[Emirates 24/7] A Saudi sorcerer claiming to possess healing and dream-interpreting ability seduced three local virgin sisters and raped them one after another before making them have sex with each other in front of him.
One sister who had got his phone number from a friend contacted the man and told him she had seen a bad dream and wanted him to interpret it for her.
The unnamed man, in his 30s, asked her to come to his apartment near the capital Riyadh and promised her to interpret it.
"At the apartment, he made her believe that she was under a magic spell that could be smashed only if she has sex with him...she agreed and slept with him many times, resulting in the loss of her virginity," Sharq newspaper said.
"He then asked her to bring her two sisters with her next time and she agreed...he made sex with them and the two lost their virginity as well...he then made them practice lesbianism in front of him."
The paper said one sister, annoyed by his repeated blackmails, informed members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the most feared Islamic law-enforcement authority in the Gulf Kingdom.
"They made a trap for him at a shopping mall, where he met that girl again...once she was with him in the car, they caught him."
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Does this mean an honor killing of the sisters?.
Their lives are ruined.
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That old black magic has me in its spell, that old black magic that you weave so well.
Those icy fingers up and down my spine
That same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine.
The same old tingle that I feel inside, and then that elevator starts its ride
And down and down I go, round and round I go, like a leaf that's caught in the tide.
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Sense we must swksvolFF if not us where? If not now, Iowa?
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Comcast is paying Al back for not opposing their merger. Affirmative Action Al. Hope that Tawana Brawley DA is wage-garnishing this incompetent race-baiting bitch
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they should have posted a pic of him in his velour jumpsuits and gold chains
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hell after obama , i wish al had been the first black pres. then at leats we would have known what we where getting. Well at least the fools who voted for obama
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[Emirates 24/7] A suburban Phoenix man is recovering after police say he accidentally shot himself in the penis while putting his girlfriend's gun in the waistband of his pants. "Honey, will you hold my gun?"
"Sure, baby! [KERPOW!]"
Chandler police say 27-year-old Joshua Seto and his fiancée, Cara Christopher, were walking toward a grocery store when the shooting happened last week. The gun fired, striking Seto's penis "Aaaiiieee! My doinker!"
and continuing through his left thigh. "Ow! My thigh!"
The Arizona Republic reports a 911 operator told Christopher to apply direct pressure to the wound with a dry towel "I'm inna parking lot! I ain't got no towel!"
or T-shirt. "Okay. I got one of those..."
Chandler Police Detective Seth Tyler was unsure of the type of gun, or whether it had a safety that was off. Important safety tip: If you're gonna point your gun anywhere in the general direction of anybody's pee-pee always make sure the safety's on...
He also says it's unclear if Seto has been released from the hospital or suffered any permanent damage. "Well? Does it still work?"
"It works better! I can pee with it in three directions at once now. The rest... I'll have to let you know..."
In the wake of the shooting, Tyler warned residents to use holsters, not waistbands, if they're going to carry a handgun. And try and remain somewhat sober.
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I've heard of shooting your mouth off, But?
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Uh, uh, BE GENTLE - IT'S HIS = HER FIRST GUN???
Must be - only thing missing is his BGFF announcing she's preggers, although I don't think Paternity Tests work on Metal.
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So he pulled a Napolean and blew his Bonaparte.
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swksvolFF: It was a Fry's grocery store, part of the Kroger chain.
I talked one one of their senior cashiers who is a very conservative Boy Scout leader about their gun policy. He said there are two rules:
1) If you carry, conceal carry for two reasons. The first is that open carry freaks out dimwits. The second is that there is no reason in the world for an armed robber to see your gun before you use it.
2) (secret rule) If you shoot an armed robber, they are far less likely to sue everyone if you do a good job of it.
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Doctor: "I've got some good news and I've got some bad news."
Patient: "Give me the good news first."
Doctor: "You'll never do that again."
Patient: "What's the bad news?"
Doctor: "You'll never do that again."
A wildlife biologist is continuing to face questions about an influential paper he wrote on apparently drowned polar bears, with government investigators reportedly asking whether he improperly steered a research contract to another scientist as a reward for reviewing that paper.
Oh that's a big no-no. Reviewers are supposed to be anonymous.
"They seem to be suggesting that there is some sort of conspiracy that involves global warming and back scratching that appears to be frankly just nuts," says Jeff Ruch, a lawyer with Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.
Ruch's group is providing legal representation to Charles Monnett, a wildlife biologist with an agency of the Department of the Interior. Monnett was flying over the Arctic in 2004, doing a routine survey of whales, when his team spotted what they thought was an unusual sight -- dead polar bears floating in the water.
Monnett's report on what he observed raised public alarm about the threat of climate change and melting ice, and the sighting of dead bears was cited by Al Gore in his movie An Inconvenient Truth. The dead bears became a potent symbol of the perils that the bears face as the sea ice retreats.
But now Monett is under an official investigation by the Department of Interior's Office of Inspector General.
In February, agents from that office questioned Monnett about the dead bear sightings and his 2006 report on them in a scientific journal. "We're not sure why the Inspector General felt it needed to open an investigation on this. They indicated there are allegations," says Ruch. "We don't know who they're from or why, after review, they thought this 2006 note was worth assigning criminal investigators to."
Investigators again quizzed Monnett about that polar bear paper during a second interview on August 9, Ruch says.
As part of his job, Monnett helped manage contracts for government-funded research. Ruch says in this latest interview, the investigators seemed to accuse Monnett of improperly steering a contract for a new study of polar bears to the University of Alberta. They pointed to the fact that a university scientist who got the contract gave Monnett comments on his polar bear paper.
"They asked whether there was a quid pro quo or whether there was some connection between the University of Alberta professor providing some sort of peer review on the polar bear paper and his getting the award of the contract," says Ruch.
Good question. Was there?
Ruch says the investigators focused on one exchange between the two scientists about the polar bear paper that took place on the same day that the research contract was being finalized. "That was the big A-ha moment for them," Ruch says. "And if that's all they have, then this has been a colossal waste of time."
The research contract had been in negotiations for months and that Monnett's supervisors had signed off on it, says Ruch, who added that the University of Alberta was the only organization considered for this new polar bear tagging project because the contract piggybacked on research it was already doing.
And while Monnett asked the university scientist to read his soon-to-be-famous paper on dead polar bears, Ruch says others--both agency officials and the scientific journal--reviewed it before it was published.
The University of Alberta research project being funded by the contract in question received a stop-work order around the same time that Monnett was put on administrative leave by his agency last month. But that stop-work order was rescinded and the research is now continuing.
A spokesperson for Monnett's agency has stated that "the agency placed Mr. Monnett on administrative leave for reasons having nothing to do with scientific integrity, his 2006 journal article, or issues related to permitting, as has been alleged. Any suggestions or speculation to the contrary are wrong." The Inspector General's office did not return calls requesting comment.
Some advocacy groups say, this whole episode looks like political interference with science and it will intimidate other government researchers.
"There's no way this can have anything but a chilling effect on the ability of other scientists to carry out their work," says Kassie Siegel, director of the Climate Law Institute with the Center for Biological Diversity, a nonprofit that campaigned to have the polar bear listed as a threatened species. Her group has teamed up with Greenpeace to ask the administration for an investigation into this investigation.
But others caution against rushing to any judgments.
"We won't know, until the [inspector general] is done, exactly what the charges are and exactly what they are finding," says Francesca Grifo, director of the scientific integrity program at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
She says in the past, the inspector general's office has actually uncovered political interference with science. "In previous administrations, we've been very grateful for what the inspector generals at Interior have found," says Grifo. "They've brought to light a lot of things that we just wouldn't have known about or been able to document otherwise."
Some polar bear scientists worry that, for the public, this investigation has created doubt about both the original observations of dead bears and the threat of climate change.
Steve Amstrup, senior scientist with a group called Polar Bears International, says Monnett wasn't the only person to have seen those dead polar bears in the water. "But yet, the news that he was being investigated caused some people to right away jump to the conclusion that those observations may be flawed," says Amstrup.
He says there's no reason to think that, and that other research also shows that climate change and retreating sea ice is a real danger for polar bears.
[Bangla Daily Star] A Dhaka court on Tuesday accepted the first information report (FIR) of a case filed against former premier Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... on charge of abusing power to set up a charitable trust named after late president Ziaur Rahman.
After scrutinising the documents, Metropolitan Magistrate Md Erfan Ullah directed the investigation officer of the case to submit a probe report by October 10.
The Anti-Corruption Commission filed the case Monday against Khaleda Zia and three others.
The three other accused are Abul Harris Chowdhury, political secretary to the then prime minister; his assistant personal secretary Ziaul Islam Munna; and Monirul Islam Khan, APS to Dhaka City Corporation's incumbent mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka.
The case, filed with Tejgaon Police Station by ACC Assistant Director Harunur Rashid, follows almost two years of enquiry that began in October 2009.
According to the first information report, Tk 7.81 crore was deposited in the trust account in a week starting from January 13, 2005.
Khaleda, as the first managing trustee, opened the account with the PMO branch of Sonali Bank on January 1 that year.
Of the trust fund, Tk 6.19 crore came from BNP and the rest from unknown sources.
On January 16, 2005, Tk 1.35 crore was deposited in the trust account in five pay orders issued by an organization called Metro Makers and Developers Ltd.
Then on January 18, Harris's APS Ziaul Islam deposited more than Tk 27 lakh.
Tk 6.19 crore that came from different BNP accounts bore signatures of Tarique Rahman, Khaleda's elder son, and former BNP secretary general Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, among others.
A 42-katha land was bought from one Suraiya Khan for Tk 6.52 crore from the trust, named Shaheed Zia Charitable Trust. The land registered on January 19, 2005, has yet to be mutated in the trust's name.
The money was transferred to Suraiya's account by two cheques signed by Khaleda.
Suraiya was also paid Tk 1.25 crore in addition to the price of the land, said the FIR adding that the source of that sum too could not be known.
AFM Jahangir, managing director of Metro Makers and Developers Ltd, told the ACC Sherlocks that the company never donated any money to the trust.
He said DCC mayor's APS Monirul Islam used the company's name to deposit the money. He also mentioned that Harris Chowdhury had given Monirul the money for depositing in the account.
"Khaleda Zia established the name-only trust using her cantonment address [her then residence]. She along with her two sons abused power to collect money in the trust's name only to serve their personal interests," the FIR said.
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What colour is Mark Duggan? Mark Duggan is the man who was shot dead by the police on Thursday in Tottenham. The Tottenham riots last night were sparked when people protested his death. This morning, I first heard of the riots on the radio, then on the television. I read articles on the internet. But oddly, no one would say what colour Mark Duggan was. No one would say the unsayable, that the rioters were, I suspect on the whole, black. Then, finally, Toby Young's Telegraph blog post on the riots was published. Is Toby Young the only journalist out there who will dare say that these riots are about race?
Everywhere I read that the protest was understandable because "people are very angry".
I'd like to know what they're angry about. Mark Duggan is dead. He was shot by the police in a shootout. Duggan was in a minicab and shots were fired from both the cab and the police elsewhere. A police officer was hurt in the incident and a bullet was found lodged in a police radio.
At school I remember watching a presentation given to the kids by Trident, the Metropolitan Police Service unit set up to investigate and inform communities of gun crime in London's black community. I didn't know what Trident was then, and it struck me that all of the photos of people shot (the idea was to scare the kids) were black. So at the end, I approached one of the policemen and asked him what percentage of those involved in gun crime were black. I kid you not, but my question made this thirty-something white man who was, after all, trained to deal with the black community and its issues, turn pink.
He explained that about 80 per cent of gun crime took place in the black community. I smiled uncomfortably. But no, he said, it was worse than that. Then he told me that 80 per cent was black on black gun crime, and that of the remaining 20 per cent about 75 per cent involved at least one black person: black shooting white, or white shooting black. The author has been teaching in inner London for over a decade and plans to set up a Free School in south London to help to serve underprivileged children. Not exactly an Archie Bunker type (like me).
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I would not say "race", so much as "races". Tottenham is actually recognized as the most multi-cultural, multi-ethnic place in all of Europe.
And while granted, perhaps the majority of its residents are Caribbean blacks, there are noticeable enclaves, which have been mentioned, of Turks, who fight the blacks that attack their turf; as well as Sikhs, who fight the blacks that attack their turf.
So while it is indeed about race, the underlying situation seems to be "blacks against everyone else". But even this is not entirely true, because if you look at pictures from the riot, a lot of the rioters are whites.
Lots of dynamics in these riots. I gather the EDL has announced that they are going to get involved, because "The police are incapable, and the government is unwilling."
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...actually they're all zombies. The movies have confused everyone that those life/brain suckers somehow look visually different from normal homo sapiens. Ah, if it was only that easy.
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Maybe at first. But from the pictures I've seen, it looked like an equal opportunity lootfest, especially in the cities outside London. Once the scumbags realized the cops wouldn't, or couldn't, do anything, they all crawled out from under their rocks.
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Ello folks , back in Blightey for a few weeks visiting relatives in Nottingham . Not the best time to be back I must confess . First night after 26 hour travel was spent with friends guarding property . Luckily no trouble flared in our neighourhood , I expect because these 'gangs' want easy targets . A mixed bunch we were , black , white , asian , christian , muslim , sikh (unfortunatley no buddists !)
The folk causing the trouble at our end are a bunch of opportunistic low life wanna be gangbangers , again a mixed bag of ethnicity - with one common denominator - gutlessness . When confronted , these halfwits crumble like the spineless dogs they are .
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Thanks for the report from the ground, MacNails. Y'all stay safe.
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The bulk of crimes are committed by young males. At some point the UK needs to find something for those young males to do, such as if you're on the dole more than a year (or whatever) you join the military (or similar service like cleaning toilets in schools and prisons or something) for a year or two.
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Tottenham did start on Saturday as a race riot but by Monday night it was only about 'yoof' smashing the place up and stealing anything that had any desirability or value.
The reason it morphed was the fact that police can't even effectively riot control because of a. not enough money to employ enough on duty officers b. pathetic politically correct policing making the police ineffective.
Also the underlying reason that mostly all of the 'yoof' give when asked why they rioted and destroyed everything is "there are no jobs or prospects for us".
Look at the areas that kicked off and look at the unemployment rates. Take a good look at the 16-25's unemployment rates in those areas. They ARE the highest rates in the country.
The riots were a factor of a few reasons coming together at once. However this mindless behaviour will only push shop prices up and insurance costs up.
It shut down places of employment for HUNDREDS of good honest people and delivered giant additional bills to the owners of many small businesses, many of which will now struggle and some even close, as a direct result of this behaviour of TOTAL IDIOTS.
Young and unemployed, you may have had a good argument and an ear of sympathy before this week started but today, I can guarantee this; there are even less employers willing to give young people a break. There will be even less money for yoof support schemes. There will be overcrowding in prisons in the near coming months.
[Al Jazeera] British newspapers have responded to three nights of looting, arson and rage with scathing editorial broadsides aimed at the perpetrators and the forces alleged to have fostered them.
Those who torched homes, assaulted police and mashed-up shops in at least five cities were blasted by the press for sparking anarchy the Guardian called "an outburst of resentment and a mark of manifold failure" of government policies.
The Tuesday edition of The Sun put forth more colourful descriptions of events; one headline read "Descent into Hell" another "Flames of Hate". Yet another headline described the rioters as "street jackals" and "feral riot yobs", using the London slang term for thug.
A Daily Telegraph editorial called for action: "All politicians need to speak out robustly against these criminal elements who have been tolerated for far too long ... The police must crack down hard on this outbreak of summer lawlessness. In doing so, they will have the support of all decent people."
Other editorial lines were equally firm, reserving a special disregard for the motivations behind what the Daily Mirror called three days of "Yob Rule".
Paul Vallely, a columnist for The Independent, said the riots were characterised by "wanton consumerism" and cited examples of looters trying on clothes for size in the middle of the carnage.
Vallely wrote: "This is rioting-meets-shopping. It does not, as one eyewitness put it, feel like an 'appeal from the heart of the ghetto' so much as an opportunity 'to get a nice new pair of trainers'. Not so much desperate as decadent."
The violence was denounced in unison by the press corps, even if the reasons behind it fell along partisan lines.
Cameron 'out of touch'
Tim Shipman of The Daily Mail wrote: "Left-wing politicians have cynically sought to make political capital out of the riots, blaming government cuts for the orgy of violence ... Labour MPs and activists lined up to make excuses for the thugs, spouting claims that disadvantaged youth had no option but to smash up high streets."
But the rival Daily Mirror on Monday placed blame at the prime minister's office.
"David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... 's government isn't directly to blame for the orgy of violence but he is badly out of touch with the country he's supposed to lead ... Smouldering Tottenham, and an economy tottering on the brink of an abyss, emphasise Britannia's yearning for a prime minster with a sure touch ... Sadly, we're saddled with a Prime Spinner who prefers to smirk for the cameras."
Such ominous forebodings about unspecified societal collapse were common.
Mary Riddell, a columnist for the Daily Telegraph, wrote of "juvenile wrecking crews on the city streets" and claims a "'lost generation'is mustering for war".
Riddell wrote: "London's riots are not the Tupperware troubles of Greece or Spain, where the middle classes lash out against their day of reckoning. They are the proof that a section of young Britannia -- the stabbers, shooters, looters, chancers and their frightened acolytes -- has fallen off the cliff-edge of a crumbling nation."
Camila Batmanghelidjh, in a column in the Independent, added her voice to those who blamed social problems and government failures, in part, for the riots.
"How, we ask, could they attack their own community with such disregard? But the young people would reply 'easily', because they feel they don't actually belong to the community. Community, they would say, has nothing to offer them," Batmanghelidjh wrote.
Others, notably Richard Littlejohn of the Daily Mail, dismissed the role of socio-economic factors.
He wrote: "One thing is certain: this wasn't about poverty, not in the material sense. If there's poverty, it's spiritual poverty, moral poverty and poverty of ambition ... In countries where there's real deprivation, they have food riots. Here we have flat-screen TV riots."
Littlejohn was one of several commentators who refuted the early comparisons to the UK protests and riots in the 1980s.
"The other certainty is that this has nothing to do with the riots at Broadwater Farm 26 years ago," he wrote.
"This wasn't a political protest, or a demonstration against oppression, it was a grotesque manifestation of our shallow, instant gratification, I-want-it-and-I-want-it-now consumerist society, coupled with an extreme kaboom of the kind of casual violence which scars our town and city centres across Britannia every weekend."
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"Nothing to do wid the riots at Broadwater Farm 26 years ago" > Uh, uh, THANKS AGAIN FOR BRINGING UP A QUESTION NO ONE HAD ASKED???
IIUC ARTIC = most of the youthful rioters are simply COPYKATS = LEMMINGS whom are more engaged in SIMPLE CRIMINAL PROFITEERING vee the Riots + Social-Community Issues, + not tied to any one econ duress or ideology???
The reaction of the Youths = Rioters to these Medias is gonna be intehwesting.
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#4 Large numbers of unemployed unemployable males, are trouble for any society
FIFY
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RENSE > ABC.net/au = Australia BBC = BLAME FOR RIOTING TURNS TO UK SOCIAL SYSTEM [Welfare-Nanny State].
ARTIC = Tottenham, etc. Riots is the outcome of various Social factors = dysfunctions that had brewing between UK Govt + UK Society for a while.
RIOT YOUTHS > argue that the UK GOVT = STATE ALWAYS KEEPS DEMANDING + PROSECUTING, ETC. BUT NEVER HELPS OR GIVES BACK, OR IN THE ALTERN NEVER HELPS OR GIVES BACK TO THE SAME DEGREE.
The Welfare-Nanny State starts off good in the beginning, but over time devols into NO JOBS, ETC. + [ultimately] NOW EVEN LITTLE-TO-NO $$$.
* NEWS KERALA > "LAWLESS LONDON LOOKS MUCH LIKE IT DID THREE CENTURIES AGO [300 Years = 18th century], SAYS EXPERT.
(KUNA) -- London mayor Boris Johnson faced a barrage of criticism Tuesday from angry residents as he toured the devastation in riot-hit Clapham with Home Secretary Theresa May.
Johnson, who flew back from his summer holiday early today, as the violence escalated across the capital, said: "I want to say to everybody who runs a shop or owns a business here how very sorry I am for the loss and the damage you have suffered.
"I also want to say to the people who have been involved in instigating these riots and those who have been robbing and stealing that they will be caught, they will be apprehended and they will face punishments they will bitterly regret," adding "I know there are questions about the police response and police numbers. We are certainly going to be dealing with those."
One woman told him: "I was in a salon when a brick came through the window and no one was here to defend me." Another woman shouted at the mayor, urging him to resign. Johnson struggled to make himself heard as he said: "Tonight we are going to have a huge number of police on the streets."
He added: "It is time that people who are engaged in looting and violence stopped hearing economic and social justification for what happened."
The mayor, who was eventually guided away from the crowds and television cameras, followed other leaders by ending his stay abroad to join efforts to quell the violence that has blighted London. The move came despite Johnson's aides previously insisting he could deal with the burgeoning crisis remotely as if "he was sitting in his office".
Johnson arrived at a cordon outside Clapham Junction station where members of the public gathered. He was greeted by the sight of a burnt-out fancy dress shop being hosed down by firefighters, surrounded by litter strewn on the streets and smashed windows. Crowds of people armed with brooms waited for permission to enter the cordon, which covered St John's Hill and Lavender Hill, to start a clean-up operation - a movement started on Twitter.
The mayor walked the length of devastated streets, past window after window of shops that were smashed in the riots last night.
Johnson received a mixed reaction veering from almost carnival spirit to anger and rage. He managed to turn ill-feeling to positive at one point by taking hold of a broom and thanking crowds for turning out.
Johnson paid tribute to the army of volunteers hoping to sweep Clapham's streets. He said: "Thank you very much to everybody who has come here to clear up the mess. "That is the spirit of London."
When asked by one angry resident why he had not come home from his holiday earlier, the mayor replied: "I came as fast as I could."
He said police had been overstretched but that same situation would not happen again. Johnson told the crowd: "It's time we heard a little bit less about the sociological justifications for what is in my view nothing less than wanton criminality."
He told waiting media: "I do not want to see a repetition of the events of last night.
"It's time for London and the majority of innocent law-abiding Londoners to reclaim their streets.
"In 2012, next year, we are going to be welcoming the world to our city and it's a great city, it's a peaceful and fundamentally safe city and when they come they will find one of the safest big cities.
"We have time in the next 12 months to rebuild, to repair the damage that has been done, to rebuild these buildings that have been destroyed.
"I'm not saying it will be done overnight, but this is what we are going to do."
The mayor blamed the situation on a "mental contagion" taking over youths' minds. "And when it does stop they will regret bitterly what they have done."
Home Secretary Theresa May, during the same visit to Clapham as Johnson, said: "This is pure criminality, all this looting, thieving and rioting.
"What we are doing tonight is putting on double the number of police, but crucially we are arresting the people who are perpetrating crime." She said those who had committed crimes would be identified using CCTV images which will be released, and then brought to justice.
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At least Johnson came home, and cut his holiday short, unlike other so called 'leaders' we all know and (don't)love.....
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"I also want to say to the people who have been involved in instigating these riots and those who have been robbing and stealing that they will be caught, they will be apprehended and they will face punishments they will bitterly regret,"
How's he gonna keep that promise?
Maybe the folks in London are unaccustomed to this sort of thing. But the only way to stop looters is to shoot the bastards in the streets. Issue shotguns to the cops, impose a curfew and shoot the violators. This has gone on for far too long. Put a chill into their spirits at the outset and cut the rioting short. Don't make any apologies and don't make any promises you can't keep.
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Mr. Johnson, when are you going to authorize deployment of the vomit gas? Right before the mobs get to your home?
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As follw-up per #5, + ala FREEREPUBLIC, ISLAMIC MILITANTS are repor using online resources to call for British Rioters = UK Muslims to OVERTHROW THE BRITISH GOVT.
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Londoners voted for this worthless fucktard. You reap what you sow people. Learn from this and never vote for someone who disregards your liberty. Because without liberty, you will never have safety or any other thing that is most important to you.
Liberty is the word which means taking care of your interests without imposing on others. This is something you can never compromise.
[Emirates 24/7] The secular Mohammedan state of Uzbekistan has expelled US eight nationals on charges of attempting to convert local Uzbeks to Christianity, a state-run website said on Tuesday.
Posing as businessmen or English language teachers, the eight "carried out unlawful missionary activity to attract Uzbek students to protestant dogma," the Russian-language gorizont.uz website said.
"Notably, the foreigners were fluent in Uzbek and called themselves with Uzbek names such as Jahongir, Husan, Jasur, Farhod," the report said.
The US Embassy in Tashkent declined to comment citing citizens' privacy issues.
All religious missionary work is banned in former Soviet republic, which is Central Asia's most populous country with 28 million inhabitants, 90 per cent of whom are Mohammedans.
News of the expulsion came just weeks after a grand jury in the US state of Alabama indicted an Uzbek national who overstayed his student visa on charges of threatening to kill President Barack B.O. Obama.
The United States has had uneasy relations with Uzbek President Islam Karimov, who has served as head of state since 1990 and has never won an election deemed free or fair.
Washington has praise Uzbekistan for its cooperation in NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... operations in neighbouring Afghanistan, but also expressed repeated reservations about the former Soviet republic's human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... record.
Local authorities argue that Uzbekistan's security is directly threatened by Islamists and the work small religious sects that destabilise society.
Uzbekistan has deported one US citizen and seven South Koreans on similar charges since 2010.
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In all fairness, the US and Uzbekistan were getting very friendly, and the US was jump starting a bunch of businesses there (I bought a bunch of very high quality Uzbekistan made t-shirts at a nonsensically low price), as well as lots of talk of US military bases and NATO membership.
However, a whole bunch of hardcore Islamists decided to overthrow the government, starting with violent riots, and the Uzbek government responded by putting them down, HARD. They are secular and mean it, and have zero tolerance for Islamic state b.s.
In any event, the killed a bunch and imprisoned a bunch more, that got the typical pro-Islamist whiners complaining. But then, a single incident, true or not, totally soured the milk with Washington.
Allegedly, the Uzbek secret police took one of the top leaders of the Islamists, and boiled him in a cauldron.
That was just a tad too primitive, which is a damn shame, because otherwise, Uzbekistan would have made a fine ally. To write off an entire country because some Islamist got what was coming to him in a less conventional way is just sad.
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Funny, I just saw a Uzbekistani restaurant the other day, for the first time ever. Cool decor, unique menu. I got the namecard to return later. Wow, what a spiffy find! Authentic cuisine, straight from Tashkent.
I showed my friend the namecard, and he quizzed me about the location of the place. Turns out, it's the local place where you go to buy hashish. I felt like a moron.
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Not surprisingly, there are several Rick's cafes in Morocco, though none serve alcohol. One, at least, has gone for the entire look and feel of the Cafe Americain seen in the movie, except not called Cafe Americain, for obvious reasons.
Though in an oversight, nobody has opened a cafe in Morocco fashioned after Sidney Greenstreet's Blue Parrot.
(KUNA) -- US President Barack B.O. Obama called late on Monday both Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi ...current Italian prime minister, known for his plain (for a European politician) speaking and his liking for hookers a third his age or less... to discuss the latest developments in the European economic crises.
A White House statement said that Obama called Zapatero and Berlusconi separately to discuss "the latest developments in the Eurozone crisis. The President welcomed the measures pursued by Spain and Italia to address their immediate economic challenges and improve their competitiveness". The first time Spain and Italy 'improve their competitiveness' will be the first time...
The White House also mentioned that Zapatero and Berlusconi "also expressed their condolences for the deaths of 30 American servicemen in Afghanistan on August 6th. The President noted that all ISAF members have made sacrifices in Afghanistan but our continued solidarity demonstrates the strength of our coalition".
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When is he going to start discussing the economic crisis here?
I've never had so much disgust, contempt and distrust for a president. I'm old enough to have voted for Nixon over McGovern so I've seen a few. Zero far outranks Carter in my list of the worst.
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#3 I'm sure both just like being lectured by a community organizing, wannabe perfesser.
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"Wannabe perfesser" is right gr(o)m. He was little more than a guest lecturer who conned his way into an office soundly pissing off the tenured personnel.
Bank credit is rising at a 30% rate for households and a 40% rate for business, after adjustment for inflation. The country's GDP growth at an 11% annual rate in the first quarter - the world's highest - because the credit bubble boosted domestic demand.
"Turkey's current account deficit is a frightening 8 per cent of GDP and is expected to hit 10 per cent before the end of the year," the Financial Times wrote August 4. "And the deficit is badly funded, with only about 15 per cent covered by foreign direct investment and the rest by portfolio flows." Cheez, if it gets any worse they'll be downgraded to AA+...
Short-term debt held by banks and hedge funds, that is, finance most of Turkey's enormous deficit and
Time is not on Turkey's side. Educated Turks in the more developed West have a fertility rate of about 1.5, the same as Western Europe; the Kurds in the country's impoverished east have four or five children. Kurds, whose independence movement has cost tens of thousands of dead over the past 30 years, may become the majority within two generations. If Turkey holds together at all, it will be quite a different place.
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The Kurds are ascending, and they know it. For many years they were as troublesome as the Jews were before they had Israel. Restless and combative no matter where they lived, with a clear focus of what they want. And this tends to give a people a lot of intestinal fortitude.
The Kurds are also like the Jews because of that rare attribute that makes them *appreciate* high intelligence in their leaders. My jaw about dropped when I first heard Kurd spokesmen speak, in perfect American English and with the persuasive abilities of a top notch lobbyist. I knew then that they would quickly curry favor with Washington.
And now that they effectively have their own country, albeit within Iraq, it has made the Kurds in Iran, Turkey and Syria extra "itchy". Not to migrate to Iraq, but to expand Iraqi Kurdistan into a "greater Kurdistan".
Since they cannot do this by force of arms, they are doing with the other tool at their disposal, population increase, whether consciously or not.
Yet ironically, at the same time, the Arab world is in decline in a major way, demographically. They are depressed and unhappy, being caught between the nastiness of Islam and the nastiness of authoritarian socialism, and they are sick to death of both of them.
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I should have defined "current account deficit".
It is essentially the balance of trade adjusted for foreign aid and various interest and dividends coming into the treasury from foreign holdings. The US current account deficit is about 4%.
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This has been going on for nearly a month!
Israel is awash in the largest public protest movement in recent memory after more than 250,000 took to the streets over the weekend to demand reforms to ease the economic burden on the middle class.
The mass demonstrations, an odd jumble of everyone from leftists to ultra-Orthodox Jews, mark a new activist spirit among young Israelis who have grown increasingly indifferent toward their government.
Protester Oren Solo says answering a Facebook invitation to protest housing prices was his first taste of political activism since peace marches after the 1995 assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, when he was a teenager.
Three weeks after coming out onto the boulevard, Mr. Solo still resides in the tent city, having found common purpose with other young people struggling to make ends meet.
"We talk about these issues all the time at home in the [living room]," he says, "but we never went out and did anything about it." Until now.
Tamar Hermann, a public opinion expert at the Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem says that Israel's younger generation is still more politically aware than peers in other countries, but they are less inclined to become involved with political parties or political youth movements than their parents. (Editor's note: The original version misstated Ms. Hermann's affiliation.)
"Compared to 30 or 40 years ago they are less interested in establishment-style politics. They see the political system as inattentive, malfunctioning and corrupt, which is not so much different [from] the way people in other liberal democracies see their political systems," she says. In recent years, youths have supported niche parties as protest votes instead of mainstream parties that they can't tell apart.
"The fact is that this [movement] is highly heterogeneous. In the past, the protesters were made of one piece of cloth. They were either highly secular and left, or Orthodox right-wingers."
Because they have maintained distance from mainstream political parties, the protesters have an authenticity with the Israeli public that allows them to reach across Israel's traditional political rifts.
While the majority of the movement is secular, along the encampment on Tel Aviv's Rothschild boulevard -- the heart of the protest movement -- ultra-Orthodox Jews and settlers can be seen along with hard-core leftists. It is one part bohemian block party, one part outdoor political salon. Amid a clutter of improvised manifestos and political slogans hung like installation art from trees and makeshift shelters, the camp residents sit into the early hours of the morning in guitar circles, alternating between song and political debate.
"There isn't any party in the government that is encouraging these [protests]. That is why this came from the people," says Uri Kalian, a musician in his thirties who had grown weary of politics before participating in these protests. "Israel is a country that used to have idealistic leaders. But nowadays politicians are corrupt, no matter who is in power."
The downside of the extra-political protest is that the movement lacks a clear political leaders, increasing the chances of disillusionment and more apathy if there are no clear results, says Ms. Hermann.
"If this is even partially successful it may bring people into the political system. But not necessarily via parties."
New Israel Fund also supports the following organizations:
Adalah, Breaking the Silence, BTselem, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, the Center for the Defense of the Individual, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, Yesh Din, Doctors for Human Rights, Gisha, Bimkom, Rabbis for Human Rights, Itach, Other Voice, New Profile, Machsom Watch and Who Profits from the Occupation.
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Yes, they need a tea party. It is always important for free people to challenge their government. More than anywhere else, Israel is a nation of the Law. With a capital L, Law. Their leaders need to be held to the Law. And their leader's shortfalls before the Law are not mere peccadilloes, but mortal faults.
* WAFF > [MEMRI.TV] HIZBULLAH MP, RETIRED GENERAL WALID SAKARIYA, SAYS SYRIA, IRAQ, IRAN, + HIZBULLAH [read, LEBANON?] WILL WIPE OUT ISRAEL EVEN AT THE COST OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF CASUALTIES [Muslim "Martyrs"], FOLLOWING US WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ.
ARTIC > "BATTLE FOR SYRIA" > SAKARIYA = argues that CONTROL OF SYRIA [Baby Assad] is key to BOTH AMERICA'S PRO-ISRAEL STRATEGY AS WELL ITS ANTITHESIS THE RISING IRAN-LED "SHIA BLOC/CRESCENT" IN THE ME.
IIUC , SYRIA = both the STRATEGIC OFFENSIVE "FLOODGATE" FOR THE FINAL BATTLE AGZ ISRAEL, as well as the STRATEGIC DEFENSIVE "WALL" AGZ US-ISRAELI RETALIATION AGZ HIZBULLAH/LEBANON + IRAN???
SUB-IIUC, SYRIA = IRAN'S "NORTH KOREA"???
SUB-SUB-IIUC, SAKARIYA HAS INDIR ADMITTED THAT IRAN DOES INTEND FUTURE IRAN/SHIA HEGEMONY IN THE ME, which SSSSSHHHHHHHHH Iran will Nukes for.
SSSSSSSHHHHHHHHH....CCCCCCCCCCCCC-Correctness.
But you didn't hear it from Moud or Mullahs.
* PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > AL-QAEDA IN IRAQ ASKS [Sunni] EX-FIGHTERS TO RETURN, THREATENS [revenge]ATTACKS, agz those same = ex-Members whom do not repent + return. JIHAD IN IRAQ TO CONTINUE UNTIL THE GREAT ISLAMIC "DAY OF JUDGEMENT". IOW, Total Victory or Total Defeat/Destruction.
Those ex-AQI whom fight agz their former Group + Muslims in favor of the IGA + US will see themslves + their familes suffer terrible fates.
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the Dems and Unions (BIRM) poured in $30M and countless volunteers and couldn't get the three wins they needed. Next week, 2 Dem Senators are getting their recall vote.
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I don't like to see union members coming in from across the country to attempt to influence Wisconsin's election. Let the people of Wisconsin decide their elections. Keep the goons out. By the way, "How's that working out for you?" That's $30 million p!ssed down the drain--wasted union dues.
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Combined spending between the Dems, unions and 'interested parties' closer to $60M.
State conservatives are re-energised by the outcome yesterday as they had no realistic way of competing with the $$$ spent by the unions and other aligned groups.
Interesting to see what next Tuesday's voting brings. The folks in those two districts were REALLY p*ssed that their senators (D®) fled the state instead of doing their job. Recall petitions were already submitted in one of the districts up for vote next week before the Dems got the idea to try for the six other seats. So far, the 'R' candidates in those districts have been focusing on the 'fleebagging' aspect and that Wisconsin is now in a much better financial shape than it was before the State Finance Bill was passed (you know, the one that strips government unions of SOME of their bargaining rights, like collective bargaining for health care and not just giving the money to a union-owned insurance firm charging 30% more than the industry average).
Haven't heard much about what the 'D' folks in those districts are running on other than trying to defame their opponents. Don't think there's much money left on that side to help them, either.
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Thefolks in those two districts were REALLY p*ssed that their senators (D®) fled the state instead of doing their job. What about the other districts where the same thing happened? Apparently those voters considered their rep's dereliction of duty acceptable.
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Well, they don't AH. The average folks didn't, and still don't, like it one bit. The districts holding Dem recalls are full of the 'average folks'.
The problem with the other Dems is that they're from districts that are overwhelmingly 'blue' (i.e. inner city, heavy-union strongholds, government centers). The local state conservatives (without 'help' from the outside) decided to focus their efforts (and limited $$$) on the 'squishy' districts that can go either way.
The rest of the Dems are up for re-election in 2012.
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Thanks for the update, MH.
Spent some of my political fund on yesterday's recall (Hint: I did NOT send to Dems); I'll send donations to the other 2 tonight.
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Mullah Richard, what are the odds in District 12 for Simac (R) vs. Holperin (D) and District 22 for Steitz (R) Wirch (D)? I think Distric 12 is up in the north central part of Wisconsin and 22 around Kenosha.
District 12 (far northeast - God's Country) they see as a toss-up right now. Holperin has over double the cash to spend than Simac does, but the average folks are still pretty steamed. Lot's of conservatives from around the state are going up there to help. Simac is a business owner and one of the founders of the local Tea Party. I've heard her speak and she seems pretty with it. I've met Holperin and he seems sort of moderate, but toes the party line when the going gets tough.
It will be amazing if Jonathan (Steitz) pulls this off, but he's pretty determined and has a lot of local help. The unions are being pretty aggressive as Wirch is 'their boy'. District 22 is on the very southeast part of the state around Kenosha. You can throw a rock from there and hit a Chicago suburb. Need I say more?
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MR, donations sent. It wasn't much - hope it helps.
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Thank you, thank you Barbara! I'm working phones over in 22 this weekend because we feel that if we can get more of our folks out on Tuesday, there may be a chance (although slim).
If even one of these incumbent D's goes down, it pokes a bigger thumb into the eyes of the national unions (AND drains their coffers without gain ahead of 2012). Makes it harder for outside entities to collect donations, too.
Thank you again.
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It looks like the Praetorian Guard's counter-revolution didn't have as much traction as they hoped.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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