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If you’re confused about the Saudi Arabia-led air attacks against Islamist rebels in Yemen and can’t tell one group of head-choppers in Iraq and Syria from another, don’t despair. All you need is imagination. Close your eyes and imagine that those countries and terrorists have nuclear weapons. Imagine their barbarism going nuclear as they blow up cities, wipe out ethnic and religious groups and turn the region into cinders. Now open your eyes and realize you’ve seen the future, thanks to President Obama’s policies. It is a future that will be defined by Obama’s Wars. Yes, plural. I’ve written frequently about the likelihood of a dystopian “Mad Max” scenario if Iran gets nukes. My thinking is guided by a belief among American military and intelligence officials that a nuclear exchange would take place in the Mideast within five years of Iran getting the bomb. To judge from events, the future is arriving ahead of schedule. The fact that a top Saudi official wouldn’t answer a question about the kingdom’s plan to get nukes is an answer in itself. Proliferation in the world’s hottest spot was guaranteed once Obama abdicated American leadership, a decision that led our adversaries to conclude we would not stop them and our allies to conclude we would not protect them. While there are many dark and complex forces in play and blame to spread around, the most important catalyst of the violent disorder has been the reversal of America’s policies. Under Obama, we have switched sides, an abomination that ensures a legacy of infamy. |
After the Beirut-Damascus-Baghdad axis, Iran is maneuvering from the south to take over the entire Middle East, Netanyahu said at a cabinet meeting, one of the last for his outgoing government. The Iran-Lausanne-Yemen axis is dangerous for mankind and must be stopped. Netanyahu told ministers that he had spoken with Republican leaders in the US Senate and conveyed our serious concern regarding the arrangement with Iran at the nuclear talks. This agreement confirms all our fears and exceeds them. While [world powers] convene to sign this deal, Irans proxies in Yemen are conquering large swaths of land in an effort to overtake the Bab al-Mandab straits, so that they can change the balance of power in shipping oil, he said, referring to recent unrest in Yemen. |
BEIRUT — The meltdown in Yemen is pushing the Middle East dangerously closer to the wider regional conflagration many long have feared would arise from the chaos unleashed by the Arab Spring revolts. What began as a peaceful struggle to unseat a Yemeni strongman four years ago and then mutated into civil strife now risks spiraling into a full-blown war between regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran over a country that lies at the choke point of one of the world’s major oil supply routes. With negotiators chasing a Tuesday deadline for the framework of a deal to curb Iran’s nuclear program, it seems unlikely that Iran would immediately respond militarily to this week’s Saudi airstrikes in Yemen, analysts say. But the confrontation has added a new layer of unpredictability — and confusion — to the many, multidimensional conflicts that have turned large swaths of the Middle East into war zones over the past four years, analysts say. The United States is aligned alongside Iranian-backed militias in Iraq and against them in Yemen. Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, who have joined in the Saudi offensive in Yemen, are bombing factions in Libya backed by Turkey and Qatar, who also support the Saudi offensive in Yemen. The Syrian conflict has been fueled by competition among all regional powers to outmaneuver one another on battlefields far from home. |
Question about Michael Brown leads to beating on St. Louis light rail train By Ben Brumfield, CNN Updated 1:51 AM ET, Sat March 28, 2015 (CNN)When one man sat down next to a second man in a St. Louis light rail car late Monday and asked him his opinion on the shooting of Michael Brown, it was not the beginning of a discussion. It was the start of an assault, police said. The second man, who was white, didn't want to answer the question. Then the first man, who was black, boxed him in the face. Two more African-American men joined in the beating, according to a police report. It was caught on surveillance cameras on the MetroLink train and a passenger recorded it with a cell phone and posted the video online. It has gone viral. Police confirmed to CNN affiliate KMOV that the online images came from Monday's attack. Late commute The victim, 43, was commuting home when a young man in a red T-shirt and cap walked up to him. The victim asked not to be named in media reports. The man asked to use the victim's cell phone. He declined, and the young man sat down beside him. "Then he asked me my opinion on the Michael Brown thing," the victim told KMOV, "and I responded I was too tired to think about it right now." The suspect, in his twenties, stood up. "The next thing I know, he sucker punches me right in the middle of my face," the victim said. The video showed the suspect unleashing a barrage of punches at the head of the victim, who covered himself with his hand and forearms. The two other men, also in their twenties, joined in, police said. As the train pulled into a station, a security guard saw part of the beating and alerted police. The man in the red T-shirt could be seen on video kicking at the victim's face before the train's doors opened and the assailants ran out. Faces on camera The train's surveillance cameras captured clear images of their faces, which MetroLink passed on to journalists. Police are looking for the three men. St. Louis public transit camera captures images of beating suspects. St. Louis public transit camera captures images of beating suspects. They face possible charges of third-degree assault, police said. It is a misdemeanor under Missouri law. The victim was left with bruises on his face and forehead, police said. The first punch dug the frame of his eyeglasses into the skin of his nose, the victim said. He declined to receive medical treatment. But then there was the emotional pain. On the video, people could be heard laughing while the man was beaten. "I think it was disgusting that people were sort of laughing and smiling about it," the victim said. "And no one offered to help. No one seemed to call 911." Condemnation of the beating has spread across social media, including from people who protested the shooting of Brown last year by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. The officer was not indicted in Brown's death. St. Louis alderman Antonio French, a vocal community leader in the aftermath of Ferguson, tweeted his disappointment in the beating. "Mike Brown question sparks MetroLink beating caught on video," he wrote. "This is disgusting. We have a major problem, STL." http://ift.tt/1GAl5ab |
Brattons big ideas for the NYPD Quote:
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Most stunningly, Bratton predicted that the NYPD would have as many as 1 million fewer law enforcement contacts with people this year than it did just a few years ago. He attributed the decline primarily to reducing stops from almost 700,000 to roughly 30,000 and markedly cutting marijuana arrests and summonses. To hold the line, Bratton said he would lead the NYPD to targeting, for example, the 4,000 to 6,000 people who are predominantly responsible for crime. He also said that he wants to equip the patrol force with the computer capability to monitor 311 not 911 calls in their individual sectors, so that the cops can respond to disorder complaints that come into the citys general help line. |
"If you could do the same job, but for more money and better benefits, you'd do it, right? That's exactly what's happening with officers in North Texas' two biggest police departments."
Dallas officers moving in droves to Fort Worth PD Quote:
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So these words are now off the table: "polarizing," "calculating," "disingenuous," "insincere," "ambitious," "inevitable," "entitled," "over-confident," "secretive," "will do anything to win," "represents the past," and "out of touch." Also apparently off the table: "tone deaf" -- at least according to a new Twitter account that appears to be from the group: |
… How we get back to a moral rebirth in this country, I don’t know, since we are slowly eroding religion at every opportunity that we have. Probably we should be debating a bill requiring every American to attend a church of their choice on Sunday to see if we can get back to having a moral rebirth. That would never be allowed. |
Agents working abroad for the Drug Enforcement Administration allegedly attended and participated in drug cartel-funded sex parties, according to a new report released Thursday by the Department of Justices inspector general. We were particularly troubled by multiple allegations involving several DEA special agents participating in sex parties with prostitutes while working in an overseas office, the report reads. The report says this type of agent misconduct took place for several years while some of the agents who participated held top-secret clearances, opening them up to potential extortion and coercion. Many of these agents were alleged to have engaged in this high-risk sexual behavior while at their government-leased quarters, raising the possibility that DEA equipment and information also may have been compromised as a result of the agents conduct, the report says. |
This guy is either the dumbest Ivy League bigwig ever or politically correct to a fault for welcoming offers to bring ISIS and Hamas to Cornell University. A video sting operation shows Cornells assistant dean for students, Joseph Scaffido, agreeing to everything suggested by an undercover muckraker posing as a Moroccan student. Scaffido casually endorses inviting an ISIS freedom fighter to conduct a training camp for students at the upstate Ithaca campus bizarrely likening the activity to a sports camp. Is it OK to bring a humanitarian pro-Islamic State Iraq and Syria group on campus, the undercover for conservative activist James OKeefes Project Veritas asks. Sure, Scaffido says in the recorded March 16 meeting. Scaffido doesnt even blink an eye when the undercover asks about providing material support for terrorists care packages, whether it be food, water, electronics. How about supporting Hamas? No problem at all, Scaffido said. |