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Only, you don't get to see anything except the back of the head in front of you and to do this you have to be trained in the Art of Fighting for your Space in a Crowd, else you get elbowed and pushed and shoved until you pop out of the back of the crowd like a champagne cork. So most people forego going into Dublin for... |
This was the tradition we followed yesterday, Hubby and I (after going for a breakfast run on our bikes in the morning because it was one of those rare St Patrick's Days when the sun was shining on the Emerald Isle). For the rest of the afternoon pub grub and too much beer was the order of the day, in an old country pu... |
'Twas a grand day indeed :-) |
Tuesday, March 28, 2017 |
28-Mar-17: The US can end the Palestinian Arab bureaucracy of terror |
Each one a convicted murderer, the Tamimi couple (photographed last week |
in their home) live in comfort and style today in Amman, Jordan, a lifestyle |
funded to a significant extent by the Palestinian Authority's Pay-to-Slay |
(Rewards for Terror) payment scheme. Though most don't realize it, a large |
percentage of our blog's readers finance this through their taxes. |
[Image Source: Al Jazeera] |
An editorial in yesterday's Wall Street Journal mentions the obscenely fat payments ("several times the average Palestinian wage") made monthly by the Mahmoud Abbas regime to the family of a now-deceased Palestinian Arab terrorist thug. |
The circumstances behind those payments ought to be better known than they are: the money flows specifically because the knife-man murdered a young US vet who happened to be jogging on Tel Aviv's sea shore a year ago ["09-Mar-16: News reporting and how it ensures more terror"]. |
There are thousands of similar such recipients. Every single month. Eight percent of the entire PA budget is devoted to the payment of what the PA insists be called "salaries", not welfare payments. The Abbas regime is chronically unable to meet its financial obligations but reiterates over and again [source] that the ... |
Two key points: |
• The money that enables this sick and provocative payments arrangement (we have long referred to it here as the PA Rewards for Terror scheme) comes from Western countries who donate foreign aid to the Abbas/Fatah/PLO regime. The United States figures prominently among the scheme's financiers. So does the European Un... |
• The same scheme provided our daughter's murderer with a huge payday when she was prematurely released from Israeli prison where she had been sentenced to 16 terms of life imprisonment. The man she married some months later ["22-Jun-12: A wedding and what came before it"], also a convicted murderer sentenced to a li... |
Pay for Slay in Palestine | U.S. aid becomes a transfer payment for terrorists. |
Wall Street Journal Editorial | March 27, 2017 | 6:26 p.m. ET |
Republicans in Congress want to stop the flow of hundreds of millions of dollars a year in U.S. aid to a state sponsor of terrorism: the Palestinian Authority. That’s the same PA that the U.S. and Israel have long supported as a partner for peace. But the PA is no such thing, so this is a chance to bring policy into li... |
The effort highlights a scandal hiding in plain sight: PA officials tell foreign audiences that they oppose terrorism, yet they pay generous rewards to Palestinians who carry out bombings, stabbings and other attacks against innocents in Israel. These payments are codified in Palestinian law, which dictates that the de... |
Beneficiaries include the family of Bashar Masalha, who last year stabbed 11 people near Tel Aviv and killed 28-year-old Taylor Force, a U.S. Army veteran visiting Israel on a break from business school. Police killed Masalha, but his relatives now receive monthly payments equal to several times the average Palestinian... |
The U.S. has effectively endorsed this message by sending billions of dollars to the PA while overlooking its pay-for-slay policy. But now the Taylor Force Act promises to cut more than $200 million in annual economic aid to the PA unless it stops paying terrorists. “We’re not going to invest in a group of people that ... |
The legislation faces hurdles because some Democrats and Israelis argue that cutting aid could cause the PA to collapse, inviting chaos and a possible takeover of the West Bank by Hamas, which already controls the Gaza Strip. By this logic the PA is the devil we know, and its support for small-scale terrorism must be b... |
These are real concerns, but the PA and its defenders have a long history of threatening collapse to avoid reform. This is one reason 81-year-old PA President Mahmoud Abbas is in the 13th year of a four-year term, still rewarding terrorism. It’s also why Israeli security veterans increasingly support action against the... |
“Pressuring the PA to end its ‘murder for hire’ policy is accompanied by political and security risks, but moral rectitude often entails facing dangers,” former Israeli army chief Moshe Ya’alon and military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin wrote this month. Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman recently designated the Palest... |
President Trump hasn’t commented on the Taylor Force Act, but Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats co-sponsored the original bill in the Senate last year. A White House endorsement would be timely as Mr. Trump has invited Mr. Abbas to Washington “in the near future.” |
Whenever that meeting happens, ending the PA’s bureaucracy of terror should be atop the agenda. |
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The Invisible Fan said... |
For the sake of your daughter Malik & all other such victims I hope the Taylor Force Act becomes law. |
Cannibal Couple confess to killing and eating 30 people |
russian couple cannibal confessed eating and killing 30 people |
Cannibal – A Russian couple from Krasnodar have some very weird eating habits. Dmitry Bakshaev and his wife confessed to the Police that they killed and ate 30 people. |
Police found out about the gruesome couple when Dmitry was caught with pictures on his cell phone posing with chopped limbs and a head, reports RT. There was also a picture dating back to 1999 of a severed head served with oranges on a plate. |
At the same time, in the basement of a military school a bucket containing eight body parts and a woman’s purse was found. Also, at least nineteen different skin parts have been discovered. The man had access to the military building because he worked there. |
to the police, Dmitry confessed that he and his wife have been eating people for over eighteen years after confronting him with the pictures they found on his phone. The couple killed the people and stashed the body parts in the fridge and in pots to conserve the meat. The two used the drug Corvalol to drowsy their vic... |
Dmitry and his wife Natalia are both main suspects in the investigation. Natalia worked at the military academy, just like her husband. The two would live together in a hostel. According to local sources, however, she is one of the victims in this case. |
Read also: Serial killer who sold victims like BBQ meat found dead in cell |
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Sometimes it seems like you just can't win. For example, on one hand, Republicans criticize President Obama for not being more specific about the spending he would reduce to avoid sequestration, across-the-board budget cuts. On the other hand, they criticize him for being too specific about what he wants immigration re... |
This week's most vocal critic on immigration has been Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who has joined a group of eight Republican and Democratic senators working on reform legislation. But Rubio's harsh words for Obama's ideas seem more about him recapturing his footing among conservatives who oppose reform. |
A Miami Herald analysis of Obama's proposals, which were leaked to that newspaper and other media outlets, showed little contrast to what Rubio has said he would support -- including a pathway to citizenship for currently undocumented residents and beefed-up border security. |
But their similar positions didn't stop Rubio from declaring that if Obama's proposals are ever presented as legislation, they would be "dead on arrival," adding that the president's ideas "would actually make our immigration problems worse." |
The response was disappointing. Perhaps Rubio, who may be a 2016 presidential candidate, felt he had to appease reform skeptics, who had considered him one of them. After all, only three years ago, Rubio was saying there shouldn't be a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. |
His change in position was apparently part of the Republican Party's acknowledgment that it can't be successful in national elections without more support from Hispanic voters. So Rubio's criticism looks like he is trying to have his cake and eat it, too, by supporting reform while criticizing anything Obama proposes. |
That's fine, if in the end there is real reform, but it's a hell of a way to get things done. Americans keep saying they're tired of the partisan games that prevent their elected officials from saying what they mean and supporting what is right, no matter who proposes it. But the politicians still haven't gotten that m... |
Indeed, what was the point of "unofficially" leaking Obama's immigration plan? Was the White House surreptitiously trying to give Rubio some ammo to help him maintain ties with conservative lawmakers whose votes will be needed to pass reform? |
The administration said its proposals won't be offered unless the senators can't agree on legislation. But the fact that Rubio's ideas and Obama's are so similar suggests agreement can be reached, if partisan politics can be kept at bay. |
EU foreign ministers must bite the bullet and extend the arms embargo on Syria |
EU Foreign Ministers meeting on Monday (May 27) in Brussels should extend the existing arms embargo on Syria or risk making the situation for civilians in the country even worse, according to international aid agency Oxfam. |
The humanitarian agency says failure to extend the EU arms embargo at the end of the month would be ‘irresponsible’ and could scupper the fragile glimmer of hope for progress offered by the US-Russian peace summit scheduled for June 12. |
Oxfam’s Head of Arms Control Anna Macdonald says: “Allowing the EU arms embargo to end could have devastating consequences. There are no easy answers when trying to stop the bloodshed in Syria, but sending more arms and ammunition clearly isn't one of them. International efforts should be focused on halting arms transf... |
“There are serious risks arms could be used to commit human rights violations. And the risks of diversion of weapons and the likely humanitarian consequences are very real. We are already seeing the catastrophic humanitarian impact of this crisis on civilians. |
“Transferring more weapons to Syria can only exacerbate a hellish scenario for civilians. If the UK and France are to live up to their own commitments – including those set out in the new Arms Trade Treaty - they simply must not send weapons to Syria.” |
More than 80,000 people have already lost their lives since the start of the Syria crisis two years ago and almost seven million people inside the country need humanitarian aid (UN figures). The EU arms embargo currently forbids the transfer of lethal weapons to Syria – whether to government forces or the opposition. |
A relaxation of the embargo would pave the way for EU states to arm opposition groups in Syria but Oxfam says this would almost certainly fan the flames of the conflict and cost lives. Conversely, extending the EU embargo would avoid fuelling an arms race. It should be followed by a complete |
international ban on all arms transfers to the warring parties in Syria, and European states should use their influence to make that a reality. |
Some states, notably the UK, have claimed that promising arms supplies to the rebels will have a dual-impact, putting pressure on the Syrian government as well as encouraging the opposition groups to participate in peace talks safe in the knowledge that support would come swiftly if talks failed. However, the aid agenc... |
"The UK and France are charting a risky course of action. Diplomacy should be the priority. The European Union and its member states should focus on pressing the warring parties to ensure civilians are safe, can access aid, and work towards a political solution to this crisis," said Macdonald. |
Notes to editors |
Given clear evidence, from a variety of credible sources, that the Syrian army and associated forces have committed widespread and systematic violations of international human rights and international humanitarian law, no government should transfer arms or ammunition to the Syrian government. |
Given the fractured nature or opposition groups and the near impossibility of monitoring whether transferred weapons would be used to commit violations, reports of abuses, the risks of diversion of arms and ammunition and the likely humanitarian knock on effects of increased transfers, Oxfam is currently also opposed t... |
Even if the embargo were lifted, it should be noted that EU Member States would still have to abide by the EU Common Position on arms exports and prevent any arms transfer presenting a clear risk to contribute to HR or IHL violations, or prolong armed conflicts (see: |
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Shadows of Eberron |
Opening Flashback |
Eberron Campaign: Opening Scene |
The year is 994, year of the kingdom; the month of the storm begrudgingly gives way to Oldrune, the sentinel. Late-winter rime blankets the land and unforgiving gray skies echo the war-torn landscape—the hope of spring as impossibly far off as peace itself. |
The Orien caravan snakes its way along the Nightwood, one of Karrnath’s most perilous regions, its notorious reputation standing out even in a nation with vast undead armies at its command. For this reason, House Phiarlan has engaged the services of House Orien’s Transportation Guild to ensure the safety of the traveli... |
Known for reclusiveness, Kaius III nonetheless exerts his not inconsiderable power to bolster and restore his nation’s depleted reserves and morale. Beset from all sides, Karrnath has suffered greatly during the war. Plague, famine, internal power struggles, combined with nearly 100 years of civil war, have more than d... |
Personally overseeing the security of the tour, Berlos d’Orien, a promising young scion of House Orien, rides his horse the length of the caravan, pausing to scrutinize each coach with narrowed gray eyes trained to pick up the slightest detail. Not yet manifesting the mark of passage for which his house is known, thoug... |
Despite his impatient and unquenchable ambition, Berlos takes every job with the utmost seriousness, channeling all of his energies into the present moment, willing each of his senses to merge with the current environment, reaching out in a receptive, almost symbiotic, relationship with his immediate surroundings. He p... |
Berlos lifts his own ears and nose to the whistling currents wafting through the Nightwood’s bare deciduous branches, catching the combined scents of frost and Aryth’s decaying leaves. Almost too subtle to be perceived, an undercurrent of rotting flesh reaches Berlos’s sensitive nostrils, setting him on high alert. Tru... |
The Phiarlan artificer gazes out the carriage window at the vaguely familiar night sky. Siberyan constellations this far north are still recognizable, though they seem slightly misplaced in the Olarune sky, as if everything were shifted just a bit off balance. Off balance—the idea strikes her as somewhat ironic, consid... |
As Rin is lost in thought, Phiarlan minstrel songs float up from the carriages behind her, and the caravan moves smoothly forward, leaving the city of Atur behind as they head for the final destination of their Karrnathi tour: Vedykar, home to House Jorasco’s famed healing enclaves and Dawn Lake, a bustling city full o... |
Rin ponders Atur as the caravan rolls inexorably forward. Why had the city spoken to her so? Her affinity for shadow seemed too facile an explanation; after all, she’d been in countless cities after dark and none had seemed to… almost whisper to her before. She shudders slightly at her choice of words, yet immediately ... |
Willow buzzes from carriage to carriage, stubbornly intent upon tracing the source of the beautiful music she’d heard wafting on the wind. “Why did it stop!?” she fumes silently as her orange and black wings flutter furiously, both out of pique and an attempt to keep up with the swiftly moving caravan. The ornate carri... |
Still quite young for a pixie, Willow seems somehow even more capricious than many of her kind, flitting from one emotion to another nearly as quickly as her wings beat. One moment would find her absolutely enraged by the careless damage the human war had brought to the landscape while the next found her captivated by ... |
In this particular moment, Willow is growing more and more irritated as she fails to locate the source of the beautiful music, and as she does, she becomes more and more brazen, darting from window to window, peering through the glass with little regard to keeping herself hidden, pixie dust leaving a shimmering trail i... |
Erevan stands, rolling his shoulders and stretching his neck from side to side; squinting at the gloaming sky; he judges his trance to have lasted about 4 hours. Feeling well-rested, he pulls a bit of wayfarer’s bread from his pack and begins to nibble before moving on. He is in no particular hurry today; on holiday fr... |
Traveling lightly, Erevan has already managed to cover half of Karrnath, having left ravaged Cyre behind just two days ago. Both nations have suffered gravely, and he shakes his head again at the senselessness of it, his silver tresses almost glowing in the faint light. From everything he has pieced together, this war ... |
By the time the first of Eberron’s moons rises in the eastern sky, the Eladrin swordmage finds himself skirting a large forest, and he feels his senses come alive to unfamiliar scents and sounds—the dank forest floor, rotting leaves mingling with fungus, the screeching of night creatures, likely an owl warming to its h... |
Get out and walk like the rest of us |
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