Sunday, August 22

Mosque at Ground Zero: Rima Fakih versus hot air

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I warn that Rima Fakih, who holds the 2010 Miss USA title, is very poorly informed about President Obama's track record as a wartime pre...
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Friday, August 20

Nawaz Sharif turns thumbs down on 'independent' panel set up to avoid theft of aid to Pakistan. Only hope now: UN and private charities. Small hope.

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Telegraph : Pakistan has announced it will set up an independent commission to oversee flood relief amid international concern that the coun...

Mosque at Ground Zero: Well, from this I think we can surmise that dhimmitude is not Rajeev Srinivasan's strong suit

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Achmed the Dead Terrorist When Rajeev writes only for his blog he doesn't do things such as capitalize or add links to explain Ind...
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Thursday, August 19

Excuses for throwing what is fast approaching $2 billion in flood aid to Pakistan are not to be believed

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Sen. John Kerry: "We don't want additional jihadists [and] extremists coming out of a crisis." Juan Miranda: "We have to ...

Pakistan's role, and America's, in the Sinhalese genocide against Sri Lanka's Tamils

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I have not followed the news about Sri Lanka for many years; that's because I don't like to rake up recollections of my time in the ...
Tuesday, August 17

Taliban in Afghanistan making hay from Washington's mixed signals on troop withdrawal date

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August 15: General Petraeus casts doubt on July 2011 deadline for Afghanistan withdrawal August 16: Robert Gates dismisses Gen. Petraeus...

On the matter of indicting Oxfam and International Red Cross for war crimes, and a grim warning for U.S. military

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Monies diverted from aid and development projects are going in part to help fund the activities of Pakistani Taliban groups attacking not on...

Former PM Nawaz Sharif says Pakistan doesn't need Western flood aid, and other tales of flood aid to Paistan

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On August 15 the (U.K.) Telegraph reported that the former Pakistani Prime Minister and leader of Pakistan's major political opposition...
Monday, August 16

61 trucks loaded with 300 tons of explosives hijiacked in India

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(H/T McNorman ) My only editorial comment, addressed to Xinhua: Given the cargo,"go missing" is not quite the most apt way to desc...

Taliban blitzkrieg in North Afghanistan. NATO blindsided. I do not want to hear they didn't get help from Pakistan military

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The U.S. military does not believe the Taliban has made a strategic decision to target the north to avoid the bulk of NATO forces in the sou...
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Saturday, August 14

Katla Watch

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"Eyjafjallajökull has blown three times in the past thousand years," Dr McGarvie told The Times, "in 920AD, in 1612 and betwe...
Thursday, August 12

Convergence, Part 3: Fire and Rain

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3/23/10 - Part 1 : orange lava, red rust, yellow dust, blue moon 3/25/10 - Part 2 , Yellow Dust ( Blue Moon essay not yet published) ******...

Lessons of "Fire Wars" still not learned: Russia's critical mistakes in wildfire management lead to a nuclear cliffhanger

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Two very instructive news reports, which I provide in full below (one is a hair-raising look at nuclear facilities endangered by the wildfir...

Putin, World's Coolest PM

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The only levity to emerge from news about Russia's wildfires comes from the Russian bloggers who huffed that Prime Minister Vladimir Pu...
Tuesday, August 10

UN report: Students of the Koran, not NATO troops, responsible for spike in civilian deaths in Afghanistan

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If the United Nation huffs that they referred to "Taliban," not "Students of Koran" -- what do they think "Taliban...

Afghan War: Pundita throws her shoes at the 'Get Russia' crowd

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I see the great Helmand offensive may have to be delayed on account of NATO supply trucks in Pakistan floating into the Indus River. This co...
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Monday, August 9

Critics of TIME cover picture of Aisha get it wrong, but so did TIME editors. And a few words about RAWA, CIA, FireDogLake, and Malalai Joya

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I'll preface this post with a note to the France24 news organization, Siun at FireDogLake, and Brad Adams and all the other thousands of...
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