Articles from January 2008
Posted by Thanos on January 31, 2008
Four of the leaders under Mullah Fazlullah who led forces in the Swat insurgency have surrendered to authorities. From The International:
MINGORA: In a dramatic development, four prominent militant commanders and close aides of rebel cleric Maulana Fazlullah here on Thursday surrendered to the government and promised to give up militancy in future.
The commanders, who laid [...]
Categories: Al Qaeda, JEM, Jaish e Muhammad, Jundullah, Pakistan, TNSM, TTP, Taliban, Terrorism |
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Posted by Thanos on January 31, 2008
UPDATE: Al Libi Dead
A leading al Qaeda member in Afghanistan, Abu Laith al-Libi, has been killed, a website often used by the group and other Islamists said on Thursday.
A banner on the Ekhlaas.Org site said Libi had fallen as a martyr, without giving further details. It was not immediately clear if Libi’s death was linked [...]
Categories: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, JEM, Jaish e Muhammad, Pakistan, TNSM, Taliban, Terrorism |
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Posted by Thanos on January 30, 2008
This well-crafted ad is a lesson for the McCain team – if you are going to flame, you shouldn’t do so from a matchstick house. Recently they criticized Mitt Romney for “being for timelines in Iraq”. While you could take a bit out of context and say that it was true (Mitt was talking about [...]
Categories: Elections, John McCain, Politics |
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Posted by Thanos on January 30, 2008
Rudy Giuliani made a concession speech in the Florida primary last night that was close to an “I’m quitting” speech. That appears to me to be the signal that he’s going to stay in for the debates, and save his campaign ending speech for a moment that’s opportune to endorse another candidate.
Rumor has it that [...]
Categories: Elections, Politics |
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Posted by Thanos on January 29, 2008
John McCain’s ACU rating that he cites in speeches aren’t that conservative at all, as American Thinker points out this morning. Stop by for a quick read, it’s eye-opening.
Categories: John McCain |
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Posted by Thanos on January 29, 2008
If you are wondering where yesterday’s posts went, they got wiped out by a failed Fanstastico upgrade to wordpress 2.3.2.
I had the techs revert me back because the upgrade was dropping zero byte files in several directories, the index file for wordpress is not usually blank, and when it is the site doesn’t work.
What’s missing is a Pakistan [...]
Categories: All Jacked up, Blogging |
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Posted by Thanos on January 27, 2008
In an interview with the New York Times former Government official Aftab Khan Sherpao speaks out against the current lackluster opposition to the Taliban in the frontiers of Pakistan. It’s a pretty blistering condemnation from one of the best known and most respected politicians in Pakistan.
Just one revelation from the interview before I link it: [...]
Categories: Al Qaeda, Pakistan, Taliban, Terrorism |
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Posted by Thanos on January 27, 2008
I’m playing with my camera again, these photos were shot in a dark bathroom at 1/125th. One is ASA 200, the other 1600. Ignore the yutz on the mirror, and don’t tell my wife I used one of her crystal vases for this experiment.
Categories: Art, Blogging |
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Posted by Thanos on January 27, 2008
In some of the recent debates across the blogosphere one of my key arguments has been that only endearing culture endures across time. Ugly, undesirable culture isn’t adopted willingly unless it is force-fed to youth with immature critical thinking and judgement skills. In other words the only way ugly culture can perpetuate itself is through indoctrination, and over [...]
Categories: Art, Belgium, Culture, Pakistan |
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Posted by Thanos on January 27, 2008
When I get down and out I pull out a book titled “The Endurance“. It’s the tale of Shackleton’s attempt to reach the South Pole and how he and his crew survived trapped in the Antarctic Ice Shelf for nearly two years, and how they all lived to tell the tale.
They went through hell unimagined, [...]
Categories: All Jacked up, Art, Blogging, Freedom |
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Posted by Thanos on January 26, 2008
The Mehsud Taliban have attacked in the rear at supply lines to the North of the Wazirs in Orakzai agency, Bill Roggio has the details over at The Long War Journal. If you are a regular reader there please take a moment to donate, Bill’s trying to put together four embeds now.
Darra Adam Khel is [...]
Categories: Military, Pakistan, Taliban, War |
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Posted by Thanos on January 25, 2008
Wondering about the topsy turvy markets this week? There has been a lot of theory and speculation, from George Soros shorting futures in India to the mortgage market problem, but I think Bloomberg is on to something here.
On Sunday afternoon, Bouton called Noyer and stock market regulators to tell them the scope of what they [...]
Categories: All Jacked up, Corruption, Economy, France |
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Posted by Thanos on January 24, 2008
Please look closely, What’s wrong
with this picture?
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If you note the side windows and the back door, it’s broad daylight outside, and the windows are heavily curtained. (click on the photo to see both sides of the room.) This is an event staged just for the media. It’s political theater that the mainstream media is willing [...]
Categories: Blogging, GAZA, HAMAS, Israel, Journalism |
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Posted by Thanos on January 24, 2008
IBD has a good article reprising the Lippo Group scandal of Bill Clinton’s presidency, which limited America’s energy future while enhancing the business of one of his foreign contributors. So let’s add Riady to the every growing list of names. Article here.
Previous Clinton Campaign of Corruption articles:
Dick Morris points out the Clinton’s support from foreigners [...]
Categories: Clinton, Corruption, Elections, Politics |
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Posted by Thanos on January 24, 2008
In the latest Worldnet Daily, Anne Coulter gives scathing review of the reasons conservatives have real reservations regarding McCain. To list just a few:
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McCain Feingold – a direct attack on the 1st Ammendment
Overplaying Abu Gharaib and torture to the direct detriment of our war efforts
Opposition to the Bush Tax cuts, and voting against them
Shamnesty for Illegal Immigrants
The gang of [...]
Categories: Elections, Journalism, Politics |
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Posted by Thanos on January 23, 2008
The wind was whipping the clouds by, and it’s near zero here in Kansas City (Al, where’s my GW? Brrrrrr) This time exposure came out a bit grainy as some thin haze whipped by in the cloud gap.
Categories: Art, Blogging |
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Posted by Thanos on January 22, 2008
Categories: Art, Blogging |
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Posted by Thanos on January 22, 2008
Yesterday Musharraf downplayed the import of going after Al Qaeda vs the import of going after the Taliban, and in a recent article we see that the Bush administration is worried about the lack of intel on Taliban and their related groups. Both are correct, as an overall danger in the region the Taliban is [...]
Categories: Al Qaeda, JEM, Jaish e Muhammad, Military, Pakistan, Taliban, Terrorism |
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Posted by Thanos on January 21, 2008
Please take a stop by Captain’s Quarters – the media might not think it’s news, but it is something you need to know. The Hillary Papers
And remember, this isn’t a political action commitee or an electoral office campaign. This was the elected government of the United States discussing how it would steamroller opposition to nationalizing [...]
Categories: Clinton, Corruption |
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Posted by Thanos on January 21, 2008
While Musharraf is reassuring the world that elections will be fair and that the winning party will be allowed to rule post elections, the fighting in South Waziristan is continuing. Musharraf’s statements from Brussels are here. It demonstrates either foolhardiness or confidence that he is out of country at this time leading up to the elections.
In [...]
Categories: Al Qaeda, Elections, Military, Pakistan, Taliban, Terrorism |
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