Damn! I need a break!
When I need a break I listen to Tom Waits….and this is one of my faves…..I use to be one of the night owls he sings about…….ah days gone by…….
Enjoy!
Everyone have a great day and will be back to make your day….(LOL…..sorry could not resist)…….
Good day and welcome to the briefing….today’s will be the last of the week….we will return Monday to catch everyone up on the situation.
On to the briefing……..
Item 1–finally we have a name for the US led coalition operation against ISIS……
After two months of airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the US-led coalition has a name: “Inherent Resolve.”
Interestingly, the name had previously been rejected for a multitude of reasons, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal two weeks ago.
That is such a crappy name. Personally I like my name for the operation…”we are making this shit up as we go”……..
Item 2–It seems that the defenders of Kobane are a bit tougher than the world gave them credit…….
A month into the ISIS push against the Kurdish border town of Kobani (Ayn al-Arab in Arabic), the Kurdish forces in the city are continuing to hold out, and have even made some progress.
Commanders of the Kurdish force say that they’ve driven ISIS out of parts of the town, and that they believe they can take back the “pockets of resistance” of the ISIS fighters elsewhere.
The battle on the ground appears to be very fluid…….this may be only a temporary success….we will be watching.
Item 3–After the admin had called the operation a success there came word of a different view……
Former Afghan War commander and President Obama’s point-man on the new ISIS War, retired General John Allen continued to offer assessments on the ongoing conflict, insisting today that it was too soon to say whether or not the US is winning the war.
That said, Allen conceded that ISIS is continuing to make “substantial gains” on the ground in Iraq, and still has “tactical momentum” in several areas around western Iraq.
The success or failure will be the last thing anyone will talk about…….
Item 4–As reported in these briefings…. Baghdad will be the BIG success of ISIS….the reports coming out…..
The Iraqi capital of Baghdad is not under imminent threat of falling to ISIS, according to US officials familiar with the defensive situation, but it’s far from business as usual with the Islamists fast approaching from the west.
As they approach, car bombs are becoming all the more common in the capital, with ISIS attacking police checkpoints and other security infrastructure with aggressive strikes.
But then the Pentagon had this to say……..
Unfortunately the Coalition needs to think of the consequences of inaction……Baghdad is the BIG prize for ISIS and the Caliphate….
Item 5–ISIS is stepping up its recruitment especially in Europe…..
Major General Walter Piatt, the commander of the US Army forces in Europe, today said the US is increasingly concerned by the “acceleration” of ISIS recruitment across the continent.
“It’s a concern … We’ve seen it all the way throughout Europe and it’s impossible to track every single person where they are,” Piatt noted, adding that there is a lot of “spillover” from the Syrian Civil War.
Item 6–There is a disturbing report coming out of Iraq but so far it has not been confirmed…….
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Iraqi pilots who have joined Islamic State in Syria are training members of the group to fly in three captured fighter jets, a group monitoring the war said on Friday, saying it was the first time that the militant group had taken to the air.
The group, which has seized land in Syria and Iraq, has been flying the planes over the captured al-Jarrah military airport east of Aleppo, said Rami Abdulrahman, who runs the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Maybe this should be a priority for airstrikes if proven to be accurate……
That concludes the briefings for this week…..briefings will resume in Monday unless there is an important development that cannot wait…..
Thanx for your time and attention.
Turn the page!
Everyone that cares about the situation in the Middle East has been asking the same question….what will it take to defeat ISIS?
I hope someone else has seen this….like those running this American cluster f*ck………
This piece is from al Monitor a publication from the Middle East…it is an interesting article and I would like to hear from others on the piece….
Please check it out and let me know……
How to defeat Islamic State’s war machine – Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East.
The media and politicians have turned Americans into hypochondriacs….if they sneeze more than twice they may have the Ebola virus…..
I have tried to calm the fears of people……but alas….it has done NO good……..
Time for Americans to get a grip! This Ebola situation is an prime example of why if ever there would be an ‘end of life event’ the American public will NOT be told about it.
STOP listening to bullshit and……..
Answer ONE question! (Maybe this Vox graphic will help)………..
This post is from the site of one of my followers, Dr. Rex, ……finally somebody that is looking at the Ebola ‘crisis’ with logic and commonsense……chuq
Yep, another post about Ebola! I mean why not? The whole damn country has gone bat shit crazy over the virus and I just did not want to be left out.
The public is borderline psychotic because there are a couple of people that have contracted the disease…….and then there is the media…..it is doing everything possible to keep the public crying for more….more….more…..to the point of offering up live pics of a patient walking in a hazmat suit….now that kept me on the edge of my seat for the 15 minutes it took to walk from ambulance to hospital door……
Back in August the first words of the virus came out of West Africa and from that point forward it has been front page news……and the lead story once an American got the disease and once they came back home it went into bat crap crazy mode from then until now……
There is a funny (in reality not so funny) thing that happened back in July of this year……….
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa shows no signs of slowing, having killed at least 4,447. Elsewhere in Africa, however, another outbreak of the virus is quietly winding down. It’s believed a different strain of Ebola first appeared in the Democratic Republic of Congo in late July: A pregnant woman who likely contracted it while butchering wild game died on Aug. 11 in the village of Ikanamongo, the Guardian reports. Though the virus spread, killing 49 of 69 known patients by the AP’s count, the last known case was reported some three weeks ago. The World Health Organization is now on the verge of declaring the outbreak fully contained—thanks in part to a speedy response.
A team headed by Jean-Jacques Muyembe was first on the scene. Muyembe, who responded to the first known outbreak in the country in 1976, saw the importance of keeping the virus from spreading to urban areas—which it has now done in the West African outbreak. However, as the mostly isolated DRC has seen at least seven Ebola outbreaks since 1976 and genetic testing reveals the latest strain is 99.2% similar to one that appeared in 1995, the country was well-prepared, LiveScience reports. Before this year, an outbreak had never occurred in Guinea, Liberia, or Sierra Leone, where civil conflict, a distrust of government, and well-connected towns and cities have helped Ebola spread
Ebola was a story that stirred some interest but once the American contracted the disease then it became the wrath of God….before that it was just some ‘typical’ tropical disease that only natives would get.
Sadly the first outbreak went unnoticed basically because it did not effect Americans…but once one of our own is so afflicted then it is balls to the walls and be damned if anyone gets in our way. In other words our typical overreaction.