The so-called New IRA was formed last year from a loose alliance of hardline republican groups.
Unlike former groupsit is enjoying success in attracting fresh support from the Province's disaffectedyouth. Sources claim the group has attracted up to 700 new members and is 'actively recruiting'.
Like previous groups it operates on fear, doling out punishment beatingsand shootings on a weekly basis, as well as plotting attacks onthe security services and other British targets.
Sources acknowledgethat its leaders are beyond the control ofSinn Fein.
There are fears that the group also has ambitions to mount a new campaign on the mainland. Recentevents suggest it may have access to the equipment needed to conduct a campaign, but there are doubts about whether it yet has the logistical and organisational skills to sustain a series of attacks on the mainland.

Rawrr_Girl. Do you feel safe in uk ?
Terrorist plots in the UK | MI5 - The Security Service
... the UK . Learn more about recent terrorist plots in the UK . ... 1,834 people have
been arrested under the Terrorism Act during this period.
https://www.mi5.gov.uk/home/the-threats/terrorism/international-terrorism/international-terrorism-and-the-uk/terrorist-plots-in-the-uk.html
Mi5.gov.uk

I have always wondered why people choose to travel to these barbaric countries. Hard to feel sorry for anyone who puts themselves in this position.

A Korean American detained for six months in North Korea has been sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for "hostile acts" against the state, the North's media said Thursday — a move that could trigger a visit by a high-profile American if history is any guide.

Kenneth Bae, a Washington state man described by friends as a devout Christian and a tour operator, is at least the sixth American detained in North Korea since 2009. The others eventually were deported or released without serving out their terms, some after trips to Pyongyang by prominent Americans, including former U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter.

With already abysmal U.S.-North Korean ties worsening since a long-range rocket-launch more than a year ago, Pyongyang is fishing for another such meeting, said Ahn Chan-il, head of the World Institute for North Korea Studies think tank in South Korea.

"North Korea is using Bae as bait to make such a visit happen. An American bigwig visiting Pyongyang would also burnish Kim Jong Un's leadership profile," Ahn said. Kim took power after his father, Kim Jong Il, died in December 2011.

The authoritarian country has faced increasing criticism over its nuclear weapons ambitions. Disarmament talks including the Koreas, the United States, Japan, China and Russia fell apart in 2009. Several rounds of U.N. sanctions have not encouraged the North to give up its small cache of nuclear devices, which Pyongyang says it must not only keep but expand to protect itself from a hostile Washington.

Pyongyang's tone has softened somewhat recently, following weeks of violent rhetoric, including threats of nuclear war and missile strikes. There have been tentative signs of interest in diplomacy, and a major source of North Korean outrage — annual U.S.-South Korean military drills — ended Tuesday.

In Washington, the U.S. State Department said it was working with the Swedish Embassy in Pyongyang to confirm the report of Bae's sentencing. The United States lacks formal diplomatic ties with North Korea and relies on Sweden for diplomatic matters involving U.S. citizens there.

Bae's trial on charges of "committing hostile acts" against North Korea took place in the Supreme Court on Tuesday, the state-run Korean Central News Agency reported. KCNA referred to Bae as Pae Jun Ho, the North Korean spelling for his Korean name.

Bae was arrested in early November in Rason, a special economic zone in North Korea's far northeastern region bordering China and Russia, state media said. The exact nature of Bae's alleged crimes has not been revealed.

Friends and colleagues say Bae was based in the Chinese border city of Dalian and traveled frequently to North Korea to feed orphans. Bae's mother in the United States did not answer calls seeking comment Thursday.

There are parallels to a case in 2009. After Pyongyang's launch of a long-range rocket and its second underground nuclear test that year, two American journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor after sneaking across the border from China.

They later were pardoned on humanitarian grounds and released to Clinton, who met with then-leader Kim Jong Il. U.S.-North Korea talks came later that year.

In 2011, Carter visited North Korea to win the release of imprisoned American Aijalon Gomes, who had been sentenced to eight years of hard labor for crossing illegally into the North from China.

Korean American Eddie Jun was released in 2011 after Robert King, the U.S. envoy on North Korean human rights, travelled to Pyongyang. Jun had been detained for half a year over an unspecified crime.

Jun and Gomes are also devout Christians. While North Korea's constitution guarantees freedom of religion, in practice only sanctioned services are tolerated by the government.

U.N. and U.S. officials accuse North Korea of treating opponents brutally. Foreign nationals have told varying stories about their detentions in North Korea.

The two journalists sentenced to hard labor in 2009 stayed in a guest house instead of a labor camp due to medical concerns.

Ali Lameda, a member of Venezuela's Communist Party and a poet invited to the North in 1966 to work as a Spanish translator, said that he was detained in a damp, filthy cell without trial the following year after facing espionage allegations that he denied. He later spent six years in prison after a one-day trial, he said.

Hundreds surrendered to one or two mercenary soldiers with dozens of tribal natives armed only with spears and machetes.

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I would think they are going to call it a "sleeper cell" but it seems that the only ones sleeping are our government officials.

Breaking: 3 more suspects in Boston Marathon bombings case taken into custody.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/breaking-boston-police-three-boston-marathon-bombing-suspects-151027478.html
Authorities have arrested three additional suspects in connection to the Boston Marathon bombings, the Boston Police Department confirmed to Yahoo News. Two of the suspects are Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, both Kazakh nationals who attended school with bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Their attorney, Robert Stahl, said the charges will be unsealed in federal court Wednesday afternoon and both plan to plead "not guilty."

The third suspect, a U.S. citizen who has not been publicly identified, was reportedly arrested today.

NBC's Pete Williams reported that the suspects are friends of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. The three have been under FBI surveillance for 10 days and are suspected of aiding Tsarnaev after he allegedly committed his crimes. Tazhayakov and Kadyrbayev were detained on civil immigration violations on April 20 and have been in federal custody since then. The two appeared in immigration court Wednesday morning.

Boston attorney Linda Cristello, who represented the two in immigration court, confirmed in an email to Yahoo News that her clients now face additional federal charges and will appear in court Wednesday afternoon. She referred further questions to Stahl and Harlan Protass, criminal defense attorneys who have been tapped to represent the pair on the new charges.

Stahl said the new charges would be unsealed in federal court Wednesday. Protass said they will release a more detailed statement after the hearing.

Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old college student, is charged with killing three and injuring more than 200 in the two bombs last month. He is in custody at a federal prison medical facility at Fort Devens, 40 miles outside of Boston, where he is being treated for injuries incurred in a shootout with police before his arrest. His older brother and suspected co-bomber, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed while fleeing arrest.

In a statement, the Police Department said there was no threat to public safety at this time.

I hope they send his remains back to Russia, he certainly does not deserve to be buried under US soil, a country he obviously hated so much.

Ruler of The Nations
by Gary DeMar.
Biblical Principles forGovernment.
Does the Bible have answers for the complex problems ofmodern civil government?
Yes. Absolutely.
Scandal ridden and conspiracy laden, ourentire government system is in trouble. From the court houseto the White House, the government of our land has been crippled with corruption, bureaucratic red tape, and political finagling.
Many constitutional experts fear that if the system does not soon recover it’s integrity – and thus the confidence of it’scitizenry – it will not survive to the end ofthis century. But theyhave little or no idea how to correct that integrity. They don’t have the answers.
But the Bible does.
In this volume of theground-breaking Biblical Blueprint Series, Gary DeMar outlines specifically what those answers are. He shows us howwe can regain the greatness of the American system.
The Bible tells us what to do, when, where, how, and why. It offers us a “blueprint” for civil stability, Ruler of theNations, lays out that“blueprint” simply, practically, and understandingly.

Blue-helmeted United Nations peacekeepers deployed in African countries may soon have a new tool in their arsenal: the surveillance drone.

Drones are heading to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as part of an intervention force to root out the rebel groups that have destabilized the region for years. Meanwhile, the UN is mulling the idea of unarmed drones sent to Ivory Coast as the country recovers from nearly a decade of civil unrest.

Experts say unarmed drones could give often-beleaguered peacekeepers an edge in missions where they can be outfoxed by guerrillas, who often have greater numbers and more local knowledge than UN forces possess.

Ruler of The Nations
by Gary DeMar.
Biblical Principles for Government.
Does the Bible have answers for the complex problems of modern civil government?
Yes. Absolutely.
Scandal ridden and conspiracy laden, our entire government system is in trouble. From the court houseto the White House, the government of our land has been crippled with corruption, bureaucratic red tape, and political finagling.
Many constitutional experts fear that if the system does not soon recover it’s integrity – and thus the confidence of it’s citizenry – it will not survive to the end of this century. But theyhave little or no idea how to correct that integrity. They don’t have the answers.
But the Bible does.
In this volume of the ground-breaking Biblical Blueprint Series, Gary DeMar outlines specifically what those answers are. He shows us howwe can regain the greatness of the American system.
The Bible tells us what to do, when, where, how, and why. It offers us a “blueprint” for civil stability, Ruler of the Nations, lays out that“blueprint” simply, practically, and understandingly.

President Barack Obama on Tuesday forcefully defended his policy towards Syria.
Obama batted down calls for America to escalate its role in Syria's civil war after U.S. intelligence concluded that President Bashar al-Assad likely used the deadly nerve agent sarin on rebels seeking his ouster. Obama said proof that Assad unleashed chemical weapons would be a "game-changer" but warned that the United States cannot "rush to judgment."

"We don’t know how they were used, when they were used, who used them, we don’t have a chain of custody that establishes what exactly happened," Obama told reporters during the hastily announced question-and-answer session in the White House briefing room. "I’ve got to make sure I’ve got the facts."

"If we end up rushing to judgment without hard, effective evidence” confirming the U.S. intelligence community's preliminary finding that Assad likely used the deadly nerve agent sarin, then America may find it hard to rally support from the international community and even some partners in the region who support Assad's ouster. So "it’s important for us to do this in a prudent way," Obama said.

But the president repeated that the use of chemical weapons would be a game-changer "because what that portends is potentially even more devastating attacks on civilians, and it raises the strong possibility that those chemical weapons can fall into the wrong hands,."

"By game changer I mean that we would have to rethink the range of options that are available to us," said Obama, who has sent aid to Syria's opposition and neighboring countries like Turkey and Jordan but thus far resisted calls to arm the rebels or attack Assad's forces directly.

Obama said there is "a spectrum of options" that are "on the shelf right now" but might be used because using chemical weapons would represent "an escalation, in our view, of the threat."

Americans have a peculiar conviction that the one thing money can't give us is satisfaction.You can't buy happiness, we've all been told. "Mo Money Mo Problems" , Biggie concurred. And while we can all agree that desperate poverty is hideous, there is a broadly held view that after a certain level of income (around $75,000, say), more money doesn't buy more well-being.
But it's just not so. Economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers have been arguing for years that, yes, richer families tend to be happier, and no, there is not an automatic cut-off point. In other words: Mo money, fewer problems .
Their elegant and straightforward new paper can be nicely summed up in the two graphs below. The first graph looks at income groups within countries. In all nations surveyed, richer households reported more life satisfaction. (Statistical note: This graph is logarithmic. That means doubling your income from $1,000 to $2,000 raises satisfaction by the same amount as doubling your income from $10,000 to $20,000. You can imagine why this might make a good theoretical case for income redistribution
.)
The next graph compares different countries, rather than different households within countries. Here, each circle represents a nation, with the richest ones clustered on the right. If extra income didn't matter for well-being, you'd expect the line to flatten. Instead, it steepens. More money doesn't just mean happier families. It means happier countries.
But Biggie was ontosomething. Even though the United States seems to score the highest in life satisfaction in the first graph, other studies have suggested an overall flat-lining of happiness here. Economist Daniel Kahneman found that people earning above $75,000 "do not appear to enjoy either more positive affect nor less negative affect than those earning just below that," Stevenson and Wolfers report. In a past paper , the duo found that, although the U.S economy had doubled in size since the early 1970s,overallwell-being has declined.
Stevenson and Wolfers' two-part explanation could be summed up as, well,mo money, mo problems. Those problems would be social turmoil (such as the rise of single-parent households) and income inequality, which they suggested could act as a tax on self-reported satisfaction, counteracting the effects of rising total income.
That's not a reason to stop reaching for policies that grow the pie. But it might be a reason to consider better policies to divide it so that more reaches the poorest families.
http://us.m.yahoo.com/w/ygo-frontpage/lp/story/us/3224036/coke.bp%3B_ylt=A2KLt8P05X9R1TwAoyQp89w4%3B_ylu=X3oDMTFzYjJyNThhBGNwb3MDMgRjc2VjA21vYmlsZS10ZARpbnRsA3VzBHBrZwNpZC0zMjI0MDM2BHBvcwMxBHNsawN0aHVtYg--?ref_w=frontdoors&.lang=en&.ysid=i_0rf3quOhLzjl6V4._AiQUv&.intl=us

Islamic socialism ?

Is England better then America ?

Excursion by Michael K. Jones.

Investigators on Monday removed bags of evidence including some containing DNA samples from the home in Rhode Island where the widow of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been living, according to a person familiar with the investigation.
The longer this goes on, the nastier it stinks. How many of the people around the bombers knew about it/helped???