Italy are World champions for a fourth time. They held their nerve in a penalty shoot-out to score all five kicks as David Trezeguet missed for France.
But this game will be perhaps be remembered for Zinedine Zidane's career ending in disgrace after being dismissed for an off-the-ball incident with Marco Materazzi. He headbutted the Italian defender after a heated discussion on 110 minutes and, after some consultations between officials, was shown the red card.
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Who cares! Juan Pablo Montoya is headed for NASCAR! Can Schumacher be far behind?
Yeah, I can see how the rest of the world would go nuts over this game.
Really.
Uh-huh.
Can we get back to something exciting now - like watching oil paint dry?
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Zidane's headbutt really was quite amazing. Looked like he broke the guy's sternum. After demonstrating his leadership skills as the team captain, he was led off to the litte boy's room to cry. But, whatever. The French are accustomed to defeat.
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I'm a huge soccer fan and have followed the tournament with rapt attention. Still, I was ambivilent about either of these teams winning it. I settled on Italy since they have been (pre-Prodi) better allies.
I wonder what snapped in Zizou. That was a brutal and bizarre head butt.
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Barbara, the game ended in a 1-1 tie, with no scores in overtime, so they went to kick-offs. Each team got to take five kicks against the other goalie, with no other men on the field. Under normal circumstances the goalie manages to block 40% of such kicks, I b'lieve. France's best remaining kicker (Monsieur Zidane, in the photo in white) got himself kicked out in the last minutes of the game for turning around and butting his opposing number in the chest as hard as ever he could. Which is why one of the French kicks was successfully stopped by the Italian goalie, but all the Italian shots got through.
JDB, the people around me were saying that the French gentleman is prone to such behaviour -- he never learnt the manners his mother tried to teach him, I s'pose.
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#9 - is it too late to bid on the popcorn concession? ;-p
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The neat thing about World Cup Soccer is that everyone has some "skin in the game" or at least a preference.
I am more bored over 2 out of every 3 Super Bowl matchups... and yet we make it a national holiday here.
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Three hours and the game ends 1-1, and this is called 'exciting'. Sheesh! Exciting is a game that ends 116-118 and the lead switches three times in the last couple of minutes. Watching soccer is about as exciting and watching paint dry.
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Hey, it wasn't even 3 hours... it was 90 + 30 OT with no more than a 15 min break at the half... compare it to our Superbowl, where Janet has time to sing, dance and have her boob pop out!
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I'm afraid I slept though most of it, Barbara, but the group included a Kurd, a Mexican, a Canadian, a gentleman who lives in Peter Frampton's neighborhood (he sang with a rock group some years back, I b'lieve), and Mr. Wife, who played enforcer on his high school soccer team (or maybe it was midfield; I hadn't yet met him then), so they informed me of all the important bits. ;-)
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Well -- only this -- knowing nothing about soccer, but if you haven't seen this head-butt... then go here and watch. (It's short) You just gotta wonder at what words were being spoken.
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Soccer is a decent sport, i.e., better than most olympic sports, but I'd rather watch the major American sports (Pro & NCAA included) on almost any given day.
But the World Cup is a pretty cool event. It's 100 times bigger and better than the Olympics. Even if you don't love soccer, the pressure, the drama and the spectacle of the World Cup make it compelling, though the action often leaves something to be desired. Imgaine the intensity if they only held bowl games once every 4 years, then add in the nationalism and multiply the TV viewership by a billion. I think it's entertaining and worthwile to tune in to the World Cup, even if you ignore soccer during the intervening 4 years.
Plus, every once in a while you do seem some nifty plays. In between the diving and gesticulating, the defensive stalemates and meaningless back and forths, you occasionally see displays of speed, grace, athleticism, creativity and endurance. Once in a blue moon, you get a nice goal, or, if you're lucky, an exciting, well-fought game.
Plus, learning a little about the game and the major players, etc. will enhance your enjoyment a little more. Consider, for example, that people who don't know baseball are bored to death by everything except the home runs, diving catches, stolen bases, etc. But real fans love a scoreless pitcher's duel and appreciate such performances and savor such match-ups in the pennant races and post-season. People who understand the game hang on every pitch count, living and dying with each called strike. They cheer when one team eekes out a run off a walk, bunt and sac fly. The neophyte doesn't know or care whether the umpire called a strike on 3-1 on a slider that just nipped the low-outside corner with one on and one out in the 7th, the pitch count at 90 and the top of the order coming up. In the same way, soccer fans understand that there is a lot going on in the midfield passes, defensive challenges, short dashes, whether they attempt an attack up ther right, center or left, whether they try to work the ball slowly thru with short passes looking for an opening, or do they kick a long pass out on the wing and try to head it in off a centering pass, etc. while the uninitiated see an unending series of mostly futile running and passing. To me, the lack of scoring is a little frustrating but it also proves how difficult it is and how big and important a goal can be.
(SomaliNet) Burundian army spokesperson said Friday that the army will investigate allegations that its troops executed 13 holdout rebels who were training in a village outside the capital, AP reported. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Colonel Manirakiza said the Burundian army killed 13 rebels who were training in Bujumbura Rural province on Thursday, adding one soldier also was killed in the operation.
In retaliation to the act, mayor Desire Ngendakumana suggested that the suspected rebels were executed in cold blood. He said all had gunshot wounds to the head. "There was not a fighting, but it is clear all of them were executed," Ngendakumana, mayor of the Isare area where the incident occurred, told the independent African Public Radio.
"An investigation will be opened very soon to establish exactly what happened and how it happened," Manirakiza said. The killings occurred after peace talks between the rebel group and Burundi's government stalled in neighbouring Tanzania. More than 250,000 people have lost their lives in the 12-year conflict and most of theses died of disease and hunger. The war started in October 1993, when Tutsi paratroopers assassinated the country's first democratically elected president, a Hutu.
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Yemen's opposition candidate for the September presidential election, Faisal Bin Shamlan, submitted his candidacy to Parliament yesterday, three days after the country's president publicly mocked his nomination. Bin Shamlan, 72, was accompanied by leading officials from the main opposition parties when he arrived at Parliament to register his candidacy. Five major opposition parties have jointly nominated the independent politician and former Oil Minister Bin Shamlan as their presidential candidate.
He's a sacrificial lamb, of course, but at least Saleh has an opponent. He coulda been a contendah...
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When an anonymous letter-writer exposed corruption in Frances defence industry, a sinister drama unfolded, involving the Russian mafia and a chain of unexplained violent deaths. And the trail leads all the way to Chirac himself.
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The photo accompanying this article may be Rantburg-worthy as well, although it's not likely to have a long shelf-life.
Ben shiraq is already quite past his prime, according to supposed insiders, deaf, senile and and confused, yet he might seek a third mandate, he hinted at that. About 1% of french voters would go for him, IIRC.
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I was atOnished in Chirac's last interview when he told France would meet Brasil in fianl (an impossible thing since their roads converged on quarter finals). Chirac is not olne of those politicians who know about sports, in fact he is huge soccerr fan so after him telling this non-sense I began to ask me if he wasn't senile. Problem: he has nukes.
Preparations are in the final stages for the launch of India's heaviest communications satellite INSAT 4C on Monday. The satellite weighing 2.2 tons would take off from the space centre in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. It will blast off atop the indigenously developed geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV) at 4.30 pm (IST).
Until now INSAT satellites were launched from Kourou in French Guyana onboard Ariane rockets.
A successful launch would mean that India can hope to corner a large chunk of the global $2 billion market for satellite launches. Launches from India are cheaper by up to 35 per cent compared to other countries.
Antrix, the commercial arm of Indian Space Research Organisation recently tied-up with EUTELSAT to manufacture a satellite for France. Three more satellites including one built by Indonesia are due for launch in the near future.
In 2008, Indian Space Research Organisation plans to send an unmanned to mission to the moon - known as Chandrayaan.
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Nice high-res photos of the launch vehicle and satellite being assembled and carried to the launch pad.
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No further refinements on the basic PSLV design are possible. The GSLV was made by modifying stages of the PSLV to create a bigger vehicle.
The GSLV-3 will be a new vehicle - 600 tons - capable of carrying 4.5 tons to GEO and 10 tons to LEO.
3 stages - first stage will be two huge solid boosters (each with 200 tons solid propellant HTPB/AP/Al) that are strapped to the second stage (110 tons liquid engine - UDMH+N2O4).
The third stage will be cryogenic - 20 tons LOX/LH2.
This is a model of the vehicle. First test launch is scheduled for 2008.
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India's latest communication satellite INSAT-4C would be launched by a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, on Monday.
The GSLV would lift off with the 2168 kg INSAT-4C, the heaviest in its class, at 4 pm on Monday, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman G Madhavan Nair said at the airport on Saturday night.
"The preparations for the launch are going on satisfactorily. A rehearsal was held and the results were good", he said on arrival enroute to Sriharikota.
This is the first launch of the GSLV from the Rs 350 crore state-of-the-art launch pad commissioned in May 2005.
The 49-metre-tall, 414 tonne GSLV is a three stage vehicle. The first stage, GS1, comprises a core motor with 138 tonne of solid propellants and four strap-on motors, each with 42 tonnes of hypergolic liquid propellant.
The second stage has 39 tonne of the same hypergolic liquid propellant. The third (GS3) is a cryogenic stage with 12.6 tonne of liquid oxygen (LOX) and liquid hydrogen (LH2).
INSAT 4C, the second satellite in the INSAT 4 series, would give a boost to Direct-to-Home television services, video picture transmission and digital satellite news gathering. It will also provide space for National Informatics Centre's VSAT connectivity.
The satellite is designed for a mission life of 10 years.
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They've certainly come a long way from 1964 when they packed payloads by hand and carried it to the pad on a bicycle
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India probably has the most sophisticated space program you've never heard of.
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Range and payload obfuscated. More realistic figures below.
Dhamra (Orissa), July. 9 (PTI): India's nuclear-capable intermediate range ballistic missile Agni-III, capable of hitting targets at a distance of 3,500 km, was successfully fired for the first time from a range in the Bay of Bengal today.
Defence sources said the surface-to-surface missile blasted off from a fixed platform at the Integrated Test Range at Wheeler Island off the Orissa coast at 11.05 hours as Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee and top defence scientists looked on.
This was the first launch of the Agni-III, the most sophisticated product of the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme that started in 1983. The testing of the missile has been repeatedly put off since November 2004 for a variety of reasons.
The countdown began early in the morning as scientists of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) prepared for the launch under an overcast sky. The 16-metre-long and 1.8-metre diameter missile, rose majestically into the sky, spewing thick yellow smoke and fire, eyewitnesses said. An official spokesman in Delhi said, "The missile took off successfully. Details of the flight performance are being analysed by the mission team."
This is the 10th time that a missile of the Agni series has been launched from the test ranges at Chandipur-on-Sea and Wheeler Island. It was the fifth time that the Agni category of missiles has been tested from Wheeler Island. DRDO chief M Natarajan, who is also Scientific Advisor to the Defence Minister, and Avinash Chander, Director of the Agni-III project, were present at the launch site.
The missile was fired from the fixed platform with the help of an auto-launcher. Agni-III can be deployed by rail or road launch vehicles and is equipped with an improved guidance system, defence sources said.
Significantly, President A P J Abdul Kalam, referred to as the "father of India's missile development programme", visited Wheeler Island for a few hours during his three-day visit to Orissa last week.
Three sophisticated radars, six electro-optical tracking systems and three telemetric data stations on the mainland at Dhamra, Chandipur and Andamans as well as a ship stationed close to the splash down point monitored the trajectory of the Agni-III after it was fired from the island.
Fitted with an on-board computer, the missile took off vertically into space and re-entered the atmosphere to hit the impact point near Nicobar Island in the Bay of Bengal. The two-stage missile has solid fuel boosters and can carry both conventional and nuclear warheads weighing up to a tonne. The missile fired today had the capability of carrying a payload of 1,000 kg, the sources said.
Length: 17 m
Diameter: 1.8 m
Launch Weight: 39-48 tonnes
Payload: 600- 1500Kg (2490 Kg conventional)
Guidence: INS , optionally augmented by GPS/GLONASS/IRSS, possibly with radar scene correlation.
Range: 5500Km (1500 Kg)
Propellant Solid HTPB/AP/Al
Case Material: Kevlar Epoxy Composites
RV: carbon-carbon composite
450 kg warhead Yield: 200Kt
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Rahul Bedi, India correspondent of Jane's Defence Weekly, told Reuters:
"We can now reach large parts of northern China making our deterrence capacity stronger"
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Backed by a non-metallic carbon composite airframe.
The RV carries up to 200 kg of fuel for the high altitude motors that allows it to maneuver during reentry, defeating any terminal ABM system the Chinese may develop.
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Length: 17 m
Diameter: 1.8 m
Launch Weight: 39-48 tonnes
Payload: 600- 1500Kg (2490 Kg conventional)
Guidence: INS , optionally augmented by GPS/GLONASS/IRSS, possibly with radar scene correlation.
Range: 5500Km (1500 Kg)
Propellant Solid HTPB/AP/Al
Case Material: Kevlar Epoxy Composites
RV: carbon-carbon composite
450 kg warhead Yield: 200Kt
Dang. That's as good as anything we've got. sounds like they got the materials engineering down cold. Or close to it.
Like to see the accuracy figs, tho.
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There are reports of a problem during flight - missile going off radar during flight .. no press conference so far...
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Reports that both range and trajectory requirements were not met.
Perhaps a problem with the new second stage motor..
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Second stage ignition failure
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sell some to Taiwan?
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The Indian defence analyst Bharat Karnad has been advocating just that.
Another suggestion involves the diesel-electric submarines that Taiwan wants, but the US no longer builds, that Germany and France are afraid to sell. Since India will have a production line for French subs, and will setup another line for either Russian or German subs, a few could be made for Taiwan, customized with US and Taiwanese help.
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DHAMRA (ORISSA): India on Sunday test fired its most advanced intermediate range ballistic missile Agni-III but it developed a snag and fell into the sea off the coast of Orissa without hitting the target, defence sources said.
The launch of the nuclear-capable missile, designed to hit targets at a distance of 3,500 km, from the Integrated Test Range at Wheeler Island was "successful" but its second stage did not separate and it fell into the sea, the sources said.
They said the missile went up vertically to a height of about 12 km before the snag developed. The sources attributed the problem to a "design failure".
Officially, there was no confirmation of any problem, with a spokesman confining himself to a terse statement that "the missile took off successfully" at 11.03 hours IST. He said "the flight performance" was being analysed by the mission team.
Sources in the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), which developed the missile and launched it, said complete details of the test-firing would be known in "a day or two".
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DRDO to conduct more test trials of Agni-III missile
Press Trust of India
New Delhi, July 9, 2006
Undaunted by the partial failure of test-firing of the country's most powerful and longer reach 3,500 km range Agni-III missile, Defence Research and Development Organisation scientists today said more trials of the IRBM missile would be conducted in months ahead to make it fool-proof.
"It was our first experiment with such a long range missile and in the next few days, we will analyse faults in order to rectify them," the scientists told.
They said the entire data of the testing of the missile from its launch to a snag developing in the second stage was being analysed and "we are hopeful of rectifying it".
When the missile veered off course, the scientist had been closely monitoring the trajectory of the missile, they said.
Prior to the launch of the missile, DRDO scientists had carried out cold sea bed trials of critical components and subsistence of missile and this would enable pinpointing of the snag.
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Berhampore (WB), July 10 (PTI): The snag developed in the Agni-III that caused the missile to miss the target would be thoroughly examined, Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee, said on Sunday night.
The reason behind the snag would be explored and the faults corrected, Mukherjee told reporters here.
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G8 leaders have become embroiled in a dispute over competing plans for funding cheap drugs to the Third World. Disagreements over how the programme is to be financed have dashed hopes that agreement would be reached at their summit next weekend in St Petersburg.
Jacques Chirac, President of France, has threatened to veto an Italian plan unless President Bush backs his scheme for a special aircraft tax whose proceeds would fund a vaccine scheme in Africa.
The spat has now embroiled all G8 leaders with the exception of Vladimir Putin, President of Russia and host of the summit. He wants the leaders to focus on energy supplies and sign long-term gas contracts with Russia.
During pre-summit talks, France proposed a straight swap: it would endorse the Italian Advance Market Commitments (AMC) scheme if the Americans agreed to impose an airline tax. When no deal was reached, President Chirac threatened to veto the AMC scheme.
A source close to the talks said that AMC had been very close to agreement. It is now in substantial danger of flopping, even though there is an extraordinary level of support among some key stakeholders.
The AMC scheme, backed by the US, would guarantee subsidies of between $800m and $6bn to pharmaceutical companies for developing cheap vaccines, particularly for pneumonia and meningitis, which kill millions in the Third World. Few African countries can afford to buy these kinds of vaccines.
Gordon Brown, the UK Chancellor, had already failed to win US or German approval for his own scheme, called the International Finance Facility. Under Browns plan, G8 governments would raise loans for African countries which would not show up on their national accounts.
Washington has come out strongly opposed to Browns idea, on the basis that the Federal government makes aid payments from current spending. Instead, the US has thrown its full backing to the AMC scheme set up by Giulio Tremonti, Browns Italian counterpart.
President Chirac does not object in principle to the AMC plan, but his pet project is an airline tax . He has German approval for this tax, but an airline tax is vigorously opposed by Japan and the US. Brown has promised to contribute a section of what is already raised by UK airport taxes but has refused to levy charges.
It is now seems likely that all three rival schemes will be set up outside the G8, dashing hopes raised at the Gleneagles summit.
France has already imposed a E1 ($1.28, 69p) charge on economy class seats and E10 on business class flights for its fund to fight Aids in Africa, and said it has 13 countries willing to sign up.
Brown is to raise $4bn for his debt-for-Africa vaccines scheme along with France, Italy, Spain and Sweden.
Sources in the Italian government said that, like Brown, they may be forced to launch their own scheme outside the G8 if France fails to agree to the AMC plan.
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Chirac is more than willing to kill millions of Africans to protect his precious new taxes. If anyone has ever worshipped at the idol of Mammon, it is Chirac.
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I sat next to a German fellow (USCIT) for past 25 years, D.C. World Bank employee and Clintonite at the Frankfort Airport on Saturday waiting on a flight to the ME. We had a lively, 1.5 hour discussion about POTUS, immigration, and Euro opinion. He had the unhappy task of educating these third world cess pool governments on the technical aspects of WB loan "funding" application and distribution. I had no idea they actually had to be taught the benefits of vaccines, clean water and modern public sanitation, but such is the case.
The UN General Assembly approved limited UN management reforms on Friday as several delegates lamented that the UN membership had been unwilling to do more to modernize the world body. A more ambitious reform package put forward by Secretary-General Kofi Annan was defeated by the assembly in May in a bitter showdown between wealthy nations pushing for major changes and developing nations worried about losing their voice in UN operations.
Adopted by consensus as part of a compromise on Friday were decisions to replace the UN computer system and allow the secretary-general, on an experimental basis, to shift up to $20 million a year to new programmes in order to respond to changing priorities without prior assembly approval. The reform resolution also orders the United Nations to adopt international public sector accounting standards and strengthen its procurement system after a series of scandals.
Put off for future action were governance, oversight, openness and accountability reforms, improved personnel management and further procurement improvements. In a move that surprised some delegates, the United States did not formally distance itself from the assembly decision, as it did last week when member-nations lifted a budget ceiling meant to put pressure on governments to go along with reforms.
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A slush fund of $20 million of walking around money for Kofi is a Modes Management Reform? This organization is in desperate need of a mercy killing.
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Come on Nimble.
It's a wonderfull platform for Russia and China to logjam any diplomacy we attempt. Thus making themselves appear to be in control, all the while sending us the bill with a quiet snicker.
President Moshe Katsav, claiming a woman was blackmailing him, presented an official complaint to Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz earlier this week, Channel 2 reported Saturday evening. According to the report, Katsav told Mazuz that the woman was claiming he (Katsav) had sexually harassed her.
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DILI: Nobel prize-winner Jose Ramos-Horta has been named as East Timor's new prime minister, President Xanana Gusmao announced Saturday, ending weeks of political uncertainty in the nation. The premier's position was left empty last month when Mari Alkatiri resigned. "We have agreed to declare as prime minister Jose Ramos-Horta, first deputy prime minister Estanislau da Silva and second deputy prime minister Rui Araujo," Gusmao said after meeting with leaders from the ruling party. Da Silva is currently agriculture minister while Araujo is health minister. Ramos-Horta, who was East Timor's international face during its years of fighting Indonesia's occupation and won the 1996 Nobel peace prize for his efforts, was foreign and defence minister in Alkatiri's government. He is not a member of the decades-old Fretilin party but helped found it.
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Parkland Memorial Hospital plans to bill Mexico and other countries to help cover the costs of health care for indigents.
The plan, which also seeks payments from adjoining counties in Texas, has brought a negative response from the Mexican government, with a diplomat terming it "an act of discrimination." "We should get be able to get treated for free"
Last year, hospital officials said, Dallas County spent $76.5 million to treat people from outside Dallas. Of that, almost $27 million was not reimbursed. Much of the cost was for treating patients from adjoining counties in Texas, which Dallas County officials claim is unfair to local taxpayers. yep
Collin County, just north of here and one of the state's richest counties, owed the most of any single entity, Parkland officials said -- about $7.6 million. County Judge Margaret Keliher said she was not hopeful that other counties -- or countries -- would pay up. But, she said, the county commission thought the matter should be made public and bills sent. "If you're not Dallas County residents, we think where you are from should pay for your indigent health care," Judge Keliher said.
Hugo Juarez, a consul official at the Mexican Consulate in Dallas, was visibly perturbed. STFU
Diplomats often bridle when their rank hypocrisy is pointed out publicly ...
He called the statements made by the judge "a strange posture, a strange reasoning." He said there had been no agreement or contract between his nation and Dallas County that would make such action legal.
Lobbyists and county officials last year tried unsuccessfully to get the Texas Legislature to come up with a law that forced counties to reimburse those hospitals that took in large numbers of indigents. "What's wrong with sending them a bill?" commission member Maurine Dickey said. She said officials "hoped" the counties that sent their citizens to Parkland would pay something. "We owe it to taxpayers to at least try."
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"We owe it to taxpayers to at least try." Damned right. And thank you for trying.
Amazing; political-types that seem to be working for the best interests of their constituents, as opposed to themselves. I am probably missing something, but I can hope.
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I don't see them being able to collect, but I hope a lot more follow suit.
Don't count on it. Given the maps that the Mexican government has distributed and the comic books on how to enter the US illegally, The hospital might be able to win a suit. Get enough Hospitals together in a class action suit...
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All our hospitals, school districts, insurance companies etc. should be required to ACCURATELY enumerate costs spent and unrecovered from providing education, medical attention, coverage losses from unlicensed/uninsured illegals. Once the actual costs to America are known, the bleating from employers looking to get labor cheap will be drowned out by the outcry. They don't want you to know what it costs, far more more than the cheap head of lettuce or guy doing the yardwork saves you, each and every one of us. Political three monkeys - see no illegals, hear no illegals, speak no costs on illegals
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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.
(SomaliNet) Burundian army spokesperson said Friday that the army will investigate allegations that its troops executed 13 holdout rebels who were training in a village outside the capital, AP reported. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Colonel Manirakiza said the Burundian army killed 13 rebels who were training in Bujumbura Rural province on Thursday, adding one soldier also was killed in the operation. 
Yemen's opposition candidate for the September presidential election, 
The UN General Assembly approved limited UN management reforms on Friday as several delegates lamented that the UN membership had been unwilling to do more to modernize the world body. A more ambitious reform package put forward by Secretary-General Kofi Annan was defeated by the assembly in May in a bitter showdown between wealthy nations pushing for major changes and developing nations worried about losing their voice in UN operations. 
Parkland Memorial Hospital plans to bill Mexico and other countries to help cover the costs of health care for indigents. 
