UPDATE: Important Headline Correction
Posted: July 26, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere, The Butcher's Notebook, White House | Tags: Correction, Headline, Kenya, media, news, Parody, President Obama, satire Leave a comment
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Obama Electrocutes Kenyan Youth With a Speech From the Heart
Posted: July 26, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Humor, Politics, The Butcher's Notebook, White House | Tags: Africa, Air Force One, Barack Obama, Ethiopia, Kenya, Kenyan American, Lecturing, Nairobi, Parody, propaganda, satire, Swahili language, Uhuru Kenyatta Leave a comment
Aryn Baker reports: Despite longstanding family ties to Kenya, U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit to Nairobi—the first by a serving U.S. President—has been largely an official affair, defined by bilateral meetings and entrepreneurship conferences.
That all changed on Sunday, when he addressed Kenyan youth at a sports stadium and spoke from the heart. As his convoy turned into Nairobi’s SafariCom Arena, he finally received the exuberant welcome that security precautions had all but denied him since his arrival two nights prior.
Crowds of men, women and children, some waving flags and banners welcoming him back to his father’s homeland, thronged the highway. Inside the arena, some 4,500 students, government officials and civil society leaders jumped to their feet as Obama’s half sister, Auma Obama, introduced a man who really had no need for introduction. By the time Obama took the podium, the crowd was ecstatic. “I love you!” shouted a member of the audience. “I love you too,” Obama said to the crowd.
Part state address, part commencement speech, Obama’s 40-minute talk started with a personal reminiscence of his first trip to Kenya in 1998, when he was a young law student seeking to learn more about his roots.
On that trip, he said, the airline lost his bags. “That doesn’t happen on Air Force One,” he joked. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Kenyan Politician Nearly Lights Himself on Fire in Attempt to Combat Kenya’s Underground Alcohol Industry
Posted: July 10, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Food & Drink, Global | Tags: Alcohol, Alcohol by volume, Alcoholic beverage, Alcoholism, Country of origin, Drink, Kenya, Kenya Bureau of Standards, Manufacturing, Methanol 3 CommentsWhat’s more dangerous: drinking illegal, highly alcoholic beverages possibly laced with methanol, or setting those drinks on fire in front of a crowd?
William Kabogo, governor of Kenya’s Kiambu County, figured that one out the hard way this week when he tried to make a point about just how badly he wants to eliminate Kenya’s underground alcohol industry by lighting a big pile of alcohol-filled bottles on fire….(read more)
The Joke Obama Can’t Stop Telling
Posted: April 28, 2015 Filed under: Humor, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Africa, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Boston Marathon, Hunter Schwarz, Iran, Kenya, Muslim, Socialist, The Washington Post, White House, White House Correspondents Association Leave a comment
Hunter Schwarz writes: If there’s one thing we can count on from President Obama at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner every year, it’s him making jokes about being Muslim, foreign-born and socialist.
On Saturday, he joked about how busy he is, dealing with immigration, vetoes and Iran — all while finding time to pray five times a day…
He got lots of laughs, but if you look back at all of his other routines, you’ll notice he has made similar jokes before. Not just once. Not just twice. Every. Single. Year. If it’s not broken, don’t fix it, right? Here’s a look back at Obama joking about being a socialist Muslim born in Kenya:
2014
“An American won the Boston Marathon for the first time in 30 years, which was inspiring and only fair, since a Kenyan has been president for the last six.”
“Let’s face it, Fox, you’ll miss me when I’m gone. It will be harder to convince the American people that Hillary was born in Kenya.”
2013
“These days, I look in the mirror and I have to admit, I’m not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be.”
2012
“My name is Barack Obama. My mother was born in Kansas. My father was born in Kenya. And I was born, of course, in Hawaii.” Read the rest of this entry »
Enforcing Sharia Compliance: Infamous Saudi Religious Police Unit Debuts on Twitter
Posted: April 25, 2015 Filed under: Law & Justice, Religion | Tags: Al Sharpton, Allah, Copts, Halal, Islam, Islamic terrorism, Kenya, Muslim, Qur'an, Sharia, The Christian Science Monitor, Twitter, United States Constitution Leave a comment
Jordan Schachtel reports: Saudi Arabia’s Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, known as “Haia” in the Wahhabi Kingdom, has arrived on Twitter under the verified username @PvGovSa.
“Haia can arrest anyone for violating Islamic customs and dietary laws, such as women smoking, couples celebrating Valentine’s Day, or either gender eating pork or consuming alcohol.”
“Abdul Rahman Al-Sanad, president of the commission, inaugurated the account and announced the formation of a higher committee for media and public relations to improve the Haia’s public image,” the Saudi Gazettereports.
The group’s initial tweet read, “In the name of Allah and Allah’s blessing kicks off the official account of the General Presidency for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice on Twitter asking Allah to benefit by everyone.”
“Several controversial acts have embroiled the Sharia-enforcement agency over the years. In 2002, 15 young Saudi girls died from burns and smoke inhalation after the religious police prevented them from leaving their school while it was on fire.”
Haia is the Saudi Arabian government’s “religious police” that seeks to enforce the customs of the Koranic Sharia law within the country.
The religious entity patrols the streets ensuring that individuals, particularly women, are maintaining a Sharia-compliant lifestyle, which includes dressing properly (wearing a full cloak) and remaining separated from men at all times. The Haia agency is also known for enforcing Saudi Arabia’s ban on female automobile drivers. Read the rest of this entry »
UPDATE: Islamist Attack on Kenya Christian Students: Death Toll Rises to 147
Posted: April 2, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, War Room | Tags: African Union Mission in Sudan, al Qaeda, Al-Shabaab (militant group), College football, Garissa, Islamism, Kenya, Nairobi, Somalia, Uhuru Kenyatta 3 Comments
At least 70 147 Kenyan students were massacred Thursday when Somalia‘s Shebab Islamist group raided a university, the interior minister said, the country’s deadliest attack since US embassy bombings in 1998.
“Unfortunately, we lost… a number of lives, we have not confirmed fully…”
“We are mopping up the area,” Interior Minster Joseph Nkaiserry told reporters, saying that four gunmen had been killed after Kenyan troops launched an assault on the final building where the insurgents had holed up for over 12 hours.
“The terrorists, 90 percent of the threat has been eliminated… we have been able to confirm that four terrorists have been killed.”
“Unfortunately, we lost… a number of lives, we have not confirmed fully, but it is in the region of 70 students, and 79 have been injured, nine of them critically,” he added.
The masked gunmen began the assault before dawn, using grenades to blast open the gates of the university in the northeastern town of Garissa, near the lawless border with war-torn Somalia, before attacking students as they slept. Read the rest of this entry »
BREAKING: Gunmen Storm Kenya’s Garissa University College
Posted: April 1, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Global, War Room | Tags: Al-Shabaab (militant group), Associated Press, CCTV, Garissa, Kenya, Mandera, Mombasa, Somalia, The Pentagon, Uganda Leave a comment
Heavy gunfire and explosions have been heard at Garissa University College near the border with Somalia.
Local media say that two policemen and a student have been injured and rushed to hospital, and Kenyan defence forces are said to have arrived at the scene.
It is not clear who is responsible for the attack, but Somali al-Shabaab militants have frequently targeted Kenya in the past few years….developing….
BREAKING: Lead Prosecutor in al-Shabaab Bombing Case Shot Dead in Uganda
Posted: March 30, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Law & Justice, Religion | Tags: African Union, African Union Mission to Somalia, al Qaeda, Al-Shabaab (militant group), Bardera, Extremism, Federal Government of Somalia, Kampala, Kenya, MOGADISHU, Nairobi, Somalia, Uganda Leave a comment
Police say Joan Kagezi, who was prosecuting the case of 13 men on trial for killing 76 people, was followed on a motorbike as she drove home
Uganda’s lead prosecutor in the ongoing trial of 13 men accused of participating in 2010 al-Shabaab bombings that killed 76 people was shot dead Monday, police said.
Joan Kagezi, acting assistant director of public prosecution, was murdered by men on a motorbike as she drove home in a suburb of the capital, Kampala police spokesman Patrick Onyango said. “They were trailing her on a motorcycle … They shot her dead.”
Her current cases included the trial of men allegedly linked to July 2010 suicide bombings targeting football fans watching the World Cup final at a restaurant and a rugby club in Kampala. Somalia’s al-Qaida-affiliated Shabaab militants claimed responsibility for the attack, the group’s first outside Somalia.
The trial of the accused – seven Kenyans, five Ugandans and one Tanzanian – began earlier this month at Uganda’s high court on a range of charges including terrorism, murder and membership of a terrorist organisation.
All but one have also been charged with belonging to the Shabaab. The case was due to resume on Tuesday.
Jane Kajuga, spokeswoman for the office of the director of public prosecution, confirmed the death of Kagezi, lead prosector in the bombing trial, and who also led the prosecution’s anti-terrorism and war crimes section.
“She has been shot dead … but details are so far scanty,” Kajuga told the NTV Uganda station. Read the rest of this entry »
Brother’s Keeper: ‘What if Mitt Romney’s Brother Asked Dinesh DSouza for $1,000?’
Posted: March 9, 2014 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: 2016: Obama's America, Barack Obama, Dinesh D'Souza, Kenya, Obama, Sirius XM Patriot, Souza 2 Comments
Bestselling author, academic, and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza joined Breitbart News Saturday’s live broadcast from CPAC on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 and explained the difference between him and President Obama is,
“I am a third world guy who has embraced America, and, as I see it, he is an American-born guy who has adopted a third world ideology.”
D’Souza shared his thoughts with Breitbart News Executive Chairman Steve Bannon and Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow. Marlow asked what D’Souza thought about Obama’s new My Brother’s Keeper initiative. The filmmaker had a story to tell that shed light on just how the President treated his real brother, George Obama. D’Souza recounted that he had interviewed George for his movie 2016: Obama’s America, which he shot in Kenya prior to the 2012 presidential election.
“So it ends up I’m funding George Obama’s family medical treatments, and his brother is the President… It’s bizarre.”
Right before the 2012 election was to occur, D’Souza received a phone call from Kenya.
“I get a call, and I look at my phone, and it is from Kenya. Like, who’s calling me in Kenya? It’s George!”
2014 ‘Year of Action’: Your Own Special Toy, The Barack Obama Action Figure
Posted: February 4, 2014 Filed under: Humor, White House | Tags: Action figure, Barack Obama, Collecting, Kenya, Left-wing politics, President, Recreation, Toy, toys, United States 1 Comment
“An Action Figure We Can Believe In”….The Barack Obama Action Figure at Amazon
The Q & A is almost as funny as the important warning: “WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD — Small parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.” (or non-liberal adults) Note: the action figure may or may not smoke cigarettes when you’re not looking. Also, what about that index finger? Hmmm…
Q: Does the box… Say Made In China?
A: Made in Kenya, just like the “soooperhero!!!!”
Q: If I like the action figures I already have, can I keep the action figures I already have?
A: It turns out that your old action figure was overpriced. Even though you have a pre-existing action figure, you can still buy this one, which is…
Q: Does it come with a teleprompter?
A: No, but if your purchase him, you will own him and can make him say whatever you want. Just think of yourself as Leftist Special Interest Group…
The Cruelty of Gun-Free Zones
Posted: February 1, 2014 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Self Defense, U.S. News | Tags: Anti-Gun Rights, Barack Obama, Gun control, Gun rights, Interpol, Kenya, Nairobi, Sandy Hook, Second Amendment, Self-defense, United States 4 Comments
Law enforcement recognizes that gun-free zones leave shooting victims defenseless
John R. Lott Jr. writes: Tuesday night, President Obama vowed to “help stop more tragedies from visiting innocent Americans in our movie theaters and our shopping malls, or schools like Sandy Hook.”
But before he continues pushing his typical gun-control agenda, he should consider what law enforcement in Europe and the United States advise. It might surprise him.
In November, Interpol’s secretary general, Ron Noble, noted there are two ways to protect people from such mass shootings: “One is to say we want an armed citizenry; you can see the reason for that. Another is to say the enclaves [should be] so secure that in order to get into the soft target you’re going to have to pass through extraordinary security.”
2 Senior Shabab Members Reported Killed in Somalia
Posted: October 28, 2013 Filed under: Breaking News, War Room | Tags: Al-Shabaab (militant group), al-Shabab, Federal Government of Somalia, Kenya, Middle Juba, Somalia, United States Navy SEALs 1 Comment
MOGADISHU, Somalia) —Abdi Guled reports: A member of the Somali Islamic extremist group al-Shabab and a Somali government intelligence official say a military strike, possibly a drone attack, killed at least two senior al-Shabab rebels.
The al-Shabab member, who gave his name as Abu Mohamed, said one of those killed was al-Shabab’s top explosives expert, known as Anta. He said a drone targeted a car carrying al-Shabab rebels in Somalia’s Middle Juba region.
A Somali intelligence official in Mogadishu said the attack occurred as al-Shabab members went to intervene in a clan dispute. The official insisted on anonymity because he is not authorized to share intelligence.
Earlier this month, United States Navy SEALS attacked a coastal Somali town to take down a Kenyan al-Shabab member. The SEALs withdrew before capturing or killing their target.
Kenya Mall Attack: Recovered Bodies May Be Gunmen
Posted: October 18, 2013 Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere, War Room | Tags: Abdi Dhuhulow, BBC, Kenya, Nairobi, Norway, Somalia, Westgate, Westgate shopping center 1 Comment
A woman shields a baby as a soldier stands guard inside the Westgate shopping mall after a shootout in Nairobi, on Sept. 21, 2013. Kabir Dhanji / EPA
Sophie Brown reports: Bodies recovered from the Westgate shopping center on Thursday are probably those of two attackers, according to a Kenyan official. Ndung’u Gethenji, who heads the committee investigating the Sept. 21 attack, said AK47 rifles were found next to the bodies, ruling out the possibility that they were soldiers since the army does not use those weapons.
Meanwhile, one of the suspected gunmen has been identified as Norwegian Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow, 23, who was born in Somalia, the BBC reports.
More than three weeks on, it remains unclear how many gunmen were involved in the attack and whether any escaped. Authorities initially reported that 10 to 15 militants were at the mall but surveillance video appears to show only four men.
BREAKING: US Navy SEALS raid militant group linked to Kenya mall attack
Posted: October 5, 2013 Filed under: Breaking News | Tags: al Qaeda, al-Shabaab, Associated Press, Barawa, Kenya, Nairobi, Somalia, United States Navy SEALs Leave a comment
DEVELOPING: US Navy SEALS have conducted a raid of the Al Shabaab militant group in Somalia, killing at least one militant, Fox News confirms.
The group is linked to last month’s Kenya mall attack that killed more than 60 people.
In Somalia, officials say international military forces carried out a pre-dawn strike Saturday against foreign fighters in the town of Barawe. Officials say the strike was aimed at “high-profile” targets.
The strike comes two weeks after Al Shabaab militants attacked Nairobi’s Westgate Mall.
The strike was carried out in the hours before morning prayers in Barawe, the same town where Navy SEALs four years ago killed a most-wanted Al Qaeda operative, the officials said. Read the rest of this entry »
VIDEO: Kenya Mall Massacre – First moments Captured in Amateur Video
Posted: September 24, 2013 Filed under: Global, Mediasphere, War Room | Tags: al-Shabaab, Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Kenya, Nairobi, Shopping mall, Twitter, United States 1 Comment
Kenyan Mall Massacre Hero: Off duty SAS soldier with handgun saved 100 lives
Posted: September 23, 2013 Filed under: Guns and Gadgets, Self Defense, War Room | Tags: al-Shabaab, East Africa, Kenya, Nairobi, Shopping mall, Somalia, Special Air Service, Westgate, Yemen 3 Comments
An off-duty member of the SAS emerged as a hero of the Nairobi siege yesterday, after he was credited with saving up to 100 lives. The soldier was having coffee at the Westgate mall when it was attacked by Islamists on Saturday. With a gun tucked into his waistband, he was pictured helping two women from the complex.
He is said to have returned to the building on a dozen occasions, despite intense gunfire. A friend in Nairobi said: ‘What he did was so heroic. He was having coffee with friends when it happened.
‘He went back in 12 times and saved 100 people. Imagine going back in when you knew what was going on inside.’ Read the rest of this entry »
How al-Shabaab picks its targets
Posted: September 23, 2013 Filed under: Global, Think Tank, War Room | Tags: al Qaeda, al-Shabaab, CNN, Kenya, Nairobi, Osama bin Laden, Peter Bergen, Somali, Somalia Leave a comment
A Kenyan police officer guards the entrance of a building near the Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday, September 23. Gunmen burst into the mall and opened fire in a deadly attack on September 21. Kenyan authorities sounded increasingly confident Monday that they had brought the three-day standoff to a close, reassuring a nervous public that there was little chance of escape for any surviving Al-Shabaab gunmen who had terrorized the mall, killing dozens of people.
Nairobi mall attack fits with Al-Shabaab’s motives
(CNN) — Peter Bergen reports: Al-Shabaab, al-Qaeda’s brutal Somali affiliate, has claimed credit for the attack by multiple gunmen at an upscale shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya that has already killed at least 59 people.
This should not be a surprise. For Al-Shabaab, the mall was an attractive target because Westerners, including Americans, frequented it. The mall is also in the capital of Kenya, a country that Al-Shabaab has good reason to dislike, as the Kenyan military played a major role in handing their forces a defeat last year when they liberated the key Somali port of Kismayo from their control.
REPORT: Al-Shabaab Claims Three Americans Among Gunmen in Kenya Mall
Posted: September 22, 2013 Filed under: Breaking News, Global, Mediasphere, War Room | Tags: al Qaeda, al-Shabaab, Kenya, Nairobi, Somalia, Twitter, Uhuru Kenyatta, United States 2 CommentsBridget Johnson writes: Al-Shabaab is claiming that there are American gunmen among those still holed up in the Westgate mall in a standoff with Kenyan and Israeli special forces.
The Somali al-Qaeda affiliate tweeted a series of names on its latest account before Twitter against suspended the group. Al-Shabaab has been creating new accounts each time they get shut down but a movement of pro-Kenyan tweeters has been tracking down the new accounts and complaining to Twitter.
“We received permission to disclose the names of our mujahideen inside #Westgate,” their latest account tweeted.
They proceeded to tweet the names one by one, including Ahmed Mohamed Isse, 22, “native” of St. Paul, Minn., Abdifatah Osman Keenadiid, 24, of Minneapolis, and Gen Mustafe Noorudiin, 27, of Kansas City, Mo.
PHOTOS: Hundreds die in weekend attacks
Posted: September 22, 2013 Filed under: Global, War Room | Tags: Iraq, Kenya, Nairobi, Peshawar, Sadr City, Saturday, Sept, Sunday 2 Comments
Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013: Peshawar, Pakistan. Pakistani women grieve over the coffins of their relatives, who were killed in a suicide attack on a church. The suicide bomb attack killed scores of people Sunday, in one of the worst assaults on the country’s Christian minority in years. An assault by Islamic extremists at a Kenya mall, a suicide attack on a Pakistani church and assaults by suicide bombers targeting mourners at Shiite and Sunni funerals in Iraq have killed more than 250 people and injured at least 470 others since Saturday. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
A recap of key events:
— Saturday, Sept. 21, through Sunday, Sept. 22: Nairobi, Kenya — Islamic extremist gunmen lobbing grenades and firing assault rifles inside an upscale mall in Nairobi kill at least 68 people, wound more than 175 others and hold an unknown number of others hostage.
— Saturday, Sept. 21: Baghdad — A wave of attacks, mainly on a Shiite funeral in Baghdad, kill 104 people and wound more than 140 others.
— Sunday, Sept. 22: Peshawar, Pakistan — A pair of suicide bombers blow themselves up amid hundreds of worshippers at a church in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 78 and wounding more than 140 others..
— Sunday, Sept. 22, Baghdad — Iraqi authorities say a suicide attacker killed at least 16 people and wounded at least 35 others at a Sunni funeral.
Here’s a gallery of photos from the last 48 hours of violence in Kenya, Pakistan and Iraq:
Americans among injured in deadly Kenya mall attack as Al Qaeda-linked Somali militant group claims responsibility
Posted: September 21, 2013 Filed under: Breaking News, Global, War Room | Tags: AK-47, al-Shabaab, al-Shabab, Kenya, Kenyan, Nairobi, Uhuru Kenyatta, United States 2 CommentsReporting from Fox news and AP: The Al Qaeda-linked Somali militant group al-Shabab is claiming responsibility for a deadly attack targeting non-Muslims at an upscale mall in Kenya’s capital.
A statement from al-Shabab on its official Twitter feed Saturday says the attacks, which killed at least 39 and wounded 150, including American citizens, are retribution for military action by Kenya inside Somalia. The group said it was now shifting the battlefield to Kenya. Police say they are treating the assault as a “terrorist attack.”
Witnesses say the gunmen asked victims they had cornered if they were Muslim: If the answer was yes, several witnesses said, those people were free to go. The non-Muslims were not. Read the rest of this entry »
How Successful Networks Nourish Good Ideas
Posted: September 18, 2013 Filed under: Think Tank | Tags: Audience effect, Clive Thompson, Douglas College, Kenya, Ory Okolloh, Sturgeon's Law, Theodore Sturgeon, Vanderbilt University, wordpress Leave a comment
Illustration: Simon C. Page
Clive Thompson writes: In 2003, Kenyan-born Ory Okolloh was a young law student studying in the US but still obsessed with Kenyan politics. There was plenty to obsess over. Kenya was a cesspool of government corruption: Transparency International ranked it as one of the most corrupt public sectors in the world. Okolloh spent hours talking to her classmates and law professors about politics, until eventually one suggested the obvious: Why don’t you start a blog? Read the rest of this entry »
OOPS! Tax-exempt Obama Foundation doesn’t exist at listed address
Posted: May 20, 2013 Filed under: Mediasphere | Tags: Arlington County Virginia, Barack Obama, Daily Caller, Family of Barack Obama, Internal Revenue Service, Kenya, Tax exemption, Virginia Leave a comment
The “charity” run by President Barack Obama’s half-brother that was fast-tracked for IRS tax-exempt status is based at a Virginia UPS store, according to its website.
The organization’s IRS filings list another Virginia address that is actually a drug rehab center where the foundation does not appear ever to have been based.
The Barack H. Obama Foundation is run by Abon’go “Roy” Malik Obama, the half-brother of Barack Obama.
As first reported by The Daily Caller, the foundation was speedily approved for IRS exemption by Lois Lerner, the IRS senior official at the center of the targeting of conservative organizations that have waited over two years to receive tax exempt status.
The address listed on the site barackhobamafoundation.org is 107 S. West St. #401, Alexandria, Va., which houses a UPS store on a street that includes a tailor, a Catholic Charities thrift shop and a Gold Works jewelry store.
“They probably just rent a mailbox here or receive mail here,” said a UPS employee when asked if the store was the address for the Barack H. Obama Foundation. She did not know if Malik Obama, who his website says divides his time between Kenya and Virginia, had been in to the store.
A visit to the UPS store revealed that there is a mailbox numbered 401.
The address listed in the group’s IRS filings — 4201 Wilson Blvd. Ste 110-152, Arlington, Va. 22030 — is even more suspicious, as it is a marketing center for A Better Today Recovery Services — a drug-and-alcohol treatment organization.
A receptionist who answered the phone at A Better Today said neither she nor anybody in the office had heard of the Barack H. Obama Foundation. She said A Better Today had been located at the Arlington address for “a couple years.” The IRS filings that list the Arlington address as the foundation’s headquarters were dated May 2011.
“I don’t know if it’s listed wrong or what’s going on, but we have never heard of that,” the receptionist said, adding that A Better Today had never received calls or correspondence related to the Barack H. Foundation.
