The following was published in a french-speaking Kabyl web site. Kabyls are Algeria's original inhabitants under Arab oppression. A number of them have ended rejecting Islam. What is interesting is that the comments about this cleric's death aren't precisely overflowing with Christian charity. Pun intended. Also this site's moderators and most of the commenters are siding with Israel about the Gaza offensive.
Note: If you don't speak French you can submit the text on translate.google.com. Outcome is surprisingly good.
[Dhaka Tribune] After chatting with a Facebook friend for only 15 days, 42-year-old Baguiati homemaker Soma Ghosh agreed to meet him. That proved to be her undoing. The 33-year-old man from Birbhum landed up at her flat and murdered her in a fit of rage on Monday after she rebuffed his advances, police said yesterday. Important safety tip here: If you're marketing your lust on Facebook, meet in a beer joint first to verify the goods...
Abhishek Majumdar, known as Totla Rana back home due to his stammering, was tossed in the calaboose Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! from Bolpur on Wednesday night and brought to Kolkata. He used the name Nandan Sen on Facebook and was introduced to Soma on the social networking site by a close friend. Soma and Abhishek began chatting regularly and only seven days later reportedly exchanged phone numbers. Police say Soma invited Abhishek to her home. Accordingly, he landed up at Soma's Rabindrapally apartment complex around 1pm on Monday and was actually escorted to her flat by a next-door neighbour.
Police have two theories on what transpired next. "Both the man and the woman were shocked to find the real human being to be different from the virtual world," said an investigator. Majumdar is married and has a son. The short, slightly built man had posted the jazzy photo of a biker on his Facebook profile. "Majumdar desired a 'closer relationship', which Soma strongly opposed. She was the mother of a 17-year-old girl. But the youth could not take her rejection and tried to force her. There was a scuffle and she fought back. In a fit of rage, he picked up a belan-chaki and a knife from the kitchen and attacked her," said an officer, adding that the murder was not planned.
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women over 40 on dating sites tend to be too trusting
wishful thinking. they are hoping to snag the man of their dreams maybe in time to have a child
cruel predators know this
they look at single women over 35 as desperate, which sometimes they are
that makes them easy prey for psychopaths.
shame shame shame
women need to wise up and just say: OK, i'm still single but that is OK. Don't need to be desperate.
The stakes are really high you could lose your life.
[Gulf News] New Delhi: A three-year-old boy died after he fell into a pot of boiling sugar syrup from his mother's arms, police said on Wednesday.
The child, Dev, was in his mother's arms when she was hit by an e-rickshaw outside a sweet shop in east Delhi's Trilokpuri area on Tuesday evening, knocking the child off into the pot of boiling sugar syrup.
His mother, Pinky, tried to pull the child out of the pot, and also suffered burns on her hands.
Both were rushed to a hospital, where Dev died of his injuries. Police said Dev and his mother were on their way to buy milk from the market when the e-rickshaw hit her.
Pinky, who works as a domestic help, said she shouted for help but no one stepped forward. "I put both my hands into the pot to pull out my son. No one came to help," she said.
The police said the driver abandoned the vehicle and bravely ran away.
Police are looking for him while his vehicle has been impounded.
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Perhaps the pilots and crew can fully explain the security lapse whilst standing at rigid position of attention before the Commander of the 86th Airlift Wing.
In fairness, I doubt "Africa Command" [a hybrid collection of U.S. State Deptartment and other misfit agencies, not an actual military organization], have much concern for the airfield safety or security of supporting units.
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As I recall, if you didn't have mission-related reason to be there, any visit to a flight line resulted in a, er, reception by MP's who showed you up close and personal what a "tarmac" was.
[LATIMES] When you look up at the moon's pockmarked face, you're actually staring at Earth's early history. The rain of asteroids that pummeled the lunar surface hit our planet too — it's just that erosion and plate tectonics blotted out the evidence. In fact, no rocks anywhere in the world survived to tell the story of the first 500 million years of Earth's 4.5-billion-year existence, a tumultuous period of frequent impacts known darkly as the Hadean. Also known as the First Global Warming...
Now, scientists have capitalized on the moon's long memory to uncover Earth's own past. The researchers found that much of our planet's surface probably melted repeatedly following large collisions during the Hadean eon. Some of these impacts likely vaporized the oceans and sanitized the planet of any early life that may have gained a foothold, according to a new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
While scientists have long recognized that large and frequent impacts shook the Hadean Earth, the new study marks the first attempt to quantify what might have happened.
The researchers started out by translating recent estimates of the cratering history for the moon — published over the last few years by the same group of scientists — into similar estimates for the Earth.
"The reason is very simple: If you have a crater, you had an impact," said Simone Marchi, a geologist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., and lead author of the Nature study.
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About time for the swarm to come around again, eh?
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He most likely saved millions of lives - both American and Japanese by helping to end the war 'early'. Including Japanese civilians.
And don't forget that the firebombing of Tokyo took almost as many, if not more, lives.
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Japanese were killing, directly or through starvation two hundred thousand Chinese a month. More than the number of the victims of both A-bombs. Shortening the war by a single month saved more Chinese lives than Japanese have been killed by the A-bombs. I suspect most Chinese think they were not dropped soon enough.
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AlanC. Soviet Union went to war against Japan _after_ and not before Hiroshima. Don't get me wrong: it had taken at least two months to transfer from the Western Front the soldiers and tanks who tore the Japanese Army in Manchuria. But for invading Japan with what ships? With what landing barges?
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Ive said it before. Akira Kurisawa's biography made it clear the people of Japan were waiting for the suicide order rather than be conquered. The bomb saved Japan. Its hard to swallow for some but the bomb was by far the lesser evil.
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It is all about the racist narrative and the imperialism narrative left over from the 60s, my goodness, those guys on the left haven't had an original idea since Hegel died.
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More to the point, the Japanese had some 200,000 whites and Eurasians interned throughout South East Asia. According to a survivor (she was made a translator by the Japanese), the Japanese were planning to kill all the internees by August 15.
Then came Hiroshima. Then came Nagasaki. Then came the Emperor's announcement on August 15th.
200,000 Western civilians owe their lives to the A-bombs.
Any takes on what would have happened with USSR taking part if the war hadn't ended?
Stalin actually rushed to get in before Japan surrendered. The Russian generals had planned to go to war around 8/28. When Hiroshima when off, Stalin ordered them to go in early. The supplies were not ready, and one wing of the attack ran out of fuel.
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JFM, Chilly Al,
Those are both relevant to my question, thanks. I knew that Hiroshima interrupted Stalin's plan what I'm wondering is what that plan would have entailed without the bomb.
If the war had dragged on for another 6 to 12 months what would the USSR position, in the field, have been?
Ah, the Nuremburg Defense - offered as an excuse for certain actual war crimes.
By some coincidence, I happened to watch a Netflix docu on Hiroshima the other day. Quite a bit of interview footage with the Enola Gay crew. None, repeat NONE of the crew expressed this sentiment. All of them felt they were doing their part to end a very ugly war. As Van Kirk said, they thought they had just ended it with that one mission. Not a bad days work. As we know, the Japanese needed a bit more convincing.
Judging by his attitude in the clips, Paul Tibbits, the pilot, would have whacked you with a stick for even hinting at such a thing.
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If the war had dragged on for another 6 to 12 months what would the USSR position, in the field, have been?
If the war had dragged on for six more months it would have been winter. Siberian winter that makes Russian winter seem mild. The effort against Japan homeland dependedn on the single and very, very long Transsiberian railroad. I doubt the Soviets could have used road transportation during Siberian winter. In fact Soviet Union was able to build a big force (some of it well west from the Pacific) and start aBlitzkrieg against Japan. Protracted operations are another matter. Protracted ioperations from the very end of the TranSsiberain railroad are still another matter and then thre is the problem of crossing a strait. Just remember how close D-day came of failure. Except Russians had no LSTs and no planes able to land a decent tank. My guess for Soviet forces landing in Japan required that a previous American landing had attracted and even destroyed most of Japan's forces.
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Read Richard B. Frank's book "Downfall". It describes what could have happened if the US hadn't nuked Japan. Besides the massive military and civilian casualties othat would have resulted in an invasion, the US was planning on bombing the railroad bridges. These brought food from the farms to the cities. The result would have been mass starvation.
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The war was already lost for Japan at this point. The only questions remaining where A) How many allied troops would die in taking the islands, B) How many Japanese (including civilians) would die resisting or by suicide (Okinawa), and C) what would become of Japan post-war.
The best of all possible answers was achieved by the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, allowing the Emperor to overcome the military hard-liners and racists, and instead peacefully and unconditionally surrender. This not only spared US and Japanese casualties, which would have been massive, it also reduced what would have been a lingering hatred toward Japan that would have prevented rebuilding Japan (materially and culturally) as quickly and successfully as the US accomplished it.
So, in the face of reality, the bombings produced the best possible outcome of the outcomes that were realistically possible.
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Maybe Hiroshima saved the world from annihilation.
I'm still glad that Germany capitulated in May 1945.
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Van Kirk interview:
"Number one, there is no morality in warfare — forget it," he told The New York Times in 1995. "Number two, when you're fighting a war to win, you use every means at your disposal to do it."
He elaborated on his view of the importance of the mission during a 2005 interview with Time:
You fight a war to win. There were over 100 numbered military targets within the city of Hiroshima. It wasn't a matter of going up there and dropping it on the city and killing people. It was destroying military targets in the city of Hiroshima — the most important of which was the army headquarters charged with the defense of Japan in event of invasion. That had to be destroyed. The Hiroshima bombing and its lingering effects killed approximately 140,000 people by the end of 1945, including 20,000 soldiers, according to the Hiroshima Day Committee. Of around 76,000 buildings in the city, 92% were destroyed by the explosion and subsequent fire. "It's too bad that there were so many casualties, but if you tell me how to fight a war without killing people then I'm going to be the happiest man in the world," Van Kirk told the Witness to War Foundation in another video interview.
The many Americans and other allied POWs interred in Japanese prisoner camps were glad the atomic bomb was used on Japan. They were terribly mistreated and many died.
--the Bataan Death March (which had even more Filipino deaths than US fatalites). Some sources indicate a 28% mortality rate over just 6 days.--being a US flier (these were referred to as "Special Prisoners" by the Japan, received worse rations and treatment and had a higher mortality rate)--being in a camp near the end of the war (Japan's War Ministry issued an edict that all prisoners were to be killed by any means necessary. As a result, at least one prison in Japan, another in the Phillipines burned all of their POWs alive. The ~ 28% mortality rate on the Bataan Death March held for the POW camps as well. POWs in Japanese Camps. Treatment of POWs by the Japanese was barbaric during WWII.
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People overlook the fact that the US would have ended up starving millions of Japanese to death if the surrender took to long. They also overlook that other WMD, specifically chemical weapons (gas and persistent nerve agents), was under consideration for use against Japanese targets, including agriculture.
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My current job involves working with Mitsubishi Aircraft on their new Regional Jet; it takes all my self-restraint NOT to wear an Enola Gay Tie Tack on days when they want to play hard ball with us on contractual issues. Find it also ironic ( never mentioned in their press releases) that the RJ will be built in the same hangars as the Zeros......
[An Nahar] Zim-bob-we President Bob Muggsy Mugabe Octogenarian (maybe nonagenarian by now) President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... on Thursday complained that factionalism that forced him into a compromise government with his rivals five years ago was now threatening to tear his party apart.
Addressing party and government officials at an event to celebrate his ZANU-PF party's election victory last year, Mugabe described the power-sharing government with long-time rival Morgan Tsvangirai as "humiliating".
"We had been shackled together with the likes of Tsvangirai and (opposition faction leader) Welshman Ncube," Mugabe said.
"That came about because we were divided. We allowed ourselves to be divided. It should never happen again."
Mugabe beat Tsvangirai in general elections on July 31 last year, ending the five-year power-sharing government which was characterized by bickering.
Mugabe's party has been divided into factions jostling to succeed the veteran ruler, who at 90 years is the Africa's oldest leader.
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Longing for the day of the great tribal King Shaka kaSenzangakhona. Power sharing and representative gov't are for the white man.
[NEWSWEEK] NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... , the U.S.-led military alliance that has protected America and western Europe from attack since the end of World War Two, is no longer fit for purpose.
The growing aggression of Russian president Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... and his territorial ambitions, as displayed in his annexation of Crimea and his supplying pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine, has shown the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) to be ill prepared.
There is even doubt whether major powers like the U.S., Britannia, La Belle France and Germany would be prepared to intervene if smaller NATO nations, like the Baltic states of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, were invaded by Russia.
That is the stark verdict of British politicians, members of the Commons Select Defence Committee. In a scathing assessment of NATO's inability to respond to emergencies such as Russia's war against Georgia and Ukraine in Crimea, and Russia's use of stealth methods to destabilize Ukraine, they conclude that the Atlantic alliance has been "too complacent about the threat from Russia, and it is not well prepared." They call for the next NATO summit, to be held in Wales in September, to station more military forces in the Baltic states to deter a Russian invasion.
"NATO is currently not well prepared for a Russian threat against a NATO Member State," the committee's report says. "A Russian unconventional attack, using asymmetric tactics â"" designed to slip below NATO's response threshold would be particularly difficult to counter. And the challenges which NATO faces in deterring, or mounting an adequate response to, such an attack poses a fundamental risk to NATO's credibility."
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Fact of the matter is, in the event of an attack by whoever, the US government is prepared to send John Kerry. That's it. The biggest danger is he might bore someone to death.
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Nato should have been disbanded in the 90s. US should have encouraged. Neutral, East Europe defense pact to keep Russians back and provide a buffer to keep Russian paranoia in check.
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Apart from the US, Britain is arguably the most militarily powerful NATO member. If NATO is unfit they must take some responsibility.
Also, just because NATO isn't going to war over eastern Ukrainian provinces that are clearly beyond their sphere of influence should not be construed as unwillingness to defend allies including the Baltic states and Poland. Putin should be made aware of that and if he isn't the blame can be laid on London's doorstep as well as anywhere else.
Maybe they, like Obama and all other NATO members, should spend less money on welfare for immigrants and more for defense.
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Those 2,000 immigrant children will not be coming to temporary shelters in Dallas County after all, the county's top elected official announced Thursday afternoon. The big reason, County Judge Clay Jenkins said, is that far fewer kids are trying to cross the border now compared to a month ago. Time to back off the crisis for a while.
Jenkins, who spoke in front of the Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin Guadalupe, said the number of child refugees crossing from Mexico into Texas has dropped by half, from 300 per day in June, to 150 per day in July. Hotter weather? Except Dallas has been - unexpectedly - cool in July. 71-82 today.
Just a few weeks ago, Jenkins generated national headlines -- and some controversy - when he announced the county would welcome 2,000 of the kids being housed in overcrowded facilities along the border. The adjacent county to the north (Collin) held a public hearing this week, which was jam-packed with people who wanted the kids sent back and the border controlled.
The county offered the federal government two closed schools and a hospital building to become temporary shelters. The radio said the Feds were going to build permanent shelters for incoming junior democratic voters. The radio also said 30,000 have already been placed in foster homes. That'll help those Central American countries control their borders! "The feeling that I have right now," Jenkins said, "is just gratitude to a faith community
You mean the Catholics, Mr. Jenkins? Why not actually name them, especially when speaking from their cathedral shrine?
that stepped up and changed the national conversation from some fear and anger of faceless immigrants and border concerns to changing what it is really about, which is desperate children fleeing violence and potentially death." Not angry about the (illegal) immigrants, just about the open boarder attraction. Sorry about the kids, but without open borders, we'd not know about it, would we? Should we also house the Liberian kids? Syrians? Gazans? Chinese? French?
Jenkins said Dallas County would continue to have a role in dealing with the immigrant kids. Because he wants his constituents to contribute. Well, the taxpaying part, anyway.
"We'll be sending lawyers to Fort Sill, we'll have lawyers going to Lackland," he said. "Just because there are not children here, does not mean we don't need this legal community of close to 10 thousand lawyers to stay engaged in this process." Lawyers pro bono? Or at the expense of me, my kids, grandkids, and the yet-unborn?
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I'll take 10,000 illegals if their county of origin will take the 10,000 lawyers. OK, 20,000 but no more, and a no return policy.
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Feds must have told Dallas County they would have to cover the cost of fostering thousands of these new illegal Democrat Voters and the county probably said there was no money for that bs.
Petroleos de Venezuela SA is seeking a buyer for Citgo Petroleum Corp., its U.S. refining and marketing company, in a deal that may be worth as much as $15 billion. PDVSA, as the state-owned oil company is known, "is currently seeking to monetize its ownership interest in us," Citgo said in a July 29 bond prospectus document. "There can be no assurance as to whether a transaction will occur or as to the nature or timing of any potential transaction."
Citgo owns three refineries capable of handling about 749,000 barrels a day in Louisiana, Texas and Illinois. The company sells gasoline through 5,600 branded stations. It could fetch $15 billion because its midstream storage terminals and docks are eligible for tax advantages, said Sam Margolin, a New York-based analyst for Cowen & Co. Potential buyers include Gulf Coast refiners looking to capitalize on the region's rising crude supply, and those operators seeking entry, Margolin said.
Citgo had sales of $42.3 billion last year and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of $1.8 billion. A call and e-mail to Citgo's Houston office weren't immediately returned. Argus Media reported July 24 that the company had received three offers of $10 billion to $15 billion for Citgo.
The government of President Nicolas Maduro probably is looking to sell offshore refineries to boost hydrocarbons exports to China, raise cash and reduce the risk of having assets seized as part of PDVSA lawsuits abroad, GlobalSource Partners' Ruth de Krivoy and Tamara Herrera said today in an e-mailed report to clients.
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Eating the seed corn now, huh?
The government of Venezuela is in it's next to final phase. Expect them to invade a neighbor for the follow up.
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The Chinese should pick that up in a minute. They have enough clout, and no care about international repercussions, that if the regime in Caracas tries to pull a fast one, it'll hurt big time.
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..there were always (Taiwanese) Chinese who were big time merchants. It's the observation that its the ComChi's who are big mercantilists these days that's impressive.
[BLOOMBERG] Standard & Poor's declared Argentina in default after the government missed a deadline for paying interest on $13 billion of restructured bonds.
The South American country failed to get the $539 million payment to bondholders after a U.S. judge ruled that the money couldn't be distributed unless a group of hedge funds holding defaulted debt also got paid. Argentina, in default for the second time in 13 years, has about $200 billion in foreign-currency debt, including $30 billion of restructured bonds, according to S&P.
Argentina and the hedge funds, led by billionaire Paul Singer's Elliott Management Corp., failed to reach agreement in talks today in New York, according to the court-appointed mediator in the case, Daniel Pollack. In a presser after the talks ended, Argentine Economy Minister Axel Kicillof described the group of creditors as "vulture funds" and said the country wouldn't sign an accord under "extortion."
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Critics of Kirchner's administration charged it with corruption, crony capitalism, falsification of public statistics, harassment of Argentina's independent media and use of the tax agency as a censorship tool.
Chalk up another failure of socialism/communism but no matter there are still those who clutch their gun-control meme and little red Mao book. Kirchner, the second woman President (the first being Isabel Martínez de Perón, 5th grade drop-out and former nightclub dancer and leftist). Kirchner is a leftist. Sounds like Kirchner took a page out of Obama's Alinsky playbook.
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Critics of Kirchner'sObama's administration charged it with corruption, crony capitalism, falsification of public statistics, harassment of Argentina'sAmerica's independent media and use of the tax agency as a censorship tool.
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SpaceX has 2 launches scheduled for CONAE of Argentina. NY lawyers are already trying to attach them.
2014 CONAE (ARGENTINA) VANDENBERG FALCON 9
2015 CONAE (ARGENTINA) VANDENBERG FALCON 9
So anybody in the market for discounted elliptical orbits from Vandenberg?
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Methinks ARGENTINA = CHRISTINA is trying too hard to be the geopol aggressive Great Power or OWG Co-Superpower that BRAZIL is still trying NOT to be???
[Iran Press TV] The Ukrainian military says it has halted military operations against pro-Russian forces in the violence-wracked eastern regions.
The military said on Thursday that the temporary truce was in response to an appeal by United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... , who demanded the operations in eastern Ukraine stop to give international inspectors a chance to access the crash site of a Malaysia Airlines plane.
Senior authorities in Kiev say troops are not conducting military operations apart from protecting their own positions from attack.
The pro-Russia forces have repeatedly accused Kiev of blocking access to the crash site by fighting in the area.
The area has been inaccessible all week due to fighting between pro-Russia separatists and Ukrainian forces. International experts have been prevented for several consecutive days from visiting the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine due to heavy fighting in the area.
Meanwhile, ...back at the desert island, Bert was realizing to his horror that he'd had only one bottle for one message, and he'd forgotten to include a return address... the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said a team of Dutch and Australian coppers reached the site of the incident on Thursday for the first time in almost a week.
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[BUSINESS-STANDARD] A team of 68 Malaysian police personnel arrived in Kiev Thursday to work together with Dutch and Australian teams to help secure access to the Malyasia Airlines crash site, Prime Minister Najib Razak said Thursday.
"Malaysia fully supports the international investigation, and we are grateful to the Netherlands for their lead role in the international team," Razak said during a joint press briefing in the Netherlands with the host country's Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
Repatriating the remains of victims as fast as possible is a shared priority, Razak said.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, while flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, crashed July 17 in the eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board. The dead included 193 Dutch nationals and 27 Australians.
Reports indicated that the Boeing 777 crashed after being hit by a missile. US President Barack Obama Jedi mind meld... said initial investigations showed that the missile was fired from an area in Ukraine controlled by anti-Kiev krazed killers.
"Malaysian experts were already helping here in the Netherlands with the painstaking task of identification - and we stand ready to provide more assistance if required," he said in his statement.
"On behalf of Malaysia, I would like to thank Rutte and the Dutch people for all they have done, and continue to do, for the victims of this senseless and tragic act," he said.
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I think my brother and I could come up with a better deal, but I doubt Putin would listen. So why should the Ukrainians listen to Merkel?
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"Reaching a solution to the ongoing dispute is pertinent for the Germans as Russia is their single biggest trading partner."
This statement is BS. Russia is not among the top 10 ten trading partners wrt exports.
Russia is Germany's 7th largest trading partner wrt imports, behind the UK and barely in front of Belgium, Switzerland and Austria.
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"When I said back in March that your allegations of spying were beyond the scope of reason and couldn't be farther from the truth, I misspoke. It was a speak-o."
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Appears the regime has set aside EO-12333 (Collection Against U.S. Persons). I hope it is soon discovered that Lois Lerner was one of their personal information conduits. I've always thought Brennan to be one of the puppet masters. Perhaps someone will stick his apology up his arse and file charges.
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Using govertment agencies to go after political opponents? Yeah Nixon did that, it was criminal and evil. But Obama is different, he's a "progressive" and therefore beyond reproach, at least in the eyes of the press and Dems. /sarc
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I wonder how much the Senate et al are sweating that there's not a Snowden mole in the CIA with reams of goodies for Enquirer or Drudge to unleash upon them? Now that would be reality TV.
Nixon was a progressive, too, as was everyone to the left of Goldwater, as I understand it. But he was a Republican progressive, and therefore beyond the pale.
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The political reality of not impeaching Obama is clear, since it would mega-rally his base who have no idea about the nature of the Republic's structure or separation of powers, but impeaching Holder, Johnson, the EPA and IRS liars, should be started. The problem in waiting it that it just emboldens them to step farther across the line in their quest for an Imperial Presidency and fiat power by EO. The firewalls of government structure are melting before our eyes and public trust in governance and citizenship is almost evaporating before out eyes....after November, there will be even worse, regardless of outcome, because the losers will feel the need to act in ways that are even more destabilizing.....
On Thursday, Emory University Hospital announced its plans to transfer a patient with Ebola to a containment unit within the next several days. However, the Atlanta hospital did not say specifically that that patient was one of the two infected Americans working for Samaritan's Purse in Liberia. Sources confirmed to Fox News on Thursday that a medevac plane with the Centers for Disease Control's aeromedical biological containment system onboard was headed for Liberia. There was no scheduled return time for the medevac plane's return.
In a press conference Thursday, CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden stated that, for a patient who is infected, travel may be unsafe. "There's the potential that actual movement of the patient could do more harm than befit of more advanced, superior care outside the country [of infection]," he said.
The CDC have not found any evidence that any treatments are effective against Ebola. "There are no proven treatments, no proven vaccines and there is not likely to be one for at least a year, even in the best case scenario," Dr. Frieden said.
Then what's the point of transferring anybody anywhere for treatment?
For a patient who contracts Ebola and is able to recover, once their blood tests normalize and after they no longer show any symptoms, they no longer need to be in isolation. "It's a viral infection and viral infections generally, eventually clear," Dr. Joseph Rahimian, infectious disease specialist and assistant professor of clinical medicine at New York University Langone Medical Center, told FoxNews.com.
Except for viral ailments like Hep C and chickenpox, among others, which typically do not clear. Is Ebola well characterized?
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I'm not sure they understand its transmission vectors very well either.
They have lost a number of healthcare workers who were presumably taking every precaution.
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I put forward the theory that Ebola was an old primitive virus harbored for maybe hundreds of millions of years in clays, this was back in the 90s on a usenet ".bio" group. My proposal still gets seriously discussed but doesn't look like anybody put effort into checking it out. (I know nothing about that kind of biology but just looked at common events described in various books.) The reason I think its old is it kills too fast. AIDS is a successful virus. It takes a long time to kill you so you have lots of chances to spread it wide. Ebola quickly kills lifeforms near it so limits its own spread and dies out. Signs of a more aggressive and primitive virus. Evolution doesn't favor that kind of aggression. Clay as a reservoir because viruses don't have a shell to protect them. Clay can behave as cellular walls and do so for millions and millions of years protecting the bio material inside. The oldest biological material found in clays was billions of years old. It wasn't functional but it was old and protected enough to be analyzed. They have never found a reservoir in animals to a non-biological one makes some sense. Considering ebola dissolves the cells of its host it makes more sense.
#3
Flags and sirens go off with this. Its 90% fatal. Yet the CDC and our president say its not all that infectious. The people helping them are in full protective gear, the CDC say it is low risk. They are being flown in a special plane, one at a time. The are being transferred is a special containment container, but there is no need to worry. The virus is not in America right now, why not keep it that way. We are introducing this virus, through infected hosts, to the US. And we are supposed to trust the CDC, the same CDC that lost Bubonic plague last month? This is going to go bad. Its not the people, it s the handling of their waste and medical waste. I cant imagine why we would do this, other than to study these two as lab rats.
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Last rant, it has a 21 day gestation period before any symptoms arise. The CDC workers come in every day, exposed to the virus and go home. They kiss their kids, make love to their spouses, and go out to bars. An exposed nurse could infect thousands unknowingly before they show symptoms. This just does not make sense.
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I wonder if any of the antiviral drugs have any effectiveness against ebola virus?
Unless your intent is to radically change the demography of the country. Now who would be interested in doing that?
When Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn led the domestic terrorist group Weather Underground in 1969, a chance meeting led Army veteran Larry Grathwohl into joining the group. Grathwohl served as a courier, running messages between the group’s leadership (called the “Weather Bureau”) and individual cells that were to carry out attacks.
Grathwohl was also an informant for the FBI.
In an interview from the 1982 documentary No Place To Hide that recently surfaced, Grathwohl discussed what the Weathermen intended to do after overthrowing the U.S. government, including what they would do with those Americans who refused to embrace communism.
I asked, “Well what is going to happen to those people we can’t reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?” And the reply was that they’d have to be eliminated.
And when I pursued this further, they estimated they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers.
And when I say “eliminate,” I mean “kill.”
Twenty-five million people.
I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees, from Columbia and other well-known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people.
#9
interestingly they are going to treat Dr Brantly with a pint of blood taken from a 14-year-old convalescent survivor
this is the only treatment that has ever worked - some African doctors tried it on a dying nurse in Kikwit, 1995
she survived.
They had to fight the white western doctors to do it though. They were dead against it because they had no screening facility for other blood borne diseases and just a quick test for AIDS. They said: what if she has some other disease and we infect her.
But the blacks conspired among themselves and said: we do know what she has - ebola. She'll die anyway so let's just experiment
And lo, she survived. they then exerimented on (i think) 9 others and 8 survived.
There's a great YouTube doco on it that shows them making the decision etc...
#10
Wall Street Journal reports here that 2 workers developed fever after handling the US citizen who died after flying to Nigeria
" By Friday, only two had developed a fever—the handlers who helped Mr. Sawyer into a wheelchair. Their blood tested negative, and they are still under close watch."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Dhaka Tribune] After chatting with a Facebook friend for only 15 days, 42-year-old Baguiati homemaker Soma Ghosh agreed to meet him. That proved to be her undoing. The 33-year-old man from Birbhum landed up at her flat and murdered her in a fit of rage on Monday after she rebuffed his advances, police said yesterday.
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
"The feeling that I have right now," Jenkins said, "is just gratitude to a faith community 
Petroleos de Venezuela SA is seeking a buyer for Citgo Petroleum Corp., its U.S. refining and marketing company, in a deal that may be worth as much as $15 billion. PDVSA, as the state-owned oil company is known, "is currently seeking to monetize its ownership interest in us," Citgo said in a July 29 bond prospectus document. "There can be no assurance as to whether a transaction will occur or as to the nature or timing of any potential transaction."
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
