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Ahh, they're all from Canada. It's colder up there; global warming prolly hasn't hit there yet.
Beside, I didn't see one newsman (or Katey Couric, either) on that list, so it don't count!
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Good and bad.
Good: The stupidity that is the left and the green movement can finally have some hole punched into their wall of shame and blame. The public will see what a crock these people are and hopefully start moving to real alternatives to fossil fuels (see not funding the Middle East) and make nuclear power might have a chance.
Bad: The climate will change. Instead of wasting effort on bogus carbon offsets and the like liberal bullshit, we need to look at how we can lessen the impact of local change. ie, grow more heat/drought resistant foods in hotter areas, more water resistant foods in areas getting rain and flood, etc. This way we can make the hurt on ourselves minimal. Unfortunately, I think the backlash from the green bullshit movement will make the public less likely to help a movement like the above.
The climate will change, the only thing we can do is to roll with the punches and adapt.
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I saw another piece of the puzzle yesterday at junkscience.com.
Not only is warming not happening to the extent claimed, its not even happening to the extent increased CO2 should cause. Its a mystery where that warming has gone.
However, it now appears that the CO2 atmospheric level graph that shows steadily increasing levels since 1850 may be wrong and there is a natural cycle to CO2 levels that swamps manmade emissions.
So, human activity isn't driving up temperatures because it isn't driving up CO2 levels (to anything like the extent claimed). Mystery solved.
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Good, now we can concentrate on the real threat - ManBearPig. I'm totally serial.
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This does not mean to argue that societies should NOT invest in recycling technologies or engage in excessive or unecessary waste. Iff mankind learns one thing from God, Nature, or Old Wives' home remedies, its that goodness = ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES OR "CURES" can be found/derived from the bad. GLOBAL WARMING-COOLING > Man must successfully adapt to changes in his normal environment in order to survive. DINOSAURS BECAME FEATHERED BIRDS TO ESCAPE MOSTLY MAMMALIAN PREDATORS, KNUCKLES-CRAWLING GIANT NORTH AMER APES BECAME UPRIGHT TO BECOME "BIGFOOT", CORRECT???
Pirates fired grenade launchers and machine-guns at a cargo ship in the Indian Ocean well off the coast of Somalia, sparking concerns that key shipping routes are threatened, a Malaysia-based maritime watchdog said yesterday. The cargo ship Ibn Younus managed to escape by steering a zig-zag course during an hour-long chase.
Noel Choong, of the International Maritime Bureau's piracy reporting centre in Kuala Lumpur, said piracy was on the rise again in Somalia, with Monday's attack the fifth since April. Three heavily armed men in a speedboat approached the ship and ordered it to stop. "They started firing with machine-guns toward the bridge of the ship," Mr Choong said. "The pirates then opened fire with the grenade launcher and hit the crew's cabins, causing severe damage."
The attack - Somalia's seventh at sea so far this year - occurred 180 miles off the coast, compared to previous raids that took place close to the shoreline. The bureau has advised ships to stay at least 200 miles off Somalia's coast.
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Some African commentators are contin to argue on the Net that Orgs andor Terror groups, supported by RUSSIA andor CHINA, are behind many of the pirate attacks.
(AKI) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said Tuesday he was suing the Palestinian news agency Maan which claimed he had suffered a stroke and was in a coma.
"The Arabs and those who control them are behind this."
"I am ready to sue this news agency so it will not continue to lie," he told reporters in Tripoli. "It should face justice." The Libyan leader then blamed the false reports on the Arab world: "The Arabs and those who control them are behind this." The news agency has apologised for the report - according to which Gaddafi's relatives were all gathering at a hospital in the port city of Benghazi, where he was in a critical condition - blaming the mistake on an unreliable source.
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Well, at least he doesn't like the Arabs (what's he - a Berber?)so he's got that going for him. Also IIRC he has a feud with the Soddies. Plus a nifty blue hat.
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My advice to the Paleos is to hide their assets, heh.
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Think you're right Spot, a Berber, working the Pan-Africa gig now, gonna be big, non-aligned and working with his Sub-Saharan African Brothers to bring progressive values and sustainable insanity to the mother continent.
BNP yesterday formally announced that its chairperson and former prime minister Khaleda Zia along with some of her family members will soon go to Singapore for treatment and will return by the end of the month. The party notified the government officially of the matter through a letter yesterday, seeking permission for the presence of its 15 leaders at the airport to see off the former premier, and urging to ensure security for Khaleda's cantonment residence during her stay abroad.
BNP Joint Secretary General Nazrul Islam Khan handed over the letter to Home Secretary Abdul Karim. The party's Assistant Office Secretary Emran Saleh Prince accompanied Nazrul during the meeting with the home secretary. Both the leaders later met the party's Secretary General Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan in his Gulshan residence in the evening to inform him about their meeting with the home secretary.
The leaders however did not confirm the scheduled date of their chairperson's trip to Singapore, but party sources hinted that Khaleda might leave Dhaka on Thursday. Later at a news briefing Nazrul Islam Khan, also the official spokesperson of the party, said Khaleda Zia, her younger son Arafat Rahman Coco, his wife, and their two daughters will accompany the BNP chairperson to Singapore as she and Coco are ill. "Khaleda Zia is sick and she was visibly very weak on Monday when we met her.........her son Coco is also ill, so she had to cancel her trip to Singapore that night but she will go there soon," the BNP joint secretary general said.
Asked if there will be any acting chairperson in absence of Khaleda Zia, Nazrul said, "There has been no instance of giving such responsibility to anyone in the past."
Meanwhile, the BNP chairperson once again urged her party leaders not to express publicly their personal opinions regarding party matters, as everyone will get a chance to say anything in party forums when the military backed interim government will lift the ban on indoor politics. According to Nazrul, Khaleda Zia also urged the party leaders and activists to stay united and to work for better days. "The BNP chairperson assured that everybody will get the chance to express his or her opinion in party forums because there are opportunities to express any opinion inside BNP as it is a democratic party," Nazrul said.
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She gonna get the tear ducts opened up? Might help the act.
Police spent weeks doing door-to-door investigations to turn a single theft into 542 different cases to bolster crime-fighting targets, a national conference was told yesterday.
The operation began after a child was accused of keeping £700 raised for Comic Relief through sponsorship. PC Simon Reed told the Police Federation’s annual conference that officers were sent to talk to every person who had sponsored the child.
Mr Reed, who is a senior official of the federation, said that the case was dealt with by an English force but he would not go into further details. “This is a real case,” he said. “To bump up the targets they spent two weeks on door-to-door inquiries sending community safety officers to get 542 crimes. Five hundred is better than one.”
The conference debated growing fears that performance targets are distorting traditional policing. But Home Office minister Tony McNulty told the conference: “If there are perversities in the system I want to know about them.” He told delegates that he did not apologise for measuring performance and establishing some targets, but if they were getting in the way of policing then changes must be made.
Today John Reid, the Home Secretary, is due to speak to the conference and will face further questions over claims that officers are being told to make arrests for trivial offences to improve results.
Yesterday Sam Roberts, a sergeant from North Wales, said that in her force officers have to meet monthly targets and get points for their work. She said that an arrest is worth ten points and so is a penalty notice for disorder. Police have complained that the notices, which are regarded by the Home Office as detecting crime, are being widely used for minor offences.
Sgt Roberts said that in the force run by Richard Brunstrom, a controversial chief constable, an officer gets five points docked if they were slow to take statements and penalised another five points if a crime was three months old and not solved.
Another officer told the conference that the performance demands left officers terrified.
PC Sue Larry, from Essex, said that officers were given monthly targets for cautions, arrests or fixed penalty notices. Even trainee constables are expected to reach them or face poor performance reports.
On Monday the federation gave details of a dossier of trivial cases where police had been forced to act rather than use their traditional discretion and warn a miscreant.
The cases included a Cheshire man who was cautioned by police for being “found in possession of an egg with intent to throw”. A child in Kent who removed a slice of cucumber from a tuna mayonnaise sandwich and threw it at another youngster was arrested because the other child’s parents claimed that it was an assault.
Questioned over the dossier yesterday, federation officials admitted that the sandwich case was more serious than they realised. The sandwich filling included egg and the victim was taken ill because they were allergic to it.
Leaders in several forces said that they had not heard of the cases mentioned in their area, but the federation said that they had all come from officers who had responded to a national e-mail message requesting cases in preparation for the conference.
In all there were about 30 cases and those publicised were the most serious, according to Meten Enver, the federation’s senior press officer. “The best I can do is take on good faith that they are accurate,” he said.
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The cases included a Cheshire man who was cautioned by police for being “found in possession of an egg with intent to throw”. A child in Kent who removed a slice of cucumber from a tuna mayonnaise sandwich and threw it at another youngster was arrested because the other child’s parents claimed that it was an assault.
Questioned over the dossier yesterday, federation officials admitted that the sandwich case was more serious than they realised. The sandwich filling included egg and the victim was taken ill because they were allergic to it.
While the foregoing is being presented as a "Breakdown of Law in England", the real enemy is shari'a. At present, few Britons have been able to bring themselves to admit that there is, in fact, an elephant in their nation's front parlour.
From March 29 and a vary dubious source. I wouldn't put any stock in this.
You have to be kidding right? Unfortunately this is really happening!
The Next Magazine, a weekly publication from Hong Kong, reported that infant corpses and fetuses have become the newest supplements for health and beauty in China. Not only is the placenta considered a beauty remedy, but also aborted fetuses are much sought after delicacies. In Guangdong, gourmet body parts are in high demand and can even be purchased through hospitals. The magazine's investigations into this form of cannibalism took them to Liaoning province.
According to The Next Magazine, during a banquet hosted by a Taiwanese businessman, a servant Ms Liu from Liaoning province on the mainland inadvertently revealed the habit of eating infants/fetuses in Liaoning province and her intention to return for the supplement due to health concerns. The Taiwanese women present were horrified.
Ms Liu also disclosed that even though people can afford the human parts there are still waiting lists and those with the right connections get the "highest quality" human parts, which translates to the more mature fetuses. A male fetus is considered the "prime" human part.
At the The Next Magazine's request, Ms Liu personally escorted the reporter to a location where a fetus was being prepared. The reporter observed a woman chopping up a male fetus and making soup from the placenta. During the process, the woman even tried to comfort everyone by saying, "Don't be afraid, this is just the flesh of a higher animal."
The boy's remains were cremated in the mountains in accordance with the customs of the region.
In fact, in China, reports about meals made from infant flesh have surfaced from time to time. A video is on the Internet for people to view. In the introduction, the Chinese claim that eating a human fetus is an art form.
On March 22, 2003, police in Bingyan, Guangxi Province seized 28 female babies smuggled in a truck from Yulin, Guangxi Province going to Houzhou in Anhui Province. The oldest baby was only three months old. The babies were packed three or four to a bag and many of them were near death—none were claimed by their parents.
On the morning of October 9, 2004, a person rifling through the garbage on the outskirts of Jiuquan city in the Suzhou region, found dismembered babies in a dumpster. There were two heads, two torsos, four arms, and six legs. According to the investigation, these corpses were no more than a week old and they had been dismembered after cooking.
Although China has laws that prohibit the eating of human fetus, the regime's forced abortions to ensure the one child policy is strictly adhered to thereby creating many opportunities for these sorts of atrocities to occur.
What would make people do such a thing without any fear of condemnation? Since Mao's Cultural Revolution, a complete lack of morality and respect for human life has become the norm in China. Over time, domination by the Chinese Communist regime has led to inhuman behavior and human rights violations resulting in abnormal practices such as cannibalism.
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Jesus Christ! Which hell of propaganda did this abomination crawl out of?
Yes, I've heard of political cannibalism in China - at the irrational peak of the Cultural Revolution. This, on the other hand, reads like a red-panic fever-dream. Next Magazine, btw, is apparently Hong Kong's answer to the National Enquirer, sort of a mad chimera of Us Weekly, the Weekly World News, Maxim, and Reason.
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Truth can be stranger than fiction. Eating fetuses is probably just urban legend storytelling, but frankly, I wouldn't be all that surprised if some people are doing it. I don't think this is at all out of the question for some Chinese. Abortion is very much an accepted part of life for the Chinese, so it makes sense to me that some would seek a way to make some money off it. And if true, male fetuses would be considered a rarity since it's usually the females that are aborted.
While this example of human immorality and stupidity is the worst if it's true, but there are so many things like this, for instance killing endangered Rhinos and leaving their flesh to rot, in order to make a supposed aphrodisiac from the horn, etc.
So what did actually say? Here is the summary:
In January this year at a dinner of Taiwan business people in Shanghai, the women were gossiping about how to improve one's looks. A Liaoning helper Sister Lau interjected: "In our hometown, the best cosmetological material is placenta. It is better than taking any injection or medicine." Sister Liu recalled the hardship of the Cultural Revolution era: "At the time, we lacked everything. Who can eat meat? When you want to eat meat, you contact the rural midwife to ask for placenta to make soup or dumplings ... when I got married, I was frail and the family elders found a dead baby to make dumplings and soup for me ... Recently, I have stomach pains but they couldn't diagnose the cause at the hospital. So my hometown folks are gathering 'stuff' for me when I return home during the Lunar New year."
Our special correspondent begged Sister Lau to go to witness the occasion. Sister Lau said, "Nowadays everybody has enough money to pay. But the supply is controlled by the hospital and you have to get in line. Fortunately, I have relatives working there and she will put some good stuff aside for me." The good stuff refers to older fetuses which have more flesh; furthermore, males are better stuff than females.
One month later, Sister Lau was told that the merchandise had arrived and frozen in the icebox. So the special correspondent went to Liaoning with Sister Lau and they proceeded to the place of the cook, who is a rural woman experienced in the process. When they got there, the cook took out a small paper box which contained some frozen meat. When the wrapping was removed, a 30cm long baby fetus with eyes closed appeared. The cook then defrosted the fetus under running water while murmuring: "The body is big. It seemed to five or six months old ..." Then she exclaimed: "Oh, it's a boy. It's a boy. That is rare." Sister Lau explained: "We got this because of the hospital contact. Otherwise, you cannot buy this with any amount of money. The mother of this baby is a university student who was forced to abort by the school."
Then the cook used the long knife to carve off slices of flesh from the thighs of the male fetus. "Fetuses have tender flesh ... but there is not much flesh except for the thighs." Then the cook proceeded with the usual method of making dumplings by chopping up the meat and mixing it with chives and ginger. Meanwhile, a soup was being made with the placenta. When the food was presented on the table, Sister Lau quickly grabbed a dumpling, took a bite and then proclaimed: "So tasty!" From outward appearance, the fetus dumpling did not look very different from regular dumplings except the meat was more reddish. She offered the dumplings to the others, but everybody else was so scared that their faces turned white with fear. But the cook pleaded with Sister Lau: "My daughter-in-law has not been feeling well. Can you let her have the rest of the fetus?" Sister Lau did not agree. Instead, she took the remains of the fetus and burned it in the countryside while she offered prayers.
[Blogger's comment: Is this item accurate? I have serious doubts, because I would have heard about this type of thing if the practice was as prevalent as asserted. Nevertheless this item is translated here because it illustrates the different attitudes towards censorship in Hong Kong versus Taiwan. In Taiwan, there has apparently not even been a blink. In Hong Kong, it was classified as Category 3 obscene material. There is no absolute right or wrong about this, because different communities have different standards.]
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Sorry the Epoch Times article didn't come through on the link at comment #3. Here it is:
Prisoners, Aborted Fetuses Sold for Medical Uses in China
First-hand Knowledge Reported by a Reader
A letter from a Reader
Mar 17, 2006
I come from a very famous medical research organization in China. About ten years ago, I became a graduate student. Because of my reserch, I saw with my own eyes that my colleagues participated in these kinds of matters, which are indeed cruel and horrible. For the sake of my friend's safety, I will not disclose the name of the organization.
Some of the research projects in China use humans or human fetuses as specimens. Some researchers consider this to be advanced research at the international level, as it is hard to perform such research in other countries because of the lack of specimens. In China, where do the specimens come from?
Aborted Fetuses
Because of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) birth control policy, every year, hospitals perform induced labor to abort seven to eight month old babies. Some babies are even nearly full term and are alive.
Ten years ago in Beijing, an induced labor fetus sold for only 80 yuan (less than USD $10) to a research institute. One could simply ride a bicycle with an ice pot and take a fetus away. The mother who had just suffered great pain did not know of the transaction or the whereabouts of the child, nor was the family informed. The money obtained became doctors' and nurses' extra income.
More dreadfully, some fetuses that were near full term were still alive after the induced abortion. With my own ears, I heard a colleague say that sometimes one can hear the baby crying in the ice pot. Later, my colleague became pregnant and was unable to continue this kind of research that was required for her thesis. She asked technicians in the department for help.
A doctoral dissertation requires nearly one hundred experiments—just imagine! Sometimes several different projects shared one fetus with each project getting a different organ. In that kind of environment, everyone became numb. At that time, my research involved large mice. What if it had involved humans? I dare not imagine.
We were young and just out of the school. We entered the research institute not yet knowing what it was like to be a mother. Yet we all said in private that we would never get pregnant with a second child; we would never abort a fetus.
Organs from Prisoners Condemned to Death
There were communications between different organizations regarding prisoners condemned to death. Once a prisoner was to be executed, organizations would be notified. I personally heard a colleague talk about going to fetch a body. His experiment required a normal control group.
In other countries, these experiments require a participant's consent, but in China, executed prisoners' organs are taken without consent. If one searches the literature published in China, statements on the source of specimens are usually very vague, but some actually state that the source was a prisoner condemned to death.
When I saw The Epoch Times reports on the CCP's cruelty towards Falun Gong practitioners and the bloody behind-the-scenes selling of Falun Gong practitioners' organs at Sujiatun, I knew the CCP was capable of doing all of that. The CCP is simply inhumane.
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Still interested in ag products from China? A little Soylent Green?
Some argue that China will get ahead of us in stem cell research while George Bush hesitates. But I think Bush is right to worry about this kind of a slippery slope. Maybe the story isn't true but we know the communist government is an abomination so I don't doubt it all that much. When you have no morals, anything goes.
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There were mostly unconfirmed post9-11 reports from varied sources of STARVATION-INDUCED CANNABILISM in certain Chinese rural provinces, for reasons includ the SELLING OF THE [RECENT/NEWLY]DEAD + ABORTED FETUSES [body parts] + YOUNG CHILDREN [slavery-bondage, body parts], FOR FOOD OR $$$ TO BUY FOOD. Bad crop yields, redux in local Party control-expenditures, andor diaspora of many able-bodied, employment-seeking youths [males]to cities or elsewhere leaving the very young, women, and elderly to fend for themselves.
The German presidency of the European Union plans to repackage the stalled EU constitution in two treaties in order to salvage as much as possible of the original document, European Parliament President Hans-Gert Poettering says. Poettering said aspects relating to institutional changes, such as a new EU president and foreign minister, would be detailed in a new fundamental treaty. The part of the original draft dealing with political issues would be treated as an amendment to current EU treaties and could be ratified separately from the fundamental treaty, he said.
The conservative politician said this would enable the substance of the original document to be salvaged, as called for by the European Parliament and the 18 nations that have so far ratified it. The constitution has been on ice since its rejection by Dutch and French voters in 2005.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has promised to present a road map for its revival to a summit of EU leaders in Brussels at the end of June, shortly before Germany's presidency of the EU expires.
Among the contentious points that still need to be resolved is what to do about the section of the original document dealing with a charter of fundamental rights, which is strongly opposed by Britain. One solution under consideration is a separate article referring to fundamental rights, which in theory would not require acceptance by countries opposed its formal inclusion in the treaty.
Forcing this treaty down the throats of unwilling citizens is a most fundamental violation of those citizens' rights.
But this could run into opposition from supporters of the rights charter who consider such a topic belongs to the substance of any new agreement.
Or what I just said.
The issues will be further discussed on Tuesday when envoys of the bloc's 27 states meet to iron out differences. Following the talks, Merkel will confer with various EU leaders before putting the final touches to Germany's proposals. Merkel said Monday that she would look for "a fair way" to resolve outstanding difference that would not place "excessive demands" on EU member countries.
Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, whose country has been sceptical towards the constitution, said after a meeting with his Italian counterpart Romano Prodi in Prague, "We are ready to make compromises, but not compromises on everything." Merkel hopes EU agreement on a timetable for drafting a new treaty would ensure its completion and ratification in time for the last elections to the European Parliament in 2009.
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BRUSSELSJOURNAL > A NEW COMMUNISM FOR THE 21ST CENTURY. MARXISM shares common aspects wid Radical Islamism, plus human civilization as we [West]know it may end in circa 15 years.
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Socialism will be the death of the West. It is unsustainable in any sort of free market. Especially with a declining population. The import of hostile foreigners along with a sagging economy and a shrinking native population does not bode well for the western nations. The EU will be the lid that holds the dying body of the west in its coffin.
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The only thing that'll get the attention of the EU bureaucrats would be a revival of the festive held in the Place de Concorde with them as the featured event.
Jacques Chirac, the French president, has urged the country to remain "united and together" after he hands over to Nicolas Sarkozy, in a televised speech on his last day in office. "United, we have all the advantages, all the strength, all the talent that we need to leave our mark in this new world that is unfolding before us," he said. Chirac leaves the presidency after 12 tedious years in office.
Dominique de Villepin, the prime minister and a man and the cabinet resigned earlier on Tuesday, clearing the way for Sarkozy to nominate a new government later this week. De Villepin will be entereing a nunnery.
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Context: When French army was one of draftees, these frequnetly told one another how many days they had still to serve. For their last say of service (also called liberation day) they chanted "Zero". You could tell the special trains for released draftees by the chants: "Zero, zero, zero".
Today is my last day of Chirac. Much better than my last day in the Army.
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The aggressive nature of the raid, and the speed with which federal officials moved more than half the workers 2,400 miles away to Texas detention facilities, drew criticism both in the United States
from the usual transnational and special interest group suspects
and in Latin America.
from family members expecting their Western Union money transfers.
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And let's remember Article 33 of the Mexican Constitution -
Article 33 - Foreigners are those who do not possess the qualities determined in Article 30. They have the right to the guarantees of Chapter I of the first title of this Constitution, but the Executive of the Union has the exclusive right to expel from the national territory, immediately and without necessity of judicial proceedings, all foreigners whose stay it judges inconvenient. Foreigners may not, in any manner, involve themselves in the political affairs of the country.
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This is tooooo good. So a group of people conducting an illegal activity want a third party to pay them for said illegal work. Or do I have that wrong? FYI if they (the illegals) win this case it will mark the slow and eventual elimination of these types of contractors and a by-product a sharp decline in illegal workers.
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Are we now in the asylum looking out ? The damn judge better shitcan this as soon as it appears on the docket. And I hope he/she breaks into peels of uncontrollable laughter as it gets tossed into the circular file.
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Workers including 361 illegal immigrants were cheated of hundreds of thousands of dollars in overtime pay at a factory at the center of a high-profile raid in Massachusetts, according to a lawsuit filed on Tuesday.
Boo-fucking-hoo. You can't cheat a cheater. They paid their money and took their chanskes. Shipping them all out to Bumfuck, Texas was a brilliant step. Disconnect all of them from any support structure and jurisdictional pro bono legal bottom feeders. These assclowns have no legal rights. Time to make that stick.
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Way I see it let them sue and win teaches the company not to hire illegals, then the federal govt takes the money for fines against the illegals and uses it for border wall. :)
A large cross depicting Christ with his penis hanging out, semen dripping from it into a commode.
A nude woman with a baby attempting to push its way out of her vagina. The caption below the painting reads: "Durga Mata".
These were two of the "works of art" made by Chandra Mohan, a student of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, who was arrested this past week on charges of hurting religious sentiments and posing a threat to public order.
While Mohan's arrest may have been an extreme reaction and his release on bail would be welcomed even by his critics, the sequence of events leading to his becoming the most controversial artist in Gujarat merits attention. Equally noteworthy is how civil rights commandos and sections of the media have described Mohan's "plight" in jail - and labelled it an act of censorship - but have themselves censored references to the content of his art.
The protests against Chandra Mohan's paintings began on May 9, when citizens groups asked him to remove his work from a public exhibition. Contrary to an erroneous impression being created, the paintings were not on display at a private gathering but, rather, at an exposition open to walk-in visitors.
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How brave and daring of such a worldy progessive artist to risk the wrath of Cristians and Hindu's, you don't have to worry about getting your head hacked off or murdered in the street.
I'd like to see you try that shit with the Pedo prophet. Pussy.
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There is an Indian artist (a muslim) called MF Hussain. Almost 90 years old now, his paintings now sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Lately he has been producing works of art featuring naked Hindu goddesses. Naturally he is being defended by the Indian left.
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John Frum: Naked Hindu goddesses are hardly a shock for traditional Indian art. Unless you are somehow in favor of introducing blasphemy laws to protect some dolts notion of propriety regarding goddesses I suspect you do not even believe exist.
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A large cross depicting Christ with his penis hanging out, semen dripping from it into a commode.
NOT ART but the garbage of someone very deranged and that has a serious mental disorder. Infantile--much like the "flasher" who likes to expose himself for shock.
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Naked Hindu goddesses are hardly a shock for traditional Indian art.
True.. but Hussain isn't a traditional artist. Whatever artistic point a modern artist wishes to make could also be done with other deities. So why aren't they?
Why, as a muslim, doesn't he draw the naked Daughters of the Arab Moon God ?
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Because some islamonutjob will come for him and he will end up dead?
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I think it is absurd. If my memory doesn't fail me the Mig 25 was a pure interceptor optimized for fighting a projected (project was cancelled) Mach 2+ American bomber. Her payload was limited, radar was primitive even for a soviet fighter (she relied on land based ones) and her manueverability very poor. In other words when faced with other fighters her pilot would have hgad two choices: try to outrun them or die. And once you put enouugh ordnance for harming a nuclear plant the Mig 25 would no longer be able to outrun his opponents...
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The article clearly states that the authors failed to find any documentation backing their claims, and were relying on postevent & even post-Berlin Wall accounts by alleged participants. Given that I wouldn't trust post-Soviet accounts from Russian sources on historical matters if they told me that the sun was yellow and occasionally warm, I can't imagine why anyone'd expect me to take this sort of historical skylarking without period documentation seriously.
At least the JPost managed to find Michael Oren to dump cold water all over their thesis. Towards the bottom of the inverted pyramid, along with the admissions by the authors of their lack of documentation. Bah.
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...Wow. Where to even BEGIN taking this pile of poo apart?...
First, the Foxbat didn't even get into SOVIET service until 1970, and only then in limited numbers, and for damned good reasons: it initially stunk at doing anything other than going in a straight line, very fast, and then only for a very limited period of time before the engines turned into junk. And how exactly were they going to get them over Dimona without aerial refueling, whhich the early Foxbats at least didn't have? They could have been forward based in Syria or Iraq, but that would have been unlikely at best with an aircraft whose reliablity was at best questionable.
Soviet strategic bomber pilots hitting Dimona - okay, but flying from within the USSR would have led to a Fail-Safe level confrontation, and forward basing them in a Soviet ally would have raised a red flag.
Soviet missile subs offshore? Possible, but as soon as they started moving to launch depth, the USN attack subs that were tracking them would have sunk them.
And a '30 man force' taking down Haifa? Only in a movie.
In short - a really great plot for a thriller, but a lousy operational plan.
Mike
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JFM, the MiG-25 FOXBAT, at least by 1976, had a very sophisticated and effective two channel monopulse radar called FOXFIRE. We got a very good look at it in 1976 after Viktor Belenko landed his MiG-25 in Japan. As you said, it was designed for high altitude intercept of aircraft such as the U-2 and SR-71. The high altitude bomber, the B-70 Valkyrie, never went to production. The shoot down of Francis Gary Powers on May Day 1960 ended the era of high altitude penetration.
The MiG-25 was a pure interceptor. I don't recall any avionics that could have been used to make it into an attack aircraft, let alone a bomber.
I believe this article to be in the best traditions of modern journalism, just made up.
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"The shoot down of Francis Gary Powers on May Day 1960 ended the era of high altitude penetration." Respectfully disagree, RVW. The SR-71 Blackbird family did not limit their flight to only sideways-looking recon; at Mach 3+ and 100K altitude they routinely overflew hostile territory. i will agree that the FGP shootdown ended U2 overflights, but by then the Blackbird was already in work. the original CIA version (A-12) first flew IIRC in 61, and the YF-12 shortly thereafter.
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We got a very good look at it in 1976 after Viktor Belenko landed his MiG-25 in Japan.
Legend has it that American CIA agents had the plane curtained off on the tarmac before Japanese security could even arrive at the scene. Supposedly, Belenko was taken to the United States and shown around some big cities. The story goes that he absolutely refused to believe that such a wealth of food, goods and other products were anything but stage props to convince him to cooperate. The tale closes with Belenko being given a map and told to pick a city at random. A waiting helicopter with rotors turning then took him there at top speed and only then was Belenko convinced that his Russian worker's paradise was a concentration camp by comparison.
However ever Ima can tell you for certain that on arriving at Warsaw Station baby Russians traveling, thought they had arrived in Paris, weirdly enough Baby commies coming from the west thought they were arriving in Moscow.
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Don't remember the helicopter story from reading Belenko's autobiography a long time ago. The first impression he got upon landing in Japan was how extraordinarily clean and well lit everything was compared to his existence in Vladivostok. On the way to the US on a Lear type jet, he couldn't believe it took only 2 crew to operate and handled like a fighter. He was sure more crew were hidden from him. Anyway his transformation from model Soviet to American is an interesting read - Mig Pilot: The Final Escape of Lieutenant Belenko.
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I think I might be mistaken with the Lear jet. It could have been an airliner. Anyway, the point where he broke with Soviet indoctrination was when he visited an aircraft carrier and saw flight operations. He realized that no drugged up conscript force could be forced to do the extremely complicated and dangerous flight ops without horrible accidents.
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No, the Soviets were known back then for using Arab League proxies to SECRETLY [read - CHEAP/LOW BUDGET COST] testbed their new designs in real-time mil operations, from recce to tactical strike or both, although not necessarily in the same formal or follow-on capacity = utility as in [later] Soviet service. It is also true that the Soviets had prior knowledge of the Arab League's looming/pending attack agz Israel, + that the Soviet Mediterranean , Northern, + Black Sea fleets were put on combat alert days prior to the Israeli attack + had sent a number of attack and missle submarines off the coasts of Israel [IRC as many as nine or more] wid orders to attack Israel [and any USA milfors] iff so required by Moscow. Soviet subs for a while locally outnumbered USN-Brit subs sent to track and counter them.
One thing to note is that the USSR didn't have "an Air Force" the way Western countries do. They actually split into three components.
1. Strategic Rocket Forces.
2. VVS This is the closest to a Western style "air force." It is more tactically-oriented and its units are under the command of ground commanders.
3. PVO. This is the air defense organization and includes AAA, SAMs, and interceptor fighters.
The latter two services would order airplanes and very few would be used by the other. So, the MiG-23, say, was for the VVS as an all-around fighter, and I don't think the PVO ever got any. The MiG-25, OTOP, was for the PVO, and thus, for air defense (except a few for recon).
The MiG-25 was a pretty good plane for its role and its time. It would have been useless fighting over Western Europe, but that wasn't its role.
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The face- and fingerprint-matching technology that has been touted over the past decade as a sophisticated new way to stop terrorists and illegal immigrants from entering the country through Mexico has one major drawback: U.S. border inspectors almost never use it. In fact, the necessary equipment is not even installed in vehicle lanes along the border.
Government officials told The Associated Press that checking more people would create too big a backup at the border, where hours-long traffic jams are already common. Some members of Congress who voted for the system in 1996 are complaining they were misled. They said the intent was to use biometrics - or a person's unique physical traits - to screen everyone.
"Congress would not have gone to the trouble of requiring biometric features on the border crossing card if it knew the administration would not require that those features be read by scanners," said Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, who wrote the legislation. The U.S. government has spent tens of millions of dollars issuing visa cards digitally embedded with the holder's photo and fingerprints.
Holders of the cards come across the border tens of millions of times each year. But on average, in only about 2 percent of those cases are the cardholders screened with the biometric technology to verify their identities and check law-enforcement records, said Paul Morris, Customs and Border Protection's executive director of admissibility requirements and migration control. The checks are done consistently only on the small portion of cardholders who seek permission to travel beyond the border region.
"As the technology becomes available, we can expand the current level of biometric matching," Morris said. "There is not a technology solution currently available that will not cause delays that are well beyond the acceptable levels."
Beginning in 1998, the high-tech "laser visas" have been issued to 9.1 million Mexicans for short visits to the United States. The laser visas, which look like driver's licenses, have a 1.4-inch optical memory stripe holding personal information such as name, gender and birth date. The stripe also stores the owner's digitized facial photo and two fingerprints.
Cardholders coming across the border may be asked to press their fingers against a glass and pose for a photo, while their card pulls up their biometric file - a process that takes an extra 30 seconds or so per person. The photo and fingerprints can also be instantly checked against criminal and terrorist watch lists.
The laser visas entitle Mexicans to travel 25 miles from the border - slightly farther in Arizona - for 30 days. Cardholders can also apply for a permit to travel anywhere in the U.S. for up to six months.
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Government officials told The Associated Press that checking more people would create too big a backup at the border, where hours-long traffic jams are already common.
Heaven forbid we slow down those millions of "economic migrants".
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And the windbags like Kennedy et al,scramble to pass more useless paper. $30 million bucks to create these biometric cards and the Homeland Security F**kups just decide they aren't going to bother because the lines are already too long. As a taxpayer, I don't give a shit if it takes a month to get through the line. I want the lines stopped. They aren't doing their jobs and should be fired. The guys doing their jobs in El Paso get thrown in federal prison. Which side of the mirror is this bunch playing on ?
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Pirates fired grenade launchers and machine-guns at a cargo ship in the Indian Ocean well off the coast of Somalia, sparking concerns that key shipping routes are threatened, a Malaysia-based maritime watchdog said yesterday. The cargo ship Ibn Younus managed to escape by steering a zig-zag course during an hour-long chase. 
(AKI) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said Tuesday he was suing the Palestinian news agency Maan which claimed he had suffered a stroke and was in a coma. 
BNP yesterday formally announced that its chairperson and former prime minister Khaleda Zia along with some of her family members will soon go to Singapore for treatment and will return by the end of the month. The party notified the government officially of the matter through a letter yesterday, seeking permission for the presence of its 15 leaders at the airport to see off the former premier, and urging to ensure security for Khaleda's cantonment residence during her stay abroad. 
The German presidency of the European Union plans to repackage the stalled EU constitution in two treaties in order to salvage as much as possible of the original document, European Parliament President Hans-Gert Poettering says. Poettering said aspects relating to institutional changes, such as a new EU president and foreign minister, would be detailed in a new fundamental treaty. The part of the original draft dealing with political issues would be treated as an amendment to current EU treaties and could be ratified separately from the fundamental treaty, he said. 
Jacques Chirac, the French president, has urged the country to remain "united and together" after he hands over to Nicolas Sarkozy, in a televised speech on his last day in office. "United, we have all the advantages, all the strength, all the talent that we need to leave our mark in this new world that is unfolding before us," he said. Chirac leaves the presidency after 12 
