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I do hate to harsh their grief, but the bereaved family members can go fok off. "Good boys" don't rob Pick'n Pays with pistols. Nicely done private citizen! And nicely done to the investigating police as well. Pats on the back all around.
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Ah, a story from one of the bluer parts of my all-to-blue home state. Lib policies have worked out so well there for so long...
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Encourage your legislatures to amend the libel laws just for circumstances like this. Give the citizen the right to counter sue family members for libel who on clear prima facie evidence that their good child is anything but, make public or by way of formal communications the intent of suing.
[AnNahar] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... says a man has died from a new respiratory virus related to SARS, bringing to 64 the deaths in the kingdom at the center of the outbreak.
The Health Ministry said the latest victim was a chronically ill 86-year-old Saudi man who died in Riyadh on Sunday.
The statement also says that five new cases of the virus have tested positive, bringing to 162 the number of people infected in the kingdom since September 2012.
The new virus is related to SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, which killed some 800 people in a global outbreak in 2003. It belongs to a family of viruses that most often causes the common cold.
[Breitbart] The former Chief of the UK Naval Staff, Lord West of Spithead, has said that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry did not understand the history of Crimea before speaking out on the issue, and that the European Union was guilty of encouraging Ukrainians without being able to offer a solution to their domestic problems. It can't be helped your Lordship, he's as thick as a box of rocks. It's just one of the many things Jahwn doesn't understand...
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UK Navy Chief: 'John Kerry Didn't Understand Crimean History'
FIFY. 'Progressives' live in an alternate universe of their flawed narrative rather than the 4000 year record of human behavior. Then they look for and blame saboteurs and counter revolutionaries to blame for their failures.
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And one of the methods used regarding a portion of the 51%:
I'll have those ******* voting Democratic for the next 200 years. [Touting his underlying intentions for the "Great Society" programs, LBJ confided with two like-minded governors on Air Force One]
[Ynet] American and Japanese officials said Monday Japan plans to turn over more than 700 pounds of weapons-grade plutonium and a supply of highly enriched uranium to the US.
The plan is part of US President Barack Obama Dreams of My Sainted Father... 's years-long effort to secure nuclear material around the world.
Japan possesses large amounts of plutonium, despite its pledge to not to hold excess stockpiles. The amount to be returned to the US this time is a fraction of Japan's overall stockpile.
Wise. Wouldn't want to set themselves up to be China's Ukraine.
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Think this stuff came in handy for something somewhere down the road. Japan might wanna hold onto it.
And if Barry bitches, tell him to fuck off. That seems to work.
[AnNahar] Ukraine on Monday ordered its outnumbered troops to withdraw from Crimea after Russia's lightning annexation of the peninsula as world leaders met for emergency talks on the worst East-West standoff since the Cold War.
The dramatic announcement came after Ukraine lost yet another base in Crimea and as world leaders gathered in The Hague for a security summit set to be dominated by concerns over the Ukraine crisis.
"Europe and America are united in our support of the Ukrainian government and the Ukrainian people, we're united in imposing a cost on Russia for its actions so far," U.S. President Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... told news hounds shortly after landing in the Netherlands.
Later in the evening, Russian forces stormed another Ukrainian navy ship that they had earlier blocked in a lake in western Crimea and which had been one of the last vessels to avoid falling under Kremlin control.
An Agence La Belle France Presse correspondent saw plumes of smoke rise over the Kostyantyn Olshanskiy moments after the Russian forces launched their Donuzlav Lake assault. A Ukrainian defense front man said the ship's crew had fired smoke grenades in self-defense.
A top commander in NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... had warned on Sunday that the Western military alliance was carefully watching massive Russian troop formations on the eastern border of Ukraine that could theoretically make a push across the vast ex-Soviet country at any point.
Moscow has denied any such plans despite President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... 's open ambition to resurrect vestiges of the Soviet empire and stamp his authority over eastern European nations that sought protection from the West following the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall.
But the Kremlin has made clear it intends to "protect" compatriots in the Russifies southeastern swaths of Ukraine that it says have been victimized by violent nationalists since last month's rise to power of a pro-European team.
Ukraine's acting president Oleksandr Turchynov somberly told top politicians that both servicemen and their families would now be relocated to the mainland.
"The national security and defense council has reached a decision, under instructions from the defense ministry, to conduct a redeployment of military units stationed in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea," Turchynov said in nationally televised remarks.
"The cabinet of ministers has instructions to resettle the families of soldiers as well as everyone else who today is forced to leave their homes under the pressure and aggression of the Russian army's occupying forces."
Crimea's pro-Kremlin deputy premier Rustam Temirgaliyev told Russia's RIA Novosti state news agency that "all Ukrainian soldiers have either switched to the Russian side or are leaving the territory of the Crimea."
Turchynov's announcement came less than a month after Putin won authorization to use force in response to the February 22 ouster of pro-Kremlin president Viktor Yanukovych regime by more nationalist leaders who are seeking a closer alliance with Europe.
Ukraine's increasingly demoralized forces had been steadily losing ground on the Black Sea peninsula and saw their main airbase outside the regional capital Simferopol stormed on Saturday.
The assault by Russian troops and pro-Kremlin militias continued on Monday with the fall of a Ukrainian naval base in the east Crimean port of Feodosia.
Turchynov praised his country's soldiers despite heavy criticism by some Crimean commanders of confusion and indecision reigning among the army and naval brass in Kiev over the past month.
"Despite the enormous losses, the Ukrainian soldiers in Crimea did their duty," said Turchynov.
"Most importantly, they gave the Ukrainian armed forces the opportunity to prepare their defenses, to put the military on full combat alert, and to launch a partial mobilization."
Several brass hats had warned on Sunday that they feared an attack by Kremlin forces on the heavily Russified regions of southeastern Ukraine was now imminent.
The Kremlin stamped its claim on Crimea on Monday with a symbolic visit by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu -- the first top Moscow official to visit the mostly Russian-speaking region of two million people since its March 16 independence referendum.
"In the last days, a group of officers has been checking and making sure there is no interim stage or anarchy, making sure that the military hardware does not fall into not the best hands," Shoigu said in comments broadcast on Russian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
Russia's latest surprise assault in the rugged region the size of Belgium came in the pre-dawn hours on Monday and involved both armored personnel carriers and stun grenades.
The Ukrainian defense ministry said Russian paratroopers were lowered onto the Feodosia naval base from four helicopters in a commando-style operation in which guns were had gun sex and stun grenades strewn across the facility.
Several military trucks were seen leaving the base less than two hours later with some Ukrainian marines whose hands had been tied.
An AFP news hound spoke to several marines who had later been freed but who found their belongings were missing when they returned to the barracks.
Ukraine said two commanders were kicked in the face before being taken away in a helicopter in an unknown direction.
The base in Feodosiya housed Ukraine's only marine battalion. The country's marine union said it was home to an elite unit that was part of the navy.
The two-day gathering in The Hague will feature both the Nuclear Security Summit and a meeting of leaders from the Group of Seven (G7) leading industrialized nations that Obama hurriedly convened last week.
The G7 is expected to discuss stripping Russia of its coveted seat in the larger Group of Eight (G8) grouping that Moscow gained in 1998 as a reward for pursuing a democratic post-Soviet course.
Romanian President Traian Basescu said he would raise "the need to reposition NATO's military resources" across eastern Europe following the Kremlin's Crimean swoop.
The Hague meeting will also feature what promises to be some of the most difficult direct talks to date between U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Monday's meeting will be their first since Washington imposed financial restrictions on the most powerful members of Putin's inner circle for their decision to resort to force in Ukraine.
Q: Should the West supply arms to Ukraine, as some Republicans in the United States are demanding?
A: Arms supplies are not enough. Putin must be confronted militarily. I do not mean acts of war. But the West should show a military presence in the Black Sea, for example. This is the only way to stop Putin. ..yeah, that'll happen..
[Ynet] Italia and Belgium said on Monday they had moved excess nuclear materials to the United States for disposal or downgrading under the terms of past agreements, at the start of a nuclear summit in the Netherlands.
Italia said about 20kg of highly enriched uranium and separated plutonium had been moved from its territory. Belgium said a "significant amount" of the same materials had also gone. Both statements were countersigned by the United States.
The material will be stored in the United States until it is disposed of or made into low-enriched uranium for civilian purposes, the statements added.
A little background: Vladimir Zhirinovsky is Russia's clown prince of international politics, and has been saying these things since Yelstin was president. He said back in the 1990s that NATO and the US should leave Russia alone in her sphere of influence and that includes Afghanistan and the north central Asian mobocracies for the FSU. No one took him seriously then, but now he is identified as Putin's BFF. Vladimir Zhirinovsky should be careful when and where he dines, since once the KGB FSB is done with you, you are done with them.
A prominent political ally and advisor to Vladimir Putin has proposed splitting up Ukraine along the lines of an historical pact agreed between the Nazis and Soviet Union. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, widely regarded as a mouthpiece for the Russian president, proposed a redrawing of the borders of western Ukraine - which would involve regions being incorporated into the territories of Poland, Romania and Hungary.
He appeared to have written the letter in the days after Russia itself annexed the Crimea region of Ukraine last week, and suggested further referendums could be held to see further territory break away from Kiev.
Zhirinovsky wrote: "It's never too late to correct historical errors."
The politician is the deputy speaker of the Duma, and his nationalist Liberal Democratic party largely backs President Vladimir Putin in the Russian parliament.
Sergei Sobolev, head of Ukraine's largest parliamentary faction, the Fatherland party, called him a "provocateur".
"But Zhirinovsky often is the voice of Putin," he added.
You don't say...
Zhirinovsky's letter, seen by Reuters, suggested Poland, Hungary and Romania, who are now in the European Union, might wish to take back regions which he said were in the past their territories. The regions were incorporated into Ukraine when it was part of the Soviet Union at the end of World War Two and featured in a secret annex of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact under which the Soviet and Nazi German foreign ministers carved up the area.
It was not clear whether the letter was serious or a publicity stunt. But it follows a crisis in relations between Moscow and Kiev since the Moscow-backed Viktor Yanukovich was ousted as Ukraine's president last month.
Zhirinovsky proposed Ukraine's Chernivtsi, Zakarpattia, Volyn, Lviv, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk and Rovensky regions, together with Poland, Romania and Hungary hold referendums on whether the regions should break away from Ukraine. Romania might wish to have Chernivtsi, Hungary the Zakarpattia region, and Poland the rest, he said.
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The court jester floats a trial balloon.
If there's outrage the ruler can dismiss the idea without losing face.
If not, he can proceed.
[Dawn] ISLAMABAD: Former president retired Gen Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... filed in the Supreme Court on Monday a petition challenging the Special Court's Feb 21 decision of going ahead with the high treason trial against him instead of referring it to a military court.
The Special Court, headed by Justice Faisal Arab of the Sindh High Court, had dismissed Mr Musharraf's application seeking trial by a military court under the Pakistain Army Act (PAA) 1952.
The rejection was earlier challenged in the Islamabad High Court which on March 19 ruled that only the Supreme Court had the jurisdiction to decide the matter.
The petition in the apex court was filed by Gen Musharraf's lawyers Sharifuddin Pirzada, Dr Khalid Ranjha, Anwar Mansoor Khan and Barrister Mohammad Ali Saif.
The court has been asked to accept the plea and declare illegal and unlawful the Feb 21 judgment of the Special Court constituted under the Criminal Law Amendment (Special Courts) Act, 1976. The Special Court should be directed not to proceed with the trial, it said.
In his petition, Gen Musharraf contended that at the time of proclaiming the emergency on Nov 3, 2007, he was serving as a regular member of the armed forces and that the alleged offense of high treason attributed to him was triable only under the PAA 1952, a law also framed by parliament as much as the High Treason Punishment Act 1973 and the Special Courts Act 1976.
The Special Court, Gen Musharraf pleaded, had taken a totally erroneous view of Sections 1, 7 and 92 of the PAA to arrogate to itself the authority to try him and lost sight of the facts that retired army officers, Khalid Muneer Khan, Gen Muzaffar Afzal and Gen Khalid Zaheer, at different times before their retirement, served as directors general in the NLC. Their cases for misappropriation were withdrawn from the National Accountability Bureau and sought to be tried by the court martial.
"Applying the rule of consistency and taking protection under Article 25 read with Article 4 of the Constitution, the petitioner's case should have been sent to the military court," the petition argued.
Gen Musharraf said the decision to proclaim the emergency for all intents and purposes had been taken by the government of the day. The decision at best and at worst was departure from Article 209 (Supreme Judicial Council) of the Constitution.
"The governments many times act in disregard of constitutional provisions and so do the members of the judiciary. A government cannot be arraigned by a subsequent government under Article 6 on that account," he said.
He said filing of the criminal complaint by the federal government was coram non judice (without jurisdiction) as there was no decision for the filing of the complaint, under article 90 or for his trial to the exclusion of all those who were privy to the Nov 3 decision.
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[Dawn] WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved Monday a fresh aid disbursement to Pakistain after the country passed the second review of its ongoing $6.8 billion support program.
The IMF immediately freed $555.6 million for the country, with the money helping the government bridge financing gaps while it undertakes fiscal reforms required under the program.
It was the third tranche of the three-year program, approved in September 2013, which required the government to implement strict economic reforms, particularly in its troubled energy sector and tax system.
The review followed the resignation at the end of January of the governor of the State Bank of Pakistain, Yaseen Anwar, after what were widely reported as policy differences with the government.
In the last fiscal year, Pakistain's economy grew at 3.6 per cent and inflation fell to single digits. But the central bank has warned inflation could surge this year.
Economists say growth needs to be seven per cent to absorb the country's booming population.
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$555.6m should buy a goodly number of new shovels and Kalashnikovs.
The Arab Spring started because people were hungry and couldn't find jobs. Will Pakistanis go the same route, or continue the local tradition of hiring the,selves out to various jihadi organizations?
[Dawn] PESHAWR: The ongoing rain spell in the central Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... districts has dashed the wheat growers' hope for a better harvest this season as the standing crop has started showing signs of deterioration.
According to wheat growers from Nowshera, Mardan and Swabi districts, the crop has started developing black stains due to over-irrigation as a result of the intermittent downpour during the past two weeks.
"The standing crop needs sunshine to get its spike developed," said Ismail Khan, president of Anjuman-e-Kashtkaran (association of farmers), Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. He said rainwater had benefitted tobacco cultivation, but wheat growers, particularly, in the irrigated areas had started fearing for the standing crop.
Abdul Samad Saafi, general secretary of Kissan Board, Nowshera district, said the persistent rainy weather and loss of sunshine had started undermining the standing crop with which the farmers' hope for meeting a breakeven point at the end of the cropping season had been waning.
He said one-after-another cloudy day during the past two weeks had impaired the standing crop to get matured, hampering the development of its spike.
"In several parts of Nowshera district, the growers have reported that the standing crop has blackened because the plant roots have suffered from the sub-soil wetness," said Mr Saafi.
He said continued rains in this part of the cropping season had caused water accumulation on the surface that had aggravated the crop growth in the absence of sunshine. "The standing crop badly needs warmer weather to dry the surface awash with rainwater," said the Kissan Board's leader.
However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... the Swabi district wheat growers have a double jeopardy: apart from suffering slow development, the standing wheat crop has also come under a viral attack.
"Those farmers who sowed Inqilab-91 variety of wheat their crop has developed rust, causing holes in the plants," said Khalid Khan, president of Kissan Board, Swabi district.
He said approximately 10 per cent to 15 per cent area under wheat in the district has come under the rust attack, succumbing the growers to expect anything at the end of the cropping season.
"They will not even get fodder for their cattle because the viral disease does not leave it fit even for animal consumption," said Mr Khan.
He said the problem was of the farmers' own making because the directorate of agriculture extension, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, had banned the sale-purchase of Inqalab-91 wheat seeds in the province.
However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... only those farmers who have reproduced the crop year after year and put aside part of the harvest to get seeds had suffered this year.
Usually, farmers, said Mr Khan, mixed a specific quantity of milk in the irrigation water to protect the crop from being attacked by the viral disease. "But this time the traditional technique has not helped them much because of too many rains," said Mr Khan.
His Kissan Board colleague from Nowshera, however, has a different explanation for the fungus attack.
According to Samd Saafi, the wheat plants had been diseased only in those fields where excessive pesticides were sprayed to protect tobacco crop in the previous seasons.
"Even farm labours have suffered from skin diseases because of the substandard pesticides' spray to protect tobacco crop," said Mr Saafi.
Mr Khan, however, said hundreds of small wheat growers would not get anything of the wheat crop this season because of the disease.
The crop has been cultivated on 47,100 hectares in Swabi district this season, including 29,700 irrigated hectares and the remaining crop area categorised as un-irrigated area, according to the provincial agriculture statistics' department's data.
Wheat growers from southern Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... district, when contacted, said the crop had benefited from the ongoing rains, but further rains would not bode well for the crop.
"We received rains quite late -- only a couple of days ago -- which has benefitted the standing crop, but more rains would be counterproductive," said Mohammad Iqbal Khan, a wheat grower from Gandi Omer Khan, DI Khan.
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Which raises a question back in the North American continent with this winter. Has planting season been shoved to later due to the snow, melt, muddy fields, flooding potential, here and in Canada?
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We plant winter wheat, and then either harvest it or graze it off early in the spring depending on sub soil moisture or actual rain. Looks like we graze it off again this year since the drought has not broken and sub soil moisture is inadequate even for pasture grass. It will be another tough go here in western Kansas.
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But it also has to get to market to have any value and right now all the Class 1 railroads in the US and Canada are up their journals in oil fracking business; so much so that the Cnadian gov't ordered the Canadain RRs to increase their grain loadings by 5000 cars a week OR ELSE!
BNSF was about 3 weeks behind just a bit ago in grain transport. And unit trains get preferential treatment than manifest (that's the train with mixed cars all spread through it) so smaller grain elevators are even further dwon the food chain ( no pun intended)
[Dawn] KARACHI: Food import bill plunged by 10 per cent in the first eight months (July-February) of this fiscal year (FY14) on the back of reduced prices of some items in world markets and rise in local crop production.
Total imports of food items declined to $2.7 billion during the eight months from $3.03bn in the same period of last fiscal (FY13).
Major fall of 27pc came in tea imports to $193 million (87,389 tonnes) compared to $263m (87,280 tonnes).
However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... imports of dry fruits and nuts, spices, milk, cream and milk food for infants and sugar recorded increase.
According to import figures released by the Pakistain Bureau of Statistics (PBS), import of pulses fell by 22.5pc to $186m (295,503 tonnes) compared to $240m (338,870 tonnes).
Soya bean and palm oil imports suffered 20pc and 13pc drop, falling to $37m (35,623 tonnes) and $1.22bn (1.5m tonnes) this year from $46m (36,508 tonnes) and $1.4m tonnes (1.5m tonnes) in the year-ago period.
All other food items imports also plummeted by 14.4pc to $750m from $876m. The PBS data did not mention the quantity of other food items.
Among the gainers was sugar whose imports rose by 33.5pc to $4.2m (8,005 tonnes) from $3.1m (4,281 tonnes). Imports of spices went up by 16.5pc to $53.6m (67,705 tonnes) compared to $46m (67,995 tonnes).
Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... Wholesalers Grocers Group (KWGG) Chairman Anis Majeed said pulses imports have been falling thanks to around 1m-tonne local crop of gram pulse last year whose carryover stocks of 250,000-300,000 tonnes are still in the local markets. He ruled out the possibility of higher imports of gram pulse this year, too.
Annual consumption of all the pulses in Pakistain is around 1.2m tonnes in which about 600,000 tonnes is imported depending on the local crop and demand and supply situation.
On higher sugar imports, Mr Majeed said, "I think it's a special kind of sugar being used in medicine manufacturing and special juices." There is no need for sugar imports now due to production by local mills while sugar exports were still going at normal pace, he added.
Pakistain Tea Association (PTA) Chairman Mohsin Saifee linked the drop in tea import bill to fall in African tea prices by 50-70 cents per kg in the last eight months whose impact was visible in dollar value while the import quantities almost remained the same.
He said tea packers had sharply reduced prices three months ago. As the Kenyan crop is good and prices may remain stable followed by the rupee's appreciation against the dollar, consumers may further see price cut in tea prices, he hoped.
Importer and exporter of food items Haroon Agar said the quantity-wise imports of spices remained the same during the period, but higher international cost and freight (C&F) prices of cardamom, black pepper, cumin seed, coriander seed, kassia, etc in world markets kept the import bill high in dollar terms.
Cardamom C&F price is $5,000 per tonne in world markets, followed by black pepper at $2,100 per tonne and coriander seed $400 per tonne, he added.
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South Africa and Israel were a "good fit" economically a few years back as well. Unfortunately, the west decided black nationalism, tribal governance, and the ANC's brand of collectivism were an even better fit. The Jews quickly read the tea leaves and wisely sailed away.
[AnNahar] Beirut Examining Magistrate Ghassan Owaidat issued on Monday arrest warrants in absentia against the sons of the former head of the Higher Relief Council, Ibrahim Bashir, the state-run National News Agency reported.
A warrant was also issued against a third person, Hassan Jaber, involved in the embezzlement of state funds, smuggling and money laundering, NNA said.
The three suspects are not in jug. But Bashir, his wife and two sons, Wissam and Sami, have been charged in the case, the agency added.
Local media reports have said they have embezzled around $10 million in public funds by transferring them to accounts abroad.
The defendants face up to 15 years in prison if convicted.
The HRC helps Lebanese citizens and communities hit by natural and man-made disasters.
As Belgium's capital and host to the EU and Nato, Brussels is used to deploying heavy security when big names pop by. But US President Barack Obama's visit on Tuesday will strain the city like never before with 10m (8.4m) of Belgian money being spent to cover his 24 hours in the country.
The president will arrive on Tuesday night with a 900-strong entourage, including 45 vehicles and three cargo planes. Advance security teams orchestrating every last detail have combed Brussels already, checking the sewers and the major hospitals, while American military helicopters were last week given the green light for overflights. The city hosts at least four EU summits a year, with each of these gatherings costing 500,000 in extra police, military and transport expenses. "But this time round, you can multiply that figure by 20," said Brussels mayor, Yvan Mayeur. Beyond any doubt trying to deplete the treasury. Make your rep's life miserable with constant calls.
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Lets hope "The Champ" doesn't have a "Jerry Ford Moment" - right
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He might even get a chance to play some golf.
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Who knows, maybe a member of the Russian diplomatic corps might stop by to patch things up. Of course, they will have to go through his Social Secretary.
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..just what you would expect when you give someone a gold EBT with unlimited funding..
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Multiply everything by 4. He's making 4 stops on the trip (Hague/Brussels/Vatican/Magic Kingdom) so EACH one of those places get all the cars, guns, and comms. The USSS does not jump cars and comms to the next site. Each site gets their own set up.
This article is BS. You can't get 45 vehicles on 3 planes. On my last POTUS adventure, it took 21 C-17 sorties to bring in everything for an overnight trip. This does not take into account the travel cost of about 500 USSS personnel. The taxpaying public would be outraged if they knew the actual cost.
Oh - he's doing another 4 country trip next month.
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I took some flak the other day for estimating the FLOTUS trip to China might cost $ 10m USD. Glad to see your expert comments on the absolutely staggering cost of these foreign junkets.
A study published in the National Taxpayers Union Foundation - excerpt:
"The U.S. Air Forces 89th Airlift Wing operates two Boeing 747 jets, also called VC-25s (designated Air Force One for Presidential trips). Air Force officials reported to CRS in 2012 that the cost per hour associated with these planes operation is $179,750, which includes fuel, flight consumables, depot repairs, aircraft overhaul and engine overhaul.
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Thanks Double-A. Unbelievable. Little wonder we're bankrupt. :-(
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"The U.S. Air Force's 89th Airlift Wing operates two Boeing 747 jets, also called VC-25s (designated "Air Force One" for Presidential trip"
Oh - I forgot to add. Anytime POTUS travels overseas, they bring the second AF-1 as a back-up in case the other one gets a flat. It takes about 100 AF folks to fly, maintain, and secure those planes. So that's another 100 hotels rooms and per diem PLUS $360K/hour to operate.
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Not to mention what increased demand does to the price of h@@kers dr&gs greased palms food.
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.
...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
Pervez 
