tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post4627963137394556191..comments2024-03-28T21:41:52.558-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Everything points to the need for infrastructure. Cut the investment bankers out of it by using project specific currency.Deuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-74409906904562986272015-02-03T18:19:25.812-05:002015-02-03T18:19:25.812-05:00Jordan to execute IS prisoners after video release...Jordan to execute IS prisoners after video released showing pilot burnt alive<br />#InsideJordan<br /><br />Jordan to execute al-Qaeda member Sajida al-Rishawi at dawn in response<br />Anwar Tarawneh the wife of Jordanian pilot Mu'az al-Kassasbeh, who was captured by Islamic State (IS) group militants on December 24<br />Alex MacDonald's picture<br />Alex MacDonald<br />Tuesday 3 February 2015 19:37 GMT<br />Last update: <br />Tuesday 3 February 2015 21:34 GMT<br /><br />A video released on Tuesday by the Islamic State (IS) group appears to show the captured Jordanian pilot Mu’az al-Kassasbeh being burnt alive in a cage, prompting the Jordanian government to move to execute IS and al-Qaeda prisoners in retaliation.<br /><br />Though the video is unverified, its release comes a week after a previous deadline set by IS for a hostage exchange with an al-Qaeda suicide bomber imprisoned in Jordan, Sajida al-Rishawi.<br /><br />However, a variety of sources, including Jordanian TV and activists from the group Raqqa is Being Silently Slaughtered (RIBSS) – an anti-IS organisation based in the IS ‘capital’ of Raqqa – have claimed that Kassasbeh had been killed in early January.<br /><br />Were it true that Kassesbeh was killed in January, it would make a farce of the hostage negotiations between the Jordanian government and IS, as well as question the sincerity of IS’s desire to see Rishawi released.<br /><br />Shortly after the release of the video the Jordanian information minister told Sky News Arabia that IS had been “playing games” during their negotiations.<br /><br />Another government spokesperson stated the Jordanian government response will be “seismic.”<br /><br />http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/content/jordan-execute-isis-prisoners-after-video-released-showing-pilot-burnt-aliveBobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-34269807817344745792015-02-03T18:09:48.078-05:002015-02-03T18:09:48.078-05:00looking for some sense?...
"In the video, Ka...looking for some sense?...<br /><br />"In the video, Kasaesbeh is interviewed, describing the mission he was due to carry out before his jet crashed. The video also showed footage of the aftermath of air strikes, with people trying to remove civilians from debris.<br /><br />A man resembling Kasaesbeh is shown inside the cage with his clothes dampened, apparently with flammable liquid, and one of the masked fighters holds a torch, setting alight a line of fuel which leads into the cage.<br /><br />The man is set ablaze and kneels to the ground.<br /><br />Fighters then pour debris, including broken masonry, over the cage, which a bulldozer then flattens, with the body still inside. The video showed a desert setting similar to previous videos of killings."<br /><br />http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/islamic-state-hostage/article22758769/Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-89970548703410862932015-02-03T16:09:06.772-05:002015-02-03T16:09:06.772-05:00But, there you go, again ....But, there you go, again ....Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-8018942908525689982015-02-03T15:42:03.573-05:002015-02-03T15:42:03.573-05:00.
Or, I could be wrong. Why does IS indulge in ....<br /><br />Or, I could be wrong. Why does IS indulge in the violence. What is the point? The violence is the point.<br /><br /><i>In the end, it isn’t very useful to hold ISIS to the expectations and standards of other violent groups. Even Al Qaeda admonished Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the founder of the Islamic State’s predecessor organization, Al Qaeda in Iraq, for his nasty habit of beheading hostages on camera. Why not a bullet to the back of the head, Ayman al-Zawahiri helpfully suggested from his hideout in the mountains along the Afghan-Pakistani border? But Zarqawi knew what he was doing, and he kept on, though he’s been vastly outperformed by his successors in ISIS. The point isn’t to use the right level of violence to achieve limited goals. The violence is the point, and the worse the better. The Islamic State doesn’t leave thousands of corpses in its wake as a means to an end. Slaughter is its goal—slaughter in the name of higher purification. Mass executions are proof of the Islamic State’s profound commitment to its vision.<br /><br />There’s an undeniable attraction in this horror for a number of young people around the Middle East, North Africa, and even Europe and America, who want to leave behind the comfort and safety of normal life for the exaltation of the caliphate. The level of its violence hasn’t discouraged new recruits—the numbers keep growing, because extreme violence is part of what makes ISIS so compelling. Last year, Vice News shot a documentary in the Islamic State’s de facto capital of Raqqa, Syria, and what was striking in the footage was the happiness on the faces of ISIS followers. They revelled in the solidarity of a common cause undertaken at great personal risk. They are idealists—that’s what makes them so dangerous.<br /><br />In this sense, ISIS is less like a conventional authoritarian or totalitarian state than like a mass death cult. Most such cults attract few followers and pose limited threats; the danger is mostly to themselves. But there are examples in modern history of whole societies falling under the influence and control of a mechanism whose aim is to dictate every aspect of life after an image of absolute virtue, and in doing so to produce a mountain of corpses. ISIS doesn’t behave like a regional insurgency or a global terrorist network, though it has elements of both. It joins the death cult to an army and a rudimentary state. It presents itself as the avant-garde of a mass movement, like the Khmer Rouge. The Islamic State resembles certain modern regimes driven by murderous ideologies, but it is also something new—as new as YouTube—and this makes it even harder to understand.<br /><br />One thing we’ve learned from the history of such regimes is that they can be stronger and more enduring than rational analysis would predict. The other thing is that they rarely end in self-destruction. They usually have to be destroyed by others.</i><br /><br />http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/isis-murdered-kenji-goto<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-18178765506946981222015-02-03T15:24:46.290-05:002015-02-03T15:24:46.290-05:00.
Submitted my taxes the other night. Got to the....<br /><br />Submitted my taxes the other night. Got to the part that talks about Obamacare, the penalties, the subsidies, the pay backs of subsidies, etc. <br /><br />Doesn't involve me; however, based on what I saw this ought to be interesting.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-29779517751890842612015-02-03T15:21:24.330-05:002015-02-03T15:21:24.330-05:00Let's not even begin to compare how Bibi has g...Let's not even begin to compare how Bibi has gone off the reservation, when compared to President Diem, of South Vietnam.Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-60434106195180035412015-02-03T15:20:01.951-05:002015-02-03T15:20:01.951-05:00Point it out, "O"rdure, with referenced ...Point it out, "O"rdure, with referenced remarks.<br />Not empty innuendo.<br /><br />But you cannot do it, can you? Or you would, if you could.Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-75517408829798841542015-02-03T15:18:04.887-05:002015-02-03T15:18:04.887-05:00Bibi has provided greater cause for his removal th...Bibi has provided greater cause for his removal than Mohammad Mosaddegh ever did, back in the day.<br />Or President Jacobo Árbenz in Guatemala, for that matter.<br />Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-44616742672980474822015-02-03T15:14:52.775-05:002015-02-03T15:14:52.775-05:00"Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not ..."Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.” <br /><br />Brandon Mullnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-76515756402420121032015-02-03T15:10:01.651-05:002015-02-03T15:10:01.651-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-86684962516736811712015-02-03T15:08:24.001-05:002015-02-03T15:08:24.001-05:00SO Jack, you are admitting to using napalm on civi...SO Jack, you are admitting to using napalm on civilians too?What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-37580883530586448542015-02-03T15:03:42.016-05:002015-02-03T15:03:42.016-05:00The Republican Party sent me this, I suppose t mot...The Republican Party sent me this, I suppose t motivate me into action:<br /><br /><b>Your tax dollars at work - in defeating Netanyahu?</b><br /><br /><i>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-New York) sent a letter informing the State Department about information they have received about behind-the-scenes partisan political activity by President Barack Obama, who they believe has “launched a political campaign” to defeat the Likud Party’s Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.</i><br /><br />Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-27010385190660395832015-02-03T13:55:34.924-05:002015-02-03T13:55:34.924-05:00Napalm
U.S. troops used a substance known as ...Napalm<br /><br /> U.S. troops used a substance known as napalm from about 1965 to 1972 in the Vietnam War; napalm is a mixture of plastic polystyrene, hydrocarbon benzene, and gasoline. This mixture creates a jelly-like substance that, when ignited, sticks to practically anything and burns up to ten minutes. The effects of napalm on the human body are unbearably painful and almost always cause death among its victims. “Napalm is the most terrible pain you can ever imagine” said Kim Phúc, a survivor from a napalm bombing. “Water boils at 212°F. Napalm generates temperatures 1,500°F to 2,200°F.Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-30540541404167130832015-02-03T13:53:32.190-05:002015-02-03T13:53:32.190-05:00http://impearls.blogspot.com/2005/06/flypaper-stra...http://impearls.blogspot.com/2005/06/flypaper-strategy-i-bbc-world-confirms.htmlJack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-32879588163423477012015-02-03T13:52:47.527-05:002015-02-03T13:52:47.527-05:00http://impearls.blogspot.com/2005/06/flypaper-stra...http://impearls.blogspot.com/2005/06/flypaper-strategy-i-bbc-world-confirms.html<br /><br />This is actually a better piece describing <a href="http://impearls.blogspot.com/2005/06/flypaper-strategy-i-bbc-world-confirms.html" rel="nofollow">The Fly Paper Strategy</a>Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-56309838166073494252015-02-03T13:51:39.470-05:002015-02-03T13:51:39.470-05:00.
Reagan had a $ trillion budget. We have a 1/2 ....<br /><br />Reagan had a $ trillion budget. We have a 1/2 $ trillion deficit.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-67544716014665154152015-02-03T13:50:56.700-05:002015-02-03T13:50:56.700-05:00Only the racists, amongst the EB contributors, men...Only the racists, amongst the EB contributors, mentioned his color rather than his Nationality.Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-62362250091888263462015-02-03T13:49:35.717-05:002015-02-03T13:49:35.717-05:00Burning people alive, that is an old level of barb...Burning people alive, that is an old level of barbarity.<br />Nothing 'new ' to it, Robert "Draft Dodger" Peterson.Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-77203694471812619712015-02-03T13:48:06.453-05:002015-02-03T13:48:06.453-05:00Fly Paper Strategy<b><br /><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/07/07/128564/-Flypaper" rel="nofollow">Fly Paper Strategy</a></b>Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-48315549890768060492015-02-03T13:46:41.676-05:002015-02-03T13:46:41.676-05:00ISIS take barbarity to new level by burning Jordan... <br />ISIS take barbarity to new level by burning Jordanian pilot alive<br />posted at 12:41 pm on February 3, 2015 by Noah Rothman<br /><br /><br />>>>Jordan has promised to execute every ISIS prisoner in its custody if any harm came to their captured pilot. What’s more, the kingdom promised to fast-track the execution of Sajida al-Rishawi, a female suicide bomber on death row for her role in a series of 2005 attacks on Jordanian hotels, whose release ISIS previously demanded.<<<<br /><br /><br />http://hotair.com/archives/2015/02/03/isis-take-barbarity-to-new-level-by-allegedly-burning-jordanian-pilot-alive/<br /><br />Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-83921727503429435832015-02-03T13:44:22.744-05:002015-02-03T13:44:22.744-05:00The Jordanian pilot was just that, a Jordanian.
No...The Jordanian pilot was just that, a Jordanian.<br />Not one of US. True enough, that.<br /><br />If the Jordanians were not pursuing their own 'National Interests', their pilot would not have been there.Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-25917958960109760282015-02-03T13:42:23.425-05:002015-02-03T13:42:23.425-05:00Nothing soothes my warrior soul more than "O&...Nothing soothes my warrior soul more than "O"rdure negating the value of his own writing.<br /><br /><i>“It is said the warrior's is the twofold Way of pen and sword, and he should have a taste for both Ways.<br />Even if a man has no natural ability he can be a warrior by sticking assiduously to both divisions of the Way.”</i><br />― Miyamoto MusashiJack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-63238517861352600032015-02-03T13:40:20.069-05:002015-02-03T13:40:20.069-05:00Three posts worthy of a response by "Ordure.
...Three posts worthy of a response by "Ordure.<br /><br />Which was the point of the posts.Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-86018993523797089322015-02-03T13:30:46.744-05:002015-02-03T13:30:46.744-05:00Dramatic way to send someone to the other world.
...Dramatic way to send someone to the other world. <br /><br />Beheading is so yesterday.<br /><br />Jordan has said they will kill their 7 (?) ISIS prisoners in return.....Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-926426017307055432015-02-03T13:20:08.899-05:002015-02-03T13:20:08.899-05:00.
The news on TV is reporting they think this too....<br /><br />The news on TV is reporting they think this took place back on January 3 so all the 'negotiating' for that Jordanian terrorist was apparently just a scam.<br /><br />You have to think these guys are batshit crazy. While you can understand why they do this stuff, you have to think with this they have reached the point of diminishing returns. How many psychopaths can you gather together in one place?<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.com