Marine in Afghanistan

The Real Afghanistan

 

*A very interesting read, a Marine's View of what is really going on. This young man is articulate and has a flare for colorful language, and descriptive prose.....Scorpions, Chiggers & Sand Fleas/great letter, a must read of a very interesting article. *

   

From a Recon Marine in Afghanistan

From the Sand Pit:

 

It's freezing here. I'm sitting on hard cold dirt between rocks and shrubs at the base of the Hindu Kush Mountains, along the Dar'yoi Pamir River, watching a hole that leads to a tunnel that leads to a cave.

 

Stake out, my friend, and no pizza delivery for thousands of miles.

 

I also glance at the area around my ass every ten to fifteen seconds to avoid another scorpion sting. I've actually given up battling the chiggers and sand fleas, but the scorpions give a jolt like a cattle prod. Hurts

like a bastard. The antidote tastes like transmission fluid, but God bless the Marine Corps for the five vials of it in my pack. The one truth the Taliban cannot escape is that, believe it or not, they are human beings, which means they have to eat food and drink water. That requires couriers and that's where an old bounty hunter like me comes in handy.

 

I track the couriers, locate the tunnel entrances and storage facilities, type the info into the handheld, and shoot the coordinates up to the satellite link that tells the air commanders where to drop the hardware. We bash some heads for a while, and then I track and record the new movement. It's all about intelligence. We haven't even brought in the snipers yet. These scurrying rats have no idea what they're in for. We are but days away from cutting off supply lines and allowing the eradication to begin. But you know me; I'm a romantic. I've said it before and I'll say it again: This country blows, man. It's not even a country.

 

There are no roads, there's no infrastructure, there's no government.

 

This is an inhospitable, rock pit shit hole ruled by eleventh century warring tribes. There are no jobs here like we know jobs. Afghanistan offers two ways for a man to support his family, join the opium trade or join the army. That's it. Those are your options. Oh, I forgot, you can also live in a refugee camp and eat plum-sweetened, crushed beetle paste and squirt mud like a goose with stomach flu, if that's your idea of a party. But the smell alone of those 'tent cities of the walking dead' is enough to hurl you into the poppy fields to cheerfully scrape bulbs for eighteen hours a day.

 

I've been living with these Tajiks and Uzbeks, and Turkmen and even a couple of Pashtu’s, for over a month-and-a-half now, and this much I can say for sure: These guys, are Huns....actual, living Huns. They LIVE to fight. It's what they do. It's ALL they do. They have no respect for anything, not for their families, nor for each other, nor for themselves.

 

They claw at one another as a way of life. They play polo with dead calves  and force their five-year-old sons into human cockfights to defend the family honor. Huns, roaming packs of savage, heartless beasts who feed on each other's barbarism. Cavemen with AK-47's. Then again, maybe I'm just cranky young bastard.

 

I'm freezing my ass off on this stupid hill because my lap warmer is running out of juice, and I can't recharge it until the sun comes up in a few hours.

 

Oh yeah! You like to write letters, right? Do me a favor, Bizarre. Write a letter to CNN and tell Wolf and Anderson and that awful, sneering, pompous Aaron Brown to stop calling the Taliban 'smart.' They are not

smart. I suggest CNN invest in a dictionary because the word they are looking for is 'cunning.' The Taliban are cunning, like jackals and hyenas and wolverines. They are sneaky and ruthless, and when confronted, cowardly. They are hateful, malevolent parasites who create nothing and destroy everything else. Smart! Bullshit! Yeah, they're real smart, they've spent their entire lives reading only one book (and not a very good    one, as books go) and consider hygiene and indoor plumbing to be products of the devil. They're still figuring out how to work a Bic lighter.

Talking to a Taliban warrior about improving his quality of life is like trying to teach an ape how to hold a pen, eventually he just gets frustrated and sticks you in the eye with it.

 

OK, enough. Snuffle will be up soon, so I have to get back to my hole.

 

Covering my tracks in the snow takes a lot of practice, but I'm good at it.

 

Please, I tell you and my fellow Americans to turn off the TV sets and move  on with your lives. The story line you are getting from CNN and other news agencies is utter bullshit and designed not to deliver truth but rather to keep you glued to the screen so you will watch the commercials. We've got this one under control. The worst thing you guys can do right now is sit  around analyzing what we're doing over here, because you have no idea what we're doing, and really, you don't want to know. We are your military, and we are only doing what you sent us here to do.

 

*From a Jack Recon Marine in Afghanistan.*

*Semper Fi*.

 

"Freedom is not free, but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share".

 

Send this to YOUR FRIENDS so that people there will really know what is

goingon over here.

GUN CONTROL FORBIDDEN...DICK ACT of 1902

 DICK ACT of 1902
CAN'T BE REPEALED (GUN CONTROL FORBIDDEN)


THE TRUMP CARD ENACTED BY CONGRESS FURTHER ASSERTING THE SECOND AMENDMENT AS UNTOUCHABLE

The Dick Act of 1902 also known as the Efficiency of Militia Bill H.R. 11654, of June 28, 1902 invalidates all so-called gun-control laws. It also divides the militia into three distinct and separate entities.
The three classes H.R. 11654 provides for are the organized militia, henceforth known as the National Guard of the State, Territory and District of Columbia, the unorganized militia and the regular army. The militia encompasses every able-bodied male between the ages of 18 and 45. All members of the unorganized militia have the absolute personal right and 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms of any type, and as many as they can afford to buy.
The Dick Act of 1902 cannot be repealed; to do so would violate bills of attainder and ex post facto laws which would be yet another gross violation of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The President of the United States has zero authority without violating the Constitution to call the National Guard to serve outside of their State borders.
The National Guard Militia can only be required by the National Government for limited purposes specified in the Constitution (to uphold the laws of the Union; to suppress insurrection and repel invasion). These are the only purposes for which the General Government can call upon the National Guard.
Attorney General Wickersham advised President Taft, "the Organized Militia (the National Guard) can not be employed for offensive warfare outside the limits of the United States."
The Honorable William Gordon, in a speech to the House on Thursday, October 4, 1917, proved that the action of President Wilson in ordering the Organized Militia (the National Guard) to fight a war in Europe was so blatantly unconstitutional that he felt Wilson ought to have been impeached.
During the war with England an attempt was made by Congress to pass a bill authorizing the president to draft 100,000 men between the ages of 18 and 45 to invade enemy territory, Canada. The bill was defeated in the House by Daniel Webster on the precise point that Congress had no such power over the militia as to authorize it to empower the President to draft them into the regular army and send them out of the country.
The fact is that the President has no constitutional right, under any circumstances, to draft men from the militia to fight outside the borders of the USA, and not even beyond the borders of their respective states. Today, we have a constitutional LAW which still stands in waiting for the legislators to obey the Constitution which they swore an oath to uphold.
Charles Hughes of the American Bar Association (ABA) made a speech which is contained in the Appendix to Congressional Record, House, September 10, 1917, pages 6836-6840 which states: "The militia, within the meaning of these provisions of the Constitution is distinct from the Army of the United States." In these pages we also find a statement made by Daniel Webster, "that the great principle of the Constitution on that subject is that the militia is the militia of the States and of the General Government; and thus being the militia of the States, there is no part of the Constitution worded with greater care and with more scrupulous jealousy than that which grants and limits the power of Congress over it."
"This limitation upon the power to raise and support armies clearly establishes the intent and purpose of the framers of the Constitution to limit the power to raise and maintain a standing army to voluntary enlistment, because if the unlimited power to draft and conscript was intended to be conferred, it would have been a useless and puerile thing to limit the use of money for that purpose. Conscripted armies can be paid, but they are not required to be, and if it had been intended to confer the extraordinary power to draft the bodies of citizens and send them out of the country in direct conflict with the limitation upon the use of the militia imposed by the same section and article, certainly some restriction or limitation would have been imposed to restrain the unlimited use of such power."

The Honorable William Gordon
Congressional Record, House, Page 640 - 1917
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International Growth Of Islam

INTERNATIONAL GROWTH OF ISLAM

                          

       

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Washington, D.C. -- The world's Muslim population is expected to increase by about 35 percent in the next 20 years, rising from 1.6 billion in 2010 to 2.2 billion by 2030, according to a new, comprehensive report released today by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life on the size, distribution and growth of the Muslim population. The study is part of the Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures project, an effort funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts and the John Templeton Foundation to analyze religious change and its impact on societies around the world.

Over the next two decades, the worldwide Muslim population is forecast to grow at about twice the rate of the non-Muslim population -- an average annual growth rate of 1.5 percent for Muslims compared with 0.7 percent for non-Muslims. If current trends continue, Muslims will make up 26.4 percent of the world's total projected population of 8.3 billion in 2030, up from 23.4 percent of the estimated 2010 world population of 6.9 billion.


However, while the global Muslim population is predicted to grow at a faster rate than the non-Muslim population, it is also expected to grow at a slower pace in the next 20 years than it did in the previous two decades. From 1990 to 2010, the global Muslim population increased at an average annual rate of 2.2 percent; for the period from 2010 to 2030, the rate of growth is projected to be 1.5 percent.

These are among the key findings of The Future of the Global Muslim Population, which seeks to provide up-to-date estimates of the number of Muslims around the world in 2010 and to project the growth of the Muslim population from 2010 to 2030.

The report's projections are based both on past demographic trends and on assumptions about how these trends will play out in future years. If current trends continue:


Worldwide


· Seventy-nine countries will have a million or more Muslim inhabitants in 2030, up from 72 countries today.

· A majority of the world's Muslims (about 60 percent) will continue to live in the Asia-Pacific region, while about 20 percent will live in the Middle East and North Africa, as is the case today.

· Pakistan is expected to surpass Indonesia as the country with the single largest Muslim population.

· The portion of the world's Muslims living in sub-Saharan Africa is projected to rise; for example, in 20 years more Muslims are likely to live in Nigeria than in Egypt.
· Muslims will remain relatively small minorities in Europe and the Americas, but they are expected to constitute a growing share of the total population in these regions.

· Sunni Muslims will continue to make up an overwhelming majority of Muslims in 2030 (87 to 90 percent). The portion of the world's Muslims who are Shia may decline slightly, largely because of relatively low fertility in Iran, where more than a third of the world's Shia Muslims live.

· As of 2010, about three-quarters of the world's Muslims (74.1 percent) live in the 49 countries in which Muslims make up a majority of the population. More than a fifth of all Muslims (23.3 percent) live in non-Muslim-majority countries in the developing world. About 3 percent of the world's Muslims live in more-developed regions, such as Europe, North America, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.

The Americas


· The number of Muslims (adults and children) in the United States is projected to more than double -- rising from 2.6 million (0.8 percent of the total U.S. population) in 2010 to 6.2 million (1.7 percent) in 2030 -- in large part because of immigration and higher-than-average fertility among Muslims, making Muslims roughly as numerous as Jews or Episcopalians are in the U.S. today.

· Although several European countries will have substantially higher percentages of Muslims, the United States is projected to have a larger number of Muslims by 2030 than any European countries other than Russia and France.

· Children under age 15 make up a relatively small portion of the U.S. Muslim population today. Only 13.1 percent of Muslims are in the 0-14 age group. This reflects the fact that a large proportion of Muslims in the U.S. are newer immigrants who arrived as adults. But by 2030, many of these immigrants are expected to start families. If current trends continue, the number of U.S. Muslims under age 15 will more than triple, from fewer than 500,000 in 2010 to 1.8 million in 2030. The number of Muslim children ages 0-4 living in the U.S. is expected to increase from fewer than 200,000 in 2010 to more than 650,000 in 2030.

· About two-thirds of the Muslims in the U.S. today (64.5 percent) are first-generation immigrants (foreign-born), while slightly more than a third (35.5 percent) were born in the U.S. By 2030, however, more than four-in-ten of the Muslims in the U.S. (44.9 percent) are expected to be native-born.

· The top countries of origin for Muslim immigrants to the U.S. in 2009 were Pakistan and Bangladesh. They are expected to remain the top countries of origin for Muslim immigrants to the U.S. in 2030.


· The number of Muslims in Canada is expected to nearly triple in the next 20 years, from about 940,000 in 2010 to nearly 2.7 million in 2030. Muslims are expected to make up 6.6 percent of Canada's total population in 2030, up from 2.8 percent today. Argentina is expected to have the third-largest Muslim population in the Americas, after the U.S. and Canada. Argentina, with about 1 million Muslims in 2010, is now in second place, behind the U.S.


Europe


· The Muslim share of Europe's population is expected to grow by nearly a third, rising from 44.1 million (6 percent of Europe's total population) in 2010 to 58.2 million (8 percent) in 2030.

· The greatest increases -- driven primarily by continued migration -- are likely to occur in Western and Northern Europe, where Muslims will be approaching double-digit percentages of the population in several countries. In the United Kingdom, for example, Muslims are expected to comprise 8.2 percent of the population in 2030, up from an estimated 4.6 percent today. In Norway, Muslims are projected to reach 6.5 percent of the population in 2030, (up from 3.0 percent today); in Germany, 7.1 percent (up from 5.0 percent today); in Austria, 9.3 percent (up from 5.7 percent today); in Belgium, 10.2 percent (up from 6.0 percent today); and in France, 10.3 percent (up from 7.5 percent today).

· In 2030, Muslims are projected to make up more than 10 percent of the total population in 10 European countries: Kosovo (93.5 percent), Albania (83.2 percent), Bosnia-Herzegovina (42.7 percent), Republic of Macedonia (40.3 percent), Montenegro (21.5 percent), Bulgaria (15.7 percent), Russia (14.4 percent), Georgia (11.5 percent), France (10.3 percent) and Belgium (10.2 percent).


· Russia will continue to have the largest Muslim population (in absolute numbers) in Europe in 2030. Its Muslim population is expected to rise from 16.4 million in 2010 to 18.6 million in 2030. The growth rate for the Muslim population in Russia is projected to be 0.6 percent annually over the next two decades. By contrast, Russia's non-Muslim population is expected to shrink by an average of 0.6 percent annually over the same period.


· France had an expected net influx of 66,000 Muslim immigrants in 2010, primarily from North Africa. Muslims comprised an estimated two-thirds (68.5%) of all new immigrants to France in the past year. Spain was expected to see a net gain of 70,000 Muslim immigrants in 2010, but they account for a much smaller portion of all new immigrants to Spain (13.1%). The U.K.'s net inflow of Muslim immigrants in the past year (nearly 64,000) was forecast to be nearly as large as France's. More than a quarter (28.1%) of all new immigrants to the U.K. in 2010 are estimated to be Muslim.

Asia-Pacific


· Nearly three-in-ten people living in the Asia-Pacific region in 2030 (27.3 percent) will be Muslim, up from about a quarter in 2010 (24.8%) and roughly a fifth in 1990 (21.6 percent).

· Muslims make up only about 2 percent of the population in China, but because the country is so populous, its Muslim population is expected to be the 19th largest in the world in 2030.

Middle East-North Africa


· The Middle East-North Africa will continue to have the highest percentage of Muslim- majority countries. Of the 20 countries and territories in this region, all but Israel are projected to be at least 50 percent Muslim in 2030, and 17 are expected to have a population that is more than 75 percent Muslim in 2030, with Israel, Lebanon and Sudan (as currently demarcated) being the only exceptions.

· Nearly a quarter (23.2 percent) of Israel's population is expected to be Muslim in 2030, up from 17.7 percent in 2010 and 14.1 percent in 1990. During the past 20 years, the Muslim population in Israel has more than doubled, growing from 0.6 million in 1990 to 1.3 million in 2010. The Muslim population in Israel (including Jerusalem but not the West Bank and Gaza) is expected to reach 2.1 million by 2030.

· Egypt, Algeria and Morocco currently have the largest Muslim populations (in absolute numbers) in the Middle East-North Africa. By 2030, however, Iraq is expected to have the second-largest Muslim population in the region -- exceeded only by Egypt -- largely because Iraq has a higher fertility rate than Algeria or Morocco.

Sub-Saharan Africa


· The Muslim population in sub-Saharan Africa is projected to grow by nearly 60 percent in the next 20 years, from 242.5 million in 2010 to 385.9 million in 2030. Because the region's non-Muslim population also is growing at a rapid pace, Muslims are expected to make up only a slightly larger share of the region's population in 2030 (31 percent) than they do in 2010 (29.6 percent).

· Various surveys give differing figures for the size of religious groups in Nigeria, which appears to have roughly equal numbers of Muslims and Christians in 2010. By 2030, Nigeria is expected to have a slight Muslim majority (51.5 percent).
The 209-page report contains detailed analysis and description of the factors that drive this growth. The main factors, or inputs, in the population projections are: births (fertility rates), deaths (mortality rates), migration (emigration and immigration), and the age structure of the population (the number of people in various age groups). Related factors -- which are not direct inputs into the projections but which underlie vital assumptions about the way Muslim fertility rates are changing and Muslim populations are shifting -- include: education (particularly of women), economic well-being (standards of living), contraception and family planning, urbanization (movement from rural areas into cities and towns), and religious conversion.
The current population data that underpin this report were culled from the best sources available on Muslims in each of the 232 countries and territories for which the U.N. Population Division provides general population estimates. Many of these baseline statistics were published in the Pew Forum's 2009 report, Mapping the Global Muslim Population, which acquired and analyzed about 1,500 sources of data -- including census reports, large-scale demographic studies and general population surveys -- to estimate the number of Muslims in every country and territory. All of those estimates have been updated for 2010, and some have been substantially revised.
The full report, which includes an executive summary, interactive maps and sortable data tables, is available on the Pew Forum's website.

Breaking News : Bank Runs Hit Greece and Thomas Jefferson is in the Building, Next!

Sunday   June 28, 2015

Bank Runs Hit Greece and Thomas Jefferson is in the Building, Next!

by Tom Heneghan, International Intelligence Expert

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UNITED States of America  -  It can now be reported that the nation of Greece will default on payments to both the ECB (European Central Bank) and the IMF (International Monetary Fund).  This default will trigger a 17.3 million dollar-euro meltdown in worldwide derivative markets. 

As reported in previous briefings, the word for the day is "contagion" with the 17.3 million in derivatives escalating to 17.3 trillion.

At this hour, all worldwide banks are not safe.   The Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called for a referendum on the Greek "bail-out" plan proposed by European creditors (the Deutsche Bank) that is to be scheduled on July 5th, guarantees that Greece will leave the European Union, print their own currency, the drachma, and open the door directly for Spain and Portugal to go next.

P.S.  The European Central Bank (ECB) and the IMF's decision today to cut off Greece from any further "bail-out" funds guarantees that the Greek government will declare a "Bank Holiday" and capital controls first thing Monday morning.

Remember, there is NO liquidity in the system; there is NO cash, it is all derivatives; reference:  I.O.U.s between banks.

Note:  Remember the 7.2 million euros in emergency Greek aid that has been cut off by the European Central Bank is 90% derivatives.

When hypothesized out expotentially, the 7.2 million turns into 17.3 million and when you throw Spain and Portugal into the mix, BINGO!  It is 17.3 trillion.

Again, at this hour, every major worldwide bank in Asia, Europe, South America and the United States face major derivative contagion worse than the Lehman Brothers crisis that triggered the financial debacle in 2008.

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In closing, congratulations to TIME magazine for publishing a special edition release titled "Thomas Jefferson America's Enduring Revolutionary".  Every living American citizen should read this.  It is an outstanding piece and it will explain to you thoroughly what being a free American is all about, it comes directly from the words of our greatest American, the author of the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence and the founder of the U.S. Marine Corps, Thomas Jefferson.

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At this hour, the patriotic U.S. Military, the U.S. Marine Corps and the Joint U.S. French Intelligence Task Force is pleased that Thomas Jefferson is in the building as the Second American Revolution is imminent!

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"Al Qaeda is nothing more than an extension of the operatus linked to U.S. intelligence that was allowed, by script, to remove itself as a rogue break away entity of the U.S. government

allowed to de-compartmentalize from oversight, and was run instead by Gary Best rogue 'Black Ops' specialists for scripted activity outside of the U.S. government, with its funding being orchestrated through the Pakistani secret police,
 
an entity of the U.S. government itself." (2006)

~ Tom Heneghan, great American Patriot and International Intelligence Expert

 
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Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. (1755) 
 ~ Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father, great American Patriot

The Declaration of Independence
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

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But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism,  it is their right, it is their duty,  to throw off such Government, and to prove new Guards for their future security. (1776)  ~ Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father, great American Patriot, author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd U.S. President

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.htm

Warning! Graphic Video! LEAKED VIDEO: ISIS Puts Innocent People In A Giant Cage, Locks Them Inside, Sinks Them Into A Pool And Drowns Them To Death. They Then Take Another Group Of People, Wrap Them With Explosive Rope And Blow Them Up To Pieces - Walid Shoebat

By Ted on June 23, 2015 in Featured, General

By Theodore Shoebat

ISIS here is showing a combination of execution innovations, with footage unlike anything we have seen before: heads exploding and flying like projectiles, people incinerated with napalm burning them alive, locking people into a giant cage and drowning them to death while recording their screams underwater. Truly sickening. ISIS as it seems are tired of slow beheadings. In the end of the video they perfected an instant beheading technique. They take a number of men, wrap them with explosive rope and blow the heads to shoot upwards like a projectiles. The puppet Obama and his analogy calling ISIS “jayvee team putting on Lakers uniforms” just shows how ridiculous our government is. Perhaps after watching ISIS’s sickest, just released video, that only this will finally wake Americans up, especially that we had 52 attempts linked to ISIS style activity in the U.S in 2015 alone. Here, the ISIS killing fields that no one in the media will ever show:

http://shoebattube.com/player/embed_player.php?vid=968&width=600&height=370&autoplay=no

As to the victims, they were accused of being spies, and ISIS had them confess to their supposed culpability before killing them. It is truly horrifying to watch this. Death to all of these heathens, for the glory of Christ. This is why the Crusades fought against these demonic people, and it is no wonder that St. Bernard wrote:

The knight of Christ, I say, may strike with confidence and succumb more confidently. When he strikes, he does service to Christ, and to himself when he succumbs. Nor does he bear the sword in vain. He is God’s minister in the punishment of evil doers and the praise of well doers. Surely, if he kills an evil doer, he is not a man-killer, but, if I may so put it, an evil killer. Clearly he is reckoned the avenger of Christ against evildoers, and the defender of Christians. Should he be killed himself, we know he has not perished, but has come safely home. The death which he inflicts is Christ’s gain, and that which he suffers, his own. At the death of the pagan, the Christian exults because Christ is exalted; in the death of the Christian the King’s liberality is conspicuous when the knight is ushered home and rewarded. (St. Bernard, In Praise of a New Knighthood, ch.2)

Islam must be uprooted and destroyed, but that is not going to happen until Christ comes, and with Him as our King and General, the armies of Christ will vanquish and utterly destroy this religion of the Antichrist.
All this gets to show that we need to get the Christians out of Syria and Iraq as such persecution will increase as we see these events unfold. Rescue Christians helps Christians who live under the Muslim yoke flee the persecution. To see an example out of the thousands we rescue, click here, and listen to the amazing testimonies first hand on how you can help and make a difference, now in this life and for eternity.
The video of these murders was released from the Nineveh Plains province in Iraq, which is heavily populated by Christians. This type of brutality is being done to Christians and we have to get them out before its too late.
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