It's good that somebody determined that there was a need for this...
LONDON (AFP) - The very public problems of US pop singer Britney Spears are rarely out of the headlines, but now her troubles are being put on the stage by one of Britain's leading modern dance companies. "Modern dance" AKA: Performance Art...With a Paycheck.
The Rambert Dance Company have set the 26-year-old's battles to music and dance in an interpretation called "Meltdown" that takes in her hounding by paparazzi photographers and when she shaved off her hair in a tattoo parlour. Also in the works "Fucked Up Like Me: The Lindsey Lohan Story"...
Choreographer Hubert Essakow said that like many people, he became interested with the singer's problems about a year ago and thought it would provide good material for a show. "I thought this was a really modern day tragedy, this reversal of fortune. I saw somebody who had such great hope and was adored by millions of people then goes down the wrong route," he told BBC television Thursday. Kinda like "Sunset Boulevard" but with, like, some hot, young crazy chick instead...
"I thought it would make an interesting story and try to translate this into dance." ...in the interest of making a lotta money sucking in entertaining the rubes patrons of the arts, of course.
In an extract of the show in the broadcaster's report, Britney is seen dancing in a pink crop top, black PVC hotpants and a pink stetson and harassed by photographers in menacing black costumes. She is eventually carried off by dancers dressed as doctors in white coats. THE END...or JUST THE BEGINNING?
Music for the piece is by Richard Thomas, who worked on "Jerry Springer -- The Opera", a musical based on the US television show host. Well...who can argue with success?
The show will be performed Friday as part of the Rambert's new season of choreography at London's Southbank Centre. So get out your sleeping bags, choreography lovers. They'll be lining up around the block for this one...
Britney Spears was taken from her house by ambulance early Thursday, police told The Associated Press.
Oh, the drama of it all.
Again? They're going to name an ambulance after her ...
A Los Angeles police officer, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the matter, said the 26-year-old drama queen pop star was being taken to "get help" but did not give the ambulance's desination.
Likely the nuthouse again. She'll check out as soon as she's sober enough to call a cab. Or her driver.
On Jan. 3, police were called to her Studio City Trailer Park home when she refused to return her two young sons, Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1, to ex-husband Kevin Federline, who has custody. Officers had paramedics haul Spears to a hospital for undisclosed reasons. She was released after a day and a half in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
"Doctor Bob! Have you diagnosed her problem?"
"Oh, sure! She's a dipshit!"
Police also went to the home Monday night after someone reported a swarm of paparazzi trespassing in the singer's gated community. When officers arrived, they didn't see anyone trespassing, police said, but citations were issued for several illegally parked cars.
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Do everyone a favor and drive it off a cliff...
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So where's her friend Paris? She needs help and chemicals support.
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If she doesn't stay institutionalized long enough (several months of intensive therapy and drugs) to get sane enough to get the hell out of hollywierd and her music crowd (including her mom), she will be dead by the time the year ends.
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So I guess that bowing 5 times a day had to do with drinking and not with converting - whew! that was close.
It is my guess that the drug of choice is ecstacy or some form of it. Why do heroin or speed when you can do both in one tiny little pill? Unfortunately there is IMO about a one year hangover for the occasional users and the neverending story for those who choose it as a lifestyle (well there is an ending right Heath? couldn't get any sleep could ya?).
The broadcasts that incited Rwandan ethnic Hutus to commit genocide used dehumanizing language against ethnic Tutsis. According to the state-funded Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, which monitored hate speech before the December 27 national elections, local radio stations in Kenya also aired opinions that used dehumanizing language and obscure references to make negative, sometimes genocidal, comments about other ethnic groups.
On one Kalenjin-language station, some callers said there was a need to for people of the milk to cut grass, which the Kenyan rights group says was a call for ethnic Kalenjins, who are cattle herders, to remove ethnic Kikuyus from traditional Kalenjin homelands in the Rift Valley province. Other Kalenjin callers referred to ethnic Kikuyus living in the Rift Valley as settlers and as a mongoose that came to steal Kalenjin chicken.
Meanwhile, a Luo-language station, which supports ethnic Luo opposition leader Raila Odinga, aired a song that called Kenya's ethnic Kikuyu President Mwai Kibaki and his Kikuyu-dominated Cabinet a leadership of baboons.
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Former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed went on trial for corruption on Wednesday, facing accusations that she extorted 435,000 dollars from a power company owner, officials said.
Sheikh Hasina, leader of the Awami League party, stood in the dock of a special fast-track court alongside her cousin and co-accused, Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim, prosecutor Mohammad Borhanuddin said. The trial opened with power company owner Azam J Chowdhury telling the court that he gave 30 million taka (435,000 dollars) to Sheikh Hasinas cousin in 2000, the prosecutor said. He told the court he was threatened by Selim that if he failed to pay the money, the prime minister would disrupt his power project, Borhanuddin said.
He said that Selim had told him that part of the money would be given to the prime minister. He said after he handed over the money to Selim, he was never disturbed again, the prosecutor added. Sheikh Hasina, 60, has denied the charges, accusing the army-backed emergency government of trying to destroy her political career. Her lawyer, Kamrul Islam, said the power company owner could only identify Selim as the accused, and not the former PM.
Wearing a sari, Hasina smiled regularly during the two hours she stood in the dock, a witness said. The room was packed with dozens of defence lawyers, journalists and security official, lawyers said.
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A top agriculture official warned Thursday that snow battering central China has dealt an "extremely serious" blow to winter crops, raising the likelihood of future shortages driving already surging inflation.
Regions hit by the worst winter storms in 50 years provide the bulk of China's winter fruit and vegetable production. Along with crops, fish and poultry farms have also been hard hit, and much industrial production is at a standstill. Transport delays have already driven up vegetable prices nationwide, with those in the hardest hit areas more than doubling. Wholesalers in Beijing were quoted as saying that only about 20 percent of the usual supplies of fresh vegetables were reaching the city.
Chinese cuisine places an emphasis on fresh produce, much of which is now grown in plastic-sheeted greenhouses that have buckled and collapsed under the snow. I suspect transport delays are more related to the Party's attempts to freeze fuel prices than to the weather.
This year I tried one of those greenhouses in OH, sure enough, it collapsed in the first snowfall. China seems exceptionally unprepared for this winter. They may have to (horrors) eat canned food.
Forget all that trivia about the American election campaign. It's nothing, zilch, compared to the growing crisis that the European Parliament is heroically confronting. We haven't seen anything like it since the French armies went up against the Hun at the Maginot Line. This time, though, free Europe is determined to get it right.
The threat? You knew it was coming: Patio heaters.
Yes, to the relief of all decent men and women, the plague of patio heaters may finally be crushed, buried by the might of a God-fearing Europe. The Times of London reports:
Britains growing café culture and taste for alfresco drinking and dining may be under threat from MEPs who want to ban the patio heater.
A vote in Brussels today is expected to call on the European Commission to abolish the heaters to help to tackle climate change. Such a move could cost the pub and catering trade dear.
Of couse, there are the excuse makers, the same kind of people who defended Hitler:
Experts claim that patio heaters are being singled out unfairly and that their impact on global warming is minimal. Eric Johnson, national expert reviewer for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, said that televisions emitted more carbon dioxide. Using government figures, he said that patio heaters accounted for 22,200 tonnes of CO2, 0.002 per cent of total emissions in Britain.
Probably some heater-industry patsy. Go at it, Europe. It's about time someone put the heater crowd in its place.
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I was thinking about this the other day and it seems to me that it is not about georbal swarming but about population control. Pubs and cafes are traditional/cultural gathering spots for the exchange of ideas among strangers. Blue collars and artists are traditionally smokers.
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You got it. The whole point of socialism is to atomize society so as to make everyone dependent on the state. Anything that allows people to do for themselves and each other has to be banned or turned, and that includes social meeting places.
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Besides, if global warming happens, then people won't need patio heaters.
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REDDIT SCIENCE [paraph]> SUN'S LOW MAGNETIC ACTIVITY PORTEND A NEW ICE AGE? + CLIMATE CHANGE/GLOBAL WARMING CAUSING A SEVERE WESTERN WATER CRISIS + MEN NO LONGER NEEDED FOR SPERM.
MADONNA'S DADDY FEELING COLD, THIRSTY, AND UNLOVED BY MOM???
To kill the MESSIAH/WORLD SAVIOR, etc. > TO KILL LIGHT/LAMP OF GOD'S WORD + WORLD = TO KILL THE SUN???
RUMORMILLNEWS > Poster(s) reporting strange white halos, sky colors.
C2CAM > Recent fireballs associated wid TU24 [fragments]??? SPACE.com Posters > SPace bursts + more space rocks [TU24 frag?]to fly past Earth today; + also July 2008. Also from SPACE.co, > SPACE ROCK MISSES MARS - JUST BARELY + SCIENTISTS DETECT NOVA EXPLOSION
Turkeys top general on Wednesday tacitly reiterated the armys opposition to women wearing the Muslim headscarf at university, a day after the religiously oriented government proposed easing a ban on the attire.
All segments of Turkish society know what the military thinks about the headscarf issue. I do not want to speak on this matter, General Yasar Buyukanit told reporters in his first public comments since the government announced its plans. The army views itself as the guarantor of Turkeys secular order and has often warned of what it says is creeping Islamisation under Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogans religiously oriented government. Turkish secularists, including the army, see the headscarf as a threat to the secular order. But it was not immediately clear whether or how the military might try to stop the planned reform.
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Turkish military officers have wives and daughters who are not probably inclined to be 'fundamentalists'. If momma ain't happy, no one is going to be happy. The PM better remember that.
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The Turkish military is clear... if you think your religion requires you to cover your hair... wear a wig
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Hah JF! Had this image of all devout muslim women and clerics wearing these. Head is covered so big al' can't see their thoughts so should be good, right?
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He's right. This is what the Environazis want. We should slow down the economy to what it was in, say 1850 - before internal combustion engines, air travel, electricity, modern sanitation, modern health care, central heating, air travel, etc.
Of course, many people died before they were 40, it took months to go a few hundred miles, the streets of large cities were covered in horse manure, the stench was unbearable. But that is a small price to pay for saving the planet.
YOU start staying home or taking public transportation, move to a MUCH smaller house, give up jetting around the world with your rich suck-ups buddies. Give up at least half (better, all) of your Secret Service protection and all the "carbon footprint" they entail. YOU give up all your "jobs" and your money and live like the peasants.
Or STFU. Asshole.
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Ground all private aircraft permanently, abolish the Federal Reserve..
And restore the Gold Standard!
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How many times can this man make a total ass of himself in one week?
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Bob Graving9503?
Any relation to Stan Graving9503? I went to high school with him and he missed our reunion.
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"How many times can this man make a total ass of himself in one week?"
Nobody can count that high, Darrell.
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Geeze, I depend on Rantburg for views and stories I don't normally get to see. But this, and the fact that you have bought it...rather surprises me.
The following paragraph was the real Meat of what he was saying:
"But if we did that, you know as well as I do, China and India and Indonesia and Vietnam and Mexico and Brazil and the Ukraine, and all the other countries will never agree to stay poor to save the planet for our grandchildren. The only way we can do this is if we get back in the world's fight against global warming and prove it is good economics that we will create more jobs to build a sustainable economy that saves the planet for our children and grandchildren. It is the only way it will work."
Now you can agree with this or not...but direct misquoting should be a no-no. What Bill actually said was not insane.
After Mining Deal, Financier Donated to Clinton Charity
Late on Sept. 6, 2005, a private plane carrying the Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra touched down in Almaty, a ruggedly picturesque city in southeast Kazakhstan. Several hundred miles to the west a fortune awaited: highly coveted deposits of uranium that could fuel nuclear reactors around the world. And Mr. Giustra was in hot pursuit of an exclusive deal to tap them.
Unlike more established competitors, Mr. Giustra was a newcomer to uranium mining in Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic. But what his fledgling company lacked in experience, it made up for in connections. Accompanying Mr. Giustra on his luxuriously appointed MD-87 jet that day was a former president of the United States, Bill Clinton.
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Ralph Nader has formed a presidential exploratory committee, and said in an interview Wednesday that he will launch another presidential bid if he's convinced he can raise enough money to appear on the vast majority of state ballots this fall.
Nader, who ran as an independent candidate in each of the past three presidential elections, told ABCNews.com that he will run in 2008 if he is convinced over the next month that he would be able to raise $10 million over the course of the campaign and attract enough lawyers willing to work free of charge to get his name on state ballots. Maybe he could raffle off a restored Chevy Corvair as a fundraiser.
Nader said he established an exploratory committee and launched a Web site after Dennis Kucinich, a liberal Ohio congressman, announced his decision to withdraw from the presidential race last week. "When Kucinich threw in the towel, now you have Edwards gone who's going to carry the torch of democratic populism against the relentless domination of powerful corporations of our government?" Nader said. "You can't just brush these issues to the side because the candidates are ignoring them." He's right. There's no candidate left who's representing the Angry Left. Obama's too nice on a personal level to do it, and Hillary represents Hillary and only Hillary. People who seethe continuously, who have "1.20.09" bumper stickers next to the "Buck Fush" bumper sticker next to the "Impeachment NOW!" bumper sticker next to the "Gore/Lieberman 2000" bumper sticker ("Liberman" having been crossed out with a black Sharpie because he's tunred into a DINO!) on the back of their Prius, who roto-tilled the shrubs in front of their house in a fit of rage on November *, 2004 because THE COUNTRY HAS TOO MANY GODDAMN BUSHES AS IT IS! have nowhere to turn now. For the sake of the KKKos KKKiddies and the DUcrats, Ralph, you have to run!
He has harsh words for the leading Democratic candidates, Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama, chastising them for failing to advance aggressive plans to tax corporations more fairly, and to fight for a vastly higher minimum wage.
Obama, he said, is a particular disappointment.
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Nader Says Candidacy as Urgent as Ever
...and probably just as successful.
Those three magic words "federal matching funds" brings them all outta the woodwork...
I don't know if the rototilling ever happened anywhere in real life (but it's a big country, so I wouldn't be surprised). I've seen the Angry Left bumper sticker collection quite a few times, most recently on a Commie-red Prius on today's inbound commute.
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If they did, I surely hope that they planted an alternative means of offsetting their personal carbon dioxide! For shame!
No! I don't believe it. A Clinton associate caught up in a fundraising scandal? That never happens!
Check his hshues ...
One of Hillary Clinton's aides in her campaign for the White House is having a professional complaint against his company considered by the self-regulatory body that governs political consultants in Britain. At a meeting on February 4, the Association of Professional Political Consultants (APPC) will consider the complaint against Morgan Allen Moore, of which the controversial lobbyist and consultant Steve Morgan is chairman. . . .
Steve Morgan has worked for politicians on both sides of the Atlantic over the past decade. He helped on Tony Blair's 1997 election victory and was an international media spokesman for both John Kerry and Al Gore during their fruitless bids for the White House. He told the Sunday Telegraph earlier in January that, among other duties, he was running the Clinton campaign's 'outreach' programme, wooing oversees visitors, including 350,000 in Britain. "There are 6.5 million American expats now that's more than voters than in the state of Masachusetts."
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Oh my god! It appears I've gone back in time overnight!
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Steve Morgan is Morgan Allen Moores Chairman and Director of Public Affairs. He has a strong background in marketing and public relations and has been responsible for grassroots campaigns that have changed legislation in the UK and European Union.
http://www.morganallenmoore.com/default.asp
He has 20 years experience working in and around Westminster. In 1997 his organisational skills were formally utilised by the Labour Party. During the General Election Campaign he was responsible for arranging and co-ordinating a series of nation-wide high profile events for a number of then Shadow Ministers.
In 2000 he was the International Media Co-ordinator for Vice President Al Gore's Presidential Campaign and played a similar role for Senator John Kerry's bid for the US Presidency.
He is a regular contributor to both the BBC and the Independent Media Networks on domestic and political issues. As well as working in the UK, Western Europe and the USA he has taught marketing techniques in Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Slovakia and Romania.
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There is a Clintonista caught up in a scandal. No friggin sh*t. I am atonished. However, I can't get my Atonishment Meter to budge from zero--in fact it is in the negative region of the scale.
HT Weasel Zippers
DENVER, Colorado, Jan. 28 (NBC) -- The mascot for the Democratic National Convention was picked Saturday night at the National Western Stock Show in Denver, Colorado. Denver is the home of this years Democratic National Convention.
Sixteen-year-old Cody Morris' donkey, Shadow, was one of ten donkeys competing for the honor of representing the party. "I believe Shadow is a democrat," Cody said. Most Jackasses are
In the end, a donkey named Mordecai was named the winner. Mordecai is from a farm in Fairplay. Sure it's not named, Hillary?
He will likely make a few appearances at the Democratic National Convention, which starts August 25 at the Pepsi Center. I put up a history of the Jackass-Democrat-Copperhead history on the Coon Lake Beach news page.
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I was on hand at the 1976 Boy Scout Jamboree in PA, as a security guard. One afternoon, I was admiring their current mascot donkey, named "Pedro", who had a small wooden fence pen. It was there that I learned that Pedro had two problems.
Now Pedro's first problem was that, for a donkey, he had short legs. But this was more than made up for by his other problem, his extra large male equipment. So much so, that "at half staff", it was not just possible, but likely, that Pedro would literally, step on it.
And this was all the stimulation that Pedro needed.
I discovered this when, sitting on Pedro's fence, I saw these two local zoftig teenage girls, wearing hot pants and gauzy tank tops, visiting to troll for boys.
Well, the girls decided to tease Pedro about his equipment, making sport of the poor, dumb animal.
Well, Pedro noticed their attentions, and promptly gave them something more to gawk about, exhibiting more than an ordinary amount of his pride. This made them all the more cruel with their taunts, and they drew close to his fence.
And then Pedro stepped on it.
This was all Pedro needed, and so after some tense negotiation, he proceeded in more or less direct fire mode, to make an effort to paint both girls.
They both screamed "Ewwwww!", in an outraged manner, most of which I didn't see because I was laughing so hard that I fell off the fence and bonked my head.
Thomas Nast, a famous political cartoonist, came to the United States with his parents in 1840 when he was six. He first used the jackass in an 1870 Harper's Weekly cartoon to represent the " Copperhead Press" kicking a dead lion,
Symbolizing Lincoln's Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, who had recently died. Nast intended the jackass to represent an anti-war faction with whom he disagreed, but the symbol caught the public's fancy and the cartoonist continued using it to indicate some Democratic editors and newspapers. Our Media today still continues the Jackass Tradition:
The inability of John Edwards to gain traction in his bid for the U.S. Democratic presidential nomination indicates that fighting poverty in America has limited appeal for voters.
Either that, or Edwards has limited appeal, despite the impeccable hair.
Edwards told audiences it was "the issue of my life." But he dropped out of the race on Wednesday because too few responded to his anger at inequality, his heart-rending stories of suffering and his passion about combating corporate greed.
Some of us responded unfavorably to his bitchiness, his overblown rhetoric, and the hypocrisy of a man with a better than half acre house accusing somebody else of "greed." And there's always the fact that some of us prefer to define greed ourselves, rather than having Hair Boy do it for us.
Johnnie thought he could appeal to us the same way he appealed to a jury in a med-mal case: it was just a matter of emoting enough to move us over 'poverty'. The Breck Boy never did figure out that talking to regular people on the campaign trail was a different proposition than talking to twelve people who didn't especially want to be at a trial, which is why he's a one-term ex-senator who'll never get elected to anything ever again.
"These are not issues that generate a lot of votes or poll particularly well," said Mari Culver, wife of Iowa's Democratic Gov. Chet Culver and a tireless campaigner for Edwards in her home state.
Critics called the former senator a hypocrite last summer for getting a $400 haircut and building a large house, but by the end of his campaign many advocates for the poor praised his dedication to the issue.
And lots of the rest of us forgot his existence, only to be reminded of it, albeit briefly, when he dropped out of the race.
Edwards came second in Iowa's caucuses but saw his rivals Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama use some of his best lines, eat into his voting base and weave his issues into larger themes more attractive to Democrats, analysts said.
Thought nobody was responding to his themes? Maybe they only respond if somebody else is pushing them. Maybe the voters don't like him personally.
Nowhere was that clearer than in post-hurricane New Orleans where Edwards launched and ended his campaign, said Louisiana pollster Bernie Pinsonat. The city, devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, was a perfect example of the case that Washington fails to provide economic justice. But even in New Orleans, poverty was not a vote winner because the celebrity of Obama and Clinton made Edwards a third choice even for storm sufferers and voters elsewhere in Louisiana were suspicious of how the city's government used its resources. "His whole campaign was based on a strategy of helping the poor. When Obama got in it was a flawed strategy because in South Carolina and in New Orleans (black) voters were not going to vote for him," said Pinsonat of Southern Media and Opinion.
"His whole campaign was based on a strategy of helping the poor."
So was Mother Theresa's. Guess which one did it better?
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It shows that the 'guilt game' has only so much leg. It is particularly ineffective when the broad expanse of the population sees what constitutes real poverty [not the contrived statistical game] and fundamental casual factors which general go back to human free will. Its why the 'illegal' victimhood game doesn't play well in the general public which sees beyond the poster children and instead spies the daily news of murder, rape, robbery, assaults from the same community that overloads their kids schools and their community health offices.
Ummm not exactly. Edwards hasnt ended his campaign he has suspended his campaign. First, this enables him to retain his whopping 26 delegates. Not really enough to make him a King-maker but chances are he can swap them plus his endorsements for a really cool appointment. Maybe something where he can rub elbows with Bono. More importantly, a suspended campaign allows him to continue to receive federally matching funds. Just so we are clear thats taxpayer money. Do you think, after everything is done, he will donate that dough to the poverty stricken underclass minority homeless folks with no healthcare?
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I suggest that Mr Edwards visit Bangalore, India (the "Silicon Valley of India") to see true poverty. Bangalore is not even the poorest area of India or of the rest of the world, but you will see people living in shacks and tents - right next to rich homes. And there, if you are born poor, chances are very, very good that you will die poor, unlike America where it is possible (not easy, but possible) to work your way up through hard work.
By the way, I am not putting down India. The people I worked with there were great. However, the contrast with America was startling.
The poor people in America complain because they only have 100 channels on their cable TVs. Poor people in other countries wonder "what is this TV thing you speak of? We don't even have running water"
NEW DELHI India's lucrative outsourcing industry struggled Thursday to overcome Internet slowdowns and outages after cuts in two undersea cables sliced the country's bandwidth in half.
The disruption which has hit a swath of users from Egypt to Bangladesh began to affect much of the Middle East on Wednesday, when outages caused a slowdown in traffic on Dubai's stock exchange.
Such large-scale disruptions are rare but not unknown. East Asia suffered nearly two months of outages and slow service after an earthquake damaged undersea cables near Taiwan in December 2006.
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While the market half blew this off, it does relieve a lot of pressure, mostly psychological. However, the long-term trend is that markets tend to be down in non-incumbent Presidential election years, for a multitude of reasons.
It was pointed out that the one thing the government could do that would guarantee that there was no recession, would be to make the Bush tax cuts permanent. But nobody in government is even proposing it, because they desperately want taxes to go up again, on both sides of the aisle.
Some are even suggesting, with NO economics to justify it, that deficit spending must be increased to ward off recession. They truly believe that government controls the economy, and not market forces.
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The housing crisis was long overdue, in SoCal at least. Nobody could afford even a cracker box here but they kept buying them because of low interest rates and exotic, sub-prime mortgages. It has to stop although I wish it wouldn't until I'm ready to sell. You can only pump so much air into a balloon before it pops. Oh well, maybe I'll refi.
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.
Britney Spears was taken from her house by ambulance early Thursday, police told The Associated Press.
Former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed went on trial for corruption on Wednesday, facing accusations that she extorted 435,000 dollars from a power company owner, officials said.
Forget all that trivia about the American election campaign. It's nothing, zilch, compared to the growing crisis that the European Parliament is heroically confronting. We haven't seen anything like it since the French armies went up against the Hun at the Maginot Line. This time, though, free Europe is determined to get it right.
The inability of 
NEW DELHI India's lucrative outsourcing industry struggled Thursday to overcome Internet slowdowns and outages after cuts in two undersea cables sliced the country's bandwidth in half.
