The corpse of a man has been found on the roof of a police station in northern India where it was placed over two years ago during an inquiry, a report said on Wednesday. The body of Chukkan Nishad,
The Mail said the body was placed there after local authorities refused to release the funds for a DNA test.
a 22-year-old who went missing in July 2007, was meant to be sent for DNA testing but was instead put in a body bag and placed on the roof, the Mail Today newspaper said.
The newspaper, citing Nishad's father and local officials, said the family kept requesting for the body at the police station but were repeatedly told there was an investigation underway.
"I admit it is a horrible case, possibly the first of its kind," said Ram Sabad Ram, new station master in Azamgarh. "I joined here only recently and didn't know" about the corpse.
The Mail said the body was placed there after local authorities refused to release the funds for the DNA test on Nishad, whose death remains a mystery.
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In this country,since we have Obama's administration, we would be told that the body had to properly aged and cured by the sun.
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Thats HELO PILOT > apparently the USG hasn't gotten around yet to asking Ted Turner for some of that extra 1000-TRILYUHN DOLLARS = QUADRILYUHN-PLUS, for extra Bytespace = Bandwidth, etc. for SKYNET-MATRIX???
Watch out, Sarah Palin - it's Levi Johnston's turn. They're discussing Levi the Dorque, Master of Self-Parody...
The father of the failed vice-presidential hopeful's grandson acknowledges he's out for revenge and has dirt to spill about Alaska's former first family. "If she's gonna say things about me, I'm gonna leak things about her," he boasted during an interview airing Wednesday on the "CBS Early Show." "That's just how it is.' "I need my revenge! She din't want me to shack up wid her daughter! And for no reason!"
"I just get naked. That's what I do."
Declaring, "now it's my turn," Johnston told the show's co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez that he's been hurt by what Palin has said about him and that he thinks she's been "fake." "I'm just not going to take it anymore," he said. "Yeah! 'Cuz I be tough! And kewl!"
Johnston's no-nonsense interview comes the same day it was revealed that Palin received a $1.25 million book deal for her autobiography, "Going Rogue." The 19-year-old father of Bristol Palin's infant son Tripp started airing the dirty laundry in the October issue of Vanity Fair. He claimed Palin described her job as "too hard" - and offered to adopt the young couple's child to hide the embarrassing teen pregnancy. Adopt the baby? Oh, noze! She's prob'ly right, though. I can see where it'd be difficult to be the governor of a large state and have to deal with a dipshit like Levi even occasionally, much less on a day-to-day basis...
And Johnston will be revealing more than dirty secrets for Playgirl magazine, where he plans to do a full-frontal photo spread. He told US magazine, "I just get naked. That's what I do." Apparently his only talent, if any...
Alaskans are an interesting bunch. I suspect young Mr. Johnston does not yet realize exactly how interesting. Or how many friends the Palins have there.
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...Or how many friends the Palins have there.
Fire up the microwave... I have some Orville Reddenbacker ready....
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and offered to adopt the young couple's child to hide the embarrassing teen pregnancy.
Umm... Report Person... Whoever you are. You may want to pick up a biology book. A baby has to be born in order for it to be adopted. That means the pregnancy still happens. In other words, if a baby is adopted, it's too late to hide that pesky pregnancy part.
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I wonder if he has been back to the "homeplace" lately? I suspect he is not held in high esteem there.
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Angie, it's online now. I guess that helps their "audience" suffer less humiliation than they otherwise would by going to the counter.
I just can't wait to hear the "critiques" of his photo layout once it hits the innernut. He better look like a stunning Greek god, or he will get cut to ribbons in no time flat.
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I feel sorry for this guy, his timing is off. He could have been on I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here and gotten a lot of attention. Perhaps he can date Kate Goslin or the Octomom and have his own show.
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I suspect a Hugh Grant moment in this guy's future, only unlike Hugh Grant, whose hooker was female, I suspect Levy's won't be. Of course, he'll claim he thought it was female.
That's assuming he's not found in a year or so as bear scat.
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This kid is so dumb. But remember, there are many out there who read that Vanity Fair article and thought it was all true, not the ranting of a jilted, idiot barely-twenty something. They want to believe it.
My wife is a high school coach. She read it and laughed saying it sounded just like something her girls would say (same tone, etc.).
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there's been problems for quite some time as I understand it. The part that broke was a temp fix for the Labor Day steel beam failure/shutdown.
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I'm not sure why the Golden state should fix it. Seems to be a problem for San Francisco specifically.
I'm really not sure why we haven't pushed for ten hour day/four day work weeks to cut down on traffic and stuff. Get those people off the bridges and out of traffic at least one day a week.
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I have this mental picture of Arnod holding the span in place and caling for supports, which he then jams in place with a free hand and teeth.
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dam good thing this didn't happen up here in WA; after the Thanksgiving 2007 EMERGENCY parking af all 4 steel electric ferries after 'some' rust was found in their 80+year old hulls; Good Queen Chris (D-Stupid) would have taken this bridge out of service and replaced it with 2x12s and pallets ( the S/E @ 60+ cars each were replaced with 1 44 car only good in blue sky calm water weather. cut cross-sound commerce to less than 25% of prior). And don't get me started on the Seattle Viaduct mess.......
Kuwait's constitutional court on Wednesday rejected a petition brought by four voters to declare invalid the election of two women MPs because they refuse to wear the hijab headscarf.
The decision of the court, whose rulings are final, was announced to reporters by the chairman of the court, Yussef Ghanam al-Rashid. Two of the four women who became Kuwait's first female MPs in May refuse to wear the hijab, which has also been spurned by the only woman appointed as a minister in the Kuwaiti government following the May election.
The voters said the two MPs had flouted a clause in an election law stipulating that women voters and candidates must comply with Islamic Sharia regulations, including wearing the hijab. Explaining its decision in a written verdict, the court said the election law fails to specify the type of regulations women must adhere to or whether that included wearing the hijab.
It also pointed out that the Kuwaiti constitution, which is higher than any law, guarantees personal freedom and freedom of faith and does not discriminate between people over their religion or sex. The emirate's fatwa department, which issues religious edicts, ruled in early October that Muslim women must wear the hijab in line with Islamic law. Some MPs are demanding the authorities enforce the fatwa, but their liberal colleagues say it is non-binding, insisting the rule of law and the constitution should be the only points of reference.
Kuwait does not enforce any dress code on women among the general public, because of the constitutional guarantee of personal freedom. The constitutional court also scrapped the election of MP Badi al-Dossari and declared former candidate Khaled al-Adwah a winner after finding mathematical errors in calculations of the number of votes they got in the May elections. After re-calculating the votes, the court said it found that Adwah had secured more votes than Dossari. The verdict does not change the composition of the house, as both men are tribal representatives.
All Kuwait should be grateful the court is prepared to check the addition of the vote counters, because clearly somebody had to. Perhaps a test sum should be administered to future vote counting job applicants, to ensure this does not become a recurring problem.
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ION WORLD NEWS > REPORT: ILLITERACY GROWING IN ARAB WORLD [despite more $$$ + reforms].
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More youngsters, more illiteracy in raw numbers, JosephM. The question is, what is the change in proportion of literate youth to illiterate over the past 100 years?
[Al Arabiya Latest] A prominent Saudi cleric said the swine flu virus, which has been declared a pandemic, does not exist and said the fuss about the H1N1 virus was instigated by those who were likely to gain financially, press reports said Wednesday.
Sheikh Saleh al-Luhaidan made the comments while giving a lecture at a mosque in the Saudi capital of Riyadh and was asked if it was religiously permitted for Muslims to stop going to mosques and pray at home for fear of swine flu, the London-based Asharq al-Awsat reported.
"I am not even sure this virus exists," Luhaidan replied. "For example, this year we did not have more funerals in Ramadan than last year. Where is this virus everyone is talking about?"
Luhaidan said he believed the fuss about the virus was media hyperbole and said it was most likely initiated by a select few who want to achieve material gain by making people live in fear of the virus.
In response to Luhaidan's statement, Dr. Khaled Abdul-Ghaffar, dean of the Medical School at the University of Imam Mohamed bin Saud, said he was sure swine flu existed and that it was a "scientifically proven" virus.
"It is indeed striking that the number of swine flu cases during the holy month of Ramadan was minimal," he said in the same lecture. "It is God's mercy that worshippers in the lesser pilgrimage (known as Omra) were protected from the virus."
Abdul-Ghaffar, however, did stress that swine flu was a virus of medium danger and is sometimes milder than the common flu.
But Luhaidan stressed that he knows a lot of people who were not vaccinated and still have not contracted swine flu.
In response, Abdul-Ghaffar insisted that swine flu is a virus people should worry about and that precautions are necessary.
"If the necessary measures are not taken, the virus becomes life-threatening and it can trigger very dangerous complications," he said.
As countries across the world launch mass vaccination plans many people remain skeptical about the getting vaccinated.
According to a poll on Al Arabiya asking if people would take the swine flu vaccine 48 percent of voters voted "No way -- It is totally unnecessary" and only 17 percent said they thought it was necessary.
Another 20 percent said they were waiting to see how effective the vaccine was and 14 percent voted "Only if I am forced to."
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Well, it must be about the weakest flu virus we have ever seen if it has killed only 1000 people this year. That many die from complications of the common cold (pneumonia setting in after a bad cold).
[Bangla Daily Star] At least 15 people were injured in a clash between Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) activists of Jagannath University yesterday.
BCL men beat up several Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leaders and activists and ousted them from the campus during the clash that created a huge traffic jam in the area.
JCD activists vandalised four vehicles at the time.
Abdul Hanif, officer-in-charge of Sutrapur Police Station, said police charged batons to calm the situation when the students blocked the road and arrested a JCD activist Jasim on charge of ransacking vehicles.
Meanwhile, JCD threatened the university administration that they would call strike if the BCL cadres were not punished and co-existence on the campus was not ensured.
The injured were taken to a local clinic for treatment.
Witnesses said a newly formed fourteen-member convening committee of JCD's Jagannath University unit went to meet the vice chancellor (VC). The BCL men chased them out of the campus at the time.
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Uh, uh, OH FOR THE WANT OF A WET T-SHIRT CONTEST???
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I think what you're reaching for is, university lads haven't changed since the High Middle Ages, JosephM. They used to do this kind of thing in Paris on a regular basis, or so I've read.
WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON-The chairmen of the House and Senate foreign relations committees are asking the Law Library of Congress to retract a report on the military-backed coup in Honduras that they charge is flawed and "has contributed to the political crisis that still wracks" the country.
The request, by Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., has sparked cries of censorship from Republicans who say the Democrats don't like what the August report said: that the government of Honduras had the authority to remove President Manuel Zelaya from office.
Critics of the Obama administration - which condemned Zelaya's removal in June - have pointed to the report as evidence that the White House was wrong when it sided with most Latin American countries in calling for Zelaya to be returned.
Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., charged that "it was this administration that cut off aid to one of the poorest countries in Latin America and it was this administration that demanded Honduras reinstate a would-be dictator. Attempts like this to attack any critic and silence any opposition are harmful and should stop immediately."
Kerry and Berman, however, said the report "contains factual errors and is based on a flawed legal analysis that has been refuted by experts from the United States, the Organization of American States and Honduras."
The chairman charge that a key line in the analysis was based on a provision of the Honduran Constitution that was struck down in 2003 and that "critical portions rely exclusively on a single, outside individual who had previously and publicly declared his support for the coup."
The report at one point says, "Available sources indicate that the judicial and legislative branches applied constitutional and statutory law in the case against President Zelaya in a manner that was judged by the Honduran authorities from both branches of the government to be in accordance with the Honduran legal system."
That would seem to be a factual statement, and one that can either be conclusively demonstrated or refuted.
Officials with the Law Library of Congress - one of six departments of the Library of Congress - didn't respond to calls or e-mails seeking comment.
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Florida, said she was preparing her own letter to send to the Law Library to counter the chairmen's letter. "They're trying to manipulate the legal division to suit their ideological and partisan views," she said.
The chairmen said in the letter they were not seeking to "prejudice the judgments of the Law Library experts," but were asking that the Library of Congress "issue a corrected, inclusive version of the paper. "The stakes are too high to allow the record to stand uncorrected," they wrote.
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Halp us, Jon Carry - we r stuk hear with the fakts!
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This proves once and for all that librarys are vitaly necessary.
On the internet an Uncomfortable truth can vanish with the click of a mouse, not so on Paper.
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John Kerry is a lying commie symp. Time to blow this up in the press. Where's that Koh report?
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Kerry has no respect for our constitution why would he have any for the Honduran one?
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Hey you bastard, this is Constitutional law. Their president was ass, as you would have been, and they have full right and moral authority to remove that stupid communist.
TEGUCIGALPA, Oct 28 (Reuters) - An emergency delegation of senior U.S. government officials arrived in Honduras on Wednesday for a last-ditch effort to resolve an impasse between ousted President Manuel Zelaya and the country's de facto leaders since a June judicial order coup. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Tom Shannon, his deputy Craig Kelly, and Dan Restrepo, the White House's special assistant for Western Hemisphere affairs, touched down at Tegucigalpa airport and left for meetings without speaking to reporters.
They met Zelaya at the heavily guarded Brazilian Embassy where he has been holed up since he snuck back into the country last month. They will also likely sit down with current de facto leader Roberto Micheletti, who was installed by Congress after the June 28 military coup.
"They're urging both sides to show flexibility and redouble their efforts to bring this crisis to an end," State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said in Washington.
Repeated efforts to reach an agreement have stalled over the issue of whether Zelaya can be reinstated to complete his term, which is due to end in January. The latest round of talks collapsed on Friday.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wants Zelaya and Micheletti to return to the negotiating table before a Nov. 29 presidential election. Washington has threatened not to recognize the vote unless a deal is reached, and Zelaya says the vote will be invalid if he is not returned to office first.
What say the people of Honduras, or do they not matter?
"If the proposal is to reinstate me after the elections, I cannot endorse the elections," Zelaya told Reuters in a telephone interview after his meeting with the U.S. officials.
The leftist leader was toppled after he violated the Honduran constitution angered business leaders, the military and political rivals by moving Honduras closer to Venezuela's socialist president, Hugo Chavez.
The judicial order coup in the impoverished coffee-producing country has sparked the most serious political crisis in Central America in years, and posed a challenge to U.S. President Barack Obama after he vowed to improve relations with Latin America.
Irked by Zelaya's stay in Brazil's embassy, the de facto government presented a formal complaint against Brazil with the International Court of Justice in The Hague for intervening in Honduras' internal affairs, Carlos Lopez, who acts as Micheletti's foreign minister, said on Wednesday.
"A diplomatic mission should not be used as a trampoline, a platform ... for national politics," Lopez told reporters.
It was not clear if the court would consider the demand since the de facto leaders are not recognized internationally.
Brazil, trying for a more muscular foreign policy in the region, stepped up its role in the crisis when it gave Zelaya, his family, and a group of supporters, refuge in the embassy.
Critics say the United States is not doing enough to pressure Micheletti and is taking a sideline role by letting Latin American governments and the Organization of American States take the lead on Honduras policy.
Human rights groups have documented major abuses by the de facto government and say free and fair elections will be impossible after Micheletti curbed civil liberties and temporarily shut opposition news outlets last month.
How about the shooting of government leaders recently? Is that a human rights violation?
More than a dozen members of the U.S. Congress wrote to Obama this week, urging he refuse to recognize elections organized by Micheletti's government.
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The torture video of the five alleged house burglars was posted on the internet last week. It is the latest sign of brutal vigilante justice spreading across Mexico.
As kidnappings, muggings and car jackings spiral out of control, and the authorities appear increasingly impotent, shadowy groups have been advocating justice by the sword.
In other recent cases, alleged kidnappers and car thieves have been abducted and murdered and had their corpses dumped in public places along with threatening notes.
There are also rising cases of mobs lynching alleged thieves and leaving them beaten, naked and tied up.
The government is failing to provide security and people are turning to some brutal alternatives, said Rossana Reguillo, who studies crime and violence at the Jesuit University of Guadalajara. This is not something that has always been around in Mexico. It is a new phenomenon that has been growing since 2000.
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Sometimes this sort of thing may be Drug Gangs taking out independent criminals or making hits look like independents. I wouldn't be so sure violent guys are being abducted and murdered by an unarmed population.
American taxpayers doled out $24,000 per vehicle sold under the government's "Cash for Clunkers" auto program, according to a study released Wednesday.
The report, conducted by the automotive information firm Edmunds.com in Santa Monica, Calif., found that of the nearly 690,000 vehicles sold under the program, only 125,000 of the sales could be credited directly to the Cash-for-Clunkers program.
The rest of the sales would have happened anyway, despite the government program, the report said -- raising questions over its effectiveness.
The report also said that the average cost for a vehicle in August 2009 was only $26,915 -- minus an average cash rebate of $1,667.
Cash for Clunkers -- officially known as the Car Allowance Rebate System -- was a $3 billion program intended to provide economic incentives to Americans to purchase a new, more fuel efficient cars when they traded in an older, less efficient vehicle.
The program was touted for giving a boost to auto sales while increasing the sales of more fuel-efficient vehicles.
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Sorry Folks,
The title of this article "Cash for Clunkers Auto Program Cost Taxpayers $24,000 Per Vehicle" is not accurate. The original article refers to costs "calculated by incremental sales" (i.e. sales that would not have occurred if the program hadn't existed). This is very different from cost calculated per vehicle.
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So it is now the end of October; the first payments are now starting to roll in. look for reports of a spike in re-pos of these same new cars and the obligatory Dem sympathy for the down trodden. we ain't finished buying these cars yet, people.
A Springfield manufacturer credited in the 1930s with producing the first electric clock for automobiles could be on its way to Mexico, at a cost of 120 local jobs.
Employees at the Honeywell Hobbs plant at 11th and Ash streets were notified Tuesday of plans to move the operations to Juarez, Mexico.
Details and the timing of the closure are still subject to negotiations with the union representing production workers, said Mark Hamel, spokesman for the parent company, Honeywell International Corp.
The facility, founded by John W. Hobbs in 1938, is one of the oldest manufacturing plants in Springfield.
"It is tough," Hamel said. "It is not a step any company likes to take, but at the end of the day, we need to make sure we can compete in a global market."
The Springfield plant produces controls, switches, lighting products, battery indicators and meters for the transportation industry. Hamel said he did not have a breakdown of union and management employees, but most of the workers at the Springfield plant are in production.
The phase-out would depend on negotiations with the United Auto Workers on issues such as severance pay and benefits.
"We are confident we can reach agreement with them. We are doing this within our collective bargaining agreement," he said.
"I really wouldn't hazard a guess (on a closing date), as it depends on each individual situation," he added.
The company has announced the same proposal for a plant at Spring Valley, 60 miles north of Peoria, where Honeywell has about 60 employees.
Springfield resident Sherry Clark said she and her husband, Michael, were among workers caught in an initial round of layoffs early this year. Clark said she wasn't surprised to learn of the closing plans.
'It was the first time I've ever been laid off from a job. They've been there a long time. My grandmother worked there as an operator," said Clark, who worked at the plant for about three years.
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The bean counter that figured this was cheaper should be shipped there too. Who in their right mind would move an plant to the middle of a war zone? Did they count the cost of security and bribes necessary to get the raw material in and the end product out, not counting the shipments impounded along with the smuggled drugs in the carriers?
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OK, Juarez is a war zone full of crooked government officials so Honeywell will have to pay extra for security and mordida. What is being said here is that, even with its problems, Juarez labor beats the crap out of the UAW. And yet, nobody in the UAW gets it.
A coveted visa program that feeds skilled workers to top-tier U.S. technology companies and universities is on track to leave thousands of spots unfilled for the first time since 2003, a sign of how the weak economy has eroded employment even among highly trained professionals.
The program, known as H-1B, has been a mainstay of Silicon Valley and Wall Street, where many companies have come to depend on securing visas for computer programmers from India or engineers from China. Last year, even as the recession began to bite, employers snapped up the 65,000 visas available in just one day. This year, however, as of Sept. 25 -- more than six months after the U.S. government began accepting applications -- only 46,700 petitions had been filed.
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Thought the MSM-Net News this week said only eveybody was going to CHINA, includ Amer Perts + Chin whom emigrated and came to Amer for education and training in US schools [ PAKDEFFOR ARTIC > REVERSE MIGRATION]???
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The companies and universities have had over 25 years to grow their own domestic labor supply to fill the requirements. It should only take five to seven years to sponsor an American to get the skills they need, but its easier to bribe a congresscritter to bring an indenture worker in country they can have more control over. Its been labor welfare for the [once again] the politically connected. It should have returned to its original 10,000 a year long ago.
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The companies and universities have had over 25 years to grow their own domestic labor supply
For companies that takes planning beyond the next quarter or two. Besides, H-1B is cheaper. Even though there are equal pay provisions, you can hire senior engineer skills into a junior engineer slot. Since your hires can't easily jump ship, it also makes them a little more malleable. What's not to like!
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H-1B and J-1 visas are also used in graduate medical education: most of the international medical graduates who come to the U.S. for residency training come on one of those two visa programs.
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Drop H1B All ti does is depress wages of US workers - H1B are indentured servants, the companies can underpay them and threaten them loss of their sponsorhip -- then saddle them with bad working conditions which bring down the entire bunch.
Allow a truly FREE MARKET in labor - either give these people green cards, or don't let them in. DOnt make them slaves to whoever holds the power of the H1B over them.
The operators of the Three Gorges Dam are continuing to export their hydro-power schemes to countries around the globe. The latest destination is Pakistan. A prime candidate for such a grandiose scheme! Around the globe? Does that mean we could get some?
According to recent reports, Pakistan's Ministry of Water and Power has signed a number of memorandum of understanding (MOU) with China's Three Gorges Dam Project Corporation. The MOUs concern the Bunji Hydropower Project, a $7-$-billion dollar project that is expected to produce 7,000-8,000 MW of power, and the Diamer-Bhasha dam, a $12.6-billion dam that is expected to produce 4,500 MW of power. More Jihadi targets!
The agreements between the Three Gorges Dam Project Corporation and the Pakistan government are on a BOOT--build, operate, own and transfer--basis. This is a financing arrangement in which a developer (1) designs and builds a complete project at little or no cost to the government of Pakistan, (2) owns and operates the facility as a business for a specified period after which (3) transfers it to the government of Pakistan at a previously agreed-upon price.
Both of the dams will be built in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. India and Pakistan have fought two wars over the Kashmir region, which each country administers in part, but both claim in full. Sticking it in India's eye, I see.
A Chinese foothold in Pakistan near the Indian border, in other words? Clever people, those Red Chinese!
The announcement that China will help construct the two dams in the disputed Kashmir region comes after an announcement from the Pakistan government last month of a new autonomy package for the Northern Areas of Kashmir, renamed as Gilgit-Baltistan. India says the new law "is yet another cosmetic exercise intended to camouflage Pakistan's illegal occupation."
At the same time, India has lodged complaints about the construction of the Bunji and Diamer-Bhasha dams--which are in the newly named Gilgit-Baltistan--with Chinese assistance. Both India and Pakistan consider the Northern Areas as part of the larger Jammu and Kashmir dispute.
The dams have helped inflame tensions between China and India, as India is concerned about China's growing presence in Pakistan. India has claimed in the past that China has assisted Pakistan in the development of its nuclear and ballistic weapons programs. Just another way Chicoms are sticking it to India and tying them up.
"The government of India lodged a protest today over the proposed construction of the Bunji hydroelectric project in a part of the state of Jammu and Kashmir under illegal occupation of Pakistan," Indian Foreign ministry spokesman Vishnu Prakash was quoted in a report by the Indo-Asian News Service (IANS).
And in response to the Diamer-Bhasha dam he said: "we hope that the Chinese side will take a long-term view of the India-China relations and cease activities in areas illegally occupied by Pakistan."
China's dam-building expertise in Pakistan is not new. According to International Rivers, Chinese companies are already involved with nine other dams in Pakistan, with a number of these projects, including Bunji and Diamer-Bhasha, located in the disputed Kashmir region.
China's hydroelectric schemes in another part of Southeast Asia are also helping to inflame diplomatic tensions between the two countries. Recent media reports claim that China has started construction of the Zangmu dam on Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet, which is a headwater for the Brahmaputra River, and eventually runs through the the Arunachal Pradesh state in India--a region over which India and China have had a running dispute for decades--and Bangladesh. The river is source of fresh water for millions of citizens living in India and Bangladesh. A large reservoir behind the dam could serve as a nice choke point for water flowing to India and Bangladesh. And I think that the Chicoms really do not care what India thinks. Take it to the UN, they will say. BFD.
Not all warfare involves armies and guns. I think Sun Tzu wrote that.
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This is where the vaunted Chinese ability for long-range thinking comes in to play. They have looked into the future and seen that control of resources plays a huge role. They are moving to control as many resources as they can, now, while China is still using the "hides his strength" strategy. Later there will be a lot of opposition to China obtaining any more resources, so get while the getting's good.
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The Chinese are being who they are, and meddling in the Jammu-Kashmir dispute. All this also involves China's own territorial claims in the SW Himalayas....
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TW has the right idea. Sun Tzu. The Chicoms are doing to India what Iran, Hizb'Allah, and the Paleos are doing to Israel. They are slowly encircling their adversary. The Chicoms want to build a strong navy to work on India's coastline, as one of their objectives. This is a full scale game of Go.
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I would think the Chinese would worry more about Japan/Korea/Tawian. This smells to me like a chip to be bargained away rather than something the Chinese really care about.
Russia supplies weaponry and equipment for police and special purpose military units in several NATO countries, state arms exporter Rosoboronexport said on Wednesday.
"Our main customers are ex-Soviet states, the Middle East, Latin American and African countries, but we also deliver special purpose weaponry and equipment to several NATO countries," said Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov, an advisor to Rosoboronexport general director.
More than 300 Russian companies, including 23 defense firms, are participating in the Interpolitex 2009 International Exhibition of State Security Technology in Moscow October 27-30.
According to Ovchinnikov, foreign clients are mostly interested in weaponry for anti-terrorism police task forces, optical and infrared equipment, means of individual protection and non-lethal weapons.
The official said that at least four foreign delegations at the show have expressed interest in purchasing several types of Russian-made equipment.
"The negotiations have entered an active phase and this work will continue after the show," Ovchinnikov said.
Delegations from Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Italy, Canada, The Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates, Taiwan and Ukraine are participating in Interpolitex 2009.
A WORRIED Iranian airline pilot asked passengers to start praying after his plane was hit by a technical glitch today, highlighting once again the notorious record of Tehran's aircraft.
The Aseman Airlines Boeing plane had taken off from Tehran airport after a six-hour delay, but had to return following a technical fault, the ISNA news agency quoted a passenger as recounting.
"The plane took off at 0015 in the morning and had to land back in Tehran after 45 minutes," the passenger said.
"The pilot told the passengers 'the plane is facing a technical problem and has to return. So please pray'."
Iran has been under years of international sanctions hampering its ability to buy modern planes from major manufacturers, such as Boeing and Airbus, or spare parts, and has suffered a number of air disasters over the past decade.
Its civil and military fleet is made up of ancient aircraft in very poor condition due to their age, and lack of maintenance.
In July it suffered one of its worst air disasters when a Caspian Airlines plane, a Russian Tupolev 154, crashed near Qazvin, northwest of Tehran, killing all 168 people on board.
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Unfortunately for the PIC, it, apparently, was not a GE part that was needed. Otherwise, there would have been boxes and boxes of 'em in the maintenance department....
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It worked! Good call, pilot. They need to note this in the after-action report and recommend the procedure to the entire fleet. This new method of divine intervention has potential to save millions in maintenance costs alone.
Los Angeles police say two men have been shot in the legs in a North Hollywood synagogue.
Officer Rosario Herrera says a black man with a handgun entered the synagogue at about 6:20 a.m. Thursday and shot two people. Police are investigating the shooting as a hate crime.
The victims were taken to a hospital and police are searching for the gunman.
Two men in their 40s were shot in the legs near the Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic Orthodox synagogue in the San Fernando Valley, Deputy Police Chief Michel Moore said. The men, both members of the synagogue, had arrived in separate cars for the morning service shortly before 6:30 a.m. when the gunman approached one and, without speaking, shot him and the other man, Moore said. The men were hospitalized in good condition.
Police say the men were shot in the parking garage of the North Hollywood temple. The gunman said nothing before firing and fleeing. Police Deputy Chief Michael Moore told reporters that it appears to be the work of a lone gunman.
Police later detained and handcuffed a man less than a mile from the synagogue. The youth, believed to be about 17 years old, matched the "very loose" description of the attacker, who was described as a black man wearing a hoodie, Moore said.
Because of the vague description, Lt. John Romero said police were not sure yet if he was the gunman. Officers cordoned off the area and continued to search for a possible suspect, Moore said.
There were no security guards in the parking garage but investigators will look at the synagogue's security videos, he said.
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Los Angeles police say a 17-year-old high school student is no longer a suspect in the wounding of two men who were shot in the legs as they arrived at a North Hollywood synagogue.
Police had detained the teenager near the temple on Thursday morning because he matched a loose description of the attacker, who was described as a black man wearing a hoodie.
Police Detective Steve Castro says the student has no connection to the shooting that took place Thursday in the parking garage near the Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic Orthodox synagogue.
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As he trips lightly through the media circus leading up to the big moment in which he ("tastefully" as they all say) gets naked for Playgirl, one wonders if young Levi knows that the magazine's audience is about 90 percent gay men. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
As this sad, not quite tragic or sordid enough to be interesting, saga unfolds, the most amusing thing may be the reversal of gender roles. Oh sure, it looked at first as if pretty young Bristol Palin got knocked up, then dumped to deal all by herself. That made her the loser. But Levi Johnston has just stepped up, in a way I've never seen a male do, to play the rejected sex toy who decides that if a hot bod is all he's got, why, he'll make it work for him....
I suppose the meth-dealing mom isn't going to sit him down for a talk about why he should get his GED and learn a trade? Actually, I think he'll end up as keynote speaker for the 2012 Democratic National Convention.
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...or at least the Michael Moore VIP Seat(tm) on or near the podium.
At the time that Bristol and Levi had their relationship, they were in the Anchorage area while Sarah and Todd were living in Juneau (where several successive Alaskan administrations have failed to move the capitol to anywhere near where most Alaskans live).
Levi's mom is apparently a known drug dealer, and probably indulged in forms of petty crime before that. Which means she was caught up in the Courthouse Game. And someone, some judge or prosecutor or what have you, may have cut a deal... "We'll be slightly negligent about prosecuting your ass to the fullest extent of the law if your son can manage to fuck up the life of the daughter of this rising star politician, that thinks she's some sort of 'reformer.'"
A teenage girl is back in Ohio after running away to Florida because she said she feared her father would harm or kill her for converting from Islam to Christianity.
The Florida Department of Children and Families says 17-year-old Rifqa Bary arrived Tuesday in Columbus accompanied by a state social worker and a Florida police officer. Bary is now in the custody of Franklin County Children Services, which was given control of her case earlier this month. She will stay with a foster family and undergo counseling.
Earlier Tuesday, an Ohio judge ordered the state to supervise Bary's telephone and Internet usage at the request of children services.
Jim Zorn, a children services' attorney, says Bary's use of Facebook contributed to her problems. Bary denies that.
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Someone in the Ohio bureaucracy better have extra protection for her. Methinks her scuzzball family might try to do a (dis)honor killing
It will happen on a 'family trip' to Sri Lanka (where her parents are from - they're illegal immigrants here or something).
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I could be wrong, I know little about the case, but my gut says it was all a put up by CAIR or someone to provoke a reaction among non-muslims either to gain cash, prizes, or whatever and when it did not pan out she went home.
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.
[Al Arabiya Latest] A prominent Saudi cleric said the swine flu virus, which has been declared a pandemic, does not exist and said the fuss about the H1N1 virus was instigated by those who were likely to gain financially, press reports said Wednesday. 
[Bangla Daily Star] At least 15 people were injured in a clash between Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) activists of Jagannath University yesterday.
American taxpayers doled out $24,000 per vehicle sold under the government's "Cash for Clunkers" auto program, according to a study released Wednesday.
