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Iff one believes that this WOT > WAR FOR PRO-US VERSUS ANTI-US OWG-NWO + ANTI-STATUS QUO, etc. then one should be willing to believe that NO SIDE, US OR RADICALIST/RADIC ISLAMIST including ANY ALIGNED, WANTS "STALEMATE" = COLD WAR-STYLE MUTUAL COEXISTENCE???
AS PER SO-CALLED "SINS OF THE FATHER(S)" > IMO, its pragmatic or realist to believe that resolution of AFRICA's probs per se, GOOD OR BAD, will mostly be for the next Generation E.G. NET > OSAMA BIN LADEN'S SIXTEEN YEAR OLD SON AND REPORTED HEIR-IN-INTEREST [among Other Kiddies?]???
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screw africa, we might as well flush that tax$$$$ aid down the toilet. Nice job GWB, for all the good it will do you. The dark continent should be renamed the dark ages continent.
Russia announced Monday that it is sending warships to patrol Arctic waters for the first time since the breakup of the Soviet Union -- the latest move to increase the country's global military presence. Patrols by the Northern Fleet's Severomorsk submarine destroyer and Marshal Ustinov missile cruiser will begin Thursday, Navy spokesman Igor Dygalo said.
Russia began sending aircraft carriers to the Mediterranean Sea in December and resumed long-range bomber patrols last August.
"We have been talking for a long time about widening our activity in the Arctic," Dygalo said. "There is nothing aggressive in it -- it is in the interests of security."
Former President Vladimir Putin expanded Russian military patrols and Dmitry Medvedev, who succeeded Putin in May, appears to be maintaining that course. Thereby making him an even better Russian.
Moscow-based military analyst Pavel Felgenhauer said security was not Russia's primary motivation in sending the Navy ships to the Arctic. "This is flag-waving and that's basically it," Felgenhauer said. "Sending a couple of patrol boats to the Arctic won't change anything."
Russia has also been moving to stake its claim to resources that are increasingly accessible as global warming melts Arctic ice. Moscow recently sent an expedition to plant a Russian flag on the seabed under the North Pole and said research indicates a massive underwater mountain range in the area, which is believed to contain huge oil and gas reserves, is part of Russia's continental shelf.
And Russia hopes it can increase access for fishermen who are blocked from seas around the island of Spitsbergen, where Norway claims exclusive rights. Russia does not recognize the 200-mile economic zone delineated by a 1982 U.N. treaty.
Dygalo said protecting Russian fisherman was one of the aims of the new Arctic patrols.
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Russia has also been moving to stake its claim to resources that are increasingly accessible as global warming melts Arctic ice.
Not proven. Moscow recently sent an expedition to plant a Russian flag on the seabed under the North Pole and said research indicates a massive underwater mountain range in the area, which is believed to contain huge oil and gas reserves, is part of Russia's continental shelf.
Proven to be a fake.
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ION WAFF.com > FINANCIAL TIMES > BRAZIL ON THE VERGE OF BECOMING A SUPERPOWER + BRAZIL SLOWLY ECLIPSING AN ALLY [Chavez = Venezuela]/SOFT POWER IN THE AMERICAS.
Again, WOT > MACKINDER'S WAR ["World Island"], among other > NEW WORLD IS CURR PREVAILING OR WINNING IN THE RACE FOR OWG FREE TRADE ZONES.
Russia knows that wid the very real Radical Islamist threat within and along its peripheries + Regional-Global Econ competition from established Nuclear, proto-Nuclear Asian States, for time being it needs the USA to protect it as much to geopol compete against.
I was gonna say lookalike contest. I wouldn't have been wrong.
ATHENS (Reuters) - Nine British women were facing prostitution charges after being arrested at the weekend for taking part in an oral sex competition in the Greek holiday island of Zakynthos, police said on Monday. Did the cops bust in before we had a winner?
Six British and six Greek men, including two bar owners, were also charged in the incident, which took place at Laganas beach in the south of the Ionian island, which lies off the west coast of mainland Greece, police said. All right! Drop the...drop the...drop...
Shit. Stand up and put your hands on the bar! And you guys put those things away!
The women, who came to the popular resort on holiday, had been paid to take part in the competition, which was video recorded and was to be posted on the Internet, police said. Noooooooooo!
The men were charged with encouraging obscene behavior. Oh, I'll bet they were.
In recent years, Laganas has established itself as one of Greece's most popular destinations for twenty-something holidaymakers and is known for its wild party scene. ...and now we have an idea why.
Around 15 million people -- a fifth of them British -- visit the eastern Mediterranean country each year, drawn by its soaring summer temperatures, azure waters and sandy beaches. That's a lotta competition...
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Around 15 million people -- a fifth of them British -- visit the eastern Mediterranean country each year, drawn by its soaring summer temperatures, azure waters and sandy beaches.
And with the dollar/Euro advantage, next year they could get the soaring summer temperatures, azure waters and sandy beaches in Miami, along with a different attitude, particularly during Spring Break. BRITS GONE WILD: MIAMI EDITION, 19.95 with shipping and handling or 9.95 for internet download.
Looks like it was a tough weekend for al-Qaeda...
Algiers, 14 July (AKI) - The Algerian military has killed a top leader with the Al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb, according to a report on Monday in the London-based Arabic-language newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. The report said that some soliders ambushed a top al-Qaeda leader who was known by his battle name "al-Tuhami". The terrorist was together with other al-Qaeda members in the village of Ain al-Hamra, 70 kilometres east of Algiers. The ambush was carried out by a special platoon in-charge of fighting terrorism.
The al-Qaeda leader was at the Ain al-Hamra village to meet a young man who had offered to provide logistical support for the group. Set up?
The newspaper report said that once the al-Qaeda leader was surrounded, the soldiers asked him to surrender his weapons. He refused to do so and soldiers shot him dead in an ensuing gun battle. Will you surrender?
Well I...
BANG "Mahmoud! Pry his gun outta his cold, dead fingers, wouldja?"
"With pleasure, sir!"
Two people who were with al-Tuhami tried to escape but were also killed by the military.
According to the police, the pair were young residents of the village. The clash with the militants caused panic among residents of village who were afraid of being caught in the cross-fire.
Baghdad, 14 July (AKI ) - Seventy militants, many of whom are reportedly linked to al-Qaeda in Iraq, have surrendered to US forces in the Sunni area of Baiji, west of Baghdad.
According to the Arab newspaper al-Hayat, the militants surrendered in the area of al-Siniya in front of local tribal chiefs.
The US military had presented to Sunni tribes a list of 150 people they were seeking from the local population on charges related to terrorism, murder and kidnappings.
After the mediation of tribal leaders, almost half of those who surrendered agreed to return to their original clans, hand over their arms to the Americans and promise to give up armed conflict if their names were removed from the most wanted list. "Most of the people who were arrested are from al-Qaeda," said an Iraqi police source. "The rest were part of the Rashidin Army and the Islamic Army of Iraq."
The Rashidin Army and the Islamic Army of Iraq are among a number of Islamist insurgent groups formed in Iraq following the 2003 allied invasion.
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We appreciate your cooperation.
Now stand up against that wall and we will 'process' you.
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Who bankrolls these assholes to do all this traveling?
The Westboro a*holes make their $$ by suing others for 'infringement of rights' or 'harassment' if ANY instance of violence/aggression is leveled against them in these settings. The Patriot Guards know this (and their own rights) and act with 'modified restraint' plus inform like-minded folks at these gatherings the same so they don't get sued. The grieving relatives and local governments ARE suing them back with some success.
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A rather naughty bunch, if I may be so bold, sir.
Perhaps they need a good talking to, if you don't mind my saying so. Perhaps a bit more.
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The Westboro a*holes make their $$ by suing others for 'infringement of rights' or 'harassment' if ANY instance of violence/aggression is leveled against them in these settings.
Yep, every one of that scumbags larva is an attorney. They remind me more than a bit of black shakedown artists like Sharpton and the Jackson clan.
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well, they do have baptist in their name right out in front...
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they have to get there to protest, and the highway's dangerous. Just saying....
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I hope there's a lot of MSM at that funeral. They should have to go through what our heros' families have to endure. Perhaps they will wake up and do something about this scab.
LONDON: Three men accused of plotting to bring down trans-Atlantic passenger jets with liquid explosives pleaded guilty to planning to set off bombs but maintain they did not seek to destroy airliners, prosecutors said Monday. Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 27, Assad Sarwar, 28, Tanvir Hussain, 27, and five co-defendants are charged with a plot to kill hundreds of passengers at the height of the summer vacation season by detonating explosives concealed in soft-drink bottles on flights over the Atlantic Ocean or U.S. cities. The unraveling of the alleged plot led to tough new restrictions on the amount of liquids and gels passengers can take in their carry-on bags.
Prosecutors said Ali, Sarwar and Hussain had admitted to a charge of conspiring to set off explosions but say that they are innocent of the more serious charge of conspiracy to murder. The eight men are still being tried on the murder conspiracy charge, which carries a maximum life sentence.
Ali and Sarwar have told the court they wanted to set off explosions as a publicity stunt to promote an anti-Western documentary. Ali said he hoped a small, nonfatal, bombing -- at Britain's Houses of Parliament, at an oil refinery, or at an airport -- would jolt Londoners and draw attention to his movie, which would be released online. Yeah, regular Spielbergs they were I'll bet..
Ali, Sarwar, Hussain and co-defendants Ibrahim Savant, 27, and Umar Islam, 30, have also admitted to "conspiring to cause a public nuisance" by publishing alleged martyrdom videos, the prosecution said.
The Crown Prosecution Service did not say when the guilty pleas were entered or what sentences the lesser charges carry. Defense attorneys did not address the jury Monday. The eight men are accused of stockpiling enough hydrogen peroxide to create 20 liquid bombs, although they did not create any viable explosives. "We did not want to kill or injure anyone," Ali testified last month. Nah. We're good boys...
Prosecutor Peter Wright scoffed at that idea Monday, calling the defendants' accounts "inherently improbable." He said that the attacks were imminent when the men were arrested in August 2006 in raids in and around London. The defendants had even prepared the martyrdom videos to be shown after the airline bombings.
Kinda hard to 'splain that one away, innit?
Performance art ...
The men were "almost ready to go," Wright told Woolwich Crown Court in London. "This was no propaganda video, no documentary, no exercise or stunt -- this was for real," he said. "Human beings ready, able and willing to commit carnage for the sake of Islam." He accused the defendants of wanting "to murder as many civilian passengers as possible upon as many civilian aircraft as possible. "Each was prepared to kill and to do so on a wholly indiscriminate basis, irrespective of age, belief, sex and to do so without the slightest blink of an eye," Wright said.
The attack "was intended to be an act of terrorism to not only alter aviation history but also to strike a blow on behalf of radicalized Islamists the world over," he said. In his opening statement in April, Wright said officers found a computer memory stick in Ali's pocket with details of flights from London's Heathrow Airport to Chicago, New York, Boston, Denver, Miami and Montreal. He said that there did not appear to be any interest in return flights. There usually isn't...
I was wondering when they'd get around to this...
TOKYO - Thousands of Japanese rallied against the permanent basing of a nuclear-powered U.S. warship near Tokyo, saying a recent onboard fire made it unsafe. About 13,000 protesters gathered at a park near the port of Yokosuka, just south of the capital, where the USS George Washington aircraft carrier will be based, media reports and organizers said.
The George Washington -- relieving the soon-to-be decommissioned USS Kitty Hawk -- will be the first U.S. Navy nuclear-powered vessel to station permanently in Japan. The ship's arrival was originally set for August under a Japan-U.S. security deal, but was delayed because of a fire aboard the vessel in May.
The George Washington's deployment had already triggered protests, and the fire escalated concerns many Japanese have about nuclear power. Some 250 residents have filed a lawsuit seeking to block the aircraft carrier from basing in Japan. The U.S. Navy has said the George Washington's fire, which left one sailor with minor burns and 23 others with heat stress, never threatened the safety of the ship's nuclear reactor.
However, some of the protesters questioned the safety of the vessel Sunday. "The U.S. military has not fully disclosed the cause (of the fire)," said Masahiko Goto, a lawyer representing local residents, Kyodo News agency reported. "Japan should not allow a deployment when serious safety concerns remain," Goto said.
The Kitty Hawk, which was commissioned in 1961, has been home-ported in Japan since 1998 as the only forward-deployed carrier in the U.S. Navy. It is the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier. Details on the fire...May 22. The fire broke out near a major ventilation conduit in the rear of the carrier. That conduit not only circulated air to compartments below the waterline, but also contained pipes carrying large numbers of electrical and communications cables. These lit up and before the fire was completely put out (it took twelve hours), over 120,000 meters (nearly 400,000 feet) of cables were damaged or destroyed. Over two percent of the ships 3,800 spaces (rooms) were damaged. Some of the spaces suffered severe damage (metal walls melted or seriously weakened), but the most troublesome damage was to the electrical and data cables.
If the Japanese can't abide a nuclear vessel being home-ported in their country, so be it. Move the carrier group to Hawaii (or Guam) and plan accordingly. Ensure that the Japanese government understands that while we'll still be friends, we'll have to consider that perhaps they won't stand by us in the future.
The fire was caused by improper storage of combustible material. This is a common problem when a ship is setting off on a long cruise, and there's lots of stuff to be stored away. The Washington was moving around the southern tip of South America when the fire broke out. Had the combustible material not been there, the fire would not have lasted as long, done as much damage, or perhaps even started at all.
Over the last year, major ship inspections (by teams sent in by higher commands) have found increasing evidence of lower standards and poor work habits in the U.S. Navy. The navy is still trying to find, and fix, all the causes of this problem. Meanwhile, they have the fire on the Washington to remind that the problem is still there.
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"People in Japan, the only country to suffer from atomic bombings, tend to be sensitive about the military use of nuclear technology."
Their relatives weren't too sensitive about Korea, China, Pearl Harbor...
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"As of 2005, Japan was the third largest nuclear power user in the world with 55 nuclear reactors accounting for 30% of its electricity generated."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Japan
Watch out for exploding sunroof handles, Hamid... Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday directly accused Pakistan's intelligence agency of being behind a recent wave of deadly attacks in Afghanistan, including the Indian embassy bombing.
In a strongly worded statement, Karzai said it was "clear" who was behind the violence, including a suicide bombing in Uruzgan Sunday that killed 24 Afghans and the embassy blast that killed more than more than 40 people. "The murder, killing, destruction, dishonouring and insecurity in Afghanistan is carried out by the intelligence administration of Pakistan, its military intelligence institutions," he said in a statement. "We know who kills innocent people," the statement said. "We have told the government of Pakistan and the world and from now on it will be pronounced by every member of the Afghan nation."
Afghanistan regularly accuses Pakistan, a long-time rival of India, of supporting militants who have been waging a deadly insurgency in the nation since the 2001 ouster of the Taliban regime in a US-led invasion. US officials also say that Pakistan has allowed Taliban and Al-Qaeda to regroup in its tribal areas along the border with Afghanistan.
Pakistan rejects charges of supporting extremists and says it is doing what it can to stop them. Like how? Making deals with them?
The July 7 attack on the Indian embassy was the deadliest in the capital and Afghan officials were quick to point a finger at Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI). India's national security adviser has also blamed the attack, which killed two senior Indian diplomats, on the ISI. "We have no doubt that the ISI is behind this. The ISI is playing evil. The ISI needs to be destroyed," M.K Narayanan told the NDTV news network on Saturday. Pakistan has insisted it was not involved.
In his statement, Karzai also referred to the Taliban's killing on Sunday in Ghazni province of two women whom the militants alleged were prostitutes and worked for the police. "These ladies were martyred by terrorists who have been trained in terrorist nests and intelligence offices outside Afghanistan where respect of (women's) honour doesn't mean anything," his statement said. And he said the beheading of two Afghan refugees by Pakistan-based Taliban militants in June would be "avenged." The men were accused of being spies.
Kabul and Islamabad are key players in the United States' "war on terror" launched after the September 11, 2001 attacks blamed on Al-Qaeda, which the Taliban regime allowed to operate in Afghanistan.
But Afghan and Western officials allege that Islamic extremists have sanctuaries in Pakistan which helped to create the Taliban as an armed militia and was one of only three countries that recognised the hardliners' government. Islamabad officially dropped its support for the Taliban only after the 9/11 attacks but Afghans allege it still wants the new government in Kabul to fail for its own strategic purposes.
Afghan Foreign Minister Rangeen Dadfar Spanta told the UN Security Council last week that a key factor behind the worsening security in his country was "the de facto truce" in neighbouring Pakistan's tribal areas. He was referring to ongoing peace talks between Pakistani authorities and top Taliban warlord Baitullah Mehsud, blamed by the previous government and US officials for the December assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto.
President Bush will lift an executive ban on offshore oil drilling, although new oil exploration on the Outer Continental Shelf will remain off limits until Congress also takes action. The president will make a Rose Garden statement on Monday, where he is expected to announce his lifting of the ban.
White House press secretary Dana Perino says Bush is acting now in hopes of spurring Congress to act. So far, lawmakers have shown no interest in doing so. Bush and a growing number of lawmakers have been calling for broader options in dealing with rising energy costs, including $4 per gallon gasoline.
The Outer Continental Shelf has been a particularly hot debate, with the Bush administration saying new drilling technology would make U.S. shores safe from environmental disaster while helping to drive down prices with greater supplies.
Democrats say energy companies already have plenty of space to look for oil and have stalled on investing in more oil production while reaping record profits.
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Yes, but watch the Donks spin, has hard as they can to pander to the 'never ever' crowd and the anger rising at the gas pump, to close those 14 with November quickly approaching. Heh.
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Democrats say energy companies already have plenty of space to look for oil and have stalled on investing in more oil production while reaping record profits.
SURPRISE! Democrats show themselves to be a bunch of lying (fill in your favorite pejorative) yet again!
I'm watching drill rigs and drill ships being built in South Korea like there's no tomorrow, with a construction budget that is all but unlimited. The groups shelling out that EXTREMELY serious cash have names like Chevron, BP, Qatar Gas, etc. ONLY if you're an ignorant lefty Demo bastard do they not qualify as "Big Oil."
Reminder to self: calling for the injury or death of American citizens here at the 'Burg(including rank traitors like the average Demo congresscritter), no matter how thoroughly and completely deserved, will probably result in sinktrapping.
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Democrats say energy companies already have plenty of space to look for oil and have stalled on investing in more oil production while reaping record profits
The farming equivalent of tellign the companies they need to farm the rocky infertile places before we let them farm the rich-soil flat bottomland.
Moron lying Dems. The areas left undrilled are left undrilled fr a reason - they are not projected to be productive at acurrent prices and tech. The new offshore areas are, as woudl be ANWR and oil shales.
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the Congressional ban expires annually (Sept 30th this year) and has to be renewed by Congress. The ante just got upped. What do you think the election may turn on this year? :-)
HT to dre at Protein Wisdom for that nugget of info
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That's ok Frank - I'm sure Queen Nancy and company will be more then willing to have an 'extension' of the current moritorium until after the election.
And the Republicans in congress will merrily go along with it.... all in the name if bi-partisanship and all that...
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"Democrats say energy companies already have plenty of space to look for oil"
Oil companies aren't stupid. They know where oil is most likely to be found in commercially viable quantity. They aren't going to drill in areas where they are pretty sure there isn't any oil or isn't much oil even if they do have a lease for that plot of ground. They leased it, they did some geological surveys, and they apparently determined it wasn't worth drilling there.
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At best it might put some downward pressure on the price of crude. If my understanding is correct, it would induce OPEC to bump up their production in response to a serious threat of increasing production here. If the price comes down enough, the incentive to drill here would be reduced.
What WOULD help the price of gasoline? It's been my impression that there is no excess refinery capacity, what with the goofy 31-flavors of gasoline that are mandated for various regions.
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I would rather pay $4 per gallon to ourselves than a bunch of A-rabs
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Grenter has it about right. The myriad of gasoline flavors does have a lot to do with gas price. Any downward pressure would be short lived. I doubt that OPEC would increase production, if anything they would decrease it to keep the price high. We can't produce enough to sustain ourselves. If prices go down because we are supplying an extra 5-10% of our own oil then one of two things will happen: demand will continue to increase causing prices to go up or OPEC will cut production to keep prices high. Their economy depends on high(er) prices. Of course Kelly makes a good point, I too would rather pay ourselves $4/gallon than the Arabs. But most of our oil comes from Mexico and Canada.
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No disrepect intended to the doubters, but we KNOW drilling is not the long term solution. It is a stop gap measure.
We've had 40 years to work this out and we as a nation have done nothing. The major reason for inaction is a lack of political will and silly-headed thinking; and to be honest we are just beginning to get to a point where modern technology will be able to handle the load. Most people are shocked when I point out to them that automotive manufactures have been experimenting with "hybrid" cars for about a century now.
No matter how you cut it, it will most likely be about 45 to 50 years before we are off oil as a principle source of energy so we need to do what we can to assure our energy supply for that time and domestic oil is essential....along with solar and wind and nuclear and bio fuels and conservation and anything else folks can come up with.
I do not expect the price of oil and gasoline to plunge; if it were up to me and, if I trusted the government to utilize any excess funds wisely (or even midly corruptly), I would like to see price of gasoline stabilize about about $3 a gallon for the immediate future to help force the issue along.
But in the long run it is not about the price of gasoline per se, it is about national survival and perhaps that of Western Civilization, so we best get to doing whatever it takes to get from here to there.
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But in the long run it is not about the price of gasoline per se, it is about national survival and perhaps that of Western Civilization, so we best get to doing whatever it takes to get from here to there.
Amen to that Kelly! Now if the economy doesn't go belly up and the common person doesn't go bankrupt before anything is done. Oil is too volatile. Every time Iran sneezes, the price goes up. Speculators don't give a flip about America. When they buy and hold on to oil, they are creating a greater artificial demand. However, they are only part of the problem. We need to fuel our ship of state ASAP and then say screw OPEC. If the Arab states and the Arab stateless had to worry more about feeding themselves, they would have a lot less time to think about terrorism.
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Indeed. One of the images that sustains me is the mental picture of a bunch of Arabs sitting around trying to figure out how to make an oil sandwich.
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Oil may be volatile but it's still a relatively inexpensive alternative. If that weren't the case we'd be swimming in alternatives by now.
I hope by "do something" you folks aren't advocating that the federal government swoop in an choose winners in the energy market by heavily subsidizing the chosen few. In the long run that'll be more costly than oil price fluctuations.
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RUMORMILLNEWS Thread > HOW LONG BEFORE MEXICO IMPLODES? Severe or catastrophic decline in Mexi-specific Gulf, etc. national oil production may induce civil anarchy and national disintegration 2010-2012???
Also from SAME > GLOBALRESEARCH.CA > SOME THINGS COME AROUND FULL CIRCLE - USSA? FISA will finally + formally turn the USA into POLICE STATE USA.
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I say drill as much as possible, to keep our money from going to the Saudis and Venezuela.
And remember a lot of this offshore will be more natural gas than it will petroleum.
So start converting vehicles to natural gas - we have a 100+ year supply of that.
Plenty of breathing room, and all the money stays here.
Combine that with eliminating buying on margin in the futures market, limit futures trades to those who can take delivery, and oil prices will drop quickly to the supply/demand curve for petroleum, instead of the supply-demand curve for futures.
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Anheuser Busch Cos. said early Monday it had agreed to a sweetened $52 billion takeover bid from InBev, creating the world's largest brewer and heading off what was shaping up as an acrimonious fight for the maker of Budweiser and Bud Light beers. The deal, which would also create the third-largest consumer product company, will be called Anheuser-Busch InBev.
The Anheuser-Busch board accepted the higher takeover offer Sunday night from Belgian-based brewer InBev SA, according to a joint press release."I think we're going to bring the best of both companies into one company, our footprint with their amazing brands," InBev CEO Carlos Brito said in a video posted on InBev's Web site.
For InBev, the maker of Stella Artois and Beck's, the deal gives an aggressive company an iconic beer brand -- Budweiser -- to sell into emerging markets such as China and Brazil where it has already established a firm footprint. InBev is currently the world's second-largest beer-maker, just behind SABMiller. Swallowing Anheuser-Busch sees it leap ahead, capturing half of the U.S. beer market and a fifth of China and Russia.
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People here in St Louis are freaking out over this. I think it is good for the company though. I worked for AB and saw ridiculous practices, money blown away and a top heavy management nightmare. The unions are wringing their hands since their free ride may be tightened up and people will actually have to do some work. AB has been hemorrhaging cash for years. Just because your last name is Busch does not mean you are a good business man. The company is old, tired, and overweight. I look forward to InBev shaping it up.
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A-B was the pride of St. Louis, and it patronized a LOT of local charities and public activities. Their factory tours are (were?) amazing. It saddens me deeply to think it's being sold to a bunch of greedy Belgians. This move will NOT help the people of St. Louis.
"InBev said it will keep all 12 of Anheuser-Busch's North American breweries open, including the Williamsburg facility that employs about 870 workers. It has not said how it will handle the other properties."
Other properties in W'burg: Busch Gardens, Water Country USA, Kingsmill Resort (& golf course).
Not as much impact as in St. Louis, but still the cause of many sphincter muscles tightening....
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I just did a brewery tour in Fort Collins.
Kinda sad that an American icon will be no longer American, but I never did like Bud either. Although, their new micro brew "Beach Bum" is delicious.
It was funny that I kept point out the different brew cycles to my wife before the tour guide said anything from the smell only. I guess I am a full fledged master home brewer now.
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Will we get Brahma chopp here in the US? I remember it going down easy like Sunday morning on a hot SP afternoon. And they were pretty much all hot.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The International Criminal Court's prosecutor has filed genocide charges against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. Look at it this way, Omar. It probably means you'll live to a ripe old age.
The charges filed Monday include masterminding attempts to wipe out African tribes in Darfur with a campaign of murder, rape and deportation.
Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo is asking a three-judge panel to issue an arrest warrant for Al-Bashir to prevent the deaths of those still under attack in Darfur from government-backed janjaweed militia. He says the genocide is continuing and must be stopped. Moreno-Ocampo is undeterred by concern that his indictment might make conditions worse for the refugees and close Sudan's doors to relief agencies and peacekeeping troops. Since he ain't there...
He might be trying to figure how they could get worse.
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At least Moreno-Ocampo is doing something, even though it's useless. The rest of Europe sits on their hands and refuses to lift even a finger to stop what the entire world knows is a humanitarian disaster.
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Yes, but wait till they put George's name on the bench. You know they want to, really, really, want to.
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It seems pretty silly to me. The ICC has neither jurisdiction in Sudan nor any power of enforcement there. I hold no brief for Bashir, but this is just posturing.
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I think this needs a Brian Keith Graphic,
Police Chief Link Mattocks: Tell the Captain he's under arrest.
Lieutenant Rozanov: But I...
Police Chief Link Mattocks: Tell the Captain he's under arrest!
Lieutenant Rozanov: [speaking in Russian] The policeman says you are under arrest.
The Russian Captain: [laughing and speaking in Russian] Tell him that I'm going to blow this town to pieces!
Police Chief Link Mattocks: [to Rozanov] What did he say?
Lieutenant Rozanov: [in English] Well, he's angry, yes. He says, "you stupid idiot," he will blow up the town.
Police Chief Link Mattocks: [to the Russian sub captain after tell him he's under arrest] All right, let's have your name and address.
Lieutenant Rozanov: [translating in Russian] We wants our address.
The Russian Captain: [in Russian to the sailors] Point your gun... take aim right between their eyes!
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THE MASSACHUSETTS Senate will be making a serious mistake if it joins the House this week in adopting the National Popular Vote system, which is designed to circumvent the Constitution's prescribed method for choosing the president. Under the system, which will go into effect only if it is adopted by states that together possess a majority of the nation's electoral votes, the electors in each state will be required to vote for whichever presidential candidate finishes first in the national popular vote - regardless of the choice of a majority of the state's own voters.
Four times in our history, a candidate has become president after receiving somewhat fewer popular votes than a rival. For decades, critics of the Electoral College system who lamented its "undemocratic" nature have sought to replace it by means of a constitutional amendment. But all such attempts have failed.
The National Popular Vote device is intended to bring about the same result without actually having to go through the amendment process. It is the brainchild of Stanford engineering professor John Koza, whose chief complaint about the existing system is that voters in solidly "blue" or "red" states, such as Massachusetts or Texas, receive relatively little attention. Presidential candidates instead focus on winning the dozen or so "battleground" states that are likely to decide an election.
Although Koza's proposal has been endorsed by a considerable number of prominent political figures, it is seriously flawed. To begin with, even if proponents get approval from states commanding 270 electoral votes, it is questionable whether federal courts would approve the agreement, since it has the effect of denying smaller states the extra electoral weight that the current system provides them. (States are guaranteed a minimum of three electoral votes regardless of population.) The proposal is arguably unconstitutional, since it has the effect of undoing the Great Compromise between large and small states at the 1787 Constitutional Convention that was essential to the Constitution's adoption.
The deeper problem with the plan, however, is the proliferation of minor-party candidates that it will generate. It would become possible for a fringe candidate who is unattractive or even abhorrent to even a large majority of the electorate to be selected as president, simply because he polls more (than his five or six or 10) rivals.
That is why previous proposals to abolish the Electoral College system by means of a Constitutional amendment have included a runoff system. If no candidate were to receive, say, 40 percent of the popular vote, a second election would be held in which voters choose between the two highest-polling candidates.
Even the runoff system is far from foolproof - as was demonstrated by the 2002 presidential election in France, when the anti-immigrant demagogue Jean-Marie Le Pen beat out the candidate of one of the two leading parties, Socialist leader Lionel Jospin, to make it into the runoff. Although Le Pen was roundly defeated by the Gaullist candidate Jacques Chirac, for whom even many Socialists voted in the end, the multiparty system - which is encouraged by France's national popular vote rules - saved Chirac, widely perceived as corrupt, from having to demonstrate that he could win a head-to-head election against Jospin.
But not even the partial safety-valve of a runoff is included in Koza's plan, simply because that would require a Constitutional amendment - just the necessity that the proposal was designed to avoid. (The Constitution prescribes that in case no candidate wins an absolute majority of the electoral vote, the president will be chosen in an election by the House of Representatives, in which each state will have one vote. This procedure has not been needed since 1824, as a result of the development of the two-party system.)
The National Popular Vote legislation might have addressed the problem of a small-party candidate winning the election with a small fraction of the national vote by stipulating that the system would take effect only in the event that one candidate received at least, say, 45 percent of the vote. But the proposal that the Massachusetts House adopted makes no such provision.
For this reason, among others, it would be unwise to institute the National Popular Vote system.
David Lewis Schaefer is professor of political science at Holy Cross.
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What the supporters also fail to acknowledge is that it undermines the need for 'states'. 50 redundant and inefficient administrative units, not to mention 100 ego based senators, could be nicely reorganized to squeeze out some major tax farming resources for a highly centralized government using regions or territories or provinces or other designation. In the end, its all about POWER.
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And people in states like California should be careful what they wish for. I am sure they would be unhappy if California voted for the Democratic candidate, but the Republican won the popular vote nationwide. California's huge electoral vote bloc would be cast for the Republican under this scheme. I am sure that they would scream that their votes were being ignored and they were being disenfranchised.
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As soon as Charlotte Kulscar heard the Democratic National Committee named Denver its 2008 convention site, she began researching how to get a piece of the estimated $160 million economic impact for her print shop.
She thought she had a good shot. L&M Pressworks already does printing for the city, the state and the Downtown Denver Partnership. She filled out the application for the DNC Vendor Directory and was sure to include the shop's status as female- owned and green-certified.
Yet so far, none of that effort has resulted in work.
"Since this convention is so green, we thought that was going to be the best way to go, but we haven't gotten anything out of it," Kulscar said about her Denver shop, which is Forest Stewardship Council-approved, uses soy-based inks and ensures its paper mills replant the trees they use. "We've run into a dead-end everywhere."
The DNC Vendor Directory, an online listing, was created by the Democratic National Convention host committee to promote mostly local businesses that submit their information to be listed in anticipation of the convention Aug. 25-28. To date, the DNC Vendor Directory contains roughly 2,000 listings, though many businesses appear more than once because they're in multiple categories.
However, an e-mail survey by PoliticsWest.com, The Denver Post's political website, reveals only a handful of companies included on the list that have gotten work because of it and many with complaints, ranging from poor organization to lack of communication. Some vendors said they also feel they've been shut out by union requirements and other criteria.
The Democratic National Convention Committee refused to disclose how many contracts have been awarded for the convention or what portion went to Colorado companies. "That is not information we share with press," said Natalie Wyeth, spokeswoman for the DNCC.
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And here I though mandatory 'set asides' for things like local business was a Donk principle. Oh, wait, one set of rules for thee, a separate set of rules for me. Never mind. Don't you feel the love Denver? Oh, that's not love, that's ......As the old CSM said at the welcome briefing in Korea, when you contract that 'social disease, she didn't give you anything, you paid for it.
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Given the fact that the DNC is over budget and undercapitalized, she may end up being glad that she got no business. At least it won't have cost her anything.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - U.S. troops on Monday reinforced a remote military outpost after well-armed militants got inside and killed nine American soldiers in the deadliest assault on U.S. forces in Afghanistan in three years. And the inimitable AP spin...
Yesterday's assault has deepened doubts about the U.S. military's ability to contain Islamic militants. Attacks in Afghanistan are becoming more complex, intense and better coordinated than a year ago, U.S. officials say.
Militants with machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars attacked the remote base in the village of Wanat in the mountainous northeastern province of Kunar at about 4:30 a.m. Sunday, with insurgents firing from homes and a mosque.
It was a "concerted attempt" to overrun the small base near the Pakistan border that was built only about three days ago, said an official with NATO's International Security Assistance Force. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to release the information, estimated the attacking force was several hundred.
An unknown number of militants got inside the outpost, the reason the fighters were able to inflict such high casualties, said a second military official who also spoke on condition of anonymity.
After the breach, U.S. troops pushed back against the invading militants, and attack helicopters swooped in. The second official said more than 40 insurgents were killed in the fighting. Fifteen U.S. soldiers also were wounded.
"It was a well-organised attack, it was a ferocious attack," said Captain Mike Finney, a spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force."The troops in the combat outpost fought back hard to make sure the insurgents did not overrun the place."
Hours of fighting, including air strikes, prevented the militants from taking over the base, with rebel casualties in the "high double figures", said Finney.
Between 400 and 500 militants from various anti-government factions including Taliban, Al-Qaeda and the Hezb-i-Islami faction were involved, a senior Afghan defence ministry official said on condition of anonymity.
"They attacked the newly established base there and reached even its walls. At one point they had entered the base," he said, citing information from the ground. I don't know if the soldiers died inside the base or outside but the enemy had reached the walls."
Troops were able to push them back with ground fighting and attack helicopters.
"Reports we got from the area suggest that about 40 enemy were killed and around the same number of them were wounded," he said.
ISAF's Finney said between 100 and 150 Afghan and international troops had moved into the outpost, near the village of Wanat, less than a week earlier.
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If you look at the story from afar without AP's BS spin ("Yesterday's assault has deepened doubts about the U.S. military's ability to contain Islamic militants"), I would rather doubt they will be able to pull that off again.
We have re-learned some hard COIN lessons in Iraq, and Afghanistan. They pulled it off once, but they will die in large numbers if they try it again.
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This outpost is probably on a major strategic artery for the bad guyz and they know it. Once established, it will neutralize much of the enemy activity in a wide area.
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The most amazing thing to me is that the Talibs were able to approch the outpost at all for a surprise attack. Wasn't there a defensive perimeter set up atound the camp (of course, I don't know the terrain - this might not have been possible for that location). In any case, even if we cannot intrude into the high holy soverign cesspool of Pakland, why isn't everything goatpath-sized and above on the Afganistan side mined to hell and back, with more mines on the mines (again, the terran might make this impossible, but lets do what we can). Any tunnels should be immediately collapsed as well. I will not accept any sob-stories regarding poor civilians having to use them as trade routes, etc.. We know who the enemy is and where they come from; let's just announce that as of some date anyone using that area will automaticaly be considered a hostile. Destroyng the roach nest would definitely be best, but destroying their means of ingress and egress will have to do for now as second best.
There has been a great deal of speculation about the possibility that the arctic sea ice could, at the worst case, melt entirely, or more realistic, possibly break the record sea ice melt set last year (images follow which show lots of ice in the arctic as of July 12).
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Also, the Ntl Snow&Ice Data Center has a time log which shows that the arctic ice pack melting slowed down the first part of July - there is still some ice cover in Hudson Bay.
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The first rule about the Earthquake Division is, don't talk about the Earthquake Division.
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See also TOPIX > A FISH EYE VIEW OF GLOBAL WARMING + SCIENTISTS:GLOBAL WARMING WILL KILL MANY WARM-WATER FISH, OTHER SPECIES UNABLE TO ADAPT.
The good news for the Fishies, etal. is that these same won't get to die being sucked ONLY-THE-KLINGONS/ROMULANS-KNOW-WHERE into the BABY/MINI-BLACK HOLES = WORM HOLES vv the HADRON COLLIDER???
* BREAKING NEWS > FISH MILITANTS/TERRORISTS DESTROY GOLD GATE BRIDGE - DARRYL HANNAH VOWS SEXY MERMAID SUICIDE JIHAD AGZ WASHINGTON DC UNTIL FISH SOVEREIGNTY IS PROTECTED! FILM AT 11???
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Belief in the ancient "Pashtoon Code" is ingrained into those savages. Those drug dealing swine believe they are a moral people. Frankly, I believe that Pashtos and Wahabis are equally responsible for 9-11
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Crush pakistan and give it to India and Afghanistan. What a worthless "people".
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The drug economy is larger than Pakistan's legitimate economy and is "tax free". These people are not about to let that kind of cash slip from their fingers. The Taliban are more about maintaining the flow of cash, and therefore the source of power, than anything else.
Cash flows of billions of dollars are more addictive than the heroin itself.
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"Pakistan's General Headquarters in Rawalpindi are thrilled with the Taliban's sweeping military successes"
Nice to see which side they're really on.
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07/14/2008 12:51
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I listened to Howard Stern this morning. On air comedian, Artie Lange, reported that field troops treat Taliban as drug dealing scum. They destroy tens of thousands of lives each year.
Reminder: Karzai the Pashto has repeatedly condemned the US for conducting air operations in Helmand District.
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The Pakistan Daily reads like the New York Times. The Taliban in Afghanistan aren't going to stop causing trouble until we decide to do something about Pakistan--such as crossing the border to take care of scum. The Taliban don't honor sovereignty, why should we? I like the suggestion of crushing Pakistan and dividing it up between India and Afghanistan.
One Thai government regional force ranger was
killed and a Royal Thai Army soldier was wounded in a bombing in rural Songkhla Monday morning while they were on duty providing security for teachers. The bomb exploded in Thepha district, killing locally-recruited paramilitary ranger Sulgiblee Salaemae and wounding Pvt. Thammarat Putthakan who is being treated. Both men were patrolling the area to provide security for teachers from Baan Kohlaenang School.
Meanwhile, in Narathiwat, a bomb exploded on a road in Cho Ai Rong district before military soldiers, riding motorcycles, arrived at the site of the bombing. No one was wounded in the incident. Police conducted searches near the bomb site and found an underground hiding place and illegal drugs at the house. The owner was detained for questioning.
Pattani, Zone 1 Education Area Office director Somnuek Meesaeng said officials beefed up security at the school and escorted teachers, who were travelling to school after 13 schools in Nongjik district reopened on Monday after the schools closed following an attack on a military truck, which was busing students to school on July 7.
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Actually I think the lefties see the righties seeing them like that -- and they're obviously correct in their perception (of the righties, not of Obama).
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it's supposed to satirize the "Right's mischaracterizations" of Mr. and Mrs. Messiah. The fact they're squealing is because it hits too close to home. Empty suit and Mrs. angry racist marxist
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Yeah, Obama's a latte-sipping elitist Black Panther -- he's also a naive inexperienced idealist who has mastered the dirty Chicago machine, and in addition he's an Islamofascist who's a fanatical abortionist.
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Aris, there's no question Candidate Obama is highly intelligent and hard-working. Nobody gets through Harvard Law without those attributes, however much his entry might have been facilitated by the slickness of his tongue and the colour of his skin. He is, as well, a supercilious elitist of the first water, prejudiced against those whose life experiences were less privileged than his -- a dangerous belief for one attempting to persuade such people, the vast majority of the population, to give him their vote for the highest office in the land. Let's not even go into his opinions about people of pallor, openly stated in the two autobiographies published before the age of fifty -- a mark of arrogance in itself. How many others are worthy of one published autobiography after a lifetime of achievement, let alone two before he finished his first term in the U.S. Senate?
The cover allows us to see into the minds of the cultural elite leftists who are Obama supporters.
In the eyes of every Obama supporter, this cover supposedly depicts how literally everyone not part of the "in, lefty, cool-kid, I'm so very smart" crowd looks at the Obamas.
In their mind (and yours, based on your comment), everyone who has politics from the center to the right is, in fact, a Nazi, a member of the KKK, has beaten 50 or more gay men to death with a baseball bat, wants women to lose the plebiscite, wants to force everyone to go to church on Sundays, etc.
Sad, really. The fact that you believe all these things about moderates and conservatives is further proof that your intelligence exists merely on a subhuman level, your decency even less so.
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TW, how dare you upset Ar*s's strawman?
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Yes no mo.
The art in the New Yorker tells us much about the artists; but not much about the subject of the art.
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"Aris, there's no question Candidate Obama is highly intelligent and hard-working."
There's no question for me that he's intelligent and hardworking -- but Rove had called him "lazy" and a Clinton surrogate had said Obama was trying to "shuck and jive" his way into the presidency.
So this is another of one of those occasions, where people attack him in contradictory ways.
"prejudiced against those whose life experiences were less privileged than his"
I thought that being prejudiced against the poor was considered a conservative virtue? Are you praising him or condemning him for this attitude?
On my part I've never seen a privileged person that doesn't believe he deserves his place in life, so I certainly have no doubt that what you're saying about Obama's prejudice is true -- same as it's been true for every other politician ever, in the history of the universe.
As for his beliefs regarding "people of pallor" I'm honestly not worried about black racism taking control in America -- even if Obama had been another version of Mugabe (which he's not), America isn't Zimbabwe.
"In the eyes of every Obama supporter, this cover supposedly depicts how literally everyone not part of the "in, lefty, cool-kid, I'm so very smart" crowd looks at the Obamas."
You can't have it both ways, kid. You can't both be using words like "terrorist fist-jab", and at the same say that we're being arrogant elitist leftists when we're saying you are trying to present Obama as a terrorist.
Fact is you have been trying to do that: far before the "leftist elitist" meme you're now trying to push, there was the "angry black man" meme and even earlier, there was the "secret Muslim terrorist" meme. Those of us with recollective ability of more than 2 minutes remember these quite well -- even though they don't mix very well with each other and your own memories are forced to eject each earlier attack meme before you reproduce the current one.
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Although now that I think about it, I find myself wondering _why_ Aris thinks there's a contradiction in an empty-shirt idealist being a front man for the Chicago machine?
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How many others are worthy of one published autobiography after a lifetime of achievement, let alone two before he finished his first term in the U.S. Senate?
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"You can't both be using words like "terrorist fist-jab", and at the same say that we're being arrogant elitist leftists when we're saying you are trying to present Obama as a terrorist"
Why not? If the fist jab is, in fact, a known gesture used by terrorists? And if one of your philosophical own presents a cartoon, yet again, conveying your cherished foundational notion in life, which is that everyone whose politics isn't left of center is a Nazi, KKK member and the embodiment of evil?
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Aris snuck back in but he will not be allowed to comment at the Burg. We've had too many problems with him in the past and we're not going to allow him to stir up problems in the future.
Should you read this, Aris, understand that you are not welcome to comment at the Burg.
AoS
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Thanks, tw, but I'd rather use my time for more productive endeavors.
Watching oil paint dry comes to mind....
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If democratic candidate Obama and his Mrs. are angry and can't brush that one off, how on earth does he plan to handle what will be a DAILY barrage of presidential satire if he is elected?
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First rule for any Socialist Republic (or Islamic Republic at also) No Funny Kartoons Allowed! Ya think the Mooslims are sensitive, ya haven't seen, (how do that say it outside of Chicago?) NUTIN NYET!
After the elektion we are going to teach you a lesson. As soon as we bring the troops home from Irak, we will immediately put them to work on bugging every ash tray in Amerika!
Kapish!?!
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07/14/2008 14:02
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That cover will be on Saturday Night Live soon. It can be with The Obamessiah playing himself with us laughing with him or with their Obamessiah take off with us laughing at him. His choice.
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Obama's really pissed off?
Yes sir, he is?
Oh, dear, I idolize the man.
Should I tell him that next week McCain's on the cover as the Manchurian Candidate?
Would that smooth things over do you think?
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nmu nailed it. I think obama's a double-standard empty suited socialist based on his words and actions..as most of us on the right (generally speaking) tend to view him. I think his recent comments about "merci beaucoup (sp)" just scratch the surface of his naevity/elitism and out of step view of or w/the truly average American. The fact that his shrew of a wife wasn't proud of her country until he got in the primaries only furthers my disdain for these two chumpstains.
Obama = chump (or loose) change we can believe in.
Aris, stick to blogging about shitty movies like troy or whatever it is you do, you're like the nerdy knob jockey that spouts off shit from the some esoteric collection of the latest disotations on nietche - trying to impress the rest of the high school philosophy class because you can't get laid... reminds me of the dude matt damon's character in good will hunting verbally bitch slaps for trying the same crap to get a date. Folks think you're a transparent douchebag...I say welcome to Douchebagistan.
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Frank, I love to be lectured on language by Americans who claim that we should only be using the King's English.
I never understood why you felt so offended by my usage of "y'all". I never used it to mock, only to distinguish between plural and singular. I even told you where I'd picked it up from - from an American friend of mine from Georgia.
Deadeye -- never seen "Good Will Hunting", and never read dissertations on Nietze. I'm not as educated as you are, I'm quite sure: After all I'm regularly bashed for my English not being exactly up to Frank G's Oxfordian standards, since I tend to prefer clarity and accuracy instead of using only the Queen's English (as a lower-r republican, I don't think English belong to the Queen after all).
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I only objected to an marginlly-educated smarmy cyber-tourist using it, because they saw Yul Brynner in Westworld, and thought it was cooool. You are unwanted here, yet you continue to pathetically try and inject your vacuous stupidity. "Go away".... but you've heard that before, haven't you? You're like a pathetic wanna-be cyber-stalker, but you have no influence, no power, and a real ego-need. Your boyfriend leave you? Buh-bye
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damn.... I took the bait. Well a final "Fuck You and Adieu", Ar*s
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Don't go away mad, Air-ass - just go away.
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"I'm not as educated as you are, I'm quite sure"
I'm quite sure you're not either...& I could care less about your use of language, syntax or whatever else & I make more then my share of typos (PIMF). Bottomline: you do the same high & mighty grab, twist & pull disingenuous bullshit arguing everytime - and when someone calls you on it you divert to some other tangent - a one trick pony - it's tedious & tiring which is why you are probably poop listed.
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What I find amusing is that we have had 8 years of "Bush as a Chimp" cartoons in the same magazine, and "Full Metal McCain" last month. Yet Obama-messiah generates screams of outrage from the left when he is caricatured in a similar fashion.
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Escalation scenarios are running amok. The Ayatollahs brag both about having mobile missile launch capacity, and their ability to hit targets at long range. That mentality serves only to feed a pretext to the other side. Where there is mobility, targeting has to be over a wide range. In GW1, anti-missile work was search and destroy; that's not easy when the launcher can be parked in a building. Long range capacity manifests civilian targeting.
Hmmm. We have to protect women and children. Ergo enemy life has the moral value of cockroaches; launch capacity has to be terminated by any necessary means.
Truman did the same math in 1945.
The British Navy held the Strait of Hormuz during much of the 18th and 19th centuries. The north bank must be made an American Gibraltar.
I wonder if the Arab World (especially the Emirates and Qatar, etc) would want to add another Arab emirate, sitting in Bandar Abbas and the surrounding region? After all, the area is ethnically Arab.
Start an uprising there, via supply from Afghanistan. Use the Kurds in the north to distract the Mullahs while this is being set up.
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Also interesting to see FGS Emden in the order of battle. The original light cruiser SMS Emden had quite a legendary career in the Indian Ocean.
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Note the 4 US MCM ships. Iranian naval mines are a huge threat, and probably more of a threat than the missiles in terms of shutting down oil traffic in the persian gulf
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Right, OS. The Iranian response will be against oil production, not a military target. Mines and surface attacks against oil tankers will be their 'revenge' and final peep.
All we need is a president with cojones.
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Compare wid WAFF.com Poster Threads > USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN MOVES TO NEAR PAKISTANI COAST, US SPECIAL FORCES PREPARE TO CONDUCT OPERATION INSID + US WOULD INVADE PAKISTAN TO ELIMINATE TERROR CELLS.
Also from WAFF.com >INDIA > MAOISTS HITTING INDIAN ECONOMY [encircling Urban Areas] + INDIA IS FAILING AS A STATE.
*STARS-N-STRIPES [old] > [IIRC] USN CARRIER BATTLE GROUP [USS Ronald Reagan = "Ronnie/Mighty Ron"] MOVES TO NEAR KOREAS/KOREAN COASTS.
There are already more Chinese living in Nigeria than there were Britons during the height of the empire. From state-owned and state-linked corporations to small entrepreneurs, the Chinese are cutting a swath across the continent. As many as 1 million Chinese citizens are circulating here. Each megaproject announced by China's government creates collateral economies and population monuments, like the ripples of a stone skimmed across a lake.
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Compare wid CHINESE MIL FORUM OP-ED > COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA [CPC] TO CHANGE NAME TO "CHINESE PEOPLE'S PARTY"???
REDDIT > SICHUAN QUAKE MAY HAD DESTROYED A MAJOR PLA ARMORY + DAMAGED SEVERAL NUCLEAR WARHEADS. NUCLEAR EXPLOSION BELIEVED TO HAD OCCURRED NEAR CENTER OF QUAKE.
* RUSSIA > RUSSIA TO SUFFER DISEASE, DROUGHT FROM GLOBAL WARMING.
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Unfettered by ethics, Chinese business looks to do well in Africa. Can't blame them really, Africa is the only place open for the Chinese to expand into, everywhere else is locked up by the West.
The reason that there's so many of them is that they bring their own workers over, minimizing the employment opportunities for locals. Of course, this makes sure that the projects get done. No tribes going to war with each other because they got left out of the graft.
On an economic level, Africa has tumbled back into its pre-colonial morass, a state which made Western colonization so easy in the first place. China has not gone through the mental calisthenics (yet) that make colonization abhorrent to the colonizers, so the opportunity exists and will be taken. Their form of colonization may not be exactly the same as Europe's, but it will be colonization nontheless.
There may be another reason besides economics.
China has a vast oversupply of men (approximately 50 million more than women) due to state-mandated selective abortion practices initiated under Mao. They need women. Africa has them.
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China has a vast oversupply of men (approximately 50 million more than women) due to state-mandated selective abortion practices initiated under Mao. They need women. Africa has them.
Makes one wonder what the offspring of African women and Chinese men will be called. Africanese...Chinacans? It also assumes that the African women will be receptive to getting it on with Chinese men and their little units.
I suspect that the African men might have something to say as well. This whole Chinese colonization of Africa could get interesting.
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Makes one wonder what the offspring of African women and Chinese men will be called. Africanese...Chinacans? It also assumes that the African women will be receptive to getting it on with Chinese men and their little units.
The mainland Chinese are notoriously racist due to their nationalistic propaganda and educational policies. Whatever they will be called, the offspring of those 'couplings' will not be welcome back home and, I suspect, the Chinese government will do little to nothing about what I predict it will call an 'African problem'...
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Lampedusa Glack5566: Ian Fleming called them "chigros" in Dr. No.
I was tempted to head off into that territory, but decided against it. The decor in the sinktrap is not to my liking. But "chigros" has a nice ring to it.
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Makes one wonder what the offspring of African women and Chinese men will be called. Africanese...Chinacans? It also assumes that the African women will be receptive to getting it on with Chinese men and their little units.
Oh good, the makings of another reviled ethnic group in Africa. Just what they need for their next genocide.
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Some people do not learn. After their adventures in Africa, the Russians left, holding their nose. Then China tried it, and were thrilled to leave.
But, a generation passes, and China is trying it again.
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Chicoms are not trying to win friends in Africaner land. They are there to sweep the oil and mineral deposits they need to energize their huge industrial engine. Be assured that the Chinese do not have any love of blacks. Maybe some raping to get them by, but no importation of the offspring to the mainland. Not only do they have excess manpower available who are competent and willing to work long and hard, unlike the locals, they always bring at least 50% more "workers" than needed. Just so happens these young fellers are members in good standing of the Red Army. Chinese go in being cool and polite. Things happen to stymie them, then they start talking more directly to the "subjects". If this doesn't pan out, more direct action is readily available. They won't have too many pipelines blown up or be driven out like Shell Oil.
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Luckily our Gubberment-Leadership is focused on systematically divesting our manufacturing and engineering base and coverting it into a Vast Frementing Pile Of Green Smelly BS.
/it's the State Religion now Dontcha Know.
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converting
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spelting again..sheech
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The Chinese, Cubans and Russians established the communist model in Africa, educated the rebels and radicals in the 1970's and 1980's. Supplied them with guns, ammunition, and medical supplies. Helped and continue to help overthrow democratic governments. This is simply part of the long-term communist program for Africa.
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The Chinese are also infusing money and supplying weapons to some of the impoverished Caribbean islands, who welcome the investment. I wonder what the ulterior motives are there? They never give something for nothing.
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China has given various large buildings and other projects to a number of African countries. In Liberia, there were camps in which the Chinese men stayed. They didn't mix much with the locals, though I gather the upper echelon folks had a little money to spend at restaurants.
The site near where I was staying had people working 24/7, and there were obviously a lot of people tucked away there who I never saw on the streets. I heard some complaints that the Chinese construction projects never employed locals, but I never got on one of the sites to see. I heard a huge bang one night when something collapsed, but there wasn't a peep in the news about any accident or injuries.
The Chinese wouldn't be the first to give foreign aid that helped employ its own citizens--pretty much everybody else does it too, just in different ways.
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I recon they dont need H-1B visas there either.
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"The Chinese are also infusing money and supplying weapons to some of the impoverished Caribbean islands, who welcome the investment. I wonder what the ulterior motives are there? They never give something for nothing."
Initially, it means un-recognizing Taiwan and building coalitions in international bodies where it's one country one vote.
Should diplomacy fail to return "Israeli-occupied land" to Lebanon, the Lebanese army (LAF) will take it by force, Lebanese President Gen. Michel Sueleiman said on Sunday. An Arab mind is a very strange thing
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Who knows, if they can cut a deal with enough clans to counter hez and their clans, maybe they can destroy the whole country again. Then everyone wins.
Unidentified gunmen attacked a police van with grenades and Kalashnikovs and injured two Frontier Constabulary (FC) soldiers on Saturday in lower Dir district. The attackers lobbed grenades at the van. FC soldiers Muhammad Shafi and Qayyum were critically injured. The attack also damaged the police mobile van. Police has registered a case. Meanwhile, two people were killed and another sustained injuries when two feuding parties opened fire on each other in Balambat tehsil's Hajiabad.
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At least three missiles fired from Afghanistan landed inside the Pakistani territory, sources said on Sunday. No loss of life or property had been reported, they said. Sources said the missiles had been fired from Afghanistan's Paktika province and landed in an uninhabited area of South Waziristan.
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Perhaps the Afghans are tired of Pakistani invaders?
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Sounds like the Taliban are trying to start a fight between Afghanistan's allies & Pakistan. Don't know why they'd want to do that - they'd be caught in the middle. Looks like they got their training from the Paleostains: Sources said the missiles ... landed in an uninhabited area of South Waziristan.
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No loss of life or property had been reported, they said.
Too bad. Maybe if there was, they might get the message.
Ma'an -- Israeli soldiers on Sunday attempted to force three Palestinian women to undress at Al-Jalama checkpoint, on the Green Line north of Jenin, while travelling visit their relatives in an Israeli jail.
The sister of Palestinian prisoner Saed Salah, from Jenin, said she headed to Al-Jalama checkpoint in the morning on her way to Ashkelon prison to visit her brother, who is serving a 27-year sentence. She entered the checkpoint along with the wives of Yousif Ata, from Jenin, and Abdul-Fattah Shalabi, from the nearby town of Silat Al-Harithiyya, who are both serving long-term sentences. Soldiers manning the checkpoint ordered the three women into a special interrogation room.
According to the first woman, a female soldier, observing the woman through two closed-circuit TV cameras, asked the woman to remove her gown first while. Then she asked her to get completely undressed. The woman refused and requested that the soldier get search her manually, without being undressed.
The soldier refused, giving the woman two choices: either to undress completely, or go home without visiting her brother. She chose the latter.
The woman added that the female soldier did the same with the other two women, who also refused to get undressed. Then the soldiers detained all three women in a small dark room for an hour and a half before sending them home.
According to the Palestinian prisoner's sister, she was barred from visiting her brother, who has been in Israeli custody for a year and a half.
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They probably weren't carrying themselves, just probing defenses. The Paleos have figured out that familiarity breeds contempt, so will do several dry runs before taking a bomb.
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I might suggest to the Israelis that they create an armored room that is rigged to have a strong magnetic pulse. While harmless to humans, even a very short wire will develop a milli-amperage overcharge, which is enough to pop many electrical detonators.
The room should also have a large drain in the middle of the floor, and a water hose connector on one wall. A pressure relief gap in the roof above would also be good.
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'Moose,
You've hit it. Make that a standard entry point agenda. And, make several of them go in together. Think they don't know who's wired up ? Watch them wet their rags on being herded in. This is a great solution. Doesn't require any "hands on" , discussions, shouting, can't be humiliated, etc. ( Blown to f**king bits, yes) All positive. No negatives. Implement posthaste.
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That's cooler than my idea. I was going to suggest just lining the room with tile and turning it into a giant microwave to set off the bombs. Course, I'm not sure the effect of microwaves on modern explosives and detonators, so numerous trial runs would be needed.
A glass wall for viewing by the people waiting in line would also be instructive and serve a useful purpose.
In terms of coolness, Microwave Beam weapons are my favorite right now:)
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As much as I like the idea, the Paleo propaganda machine would just claim that the Jooooooooos just herded innocent women, children, and fluffy ducklings into a room and blew them up.
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It's time to turn that machine on it's head. The Israeli's should tell the paleo's that if they continue to fire rockets into Israel, they can't ensure their safety. The next time a rocket is fired into Israel, pick a nearby Paleo village and use it for arty practice. Be sure and do lots of spotting for effect too.
Are you suggesting that a giant, multi-barreled 105mm version of a CIWS be built? That would be pretty cool too, especially if the shells aren't set to detonate unless they hit something. I wonder how many batteries of 105mm regular artillery that'd be equal to?
I can say this with total certainty, I wouldn't wanna be downrange of something like that.
A former wrestler who once counted a "bandit queen" as his ally has now thrown a lifeline to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, forgetting years of snubs and animosity from the government to emerge as a kingmaker.
The withdrawal of the Indian government's communist allies to protest a civilian nuclear deal with the United States has left an embattled government reaching out to Mulayam Singh and his regional Samajwadi Party to secure its parliamentary majority. The government will now have to negotiate with the former defence minister and his right hand man Amar Singh on issues from the nuclear deal to cabinet posts, from economic reforms to measures to tame inflation in a trillion dollar economy.
"Mulayam is a very experienced operator who negotiates hard and has his eyes set on power," said Kuldip Nayar, a political expert and author on Indian history and current affairs. Mulayam Singh's rise to power highlights the peculiarities of coalition government in India, where national parties like the ruling Congress increasingly have to deal with the emergence of smaller caste and regional-based parties to stay in power.
The Samajwadi leader is a controversial choice. He faces a corruption probe by police and critics said he did little to stop rising criminality in his home state of Uttar Pradesh. Mulayam Singh for years dominated Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, where he was chief minister three times. He is seen as a liberal and secular, more open to negotiation with the government than the strongly ideological communist parties.
"The only difference between us and the left is that we are not rigid in our attitude," Amar Singh, who is no relation to Mulayam, said in a recent Reuters interview. "We have not given unconditional support. We are not likely to give it either." Mulayam Singh relies on votes of Muslims and farmers from the Yadav caste but he lost the last election to Mayawati, another caste-based politician known as the "Queen of the Dalits", after a voter backlash of rising lawlessness in the state.
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Unless I've missed something, the Indian Commies, and aligned had threatened to withdraw but only within the scope if initiating stronger measures or counterresponses agz New Delhi [read - including Radical Islamist Indian Groups]. BASICALLY THE SAME METHODISM PRES EMPLOYED BY NEPAL'S MAOISTS AND ANTI-MONARCHISTS.
Omar Abdullah, the leader of the pro-India National Conference party, came under attack on Sunday when scores of young Muslims threw stones at his party in a bid to prevent them from holding a ceremony in Srinagar's Martyrs' Graveyard.
Ten people were injured in the attack after police fired live ammunition in the air and used tear gas to disperse the thousands of protesters. Police Chief Kuldeep Khoda said pro-India supporters responded by throwing stones back at the separatists, adding that the police had to step in to separate the two factions. One news photographer was also injured during the clashes, said Bashir Ahmed, a senior police officer, adding that police had no reports of any injured protesters.
"We will not stop anyone from visiting Martyrs' Graveyard to offer homage, but we will not allow the disruption of order," said Khoda. July 13 is observed as 'Martyrs' Day' in Kashmir, and traditionally both separatists and pro-Indian Kashmiris commemorate it. It marks the day in 1931 when the region's Hindu king ordered 21 Kashmiri Muslims executed in a bid to put down an uprising. Later on Sunday, thousands of separatist supporters marched peacefully to the graveyard and chanted slogans of "We want freedom!" and "Long live Pakistan!"
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"pro-India" depends on whether the party is in power at the time.
All Kashmiri parties are in the business of bad talking Delhi while harassing it for more money.
Kashmiris have the highest socio-economic indicators (health, education etc) of any state in India. They benefit from massive federal subsidies.
When in opposition, the party makes common cause with the terrorist supporters, thinking that will gain them votes. In power they act differently.
Omar Abdullah was a deputy Indian foreign minister. His opponent Mufti Sayeed was once the Indian federal home minister.
Both do not hesitate to bad mouth Delhi. Both rush to lay flowers at the graves of terrorists, many of them Punjabis from Pakistan.
Neither will condemn the Muslim bigotry that prevented a few acres of desolate land being used to erect temporary huts and toilets for Hindu pilgrims.
So while Kashmiri Muslims enjoy the lions share of India's Haj subsidy (which actually violates Sharia law), the Hindus endure this...
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(Xinhua) -- Twenty Somali children have died of measles in a village in Middle Shabelle region north of the Somali capital Mogadishu, a local Elder said Sunday.
Speaking from Jawhar, the provincial capital of the region, Elder Sheik Ali Yusuf said that the 20 children died in the past 24 hours in Jabey villages west of Jawhar where he came to meet with local administration and aid agencies about the outbreak of the disease in the village.
Yusuf said that the village did not have any health facility or health workers to help contain the diseases for which some other children are sick with.
"The children who died of the disease are under the age of five and some more children are infected with measles in the village," Yusuf said.
Many aid agencies in the Middle Shabelle region,90 km north of the Somalia capital Mogadishu, have withdrawn their staff and closed their offices in the region which has been in rebel hands for the past two months.
Yusuf told local media if urgent help is not delivered to those people many more children will die of the outbreak of the disease which he said "was spreading like a wildfire."
Somali health infrastructure has collapsed with the overthrow of the former Somali ruler Mohamed Siyad Barre in 1991.
Local and International aid agencies, most of whom have now stopped their operations, provided much of the meager health services for the internally displaced people.
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Every single one of these deaths need to be laid at the feet of the islamists. Between those that keep NGOs from serving the area, and those that claim that vaccinations and innoculations are a Western tool to sterilize muslims, they prevent the simple treatment that can keep this from happening. God has a special place in Hell for those that harm little children. Islamists are fast filling up the place.
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This just makes me sad. Islam is a scourge upon the earth.
(VOI) -- Police forces on Saturday arrested nine people wanted for "terror and criminal cases," and seized quantities of ammunition in raid operations throughout Basra, said an authorized source from the province's police. "Forces from Basra police on Saturday conducted raid operations at different places of the province," the source told Aswat al-Iraq -- Voices of Iraq -- (VOI) on condition of anonymity. "The forces arrested nine people wanted for terror and criminal cases," he said. "Five mortar shells and an Austrian made rocket were seized near al-Najeebiya power station (110 km north of Basra)," he added.
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Young people who carry knives will be made to visit hospitals where stabbing victims are treated, in a bid to shock them into changing their behaviour. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said seeing "gruesome" injuries would be a tougher deterrent than sending all knife carriers in England and Wales to jail.
A spate of stabbings was making people "nervous" about going out, she said.
The Tories said more knife carriers should go to prison and the Lib Dems called Ms Smith's plans "half-baked"...
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This will continue through each type of weapon until they finally get to the stick. Then they will need to ban sticks and all sources of sticks and so you will see Britain deforested ... and then they will begin to throw rocks.
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Now see...here in America we have a saying that provides the perfect answer of how to deal with people carrying knives. Most of you will recognize it instantly.
"Don't bring a knife to a gunfight."
When I was taking kung fu and akido, alot of the younger students in class were talking about how martial arts was king. Typical stuff by younger men who watch too many movies. They expressed skepticism at my comment that I prefered my .45. The sensei piped in with "Given the choice, I'll take a .45 over open hand any day myself." Needless to say that arguement died a quick death.
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This will continue through each type of weapon until they finally get to the stick dirty look. Then they will need to ban eyes. and so you will see Britain transformed into the Kingdom of the Blind...
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Silentbrick: There is only one black belt I have ever heard given the complement that he was "better than a gun".
He was also a master gun expert, and had spent years understanding the human dynamic with guns. In this way, he could close the gap while avoiding the bullets.
The fate of 29 abducted soldiers would be decided in light of the decision taken by the jirga, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan spokesman Maulvi Omer said on Sunday. He warned the government that if it did not stop actions against the Taliban in Hangu and did not release the arrested Taliban; Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan would launch strikes in Hangu as well as the rest of the country and would start killing the government employees in their custody. The Tehrik Jaish-e-Islami Pakistan (TJIP) Bajaur Agency has warned that those spying for the United States would be executed publicly and made an example for others.
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THATTA: Two people were killed and over 20 were injured in a clash between two groups over a plot dispute here on Sunday. Two groups belonging to Mondh and Bikik clans traded heavy fire, killing Haji Mando and Mohammad Hassan on the spot and injuring Abdur Rehman, Amir Ali, Khan Mohammad, Juman, Mehmood, Feroze, Umaid Ali. Pyar Ali, Shabir, Shaukat, Yar Mohammad, Soomar, Allah Dino, Shafi Mohammad, Mumtaz and others. The injured were shifted to Makli Civil Hospital, and some of them were referred to Karachi. Later, enraged people held a protest demonstration against the incident and blocked National Highway by setting tyres on the fire.
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Ma'an - The de facto police in the Gaza strip issued an order on Sunday to prevent the sale of cigarettes in public places especially on crossroads.
In many ares of Palestine on any busy street corner, youths can be found selling small packs of cigarettes, gum or candy, to passersby. The worry, it seems, is for the safety of the children hanging out near high-trafic areas.
Media spokesperson of de facto Hamas police Islam Shahwan said that police will give street vendors selling cigarettes 48 hours to remove their stalls and merchandise or they will be confiscated. He called on the traders to consider the interest of their people.
Gonna cut into the lucrative trade for the tunnel-rats ...
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"If you want cigarettes, you should buy them in the store belonging to the Chief of Police."
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Not a good idea. Cigarettes are one of the last remaining pleasures of the people in that Hell on Earth, and they will be ready to kill to keep them.
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When I quit, it was about six months before I stopped starting all my sentences with "Godammit!"
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Anybody here remember the cigarette machines that were in restaurants, bars, gas stations, and lots of other places? You have to go to a store here, too.
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They seem intent on making life as useless and bereft of the smallest pleasure as they can.
Ma'an -- Police arrested a man in the southern West Bank city of Hebron for allegedly murdering and burying his sister, police Director Ramadan Awad said on Sunday.
The suspect was a 43-year-old whom police would only identify by his initials, "MM." Awad said the man admitted killing his 22-year-old sister last Friday. According to Awad, the man claimed that his sister's head hit the wall, killing her, during a fight between them.
The corpse was exhumed and will be examined by forensic scientists.
Palestinian security sources, who asked to remain anonymous, said they suspect the murder was by the man's concern with so-called "family honor."
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I guess, sister killing is OK, but burying her afterfard is going too far.
This is what happens in a thugocracy. Anyone surprised?
Ward B3 of Gokwe general hospital looks much like any other in Zimbabwe's decaying medical establishments, denuded of medicines, equipment and doctors by the country's dramatic economic collapse. But many of its patients are prisoners in a "torture centre" for abducted opposition supporters who, on the orders of the army, are denied painkillers and treatment for terrible injuries sustained at the hands of Robert Mugabe's henchmen.
The opposition Movement for Democratic Change says that at least 13 of its members are held in the ward. Medical staff say they are mostly kept prisoner in side rooms. "They have all been heavily assaulted," said one of the staff. "Some are burned beyond recognition. Some have broken limbs. They are in serious agony. They have no drugs. They are not allowed to leave. When doctors from the outside tried to bring the medicines they were turned away. So were ambulances to take them to private hospitals with drugs. It is all on the orders of the army and Central Intelligence Organisation."
Zimbabweans with a first-hand knowledge of Ward B3 say an army major called Ronald Mpofu and a war veteran, David Masvisvi, have ordered medical staff not to allow the men held there to be moved or permitted access to outside doctors or visitors. Occasionally the prisoners are visited by intelligence officers who have photographed and threatened them.
Suspected Taliban militants on Sunday handed over the bodies of 17 Frontier Constabulary (FC) troops killed in an ambush in the Hangu district, AFP reported.
If they're handling the bodies of dead troopers, they're not 'suspected' militants, are they?
The dead were part of a convoy heading to a fort outside the Hangu city on Saturday when rebels attacked it with rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles, officials said.
The militants had initially refused to allow security forces to retrieve the bodies but relented after frantic negotiations with a jirga.
the militants had initially refused to allow security forces to retrieve the bodies but relented after frantic negotiations with a jirga. The bodies were taken to a hospital in Hangu, where they will be returned to relatives of the victims, a security official said.
Meanwhile, a curfew remained in force for the fourth consecutive day in Hangu, residents said.
He said the government was acting against militants in the Tribal Areas on actionable intelligence to avoid any collateral damage.
Rehman announced a compensation of Rs 2 million for the bereaved family of FC district officer Karim Khan and Rs 1 million each for the rest of the bereaved families, APP reported. He told AFP that the government would not release Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud's deputy Rafiuddin, adding that militants had kidnapped 19 government officials to press for his release.
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(Xinhua) -- The Arab Lawyers Union on Sunday strongly slammed the International Criminal Court (ICC) for its expected move to issue an arrest warrant against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.
The ICC decision to charge al-Bashir with war crimes in Darfur is "a flagrant violation of international law, norms and human rights," the Arab Lawyers Union said in a statement.
The ICC decision to charge al-Bashir with war crimes in Darfur is "a flagrant violation of international law, norms and human rights," the Arab Lawyers Union said in a statement.
The union also criticized the United States for its alleged role behind the ICC move, saying it's a U.S. decision to punish al-Bashir for "his firm stand in defense of Sudan's just causes."
The United States is in an attempt to drag the ICC into a fight against al-Bashir, which contradicts the aim of the international court, said the statement.
At the request of Sudan, the Arab League has been in consultation with Arab foreign ministers to hold an emergency meeting on the disputes between Sudan and the ICC.
Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department declined on Friday to confirm the reports that ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo would seek the arrest warrant for al-Bashir on alleged genocide charge.
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Really? Arabs refer to blacks as "abds" (slaves), and view them as less than human. The fact that Somalis - including those in the US - remain members of the Arab cult - Islam - speaks volumes for their lack of civility. How many peoples in history have accepted racial inferiority as as aspect of their identity? I have lived in Africa, and local blacks need to wake up to reality: ARABS ARE YOUR WORST ENEMY. Arab Muslims seized 30% more black slaves than the English-French-Spanish-Portugese traders combined. Of course, 1 was too many.
At first glance, Geneva Camp could be any of Dhaka's overcrowded and filthy slums. But above it flies Pakistan's green flag, with a red strip sewn on the side to represent, I was told, the suffering of the people there.
In the camp's school, the children first sing the Bangladesh national anthem at assembly, and then, after prayers, they belt out Pakistan's. Loyalties are divided. "When I grow up I want to stay in this country and become a teacher," one girl tells me. But her classmate wants to go to Pakistan. " My grandmother lives in Karachi so I really want to go there," she says.
When I ask a group of youths which cricket team they supported when Pakistan recently played Bangladesh they all replied, "Pakistan". But did they want to live there? "No, it is far too dangerous. Bangladesh is a peaceful country. We don't have any Taleban here," they said. Their lessons are in the local language Bengali, but their mother tongue is Urdu, the language of north Indian Islam, which their great-grandparents brought to Bangladesh in 1947 when it was then the eastern wing of Pakistan.
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Ma'an- The police media office in Tubas announced Sunday that they had successfully frustrated an attempted robbery and murder. The head of Tubas' public investigation branch said that police officers detained two civilians who had planned a theft in the home of a Tubas woman. According to the report, the thieves had also planned on killing the woman.
Those arrested have criminal records, and when questioned, admitted to planning on entering her house, stealing her jewelry and murdering her then fleeing to inside the Green Line. According to the report, police had been keeping an eye on the men, who were known criminals. They two men were handed over to the public prosecution in order to continue with legal procedures. The arrests are seen as a success for the police of the Tubas governorate, who have been working to improve their ability to deal with petty crimes.
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Two years after the war between Israel and Hizbullah, Beirut is still grappling with political instability, sectarian unrest, economic stagnation, and an increasingly powerful Hizbullah.
Prime Minister Fouad Saniora, who was premier when Israel unleashed its military might on Lebanon in July 2006, is battling to form a unity government despite an accord hammered out with the Hizbullah-led opposition in May.
Regionally, there are peace moves afoot between Israel and Syria -- which backs the Lebanese opposition -- although Beirut has still ruled out any negotiations with the Jewish state.
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Funny, I thought that this was a natural state of Lebanon since the Franco-Brit colonialists started playing state-building on the corpse of the Turkish empire.
A suspected robber was killed in a gun battle between police and his henchmen at Kundarpara village in Narsingdi's Shibpur upazila early yesterday.
No idea where that is.
The dead was identified as Hainf Mia, 48. Three police and four robbers were injured in the shootout.
This is a 'shootout', not a crossfire ...
Police said they surrounded a band of robbers on information that the thugs were preparing themselves for robbery at the village at about 3:00am.
Was this a Saoodi-style surrounding ...
Sensing danger, ...
Spider-sense tingling and all ...
... the robbers opened fire on the law enforcers, ensuing an hour-long gun battle ...
Local cops have no sense of style like the RAB ...
... during which Hainf died from bullet wounds on the spot.
Which spot?
THAT spot!
Of the injured, SI Aziz and robber Sohrab were admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital in critical condition.
Whoa. An accomplice was actually there?
The other injured, including Officer-in-Charge at Shibpur Police Station Abdul Mannan and SI Ali Nur, were admitted to the local health complex.
Police recovered one pipe gun and six sharp weapons from the spot.
Clearly they haven't heard about the British efforts to ban knives ...
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From Wikipedia:
Narshingdi (Bengali: নরসিংদী)is a district in central Bangladesh. It is a part of the Dhaka Division, and is the only district in Bangladesh that does not depend solely on agriculture. The district is famous for its textile craft industry.
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Shibpur (Bengali: শিবপুর) is an Upazila of Narsingdi District in the Division of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Police recovered one pipe gun
AHAH the infamous Shutter gun is finaly identified.
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*shakes head* Nope, not the shutter gun. These are the police, faint and fawning imitators of the unimitable RAB. They are as children, pressing wet noses against the glass case at RAB headquarters, staring with longing at The Shuttergun, nestled in a blanket of velvet cloth, glistening, a prize unobtainable except by the true Elite.
The government has solid plans to counter extremism and terrorism and will go ahead with its endeavours to establish its writ in the area where it has been challenged, NWFP Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani said on Sunday.
"Oh, yasss! We do intend to assert ourselves! Rilly!"
Talking to reporters after attending several Frontier Constabulary (FC) cops' funerals, the governor said that elements involved in the brutal killings of FC troops in Hangu would be brought to book.
"We will probably demand of their jirga that they be required to go to a mortuary and look at dead people, in the hope this will shock them into more civilized ways. They say they are having great success with this approach in Britain!"
He said that unrest in Tribal Areas has direct bearing on peace in other parts of the province. He added that the government was ready to meet the challenge of establishing peace in the country.
"Surely once we've given them all they want they'll leave the rest of us alone?"
To a question, the governor said that operation against criminals would continue in the Tribal Areas until it achieved the desired results. Earlier, an FC contingent presented guard of honour to the coffins of martyred troops.
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(VOI) - Iraqi army troops on Sunday arrested seven wanted individuals during an operation conducted in Ninewa, a security spokesman said.
"A force from the Iraqi army 3rd division conducted a raid-and-search operation in Talafar district, west Mosul,"Brig. Khalid Abdel Sattar, spokesman for Ninewa security operations, told Aswat al-Iraq-Voices of Iraq (VOI). The spokesman noted "the force seized two AK-47 rifles and quantities of ammunitions". Iraqi security forces have been conducting a large-scale military campaign since May 10.
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Moderate Shiite cleric Sayyed Ali al-Amin said the Shiites in Lebanon and the Arab world support their states and reject the Iran-styled Faqih rule, and called for a judiciary investigation in assaults carried out by Hizbullah against Beirut.
Amin, in an interview with Naharnet, said the "Shiite communities in Lebanon and the Arab world believe in state rule and do not believe in the rule of the Faqih in Iran."
"The Faqih rule in Iran has become a political regime. If I support any (foreign) political regime this means that I would disagree with the political regime that rules me. This is totally unacceptable," Amin said.
Amin, who was removed by the Hizbullah-influenced Higher Shiite Islamic Council from his post of Mufti of Tyre and Mount Amel, criticized Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's recent speech as "non moderate."
"It was a strongly-worded speech not different from previous fiery speeches," Amin said of Nasrallah's address on the eighth anniversary of Liberation Day.
Amin praised President Michel Suleiman's oath address saying it was "moderate and reflected the viewpoint of the Lebanese people."
Asked to comment on the Higher Shiite Islamic Council's decision that removed him from the post of Mufti, Amin said: "We don't have militias to force the council to withdraw its decision."
He was referring to Hizbullah's attack against West Beirut on May 8 that forced Premier Fouad Saniora's former government to withdraw two decisions that Hizbullah had opposed.
Amin said the "silent majority" of Shiites that he belongs to is mushrooming and "in the forthcoming elections we would support whoever reflects its views" that contradict Hizbullah and allied AMAL Movement, headed by Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri.
Amin asked if the Hizbullah assault on Beirut was "launched upon a permission from Iran ... This would pose a major problem to Iran in the Arab and Muslim worlds."
Amin called for the formation of "investigation committees" to look into what has happened in Beirut. "The Doha Accord should have included a clause on the investigation committee because it would re-assure the population."
Amin also said Hizbullah "should apologize" for what it has done and the government should pledge to refer what has happened to the judiciary.
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Talks between the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam--Fazl (JUI-F) jirga and two warring tribes were suspended for two weeks due to worsening law and order and continued violence in Tirah valley of the Khyber Agency, Dawn News reported on Sunday. According to the channel, the JUI-F's NWFP Secretary General Shujaul Mulk led the party's jirga, while Ansar-ul-Islam (AI) chief Qazi Mehboob represented his group in the talks. Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) chief Mangal Bagh assured the JUI-F jirga of his support in maintaining peace in the Tirah valley, it said. Meanwhile, the fighting between LI and AI continued on Sunday. The fresh clashes claimed 5 more lives, bringing the death toll to 112 in 17 days of clashes.
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(Xinhua) -- Iranian Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said on Sunday that Iran has discovered a new oil field in the southwest province of Khuzestan with in-place reserves of 1.1 billion barrels. he field, which is located near Andimeshk in Khuzestan, holds an estimated reserve of 233 million barrels of recoverable crude oil, state television quoted Nozari as saying.
Hey look! The Arab Republic of Khuzestan has oil!
The oil discovered in the new field is light crude with an API gravity of 33 degrees, the Iranian oil minister said.
Iran is the fourth-largest oil producer in the world and ranks second in output among the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) members. Iranian officials have said that the country's oil reserves were estimated at more than 130 billion barrels, about 12 percent of global reserves.
A big chunk of that is in Khuzestan, whose residents have a lot more in common with the Shi'a in Iraq then they do with the Medes and Persians. Just sayin' ...
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photoshopped oil?
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This is not from the same Ministry that launch 14 missles last week? All with the same exhaust plume?
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(VOI) -- Three civilians were killed and another wounded when two improvised explosive devices went off separately in Diala on Sunday, the province's police chief said.
"One IED planted on the main street of al-Wajihiya area, al-Muqdadiya district, (45 km) northeast of Baaquba, killed three civilians," Maj. General Ghanim al-Qurayshi told Aswat al-Iraq -- Voices of Iraq -- (VOI). "Another IED went off in Bazayez, Buhrez district, (5 km) south of Baaquba, went off today, wounding a civilian," Qurayshi said, not giving more details. Diala province extends to the northeast of Baghdad as far as the Iranian border. Its capital is Baaquba, 57 km northeast of Baghdad. It covers an area of 17,685 square kilometers (6,828 sq mi).
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The United States should avoid talks of "hot pursuit" of militants into Pakistan's Tribal Areas and give the newly formed government time to enact its own policies without undue pressure, Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari said on Sunday.
In an exclusive chat with the Business Plus TV channel, he said that Pakistan was in favour of the war on terror, but it was unjustified of the United States to expect miracles from a four-month old government. Referring to the recent 'tough' statements from the US, he condemned the infiltration of coalition forces into Pakistani territory, saying that Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani would take up the issue with US President George W Bush during their upcoming meeting. He also categorically said that Pakistan was against extremism and terrorism as it had lost one of its greatest leaders, Benazir Bhutto, to the twin menaces.
Countrymen: The PPP co-chairman said that the war against terrorism was being fought in Pakistan's best interests. However, he added, the country needed to pursue dialogue in FATA, in addition to employing force, because it was facing its own countrymen. He said the PPP-led government preferred to resolve law and order by taking all parties onboard, rather than through force. He said the country was still paying the price for the policies followed by its former leaders.
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Sounds like the whole area needs a strong dose of persistent pesticide.
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Hey Zardari - since you don't like "hot pursuit", how about "crush pakistan"? Nothing like a couple of dozen B-52s full of iron bombs to get a point across. Running them down through the heart of Rawalpindi/Islamabad, with every other BUFF full of incindiaries, would get your attention, wouldn't it? Maybe we should try it.
Playing these kinds of games with the US can be hazardous to your health, useless.
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Ma'an -- Israeli police on Saturday arrested a settler from Yitshar settlement near Nablus, in the northern West Bank. The arrestee is suspected of manufacturing and launching homemade projectiles towards the village of Burin three weeks ago.
Israel Radio reported that Israeli army searched the settlement and found explosives and weapons.
On three separate occasions, militant Israeli settlers were reported to have fired homemade rockets into Palestinian villages in the area.
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If the government won't respond to the rocket attacks on Israel, it is natural that the people will take things in their own hands.
Israel should manufacture millions of the same kind of rockets the Palestinians are firing and for every one the Palestinians fire, a thousand should fly back to the same area. That would pretty much put an end to the attacks.
(VOI) -- Iraqi security forces are awaiting the zero hour to be set by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to commence operations to track down gunmen in the restive province of Diala, an Interior Ministry official said on Sunday. "The file regarding the security operations in Diala is now on the prime minister's table for a decision to give the go-ahead for well-prepared Iraqi security forces to do their job," Maj. General Abdelkareem Khalaf, the interior ministry's operations chief, said in a press conference he held in Baghdad on Sunday.
Khalaf pointed out that Diala is one of four provinces where crime and violence rates remain high, adding that the three other provinces are Baghdad, Mosul and Kirkuk.
"Diala is witnessing an increase in organized and non-organized crime rates on a daily basis, whether on the level of al-Qaeda network or other criminal rings," he said.
Replying to a question by Aswat al-Iraq -- Voices of Iraq -- (VOI) on the date planned to launch this security operation in Diala, Khalaf said it would be during the next few days.
More than a government official had said that the Diala operation became imminent after unbridled violence grew there.
Last June, Maliki, during a meeting with notables in the province of Missan, said the next stop would be in Diala, in reference to launching wide-scale military operations in the manner of Bashaer al-Salam (Promise of Peace) in Missan, Umm al-Rabiain (Mother of Two Springs) in Mosul and Saulat al-Forsan (Knights' Assault) in Basra.
A senior security official in Diala who asked not to be named had told VOI on Friday that military reinforcements arrived in Diala from the Iraqi capital Baghdad in preparations for launching a military operation in Diala to manhunt gunmen and impose order and law all over the province.
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The freedom fighter who was assaulted Friday by Shibir cadres for demanding the trial of Jamaat leaders responsible for war crimes during the liberation war filed a general diary (GD) yesterday. Sheikh Mohammad Ali Aman, the war veteran, filed the GD with Ramna Police Station on charges of beating and keeping him confined. Police registered the GD as a case following investigation.
Meantime, the Sector Commanders' Forum (SCF) threatened to go for nationwide protests if the government balks at bringing the Jamaat and Shibir men responsible for the attack on Ali Aman to trial. "If the government does not take immediate steps to identify and try the people responsible, we'll go for movement along with all other patriotic people," SCF President Air Vice Marshal (retd) AK Khandker said at a press briefing in Dhanmondi yesterday. "The war criminals were involved in killing hundreds of thousands of people during our liberation war; now they're assembling using the banner Jatiya Muktijoddha Parishad," he said. "If the government does not act to probe into the incident and punish the offenders accordingly, we'll know for sure that the administration is biased towards the Jamaat," he said.
SCF chief coordinator Lt Gen (retd) Harun-ar-Rashid said the government has got to try the attackers, adding that humiliating a freedom fighter amounts to disgracing the whole nation. The freedom fighters will stage nationwide protests if the offenders are not arrested and given exemplary punishment, he said.
Freedom fighter Aman, who was present at the press conference, said, "I went to the Jatiya Muktijoddha Parishad meeting in the hope of meeting other freedom fighters, not knowing that it was actually a Jamaat-backed front." He said he and a few other freedom fighters left the venue soon after the organisers showed their true colours by demanding the trial of sector commanders. "Some people began kicking me as I demanded trial of war criminals in an interview outside the meeting venue," he said, adding that the attackers had kept him confined in a room for about three hours.
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Democratic Gathering member MP Akram Shohayeb said Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah's recent remarks were "calm and rational, which require a response in kind."
"This should have happened immediately after the Doha Accord. A lot of time has been lost," Shohayeb told Naharnet.
He said obtaining the release of Lebanese prisoners from Israeli jails and regaining bodies of "martyrs" who had fallen in action against the Jewish State "played a major role in the call (by Nasrallah) "for rapprochement between the various Lebanese communities backing the concept of the state, state logic and state institutions."
Nasrallah's recent message sets the stage for renewed "pumping of Lebanese blood into Hizbullah's veins," he added.
Shohayeb said the message made by Nasrallah during a press conference on Wednesday "is the first positive step towards dialogue and building state institutions after the Doha Accord."
He expressed the belief that "meetings would be held soon between factions from March 14 and factions from March 8." He did not elaborate on the remark. "Victory achieved by return of the prisoners should be supported by backing the state," Shohayeb added.
Asked to comment on Britain's decision to list Hizbullah's armed branch as a terrorist organization, Shohayeb said: "We never recognized the definition of Hizbullah set by the United States or any European country."
"There is a great difference between disagreeing with Hizbullah on domestic issues and accepting, God forbid, the logic of some states, including the United States," Shohayeb stressed. "We do not accept this (UK) decision," he declared.
Shohayeb said the new cabinet would "eventually be formed. But it wouldn't have time to be a true national unity cabinet in the political sense. It would be preoccupied with setting the stage for the parliamentary elections" scheduled for 2009.
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New fighting in Sri Lanka's civil war killed 31 Tamil Tiger rebels and two government soldiers, the military said yesterday.
In the worst clash Saturday, 18 rebels and a soldier were killed in Mannar district, a military official said on condition of anonymity, citing government rules. Seven rebels and a soldier were killed in Vavuniya while six guerrillas died in Welioya, he said. It said 26 rebels were also wounded in the clashes that killed two government soldiers and wounded seven more.
The air force was called in to bomb suspected Tiger positions in the Wanni, the ministry said. For their part, the Tigers said the aerial attack destroyed livestock and wounded a 20-year-old woman. There was no immediate word from the Tigers about ground clashes.
Rebel spokesman Rasiah Ilanthirayan could not immediately be reached for comment, and it was not possible to verify the military's claims because reporters are barred from the war zone.
The government has intensified its campaign against the rebels' de facto state in the north after promising to crush them by the end of this year. However, army commander Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka recently said it might take another year to significantly weaken the rebels.
The latest figure given by the ministry raises the number of rebels killed by government forces to 4,907 since January, while 437 soldiers have died in the same period.
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DUBAI - Syrian President Bashar Al Assad said Damascus would establish normal relations including the opening of embassies if apeace accord was sealed with Israel, in an interview broadcast on Sunday.
From the very start of the peace process, we have been speaking of normal relations with the Jewish state as part of a peace deal, he told the Arab satellite channel Al Jazeera. Whether it's called normal relations or a normalisation makes little difference. These are normal relations just like any relations between two states with embassies, links and treaties, he said.
Assad and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert were on Sunday both in Paris where they held indirect talks through Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, an Israeli diplomatic source said.
Following an eight-year freeze, Syria and Israel began indirect talks in May, brokered by Turkey. In exchange for peace, Syria is demanding that Israel return the strategic Golan Heights, which the Jewish state seized in the 1967 Middle East war and later annexed.
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What Arabs consider "normal", differes significantly from what the rest of the World believe the term to mean.
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:) at big jim. Yup, an embassy isnt enough for the Golan. Israel wants the kinds of economic and cultural and travel ties that will make it harder for Syria to contemplate war in the future.
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In exchange for the Golan, maybe Syria would take the Palestinians off Israel's hands? After all, what's in it for Israel if the Arabs make no concessions?
A coalition of military groups is planning a nationally televised town-hall-style meeting with the presidential candidates near Fort Hood, Tex., the largest active-duty military installation in the country. But so far, only Senator John McCain of Arizona, the presumptive Republican nominee, has agreed to attend.
CBS has agreed to broadcast the meeting live from 9 to 11 p.m. Eastern time on Monday, Aug. 11. The candidates would face questions directly from an audience of 6,000 people, made up of veterans, service members and military families from the base.
Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, the presumptive Democratic nominee, has not agreed to participate. Senator Obama strongly supports Americas veterans and military families and has worked hard on their behalf in the Senate, said Phillip Carter, director of Mr. Obamas veterans effort and an Iraq war veteran. While we unfortunately had a previously scheduled commitment on the date proposed, Senator Obama looks forward to continuing the dialogue hes been having throughout the country with veterans on how we can better serve our men and women in uniform as they serve us.
Carissa Picard, managing director of the Fort Hood Presidential Town Hall Consortium, said she had suggested Aug. 11 and asked the campaign to suggest other dates if that was not convenient, but after several conversations she had not been able to work anything out. Im having extreme difficulty getting the Obama campaign to commit to this event, and we do not understand why, said Ms. Picard, whose husband is deployed in Iraq. We made it very clear to them that if they would commit to the event, we would work with them on dates.
So it's not the schedule, but we knew that.
The organizers released details about the event in hopes that it would pressure the Obama campaign to agree to the event. This was a decision that was made with tremendous difficulty, to publicize it, Ms. Picard said. We were at a point where we had no other option. We got the impression that they could talk us to November.
The meeting would be at the Expo Center in Belton, Tex., about 25 miles from Fort Hood.
A military audience might seem more hospitable to a Republican candidate, particularly one like Mr. McCain, who has made his support for the war in Iraq the heart of his campaign. But the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken a heavy toll on Fort Hood; one of the groups organizing the event estimates that up to 800 of the service people who have died in Iraq have come through the base. And organizers say many Fort Hood residents the base serves about 218,000 people, including service members, retirees and military families have grown tired of the war and agree with Mr. Obamas declaration that it must end.
That doesn't mean that they want their loved ones in the military dragged home in defeat ...
Still, Mr. McCain prefers the town-hall-style format. He had proposed a series of 10 similar events with Mr. Obama, and the two campaigns were said to be working out details for a more limited series of meetings.
Organizers say the veterans and military population in the United States, including families, totals about 44 million people. McCain and Obama are asking to be the next commander in chief, Ms. Picard said. Whats a more compelling audience than this, the people that you have asked to maintain our security? It would be tremendous for the morale of this community.
Organizers include American Veterans, Disabled American Veterans, Military Order of the Purple Heart, Veterans for Common Sense and Military Spouse Corporate Career Network.
Obama is waving this one off for two big reasons. The first is that the crowd, despite the NYT shilling that the military could vote Democratic, is very likely to be conservative, republican-oriented, and very knowledgeable about world affairs. That leads to the second reason: Obama is paper-thin in his knowledge of the military and foreign policy, and he understands that putting his lack of knowledge on display is not a smart political move.
So expect Obama not to be there, and expect CBS, with only McCain there, to pull the plug on a broadcast. Expect the MSM to ignore the event and cover instead whatever Obama is conveniently doing that day instead.
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I believe you're correct, but IMO Barack would still be making a political mistake in dissing this event - after all, wasn't he the one whom said that he will work to earn the trust and respect of the troops??? FORT HOOD IS NOT JUST AN ARMY BASE BUT A MAJOR/SIGNIF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY IN TEHAS.
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There were at least a dozen major US military installations where Bill Clinton was advised not to go, as the post commander could not guarantee his safety.
At one point he insisted on visiting an aircraft carrier. Before he landed, all sailors were asked "Do you have a problem with Clinton or his policies?", and if they answered yes, they were kept below decks, under arms, until his departure.
It is that bad. The Democrats have become to the military what the Ku Klux Klan is to blacks.
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It is that bad. The Democrats have become to the military what the Ku Klux Klan is to blacks.
Good. Maybe if things get bad enough in this country, the military will remember that part of their Oath about defending The Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Especially the domestic part.
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Things are looking pretty bad. When my old man (WWII vet, former policeman, former Hubert Humphrey liberal) told me he'd rather live under a military junta than Obama, my ears swiveled around like a whitetail deer at a threatening sound. That crack definitely got my attention.
Bama wins, the next four years are probably going to be VERY ugly, particularly if the Dems try to come for the people's guns. I suspect they're stupid enough to try it, and I think there will be some serious killing done if they make that mistake.
US President George W Bush has given Israel a go-ahead to begin preparations for a military attack on Iran, in case talks over the country's controversial nuclear programme fail to yield results, a media report has said.
Iran's strategy is not military. It is diplomatic and political. You heard read it here first.
The Bush administration is said to have informed Tel Aviv that he would back an Israeli plan to strike Iran's main nuclear sites with long-range aerial weapons if diplomatic talks over Tehran's nuclear programme broke down, the Sunday Times said quoting a Pentagon official.
Iran is pursuing a "ragged edge" policy with regard to the U.S. in particular and the West in general. They don't intend to go to war -- for one thing, they have to realize that militarily they're duckshit. They don't even know the meaning of the words "combined arms," which in Farsi would probably include donkeys if concept existed. They fought a ten-year war with Iraq to a draw. The U.S. ground forces stomped Iraq twice in two weeks or less, once in 100 hours even. Their missile program has been shown to be a bluff in the past week. But every time oil prices start to stabilize a little bit, they grimace fearsomely and threaten some sort of militarily stoopid action that impacts the price, driving it up again.
The American President has given Israel an "amber light" to start preparing for a possible offensive, the official told the Sunday Times. "Amber means get on with your preparations, stand by for immediate attack and tell us when you're ready," the official as quoted as saying to The Times.
After that it's puce, and we all know what that means, unless they go directly to magenta or turquoise.
The US President's voice of support comes despite his military officials' opposition to an attack on Iran, given the risks of an aerial strike. However, the US would not deploy American forces for such a strike nor would Israel be able to depend on its military bases in Iraq for logistical support, the official said.
Nor would they be required if a strike is followed by 30 days of non-stop Tomahawks.
Washington would also not give a "green light" to the attack without unquestionable proof that the Islamic Republic is involved in military preparations of its own, the report said.
You mean watch what they're actually doing, rather than listen to the incessant stream of threats and invective?
Iran last week test launched a series of medium-range ballistic missiles it claimed were capable of striking Israel.
They were proven a Photoshopped bluff. The U.S. announced that they actually launched one missile, and it was short-range.
The tests prompted a threatening message from Israel defence minister Ehud Barak, who said that the Jewish state will not hesitate from taking military action against Tehran.
They've been hesitating all this while, letting the Euros try to cajole the ayatollahs into magickally turning into reasonable fellows. Meanwhile, al-Qaeda's got Sonny bin Laden and Saif al-Adel and a few of the other large cheeses in Iran, coordinating policy with them, policy that's directed at destroying the U.S. and the West economically, rather than lining up large numbers of cannon fodder with AK-47s.
On the other hand Iran vows it will "cut off the hands" of any enemy that attacks the country over its controversial nuclear programme, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned Sunday. "Before the enemies touch the trigger, Iran's armed forces will cut off their hands," Ahmadinejad said, according to the state-run IRNA news agency.
They may have in mind to attempt a Hezbollah-style sustained missile attack, but the net result of that was more nuisance value than military.
His comments came after Iran intensified tensions in the nuclear standoff by conducting two days of missile tests, which included the firing of a missile whose range it says includes Israel.
We have several missiles whose range includes Qom.
"This is only a small part of Iran's defence capabilities and in future we will unveil more of our defence capabilities if it is needed," Ahmadinejad said.
"We've got more copies of Photoshop on order!"
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The American President has given Israel an "amber light"
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"US President George W Bush has given Israel a go-ahead to begin preparations for a military attack on Iran"
My initial reaction to this is best left unpublished.
Come to think on it, so's my second thought.
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What idiot came up with this? Israel doesn't need US approval for ANYTHING, as their actions indicate. They may INFORM the United States, but only once the aircraft are over their targets. Some idjit wants to link any attack by Israel to the United States, so they can then say it's all the fault of the US. One gets so tired of this kind of crap. I've come to believe that most of this BS is coming out of Iran.
The three videos and still images I saw of the Iranian "strategic" missile launches showed a half-dozen "FROG"-7 missiles, a couple of SCUD launches, and something else that was neither, and not very impressive. It appears that 90% of Iran's "vaunted military" is a propaganda tool.
I wonder if Israel has perfected their long-range air-launched cruise missile? Iran would be the perfect place to test it.
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Sounds like Sy Hersch is in town.
And besides, I thought they were our Zionist overlords?
In my previous post I proposed one explanation for a possible decision by Barack Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, to give birth to Barack in Canada. I pointed out that she had political opinions that were rather critical toward the United States, and I suggested that she might have believed that her mixed-race baby might have a better future with Canadian citizenship.
In today's post I will suggest another explanation, which involves Barack's father, Barack Obama, Sr. The father was a native of Kenya, which was part of the British Commonwealth until December 12, 1963, when Kenya became independent. If the father foresaw that his relationship with the mother might not last and if he foresaw that he eventually might want to take his son to Kenya against the mother's will, then he might have recognized future legal advantages in arranging for the birth to take place in Canada, which was likewise part of the British Commonwealth (until 1982).
If the baby were born in Canada, then the father simply would have to take the baby across into Canada, present the Canadian birth certificate, and then fly away with the baby to Kenya. In such a situation, the mother's legal ability to impede the father's travel with the baby would be significantly reduced.
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Senator Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961. He's an American citizen.
One may wish to flog this nonsense on a dead-ender Hillary blog, but I'd suggest we don't need to do it here. I'm leaving this post but in the future will delete others than go in this direction.
As Old Spook sez, there are plenty of reasons to oppose Senator Obama, if you're of a mind to oppose him. This isn't one of them.
Enough. Feh.
AoS
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If there is any evidence to Obama's lack of citizenship, how come Clintons didn't make it public?
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Just playing along with the conspiracy theory, grom, howzabout because they're planning on bringing it up having it brought up at the convention by somebody supposedly not connected with them? (So Billary can step in and be the Dems' saviour.) ;-p
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how come Clintons didn't make it public?
That one is easy. Senator Clinton needs Candidate Obama to pay off her campaign's multi-million dollar debt. Until that happens she'll hold her tongue in public on whatever dirt her people have dug up. I expect she wouldn't say anything about the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate in private until then, either, lest his people spike her guns.
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So you all say this is insignificant, eh ? Notice how Axelrod went right after McCain for being born in Panama and not the continental 48 ? Watch Axelrod, he's always in preemptive strike mode. Firmly believes an active offense is the best defense. Any sentitive areas of Hussein's backround are declared "off limits" for discussion. This is quite simple. Hawaii was a State of the Union in 1961. They had an accepted method of recording and documenting all native births within their state. Let's see a real birth certificate, not a Photoshop dummy. Anyone can get a copy of their own birth certificate if needed from the courthouse of the jurisdiction where they were born (certainly wihin the last 70 yrs. or so). Let's have the document.
For some of us, abiding the rules is important. Call it old fashioned, but if there is a question about his citizenship I'd like it resolved. Since only Barry can do this, it is appropriate to ask that he do so.
For most of us, proving citizenship would be a trivial thing. I wouldn't think twice about being asked to produce a birth certificate, especially in connection with seeking employment for a sensitive and high profile new job.
I have a great deal more sympathy for Cindy McCain's desire not to share her tax returns than I do for Barry's reluctance to produce proof of citizenship.
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Granted, I wasn't alive in '61, but if they had flights that could cross the Pacific, they sure as hell had flights that went between Honolulu and Seattle.....and I've never heard of a restriction that would prevent a newborn from flying domestically for such an important reason as a young mother's introduction to proper diapering.
And as for the different appearance of the birth certificate from the "original" one? BFD. I lost my original AZ certificate and had to apply for a new one. I remember seeing the original when I was a kid, and it had a lot more detailed info than the one I currently have. Many states have decided not to put as much info on the newer certificates. Hawaii is not alone in that regard.
This almost makes the Troofers seem rational.
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If his mother was a US Citizen he is. I don't believe it really matters where you are born. It's all nonsense distracting people and making them look crazy in the process.
I believe Hillary's people would have investigated every detail. YOu can bet someone in the Hawaii department of records took a look over his legal documents and we'd hear holy hell if they weren't in order.
I think Obama's minions prefer false conspiracies that distract an can be disproven when required do real skeletons that could take his campaign down.
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This sounds like a lot of hooey. But politics enters official documentation. Example: President Bush has a DWI conviction. Anyone charged is processed, which means that fingerprints are taken as is a mug shot. Those documents are missing.
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Is it equally desperate and outrageous when law professors and the media conspire to question McCain's eligibility to hold the office on the same grounds?
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"If his mother was a US Citizen he is."
Not necessarily true, rjschwarz. Read the fine print:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_nationality_law
Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh yesterday protested a news report published in yesterday's issue of The Daily Star headlined "Jamaat activists' attack on freedom fighter sparks protest" saying the report was published with a view to tarnish the image of Jamaat.
In a statement, Tasnim Alam, secretary of the central publicity department of Jamaat, said the representatives' meeting of Jatiya Muktijoddha Parishad on Friday was run and managed by freedom fighters.
The statement said question of attacking or humiliating a freedom fighter by Jamaat cannot arise as Jamaat believes in Islam and the freedom fighters are the "best sons of the nation and the nation's pride".
The statement said question of attacking or humiliating a freedom fighter by Jamaat cannot arise as Jamaat believes in Islam and the freedom fighters are the "best sons of the nation and the nation's pride". The allegation of The Daily Star that Jamaat attacked a freedom fighter is "totally false", read the statement.
Meanwhile, Jatiya Muktijoddha Parishad also protested the news published in a number of newspapers and aired on a number of television channels regarding the representatives' meeting of the parishad. In a statement, it said, "We firmly state that there was no such incident of assault on freedom fighters in the meeting."
Mohammad Ali, whose news was published in newspapers and aired on Ekushey Television, is not a representative of the parishad, it said adding that nobody invited him and he even did not collect the entry card to the meeting. It also said a number of politicians are making unfair comments on the incident without examining facts. The statement urged the politicians concerned to refrain from making such comments.
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(Xinhua) -- Philippine government troops killed at least four left-wing rebels and injured three others in a fighting Saturday in the southern province of Agusan del Sur, said the official Philippines News Agency on Sunday.
The report quoted a military spokesman as saying the government troops repulsed what could have been a raid by the New People's Army (NPA) guerrillas on a military detachment. "Our territorial forces gallantly defended their camp and showed how they employed tactics that repulsed the attacking NPA column which scampered to the nearby mountainous and forested area," the report quoted Armand Rico, a spokesman of Mindanao-based Eastern Command of the military, as saying.
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And to think, this is where my job in the civiian sector got outsourced to (Philippines).
Very, very long piece in the New Yorker, but it rings true. When someone in Chicago is a 'community organizer', what they're organizing is:
1) make sure the neighborhood votes regular Democrat
2) make sure the neighborhood votes for HIM.
Ms. Lizza has that figured out. Obama started in the south side and figured out how to hustle. He's been politically ambitious pretty much all his life. He got lucky not once but three times in his political races. And how he's the Dhimmicratic nominee.
They used to call 'em "ward heelers."
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I remember the South Side > Too many Homeless + too many boarded up, run-down homes and commercial buildings.
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It would be tough to shake the city's "machine politics." In that context, judges, police and prosecutors tend to disregard necessary independence. Wrongful conviction is like breathing in Chicago. It has nice clubs though. High rise living there is second only to NYC.
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Barry worked for The Woodlawn Organization, no? That was founded by Saul Alinsky, a 60s lefty who wrote "Rules for Radicals" (at the time that was almost heresy - radicals should have "rules"?) TWO was not simply a Demo ward org (Im pretty sure there already WAS a ward org - though Im not sure if Woodlawn was in the same ward as Hyde Park, where reformist white folks made machine politics irrelevant - I dont think it was, but I dont remember the ward boundaries) OTOH it makes perfect sense that Alinsky and TWO pragmatically played local politics - EVERYONE in Chicago does that, even the Univ of Chicago created an organization to do that to suppor their interests in redevelopment.
That Barry has been able to work with Mayor Dailey, is in large part due to the Dailey reaching out to the southside blacks and to liberals in ways his father never did. In the 60s the Southside blacks broke with the Daily machine, while the West side blacks stayed loyal.
So this is Daileys deftness, not a matter of Barry being a typical ward heeler. But again, Chicago is Chicago, and in Chicago even someone who is a reformer by local standards can look a lot like a ward heeler anywhere else, I suppose.
I look forward to reading the article, but keep things in perspective.
"When it comes to dealing with Iraq, Afghanistan, etc., my experience working around the corruption of Chicago makes me more qualified than Sen McCain."
Is this the change we were promised, the same jokes from 10 years ago? /snark
In all seriousness, he was planning the countrywide 11 years ago (according to the New Yorker fwiw). I still maintain he ran a bicycle too soon but surprised the Clintons and themselves (so far guess it isn't written in stone just yet - would be interesting to watch him sit there in Invesco and watch a floor vote decide otherwise).
Ma'an - Palestinian officials are slated to meet with Israeli authorities on Sunday to discuss the recent Israeli army orders given to several charities and shopping locations in Nablus to close their doors.
Following these meetings, at least seven Executive Committee members of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) will participate in an official visit to Nablus Monday, according to committee member Ghassan Ash-Shak'a.
Members of the executive committee will take a tour of the Nablus locations which the Israeli army ordered closed as of 15 August, and will later meet with city representatives and local residents in order to review the present situation. Ash-Shak'a told Ma'an he was not optimistic about the scheduled meetings between Palestinian and Israeli officials.
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Ma'an- The public investigation office of the de facto government arrested two civilians Sunday, who were accused of forging licenses and related files for Palestinian vehicles.
The general administration of the investigation office said that the licensing and transportation department of the northern Gaza Strip gave the initial tip, saying two of their employees had forged a number files and licenses for vehicles.
The public investigation office added that there is a great deal of evidence and a number of witnesses. They added that when presented with the evidence, the men charged admitted guilt, and were transferred to police offices to finish all necessary legal documents for the case.
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(VOI) -- Two persons were killed and three others wounded when unknown gunmen opened fire on a group of youth in Dalouiya district, Iraqi authoritiesaid on Sunday.
"At a late hour on Saturday night, unidentified gunmen attacked a group of young men, who were playing table tennis in downtown Dalouiya," Lieutenant Colonel Mohammed al-Juburi told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI). "Two of the men, including one police lieutenant, were killed, and three others were seriously wounded," al-Juburi noted. The gunmen employed the surrounding thick orchards and fled to an unknown destination, al-Juburi added.
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A Panchagarh court yesterday sentenced four activists of banned Islamist militant outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to life imprisonment in a case filed in connection with the August 17, 2005 serial bomb blasts in Panchagarh.
The Court of Additional District and Sessions Judge Amulla Kumar Sarker handed down the verdict after examining records and witnesses depositions. The judge acquitted six accused in the case. The court also fined them Tk 10,000 each, in default to which they are to stay one more year in jail.
Oooh. In court, on a charge of conspiracy to kill judges. Not a good thing.
According to the prosecution, the JMB activists exploded bombs at eight places including the Judge Court compound and the entrance to the Collectorate Building in Panchagarh on August 17, 2005. Officer-in-charge of Panchagarh Police Station Ilias Fakir filed a case under Explosive Substances Act the same day. He arrested 15 people in this connection over a period of time. Ilias, also the investigation officer, submitted the charge sheet before the court on November 29, 2005 accusing 11 people.
Since accused Abdul Awal, son-in-law of JMB chief Sheikh Abdur Rahman, was executed, the court framed charges against 10 people on June 30, 2007.
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A NATO drone violated Pakistani airspace and entered Mohmand Agency on Sunday, the second infiltration by the force in two days. The drone flew over the Marghat and Khozai Banzai areas for 30 minutes before entering the agency from the Nawagai side at around 3pm, witnesses said, adding that it later flew back to Afghanistan through the Wazrichina area.
Smile for the cameras, boys ...
On Saturday, two drones flew over the Soran Dara and Shaikh Baba areas of the agency, but Inter-Survives Public Relations denied the report.
The Ruritanian Air Force is getting frisky ...
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"A NATO drone violated Pakistani airspace and entered Mohmand Agency on Sunday"
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They're not seeing the Global Hawk drones flying at 65,000 feet that take photos of every square inch of Pakistan twice a day. Otherwise, they'd be screaming even louder. All we need now is a small JDAM a Global Hawk could carry. More "mysterious explosions"...
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(VOI) -- Six suspected gunmen were arrested in a wide-scale operation that stretched from al-Dalouiya district to the Nahr al-Adhim area in Salah al-Din province, according to an interior ministry statement on Sunday.
"A joint force from the Salah al-Din Police Department comprising the Iraqi Special Weapons & Tactics (ISWAT) and anti-riot forces arrested six suspects, detonated two safe havens for terrorists, and seized two motorbikes used to carryout terrorist operations," read the statement received by Aswat al-Iraq -- Voices of Iraq -- (VOI). "Outlines for ways to enter into and exit from target areas, as well as four bags of ammonia used to make improvised explosive devices, were also seized," it added. Dalouiya is a district in Salah al-Din province.
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(VOI) -- Four police personnel were killed or wounded when an explosive charge targeted their patrol vehicle in Falluja city, Iraqi authorities said. "Two policemen were killed and two others wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated near their vehicle in downtown Falluja," Captain Aasif Mohammed al-Aani told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI). The source did not provide further details.
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Ethiopia says it has arrested eight "Eritrean-trained" rebels suspected of carrying out bombings that rocked the capital Addis Ababa and killed eight people earlier this year. A statement by security chiefs late on Saturday said the attacks were sponsored by arch-foe Asmara "and implemented by its stooges in Ethiopia, the self-proclaimed Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) and Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF)." Simultaneous blasts at two petrol stations killed two people a day after local, regional and federal elections in April, then a bomb tore through a minibus taxi a month later, killing six. The statement by the National Intelligence and Security Service did not say when or where the detainees were arrested, but said three "most wanted" suspects remained at large and urged the public could come forward with information. Ethiopia and Eritrea fought a 1998-2000 border war that killed 70,000 people, and tensions remain high. Officials in Addis Ababa often refer to their counterparts in Amara as terrorists.
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MP Antoine Zahra said any attempt by the Hizbullah-led opposition to include the "Resistance" in the new cabinet's policy statement would create a problem. "We would be obliged to demand the launching of national dialogue to tackle the defense strategy and adopt what the Lebanese (factions) agree on (and include it) in the policy statement," Zahra said in an interview with Naharnet.
Representation of the March 14 Christian factions in the cabinet, that Zahra expects to be formed by no later than Friday, would be equal to the share of Michel Aoun's Change and Reform bloc, he added. "No one can claim achieving illusory victories," Zahra stressed.
The attempt by Hizbullah to nominate ministers from outside the party's framework is a "maneuver that does not facilitate efforts to form the cabinet," he said. "Cabinet seats are not awards" to be distributed to whoever took part "in the invasion of Beirut," Zahra said in an apparent reference to Ali Qanso, former chairman of the Syrian Social National Party (SSNP) who was nominated by Hizbullah as minister of youth and sports.
Zahra said there is no problem between the Lebanese Forces, to which he belongs, and Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat "neither on cabinet representation nor on political aspirations."
"We understand Jumblat's stand. We realize that he made the statement because he insists on being represented by a Christian minister," Zahra added. "There would be no split within March 14 ... the main and most important agenda is state building. We are all for this agenda," Zahra added. Zahra concluded by saying the 2009 parliamentary elections would "define Lebanon's political image."
"That is why the March 14 forces have no other option but to cooperate ... with the aim of winning at least 70" of parliament's 128 seats. "Opinion polls indicate that March 14 forces would be able to win the 70 seats," he added. "No one would take the risk of toppling Lebanon ... just to win an extra seat," Zahra concluded.
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It appeared that the bomber's explosives had not fully detonated as his body had not been damaged completely, he said.
"Eeeeewww! Gross! Intestines!"
"[Gasp! Groan!]... Excuse me! Would you mind shooing the flies out of my body cavity until I've totally passed on?... [Wince! Whimper!]... As you can see, I no longer have any arms of my own... Really, it won't be long now... I hope... That's a good fellow!"
The attack comes as the latest in a series of violent incidents in Pakistan. The country was rocked by suicide attacks in Islamabad and Karachi last week that had claimed more than 20 lives. On Saturday, a group of militants had attacked a Frontier Constabulary (FC) convoy in the Zargari area of Hangu district, north of Dera Ismail Khan. District Mayor Haji Khan Afzal had said that at least 13 paramilitary forces had died along with at least three militants, making the skirmish one of the deadliest for Pakistan's security forces in recent months. Adviser on Interior Rehman Malik on ruled out a full-fledged military operation in the area in response.
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(Xinhua) -- Ngor Srun, secretary of state at the Cambodian Council of Ministers and top aid for Deputy Prime Minister Sok An, was the victim of an acid attack Sunday morning and now in Thailand for further medical care, said police source here Monday.
The attack occurred in downtown Phnom Penh, as Srun ended his participation of a major general election campaign for the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) and prepared to bring his vehicle to a nearby workshop for mechanical check, said the source. Srun was hospitalized at the Calmette Hospital around 11:00 a.m. local time Sunday and transferred to Thailand later in the afternoon, the source said. Police refused to give more details of the crime.
English-Khmer language newspaper the Cambodia Daily Monday quoted hospital source as saying that Srun was burnt on the left side of his face, ear and chest. His wounds were cleaned, treated and bandaged in the emergency room over the course of two hours, said the source. "The patient's symptoms seemed fine. But with an acid attack, it is hard to predict," the source added.
Meanwhile, the paper quoted an anonymous man as saying that "this is a family problem, (but) I want to keep it a secret." Sarun, a CPP member, is husband to the second daughter of Cambodian Senator President Chea Sim.
This has been the second high-profile crime so far during Cambodia's general election month, which started in June and will end on July 27. Friday, veteran reporter Khim Sambo and his son were shot dead on street. Sambo used to work as part-time contributor for the Khmer Conscience News, a Cambodian-language newspaper closed affiliated with major opposition party.
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But Bush, echoing Truman, said, at least in effect, We're not leaving Iraq. He embraced the proposals for the surge, which had been worked up by retired Gen. Jack Keane and American Enterprise Institute scholar Frederick Kagan. He found a commander, Gen. David Petraeus, who had rewritten the Army's manual on counterinsurgency and who had the character and skill to put the surge into effect. As was the case with General Tunner, the men and women serving under him showed unexpected ingenuity and the ability to adapt to unpredicted turns of events, like the Anbar awakening, which enabled them to convert Iraq's deadliest province into a friendly, peaceful territory. And, I am sure we will find out sooner or later, those troops also performed acts of generosity, which made their task easier and will produce goodwill, as the candy bombings did, that will last for decades to come.
The lessons are clear. Stand fast. Put the right men in charge. And never doubt the capacity of the men and women of the American military, when given the right orders, to perform far better than the experts predict.
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Actually, I predicted the collapse of the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), and that has happened. On July 31, the superceded UN mandate will again apply. And you remember them? One suicide bombing at UN Headquarters and they bailed out.
August could be interesting. Iraqis should not have been put in a position where they could control the result of a US election. The arrogance of the Shiite leadership grows by the day, in unison with Ahmadinejad' rhetoric. I have no doubt that secret protocols were signed when that savage visited Baghdad in May.
Can't resist this lurid crime in B-desh, where lurid crime combines with fractured English for a true work of art ...
owotali police recovered body of a patient from near his bed at Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital with stab injuries on neck Saturday night, hospital sources said. The victim was identified as Moslem Ali, 70, of Kadamtali village in Itbharia union in Barguna. He was admitted to Barguna Sader Hospital following a road accident on June 12. He was shifted to Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital, hospital sources said.
The victim's sister-in-law was attending the patient, they said. After the incident, she allegedly fled away. Police recovered a sharp weapon from the spot.
Later, the body was sent to the hospital morgue for autopsy. Police is on haunt for the assailants.
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The latest verdict in a Moroccan terrorism case was handed down Thursday (July 11th) -- this time concerning notorious Meknes bomber Hicham Doukkali, the young engineer who attempted to blow himself up with a butane cannister near a bus packed with tourists on August 13th, 2007. He was sentenced to life in prison, while accomplice and fellow engineer Hassan Azougar was given a ten-year prison term.
The pair had been charged with "conspiracy to prepare for and commit acts of terrorism connected with a personal plan with the aim of undermining public order by means of terror, violence and the manufacture, storage and use of explosives to endanger the lives and safety of others".
Investigations after the Doukkali's arrest led to the apprehension of four engineers in Meknes, Salé and Tinjdade: all worked with the failed bomber for the regional tax office. Last June, the case against three of them collapsed.
Moroccans have been closely following the verdicts handed down in terrorism cases, and many have hailed the security policy being pursued by the state. However, they have also called for officials to respect personal freedoms and the law by not mistakenly accusing innocent people. The Interior ministry says that the measures taken by the authorities to tackle terrorism comply with the judicial regulations passed by the legislature and that they are still subject to review by the courts to ensure freedoms will be respected and public order upheld. The Moroccan government has employed a tough security strategy since the suicide bombings in Casablanca on May 16th, 2003. Interior Minister Chakib Benmoussa says terrorist forces still pose a significant threat, meaning the government and all sectors of society must remain vigilant.
The government has set about overhauling institutions engaging in the fight against terrorism to make them more efficient. It has also stepped up international co-operation efforts with regard to the campaign against terror. According to officials, information gathered by Moroccan intelligence and shared with foreign security services has made it possible to stop a number of terrorist rings before they were able to strike.
Prime Minister Abbas El Fassi says the government's response to terrorism includes a commitment to development policies to tackle unemployment and underemployment, create the necessary conditions for growth and improve living standards.
Political Science professor Ahmed Belarbi told Magharebia that the Moroccan authorities have succeeded thus far with its security strategy, but says terrorists could still "strike at any moment" no matter how vigilant the authorities are.
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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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Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday directly accused Pakistan's intelligence agency of being behind a recent wave of deadly attacks in Afghanistan, including the Indian embassy bombing. 
President Bush will lift an executive ban on offshore oil drilling, although new oil exploration on the Outer Continental Shelf will remain off limits until Congress also takes action. The president will make a Rose Garden statement on Monday, where he is expected to announce his lifting of the ban.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The International Criminal Court's prosecutor has filed genocide charges against Sudanese President 
"Since this convention is so green, we thought that was going to be the best way to go, but we haven't gotten anything out of it," Kulscar said about her Denver shop, which is Forest Stewardship Council-approved, uses soy-based inks and ensures its paper mills replant the trees they use. "We've run into a dead-end everywhere."
(Xinhua) -- Twenty Somali children have died of measles in a village in Middle Shabelle region north of the Somali capital Mogadishu, a local Elder said Sunday. 
Young people who carry knives will be made to visit hospitals where stabbing victims are treated, in a bid to shock them into changing their behaviour. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said seeing "gruesome" injuries would be a tougher deterrent than sending all knife carriers in England and Wales to jail.
The fate of 29 abducted soldiers would be decided in light of the decision taken by the jirga, the 
THATTA: Two people were killed and over 20 were injured in a clash between two groups over a plot dispute here on Sunday. Two groups belonging to Mondh and Bikik clans traded heavy fire, killing Haji Mando and Mohammad Hassan on the spot and injuring Abdur Rehman, Amir Ali, Khan Mohammad, Juman, Mehmood, Feroze, Umaid Ali. Pyar Ali, Shabir, Shaukat, Yar Mohammad, Soomar, Allah Dino, Shafi Mohammad, Mumtaz and others. The injured were shifted to Makli Civil Hospital, and some of them were referred to Karachi. Later, enraged people held a protest demonstration against the incident and blocked National Highway by setting tyres on the fire.
Ma'an - The de facto police in the Gaza strip issued an order on Sunday to prevent the sale of cigarettes in public places especially on crossroads.
Ma'an -- Police arrested a man in the southern West Bank city of Hebron for allegedly murdering and burying his sister, police Director Ramadan Awad said on Sunday.
Suspected Taliban militants on Sunday handed over the bodies of 17 Frontier Constabulary (FC) troops killed in an ambush in the Hangu district, AFP reported. 
(Xinhua) -- The Arab Lawyers Union on Sunday strongly slammed the International Criminal Court (ICC) for its expected move to issue an arrest warrant against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. 
At first glance, Geneva Camp could be any of Dhaka's overcrowded and filthy slums. But above it flies Pakistan's green flag, with a red strip sewn on the side to represent, I was told, the suffering of the people there.
A suspected robber was killed in a gun battle between police and his henchmen at Kundarpara village in Narsingdi's Shibpur upazila early yesterday.
The government has solid plans to counter extremism and terrorism and will go ahead with its endeavours to establish its writ in the area where it has been challenged, 
The United States should avoid talks of "hot pursuit" of militants into Pakistan's Tribal Areas and give the newly formed government time to enact its own policies without undue pressure, Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Co-chairman 
(VOI) -- Iraqi security forces are awaiting the zero hour to be set by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to commence operations to track down gunmen in the restive province of Diala, an Interior Ministry official said on Sunday. "The file regarding the security operations in Diala is now on the prime minister's table for a decision to give the go-ahead for well-prepared Iraqi security forces to do their job," Maj. General Abdelkareem Khalaf, the interior ministry's operations chief, said in a press conference he held in Baghdad on Sunday.
The freedom fighter who was assaulted Friday by Shibir cadres for demanding the trial of Jamaat leaders responsible for war crimes during the liberation war filed a general diary (GD) yesterday. Sheikh Mohammad Ali Aman, the war veteran, filed the GD with Ramna Police Station on charges of beating and keeping him confined. Police registered the GD as a case following investigation.
New fighting in Sri Lanka's civil war killed 31 Tamil Tiger rebels and two government soldiers, the military said yesterday. 
DUBAI - Syrian President Bashar Al Assad said Damascus would establish normal relations including the opening of embassies if apeace accord was sealed with Israel, in an interview broadcast on Sunday.
A coalition of military groups is planning a nationally televised town-hall-style meeting with the presidential candidates near Fort Hood, Tex., the largest active-duty military installation in the country. But so far, only Senator John McCain of Arizona, the presumptive Republican nominee, has agreed to attend.
US President George W Bush has given Israel a go-ahead to begin preparations for a military attack on Iran, in case talks over the country's controversial nuclear programme fail to yield results, a media report has said.
(Xinhua) -- Philippine government troops killed at least four left-wing rebels and injured three others in a fighting Saturday in the southern province of Agusan del Sur, said the official Philippines News Agency on Sunday. 
A Panchagarh court yesterday sentenced four activists of banned Islamist militant outfit 
A NATO drone violated Pakistani airspace and entered Mohmand Agency on Sunday, the second infiltration by the force in two days. The drone flew over the Marghat and Khozai Banzai areas for 30 minutes before entering the agency from the Nawagai side at around 3pm, witnesses said, adding that it later flew back to Afghanistan through the Wazrichina area. 
A suicide bomber blew himself up at a Shia gathering in Dera Ismail Khan injuring at least three people, police officials said on Sunday.
The latest verdict in a Moroccan terrorism case was handed down Thursday (July 11th) -- this time concerning notorious Meknes bomber 
