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Rather, if you post a story on climate change / global warming, it goes under 'Science and Technology', not 'Signs, Portents and the Weather'. We mods had a conversation about this and Fred prefers these stories under S&T.
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Logically you are correct but then again 'Signs, Portents and the Weather' seems to apply to the worshipers of the church of AlGore. ;-)
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It's just filing, guys. So long as we're consistent, it doesn't really matter what the heading is. That's why I refiled tipper's story on the CIA response to global cooling back in the 1970s. Now y'all can devote your considerable brain power to more important thing. ;-)
Could mean 1. "there is no anthropogenic global warming" 2. There is AGW, but not much now and wont get much worse 3. There is a lot of AGW, and there will be more, but it wont be a bad thing 4. There will be a lot of AGW, and it will be a bad thing, but no matter how bad it is, I can find SOME enviro who thinks it will be even worse, and THATS who I mean by "fear mongers"
Not quite like saying "even if we take no steps no lessen emissions from current forecasts, the global temp will increase by less than 1.5 C"
The economy has been in the dumps for years, but the good times keep on rolling for some favored D.C. employees. City officials have doled out nearly $15 million in bonuses and awards since Mayor Adrian Fenty took office in January 2007, records obtained by The Examiner under the Freedom of Information Act show.
Among the big winners were Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee, who was handed $41,250 in August 2007 after barely two months on the job; Department of Health Director Pierre Vigilance, who was given $15,000 in 2008; and city property manager Robin-Eve Jasper, handed $18,000 over two years.
The bonuses were ladled out even as the city was facing nine-figure budget shortfalls and officials -- including Rhee -- were firing employees by the busload, claiming they could no longer afford them.
It paid to be on Rhee's good side. School employees, including Rhee's top staff, accounted for nearly half of the Fenty-era bonuses, records show. Then-special education "czar" Phyllis Harris was paid $17,000 in 2008; special-ed bureaucrat Karen Griffin was given $25,000 the same year; and Rhee's chief of staff, Lisa Ruda, was given $17,000 in 2008, records show.
Under Rhee, standardized test scores in the public schools have made marginal improvements. Fourth-graders' test result are now only the fourth-worst in the nation; eighth-graders' are only the second-worst.
Worried by possible bad publicity for doling out cash during a recession, the city council voted to ban the practice as of Oct. 1, 2009. That hasn't stopped the gravy train from rolling: Records show hundreds of employees have been paid more than $565,000 in bonuses since October.
Attorney General Peter Nickles said most of the bonuses to employees were tied to contracts that were entered into when "times were better" and that the city couldn't back out of them now.
"We're no longer entering into those contracts," he said.
Nickles said the bonuses were worth the cost. "We've made tremendous progress in these three years," he said.
Condemnation from other quarters was swift.
"Fenty, Rhee and [police Chief Cathy] Lanier have tried to tell everybody in the city we don't have enough police officers, firefighters and teachers because they don't have any money. But at the same time they're lining the pockets of their favorites," police union Chairman Kris Baumann said. "If you put this in a movie, people wouldn't believe it. It would be too far-fetched."
Councilwoman Mary Cheh, D-Ward 3, handed out bonuses for some staff in 2007-08, but this year voted to stop bonuses citywide. She said she was mystified that the practice continued.
"The idea was everybody was going to share the pain," she said. "We could hardly give bonuses when everybody was losing their jobs."
Not all of the bonuses had high price tags. Ted Loza, onetime chief of staff to Councilman Jim Graham, D-Ward 1, was given more than $3,000 in bonuses in the past two years, including a $700 bonus in April. In September, he was arrested on federal bribery charges.
"Of course, subsequent events have been very disturbing," Graham said. "But at the time, I wasn't aware of any of that." Check out SchoolDigger and the stats, particularly the student/teacher ratio on the 10 worst high schools in the District.
Well this explains why so many dead people vote Dem.
A new study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life reveals some startling differences between Republicans and Democrats on issues of spirituality and supernatural phenomenon.
The report is not specifically about partisan differences, but the results of the study are broken down by party affiliation, among many other categories. And the news on that front is that Democrats are far more likely to believe in supernatural phenomenon than Republicans. "Its .. its .. Da Mayor!"
"Conservatives and Republicans report fewer experiences than liberals or Democrats communicating with the dead, seeing ghosts and consulting fortunetellers or psychics," the Pew study says.
What accounts for them? Pew doesn't say. But the report does note that there are gender, ethnic, and racial differences in the totals.
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HMMMMM, HMMM, wehell, on a broad note when a personal DREAM/VISION doesn't come true, it be ascribed as subjective "UN-REALITY" OR EVEN "FANTASY", + IMO may still be changed > WHEN IT DOES COME TRUE, IT BECOMES OBJECTIVE "PROPHECY" OR PRE-DETERMINATION.
Lest we fergit, VATICAN > THERE IS NO DIVISION OR DICHOTOMY BETWEEN GOD + SCIENCE. By this scope, ANY AND ALL THE DIVINE EVENTS = "MIRACLES" DESCRIBED IN THE BIBLE, ETC. IS JUST AS VALID, OR SUPERIOR, AS ANYTHING SECULAR.
HUMAN rights watchdog Amnesty International has called on Saudi Arabia to stay a sentence of 40 lashes handed down against a 75-year-old woman for breaching the kingdom's sex segregation rules.
HUMAN rights watchdog Amnesty International has called on Saudi Arabia to stay a sentence of 40 lashes handed down against a 75-year-old woman for breaching the kingdom's sex segregation rules.
"The minister of the interior (Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz) is reported to have ordered the immediate detention and flogging of a 75-year-old woman, Khamisa Mohammed Sawadi, along with two Saudi Arabian men known only as Fahad and Hadyan," the London-based watchdog said.
"The Saudi Arabian authorities must not carry out the imminent flogging and imprisonment of an elderly woman and two younger men."
Amnesty said all avenues of appeal had been exhausted in Saudi courts against the trio's March conviction for being in the company of members of the opposite sex who were not close relatives.
"It is abhorrent that an elderly woman is at risk of 40 lashes," said the deputy director of the watchdog's Middle East and North Africa Program, Philip Luther.
"We urge the authorities to prevent the imprisonment and flogging of Khamisa, Fahad and Hadyan."
Sawadi and Fahad were sentenced to 40 lashes and four months' imprisonment, and Hadyan to 60 lashes and six months' imprisonment, Amnesty said.
Sawadi also faces deportation to her native Syria on completion of her prison term.
Saudi Arabia enforces a strict version of Islamic sharia law and imposes corporal punishment for a wide variety of offences.
A year after the Government vowed to crack down on housing benefits, a single mother of eight is still living in a £2.6million (4.22m USD)mansion funded by taxpayers.
Francesca Walker receives more than £90,000 (146.000 USD) a year in housing allowance to meet the rent on the five-bedroom villa, plus other payouts of £15,000. A defiant Miss Walker, 34, insists that she and her children aged from six to 16 are completely justified in living there as the council could not find them a big enough home.
And, bizarrely, she claims that 'living in this house is holding me back'.
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Loook forward to this in the US once/if Obama and his ilk get their way.
"A defiant Miss Walker, 34, insists that she and her children aged from six to 16 are completely justified in living there as the council could not find them a big enough home."
That's eight new weaned-at-the-governmenttaxpayer-teat Labour/Democrat voters on the way.
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- A planned meeting between the ousted and incoming leaders of Honduras to solve that nation's political crisis has been delayed, Dominican President Leonel Fernandez said Sunday. Fernandez previously said he expected the ousted President Manuel Zelaya and President-elect Porfirio Lobo to meet in the Caribbean nation's capital on Monday - implying that Zelaya would be able to leave the Brazilian Embassy in Honduras where he has taken refuge for nearly three months.
But Fernandez issued a statement on Sunday saying the interim Honduran government has not granted Zelaya safe passage out of Honduras without being arrested on charges of treason and abuse of authority for repeatedly ignoring court orders to drop plans for a referendum on rewriting the constitution.
"The conversation ... will have to be postponed until the de facto government creates the conditions for President Zelaya to leave and sustain this dialogue, as is his desire," Fernandez's office said in an official statement.
The statement says the interim government would only allow Zelaya to leave the Brazilian Embassy, where he has taken shelter in Tegucigalpa, as a "political refugee."
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ION TOPIX > {Uncle Fidel = CUBA/QUBA]CASTRO SAYS US ON THE OFFENSIVE IN LATIN AMERICA DESPITE OBAMA.
Right-wing billionaire Sebastian Pinera beat three leftists in Sunday's presidential election but failed to obtain a majority, setting up a runoff against a veteran of the coalition that has ruled Chile for two decades of democracy. With 60 percent of the vote counted, the Harvard-educated Pinera had 44 percent to 30 percent for the ruling center-left coalition's candidate, former President Eduardo Frei.
Socialist Rep. Marco Enriquez-Ominami, who broke away from the ruling coalition in a dispute with Frei, had 19 percent, and Jorge Arrate, representing a Communist-led bloc, had 6 percent, according to nationwide results. The trend was expected to roughly hold through Sunday's vote count, putting Pinera and Frei in a Jan. 17 runoff election where the key question will be whether leftists can unify to fend off the most moderate candidate Chile's right has ever had.
A runoff win by Pinera, 60, would give Chile its first right wing government since Gen. Augusto Pinochet's 1973-1990 dictatorship and would mark a tilt to the right in a region where leftists have won most recent elections.
The government's general secretary, Jose Antonio Viera-Gallo, immediately called on supporters of the other leftist candidates to come together, saying that Sunday's vote makes it clear that the people want Frei in the second round. Stability and experience are selling points for Frei, 67, who governed Chile from 1994 to 2000.
"We don't want leaps into the unknown, nor do we want to return to the past. We want a government that worries about the people," he said after voting. "We don't believe that the power of the market and money should have priority over a society."
But many voters are fed up with having the same government throughout 19 years of democracy following Pinochet. Promising change, Pinera and Enriquez-Ominami challenged the ruling coalition like never before.
Chile's economy, negligible inflation and stable democracy are the envy of Latin America. Booming copper revenues and prudent fiscal policies have helped the government reduce poverty from 45 percent in 1990 to 13 percent today, raising per capita annual income to $14,000 in the nation of 17 million.
But a huge wealth gap between rich and poor and a chronically underfunded education system have many voters feeling more must be done to redistribute Chile's copper wealth. A study by the World Bank several years ago showed that the poorest 10 percent of Chileans benefit from only 1.3 percent of government revenues, while the richest 10 percent benefit from 40 percent.
Pinera ranked No. 701 with $1 billion on the Forbes magazine world's richest list. He built his fortune bringing credit cards to Chile, and his investments include Chile's main airline, most popular football team and a leading TV channel. He has promised to bring the same entrepreneurial spirit to governing Chile, and expressed optimism after voting Sunday, saying "better times are coming."
Some analysts predict a very tight vote in January, estimating that as much as a third of Enriquez-Ominami's supporters will defect to Pinera, even though his alliance of right-wing parties once helped sustain the dictatorship.
"The second round is going to be similar to the last two presidential elections - very tight, with the only difference being that for the first time, the opposition candidate has the advantage," said Ricardo Israel, a political scientist at the University of Chile.
Chileans also elected 120 representatives and half of the 38 senators on Sunday.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] The US unemployment rate could grow more as the US economy still suffers recession despite signs of recovery, says Barack Obama's senior economic adviser.
Christina Romer, appearing on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday, said that the jobless rate "could well" rise again.
"These things certainly do bounce around. I would anticipate some bumps in the road as we go ahead," she told the TV network, according to AFP.
Romer said the US economy could not totally recover from the recession "until all of those people that want to work are back to work".
"I'm not going to say the recession is over until the unemployment rate is down to normal levels... where we were before the recession -- certainly in the five percent" range, said the chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, adding that Americans from coast-to-coast are still suffering from joblessness.
US President Barack Obama, with his hefty stimulus plan of $787 billion, has pledged to create four million jobs.
The US jobless rate has experienced many ups and downs since Obama took office in January, standing at 10 percent earlier this month.
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4 million fast food employees, what a recovery. Everyone could have a job plying Farmville or Cafe World on Facebook. Just a suggestion
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"Our agent, code name Lightning, is well on his way of destroying Capitalism, Comrade Secretary." "You idiot, we're capitalists now!"
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"I'm not going to say the recession is over until the unemployment rate is down to normal levels."
but others in the administration will
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Yes, but in correlation with those jobs lost even more jobs will be simultaneously "saved or created" by the Obama administration at precipitous cost, so it's win-win, baby!
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My industrious Grandson took a job at a fast food place as Cook, whatever happens, he'll always be able to find work, but he says "It's NOT a career, just a temporary job. (He's since quit and gone back to college)
Owns his own pickup outright and has no debts, I predict He'll be successful whatever he choses as a lifetime career.
PS, if anyone has NOT seen PBS Frontline program, "The card Game" it's free online and I highly recommend seeing it.
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May be I am wrong, but there are some very simple rules of national economy. We have to produce and sell more than we bye from other countries. Now, when Obama admistration is going to help us consumers in US, guess, where the money will go to help whom? Certainly China because we buy almost every thing made in China. Folks! Free market does not mean that you and I do not insist on buying made in USA, not the Chinese goods in cardboard boxes made here. Help yourself Do not blame others.
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The logical extension of that is to end imports. That'll rebuild the economy. [/sarc off] Didn't we try that before. Why should anyone buy our exports, if we don't buy theirs. The problem has been in the Beltway. They've refused to actively apply existing tools to such acts by other countries, allowing State et al for decades to overrule our own economic self interest for questionable and obvious self defeating economics.
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May be I am wrong, but there are some very simple rules of national economy. We have to produce and sell more than we bye from other countries.
That may seem to be true from the point of view of one country. But can it be true for all countries?
And if you are selling more to other countries than they are selling to you, what are you getting from them? IOUs. Which would you rather have, another countries goods or its IOUs? And what happens to the value of the IOUs if there's inflation?
Right now we're getting lots of pretty good stuff from China at dirt cheap prices. They';re getting Obama dollars.
I'm not saying it's not a problem, but I'm not sure how bad a problem it is. But it may be a symptom of other very serious problems.
Police say assailants have scrawled a Nazi slogan and hung pig feet on a mosque in southern France. Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux has denounced the "vile and racist desecration" of the mosque in the town of Castres.
Police say the swastika in black paint and slogans including Hitler salute "Sieg Heil" in German, "France to the French" in French, and "White Power" in English were scrawled on the mosque. Hortefeux said Sunday any person found responsible for the overnight desecration should be "severely punished." Photo here.
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I don't believe the 'spray can artists' understood what they were signifying. Haj Amin el-Husseini ( the still-dead Grand Mufti of Jerusalem)would be thrilled by this display of solidarity with the Nazis.
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
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Christian churches are desacrated every week, if not every day, if you throw in the various onuments, graveyards,... one Catholic french blog even had an open tally a while back, taken from the online local news dailies; perps are most often anarchokiddies or wannabe "satanists", tags on cathedrals even are pretty common.
Not to mention some rather disturbing ongoing vandalizing of chruches in "occupied territories", incluidng desacrations and harassements that are clearly done by the Youths, up to jihad blag flags covering the desacrated altar.
Those never make nation al news, much less international news like here.
Btw, one cannot exclude a racist hoax or a provocation, no proof or even gutfeeling to back this, just keep in mind that AFAIK, a couple musmim graveyards desacrations perps over the last years have been ID-ed, and turned out to be Mentally Disturbed muslims (on a similar level, a couple notorious antisemite acts were found to be hoaxes, including one that really was big at the time - a girl who was assaulted in a train, and turned out to be a non-jewish mythomaniac); also, in the early hours of the 2005 Ramadan Riots, a CS gas cannister was shot into a mosque by the police, dispersing the faithful who were mourning the loss of two Youths who got a Darwin Award while fleeing police; the whole thing was filmed through cellphones, and put some more tension, turned out this was a pure staged event, police internal inquiry found out that no CS cannisters were fired toward the building, and that the one threwn in was an used cannister collected much earlier, and this was pallywood at its best.
Colonization-era Christian cemetaries desacrated in algeria (more, text in french)
note that of course, the independence treaty expressely stipulated for the cemetaries to be kept, but, then again, european algerians were supposed to be able to stay, and muslims who fought against the FLN were to be left in peace...
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy is recovering in hospital after an assault left his face covered in blood following a rally in Milan.
He suffered two broken teeth, a minor nose fracture and cuts to his lip after being struck by a man wielding a souvenir model of the city's cathedral.
Mr Berlusconi, 73, tried to assure supporters afterwards he was OK.
The alleged attacker, who has a history of mental illness, has been charged with throwing the souvenir.
Massimo Tartaglia, 42, had no previous criminal record, police were quoted as saying.
After the attack on Sunday evening the prime minister, looking dazed, was helped to his feet by aides and put in a car. He got out and tried to climb on the car to show he was all right, before being driven away.
It was a typical show of defiance by a political fighter, says the BBC's Duncan Kennedy in Rome.
Mr Berlusconi insisted he was well at the hospital.
'Metal or plaster'
Mr Berlusconi had been greeting supporters in a square in Milan when the assault took place.
There are said to have been scuffles between hecklers and security staff during the rally.
At one point in his speech, Mr Berlusconi responded to his critics in Italy by declaring himself to be "good-looking" and "a decent chap".
The Italian leader was apparently signing autographs when he was struck with the souvenir.
Video of the assault shows Mr Berlusconi suddenly grimacing in pain.
It is not clear from the footage what happened but the object appears to have been thrown at his face.
Police charged Mr Tartaglia with aggravated assault for hurling the miniature replica at Mr Berlusconi.
The replica of the cathedral, famous for its gothic spires, was initially said to be made of metal but later reports suggested it was plaster.
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The alleged attacker, who also has a history of mental illness, has been charged with throwing the souvenir.
Nepalese Army Chief General Chhatra Man Singh Gurung, an alumnus of the Indian Military Academy (IMA), was today conferred the honorary rank of General of the Indian Army.
President Pratibha Patil conferred the rank to Gen Gurung at a ceremony here by presenting a sword and a peak cap along with a conferment order.
Defence Minister A K Antony, Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor, IAF Chief Air Chief Marshal P V Naik and Navy Chief Admiral Nirmal Verma and Defence Secretary Pradeep Kumar were present during the 15-minute ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
It is a tradition between the Indian and the Nepalese Army for the respective chiefs to be conferred honorary General rank of each other's Army too.
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Well, Obama could go to Copenhagen and bow a few times to everybody and ( maybe offer to bail the world out using money r-distributed ,as it were, more "fairly" from the nasty Big Corporations who oppress us all so brutally) maybe give a speech with a Greek Temple backdrop....LeMonde in Paris could gush and curtsey and weep in ecstasy..THEN they could bring on Chavez to promise free Oil to the poor, and Libya's Kadaffy could deliver the Finale by giving an all Male fashion show of Gold Lame' dresses with Italian high heels and the latest in Spanish underwear.
You might even forget that you were standing is warm warmer warmest knee deep BS.
We are all going to die anyway and drown when the ice caps melt. What have we got to lose? Where is Al Gore when you really need him?( ever ask yourself that?)
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I can honestly say I have never asked where Al Gore is
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I think I finally get Obama's plan and it is genius. He wants to get his face on American money. Since there will be a fight if you plan to remove an existing face on the money he'll take the Zimbabwae route and put his face on the million dollar bill, then deface the currency until most people are considered millionaires and the older bills fall out of circulation. He might have to give a lot of money to the third world to truly devalue the money enough but it will also take care of those hold US debts and all. What could possibly go wrong?
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The G77, a group which represents 130 developing countries, walked out because it is concerned the existing Kyoto protocol will be abandoned.
That sounds like it is probably a good thing that developing countries walked out. I guess there was not enough loot on the table. Maybe nothing will get done. We can hope. In 1975 it was "global cooling" dangers. Then it was "global warming" and now it is climate change. This is such JUNK SCIENCE. SCIENCE part should not even be mentioned in the same breath as JUNK--it is all just JUNK. It became easy to argue that climate change happens by the fraudulent [since global cooling and global warming were not selling]. Climate change does happen--all the time just as the sun goes up and the sun goes down. Science has become a politicized; something to be voted on. We got the current crop of yoyos in Washington in the same way. Personally, I think opportunistic moonbats are causing climate change [fraud].
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I bought a pack of million dollar obama notes at Hastings bookstore. I send them to the republican party, the university, and anyone else that asks me for money.
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They apparently have not seen the new Google link to Exploring Climate Change with Google Earth. Otherwise, they'd know Ted Danson is worried about the Arctic!
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If you are not going to give us huge piles of money, there is no way we are going to cripple our economies with this nonsense. We're outta here.
Sincerely,
The Developing Nations
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[wheat] Supplies in warehouses are enough to meet about 23 percent of global demand, compared with 19 percent two years ago, the FAO said last week. Inventories are far more comfortable than during last years crisis, the UN agency said.
Global wheat stockpiles on May 31 are expected to jump 17 percent to an eight-year high of 190.9 million metric tons, after production last year reached a record 682 million tons, the USDA said Dec. 10.
No wonder we're running short. Perhpas this is a new job for the Global Warmers.
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Perhaps some of the industrialized world should stop the protectionist policies (anti-genetically modified is the Euro favorite) and food give aways to help foster food independence in the third world.
It is an ancient royal communiqué that details the appointment of a new tax collector. And its text, newly deciphered after four recent archeological finds were put together, brings demonstrable veracity to the events that precipitated the Maccabean Revolt in 167-164 BCE and the story of Hanukka.
The reconstituted stele, or inscribed tablet, yielded a text from the king dated 178 BCE - 11 years before the Maccabean Revolt. It set out instructions to his chief minister Heliodorus concerning the appointment of one Olympiodorus to begin collecting money from all of the temples in the region, marking the start of a significant, negative shift in Seleucid policy on Jewish autonomy. That shift culminated in a vicious Seleucid crackdown on the Jews of Judea and the looting of the Temple in 168-167 BCE, which prompted the Maccabean Revolt as memorialized in the Hanukka story. Of course there is a significant tax revolt narrative in chapt 12 of Kings I but that is 8 centuries before the pre Channukah revolt and, yes, taxation of trade routes led rather quickly to the triumph of Darth Sidious as Emperor so I guess nothing is really new here
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A Stanford Professor has used United Nation security officers to silence a journalist asking him "inconvenient questions" during a press briefing at the climate change conference in Copenhagen.
Professor Stephen Schneider's assistant requested armed UN security officers who held film maker Phelim McAleer, ordered him to stop filming and prevented further questioning after the press conference where the Stanford academic was launching a book.
McAleer, a veteran journalist and film maker, has recently made a documentary "Not Evil Just Wrong' which takes a sceptical look at the science and politics behind Global Warming concerns.
He asked Professor Schneider about his opinions on Climategate -- where leaked emails have revealed that a senior British professor deleted data and encouraged colleagues to do likewise if it contradicted their belief in Global Warming.
Professor Phil Jones, the head of Britain's Climate Research Unit, has temporarily stood down pending an investigation into the scandal.
Professor Schneider, who is a senior member of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said he would not comment on emails that may have been incomplete or edited.
During some testy exchanges with McAleer, UN officials and Professor Schneider's assistants twice tried to cut short McAleer's question.
However as the press conference drew to a close Professor Schneider's assistant called armed UN security guards to the room. They held McAleer and aggressively ordered cameraman Ian Foster to stop filming. The guard threatened to take away the camera and expel the film crew from the conference if they did not obey his instructions to stop filming Professor Schneider.
The guard demanded to look at the film crews press credentials and refused to allow them to film until Professor Schneider left the room.
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Trans-National Socialists show their true authoritarian colors.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Police arrested almost 1,000 people among the violent fringes of a mass rally in Copenhagen intended to put pressure on the U.N. climate summit to take stronger action.
Tens of thousands of people took part in the Saturday march to the heavily guarded conference centre where world powers are struggling to hammer out a deal to combat global warming. Other rallies were held around the world from Australia to the Arctic Circle.
Most of the main Copenhagen rally was peaceful, but police moved in when hundreds of youths clad in black threw bricks and smashed windows. Riot police surrounded the troublemakers and made them sit on the ground with their hands behind their backs before being taken away on buses.
With some activists dressed as penguins with signs reading: "Save the Humans!" they marched peacefully to the conference centre on the outskirts of the city where 192 nations are meeting from Dec. 7-18 to agree a new U.N. climate pact.
Police made 968 arrests, including about 400 members of militant groups from across Europe known as Black Blocs. About 150 were released after questioning.
Demonstrations were also held in Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines demanding tough measures by the 194 nations gathered at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) conference.
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If you guys are so smart, why can't you convince anyone without bricks?
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BECAUSE bricks are more fun, you silly.
So is dressing up. I got dressed up once.
Then a Frenchman asked me for a date. I'll never do that again.
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EVERY evening before dinner, Mohsen Sazegara disappears into the basement of his cosy suburban house in Virginia and makes a 10-minute home movie to post on YouTube.
Far from showcasing the talents of his sons or pets, Sazegaras videos are of protest tactics aimed at bringing down a regime. His house is the epicentre of what he hopes will be the worlds first technological revolution and his videos are watched more than 6,000 miles away in Iran.
Six months after the disputed presidential election in Iran, the opposition has refused to give up despite a crackdown that has seen arrests, beatings, torture and show trials. Co-ordination of the so-called green revolution has increasingly moved overseas, where exiles are using the new media to spread the message.
Last week, when tens of thousands of students took to the streets of Iran in some of the biggest demonstrations since the elections, Sazegara had been sending instructions via Facebook, YouTube and email.
He stands in front of a green baize screen decorated with a V for victory and the movements slogan, Green means resistance until spring comes. After a brief assessment of the days events, he offers Iranians new ideas for fighting the regime.
They have good reason to listen. Thirty years ago, as a young revolutionary, he helped to topple the Shah, putting todays Islamic regime in power and working as a speechwriter for its founding father, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Sazegara was one of the founders of the Revolutionary Guard. Now he is teaching protesters how to tackle the force.
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Six months after the disputed presidential election in Iran, the opposition has refused to give up despite a crackdown that has seen arrests, beatings, torture and show trials.
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Berkeley. This brings memories. Bookshops on Telegraph Ave, the best cheese cake I ever had, a girl named Sunshine (I kid you not) who asked me why Israelis oppress Palestinians.
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UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof said it was a "matter of luck" the protesters were unable to break into the home before police scattered most of the crowd. Protesters smashed lights, shattered windows, scattered trash and flipped over planters, Mogulof said.
Whose luck, I wonder? Back in 1992, local moonbat Rosebud Denovo was shot dead after she succeeded in breaking into the chancellor's residence in the middle of the night.
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.
Police say assailants have scrawled a Nazi slogan and hung pig feet on a mosque in southern France. Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux has denounced the "vile and racist desecration" of the mosque in the town of Castres.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy is recovering in hospital after an assault left his face covered in blood following a rally in Milan.
A Stanford Professor has used United Nation security officers to silence a journalist asking him "inconvenient questions" during a press briefing at the climate change conference in Copenhagen.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Police arrested almost 1,000 people among the violent fringes of a mass rally in Copenhagen intended to put pressure on the U.N. climate summit to take stronger action.
