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"If convicted of murder, the man faces the death penalty or a life term in prison."
Kids in India, no matter how poor the family, are precious to their parents. I bet this animalguy gets the death penalty. Village justice is strong in small towns, this animalguy will die one way or another. Although India is an industrialized nation, there are plenty of, like South America, people that live of the jungle. But jungle dwelling animalspeople eating other humans is, unheard of in India. This is an isolated incident by a sick bastard.
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2 in the brick and 1 in the chest. Why bother with a trial? Of course, I feel the same about the crazy that cut the baby out of her mother last week.
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Sikh leaders today called for protesters to withdraw death threats against a playwright who is believed to be in hiding after violent demonstrations over her controversial stage show. The British Sikh Consultative Forum said it regretted that peaceful protests over the play Bezhti got out of control and turned to violence outside the Birmingham Repertory Theatre last weekend. The theatre was forced to cancel further performances and author Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti received several threats over the fictional play's depiction of rape and murder in a Sikh temple.
The national body of Sikh organisations today issued a statement stressing it did not support any form of threat to the life or security of the play's author. It said: "We unequivocally appeal to anyone who may have made these threats to withdraw them. They have no endorsement from the Sikh community.
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The US mission in Cuba stepped up its Christmas symbols battle with the Cuban government by sending holiday postcards with the number 75 representing dissidents held prisoner by the communist-led island.
The card is decorated with a shackled peace dove behind bars and a padlock with the number 75 for the dissidents who were rounded up in a government crackdown on the opposition last year. Fourteen dissidents have been freed since then for health reasons.
"Peace on earth, goodwill toward all," says the postcard sent to foreign diplomats and journalists. It is signed by the chief of the US special interests section, James Cason, and his wife Carmen.
The Christmas conflict began last week when the US mission put up Christmas lights that had a neon "75" as the centerpiece surrounded by traditional Christmas trees.
Cuba retaliated by mounting pictures of US soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison onto billboards outside the US mission on the Malecon avenue along Havana's sea front. they also put up Nazi swastikas and the words "Fascists Made In USA."
Cason rejected Cuban government calls for the removal of the decorations.
In addition to the billboards, the Cuban government has held an anti-Iraq war concert and broadcast a television show criticizing Cason's "provocations." Cuban artists added their talent to the symbols war by painting two anti-US murals.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday defended the effective renationalisation of the core assets of Yukos oil group, arguing that the state had every right to make amends for the flawed privatisations of the early 1990s.
Speaking at a three-hour press conference in the Kremlin, Mr Putin said: "You all know very well how privatisation took place here in the early 1990s and how, using various tricks, and sometimes violating the laws, many market participants got hold of state property worth many billions [of dollars].
"Today the state, using absolutely legal market mechanism, is securing its interest. I consider this to be quite normal."
Mr Putin has previously insisted that Yukos was pursued because of its failure to pay its taxes. But Thurday's statement provided a new justification for the Yukos saga one that could equally apply to other companies created by the privatisations of the 1990s.
Late on Wednesday night Rosneft, the state oil company chaired by the deputy chief of Mr Putin's administration, took control of Yuganskneftegas, Yukos's main production asset accounting for 11 per cent of all Russian oil production. Yuganskneftegas had earlier been bought at auction by Baikal Finance Group, a mysterious bidder.
Rosneft, which paid $9.35bn for the oil producer, far less than its market value, is merging with Gazprom to create a giant national company. Mr Putin insisted the auction was in keeping with a Russian law, but many observers said the deal was as murky as the privatisation of the early 1990s... Whatever spin he likes, it doesn't matter. If the state won't guarantee private property, then it won't get private investment like it would have. This will then be called "unfair".
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A fine PR statement, necessitated by doing the opposite thus far in Tsar Putty's reign. So, about this unnatural (for KGB types) sentiment, um, starting when, exactly, Putty?
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Russia will not use its influence behind the scenes in the former Soviet republics, President Vladimir Putin said Friday, ahead of a key election in Ukraine.
In other news: Winged pigs were seen flapping above Red Square.
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Once a commie always a commie. Although, you have to admit Vlad is much slicker than the walking dead man who gave Carter a kiss just before he invaded Afghanistan.
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On everything from sheets to shirts, napkins to neckties, one label is set to become increasingly widespread: Made in China. Already, the world's most populous nation exports more than $60 billion in textiles and clothing annually, and some analysts predict that changes to global trade rules at the end of this year will hand China the biggest share of the $350 billion global trade market.
That's a prospect that terrifies textile producers in rich and poor countries around the world, from Bangladesh and Morocco to the United States and the European Union.
"A Chinese takeover would shake the economic and political stability of dozens of struggling nations," said the Global Alliance for a Fair Textile Trade, a U.S.-led grouping of trade organizations from 49 countries.
For decades, industrialized countries have maintained quotas on textile imports to protect their own producers from foreign competition. The World Trade Organization started phasing out the quotas in 1995, and members have agreed to remove them altogether by Jan. 1.
"It's clear it's going to change the game," said Jean-Paul Sajhau, who heads the textiles division of the U.N. International Labor Organization.
"Countries which developed because of the existence of quotas will be in difficulty now because the market will be more open," he said.
A WTO study this year estimated that eliminating the quotas would raise China's share of U.S. clothing imports to about 50 percent from 16 percent in 1995, and China's share of EU imports to 29 percent from 18 percent.
WTO Director-General Supachai Panitchpakdi describes the end of quotas as an important milestone that will benefit the global economy as a whole. China, India and other textile exporters say it will finally create a level playing field and allow the market to decide who exports what and where, as already happens in most other areas of goods trade.
Producers elsewhere are complaining.
The Global Alliance has claimed China is competing unfairly by keeping its currency undervalued while paying subsidies and giving loans to its manufacturers in an attempt to control the global market.
"Cheating should not be rewarded," it said.
Euratex, a group of European textile producers, claims China's 2001 entry into the WTO has led to a flood of imports and price declines of up to 75 percent.
"These plummeting prices are inexplicable and bear no relation to reality," Euratex said. "But then China is no market economy, and cannot demonstrate its respect of many internationally agreed rules."
The French Fashion Institute estimates some 325,000 of Europe's 2.5 million textile and clothing workers could lose their jobs because of the change.
In the United States, the chief executive of textile manufacturer Carolina Mills is already seeing the damage.
"In the last two days, we've had three customers announce they are going out of business," CEO Steve Dobbins said in mid-December. "It's in anticipation of those quotas being eliminated. We see our customers going away."
Predictions of job losses in the developing world vary widely. Bangladesh's labor unions said almost half the country's 1.8 million textile jobs could go, while the government puts the figure at 200,000 and some experts say it could be just 80,000.
Under the current system, when India reaches its export quotas, textile buyers often turn to neighboring Bangladesh. After the quotas are scrapped on Jan. 1, Bangladesh won't get any more of that spillover business.
"My family will starve to death if I don't work," said 20-year-old Fatema Begum, who supports her daughter and parents on the $33 she brings home each month from a Dhaka sewing factory.
Retailers around the world, however, stand to benefit from lower wholesale prices and higher margins...
China's legislature yesterday began considering a draft law on developing renewable energy to combat chronic power shortage, state media said Saturday.
The draft was submitted to the standing committee of the National People's Congress, Xinhua news agency said.
"China has to vigorously develop renewable energy because (its) rapid economic development has caused energy shortage, heavy pollution and dependence on energy import," Xinhua quoted Mao Rubai, director of the Environment and Resource Protection Committee of the legislature, as saying.
The standing committee Saturday opened a five-day meeting to discuss several draft laws.
China would develop renewable energy sources such as hydel, wind, solar, geo-thermal and marine, according to the draft.
The government plans to lift China's renewable energy consumption from three percent in 2003 to 10 percent in 2020, by mandating all state grids to purchase renewable energy.
Chinese energy consumption rose 15.1 percent in the first 11 months of the year, mainly due to the strong demand from its booming manufacturing sector.
Opposition presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko called on the government Friday to prevent any violence in this weekend's crucial presidential repeat vote, as the two campaigns rallied their supporters on the final day of campaigning. In Moscow, President Vladimir Putin stated that Russia has not meddled in the affairs of ex-Soviet republics _ in a reference to Ukraine _ but accused other nations of having done so. "We haven't engaged in any behind-the-scenes policy-making on the post-Soviet space, and that, to some extent, limits instruments we can use to defend our interests ... unlike our partners which have used them actively," Putin told the State Council, made up of Cabinet members and provincial governors. Putin's blatant support of Yushchenko's rival, Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, strained the Russian leaders' relations with the West. Putin has since said he is ready to work with Yuschenko if he wins.
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But Putty sez he'll stay out of the election and not interfere! You believe the Tsar, don't you Vic? Vic? Are you okay? You're looking a bit pallid and drawn - again... Perhaps it was something you ate... Vic? Vic?
Nine Arab research centers have launched an initiative for reforming education in the Arab states. The event was carried out in collaboration with a group of European and American research centers. Abdul Menem Saeed, the director of al-Ahram center for strategic studies, the side which assumes coordination among these centers, said by the end of the conference which lasted for two days that "cooperation between the Arab and foreign research centers aims at benefiting from international experiences in the field of democratic transformations." Saeed also stressed that the initiative includes several activities especially drafting reports and studies of modernization facing the reform process, monitoring steps taken by the Arab government on the way to reforms and providing alternatives and recommendations to the public opinion and decision-making.
The conference was attended by several centers including King Faisal center for Islamic studies and research, the Arab Reforms Forum in Alexandria library, the Palestinian center for survey and political studies, the strategic studies center at the Jordanian University in Amman, the Lebanese studies center, the Sudanese studies center, the future and strategic studies center at Kuwait university and the social researches studies center in Rabat.
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A UN physician is being allowed to keep his job after losing it over writing a book exposing alleged sex, drugs and incompetence in UN peacekeeping missions, his lawyers said on Friday. The case has been described by the doctor's attorneys as a test for how the United Nations, currently working on whistle-blower regulations, treats critics among its staff.
Kofi's feeling the heat and has to make nice. It has nuttin' to do with the holiday.
Tom Devine, legal director of the Washington-based Government Accountability Project, which defends whistle-blowers, said Dr. Andrew Thomson would stay in his post after his current contract expires on Dec. 31 and not be forced to leave the United Nations. Thomson and his lawyers contend his employment was terminated because of the book he coauthored, after 12 years of service and praise for his work as a medical officer. In an email sent to journalists, Devine said that "based on confirmation from highly reliable sources," there had been an "informal resolution of his case." He did not give details. "Dr. Thomson looks forward to many more years at the United Nations, serving its vital mission," Devine wrote. The case had also won the backing of Sen. Richard Lugar, the Indiana Republican who chairs the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Lugar wrote to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan asking him to investigate the Thomson controversy and provide a progress report on promised whistle-blower protection regulations.
Thomson and his coauthors wrote "Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures: A True Story from Hell on Earth", published in June by Miramax, which plans to turn it into a television series. It describes sex, drugs, failed leadership and incompetence in UN missions in Cambodia, Haiti, Rwanda and Bosnia during the 1990s. Thomson, a New Zealander, worked for the United Nations on a year-to-year contract, including exhuming corpses to obtain forensic evidence of massacres in Rwanda and the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica. Another author, Heidi Postlewait, still works for the organization, her contract having some 18 months to run. The third writer, Kenneth Cain, has left.
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A high-level Indian delegation Friday completed a secret visit to Israel focused on arms sales and the fight against terror, Haaretz newspaper reported in its online edition. The delegation met Israel's Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz and the director general of his ministry, Amos Yaron, the paper said. Last August, top Israeli military research official U.K. Atre said that India and Israel were planning to produce together a strategic ballistic missile. After decades of cold relations, India and Israel have established strong military ties, illustrated by New Delhi's purchase of Israel's Phalcon advanced air warning system.
Next month, Adultinternet.TV officially launches with a lineup that includes reality shows, news, sitcoms and cartoons -- all with an adult twist. That doesn't mean that every host or actress is going to take her clothes off, but it does mean that adult pioneers are once again developing technologies that will change the landscape of entertainment as we know it.
"Nobody has done a real adult TV station, that's like real TV, supported by advertisers and free to viewers," says co-founder Mark Newman. "This isn't just streaming porn. We're trying to run exactly like a TV station."
"Software inserts the commercials, everything is tracked by database, there's no one in a booth" cueing up bumpers, advertisements, and shows, Mark says. "We had to invent a lot of stuff that no one has done before, like real-time tracking for advertisers." Mark also designed his own wireless transmission system for live streaming, which he hopes will be ready in time for Mardi Gras.
Despite an official launch date of Jan. 6 the channel is already streaming content to a growing audience. Mark says even if the content doesn't take off, they've been told they could sell their software for millions of dollars.
But he's confident the content will be a hit because it is adult and fresh, yet familiar. Rather than generic streaming porn, Adultinternet.TV is relying on programming formats that have already proven successful on broadcast television. He believes the channel's original sitcoms, reality shows, even a soap opera where "the characters can really get down and dirty" will appeal to viewers as an alternative to porn movies. "But we'll have some of those too; shows in the daytime, movies at night," he says...
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The truth is that the web-porn industry is where the money was for the first several years - and they are the innovators because of it. Much of what the mainstream WWW uses was created, refined, enhanced, and finally packaged into useful modules / objects / products by porn-site programmers. Bummer for some, I know, but hey - follow the money and you find where the cookie cutters are being made. And then everyone else makes cookies - that look just alike...
Revisiting lex's dream for an alternative to MSM news... I guess I see 4 major components - at least as far as my limited understanding and vision and memory of discussed specifics goes...
This venture - an automated internet-delivered TV channel will probably create precisely the low-manpower (where the $$$ are in the West) tech needed for the Delivery Vehicle.
The BBC is closing a string of successful websites, in order to reinvest the money in projects that have a clearer public service focus.
It will announce today that its network of sites, which are hugely successful but continually provoke complaints from commercial rivals, will be slimmed down to help make the case for charter renewal.
In an interview with the Guardian, the BBC director of new media and technology, Ashley Highfield, said that he was planning to save £6m, a tenth of the corporation's annual online spend, by closing sites that cost too much and aped commercial rivals; there are likely to be consequent job losses.
Among site closed will be one devoted to US sport, and one on local history deemed poor value for money.
A cult TV and film site devoted to shows such as The Simpsons and Buffy will be pruned to concentrate on upcoming BBC shows like Dr Who. And the funding for the wide-ranging BBC Lifestyle site, which covers everything from parenting to antiques, will also be cut substantially.
On its network of local Where I Live sites, the BBC will promise to reduce duplication and work more closely with online rivals such as regional newspapers.
"In order to free up the required funding we must start to behave more like television and radio, decommissioning sites or cutting back on funding, or even archiving them as circumstances change," said Mr Highfield, whose new media department was one of those recently earmarked by the director general, Mark Thompson, to move to Manchester...
Computer scientists have discovered a potentially serious flaw in Google's desktop search utility that could allow attackers to steal information. Scientists at Rice University in Texas found a glitch in Google Desktop that could permit an attacker to search the contents of a PC from the internet, The New York Times reports...
The Delhi High Court has directed the embassy of the Syrian Arab Republic here to vacate a plot it had taken on lease from an individual.
A Division Bench, comprising Justice Vijender Jain and Justice Anil Kumar, issued the direction on a plea by the owner of the property, A.K. Jajodia, that the embassy did not enjoy diplomatic immunity in civil matters.
It bench asked the embassy to vacate plot no 15 on Palam Marg at Vasant Vihar in south Delhi within 15 days of the passing of the order, saying otherwise the respondent shall be entitled to execute the decree for possession in accordance with law by obtaining warrants of possession of an Executive Court.
"The argument regarding diplomatic immunity will not come to the aid of the appellant (the embassy) in the present case," the bench said.
"No immunity, much less a diplomatic one, is available to the chief of the mission or any other person working in the mission in the matter which is purely in the domain of the landlord-tenant relationship."
Jajodia had leased out the property to the embassy in 1985 at a rent of Rs.14,000 per month. On the expiry of the lease deed on Dec 12, 1990, he requested the embassy to vacate the premises saying he required it for his for own use.
In response, the embassy told the owner it would vacate the property once it found an alternative accommodation. However, it failed to do so.
Jajodia then filed a suit in the court with the permission of the external affairs ministry.
A Single Bench of the High Court decided the matter Dec 31 last year, directing the embassy to vacate the property within 30 days.
The embassy challenged order before a Division Bench of the High Court taking the plea of diplomatic immunity. The Division Bench upheld the judgement of the Single Bench. Diplomatic Immunity also doesn't work at the 7-11 when you want a doughnut and a cup of coffee.
The Libyan press on Friday launched strong criticism against Saudi Arabia because of its decision to summon its ambassador in Tripoli and to expel the Libyan ambassador in Riyadh, describing Saudi Arabia as "the kingdom of darkness" ruled by Abu Jahel. The Libyan state run al-Jamahereyah said in its yesterday's editorial under the title " the Kingdom of black comedy" that Saudi Arabia might be the "best ambassador for the pre Middle Ages era." The paper added that "Abu Jahel" ( the Saudi royal family) is still giving his rules in the life affairs of the society and bans the woman from driving the car." The Libyan daily al-Zahf al-Akhdar described Saudi Arabia as "a swollen kingdom" and issued an article showing the difference between the life of the common Saudi citizen and the life of luxury members of the ruling family live. The Saudi dailies on Thursday launched a campaign of the same spirit against Libya and said that the decision to expel the Libyan ambassador from Riyadh is very late and described the Libyan regime as "stubborn " and its leader as "crazy."
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Anna Comnena reports from Islamabad. Procopius provides color...
For all the "disbelievers" the drama around Asif Ali Zardari's arrest and rapid release should be an eye-opener. It must put to rest their doubts that an establishment-PPP reconciliation effort is underway. Asif Ali Zardari was in and out in less than 24 hours. The first snag on the road to the establishment-PPP reconciliation was successfully removed. His arrest did raise fears about the establishment backtracking on its reconciliation efforts. His rapid release has proven these fears wrong. In fact the arrest has also established that an establishment-PPP reconciliation effort is underway.
The facts around Zardari's arrest pointed toward establishment-PPP reconciliation. First that Asif Ali Zardari's bail was cancelled by the judge of the Anti-terrorism Court at 10.30 a.m. Asif Zardari, the accused on bail in the Justice Nizam's murder trial was to appear before the judge on Dec. 21. Instead his lawyer filed an application asking the court to overlook Zardari's absence since he "had to be in Islamabad for an important meeting." The judge rejected the application, cancelled Zardari's bail and ordered his arrest. Earlier the same judge had cancelled the bail of another co-accused because of nonappearance in court.
Nonappearance at a court hearing of an accused on bail without seeking prior permission from the relevant court does automatically lead to cancellation of bail. Given the track record of the judiciary, the prompt public conclusion that the establishment may have "advised" re-arrest of Zardari is understandable; yet in this case the judge went along with what was legally defensible. Interestingly court orders, seeking Zardari's arrest were delivered to the Karachi airport authorities before the PIA plane carrying Zardari took off for Islamabad. Still the orders were not implemented. Instead the one and half hour delay in the flight's take-off, indicates that "higher authorities" must have been consulted on whether the court orders should be implemented. The decision was to allow the plane to take off with Zardari on board. Subsequently in Islamabad Zardari was arrested and taken back to Karachi. His residence was declared a subjail.
However the most telling fact after Zardari's arrest was what the PPP leader Benazir Bhutto said in a CNN interview after her husband's arrest. Bhutto spoke the language of reconciliation. Bhutto acknowledgement improvement in PPP-Gen. Musharraf relations after Zardari's release. Instead of reacting angrily to the arrest the former prime minister still held out an olive said, "We have always offered dialogue as a way to resolve issues with Gen. Musharraf."
Linking reconciliation to Pakistan's ally status in the war on terrorism and the need for internal stability, Benazir was clear that she wanted "to see tension between the regime and popular forces resolved through dialogue." Significantly Benazir did not use this opportunity to criticize Musharraf's public statement that he will continue as president and COAS implying as if she tacitly supported his decision. In fact Benazir categorically stated that prescription for stability in Pakistan was "resolving problems between Gen. Musharraf and the opposition." The political cease-fire, if not peace, between the establishment and the PPP prompted Zardari's swift release. Without some "guidance from above" this would not have happened. In Pakistan, politics has always been above law. In this round, however it seems that law is being used to "work" the ongoing reconciliation.
Meanwhile the Zardari case is getting the attention it deserves. His November release came not because the judiciary suddenly acquired professional integrity to operate beyond the will of the country's political authority. Instead his 8-year-long political imprisonment ended as heavy weights in the establishment and PPP met for candid talks. Only loose understanding on possible areas of cooperation, but no ironclad deal, followed. Whatever the establishment's compulsions, this was a long overdue conciliatory move toward Pakistan's mainstream political parties. Staying the course of reconciliation, the establishment must make additional conciliatory moves toward mainstream political parties. It needs also to unify PML-Q and PML-N.
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President Bush has implemented economic policies that resemble those of the Roman Empire, which forced the baby Jesus into homelessness on the night of his birth, former civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson said in a pre-Christmas rant late Thursday. "In the last [Bush] budget, we cut housing again, and that was Jesus' dilemma. In Bethlehem, his family ended up homeless," Jackson told MSNBC's Campbell Brown. "Rome was a wealthy country that left Jesus and Mary and Joseph, in a sense, homeless," he complained. "He was born an at-risk baby."
Ohfergawdsake. They weren't "homeless," numnutz! The Holiday Inn was full. Are we going to hear this distortion year after year now?
The GOP-bashing Democrat said that while Bush's re-election campaign had been successful in "marketing the language of religious values," the Bush White House isn't practicing what it preaches. Jackson charged that under Bush's policies, the U.S. "appears to be indifferent toward the poor as we seek tax cuts and no-bid contracts for the wealthy; as we engage in wars of choice - driving our nation into isolation."
Obviously we have a little difference in definition here. But I guess Jesse has a hard time discussing morality with a straight face. How's the baby, Rev?
"Today we are celebrating the wealthy and war, not the poor and peace," he contended, while urging the Bush administration to "restore the Lyndon Baines Johnson vision where we wipe out poverty - not wipe out the poor." Let's see, that would make him George Augustus Bush, and Jesse a Nubian slave.
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We don't need blasphomous Jesse to reinterrept the history of Jesus. Bush hasn't done anything but promote safety and harmony, its the left and islamists who want to make us think things like this.
"Xlbfn! It's a UFO!"
The highlights of the first year of the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn can be broken into two chapters: first, the arrival of the Cassini orbiter at Saturn in June, and second, the release of the Huygens probe on Dec. 24, 2004, on a path toward Titan.
The Huygens probe, built and managed by the European Space Agency (ESA), is bolted to Cassini and fed electrical power through an umbilical cable. It has been riding along during the nearly seven-year journey to Saturn largely in a "sleep" mode, awakened every six months for three-hour instrument and engineering checkups. In three days, it will be cut loose from its mother ship and will coast toward Saturn's moon Titan, arriving on Jan. 14, 2005.
"As partners with ESA, one of our obligations was to carry the Huygens probe to Saturn and drop it off at Titan," said Robert T. Mitchell, Cassini program manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "We've done the first part, and on Christmas Eve we will release Huygens and tension-loaded springs will gently push it away from Cassini onto a ballistic free-fall path to Titan."
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LAHORE: The Lahore High Court ruled on Friday that mosques could not be named after personalities or allotted to someone. Justice Abdul Rashid also ordered the Gujranwala's district police officer to reply to a petition by Muhammad Javed of Noshera Virk against the sealing of a mosque. The petitioner said that the mosque had been constructed by people from his school of jurisprudence but a rival sect had influenced the administration and acquired judicial orders to seal the mosque.
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theren go mosque4doo. ima was looker forward to that.
Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, the PML president, on Friday said that it had been decided to restore the religion column in the new passports. "The decision has already been made to restore the religion column. There may be some delay due to technical reasons," he told the journalists after a Christmas Eve party at the PML Secretariat.
"We need religion in everything, especially in our passports! What if we're traveling and we forget what religion we are? Hah? Hah? Riddle me that!"
Ijazul Haq, the religious affairs minister, endorsed the PML president's views saying the religion column would soon be restored in the Machine Readable Passports. To a question, the PML president, rejected that the matter was only raised by the MMA. "This issue concerns all the Muslim, not the MMA alone," he added.
"I mean, any Moose limb can forget what religion he is! We need that reminder!"
In his speech at the occasion, he called for a dialogue among Muslims, Christians and Jews for establishing peace and harmony in the world. He said he had made similar suggestions while recently addressing the students of George Washington University.
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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.
