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How exactly is letting your organic (in the chemistry sense) garbage decompose in a backyard compost heap any different than letting it decompose in a landfill? Other than growing the local rat population, I mean.
#11
Meanwhile Bertha lies dead beneath the soils of Seattle and not building the tunnel that will handle fewer cars than the viaduct it is supposed to replace.
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There's a simple answer, dump the food garbage on the lawns of the people who passed this. If they complain, tell them your just assisting their composting.
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Years ago I live in an area that required a fee to have a refrigerator removed. Many could be thrown over hills into wooded areas and left in alleys. I later moved to an area that let you drop your refrigerator at the local dump; I do not recall seeing a stray refrigerator.
People will flush, dump on the side of the road, throw trash into business dumpsters.... This proposal is a problem looking for a mess.
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Years ago. I was really into the whole self-sufficiency thing - solar, home gardening, and composting. I learned that some things cannot be composted at all, like meat,bones, and grease. What are people supposed to do with them?
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some things cannot be composted at all, like meat,bones, and grease. What are people supposed to do with them?
[Iran Press TV] Ivory Coast's authorities say a majority of 21 children kidnapped in recent weeks have been found dead with their bodies mutilated, raising fears of a wave of ritual sacrifices ahead of elections.
Most of the children were found dead, mutilated, decapitated and without their genitals in various parts of Ivory Coast since December, police said.
“The phenomenon is real and unusual. Our services have registered 21 cases,” said police chief, Brindou M'Bia.
Security forces have been placed on high alert over the recent spate of child abductions, M'Bia added.
Many residents fear the ritualistic-style killings are linked to the presidential and possibly legislative elections scheduled to take place toward the end of the year.
Corrupt businessmen and politicians are believed to be using children’s body parts in mystical and occult practices, which are supposed to give them money and supernatural powers.
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I don't criticize anyone's looks. I look in the mirror every morning and evening. For a while I thought it was haunted because some old, fat, bald guy was staring at me.
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Majic Kingdom State teevee was trying to save their viewers from shock....
The mirror was haunted some old, fat, bald guy was staring at me....
During his return flight from the Philippines this week, Pope Francis told reporters that during his trip this year to America he would like to cross the U.S.-Mexico border as a âbeautiful gesture of brotherhood and support for immigrants.â
"To enter the United States from the border with Mexico would be a beautiful gesture of brotherhood and support for immigrants," Francis said during his return flight to Rome. Maybe His Holiness would like to take a couple of million of 'em back to The Vatican with him?
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Tell you what Pope Francis, you cross the border north, we'll send the army south. After taking Mexico and driving it's people across their southern border, there won't be a US-Mexico border any more. There will just be US and US territory that might eventually become states.
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Got anything to say about the drug mules crossing the border, Your Liberationist-ness?
As far as letting uncontrolled migration across other's borders: It's easy to give away hard earned assets to others you think are more deserving when it's not yours.
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In that case he should apply for a legal visa, fill it out, send it in, and wait like all the other Immigrants.
If he simply crosses the border he's another illegal *ALIEN*.
Or does he think he's more special than everyone else?
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OK we had a Nazi Pope that has dementia, that's why they kicked him to the curb. Now we get a Commie Pope. Gettin hard to be a Catholic these days. But I will hang in there and have faith in the Church. All men fail, the Church goes on. That is why it is there.
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The Catholic Church has gone the way of many churches. All liberal principles, with no Christian principles. It will die. And you wonder why so many young people around the world join ISIS. Because this idiot Pope is too busy promoting socialism instead of teaching Christian principles about good vs evil.
40 churches burned to the ground in Africa the other day but that is not an issue with this moron.
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There are some things the Pope is wonderful on. But on this, he is a dumbfuck South American Jesuit lefty, the kind Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI worked so hard to get rid of.
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Grounds to declare him persona non grata and deny him entry, head of state or not.
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Evidently he's determined to kill off the Catholic church up here, now that he's fixed all the economic problems where he's from (joke).
They're all going to be evangelicals when this guy's done.
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All an evil scheme designed to make the top of Bill O'Reilly's head blow off.
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Nothing about the corrupt oligarchies and their practices back home that create the environment that entices 'immigration'? Some lashing on the steps back 'home' would be more in line with what these people need (which is not the product and fruits of the labor of others in a distant land). The man doth confuse Willie Sutton with the 'man'.
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Institutions come and go over the span of time like species. Kernels of right and truth span the millennia. Man's relationship with his Creator is a very personal thing.
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Luckily we have had 2 very remarkable champions of orthodoxy before this lurching PR disaster arrived. Sometimes God has to remind us Catholics to have faith in Him, not in his apostolic representatives. Bad popes do a good job of this.
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This isnt news for anyone who has a sense of the Church and history. Despite the title of Pope, he is, when all is said and done, a Bishop of the Church. Saint Athanasius addressed bad bishops who lead their flock astray nearly 2 millennia ago: The floors of hell are paved with the skulls of bishops.
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When 60% of the Mexicans polled want to become US citizens perhaps the Pope should aim his guilt weapons at the Mexican government for awhile. Perhaps they wouldn't all want to cross if the locals down there didn't mistreat them and mismanage the economy.
The deputy prime minister of Russia, Dmitry Ragozin, said Monday that a breakthrough in Russian missile technology means that the United States will no longer be able to intercept Russian ballistic nuclear missiles.
Ragozin said that the details of the technology would ânot be disclosed to anybodyâ and that Russian technology âshows that neither the current, nor even the projected American missile defense system could stop or cast doubt on Russia's strategic missile potential.â
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Checka Policy is based on making every paranoid and possible conspiracy theory into defense posture and they put it into the staff duty logs for all officers.
The only assh***s that get off on nukes are Russians.
Maybe they have not screwed themselves enough.
So Be IT.
You want more punishment because you Russians want to punish yourselves.
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I think the funniest thing is that if Putin simply stands pat and remains patient, the US will eventually self destruct as long as we keep putting people like Obama, Hillary, Pelosi, Reid, Boehner and McConnell in positions of power. All he has to do is wait.
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This is for internal consumption. Without nukes Russia is just another irrelevant, backwoods, third world shit hole. Think Saudi without oil or France without a UN Security Counsel veto.
#13
Makes me wonder if this is part of a sales pitch for their arms industry, or if Putin has plans and they want this firmly in the mind of the west before those plans begin.
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Makes me wonder if this is part of a sales pitch for their arms industry, or if Putin has plans and they want this firmly in the mind of the west before those plans begin.
Ever wondered if it's because they think Obama is a typical African Leader---many of whom they knew well---only in control of the Worlds heaviest military force.
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As per FREEREPUBLIC + YAHOO NEWS, RUSSIA is now threatening to declare the reunification of East + West Germany as null-n-void.
Looks like GERMANY may not be able to stay in the PCorrect shadows for too much longer.
Meanwhile, many surviving Christians throughout the ME are repor flocking to TURKEY, i.e. the original cradle or home of [Pan-] Orthdox Christianity, despite MSM, Pert-verified looming Islamist-Jihadi threats agz same - AGAIN, IMO GOES TO WHY VLAD TOOK THE CRIMEA FROM UKRAINE.
[Iran Press TV] The top economic front man for Greece's victorious Syriza Party says it would be unrealistic to expect the country to repay its massive debt in full.
"I haven't met an economist in their heart of hearts that will tell you that Greece will pay back all of that debt. It can't be done," said Euclid Tsakalotos as quoted in a BBC report on Tuesday.
"Nobody believes that the Greek debt is sustainable," Tsakalotos added.
Greece's far-left Syriza Party, which won the general election on Sunday, says the country's 240-billion-euro bailout by international lenders must be renegotiated.
The Syriza front man further stated that EU leaders needed to demonstrate that they were willing to work with the victorious Greek political party.
"It's going to be a very funny and a very dangerous Europe with very strong centrifugal political forces if they signal that after a democratic vote they're not interested in talking to a new government," Tsakalotos said.
"It will be a final signal that this is a Europe that can't incorporate democratic change and it can't incorporate social change."
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It is all of those silly entitlement programs of the liberal socialist paradise that make debt repayment unsustainable.
How can you repay debt with over 50% of the people work for the government and you can bet more money unemployed than you can by working?
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Fine Greece. Default. Vote to spend more. Wheres it come from? Your printing presses? OK - without banking to back it, get ready for a replay of Weimar Germany and hyperinflation inside your borders when the Euros kick you out and you have to go back to the G. Drachma.
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"It will be a final signal that this is a Europe that can't incorporate democratic change and it can't incorporate social change."
Oh, that's rich.
You can borrow money from someone, spend it all on comfort, and arbitrarily declare that you aren't going to pay it back because not paying it back equals "social justice".
The accurate term is "larceny".
If the value of your labor to other people only affords you enough money for rice and beans, demanding a sirloin is stealing and thuggery.
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Greece is going to demand Germany pay for Nazi war crimes. They'll burn through that money in a few hours if it ever happens. Very doubtful.
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They will of course be shocked that no one wants to sell them anything unless it's cash up front.
Maybe they can talk to Maduro in Venezuela about options.
Eurocrash in 5,4,3 ...
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The Germans, no fools when it comes to finance, have spent the last couple years dragging the rest of the EU to the point where they can handle the Greeks. They can boot the Greeks from the euro, fix the German banks who are left dangling, and mitigate the damage to the rest of the EU banks.
The Greeks then will have a drachma that becomes increasingly devalued while Germany just goes on going on. Merkel is going to take a hard line on this one.
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and investment in Greece will die. They are on their way to nationalization and confiscation since nobody will loan to them again
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"We need a distraction. 'The Malvinas have always been Greek!' should work.."
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"with over 50% of the people work for the government"
I have to explain to my government worker friends that when they say they pay taxes, it more like they're actually 'leaving' their money in the pot that's filled by the private sector businesses and workers.
Somehow, we're still friends (although a lot of them still don't really get it).
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Replace Malvinas with Cypress and you might have a strategy. if I were the Turks I'd watch Greek military spending and avoid any entanglements elsewhere for awhile. Might be an opportunity to solve the Cypress problem one way or another in the near future.
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The Socialist Cycle
1. Promise everything to everybody.
2. Run up bills for #1, above
3. Issue paper to cover #2, above
4. Default on paper (#3, above) while blaming "Corporatists."
5. Install new Socialist Government to "Fix Things."
6. Return to #1, above.
[Iran Press TV] The Ukrainian parliament has officially declared the pro-Russian forces of eastern Ukraine as terrorists.
On Tuesday, the Ukrainian parliament declared the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Luhansk as terrorist organizations, saying Kiev will no more hold peace negotiations with the regions’ representatives.
Kiev has called the pro-Russian forces of eastern Ukraine terrorists since the beginning of the conflict in 2014. However, the official designation of the parliament would make pro-Russians subject to the counter-terrorism law, allowing the Ukrainian government to block their bank accounts, restrict their movement in the Ukrainian territory, and prevent them from contributing to the peace talks.
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Lt. General Michael Flynn, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, blasted the Obama administration’s approach to the War on Terror in a hard-hitting speech to a meeting of intelligence professionals. “The dangers to the U.S. do not arise from the arrogance of American power, but from unpreparedness or an excessive unwillingness to fight when fighting is necessary,” Flynn said, in an unsparing critique first reported by the Daily Beast.
Flynn left government last summer, a year before scheduled. He did not provide a reason for his early departure, but sources close to Flynn told THE WEEKLY STANDARD that he was forced out after years of making arguments the Obama administration did not want to hear.
Flynn, and many of the analysts who worked for him, consistently reported on the global nature of the jihadist threat and the interconnectedness of the groups driving it. They mapped overlapping networks of al Qaeda and its offshoots and rejected arguments, pushed primarily by the White House and the CIA, that killing leaders of “core al Qaeda” inevitably meant a diminishing threat.
One key fight came over the analysis of the documents captured during the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. The CIA was responsible for the first scrub of the collection of more than 1 million documents and retained “executive authority” over the cache when it was completed. But the CIA stopped analyzing or “exploiting” the documents after that first quick and incomplete assessment and the Agency made no attempt to systematically examine and codify all of the intelligence included in the intelligence haul.
“A full exploitation? No. Not even close. Maybe 10 percent,” he said.
The Obama administration is choosing ignorance.
The arguments that Flynn and his analysts were making were unwelcome in an administration publicly arguing that the threat was diminished and that the wars were over. Those who challenged the administration’s claims were sidelined or, in the case of Flynn, forced out. Several sources described the efforts at the time as a “purge” and warned about the dangers of an administration so unwilling to hear dissenting views.
Today, of course, there is little question that Flynn and his analysts were correct. But the Obama administration isn’t listening. The president gave a State of the Union last week in which he didn’t even mention al Qaeda, in which he awkwardly characterized the enemy as “violent extremists,” and in which he pretended that United States was winning the battle against ISIS.
Ignoring threats doesn’t make them go away. Refusing to accurately identify your enemies doesn’t change their nature. And announcing false victories makes real defeats more likely.
As Flynn put it: “Retreat, retrenchment and disarmament are historically a recipe for disaster.”
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FYI SEE TOPIX > [American Thinker] AS CHINA PLANS FOR WAR, THE US RENAMES ITS BATTLE PLAN, i.e. from "AirSea Battle" to "Joint Mobility Concept for Access and Maneuver in the Global Commons".
IIUC, East Asia-Pacific or Asia-Pacific includng GUAM-WESTPAC is now a "Global Commons" - IFF "GLOBAL COMMONS" IS NOT A OWG-NWO-ESQUE, UPPITY SECULAR INTELLECTUALIST LIBERAL-PROGRESSIVE MARXIST-GLOBALIST, ....@ETC. LABEL I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS.
Whose for Tea-n-Biscuits [Cookies] in the Space/Star Garden???
[Times of India] Agra: Obama is a humble man, he will not like anyone putting those protective covers on his shoes, US security personnel had told ASI and asked them to provide four velvet pairs in advance, for him and First Lady Michelle Obama. No, the cotton will never do. The sequined RED velvet for our humble master please.
"Most Americans do not like others to carry their bags or help in such personal work. Obama could not possibly allow this colonial tradition. Moreover, there are automatic shoe cover dispensers installed at the Taj where you do not need to use your hand to wear them," said the official. Glad to see the Secret Service finally coming around.
[DAWN] LANDI KOTAL: Three persons were killed and as many injured when rival groups shot it out over the fixing of a kiosk in Sheikhwal area here on Monday.
Assistant political agent Tayyab Abdullah said that his administration had affected a ceasefire between the two rival Sheikhwal groups, but they violated the ban. He said that a fine of Rs3 million had been imposed on them for violation of the ceasefire.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Cynthia backed into the galley, the barbecue fork held in front of her. Jack! she called. Where the hell are you?... a student was killed and two others were maimed when two groups clashed at the government degree college over the distribution of funds for a study tour.
The rival groups used knives and daggers which resulted in the killing of a student identified as Abdul Basit on the spot, while two other students identified as Walid Khan and Fazal Haq were maimed. Both the injured students were shifted to Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. as their condition was critical.
Assistant political agent Tayyab Abdullah told Dawn that the khasadar ...a rural policeman in Pakistain or India... personnel took eight students into custody along with the knives and daggers they used in the fight.
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[DAWN] LAHORE: A man, who was allegedly humiliated and severely beaten up by a group of lawyers during proceedings at the sessions court, has approached the court for registration of a criminal case against the advocates.
An additional district and sessions judge on Monday heard the petition of Muhammad Yousaf, the victim, and sought a reply from the Lower Mall station house officer.
The petitioner alleged the lawyers beat him up for not listening to their 'warnings' against pursuing a car theft case. Yousaf had filed a petition against Mehmood Akhtar alias Nunah Shah.
On Jan 15, when he visited the court to attend hearing of his case, counsel for Nunah Shah accompanied by a number of lawyers attacked him.
The petitioner said the attackers led by Advocate Muhammad Saeed audaciously thrashed him in the presence of the judge. He said the lawyers later took him to the bar room and also invited other lawyers to join in their bashing terming him a fake advocate.
The petitioner said the furious advocates defaced him with black shoe polish and made him walk on the court premises. Finally, he said, the lawyers handed him over to Islampura police accusing him of impersonating an advocate. However, the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... he said, the police investigated the matter and released him.
The petitioner stated that the Lower Mall SHO, when approached, refused to take action against the lawyers. He prayed to the court to order the SHO to lodge an FIR against lawyers.
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I sure took a beating from my ex's lawyer.
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[DAWN] MULTAN: A seven-year old child who was kidnapped for ransom was killed by the kidnappers, later found out to be family friends, due to the alleged negligence of police.
On the other hand, police have placed in durance vile Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! the suspects involved in the incident.
The child, Abdullah Niaz, a resident of Shah Rukn-e-Alam Colony, went missing on Jan 18. His family informed police who did not bother even to register a case.
Abdul Ghaffar, the victim's uncle, told Dawn police had refused to lodge the case and alleged that the family was not telling truth.
"On Jan 19, we received a call from a mobile phone and the caller demanded Rs10 million for the release of the child," he said, adding that they, once again, contacted police and informed them about the call, giving them the mobile phone number from where the call was made but police did not move.
Ghaffar said the family received another call on Jan 21. This time, the family provided the computerised national identity card (CNIC) number of the person in whose name the subscriber identification module (SIM) was registered to the city police officer who ordered lodging of the case on the complaint of the mother of the child, Rehana Bibi, a widow.
The body of the child was found in Khanewal district where Kuhna police buried it.
Quoting Khanewal police, Ghaffar said the child was killed on Jan 20.
Multan police contacted the family on Jan 24 and informed them about the incident with the claim that the police had arrested all those involved in the incident.
Police arrested Mudasira Naureen, a family friend of the victim, and the other suspects, her mother Naseem Akhtar, Hasan Javed, Niaz and Muhammad Saleem, on charges of kidnapping and murdering the child. They have confessed to committing the crime.
The CPO appreciated the police team for its 'efficiency'.
The child's body was exhumed and brought to Multan from Khanewal and handed over to the family for burial.
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"at least he was among friends when he died"
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[Rooters] SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 27 - A program used by U.S. and British spies to record computer keystrokes was part of sophisticated hacking operations in more than a dozen countries, security experts said on Tuesday, after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden reportedly leaked the source code for the program.
On Tuesday, researchers at security software firm Kaspersky Lab said that much of that code, published this month by German magazine Spiegel, matched what they previously found in machines infected by Regin, a major suite of spying tools exposed in November.
Lead Kaspersky researcher Costin Raiu said that the keylogging program, called Qwerty, would work only with Regin, and that it appeared several Western countries' spies had been using Regin over the course of a decade.
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Just remember, he's a totally outside, freedom loving guy. Not a mole planted on the NSA. He just happened to find all this stuff lying around, and didn't even know what he'd stole acquired until Vlad's buddies explained it all.
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The CIA should do a bit of wet work on him. Ricin, or Polonium perhaps... pour encourager les autres, of course.
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On the other hand, we've joked a few times at work that leaking the source to some of our applications could cripple our competition as they try to understand what we're doing...
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#3 On the other hand, we've joked a few times at work that leaking the source to some of our applications could cripple our competition as they try to understand what we're doing...
Funny how you should call that a joke. Depending how twisty your thinking process is, that could be the actual plan...
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.
[Iran Press TV] Ivory Coast's authorities say a majority of 21 children kidnapped in recent weeks have been found dead with their bodies mutilated, raising fears of a wave of ritual sacrifices ahead of elections.
All you can do on short notice? Alright then, a size 10.5 please. They will just have to do. 
[DAWN] LANDI KOTAL: Three persons were killed and as many injured when rival groups 
