Iraq Blocks North Korean Plane Headed For Syria

Iraq denied a North Korean plane, bound for Syria, the right to go through it's airspace.

The plane was believed to be carrying weapons to the civil war torn country.

North Korea openly supports the Syrian government.

The US and other countries applauded Iraq's decision.

Iraq has recently been ridiculed for not stopping Syria from using it's airspace to attack rebel bases.

Fighting in Guinea Over Aluminum Refinery

Fights erupted in Guinea, on Sunday, between aluminum refinery workers and alleged black marketeers.

In the town of Fria workers armed with knives, guns, and clubs attacked people they believed to be stealing from the refinery and selling their product on the black market.

More than twenty people were seriously injured by the time security forces could arrive to separate the groups and restore peace.

Ivory Coast Reopens Airplane Travel With Ghana

Two days after completely closing the borders with Ghana, the Ivory Coast announced some changes to that.

President Alassane Ouattara's office announced that travel by air will be reopened, but land and sea borders will remain closed.

Ivory Coast had closed the borders after raiders crossed into the country, from Ghana.

The raiders are thought to be supporters of former president Laurent Gbagbo. 

Thousands of Employees at Foxconn Riot

Two thousand Foxconn employees rioted and fought with police Monday morning, in Taiyuan, China.

Five thousand police were sent in after the plant's seventy-nine thousand workers began striking after employees say security guards at the plant supposedly began beating workers.

The plant's owners say that employees started brawling with each other and the guards were attempting to break it up.

 Police say forty people were hospitalized, three of whom were in critical condition.

Riot police have been protecting the factory since, which is expected to be closed for a few days.

The plant is one of the sources for Apple's new I5 phones.

Review: Kurt Schlicter's I am a Liberal

Just a few months after Kurt Schlichter released his first best-seller, I Am A Conservative, his follow-up, or sequel, I Am A Liberal is now on the electronic shelves at an Amazon eBook store near you. Yes, devoted Schlicter fans, it is full of #caring. In fact, there is $100.00 worth of #caring in that cheap $5.99 eBook. You may need to purchase a Ballistic Tough Jacket for Amazon Kindle to protect your Kindle when you drop it from laughing too hard. No, you need not purchase a Kindle to read the book. There are free applications available for your iPad, Motorola DROID RAZR MAXX smart phone, or computer that enable you to read Kindle versions without purchasing an eBook reader.

If you have not yet read Kurt's first foray into political humor, it is a "must read". It is Kurt's way of adopting one of Alinsky's tactics, employing humor to reduce your opponents' platforms to mockery, against the very oligarchists that champion Alinksy. It's brilliant.

Mr. Schlichter's sophomore work surpasses the first. His first work was mostly a collection of one-liners, many taken from various "Twitter-Rants" Kurt is near famous for publishing on Twitter. I Am A Liberal is more than that. The book contains many of those one-liners for which he is famous. However, his latest also contains more:  more humorous essays, more cited examples of those worth mocking, and more Kurt.

The opening chapter delves into the depths of the "Liberal Elite". After Kurt humorously explains his position, he adds one-liners such as:

I am a Liberal: You can't expect my half-wit constituents to support themselves...I sure don't. I am a Liberal: You’re racist. I'll let you know why after I watch some MSM news shows or read the New York Times editorial page.

Another chapter of the book sets its sights on Obama and his devoted lap dog house servants:

When I think of cool, I tend to think of someone who is an achiever, who makes things happen, who has a way with the ladies. A cool guy is rough, and awesome to be around. He has a track record of success.

An uncool guy is just the opposite. He achieves nothing, and he’s someone who can’t seem to influence events, who has zero game. He’s soft, and a pain in the ass to be around. He is a failure.

Tell me again how Obama is "cool"?

 He wears a goofy bike helmet and talks like a sociology grad student. The only time he shows emotion is when some mere mortal has the temerity to shout, "That skinny guy has no clothes… well, except for the mom jeans!"

Then he delves into the rampant hypocrisy of the left on such issues as "cultural sensitivity", "racism", and the so called "war on women":

Take women and women’s rights. Liberals are huge supporters of women’s rights. They love women. Women are awesome. And then, when a liberal hero leaves a woman to drown in a car, or decides to convert one into a walking humidor in the Oval Office, record scratch! It all changes.

Kurt even includes a wonderful lexicon so that non-collectivists can understand "progressives" when they are speaking with them. I, for one, am grateful for this section. It explains why some liberals nod in agreement with me, then attempt to tell me that my words do not support my actions (when they most certainly do).

America (Noun): A bloodstained hellhole of genocide and consumerism redeemed only at irregular intervals when the electorate inadvertently elects a borderline socialist.

Bigoted (Adjective): Holding or embracing hateful, prejudicial beliefs toward anyone except conservative, Christians, Jews, men, or anyone else that liberals have listed in their weekly enemies memo.

Bipartisanship (Noun): A state of being that involves conservatives jettisoning all their beliefs and buying into tax increases; see also "Reasonable".

Other topics Kurt tackles are liberal teens, the "Occupy movement", the Democratic Party elitists, the lap-dog media, and the socialist elitists in the entertainment industry. (Of note, not all people in the entertainment industry are oligarchs. People such as Adam Baldwin, Chuck Woolery, and Clint Eastwood serve as redeeming points of light in that otherwise plastic abyss.)

The snippets provided are, by far, not the most entertaining excerpts from the book. Those I reserve to those intelligent individuals that fork over the $5.99 to Amazon.com and make this investment. The eBook costs about the same as a venti latte at Starschmucks. Just think, after reading it, you will be able to properly converse with the "expert barista" as they "Fetch you latte". #caring

Original article at Mental Aikido.

From The Mouth of Matuszak: Sorry Kids, They Lied

Many times I have heard so called "progressives" refer to the US Constitution as a "guideline". Well, those who believe so, you were lied to.

The US Constitution is not a game-masters' guide for some role playing game.

The US Constitution is not some programmed rules in a video game for which you can buy, steal, or discover "cheat codes".

The US Constitution isn't the advice given from Dr. Phil or some high school guidance counselor.

It is not a suggestion.

It is not a guideline.

The US Constitution is the supreme law of the land. It is the list of hard and fast rules to which all other laws must conform. It is what gives our federal government its power, and limits that power to an enumerated and specific list of responsibilities. It is what reserves other authorities to state governments, limits those state governments so they cannot infringe upon individual rights of the citizens of this republic, and protects the individual citizens from any local, state, or federal official who attempts to become a tyrant.

The US Constitution is a binding contract between the free citizens of the US and the states they comprise, and the government of the republic of the United States of America.

It establishes a republic, not a democracy. It explicitly states that any new state entered into the union must have a republican form of government, with a constitution, that also restricts the powers of that state's government.

The history behind this supreme law is one the highly values individual efforts and merits. It hinges on recognizing individual property rights, both physical and intellectual. In fact, the state can only lawfully own what we the people allow them.

It is true that the US Constitution was written in order to allow it to be changed with the times. Those changes are called Constitutional Amendments. The changes are not subject to misinterpretations based upon the whims and slang misuses of terms of a given day. In fact, the US Constitution even goes so far as to establish a means of peacefully repealing that contract and convening a new congress to draft and ratify a new contract.

Imagine if the US Constitution really were just a set of "guidelines".

First, it would mean that every piece of legislation passed under it is also "just a guideline" and not enforceable by the government the Constitution authorizes. It would mean that no government official has any authority except what they can enforce through threats and violence. It would mean that the Constitution itself established something nearing an anarchy. That is a false notion. We are a republic, not an anarchy.

It would also mean that those in government offices are not restricted by the US Constitution. It means that the Bill of Rights is nothing but suggestions they can choose to not follow. It would mean nobody has any real rights. It would mean that, not only are we just shy of an anarchy, but we are already set up to install the tyranny that normally follows a period of anarchy. That is a false notion. We are a Constitutional Republic, where the government officials are restricted in power in order to prevent tyranny. The very rights enumerated in the US Constitution were placed there to further emphasize that condition.

If you believe the US Constitution is just a nice little essay that lists some suggestions and "guidelines", you are wrong. If some civics teacher told you it is such a list of suggestions, you were lied to. It is the progressives, socialists, communists, oligarchs, tyrants, and collectivists that want to see you enslaved that invented that lie.

Original post at Mental Aikido.

Iranian Navy Plans to Head for Antarctica

In a press conference, Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari stated that his goal is for Iranian naval ships to extend their reach as far as Antarctica.

The move is part of the country's aim of becoming a world naval power.

Earlier the admiral had stated that they plan to regularly patrol the coasts of the US, by the end of 2014.

In 2008 they began to patrol the Gulf of Aden, and in 2011 they crossed into the Mediterranean, for the first time in decades.

The Indian Ocean also became a place for their navy to patrol, in 2012.

Iran is also working on building a nuclear submarine, despite their promises that their nuclear program is purely for peaceful means.

Suicide Bomber Kills 2, Wounds 46 in Nigeria

At least two people are dead and forty-six injured after a suicide attack in Nigeria.

The suicide bomber spend into a wall outside of St. John's in Bauchi, blowing himself up, as worshipers began to leave mass.

Police say that the church's preparations kept the man from entering the building, keeping him from not getting any further than the parking lot.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but Boko Haram is considered the likely suspect.

The terrorist group aims to create an Islamic government that would practice Sharia law, but has been severely weakened, since January, by military efforts against them.

Olson and Beecroft Confirmed as Ambassadors

On Saturday, the US Senate confirmed Richard Olson and Robert Beecroft as ambassadors.

Olson will be the new ambassador to Pakistan, and will have his hands filled due to the difficult relationship between the two countries.

Anti American protests and riots have been happening quite often lately in Pakistan.

As ambassador to Iraq, Beecroft will likely have his first mission in pressing the country on it's allowance of Syria to use it's airspace to attack Syrian rebels.

Iraq has also been accused of allowing Iran to send weapons to Syria, through it's borders.

Iranian Internet Set to Go

Apparently even the Iranian government is tired of the censorship it places on the internet.

To avoid constantly doing so, they began building their own national internet system.

This system is meant to be separate and independent from the world wide web.

By the end of the month some government agencies are expected to be on the network, and off of the international version.

Some reports have it already up and running smoothly.

Having it's own system would make it much easier for the government to control and limit the flow of information, with a lot less work involved in doing so.

At the very least it is a clear indication of the lack of freedom in the country.