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freshwest's JournalI wish you'd clarify that statement. Concubine is the correct term. ISIS is using a proven strategy.
They've declared these women will birth new fighters for their world caliphate. This is how it's being done, as has been done in the past. Controlling the means of reproduction is now, and has always been, used in the past through the mass subjugation of women for the creation of empire:
After witnessing the impact of President Bush's reinstatement of the Global Gag Rule, Michelle Goldberg, journalist, author, and long-time critic of the Bush Administration's policies on sexual and reproductive health, decided that a book about the global battle for reproductive justice was long overdue. So she wrote The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World. [17]
The cover art depicting a woman holding the Earth on her shoulders is more than appropriate for this deeply-researched, historically-informed examination: fifty years worth of research about four continents has convinced Goldberg that women's oppression is at the crux of many of the world's most intractable challenges. She illustrates how US policies act as a catalyst for or an impediment to women's rights worldwide, and puts forth a convincing argument that women's liberation worldwide is key to solving some of our most daunting problems.
"Underlying diverse conflicts - demography, natural resources, human rights, and religious mores - is the question of who controls the means of reproduction," she writes. "Women's intimate lives have become inextricably tied to global forces."
http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2009/03/23/controlling-means-reproduction-an-interview-with-michelle-goldberg/
That's from my thread:
The First Feminist President, Barack Obama
by Mandy Van Deven
March 23, 2009
On January 20th the first self-identified feminist was named President of the United States of America. Just two days after taking office, Barack Obama performed his first presidential act of solidarity with women around the world by repealing the Global Gag Rule. Established in 1984 by President Reagan, the Global Gag Rule denies aid to international groups "which perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning."
The Global Gag Rule has come to be seen as a litmus test of the current US President's stance on women's rights, though it is just one aspect of the complicated story of the impact of American reproductive rights policy in countries around the globe. [17]
Yes, we can expect nothing less from a group that's openly declared its intention to set up a caliphate or empire, based on what they demand. Many of these women and girls are already pregnant and have no place to go. Some have committed suicide to escape this life, but others have not since other members of their families are also captives who they want to protect, despite the end result.
From the pdf at the link:
The article outlines Zarqawi’s plan for Iraq in the early 2000’s, explaining how it laid the ground work for the current ISIS offensive.According to Dabiq, Zarqawi’s plan includes five steps: hijrah (emigration), jama’ah (congregation), destabilize taghut (idolatry), tamkin (consolidation), and khalifah (caliphate).
The article explains that ISIS’s original incarnation, al-qaeda in Iraq (AqI), completed the first three steps as it became the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI). This past progression both sets conditions and serves as a model for the current establishment of the Caliphate.
The group appears to be proceeding on schedule. I'll look up more on that website to see what it's about, what their interest in this is, their motives. I'm just going through the thread right now.
We did airdrops at Mt. Sinjar. Beware, it's a BOG link with videos and more links:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110224888Other threads I've posted on about that mission, had people angry that US air power was used to stop attacks on those trying to leave the mountain. The caravans removing them to safety were targeted. So American aircraft under the leadership of Kurdish troops, bombed the ISIS who pursued them.
This has been called a trick, not real, or of no importance. The UN confirmed what they were running from, 5K men slaughtered for being the wrong religion and 7K women and girls taken into the sex trade as spoils or war. Then raped to reproduce another generation for ISIS. That is why this is going to last for generations, and it's not coming from us.
Obama knew this when he spoke in videos posted, said it was from a time in history mankind should not repeat. This is real stuff that people in our time don't want to believe can possibly exist. The faces of the people on the ground and while in the helicopter in the videos on that link are not those of actors.
They are stunned by what they have witnessed. The Middle East has at times been more tolerant, but it has gone in cycles, from one caliphate to another, just as Western societies have done.
And their wars are not just from the influence of the West or the USA. The ideal that we could possibly be the sole cause of all that is going on in that region or the world, of societies who were formed by empires many centuries before we existed, is near laughable as it is the new 'American Exceptionalism' in that we are all powerful.
Coming from another side but still acting as if we rule the planet. We never did, to say we did and are the purveyors and source of all the evil in the world, is in the long run, another verse of 'USA! USA! USA!' but claiming it's different, IMO.
Thank you for your kind reply in response to mine, too, AgingAmerican.
Ah. Checked on this in another thread on aircraft. My BNL was a gunner in the Vietnam War:
I looked up active aircraft in Wikipedia. The version of Spooky he flew is now gone, but replaced with another called Spooky:
Lockheed AC-130 Spectre / Spooky / Ghostrider / Stinger II
Picture says 'AC-130H Spectre jettisons flares' but why it would, IDK.
The Lockheed AC-130 gunship is a heavily armed ground-attack aircraft variant of the C-130 Hercules transport plane. The basic airframe is manufactured by Lockheed, while Boeing is responsible for the conversion into a gunship and for aircraft support.[1] The AC-130A Gunship II superseded the AC-47 Gunship I during the Vietnam War.
The gunship's sole user is the United States Air Force, which uses AC-130H Spectre, AC-130U Spooky, AC-130J Ghostrider, and AC-130W Stinger II variants for close air support, air interdiction and force protection. Close air support roles include supporting ground troops, escorting convoys, and flying urban operations. Air interdiction missions are conducted against planned targets and targets of opportunity. Force protection missions include defending air bases and other facilities. AC-130Us are based at Hurlburt Field, Florida, while AC-130Hs and AC-130Ws are based at Cannon AFB, New Mexico.[3] The AC-130s deploy to bases worldwide in support of operations. The gunship squadrons are part of the Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC), a component of the United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM).[4]
This sounds very much like my BNL was doing. Although he didn't volunteer to be weapons expert. Testing when he joined the Air Force (he knew he'd be drafted and wanted a choice) showed he'd be good with computers. But they didn't need that, so he was trained on weapons instead. This is how these are used for today:
All of the weaponry aboard is mounted to fire from the left (port) side of the non-pressurised aircraft. During an attack the gunship performs a pylon turn, flying in a large circle around the target, allowing it to fire at it far longer than a conventional attack aircraft. The AC-130H Spectre was armed with two 20 mm M61 Vulcan cannons, one Bofors 40mm autocannon, and one 105 mm M102 cannon, although after 1994 the 20 mm cannons were removed for most missions. The upgraded AC-130U "Spooky" has a single 25 mm GAU-12 Equalizer in place of the Spectre's twin 20 mm cannons, an improved fire control system, and increased ammunition capacity. New AC-130J gunships based on MC-130J Combat Shadow II special operations tankers were planned as of 2012[update]. The AC-130W is armed with one 30 mm Bushmaster cannon, AGM-176 Griffin missiles, and GBU-39 Small Diameter Bombs.[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lockheed_AC-130&printable=yes
That was in a thread with cstanleytech where GGJohn and I talked but you and I didn't talk there.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014911243
We have not abandoned them but work within the constraints of international treaties.
US Continues Pounding ISIS Targets in Embattled Syrian Town of KobaniSource: CBS News
MURSITPINAR, Turkey -- Bolstered by intensified U.S.-led coalition airstrikes targeting militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Kurdish militiamen fought pitched street battles Wednesday with the extremists in a Syrian Kurdish border town near Turkey, making small advances, activists and officials said.
Elsewhere in Syria, in a stark reminder of the country's wider civil war, a Syrian lawmaker was gunned down in the central province of Hama - the latest assassination to target a figure linked to President Bashar Assad's government.
In the border town of Kobani, members of the Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG, were making progress against Sunni militants, hours after the U.S.-led coalition stepped up airstrikes in and around the town, said Asya Abdullah, a Syrian Kurdish leader.
The U.S. Central Command said Wednesday that U.S. military forces conducted 18 airstrikes against ISIS targets near Kobani in the past 24 hours, destroying multiple fighting positions and striking 16 ISIS-occupied buildings. On Tuesday, the Pentagon had said that 21 airstrikes against ISIS targets near Kobani overnight Monday marked the largest number there in a 24-hour period since the air campaign in Syria began last month.
Read more:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-continues-pounding-isis-targets-in-embattled-syrian-town-of-kobani/
And the Turks are still being worse than useless, and real assholes, besides.
There's this:
But in remarks underscoring the region's layered crises, Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc mocked the Kurdish fighters defending Kobani, comparing their struggle against ISIS to the guerrilla war of the affiliated Kurdish PKK rebels, who have fought a three-decade insurgency in Turkey, largely in mountainous regions in Turkey's east.
"They are not able to put up a serious fight there," Arinc told reporters in the southeastern city of Adiyaman. "It is easy to fight on the mountain against the military, police, the teacher and the judge. It is easy to kidnap people but they are not able to fight in Kobani," he said. "I could say a lot more but let me leave it at that so that they are not embarrassed."
The harsh comments also reflected Turkey's delicate position on the fighting in Kobani. On Tuesday, Turkey launched airstrikes against Kurdish rebels inside its borders, defying please from the U.S. to instead focus on the IS.
And this:
Also Wednesday, Syria's Foreign Ministry dismissed Turkey's calls for a no-fly zone on the Syrian territories as a "flagrant violation" of the U.N. charter and international law.
"Syria categorically rejects the establishment of no-fly zones on any part of the Syrian territories under any pretext," the ministry said.
Turkey has said it won't join the fight against ISIS extremists in Syria unless the U.S.-led coalition also goes after the Assad's government, including establishing a no-fly zone and a buffer zone along the Turkish border.
From Comrade Grumpy's thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014919122
rollin74's add to the thread:
sounds like YPG has been making real progress against ISIS the last few days. good news
21 air strikes yesterday alone have helped
ISIS has lost ground in Kobane and no longer advancing
https://twitter.com/RNB1212
https://twitter.com/Avashin
https://twitter.com/HaraldDoornbos
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014919122#post1
Earlier news:
ISIS Beheads 3 Women In Syria, School Bombed
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/01/isis-beheads-women_n_5912790.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl1%7Csec3_lnk3%26pLid%3D539023
Meanwhile, the Observatory reported Wednesday that militants of the Islamic State group beheaded nine Kurdish fighters, including three women, captured in clashes near the Syria-Turkey border.
They were captured during the heavy fighting over the northern Syrian town of Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, the Observatory said. The chief Kurdish group fighting in Syria, known as the YPG, advocates gender equality, and women fight alongside men.
Kurdish forces have been locked in fierce clashes with Islamic State militants in and around Kobani since the extremist group launched an assault in mid-September. The fighting over Kobani has created one of the single largest exoduses in Syria's civil war, with more than 160,000 people fleeing into Turkey, the U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said Tuesday.
From Rhinodawg's thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025609305
Another thread about the commitments being made and the planes and strategy being used against ISIS in Kobani and region:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025592378
We have been involved and the people of Kobani know it. We have other responsibilities in the region. The premier of Kobani tweeted yesterday:
Don't know about that. Remember the meme being used that both parties are the same:
A GOP Senate's First Target - Elizabeth Warren’s Consumer Protection AgencyFor years, House Republicans have been trying to gut her greatest accomplishment.
By Erika Eichelberger - Sep. 26, 2014
If the GOP wins the Senate, they'll no doubt use the opportunity to push through a range of measures that are kryptonite to Democratic voters - new abortion restrictions, limits on the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency to combat climate change, a relaxation of the rules reining in Wall Street's worst excesses...
Half of their work is already done. The House has passed a bill that would limit the bureau's power by replacing its director with a five-member panel, and subjecting its budget to the congressional appropriations process—meaning that hostile lawmakers could starve it to death. (Unlike most federal agencies, the bureau is bankrolled by the Federal Reserve, an effort to free it from the whims of partisan politics.) House Republicans have also introduced legislation to let other financial regulators overturn CFPB rules, to eliminate a fund the bureau uses to compensate consumers who've been defrauded by an institution that's gone belly-up, and to restrict the kind of data the bureau may collect from consumers. (Republicans have charged that the CFPB's collection of credit data is a violation of privacy, even though the bureau does not collect any personal details the consumer doesn't volunteer.)...
A Republican-controlled Senate would also likely try to eviscerate portions of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform act. In 2011, Shelby introduced a bill to beef up the requirements that force banking regulators to conduct cost-benefit analyses prior to issuing any new rule - a significant hurdle. Last year, the House passed a handful of bills to deregulate derivatives, often-opaque banking products that have been demonized as "financial weapons of mass destruction." In June, House Republicans passed a bill chipping away at consumer mortgage protections..
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/republican-senate-would-gut-elizabeth-warren-consumer-protection-bureau
Many say voting doesn't matter. It didn't matter to some in 2010, and it won't matter this year. And it's pretty pervasive.
The media attacks are on the Dems, not the GOP. I don't know anyone IRL who disdains the Dems a as much as some here, but they have to be like that IRL wherever they are and they are discouraging other from voting daily.
If we lose the Senate, we're done. Just flat done. That article says it all.
I will prepare for the worst, this GOP is not like any other we've seen. They will do these things and starve the government until it's helpless. No one seems to care so I guess it won't hurt them when all of thise reactionary stuff finishes the USA off. And not for something better.
Some in media love Sanders and Warren, but they won't give them the tools to work with unless people vote. I just don't see it happening.
I googled. Imagery like was used to run women and liberals off a website I used to post on.
The people who defended the posters who posted pictures to go with such verbal imagery, were conservative. Their version of freedom of speech, misogyny and general hatred of Democrats.
They liked to post pictures alleged to be JFK with brains blown out, or RFK or blacks dead, celebrating it. It was against the TOS of the hosting service but they kept on doing it and so about 90% of their traffic went down as all kinds of people left.
But the managers, who were conservative, didn't care. They had cleared out another venue of discussion used for many years by women, gays, liberals and minorities to discuss issues which is what freedom of speech is about.
It's not just about speech, any more than the right to carry is about just the right to carry. All things have a purpose and they restricted discussions of bigger issues.
It was a victory for them to shut us up. I don't defend speech that mirrors the kinds of crimes against women and children we've heard about in the news from India or other places, crimes against gays and POC or of a different religion anywhere.
Speech is not just an end in itself, it needs to help resolve crimes against people and the planet.
MLK didn't defend the right of speech that said to take blacks out and lynch them; didn't call it a difference of opinion, he called it wrong. Women don't need to defend the right of speech for those that say they should be slaughtered for their own freedom of speech.
Until people can grasp that concept, we aren't going to solve our problems through speech.
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