Bob Corker is an extremist.
Syria has been cast into anarchy by a terrorist organization that grew out of Iraq's illegal invasion and the USA is suppose to have a real solution for Syria, huh?
The Syria Opposition doesn't exist in a real way. The soldier training fell apart because of a vetting process. Well, that is suppose to be different in a Syrian opposition force. There is no virgin to be had.
Iran and Russia have been allies for a very long time and Russia was important to bring about a nuclear agreement with Iran.
Sexual in servitude. Are they married? I hear that is a problem. There is not going to be an invasion to end slavery.
There are no viable alternative plans. The ceasefire will be established and the opposition group will have to abide by it.
25 February 2016
There has a real reason for Saudi Arabia to have it's own coalition.
Syria has been cast into anarchy by a terrorist organization that grew out of Iraq's illegal invasion and the USA is suppose to have a real solution for Syria, huh?
The Syria Opposition doesn't exist in a real way. The soldier training fell apart because of a vetting process. Well, that is suppose to be different in a Syrian opposition force. There is no virgin to be had.
Iran and Russia have been allies for a very long time and Russia was important to bring about a nuclear agreement with Iran.
Sexual in servitude. Are they married? I hear that is a problem. There is not going to be an invasion to end slavery.
There are no viable alternative plans. The ceasefire will be established and the opposition group will have to abide by it.
25 February 2016
Moscow is not discussing (click here) any alternative plans for a political settlement in Syria, Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov has said. The Russian-American peace initiative on Syria is going to be formalized through a UN Security Council resolution.
“We’re perplexed by our Western partners, the US included, mentioning the existence of some kind of ‘Plan B,’ Nothing is known on that one, we are considering no alternative plans,” Bognanov told the ‘Middle East: From violence to security’ conference in Moscow.
On February 22, Russian and American presidents simultaneously announced that an agreement on peaceful plan for Syria had been reached, coming into force on February 27, at midnight Damascus time.
Terrorist organizations such as Islamic State and Al-Nusra Front are not included in the ceasefire and will continue to be attacked until their complete annihilation, the Russian president said in a statement dedicated to the Syrian truce....
Perhaps Daesh needs to file a lawsuit and come forward in a court of law to defend it. Send in al Bagdadi. It should be interesting.
February 25, 2016
By Jessica Guynn
San Francisco — A video purportedly (click here) made by supporters of the Islamic State makes direct threats against Facebook CEOMark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey for combating terrorism on their Internet platforms.
The 25-minute propaganda video was released by a group calling itself "the sons of theCaliphate army." In it, photographs of both technology leaders are targeted by bullets. The video was spotted byVocativ deep web analysts on the social media service Telegram, which is used by ISIS.
The extremist group says it's responding to growing efforts by Facebook and Twitter to suspend accounts and remove posts that the social media services say incite violence and promote terrorism....
Perhaps Daesh needs to file a lawsuit and come forward in a court of law to defend it. Send in al Bagdadi. It should be interesting.
February 25, 2016
By Jessica Guynn
San Francisco — A video purportedly (click here) made by supporters of the Islamic State makes direct threats against Facebook CEO
The 25-minute propaganda video was released by a group calling itself "the sons of the
The extremist group says it's responding to growing efforts by Facebook and Twitter to suspend accounts and remove posts that the social media services say incite violence and promote terrorism....
25 February 2016
By Ewen MacAskill
Saudi Arabia has mounted (click here) an intense lobbying campaign to try to prevent members of the European parliament voting for an arms embargo because of the Saudi military action in Yemen that has resulted in heavy civilian casualties.
By Ewen MacAskill
Saudi Arabia has mounted (click here) an intense lobbying campaign to try to prevent members of the European parliament voting for an arms embargo because of the Saudi military action in Yemen that has resulted in heavy civilian casualties.
As part of a concerted campaign, Saudi representatives have been meeting MEPs to try to persuade them not to back an amendment on Thursday that calls for a EU-wide embargo following “the serious allegations of breaches of international humanitarian law by Saudi Arabia in Yemen”.
The Saudi ambassador to Brussels, Abdulrahman al-Ahmed, sent a letter to parliamentarians on Sunday in which in he pleaded with them not to vote for the amendment and defended his country’s military intervention.
In the four-page letter, a copy of which has been obtained by the Guardian, he blamed the intervention mainly on Iran and insisted much of Saudi’s action had involved humanitarian aid....
Here is something that would interest Corker. War as an employer.
Here is something that would interest Corker. War as an employer.
18 February 2016
By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
A few nights before he was blown up by a car bomb, (click here) the governor of Aden was reclining on a purple velvet cushion, elaborating on his dreams for the port city, when a white smartphone started buzzing. He gave it a quick glance, winked and whispered: “It is the president.”
By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
A few nights before he was blown up by a car bomb, (click here) the governor of Aden was reclining on a purple velvet cushion, elaborating on his dreams for the port city, when a white smartphone started buzzing. He gave it a quick glance, winked and whispered: “It is the president.”
“Yes sir, I tried to call you earlier, I have a problem and I need your help,” he said, explaining that the Yemeni national airline had sold tickets for a flight from Dubai without obtaining landing permissions from the Saudi-led coalition. Since Yemeni militia backed by Saudi airstrikes retook the port city from Houthi rebels in July last year, Aden was officially back in government control but largely dependent on other countries for its security.
Aden – pulverised by air strikes and tank shells – represents the Saudi-backed government’s greatest success in Yemen’s civil war, yet with a victorious coalition of separatist militia, jihadis, Salafists and loyalist army units unravelling, and few sources of employment for the civilian population, the city is fragile. The Yemeni state shows no sign of re-establishing itself despite thereturn of its president from exile.
Aden’s governor, General Jaafar Saad, sat upright, his grin fading into concern as the president spoke. “Yes sir, I understand, but if the passengers show up at the airport and there is no flight they will topple Aden over my head.”...
All Cocker has to do is ask the CIA to develop and distribute cell phones and a few games to learn how to liberate a country from a dictator. Heck as a US Senator he could start his own personal war with this methodology. What fun, huh?
April 9, 2013
By Shane Harris
In 2006, as the war in Iraq was reaching a fever pitch, (click here) a Pentagon employee working on specials operations teamed up with a Czech technology entrepreneur who had dabbled in the porn business and devised what they considered they considered an ingenious plan. Knowing that video games played on mobile phones were popular throughout the Middle East, the team wanted to build games that games that contained positive messages about the United States. But the games weren't just about propaganda. Every download would give the United States a window into the digital comings and goings of whomever was playing it it, a cyber foothold that could allow American spies to potentially track and collect information on thousands of people...
Are Muslims a primary goal for the Pew idea of an economy? I hope so. I don't really see the necessity in understanding numbers of particular religious groups unless there is a better economy that the West can bring them. I also believe mobile phones are the worst thing that happened to the middle east.
Numbers of any group does no one any good. There has to be social anthropologists sent into a country with it's permission to come to understand the populations of people different from the USA. A research institute that is a disinterested partner would have to receive the BIG BUCKS to carry out real searching for a common denominator for an economic uptick. Such anthropologists would also be able to gather information regarding slavery and what if anything the country is doing about it or is the government completely disinterested.
There are ways of conducting a real understanding to bring about improvements of QUALITY OF LIFE. Slavery is a matter of improving quality of life and war does not achieve that end. As a matter of fact, USA researchers need to work side by side with Muslim anthropologists to bring about the best outcome. Saudi Arabia has magnificent universities with very qualified anthropologists that could speed information gathering along.
October 2009
Pew
...While Muslims (click here) are found on all five inhabited continents, more than 60% of the global Muslim population is in Asia and about 20% is in the Middle East and North Africa. However, the Middle East-North Africa region has the highest percentage of Muslim-majority countries. Indeed, more than half of the 20 countries and territories in that region have populations that are approximately 95% Muslim or greater.
More than 300 million Muslims, or one-fifth of the world’s Muslim population, live in countries where Islam is not the majority religion. These minority Muslim populations are often quite large. India, for example, has the third-largest population of Muslims worldwide. China has more Muslims than Syria, while Russia is home to more Muslims than Jordan and Libya combined.
Of the total Muslim population, 10-13% are Shia Muslims and 87-90% are Sunni Muslims. Most Shias (between 68% and 80%) live in just four countries: Iran, Pakistan, India and Iraq.
These are some of the key findings of Mapping the Global Muslim Population: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World’s Muslim Population, a new study by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life. The report offers the most up-to-date and fully sourced estimates of the size and distribution of the worldwide Muslim population, including sectarian identity. Previously published estimates of the size of the global Muslim population have ranged widely, from 1 billion to 1.8 billion.2 But these commonly quoted estimates often have appeared without citations to specific sources or explanations of how the figures were generated.
The Pew Forum report is based on the best available data for 232 countries and territories. Pew Forum researchers, in consultation with nearly 50 demographers and social scientists at universities and research centers around the world, acquired and analyzed about 1,500 sources, including census reports, demographic studies and general population surveys, to arrive at these figures – the largest project of its kind to date. (See Methodology for more detail.)...
Here is a real reason for a US Senate bill regarding slavery.
1 February 2016
All Cocker has to do is ask the CIA to develop and distribute cell phones and a few games to learn how to liberate a country from a dictator. Heck as a US Senator he could start his own personal war with this methodology. What fun, huh?
April 9, 2013
By Shane Harris
In 2006, as the war in Iraq was reaching a fever pitch, (click here) a Pentagon employee working on specials operations teamed up with a Czech technology entrepreneur who had dabbled in the porn business and devised what they considered they considered an ingenious plan. Knowing that video games played on mobile phones were popular throughout the Middle East, the team wanted to build games that games that contained positive messages about the United States. But the games weren't just about propaganda. Every download would give the United States a window into the digital comings and goings of whomever was playing it it, a cyber foothold that could allow American spies to potentially track and collect information on thousands of people...
Are Muslims a primary goal for the Pew idea of an economy? I hope so. I don't really see the necessity in understanding numbers of particular religious groups unless there is a better economy that the West can bring them. I also believe mobile phones are the worst thing that happened to the middle east.
Numbers of any group does no one any good. There has to be social anthropologists sent into a country with it's permission to come to understand the populations of people different from the USA. A research institute that is a disinterested partner would have to receive the BIG BUCKS to carry out real searching for a common denominator for an economic uptick. Such anthropologists would also be able to gather information regarding slavery and what if anything the country is doing about it or is the government completely disinterested.
There are ways of conducting a real understanding to bring about improvements of QUALITY OF LIFE. Slavery is a matter of improving quality of life and war does not achieve that end. As a matter of fact, USA researchers need to work side by side with Muslim anthropologists to bring about the best outcome. Saudi Arabia has magnificent universities with very qualified anthropologists that could speed information gathering along.
October 2009
Pew
...While Muslims (click here) are found on all five inhabited continents, more than 60% of the global Muslim population is in Asia and about 20% is in the Middle East and North Africa. However, the Middle East-North Africa region has the highest percentage of Muslim-majority countries. Indeed, more than half of the 20 countries and territories in that region have populations that are approximately 95% Muslim or greater.
More than 300 million Muslims, or one-fifth of the world’s Muslim population, live in countries where Islam is not the majority religion. These minority Muslim populations are often quite large. India, for example, has the third-largest population of Muslims worldwide. China has more Muslims than Syria, while Russia is home to more Muslims than Jordan and Libya combined.
Of the total Muslim population, 10-13% are Shia Muslims and 87-90% are Sunni Muslims. Most Shias (between 68% and 80%) live in just four countries: Iran, Pakistan, India and Iraq.
These are some of the key findings of Mapping the Global Muslim Population: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World’s Muslim Population, a new study by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life. The report offers the most up-to-date and fully sourced estimates of the size and distribution of the worldwide Muslim population, including sectarian identity. Previously published estimates of the size of the global Muslim population have ranged widely, from 1 billion to 1.8 billion.2 But these commonly quoted estimates often have appeared without citations to specific sources or explanations of how the figures were generated.
The Pew Forum report is based on the best available data for 232 countries and territories. Pew Forum researchers, in consultation with nearly 50 demographers and social scientists at universities and research centers around the world, acquired and analyzed about 1,500 sources, including census reports, demographic studies and general population surveys, to arrive at these figures – the largest project of its kind to date. (See Methodology for more detail.)...
Here is a real reason for a US Senate bill regarding slavery.
1 February 2016
A United Nations panel of human rights activists (click here) has urged the United States’ government to pay reparations to the descendants of Africans who were brought to the US as slaves. The committee blamed slavery for the plight of African-Americans today.
The UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent’s preliminary report follows a year of aggravated racial tensions in the United States that saw the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, whose members rally against the deaths of unarmed black men like Eric Garner and Michael Brown.
Mireille Fanon Mendes-France, the chairwoman of the committee, drew parallels between the police killings in the United States and racist lynchings that occurred in the South until the civil rights era.
"Contemporary police killings and the trauma it creates are reminiscent of the racial terror lynchings in the past," Mendes-France told reporters. "Impunity for state violence has resulted in the current human rights crisis and must be addressed as a matter of urgency."
"Black Lives Matter" That should keep Bob Corker busy for awhile.
"Contemporary police killings and the trauma it creates are reminiscent of the racial terror lynchings in the past," Mendes-France told reporters. "Impunity for state violence has resulted in the current human rights crisis and must be addressed as a matter of urgency."
The committee released its preliminary recommendations on Friday after an 11-day fact-finding mission in the US, meeting with black Americans and others in different cities across the country.
Speaking at a press conference in Washington, DC, the group said that Congress should pass the Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act, establish a national human rights commission and publicly acknowledge that the Atlantic slave trade was a crime against humanity...."Black Lives Matter" That should keep Bob Corker busy for awhile.
