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Man from Pickens

Man from Pickens's Journal
Man from Pickens's Journal
January 16, 2015

Pentagon to deploy 400 troops to train Syrian rebels

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military is planning to deploy more than 400 troops to help train Syrian rebels to fight the Islamic State, along with hundreds of U.S. support personnel, a Pentagon spokesman told Reuters on Thursday.


http://news.yahoo.com/pentagon-deploy-400-troops-train-syrian-rebels-061310008.html

Einstein's definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result
January 14, 2015

Dieudonné arrested over Facebook post on Paris gunman

Notorious French comedian Dieudonné M’bala M’bala has been arrested for being an “apologist for terrorism” after suggesting on Facebook that he sympathised with one of the Paris gunmen, a judicial source has said.

Prosecutors had opened the case against him on Monday after he wrote “Tonight, as far as I’m concerned, I feel like Charlie Coulibaly” – mixing the slogan “Je suis Charlie”, used in tribute to the journalists killed at magazine Charlie Hebdo, with a reference to gunman Amédy Coulibaly. Dieudonné was arrested on Wednesday.


http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/14/dieudonne-arrest-facebook-post-charlie-coulibaly-paris-gunman

7 days from rhetorically idolizing free speech to criminalizing it. Way to go, Frenchies.

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