Four Utah teenagers have been cited for disorderly conduct after they rapped their order at a McDonald's drive-through.
The teens say they were imitating a popular video on YouTube. They rapped their order, which begins with, "I need a double cheeseburger and hold the lettuce ..." once quickly before repeating it more slowly.
Spencer Dauwalder says employees at the restaurant in American Fork told him and his friends they were holding up the line and needed to order or leave. Dauwalder says nobody was in line. The group left without buying anything.
The teens were later cited by police officers who tracked them to a high school volleyball match.
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now shit to my knees.
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Many of the clientele were families who had fled turmoil, pogroms, coups and wars and long had a cultural preference for locking away money and jewels, building up a vehement distrust for the integrity of traditional banks. Here, stepping down the spiral staircase at the back to the darkened boxes below, they felt reassured that their most important possessions were safe.
One survivor of Nazi Germany in his seventies told us how he had placed a bag of diamonds there - security if ever he or his descendents needed to run again.
'My wife and I had escaped from Germany with nothing but these gems,' he said. 'She sewed them into our clothing before we crossed occupied Europe, reaching Britain by ship when the jewels were snipped out and locked up.'
There was a rabbi too, Yitzchak Schochet, of Mill Hill Synagogue, who said: 'Safety deposit boxes are supposed to be confidential. The whole situation was very unsettling and an intrusion of privacy.'
Another client, an Indian millionaire entrepreneur with connections to the House of Lords, described how he was 'treated like a convicted man just because I had wealth in cash'.
A Hindu priest described to Live how his family's valuables had been carried in the Sixties from Madhya Pradesh, India, to London 'in a gunny sack'.
Among the possessions seized by the police were elaborate handcrafted bracelets, gold rings set with uncut stones, and a bejewelled wedding tikka ornament to be draped on the forehead of a new bride. 'These items had always been in our family,' the priest said, 'We had cash in there too. But now we had to prove how we bought them and where that money, saved over the years, had come from.'
Under POCA, the burden of proof lay with the box-holders. Finding evidence for wartime treks across Europe, or charting migration stories from the Partition of India and beyond, would cost many of the box-holders tens of thousands of pounds.
Mark Richardson, a former military intelligence officer and now a forensic accountant, who has been employed by several box-holders to explain their wealth, told us: 'We had to get one family's diamonds carbon-dated at great expense to demonstrate to the police that they had been cut in the Thirties, which tallied with their story of fleeing Germany before World War II.' Alright, let's see the receipt for those diamonds you swallowed when you fled Germany. Otherwise, they go to the police widow fund, you low-life!
(Although I doubt you can carbon date a diamond.)
Warning that the police were lagging behind in meeting targets set to seize criminals' assets, it stated: 'To achieve the target a further £36.6 million of assets need to be seized in the remaining nine months.' This was 'a challenging target'. However, 'with the emerging results from Operation Rize, the seizures are likely to make a major contribution toward the final total.' Red light cameras? That's for pikers. Show some imagination!
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What an amazing story, truly the actions of a police state. I have read many stories about the USA which indicates that the mere possession of cash in the $10,000 range is an act already subject to civil forfeiture.
Angle grinders are the ultimate tool.
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All to...what? Sieze drug cash? Me myself, I don't think that the ill-gotten gains of criminals justify breaking in to safe-deposit boxes of the innocent, but maybe that's me.
If this happened in China, I would be slightly surprised but then write it off to "you never know what the government's going to do next" and "well they know more than us, they were probably guilty". This is in a real police state, though.
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ION BHARAT RAKSHAK> UK MUSLIM ACTIVIST ANJEM CHOUDARY: RENAME BUCKINGHAM PALACE INTO BUCKINGHAM MASJID [Claims to had found evidence that Queen Liz + Family have no right to live on the Proeprty].
ALso, CROWN JEWELS should be MELTED DOWN, Muslim-only SHARIA COURTS allowed in UK, "The Mall" road should be renamed "the MASJID" road???
* Methinks the prospect of a UK "9-11" Event, or greater, + agz the ROYAL FAMILY per se, is gettin' bigger. IOW, JUST A MATTER OF TIME AFORE SOMETHING BIG + MUSHROOMY GOES "BOOM" AT BUCKINGHAM = IN LONDON???
The US government has issued a new report that recommends blocking access to popular websites during a pandemic outbreak in order to preserve internet bandwidth for investors, day traders and securities clearing house operations. The concern is that a pandemic would cause too many people to stay at home and download YouTube videos and p*rn, hogging all the internet bandwidth and blocking throughput for investment activities, thereby causing a stock market meltdown.
This isn't an April Fool's joke. It's all based on a public report issued by the Government Accounting Office (GAO), available from their website. This report in question is entitled, "GAO Report to Congressional Requesters, INFLUENZA PANDEMIC" and includes this subtitle: Key Securities Market Participants Are Making Progress, but Agencies Could Do More to Address Potential Internet Congestion and Encourage Readiness.
In a severe pandemic, governments may close schools, shut down public transportation systems, and ban public gatherings such as concerts or sporting events. In such scenarios, many more people than usual may be at home during the day, and Internet use in residential neighborhoods could increase significantly as a result of people seeking news, entertainment, or social contact from home computers. Concerns have been raised that this additional traffic could lead to congestion on the Internet that would significantly affect businesses in local neighborhoods, such as small doctors' offices or business employees attempting to telework by connecting to their employers' enterprise networks.
So where, exactly, are people getting video downloads? The most popular non-p*rn video destinations today are MySpaceTV.com, YouTube.com, LiveLeak.com, Yahoo Video and Hulu.com. But as it turns out, even these highly popular websites may not account for most internet traffic.
According to this TechRepublic post, the majority of internet traffic is actually P2P traffic. Anywhere from 49 to 89 percent of all internet traffic reportedly falls into this category.
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What???? This is an outrage!!!! It can't be, it just can't be. Painful, messy death from swine flu will be a sweet release from that hell on earth, hurry up and let me go already... remember, folks, Pr0n will carry you through days of no money better than money will carry you through days of no Pr0n.
the majority of internet traffic is actually P2P traffic
Sorry about that, dudes, but I just need to try and fill that big empty void inside of me, and P2P is good for that, easier than say getting off my fat ass and trying to find some meaning to my life or something.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Early results indicate that the ruling party of incumbent President Armando Guebuza is heading for a landslide victory in Mozambique elections.
The victory of the Frelimo party in Wednesday's presidential, parliamentary and provincial elections was widely expected.
The party has ruled over the southern African country since its independence from Portugal in 1975.
Out of the only 17 percent of votes counted, Guebuza has garnered 77 percent, the national elections commission announced late Thursday.
Should Guebuza win the election, he will secure his fourth term in office since the introduction of a multi-party democracy in 1994.
The party Renamo, led by Afonso Dhlakama, appears to be losing it status as the country's main opposition party to the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM) in the parliamentary vote.
The MDM has claimed more votes than the Renamo, despite being barred from running in most of the electoral districts due to alleged irregularities in its candidates' registration documents.
According to figures announced by the national elections commission, the MDM is in second place, behind Frelimo in three of the four districts where it had been allowed to run.
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A case has been filed against the popular news channel, Al Arabiya, at the summary court in Jeddah for allegedly making fun of Islam, said Muhammad Mirdad, a judge at the court.
Mirdad said Abdullah Al-Othaim, the chief judge at the court, had received the case, which has been lodged by a group of citizens. The court then transferred the case to the justice minister in order for him to pass it on to the Ministry of Culture and Information.
The litigants have also presented evidence in the form of pictures and audio recording to support their case. They allege the channel has ridiculed God, the Last Prophet (peace be upon him), Angel Gabriel and the Sayings of the Prophet.
"This will not make God happy nor His Prophet as well as Muslims who are enthusiastic about their religion, especially as we are in the land of the Two Holy Mosques and the place of revelation where God has helped its leaders to implement Shariah, support His religion and call others to it," the lawsuit said.
Khaled Al-Matrafi of Al Arabiya channel told Arab News that he had not received any official information about the issue. "We have a legal department to follow up and deal with such cases," he added. The case has been transferred to the Ministry of Culture and Information in line with a Saudi publications law issued in 1421 AH.
In a related development, Mirdad, who presided over the case of the Saudi sex braggart, Mazen Abdul Jawad, said the verdict against woman journalist Rozanna Al-Yami was based on her admission in court that she is not a journalist, but a university student who was cooperating with a media organization.
"With regard to the second defendant, Eman Al-Rajab, another woman journalist, we transferred her case to the Ministry of Culture and Information when she told the court that she is a media person," the judge told Arab News.
Speaking about cameraman Omar Felamban, Mirdad said the verdict issued against him was not related to his media activity but because of his confession that he had publicized one of the episodes of the program via e-mail.
He said the episode was related to sexual weakness, adding that the episode cannot be recognized as proper journalism. The defendant presented on Wednesday a petition through his lawyer, saying he was uncertain about the title of the episode.
"We'll look into his case on Saturday and ascertain whether he was honest in his petition."
Mirdad also said that judges try to carry out their duties in the right manner. "But most people do not look into the reasons behind court verdicts."
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Indonesia's decision to stop sending domestic helpers to Kuwait citing concerns over abuse and exploitation stirred indignation among Kuwaitis, while an official at the Indonesian embassy said he was not aware of the reasons behind the decision.
The ban is seen as an insult to Kuwait as it tarnishes the country's image concerning the treatment of domestic laborers, said Fadel Ashkanani, head of the Kuwaiti Union of Domestic Labor Offices (KUDLO).
" If a few Indonesian maids were having problems, the necessary measures could have been taken without tarnishing the reputation of Kuwait. If some labor offices are engaged in violations, this should not be generalized to reflect the entire country "
Fadel Ashkanani, head of KUDLO
"Kuwait is one of the most popular destinations for domestic help," he told Al Arabiya. "It ranks first in the Gulf region regarding the number of maids in relation to the native population."
The popularity of Kuwait, Ashkanani argued, is a result of the positive feedback maids give to their families back home and which increases demand to work there despite the fact that salaries are not big in comparison to other countries.
"The problem is that some Asian labor offices send unqualified maids. This reflects negatively on both the sending and receiving countries."
Ashkanani expressed his indignation at the way the problem was dealt with on the part of the Indonesian Ministry of Labor.
"If a few Indonesian maids were having problems, the necessary measures could have been taken without tarnishing the reputation of Kuwait. If some labor offices are engaged in violations, this should not be generalized to reflect the entire country."
He stressed that KUDLO is always ensures all parties involved are treated fairly. This includes the maid, the guardian, and the labor office.
Ashkanani stated that despite the fact that the Embassy of Indonesia in Kuwait stopped dealing with KUDLO, other embassies are still working with the union without any problems.
"We work with the embassies of India and Ethiopia and the labor used from those countries is more than that from Indonesia."
The Embassy of Indonesia received instructions from the Indonesian Labor Ministry instructing that no more maids be sent to Kuwait, but the reasons were not mentioned, said Ares Teriano, First Secretary at the Embassy of Indonesia in Kuwait.
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A search has been launched for two East Coast Demerara fishermen who are missing after two Guyanese fishing boats were attacked by pirates in Suriname waters around 7 pm on Wednesday, the pirates taking the two men hostage while escaping.
The missing men, whose names were given only as Brown of Bare Root and Micky of Good Hope, both East Coast Demerara villages, were working on the boat, Prince Oman along with the vessels captain, known as Suresh; 39 year old Shaheed Ahmad of Vigilance, East Coast Demerara and 29 year old Venkataragavan Raghunauth of Triumph, East Coast Demerara.
Speaking to this newspaper at the hospital last evening, Ahmad said that he and his colleagues were working on the vessel, which operates in Surinames and Guyanas waters in accordance with the required permits, around 7 on Wednesday night in the vicinity of Caroni, an area in Suriname waters, when they were attacked by five masked men in a small boat. He said the men pulled up alongside their boat, demanding valuables while shooting at them and proceeded to empty out the boat, placing him and his friends in another fishing boat which was also attacked but whose crew members were unharmed. He said the men then damaged parts of the boat he was working on and also destroyed the vessels engine.
According to the experienced fisherman, the pirates took his two colleagues, Micky and Brown with them as they escaped with more than $6M worth of fish, fishing seines and other equipment which were being used at the time. He said sometime that evening they were rescued by a Banga Mary boat which took them to shore in the Nickerie area in Suriname. The incident was reported to police in the neighbouring country as the men sought treatment at medical facilities there before travelling to Georgetown to seek further treatment last evening. Ahmad said he and his rescued colleagues made contact with their families and the boats owner from Suriname early yesterday morning, informing them of their dilemma.
The missing vessel is owned by one N.Oman of Mon Repos, who told this newspaper at the hospital last evening that this was the third occasion she and her husbands fishing vessels suffered at the hands of pirates. The woman told SN that her husband and the missing vessels captain have since ventured out to sea in search of the missing men and the vessel.
She and her relatives stated that the authorities should work harder to curb piracy, noting that the Agriculture Minister had promised on several occasions to address the matter. One of the womans relatives stated that the Coast Guard, instead of harassing fishermen for money and goods, should try to protect fisher folk working at sea noting, that there had been many meetings in the past between fishermen and the authorities on the issue of protection of fishermen from pirates.
The interim leader of Honduras says he is ready to sign a pact to end its crisis which could include the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya. Roberto Micheletti said the agreement would create a power-sharing government and require both sides to recognise the result of November's presidential poll.
Mr Zelaya said the deal, which requires the approval of the Supreme Court and Congress, would be signed on Friday.
The president was forced out of the country on 28 June. His critics said he was seeking to amend the constitution to remove the current one-term limit on serving as president, and pave the way for his re-election.
It is significant that both sides say that the Congress of Honduras has to approve this. That could mean a slight delay, but it might actually also have been the key to the solution. Neither side could agree and so ultimately, perhaps to save face, they had to leave it to others finally, and symbolically, to make an agreement.
It appears the US government put the pressure on the Micheletti government to say leave this to the Honduran Congress. And although the Congress initially voted to remove President Zelaya from power, now it wants him back, as everyone understands that it is the only way out of this.
Mr Zelaya returned covertly to Tegucigalpa on 21 September and has since been holed up in the Brazilian embassy. He says he has returned "for the restoration of democracy".
His term of office is due to finish at the end of January.
Unless he uses the next couple of months to finagle that. Take a look at what Danny Ortega just did in Nicaragua.
Negotiators for Mr Zelaya and Mr Micheletti resumed talks in the capital on Thursday in an attempt to resolve the political crisis which has gripped Honduras since the army-backed coup four months ago. The opponents had earlier been told by US Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Shannon that they had to reach an accord in order to ensure international support for the election on 29 November.
Afterwards, Mr Micheletti announced that a power-sharing deal had been reached that included a "significant concession".
"I have authorised my negotiating team to sign a deal that marks the beginning of the end of the country's political situation," the interim leader told a news conference. "With regard to the most contentious subject in the deal, the possible restitution of Zelaya to the presidency" would be included, he said.
Mr Micheletti said the ousted president would only be able return to office after a vote in his favour in Congress that would first have to be authorised by the country's Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court ruled that Mr Zelaya had violated the constitution in June, while Congress voted to remove him from office. Mr Micheletti - who as the speaker of Congress was constitutionally second-in-line to the presidency - was sworn in by Congress as interim leader following the judicial order coup.
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maybe the only way out of the Afghanistan mess is to restore the one-eyed mullah to power
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You just have to wonder if this little "agreement" has anything to do with a recent murder and a kidnapping of relatives of top government officials in Tegucigalpa.
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I don't like it. It sets in motion a series of meaningless steps that theoretically keeps the constitution in tact and keeps the reins of power out of Zelaya's hands. That is, if there is no more monkey business. What are the odds of that happening?
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So Goal, set, and match to Obama.
Proves the old adage "Repeat a lie long and loud enough, and it becomes TRUTH"
The lie COUP is now admitted as FACT.
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Exactly my concern, Richard. Danny Ortega has effectively seized power in Nicaragua. Oogo may well have teams of power in Honduras. Now Mel comes back and has a couple months to 1) subvert the upcoming election and 2) seize power.
I think that's where Mel, Danny and Oogo are headed. Question is, do Bambi and the Hildebeast see it coming? And if so, are they in favor?
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Worst news of all: supposedly Thomas Shannon has been pressuring the congressmen to vote for the restoration of Zelay or else! The exact words were that "Shannon scared the living hell out of everyone here including Micheletti." Yeah, remember the press conference? "We're just here to help. We aren't going to intervene. We'll respect any decision that the Hondurans make." Yeah, right. Now they are even threatening elected Honduran officials that they won't recognize elections unless they vote yes. I'm sure there must be economic threats as well.
The US role here seems to be similar to that of the USSR in the Polish crises of 1970 and 1980/81.
An overwhelmingly powerful nominal ally made threats that preserved a communist dictatorship. A direct military intervention by that "ally" was thus unnecessary.
Obama is not a naive and ignorant "Bambi", an empty suit narcissist. He's a politician pursuing his political objectives.
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and de facto rulers in power since a June judicial order coup returned to the negotiating table on Thursday under U.S. pressure, with a pro-Zelaya radio station saying a deal may be close. But Zelaya told the station, Radio Globo, it was too soon to know what the caretaker government's position would be on the key issue of whether he can be temporarily reinstated.
"We are at the same point as where we started, with 95 percent agreed on," Zelaya said. "There is absolutely no approval yet of anything."
A team led by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Tom Shannon and Dan Restrepo, Washington's special assistant for Western Hemisphere affairs, is in Tegucigalpa for a last-ditch effort to broker a resolution.
Zelaya, holed up in the Brazilian Embassy surrounded by troops, pulled out of the most recent talks last week.
"Time is running out. We only have a month. We need an agreement as soon as possible," Shannon said after the U.S. officials met with both sides.
Radio Globo said a deal, including an agreement on letting Zelaya serve the end of his term to January, was close to completion and awaiting approval by the country's Congress.
Zelaya adviser Rasel Tome said the talks were advancing. "We are in the course, in the moments of history, hoping (an accord) will be signed. We are going well," he told Reuters.
Vilma Morales, an envoy for de facto leader Roberto Micheletti, noted the Supreme Court -- which ordered the lawful removal coup -- would also need to be consulted on any accord.
The coffee-producing Central American country has been diplomatically isolated since Zelaya was rousted at dawn by soldiers and flown to exile on a military plane. He had angered many in Honduras by warming up to socialist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Critics also alleged he was seeking backing to extend presidential term limits, something he denies.
Critics of Micheletti, who was appointed by Congress after the coup, say he wants to stay in power until a presidential election scheduled for November 29.
In a sign the United States is stepping up its involvement, Shannon sat in on Thursday's talks and said his delegation would stay an extra day to help Hondurans broker a deal.
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Honduras' ousted president, government sign pact The agreement appears to soften Micheletti's previous stance that the Supreme Court which has already rejected Zelaya's reinstatement decide the issue. Instead, the high court would make a recommendation, but the final decision would apparently be left to a vote in Congress.
The agreement would create a power-sharing government and bind both sides to recognize the Nov. 29 presidential elections. The international community had threatened to not recognize the vote if Zelaya is not reinstated, but on Thursday, OAS Political Affairs Secretary Victor Rico told reporters that "the United States and the OAS will accompany Honduras in the elections" as a result of the accord.
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Fausta's Blog has the terms:
1. The creation of a reconciliation government.
2. Rejection of political amnesty.
3. Recognition of the November 29 elections.
4. Transferring control of the Armed Forces from the Executive to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.
5. Creating a verification commission to enforce compliance with the agreement.
6. Creating a truth commission to investigate the events before, during and after June 28, the date of Zelayas removal.
7. Requesting that the international community end all sanctions against Honduras and that they send in observers to the presidential election.
8. Supporting the proposal for a vote of the National Congress with the approval of the Supreme Court of Justice to reinstate all the Executive Power prior to June 28, that is, restoring Zelaya to power.
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Anything from the ICJ about Brazil's embassy giving cover to Mel? Isn't that usually considered to be unfriendly?
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Michelletti's nephew was just murdered, and now this change of stance. Stinks to high heaven. Hopefull Zelaya returns to Honduras and gets whacked, in full view of the cameras. There is no negotiating with the left - they only understand power as Mao described it - eminating from a gun barrel.
Mexican soldiers have discovered a secret tunnel complete with electricity and an air supply that may have been planned for smuggling migrants or drugs under the U.S. border into San Diego.
Reporters in Tijuana were invited by military officials on Tuesday to a private, industrial property about 100 feet south of San Diego's Otay Mesa border crossing. Law enforcement officials opened the property for the media and then left.
The journalists, including about 20 reporters, photographers and videographers, walked around until they spotted a big hole, the entrance to a 4-foot-wide tunnel behind a tractor-trailer.
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Tunnels, shmunnels! We got 'em by the ton down here on the Arizona/Mexican border. Luckily the Mexican narcos need not fear Israeli drones as their Gazan counterparts do. PC rules down on La Frontera...at least on the gringo side. :((
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A real cool one a few years back in Agua Prieta: you entered when a secret button was pushed operating a hydralic lift which raised a billiard table in a narco's mansion. The tunnel exited in Douglas, Arizona, USA.
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g(r)omgoru, we wouldn't be the least bit surprised to find Gazans or other assorted ME bad guyz lurking around here but so far it's just your run of the mill narco terrorists from Mexico...er, at least that's all we've heard.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] The chief executive of the major US car maker General Motors says it needs no more federal bailout money to continue operations this week.
Fritz Henderson told congressional and Obama administration officials in Washington on Wednesday that based on "any reasonable planning scenario," the automaker will not ask for more federal aid, said The Washington Post.
"The amount of financing provided was sufficient," he said.
Henderson reiterated that the US government will recover all of its $50 billion investment in GM, which is in the form of loans and equity by 2015.
"The loans are due in 2015. We are looking at all kinds of ways that would actually accelerate that, he said. "Then over time the question is, How do you realize a return on the equity? That is a function of how does the company perform. If we get our job done, I think the government has an excellent chance of getting a return on its investment," he added.
To save the US auto industry and hence thousands of jobs, the government injected billions of dollars into the ailing sector.
Despite the company's claim that GM does not need more federal aid, earlier news this week suggested that the US government is set to consider yet another bailout package for the automakers. According to the Detroit News, "The Treasury Department plans to inject up to $5.6 billion in new capital in GMAC, the onetime finance arm of General Motors," a government official confirmed late Tuesday.
"The new government infusion would be on top of the $12.5 billion in government support extended since December. In May, the Treasury Department injected $7.5 billion in GMAC, took a 35.4 percent stake in the company and appointed two directors."
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Uh, uh, A ROSE IS A ROSE OF COURSE OF COURSE ...
Naw, never mind, am NOT going to there.
ION BHARAT RAKSHAK > DEFLATION THREAT LOOMS IN JAPAN; + IS CITI [CitiGroup-Bank] BEING FORCED TO DOWNSIZE BY OBAMA, + US ECONOMY ROSE 3.5% IN Q3 [Third Quarter].
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Fred, I'm concerned how many of these reports come under an Iran Press byline. Are domestic sources not covering these issues, which in my more tinfoil helmet moods I suspect, or is it just that you're searching that site? No gig on you as it were.
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You wonder why Islamics are searching American Sites?
I think you can sum it up as two things.
First, Know thy enemy.
Second, Curiousity, knowing how we got wealthy is worth knowing.
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Well, RJ, if they want to know how we got wealthy all they have to do is watch what we're doing now and do the exact opposite.
The kids who did stay in school say, "In your face Jon Carry."
Congress's law library is rebuffing calls from the chairmen of the House and Senate foreign relations committees to retract a report on the military-backed coup in Honduras that the lawmakers charge is flawed.
The request, by Sen. John Kerry , D- Mass. , and Rep. Howard Berman , D- Calif. , has sparked cries of censorship from Republicans who say the Democrats don't like what the August report said: That the government of Honduras had the authority to remove deposed president Manuel Zelaya from office.
A spokeswoman for the Law Library of Congress -- one of six Library of Congress agencies -- said Thursday that the research agency stands by the report and that Librarian of Congress James Billington is preparing a response to the lawmakers.
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A total of 690,000 new vehicles were sold under the Cash for Clunkers program last summer, but only 125,000 of those were vehicles that would not have been sold anyway, according to an analysis released Wednesday by the automotive Web site Edmunds.com.
Still, auto sales contributed heavily to the economy's expansion in the third quarter, adding 1.7 percentage points to the nation's gross domestic product growth.
The Cash for Clunkers program gave car buyers rebates of up to $4,500 if they traded in less fuel-efficient vehicles for new vehicles that met certain fuel economy requirements. A total of $3 billion was allotted for those rebates.
The average rebate was $4,000. But the overwhelming majority of sales would have taken place anyway at some time in the last half of 2009, according to Edmunds.com. That means the government ended up spending about $24,000 each for those 125,000 additional vehicle sales.
"It is unfortunate that Edmunds.com has had nothing but negative things to say about a wildly successful program that sold nearly 250,000 cars in its first four days alone," said Bill Adams, spokesman for the Department of Transportation. "There can be no doubt that CARS drummed up more business for car dealers at a time when they needed help the most."
In order to determine whether these sales would have happened anyway, Edmunds.com analysts looked at sales of luxury cars and other vehicles not included under the Clunkers program.
Using traditional relationships between sales volumes of those vehicles and the types of vehicles sold under Cash for Clunkers, Edmunds.com projected what sales would normally have been during the Cash for Clunkers period and in the weeks after.
Edmunds.com's estimate of the ultimate sales increase generally matches what industry experts had thought, said George Pipas, a sales analyst with Ford Motor Co (F, Fortune 500). But that misses the point, he said.
"The whole purpose of the program was to provide some kind of catalyst to kick-start the economy," he said, "and by all accounts the extra production that was added this year was a boost to the economy." Here's a clunker that would really help the economy if it got turned in: Even more so if Pelosi, Reid, Murtha, et. al. were in the trunk.
Ford was one of the biggest proponents of the Cash for Clunkers program and several Ford models were among the top sellers under the program.
While auto sales in September were hurt because auto dealership inventories were drained of products by the program, sales this month are already back on track or better, Pipas said. "I think the October sales results will show Clunkers is behind us and there's no more payback or inventories issues."
Emunds.com's projection indicates that, without Cash for Clunkers, October's sales increase would be even higher.
The National Assembly Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting on Thursday recommended a ban on the live coverage of terror attacks and criticism of the president, the army and the judiciary in the media.
Oh oh, we're in trouble now Fred ...
The committee, chaired by Belum Hasnain, also examined the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Amendment) Bill, 2008 and recommended it to the assembly for approval with certain amendments.
A committee member told Daily Times it had been agreed in the meeting that the media should be taken into confidence on sensitive national issues. "The government needs to maintain a regular liaison with media organisations, particularly anchorpersons," the committee agreed.
It was noted that some anchorpersons unduly criticise state institutions and ridicule prominent personalities and recommended that there should be a check on that. Another member said there were certain anchorpersons who criticised the ideology of Pakistan. "This is not acceptable as it is against the national interest," he said.
The committee said that according to the amendments in the bill, police could seal the offices of media organisations only after orders from the judiciary. Earlier, authorities had the power to do so on their own.
Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira told the committee that councils of complaints had been set up to address the society's complaints against broadcast media. "These councils, in all the provinces and one in the federal capital, consist of eminent citizens nominated by the federal government. Each council would have a chairperson and five other members, including two women," he said.
Kaira said another committee had been formed to devise a code of conduct, adding it consisted of seven prominent journalists, law experts and other intellectuals. "The committee is proposed to be headed by Justice (r) Fakharuddin Ibrahim. It will devise a code of conduct for programmes and advertisements and establish technical standards for broadcast and distribution services," he added.
The committee members recommended meeting with owners of private TV channels, anchorpersons and TV artists to inform them about the affects of certain dramas and advertisements on the society.
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" Muslim men usually like young girls or virgins as their additional wives, so I suggest instead of taking these young virgin girls, why don't they marry the single mothers as their second or third wife? "
Wan Ubaidah Omar, cabinet minister
[Al Arabiya Latest] Malaysia's conservative Islamic party has urged Muslim men to marry single mothers as additional wives instead of "young virgin girls", a state official said.
Wan Ubaidah Omar, a cabinet minister from northern Kelantan, which the party controls, said the proposal aired in state parliament this week was needed to help single mothers and widows in the underdeveloped region.
"Muslim men usually like young girls or virgins as their additional wives, so I suggest instead of taking these young virgin girls, why don't they marry the single mothers as their second or third wife?" she told AFP.
"This will ease the burden of the single mothers as the men can help them to take care of their children. The single ladies have no burden," said Wan Ubaidah, who is in charge of women, family and health affairs in the state.
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REDDIT > HUMAN FETUSES [aborted, other fetuses] BEING MADE INTO SOUP [sales + eats] FOR SEXUAL POWER IN CHINA.
George Soros launches a $50 million effort to purge economics of its free-market zeal.
"Large swaths of economics are going to have to be rethought on the basis of what's happened." So said Larry Summers, President Obama's chief economic adviser, in an interview in the weeks after the markets crashed a year ago. Yet to a remarkable degree, economic thinking hasn't changed very much at all.
Now financier George Soros is announcing a $50 million effort to speed things along. This week Soros is gathering some of the leading practitioners of the market-skeptic school, who were marginalized during the era of "free-market fundamentalism," among them Nobelists Joseph Stiglitz, George Akerlof, Michael Spence, and Sir James Mirrlees. He's also creating an "Institute for New Economic Thinking" to make research grants, convene symposiums, and establish a journal, all in an effort to take back the economics profession from the champions of free-market zealotry who have dominated it for decades, and to correct the failures of decades of market deregulation. Soros hopes matching funds will bring the total endowment up to $200 million.
"Economics has failed not only to predict and explain what happened but has also failed to protect society," says Robert Johnson, a former managing director at Soros Fund Management, who will direct the new institute. "That's what the crisis revealed. The paradigm has failed. There is no guidance."
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.
Four Utah teenagers have been cited for disorderly conduct after they rapped their order at a McDonald's drive-through.
Many of the clientele were families who had fled turmoil, pogroms, coups and wars and long had a cultural preference for locking away money and jewels, building up a vehement distrust for the integrity of traditional banks. Here, stepping down the spiral staircase at the back to the darkened boxes below, they felt reassured that their most important possessions were safe. 
