Earlier in the week we shared some amazing pictures of a truly remarkable World War One 100 Year Anniversary Tribute. Yesterday Kate Middleton and Prince William paid their respects. The symbolism magnifies.
SEE More Pictures of Royal Visit – HERE
(CNN) — The United States ordered relatives of its embassy employees to leave Liberia as the African nation struggles to contain the Ebola epidemic.
Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are battling the deadly Ebola virus, which has killed 932 people in those countries, according to the World Health Organization. The epidemic has also spread to Nigeria.
The U.S. Embassy is in the capital of Monrovia — one of the areas hardest-hit by the epidemic.
“The embassy recommended this step out of an abundance of caution, following the determination … that there is a lack of options for routine health care services at major medical facilities due to the Ebola outbreak,” the State Department said in a statement Thursday. (more…)
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †
(Via PJ Media) Another classic from the “promise of hashtag” crowd.
During today’s State Department press briefing, deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf addressed the unfolding crisis in Iraq.
That crisis has many sources, but its chief source is ISIL. ISIL has taken hold of a large swath of northern Iraq and is killing anyone and everyone who gets in their way, or who refuses to bow to their take on Islam. Currently ISIL has about 40,000 men, women and children holed up on top of a mountain, starving them to death.
A reporter asked if there is a “confrontation to stop” ISIL’s spread.
Harf: “It’s not just a humanitarian crisis. I mean, that’s certainly a key piece of particularly what we’ve seen over the last 48 hours, certainly. But there’s a huge security challenge – if you talk about the Mosul dam, if you talk about other places.
ISIL is a threat not just because they kill innocent civilians because of their religion, but because they’re a huge security threat to the stability of certain parts of Iraq. And that’s why throughout this conflict you have seen us continue to ramp up our support and continue to look very urgently at other things we could do to help fight this threat, because at the end of the day we can help the Iraqis, but the Iraqis also have to stand up, they have to pull themselves together, with our help, because this is a threat that certainly they but no one else in the region wants to see grow any more.”
Fuck, @CNN! I was enjoying The Sixties segment! You better bring it back after Obama's speech!
— ¯_(ツ)_/¯ (@messsolitude) August 8, 2014
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I get "breaking news" takes precedence but if @CNN is going to air a series(The Sixties)there should be an option to keep watching the show
— Haley Brennan (@hmb1021) August 8, 2014
It’s about friggin’ time ! President Obama says the action is to prevent “genocide” and provide relief to thousands of Iraqi religious minorities who have fled to the Northern mountains of Iraq. [Video ADDED 9:50pm EST More updates will follow soon]
Against a backdrop of horrendous polling, and amid a fury of simultaneous crisis while the electorate hold opinion of the president as detached and disconnected, the transparency is obvious.
President Obama meets with his national security team today in the Situation Room. pic.twitter.com/vDJeYJOz9Z
— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) August 7, 2014
Bookmark this one for Trey Gowdy – This is like a reverse operation Zero Footprint. Egyptian military forces locate a weapons cache’ located in the upper Egyptian mountainous region near Aswan. Why this is important is several fold:
Firstly, because of their location these are most likely 500 U.S. missiles (MANPADS) and 25 Iranian Rockets – both bound for Gaza in support of Hamas.
Secondly, because most likely the U.S. provided these missiles in the former Clinton / Panetta operation “Zero Footprint” in Libya and then Syria.
So think about it. Hamas and the Brotherhood are using Clinton’s Libyan missiles against Israel to kill Jewish people. Meanwhile, Egypt -through el-Sisi- intercepts the brotherhood, destroys Gaza border tunnels, removes rockets and missiles and fights the radical islamists on both sides of the country.
Is it any wonder why Egypt tells John Kerry and President Obama to stay out. And yet pundits wonder why Egyptian’s don’t like this administration ?… go figure.
EGYPT – Egyptian security forces have seized a large number of anti-aircraft rockets and missiles in a mountainous area in the southern governorate of Aswan, state news agency MENA reported.
Forces found 25 anti-aircraft rockets and 500 missiles early on Monday in Wadi Al-Naqra, northeast of Aswan, MENA said without elaborating.
Since the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi last summer, Egypt has been hit by an Islamist insurrection, based mainly in the border Sinai Peninsula, adjoining Israel and the Palestinian Gaza Strip. (more…)
The New York Times is reporting -based on ground sources in the region- that the U.S. is bombing ISIS positions in Northern Iraq.
However, I share with an abundance of caution -and I can most certainly be wrong- but my hunch is the ground reports, and as a consequence the New York Times, are crediting the wrong air force.
Additionally, the White House is strongly refuting the claims by the NYT. Here’s the report from the Times:
DOHUK, Iraq — American military forces bombed at least two targets in northern Iraq on Thursday night to rout Islamist insurgents who have trapped tens of thousands of religious minorities in Kurdish areas, Kurdish officials said.
Word of the bombings, reported on Kurdish television from the city of Erbil, came as President Obama was preparing to make a statement in Washington.
Kurdish officials said the bombings targeted fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria who had seized two towns, Gwer and Mahmour. Residents who had fled those areas by car were heard honking their horns in approval.