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Paula Patton Files for Divorce From Robin Thicke After 9 Years Marriage
Texas deputy being treated, tested for possible Ebola out of an 'abundance of caution'
Another Black Teenager Killed By Police On Eve Of Michael Brown Protests
20-year-old marriage dissolved over sexual starvation
Ebola fight in Liberia ramps up as U.S. sends marines
[WATCH] Muslim Woman DENIED Entrance to U.S. Pool UNLEASHES on Emplyees
Arms deal: Asari Dokubu remains accomplice until FG discloses passengers’ identity – APC
Quick Reaction: Richestlifestyle.com Removes President Jonathan’s Name From Richest African Presidents List
What a bullsh*t of today? :: |:: Catholic Women Name First Lady Dame Patience “Mother Theresa of Today”
Ebola: Minister Says U.S Deceived Nigeria With Failed Promises
Thank You, ISIS , but no thank you!
Fools: How Senior Military Officer Misled Us On Abducted Chibok Girls – Badeh
Jonathan’s Transformation Agenda, a deceit, says Amaechi
The zoo is in trouble, no one is willing to fight to defend it as it has expired:: |:: We may try errant soldiers in battlefield –CDS
Asari-Dokubo took part in $9.3m arms scandal –APC
No to dialogue with the Hausa-Fulani terrorists:: |:: Boko Haram: Abdusalami restates need for dialogue
Asari Dokubo Stones Boko Haram, Chibok Scam Fabricators & Lying Australian Negotiator (See Photo)
Jonathan we already recognise this before the inclination came out, nothing to deny! ::|:: I’m not among richest African presidents —Jonathan
Yet Jonathan says he halved poverty in the zoo:: |:: Nigeria ‘LL be among 10 nations contributing to global poverty in 2030 —World Bank
Somebody should explain to this outcast that Igbos are tired of Nigeria and want Biafra:: |:: 2015 presidency: Lack of interest by Igbos politician worries Okorocha
Concerns over Nigeria, South African relationship as country’s media confirms legitimacy of $9.3m arms deal
Agbakoba sues army over 12 soldiers’ conviction
Ebola scare: Woman in Cairns hospital
GRAPHIC VIDEO: ISIS Supporters Attack Kurds With MACHETES and KNIVES
Scientists Release First Photos of Proof of Extraterrestrial Life
Paula Patton Files for Divorce From Robin Thicke After 9 Years Marriage
Posted: 09 Oct 2014 10:07 AM PDT
It seems Paula Patton and Robin Thicke are about to officially go their separate ways. The actress has filed for divorce from her singer husband citing "irreconcilable differences" even though he has been begging her since their separation to take hm back.
In what seems to suggest an amicable split, Paula Patton is asking the judge to grant the estranged couple joint custody of their 4-year-old son Julian.
At the time the couple announced their separation back in February, they had said in a joint statement, "We will always love each other and be best friends; however, we have mutually decided to separate at this time."
Paula Patton and Robin Thicke have been married for nine years as at the time they broke up, but are said to have been together since their high school days, totalling almost two decades.
According to TMZ who first broke the news, the divorce was filed in L.A., so there will be no issues over whether Robin may have strayed. Also, the divorce is "harmonious" and there are no real issues that will cause a conflict.
Texas deputy being treated, tested for possible Ebola out of an 'abundance of caution'
Posted: 09 Oct 2014 10:03 AM PDT
Associated Press
Oct. 8, 2014: A masked worker opens a door at a CareNow clinic in Frisco, Texas. (AP)
FRISCO, Texas – A sheriff's deputy who went into the apartment where the Dallas Ebola patient stayed was hospitalized out of an "abundance of caution" after falling ill Wednesday, officials said.
The deputy went to an urgent care clinic in Frisco, a northern suburb of Dallas, and was exhibiting enough symptoms of Ebola to trigger a preliminary screening, Frisco fire Chief Mark Piland said. He did not specify the symptoms and said test results were expected back within about 48 hours.
The clinic initially reported having a patient who claimed to have had contact with the man diagnosed with the disease in Dallas. But federal and state officials said there's no indication the deputy had any direct contact with Thomas Eric Duncan, who died Wednesday morning at a Dallas hospital.
"The latest information we have is no definite contact, no definite symptoms" of Ebola, Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said of the deputy during a Wednesday afternoon news conference.
The Dallas County sheriff's office confirmed the man is a Dallas County deputy. Piland said he was in the Dallas apartment where Duncan stayed before his hospitalization and had contact with the family living in the apartment.
Health officials say none of the family has exhibited symptoms and wouldn't have been contagious; the disease can be spread only through direct contact with the bodily fluids of an already sick person.
The deputy is not among 48 people who have been monitored by health officials after having had varying degrees of contact with Duncan, and Piland said his exposure is being treated as "a low-risk event."
Another Black Teenager Killed By Police On Eve Of Michael Brown Protests
Posted: 09 Oct 2014 09:51 AM PDT
An 18-year-old was killed by an off duty police man not far from where unarmed Michael Brown was shot dead by police two months ago, leading to mass protests and violence. This time, the shooting happened in south St. Louis not far from the Missouri Botanical Garden, and the victim was also black.
However, he was armed and had tried to shoot the policeman first. Still, his death has led to hours of protests overnight into this morning as an angry crowd gathered quickly when news spread across social media. The hashtag #shaeshooting is still trending.
While the number of protesters has continued to swell, and emotions are running high, St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson has said, "no businesses were looted and no windows were smashed."
Those monitoring the latest protests said the police have been very restrained in the face of protesters who sometimes shout profanities right to their faces and damage police cars.
According to CNN,
The officer, a six-year veteran of the force, was working a second job for a security company, one that was approved by his department. He was wearing his police uniform.
While on patrol, the officer saw three black males run away as he approached. He gave chase because one of them was holding up his pants in a way that made the officer believe the teen may be carrying a gun, Dotson said.
The officer and one of the three tussled. The teen ran off, then turned around and fired at least three shots at the officer, Dotson said.
The officer returned fire, killing the teen.
Police recovered a 9 mm handgun. And Dotson said the teen was "no stranger to law enforcement." He didn't offer details, citing privacy concerns.
The two other males have not been apprehended.
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20-year-old marriage dissolved over sexual starvation
Posted: 09 Oct 2014 08:25 AM PDT
An Igando Customary Court in Lagos, on Thursday dissolved the 20-year-old marriage between Mr Adetoro Onipede and his wife, Olubunmi because she starved him of sex.
President of the court, R.I Adeyeri, said that, "all efforts to reconcile the couple had proved futile as the petitioner insisted on divorce.
"Both parties are no longer husband and wife, they are free to go their separate ways," Adeyeri ruled.
Onipede, 50, had filed a suit on Aug. 21, seeking for the dissolution of his 20-year-old marriage on the ground of sex starvation by his wife.
Onipede said that his wife, Olubunmi, had been denying him sex after she gave birth to their last child 14 years ago.
"She always starves me of sex and will not even allow me to touch her. Anytime I tried to force myself to do it, she will pick up a dangerous weapon to stab me, " he said.
According to Onipede, his wife was always spiteful and always in the habit of bringing him down in the presence of her friends, family and neighbours.
"Anytime I am short of money and my wife paid the children's fees or buy food in the house, she will tell our neighbours, her friends and even inform her family, " he said.
Onipede accused his wife of going out of the home and coming back at will without his consent.
He pleaded with the court to separate them, saying that his body was not a piece of wood and he wanted to move on with his life.
Defending the allegations, Olubunmi, 42, told the court that she denied her husband sex because he turned her into a sex worker.
"My husband had turned me into a prostitute; he will not give me money except after making love to me.
"I am a wife and not a girl friend or sex worker, so I stopped him from making love to me."
Olubunmi claimed that she always informed her husband anytime she was going out and she did not stay out late.
The mother of three urged the court not to grant her husband's wish as she was still in love with him. (NAN)
Ebola fight in Liberia ramps up as U.S. sends marines
Posted: 09 Oct 2014 07:37 AM PDT
Liberia and Sierra Leone only have enough beds to meet about 21% and 26% of their needs
The Associated Press
Spanish Health Minister Ana Mato attends a meeting with Madrid's health authorities to discuss the sanitary control process surrounding a Spanish nurse infected with Ebola, at the health ministry in Madrid Thursday. (Andrea Comas/Reuters)
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The U.S. military was ramping up its aid efforts in Ebola-wracked Liberia on Thursday, even as yet another doctor working in the country died after becoming infected.
"Two different flights of MV-22 Osprey and KC-130 aircraft, along with U.S. Marines, will arrive to support the whole-of-government effort to contain Ebola," U.S. Army Capt. R. Carter Langston told The Associated Press in an email. They were to land later Thursday at Roberts Airfield outside the Liberian capital, Monrovia.
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The U.S. military is working to build medical centres in Liberia and may send up to 4,000 soldiers to help with the Ebola crisis. Medical workers and beds for Ebola patients are sorely lacking, particularly in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
An ambulance with medical staff wearing rompers and gloves arrives at the apartment of a Spanish nurse infected with Ebola in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday. (Andres Kudacki/Associated Press)
Liberia and Sierra Leone only have enough beds to meet about 21 per cent and 26 per cent of their needs, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. British troops have arrived in Sierra Leone to start building more treatment centres and basic clinics.
A Ugandan-born naturalized Liberian doctor, John Taban Dada, died of Ebola at a treatment centre on the outskirts of Monrovia early Thursday, health officials have confirmed. Assistant Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah said the gynecologist and surgeon will be immediately buried Thursday in accordance with policy about the quick interment of victims.
Dr. Dada served as the medical director of the Redemption Hospital in Monrovia from 2008 to 2013 before moving on to take up a new assignment at the country's largest John F. Kennedy Memorial Center, according to authorities at the Redemption Hospital.
His death brings to four the number doctors who have died in Liberia since the outbreak. Over ninety health workers including nurses and physician's assistants have also died from the outbreak.
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Dr. Atai Omoruto, a Ugandan doctor heading the newest Ebola treatment centre at what used to be Island Clinic in the western suburbs of the city, expressed shock at the death of Dada, a very quiet and dedicated man.
"I didn't know he has passed on; it is really unfortunate that we're still losing so many health workers," she told AP.
"This Ebola really … it has come for the health workers," she said, "Because right now at Island Clinic we have almost 10 health workers admitted including doctors from JFK and laboratory technicians and nurses."
There was also concern in Spain, where the first person known to have caught the disease outside the outbreak zone in West Africa became sick.
A Dallas apartment unit where Duncan stayed was thoroughly cleaned and health officials are still monitoring people he was in contact with. (Jim Young/Reuters)
The assistant director of Madrid's Carlos III hospital where a Spanish nursing assistant diagnosed with Ebola is being treated said Thursday the patient's condition has deteriorated.
Yoland Fuentes said the patient, nursing assistant Teresa Romero, had asked for details of her condition not to be release and doctors could not give further information
Two doctors who treated her have been admitted to a Madrid hospital for precautionary observation, bringing to six the number being monitored at the centre, health officials said Thursday.
A spokeswoman for the Carlos III hospital said neither of the doctors, nor the woman's husband — who is also under observation — has shown Ebola symptoms.
The doctors tended Romero before she was diagnosed as having Ebola on Monday. Two other nurses in quarantine are awaiting tests for the virus.
Romero is the first person known to have caught the disease outside the outbreak zone in West Africa.
Around the world, health authorities scrambled to respond to the disease:
In Washington, White House announced yesterday that an extra level of screening at major U.S. airports will reach more than nine of 10 people travelling to the U.S. from Ebola-affected countries in West Africa.
In Spain, doctors said they may have figured out how a nurse became the first person infected outside of West Africa in this outbreak. Teresa Romero said she remembered once touching her face with her glove after leaving the quarantine room where an Ebola victim was being treated. Romero's condition was stable.
Officials in Madrid got a court order to euthanize the pet of a Spanish nursing assistant with Ebola because of the chance the animal might spread the disease. (PACMA/Associated Press)
A social media campaign and a protest by Spanish animal rights activists failed to save Romero's dog, Excalibur. The pet was euthanized under court order out of fear it might harbour the Ebola virus.
In Sierra Leone, burial teams returned to their work of picking up the bodies of Ebola victims, after a one-day strike to demand overdue hazard pay.
Health workers in neighbouring Liberia also were threatening a strike if their demands for more money and personal protective gear were not met by the end of the week. The average health worker salary is below $500 per month, even for the most highly trained staff.
The World Bank estimated that the economic toll of the largest Ebola outbreak in history could reach $32.6 billion if the disease continues to spread through next year.
In Germany, a man infected in Liberia arrived Thursday at a hospital in Germany for treatment — the third Ebola patient to be flown to the country. The St. Georg Hospital in Leipzig said the man, who works for the United Nations in Liberia and whose name wasn't given, will be treated in a special isolation unit.
A Ugandan doctor who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone is currently being treated at a hospital in Frankfurt. A Senegalese scientist who was infected while working for the World Health Organization in Sierra Leone, has recovered and was discharged last week from a hospital in Hamburg.
The first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, Thomas Eric Duncan, died Wednesday in Dallas. Five major U.S. airports plan to try to catch any travellers from Ebola-ravaged countries who may be carrying the disease by checking their temperatures on arrival.
The disease has killed at least 3,800 people in West Africa with no signs of abating. On Thursday, the presidents of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, the countries hardest hit in the outbreak, were appealing to the World Bank for more help for their nations.
"What we're paying for now is our failure to have invested in those countries before," said Francisco Ferreira, the World Bank's chief economist for Africa. They had only minimal health facilities even before Ebola hit.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made a plea Wednesday for more nations to contribute to the fight against Ebola, saying the international effort was $300 million short of what's needed. He said nations need to step up quickly with a wide range of support, from doctors and mobile medical labs to basic humanitarian aid such as food.
[WATCH] Muslim Woman DENIED Entrance to U.S. Pool UNLEASHES on Emplyees
Posted: 09 Oct 2014 07:29 AM PDT
Management at a Colorado recreational facility stirred up controversy after they denied a Muslim woman access to swim in their pool when she showed up to do so in an unusual ensemble of an Islamic dress over a shirt and pant outfit.
A Colorado city is promising to revise its swimsuit rules after a Muslim woman was turned away from its recreation center pool for wearing an Islamic dress over a shirt and pants.
Saba Ali said that she offered to just wear the shirt and pants to swim on Sunday but was denied.
Commerce City spokeswoman Michelle Halstead says street clothes aren't allowed in the pool because they can increase the likelihood of contamination and waterborne illness.
A deeply upset Mrs Ali told ABC7: 'Why do I have to be half-naked to swim? To enjoy my time with my kids?'
The mother rented a hotel room so that she could swim with her children in a private pool.
Ms Halsted said that full body swimsuits and rash guards used by surfers and scuba divers are allowed at the Commerce City recreation center.
The city official said that the staff were not being discriminatory but would also turn away people who wore jean shorts or sports shorts to swim.
However, Mrs Ali said that she has worn the same outfit to a public pool before without being prevented from swimming.
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Arms deal: Asari Dokubu remains accomplice until FG discloses passengers’ identity – APC
Posted: 09 Oct 2014 07:24 AM PDT
By Sylvester Ugwuanyi
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed the denial by Asari Dokubo of the allegation that says he was aboard the plane carrying the $9.3m arms money that was impounded by the South African Government. The party said Asari's denial was lacking in substance, arguing that he remains a suspect until the Federal Government comes clean on the identity of the Nigerians aboard the aircraft.
The party, in a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, disclosed that its reaction was informed by a story published by www.africaneagle.com and www.nairaland.com which fingered Asari Dokubo as one of the Nigerians aboard the jet that carried the money to South Africa.
APC held that since that report has not been denied over 24 hours after it was published, Asari Dokubo's denial of his involvement carries no weight until the government, which has claimed ownership of the funds, informs Nigerians about the identity of the two Nigerian citizens who were in the plane with an Israeli.
The statement reads in part, "We have no business with Asari Dokubo. He can blab all he likes. We have no reason to disbelieve a widely-circulated published report that named him as one of those on the plane. If he now says he was not on the plane, let the government come out and tell Nigerians who and who were on it, it said. APC wondered why the government has refused, for over three weeks now, to identify the Nigerians who flew on the plane that ferried the money to South Africa, especially after the Israeli who was also on the plane has been named.
"Identifying the Nigerians will help to unravel the circumstances surrounding the whole scandal. It will be interesting to know if the Nigerians are security officials, officials from the office of the NSA who issued the end-user certificate for the transaction or ordinary Nigerians. It will be interesting to know their relationship with the government that qualified them to fly such a huge amount of money to another country without declaring it. It will be interesting to know if they are arms contractors.
"We hope the Jonathan Administration will end its deafening silence on the issue immediately and come clean on the whole scandal," said the party which had on Wednesday asked President Goodluck Jonathan to explain to Nigerians what Mujaheed Asari Dokubo, was doing on the plane that illegally ferried US$9.3 million to South Africa, where Dokubo, another Nigerian and an Israeli were arrested, according to a published report.
According to the opposition coalition, since the federal government has taken ownership of the funds by saying the National Security Adviser (NSA) issued the end-user certificate for the arms purchase, it stands to reason that the same government will know the involvement of all those aboard the plane. As such, the federal government has a lot of questions to answer on the whole deal, including whether Asari Dokubo is the contractor or the end user, who he was procuring arms for and for what purpose.
The statement reads further, "Under our Constitution, the NSA is an adviser and has no executive powers to deploy troops from any of the services or purchase arms for them. That the arms purported to be purchased from South Africa were ordered from the office of the NSA is nothing but a mere fabrication, and raises serious questions about the motive for the purchase.
"Nigerians will therefore like to know on whose behalf Asari Dokubo was purchasing arms. This is very crucial because Asari Dokubo has been threatening that Nigeria will not know peace if his benefactor, President Jonathan, is not re-elected. Therefore, Nigerians will like to know whether he has started stockpiling arms to make his threat a reality, since elections are due in a few months' time.
"If these arms are meant to fight insurgency, as the government has claimed, what is Asari Dokubo's business purchasing arms for the Nigerian military, if indeed they were for the military? Does it not occur to the Nigerian government that this man who once took arms against the state may not have jettisoned his sinister plan against the same state? Which country will ever allow a man who once carried arms against the state to now be purchasing arms for the same state? Even if it is true that he is purchasing the arms for the state, what prevents him from also using the opportunity to purchase arms for his own sinister motive? Could this be why Asari Dokubo has been talking publicly and confidently, without official censure, that President Jonathan must be re-elected or Nigeria will not know peace again?" the party queried.
Continuing, it recalled that "in our Press Release on Tuesday, we again asked President Jonathan to come clean on the US$9.3 million and US$5.7 million deals. We also asked him to tell Nigerians the identity of the two Nigerians who were on the plane that illegally ferried money to South Africa. Now that the Nigerians are known, and they are the President's men, the story has taken a new dimension."
APC stated that since those who claim to be fighting for Nigeria's unity may actually be the ones working against it and that those laying claim to patriotism are actually anything but patriotic, saying that it then becomes more urgent than ever for the National Assembly to take these cash-for-arms deals seriously, instead of dismissing the concerns of Nigerians on the basis of some rules as the House of Representatives has glibly done.
Quick Reaction: Richestlifestyle.com Removes President Jonathan’s Name From Richest African Presidents List
Posted: 09 Oct 2014 07:20 AM PDT
by: foluso
Richestlifestyle.com has removed President Jonathan's name as the 6th richest President in Africa from their top 10 richest African presidents list after a State House press release was issued yesterday, that the news website issue an apology for passing a wrong information or be ready to face a lawsuit.
Source: LLB
What a bullsh*t of today? :: |:: Catholic Women Name First Lady Dame Patience “Mother Theresa of Today”
Posted: 09 Oct 2014 07:16 AM PDT
The First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan was on Wednesday decorated as "Mother Theresa of Today'' by the Ladies of St. Mulumba (LSM) of the Catholic Church of Nigeria.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Jonathan was decorated because of the humanitarian works done through her pet project, the Women for Change and Development Initiative (W4CDI).
Ngor Nwachukwu, the President of LSM, decorated the her when she led its members on a courtesy visit to the first lady at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
"W4CDI has recorded positive changes in the society; there is a strong wind of change blowing off poverty, disease, hunger.
"And bringing along empowerment and sustaining hope for women in particular and to all in general."
Nwachukwu, who also commended the first lady for her support to the president, described her role as a "family model'' in line with the advocacy of Pope Francis.
In her remark, Jonathan commended them for their visit, saying it was a sign of solidarity and support, especially for the transformation agenda of President Goodluck Jonathan.
She also thanked the group for its acknowledgment of her "modest contributions to the society with this decoration as Mother Theresa of Today.
"It was Mother Theresa of old who said 'being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody I think that is a much greater hunger, a greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat'.
"This saying has been my propelling force for the advocacy and policy dialogue to enhance the status of women in the society.
"Giving hope to the despaired, relief for the sick, training and empowerment for youths and women.''
Jonathan reiterated the need to imbibe peace in their daily endeavours.
"As wives, mothers and sisters, we have important roles to play in moving Nigeria forward on the path of peace and development.
"As mothers and role models, we owe it a duty to our families and our nation to build our homes as well as the needed change in our communities,'' she said.
NAN reports that other past decorations on the first lady included Epitome of Justice and Peace, Phenomenal Woman of Substance, Dorcas and Esther of Old, among others.
The LSM, which was established in 1978, has more than 10,000 members across the country.
Ebola: Minister Says U.S Deceived Nigeria With Failed Promises
Posted: 09 Oct 2014 07:06 AM PDT
Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu has lashed out at the American
government for making a failed and what was seen a deceitful promise to
assist Nigeria with 30 walk through body temperature detector . The Minister made the disclosure today at High level expert meeting on
Ebola Virus Disease in Abuja organized by the Ministry of Health and
Treatment Research Group on Ebola Virus Disease (TRG).
Chukwu said that instead of the American government fulfilling her
promise, the American Ambassador James F Entwistle decided to donate hand
held infrared thermometer as against it's earlier promise
The American Ambassador to Nigeria James F Entwistle had during the the
fight against Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria said the American government
will provide Nigeria.
But this was not the case according the Minister of Health who disclose
that " Nigeira is still awaiting the American government to make good it's
promise by delivering the 30 walk – through temperature detector scanners
"
" immediately the American ambassador made the promise of donating 30 walk
through body temperature scanners when he visited my office here in
Abuja, I quickly informed Mr President so that he can commend the
American government for the gesture but unfotunaly, the American
government has not fulfilled their promise.
" I had recently reminded the ambassador his promise but he said there was
a diplomatic miss information but whatever the case, I told that Nigeria
is still expecting the 30 body temperature scanners " noting that "
America is too big a country not to fulfill a promise of this magnitude.
The Health Minister stated that the Dangote Foundation is making
available 12 Walk through Body temperature scanner while another group
also promised to dote 12 body scanners all by the end of this month -
" we are very hopeful we will get 24 walk – trough tempreture detector
scanners which we hope to install in our airports and major entry points .
And we will also install the 30 scanners in most of our land boarders if
and when the American government makes real their promise to Nigeria "
Thank You, ISIS , but no thank you!
Posted: 09 Oct 2014 02:23 AM PDT
The beheadings have achieved what all the warnings from conservatives never could.
By David Horowitz
Image from ISIS-produced video of the execution of James Foley.
Beheadings of innocent human beings are unspeakable acts reflecting the barbaric savagery of the Islamic "holy war" against the West — against us. Yet despite the intentions of their perpetrators, they have had an unexpected utility. Their gruesome images have entered the living rooms and consciousness of ordinary Americans and waked them up.
The barbarity of the Islamic movement for world domination has actually been evident for decades: in the suicide bombing of the Marine compound in Lebanon in 1982, in the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, in the suicide attacks on Jews — men, women, and children — during the second Palestinian Intifada in 2000, in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001, and in the beheadings perpetrated in Iraq by al-Qaeda's Abu al-Zarqawi and the Salafist group known as Ansar al-Islam during the Iraq War.
Unfortunately, the response to these barbarities on the part of the Democratic party and the liberal elites has been to condemn and marginalize anyone who called them barbarous. In their eyes, it is racist to use the word "barbarism" to describe the acts of any Third World people. To associate Islam with the Islamists was Islamophobic. President Obama is still trapped in this time warp, denying in so many words that the Islamic State is Islamic. For America's commander-in-chief to make such an obviously moronic statement about his country's enemy in wartime reflects how deeply settled is the ideology of protecting the Islamists (and jeopardizing the innocent). Even Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, could not bring himself to describe the enemy as Islamic. Settling on "War on Terror" as a descriptive term was a way of eliding the fact that the savagery was motivated by not by nihilism but by Islamic faith. The Obama Democrats have gone even deeper into denial, eliminating "War on Terror" from the government vocabulary and replacing it with "overseas contingency operations."
For more than a decade, a handful of conservatives, of whom I was one, tried to sound the alarm about the Islamist threat. For our efforts, we were ridiculed, smeared as bigots, and marginalized as Islamophobes. In 2004 I published a book called Unholy Alliance about the Islamist movement and the support it was receiving from the American Left. For my concern, Harvard professor and Islam expert Noah Feldman dismissed me as a "relic" in the New York Times Book Review. It was the last time the Times mentioned one of my books.
In 2006 and 2007, I organized nearly 200 "teach-ins" on American campuses, which I called "Islamo-Fascism Awareness" weeks. The idea was to legitimize the term "Islamo-fascist" as a description of the enemy confronting us. These demonstrations were attacked by the Muslim Students Association, which is a recruiting organization for the Muslim Brotherhood, and by Students for Justice in Palestine, a front for the terrorist party Hamas. They also inspired the contempt of the liberal Left. Joshua Micah Marshall of Talking Points Memo devoted two YouTube videos to ridiculing me for holding the demonstrations. Campus leftists called the students who organized them racists, bigots, and Islamophobes.
Resolutions denouncing critics of Islamic misogyny and terror as "Islamophobes" were unanimously passed by leftist-run student councils at UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, and a dozen other elite schools. Lengthy reports on the menace of Islamophobia targeted me and other speakers at our campus demonstrations, including Robert Spencer and Daniel Pipes. These reports, costing tens of thousands of dollars to produce, were published by FAIR, CAIR, the egregious Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Center for American Progress — the brain trust of the Democratic party.
And then came ISIS. The horrific images of the beheadings, the reports of mass slaughters, and the threats to the American homeland have accomplished what our small contingent of beleaguered conservatives could never have achieved by ourselves. They brought images of these Islamic fanatics and savages into the living rooms of the American public, and suddenly the acceptable language for describing the enemy began to change. "Savages" and "barbarians" began to roll off the tongues of evening-news anchors and commentators who never would have dreamed of crossing that line before, for fear of offending the politically correct.
Virtually every major Muslim organization in America is an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, the fountainhead of Islamic terror. Huma Abedin, who was deputy chief of staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (and is still Clinton's confidante and principal aide), comes from a family of Muslim Brotherhood leaders. Yet legislators who have the power to investigate these matters are still intimidated from even raising them. Representative Michele Bachmann, who did raise them, was excoriated as a racist not only by the Left but also by John Boehner and John McCain.
Language is a weapon in the battle against the threat we face. We cannot fight a war effectively when we cannot name the enemy or describe his methods or examine his influence on our own policy. The Islamic State has created an opportunity for common sense and realism to prevail. The tragedy is that it has taken the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Muslims and Christians in the Middle East and the ongoing extermination of the Catholic presence in Iraq to begin to wake people up. And, unfortunately, the president is still asleep or, less charitably, is hostile to American purposes, is hostile to the military that defends us, and identifies more with the Islamic world that has produced these forces who would destroy us than with the country he is sworn to defend.
— David Horowitz is the author of the recently published Take No Prisoners: The Battle Plan for Defeating the Left (Regnery 2014).
Fools: How Senior Military Officer Misled Us On Abducted Chibok Girls – Badeh
Posted: 09 Oct 2014 02:14 AM PDT
by: daniel
Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, said on Wednesday there were "fifth columnists'' in the armed forces leading to conflicting information emanating from the military.
Badeh made the allegation in Abuja, while reacting to some presentations at the start of a three-day workshop on "Security/Media Relations in Crisis Management".
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the retreat was organised by the Office of National Security Adviser in conjunction with Trim Communications Nig. Ltd.
"If your people are misleading you, what do you do? There are too many fifth columnists.
"There was a report which says 'oh! We have seen some of the Chibok girls, only eight are missing', it was a very senior officer that gave that information from Chibok area.
"We are dealing with that situation. That was when people started saying watch what Maj.-Gen. Olukolade, the Director, of Defence Information says. He was misled by one of us", Badeh said.
Badeh urged journalists to be guided by national interest while reporting the ongoing counter-insurgency operations in the North east.
Badeh advised that although they might know many things concerning the operations but they should not report things that would hurt or create panic in the people.
Asked to assess the performance of the media so far, he said, "I would not say it has been what we are looki