A US Marine was arrested today at Logan International Airport after federal airport screeners discovered a gun, bomb-making materials, and ammunition in his checked baggage, State Police and Transportation Security Administration officials said.
Corporal Justin Reed, 22, of Jacksonville, N.C., was booked on US Airways Flight 877 to Charlotte, N.C., said TSA spokeswoman Ann Davis. She said Reed had arrived on a flight from Las Vegas this morning.
TSA screeners in Terminal B called State Police at 7:10 a.m. after a screen discovered the following items in his checked baggage: a locked handgun box containing a semi-automatic handgun, a fully loaded gun magazine, several boxes of 9 mm and 7.62 mm ammunition, three model rocket engines containing an explosive mixture, military pull-type fuses, switches, electronics kit boxes with various components, and a hand grenade fuse assembly with detonator.
Reed was charged with possession of an infernal machine and possession of a concealed weapon in a secure area of an airport. He was booked at the State Police barracks at Logan and held in lieu of $50,000 bail. He will be arraigned at East Boston Municipal Court on Tuesday.
Davis said it is legal to have a firearm in checked baggage but that it must be declared to security officials. The passenger in this case had not declared the weapon, she said. Davis said all checked baggage on domestic flights is required to be screened by TSA on originating flights.
Reed's bags had to be screened again at Logan because baggage handlers inadvertently routed them to baggage claim instead of onto his connecting flight to Charlotte. Typically bags are not rescreened during a layover, she said.
Davis said TSA was "actively investigating" why the gun and explosive materials were not detected during the screening in Las Vegas.
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For the purposes of this section, the term infernal machine shall mean any device for endangering life or doing unusual damage to property, or both, by fire or explosion, whether or not contrived to ignite or explode automatically.
A Tempe woman was arrested Tuesday after police said she was pushing her grandchild across the street in a stroller while intoxicated.
Police said Fannie Jumbo, 61, was crossing Apache Boulevard at Oak Street, with her infant grandchild in a stroller. Jumbo appeared to be under the influence of intoxicating liquor, the police report said.
Witnesses said Jumbo had fallen on different occasions while pushing the stroller due to her intoxicated state. Jumbo was transported to the Tempe city jail and could face charges of endangerment.
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This makes me a little bit uncomfortable. While Granny shouldn't be PWI (pushing while intoxicated), was Johnny better off at home with her and not strapped into a stroller? Next social service workers will be conducting Saturday night raids into homes to rescue the kids as their parents knock down one too many beers.
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Sorry GT, NM banned drive-throughs a couple of years back, after much opposition from the liquor lobby. One now has to stumble out of one's car to pick up more drink before getting on one's way to butchering another family in their car. Google 'Dana Pabst'.
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North Carolina has the 'Brew-Thru' at any number of locations. Drive in much as if you were getting your oil changed, and they'll load your car with the beverages of choice.
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Sorry, a teetotaler myself, I was going off memory and not google. Did any other alcohol-festooned drive thrus get left off my list?
That is a tragic story about the Arissa family. I despise drunks.
A Phoenix Police Officer opened fire on man Saturday night when police responded in West Phoenix. Phoenix police were still searching for suspects Saturday following a home invasion in the 4200 block of 35th avenue according to Sgt. Andy Hill.
Police arrested three men with one sent to the hospital with a gunshot wound. Details were not yet available about the conformation on the man and Phoenix officer. Hill said the suspects were armed.
The home invasion occurred at about 9:45 p.m. Saturday night. Hill said between three to six men entered an apartment and multiple victims were involved. Police had set up a perimeter and were canvassing the area.
Arturo Lopez was talking with a group of friends and family when three of the suspects came running through. "They just ran right through us and the cops ran through us," said Lopez, 18, of Goodyear. The suspects then took off their shoes and threw them so they could run faster Lopez said.
Then he heard shots.
Lopez was visiting his mother and brothers in the apartment complex on Saturday night. He said shootings in the area are common and he is trying to get his family to move. "I feel terrible about it," Lopez said. "I feel bad about my mom living here."
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Not Americans then. Most of us haven't been barefoot (especially in natural terrain) since we were kids (and then not much). We couldn't run 40 feet on natural ground without injury.
Haven't I read that back in the olden days (and still today in many countries), when people used to wear overhelmingly flip-flop sandals and wooden shoes, first thing you'd do when running away in abject fear like the coward you are was to kick off your shoes in order to actually be able to RUN, and then race straight ahead barefeet without even daring to look behind, screaming and weeping in terror, snot blowing out of your nose, and bowels ready to let themselves go. Thoses were the days. The 6-days war egytpians were just being old-fashioned, that's all.
COLUMBIANA, Ala. -- Five men dead in an apartment. In a county that might see five homicides in an entire year, the call over the sheriff's radio revealed little about what awaited law enforcement at a sprawling apartment complex.
A type of crime, and criminal, once foreign to this landscape of blooming dogwoods had arrived in Shelby County. Sheriff Chris Curry felt it even before he laid eyes on the grisly scene. He called the state. The FBI. The DEA. Anyone he could think of.
"I don't know what I've got," he warned them. "But I'm gonna need help."
The five dead men lay scattered about the living room of one apartment in a complex of hundreds. Some of the men showed signs of torture: Burns seared into their earlobes revealed where modified jumper cables had been clamped as an improvised electrocution device. Adhesive from duct tape used to bind the victims still clung to wrists and faces, from mouths to noses. As a final touch, throats were slashed open, post-mortem.
It didn't take long for Curry and federal agents to piece together clues: A murder scene, clean save for the crimson-turned-brown stains now spotting the carpet. Just a couple of mattresses tossed on the floor. It was a typical stash house.
But the cut throats? Some sort of ghastly warning.
Curry would soon find this was a retaliation hit over drug money with ties to Mexico's notorious Gulf Cartel.
Curry also found out firsthand what federal drug enforcement agents have long understood. The drug war, with the savagery it brings, knows no bounds. It had landed in his back yard, in the foothills of the Appalachians, in Alabama's wealthiest county, around the corner from The Home Depot.
One thousand, twenty-four miles from the Mexico border. Rest at the link.
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Cherelet and Tenille1095, it's in the same County as Birmingham. Central Alabama, and it used to be fairly isolated with onle a 2-lane road in and out. I haven't been there in 30 years so I guess things have changed quite a bit.
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Sorry, Columbiana is in Shelby County, not Jefferson County. I don't know why the story calls Shelby County Alabama's wealthiest.
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Someone stiffed the cartels or they are getting rid of the competition.
There is no interest by either party in trying to control illegal immigration across the Mexican-USA border so long as there are millions of potential voters for whichever party manages to wave the magic wand and make these illegals legal. If you don't control the border, you don't control the flow of drugs from these cartels into the US. Maybe I'm just feeling cynical this morning.
We spend billions every year on the war on drugs. We spend additional billions to get drug users and dealers off the streets and into prison. Drug use also costs untold amounts in wasted lives, human misery, and increased crime. The war on drugs has been going on for some 30 years. Governmental budgets increase each year. The problem is still with us after 30 years with no evidence of abatement. Damn, this whole thing is like Sisyphus pushing the rock up the mountain throughout eternity.
It doesn't seem like government is interested in solving illegal immigration problems or drug problems.
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Sad too say besoeker but i see this coming staright too the ATL since we are a straight beltway for all this crao too spread up the east coast. I was coming through Phenix , Eufalla , Dolthan AL from Panama City last week and just by looking at the cars in these shit hole cities you can tell the local economy is not supporting the 24's and the Escalades the locals are driving.
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Ditto Whitetail. I seldom venture north of the Hartsfield Airport and never, I say again never ride the MARTA (Moving Albanians Rapidly Through Atlanta).
Mind the left-lane Escalades on I-85. They've taken recommended speeds on the Bundesautobahn to an entirely new level. Isn't it ironic that the Dwight D. Eisenhower "National Defense Highway Sytem" is turning out to be the capillary and network of our nation's undoing.
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I share your worry Besoeker, I think people may be finally getting most fed up about this, hopefully.
I just learned my fave local diner here, one of many, their ENTIRE kitchen staff are entirely illegal immigrants.
With the current unemployment crisis, those workers are thieves. Americans deserve jobs back.
Im just not sure, am I hurting or helping our economy if I report them? I dont want to put a small business at risk, but at the same time, that business has no business flagrantly ignoring the rule of law. Whats a girl to do?
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Yes, I wont hesitate to place that call Monday morning. They did incur that 'risk' when they broke the law. Leaving behind good business practices to drive up a profit margin at the expense of everything else is not acceptable. It wasn't acceptable on Wall Street, and its not acceptable at the 2 star diner either. Many Americans sit idly by watching this go on all around small towns, USA, every day.
When people drive down a street and see an entire landscaping crew that is Mexican with an American Foreman, do they actually think all those guys have papers? Maybe sometimes, but not likely. Selective ignorance truly has gotten the best of the good ole USA.
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We spend billions every year on the war on drugs. We spend additional billions to get drug users and dealers off the streets and into prison.
I have come to the conclusion that we will not solve the drug trafficking problem without an expedited death penalty (1 year from sentencing and appeals to execution) for drug dealers. The problem is this - between culture is so saturated with drug use (high school, college, Hollywood - heck, Palin's in-laws dealing drugs) that something like this would never be passed into law. NAMBLA's manifesto has a better chance of getting passed than a drug dealer death penalty. And so the problem will fester on.
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The problem is this - between the culture is so saturated with drug use (high school, college, Hollywood - heck, Palin's in-laws dealing drugs) that something like this would never be passed into law.
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hey besoeker, i know ATL is known for road work, but look i think it started before Lagrange and was damn nerar doowntown before it ended, i'm not used too the traffic out there in that thar big city, i'm gonna tell ya I was scared too stop and use the bathroom until I got too the Braselton exit from Phenix AL.
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I have come to the opposite conclusion about the drug market allocation problem. We will not solve it until we deal with supply, by legalizing it, or demand, by making use a mandatory felony, imprisonment crime for even one see of pot. The dealers are simply capitalists meeting market demand in spite of government attempts to monopolize the market.
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Barbara, are you trying to get me killed?:-)Ofcourse, I left out earlier that I most definitely wont tell them why I stop eating there.
The day the kitchenaids say hello to my leetle friends the cops, they wont know why I stopped eating there, or why they suddenly come under investigation. All can behold the power of the anonymous tip off.
I would urge anyone reporting illegal immigration to err on the side of discretion. A lot of these "KitchenAids" have gangster druggie pals by the dozen. But ofcourse, Im not divulging any big secrets here.
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Not particularly, GT. If you think they'll connect your telling them why you won't eat there anymore and an ICE raid, don't say anything to them.
If, on the other hand, you can get several of your friends to do the same thing at about the same time as you, they wouldn't have any reason to specifically connect you to the raid.
You live there - you decide.
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the United States already incarcerates more ppl than any other country that gives official records, if you locked up everyone for "one seed of pot"3/4 the country would be in jail on some charge. Why is everyone so big on talking about pot when you don't see too many pot heads robbing the local quickie marts at gunpoint. Also these cartels aren't doing all this killing over some weed, go after the big meth labs and such if you are gonna do any damage too them at all, more than likely most the pot that is smuggled into the US now is coming from north of the border or grown locally
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The data show that, judged by virtually every metric, the Portuguese decriminalization framework has been a resounding success. Within this success lie self-evident lessons that should guide drug policy debates around the world.
Honest. That's the original headline, from the site.
[Bangla Daily Star] Life was returning to normal in the coastal districts and the Chittagong and Mongla ports and Chittagong airport resumed operation as the weakened cyclone Bijli turned into a land depression yesterday morning.
Bijli hit Chittagong-Cox's Bazar coast at around 7:30pm Friday, weakened gradually with rainfalls and fizzled out yesterday morning as it entered Rangamati.
Though there were no major casualties or damages, five people were killed during the cyclone in Cox's Bazar, Chittagong and Noakhali Friday night, while 12 people were injured, said Deputy Secretary for Food and Disaster Management Sultanul Islam at a press briefing yesterday.
As much as 1,200 hectares of standing boro crops and houses were damaged and thousands of trees uprooted in strong wind, Islam added.
The almost 24-hour power snap caused due to damages to power transmission lines in Bandarban was repaired yesterday evening. People who took shelters in the cyclone centres began returning home.
Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) Secretary Syed Farhaduddin Ahmed said, "All the vessels that were sent to safe points at the outer anchorage are being brought to the jetties."
No damage was marked at the port, he added.
About 6,000 fishing trawlers returned safely from the sea before the cyclone hit the coast, said Mujibur Rahman, president of Cox's Bazar Boat Owners Association, reports A Correspondent in Cox's Bazar.
Deputy Commissioner Monzur Alam Bhuiyan said about 3 lakh people were evacuated from the coast and taken to 534 shelter centres. More than 4,000 volunteers and 107 medical teams were on hand to face the disaster, the DC added.
Those who took shelter in different cyclone centres started returning home Friday midnight.
Abdur Rahim, 8, son of Abdul Monaf of Pekua upazila, died when a tree fell on him, while the two-year-old child of Amir Hossain of Char Para died in a stampede in Kasturaghat cyclone centre in Cox's Bazar at 9:30pm Friday. Seven women and children were also injured in the stampede.
More than 50 people were injured as trees and thatched houses fell on them. Sources say over 500 thatched houses and 1,500 betel leaf plantations were destroyed, while boro crops on about 20 acres of land and salt production in about 70,000 acres of land in the district remained suspended due to rainfall.
People in the coastal areas of Chittagong heaved a sigh of relief as Bijli caused no casualty and big damage of property, writes our Staff Correspondent in Chittagong.
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LA PAZ, Bolivia -- Bolivian officials were investigating Friday who financed a plot to assassinate President Evo Morales and what an international group of alleged mercenaries - including two fighters from the Balkan wars - were doing in Bolivia.
Among three men killed and two arrested in a dramatic police shootout in the opposition bastion of Santa Cruz, at least two suspects fought for Croatian independence, according to government officials.
Bolivian police closed in on the group Thursday in the eastern city, sparking a dramatic gun battle as the suspects fled to a downtown hotel and blew out its windows with a grenade.
Police commander General Victor Hugo Escobar identified the dead ringleader of the band as 49-year-old Eduardo Rosza Flores, son of a Hungarian father and Bolivian mother.
Rosza commanded a brigade in the Balkans after arriving there as a war correspondent in 1991, according this his personal Web blog.
The firefight with police also killed Magyarosi Arpak, a Romanian sniper, and Michel Martin Dwyer, an Irish expert in martial arts and weapons, the police commander said.
Police arrested Mario Francisco Tadik Astorga, 58, a Bolivian-Croatian who also fought in the Balkans, and Elot Toazo, a Hungarian computer science expert.
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Sounds to me like a group of hired mercenaries, who were then ratted on. Someone, somewhere, is going to be just a tad perterbed. Evo needs to watch his back every minute from now on...
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This was covered about four days ago. According to reports, the group was already being tracked. The police didn't move in until the group bombed a bishop's house.
[Jakarta Post] South Korean prosecutors will question former President Roh Moo-hyun about whether he received millions of dollars from a businessman while in office, news reports said Saturday.
Prosecutors questioned Roh's wife, son and a relative last week on suspicion they accepted $6 million from businessman Park Yeon-cha, head of a local shoe manufacturer, while Roh served as president in 2003-2008.
Yonhap news agency reported Saturday that prosecutors will summon and question Roh for the first time next week. Prosecutors suspect the $6 million was eventually given to the former president, it said, without citing any sources.
Cable news network YTN reported that prosecutors would likely summon Roh on Thursday and Friday, citing an unnamed prosecution official.
The Supreme Prosecutors' Office in Seoul was not available for comment.
Earlier this month, Roh admitted that his wife received $1 million from Park in 2007 but suggested it was not a bribe. He also said he was aware that Park separately gave $5 million to his brother's son-in-law in early 208 to help establish an investment firm based in the British Virgin Islands, a tax haven. Roh said he believed the $5 million transaction was an investment.
Media reports have said Roh's only son - Roh Gun-ho - is a major shareholder in the investment firm and was allegedly involved in getting the $5 millin from Park. They said he also allegedly used some of the $1 million for living expenses in the United States.
The bribery scandal is a major blow for the ex-president, a former human rights lawyer and liberal politician who took office in 2003 as a reformist with a clean image. He stepped down as president early last year.
Several of his former aides and associates have also been investigated on suspicion of taking illicit money from Park, who has been detained since being indicted in December on separate bribery and tax evasion charges.
Roh's elder brother was indicted in December on charges of acceptng money to help a securities firm sell assets to a state-supervised bank.
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"The current recession is likely to be unusually long and severe and the recovery sluggish," the IMF said in releasing two chapters from its twice-yearly World Economic Outlook (WEO).
The fund offered no timeline for a recovery from the first global recession in six decades.
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RENSE > CLIMATE REFUGEES SEE RISING SEAS [decade(s)-long transregional migrations in search of new homes]. E.g. TUVALU > NEW ZEALAND, while the Canucks = CANADA are seeing migrants from VANUATU.
* WAFF > TURKEY TO BE SUPERPOWER BY 2050 [1 of 4]; + SLATE - RUSSIA COULD'VE HAD WON THE COLD WAR IFF IT HAD ACCEPTED A STRANGE BUT DEADLY IDEA [Nikita Kruschev's proposed maritime-based DOOMSDAY MACHINE = "PLANET-KILLER" defense agz US nuclear attack].
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STARS-N-STRIPES Op-Ed > DIVERSITY IS THE NEW PATRIOTISM; + REDDIT > CAPITALISM IS DESTROYING THE WORLD.
Instead of "WOOOLLLVVVERRINES" [Red Dawn], GOOD AMERIKANS OF THE World-conquering OWG USSA = Weak Antisovereign OWG USRoA Global SSR DEMAND "THE BEAR" [NOT that certain movie wid the Bear Cub]???
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Bush administration did not properly study the environmental impact of expanding oil and gas drilling off the Alaska coast and canceled a program to find new reserves.
So much for any notion of finding new energy at home. That just died.
A three-judge panel in Washington found that the Bush-era Interior Department failed to consider the effect on the environment and marine life before it began the process in August 2005 to expand an oil and gas leasing program in the Beaufort, Bering and Chukchi seas.
It wasn't entirely clear whether the decision applies to other areas of the same expanded offshore drilling program, including tracks in the Gulf of Mexico and along the Atlantic Coast. Attorneys for the environmentalists and the industry said they think it would cancel the entire program, not just in the Arctic region.
That's what they're angling for ...
The appeals court ordered the department, now run by President Obama's appointee Ken Salazar, to analyze the areas to determine environmental risks and potential damage before moving ahead with the program.
Why doesn't the court do it? Shouldn't take more than an hour, they're so smart ...
The seas off Alaska that were at the center of the suit are home to wildlife including polar bears, whales, seals, walruses and seabirds. The lawsuit was brought by three environmental groups that want to protect the ecosystem and the native village of Point Hope, Alaska, where a tribe lives off the wildlife on the Chukchi Sea coast.
Current off-shore drilling hasn't harmed wildlife. Current drilling in Alaska doesn't harm wildlife. I think I've done all the analysis one needs ...
The decision comes at a time when oil and gas producers are finding it increasingly difficult to find new reserves and boost production at home and abroad. Output from the biggest U.S. oil companies has largely been in decline in the past few years.
If you think about it, the liberals are just being imperialists: they demand that foreigners take all the risks of finding oil in their own lands and shores, pump it, and the deliver it to us for a cut rate price so that liberals can tax it before it's sold to our people. Liberals aren't willing to see us dirty our own hands in the search for oil and natural gas.
Even though most people recognize the names of the giant multinationals - Exxon Mobil, Shell, BP and others - they control less than 10 percent of the world's oil reserves. Most proven reserves - about 80 percent - are held by national, state-run companies like those in Venezuela and Saudi Arabia.
The American Petroleum Institute, the industry's trade association, which joined the lawsuit to defend the program, said Friday it is reviewing the implications. "It would be a disservice to all Americans - and a devastating blow to the economy - if this decision were to delay further the development of vital oil and natural gas resources," the organization said. "Development in federal waters off the nation's coast provides thousands of well-paying jobs, government revenues and the fuel needed to run America's cars and factories, heat our homes and the feedstock needed to make the materials we use every day."
The Interior Department did not comment other than to say it was reviewing the decision. The department already had delayed the leasing program by five years to complete environmental studies.
Salazar will use this as the perfect excuse to cancel all the leases -- can't go forward, court says no, so just forget the whole thing.
Attorney William Snape, who argued the case for the environmentalists before the appeals court, said the species in the Arctic are already under significant environmental threat because of non-existent global warming. He said Mr. Salazar has sent mixed signals on how he'll handle drilling in the outer continental shelf, but the ruling is a chance for the new administration to protect sensitive areas.
"We're seeing a whole ecosystem potentially collapse," Mr. Snape said. "This really is a great opportunity for Salazar to do the right thing."
Joseph Stanislaw, an independent senior adviser to Deloitte LLP, said it's becoming increasingly clear the rules are changing for oil and gas production under the Obama administration - changes that are likely to add time and cost to many drilling projects.
Mr. Obama's priorities, Mr. Stanislaw said, place the environment and climate change ahead of energy security and domestic oil and gas supplies. "Trying to get a handle on these new rules will make life tougher for oil and gas companies," he said. "But these are very creative companies that will rise to the challenge and meet them. They're part of the game, and they want to stay in the game."
That's nonsense. They can't stay in the game if they can't drill. That's the point here: it doesn't matter how creative you are in finding oil, if you can't in the end drill for it, you don't have anything to sell.
So far, the Interior Department has only approved one lease sale in the disputed Arctic area, which involved more than 29 million acres in the Chukchi Sea extending from about 50 miles to 200 miles offshore. The sale in February 2008 attracted 667 bids totaling almost $3.4 billion, the most in any offshore lease sale in Alaska history. The high bids totaled more than $2.6 billion.
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where a tribe lives off the wildlife on the Chukchi Sea coast
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They kill and eat whales, big fluffy whales ...
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This is a blow to Alaska and the rest of the country. When the Alaska pipeline gets down below 400K bbl/day, they will shut it down.
Threatening coal fired plants, shutting down any new oilfields offshore. The Big O administration is systematically destroying this country. It will take 25 to 30 years to change out of oil. In the meantime, we need oil to fuel the transition.
My older son was over in Norway a few weeks ago as a representative of NW Alaska govt to examine how the Norwegians handled their offshore drilling and how they safeguarded the environment.
Now ANY environmental wacko group and shop for some federal judges and shut down the effort. It does not matter how much you do or study the issue. There will ALWAYS be something more.
There is one thing that will bring this corrupt system to its knees, and that is high fuel prices. When people get hammered and cannot provide for their families, DHS better write a memo about 200 million enemies.
Morons. This is what we all get when liberal guilt elects a president. And I put an almost equal culpability on the Republicans, who slopped at the public trough when they should have been responsible. A pox, a 4 Horseman pox on all their houses.
/fury for now.
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Beginning to figure out where all these small amount donations to Obama campaign came from?
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There is one thing that will bring this corrupt system to its knees, and that is high fuel prices. When people get hammered and cannot provide for their families, DHS better write a memo about 200 million enemies. We've already had high fuel prices, remember 12 months ago? Some economists have been saying this sustained period of high fuel prices, rather than the housing bubble, were actually the trigger for the current economic crisis. The corruption in the system is already bringing the US to its knees. Our legislators have abdicated their responsibility, which is to study, write, read and pass legislation to deal with issues of the day. All they actually do is pass legislation they have not studied, written or read. Remember the federal appeals court is interpreting the law as requiring a "proper" study of environmental impact. Congress can change that law whenever it suits that august [spit] institution.
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Now ANY environmental wacko group and shop for some federal judges and shut down the effort. It does not matter how much you do or study the issue. There will ALWAYS be something more.
As this article demonstrates. You need only find a Carter or Obama appointed federal judge and you can invalidate just about any environmental impact study, no matter how carefully and painstakingly done.
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A United Nations employee was caught with child pörnography as he entered the country last week at Halifax Stanfield International Airport. Jose Antonio Ortega Osona, 40, a Spanish citizen who lives in New York, pleaded guilty Friday in Dartmouth provincial court to a Criminal Code charge of possessing child pörnography and a Customs Act charge of smuggling prohibited goods.
Associate Chief Judge Brian Gibson gave Mr. Ortega Osona double credit for the nine days he spent on remand and sentenced him to an additional 72 days at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Burnside.
Customs officers searched Mr. Ortega Osona's personal belongings after he arrived at the airport on a flight from New York on April 9. Portable memory devices found in his backpack contained more than 800 images of hard-cöre child pörnography, some involving a girl who appeared to be about five years old.
Mr. Ortega Osona expects to lose his job as a demographer with the UN's fertility division because of the convictions, defence lawyer Geoff Newton said. "Any jail sentence he gets pales in comparison to the effects this will have on his life," Mr. Newton said.
C'mon, he's a UN diplomat, he'll pro'ly receive a commendation and a request to share ...
Mr. Ortega Osona was ordered to provide a sample of his DNA for a national databank. "We are committed to keeping this type of material out of our communities," Andrew LeFrank, the Canada Border Services Agency's director for Nova Scotia, said in a release. "This seizure reaffirms our role in the efforts to prevent the exploitation of children in Canada and around the world."
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Eighty-one days in jail for possessing child pr0nography. I think eighty-one years would be more appropriate. Let's hope the US doesn't let him back into the country.
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And the irony is that he's probably on the panel to write the UN's treaties to protect children; like having Libya and Syria on the Human Rights Commission...feckless!
Kathmandu, April 18 (IANS) After a lull of two years, India has resumed the recruitment of Nepalis for its Gorkha regiments after a full nod by the Maoist government that had in the past pledged to halt all hiring in the Indian and British armies.
Indian Ambassador to Nepal Rakesh Sood had met Nepal's Maoist Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda earlier this year to discuss the recruitment issue.
After the former revolutionary leader assured the Indian envoy that his government would not stop the recruitment of Gorkhas - the hilly Nepali tribe famed for their courage and loyalty - the Indian Army set in motion recruitment processes in Dharan in eastern Nepal and Pokhara in central Nepal.
While the Indian Army, as a matter of policy, does not disclose how many men it recruits a year, there were over 13,000 applications. The initial two-month screening process ended last month.
Currently, there are about 27,000 Gorkhas in the Gorkha regiments of the Indian Army. The Assam Rifles, which in the past used to deploy Gorkhas as well, has now changed its recruitment procedures.
India halted recruitment in Nepal two years ago due to the political instability and doubts about the policy of the Maoists, who while campaigning for last year's elections had pledged to stop the 'shameful' hiring of Nepalis as 'mercenaries' in foreign armies.
However, after the Maoists won the elections and came to power last August, the former guerrillas softened their stand and said the recruitments would continue till a conducive atmosphere and ample job opportunities were created in Nepal to retain its outgoing young workforce.
The tremendous response to the Indian Army's call for soldiers is due to four primary reasons.
Unlike the British Army, which provides home leave once in three years, Nepalis serving in India across the border can return home in an hour to attend emergencies, weddings and other family reasons. They can also obtain good education for their children in India, which is difficult in Britain due to financial and other reasons.
The new pensions announced by India recently are extremely attractive. A Gorkha, who now retires as a captain in the Indian Army, would get Rs.14,000-15,000 (IRS) as pension, which is more than the money received by a major general in the Nepal Army.
But perhaps the biggest reason is that there is no discrimination in the Indian Army unlike in the British Army.
The pay, perks and pension are the same for Indians as well as Nepalis.
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The father of Slumdog Millionaire child actress Rubina Ali tried to sell his nine-year-old daughter in a bid to escape the Mumbai slums, a British newspaper News of the World reported on Sunday.
According to the report, the father, Rafiq Qureshi, wanted Rs 2 crore for her. The newspaper's reporters had posed as a wealthy family from Dubai.
Slumdog Millionaire, a rags-to-riches tale of children from the slums of Mumbai, won eight Oscars in February, including the best picture award.
However, Rubina's cousin Ruksar has denied the reports.
"The sheikh's wife came from London, because she wanted to meet Rubina. She was very moved when she saw Slumdog Millionaire. All these allegations are false," said Ruksar.
It must be noted that according to reports in March, Rubina had her education sponsored.
This is not the first time that Rubina's father is in news for wrong reasons.
Earlier in February, Rubina's mother Khushi was sore that she had not met her daughter after her return from the Oscars. Rubina's father Rafiq had married again as he was estranged from Khushi.
"I suspect my husband must have kept her hidden from me. This is very unfortunate and unfair, keeping the daughter away from her mother," Khushi had said.
Rubina's father had then said that he had taken Rubina to a relative's home in Parel, a central Mumbai suburb, to protect her from the huge domestic and international media contingent.
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As many as 65 survivors of October 2005 earthquake, still living at National Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine (NIRM), have demanded that AJK government provide them with shelter and other facilities. October 2005. That was... ummm... (carry the seven, divide by nine, square root of 41...) three and a half years ago. The government of Pakistain, after three and a half years, has been unable to find accomodations for all the survivors?
A total of 150 people, rendered disabled by the killer quake, were brought to the NIRM and approximately 65 of them were still being treated there. Most of them have sustained spinal cord injuries. The patients told Daily Times that the medicines prescribed by doctors were to be purchased from market and that they were told to quit the hospital as soon as possible. "We are suffering from major injuries. We cannot afford treatment from private hospitals," they said. I can understand why the hospitals was to find them new homes, since hospitals aren't hotels. I can understand why the patients don't want to buy the meds on the market, since they're laid up with crippling disabling injuries and don't have any money coming in. I can't understand a government that is incapable of stating a problem, breaking it down into its compenents, and solving it, even if not to everyone's satisfaction. On the other hand, I recall that the foreigners were chased out of the area for not being Islamic enough, so maybe the problem is simply that the locals aren't devout enough so Allen's not providing.
Mohammad Saeed, attendant of a patient, said, "My wife Khatoon Bibi sustained spinal cord injuries. But NIRM officials refused to operate on her. Doctors advise us to go to any other hospital for treatment. I have learnt that the treatment will cost Rs 150,000 at Pakistan Institute of Medical Science (PIMS), which I cannot afford." And nobody's kicking in any emergency relief funds, even though Europe and the U.S.A. and even the Arab world kicked in...
Patient Aftab Ahmad Khan said he sustained leg injuries and was admitted to NIRM in 2006. He said now the hospital administration wanted him out but he had no where to go. "If we refuse, the hospital officials say they will throw us on the road," he said. I knew one guy who came down with pancreatic cancer. Our local hospital admitted him and Medicaid covered the costs of his stay. When he was ready to be released he had nowhere to go -- no job, no money, couldn't work. The hospital kept him until they found him a place in a hospice.
The patients said former Punjab government used to assist them by paying Rs 6,000 per month but the present government had halted their funds. Nawaz and his followers making off with the relief funds? I am so shocked. Really.
NIRM Director Dr Fazl-e-Maula said the NIRM had extended all possible assistance to the earthquake victims. He said the earthquake left many men, women and children physically disabled which were treated at NIRM. He said the patients should now go to their original localities as the hospital could not give them and their families permanent accommodation. He urged the AJK government to arrange shelters for the patients.
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Fred, The government of Pakistain, after three and a half years, has been unable to find accomodations for all the survivors?
Sounds like New Orleans' Mayor Nagin is consultant on the project.
Relatives have killed a man and woman in Hangu in the presence of local elders on allegations of illicit relations. Sources told Daily Times that the two - Malazai Bibi, 35, wife of Wahid Gul, and Lalman Shah, of Spin Khawri Hangu - were killed on January 13. They said Lalman Shah's brother had registered an FIR at Saddar Police Station against unidentified killers.
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[Geo News] The chairman Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf (PTI) Imran Khan has said he was ready to lay down sacrifices in the greatest interest of country and vowed to enter Karachi on May 3 at all costs. By taxi? Or is he taking the train?
Addressing to Zonal leaders here in Lahore, Imran was of the view India and US were hatching conspiracies against Pakistan nuclear program. Really? And your evidence is...?
He asked government to neutralize pressure in wake of Swat peace accord and termed the upsurge in Talibanization in Pakistan caused by the rising unjust. According to Imran Khan, national integrity and sovereignty have been endangered due to operations in Balochistan and FATA. Y'mean the gummint started a war with the Talibs and lost it?
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Imran has sure changed a lot since his cricket superstar playboy days.
KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) suffered a setback Friday when Cricket South Africa (CSA) refused to host its A team's tour for this year as it has to stage a series of high-profile cricket events this year.
CSA has informed the PCB that it will not be able to host the six-week-long series against Pakistan A in August-September, PPI reports.
'The South Africans have informed us that they will be unable to host our A team this year as they are hosting IPL (Indian Premier League) and the Champions Trophy,' said Aamir Sohail, PCB's director of Game Development.
South Africa has become a hub of international cricket activities after accepting the offer to host the second edition of the IPL as well as the Champions Trophy - the second biggest event of the International Cricket Council (ICC) after the quadrennial World Cup. The IPL that begins in South Africa from April 18 was shifted out of India as it clashed with country's general elections.
The cancellation of the Pakistan A tour to South Africa is bad news for PCB which is making efforts to raise a strong second string team. Pakistan A was to play three four-day games and five one-dayers after a three-day practice game.
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Might have had more to do with the sky-rocketing crime rates, lack of proper security and PCB reluctance. Cricket is a white, western import anywhere, I doubt Jacob is a big follower. Just my guess.
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Surprisingly enough, cricket has caught on in the Caribbean, South Asia (Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka), Australia, South Africa, Ghana, and a dozen or so other countries. A star cricket player in those countries has about as much acclaim as a winning pro quarterback or a thirty-game winning pitcher in the US. This is a HUGE blow to Pakistan, especially after the Sri Lanka team fiasco.
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COLUMBIANA, Ala. -- Five men dead in an apartment. In a county that might see five homicides in an entire year, the call over the sheriff's radio revealed little about what awaited law enforcement at a sprawling apartment complex.
LA PAZ, Bolivia -- Bolivian officials were investigating Friday who financed a plot to assassinate President Evo Morales and what an international group of alleged mercenaries - including two fighters from the Balkan wars - were doing in Bolivia.
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Bush administration did not properly study the environmental impact of expanding oil and gas drilling off the Alaska coast and canceled a program to find new reserves.
A United Nations employee was caught with child pörnography as he entered the country last week at Halifax Stanfield International Airport. Jose Antonio Ortega Osona, 40, a Spanish citizen who lives in New York, pleaded guilty Friday in Dartmouth provincial court to a Criminal Code charge of possessing child pörnography and a Customs Act charge of smuggling prohibited goods.
As many as 65 survivors of October 2005 earthquake, still living at National Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine (NIRM), have demanded that AJK government provide them with shelter and other facilities. 
