No, really? Ya' think?
UN climate negotiations should aim for substantially more funding Or, they could just drop the whole thing.
Scientists led by a former co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will warn today that the UN negotiations aimed at tackling climate change are based on substantial underestimates of what it will cost to adapt to its impacts. In other words, lies.
The real costs of adaptation are likely to be 2-3at least 100 times greater than estimates made by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), say Professor Martin Parry and colleagues in a new report published by the International Institute for Environment and Development and the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London.
The report adds that costs will be even more when the full range of climate impacts on human activities is considered. They mean as soon as they can make up some more lies to scare the proles.
Parry and colleagues warn that this underestimate of the cost of adaptation threatens to weaken the outcome of UNFCCC negotiations, which are due to culminate in Copenhagen in December with a global deal aimed at tackling climate change.
"The amount of money on the table at Copenhagen is one of the key factors that will determine whether we achieve a climate change agreement," says Professor Parry, visiting research fellow at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London. "But previous estimates of adaptation costs have substantially misjudged the scale of funds needed." "They didn't include enough money to protect our phoney-baloney jobs."
The UNFCCC has estimated annual global costs of adapting to climate change to be US$40-170 billion, or the cost of about three Olympic Games per year.
But the report's authors warn that these estimates were produced too quickly and did not include key sectors such as energy, manufacturing, retailing, mining, tourism and ecosystems. In other words, they left out all kinds of places they can extort more money from....
Other sectors that the UNFCCC did include were only partially covered. "Just looking in depth at the sectors the UNFCCC did study, we estimate adaptation costs to be 2-3 higher, and when you include the sectors the UNFCCC left out the true cost is probably much greater," warns Parry, who co-chaired the IPCC working group on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation between 2002 and 2008.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] The Libyan government has agreed to allow two Swiss businessmen held in the country for more than a year to return home, the official news agency Jana reported Thursday, after Switzerland's president issued a controversial apology to Libya.
The government "decided to approve the accord" late Wednesday and charged the foreign ministry with "taking measures necessary to implement" the text, Jana reported without providing further details.
Tripoli last week promised to allow the two businessmen to leave the country after Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz apologized to the Libyan people for the arrest of one of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's sons, in a bid to end a year-long standoff.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Egyptian police arrested 70 villagers on Thursday who were protesting against the relocation of Bahai families to their area after they were chased out of another village in southern Egypt, security sources said.
About 150 people from Ezba and surrounding villages in Sohag province gathered outside regional government offices to voice opposition to the relocation of 25 Bahai families to government-sponsored housing near their homes, the sources said.
Bahais, who number between 500 and 2,000 in Egypt, call their faith's 19th-century founder a prophet -- anathema to Muslims who believe Mohammad was God's final messenger.
That would be the Baha'ullah, if I recall correctly.
Rights activists say Bahais face systematic discrimination in the conservative Arab country, which does not officially recognize the faith.
In April, Muslims attacked houses belonging to Bahai residents of another village in Sohag over a period of three days, forcing 30 families to flee the mainly Muslim village of Shuraniya.
Some villagers from Ezba said the protesters had gathered from Wednesday after word spread that some of those displaced from Shuraniya had settled in the area two weeks ago.
However a rights group advocating on behalf of the Bahai families said no permanent homes had been found for them. Soha Abdelaty, the deputy director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, said the families were still negotiating with the government.
Bahais, in an important ruling for members of unrecognized religions, last year won the right to obtain government identity papers so long as they omit any reference to their faith. But the faith is still vilified by some media, activists say.
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Behold our magnificent ally and recipient of a zillion dollars in foreign aid. And howz Atta's father doing in Cairo these days? No one's given him the hot lead injection he still so desperately needs?
Back in the 80s Egypt's dictator was actually embarrassed by a certain clumsy bit of thuggery against the Baha'is during a Washington visit. I was fortunate to have a direct role in causing him the discomfort, but I'm not tellin' anything more than that.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Moroccan youths have devised a new occupation for the holy month of Ramadan: bus preaching. The new controversial practice has garnered the approval of religious scholars and the criticism of sociology researchers
Young men get on buses and start delivering religious sermons for free while others sell booklets and tapes containing lectures by famous Moroccan and Arab preachers. Sometimes, they recite parts of those lectures to the passengers to talk them into buying their merchandise.
Bus preaching follows the prophet's advice who asked, in a hadith (saying), that all Muslims spread the word of Islam, said Moroccan preacher Sheikh Mohamed al-Sahabi. "When they distribute tapes and booklets that contain prayers and advice, they are in a way spreading the word of Islam," he told Al Arabiya.
Sahabi added that those youths could have a deeper influence than many people think since they could help guide people into the right path.
"One sermon could make a delinquent repent or a thief ask God for forgiveness. The preachers will also be rewarded by God for their efforts in guiding Muslims."
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Time to break out the iPod and plug in the ear buds.
Of course they do.
Representatives of eight African countries proposed Aug. 24 that the continent's leaders should seek more than $67 billion per year in compensation from developed countries at a U.N. climate change summit to be held in Copenhagen in December. Why not just ask Bambi for it? That's chump change to him....
The proposal was drafted by negotiators from Algeria, Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Uganda who met in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa.
"Africa needs to be compensated for the damage to its economy caused by climate change, although it contributes little to global warming," Africa contributes little to any g-d thing, except violence, expecially against its own people.
Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, the African Union's commissioner for rural economy and agriculture, said.
A background "concept note" developed for a recent meeting of the panel on climate change stressed the need for African countries to support legally binding instruments to deal with global climate change. And who's going to enforce these "instruments"? Somalia?
Besides the compensation issue, the paper called for major emitters of greenhouse gases to reduce their emissions by at least 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, and by up to 95 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.
The paper recommended that developed countries commit 0.5 percent of their gross domestic product to climate change mitigation in developing countries. I'll commit to a hail and hearty "FU" - will that suffice?
"Developed countries should also commit to the deployment, diffusion, and transfer of technology to developing countries, based on principles of accessibility, affordability, appropriateness, and adaptability you give and we TAKE, TAKE, TAKE," said Abebe Haile-Gabriel, acting director of the African Union's Division for Rural Economy and Agriculture. Link is to Africa Union website; scroll down to "24 August 2009 Meeting" for concept paper, texts of speeches, and other documents.
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they gave us HIV. Should we discuss compensation?
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That's very crude and non-PC, Frank.
Keep up the good work. ;-p
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We will pay em in Zimbob dollars and it's a deal. Write it up on toilet paper.
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ION FARK > RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS: US-EU PLAN TO "MOVE" EARTH'S ORBIT DOOMED [to fail].
OOOOOOOO, IIRC SPIKE? = ION? TV > IHC.com? > The Earth's human population needs a LOTTERY = LOTTERY SYS to survive the possible pending "SOLAR OCCURRENCE/EVENT" OF 2012???
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Clearly KIMMIE = NORTH KOREA must build their LRBMS in order to preclude the US, EU from being first to save the earth and put on display???
OTOH, CHINESE MIL FORUM > CHINA [website] SAYS MICHAEL PHELPS IS KOREAN! IIRC Phelps' ancestors migrated to CONUS-NORAM from Korye approxi 1000 years ago.
***cough**Cough*** > "MAVERICK" AS TOM CRUISE > " I COULD TELL YOU, BUT THEN I"LL HAVE TO KILL YA".
[Bangla Daily Star] Criminals made a gun attack at a local club in Sadar upazila of Rajbari district last night that killed three people, including two Awami League (AL) leaders, and critically wounded two others.
The deceased were identified as general secretary of Barat union unit AL Abdus Salam Mollah, 42, its vice president Golam Mohammad and 'chowkidar' of Barat Union Parishad Saidur Rahman, 30.
Two injured--UP Secretary Ferdous Hossain and truck driver Anis Uddin--were undergoing treatment at Rajbari Sadar Hospital.
Police said a gang of about six criminals swooped on the Barat Youth Club around 8.30pm and sprayed bullets on them when the party leaders were talking to its workers and other people.
Salam, Golam and Saidur were rushed to the hospital where the attending doctors declared them dead on arrival at about 9:30pm.
Police suspected that cadres of an outlawed party might have carried out the gun attack. Sources close to police and others said AL leader Salam was also involved in the activities of the outlawed party in Rajbari.
Police also suspected that rivals of Salam might have launched the attack to take revenge.
Salam who had been absconding for long came to the area after AL took over power this year. He was wanted in several cases filed with Sadar and Pangsha police stations, police said.
Police and Rab men cordoned off the vast stretch of the areas to look for the criminals while high police officials visited the spot.
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So, just like a crossfire, but without the cops present. I love it!
[Iran Press TV Latest] The US is preparing further sanctions against the Honduras' de facto government after coup leaders rejected a settlement proposal, State Department officials say.
Good lord, just give it up already!
On Thursday, a State Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity said that the United States was looking at suspending assistance to Honduras through the Millennium Challenge Corporation which rewards nations with free economies and political systems, AFP reported.
Honduras in 2005 signed a five-year, 215 million-dollar deal with the US-funded Corporation to boost its agriculture and transportation sectors.
Foreign ministers from seven nations and the head of the Organization of American States returned empty-handed from Honduras after failing to persuade the interim leaders to accept a plan to reinstall the ousted president Manuel Zelaya.
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The country is bankrupt. Forget it. We are just being mean.!
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the United States was looking at suspending assistance to Honduras through the Millennium Challenge Corporation which rewards nations with free economies and political systems
The way things have been going here, Honduras should be issuing sanctions against us. Three cheers for the Hondurans and the rule of law!
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But what do Hondurans think of their wanna be self-appointed dictator-for-life? If you know even a little Spanish, this national pamphlet will give you some insight.
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There are some gross spelling errors but on the whole it is written in good South-American Spanish. However I am not well versed enough on the idiosyncracies of Honduran Spanish to tell if it was really written by a Honduran.
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If Honduras bends one inch, or even stops yelling "fuck you" at the top of their lungs, for once second, I will never forgive them. Who'da thunk, in a world of craven, despicable, childish morons (that would be the west, minus Iz'rl and Taiwan), the only country with any sense and values and dignity would be little Honduras.
It's only 7 months - can the national disgrace get any deeper or more profound?
Russia has a come to Jesus moment with regard to North Korea.
From TFA:
"We are definitely concerned by the conditions under which tests are being carried out in North Korea, including nuclear devices," the chief of Russia's general staff Nikolai Makarov told journalists in the Mongolian capital Ulan Bator.
"We already have an S-400 division there," he said, referring to a modernised version of a Soviet-designed surface-to-air missile unit.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Newspapers' financial woes worsened in the second quarter as advertising sales shrank by 29 percent, leaving publishers with $2.8 billion less revenue than they had at the same time last year.
It's the deepest downturn yet during a three-year free fall in advertising revenue -- newspapers' main source of income. The magnitude of the industry's advertising losses have intensified in each of the last 12 quarters.
The numbers released Thursday by the Newspaper Association of America weren't a shock, given the dramatic erosion mirrored the advertising losses that the largest U.S. newspaper publishers already had reported for the April-June period.
Still, the statistics served as a stark reminder of the crisis facing newspapers as they try to cope with a brutal recession and advertising trends that have shifted more marketing dollars to the Internet.
"This data represents a rearview-mirror perspective on what we all know was a terrible stretch of bad road," said John Sturm, chief executive for the newspaper association that serves as the industry's largest trade group.
The latest turbulence left U.S. newspapers with ad sales of $6.8 billion in this year's second quarter compared to $9.6 billion last year.
Through the first half of the year, newspaper ad revenue plunged 29 percent to $13.4 billion.
Some newspaper industry executives are hoping the slide bottomed out in the second quarter. That optimism is largely grounded in the belief that recession will end soon -- if it hasn't already -- and encourage advertisers to loosen their pursestrings, particularly toward the end of the year as they try to persuade consumers to spend more in the holiday shopping season.
"When the economy eventually begins its recovery, advertisers will return to spending, and newspapers will find themselves extremely well positioned to harness the strength of their print and digital platforms to build a brighter future," Strum predicted.
Industry analyst Ken Doctor of Outsell Inc. isn't as confident. In a report released earlier this week, Doctor predicted newspapers won't recover all the advertising revenue that has evaporated during the past three years because be believes the recession accounted for only half of the decline. The other half of the equation represents ad spending that has permanently migrated to less expensive options on the Internet, Doctor said.
Newspapers have been getting more of their revenue online, but it hasn't been nearly enough to offset the ad sales that have gravitated away from their print editions.
Even newspapers' Internet advertising suffered in the second quarter. The industry's online ad revenue totaled $653 million, a 16 percent drop from last year.
Print advertising fell 30 percent to $6.16 billion, with the biggest trouble in the classified section. Classified ads dropped 40 percent in the second quarter, reflecting less demand because of the economy and competition from free or cheaper alternatives offered by Web sites like Craigslist.
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Just a damn shame there can't be a wave of collapses of major papers. Of course, same thing for the networks. And the wires. People are completely un- and misinformed right now, so there'd be no net loss in info (aside from local stories on disputes over broken water mains, etc.). Here's to hoping there's no light at the end of their financial tunnel. Oh, and that will leave the tragicomedy of NPR to deal with. Sadly, the advent of a remotely serious and sophisticated Congress or executive of the sort that would efface that outrage in our lifetimes seems highly improbable.
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The headline fails to make mention that GM bailed from the joint venture first.
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While Toyota was the largest beneficiary of Cash for Clunkers (19%), more likely it was Silicon Valley's high wage structure and over regulated business environment was too much, even with the Fremont's plant's shipping advantage.
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California's Unions support Liberal Democrats
California politics is overwhelmingly controlled by Liberal Democrats
California's militant Unions demand high wages and benefits
California Unions Public and Private, always support heavy State spending on Social Programs
California has the highest Business Taxes in the country
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One article I read stated that in the 25 years that Toyota and GM were in that joint venture that the plant only made a profit 1 year (1991). If true it amazes me the plant didn't close 10 years ago. I suspect it was kept open to get a toe in the door, now that they have plants elsewhere and GM has pulled out they can leave as they should have done years ago.
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What this article does not mention is that Toyota is seeking refugee status moving from Stalinist California to that land of milk and honey free enterprise: Canada.
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Fremont isnt the Silicony Valley, now is it? San Juaquin Valley, IIUC.
I dont know why they pulled out from there - IIUC deciding which vehicle to build in which plant is a fairly complex decision for automakers, including considerations of plant age, labor costs, transportation costs, plant size/capacity, etc, etc.
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Fremont isnt the Silicony Valley, now is it? San Juaquin Valley, IIUC.
Fremont is right on the Bay, in Alameda County, with Oakland and Berzerkly.
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Yes, it's at the northern end of Silicon Valley. It's been a favored living area for workers in Silicon Valley since the time I lived there in the late 70's - early 80's when I worked in the software industry in the Valley.
Fremont's also at the southern end of BART (regional rapid transit rail line) so it does send some commuters northward.
It's definitely not in the San Juaquin Valley, which is on the eastern side of the hills that border Fremont and which is part of the Central Valley agricultural area.
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Very often, for capital-intensive manufacturing, it's considerably cheaper to build new from the ground up than tear apart a fully built factory and rebuild around the new process and equipment. Or so it seems to me from things I've heard.
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You are correct TW. When you shut down an existing facility for a new program, you loose the existing production. Better to continue with the older production until the new plant is ready to roll.
I spent a week in 1980 working in the old GM Freemont plant back when they made Caprices and Chevy C1500s. Even then, they would only run whichever line enough employees showed up for work.
Spent one memorable evening down on the beach at Monterrey. Never been more drunk in my life. And we drove back to Freemont.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Washington has denied reports that it was abandoning a plan to deploy defense missile shield bases in Poland and the Czech Republic.
"I would call that report inaccurate," US State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters. "Our review of our missile defense strategy is ongoing and has not reached completion yet."
Leading Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza, citing officials and lobbyists in Washington, said the United States was scrapping plans to build the bases in Poland and the Czech Republic and was looking at alternatives including Israel and Turkey.
Former US president George W. Bush's administration devised the missile defense plan, saying that it was a precautionary measure against attacks from 'rogue states' like Iran and North Korea.
Russia responded furiously to what it saw as an encroachment in the former Soviet bloc and threatened to deploy it own missile system in Kaliningrad and exclave near Poland.
And yet Russia has deployed its own missile defense system facing North Korea. Ironic, no?
Bush's successor, President Barack Obama, who has tried to "reset" relations with Russia, launched a review of the controversial system after taking office earlier this year.
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Russia Approves US Military Overflights to Afghanistan
By VOA News
06 July 2009
President Barack Obama meets with Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev (right) at the Kremlin in Moscow, 06 July 2009
Russia has authorized the United States to use its airspace for flights carrying troops and military supplies to Afghanistan.
The deal, signed Monday at a U.S.-Russian summit in Moscow, permits up to 4,500 military flights a year - about 12 a day - carrying troops, arms, munitions, military vehicles and spare parts.
Senior U.S. officials say the flights will not be charged Russian transit fees and will not stop in Russian territory.
Moscow had previously limited U.S. shipments across its territory to non-military supplies carried by train.
The White House said the air transit agreement will save more than $130 million a year in fuel and other transit costs.
The two presidents also agreed to boost joint anti-terrorism and anti-crime measures, including cooperation in sharing financial intelligence in the fight against heroin trafficking.
[Iran Press TV Latest] The US President Barack Obama is planning to abandon a plan to deploy elements of a missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, reports say.
"The signals that the generals in the Pentagon are sending are absolutely clear: as far as missile defense is concerned, the current US administration is searching for other solutions than the previously [planned] bases in Poland and the Czech Republic," said Riki Ellison, Chairman of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, a Washington-based lobby group, the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza said on Thursday.
Ellison participated in a conference last week on missile defense where Pentagon officials explained their defense industry plans to executives.
According to the daily, the Boeing Corporation had proposed an alternative to the land-based system, where the interceptor missiles would be based on ships.
"During the conference, generals never mentioned the original plan concerning Poland and the Czech Republic," said Ellison.
According to him, Washington is considering the Boeing plan, in addition to being interested in deploying the missiles in bases in Israel or Turkey or possibly in the Baltic States.
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There she is! The old 7:45 arriving at the station right on time.
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Again, Iran Press TV. The X band radar is going up regardless. The question is whether GMD interceptors or Aegis and SM-3 will be installed in Poland. Eliminating GMD will make the KGB clique happy but SM-3 is more then enough to intercept Iranian or Russian missiles (blackmail) aimed at Europe and a heck of a lot cheaper.
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Here is a good graphic of SM-3 development. Block 2 is designed to intercept anything less than a full on ICBM and even then I would give it good chance given enough warning time (i.e. w/ long range X band radar)
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Strategy Page has a different take on this:
The Russians are regretting their stand on this and looking for a way out. If the US will deploy a different type of missle, the Russians will declare victory and shut up. So the US is developing a land based version of the SM-3.
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Why are we concerned with protecting Europe from Iranian missiles? I'll bet we are even footing the bill.
Mark Tapscott noted yesterday that a new Congressional Research Service report is being discussed by Republican members of Congress. It says essentially that notwithstanding all the rhetoric to the contrary (including, most recently, that of Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.), there is really nothing in the House health reform bill to prevent illegal immigrants from getting subsidies from the federal government for their insurance premiums under the plan.
If it isn't specifically prohibited then it's going to be allowed ...
Because CRS reports are generally hard to come by, The Examiner has obtained a copy for your reading pleasure.
In its subsection on health insurance subsidies (known as "affordability credits"), HR 3200 does state, "Nothing in this subtitle shall allow Federal payments for affordability credits on behalf of individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States." That would seem to solve the problem, but it's more rhetoric than reality. The bill contains no verification requirement or enforcement process for citizenship or legal residency, as exists for other federal benefit programs. The only verification required for the subsidies pertains to family income. Beyond that, as the CRS report notes, everything is left in the hands of the Health Choices Commissioner.
If we can't verify citizenship and residency for voting and other federal benefits, why would anyone think we're going to verify same for health care benefits?
House Democrats defeated all attempts in committee to add an enforcement mechanism that would require proof of citizenship or legal residency for those getting subsidies.
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Democrats buying votes, importing voters, centralizing power, bankrupting the nation, utterly oblivious to the wishes of the American people. Willful disobedience of their oath to support and defend the Constitution, but understandable since they would have to defend the Constitution against themselves....
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Wouldn't make any difference cause the Donks would simply hide behind the first available Fed judge who'll declare its the illegals' right [damn to anyone who'd dare challenge the right of the judiciary to rule without the consent of the governed serfs. Hmmm... little thingy in Constitution that allows judges to be impeached. Never mind, move along.]
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"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
"the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
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You heartless bastards!! You would deny free health care to someone just because they broke our immigration laws? We all must make sacrifices. All Obama is asking, is that you simply sacrifice Grandma so that the illegals can get the free care they deserve!
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The curfew would last for two months and bar people from loitering outside from midnight to 7 a.m. Violators would face up to a $2,000 fine and 90 days in jail. It would not apply to people in transit
So drive-by shootings will still be allowed...LOL.
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Better yet, activate Patterson's Pre-crime unit.
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Well, most of the good people are already [self] locked up, barred up, and confined by the destructive elements of society. If you think the death penalty doesn't work, why -
do you lock your doors and windows at night?
do you worry where your children are when the sun goes down?
do you avoid travel near or through certain neighborhoods?
[Iran Press TV Latest] The cultural heritage officials of Iran's Fars Province have rejected reports about the destruction of the Achaemenid Gondashlu stone mine.
Iran's CHN news agency had earlier reported that mining operations near Persepolis had ruined 70 percent of Gondashlu mine, located 60 kilometers southwest of the Achaemenid capital.
The Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism office of Fars Province said in a statement that archeology experts have visited the site and have found no evidence of mining operations.
The statement also says that mining operations near Gondashlu were stopped six months ago after miners approached the historical site in search of better sources.
Experts believe Gondashlu was used by Achaemenids in building Persepolis due to its high quality stones.
The mine is considered a good source of information about Achaemenid mining techniques as well as a resource for Persepolis restoration project.
It was during the 1960s that American archeologist William M. Sumner of the University of Pennsylvania discovered the significance of Gondashlu stone mine for Achaemenids.
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Gov. Gary Herbert said Thursday that he plans to convene experts on both sides of the climate change issue to debate the science and help shape the best policy for the state. Herbert said his goal is to, "for the first time, have a legitimate debate with civility, GFL on that one, Gov.
have discussion on climate change, man's impact on the climate and global warming: what it is, where it is and what you do about it, including cost-to-benefit analysis The lefties will hate that one
and making sure we have good science They'll hate that one too
that dictates and leads us toward good policy." And that one too, since the only policy the lefties will consider is their own
He hasn't decided who to invite to participate, Here a friendly suggestion, guv'nor - NOT AlBore. Please.
but said he should know more by next month. "I'm not taking a position on man-caused global warming or the impact it has," Herbert said. "I think science needs to have that continued discussion and debate. Clearly, as we see in the marketplace, the debate is not over." Heresy! Keep up the good work. This story is found in a box below the main story on the page.
In Australlia it was that one MP from an obscure part of the continent that put an end to the nonsense by coming to the U.S. to get a clear explanation from the Energy Department, or something like that, and when they couldn't/wouldn't give him one, he announced his objections back home. The honourable governor of the great, but not generally front-line, state of Utah may well do that here. How very exciting it is to live in this time!
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This week's Shire Network News podcast has an interview with University of Adelaide Geology Professor Ian Plimer who is highly sceptical about global warming.
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.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Newspapers' financial woes worsened in the second quarter as advertising sales shrank by 29 percent, leaving publishers with $2.8 billion less revenue than they had at the same time last year.
