It wasn't clear where Michael Jackson was Wednesday. It was only clear where he wasn't: in a New Orleans courtroom. Jackson's absence at a hearing for a sexual-assault lawsuit might not have been a big deal had his lawyers been present, but they weren't. The judge in the case scheduled an Aug. 17 hearing to give the pop star's camp one more chance to show up or face a judgment without the benefit of a trial.
The once ubiquitous entertainer has been out of the public eye since being acquitted June 13 of all charges in his nearly six-month-long child-molestation trial. A few weeks ago, he was said to be enjoying a royal vacation at a palace in Bahrain.
Rumor has it that he took his kids with him and ain't coming back to the states
Jackson's father, Joe Jackson, told reporters his famed offspring might move to Berlin, and said he hoped the son would join him in the German capital this weekend for his three-day-long birthday celebration. But in a statement Wednesday on the dutiful son's official Website, MJJSource.com, Jackson expressed "sincere regrets" that he would be unable to attend the festivities, also intended to mark his recent courtroom victory. Nonetheless, Jackson, who didn't reveal his current whereabouts, said he wished his father a "very heartfelt," if virtual, "Happy Birthday." Joe Jackson turns 76 next Tuesday; Michael Jackson marks his 47th next month.
They're a very close family, when Jacko's in court
Meanwhile, back in Louisiana, Joseph Thomas Bartucci Jr. is alleging that the then 25-year-old Michael Jackson did very bad things. In a lawsuit filed last November amid the run-up to Jackson's California criminal trial, Bartucci claimed that when he was 18 in 1984 the singer sexually abused him and cut him with a razor blade and a steel wire. Now middle-aged, the New Orleans man says he repressed the assault until a 2003 Court TV special on Jackson's molestation case brought it all back.
Uh huh
Last fall, Jackson's criminal defense attorney Thomas Mesereau Jr. promised the lawsuit would be fully litigated in court. On Wednesday, Jackson family attorney Brian Oxman told the Associated Press he wasn't sure why the singer wasn't represented at the hearing. According to the AP, Jackson is being sued for $50,000 by local New Orleans lawyers who were hired to represent him in the case but apparently were not paid in full.
Being too short of cash to pay the people who keep you out of jail is a bad thing
Bartucci is seeking unspecified damages for a host of ailments he claims were caused by the alleged assault.
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Talk about a race to the bottom.
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I think Mr. Bartucci just repressed his own fantasy which he accidently ingraved in his own super ego by viewing the video for Beat It while under the influece of a controlled substance. I think it is safe to say that MJ has no interest in anyone with pubic hair.
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MENDE, France -- Lance Armstrong easily retained his overall lead after a tricky stage 18 of the Tour de France, won Thursday by Spain's Marcos Serrano.
Armstrong finished in a group with Ivan Basso of Italy, Jan Ullrich of Germany and Cadel Evans of Australia. The six-time champion's lead over Basso, his closest challenger, remained unchanged at 2 minutes and 46 seconds.
The group of four broke away from other riders with a burst of speed during a brutal final ascent.
Mickael Rasmussen is still third, but he was slower up the last climb and finished behind Armstrong's group. He is now 3:46 behind Armstrong.
Ullrich is still fourth, 5:58 behind Armstrong. But by making time back over Rasmussen, the 1997 Tour winner improved his chances of being able to overtake the Dane in the time trial on Saturday, the penultimate day of the three-week race.
Serrano, who surged to the lead at the end of a brutal final climb, was one of 10 riders that broke away from Armstrong's main pack.
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Rassmussen (3rd) is in trouble. He can't do time trials at all like Ullrich (4th at 5:58) and they're only 2:12 apart. Given the length of the TT, Ullrich will make the podium:
Big question: How does the loudmouth handle these protests - note that the banners call for DEMOCRATIZATION. What a novel concept...
Venezuelan university students march protesting a proposed legislation they fear will curtail the autonomy of public universities and reduce budget in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, July 19, 2005. Another shows that Chavez has doen something you dont do in Latin America: piss on the Catholic Church. His usual loudmouthed bullying will not work.
Venezuela's Roman Catholic Church told President Hugo Chavez on Monday he had failed to behave like a head of state by using a state television broadcast to berate a cardinal who called him a dictator. I think 'ol Tubby has bitten off more than he can chew this time. Of course you heard nothign of the large protests the past few days in the MSM. God forbid they show a socialist in bad light.
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should be inside a hilite CSS span set - the preview was broken Fred - the button didn't do anything (Then again, I'm using Firefox on Linux, so that may be one reason). Apparently the opening "<" got munged. But the link off "photo" did work.
Mods: please fix the span tag set (and delete this comment when its fixed) - thanks.
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Well, OS, it's not like the previous rounds of protests actually did anything. He can let the protests happen, and rely on the media up here to not report on them or to misreport them.
(They used to have the pictures up at vcrisis of what looked like the entire population of Caracas performing a protest march).
China's military put its new guided missile destroyers on display last week, disclosing its two new warships that are equipped with Aegis-type battle management systems.
Two new Luyang II guided missile destroyers are part of China's naval builduup.
The two Luyang II guided missile destroyers are Beijing's first Aegis-type ships. The ships are currently undergoing sea trials.
U.S. intelligence officials say China stole the technology for the Aegis battle management system by setting up a front company in the United States that became a subcontractor for the Aegis system manufacturer. We are our own worst enemy.
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reason #1 why China should never be allowed to own assets in our country
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Terrible, terrible. Yellow peril battle fleet ready to do the mizzen mast thing. Granted that the SnapDragoon class is nothing to sneeze at but let's be real, what are the odds of it lasting more than 2 weeks at sea?
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Aegis is essentially a software system. Get hold of the code, figure our what it does and how it works, then write your own. Sounds like what the Chinese are good at. OTOH the USA will know the best way to penetrate an Aegis type system.
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Is one of their ships called the 'Bill Clinton'?
Well, their names are really similar to "low wang"...
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U.S. intelligence officials say China stole the technology for the Aegis battle management system by setting up a front company in the United States that became a subcontractor for the Aegis system manufacturer.
Don't government subcontractors -- especially defense subcontractors -- get investigated thoroughly due to the amount of technology being employed? Seems to me that such a procedure would be a necessary task, and if it already is, whoever failed to do it should be prosecuted to the fullest extent possible.
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The Chinese can't even make a decent AK-47 knockoff, so I'll hold off on cashing in my 401k for a few more hours.
BTW Aegis is more than a software program. It's the SPY-1 radar, the Command and Decision System using the UYK-43/44 computers, and the Weapons control system.
Also, before we go hunting for rogue U.S. companies, remember that Aegis technology is onboard Japanese Kongo-class destoyers and Spanish F-100 frigates and was initially developed in the early 1970s.
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Don't government subcontractors -- especially defense subcontractors -- get investigated thoroughly due to the amount of technology being employed?
Not if they contributed to Clinton's reelection campaign.
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4 bucks says its not anything LIKE an AEGIS defense system, some reporter probably saw the distinctive forecastle shape that looks similar to our Arleigh Burke class destroyers (or even the phased array radar system) and instantly thought "Oooh look its AEGIS in Chinese hands!".
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I wouldn't book a seat on any airliner scheduled to fly within 600NM of their sea trials. It ain't the software that makes the difference; it's the dude sitting at the console.
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When the Chinese launch their "OOTB" (Out Of The Blue [blitzkrieg])warplan against Taiwan, the US will do absolutely nothing but recoil in shock and move to shore Japan up! We just can't get the 'nightmare' senario of LA & Walmart going south!!!
EFL
In a move that could trim the trade gap with the United States, China revalued its currency higher against the dollar Thursday and said it would no longer have the yuan tied to a fixed rate against the dollar.
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The statement said China will immediately value the currency at 8.11 yuan, down 2 percent from the 8.28 rate previously. It also said it will now peg the yuan against a "market basket" of numerous currencies, although it will keep the yuan in a tight band rather than letting it trade freely.
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The Shanghai market isn't freaking out yet, but they may have made the announcement on close. Check this chart later today:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=000001.SS
Other international market indices:
http://finance.yahoo.com/intlindices
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They obviously want to have their cake and eat it to. Pegging the yuan trading to a marketbasket of unknown currancies is a real central planning solution. This isn't much, for now, but the markets may force the Chinese to amend their policy. Look for the possibility of more changes in the next two weeks, as this idiocy fails.
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The chinese were losing a FORTUNE by propping up the dollar. They knew it was getting worse and worse for them the more they did it... this had to be done, as a matter of fact it was already done to late but if they waited longer it could have been a fatal blow to the chinese economy. Expect to see the dollar drop over the coming weeks and the breaks start to slam on the chinese economy (hopefully it won't go into reverse...)
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Not good news for Wal*Mart, though I've seen analyses that say the Chinese cost of products is so low it could increase several times before having an impact at retail.
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Every major government economist in both the US and the EU have been begging the Chinese to do this for at least two years now. Even the Chinese's own gnomes understand entirely that either the Yuan floats of China is going to have an economic crash the likes of which the world has never seen. However, for their part, the Chinese government *have* been duly scared, but scared so much that they want to (maybe not a bad idea), get into the float as incrementally as they can. Right now, internationally, every major player is poised to slam on the brakes if *any* major fluctuation happens, and today's float has been quietly scheduled for six months now. If an when this works and China makes it to full float without disaster (they are still going to have a major downturn, it is unavoidable), world markets are going to jump with glee.
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I had to read several reports before Bloomberg told me what is going to happen - China's central bank will announce the yuan's exchange rate against currencies such as the dollar each day at the close of trading in China.
Sounds like a managed float, rather than a revaluation. MSM reporting on this is particularly dismal. You can either peg against the USD, peg against a basket of currencies, or float (managed or free). You can't do even 2 out of 3, never mind all 3 as some reports imply.
The confusion comes from - if you fix the rate daily, then on a day to day basis you can either keep the rate the same (peg) or let it move in the direction the market wants (float). Its a 'have your cake and eat it solution'. I'll bet at this very moment Soros is figuring out how to get a slice.
The People's Bank of China, China's central bank, announced Thursday that the exchange rate of US dollars to RMB is changed to one dollar to 8.11 yuan from 19:00 Thursday.
Crap, I'm rushing to convert my remaining dollars into RMB, before the bottom drops out.
The following is the full text of the announcement:
Public Annoucnement of the People's Bank of China on Reforming the RMB Exchange Rate Regime
July 21, 2005
With a view to establish and improve the socialist market economic system in China, enable the market to fully play its role in resource allocation as well as to put in place and further strengthen the managed floating exchange rate regime based on market supply and demand, the People's Bank of China, with authorization of the State Council, is hereby making the following announcements regarding reforming the RMB exchange rate regime:
1. Starting from July 21, 2005, China will reform the exchange rate regime by moving into a managed floating exchange rate regime based on market supply and demand with reference to a basket of currencies. RMB will no longer be pegged to the US dollar and the RMB exchange rate regime will be improved with greater flexibility.
2. The People's Bank of China will announce the closing price of a foreign currency such as the US dollar traded against the RMB in the inter-bank foreign exchange market after the closing of the market on each working day, and will make it the central parity for the trading against the RMB on the following working day.
3. The exchange rate of the US dollar against the RMB will be adjusted to 8.11 yuan per US dollar at the time of 19:00 hours of July 21, 2005. The foreign exchange designated banks may since adjust quotations of foreign currencies to their customers.
4. The daily trading price of the US dollar against the RMB in the inter-bank foreign exchange market will continue to be allowed to float within a band of 0.3 percent around the central parity published by the People's Bank of China, while the trading prices of the non-US dollar currencies against the RMB will be allowed to move within a certain band announced by the People's Bank of China.
The People's Bank of China will make adjustment of the RMB exchange rate band when necessary according to market development as well as the economic and financial situation. The RMB exchange rate will be more flexible based on market condition with reference to a basket of currencies.
Note they don't say what these currencies are
The People's Bank of China is responsible for maintaining the RMB exchange rate basically stable at an adaptive and equilibrium level, so as to promote the basic equilibrium of the balance of payments and safeguard macroeconomic and financial stability.
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Be prepared for higher interest rates...
They may be purchasing fewer US Treasuries and more of those of the other countries in their "currency basket".
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STand by for a blip in the interest rates and then back to todays base.
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Darth China: "...This will be a day lonngg remembered, it will see the end of the dollar and the end to hegeminy!! You will pay for your apparent lack of vision!"
IT is clear skies for witches and other followers of the occult in Victoria with the repeal of an antiquated law making witchcraft, sorcery and fortune-telling criminal pursuits. Victorian Attorney-General Rob Hulls has introduced legislation repealing the Vagrancy Act, saying many of the offences had no place in today's multicultural and tolerant society."It is almost 200 years old and is steeped in the language and attitudes of Dickensian England," Mr Hulls said. "Under the Vagrancy Act it is an offence to profess or pretend to tell fortunes or practise witchcraft. "But the times have long since passed when witchcraft and fortune-telling represented a danger to law and order, or a focus for criminal activity."
Other offences included in the legislation â such as escape from lawful custody, obscene exposure, begging and possessing house-breaking implements â will be re-enacted in other legislation. The Vagrancy Act makes it illegal to pretend or profess to tell fortunes or "use any kind of witchcraft sorcery enchantment or conjuration". The law also says anyone who "pretends from his skill or knowledge in any occult or crafty science to discover where or in what manner any goods or chattels stolen or lost may be found shall be guilty of an offence".
The Pagan Awareness Network Inc has welcomed the repeal of the Vagrancy Act which they say is the last law in Australia to outlaw witchcraft.
Gavin Andrew, Victorian co-ordinator for PAN Inc, said his organisation had long argued that the legislation was outdated and discriminated on the basis of religion. "There'll be several thousand pagans in Melbourne celebrating this news under the full moon tonight," he said.
Mr Andrew said the repeal would prevent people who vilified witches and pagans from claiming the Racial and Religious Tolerance Act did not apply because it only protected lawful religions.
SOME pigsare not happy only in mud - some prefer diving blocks and a pool. 'Miss Piggy' tomorrow is set to set a world record for pig diving, when she is expected to dive from a 5m platform at the Royal Darwin Show. Unless it's a bellyflop, Miss Piggy's efforts will earn her a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. "There's no diving record for pigs anywhere," Miss Piggy's owner Tom Vandeleur said today.
"The Guinness Book of (World) Records/I> called me a few weeks ago and wanted to know if I was interested in setting the first one. "It's the distance they're after more than anything. "We're hoping she'll go around about 4m (out from the platform). "She dives pretty well â she's already had a dive this morning. "She loves it. And no matter what happens tomorrow and how far she goes, she'll be the record holder."
Mr Vandeleur, a former pig farmer, switched to performing pigs more than a decade ago. He started racing them around a 35m track, even training them to jump hurdles, before discovering they also liked to swim. "Having bred pigs and seen their antics, I just knew this was something they would be able to do," Mr Vandeleur said. "Pigs are water animals. They love the water, they've got no fear of it. "It's just the height problem they have to overcome." It's taken just a month to train Miss Piggy, who is under no pressure to perform. "She does everything herself â she's not pushed or anything," Mr Vandeleur said. "She goes up the 5m ramp herself, she dives herself. "We've been diving pigs for six years."
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Yes, but you would be wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice if you could make a miniature elephant by cross-breeding it with a pig. But, as they say in that song by Loverboy...
SECRET documents released by the Northern Territory Government reveal a mass of UFO sightings across the Top End, many of them unexplained. The documents - declassified after 30 years under lock and key - detail a history of UFO activity across the Territory by a wide range of 'sighters', including RAAF crews and weather forecasters. The files were classified and only became available to the public from the National Archives in Darwin, after 30 years.
One sighting, by the crew of a RAAF Hercules in Darwin in 1968, also appeared on radar, although no known aircraft was identified in the area at the time. The crew described a series of lights which crossed their take-off path from Darwin airport, with no visible fuselage or structure. RAAF command in Sydney said the contact may have been a foreign aircraft. "The fact the sighting was made by an RAAF aircrew and detected by the aircraft's radar leaves very little doubt ... (that something) was in the area," RAAF command said. "As the aircraft has not been identified, a violation of our national airspace cannot be discounted."
Another of the secret documents, obtained by the Australian UFO Research Association, describes a sighting by a weather bureau forecaster at Daly Waters in November, 1966. The forecaster was tracking a weather balloon with a theodolite when he noticed a flying object in the sky. He reported sighting a metallic-grey, oblong object flying at high altitude. A check with the aircraft control office in Darwin revealed there were no aircraft in the area at the time.
A third file reports the sighting of a saucer-shaped object by a group of nurses in Alice Springs in 1967. The nurses spotted the UFO in the middle of the day and said it was a silver colour with a copper band around the centre.
UFO archivist Dominic McNamara said there were many NT sightings but most were unsubstantiated. "The NT is a hot-spot for sightings particularly because of its remoteness," Mr McNamara said. "But the cases where people actually see substantial objects and can describe them are the ones that stand out." He said tracking down the files was an arduous task because a serial number needed to be quoted to retrieve any file. So he cross-referenced files from related items, eventually narrowing the field to 170 documents.
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You don't think devil pin has a knee jerk reaction to all things American do you? How the fuck are we going to subvert french culture by buying their yogurt? They should forget about yogurt and concentrate on their unsustainable society.
JULY 21--A New York woman claims that she was forced from her teaching post by an elementary school principal who objected to her Republican activism and last year ordered the removal of a portrait of President George W. Bush from the educator's Long Island classroom. In a federal discrimination lawsuit, Jillian Caruso, 26, claims that she was improperly forced to resign her job by Birch Lane Elementary School principal Joyce Becker-Seddio, the wife of state Assemblyman Frank Seddio, a Brooklyn Democrat. In her U.S. District Court complaint, a copy of which you'll find below, Caruso contends that she was retaliated against by Becker-Seddio because of her political work, which has included volunteering at last year's GOP convention and membership in the Republican National Committee. Caruso, who taught first and third graders at Birch Lane, also claims that when the principal spotted the Bush portrait late last year--it was hanging among photos of other U.S. presidents--she "became outraged and insisted that the picture be removed." Caruso, who complied with that order, has named the Massapequa Union Free School District as the sole defendant in her action, which seeks unspecified monetary damages and a reappointment to her prior teaching post. The 'ol "Free Speech for Me, but not for Thee" mantra the left spews....
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I'm sure the teachers union will leap to her aid....
Isn't it pretty much standard procedure to have a picture of the current U.S. Presdent in Public Schools? Who does the principal have instead of GWB? Soros? Ted Kennedy? Mike Al-moore?
SEATTLE - Border and DEA agents, watched construction of an underground tunnel for months, before making arrests yesterday. The smuggling tunnel ran from an abandoned greenhouse on the Canadian side, to an abandoned house near Lynden in northern Washington State. Border Patrol spokesman Joe Guliano tells KOMO News the tunnel could be used for drugs or worse! Worse! Smuggling kittens!?!?!
"For any other purpose the owner of the tunnel would care to make it available for," Guliano says. Officials had been watching the construction for eight months. Why let them finish it?
"When you have something on this scale that requires that type of funding to accomplish you have to wonder who's behind the thing," he says. "To fill the thing with cement when it's half done doesn't answer those questions."
"Plus, we get to clock up a lot of that sweet overtime"
The tunnel is about 150 yards long, four feet wide and four feet tall with concrete reinforcement throughout. This is believed to be the first such tunnel ever found in this part of the country.
They bust a couple of these each year on the Mexican border
Three arrests have been made. Specifics of the case were to be revealed later today.
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Well, it should fit right in with the hundred or so others that were built in the time of prohibition in Florida, just across from Canada, and just about anywhere else people wanted to go to avoid annoying prohibitionists. My how times change.
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Well, it should fit right in with the hundred or so others that were built in the time of prohibition in Florida, just across from Canada, Florida? Goddamn somebody was really ambitous
A classified State Department memorandum central to a federal leak investigation contained information about CIA officer Valerie Plame in a paragraph marked "(S)" for secret, a clear indication that any Bush administration official who read it should have been aware the information was classified, according to current and former government officials. Rest at link.
I have seen secret documents, (but, true, they were not memos!)many years ago. As I recall, parts of dcouments are not marked "S", for secret. Documents are secret. And the word is spelled out, in big bold letters. What BS. Somebody embellishing here? And this is a "document" discussed with a reporter (who did not see it) by the proverbial "unnamed source". Even if is IS a SECRET document, it doesn't mean Valerie's name is or was-once-upon-a-time a secret.
Should be marked "BS", not "Secret". I've been a COMSEC/OPSEC NCO and you never, never have just one line in a document marked secret. Of course, I've never been a State Department weenie, but even they have to follow the same US gov rules.
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The State department has the same thing. If something is secret, the whole document is secret, not just one stupid paragraph...with an S. "Classified" is marked in big, bold, RED letters. This is a hoax, or a fraud.
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How many ways do they want to aproach this before they figure out that he didn't break the law and GW isn't going to do shit about it. Get over it, this is going to go nowhere! Do you honestly think crazy Carl would do anything as stupid as this? If he did, he surely wouldn't leave a paper trail.
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Problem is, this article is on the front page of the Austin TX paper (along with Lance, of course). And, it will be believed here in a blue spot of a red state!
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"Note to reader of this document: avert your eyes from the next four (4) sentences, which are highly secret, in fact, double secret, and must not be read. Skip to the next paragraph"
wotta crock of shit.
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And this is a "document" discussed with a reporter (who did not see it) by the proverbial "unnamed source".
No doubt the source was Lucy Ramirez.
Christ, it's time to start holding journalists to the standards they have for everyone else.
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I'm afraid I have to disagree here. The stuff I've seen (not State Dept or CIA, granted) does indeed have that kind of marking. Yes, every page has SECRET top and bottom, but the individual paragraphs will have a (S) or (U) or (C) next to them.
The WaPo article does say classified State Department memorandum, so that sounds consistent. The whole document is classified, with individual sections marking their level of classification.
But, of course, I haven't seen the actual document.
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Well, in that CIA overseas works hand in glove with foggy bottom, it would figure that somebody at state would know Plame was a spook. However, that being said, in that Washington produces 1x10 to the 50,000th power memoranda in a single day, the odds of *anybody* reading the thing are miniscule. Plus, there is the omnipresent "need to know" thingy, and, come to think of it, how come a CIA operative doesn't even merit a TS? I mean, heck, paper gets classified secret just because it's in the same room as secret paper, literally. Secret is not for diddly. Almost all Army junior NCOs (E-5) have a Secret clearance.
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NPR did a piece on this today, too. While the reporter did make a big fuss about it, a key point was that it was originally some sort of internal memo, and was reprinted for Colin Powell the day after Wilson's New York Times op-ed came out. The reporter emphasized that Powell was on Air Force One that day, as was Karl Rove, so KR could have seen it at the same time as Powell did. The journalistas are really digging deep on this thing.
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Desperation makes for some pretty silly assertions and logical gymnastics. Blind faith is an attribute of all zealots. For example, though the Kool Aid Kids think the Rosemary Woods Oval Office tape erasure episode makes their point about whatever evil Govt conspiracy they're peddling, it clearly makes the point against their treasured apologist bullshit, just as effectively... Bullshit is bullshit and Kool Aid is, apparently, forever.
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And just to state the obvious, the purpose for it is to make sure people know what info must NOT be shared .....
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Question is - was it truly SECRET or was it misclassified?
Plame/Wilson had already had her cover blown by Aldrich Ames, and had been withdrawn to the US to a desk job, out in the open. The only reason that her name may have been classified is inertia and the failure to remove her from the covered section properly. As I originally said, someon is doing some ass-covering at CIA and is using the opportunity to also try to smear the administration.
In my opinion, Its symptomatic of whats rotten at CIA and why Director Goss has so much to do to renew the agency from the rot and politicization of the Clinton years.
HT to Drudge
DEMS TOLD: KEEP TALKING ABOUT ROVE
Thu Jul 21 2005 10:00:07 ET
Less than 15 hours after President Bush announced that John Roberts would be his nominee for the Supreme Court, leading Democrats stood before a bank of television cameras Wednesday and criticized the president.
But their ire had nothing to do with Roberts.
Sen. Barbara Boxer and Rep. Jane Harman assailed the president for failing to punish Karl Rove for his alleged involvement in disclosing the name of a CIA operative.
ROLL CALL reports: "In a set of talking points issued Wednesday morning, the Senate Democratic leadership urged rank-and-file Senators to continue spotlighting Rove's involvement in the leaking of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity. 'A Supreme Court nominee will not distract the country from the growing credibility problem at the White House,' Democrats were told to echo."
Developing...
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Ah, the good 'ol "The more you repeating a lie, the more people will believe it." scheme. Ya know, two other socialists were really good at that too.
They were Hitler and Stalin.
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Now that the nomination is announced, Rove has litle incentive to make more leaks to the press and the story will die until Rove needs to rev it up again or the final report is ready from the special counsel. It astounds me how Rove has played Rope-a-Dope with the donks on this one. They really are that dumb.
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got to keep the children busy making puppets. Looks to me like they can't do squat about the Roberts nomination. The response has been so tepid that you have to wonder why. Maybe because Bush did his homework and the votes are already counted. By keeping the focus on Rove, it won't expose how weak they are.
An interesting thought...not enough people to float Air America. NYT, WAPO, etc are tanking BIG time. The Dhimmi underground and move on .org are getting poor participation from their well organized efforts. I cruised the DU fever swamps and their well organized action teams only got 42 letter to the editors sent through out the US re: Rove. That's pretty damn lame for the money and organization involved. These guys are a sinking ship and they have to know it. Notice how they aren't organizing any marches? Why? Cause no one is showing up and it exposes their weakness. The best they can do these days is to get the organizers and a few nutbags and set the camera angle to make it look like their are more than 15 showing up. Only the publically funded NPR, BBC and trust funds can manage to keep their dinosaur ideology on the air.
Nobody is listening anymore. And those that are listening are starting to be embarrassed and hold their tounges. Their ship is sinking fast...expect the rat evacuation to commence soon.
DILLSBURG - The producer of a documentary that slammed Sen. John Kerry's Vietnam War record and may have helped cost him the presidency is asking for donations to defend himself against a lawsuit that arose from that film. Carroll Twp. resident Carlton Sherwood, principal of Red, White & Blue Productions in Harrisburg, was sued in October by Kenneth J. Campbell, now a professor at the University of Delaware, who claims the film falsely calls him a fraud and a liar. In the suit, Campbell said "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal" combines footage of him at a 1971 war protest with narration that claims that many of those at the event who said they were veterans were found to be frauds who never fought or served. "It paints me as having been a fabricator, a fraud and a liar," Campbell said in his suit.
I think the key word is 'many'.
Campbell received a Purple Heart and eight other medals, ribbons and decorations for his service in Vietnam. Campbell was contacted for this story, but referred all questions to his attorney, who did not respond to requests for comment. Sherwood, who has called the suit "baseless" and "an unfounded, groundless legal ploy ... to prevent Americans from hearing the story of America's Vietnam POWs and John Kerry's role in their prolonged captivity," e-mailed a plea for donations Friday. Sherwood served in Vietnam as a Marine and received three Purple Hearts.
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So he's suing Carroll because he (Campbell) laid down with dogs and woke up with fleas?
Seems to m Campbell should be honored for his service to his country -- but that does not excuse for his actions afterwards.
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I love how the story says a purple heart, and OTHER ribbons. Which ones? The Army Achivement medel, national defence ribbon? If there are actual awards for valor, they are almost always noted first. Sounds like he showed up, did some administrative stuff, was awarded the "I forgot to duck" medal (as we called the purple heart in the 101st) and went home.
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This is rivaling the Rove-Plame story as the biggest NON-story right now in my book. You sue almost a year later? And "true" soldiers usually don't brag about their awards, they just go about living life and drinking coffee down at the VFW. When did our troops become so "sensitive" at an observation that didn't apply to him specifically?
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LOL I like CFs comment about fleas. Why isn't Campbell suing those posers at the rally? Can't see this going too far in the courts unless you have a real KoolAid drinking judge.
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"Purple Heart and eight other medals, ribbons and decorations for his service in Vietnam."
I've heard that if you were stationed in Germany you would get a Europe, German and Atlantic ribbon. Is that true, and if so what ribbons would someone stationed in Vietnam get automatically?
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rjschwarz, here is a link to the official website listing all ribbons. There are a lot of "Thanks for coming, here's your medal" awards you get for just being in a particular theater of operations during a certain period of time. If you have been in long enough and moved around a lot, you can collect a chest full of ribbons that don't mean a damm thing other than you didn't get caught screwing off. Got a bunch of them, myself.
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Ah yes the "I was there" medals coveted by all we were there. The guys an idiot.
UNITED NATIONS: UN relief coordinator Jan Egeland on Tuesday appealed for millions of dollars in aid from donors to tackle an âacute humanitarian crisisâ in the west African state of Niger where 2.5 million people, including 800,000 children, are facing famine. âWe are having now an acute humanitarian crisis in Niger in which children are dying as we speak,â he told reporters here. He said no statistics were available on the number of deaths so far but noted that 150,000 of the 800,000 children affected were suffering from acute malnutrition and were likely to die soon if untreated. âWe could have prevented this and the world community didnât,â Egeland, the UN undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs, said.
Probably we could have prevented it. No doubt we could have prevented lots of other self-inflicted tragedies just like it. We didn't, because it was the responsibility of the Niger government to deal with it. They're not a colony anymore. And if they discovered they weren't capable of dealing with it, they had the responsibility to ask for assistance before the problem got out of hand. Instead, they clutch their Islamic honor and dignity and make faces at the infidels. I'm still trying to figure out how they're better off now than they were when they were a colony, even a French colony...
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UN relief coordinator Jan Egeland on Tuesday appealed for millions of dollars in aid from donors to tackle an âacute humanitarian crisisâ
Tough Sh*t. Like when in human history there wasn't a 'crisis' somewhere? Go sell your guilt trip elsewhere. Do you understand the concept that liberals/lefties only want to LOOK like their doing something, but really don't want to solve the problems. Let's play the lefty game of 'root causes'. Let's solve the 'root cause' here. Maybe you can just turn to the French ambassador and request the French Metropolitan division of Child Protective Services go in and take over from adults who will not/can not get their sh*t together. If you're unwilling to do that, just STFU.
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IT is clear skies for witches and other followers of the occult in Victoria with the repeal of an antiquated law making witchcraft, sorcery and fortune-telling criminal pursuits. Victorian Attorney-General Rob Hulls has introduced legislation repealing the Vagrancy Act, saying many of the offences had no place in today's multicultural and tolerant society."It is almost 200 years old and is steeped in the language and attitudes of Dickensian England," Mr Hulls said. "Under the Vagrancy Act it is an offence to profess or pretend to tell fortunes or practise witchcraft. "But the times have long since passed when witchcraft and fortune-telling represented a danger to law and order, or a focus for criminal activity."
SOME pigsare not happy only in mud - some prefer diving blocks and a pool. 'Miss Piggy' tomorrow is set to set a world record for pig diving, when she is expected to dive from a 5m platform at the Royal Darwin Show. Unless it's a bellyflop, Miss Piggy's efforts will earn her a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. "There's no diving record for pigs anywhere," Miss Piggy's owner Tom Vandeleur said today.
SECRET documents released by the Northern Territory Government reveal a mass of UFO sightings across the Top End, many of them unexplained. The documents - declassified after 30 years under lock and key - detail a history of UFO activity across the Territory by a wide range of 'sighters', including RAAF crews and weather forecasters. The files were classified and only became available to the public from the National Archives in Darwin, after 30 years. 
DILLSBURG - The producer of a documentary that slammed Sen. John Kerry's Vietnam War record and may have helped cost him the presidency is asking for donations to defend himself against a lawsuit that arose from that film. Carroll Twp. resident Carlton Sherwood, principal of Red, White & Blue Productions in Harrisburg, was sued in October by Kenneth J. Campbell, now a professor at the University of Delaware, who claims the film falsely calls him a fraud and a liar. In the suit, Campbell said "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal" combines footage of him at a 1971 war protest with narration that claims that many of those at the event who said they were veterans were found to be frauds who never fought or served. "It paints me as having been a fabricator, a fraud and a liar," Campbell said in his suit.
UNITED NATIONS: UN relief coordinator Jan Egeland on Tuesday appealed for millions of dollars in aid from donors to tackle an âacute humanitarian crisisâ in the west African state of Niger where 2.5 million people, including 800,000 children, are facing famine. âWe are having now an acute humanitarian crisis in Niger in which children are dying as we speak,â he told reporters here. He said no statistics were available on the number of deaths so far but noted that 150,000 of the 800,000 children affected were suffering from acute malnutrition and were likely to die soon if untreated. âWe could have prevented this and the world community didnât,â Egeland, the UN undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs, said. 
