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less catchy, but, 'Aftermath from the Blood-soaked Massacre of the Night Before'?

"the severe or stern enforcement of regulations, laws, etc., as to root out abuses or correct a problem."

surely somebody needs to crackdown on the crackdown!

DLT charged. The man gives me the creeps.

but 'Crack Down'????!!!!

Yes crack down.. Keep in mind that the MB is a mutant National Socialist Islamic movement... they co-opted the "revolution", siezed power and were hell bent on both ethnically cleansing the country---- notice how on their way out they've been torching Coptic churches (before the Army took over they were pushing the Copts and now they blame the Copts and Jews for their defeat, but given how Nassar drove nearly all the Jews out by the 1960s there are not many Jewish targets left--- and establishing an Islamic Caliphate.. on the road to world domination... The MB is quite a spider's web.. and they are much more dangerous and venomous than any US or UK based neo-Nazi groups--- including the wacky Christian Identity sects. The MB is in trouble since Egypt was its birthplace and where they finally took power and now failed.. Instead of following in the footsteps of Goebbels and his family they'd rather all become shahids.. and take as many dead with them.. The Army has no choice but to help them.. the quicker the better.. as speed will ultimately save lives.. this is not the time for compassion for the individual schleps pulled into the MB.. if Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg was only successful.. think of all the lives that would have been saved... The MB, however, have no single head but are a Hydra.. One needs to cut off all its heads and bury them deep so that they can't grow back...

Nurse, he's out of his bed again...

Certainly my conscience will serve me to run from this Jew my master. The fiend is at mine elbow and tempts me, saying to me, 'Gobbo, Launcelot Gobbo, good Launcelot,' or 'good Gobbo,' or 'good Launcelot Gobbo -- use your legs, take the start, run away.' My conscience says, 'No. Take heed, honest Launcelot; take heed, honest Gobbo,' or as aforesaid, 'honest Launcelot Gobbo -- do not run; scorn running with thy heels.' Well, the most courageous fiend bids me pack. 'Fia!' says the fiend; 'away!' says the fiend. 'For the heavens, rouse up a brave mind,' says the fiend, 'and run.' Well, my conscience hanging about the neck of my heart says very wisely to me, 'My honest friend Launcelot, being an honest man's son' -- or rather 'an honest woman's son,' for indeed my father did something smack, something grow to; he had a kind of taste -- Well, my conscience says, 'Launcelot, budge not.' 'Budge,' says the fiend. 'Budge not,' says my conscience. 'Conscience,' say I, 'you counsel well.' 'Fiend,' say I, 'you counsel well.' To be ruled by my conscience, I should stay with the Jew my master who, God bless the mark, is a kind of devil; and to run away from the Jew, I should be ruled by the fiend who, saving your reverence, is the devil himself. Certainly the Jew is the very devil incarnation; And in my conscience, my conscience is but a kind of hard conscience to offer to counsel me to stay with the Jew. The fiend gives the more friendly counsel. I will run, fiend; my heels are at your commandment; I will run.

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You Tube - Hezbollah under Attack

Blast occurs close to Sayyed al-Shuhadaa complex, where Hezbollah leader Nasrallah often addresses his followers; Sunni Islamist group claims responsibility for explosion, but Hezbollah officials blame "Zionists."

Basically you're saying kill as many as it takes to stop them functioning as an organisation? Could you prove that this mass cull would save lives?

I see, we have to kill all the Islamists. That almost never results in a greater number of more radicalised Islamists. Hardly ever. Almost unheard of.

Basically you're saying kill as many as it takes to stop them functioning as an organisation? Could you prove that this mass cull would save lives?

Not hitting really hard can, I think, lead to a playback of the Algerian civil war.. which cost close to 200,000 people their lives and sent untold numbers into diaspora.

I see, we have to kill all the Islamists. That almost never results in a greater number of more radicalised Islamists. Hardly ever. Almost unheard of.

What's an Islamist? Salafists? Wahabis? Islamo-Fascists like the MB?

A number of Muslim groups too oppose the MB. And we have some MB splinters like Hizb ut-Tahrir that are even wackier than the original...

You Tube - "The Capital of the Caliphate -- the capital of the United States of the Arabs -- will be Jerusalem"

Can we afford to tolerate groups that make Hitler look like a peacenik?

Are you discounting all the situations diplomancy has solved? All the situations I doubt you or I know of? By all means pick your evidence to suit your bias/predjucie but I doubt your simplistic 'hit em hard 'n shut em down' solution would carry any weight for any serious political analyst.

Basically - you sound a bit thick.

^^Nurse, he's been at the medication cabinet too

One needs to cut off all its heads and bury them deep so that they can't grow back...

Goebbels?

Are you discounting all the situations diplomancy has solved?

You mean how diplomacy solved the "Jewish Question" in middle Europe during the 1930s into the mid 1940s? Or do you mean Darfur? Or Iranian ambitions for nuclear weapons? Or do you mean ...
"War is the final act of diplomacy"!
In Yugoslavia, to choose a case, its was democratic and economic reforms together with especially German diplomatic moves--- Gernscher's quick move to recognize Slovenia and Croatia was like throwing a match into a kerosine barrel--- that fueled the conflict and set the place a blaze..
In Burundi too it was counterproductive..
I can provide a long list..
Or better... Please provide an example where diplomacy has prevented genocide?

In all the cases where genocide has not happened.

Touché

But in all seriousness.. The MB says that they are prepared to die as a martyr for their ambitions of Islamic world domination.."Allah is our goal, the Prophet is our leader, the Quran is our constitution, Jihad is our way, and death for Allah is our most exalted wish." They have openly called for genocide against a number of groups.. They have a clear agenda.. and they have patience "The Brotherhood will never rush after the youth's enthusiasm to carry out immature and unplanned actions, which will not alter the corrupt reality and may even harm Islamic activity, and will benefit the people of falsehood.." While Hitler Nazism was more or less wiped out with the end of WW-II its Muslim branch, the MB, continued and morphed into a hydra setting the example for Neo-Nazis to form into freie Kameradschaften.. and al Qaeda into a branding..
The MB says 'We Won't Stop Until Morsi Reinstated'.. Since yesterday no less than 20 Coptic churches have been burned down by mobs..

That's very interesting dear, now before you drink this let's see you're not hiding anything under your tongue.

That may or may not be true but the war on terror seems to suggest that 'cutting off the head' is not possible in a practical sense and counter productive since it leads to increased radicalisation.

"...Can we afford to tolerate groups that make Hitler look like a peacenik?"

Get your point, but still...

lost Factory Records (including Joy Div outtakes) tapes found in skip

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151842608342442&set=a.94894917441.104860.613177441&type=1&theater

http://invisiblegirl.co.uk/images/photos/reels.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23717926

Found in skip 20 years ago.

Wonder why she kept quiet about them for so long.

heard this story on the radio
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10242586/Chinese-zoo-substitutes-lion-for-dog.html
but the bit that caught my eye in the article was:

Two crocodiles are currently at large in Jiangsu province after the botched demolition of a breeding farm.

Six out of 16 Nile crocodiles escaped when workers descended, in the middle of the night, to forcibly demolish their farm on the outskirts of Xuzhou city, claiming that the outbuildings had been erected without planning permission.

Four of the beasts, each roughly eight feet long, were recaptured by the manager of the farm from drainage ditches in the neighbourhood. The other two remain on the loose.

"They will attack people if they feel threatened," said the manager of the farm, named only as Mr Fan. "This place is surrounded by cornfields and villages, where people work on the farms and kids play around. The consequences of an attack can be terrible."

Jiangsu Television showed nine crocodiles amid the wreckage of the farm on Tuesday.

"The auxiliary buildings in the crocodile farm were illegal and were removed, in accordance with the law. The crocodile pool was deep, and we didn't believe the crocodiles would run out," an unnamed official from the subdistrict told the television station.

"The demolition was done at night because we were too busy during the day," he added.

Daily Mail ran a story with the head line:

"'Travellers' flatten 50 yards of Offa's Dyke with a bulldozer: Police investigate after 8th century monument is destroyed"

Its pure speculation that they were even travellers and when they asked the person who did it he responded with "whats that got to do with it?".