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First April was yesterday (Yemenis seeking asylum in Somalia and Somalians in Yemen and other similar stuff). Today, April the second, we have fireworks day!
Are these products halal because they are like vegetables and contain nothing offensive, or halal because there has been an Imam involved and the payment to Islam?
“When foods are produced according to Islamic law, they are known as halal. Halal milk is milk that is produced from a halal animal, such as a cow. As long as the animal being milked is considered halal, the milk is permissible to consume. Forbidden animals, or haram animals, from which Muslims may not eat or obtain milk would include pigs and monkeys along with dozens of other species.” http://m.wisegeek.com/what-is-halal-milk.htm
The geletine if not vegetable sourced, is the huge no-no.
Once upon a time, Quakers founded Cadbury.
15 dead and 60 injured after Al-Shabaab gunmen storm Kenyan university and take hostages
Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the latest terrorist atrocity in Kenya
CNN – Kenya eyewitness reveals how attack unfolded
The Latest: Kenya police offer bounty for attack planner
Kenyan police have offered a $220,000 bounty for Mohammed Mohamud, also known as Dulyadin alias Gamadhere whom they believe is the mastermind of the attack on a college in Garissa, in northeast Kenya.
Al-Shabab gunmen attacked Garissa University College on Thursday, targeting Christians and killing at least 15 people and wounding 60 others. Witnesses said the gunmen said they were from al-Shabab, a Somali extremist Islamic group, and the group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
There have been several beheadings in the terrorist attack on the Garissa University College in Kenya, survivors of the attack said on Thursday.
The revelation came in the midst of the attack on the university, which is still ongoing, with gunshots still being heard from the vicinity of the university’s hostel grounds.
Winnie Njeri, one of the escapees, told News24 Kenya that she saw beheaded bodies when she was rescued by Kenya Defence Forces personnel.
“We saw beheaded bodies when we escaped. It is very bad, they have killed many people,” an emotional Njeri said.
Omar Ibrahim, also a student at the university, said that there were several bodies which had been badly disfigured by the attackers.
“I was in a group that was saved by the KDF just after one o’clock. We saw many many bodies, some did not have heads. I don’t know why someone would do such a thing,” a visibly disturbed Ibrahim said.
The al-Shabab militants who staged a deadly attack on a Kenya university Thursday have started beheading students there held hostage, according to multiple reports. As of 4:18 p.m. local time, there had been multiple beheadings at Garissa University College, witnesses said. Kenya’s interior minister announced that two members of the group of al-Shabab attackers have been killed, according to the Associated Press.
[…]Kenya’s interior minister, Joseph Nkaissery, said that 147 people had been killed, including four attackers. He contended that the deadly siege at the university had ended, and that security forces were carefully sweeping the campus for any remaining threats.[…]
My embedding isn’t working. But the article and video are at the Jerusalem Post. More links there too:
Ya’alon: David’s Sling defense system may not be oper…
David’s Sling air defense system to deploy for trial …
David’s Sling ‘can intercept warheads over enemy terr…
This is one of the real big risks that the west is taking, they refuse to admit the religious motive of hte terrorists, thus they can’t effectively fight the terrorists.
They don’t understand the concept of religion, or the history of religious wars in Europe.
That is because the left has spent so much time attacking religion, they have disarmed the west and we are now paying the price.
When they gave up the religion of their forebears, they turned to leftism as a substitute. Becoming more pious means greater adherence to a system that’s increasingly totalitarian. They feel compelled to seek converts, or force conversion on the recalcitrant.
It has been said that Marxism is a religion masquerading as an ideology.
Living that close to the Russian bear must be nerve wracking.
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving country.
What is scary is that if Putin moves on Norway there is no telling where he will stop.
No one to stop him. We hit him hard and fast; he parries and strikes. I’m sure* he’s enjoying his role as cat among mice.
*[Actually, it’s my Russki who’s sure. He doesn’t opine casually, so I trust him. One son in Israel, the other in Kiev.]
I will add you sons to the list to pray for.
Putin is playing high stakes to become a major player on the worlds stage, he is not afraid because he knows the west will not go nuclear with him and doesn’t have enough conventional troops to do anything to stop him. He is rebuilding the Russian Empire and he may not stop with what they had before WWII, at one point they owned Poland and a lot more of Eastern Europe. He may want to take all of them and a bunch of the Scandinavian nations.
They’re his sons and I’d gladly kill the one still in Kiev for staying put and worrying poor Papa.
(But I’ve never met his kids and they’re surely better armed than I am.)
Russia threatens to use ‘nuclear force’ over Crimea and the Baltic states
They shouldn’t tease NATO like this. First: it’s not polite. Second, the boy who cried “wolf”.
He may not be bluffing.
“IDF Must Regain its Maneuvering Capabilities”
Former Deputy Chief of Staff, Maj. Gen. Yair Naveh, about what he regards as errors in the build-up of military power and in Operation “Protective Edge”. Exclusive
If it is at all possible a war of maneuver is preferred to a war of attrition, given the limited number of people Israel has they need to rely on maneuver when it is possible.
Israel’s defense minister: Lausanne talks on Iran won’t go anywhere
And that’s a good thing, says Moshe Ya’alon, since Tehran should not be left with any enrichment capacity.
Iran is stalling to gain time, they won’t agree to anything unless we surrender.
And we’re about to surrender.
And so I’m hoping the French – the much maligned “Surrender Monkeys” – will just say, NON.
Iran nuclear talks inching towards joint statement, say European diplomats
Foreign ministers at talks in Lausanne on Iran’s nuclear programme have said they are inching towards a joint statement, which would be accompanied by a set of agreed parameters that would be kept secret, according to European diplomats.
The compromise, say European diplomats, would be a joint statement of understanding and two or three pages of agreed “parameters” setting out points agreed by Iran and the six world powers taking part in the Lausanne talks. Those details would not be made public but would be briefed to governments and to Congress.
When will they have enough fissile material they can start the war to bring back the Mahdi?
UN report: More than 25,000 foreigners fight with terrorists
UNITED NATIONS — The number of fighters leaving home to join al-Qaida and the Islamic State group in Iraq, Syria and other countries has spiked to more than 25,000 from over 100 nations, according to a new U.N. report.
The panel of experts monitoring U.N. sanctions against al-Qaida said in the report obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press that its analysis indicates the number of foreign terrorist fighters worldwide increased by 71 percent between mid-2014 and March 2015.
It said the scale of the problem has increased over the past three years and the flow of foreign fighters “is higher than it has ever been historically.”
[…]In addition to Syria and Iraq, the report said Afghan security forces estimated in March that about 6,500 foreign fighters were active in the country. And it said hundreds of foreigners are fighting in Yemen, Libya and Pakistan, around 100 in Somalia, and others in the Sahel countries in northern Africa, and in the Philippines.
[…]It cited the “high number” of foreign fighters from Tunisia, Morocco, France and Russia, the increase in fighters from the Maldives, Finland and Trinidad and Tobago,
The left has spent decades working to destroy the nation state so they can create their utopia now the Moslems are showing what a distopia their dream will create.
Be careful what you wish for…
It is a nightmare, not a wish. My wishes are for a strong and patriotic US.
Chaos as 2,000 people evacuated to escape toxic smoke in central London
After death? oooooouuuu
Forget the body, enjoy a liberated soul.
Before death, I want to be young again to be able to do things again.
The dreamers are doing research to make us young again, I figure they will succeed in time for me to have to go back into the Army. I don’t want to fight I want to play.
I figure they will succeed in time for me to have to go back into the Army. I
That’s the best example of “Be careful of what you wish for….”
Jewish Kindergarten in Belgium Can’t Get Insurance Because Risk of Attack Too High
Yesterday I refused the most heavenly chocolate candy because it was Belgian. And I really, really wanted it.
Dark Chocolate or milk Chocolate?
They had mostly dark, but I saw semi-sweet too. My favorite! With layers of carmel…
The only type I buy is dark or semi sweet.
Most observent Jews buy your flavors because the intense stuff doesn’t have milk in it. Even if you’ve just eaten meat you can eat it. Any time, all the time.
The Telegraph – First pictures of Britons arrested while attempting to cross into Syria from Turkey
The first images of nine Britons 🙂 : ) 🙂 arrested as they attempted to cross into Syria have been released, as they are expected to be deported back to the UK later on Thursday
This is rich: ‘[IS] terrorists are deluded, narcissistic, glory-hunting inadequates who call themselves soldiers, but they’re selling themselves with professionally made videos that make them seem glamorous and sexy.
‘Isn’t that what groomers do? They make these kids feel wanted and loved, they tell them they understand them and they distance them from their friends and family.’
DAILY MAIL – Chauffeur and wife face jail for blackmailing Qatari royals for £600,000 over ‘private’ photos on USB sticks that were left in car
Chauffeur Awad Abdulbagy drove family’s photographer during 2013 trip
Found ‘private’ photos of royals on cameras and USB sticks left in car
He and his wife boasted they could sell images to TV stations and enemies
The couple demanded £600,000 ‘reward’ for pictures through embassy
[…]The victim of the plot cannot be named, but Qatari diplomat Ali Al-Hajri told jurors it was a ‘very sensitive’ situation.
Mr Al-Hajri told the court: ‘It is very natural that these are shameful, they are private photographs.
‘There are so many enemies of Qatar and these are private photos and you know that can be really very bad in our society – we are very conservative.’
[…]Abdulbagy described the photos as being ‘like treasure’ and demanded a ‘present or reward’.
‘He said he didn’t have a house, didn’t have any money, said he wanted to do it in the halal way -or the clean way – and he spoke about the value of the photographs,’ […]
BRITAIN FIRST – UKIP ATTACKERS GET THEIR COMEUPPANCE!
Houthi Children Threaten America on Houthi TV
Suicide attack in Afghanistan kills 17
NYT – Two Queens Women Charged in Bomb Plot
Two female roommates in Queens have been charged with planning to build a bomb that they wanted to detonate in the United States.
The roommates, Noelle Velentzas, 28, and Asia Siddiqui, 31, both United States citizens, were named in a complaint unsealed on Thursday in Federal District Court in Brooklyn.
Ms. Siddiqui “is currently in possession of multiple propane gas tanks, as well as instructions for how to transform propane tanks into explosive devices,” the complaint reads.
The women appeared to be interested in jihad and had been communicating with Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula personnel. They also watched videos of ISIS beheadings, according to the complaint.
The novelist VS Naipaul has caused an outcry by comparing the “calamitous effect” of Islam on the world with colonialism.
Sir Vidia, born in Trinidad of Indian parentage, who travelled extensively in the Muslim world for his books Among the Believers and Beyond Belief, launched his attack after a reading of his new book, Half a Life, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.
Islam, he claimed, had both enslaved and attempted to wipe out other cultures.”It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter’.”
Sir Vidia claimed what he called “this abolition of the self demanded by Muslims was worse than the similar colonial abolition of identity. It is much, much worse in fact… You cannot just say you came out of nothing.”
He argued that Pakistan was the living proof of the damage Islam could wreak.
“The story of Pakistan is a terror story actually. It started with a poet who thought that Muslims were so highly evolved that they should have a special place in India for themselves.
“This wish to sift countries of unnecessary and irrelevant populations is terrible and this is exactly what happened in Pakistan.”
Ahmed Versi, editor of the Muslim News, said Naipaul’s outburst showed just how deep his ignorance of Islam was.
“What he says may shock many people here, but it comes as no surprise to those of us who have read his books. He is basically a Hindu nationalist, who has a deep dislike of Muslims, and that is where he is coming from.”
French court summons ex-Guantanamo chief in torture probe
A French court on Thursday summoned former Guantanamo prison chief Geoffrey Miller over accusations of torture by two former detainees, their lawyer told AFP.
Nizar Sassi and Mourad Benchellali, both French citizens, were arrested by U..S forces in Afghanistan before being transferred to the notorious prison set up in Guantanamo Bay to hold terror suspects after the 9/11 attacks.
They were held from the end of 2001 until 2004 and 2005 respectively, before being sent home.
A French probe into their case began after they filed a complaint in court.
“The door has opened for civilian and military officials to be prosecuted over international crimes committed in Guantanamo,” their lawyer William Bourdon said.
“This decision can only… lead to other leaders being summoned.”
There is a law that Obama will ignore that says the US government must do everything possible including using military force to free any American citizen charged in the ICC.
IS video – Tal Afar – Iraq
They show us their compassion by that final scene, where a man helps free a dog trapped in the rubble. That just about sums it up. They know us too well.
British Home Secretary to Islamic Extremists: “The Game is Up”
Crummy cowards, attacking a site I value so highly.
They’re terrific journalists. Notice they’re beginning to use “Jew-Hatred” instead of “antisemitism”. I hope it becomes a trend.
I think it will, it is too good a propaganda tool not to. The wording Jew Hatred is so loaded emotionally that it is a natural for most people to use.
From about 28:00 – 31:00 the Sultan explains why a left turn was never an option him. Same for me, but I never could’ve explained it. Just never in the universe of possibles.
What did we learn from last summer’s engagement in Gaza, Operation Protective Edge?
“IDF Must Regain its Maneuvering Capabilities”
Former Deputy Chief of Staff, Maj. Gen. Yair Naveh, about what he regards as errors in the build-up of military power and in Operation “Protective Edge”. Exclusive
First April was yesterday (Yemenis seeking asylum in Somalia and Somalians in Yemen and other similar stuff). Today, April the second, we have fireworks day!
Gunmen storm Kenya university; police officers, student wounded (CNN, Apr 2, 2015)
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/02/africa/kenya-university-attack/index.html
“Gunmen attacked Garissa University College in Kenya on Thursday morning, wounding two police officers and one student, CNN affiliate NTV reported.
It’s not clear how many gunmen were on campus.
Heavy gunfire was reported as police engaged attackers, NTV said. Ambulances waited nearby.
The gunshots started going off “like fireworks” around 5 a.m., at the time of morning prayers, witness Milka Ndung’u told NTV.
Ndung’u said she and others escaped to a field, but gunshots followed them and they continued fleeing.
Student Augustine Alanga told CNN he woke up to the sound of gunfire and described students running around the dormitories seeking shelter.
Garissa University College, in south central Kenya, is in an area where Al Shabaab militants have from sometimes led raids.”
Jesus H Christ…
https://www.cadbury.com.au/Products/Halal-Products.aspx
Thank you Tasha,
Are these products halal because they are like vegetables and contain nothing offensive, or halal because there has been an Imam involved and the payment to Islam?
“When foods are produced according to Islamic law, they are known as halal. Halal milk is milk that is produced from a halal animal, such as a cow. As long as the animal being milked is considered halal, the milk is permissible to consume. Forbidden animals, or haram animals, from which Muslims may not eat or obtain milk would include pigs and monkeys along with dozens of other species.”
http://m.wisegeek.com/what-is-halal-milk.htm
The geletine if not vegetable sourced, is the huge no-no.
Once upon a time, Quakers founded Cadbury.
15 dead and 60 injured after Al-Shabaab gunmen storm Kenyan university and take hostages
Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the latest terrorist atrocity in Kenya
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3022586/Masked-gunmen-launch-attack-morning-prayers-Kenyan-university.html
Christians targeted in al-Shabab attack on Kenyan university
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/africa/67602746/christians-targeted-in-alshabab-attack-on-kenyan-university
BBC
CNN – Kenya eyewitness reveals how attack unfolded
The Latest: Kenya police offer bounty for attack planner
Kenyan police have offered a $220,000 bounty for Mohammed Mohamud, also known as Dulyadin alias Gamadhere whom they believe is the mastermind of the attack on a college in Garissa, in northeast Kenya.
Al-Shabab gunmen attacked Garissa University College on Thursday, targeting Christians and killing at least 15 people and wounding 60 others. Witnesses said the gunmen said they were from al-Shabab, a Somali extremist Islamic group, and the group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-latest-students-cant-reach-friends-who-may-be-trapped/2015/04/02/265d5062-d92d-11e4-bf0b-f648b95a6488_story.html
Al-Shabaab beheading students in Garissa
There have been several beheadings in the terrorist attack on the Garissa University College in Kenya, survivors of the attack said on Thursday.
The revelation came in the midst of the attack on the university, which is still ongoing, with gunshots still being heard from the vicinity of the university’s hostel grounds.
Winnie Njeri, one of the escapees, told News24 Kenya that she saw beheaded bodies when she was rescued by Kenya Defence Forces personnel.
“We saw beheaded bodies when we escaped. It is very bad, they have killed many people,” an emotional Njeri said.
Omar Ibrahim, also a student at the university, said that there were several bodies which had been badly disfigured by the attackers.
“I was in a group that was saved by the KDF just after one o’clock. We saw many many bodies, some did not have heads. I don’t know why someone would do such a thing,” a visibly disturbed Ibrahim said.
http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/BREAKING-NEWS-Al-Shabaab-beheading-students-in-Garissa-20150402
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Kenya University Attack: Al-Shabab Beheading Students At Garissa College
The al-Shabab militants who staged a deadly attack on a Kenya university Thursday have started beheading students there held hostage, according to multiple reports. As of 4:18 p.m. local time, there had been multiple beheadings at Garissa University College, witnesses said. Kenya’s interior minister announced that two members of the group of al-Shabab attackers have been killed, according to the Associated Press.
http://www.ibtimes.com/kenya-university-attack-al-shabab-beheading-students-garissa-college-1867968
147 dead in attack in Kenya
[…]Kenya’s interior minister, Joseph Nkaissery, said that 147 people had been killed, including four attackers. He contended that the deadly siege at the university had ended, and that security forces were carefully sweeping the campus for any remaining threats.[…]
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/03/world/africa/garissa-university-college-shooting-in-kenya.html
The Rebel Media: Raif Badawi: Saudis try to silence Quebecers
Take a lot more to silence our Ezra Levant.
Watch: David’s Sling shoots down mock missile in successful trial
http://bcove.me/w5ctjuyv
My embedding isn’t working. But the article and video are at the Jerusalem Post. More links there too:
Ya’alon: David’s Sling defense system may not be oper…
David’s Sling air defense system to deploy for trial …
David’s Sling ‘can intercept warheads over enemy terr…
http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Israels-US-backed-missile-interceptor-Davids-Sling-passes-advanced-tests-395844
The ire over Iran
Although Barack Obama is right to chastise Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister has a point on Iran.
http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21647292-although-barack-obama-right-chastise-binyamin-netanyahu-israels-prime-minister-has-point
Ignoring religious roots of terrorism risks victory
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/mar/31/michael-hayden-ignoring-religious-roots-of-terrori/
This is one of the real big risks that the west is taking, they refuse to admit the religious motive of hte terrorists, thus they can’t effectively fight the terrorists.
They don’t understand the concept of religion, or the history of religious wars in Europe.
That is because the left has spent so much time attacking religion, they have disarmed the west and we are now paying the price.
When they gave up the religion of their forebears, they turned to leftism as a substitute. Becoming more pious means greater adherence to a system that’s increasingly totalitarian. They feel compelled to seek converts, or force conversion on the recalcitrant.
It has been said that Marxism is a religion masquerading as an ideology.
Mirror image of Islam
Raymond Ibrahim tells readers the facts of life.
Trusting the Ayatollahs
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/03/trusting_the_ayatollahs.html
I like it.
SOCCER RIOTS REFLECT LONG-STANDING DISCONTENT IN IRAN’S PREDOMINANTLY ARAB KHUZESTAN – ANALYSIS
http://www.eurasiareview.com/22032015-soccer-riots-reflect-long-standing-discontent-in-irans-predominantly-arab-khuzestan-analysis/
I got carried away playing with special effects. The link:
http://www.eurasiareview.com/22032015-soccer-riots-reflect-long-standing-discontent-in-irans-predominantly-arab-khuzestan-analysis/
You have a new toy and must use it.
I love it! Martin taught me.
I have to learn more tricks. Emoticons that can’t be replaced by generic-smilies. (^.^)
Palestinian Discontent With Abbas Is Growing
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/world/middleeast/among-palestinians-discontent-with-abbas-grows.html?ref=middleeast&_r=0
Local authorities warned of enlarged rocket threat from Hezbollah
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Home-Front-Command-notifies-local-authorities-of-enlarged-rocket-threat-from-Hezbollah-395710
‘Iran is placing guided warheads on Hezbollah rockets’
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Iran-is-placing-guided-warheads-on-Hezbollah-rockets-395679
This is very bad news, it will make things much more difficult.
‘Influx of advanced weapons flowing into Syria, Lebanon unprecedented,’ navy source says
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Influx-of-advanced-weapons-to-Syria-and-Lebanon-is-unprecedented-senior-navy-source-says-395490
Iran is getting ready to add Jordan and then Israel to their conquests, of course I could have the order wrong.
You’re right as far as anybody I’ve read knows.
The sad thing is that so many people can see what is coming and can do nothing to stop it.
There’s much more information on Israeli sites, mostly worrisome.
I now know how the people watching WWII develop felt, helpless and frustrated.
They had access to very little factual information and a surfeit of disinformation.
Avi Issacharoff:
On the Syrian Golan, unlike in Yemen, an Iranian offensive fails
Joint operation by Hezbollah, Revolutionary Guards and Syrian forces, designed to clear opposition near Israel’s border, grinds to halt
http://www.timesofisrael.com/on-the-syrian-golan-unlike-in-yemen-an-iranian-offensive-fails/
Some good news for a change
ISIS Seizes New Territory in Deadly Attacks in Syria
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/02/world/middleeast/syria-isis-advances-in-hama-and-damascus.html?ref=middleeast
Faltering Iran nuclear talks extended again
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20150401/eu-iran-nuclear-talks-117f402227.html
Why Obama chose the Iran talks to take one of his presidency’s biggest risks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/why-obama-chose-the-iran-talks-to-take-one-of-his-presidencys-biggest-risks/2015/04/01/403b7a06-d7af-11e4-ba28-f2a685dc7f89_story.html
Yemen’s Shiite rebels capture presidential palace in Aden
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_YEMEN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-04-02-09-06-43
CNN – 200 al-Qaeda linked prisoners escape in Yemen
Yemen rebels clash with armed residents, local militia
As nuclear talks resume, Israel threatens military option
Read more: As nuclear talks resume, Israel threatens military option | The Times of Israel http://www.timesofisrael.com/as-nuclear-talks-resume-israel-hints-at-military-option/#ixzz3WA6os6wK
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FBI Warns U.S. Companies of Cyber Terror
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/fbi-warns-of-anti-israel-cyber-attacks/
Norway Reverts to Cold War Mode as Russian Air Patrols Spike
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/02/world/europe/a-newly-assertive-russia-jolts-norways-air-defenses-into-action.html?_r=0
Living that close to the Russian bear must be nerve wracking.
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving country.
What is scary is that if Putin moves on Norway there is no telling where he will stop.
No one to stop him. We hit him hard and fast; he parries and strikes. I’m sure* he’s enjoying his role as cat among mice.
*[Actually, it’s my Russki who’s sure. He doesn’t opine casually, so I trust him. One son in Israel, the other in Kiev.]
I will add you sons to the list to pray for.
Putin is playing high stakes to become a major player on the worlds stage, he is not afraid because he knows the west will not go nuclear with him and doesn’t have enough conventional troops to do anything to stop him. He is rebuilding the Russian Empire and he may not stop with what they had before WWII, at one point they owned Poland and a lot more of Eastern Europe. He may want to take all of them and a bunch of the Scandinavian nations.
They’re his sons and I’d gladly kill the one still in Kiev for staying put and worrying poor Papa.
(But I’ve never met his kids and they’re surely better armed than I am.)
Russia threatens to use ‘nuclear force’ over Crimea and the Baltic states
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-threatens-to-use-nuclear-force-over-crimea-and-the-baltic-states-10150565.html
They shouldn’t tease NATO like this. First: it’s not polite. Second, the boy who cried “wolf”.
He may not be bluffing.
“IDF Must Regain its Maneuvering Capabilities”
Former Deputy Chief of Staff, Maj. Gen. Yair Naveh, about what he regards as errors in the build-up of military power and in Operation “Protective Edge”. Exclusive
http://www.israeldefense.co.il/en/content/idf-must-regain-its-maneuvering-capabilities
If it is at all possible a war of maneuver is preferred to a war of attrition, given the limited number of people Israel has they need to rely on maneuver when it is possible.
Israel’s defense minister: Lausanne talks on Iran won’t go anywhere
And that’s a good thing, says Moshe Ya’alon, since Tehran should not be left with any enrichment capacity.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.650097
Iran is stalling to gain time, they won’t agree to anything unless we surrender.
And we’re about to surrender.
And so I’m hoping the French – the much maligned “Surrender Monkeys” – will just say, NON.
Iran nuclear talks inching towards joint statement, say European diplomats
Foreign ministers at talks in Lausanne on Iran’s nuclear programme have said they are inching towards a joint statement, which would be accompanied by a set of agreed parameters that would be kept secret, according to European diplomats.
The compromise, say European diplomats, would be a joint statement of understanding and two or three pages of agreed “parameters” setting out points agreed by Iran and the six world powers taking part in the Lausanne talks. Those details would not be made public but would be briefed to governments and to Congress.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/02/iran-nuclear-talks-lausanne-inching-towards-joint-statement-diplomats?
Obama Admin Threatens U.S. Allies for Disagreeing with Iran Nuke Deal
U.S. allies snubbed as administration moves toward nuke deal
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/obama-admin-threatens-u-s-allies-for-disagreeing-with-iran-nuke-deal/
Who would have ever thought France would be our best hope.
Hassan Rouhani :
Solutions on key parameters of Iran nuclear case reached. Drafting to start immediately, to finish by June 30th
https://twitter.com/hassanrouhani
So much for that.
When will they have enough fissile material they can start the war to bring back the Mahdi?
UN report: More than 25,000 foreigners fight with terrorists
UNITED NATIONS — The number of fighters leaving home to join al-Qaida and the Islamic State group in Iraq, Syria and other countries has spiked to more than 25,000 from over 100 nations, according to a new U.N. report.
The panel of experts monitoring U.N. sanctions against al-Qaida said in the report obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press that its analysis indicates the number of foreign terrorist fighters worldwide increased by 71 percent between mid-2014 and March 2015.
It said the scale of the problem has increased over the past three years and the flow of foreign fighters “is higher than it has ever been historically.”
[…]In addition to Syria and Iraq, the report said Afghan security forces estimated in March that about 6,500 foreign fighters were active in the country. And it said hundreds of foreigners are fighting in Yemen, Libya and Pakistan, around 100 in Somalia, and others in the Sahel countries in northern Africa, and in the Philippines.
[…]It cited the “high number” of foreign fighters from Tunisia, Morocco, France and Russia, the increase in fighters from the Maldives, Finland and Trinidad and Tobago,
http://www.stripes.com/news/middle-east/un-report-more-than-25-000-foreigners-fight-with-terrorists-1.337983
The left has spent decades working to destroy the nation state so they can create their utopia now the Moslems are showing what a distopia their dream will create.
Be careful what you wish for…
It is a nightmare, not a wish. My wishes are for a strong and patriotic US.
Chaos as 2,000 people evacuated to escape toxic smoke in central London
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/holborn-fire-2000-people-evacuated-from-offices-as-smoke-fills-central-london-streets-10149502.html
video for above
Down load your brain to a computer to live on after you die.
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-04/01/google-robot-personalities
Every narcissist’s wet dream.
Not mine, I want a young body again.
After death? oooooouuuu
Forget the body, enjoy a liberated soul.
Before death, I want to be young again to be able to do things again.
The dreamers are doing research to make us young again, I figure they will succeed in time for me to have to go back into the Army. I don’t want to fight I want to play.
I figure they will succeed in time for me to have to go back into the Army. I
That’s the best example of “Be careful of what you wish for….”
Jewish Kindergarten in Belgium Can’t Get Insurance Because Risk of Attack Too High
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/jewish-kindergarten-belgium-cant-get-insurance-because-risk-attack-too-high_906867.html
Yesterday I refused the most heavenly chocolate candy because it was Belgian. And I really, really wanted it.
Dark Chocolate or milk Chocolate?
They had mostly dark, but I saw semi-sweet too. My favorite! With layers of carmel…
The only type I buy is dark or semi sweet.
Most observent Jews buy your flavors because the intense stuff doesn’t have milk in it. Even if you’ve just eaten meat you can eat it. Any time, all the time.
The Telegraph – First pictures of Britons arrested while attempting to cross into Syria from Turkey
The first images of nine Britons 🙂 : ) 🙂 arrested as they attempted to cross into Syria have been released, as they are expected to be deported back to the UK later on Thursday
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/turkey/11510963/First-pictures-of-Britons-arrested-while-attempting-to-cross-into-Syria-from-Turkey.html
oh those wacky 'brits'
more pics on the Daily Mail :
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3022714/Pictured-British-children-detained-five-adults-Turkish-border-trying-cross-Syria-join-ISIS.html
This is rich:
‘[IS] terrorists are deluded, narcissistic, glory-hunting inadequates who call themselves soldiers, but they’re selling themselves with professionally made videos that make them seem glamorous and sexy.
‘Isn’t that what groomers do? They make these kids feel wanted and loved, they tell them they understand them and they distance them from their friends and family.’
DAILY MAIL – Chauffeur and wife face jail for blackmailing Qatari royals for £600,000 over ‘private’ photos on USB sticks that were left in car
Chauffeur Awad Abdulbagy drove family’s photographer during 2013 trip
Found ‘private’ photos of royals on cameras and USB sticks left in car
He and his wife boasted they could sell images to TV stations and enemies
The couple demanded £600,000 ‘reward’ for pictures through embassy
[…]The victim of the plot cannot be named, but Qatari diplomat Ali Al-Hajri told jurors it was a ‘very sensitive’ situation.
Mr Al-Hajri told the court: ‘It is very natural that these are shameful, they are private photographs.
‘There are so many enemies of Qatar and these are private photos and you know that can be really very bad in our society – we are very conservative.’
[…]Abdulbagy described the photos as being ‘like treasure’ and demanded a ‘present or reward’.
‘He said he didn’t have a house, didn’t have any money, said he wanted to do it in the halal way -or the clean way – and he spoke about the value of the photographs,’ […]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3019578/Chauffeur-wife-face-jail-blackmailing-Qatari-royals-600-000-private-photos-USB-sticks-left-car.html
BRITAIN FIRST – UKIP ATTACKERS GET THEIR COMEUPPANCE!
Houthi Children Threaten America on Houthi TV
Suicide attack in Afghanistan kills 17
NYT – Two Queens Women Charged in Bomb Plot
Two female roommates in Queens have been charged with planning to build a bomb that they wanted to detonate in the United States.
The roommates, Noelle Velentzas, 28, and Asia Siddiqui, 31, both United States citizens, were named in a complaint unsealed on Thursday in Federal District Court in Brooklyn.
Ms. Siddiqui “is currently in possession of multiple propane gas tanks, as well as instructions for how to transform propane tanks into explosive devices,” the complaint reads.
The women appeared to be interested in jihad and had been communicating with Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula personnel. They also watched videos of ISIS beheadings, according to the complaint.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/03/nyregion/two-queens-women-charged-in-bomb-plot.html
These Siddiqui women are feisty.
Aafia Siddiqui
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aafia_Siddiqui
Official website of Siddiqui’s family:
http://www.freeaafia.org/
VS Naipaul launches attack on Islam
The novelist VS Naipaul has caused an outcry by comparing the “calamitous effect” of Islam on the world with colonialism.
Sir Vidia, born in Trinidad of Indian parentage, who travelled extensively in the Muslim world for his books Among the Believers and Beyond Belief, launched his attack after a reading of his new book, Half a Life, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.
Islam, he claimed, had both enslaved and attempted to wipe out other cultures.”It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter’.”
Sir Vidia claimed what he called “this abolition of the self demanded by Muslims was worse than the similar colonial abolition of identity. It is much, much worse in fact… You cannot just say you came out of nothing.”
He argued that Pakistan was the living proof of the damage Islam could wreak.
“The story of Pakistan is a terror story actually. It started with a poet who thought that Muslims were so highly evolved that they should have a special place in India for themselves.
“This wish to sift countries of unnecessary and irrelevant populations is terrible and this is exactly what happened in Pakistan.”
Ahmed Versi, editor of the Muslim News, said Naipaul’s outburst showed just how deep his ignorance of Islam was.
“What he says may shock many people here, but it comes as no surprise to those of us who have read his books. He is basically a Hindu nationalist, who has a deep dislike of Muslims, and that is where he is coming from.”
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/04/afghanistan.terrorism9
French court summons ex-Guantanamo chief in torture probe
A French court on Thursday summoned former Guantanamo prison chief Geoffrey Miller over accusations of torture by two former detainees, their lawyer told AFP.
Nizar Sassi and Mourad Benchellali, both French citizens, were arrested by U..S forces in Afghanistan before being transferred to the notorious prison set up in Guantanamo Bay to hold terror suspects after the 9/11 attacks.
They were held from the end of 2001 until 2004 and 2005 respectively, before being sent home.
A French probe into their case began after they filed a complaint in court.
“The door has opened for civilian and military officials to be prosecuted over international crimes committed in Guantanamo,” their lawyer William Bourdon said.
“This decision can only… lead to other leaders being summoned.”
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/04/02/French-court-summons-ex-Guantanamo-chief-in-torture-probe.html
There is a law that Obama will ignore that says the US government must do everything possible including using military force to free any American citizen charged in the ICC.
IS video – Tal Afar – Iraq
They show us their compassion by that final scene, where a man helps free a dog trapped in the rubble. That just about sums it up. They know us too well.
British Home Secretary to Islamic Extremists: “The Game is Up”
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5479/britain-islamic-extremists
Great policies. Too bad they’ll never be implemented.
The Cyber Attack on Frontpage
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/frontpagemag-com/the-cyber-attack-on-frontpage/
Crummy cowards, attacking a site I value so highly.
They’re terrific journalists. Notice they’re beginning to use “Jew-Hatred” instead of “antisemitism”. I hope it becomes a trend.
I think it will, it is too good a propaganda tool not to. The wording Jew Hatred is so loaded emotionally that it is a natural for most people to use.
Victory Against ISIS in Tikrit Will Embolden Iran
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/joseph-klein/victory-against-isis-in-tikrit-will-embolden-iran/?
easuring Obama vs. Putin
https://youtu.be/qQPks5t41M0
From about 28:00 – 31:00 the Sultan explains why a left turn was never an option him. Same for me, but I never could’ve explained it. Just never in the universe of possibles.
What did we learn from last summer’s engagement in Gaza, Operation Protective Edge?
“IDF Must Regain its Maneuvering Capabilities”
Former Deputy Chief of Staff, Maj. Gen. Yair Naveh, about what he regards as errors in the build-up of military power and in Operation “Protective Edge”. Exclusive
http://www.israeldefense.co.il/en/content/idf-must-regain-its-maneuvering-capabilities
IRAN ACCUSES U.S. OF LYING ABOUT NEW NUKE AGREEMENT
Says White House misleading Congress, American people with fact sheet
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-accuses-u-s-of-lying-about-new-nuke-agreement/
IS video – SYRIA – HOMS – Syrian soldier being shot to death by an off-screen individual identified as the wife of a slain fighter. GRAPHIC
IS video – Raqqa Syria
HIDDEN CAM: Gay Wedding Cakes at Muslim Bakeries?
This could get interesting, with luck it will cause a massive earthquake on the left.