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Posted on 12/15/2005 5:40:46 PM PST by nwctwx
I'm a rep to the core. But I do have some concerns.
BTW, love your home page LOL.
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"France To Lift State Of Emergency"
BBC ^ | 1-2-2006
Posted on 01/02/2006 3:44:15 PM PST by blam
IIRC, the Iranian armed forces was pretty much built by the former USSR. They used the T-72 which is one heckuva good battle tank! But I wonder about the state of their equipment from a maintenance standpoint? Spare parts has got to be a concern for all major end items in the larger vehicular and weapons categories. Also, has their weapons technology kept the pace of time...and if it has, has the training of the troops progressed at a comensurate rate? One thing that can be said for US forces, we have probably some of the best trained and best educated troops at the bottom levels and better as ranks rise.
saturation bombing from our strategic forces will put sites out of action long enough to significantly slow the processes. Follow up imagery on the sites that are being repaired the quickest will point to the ones the Iranians see as most critical.
Good point. It is remotely possible that munitions with delayed fuses or of the deep Bunker Buster type might even rupture the casings on some of their radioactive material which will make things very difficult for them.
We will almost need a decapitation strike on the Iranian leadership and hopefully the pro-democracy forces in Iran will be ready to quick fill the vacuum and minimize external aggression.
From your lips to the President's ear! We have to recognize that the leadership is the enemy, not the national infrastructure. That is a far easier target, anyway, IMHO.
Snip: WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- On Dec. 29 Ukrainian maritime authorities in Odessa set the port's Maritime Security (MARSEC) status at Level 2. The reason for the action is unknown. Odessa is Ukraine's fifth-largest city and its most important trade entrepot. The United Nations International Maritime Organization's International Ship & Port Facility Security Code contains three levels of maritime security.
Citations for unlicensed driving surge in Maryland
Snip: Simmons released the findings as he prepares to introduce legislation that would make driving without a license an offense punishable by incarceration in Maryland. In the District and Virginia, driving without a license can land a motorist in jail. Simmons said the legislation does not target any group. But an advocate for the rights of illegal immigrants said the legislation, if passed, would harm them.
Cover organizations for terrorists in US and UK exposed
Snip: United States, however, is also refusing to engage in the War on Terror in proper manner. In recent weeks, terrorist recruiters and fundraisers boldly engaged in their efforts in the middle of Times Square, the very center of New York City, during Christmas. Videos of their activities are available at http://www.islamicthinkers.com/index/files/video/ts-storm/ts-storm.wmv and http://www.islamicthinkers.com/index/files/video/ts-storm/ts-storm2.wmv. IslamicThinkers.com is interlinked with the SavedSect.com. In fact, links to the above videos also appear on TheSavedSect.com. IslamicThinkers.com operates out of its offices at 15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353, Scottsdale, Arizona 85260. Its phone number is (480) 624-2599.
"Possibly even a nukeS"
Do you remember when Bam got bammed? I expect more new toys in play on this one.
****I've got time to plan lessons and worksheets and exams and other delicious instruments of torment ummmm errrr I mean EDUCATION!!!****
Laughing! My dad's sister was a Catholic nun. I recollect as a child traveling via car with our family to visit her and receiving all the toys she had confiscated from children during the year that weren't supposed to have been brought to school. Now that I am older, I feel sorry for those students of hers of by-gone days (a little bit anyway).
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Mexican Rebel Leader Meets With Indians
ap ^ | 1.2.05 | IOAN GRILLO
Posted on 01/02/2006 4:54:11 PM PST by Flavius
SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico - The Zapatista movement's ski-masked leader began his public meetings on Monday in a six-month national tour to form a new leftist movement, pledging to "listen to everybody" as he met with Indian groups and rights activists. ADVERTISEMENT
Apparently competing for the attention of Mexico's 13 million Indians, President Vicente Fox on Monday began his own tour of the country's indigenous communities.
The Zapatista leader, Subcomandante Marcos, arrived at the University of the Earth, a school for Indians in a dirt-road slum on the outskirts of San Cristobal.
Accompanied by a dozen masked companions, he met with non-governmental groups and neighborhood leaders representing poor Indians, including thousands of evangelical Protestants who were forced from their homes in the heavily Roman Catholic town of San Juan Chamula.
"We will listen to everybody," he told a crowd of more than 300 people. "We are not a government or a political party or, the worst thing in the world, a house of lawmakers."
Marcos on Sunday launched a tour of the country's 31 states, promising to form a new national leftist movement that will "turn Mexico on its head" — a mission he timed to coincide with the 2006 presidential campaign.
He is making the trip on a black motorcycle, drawing comparisons to the socially oriented journey of the Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara in the 1950s.
Community leaders who met with Marcos on Monday said they hoped his campaign would help change the plight of poor Indians everywhere, including here in the impoverished, southernmost Mexican state of Chiapas.
"We are forgotten people left with nothing," said Domingo Lopez, a white-bearded community leader from the San Cristobal slum of La Hormiga.
Juan Banuelos, a poet and former Zapatista adviser, said the Zapatista movement is part of a wider struggle of the 60 million Indians in Latin America.
"The election of Evo Morales in Bolivia and the Zapatista movement are part of an uprising of indigenous people that will change the continent," he said.
Fox launched what appeared to be a competing mission Monday: a weeklong tour of Indian communities based in several states.
"There are issues pending about the use of natural resources. There are issues pending about land and territory," said Xochitl Galvez, head of the government's Commission for the Development of Indian Communities. He said those, as well as conflicts about the judicial standing of Indian communities, "will have to be dealt with."
Fox closed some military bases near Zapatista territory and freed jailed rebel sympathizers shortly after starting his six-year term in December 2000, but peace efforts stalled when Congress watered down a Zapatista-backed constitutional amendment for Indian rights in 2001.
The latest Zapatista campaign has brought the rebels out of their jungle strongholds for the first time in four years.
Among those who welcomed Marcos to the Indian university Monday was Violeta Paguy, representing a Guatemalan community in Chiapas.
"Believe me, there are many people in Central America who support you," she said, breaking down into tears as the crowd applauded. "It is an honor to be here."
What??? We need to throw them all out of this country, but of course we can't do that anymore!! PC will get us all killed one day.
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"Prove Christ exists, judge orders priest"
Times Online UK ^ | January 3, 2006 | Richard Owen
Posted on 01/02/2006 4:30:26 PM PST by InvisibleChurch
"AN ITALIAN judge has ordered a priest to appear in court this month to prove that Jesus Christ existed."
[But I thought ... that is, didn't musleems say they don't ... oh, nevermind ...]
Iran's HIV cases top 12,000
Breitbart.com ^ | 1/2/06 | AFP
"experts estimate that as many as 40,000 people may be HIV positive. "
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/01/02/060102193318.k748e34o.html
Freedom to meet, freedom to protest, freedom to walk and drive the streets without licenses or citizenship, freedom to raise funds for terrrorist organizations, freedom to give speeches bashing the USA and its policies, freedom to recruit terrorists. I feel like Rip Van Winkle, waking up to a country that used to punish those who broke our laws and which now permits "freedom" to the point of blatant disrespect for America and all things of American heritage.
Australian politicians are either ashamed of their flag or don't want to be insensitive towards moooslems.
http://aussie_news_views.typepad.com/aussie_news_views/2006/01/labor_and_green.html
Excerpt:
January 02, 2006
Labor and Greens combine to move against Australian flag at Bondi Beach
Ashamed of our flag
By STEVE GEE and LARISSA CUMMINGS
Daily Telegraph
January 02, 2006
PLANS to fly the Australian flags over the famous Bondi Beach pavilion were vetoed because of fears the symbols could incite more racial violence on Sydney's beaches.
If this has been posted before my apologies, but we need to understand our sworn enemy, the mooslems:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20646
Western Muslims' Racist Rape Spree
By Sharon Lapkin
FrontPageMagazine.com | December 27, 2005
In Australia, Norway, Sweden and other Western nations, there is a distinct race-based crime in motion being ignored by the diversity police: Islamic men are raping Western women for ethnic reasons. We know this because the rapists have openly declared their sectarian motivations.
When a number of teenage Australian girls were subjected to hours of sexual degradation during a spate of gang rapes in Sydney that occurred between 1998 and 2002, the perpetrators of these assaults framed their rationale in ethnic terms. The young victims were informed that they were “sluts” and “Aussie pigs” while they were being hunted down and abused.
In Australia's New South Wales Supreme Court in December 2005, a visiting Pakistani rapist testified that his victims had no right to say no, because they were not wearing a headscarf.
And earlier this year Australians were outraged when Lebanese Sheik Faiz Mohammed gave a lecture in Sydney where he informed his audience that rape victims had no one to blame but themselves. Women, he said, who wore skimpy clothing, invited men to rape them.
A few months earlier, in Copenhagen, Islamic mufti and scholar, Shahid Mehdi created uproar when – like his peer in Australia – he stated that women who did not wear a headscarf were asking to be raped.
And with haunting synchronicity in 2004, the London Telegraph reported that visiting Egyptian scholar Sheik Yusaf al-Qaradawi claimed female rape victims should be punished if they were dressed immodestly when they were raped. He added, “For her to be absolved from guilt, a raped woman must have shown good conduct.”
In Norway and Sweden, journalist Fjordman warns of a rape epidemic. Police Inspector Gunnar Larsen stated that the steady increase of rape-cases and the link to ethnicity are clear, unmistakable trends. Two out of three persecutions for rape in Oslo are immigrants with a non-Western background and 80 percent of the victims are Norwegian women.
In Sweden, according to translator for Jihad Watch, Ali Dashti, “Gang rapes, usually involving Muslim immigrant males and native Swedish girls, have become commonplace.” A few weeks ago she said, “Five Kurds brutally raped a 13-year-old Swedish girl.”
In France, Samira Bellil broke her silence – after enduring years of repeated gang rapes in one of the Muslim populated public housing projects – and wrote a book, In the hell of the tournantes, that shocked France. Describing how gang rape is rampant in the banlieues, she explained to Time that, “any neighborhood girl who smokes, uses makeup or wears attractive clothes is a whore.”
Unfortunately, Western women are not the only victims in this epidemic. In Indonesia, in 1998, human rights groups documented the testimony of over 100 Chinese women who were gang raped during the riots that preceded the fall of President Suharto. Many of them were told: “You must be raped, because you are Chinese and non-Muslim.”
Christian Solidarity Worldwide reported that in April 2005, a 9-year-old Pakistani girl was raped, beaten with a cricket bat, hanged upside down from the ceiling, had spoonfuls of chillies poured into her mouth, and repeatedly bashed while handcuffed. Her Muslim neighbours told her they were taking revenge for the American bombing of Iraqi children and informed her they were doing it because she was an “infidel and a Christian.”
In Sudan – where Arab Muslims slaughter black Muslim and Christian Sudanese in an ongoing genocide – former Sudanese slave and now a human rights’ activist Simon Deng says he witnessed girls and women being raped and that the Arab regime of Khartoum sends its soldiers to the field to rape and murder. In other reports, women who are captured by government forces are asked; “Are you Christian or Muslim?” and those who answer Christian, are gang raped before having their breasts cut off.
This phenomenon of Islamic sexual violence against women should be treated as the urgent, violent, repressive epidemic it is. Instead, journalists, academics, and politicians ignore it, rationalize it, or ostracize those who dare discuss it.
In Australia, when journalist Paul Sheehan reported honestly on the Sydney gang rapes, he was called a racist and accused of stirring up anti-Muslim hatred. And when he reported in his Sydney Morning Herald column that there was a high incidence of crime amongst Sydney’s Lebanese community, fellow journalist, David Marr sent him an e-mail stating, “That is a disgraceful column that reflects poorly on us all at the Herald.”
Keysar Trad, vice-president of the Australian Lebanese Muslim Association said the gang rapes were a “heinous” crime but complained it was “rather unfair” that the ethnicity of the rapists had been reported.
Journalist Miranda Devine reported during the same rape trials that all reference to ethnicity had been deleted from the victim impact statement because the prosecutors wanted to negotiate a plea bargain.
So when Judge Megan Latham declared, “There is no evidence before me of any racial element in the commission of these offences,” everyone believed her. And the court, the politicians and most of the press may as well have raped the girls again.
Retired Australian detective Tim Priest warned in 2004 that the Lebanese gangs, which emerged in Sydney in the 1990s – when the police were asleep – had morphed out of control. “The Lebanese groups,” he said, “ were ruthless, extremely violent, and they intimidated not only innocent witnesses, but even the police that attempted to arrest them.”
Priest describes how in 2001, in a Muslim dominated area of Sydney two policemen stopped a car containing three well-known Middle Eastern men to search for stolen property. As the police carried out their search they were physically threatened and the three men claimed they were going to track them down, kill them and then rape their girlfriends.
According to Priest, it didn’t end there. As the Sydney police called for backup the three men used their mobile phones to call their associates, and within minutes, 20 Middle Eastern men arrived on the scene. They punched and pushed the police and damaged state vehicles. The police retreated and the gang followed them to the police station where they intimidated staff, damaged property and held the police station hostage.
Eventually the gang left, the police licked their wounds, and not one of them took action against the Middle Eastern men. Priest claims, “In the minds of the local population, the police are cowards and the message was, 'Lebanese [Muslim gangs] rule the streets.'”
In France, in the banlieues, where gang rape is now known simply as tournantes or ‘pass-around,’ victims know the police will not protect them. If they complain, Samir Bellil said, they know that they and their families will be threatened.
However, Muslim women in the French ghettos are finally fighting back against gang rape and police non-action. They have begun a movement called, “We’re neither whores nor doormats.” They are struggling against the intrinsic violence that plagues their neighbourhoods and the culture that condones it.
In most French prosecutions, the Muslim rapists state that they do not believe they have committed a crime. And in a frightening parallel with the gang rapists in Australia, they claim the victim herself is to blame and accuse her of being a “slut” or a “whore.”
According to The Guardian, during the recent French riots, a Saudi Prince with shares in News Corporation boasted to a conference in Dubai that he had phoned Rupert Murdoch and complained about Fox News describing the disturbances as “Muslim riots.” Within half an hour he said, it was changed to “civil riots.”
Swedish translator, Ali Dashti, stated that in Sweden when three men raped a 22-year-old woman recently, they said one word to her. “Whore.” Such stories, according to Dashti, are in the Swedish newspapers every week. And, the politically correct “take great care not to mention the ethnic background of the perpetrators.”
Sweden’s English newspaper The Local reported in July that Malmo police commander Bengt Lindström had been charged with inciting racial hatred. He sent e-mails from his home computer to two city officials. To the head of healthcare, he wrote: “You...treat old Swedes who have worked hard building up the fatherland like parasites and would rather give my taxes to criminals called Mohammed from Rosengärd.”
In Malmo, the third largest city in Sweden, the police have admitted, Dashti says, that they no longer control the city. “It is effectively ruled by violent gangs of Muslim immigrants.” Ambulance personnel are regularly attacked and spat upon and are now refusing to help until a police escort arrives. The police are too afraid to enter parts of the city without backup.
In early 2005, Norwegian newspapers reported that Oslo had recorded the highest ever number of rape cases in the previous twelve months. However, Fjordman explained, the official statistics contained no data regarding “how immigrants were grossly over represented in rape cases”, and the media remain so strangely silent.
Oslo Professor of Anthropology, Unni Wikan, said Norwegian women must take responsibility for the fact that Muslim men find their manner of dress provocative. And since these men believe women are responsible for rape, she stated, the women must adapt to the multicultural society around them.
The BBC pulled a documentary scheduled for screening in 2004, after police in Britain warned it could increase racial tension. “In these exceptional circumstances... Channel 4 as a responsible broadcaster has agreed to the police’s request...” The documentary was to show how Pakistani and other Muslim men sexually abused young, white English girls as young as 11.
The number of rapes committed by Muslim men against women in the last decade is so incredibly high that it cannot be viewed as anything other than culturally implicit behaviour. It is overtly reinforced and sanctioned by Islamic religious leaders who blame the victims and excuse the rapists.
In three decades of immigration into Western countries, Islam has caused social upheaval and havoc in every one of its host countries. No other immigration program has encountered the problems of non-assimilation and religious ambiguity.
Everywhere in the world, Muslims are in conflict with their neighbours. And as Mark Steyn recently said, every conflict appears to have originated by someone with the name of Mohammed.
In July 2005, Melbourne Sheik Mohammad Omran told Sixty Minutes that “...we believe we have more rights than you because we choose Australia to be our home and you didn’t. “
In the same interview visiting Sheik Khalid Yasin warned “There’s no such thing as a Muslim having a non-Muslim friend, so a non-Muslim could be your associate but they can't be a friend. They're not your friend because they don't understand your religious principles and they cannot because they don't understand your faith.”
Despite being told over and over by Islamic scholars, and witnessing massive influxes of Islamic crime, Western countries continue to believe in the reality of assimilation and moral relativism.
In Australia, Lebanese Christians have assimilated and become a respected part of our community. The Premier of Victoria is a Lebanese Christian as is the Governor Of New South Wales. However, Lebanese Muslims have encountered serious problems because of their refusal to accept our right to live our way of life. Nothing so clearly demonstrates that it is not an issue of race — but of culture.
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Another Lure of Islam
......Technically Islam is a religion made by a criminal for criminally minded people. It does not mean that all Muslims are criminals, but it means that all those Muslims who follow Muhammad and try to emulate him are potential criminals and dangers to the society. Evil people are attracted to Islam like flies to the dung.
http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/AntonioG60101.htm
http://osint.internet-haganah.com/archives/000115.html
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"Israel Accuses Russians of Arming Syrians, Hezbollah"
TCV News ^ | January 02, 2006 | Jim Kouri
Posted on 01/02/2006 3:08:14 PM PST by lizol
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January 01, 2006
"How do you say 'bullshit' in Russian?"
SNIPPET: "Russia: Hizbullah does not use Russian rockets:"
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Mohammad's Mental Health
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Muhammad was an emotionally sick man who was not in control of himself. He grew as an orphan, changed five foster parents before he reached the age of eight. As soon as he came to be attached to someone, he was snatched and given to someone else. This must have been hard on him and was detrimental to his emotional health. As a kid, deprived of love and a sense of belonging, he grew with deep feelings of fear and lack of self-confidence. He tried to make up for it by becoming a narcissist. (…)
Muhammad was a man with profound emotional scars. Dr. Vaknin writes that a narcissist ‘’lies to himself and others, projecting ‘’untouchability’’, emotional immunity and invincibility. For a narcissist ‘’everything is bigger than life. If he is polite, then he is aggressively so. His promises outlandish, his criticisms violent and ominous, his generosity inane.’’ Isn’t it the image the Prophet projected of himself? (…)
The problem with Netanyahu as I see ity is not so much that he's mostly hot air but that when he does choose to act, it is rashly and with poor judgment. He's also not too big on the follow through.
I believe we're waiting on Israel to strike again...
I disagree, I think we're terrified of the global backlash to any Israeli strike and we're going to pre-empt them with our own action.
I doubt Bush has the stones to go into Iran, but even if he did, I don't think the House would support him, especially in election year, and there is no way the Senate supports him.
Again, I respectfully disagree. This President has repeatedly shown a willingness to defy not only the wishes of the Congress, the public opinion polls and the UN (God Bless him for that) in a headlong pursuit of truth justice and the American way. He does as his conscience dictates not what others demand of him. How unlike Clinton and the RATS is that? Not that I agree with him on all issues, I think he's risking everything by not securing our borders with full military force. We should bring home the troops from Europe and put them on the Mexican border with fulll ammo and live fire rules of engagement.
/crickets chirping
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