The ISIS offensive in Iraq

[Jordan]

This is why tenure is even worse than unions.

Tenure is bad for a whole host of reasons. A new professor at a Research College (mid-sized state school to large state school), in their first six years, is expected to teach three courses per semester, have six articles published in pier-reviewed journals, and have one book not related to their dissertation.

The dilemma is the time it takes to do all of that research means that the three courses they teach are not up to par. It's even worse at elite research colleges (Harvard, Stanford, Yale, etc.) because they require three classes taught per semester, twelve articles, and two books not related to your dissertation.

The only schools that have mitigated the problem are small, liberal arts colleges, where to get tenure you still teach the three courses per semester, but are only required to have three published articles and one book that can be related to your dissertation. In exchange, student reviews are weighted more heavily.

The issue with this is, as a new professor, if you miss out on tenure you are screwed. So essentially, the tenure system results in professors who focus more on research than teaching. Tenure is nice for professors once you have it, but the process of getting it and certain benefits of having it are problematic. I wouldn't say it necessarily needs to be scrapped, however, it needs significant change.

 

[Simon]

I'm not even sure what to think of this honestly. If all of this turns out to be true, they can pretty much fire him even though he's on tenure (I believe he is), correct?

 

[Jordan]

I'm not even sure what to think of this honestly. If all of this turns out to be true, they can pretty much fire him even though he's on tenure (I believe he is), correct?

It depends. If he was truly funding/supporting ISIS then they can fire him. The dilemma is if all he has done is say "ISIS is not that bad," "death to Israel," etc. they may not be able to. It also depends on the tenure contract at Kent State.

 

[Maximus]

Who is KSU Associate Professor Julio Pino?


Posted: Jan 20, 2016 12:18 PM ESTUpdated: Jan 21, 2016 8:23 PM EST
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Kent State professor Julio Pino under investigation for helping ISIS. (Source: Kent State University)
KENT, OH (WOIO) -
A Kent State professor is under investigation for ties with ISIS, according to an FBI source.

The source says a joint terrorism task force is investigating Julio Pino, for possibly trying to recruit students to join the Islamist militant group.

The 55-year-old is a history professor with a focus in Latin America. He received his Ph.D in History from the University of California at Los Angeles. He is a Fulbright Scholar and a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Pino is a tenured professor at Kent State, a public university that is 39 miles south of Cleveland. He served as assistant professor in the Department of History from 1992 to 1998 and served as associate professor from 1998 to present.

He is a native of Cuba and converted to Islam in 2000.

Pino has a history of making controversial statements and standing behind them.

2015: Married Mia Kang in February – (Per Facebook status update) Mia Kang is also on the Portage County Auditor property report

2014: FBI reportedly starts investigating Dr. Julio Pino for terrorist connections, and his home is raided – per multiple reports

2014: Wrote an open letter addressed to children in Gaza

2011: Shouted "death to Israel" during an open forum where the featured speaker was a former Israeli diplomat

2009: U.S. Secret Service acknowledged that it was investigating Pino “as an individual who came to our attention who needed to be interviewed.”

2007: Had pictures of some of the 911 bombers outside his office in a hero-like context

2007: Accused of writing jihad blog

2002: Wrote an opinion in the school's daily newspaper where he praised a suicide bomber

There are also some troubling posts on Pino's Facebook page.

In August 2012, he posted a photo of him in front of the Capitol building. The comment below said, "I come to bury D.C., not to praise it."

In Sept. 2014, a photo of two masked Islamist fighters with the comment, " Keep it a secret: that's me on the left!

Pino has not been charged with any crimes.

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[Maximus]

Germany Has LOST 600,000 Absconding Migrants Who Could Be In Other EU Countries By Now

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by LIAM DEACON22 Jan 201622

The German government has admitted it cannot account for 600,000 of the 1.1 million migrants who arrived into the country last year – raising concerns that the migrants have absconded into Germany and other European Union (EU) nations.
Delays in processing applications may account for some of those missing, it is reported, but others may have moved on to different EU countries, the Interior Ministry has confessed.

The 1.1 million migrants registered with the German state’s ‘EASY’ system, operated by the German Ministry For Migration and Refugees. It does little more than record an applicant’s arrival and their country of origin.

Once migrants have registered, officials assign them a place where they are to be cared for, and where they can then make a full application for asylum.

However, according to the Daily Mail, only 476,649 of the 1.1million migrants have so far turned up at their assigned destination and registered their asylum case there. That number breaks down as 326,529 men and 150,120 women.

There are three possible explanations as to why the missing 600,000 migrants have not yet appeared.

They might indeed have registered, but have not showed up due to delays in the system. Or, they might never have existed – migrants are known to register more than once to increase their chance of reaching their preferred destination. The second option here is less likely, as it would not account for the numbers known to have travelled to Europe over the past year.

Most alarmingly, however, it is entirely possible that they have moved on, disappearing into Germany, or indeed travelling to other European Union member states.

Despite the cold weather, the number of migrants making it into Europe from the Middle East has shown little sign of slowing, and many countries are expect greater numbers to arrive this year.

According to a new court ruling, reported yesterday, migrants inside the Schengen area with a reasonable claim to a “family life” inside the UK, must now be admitted into the country.

 

[Sebastian]

Germany Has LOST 600,000 Absconding Migrants Who Could Be In Other EU Countries By Now

Getty
by LIAM DEACON22 Jan 201622

The German government has admitted it cannot account for 600,000 of the 1.1 million migrants who arrived into the country last year – raising concerns that the migrants have absconded into Germany and other European Union (EU) nations.
Delays in processing applications may account for some of those missing, it is reported, but others may have moved on to different EU countries, the Interior Ministry has confessed.

The 1.1 million migrants registered with the German state’s ‘EASY’ system, operated by the German Ministry For Migration and Refugees. It does little more than record an applicant’s arrival and their country of origin.

Once migrants have registered, officials assign them a place where they are to be cared for, and where they can then make a full application for asylum.

However, according to the Daily Mail, only 476,649 of the 1.1million migrants have so far turned up at their assigned destination and registered their asylum case there. That number breaks down as 326,529 men and 150,120 women.

There are three possible explanations as to why the missing 600,000 migrants have not yet appeared.

They might indeed have registered, but have not showed up due to delays in the system. Or, they might never have existed – migrants are known to register more than once to increase their chance of reaching their preferred destination. The second option here is less likely, as it would not account for the numbers known to have travelled to Europe over the past year.

Most alarmingly, however, it is entirely possible that they have moved on, disappearing into Germany, or indeed travelling to other European Union member states.

Despite the cold weather, the number of migrants making it into Europe from the Middle East has shown little sign of slowing, and many countries are expect greater numbers to arrive this year.

According to a new court ruling, reported yesterday, migrants inside the Schengen area with a reasonable claim to a “family life” inside the UK, must now be admitted into the country.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

Germany Has LOST 600,000 Absconding Migrants Who Could Be In Other EU Countries By Now

Getty
by LIAM DEACON22 Jan 201622

The German government has admitted it cannot account for 600,000 of the 1.1 million migrants who arrived into the country last year – raising concerns that the migrants have absconded into Germany and other European Union (EU) nations.
Delays in processing applications may account for some of those missing, it is reported, but others may have moved on to different EU countries, the Interior Ministry has confessed.

The 1.1 million migrants registered with the German state’s ‘EASY’ system, operated by the German Ministry For Migration and Refugees. It does little more than record an applicant’s arrival and their country of origin.

Once migrants have registered, officials assign them a place where they are to be cared for, and where they can then make a full application for asylum.

However, according to the Daily Mail, only 476,649 of the 1.1million migrants have so far turned up at their assigned destination and registered their asylum case there. That number breaks down as 326,529 men and 150,120 women.

There are three possible explanations as to why the missing 600,000 migrants have not yet appeared.

They might indeed have registered, but have not showed up due to delays in the system. Or, they might never have existed – migrants are known to register more than once to increase their chance of reaching their preferred destination. The second option here is less likely, as it would not account for the numbers known to have travelled to Europe over the past year.

Most alarmingly, however, it is entirely possible that they have moved on, disappearing into Germany, or indeed travelling to other European Union member states.

Despite the cold weather, the number of migrants making it into Europe from the Middle East has shown little sign of slowing, and many countries are expect greater numbers to arrive this year.

According to a new court ruling, reported yesterday, migrants inside the Schengen area with a reasonable claim to a “family life” inside the UK, must now be admitted into the country.

Is it just me, or is Angela Merkel looking like Bob Newhart with a blond wig?

 

[Sebastian]

I did not know him personally. But, but dozens of my good friends from the Army knew him well and spoke lovingly of him. To survive fucking Iraq and Afghanistan only to be murdered while on vacation.

11 people in the Vanderbuilt tour group were stabbed by a Palestinian terrorist, but former CPT Taylor Force (left in the photo on a trip through Ireland with another West Pointer and 1-9 CAV battle buddy) was the sole fatality. I don't know what the whole story is but either he was simply unlucky or he sustained more severe wounds than the others because he was trying to protect his wife and the rest of the tour group.

"(CNN) A former U.S. Army officer who was part of a Vanderbilt University tour group was stabbed to death in a terror attack that left 10 others wounded in an old section of Tel Aviv, officials said Tuesday. Taylor Force, a first-year student in the graduate school of management, was killed, Vanderbilt chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos announced.

According to Force's LinkedIn page, he graduated from West Point in 2009 and was a field artillery officer in the U.S. Army until 2014. Force, 28, started an MBA study in 2015. At the time, he told the website Poets and Quants that he went to Vanderbilt because of the support for veterans, the diversity of students and the quality of education.

"In addition to learning the skills needed to be successful in business, I want to establish life-long connections and friendships with my fellow students from the U.S. and around the globe," he said."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/08/middleeast/israel-violence/index.html

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

I did not know him personally. But, but dozens of my good friends from the Army knew him well and spoke lovingly of him. To survive fucking Iraq and Afghanistan only to be murdered while on vacation.

11 people in the Vanderbuilt tour group were stabbed by a Palestinian terrorist, but former CPT Taylor Force (left in the photo on a trip through Ireland with another West Pointer and 1-9 CAV battle buddy) was the sole fatality. I don't know what the whole story is but either he was simply unlucky or he sustained more severe wounds than the others because he was trying to protect his wife and the rest of the tour group.

"(CNN) A former U.S. Army officer who was part of a Vanderbilt University tour group was stabbed to death in a terror attack that left 10 others wounded in an old section of Tel Aviv, officials said Tuesday. Taylor Force, a first-year student in the graduate school of management, was killed, Vanderbilt chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos announced.

According to Force's LinkedIn page, he graduated from West Point in 2009 and was a field artillery officer in the U.S. Army until 2014. Force, 28, started an MBA study in 2015. At the time, he told the website Poets and Quants that he went to Vanderbilt because of the support for veterans, the diversity of students and the quality of education.

"In addition to learning the skills needed to be successful in business, I want to establish life-long connections and friendships with my fellow students from the U.S. and around the globe," he said."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/08/middleeast/israel-violence/index.html

That sucks.

 

[Jordan]

So the CIA had a plan to stop Assad/ISIS and Obama nixed it. Given the success-rate of CIA coups I would be nervous, but shit, if true that is pretty damning for POTUS.

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/n...-That-Could-Have-Stopped-ISIS-374360791.html?

In 2012, the CIA proposed a detailed covert action plan designed to remove Syrian President Bashar Assad from power, but President Obama declined to approve it, current and former U.S. officials tell NBC News.

A former CIA operative reveals in a book to be published Tuesday that senior CIA officials were pushing a multi-tiered plan to engineer the dictator's ouster.

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Doug Laux, 23, describes spending a year in the Middle East meeting with Syrian rebels and intelligence officers from various partner countries as part of the CIA's Syria task force.

Laux said the White House and CIA leaders made it clear that the goal of his task force was to find ways to oust Assad from office. "We had come up with 50 good options to facilitate that."

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But the president, who must approve all covert action, never gave the green light.

Former CIA Director David Petraeus and others who supported the plan believe it could have prevented the rise of ISIS and the European refugee crisis, the former officials say.

 

[Maximus]

Muslims March in Germany Chanting “With Allah’s Help, We Shall Conquer You” (VIDEO)
Jim Hoft Apr 1st, 2016 9:47 pm 1065 Comments

They seem to be assimilating quite well, no?

Muslims march down a German street chanting, “With Allah’s help, we shall conquer you!”

What lovely citizens.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyrSKmhDvcA

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

Didn't know where else to put this, so I grave-dug a bit....

Erdogan: Turkish forces are in Syria to end Assad's rule

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that the Turkish Army entered Syria to end the rule of President Bashar Assad, whom he accused of terrorism and causing the deaths of thousands.
“We entered [Syria] to end the rule of the tyrant al-Assad who terrorizes with state terror. [We didn’t enter] for any other reason,” the Turkish president said at the first Inter-Parliamentary Jerusalem Platform Symposium in Istanbul, as quoted by Hurriyet daily.

Erdogan said that Turkey has no territorial claims in Syria, but instead wants to hand over power to the Syrian population, adding that Ankara is seeking to restore “justice....”

https://www.rt.com/news/368601-erdogan-syria-oust-assad/

Is this just a cover for the Turks to beat up on some Kurds, or is Erdogan actually serious about this? @jking948

 

[Jordan]

Didn't know where else to put this, so I grave-dug a bit....

Erdogan: Turkish forces are in Syria to end Assad's rule

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that the Turkish Army entered Syria to end the rule of President Bashar Assad, whom he accused of terrorism and causing the deaths of thousands.
“We entered [Syria] to end the rule of the tyrant al-Assad who terrorizes with state terror. [We didn’t enter] for any other reason,” the Turkish president said at the first Inter-Parliamentary Jerusalem Platform Symposium in Istanbul, as quoted by Hurriyet daily.

Erdogan said that Turkey has no territorial claims in Syria, but instead wants to hand over power to the Syrian population, adding that Ankara is seeking to restore “justice....”

https://www.rt.com/news/368601-erdogan-syria-oust-assad/

Is this just a cover for the Turks to beat up on some Kurds, or is Erdogan actually serious about this? @jking948

Erdogan is about the least trustworthy leader in the world... So I don't buy it. I think this is Turkey continuing their ongoing feud with Russia by sending troops to fight the Soviets, getting in the good graces of the Gulf countries, and aiding various Islamists in Syria.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

Erdogan is about the least trustworthy leader in the world... So I don't buy it. I think this is Turkey continuing their ongoing feud with Russia by sending troops to fight the Soviets, getting in the good graces of the Gulf countries, and aiding various Islamists in Syria.

Damn. That would escalate things to a lot more than just a feud. Do you really think Erdogan would do that? If that's the case, I think our response likely should be limited to:

 

[Jordan]

Damn. That would escalate things to a lot more than just a feud. Do you really think Erdogan would do that? If that's the case, I think our response likely should be limited to:

Yeah, Erdogan got a ton of support after the "coup" but has slowly been losing it because he can't connect to Turkey's intense nationalism. This is an opportunity for him to boost it.

And agreed 100% on the response.