[Arab News] A Singaporean newspaper is reporting that a retiree saved a newborn baby who had been buried alive in a flower garden. Whoa! I think I read this book!
The New Paper quoted Tay Kim Sia as saying he was smoking a cigarette on the rooftop terrace of his apartment building earlier this week when he noticed tiny legs sticking up out of a large planter box. The paper says Tay dug around the legs and found a baby boy with his umbilical cord still attached and a black plastic bag tied around his neck. The father told the mother the kid was born dead...
The paper says other seniors nearby helped clean the baby and called police. The paper says the baby was hospitalized but healthy. Police spokeswoman Yvonne Edwin said Wednesday no one had come forward to claim the baby and the police investigation was ongoing. So the kindly old guy and his wife take the kid in, see. They name him Benedetto, because they're so happy to have the child they've always wanted. Benedetto grows up to be a hoodlum and a disappointment to them. Eventually he's for the high jump, but the Count of Monte Cristo buys his freedom from the Pope and Benedetto shows up in Gay Paree posing as the son of Major Cavalcante...
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On Saturday USMC Staff Sgt. Jason Rogers, who was killed in action in Afghanistan April 7, was buried in Brandon, Mississippi.
That, by itself, is a sadly unremarkable -- though certainly noteworthy and solemn -- occasion for us to mark.
And in fact when Sgt. Rogers' body returned to Brandon it was greeted by hundreds, or perhaps even thousands, of well-wishers who gathered at the roadside to honor the fallen American hero.
What is most notable about Sgt. Rogers' funeral in Brandon, however, is what didn't happen.
You see, the troglodytes from Westboro Baptist Church had threatened to spew their poison at Sgt. Rogers' funeral.
But the Westboro mob wasn't on the scene, and Sgt. Rogers was laid to rest without incident -- thank God.
Why weren't there protestors?
Planning ahead by the locals, as it turns out.
A couple of days before, one of them (Westboro protestors) ran his mouth at a Brandon gas station and got his arse waxed. Police were called and the beaten man could not give much of a description of who beat him. When they canvassed the station and spoke to the large crowd that had gathered around, no one seemed to remember anything about what had happened.
Rankin County handled this thing perfectly. There were many things that were put into place that most will never know about and at great expense to the county.
Most of the morons never made it out of their hotel parking lot. It seems that certain Rankin county pickup trucks were parked directly behind any car that had Kansas plates in the hotel parking lot and the drivers mysteriously disappeared until after the funeral was over. Police were called but their wrecker service was running behind and it was going to be a few hours before they could tow the trucks so the Kansas plated cars could get out.
A few made it to the funeral but were ushered away to be questioned about a crime they might have possibly been involved in. Turns out, after a few hours of questioning, that they were not involved and they were allowed to go on about their business. Haw! Three cheers for Mississippi!
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Police were called and the beaten man could not give much of a description of who beat him. When they canvassed the station and spoke to the large crowd that had gathered around, no one seemed to remember anything about what had happened.
It's called the 'consent of the governed'. When government fails to act, the people withdraw its consent. When federal judges can order demonstrators to stay 100 yards away from a Plan Parenthood Clinic and then turn around and say they can do nothing about the Westboro Church, those who own and operate the government lose the consent of those they claim to 'represent'. There are too many cases on the books of one group getting preference that is then denied others and they expect the common folk not to notice the hypocrisy. That when 'consent' is exercised as the rituals of the government are no longer respected.
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I'm surprised they went. They had advertised they were coming to the funeral of the 7 kids who died in a fire in Perry County, PA, where what's for dinner tonight is venison. But I suspect they decided not to show up after learning what kind of reception they would get. I sorta doubt they would have reached their hotel, let alone have their cars blocked if they'd come. And they thought Mississippi would be nicer?
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Nice. Rest your soul Sgt. Rogers, it appears you, your family, friends, and neighbors are top notch.
May have been involved in a crime? How about stalking? Sounds like a legit arrest and question to me, especially if it can be suggested that they are picking out certain individuals instead of at random.
[Straits Times] THOUSANDS of Malaysians are mocking a 50 million ringgit (S$20 million) plan to offer government-linked email accounts to all adults, saying most Internet users already have free email service.
Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak announced the scheme on Tuesday, said the '1Malaysia (1MY) E-mail' initiative would allow 'direct and secure' communication between citizens and the government while enhancing the delivery of government services to consumers and businesses alike.
Caught something from an infected email, did they?
The plan aims to provide 16 million Malaysians with free email accounts for online communication between them and government agencies.
IT company Tricubes is collaborating with Microsoft to develop the '1Malaysia E-mail' project.The company will spearhead the private RM50m (S$20.6 million) investment that also includes the development of a web portal as a one-stop centre for government services providing value-added services such as social networking, checking of bills online and payments.
More than 20,000 people had joined a Facebook group by Wednesday opposing the initiative.
The project has become an embarrassment for Prime Minister Najib Razak. He announced it on Tuesday as part of efforts to boost government efficiency, but Malaysians ridiculed it as a publicity stunt and a waste of funds.
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Federal Immigration officers will now be given access to legal immigrants during their basic military training, to help them administratively accomplish the citizenship process while still in the United States. They must still serve five years of honorable service on active duty to complete the process, or their citizenship can be revoked.
The reasoning is that it is far easier for this to be done at a central location, than once they have been dispersed to duty stations throughout the world, where the process is far more difficult, expensive and time consuming.
This new process began with an executive order signed by president W. Bush after 9-11. Previously, foreign citizenship military personnel had to perform a year of military service before they could even begin the citizenship process. This justified the expedited process because the nation was in a "period of hostilities"
About 1,000 soldiers and sailors have already completed the administrative process in basic training in 2010. Overall, the government granted citizenship to 11,146 service members last year.
The program has also strongly benefited the military, as many of the recruits both have needed special language skills, and once that provisional citizenship has been given, they are permitted to serve in a larger field of Military Occupation Specialties.
This has also given the military the ability to recruit foreigners, such as translators, who have been of considerable assistance to US military units overseas. Such people often risk their lives by remaining in their home country, and US citizenship for them via military service is seen as a tangible and valuable reward for their help.
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This new process began with an executive order signed by president W. Bush after 9-11.
Remember this data point when the usual suspects pushing amnesty for illegals talk about those who 'served'. It's already taken care of. It's not a valid argument.
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Many eastern Euro's came over and enlisted in the late 50's and into the 60's and became citizens. Their participation in anti-Soviet activities pretty much made them criminals in their homelands.
One example.
[Maghrebia] The Tunisian army chief who ignored ousted president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's order to shoot protestors was named to the country's top military position, TAP reported on Monday (April 18th). Rachid Ammar, 60, will serve as Chief of Staff of the Tunisian armed forces.
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[Arab News] The head of a powerful militia that fought against Laurent Gbagbo ... Former President-for-Life of Ivory Coast from 2000 to 2011. Laurent lost to Alassane Ouattara in 2010 but his representtive tore up the results on the teevee and he refused to vacate the presidential palace. French troops assisted the Oattara forces in extricating him from his Fuhrerbunker... in Ivory Coast on Tuesday pledged allegiance to President Alassane Ouattara and dismissed reports that his men had fallen out with other fighters.
Ibrahim Coulibaly, head of the "Invisible Commandos" who harassed Gbagbo forces in Abidjan for weeks, said pro-Gbagbo forces must be included in the country's new army to avoid future bloodshed.
Ouattara won a November election which previous president Gbagbo refused to cede, leading to a four-month power struggle that ended last week when pro-Ouattara forces captured Gbagbo.
Gbagbo's arrest has raised hopes for peace in the leading cocoa grower.
But the weeks of heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual light or sporadic fighting... have left groups of gunnies scattered across the country.
"The Invisible Commandos are at the service of the republic, its people and its head of state," Coulibaly, known as "IB," told news hounds in his first presser since his men started attacking Gbagbo's forces in Abidjan in January.
Coulibaly dismissed reports of disputes with other militias, saying that his 5,000 fighters were working alongside pro-Ouattara forces. "Anything else is a lie," he added.
Coulibaly's attacks in the north of the commercial capital appeared to open the way for Ouattara's supporters to sweep south and enter the city.
Their advance initially stalled amid fierce resistance from Gbagbo's elite forces and reports of rows between Coulibaly and Guillaume Soro, the former rebel leader who is Ouattara's prime minister.
Analysts questioned whether Ouattara would be able to control Coulibaly once he came to power.
"It is true that there was a moment of disagreement between myself and my young brother (Soro) but I think now is the time for reconciliation and forgiveness," Coulibaly said.
In recent days, residents who sheltered in their homes during days of intense fighting have started going back to work as a semblance of normality returns to parts of the city.
But in a reminder of the dangers, residents said heavy gunfire rang out on Tuesday in Yopougon, a district in Abidjan where many of the pro-Gbagbo militia, civilians who were armed during the last days of the fighting, have retreated to.
"We are hearing kabooms. There is the firing of heavy weapons. There is also the firing of Kalashnikovs," said Alexis Agnero. "There is fighting between the Republican Forces and the militia."
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NEW DELHI - Russia will deliver the aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov to the Indian Navy next year, a Navy official said. A team of 150 personnel - technicians, managers and others -from the Indian Navy has already arrived in Russia for training on the 45,000-ton carrier, currently being refitted for Indian needs there.
India is paying Russia $67.5 million for the training, the official said.
The carrier will ultimately be manned by some 1,500 sailors.
In 2004, Russia signed a deal to refit and deliver the Gorshkov for $974 million, but the Russians subsequently demanded more money. The work was delayed until the Indian government finally agreed to pay a total of $2.33 billion, the official said.
The Navy also placed a $526 million order for 16 MiG-29K aircraft, which began arriving last year and are currently on shore at Goa. These aircraft will fly from the carrier, which will be renamed INS Vikramaditya.
India currently operates one carrier, INS Viraat, and is building another, the Air Defense Ship, slated to enter service in 2014.
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The good news for INDJUH is that the GORSHKOV'S propellers are NOT the CHARLES DE GAULLE'S.
Ita toughie to choose between - an Indian CV wid no planes [+ PLAAF "Ace" Pilots = crashes?]; versus a French CV whose UWB Screws wanna burn their draft card + defect to Canada.
* ION NEWS KERALA > INDIA FOR STRONG MEASURES TO COMBAT PIRATES, vee Internat Cooperation.
* SAME > INDIA CAN BE THE WORLD'S FOURTH MOST PWERFUL NATION BY 2025: KRISHNA [India External Affairs Minister], as per India's NATIONAL SECURITY INDEX Study.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > SOMALI PIRATES SAY THEY ARE "AT WAR WITH INDIA" | SOMALIA PIRATES TARGET INDIA.
Oil $$$ from newly suborned = pro-Islamist, post-Jasmine ME, African Muslim states can buy a lot of Armed Speedboats + SILKWORMS, ETC. for MUSLIM PIRATE XMAS???
* WAFF > MALAYSIA + SUAID ARABIA SIGN SECURITY PACT, includ as per INTEL-SHARING agz TERRORISM + VARIOUS KINDS OF CRIMINAL GRAFT.
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According to Moshe Dayan, the Indians would almost have to be more effective than the Arabs otherwise, it would upset the natural order of things.
This picture was taken after Indian Army destroyed over 100 Patton and Sherman Tanks of the Pakistani Army during the 1965 Indo-Pak War. The place was later named as Patton Nagar in Pakistan.
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It was the PSLV's 17th consecutive successful mission out of the 18 launches from Sriharikota. At the end of 18 minutes of a delightful flawless flight, the fourth stage of the rocket shot India's Resourcesat-2 into its orbit. About 40 seconds later, the fourth stage bulleted again the Youthsat and the X-sat into their orbits. The accuracy was such that the Resourcesat-2 reached an orbit at an altitude of 822.9 km against the targeted 822 km.
The mission lifted the veil of despondency that had fallen over the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) after the failure of the GSLV-D3 with an indigenous cryogenic stage in April last year and of the GSLV-F06 with a Russian cryogenic engine in December.
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[Dawn] As many as 20 bonded labourers were recovered by a court bailiff from a brick kiln in Tarlai on Tuesday on the directives of Islamabad High Court (IHC) Chief Justice Iqbal Hameedur Rehman. "Bonded laborers" is a polite term for "slaves."
Tanveer Bibi, a native of Gujranwala, moved the IHC for the recovery of her 20 relatives, including 10 children .
Tanveer Bibi made IGP Islamabad and SHO Koral cop shoppe respondents in the petition filed through her lawyer Mian Abdul Ghafoor.
She maintained that the brick kiln owner, Chaudhry Raheel, had jugged 20 persons who were forced to work as bonded labourers.
"My relatives Mushtaq and Zohra signed an agreement with Chaudhry Raheel who owned two brick kilns near Tarlai area to prepare raw bricks against Rs500 for 1,000 bricks but the jugged persons were never paid according to the agreement," the petitioner said. When the workers demanded their promised wages, the brick kiln owner threatened them of dire consequences, she said.
Chaudhry Raheel restricted them only to the work area and were not move beyond certain limits, the petitioner said.
"The workers were kept in inhuman conditions and could go to their mud houses only to rest at night. The women had to work from dawn to dusk and at the same time look after their children." Tanveer Bibi told Dawn .
In response to a question, she said the illiterate workers could do nothing else except make bricks and that also for meager wages.
They only agitated after they were not paid what they had been promised by the owner of the brick kiln, she added.
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"Bonded laborers" is a polite term for "slaves."
And the US Treasury sales 'bonds' obligating all citizens for the debts run up by the politicians who use the money to buy votes of various interest groups to keep the entire process of obtaining and retaining power rolling [or in other words, stay in business]. Unfortunately, those politicians are not constrained in the least by any fiduciary responsibilities that carry criminal consequences for malfeasance of duty.
Plans for the first dam across the lower Mekong River are putting Laos on a collision course with its neighbors and environmentalists who fear livelihoods, fish species and farmland could be destroyed, potentially sparking a food crisis.
The impoverished, Communist nation seems determined to defy international pressure and forge ahead with construction of the $3.5 billion Xayaburi Dam, a mostly Thai-led project that experts say could cause untold environmental damage.
The four countries that share the lower stretches of the 4,900 km (3,044 mile) Mekong -- Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia -- failed at a meeting Tuesday to reach an agreement on construction of the 1.285-megawatt (MW) dam, the first of 11 planned in the lower Mekong that are expected to generate 8 percent of Southeast Asia's power by 2025.
According to a study by the Mekong River Commission, an inter-government agency, the proposed 11 dams would turn 55 percent of the river into reservoirs, resulting in estimated agriculture losses of more than $500 million a year and cutting the average protein intake of Thai and Lao people by 30 percent.
China has built four dams on the upper river, closer to its source, but they are equally controversial. Activists say they were responsible for a drought last year that sent lower Mekong water levels to their lowest in half a century.
Laos has not responded to the warnings or to scientists' recommendations. Viraphonh Viravong, head of the Lao delegation, said after Tuesday's meeting that it would "consider" accommodating its neighbors concerns, but an extension of the consultation process was no longer practical.
The Lao government has hailed Xayaburi as a model for clean, green energy that will stimulate its tiny $6 billion economy and improve the lives of its 5.9 million people, over a quarter of whom live below the poverty line, many without electricity.
Its energy-hungry neighbor, Thailand, will buy about 95 percent of the power generated by the dam and three Thai firms have a stake in the project, according to an announcement on Thailand's stock exchange last month.
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NBA dancers at bottom of that page were more interesting.
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I like #3, the two frogmen sitting inside the missile. Not exactly sure what it is they do but it must be a hell of a ride...
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I think that is supposed to be some sort of submarine / underwater transport Steve. Looks like something which was thrown together for the parade - kind of like a float.
And it's hard for anyone to compete with the NBA Dancers.
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I like #3, the two frogmen sitting inside the missile. Not exactly sure what it is they do but it must be a hell of a ride...
I thought it looked like one of the kids' rides they used to have in front of grocery stores. Maybe in the next generation they could have a little motor on it to make it go up and down.
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My kid made something like the 'Frogman Missle' when he was about 12 years old. His sheetmetal work looked a lot better, though, and it was actually waterproof.
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Did you notice the boxing gloves were "Spalding" and vests were "Adidas"! HA!
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...The pic of the F-14s flying was interesting. Wonder how operational they are besides the ability to take off, go past the reviewing stand, and land.
Note in Pic # 5 the guy in the front row to the left has a white flag all set and ready to go.
And is it just me, or did anybody else look at the pics of the troops goosestepping and hear, "Springtime for Hitler"?
Mike
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I like #3, the two frogmen sitting inside the missile. Not exactly sure what it is they do but it must be a hell of a ride...
Normally I'd say 'swimmer delivery submersible'. But judging by its construction, it's either a one-way trip or designed to be built cheaply for swarm-attack.
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Did anyone else but me notice that one of the "iranian-made" missiles bore a very striking resemblance to a Phoenix missile, and another one looked almost identical to a Hawk missile? I wonder if these aren't just props kept around to show in parades.
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pic#4 . please explain !
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The 1,400-seat gymnasium was packed to capacity Wednesday afternoon as Pacific students and visitors from across the metro area gathered to listen to an hour-long lecture from the famed philosopher, linguist and political critic.
Chomsky also advocated for organized labor and spoke at length about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict -- an issue for which his outspoken anti-Israel stance has garnered widespread scrutiny.
If the U.S. joined the world, Israel would have to do what the master said, he told the audience, drawing applause.
Everyone has been asking each other if theyre going, a student said. All of my professors even science professors have been talking about how famous he is.
All of this leads to broader issues of world order, he said. Ill talk about that somewhere else in a couple of hours.
He quickly exited the room at 1:30 p.m. sharp, rushing off to Eugene, where hell give a free public lecture at the University of Oregon, titled "Global Hegemony: The Facts, The Images." A man who has done more than Jefferson Davis to keep the black man down.
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He made up some utter crap about languages. Turned out slightly useful for programming languages, but utterly useless when discussing actual human languages.
Oh, and he cheered for Pol Pot's genocide.
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Chomsky and noted linguist Greenburg theorized similarly that all human language formed from some hard-wired "DNA" in the brain giving sets of instructions. Sounded good in theory....
In practice, however, not so much. More recently Chomsky/ Greenburg Theory has been disproven. Cutting edge current linguists have traced all language back to four linguistic groups, and all 7,000 dialects branched from there. Languages aren't innate brain encoding bubbling from brain to lips and pentip, but rather, cultural adaptations.
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Chumpsky is living proof that only the good die young.
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Israel is the promised land, does this guy change any of that? No. Well, then Im not going to wish death on him. Hummus farts or an all expense paid trip to a Kibbutz maybe.
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In case anyone thinks Gorb was slamming Sheriff Joe, they need to take a look at sweet Barbara's mugshot. But preferably on an empty stomach.
Mattis/Arpaio 2012!
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Quality!
During the summer of 2003, when outside temperatures exceeded 43 °C, Arpaio famously said to complaining inmates, 'It's 120 degrees in Iraq and the soldiers are living in tents, have to wear full body armor, and they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your mouths.'
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They publish names, addresses, and charges of arrests in my hometown. I never thought about rating the pictures but maybe there should be a "Felon of the Week"? Most aint too pretty but I kind of like this one: http://suttersheriff.org/services/inmates/inmate_details.aspx?id=57975
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We have a local publication titled "Busted." The neighbor kid appeared in the publication. He should have appeared long before this from what I understand.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Maghrebia] The Tunisian army chief who ignored ousted president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's order to shoot protestors was named to the country's top military position, TAP reported on Monday (April 18th). Rachid Ammar, 60, will serve as Chief of Staff of the Tunisian armed forces.
