[CNN] A magnitude-6.1 earthquake struck off the western coast of Greece early Monday, the US. Geological Survey reported. The quake hit near the island of Cephalonia, roughly 300 kilometers (185 miles) west of Athens, at a depth of about 14 kilometers (9 miles), the USGS said. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties..
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Whoa - Greece???
Judging from the size + magnitude of the pre-EQ lights over Guam-WESTPAC, I'd originally thought it was closer to home than that.
The Great Lakes are under the largest cover of ice in 20 years. The early winter polar vortex that brought in freezing temperatures throughout eastern North America has put an ice cover over about 52 per cent of the Great Lakes.
And that ice cover is expected to continue to expand say scientists, as frigid temperatures keep their grip on the region. a good source for relatively current ice cover is the Canadian ice service. The article is a few days old I think. By my estimate the cover as of this pm was more like 60% -- also, other parts of the arctic and near arctic are below normal in ice coverage e.g., near the Bering strait and in a part of Baffin bay
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...ice is where "Global Warming" is stored, right..?
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You guys just don't get it. The fact that we have more ice here, and less ice over there, is more proof of rapid, accelerating, catastrophic, climate change caused by cow digestive gas and other man-made horrors.
I grew up in Chicago, near Lake Michigan, and that's where I learned to be sarcastic.
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The msm will ignore this years unusual lack of warmth, then next year if things return to average will trumpet how much hotter it was than last year...
Watch.
As per 1960's-70's = 2013 "MAN OF STEEL" Movie + other, wait until the Kiddies discover their psychokinetic Jedi-Sith powers + start melting the frozen lake wid their eyes, flying around, etc.
Personally I blame their frivolity on Obama's alleged Communist mother.
D *** NG IT, WOMAN, THEY'RE LIBERALS, LIBERALS I TELL YA!
[BREITBART] Health organizations and U.S. nutrition experts say they are calling on fast-food restaurant chains to take sugary drinks off their children's menus.
Margo G. Wootan, nutrition policy director at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, said McDonald's agreed to drop soda and sugary drinks from Happy Meal menus last year, and 100 U.S. and local health organizations along with nutritional experts said in a letter to Wendy's, Burger King and 21 other restaurant chains that they too should remove the items from their children's menus.
Subway, Chipotle, Arby's and Panera already exclude sugary drinks from kids' meals.
"With 1-in-3 children overweight or obese in the United States, it no longer makes sense to include sugary beverages in restaurant meals for young children," the letter said.
The groups quoted research published in The Lancet that found drinking just one additional sugary drink every day increases a child's chances of becoming obese by 60 percent, Wootan said.
Besides CSPI, the letters to the restaurant chains were signed by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the American Cancer Society, the American Diabetes Association, The Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Endowment, the Consumer Federation of America, MomsRising.org and the National Council of La Raza.
"Parents face an enormous uphill battle when it comes to teaching their kids about nutrition and feeding them a healthy diet," said Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, executive director and chief executive officer of MomsRising.org.
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I think fast food chains in the U.S. generally carry either Coke products or Pepsi products, g(r)omgoru. SodaStream is a private pleasure. This is just the White House's crusade against the pleasures of the lower classes.
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My Mother had no problem teaching us to eat healthy. We would ask for something and she'd say, "NO. it's not good for you". We knew not to ask again.
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Knucke dragging, bible thumping, gun toting Pied-Noir (that's me) calls health groups to drop dead.
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There's some study out there claiming diet drinks leave your body starving for sugar, so you eat more, and blimp up. I s'pose I'll hafta find a link...
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Diet soda, it turns out, may not be the panacea for weight loss that we all thought and many of us hoped it was. In fact, a Purdue University study has found that diet sodas may be linked to a number of health problems from obesity to diabetes to heart disease, just like their more sugary counterparts.
Some studies have shown that when people drink diet soda, they engage in what's known as "cognitive distortion," deciding that since they saved on liquid calories they can splurge elsewhere the "diet coke and fries" order.
Which is fewer calories than fries and a milkshake.
Here's what I was remembering -
Somehow artificial sweeteners throw off the body's ability to know how many calories it needs.
Normally when someone consumes something sweet, the body expects calories and sugar to follow. But when a person drinks diet soda the payoff never arrives.
"You get this kind of confusion and that can lead to overeating, and at least in the animal model that can lead to an increase in blood sugar spikes," Swithers said.
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We are more obese, but living longer. The new Puritanism seeks more power and control over your lives.
"With 1-in-3 children overweight or obese in the United States, it no longer makes sense to include sugary beverages in restaurant meals for young children," the letter said.
Power. Government as your father/mother.
Don't worry. Given the socialist bent for destroying free markets and killing incentives to get ahead (by taking anything you make for redistribution), we'll all be back to 40s-50s relative income levels soon enough where we won't be able to afford this stuff so regularly. Out with soda and back to (Red) Koolaid (to kill the taste of just affordable tap water).
[ATLANTA.CBSLOCAL] Exposure to surfaces and objects that have been saturated in cigarette smoke, labeled as "third-hand smoke," is just as deadly as smoking the cigarette itself. Fourth and fifth hand smoke is just as bad. Sixth hand smoke probably is, too. The knowledge that there is smoke will give you cancer. Be warned!
A new study from the University of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Riverside finds that the third-hand smoke that has soaked into the surfaces, objects and environment around people becomes increasingly toxic over time. Third-hand smoke is defined as the second-hand smoke that is allowed to settle on objects in any environment. Non-smoking children, co-workers, spouses and friends of smokers breathe in such carcinogens left in rooms exposed to smokers.
"We studied, on mice, the effects of third-hand smoke on several organ systems under conditions that simulated third-hand smoke exposure of humans," Manuela Martins-Green, a professor of cell biology who led the study, said in a statement to UCR Today. "We found significant damage occurs in the liver and lung. Wounds in these mice took longer to heal. Further, these mice displayed hyperactivity."
The researchers note that smoking tobacco remains a worldwide cause of serious health threats for smokers and nonsmokers alike, affected approximately 1.5 billion people globally.
The study published in the journal PLOS ONE finds that third-hand smoke persists in houses, hotel rooms and other living spaces long after smokers move out. The mice exposed to third-hand smoke in the lab showed variations in multiple organ systems and excreted levels of a tobacco-specific carcinogen similar to children exposed to secondhand smoke. Wounds healed more slowly and the liver was negatively impacted.
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17th hand smoke...it brings you back from the dead and kills you again.
[An Nahar] The head of Algeria's ruling party, a vocal supporter of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika ... 10th president of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and is currently on his third or fourth term, who will probably die in office of old age... seeking a fourth term in April elections, called on the powerful intelligence chief to resign in an interview published Monday.
General Mohammed "Tewfik" Mediene, the long-time leader of the DRS military intelligence agency, is considered a towering force in Algeria, whose secretive military elite has dominated the country's political scene since independence.
Bouteflika reportedly took decisive steps to roll back their pervasive influence last year by curbing the prerogatives of the DRS, which analysts said strengthened the president's hand in his long-running power struggle with the military, ahead of the upcoming elections.
But public criticism by senior Algerian officials of the man at the head of the intelligence agency since 1990 is very rare.
"If we examine the achievements of internal security in certain important cases, we can see that the agency's failures have multiplied," Amar Saidani, secretary general of Bouteflika's National Liberation Front (FLN), told independent news website Tout sur l'Algerie.
"In my opinion, Tewfik should have resigned after these failures," added Saidani, using the name by which General Mediene is commonly known in Algeria.
Notable security failures cited by the FLN leader included the bloody hostage raid on a desert gas plant in January 2013, an attempt on Bouteflika's life in September 2007 and a deadly attack on the U.N. headquarters in Algiers later that year.
"The presence of internal security in every institution gives the impression that power in Algeria is not in civilian hands," Saidani said.
"Instead of managing the country's security, this department (the DRS) interferes with the activities of political parties, the judiciary and the press," he added.
Saidani was controversially elected FLN secretary general in August last year, amid strong opposition from some within the ruling party, just a month before Bouteflika was reportedly curtailed the powers of the DRS.
Three of the agency's key units -- the army communications bureau, its central security office and its judicial police force -- where placed under the control of General Ahmed Gaid Salah, a close Bouteflika ally, according to local press reports that have not been denied.
Referring to damaging accusations and corruption scandals that have implicated members of Bouteflika's inner circle in recent years, notably former energy minister Chakib Khelil, Saidani said the DRS "never stops making up stories about those close to the president."
Contacted by Agence La Belle France Presse, a member of the FLN's political office refused to comment on the party leader's remarks.
Saidani announced in November that Bouteflika, 76, was the FLN's designated candidate in the upcoming presidential polls, despite many in Algeria rejecting the idea given the president's age and fragile health.
Bouteflika has not been seen or heard in public since suffering a mini-stroke last year, and has yet to say whether he will contest the election.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... 's Natore municipality unit Vice-President Rowshan Arefin, also brother-in-law of a state minister, allegedly cut trees worth Tk1 lakh from government land yesterday.
Rawshan is a cloth trader by profession. His wife Fahmida Akter is the elder sister of State Minister for Information and Communication Technology Junayed Ahmed Palak, many local people and the local administration sources confirmed to the Dhaka Tribune.
Witnesses said some workers in presence of the Jamaat-e-Islami leader felled the trees from a government land under ward five in Singra municipality.
Locals informed the AC (assistant commissioner) Land office which later directed not to remove the trees from the spot.
However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... the administrator neither seized the trees already felled nor served the accused any notice.
Local timber trader Arman Ali said the price of the tree would be around Tk1 lakh.
When contacted, Rowshan Ali said: "Although it is government land, the trees were planted by my father.
"I stopped cutting the trees being instructed by the AC Land office. I have applied to the office to get two-thirds of the trees."
Salma Khatun, UNO of Singra upazila, told the Dhaka Tribune: "Upon getting information, I directed AC Land Rafiqul Islam to visit the spot and investigate the allegation."
She said they would make a decision in this regard at a meeting today.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Two leaders of the Rajshahi University unit Chhatra League ... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ... , student wing of the ruling Awami League, have been expelled from the organization following Sunday's attack on protesters that left scores of students injured.
Sheikh Rasel, office secretary of Chhatra League's central committee, told the Dhaka Tribune that Nasim Ahmed Setu, joint secretary, and Shamsuzzaman Emon, organising secretary of RU unit, were expelled for "anti-organization activities."
It was learnt from Ganabhaban sources that the decision was made after the Chhatra League president and the secretary met Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums.. .
The authorities closed down university for an indefinite period after the police and the Chhatra League activists attacked students, who were demonstrating on the campus protesting fee hike and introduction of evening masters courses in social science faculty.
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[Dhaka Tribune] The BNP has threatened to wage an unstoppable movement soon to oust the government for its 'growing repressive act'
"This government wants to hang on to power using terror. We will soon launch a rigorous movement to put an end to this autocratic regime," said BNP Joint Sectary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi at a press briefing at the party's Nayapaltan head office in the capital yesterday.
He also alleged that the government intends to annihilate the opposition so there will be no one to speak against its misdeeds. Slamming the government for, as he termed it, the recent spate of extra-judicial killings, Rizvi alleged the government is now killing opposition leaders and activists across the country using its subservient law enforcers.
Referring to a recent report of local rights body Odhikar, the BNP leader added that 39 opposition leaders and activists have become victim of extra-judicial killings after the January 5 general election.
He further said the government is now barring the opposition from holding their democratic programmes so that it gets isolated from the people.
The BNP leader also condemned the recent attack on general students at Rajshahi University by Chhatra League ... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ... activists.
"Although the activists of Chhatra League and police attacked general students at Rajshahi University, the Prime Minister, the Information Minister and Home Minister have remained silent. It seems that they are proud of the heinous activities of Chhatra League," Rizvi added.
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Sounds more like interstate gas station chilli.
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Azerbaijani parliament speaker Oqtay Asadov has called on mullahs in the country to perform their prayers in Azeri, not in Arabic.
During a parliamentary session, Asadov said that since all the verses of the Koran have been translated into Azeri, it would be better if all the prayers during sermons or events linked to religious services were performed in Azeri to make it easier for people to fully understand the prayer. But Islamic regulations say all prayers must start with Koranic verses in Arabic -- which even in that language have different interpretations -- and afterward continue in a native language.
Azerbaijan's head mufti has not yet responded to Asadov's call.
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Is it heresy or is it oracular
To bother Allah in vernacular?
If the whole bloody rabble
Should gabble like Babel,
What confusion in heaven: spectacular!
[Fox News] When you recognize that North Koreans know nothing about the outside world, to think that Dennis Rodman represents us in any way is ludicrous, Marcinko said. And certainly, for the mass population there, if they thought there were more of him around, you can understand why they should launch a nuke. Or deploy a team of North Korean Psychiatrists Without Borders.
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Marcinko's kind of strange too - not Rodman-strange, but still not quite right in the head (but don't tell him I said that...)
I've known a few SEALs, they're a special breed. It takes a certain mindset to make it through the training it takes to become a special forces operator. We're fortunate to have such men.
Hat tip Daring Fireball, but poor Mr. Gruber won't likely approve of me and my politics, even if I do use a Mac :-)
Poor Microsoft. It seems North Korea doesnt like the traditional Windows-look anymore.
The latest version of the countrys home-grown operating system, Red Star Linux, has been restyled and ships with a desktop that closely resembles Apples Mac OSX. The previous version was based on the popular KDE desktop that mimicked that of Windows 7.
Lots of screenshots at the link.
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Since it's just rebadged linux all they're doing is changing from one already available theme (possibly slightly modified) to another (also possibly slightly modified). It's just a skin, it can be swapped out.
I've experiemnted with customizing live-cd's myself, I don't call it a new OS. They do.
When industrialist John Correnti announced last year he was opening a $1 billion steel mill in the struggling delta town of Osceola, Arkansas, officials feted him at the marbled state capitol. "The site," Correnti said, "is steel-mill heaven."
He went on to describe a 550 kV power transmission line passing through the property, with the shipping lane of the Mississippi River on one side and a railroad on the other. An interstate is a few miles away. Correnti also hailed the "can-do attitude of the governmental agencies, plus the Arkansas farm boys and farm girls." Arkansas government with a "can do" attitude? Left over from Slick Willie?
The fact that all of it is sitting atop the natural-gas-rich Fayetteville shale never came up. But industry insiders are citing Big River Steel and similar projects as the result of abundant new fuel supplies. The American Chemistry Council predicts 13,000 jobs will be created in Arkansas, 500 of those at Big River Steel. It's touted as a key dividend of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and the unlocking of massive reserves in shale formations across the country.
President Obama picked up the theme in his State of the Union address. "One of the biggest factors in bringing more jobs back is our commitment to American energy," he said. "Our commitment"? Really?
"Businesses plan to invest almost $100 billion in new factories that use natural gas," he added, pledging to cut red tape to help get the facilities built. But not the Keystone Pipeline. Ironic, Obama touting something that succeeded in spite of him and his administration. Suddenly, natural gas is the stuff dreams are made of. Well, if not dreams, then pool liners, food packaging, shoes, diapers, coatings, films, and sealants. Jobs, basically. Manufacturing jobs. Industry predictions--always heady--have ranged as high as 5 million new U.S. factory jobs in the coming decade due to cheap new natural gas supplies.
But can abundant natural gas really turn back the clock on more than three decades of economic change? Some 7.5 million U.S. manufacturing jobs have been lost since the 1970s, for reasons that are complex, but include cheap labor, lax environmental regulation, and subsidy and tax policies overseas. The cost of energy is certainly one factor in siting new factories, but is it a big enough bait to lure back the blue-collar jobs lost during the rise of globalization? I am sure some progressives are thinking, "Why should we bother if gas is not a 'silver bullet' to sole all our ailments?"
The numbers show that manufacturing in the United States is indeed making a comeback. But there remains plenty of disagreement about why, how far it will go, and how big of a role the new supply of natural gas is playing. "Increased oil and gas supplies will bring an economic renaissance to the United States," petroleum economist Philip Verleger declared recently. "Energy independence, once thought unrealistic, will be achieved."
Research firm IHS predicts that as many as 3.8 million new jobs will be created in the United States, either directly or indirectly related to the natural gas industry, by 2025. There is a catch, of course. The U.S. government needs to give the industry what it wants, such as more access to federal land for drilling and no new regulation.
Anecdotes abound of factory jobs returning stateside. But what accounts for the bump? Goldman Sachs' economist Jan Hatzius has dismissed it largely as cyclical, and cast doubt on the idea that natural gas is doing much for manufacturers.
In fact, U.S. economic recovery efforts likely had more impact than energy prices. Of the 307,000 net new manufacturing jobs that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says have been added since the recession officially ended in June 2009, 65 percent were in the auto and auto parts manufacturing industries. They're not extremely energy-intensive, but they did benefit from a $78 billion government bailout, since repaid. So it IS the gubbamint that single-handedly drives the economy! However Still, International Energy Agency said "the logic of a manufacturing renaissance remains compelling," and it cited other studies predicting creation of from 1 million to 5 million new U.S. jobs in the sector in the next decade. The price of natural gas in the European Union, where domestic supplies of the fuel are falling, is now triple the price in the United States. Japan, entirely dependent on natural gas imports, pays nearly five times as much. Maybe we can sell US gas at a fat profit, and still undercut the Rooskis?
IEA said that over the next decade the United States will enjoy an export cost advantage of 5 to 25 percent over Germany, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, and Japan in a range of industries, including plastics, rubber, machinery, electrical equipment, computers, and electronics--as long as U.S. natural gas prices stay low. I call that good news! Thanks, Champ!
Ironically, some big players in the U.S. chemical industry have fought efforts to build new facilities to export U.S. natural gas, for fear that sending the fuel to overseas markets will reduce supply here. That could cause domestic natural gas prices to rise--erasing the low-cost fuel and feedstock advantage for U.S. manufacturers. There's always somebody wants to pee in your charcoal!
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And iff the UK is any example, as the Globies wnat the US to be like the UK = Democratic socialist Europe, "fracking" is also good for taking away what private property andor private enjoyment rights the mainstream have left???
[ABC.NET.AU] The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... says its first report on corruption within the bloc has revealed a "breathtaking" level of misconduct, and that trust is being eroded in democratic institutions and helping organised crime to grow.
And if you can't believe a corruption report from the E.U., what can you believe?
It found three-quarters of Europeans surveyed felt corruption was widespread, with high levels of bribery noted in Greece, Romania and Bulgaria.
The EU's home affairs commissioner, Cecilia Malmstroem, says corruption was noted in each of the 28 EU member states.
"There are estimations that corruption costs in the European Union is no less than 120 billion euros each year, and that is the equivalent of an EU annual budget so it's a lot of money we are talking about," she said.
"Corruption undermines citizens' confidence in democratic institutions and the rule of law, it hurts the European economy and deprives states of much-needed tax revenue."
The report places the EU, often portrayed as one of the globe's cleanest regions, in an unflattering light.
Among businesses, belief is widespread that the only way to succeed is through political connections.
Greece, Spain, Italia seen as worst offenders
Experiences of corruption vary across the 28-country bloc. Almost all companies in Greece, Spain and Italia believe it is widespread, according to the report.
Corruption is considered rare in Denmark, Finland and Sweden.
That mirrors the finding of Transparency International's corruption perception index.
It named Greece as the worst performer in the EU, sharing 80th place globally with China. Denmark was seen as the least corrupt.
Construction companies, which often tender for government contracts, are the most affected. Almost eight in 10 of those asked complained about corruption.
Overall, 43 per cent of companies see corruption as a problem.
"Europe's problem is not so much with small bribes on the whole," Transparency International's Carl Dolan said.
"It's with the ties between the political class and industry.
"There has been a failure to regulate politicians' conflicts of interest in dealing with business. The rewards for favouring companies, in allocating contracts or making changes to legislation, are positions in the private sector when they have left office, rather than a bribe."
The European Commission recommended better controls and a redoubling of enforcement.
The report was published shortly after Romania's former prime minister, Adrian Nastase, was sent to jail for four years for taking bribes.
He was the first premier to be put behind bars since the collapse of communism in Europe in 1989.
The EU has repeatedly raised concerns about a failure to tackle high-level graft in Romania and Bulgaria, the bloc's two poorest members.
They have been blocked from joining the passport-free Schengen zone over the issue since their entry.
In October 2012, former European health commissioner John Dalli was forced to quit after an associate was accused of asking for 60 million euros from a tobacco company in return for influencing EU tobacco law.
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Corrupt Europeans. Whoda thunkit.
In our next theater of the obvious story,...
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Haven't been to Chicago or Illinois have they (or MA or NJ or...).
Corruption is considered rare in Denmark, Finland and Sweden.
Something about 95+ percent white, Lutheran infused culture with an ingrained sense of personal responsibility, integrity and innate value of one's work. Of course pointing the facts out make this post racist.
Isn't it amazing how people who justify one program or another (see Obamacare) often site such countries but never point out demographic facts as the proceeding.
(on a tangential note - the posted pic has a sort of a scary resemblance to a younger Boeher, shades of The Prisoner of Zenda)
[DAWN] As many as seven people including a woman died and 68 were maimed in Mianchunnu, Khanewal district, on Sunday when the roof of a seminary collapsed under the weight of women participating in a Qul ceremony.
The dear departed were identified as Shahnaz Bibi, Pir Bakhsh of Tulamba, Ghulam Muhammad of Muaza Haidarabad, Shaaban of Chak No 131/15-L, Baba Bashir of Chak No56/8-R, Zaffar and Iqbal.
According to eyewitnesses and police, during Koran Khawani (recitation of the Holy Koran) for the dear departed tehsil president of officially banned Ahl-e-Sunnat Wul Jamaat (ASWJ), Maulana Rab Nawaz Abid, at Madressah Hunain Ibn-e-Ali in Rehmant Colony, the roof of the seminary hall collapsed. As a result some 100 people were trapped under the rubble.
According to an eyewitness, at the event seating arrangements for male participants were made in the hall while women were on its rooftop.
He said the old hall roof suddenly caved in under the weight of women who were attending the ceremony in a large number.
The Rescue 1122 teams with the help of locals and police pulled out survivors trapped under the rubble and shifted them to local tehsil headquarters hospital.
Khanewal District Police Officer Khanewal however claimed that five people were died in the incident.
According to THQ hospital Medical Superintendent Dr Abdul Sattar, out of total 68 people who were shifted to the hospital, four gave up the ghost. Similarly, he said, two of the nine injured who were transported to the Nishtar Hospital, Multan, due to their critical condition, died.
He said the injured shifted to the Nishtar Hospital included Mumtaz Bibi of Chak No56/15-L, Manzooran Bibi, Mumtaz Bibi of Mauza Haidarabad, Lakhan Bibi, Hanifan Bibi, Hajran Bibi, Hafiz Ramzan, Bakhtawar Bibi and Rafiq.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella grabbed the cocoanut cream... taking notice of the incident, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif directed the District Coordination Officer Zahid Saleem Gondal to monitor the treatment of the injured shifted to the Nishtar Hospital.
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Seminary? Do Muslims have seminary's (per 3rd Paragraph)?
[Jerusalem Post] US National Security Advisor Susan Rice came to the defense on Tuesday of US Secretary of State John Kerry after he was roundly criticized by a number of Israeli government officials over comments that he made on the weekend about the Israeli Palestinian peace talks.
Kerry said at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, that a consequence for Israel if it does not reach a peace deal is an economic boycott against it.
Following Kerry's remarks Bayit Yehudi leader Naftali Bennett said: "We expect our friends in the world to stand by our side against anti-Semitic boycott efforts against Israel, and not be their trumpet."
Rice, who was the US envoy to the UN before her current post tweeted "Personal attacks in Israel directed at Sec[retary] Kerry [are] totally unfounded and unacceptable. The US government has been clear and consistent that we reject efforts to boycott or delegitimize Israel." Susan Rice, an old administration expert on "unfounded and unacceptable" statements.
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Wait -- someone trusts Kerry to be an errand boy? I assumed he was the distraction from whoever was really in charge.
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"Economic boycott against it" > IMO would have the same effect as iff Israel fought a new "1973/Yom Kippur II" against its 21st century enemies, + the US or US-Allies chose not to resupply Israel's combat losses.
IOW, WHAT COULD ALSO HAPPEN TO US ALLIES IN EAST ASIA VEE ANY MIL CONFLICT AGZ RISING CHINA.
Anyhoo, both the Bammer + SecState Jaawhn should epxlain to the Amer people just what kind of alleged "peace deal" or "effective" peace deal is being made whereby both Egypt + Jordan hold traditional sovereignty over Paleo/PA-specific state land - AFAIK NEITHER EGYPT NOR JORDAN IS WILLING TO BE ECON RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PALEOS ONCE THE FINAL DEAL IS SIGNED???
THERE ARE MANY IMPORTANT LINGERING QUESTIONS, + THE ADMIN IS NOT ANSWERING ANY OF 'EM.
TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 3 (UPI) - Elbit Systems says it is delivering its new Hermes 900 unmanned aerial vehicle to three foreign countries [Finland, Colombia, Chile],
as well as the Israeli military, underlining how the Jewish state's defense industry has become one of the world's top exporters of drones.
Excerpt: "The process, called Spectral Beam Combining, sends beams from multiple fiber laser modules, each with a unique wavelength, into a combiner presumably inside the box that says "TOP SECRET"
that forms a single, powerful, high quality beam."
[An Nahar] The United States Monday warned against moves to stage a military coup in Thailand and said it was "concerned that political tensions" are challenging the Southeast Asian nation's democracy.
"We certainly do not want to see a coup or violence... in any case of course. We are speaking directly to all elements in Thai society to make clear the importance of using democratic and constitutional means to resolve political differences," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said after disrupted weekend elections.
While there had been "peaceful and orderly polling" in most areas on Sunday "but there were also disturbing incidents of violence on the eve of the election," as well as efforts to block voters getting to the polls, she said.
"We remain concerned that political tensions in Thailand are posing challenges to the democratic institutions and processes of Thailand," Psaki told news hounds.
"We certainly don't take sides, as you know, in Thailand's political disputes, but we continue to urge all sides to commit to sincere dialogue to resolve political differences peacefully and democratically."
Millions were denied the opportunity to cast ballots on Sunday, with blockades by protesters seeking to prevent the re-election of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra causing the closure of some 10 percent of polling stations.
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The advocates, including the AFL-CIO and pro-immigration groups, argue that Obama should use his executive authority to expand a 2012 decision that halted deportations of young people brought to the United States illegally by their parents. The administration's aggressive approach to enforcement -- which has resulted in nearly 2 million deportations during Obama's tenure -- makes little sense at a time when Congress could be on the verge of providing legal relief, advocates say. Let's pretend the law we want is already passed!
The push places the White House in a difficult political position as it attempts to negotiate with a House Republican caucus sharply divided on immigration. Leading conservatives said over the weekend that the chief impediment to a deal is their distrust that Obama would enforce new border-security provisions if a large portion of the nation's 11.7 million illegal immigrants are granted legal status. At least the WaPo used the term 'illegal'.
AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka said in an interview last week that the White House would actually improve its bargaining position with House Republicans if Obama unilaterally suspended deportations. Millions of undocumented immigrants would be allowed to join the public debate, Trumka said, putting more pressure on a party struggling to broaden its appeal with Latinos and Asian Americans.
"If I were president, I would have said the following: 'It's a broken system. Except for violent criminals, no more deportations until you help me fix a broken system,' " Trumka said. Trumka must've learned his arm-twisting techniques in Chicago. Or the United Mine Workers.
"The president's stated policy since taking office is 'enforcement on steroids' in order to gain credibility and give him leverage on negotiations over immigration reform," Karp said. "That strategy is a failure. It's failed politically and caused untold suffering in the immigrant community. It's time for a new strategy."
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Since they're 'all' going to be 'legal', let's just dissolve the United States and everyone will be on equal footing, since there will be no citizens or reason to be one.
#2
And on FREEREPUBLIC this AM, Artic says we can end heroin overdoses iff only we legalize Heroin use.
BTW, SAME = SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL ZOOPHILIA + BESTIALITY RIGHTS DAY!
Soon OWG Amerikans may see that glorious day when they can legally marry their Cow(s), etal. + their Robot(s) + Femme Internet Voice.
[ "HER" MOVIE HERE].
Too much uncontrolled diversity + pluralism, + pan-societal reaction to same, is what led in part to the rise of ADOLF HITLER = FASCISM, as well as LENIN + STALIN = COMMUNISM.
...more and more every day, I find myself hoping that, at the news "Event Horizon," all reporting outlets in the world are really controlled and edited by "The Onion"...
U.S. intelligence agencies last week urged the Obama administration to check its new healthcare network for malicious software after learning that developers linked to the Belarus government helped produce the website, raising fresh concerns that private data posted by millions of Americans will be compromised.
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"Tsepkalo told a Russian radio station in an interview broadcast last summer that HHS is one of our clients, and that we are helping Obama complete his insurance reform.
#2
Here's some good news, buried way down the page:
David Kennedy, head of the security firm TrustedSec, said the Obamacare website was not designed well and has a lot of security flaws.
One major concern is that the system connects the healthcare network to other sensitive U.S. government networks, including the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Homeland Security.
The IRS connection, I suppose, is to enforce the penalties. But DHS? Get out your tinfoil hats!
That makes it a treasure trove for hackers, Kennedy said, adding that a major concern would be cyber attacks from sophisticated state-sponsored adversaries.
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..and remember the IRS demands your SSN on its documents. You think Target had a security breach problem, just wait till they hack into the IRS databases via these pieces of coding crap.
The Privacy Act and automation are mutually exclusive - Grace Hooper
#5
It will be only a matter of time now when his the leadership of his own party will have his hide for making them look so stupid for building this piece of junk.
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.
[CNN] A magnitude-6.1 earthquake struck off the western coast of Greece early Monday, the US. Geological Survey reported. The quake hit near the island of Cephalonia, roughly 300 kilometers (185 miles) west of Athens, at a depth of about 14 kilometers (9 miles), the USGS said. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties..
The Great Lakes are under the largest cover of ice in 20 years. The early winter polar vortex that brought in freezing temperatures throughout eastern North America has put an ice cover over about 52 per cent of the Great Lakes.
[ATLANTA.CBSLOCAL] Exposure to surfaces and objects that have been saturated in cigarette smoke, labeled as "third-hand smoke," is just as deadly as smoking the cigarette itself.
Bouteflika
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as 
Azerbaijani parliament speaker Oqtay Asadov has called on mullahs in the country to perform their prayers in Azeri, not in Arabic. 
Hyperbaric chambers, the downside. 
He went on to describe a 550 kV power transmission line passing through the property, with the shipping lane of the Mississippi River on one side and a railroad on the other. An interstate is a few miles away. Correnti also hailed the "can-do attitude of the governmental agencies, plus the Arkansas farm boys and farm girls."
Suddenly, natural gas is the stuff dreams are made of. Well, if not dreams, then pool liners, food packaging, shoes, diapers, coatings, films, and sealants. Jobs, basically. Manufacturing jobs. Industry predictions--always heady--have ranged as high as 5 million new U.S. factory jobs in the coming decade due to cheap new natural gas supplies. 
[ABC.NET.AU] The 
[DAWN] As many as seven people including a woman died and 68 
[Jerusalem Post] US National Security Advisor Susan Rice came to the defense on Tuesday of US Secretary of State John Kerry after he was roundly criticized by a number of Israeli government officials over comments that he made on the weekend about the Israeli Palestinian peace talks. 
The advocates, including the AFL-CIO and pro-immigration groups, argue that Obama should use his executive authority to expand a 2012 decision that halted deportations of young people brought to the United States illegally by their parents. The administration's aggressive approach to enforcement -- which has resulted in nearly 2 million deportations during Obama's tenure -- makes little sense at a time when Congress could be on the verge of providing legal relief, advocates say.
"Tsepkalo told a Russian radio station in an interview broadcast last summer that HHS is one of our clients, and that we are helping Obama complete his insurance reform. 
