James Madison one of the founding forefathers of the US said it a long time ago, and it is still true today.
"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy".
If you don't want that to happen, then you need to take back our country.
Tyranny and Oppression, yes slowly, subtlely and surely it is coming and you can see the first signs among the military, who at one point took vows and mentioned God, now they are not allowed to.
The video of what happened.
On April 3, 2016, at the retirement celebration of a colleague at Travis Air Force Base in California, retired Senior Master Sergeant Oscar Rodriguez, a 33-year veteran of the Air Force who had been invited to deliver the flag-folding speech, was assaulted and dragged out of the room by four uniformed airmen for mentioning God.
The “flag-folding speech” is given by service members at military and civic events, including retirement ceremonies. Traditionally, this speech explains the colors, symbols, and history of the flag, as well as makes reference to God, including, “Let us pray that God will reflect with admiration the willingness of one nation in her attempts to rid the world of tyranny, oppression, and misery. It is this one nation under God that we call, with honor, the United States of America.” The speech closes with, “God bless our flag. God bless our troops. God bless America.”
In 2005, the Pentagon under the George W. Bush Administration changed the speech to remove all references to God. But many service members prefer the traditional speech and request that version be given at their own retirement celebrations.
So it was with Master Sergeant Charles Roberson, who was retiring from active duty in the 749th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Travis. Roberson had heard Rodriguez give his stirring rendition of the traditional flag-folding speech and asked Rodriguez if he would give that speech at Roberson’s retirement celebration.According to a letter sent by First Liberty Institute, when the squadron’s commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Sovitsky, learned that Rodriguez would give the traditional speech mentioning God, he expressed his opposition and tried to block it.
Roberson asked Rodriguez to press forward, so the event went forward as planned. But as Rodriguez began his flag-folding speech, four uniformed airmen surrounded and forcibly seized him, then dragged him out of the room, with Rodriguez shouting out his speech over the heads of his assailants. Rodriguez’ assailants were not military police and had no lawful authority to arrest or detain any person, especially a private citizen like Rodriguez. Air Force personnel then expelled Rodriguez from the base entirely.
Rodriguez says, “It was one of the most humiliating experiences of my life. To have the Air Force assault me and drag me out of a retirement ceremony simply because my speech included the word ‘God’ is something I never expected from our military.”
Rodriguez has retained First Liberty Institute — the largest law firm in the United States exclusively dedicated to protecting religious liberty — as his legal counsel. First Liberty is representing Rodriguez entirely free of charge. Mike Berry, First Liberty’s director of military affairs, said, “Mr. Rodriguez has a constitutional right to free speech and religious expression, even on a military base. The military broke the law and abused its power. We expect the Air Force to hold those responsible accountable, and allow Mr. Rodriguez to continue honoring the flag and other veterans who have sacrificed for our country.”
Yesterday, June 19, 2016, First Liberty sent a letter to the U.S. Air Force and the commander of Travis Air Force Base, listing the various federal laws and provisions of the U.S. Constitution that the four airmen — acting as government agents — had violated by their actions, including the First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, and Fifth Amendment of the Bill of Rights. The letter demands that the Air Force isue a formal written apology to Rodriguez, containing the following:
◾An admission that Air Force personnel had violated Rodriguez’s civil rights.
◾A written promise that Rodriguez is welcome to return to the base and engage in legally protected speech.
◾A declaration that the Air Force will take “punitive action” against Rodriguez’s assailants who had violated his constitutional rights.
First Liberty Institute (FLI) is giving the Air Force seven days to meet these demands and apologize to Rodriguez, or FLI’s lawyers will file a federal civil-rights lawsuit in U.S. district court to seek justice for Rodriguez.
First Liberty Institute has set up two websites:
1.A website showing the videos and legal documents.
http://firstliberty.org/cases/rodriguez/
REMARKS: Yeah, dragged out and beaten by the military for wanting to mention God.
[Edited on 6/30/2016 by gina]
So what's going on with the military, plenty and none of it good.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/weekly-updates/major-jw-court-victory/#anc3
Air Force Academy Celebrates Witchcraft and Voodoo While Demeaning Christianity
There’s something seriously amiss in the United States Air Force Academy. We received documents from the Air Force Academy revealing that in 2014 and 2015, the Academy used its “Chapel Tithes and Offering Fund” to pay for cadets to participate in worship services featuring witchcraft, “Faery Magick,” and voodoo. The records reveal that the Air Force Academy paid to send cadets to a Wiccan festival in Denver in May 2014 and a Denver Witches Ball in October of the same year. The Tithes and Offering Fund, though funded by “free-will donations,” is also defined as “an instrumentality of the United States Government.” So, yes, all taxpayers have an interest in this issue. According to a promotional brochure obtained by Judicial Watch, a group called “Spiritual Programs in Religious Education” hosted events at the Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel Falcon Circle on the Academy campus. The Academy website describes Falcon Circle as “The worship area [for]… an umbrella of traditions that includes Wicca, Paganism and Druidism.”
The Air Force Academy documents were unearthed thanks to our intrepid investigators, who filed an October 8, 2015, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for:
Any and all records regarding, concerning or relating to “Earth-based” worship service events occurring at the [Air Force Academy] campus in the 2013/14 academic years, including but not limited to, programs, hand-outs, proposals, agreements, contracts, invoices, budget documents, and related materials. The response included an invoice from a vendor called “Living Earth,” indicating that in March 28, 2014, the Academy was billed $260 for “worship-supplies-fellowship” for activities described as a “Festival.” According to a purchase request, the $260 to pay Living Earth was drawn from the Academy’s Church Tithes and Offerings Fund under the accounting class “Wiccan.”
Chapel Tithes and Offering Funds were used to pay for registration and meals for two cadets to attend the May 10-11, 2014, “Earth Centered Beltania festival.” According to the Living Earth website, the Beltania Festival is “a retreat and festival for all who follow Earth-honoring religion or spiritual path.” At the festival, attendees are encouraged to “dance with ecstasy around the maypole,” “drum with the heartbeat of Mother Earth,” and “conjure Springtime within nature and yourself.” The documents also contained an October 24, 2014, purchase request for $120 for the Academy to send four cadets to the “23rd Annual Denver Witches Ball.” The ball was held at a masonic temple in Denver, and the four attendees were described in the purchase request as “Earth Centered/Pagan Cadets.”
The Air Force Academy documents also included an October 22, 2014, email from the DFGL [Distinctive Faith Group Leader] at the Air Force Academy to an Academy official who apparently had asked for copies of any advertisements for earth-based worship services in order to fulfill the Judicial Watch FOIA request. In the email, the Distinctive Faith Group Leader strongly argued that he/she had “not used any kind of advertising” to promote the pagan/wiccan/voodoo ceremonies in which Academy cadets participated.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/air-force-academy-witches/
You can download the documents and see the air force will pay for supplies to practice voodoo and other the other satanic religious rituals. The Orishas from Yorubaland in Nigeria are devil worshippers. Our tax dollars go to funding this. Our servicemen who may believe in God are forced to live, eat, and fight battles among their fellowservicemen and women who do such things. And you wonder why there is such a high suicide rate among the military. War is hell, but this on top of it? God is forbidden, but every other evil is welcomed, embraced and tax payer subsidized.
Who will this country be re-dedicated to? It will not be God.
[Edited on 6/30/2016 by gina]
WHAT COMES AFTER BREXIT
Since Britain has left the European Union many speculate as to what comes next. Even I did not see this coming. Former US Ambassador to Iraq, Christopher Hill, in an interview on CNN, is calling for the creation of a fully integrated, superstate for Europe. “The only way to make Europe more than the sum of member state diplomacies is to make it into a real state. Multi-level governance may be just about satisfactory for managing mountains of butter, but it is barely suitable for making decisions about guns.” – Christopher Hill European SUPERSTATE to be unveiled: EU nations ‘to be morphed into one’ post-Brexit
by Nick Gutteridge
The foreign ministers of France and Germany are due to reveal a blueprint to effectively do away with individual member states in what is being described as an “ultimatum”. Under the radical proposals EU countries will lose the right to have their own army, criminal law, taxation system or central bank, with all those powers being transferred to Brussels. Controversially member states would also lose what few controls they have left over their own borders, including the procedure for admitting and relocating refugees. The public broadcaster reports that the bombshell proposal will be presented to a meeting of the Visegrad group of countries – made up of Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia – by German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier later today.
Excerpts of the nine-page report were published today as the leaders of Germany, France and Italy met in Berlin for Brexit crisis talks. In the preamble to the text the two ministers write: “Our countries share a common destiny and a common set of values that give rise to an even closer union between our citizens. We will therefore strive for a political union in Europe and invite the next Europeans to participate in this venture.”
http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/683739/EU-referendum-German-French-European-superstate-Brexit
REMARKS: This is how it will start. Britain will have to join together with other states for fiscal survival, then when it is one big bloc they will say it is a good thing. It is not because state sovereignty will be lost. It will slowly start adding states and countries from Europe and new world order plan of one world governance, one world army, one world currency, one world leader begins to emerge. It does not happen overnight, but this is the start of that.
[Edited on 6/30/2016 by gina]
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AL QAIDA NEW WARNING TO AMERICA
There was a new video and warning to America that we would suffer the "gravest of consequences" if we execute the Boston Bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev or any other Muslim prisoner is executed. Legal wrangling over Tsarnaev's fate could play out for years or even decades. Just three of the 74 people sentenced to death in the United States for federal crimes since 1998 have been executed.
REMARKS: I really do not understand why Ayman issues this threat, other than the fact that the brothers were Muslims. Al Qaida did not send the Boston bombers, you recall the extensive coverage of that event in the thread related to the attack. Some of Dzokhar's relatives worked for the CIA and it is believed they tried to recruit him to go and spy on the Chechnyans. Mullah Omar disavowed the Boston attack, and disavowed the 9.11.01 attack and did not feel those attacks were correct acts of jihad. I agree with Mullah Omar, may God grant him rest and reward.
IRAN/ISRAEL
100,000 Qaem missiles in Lebanon trained on Israel: The IRGC's second-in-command, Brigadier General Hossein Salami, speaks during the pre-sermon address to worshippers at the weekly Friday Prayers in Tehran on July 1, 2016.
"Today, only in Lebanon, more than 100,000 Qaem missiles are ready for launch… so that any time the Zionist regime seeks to repeat its previous mistakes with miscalculations, these missiles would… come down on the heart of the Zionist regime and be the prelude for a big collapse in the modern era,” Brigadier General Hossein Salami, the second-in-command of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), said on the occasion of the International Quds Day in the pre-sermon address to worshippers at the weekly Friday Prayers in Tehran."
He added that tens of thousands of other long-range missiles with a diverse range of destructive power and great precision are based in different parts of the Muslim world and are ready to “wipe out one malevolent and black spot from the political geography forever.”
The IRGC's second-in-command, Brigadier General Hossein Salami, speaks during the pre-sermon address to worshippers at the weekly Friday Prayers in Tehran on July 1, 2016.
REMARKS: That is how they celebrated the end of Ramadan.
NATO/RUSSIA
The secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) says the Western military alliance will hold fresh talks with Russia next week. "We have decided together with Russia to hold a meeting of the NATO-Russia Council at ambassadorial level ... on 13 July at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, shortly after the NATO summit in Warsaw" later this week, Jens Stoltenberg said in a statement on Wednesday. He noted that NATO-Russia discussions will focus on “the crisis in and around Ukraine and the need to fully implement the Minsk (ceasefire agreements."
http://presstv.ir/Detail/2016/07/06/473930/Russia-NATO-Stoltenberg-Ukraine-crisis
REMARKS: Why is there so much concern about Russia? They are sending another warship to do battle against ISIS in Syria, and they have promised they will mobilize forces if Finland joins NATO.
http://presstv.ir/Detail/2016/07/02/473217/Russia-NATO-Finland-Putin-US
Russia is sending the flagship of its navy, the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier, to join the battle against the Daesh terrorist group in Syria. According to the TASS news agency, the ship will leave for the Mediterranean Sea in October and serve as a platform for carrying out airstrikes against the terrorists until at least February 2017.
http://presstv.ir/Detail/2016/07/02/473318/russia-navy-flagship-syria
The US has been practicing war games regarding the Ukraine. Conducted annually, Rapid Trident this year involves Ukraine, the United States, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Georgia, The United Kingdom, Moldova, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden and Turkey.
http://presstv.ir/Detail/2016/06/27/472387/Ukraine-NATO-military-drill-Russia--Rapid-Trident
NORTH KOREA/US
North Korea said Friday that the new US sanctions targeting its leader Kim Jong-Un amounted to a "declaration of a war" and vowed to take strong retaliatory measures. The move by the United States constituted "the worst-ever hostile act" and "an open declaration of a war" against the North, Pyongyang's foreign ministry said in a statement, carried by the official Korean Central News Agency. The US on Wednesday placed Kim on its sanctions blacklist, calling him directly responsible for a long list of serious human rights abuses. The sanctions are the first that name the country's "Supreme Leader", as well as the first targeting the reclusive state for rights violations.
Pyongyang, in its first response to the sanctions, urged Washington to withdraw them immediately, warning that the North would instantly cut off all diplomatic channels if they failed to do so. "The United States has dared to challenge the highest authority of ours, committing the worst-ever hostile act that goes beyond confrontation over the so-called human rights issue. This constitutes an open declaration of a war," the statement said.
"Now that the US has made a declaration of a war against us, all issues arising from relations with the US will forthwith be handled in accordance with DPRK's wartime laws," it said, using the official acronym for North Korea.
REMARKS: If we end up in a war with North Korea, there will either be no election. The current President maintain's his role as an emergency.
New Video from Hamza Bin Laden calls for the formation of an Army in Syria that will liberate Jerusalem as well as take revenge for the raid in Abbottabad. If there is to be a mega army, it would mean Al Qaida factions joining with ISIS.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/1138808/bin-ladens-son-threatens-revenge-fathers-assassination-monitor/
Paul Begley explains what this means from a prophecy standpoint.
TURKEY
Coup said to be happening.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/a-brief-history-of-coups-in-nato-nations/ar-BBunNQD?li=BBnb7Kz
Turkey has been accused of funneling money and weapons to Syria to ISIS, so we shall see what happens if there truly is a coup going on. Some people have said that the world financial crisis would first be visible by the following nations going under, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain. There has also been speculation that Deutsche Bank has failed or will fail very soon, and that will have implications for the US.
All this with the political conventions coming. We are in pivotal moments in America's future.
http://www.dailysabah.com/nation/2016/07/16/us-media-claims-ties-between-gu len-clinton
U.S.-based news website has claimed the movement of former imam Fethullah Gülen, who is wanted on charges of terrorism in Turkey, was in close contact with presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, according to the latter's personal email records.
The arch conservative Daily Caller referred to emails disclosed by Judicial Watch, a conservative foundation that was behind a lawsuit over Clinton's use of a personal email account for official correspondence while serving as secretary of state. A 2009 message by Gökhan Özkök, an alleged Gülenist, asked Clinton's then deputy chief of staff Huma Abedin to arrange a meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, a former secretary-general of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, during a visit by Obama to Turkey. The Daily Caller claims Özkök was among donors to Clinton's past campaigns as well as board member of a Gülen-linked foundation and businesses, and a meeting between İhsanoğlu and Obama did take place.
Another link between the two, according to the Daily Caller, is a Gülen-affiliated group that hired a lobbying firm that worked for Clinton. It says the Alliance For Shared Values hired the Clinton-connected Podesta Group to lobby Congress on its behalf.
The same website claimed last year that Gülen's followers donated to Clinton's various political campaigns with individual donations of up to $1 million.
Comment: Don't ask me what it means. Mighta just been a coincidence.
[Edited on 7/21/2016 by gina]
UPDATE On Turkey - it was an attempted coup by a faction of the military.
http://www.dailysabah.com/ankara/2016/07/16/two-loud-explosions-heard-in-capital-ankara
Military helicopters also attacked the headquarters of TURKSAT satellite station and the National Intellegence Agency. Earlier tanks had opened fire around the parliament building in Ankara while gunfire was also heard at Atatürk airport in Istanbul.
This is the group believed to be behind the attempted coup.
http://www.dailysabah.com/investigations/2016/07/15/turkish-military-investigates-suspected-gulenist-personnel
https://twitter.com/anadoluagency
AFTERMATH - Turkey considering implementing the death penalty, world leaders have asked them not to. They still have many people detained for working with those plotting to overthrow the govt.
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2016/07/18/Erdogan-to-cons ider-reinstating-death-penalty-.html
News channels also reported the number of police removed from duty stood at 8,777, amid what is seen as a purge of state structures. Turkey also detained a total of 103 generals and admirals, state media said. 3,000 judges and prosecutors who had sometimes blocked Erdogan's requests were also purged. On Monday, Ankara sacked 1,500 financial ministry staff believed to have ties to US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen and his network of supporters.
AND Erdogan is demanding the cleric that is exiled and living in the US.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2016/jul/15/turkey-coup-attempt-mili tary-gunfire-ankara
Aftermath 7.20.16
Turkey will remain in a State of Emergency for three months to settle issues raised during the failed coup attempt.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/turkish-leader-declares-state-of-emerge ncy-after-failed-coup/ar-BBuzSiA?li=BBnbcA1
6.000 were jailed after the coup attempt. Cracking down on alleged subversives in education, Turkey also said Wednesday that it would close more than 600 private schools and dormitories following the attempted coup, spurring fears that the state's move against perceived enemies is throwing key institutions in the NATO ally into disarray.
Erdogan's government said it has fired nearly 22,000 education ministry workers, mostly teachers, taken steps to revoke the licenses of 21,000 other teachers at private schools and sacked or detained half a dozen university presidents in a campaign to root out alleged supporters of a U.S.-based Muslim cleric blamed for the botched insurrection on Friday
In other moves against education, Turkey demanded the resignations of 1,577 university deans and halted foreign assignments for state-employed academics. A total of 50,000 civil service employees have been fired in the purges, which have reached Turkey's national intelligence service and the prime minister's office. The government has also revoked the press credentials of 34 journalists. Authorities have rounded up about 9,000 people - including 115 generals, 350 officers, 4,800 other military personnel and 60 military high school students - for alleged involvement in the coup attempt. Turkey's defense ministry has also sacked at least 262 military court judges and prosecutors, according to Turkish media reports.
7.23.16 Update - Nephew of cleric accused with masterminding the coup arrested.
Turkish security forces have arrested a nephew of US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen who is blamed for masterminding last weekend’s failed military coup. Muhammad Saitd Gulen was arrested in the northeastern city of Erzurum on Saturday and will be sent to the capital, Ankara, for questioning, local media reported.
http://presstv.ir/Detail/2016/07/23/476601/Turkey-Gulen-nephew-Muhammad-Saitd-Gulen-coup-attempt
Turkey's EU Minister and Chief Negotiator Ömer Çelik on Saturday said that Fethullah Gülen, the mastermind behind the failed coup attempt, is more dangerous than Osama bin Laden.
[Edited on 7/23/2016 by gina]
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FRANCE - An explanation as to why they keep being attacked.
1. From sub-Saharan Africa to the Middle East, France is in the front line of the fight against radical Islamist groups. It is the second biggest contributor to US-led airstrikes against Daesh in Iraq and Syria.
2. France's strict secular laws which ban the Islamic veil in schools and covering the face in public have outraged Islamic hardliners, according to religious historian Odon Vallet.But "history is also a hidden reason", Vallet said, pointing out France's "role in the break up of the Ottoman empire" in 1920 which led to the end of the caliphate. The Sykes-Picot agreement that carved up Iraq and Syria between France and Britain is often cited by Daesh as the root of the region's problems.
3. Social and ethnic apartheid - France is home to the biggest Muslim community in Europe, estimated at five million people.Most are descended from families from the country's former northern African colonies, with which France has a painful shared history, with hundreds of thousands dying during the Algerian war of independence. Prime Minister Manuel Valls went as far as to talk of "a territorial, social and ethnic apartheid" on some of the estates that exploded into three weeks of rioting in 2005.
4. Homegrown Fighters - As many as 600 French citizens have rallied to the Daesh flag in Iraq and Syria as well as many French-speaking Tunisians and Moroccans. Returning fighters "can slip very easily into the country", said Patrick Calvar, head of the French domestic intelligence agency. "There are multiple targets and the terrorists can strike at the easy ones."
5. Weakened govt. - Just as security experts say France is the Western country most at threat from attack, the authority of its Socialist government is wavering as a 2017 presidential election looms. Francois Hollande is one of the most unpopular French presidents on record and, as in other European countries, the far-right is on the rise.
Remarks: So a beautiful country, with freedom loving people will continue to face attacks from Isis. Even during Sarkozy's regime, things were not better, he wanted to stop allowing Muslims into the country to counter the threats, he said their values were not those of the French people so he did not want them there. At some point countries who face ongoing attacks will have to take actions the rest of the world will question, just to have security in their own lands.
UPDATES:
7.23.16
http://presstv.ir/Detail/2016/07/22/476400/France-Hollande-weapons-Daesh
President Francois Hollande says France will supply Iraqi forces with weapons in the fight against the Takfiri Daesh terrorists. Following a meeting with a group of ministers and heads of the security forces on Friday, the French president said, "This morning at the defense council, I took the decision as part of the anti-Daesh coalition to make weapons available to Iraqi forces." "They will be there next month," Hollande said, but he ruled out any French troop deployment in Iraq.
REMARKS: So France sends more weapons to Iraq, and Isis sends people to do attacks in France. Action-reaction.
France has also called on 12,000 reservists to help secure their country.
http://presstv.ir/Detail/2016/07/17/475547/France-Cazeneuve-operational-reserve-Cazeneuve
[Edited on 7/23/2016 by gina]
BRITAIN - New Prime Minister Theresa May made some disconcerting remarks regarding her willingness to use nuclear warheads.
British Prime Minister Theresa May says she would be ready to allow a nuclear strike that can result in the deaths of 100,000 people.
"May made the inflammatory remarks on Monday during a debate on whether to renew the country's Trident nuclear deterrent. Scottish National Party (SNP) MP George Kerevan intervened in her opening speech, asking, “Is she personally prepared to authorize a nuclear strike that can kill 100,000 innocent men, women and children?”
“Yes,” May said, adding “I have to say to the honorable gentleman the whole point of a deterrent is that our enemies need to know that we would be prepared to use it, unlike some suggestions that we could have a deterrent but not actually be willing to use it, which seem to come from the Labour party frontbench.”
http://presstv.ir/Detail/2016/07/18/475822/UK-Theresa-May-nuclear-program-Trident
IRAQ - The second in command of Isis has reportedly been killed in Northern Iraq.
http://presstv.ir/Detail/2016/07/23/476605/iraq-daesh-diyala-second-in-command
The second in command of the Daesh terrorist group has been killed in an Iraqi military operation the country’s eastern province of Diyala. According to a statement released by the Iraqi Defense Ministry on Saturday, Hisham Nassif Jassem al-Hayyali was killed during an ambush in the Abu Sayda region located to the province’s north.
REMARKS: Retribution probably to follow from Isis.
AFGHANISTAN - Attack in Kabul
Twin explosions tore through a demonstration by members of Afghanistan's mainly Shi'ite Hazara minority in Kabul on Saturday, 7.23.16 killing at least 80 people and wounding more than 230 in a suicide attack claimed by Islamic State. "Two fighters from Islamic State detonated explosive belts at a gathering of Shi'ites in the city of Kabul in Afghanistan," said a brief statement on the group's Amaq news agency. The worst previous attack against the Hazara was in December 2011, when more than 55 people were killed in Kabul during the Shi'ite festival of Ashura. That attack was claimed by a Pakistani Sunni militant group called Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (an Al Qaida offshoot organization).
Hazara's were peacefully protesting plans for power lines to be run thru their communities when Islamic State members carried out the attacks. THE Taliban said the Islamic States wants to start a civil war in Afghanistan.
Officials in Afghanistan's main intelligence agency, the National Directorate for Security (NDS), said the attack was planned by an individual named Abu Ali, an Islamic State militant they said was based in Achin district in Nangarhar
Saturday's demonstrators had been demanding that a 500 kV transmission line from Turkmenistan to Kabul be re-routed through two provinces with large Hazara populations, saying they feared being shut out of the project. The government said the project guaranteed ample power to the provinces, Bamyan and Wardak, which lie west of Kabul, and that altering the planned route would delay it by years and cost millions of dollars. But the resentment felt by many Hazaras runs deeper than simple questions of energy supply. The transmission line, intended to provide secure electricity to 10 provinces, is part of the so-called TUTAP project backed by the Asia Development Bank, linking energy-rich states of Central Asia with Afghanistan and Pakistan.
http://dailytimes.com.pk/world/24-Jul-16/islamic-state-takes-responsibility-of-kabul-attack-80-dead
REMARKS: None needed. The Islamic State can just do attacks anytime, anywhere they want inside Afghanistan, that in and of itself says more than enough.
[Edited on 7/24/2016 by gina]
PALESTINE FILING CRIMINAL CASE AGAINST BRITAIN FOR BALFOUR DECLARATION
That's right, it seems almost unbelievable that this is happening now, while Britain has enough of it's own problems. But the timing, right after they leave the European Union who could have provided some, even if only moral support to them.
Palestine says it is planning to lodge a complaint against Britain for its 1917 Balfour Declaration that paved the way for the occupation of Palestinian lands and the creation of Israeli on the occupied territories. The declaration set the stage for the Nakba (Catastrophe) Day that refers to the 1948 Palestinian exodus when more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were expelled from their homes by Israel during the 1948 Palestine war. Speaking on behalf of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Maliki called on the Arab League to assist Palestinians in bringing a criminal case against the UK.
"Almost a century has passed since 1917," he said, adding, "We are working to open up an international criminal case for the crime which they committed against our nation – from the days of the British Mandate all the way to the massacre which was carried out against us from 1948 onwards.”
In November 2012, the United Nations General Assembly voted to upgrade Palestine’s status at the UN from “non-member observer entity” to “non-member observer state” despite strong opposition from Israel and the US.
That status empowered the Palestinians to achieve membership in UN bodies and treaties. The Palestinians also joined the International Criminal Court in 2015. The Palestinians are seeking to create an independent state on the territories of the West Bank, East Jerusalem al-Quds and the Gaza Strip. They are also demanding that Israel withdraw from the Palestinian lands occupied in a 1967 war.
http://presstv.ir/Detail/2016/07/26/477056/Palestine-Israel-Riyad-Maliki-Balfour
Remarks: One has to wonder if this was the goal of applying for the 'non member observer state' with the UN. Being recognized as a state, while not a member of the United Nations. In addition to that the non member observer state status also gives them the right to bring incidents of war crimes to the International Court for review and action. God never wanted two separate states, he wanted one where ALL people could live in peace, but the differences between the Israelis and the Palestinians will not be solved until Jesus returns and a lot of wars happen prior to that.
[Edited on 7/26/2016 by gina]
SYRIA
Jabhat al Nusra has formally split from Al Qaida, with Al Qaida acknowledging their departure.
In a rare televised message on Thursday, Nusra chief in Syria Abu Mohamad al-Jolani said his group will be rebranded and will end connections with entities outside Syria. Jolani said Nusra would change its name to Jabhat Fath al-Sham (The Conquest of Syria Front), saying the new group “will have no links whatsoever with foreign parties.” He said Nusra took the step “to remove the excuse used by the international community, spearheaded by America and Russia, that they are targeting the Nusra Front, which is associated with al-Qaeda.”
Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahri said Thursday that Nusra leaders “can sacrifice without hesitation” the organizational and party ties if those links conflict with their unity and working. “Your unity and unification is more important to us than any organizational link,” said Zawahri. "We direct the leadership of Al-Nusra Front to go ahead with what preserves the good of Islam and the Muslims, and protects the jihad of the Syrian people," Ahmed Hassan Abu al-Khayr said in an audio message released online by Al-Nusra. "We urge them to take the appropriate steps towards this matter," said Abu al-Khayr, who was identified as a deputy of Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri
Meanwhile France has been advocating more action against Jabhat al Nusra since early July. Russia really does not want to get involved with it. Hezbollah fighters (Shiites from Lebanon) have been fighting against them, aligning themselves with the Syrian Army.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/07/28/477378/Syria-Nusra-Qaeda-Jolani
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/07/10/474422/hollande-syria-daesh-alnusra
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/07/07/474057/Syria-Hezbollah-Qalamoun-Nusra-front-Daesh
What is important to also be mindful of is that Nusra is NOT with Isis. They are in opposition to them. BUT, back in May Dr. Zawahiri told fighters he wanted them to unify in Syria. We have to want the unity of the Mujahideen in Sham (Syria) so it will be liberated from the Russians and Western crusaders. My brothers ... the matter of unity is a matter of life or death for you,” Zawahri said. In January, Nusra Front tried unsuccessfully to convince rival Islamist factions to merge into one unit, including the powerful Ahrar al-Sham. Zawahri also emphasized once again the ideological divide between al-Qaeda and ISIS, which is fighting a Western-led coalition and Russian forces while also clashing with Western-backed rebels and the Syrian army. Dr. Zawahiri described Isis as “extremists and renegades” whose followers would eventually disavow their beliefs and method.
REMARKS: So what is going on over there in Syria? Jabhat Fath al Sham are a group of fighters with their own beliefs, I do not believe they would go along with Isis tactics in terms of how their caliphate would be run. While no country admits going along with the things Isis does, there are states that are funding them. Al Qaida wants unity in Syria, but even they do not agree with Isis, so it is unclear how they think unity can be achieved, unless he means the other groups.
[Edited on 7/28/2016 by gina]
NORTH KOREA
orth Korea's top diplomat for U.S. affairs told The Associated Press on Thursday that Washington "crossed the red line" and effectively declared war by putting leader Kim Jong Un on its list of sanctioned individuals, and said a vicious showdown could erupt if the U.S. andSouth Korea hold annual war games as planned next month.
Han Song Ryol, director-general of the U.S. affairs department at the North's Foreign Ministry, said in an interview that recent U.S. actions have put the situation on the Korean Peninsula on a war footing.
"The Obama administration went so far to have the impudence to challenge the supreme dignity of the DPRK in order to get rid of its unfavorable position during the political and military showdown with the DPRK," Han said, using the acronym for North Korea's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
REMARKS: Kim Jung Un likes Trump, maybe you should consider voting for Trump, otherwise the actions the Democrats keep taking, like personally listing Kim Jung Un in sanctions CAN lead us into war with North Korea. The US keeps on provoking them.
[Edited on 7/28/2016 by gina]
FRANCE
France has shut down about 20 mosques and prayer halls as part of the country's fight against “radicalization,” the country's interior minister says. And there will be more.
The state of emergency has been extended for six months due to the attacks in Nice.
http://presstv.ir/Detail/2016/07/20/476025/France-National-Assembly-state-of-emergency-Nice-attack
They are also forming a National Guard to help defend against future terror attacks.
French President Francois Hollande has announced the creation of a National Guard, in the wake of a series of terrorist attacks, including the murder of a Normandy priest, in the European country.
http://presstv.ir/Detail/2016/07/28/477325/France-Hollande-Daesh-terror-attack
REMARKS: Most would not question or criticize any action France takes given the seriousness of the attacks they have suffered there. We do have to wonder if we are looking at the future of what will happen here, where masjids (mosques) will be shut down, and if the issue of religion and
defining acceptable standards for different religions comes up. France is saying no they will not accept the Saudi Wahhabi Sunni Islam. Saudi will say, no they are not extremists, there are just some groups who take things too far. The problem is secularists judging religion and saying what is right or wrong with any religion. Most the Muslims do not align with Isis, yet they believe they are correct in their version of Islam. What will America's answer to Islam become? People have criticized Trump for wanting to investigate and monitor what is going on in the masjids in America, well France has done this and has determined some of the masjids were a threat to their security, will that same thing happen here? Is this what it will come to?
[Edited on 8/1/2016 by gina]
PAKISTAN
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar ("Assembly of the Free") is a militant Sunni Islamic group that split away from the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan in August 2014. They are aligned with Isis in terms of ideology. In September 2014, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan chief Mullah Fazlullah ousted Mohmand Agency chief Omar Khalid Khorasani (former leader of Ahrar-ul-Hind). Omar Khalid Khorasani and his associates in Mohmand Agency had accused the TTP leadership of deviating from the TTP ideology, leading to the formation of splinter group TTP Jamaat-ul-Ahrar.
The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan was effectively divided into two factions. The original TTP is headed by Maulana Fazlullah, who was elected in November 2013 following the assassination of ex-chief Hakimullah Mehsud in a U.S. drone strike. They have not conducted the attacks occurring in Pakistan.
In February 2014, Ahrar-ul-Hind, headed by Maulana Umar Qasmi (former leader in the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi) was formed after TTP opened peace talks with the Pakistani government. It later merged into Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a second splinter group that broke away from Tehreek-i-Taliban in Pakistan on 4 September 2014, and named Omar Khalid Khorasani as its commander. Some of the original TTP Taliban, like Ehsanullah Ehsan went with this group.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/11/isis-now-has-military-allies-in-11-countries.html
Isis has a military network in at least 11 countries.
The attacks in Pakistan were carried out targeting the head of the Pakistani Bar and lawyers who are carrying out implementation of secular law (democratic laws). Jamaat ul Ahrar, like Isis only recognizes Sharia law as the legitamite form of governance. What the combined US led and Pakistani allowed war on terror did was destabilize the groups in Pakistan which has allowed Isis to gain a foothold as well as the allegiance of former Tehrik I Taliban fighters and Commanders. Balochistan is also the place of oil, lots of oil that the US and it's allied partners wants to help manage, the same way we wanted to help the Afghan Taliban manage their oil reserves in the Caspian Sea and when they chose to go with Bridas instead of Sun Oil, they were told "take this offer on this carpet of gold or get it on a carpet of bombs". [this was prior to 9.11.01] . Well we know how that worked out. The outcome of the fight for Balochistan will not work out well for Pakistan, the US or it's allied investor partners.
By S. Mudassir Ali Shah,
Aug 09, 2016 - 01:48
PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): Seventy people including protesting lawyers were killed and more than 110 others wounded in a suicide bombing inside the main hospital in Pakistaninfo-icon’s southwestern Balochistan province on Monday. Followed by gunfire, the explosion rocked the Quetta Civil Hospital, where lawyers had gathered after Balochistan Bar Association President Bilal Anwar Kasi was gunned down by unidentified assailants.
http://www.pajhwok.com/en/2016/08/09/70-dead-112-injured-attack-quetta-hospital
Police said most of the victims were lawyers who had gathered at Civil Hospital to honor Kasi, who was gunned down by unknown assailants on his way to Quetta’s main court complex. Mohammad Din Kakar, one of the lawyers at the hospital gate, told RFE/RL that he had come to grieve for Kasi and was caught in the blast: As many as 200 people had gathered at the hospital to pay respects to Kasi when the suicide bomber struck.
http://www.rferl.org/content/pakistan-quetta-hospital-blast/27906993.html
Chief Minister Sanaullah Zehri claimed that the Indian spy agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) involved in the attack. He added that it was a suicide attack. Zehri said that the terrorists were attacking soft targets. "Even in times of war no one attacks a hospital," he said, adding that they will root out terrorists. The chief minister could not provide a death toll for the attack, but said that over 40 have been injured.
[Edited on 8/9/2016 by gina]
ISIS Recruiting Maids for Reconaissance and Operations
Yes, when you thought there was nothing more shocking than recruiting, abducting young women to use as sex slaves, now there is a new twist. They hire maids from the Phillipines and elsewhere and give them tasks related to future attacks, when the time is right they use them in the attacks.
Remarks: Part of the danger of Isis is their logistical strategy. It is ever changing. They need pictures of a location they later plan to bomb, so they send seemingly unsuspecting women to take pictures. Kuwaiti, Saudi, Phillipine women. Indonesian maids are common in Saudi, so it is not a problem to move them thru the middle east. They look at a task and think about different ways to achieve results. It is no longer just fighters doing the work for them. One also has to wonder if they have enough money that they actually have maids working for them as housemaids. This is a sick war.
NIGERIA
The girls that Boko Haram abducted appeared in a new video asking the same thing the Boko Haram members are asking for, they want to be prisoner swapped.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/14/boko-haram-releases-video-chibok-schoolgirls-nigeria
In the video, a masked man holding a gun tells the government that the militant group, which has murdered, raped and kidnapped thousands of people in north east Nigeria, would only release the Chibok girls in return for the release of imprisoned Boko Haram fighters.
Of the 276 girls taken from their dormitories in April 2014, 217 are still missing.
“To our parents – please be patient,” Yakubu said. “There is no kind of suffering we haven’t seen. Our sisters are injured, some of them have wounds on their heads and bodies. Tell the government to give them [Boko Haram] their people, so we can come home to you. “We are all children. We don’t know what to do. The suffering is too much. Please try. We have been patient. The only thing that can be done is to give them their people so we can go home.”
“They should know that their children are still in our hands,” he said, his face wrapped in camouflage cloth. Forty of the Chibok girls had been married, the fighter added, letting go of his gun only to wag his finger at the camera and hold a microphone under Yakubu’s chin.
Don’t waste time – release our members in custody and we will release the girls,” he said.
He was reiterating a demand made in the first video of the girls, released a month after their capture. “I abducted your girls and I will sell them in the market,” Boko Haram’s then undisputed leader, Abubakar Shekau, said in the video.
Nigeria’s minister of information, Lai Mohammed, said the government was in contact with those behind the video and working to secure the girls’ release.
“We are on top of the situation,” he said. “But we are being extremely careful, because the situation has been compounded by the split in the leadership of Boko Haram. We are also being guided by the need to ensure the safety of the girls. “Since this is not the first time we have been contacted over the issue, we want to be doubly sure that those we are in touch with are who they claim to be.”
REMARKS: Let's hope the Nigerian govt. does the prisoner swap. They owe it to their citizens to do everything in their power to secure the girls release. Their constitutents are the parents of those children, they cannot just say 'we don't negotiate with terrorists' which would be a death sentence or slavery sentence to the girls if they were sold.
Interesting Trivia from Rio
http://dailytimes.com.pk/world/18-Aug-16/bar-named-after-bin-laden-as-owner-resembles-osama
NEW YORK: Brazil’s Olympic city also hosts a watering hole named after Osama bin Laden, according to a story in The New York Times. “It’s named after Osama bin Laden – the founder of Al Qaeda – because the bar’s owner’s long-bearded appearance bears a resemblance to the mastermind of the September 2001 attacks,” NYT said in its Wednesday issue.
“After September 11, everyone starting calling me Bin Laden for obvious reasons,” said the owner, José Felipe de Araújo, “The nickname stuck, so I decided to use it to my advantage.” The report said the 60-year-old Araújo – a former manual labourer who opened his establishment more than a decade ago – receives customers from around the globe with plates of grilled sirloin, pizzas and tall bottles of Antarctica beer served cold, as is the custom in Rio de Janeiro.
Customers come until past midnight during the Games in Rio’s bar – which is not the only one named after the Al-Qaeda founder in Brazil. Another joint by the same name has built up a steady clientele in São Paulo, NYT said.
Remarks: I did not know he is regarded like that in Rio, but I think if there were any Americans who walked in that bar and saw this man, they might drink heavily.
[Edited on 8/19/2016 by gina]
SYRIA
Russia has been launching missiles from a warship in the Persian Gulf inside Syria at Al Nusra fighters.
One of the children caught in the war is a five year old named Omran Daqneesh. The United Nations estimates that over 400,000 people have so far been killed in the conflict.
SEAL TEAM SIX AUTHOR FORFEIGHTS PROFITS FROM THE BOOK ABOUT THE ABBOTTABAD RAID
IN PAKISTAN.
Matt Bissonnette, a former member of Navy SEAL Team 6 who wrote an account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, agreed on Friday to forfeit $6.8 million in book royalties and speaking fees and apologized for failing to clear his disclosures with the Pentagon, according to federal court documents.
Mr. Bissonnette also recently forfeited $180,000 in fees for consulting work that he did for military contractors while he was still on the SEAL team, his lawyer, Robert D. Luskin, said in an interview.
If approved by a federal judge in Alexandria, Va., the royalty settlement would bring an end to more than two years of civil and criminal investigations into Mr. Bissonnette, who won several awards for valor in Iraq and Afghanistan before writing “No Easy Day,” his best-selling book on the Bin Laden raid, under the pen name Mark Owen.
REMARKS: Yes for once, no comment.
FRANCE
Since the reign of President Sarkozy, France has taken a stance against Muslims, and has tried to pre-empt those they believe are following the religion too strictly. In it's latest move, they have banned the burquini, the a Muslim designed answer to the bikini. The burkini in contrast to it's predecessor, covers the woman's body, so that she can swim and not reveal any flesh. Their reasonsing and rationale is:
"Nice's deputy mayor Christian Estrosi, from the centre-right Republicans party, wrote in a letter to Prime Minister Manuel Valls Tuesday that "hiding the face or wearing a full-body costume to go to the beach is not in keeping with our ideal of social relations". Valls came under fire after saying Wednesday that the burkini was "not compatible with the values of France and the Republic".
They are telling the Muslims, that their faith is not in accordance with the values and customs of the Frensh people and they really do not want it in their country. They are one of the few countries bold enough to say this. Other countries argue back and forth about religious freedom etc. France just says no. Is this what will happen in other countries who eventually ban the religion due to the attacks/acts of others? People need to think about that.
SYRIA - Lebanese Shiites, Hezbollah have sought to bury the hatchet and seek peace with Wahabbi Sunnis in Syria, namely ISIS. That's right Sheikh Nasrullah is seeking reconciliation with Isis.
When senior Hezbollah figure Mustafa Badreddine was killed in Syria, the Lebanese party quoted him as saying: “I’ll return from Syria either as a martyr or crowned with victory, or I won’t return at all.” He did not achieve victory in Syria. It seems Nasrallah feels that the end of the Syrian adventure is near, whether his party leaves the battlefield or not. Syria will not offer any victory at all. He is fully aware that he will not leave the battlefield the way he entered it. However, Sunnis who want revenge against Hezbollah outnumber those who seek more reasonable solutions, because the party has a lot of blood on its hands in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.
Before the battle for Aleppo, Hezbollah’s motto was: “Either a martyr or a winner.” Now it seems more like: “A martyr either way.”
REMARKS: With Russia fighting against the Syrian rebels, with Saudi saying they were willing to send in ground troops if needed, and with France, Germany assisting the US in it's efforts against Isis, the multi lateral assault on the country has been without let-up. With an estimated 400,000 fatalities, the strategies on the ground and battlefield have to change from the idyllic time when Isis sought to make it a caliphate that would eventually extend beyond the Syrian borders, till eventually they become the army that is unstopple and re-takes Jerusalem (Al Quds). Isis may very well decide to accept the reconciliation effort as many groups did in Iraq to fight the common non-Muslim enemy, the US whom they saw as invading and conquering their lands. Bashar al Assad has not conceded defeat, so the war goes on and on.
ISIS Turkish Attack
ISTANBUL: Daesh terrorists used a child suicide bomber in an attack that killed at least 51 people and wounded nearly 70 others at a Kurdish wedding party near Turkey’s border with Syria, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday. He decried the attack as an attempt by Daesh extremists to destabilize the nation by exploiting ethnic and religious tensions. The bombing late Saturday in Gaziantep was the deadliest attack in Turkey this year. The pro-Kurdish political party HDP condemned the attack on the wedding, which it said was attended by many of its party members. It said in a statement that it was “quite significant” that the attack, which it also blamed on Daesh, came only hours after the Kurdistan Communities Union, a militant liberation organization that includes the PKK, announced plans to try to negotiate to end a three-decade conflict between Kurdish militants and the Turkish government.
http://www.arabnews.com/node/973081/middle-east
REMARKS: Peaceful reconciliation and resolution to the Syrian conflict? Not likely anytime soon.
SCOTLAND Allows Their Female Cops to Wear the Hijab
At a time when France and other countries try to ban the hijab, Scotland is allowing their female Muslim officers to wear it, so that they can represent the communities they serve in.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-37166422
Remarks: Wow, they look sharp!
HUNGARY
Hungary's response to refugees and asylum seekers has been to build a wall. Now while Trump has been criticized for his idea to build a wall between the US and Mexico, the wall Hungary built, looks more like a prison fence, and add to that they will have armed police officers manning it to stop the flow of anyone wanting to come into their country.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/08/26/481837/Hungary-refugees-barrier-Serbia
Remarks: Bottom line is, a country can do whatever it wants to in order to secure and protect it's borders. The question must then be asked, why haven't we done anything in all these years except have committees debate?
