WEST WILL RESPOND
Israel is, in fact, the world’s top violator of U.N. resolutions — pursuing nuclear weapons, illegally seizing Palestinian land and resources, carrying out devastating attacks on civilian populations and infrastructure as well as institutionalizing discrimination against Palestinians both within its legal borders and in the occupied territories. Despite this contemptuous disregard for international rules and norms, the U.N. has so far been unable to muster any kind of substantive response because of the U.S. veto, which is unlikely to change, despite the growing strategic cost for the United States.
ReplyDeleteWith these realities, U.S. and Israeli politicians were correct in portraying the Security Council resolution as counterproductive. U.N. resolutions can establish Palestine as a legal entity — as they have already done repeatedly and unequivocally over the last 70 years — but the U.N. will never be able to do more than this, with the U.S. wielding veto power. And the Palestinians cannot truly live in a country that, for practical purposes, exists only on paper.
For his part, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared that Israel could “never, ever countenance” a fully sovereign Palestinian state. The world should take him at his word. There never was a two-state solution, and there won’t be one in any foreseeable future. Instead, that so-called solution serves only to enable Israel’s continued oppression, empowering cynics and hard-liners and perpetuating a never-ending cycle of conflict. The only viable resolution is to unite Israel and the territories into a single state.
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/1/israel-palestineunitedstatesunitednationsonestatesolution.html
Musa?
Deletego fuck yourself
Consider, for instance, that for more than 20 years Palestinians have been trying to convince Israel to settle for the land they captured in 1967 — though no existing U.N. resolution recognizes Israeli seizures from the Six-Day War as legitimate (although the proposed legislation implicitly would have). Instead, U.N. actions to date refer to the legal borders established in the 1947 General Assembly resolution, insisting that any territorial changes to that be achieved exclusively through negotiations.
DeleteThe U.N. report preceding the 1947 resolution found that, Palestinians owned more than 94 percent of the property in Britain’s Mandate of Palestine and accounted for two-thirds of its population. Yet the resolution awarded 55 percent of the territory, including prime lands and resources, to Israel. The Palestinians, understandably, rejected this plan.
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/1/israel-palestineunitedstatesunitednationsonestatesolution.html
If Abbas really wants radical change for the Palestinians’ plight, he should dissolve the Palestinian Authority and hand control of the West Bank to Israel — as he has repeatedly threatened to do — and then encourage Palestinians to demand annexation with all rights, protections and benefits granted to other Israelis. Given the one-state reality on the ground, removing the illusion of sovereign Arab institutions would render Israel responsible for the population it has subjugated for the last 70 years. A failure to rise to this challenge would expose it as an apartheid state.
DeleteIsrael justifies its mistreatment of Palestinians by claiming that Arabs are not its responsibility; whether they live within Israel or the occupied territories, they all ultimately belong in the unsettled West Bank and should be provided for by their own government — an attitude emphasized by Israel’s recent nationality law, which defines the country as an explicitly, perhaps exclusively Jewish state.
But in a unified Israel, Arabs would be the majority if afforded the same right to return that the Jewish diaspora has; there are 3 million registered Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. And demographic projections suggest Jews will soon be the minority even without considering the Palestinian diaspora. Accordingly, Palestinians would have much more leverage in a one-state scenario; their quest would then be for equitable power sharing and civil rights.
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/1/israel-palestineunitedstatesunitednationsonestatesolution.html
... most Israeli Jews vehemently oppose a single state. Thus an alternative amenable to all parties would be to reintegrate Gaza, the West Bank and Israel as a federation of semiautonomous states, with Jerusalem as its capital — a proposal not far removed from the vision of Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon. There still would have to be a substantial restructuring of territory, resources and relations between the two sides.
DeleteEither way, the first step would be to abandon the quixotic pursuit of a two-state outcome and, with it, a status quo that favors Israel at the expense of Palestinian suffering.
Hell, Musa, that's ridiculous.
DeleteIt would just make a confusing situation more confusing.
Besides, the Palestinians wouldn't do it. They want the Jews in the Sea.
ReplyDeleteCar bomb explodes outside synagogue near Paris.............drudge
Memo to self: always read the article
DeleteThe Car Explosion Outside A French Synagogue Was Caused By A Mechanical Failure
Stefano Pozzebon
Jan. 7, 2015, 9:25 AM
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/report-sarcelles-synagogue-car-explodes-2015-1#ixzz3O9PZ2Q3V
A simple question:
ReplyDeleteIs Israel a source of stability with its neighbors or an antagonist?
If Israel is as always pro-ported, the outpost of Western Civilization, then it is the example of what the West is to the ME. In that case, it presents a pretty ugly face to its neighbors. People aren’t stupid. They see the injustice.
Is Hamas a source of stability with its neighbors or an antogonist ?
DeleteDang them, they keep shooting rockets all around the neighborhood, and their Charter calls for genocide and pushing the Jews into the Sea.
The American People may be dummies, as Gruber claimed, and they proved by electing O'bozo President twice, but they can see through this, which is why they support Israel.
Israel’s “in your face”, “up your ass” contempt for World opinion is surely indicative of far worse behavior with the up close and daily interactions with others in the area. The West pays the price with the blowback from the actions of our unofficial ambassador.
ReplyDeleteAn odd outlook, there.
DeleteThe Egyptian President just gave a speech in which he indicated it was the Moslem "in your face" and "up your ass" attitude that was "impossible" for the World to ever accept.
You see, the Moslems don't give a shit for World opinion. The only opinion they respect is their own, which is that all the World must become Moslem, and fuck you if you don't, we will kill you, infidel.
The killers did not mention Israel once! Are you really this dumb?
DeleteThey did not like the publication -- French, not Hebrew.
You have hit the gutter.
Islamic gunmen execute French police officer as he pleads for his life
ReplyDeleteYeah, the Jews are responsible. The West is EVIL and the handmaid of the Jews. ... puke...
But the Jews ... they are not 'Western', not by anyone's account.
DeleteThey are either Semites or Khazars
Neither a 'Western' people, regardless of the origins of the Ashkenazi
What! Why, for years you have told us they are Eastern European pirates.
DeleteYou are a moron.
Once again, allen, you are misinormed.
DeleteI have said that the Ashkenazi were Khazars, who had become Europeans.
But never 'Western', as they were "Eastern Europeans", you know Russians and Poles.
Easterners, not Westerners.
And that the Ashkenazi were not genetically linked to the people that were with Moses, or the 'Seed of Abraham".
DeleteI do believe that allen has claimed the Ashkenazi really were Semites, you know, Arabs.
I believe the DNA researchers that dispute that cultural and political myth.
On average, all Ashkenazi Jews are genetically as closely related to each other as fourth or fifth cousins, said Dr. Harry Ostrer, a pathology, pediatrics and genetics professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and the author of
Delete"Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People" (Oxford University Press, 2012).
Maternal DNA
Richards and his colleagues analyzed mitochondrial DNA, which is contained in the cytoplasm of the egg and passed down only from the mother, from more than 3,500 people throughout the Near East, the Caucusus and Europe, including Ashkenazi Jews.
The team found that four founders were responsible for 40 percent of Ashkenazi mitochondrial DNA, and that all of these founders originated in Europe. The majority of the remaining people could be traced to other European lineages.
All told, more than 80 percent of the maternal lineages of Ashkenazi Jews could be traced to Europe, with only a few lineages originating in the Near East.
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/most-ashkenazi-jews-are-genetically-europeans-surprising-study-finds-8C11358210
Now whether or not those were Western or Eastern Europeans, well, that's open to discussion.
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Was the Khazar Kingdom part of Europe, or should we have another name for the geography?
DeleteLooks like Khazaristan was in southeastern Europe, from the map:
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/imagenes_sociopol/khazar03_01.jpg
Which means, allen, that I have been on message, the entire time.
DeleteYou should gain some depth of knowledge, prior to typing.
“Think before you speak.
Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz,
{;-)
Jack Hawkins, a self proclaimed enemy of Israel, zionism and Jews world wide....
DeleteI repeat:
DeleteWhat! Why, for years you have told us they are Eastern European pirates.
You are a moron.
By the way, idiot, what does the origin of Jews have to do with a poor French police officer begging for his life?
DeleteNothing!
His family, you dolt, will not care about Judaism. I doubt the families of the other poor devils will think about that. You fascists have neither shame nor decency. You are as inhumane as your Muslim buds.
I am, as a descendent of Swedes (mostly), particularly concerned about the “in your face”, “up your ass” attitude of Sweden's Moslems to the indigenous Swedish women there.
ReplyDeleteTheir attitude is that these blue eyed pretty blond Swedish girls are just there for the raping.
White House hesitates to call Paris attack 'terrorism'...
ReplyDeleteFLASHBACK: 'The Future Must Not Belong to Those Who Slander The Prophet of Islam'.............Drudge
WH Unsure Whether Murderous Rampage in France Is 'Terrorism'
'If based on this investigation it turns out to be an act of terrorism, then we would condemn that in the strongest possible terms, too'
9:08 AM, Jan 7, 2015 • By DANIEL HALPER
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White House press secretary Josh Earnest refrained from calling the attack on a French magazine "terrorism" in an interview this morning on CNN: video
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/wh-unsure-whether-murderous-rampage-france-terrorism_823285.html
I saw Josh Earnest's performance. It was pitiful.
This writer spent some time in Israel witnessing personally the injustices perpetrated there by a people who had no rightful claim to the land, upon a people who did. Having gone there with a somewhat "pro-Israeli" bias, it soon became evident that any ruling class that skillfully engineers an economy where one segment enjoys an average 15 to 1 income advantage over another, under the same cost of living, cannot feign innocence when they experience the hatred and animosity from those whom they oppress.
ReplyDeleteLove the "people who had no rightful claim"
DeleteDoes this standard apply to America?
... hot from the UN (Agence France) ...
ReplyDeleteBan says he is with French people, describes attack as horrible, intended to divide.
No, there was no intent to divide; there IS an irreconcilable division directly related to Islam. Like some here, reality is not Mr. Ban's strongest suit.
REPORT: PARIS GUNMEN WELL-PREPARED, ASKED FOR VICTIMS BY NAME
ReplyDeleteIt was no surprise to me that the lobby would seize this to justify Israeli action. That is the disgusting part.
ReplyDeleteNo, we are just showing your hypocrisy in your lack of condemnation of Hamas, hezbollah and Fatah kidnappings, shootings, bombings and such.
DeleteNo butchery done by Hamas, Fatah, the PA, or Hezbollah to Jews or Israel is EVER condemned by you.
DeleteYou make excuses for pure terrorism.
Deuce ☂Wed Jan 07, 11:37:00 AM EST
DeleteIt was no surprise to me that the lobby would seize this to justify Israeli action. That is the disgusting part.
What is disgusting is that you brought Israel into a French matter. "The Lobby" had nothing to do with the murders or your prejudice.
Some of your pals murdered at least 12 French citizens for the crime of poking fun at your prophet.
Second comment on the thread, from the lobby:
DeleteWhat is "Occupation"Wed Jan 07, 07:21:00 AM EST
Hamas, Hezbollah, Isis, Fatah, Islamic Jihad, Moslem Brotherhood, Al Queda...
What do they have in common?
They hate the west, Israel, Jews.....
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No mention about Israel until the lobby brought it up.
Delete"This writer spent some time in Israel witnessing personally the injustices perpetrated there by a people who had no rightful claim to the land upon a people who did."
ReplyDeleteThis writer gets it wrong from the git-go.
He obviously has not read the history of the area, ancient or modern.
"Because of the long and varied history of the Jews," says the 2001 edition of World Book Encyclopedia, "it is difficult to define a Jew. There is no such thing as a Jewish race. Jewish identity is a mixture of religious, historical, and ethnic factors."
DeleteThus, those who might have truly claimed to be of the genealogy of Abraham and of true Semitic origin became extinct as a discernible race, being replaced by the white Khazars of the Transcaucasus, none of whose ancestors, as Benjamin Freedman phrases it, have ever placed a foot in the land of Palestine. This causes a serious problem with modern Christianity's infatuation with the Jews and their "return to their Homeland," begging the question:
How can one return to a place where they have never been?
Fact is, Israel is.
DeleteIsrael was, Israel is and Israel will be.
The ONLY difference today?
Israel and the Jews? Now are armed and will not take attacks without response.
For centuries? Christian Europe held a knife at our throat both literally and figuratively, the same was true for our moslem cousins.
But now? You can't just murder us, silence us because you find our living offensive.
Sucks being you....
Good Grief.
DeleteYou are in good company. Congrats!
ReplyDeleteWH Unsure Whether Murderous Rampage in France Is 'Terrorism'
'If based on this investigation it turns out to be an act of terrorism, then we would condemn that in the strongest possible terms, too'
Beam me up!
allenWed Jan 07, 12:21:00 PM EST
ReplyDeleteDeuce ☂Wed Jan 07, 11:37:00 AM EST
It was no surprise to me that the lobby would seize this to justify Israeli action. That is the disgusting part.
What is disgusting is that you brought Israel into a French matter. "The Lobby" had nothing to do with the murders or your prejudice.
Some of your pals murdered at least 12 French citizens for the crime of poking fun at your prophet.
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Deuce ☂Wed Jan 07, 12:49:00 PM EST
Second comment on the thread, from the lobby:
What is "Occupation"Wed Jan 07, 07:21:00 AM EST
Hamas, Hezbollah, Isis, Fatah, Islamic Jihad, Moslem Brotherhood, Al Queda...
What do they have in common?
They hate the west, Israel, Jews.....
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Deuce ☂Wed Jan 07, 12:51:00 PM EST
No mention about Israel until the lobby brought it up.
Financial Times: Charlie Hebdo ‘Stupid’
ReplyDeleteNo one has any proof that any of those groups are involved. My sense it is ISIS. Hamas, Hezbollah and Fatah are fighting Israel occupation of their territory. Hezbollah is fighting ISIS. Israel has bombed the enemies of ISIS.
ReplyDeleteThere has been some reporting that they spoke French and said they were al Qaida.
DeleteThere is speculation that they may be Yemeni but don't know on what that is based.
Well....
Delete'We are from al-Qaeda in Yemen'.........Drudge
yawn...
DeleteYou have to excuse Deuce, the MERE mention of Israel pumps his blood pressure up 40 points...
ReplyDeleteIf only Israel were erased, then he'd be happy...
Sorry Deuce aint going to happen.
Keep standing with Hamas, Fatah, islamic Jihad and Iran...
I'll stand for decency, Israel and America.
Chlorthalidone is great for high blood pressure.
DeleteAt first they had my dosage way too high, and I fell over dizzy after getting up quickly a couple of times.
This was really irritating.
40 points?
I'd recommend 25mg daily.
Blood pressure is nearly perfect now.
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ReplyDelete“The murderers dared proclaim Charlie Hebdo is dead,” said Secretary of State John F. Kerry in Washington. “But make no mistake, they are wrong. Today, and tomorrow, in Paris, in France and across the world, the freedom of expression this magazine represented is not able to be killed by this kind of act of terror.”
Perhaps, Kerry is honestly stating his feelings on the subject of freedom of the press and 1st amendment rights . I wouldn't deny it.
However, the irony if not hypocrisy of his and for that matter the West's words versus its actions is palpable. We have seen Obama's prosecution of writers for doing their jobs. We have seen the prosecution of the guy in California for putting out the Mohammed video. We have seen the major newspapers and media outlets in this country refusing to publish the Mohammed cartoons of a few years back; and, in fact, blaming the cartoonists for being insensitive.
The First Amendment is just one more statement of rights sacrificed on the altar of the PC. A couple of weeks ago the DOJ indicated they would no longer be doing profiling. Homeland Security head, Johnson, today says they are still trying to 'determine the motivations' of the attackers despite everything that has been published and broadcast about the incident. Duh. It is unlikely we will hear much about terrorists and Islamic fascism coming out of the administration. And it is not only us, in the UK, some cities have no-go areas were they have pretty much ceded sovereignty to Muslims who practice sharia law.
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'The Future Must Not Belong to Those Who Slander The Prophet of Islam'.
DeleteO'bozo
There are 'no go' areas in England, France and Sweden.
DeletePerhaps in other countries I am unaware of too.
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DeleteDespite all these cries in support of freedom of the press, has anyone seen any major news organization show the cartoons the attackers were pissed about?
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Not here in our press that I have seen.
DeleteI looked them up once on the Internet.
Mo had a bomb on his head, or something.....IIRC
A Tribute to Charlie Hebdo
DeletePublishing the cartoons that jihadist fanatics don’t want you to see
Cartoons here -
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/a-tribute-to-charlie-hebdo/
What is "Occupation"Wed Jan 07, 12:46:00 PM EST
ReplyDeletethere is no comparing what hamas PLANNED and paid for, and has done repeatedly, and planned to do enmass (the billion spent on the terror tunnels) with what 3 savages did to an innocent arab teenager.
That cannot be right because each act resulted in death; therefore, they are equivalent, don't you know.
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DeleteAsk the dead if they see a difference. Oh, wait. We can't.
Also from the same WiO post.
They were insane footballers who, after arab murders of jews in Israel, used violence.
Footballers of all creeds and races have a horrible reputation world wide for violence, including murder.
The Justice Department in Israel calls the guys terrorists. Even Bibi calls them terrorists. WiO calls them 'footballers'.
No further comment necessary.
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I described the circumstances.
DeleteSorry if you are not capable of understanding,
“It is time to honestly admit that Israeli society is ill – and it is our duty to treat this disease,”
Delete“The tension between Jews and Arabs within the State of Israel has risen to record heights, and the relationship between all parties has reached a new low,” he said.
“We have all witnessed the shocking sequence of incidents and violence taking place by both sides.
The epidemic of violence is not limited to one sector or another, it permeates every area and doesn’t skip any arena.
There is violence in soccer stadiums as well as in the academia.
There is violence in the social media and in everyday discourse, in hospitals and in schools.”
“I’m not asking if they’ve forgotten how to be Jews, but if they’ve forgotten how to be decent human beings.
Have they forgotten how to converse?”
- Reuven Rivlin, President of Israel
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/10/25/israel-is-a-sick-society/>
Where the government cannot or will not protect freedom of speech, there will be none. Where a government is hostile to freedom of speech, there will be none. Don't look for any new replacement in France or elsewhere in the West. Freedom of speech now necessitates having ones own private army.
ReplyDeleteSalman Rushdie, whatever happened to him?
ReplyDeleteHe is still around -
Salman Rushdie condemns Paris terror attack
Entertainment Weekly59 minutes ago
Salman Rushdie Says ‘I Stand With Charlie Hebdo‘ After Paris Attack
Time Magazine54 minutes ago
Religion must be subject to satire, Salman Rushdie says after Paris attack
The Economic Times43 minutes ago
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ReplyDeleteSaw Lindsay Graham on CNN demanding that we restore funds to Homeland Security, this despite that the GOP is currently threatening to gut Homeland Security funding in response to Obama’s actions on immigration.
Once again, Ms. Graham is off the tracks. As we have seen from the Snowden release, the US tracks communications of everyone they can, friends and allies alike, we spend billions each year on intelligence, and yet they had no clue that this was coming. IMO, this is part of the problem, too much SIGENT and not enough HUMINT. I'm sure it has improved but right after 9/11 when we decided to knock down smoke stacks and share information between organizations, NSA, FBI, CIA, etc. the biggest problem we had was trying to make sense of the vast amount of information available. I think the problem still exists if only because of the millions of pieces of intel we pick up daily.
IMO, we will make little progress against terrorism until we get more HUMINT and before we emphasize profiling in our efforts. However, even with those changes every country will eventually suffer from a terrorist attack, probably multiple ones. It is inevitable. They may be directed or inspired by a particular group or they may be one-off lone wolves. If we get lucky we will identify the plots ahead of time; however, in most cases, it will be a matter of ‘when seconds count, the police are only minutes away’.
All we can do is track these guys down and make them pay.
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We could start by PROFILING, and not waste time on Quirk, Bob, Deuce, WiO, allen etc & etal
DeleteSorry, didn't notice you mentioned profiling.
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DeleteIn support of my point above, this is at least the third attack on Charlie Hebdo in the last few years. If we couldn't predict and prevent this latest attack we are either doing something wrong or we are incapable of preventing these one-off attacks and can only react.
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It may not last for another week, or even a day, but, right now, Economic Confidence is the highest it's been since Gallup started tracking it in 2008.
ReplyDeleteEconomic Confidence
And, the Uninsured Rate is the Lowest (and, dropping.)
DeleteUninsured Rate Sinks
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DeleteObamacare was sold on the proposition that all people should be insured. We put in the individual mandate to assure it.
When pushing Obamacare in 2009, we were assured that there where 49.1 million uninsured in the US.
In 2011, I seem to recall the number was the same.
As we approached the Obamacare launch, there were numbers out there of 41 million uninsured.
Last year, the Administration bragged that there were 8 million people that were signed up, this despite reports that a large number were from dental plans and didn't qualify and others that said that 40% of those signing up were merely people who previously had insurance transferring over to the Obamacare sites.
Afterwards there were reports that there was still 31 million uninsured.
The numbers never seemed to add up. Rather confusing.
Hopefully, we will get some real numbers in 2015 now that most of the provisions will be enforced.
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ReplyDeleteOn Fox, I saw one commentator on Outnumbered also blamed the situation involving the police in NY as background for the Paris attack.
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Been watching the girls again, eh?
DeleteGood on ya..
General McInerny was good early this A.M.
DeleteGeneral Mcinerney News
Thomas McInerney, retired U.S. general, on Paris terror: 'Political correctness is killing us'
The Washington Times3 hours ago
Remember, if you take out the "illegal aliens" which Obamacare does not cover, the percentage of uninsured Americans is down to about 7.4%, and dropping.
ReplyDelete.
DeleteSo if we go by the 49 million originally quoted by the Obama administration is pushing Obamacare, you are saying there are 25 million illegal aliens and 24 million uninsured. I would be interested in where you got those numbers.
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No, I'm not saying that at all.
DeleteI am saying that there are between 15 and 20 million illegals in the U.S. that are not eligible for Obamacare,
and that Gallup's polling shows that the uninsured rate is down to 12.9% (from a high of 18%.)
Period.
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DeleteSounds a little like Rufus figgerin to me.
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The asshat Governor of North Carolina made a big deal, the other day, of going to Washington to meet with Obama over getting Medicaid expanded in his state. Even Abbot, in Texas, is starting to talk about it.
ReplyDeleteThis brings us to the important thing (remember, the main thing is to remember that the main thing is the main thing): eventually, ALL Americans will have Access to Affordable Healthcare.
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DeleteAffordable is in the eye of the beholder.
And affordable is a lot different for some elitist prof sitting in MIT and a person with minimum wage or no job at all.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S.-led air strikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria have damaged or destroyed 3,222 targets since August, including 58 tanks, 184 Humvees, 673 fighting positions and 980 buildings or barracks, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
ReplyDeleteArmy Colonel Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, said he wasn't sure how many targets had been damaged versus destroyed, "but I'm confident that the destruction level is high. Our strikes are extraordinarily accurate."
Release of the target damage list came a day after U.S. defense officials confirmed they are looking into reports of civilian casualties caused by the strikes in Iraq and Syria and are conducting a deeper investigation of two cases involving fewer than five deaths.
As of 11 p.m. on Tuesday (0400 GMT Wednesday), U.S. and coalition air forces had conducted a total of 1,676 air strikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria since Aug. 8, and had used some 4,775 munitions, a Pentagon spokeswoman said.
Warren said U.S. and coalition forces had hit 3,222 targets in the air strikes but he declined to say what percentage of Islamic State equipment was destroyed.
"In order for us to do that we would have to release to you the exact number of tanks we believe the enemy has, the exact number of Humvees we believe the enemy has," he said. "We don't want our enemy to know how much we know about them."
Countries whose forces have participated in the strikes in Iraq are: Australia, Belgium, Britain, Canada, Denmark, France and the Netherlands. Those participating in strikes in Syria are Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
The targets damaged or destroyed included:
Delete- 58 tanks;
- 184 HMMWVs, the highly mobile multi-purpose wheeled vehicles known as Humvees;
- 26 armored personnel vehicles;
- 303 technical vehicles;
- 394 other vehicles;
- 79 artillery, anti-aircraft weapons or mortars;
- 41 staging areas;
- 11 improvised explosive device positions;
- 16 command posts;
- 92 checkpoints;
- 17 guard shacks;
- 980 other buildings or barracks;
- 673 fighting positions;
- 52 bunkers;
- 14 boats;
- 23 stockpiles;
- 259 oil infrastructure sites.
No aircraft were on the list, Warren said.
He said the Humvees were U.S. vehicles supplied to the Iraqi military and captured by militants as were some of the armored personnel vehicles. It was unclear whether any of the tanks were U.S.-made.
Warren said some vehicles had been hit while parked, while others were struck while engaged in combat. The boats were used by Islamic State to ferry supplies across the Euphrates River, he said.
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DeleteWinning against IS is the easy part since we can define 'win' any way we want. To say we will 'defeat' them falls into the same category. To say they will be 'destroyed' is another matter altogether. Heck, the PKK and the FARC despite huge losses have been around for decades. Obama said AQ had been defeated. We know that was a bit of an exaggeration. To say there will be no IS in Iraq in six or seven months or a year, IMO, is naive. There might not be as many of them there but I suspect they will still be there. Their tactics may morph, they may not operate as openly, but they will still be there.
The most we can hope to do is contain it.
As long as they are still in Syria, they will still be in Iraq. They, or their affiliates, are already in Egypt, Libya, and Yemen. There was an attack at the Saudi border recently. SA and the UAE are concerned about IS attacks coming from Yemen. SA and the UAE have even convinced Qatar to drop their support for the Syrian militants including IS. There are those in Israel who worry that weakening Hamas too much in Gaza could lead to IS moving in.
Terrorism has been around for a very long time. It is the weapon of the weak. I expect IS, under one name or another, will be around for a while.
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