An intoxicated sailor who walked into the wrong apartment in Bremerton, urinated on the floor and then climbed into bed with an 80-year-old woman probably won't face criminal charges, according to the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office.
The 21-year-old, identified as Dalton C. Pierson, was drinking and playing video games at a friend's apartment in 7600 block of Vineyards Lane Northeast early Sunday when he left and mistakenly walked into a neighbor's home, according to the Sheriff's Office. Good work, Sparky. Your inspiring story's probably going viral right now. And thanks to this little thing called the interwebs, your daring deed is immortalized for all time.
Evelyn Whitney said she had been fast asleep when the stranger climbed into bed with her. She screamed and asked him what he was doing, according to the sheriff's report. Pierson answered, "passing out." Gotta give our hero a speck of credit for having THAT much presence of mind. Guess it was dark enough that he couldn't see his bedmate, though...
Scott Wilson, a spokesman for the Sheriff's Office, said the sailor was released to his friends. Pierson is stationed at Naval Base Kitsap -- Bangor. The incident report has been forwarded to the Kitsap County Prosecutor's Office, but Wilson said it's unlikely Pierson would face criminal charges.
The apartment that Pierson had been visiting and Whitney's apartment look alike and Whitney's door was unlocked, he said. The young man's actions were "drunken stupidity," but they don't appear to meet the elements of a crime, Wilson said. Between increased strictness on alcohol/drug related shenanigans and the upcoming wave of RIFs, our hero has enough to worry about from Sam's Canoe Club. Even in the Navy, it's rare to LITERALLY p!$$ away one's career.
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Now that was a good story. P2k that was a favorite video of mine also. 21, yup thats something someone trashed drunk might do and forget all about it.
Pierson apologized and promised to pay the cleaning bill when he returned to the apartment with his supervising officer, they said.
Jaeger said he was pleased to see that "the kid was totally humiliated, as he should be," and to learn that the Navy intended to discipline him.
Whitney, meanwhile, said she was very impressed because Pierson's supervising officer "made him sit down and listen while I scolded him," she said. "After that, I felt much better."
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Oh, heck - I was actually present when something even more embarrassing than this happened: at Sondrestrom AB, Greenland. They were renovating the building which housed the military women and the mid-rank NCOs, and so moved us all into a long, long, two-story all-ranks barrack building which also was the Temp-housing facility. There was a male latrine, and a female latrine side by side, about every twenty rooms... and one evening, there were three of us in the female latrine, performing our late evening ablutions, when one of male NCOs opened the door, staggered past two of us at the sinks, unzipped trou and performed an act of nature against a blank tiled wall - which in the mens latrine contained the urinals - before either one of us had a chance to point out that he had the wrong latrine. He zipped up and staggered out again while the two of us (and the girl who was taking a shower) could do anything but stand there. (Eh - we'd all been married, it wasn't like we saw anything we hadn't seen before ... just not against a blank wall.)
Ten minutes later, I finished my shower and went down the hallway again, and saw him in the hallway talking to a couple of friends, and I said, "Hey ____, have you figured out the main difference between the mens and the womens latrines, yet?"
I have never, ever seen a human being turn so red in the face. It was all over Sondrestrom in 24 hours - even the Base Commander hunted me down at Commander's call to confirm if it was true. That guy never heard the end of it: he was the Golden Spike Winner for that month (an award for having made yourself the biggest a-hole on base).
Yep, young Pierson will never, ever hear the last of this, either. With luck, he will live it down ... eventually.
[Dawn] It continued raining and snowing heavily in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's central and southern districts and adjoining tribal areas, especially Kurram and Khyber agencies, for the second day on Saturday blocking roads in hilly areas of Malakand and Hazara divisions.
The Met Office forecast more rains and snowfall in the next 24 hours.
Also in the day, a boy, Abdur Rehman, died in Batkhela area of Malakand Agency after a mud wall collapsed due to rains where he was standing.
Reports said snow blanketed Swat Valley, Kalam, Behrain, Miandam, Malam Jaba, Marghazar and Shangla Top blocking roads, while chilly weather lowered temperature in Kalam to minus eight degree Celsius.
The army sent heavy machinery to Kalam and Malam Jaba to clear snow from roads.
In Bajaur, heavy showers and snowfall disrupted life and shut down all roads linked with Afghanistan's Kunar province.
Heavy snowfall was also reported in some parts of Mamound, Salarzi and Nawagi tehsils. Some urban parts of the agency also received snow.
Four to five feet snowfall have been recorded so for in the hilly parts of Pak-Afghan border area of Ghakhi pass and Nawa pass by which roads linked to Afghan Kunnnar province from Bajaur has been closed and the road link between Bajaur and Kunar was also suspended.
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Following are excerpts from a debate on the "invasion" of Israeli products into Sinai, which aired on Egyptian Dream2 TV on February 1, 2012:
Muhammad Al-Mane'i, Sinai Bedouin: There was a time when they would bring us jeans. These pants used to have belts. If you looked at these belts from the front, you'd find a secret compartment, and when you opened it, you would find a magnet inside. When we asked what these magnets were, we were told that they cause sterility.
Interviewer: In other words, it causes infertility.
Muhammad Al-Mane'i: Exactly.
Interviewer: There was a time when these jeans with belts would invade us from Israel, and we used to take the magnets out and chuck them away.
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Interviewer: Israeli products contain lethal poison. You might not feel this poison now, but you will in the future. Israel will remain an enemy lying in wait for Egypt, no matter what happens and regardless of the agreements, because Israel has its eye set on Egypt.
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Apparently not enough tinfoil supplies (most likely due to the neverending embargo by the eeevil Jooos) to provide hats for everyone, so we take to the local 'Dream' TV station.
Unfortunately the indoctrinated will believe.
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How many impossible things to believe before breakfast.... Truly an imaginative people.
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"so we removed the belts and our pants fell down...
then we thought 'I bet the Jooos want us to have pants that fall down' so we quit wearing pants"
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It was the international Communist Jewish conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Tension remains high in the Democratic Republic of Congo's city of Goma after rumours of an attempted revolt went public.
A military attempt against local authorities by disgruntled politicians was planned for Sunday, according to Mr Ernest Kyaviro, the front man of the governor of North Kivu province.
Two coppers and two bodyguards were killed in an operation to thwart the mutiny at the home of a member of the outgoing National Assembly.
Mr Bakungu Mitondeke residence was among those searched for firearms.
Police allegedly recovered some automatic machine guns, ammunitions and military uniforms from Mr Mitondeke's residence.
"The Intelligence Services knew that the MP was involved in militia activities and arms concealments," Mr Kyaviro told news hounds on Friday.
According to reliable sources, some high ranking military officers were also involved in the conspiracy.
However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... the identity of the officers alleged to have been involved in the plot has not been made public.
But it was the province governor himself, Mr Julien Paluku, who initiated the police operation to neutralise the threat.
A radio journalist told the Nation that some seized Islamic fascisticlaimed that the cities of Goma and Butembo were to be attacked simultaneously.
Denied knowledge
However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... Gen Vainqueur Mayala, the military chief commander of the province, has denied knowledge of any such attempt in the province.
Mr Bakungu has been transferred to Kinshasa where he is expected to appear before a court.
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[Yemen Post] Yemeni Vice President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi met on Saturday with representatives of the main opposition bloc in the country, the Joint Meeting Parties (JMP), which were part of the GCC-brokered deal signed in the Saudi capital of Riyadh in November last year.
During the meeting, they reviewed the latest developments in the Yemeni political arena and evaluated what has been implemented in terms of the GCC-crafted power transfer deal for it represents the only viable exit of the current stifling crisis the country is experiencing.
The preparations for the early forthcoming elections, set to be held on February 21, were also touched upon in the meeting in details.
For his part, Hadi, the consensus candidate for the upcoming elections, has stressed the importance of implementing the GCC-brokered deal to the letter, and holding the elections on its scheduled time.
Under enormous pressure from within and out, Yemeni outgoing President, President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... has signed a deal under which he relinquished power to his long time deputy and Vice President, Hadi, in exchange for immunity from prosecution.
Saleh has left Yemen for USA to receive further medical treatment for wounds and burns inflicted on an liquidation attempt in June last year, and he is most likely, according to political analysts, won't come back.
Massive popular protests calling for an end to the autocratic rule of President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... , combined by al-Qaeda insurgency in the south, Shiite rebellion in the far north and increasing calls of separation of the south, has shaken Yemen to the bone, leaving thousands killed, pushing the economy to the brink of collapse, undermining security and triggering a catastrophic humanitarian disaster.
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[Yemen Post] Yemen's Planning and International Minister Mohammad Al-Saadi met on Saturday with a team of the World Bank, the European Commission and the UN Development Programme tasked with considering Yemen's needs in the upcoming stage.
In the meeting, both sides discussed technical details, evolution studies of Yemen's priorities as well as tackling economic consequences resulted by the political crisis Yemen witnessed in the past eleven months.
Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa spent the day shopping for new underwear. Tonight was going to be a special occasion... the Kuwaiti Information Minister Hamad Jabir Al-Sabah said that Kuwait would take part in constructing Yemen, pointing out that studies are currently considered to fund development projects in Yemen.
In remarks to the Kuwaiti News Agency, he highly appreciated the Yemeni laborers, saying that they constructively participated in the Kuwaiti development and construction.
Yemen Prime Minister Mohammad Salem Basidiwa has said during his trip to the Gulf Cooperation Council states last month that they would step up assistance to Yemen, pointing out that they expressed their willingness to sustain projects of infrastructure and services in Yemen.
He made clear that Yemen needs billions of dollars in aid, indicating that GCC states would offer financial assistance to Yemen following political turbulences the state.
Yemeni economists have recently demanded the donor states to remit all Yemen's debts that have been borrowed in the reign of the outgoing President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... , citing that the donor conference on Yemen to be held in March in Riyadh, would enable the government overcome economic challenges.
Yemen's external debts amounted to more than $5,328,000 billion until the late of last Jane.
According to a report released by the Central Bank of Yemen, Yemen's debts owed to the member states of the Gay Paree Club are about $1,746,000 billion, including $1,181,000 billion to Russia.
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In yet another outrageous piece of social engineering from our coalition government, pensioners will be encouraged to downsize to smaller properties allowing local councils to rent their homes out as council houses and manage the tenancy.
Local authorities will help older people move from their homes into more suitable accommodation. Grant Schapps, the Housing Minister, who is a conservative member of parliament claims the scheme will solve a so-called housing crisis as well as creating a system that will permit access to various sources of wealth that are currently not being used to pay for care.
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Sorry, BP, but I'm reminded of the scene in Dr. Zhivago where the local commissars moved thirteen families into the Doctor's house because they arbitrarily determined that there was enough room for that.
This stinks.
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Too many welfare immigrants = too few houses and a skint nation.Thanks Labour.
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Perhaps the pensioners want their children to inherit the property. Oh, wait; these are council houses.
They aren't holding singles events for the 65+ crowd, are they?
How undignified. At least when Henry VIII confiscated the wealth of the monasteries, the places were wealthy.
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I'd prefer it if it (pensioners moving themselves to affordable locations) was done using market forces i.e. housing was efficiently allocated using high land taxes (an economically positive tax) and no taxes on incomes.
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I think the key word here is "encourage". The government's definition might not be the one you use.
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The term the 'authorities' are avoiding is 'warehousing'. Facilities Housing to be built next to the newly erect processing plants of the Soylent Corporation.
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I'm confused, are these pensioners in their own houses, or is this government-owned property?
Back in the Fifties and Sixties, Robert Moses et al pulled this crap in places like the Bronx and the Lower East Side, called it "urban renewal" and used eminent domain to clear out old ethnics in healthy slums, in order to build his brutalist, dysfunctional vertical slums. I'd hope that you couldn't get away with that crap today in the US, but England's a different environment, one I'm not really familiar with to be honest.
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"Social engineering from our coalition government" says it all. Next if you are over fifty please report to nearest relocation faclity.
For security please leave your valuables with the TSA representative for proper safe keeping. You will be provided will all that you will require at your new location. Free housing, free healthcare, free food requirements, free transportation and the knowledge you are helping your local authorities and your country. :(
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Maybe one of those extera bedrooms could be made available for drunken sailors returning from Liberty. might have to install floor drains, however. and BIG room numbers.
In the 50's and sixties UK built many vertical slums to house the poor.Alot of these became breeding grounds for crime and joblessness.They are now being pulled town and replaced with modern housing but the vermin remain the same!
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NMU's invocation of the commissars from Dr. Zhivago is actually right on the mark. Money quote from the article:
Thethinking behind this initiative was provided from a report, Hoarding of Housing undertaken by a newly created charity, The Intergenerational Foundation (IF), a left leaning, research-based think-tank which promotes fairness between generations as they state on their website.
Just the title of this gang's study ought to make your blood run cold. "Hoarding of housing" could also (and probably does to that crew) mean "hoarding of financial assets" or "hoarding" of ANY private property.
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Luke 20:47
They devour widows houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will be punished most severely.
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#1 I don't see exactly what the problem is here.
Because the government is making the decisions for you. If people want to have an extra bedroom, that ought to be their decision--not the governments. Such decisions are an erosion of personal freedom.
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Ebbaique - I looked that up and its part of a larger context:
Luke 22:45 And while all the people were listening, He said to the disciples, 46 Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love respectful greetings in the market places, and chief seats in the synagogues and places of honor at banquets, 47 who devour widows houses, and for appearances sake offer long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.
Hmm.... I can think of a few people which fit that....
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This Indirectly happens in the states when locals jack up the property taxes and force the elderly to move. Why do you
think everyone in Florida has a new York accent.
The South African government has wasted R600 million on sustaining the failed Cuban state, including what government has called a "solidarity grant". This follows a R1.4 billion Cuban bailout that President Zuma authorised in December 2010.
When the Parliamentary session reconvenes, the Democratic Alliance (DA) will request that the Minister of Trade and Industry, Rob Davies, appear before Parliament to explain what economic objectives are achieved by this decision. We want to know how this cash injection for Cuba will help the millions of South Africans who live below the breadline.
Cuba has a tiny economy and little to offer South Africa by way of trade. Our trade with Cuba is unlikely to ever exceed R100 million per year. And at the same time, we have our own massive domestic problems in housing, energy, infrastructure, unemployment and a host of other areas. It is difficult to justify giving the Cuban regime R2 billion in handouts when our own people are suffering daily.
The R600 million Minister Davies handed out on Friday consisted of credit write-offs, new credit lines and some cash payments. It also includes a R100 million "solidarity grant", which will not need to be paid back to South Africa.
The Cuban regime has a long track record of failing to pay back our loans. In 2010, South Africa had to write off R1.1 billion in bad Cuban debt, and on Friday we wrote off another R250 million in bad debt.
It is a tragic irony that a portion of the Cuban handout is earmarked to promote food security in Cuba, when our own food security is under threat here at home. We have recently been forced to import maize at a very high price, affecting millions of South Africans who rely on maize-based products as staple food.
The time has come for South Africa to invest in strategic partnerships that deliver prosperity for our people. Maintaining symbolic friendships at enormous costs do not help the South African people.
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Like minded comrades all pitching in to prop up communism. Move along now, nothing to see here.
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We have recently been forced to import maize at a very high price, affecting millions of South Africans who rely on maize-based products as staple food.
South Africa has to import corn? Talk about slouching towards Zimbabwe.
Josefina Vazquez Mota has won the nationwide internal primary for Partido Accion Nacional (PAN), according to a late Sunday Tweet by PAN president Gustavo Madero Munoz.
The race came down to Maestra Vazquez Mota, former treasury secretary under Felipe Calderon Ernesto Cordero and Chihuahua senator Santigo Creel.
With 89 percent of the vote counted, Vazquez Mota won handily with 237,154 votes or 54.6 percent of the total. Cordero, who was backed by Calderon, came in second with 166,995. Creel came in a distant third with 26,225 votes.
"We already have a candidate," tweeted Madero Sunday night.
Vazquez Mota has been the frontrunner for the PAN nomination since she announced her intention to run for president of the republic last fall. She is a former federal deputy for Nuevo Leon state and has been something of a political fixer for Calderon. She has served in both the Vicente Fox and Calderon administrations. She is an economist by trade.
The PAN vote is strictly internal. The PAN leadership in the form of Madero and internal governing bodies, are expected to confer about the result and decide on the candidate who will register in March.
If Vazquez Mota is selected as the PAN candidate, she will be the first female to run for president in Mexico's history.
Despite her apparent popularity, current polls have her behind the likely frontrunner for Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) candidate Enrique Pena Nieto by almost two to one in the latest poll. Partido Revolucion Democratica, Mexico's leftist mainstream party candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is a close third.
Mexican presidential elections are very difficult to handicap. In 2006, both Calderon and Lope Obrador were second to PRI candidate Roberto Madrazo, but went on to end the race each within less than one percentage point of the other.
The PAN and PRI candidates are weak politicians. While Pena Nieto has experience as governor of Mexico state, he is widely considered a telegenic fool and an empty suit given to gaffes. For example, when asked last fall about the price of a kilogram of tortillas, he guessed incorrectly, then compounded his error by saying his wife, telenovella actress Angelica Rivera does the shopping for the family. Pena Nieto did not know the price of a ride on Mexico City's metro line as well.
The problem is that Vazquez Mota also did not know the answer to either question, nor did Lopoz Obrador.
While Lopez Obrador holds the mantle of a modern Mexican leftist he is nonetheless as much a yuppie as his rivals.
The Catholic bishop of the Tarahmara, Chihuahua diocese Saturday said the indigenous Tarahumara Indians are resorting to growing drugs to survive, according to Mexican news accounts.
Bishop Rafael Sandoval Sandoval told fellow Catholics at a missionary conference in Puebla state that while no justification exists for growing drugs, the Indians are left with no alternative.
But "no alternative" is a justification. I feel dizzy.
That concern had been noted three weeks ago when Chihuahua state Tarahumara state coordinator, Jesus Velazquez, said the same thing: That some non-subsistence farmers were renting out their land to grow drugs to get by the lack of resources.
But many of the Tarahumara Indians are subsistence farmers, and therefore do not receive a check from the government when crops fail. They simply starve. El Sol de Mexico news daily reported Friday that 80 percent of farming in the Tarahumara Sierras is for consumption, and not for sale.
A news report Friday said that 29 of 33 political entities are experiencing some effect of the drought, while, according to the Mexican leftist weekly Proceso, 1,213 municipalities in 19 states have been affected by the drought, mostly in the states of Chihuahua, Durango, San Luis Potosi and Zacatecas.
Those states are all in the northern and north central regions of Mexico around the Sierras.
Reports are being filed in Mexican press about how the problem is growing. For example in Veracruz, an Organizacion Editorial Mexicano news report said that 800 head of cattle in the last two weeks in Veracruz state have died from dehydration and complications from malnourishment. Temperatures there have been as high as 98 degrees Fahrenheit in the coastal areas of the state.
Milk sales are also down partially because of a perception amongst local consumers that milk being sold is contaminated. Milk prices due to the shortage are much higher, and are a likely culprit in local consumer's reluctance to buy.
Mexican politicians are responding with typically great fanfare. For example, Durango state Governor Jorge Herrera Caldera told Mexican press Saturday that he and his wife help deliver aid to several Durango municipalities affected by the drought including Luz y Esperanza, Morga, Mendez Arceo, Ampliacion Rosas and Luz del Carme.
Governor Herrera Caldera dubbed aid deliveries as Una Gota de Ayuda por Durango or A Drop of Aid to Durango.
The governor also granted titles of houses to 350 families in the region.
The Sierras in Durango are part of what has been dubbed Mexico's Golden Triangle of states where drugs are grown and where some communities are in thrall to drug production. The uneasy nexus between local indigenous farmers and local cartel gangs and their affiliates has erupted over the last two years as drug cartels have imposed penalties on those communities including destruction of whole blocks of homes by arson.
Last week two homes were torched in Mezquital in far southern Durango. And Mezquital has seen drug cartel violence visited on them before, in March 2011; when 10 buildings were torched. To read the Rantburg report on drug cartel governance in the Mexican Sierras, click here and here and follow the links.
Thursday morning Mexican president Felipe Calderon Hinojosa and his Secretaria de Defensa Nacional (SEDENA), General Guillermo Galvan Galvan escorted aid deliveries to the Chihuahua Sierras. That visit included President Calderon sporting a military cap while wearing a white short with sleeves rolled up, and photo ops for the press.
Heriberto Felix Guerra, head of Mexico's Secretaria de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL), or Secretary of Social Development told the press Friday that 650 individuals and 140 vehicles -- including helicopters -- from several federal government agencies are "working full time" to oversee aid deliveries to the Sierra Tarahumara region of Mexico.
Feliz Guerra also said his agency will leave the region when he is certain no one is hungry or thirsty.
Partido Revolucion Democratica junior senator Armando Contreras Castillo from Oaxaca state has urged politicians in Mexico City not to politicize the crisis. Armando Contreras Castillo termed the food shortage and drought as a "structural famine."
An APRO -- the wire service for Proceso -- article published Sunday in El Diario de Coahuila news daily tells another side.
According to the article, aid deliveries to date have been very spotty and inefficient. Stories abound in the region of workers selling aid packages for cash. Additionally, Chihuahua state government has slashed its budget for the Tarahumara Sierra region by 24 percent, which is probably a prudent reaction to lower tax revenues due to the drought and crop failures.
The crises brings its own problems other than starvation. A health crisis has begun with an epidemic of hepatitis and scabies among children, mainly due to the shortage of water, among other problems associated with starvation.
Proceso also charges that were it not for the claim by local indigenous peasant leader Ramon Gardea last January that 50 Tarahumara Indians had committed suicide, the government would have never reacted to the crisis as soon as it did.
The charge Gardea uttered in an independent television interview apparently put all three levels of government on notice that a crisis was developing into a calamity.
Proceso also said that farmers and their organizations have been practically screaming for aid since the spring of 2011.
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But "no alternative" is a justification. I feel dizzy.
Catholic Liberation Theology - it's a heady brew. I don't think we're supposed to understand. It's like, ineffable and stuff.
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I wouldn't go comparing the Tarahumara Indians to the Pashtuns just yet. I'm kinda thinking that if they can't grow corn because of the drought they're gonna have a tough time growing marihuchi as well. I don't see any mention in this article about exactly which kind of drug they are supposedly growing. Opium poppies? Marijuana? Peyote? The peyote buttons come from cactus so they can maybe grow that even in a drought but how much of a market is there for peyote buttons? IIRC you can get pretty sick from ingesting those things if you don't know what you're doing. And, once again, if our government was really serious about securing the border this would not be an issue.
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Jesus Velazquez said three weeks ago the main crops were poppies and marijuana.
True both crops need rain and decent temperatures, that is why I s'pect some Tarahumara made a deal with local cartel operatives in exchange for money/food now, in the future their land is available for production.
Some Mexican Inidan tribes already have the right to grow and use some drugs for religious purposes, but dunno of the Tarahumara do.
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True both crops need rain and decent temperatures, that is why I s'pect some Tarahumara made a deal with local cartel operatives in exchange for money/food now, in the future their land is available for production.
[An Nahar] The movement against Vladimir Putin ...Second President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Because of constitutionally mandated term limits he is the current Prime Minister of Russia. His sock puppet, Dmitry Medvedev, was installed in the 2008 presidential elections. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law. During his eight years in office Russia's economy bounced back from crisis, seeing GDP increase, poverty decrease and average monthly salaries increase. During his presidency Putin passed into law a series of fundamental reforms, including a flat income tax of 13%, a reduced profits tax, and new land and legal codes. 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... was Sunday preparing new rallies to loosen the Russian strongman's 12-year grip on power after keeping up their challenge with a third mass demonstration in Moscow.
Tens of thousands marched through Moscow Saturday despite bitterly cold weather to protest against Putin's domination, with organizers disputing police claims that a pro-Putin rally elsewhere in the capital was even larger.
Putin is still expected to win March 4 presidential elections where he is seeking a third Kremlin term after his four year stint as premier, but protest organizers emphasized that the polls mark only the start of their challenge.
The march on Bolotnaya Square over the Moscow river from the Kremlin was the third mass rally since fraud-tainted December 4 parliamentary elections sparked demonstrations that smashed the taboo against protests in Putin's Russia.
"We will come again," organizers wrote on their Facebook page Sunday morning under a picture of protestors sending hundreds of balloons into the Moscow winter sky.
One the chief organizers of the anti-Putin movement, politician Vladimir Ryzhkov, said he did not rule out holding a mass rally on February 26, one week before the polls, though most likely it would be a smaller "flash mob" action.
"The big meeting is going to be on March 11 since, as far as I am aware, the extent of the fraud in the presidential elections is going to be huge."
Putin's biggest challenge in the elections is likely to come from Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov, who some analysts believe could push him to a second round but is an unpalatable figure for many in the protest movement.
Of the four candidates standing against Putin in the elections, only billionaire tycoon Mikhail Prokhorov attended the protest march and he did not give an address.
Founder of the liberal Yabloko party Grigory Yavlinsky, who was disqualified from taking part in the elections on procedural grounds, said in a rousing speech at the rally that "life does not end on March 4 or even 5."
"And perhaps our opponents and enemies will soon see and understand -- perhaps -- that everything is only just starting for us and for them it is ending," he said.
"We love our country and we will not give it up to thieves, fascists, Stalinists or other parasites."
Former cabinet minister turned bitter anti-Putin critic Boris Nemtsov hailed the success of the rally but warned three mass meetings were not enough to change the grip on power of Putin's circle.
"We are facing a prolonged, tough struggle with cynical and cruel swindlers and thieves. It is a marathon that we will certainly win," he said.
Anti-corruption crusader Alexei Navalny, one of the most charismatic of the anti-Putin leaders, vowed on his blog that he would give an address at the next rally.
Police said that 36,000 attended the opposition meeting but Nemtsov and other anti-Putin leaders said over 100,000 had braved frigid winter temperatures of minus 17 degrees Celsius (1.4 degrees Fahrenheit).
By contrast, police said that 138,000 people had showed up for a pro-Putin rally in western Moscow, with Moscow deputy mayor Alexander Gorbenko saying the organizers should be fined for exceeding their planned turnout of 15,000.
But the opposition rubbished that turnout estimate and also said numbers were artificially boosted by employees of state companies being offered cash incentives or even being ordered to attend the pro-Putin rally.
In comments Saturday evening, Putin acknowledged that "administrative resources" could have been employed in mobilizing supporters. He offered to personally help pay any fines the organizers might have incurred.
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I'm sure he's shaking in his boots. Especially in this case.
[Dawn] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaaf chief Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five... has said that both Zardari and Nawaz together will face defeat at the hands of his party.
Speaking to the students of LUMS here on Saturday, he said it was in the interest of Zardari and Nawaz that a third political force remained out of power.
He said the PTI's tsunami could not be stopped as the people were disappointed with the rulers who failed to take any step to control inflation and price hike. He said the youth wanted change in the country which was inevitable.
Talking to journalists Mr Khan said the Sharif brothers were now demanding early elections while they had supported President Zardari for the last three years or so.
He held the Punjab government responsible for deaths of cardiac patients. "Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... had filed a petition with the apex court to expose memo scandal characters but where is he (Nawaz)," Mr Khan asked.
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ION DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Dawn.com] US CONGRESSIONAL HEARING [on Balochistan = sovereignty from Islamabad?] MAY SPELL TROUBLE FOR PAKISTAN.
Oh, methinks there's more Regional States than just Pakistan, i.e. Pak BFF Iran + China.
PIPELINES + PORTS.
Espec given ...
* SAME, TOPIX > IRAN, PAKISTAN TIES IMROVE CONSIDERABLY.
[Dawn] Eid Milad Al-Nabi (PTUI!) was celebrated with religious zeal and enthusiasm on Sunday in Bloody Karachi, ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... like other parts of the country.
A number of big and small Milad rallies were taken out by various religious organizations including Jammat Ahle-Sunnat, Sunni Tehrik, ...formed in Karachi in 1992 under by Muhammad Saleem Qadri. It quickly fell to trading fisticuffs and liquidations with the MQM and the Sipah-e-Sahaba, with at least a half dozen of its major leaders rubbed out. Sunni Tehreek arose to become the primary opposition to the Deobandi Binori Mosque, headed by Nizamuddin Shamzai, who was eventually bumped off by person or persons unknown. ST's current leadership has heavily criticized the Deobandi Jihadi leaders, accusing them of being sponsored by Indian Intelligence agencies as well as involvement in terrorist activities... Dawat-e-Islami and New Memon Masjid Trust from different areas to celebrate the occasion.
All the processions and rallies converged into a big public meeting at Nishtar Park which was addressed by various Ulema and Mashaikh. The speakers highlighted the various aspects of the life of the Holy Prophet (PTUI!)'>(PTUI!)) and called the followers to follow his teachings and the Sunnah.
Sunni Tehrik took out a rally from Liaquatabad which was participated by people including children in a large number. It was calumniated at Nighter park after passing through different routes.
Naat Night congregation was organized at main Liaquatabad Road on 12 Rabi-ul- Awwal in which noted Naat Khwan recited Naat.
Besides, a large number of Milad programmes and conferences were held acrose the city to mark the sacred day where prominent Learned Elders of Islam delivered speeches on the life and teaching of the Holy Prophet (PTUI!)'>(PTUI!))
Different political and religious organizations set up reception camps along the routes of rallies to facilitate the participants. The KESC had suspended scheduled power outages for two days in order to allow the followers to celebrate Eid-e-Milad.
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Broken bones in humans and animals are painful and often take months to heal. Studies conducted in part by University of Georgia Regenerative Bioscience Center researchers show promise to significantly shorten the healing time and revolutionize the course of fracture treatment.
"Complex fractures are a major cause of amputation of limbs for U.S. military men and women," said Steve Stice, a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, animal and dairy scientist in the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and director of the UGA Regenerative Bioscience Center.
"For many young soldiers, their mental health becomes a real issue when they are confined to a bed for three to six months after an injury," he said. "This discovery may allow them to be up and moving as fast as days afterward."
To start the bone regeneration process, the RBC used adult stem cells that produce a protein involved in bone healing and generation. They then incorporated them into a gel, combining the healing properties into something Stice calls "fracture putty."
"The next step is to show that we can rapidly and consistently heal fractures in a large animal, then to convert it to clinical cases in the UGA [College of Veterinary Medicine] clinics where clinicians treat animals with complex fractures all the time."
Once they have something that works for animals, it will be passed over to the DOD for human use.
"Our approach is biological with the putty," Stice said. "Other groups are looking at polymers and engineering approaches like implants and replacements which may eventually be combined with our approach. We are looking at other applications, too, using this gel, or putty, to improve spinal fusion outcomes."
One of the best hopes for the fracture putty is in possible facial cranial replacements, an injury often seen on the battlefield.
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very cool....ever since I saw James Bond fly one as a kid, I wanted one. Looks like this one uses ducted fan. I would have like some stats on flight time, range and lift capability...nice
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Call me a cynic; i have looed at that video a number of times and it sure looks like slicj CGI to me.
maybe when we see something that speaks about the FAA certification and such, but it looks too much like a pipe dream right now. its cool and all that, but doesn't pass my smell test/
Sunday, May 29, 2011: Christchurch, New Zealand ‐ The future of Jetpack travel is a step closer after the latest record‐breaking test in the Martin Jetpack. The Jetpack shot into the sky over the Canterbury Plains at a climb rate of 800ft per minute, reaching an altitude of 5,000ft (previous record 100ft/min & 50ft altitude) before safely deploying the first ballistic jetpack parachute.
Captured on video by TVNZs SUNDAY programme, this incredible flight high above Pudding Hill in Canterbury, New Zealand is a major step towards commercial production of the worlds first practical Jetpack being developed by New Zealands Martin Aircraft Company. This successful test brings the future another step closer, said the Jetpacks Inventor, Glenn Martin.
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I still like fanwing technology better. The trouble is that the patents for centrifugal fan aircraft are owned by a British company more interested in toys than aircraft, who develop at a glacial pace.
It has better lift, simpler engine, is more stable, and quieter than a helicopter. A basic flying design would look much like a swamp boat with fans instead of pontoons, including a vertical fan for impulse.
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.
An intoxicated sailor who walked into the wrong apartment in Bremerton, urinated on the floor and then climbed into bed with an 80-year-old woman probably won't face criminal charges, according to the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Tension remains high in the Democratic Republic of Congo's city of Goma after rumours of an attempted revolt went public.
The movement against 
face defeat at the hands of his party.
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