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Hanoi Kerry claims Arms Trade Treaty
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Pakistan: On Thursday night, security forces killed a Pakistani Taliban commander who reportedly was involved in the Army Public School massacre in Peshawar on 16 December in which 149 people, died including 132 students and nine teachers. On Friday, an official said the fighter was killed on the night of the 25th. "Commander Saddam was a dreaded terrorist, who was killed in an exchange of fire with the security forces in Jamrud town of Khyber tribal region," top local administration official Shahab Ali Shah told a press conference in Peshawar. "Six of his accomplices were injured and arrested." Shah said that Saddam is believed to have facilitated the school attack, although the extent or capacity of his alleged involvement was not yet known. "Authorities are currently interrogating the injured terrorists," Shah said. Comment: Some news services said Saddam planned the massacre.Jamrud is located about 21 kilometers west of Peshawar on the main road to Afghanistan. Nationwide, police have detained 300 people and made 4,000 raids in the crackdown since the 16th. The speed with which security authorities have hunted down the terrorists connected to the mass murder seems to reflect the nature of the target - an Army-run school for the children of Pakistan Army families. With the right motivation, Pakistani security forces can execute counter-terror operations competently. -NightWatch www.afcea.org
Russia: On 26 December, the Russian government published a revised military doctrine that describes NATO as a fundamental threat to Russian security. A few highlights follow. According to Russia's new military doctrine, the creation and deployment of strategic missile defense systems, which undermine global stability and violate the balance of forces in the nuclear-missile sphere, are the main external military threats to the Russian Federation. The new doctrine stipulates that, "Prevention of a nuclear military conflict, as well as any other military conflict, constitutes the basis of the Russian Federation's military policy." Other major external threats include the "USA's concept of Prompt Global Strike," plans to deploy strategic weapons in space, deployment of strategic non-nuclear precision weapon systems, build-up of NATO's military potential, NATO military infrastructure's approaching the Russian borders and NATO's expansion. In addition, territorial claims to the Russian Federation and its allies, interference in their internal affairs, and use of military force in countries bordering on Russia and its allies, in violation of the UN Charter and other norms of international law, are listed by the military doctrine among the main external military threats to the country. Russian media reported that despite the new anti-NATO edge, the Russian doctrine remains primarily defensive in nature, calling any military action by Russia feasible only after all non-violent options to settle a conflict have been exhausted. It judges that there is a "decreased likelihood of a large-scale war against Russia," but Russia reserves the right to counter-attack with nuclear weapons. The new military doctrine also introduces the concept of "non-nuclear dissuasion," based on maintaining a high degree of preparedness of conventional military forces, as well as active participation in regional security organizations, including the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Comment: A fuller examination of the doctrine will follow. The points above are primarily threat-related highlights. NATO is described as a security threat, but not as an enemy or an existential threat to Russia or its constitutional order. The concept of non-nuclear deterrence will be a challenge for Russia in the near future because of the collapse of the ruble and the oil market. They will rebound, but maintenance of a high state of readiness for conventional forces will lag for years. Even at its most powerful, the Soviet Union maintained few fully combat ready conventional forces. The mention of Prompt Global Strike indicates the Russians acknowledge the value of advanced conventional capabilities as a substitute for some nuclear missions. -NightWatch www.afcea.org
Russia-North Korea: The Russian Foreign Ministry expressed strong support for North Korea in denouncing the film, "The Interview." At the weekly press briefing on 25 December, Foreign Ministry spokesman Aleksandr Lukashevich said, "The very idea of the film is so aggressively scandalous that the reaction of the North Korean side is perfectly understandable; and not only North Korea's: we in Russia also view with concern another stage in the escalation of tensions in relations between the United States and the People's Democratic Republic of Korea because of the allegation of Pyongyang's involvement in the cyber attack on the website of the Sony Pictures company, etc." "It is worth recalling that the US side has to date not presented any direct proof to justify its claims regarding such actions by Pyongyang. Moreover, I can remind you that Pyongyang has offered to conduct a joint investigation into the incident, which would have opened additional opportunities to alleviate tension. In effect, this step is a sincere commitment by the North Korean side to get to the bottom of this issue in every detail…."
Comment: The Russian statement is unusual because of the subject matter. One well-informed commentator suggested Russia took advantage of a cheap opportunity to needle the US. The statement certainly does that. Another, not exclusive interpretation is that it is a pre-emptive strike against the US and the US film industry. It is a warning that movies about assassinations of heads of state are serious business because they do encourage some people to action. Assassination threats against North Korean leaders are not trivial because they have been many, especially against Kim Chong-il. At least one also has been reported against Kim Jong Un. The other aspect of the warning is that the US better not make an assassination film about Putin. -NightWatch www.afcea.org
Ukraine: Crisis settlement talks in Minsk collapsed with no date set for their resumption. Dmitry Mironchik, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of Belarus, told the media the talks broke down. He did not provide a reason. Negotiators agreed only on a prisoner exchange involving 225 rebels and 150 Ukrainian troops. That was the least contentious of the issues. Ukraine's presidential office confirmed the release of 146 Ukrainian soldiers, with four to be released on Saturday. .
Comment: The talks were supposed to address practical solutions to establish peace on the ground in eastern Ukraine. They appear to have foundered on the larger issues of Ukrainian unity and separatist independence. The Kyiv government remains determined to recover the breakaway eastern regions. Those regions remain firm about their independence. The failed talks signify that the parties are not ready to make the compromises necessary to settle the crisis. That attitude often is a condition for and portent of another test of military strength. -NightWatch www.afcea.org
Ukraine-Crimea: The state railways company said that trains bound for Crimea's regional capital of Simferopol and the port of Sevastopol will run only to stations on the mainland near Crimea starting Saturday. The company said the move was taken to ensure "traffic safety."
Comment: The action is part of the Ukraine government's strategy to make Crimeans pay for seceding. Another tactic is manipulation of power supplied from Ukraine to Crimea. Russia has promised to fill any power shortage. -NightWatch www.afcea.org
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Pakistan’s School Massacre Planner Was Killed
By Bill Chandler - Intelligence sources from the city of Peshawar in northwestern Khyber say military forces engaged in an hour-long gun battle with the terrorist leader known as “Saddam.”...Saddam is suspected to be one of the leaders of the group responsible for the December 16 Peshawar school slaughter where 148 people were executed including 132 children. He has also been linked to attacks on Peshawar area healthcare workers who were administering polio vaccinations to the local community. According to a head of the Khyber police force, Ali Shah, “Saddam” was killed in the exchange and six other terrorists were injured and captured. Local authorities are now interrogating the captured terrorists. U.S. drones have reportedly killed more than seven additional Punjabi Taliban terrorists at a training compound in Waziristan and another three in a compound to the south. According to their spokesman, the Taliban leader Qari Imran, may have killed in the attack, but it is not yet confirmed. http://viral.buzz/pakistans-school-massacre-planner-was-killed/
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Muslims Calling To Revive Ancient Horrifying Execution Method
By Shoebat Foundation - If you think ISIS’s killing methods are bad wait till you see what one video in Arabic done by a Muslim lady dressed in a Hijab circulated to Muslims worldwide...The video was a complaint to Caliph al-Baghdadi of ISIS as “the call of Muslim mothers” arguing that such methods as “beheading” and “shooting” are just too humane and will not work to stop the U.S. led coalition air raids which she complained that this is persecution against her living in Syria. To eliminate the attacks she suggested that an Ottoman method of execution be used to detract pilots from joining the coalition against ISIS. Everyone in the Middle East knows three things told to them by their grand parents about the Ottoman Turks and what they spread throughout the Middle East: Sihr “sorcery,” Baksheesh “bribery”, and the Khazouk which is a spike driven through the victim’s rectum, which the Ottomans used to terrify locals and deter potential insurgents. And this is exactly what this lady wanted to reinstitute: http://shoebat.com/2014/12/27/muslims-calling-revive-ancient-horrifying-execution-method-u-s-led-coalition-pilots-2/
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Cartel Claims They Have Kidnapped Border Patrol Agent
By Nadia Galindo - A person claiming to be a member of a cartel claims they have kidnapped a border agent and threatened their life, according to police. Border Patrol is making contact with all personnel in the Rio Grande Valley...They have now confirmed that all agents working the day of the threat have been accounted for at this time. Now, they are working to verify all those off-duty at the time of the treat are safe. http://www.valleycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=1141227#.VJ2P2ADE8
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What? Another Airplane “Missing”?
By The Last Refuge - An AirAsia plane with 162 people aboard lost contact with ground control on Sunday after takeoff from Indonesia on the way to Singapore, and search and rescue operations were underway...The plane lost communication with Jakarta’s air traffic control at 7:24 a.m., about an hour before it was scheduled to land in Singapore, the Singapore Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement. The contact was lost about 42 minutes after takeoff from Indonesia’s Surabaya airport, Hadi Mustofa, an official of the transportation ministry told Indonesia’s MetroTV. AirAsia said in a statement that the plane was an Airbus A320-200 and that search and rescue operations were in progress. http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2014/12/27/whaaaat-another-airplane-missing-airasia-airbus-a320-with-162-souls-missing-flight-qz8501-possible-hijacking/
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Police Rage Has Gone Too Far
By shawn - Even before a murderer walked up to a police cruiser in New York City and enacted “revenge” for Eric Garner and Michael Brown, it was clear that America – particularly those on the left – had lost all perspective...Suddenly, the controversial killings of these two black men were the only things that happened in 2014. Police just sat home the rest of the year, presumably. In fact, they probably concocted a scheme through social media on how they would use this year to finally pull the mask of civility back and show themselves as the racist killers they always were. Or, you know, they were protecting the very citizens who now march against them. Imagine what might happen if the police really did take the year off. How would the American citizenry behave in the absence of law enforcement? http://unfilteredpatriot.com/police-rage-has-gone-too-far/
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Will nObama use the ATT to undermine the 2nd Amendment?
By Coach Collins - Among the terms of the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) are the following mandatory provisions...
1.) Civilians are not permitted to “own, buy, sell, trade or transfer” “[any] means of armed resistance including handguns.”
2.) Also prohibited is the ownership of ammunition/munitions.
3.) All countries participating in the Arms Trade Treaty “shall establish and maintain a National Control System” with a list of all weapons including “their current owners.”
This makes the registration of all firearms–that is, the National Arms Registry dreamed of by American liberals–a Treaty requirement. The registry will be used to enforce the prohibition against civilian ownership of firearms by making certain all gun owners have surrendered their firearms to the state. What the far left has been unable to accomplish at either the state or federal level has become possibly by means of International Law applying to all nations which have ratified the ATT. Should the U.S. Senate ratify the Treaty, each provision would ostensibly assume the force of law in the U.S. as well. http://www.coachisright.com/will-obama-use-unratified-arms-trade-treaty-overturn-2nd-amendment/
1.) Civilians are not permitted to “own, buy, sell, trade or transfer” “[any] means of armed resistance including handguns.”
2.) Also prohibited is the ownership of ammunition/munitions.
3.) All countries participating in the Arms Trade Treaty “shall establish and maintain a National Control System” with a list of all weapons including “their current owners.”
This makes the registration of all firearms–that is, the National Arms Registry dreamed of by American liberals–a Treaty requirement. The registry will be used to enforce the prohibition against civilian ownership of firearms by making certain all gun owners have surrendered their firearms to the state. What the far left has been unable to accomplish at either the state or federal level has become possibly by means of International Law applying to all nations which have ratified the ATT. Should the U.S. Senate ratify the Treaty, each provision would ostensibly assume the force of law in the U.S. as well. http://www.coachisright.com/will-obama-use-unratified-arms-trade-treaty-overturn-2nd-amendment/
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States Can End "Executive Amnesty" Without a Lawsuit
By Cardigan - Writing in National Review, Josh Gelernter offers a very different spin on the "nullification" debate. While acknowledging that the judiciary has consistently ruled against the nullification doctrine...insisting only it has the authority to declare laws unconstitutional, nObama's "Executive Amnesty" is something very different from a law. This week, Tennessee became the 25th state to join a lawsuit against the president’s executive amnesty order. The lawsuit may work, but there’s another, more direct, and considerably more interesting redress against executive overreach [first p]roposed in 1798 by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. The nullification doctrine posits that, as the federal government is the product of the Constitution, and the Constitution is a compact of the states, it’s the states that have the final say on any law’s constitutionality. If a state determines that a law exceeds the terms of the compact to which it agreed, it has the right to nullify that law within its own borders. http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2014/12/gelernter-states-can-end-executive.html
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More Liberal Fixes for Black America
leanrightamerica.org - Two New York City police officers paid the price for incitement last weekend. Their murderer deserves the condemnation for the attack, but it would be irresponsible to ignore those in both politics and the media who set the scene...I doubt Al Sharpton, Bill de Blasio, Barack Obama, or the legion of media analysts who encouraged this “White Cops vs. Black Men” narrative wanted something like this to happen, but they showed great negligence by failing to understand that it would. Americans often have a warped view of the conditions under which Islamic terrorism is bred. A world where your leaders tell you that the United States (and the Jews) are responsible for your poverty. A world where you’ve been sheltered from the realities of modern-day Western civilization. A world where it might seem plausible that a guy like Osama Bin Laden could actually be a Muslim prophet. That’s not to make excuse for terrorists; it’s to point out the fact that when you’re broke and looking for someone to blame, the “us vs them” narrative is tantalizing. When major mainstream news organizations are telling people that the Ferguson police department is filled with bigoted cops, that the grand jury deliberations were very “unusual,” and that we have a system in this country riddled with systemic racism, it invites violence. It invites revolution. It invites just the kind of thing we saw in Brooklyn on Saturday. http://www.leanrightamerica.org/uncategorized/more-liberal-fixes-for-black-america/
9.
Hilly Caught Providing a Special Favor for Big Democratic Donor
The Times - The nObama administration has allowed the family’s patriarchs, Roberto and William Isaías, to remain in the United States, refusing to extradite them to Ecuador...The two brothers were sentenced in absentia in 2012 to eight years in prison, accused of running their bank into the ground and then presenting false balance sheets to profit from bailout funds. In a highly politicized case, Ecuador says the fraud cost the country $400 million…The Isaías family, which has been investigated by federal law enforcement agencies on suspicion of money laundering and immigration fraud, has made hundreds of thousands of dollars in contributions to American Democrat political campaigns in recent years. During that time, it has repeatedly received favorable treatment from the highest levels of the American government Democrats, including from New Jersey’s senior senator Menendez and the Hilly’s State Department. http://conservativesunited.com/hillary-clinton-caught-providing-special-favor-for-big-democractic-donor/
10. nObama’s ‘pen and phone’ barrage
By Tim Devaney - It’s been the year of the “pen and phone” for President nObama. nObama in January declared his intent to use executive power to enact policy changes without Congress, and he has lived up to his promise, making aggressive moves on climate change, immigration, land protections and the minimum wage...nObama knew he would have to rely on executive action given Republican control of Congress, and he has raced through 2014 to get as much done as possible. The pace has only picked up since the midterm elections, with big announcements on immigration, climate change and foreign policy with Cuba. “He’s pushing every executive power to the limit,” said Robert Cresanti, executive vice president of government relations at the International Franchise Association.
Hanoi Kerry claims Arms Trade Treaty
will not “diminish freedom”
Doug Book
Coach Collins - While signing the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) in September of last year, Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry made statements worthy of his corrupt past and of the venal, power hungry nature of his boss in the White House.
Hanoi Kerry’s first claim: “I want to be clear both about what this treaty is, but I also want to be clear about what it isn’t. This is about keeping weapons out of the hands of terrorists and rogue actors…”
The second Hanoi Kerry second claim: “I also want to be clear about what this treaty is not about. This treaty will not diminish anyone’s freedom. In fact, the treaty recognizes the freedom of both individuals and states to obtain, possess, and use arms for legitimate purposes…”
The Secretary then manages this statement while keeping a straight face: “Make no mistake, we would never think about supporting a treaty that is inconsistent with the rights of Americans, the rights of American citizens, to be able to exercise their guaranteed rights under our constitution…”
In his first claim, Secretary Hanoi Kerry provides no portrait of the “terrorists and rogue actors” the Arms Trade Treaty will work to disarm. Some years ago, then Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano defined likely terrorists as Americans who own guns, support the 2nd Amendment, celebrate the Constitution, contribute to conservative candidates or parties and are pro-life. These clearly “perverse” individuals earned the title of “domestic” terrorist from an Administration which has labored hard to discredit and disarm them. Of course no one believes these law abiding citizens to be “rogue actors” but nObama and friends.
As to Secretary Hanoi Kerry’s next claim, it’s comforting to know that the ATT “will not diminish anyone’s freedom” as long as firearms are obtained, possessed and used for “legitimate purposes.” Unfortunately it’s a safe bet that legitimacy will be defined by the nObama Administration or the equally anti-gun United Nations.
Shortly after the Newtown murders, legislators in Connecticut and New York decided that some 1.5 million owners of so-called “assault weapons” were apparently not using their firearms for “legitimate purposes.” But when politicians demanded these weapons be registered or turned over to the state, an estimated 80% of owners refused to do so, while large numbers of law enforcement officers refused to enforce the knee-jerk legislation.
But gun owners won’t have such an easy time flouting the ATT when its terms make criminals of them. For unlike the New York and Connecticut statutes, the Treaty states “If a United Nations member state cannot get rid of privately owned, small arms legislatively…any guns or ammo not willingly surrendered to the UN will be tracked, seized and destroyed by UN peacekeeping forces.”
That’s right—armed, UN forces will tour the United States for the purpose of confiscating firearms from recalcitrant gun owners. What could possibly go wrong, unless Americans start laughing out loud at those intimidating sky blue helmets.
Finally, we have Secretary Hanoi Kerry’s solemn promise that the nObama Regime “would never think about supporting a treaty that is inconsistent with the rights of Americans;” rights, that is, which are “guaranteed under our Constitution.” This is such obvious nonsense coming from an nObama mouthpiece there’s no point in discussing it.
The nObama Follies have no business occupying Coach is Right on Christmas. On December 26th we’ll decide whether the terms of a treaty—any treaty—may preempt the language of the Constitution or the laws which are derived from it. Last year, Attorney General Eric Holder filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court claiming terms of the ATT should take precedence over rights codified in the Constitution. In similar cases, the Court has ruled each time in favor of the Constitution.
Two hundred years ago Thomas Jefferson wrote: “I say the same as to the opinion of those who consider the grant of treaty-making power to be boundless. If it is, then we have no Constitution.”
The better question might be whether nObama will obey the ruling should it come down against him!
Hanoi Kerry’s first claim: “I want to be clear both about what this treaty is, but I also want to be clear about what it isn’t. This is about keeping weapons out of the hands of terrorists and rogue actors…”
The second Hanoi Kerry second claim: “I also want to be clear about what this treaty is not about. This treaty will not diminish anyone’s freedom. In fact, the treaty recognizes the freedom of both individuals and states to obtain, possess, and use arms for legitimate purposes…”
The Secretary then manages this statement while keeping a straight face: “Make no mistake, we would never think about supporting a treaty that is inconsistent with the rights of Americans, the rights of American citizens, to be able to exercise their guaranteed rights under our constitution…”
In his first claim, Secretary Hanoi Kerry provides no portrait of the “terrorists and rogue actors” the Arms Trade Treaty will work to disarm. Some years ago, then Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano defined likely terrorists as Americans who own guns, support the 2nd Amendment, celebrate the Constitution, contribute to conservative candidates or parties and are pro-life. These clearly “perverse” individuals earned the title of “domestic” terrorist from an Administration which has labored hard to discredit and disarm them. Of course no one believes these law abiding citizens to be “rogue actors” but nObama and friends.
As to Secretary Hanoi Kerry’s next claim, it’s comforting to know that the ATT “will not diminish anyone’s freedom” as long as firearms are obtained, possessed and used for “legitimate purposes.” Unfortunately it’s a safe bet that legitimacy will be defined by the nObama Administration or the equally anti-gun United Nations.
Shortly after the Newtown murders, legislators in Connecticut and New York decided that some 1.5 million owners of so-called “assault weapons” were apparently not using their firearms for “legitimate purposes.” But when politicians demanded these weapons be registered or turned over to the state, an estimated 80% of owners refused to do so, while large numbers of law enforcement officers refused to enforce the knee-jerk legislation.
But gun owners won’t have such an easy time flouting the ATT when its terms make criminals of them. For unlike the New York and Connecticut statutes, the Treaty states “If a United Nations member state cannot get rid of privately owned, small arms legislatively…any guns or ammo not willingly surrendered to the UN will be tracked, seized and destroyed by UN peacekeeping forces.”
That’s right—armed, UN forces will tour the United States for the purpose of confiscating firearms from recalcitrant gun owners. What could possibly go wrong, unless Americans start laughing out loud at those intimidating sky blue helmets.
Finally, we have Secretary Hanoi Kerry’s solemn promise that the nObama Regime “would never think about supporting a treaty that is inconsistent with the rights of Americans;” rights, that is, which are “guaranteed under our Constitution.” This is such obvious nonsense coming from an nObama mouthpiece there’s no point in discussing it.
The nObama Follies have no business occupying Coach is Right on Christmas. On December 26th we’ll decide whether the terms of a treaty—any treaty—may preempt the language of the Constitution or the laws which are derived from it. Last year, Attorney General Eric Holder filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court claiming terms of the ATT should take precedence over rights codified in the Constitution. In similar cases, the Court has ruled each time in favor of the Constitution.
Two hundred years ago Thomas Jefferson wrote: “I say the same as to the opinion of those who consider the grant of treaty-making power to be boundless. If it is, then we have no Constitution.”
The better question might be whether nObama will obey the ruling should it come down against him!
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