Don't know if this is a WOT or not. I'm thinking we should keep an eye out and see what there names are...
We'll follow it in non-WoT for now, but it is interesting, isn't it. AoS.
LOS ANGELES Two people who claimed to be taking a handcuffed prisoner to Hawaii for a court hearing were arrested at Los Angeles International Airport after one was found to be carrying a gun without a permit, authorities said.
A man and woman were arrested for investigation of impersonating police officers after they entered a security screening area at Terminal Three on Friday morning, Los Angeles Airport Police spokeswoman Belinda Nettles said Saturday. The couple, who were wearing plainclothes, claimed to be law enforcement officers. The woman said she was carrying a firearm, and both claimed they had written documents indicating they were authorized to carry firearms, Nettles said.
Airport police ran a check and found that neither was a police officer, and the woman did not have a permit to carry a gun, Nettles said. The gun was seized and the pair were taken into custody. Officials did not immediately release their names. The "prisoner" also was taken into custody, Nettles said but she did not have additional details.
The FBI said it was assisting local authorities in their investigation. 9-11 ploy?
Posted because it's useful to look at the population break-downs in the Gulf states, and to wonder what might happen if the non-citizens there ever got any ideas.
KUWAIT CITY - Kuwaits population rose by 6.4 percent in 2006 to 3.182 million from 2.99 million a year ago, with foreigners making up more than two-thirds, an economic report said on Saturday.
Two-thirds. Imagine if they all got together ...
The expatriate population in the Gulf state rose by eight percent to 2.16 million from two million in 2005, and now accounts for 67.8 percent of the total, Al-Shall Economic Consultants said.
Many from other Muslim countries, but also a good number of Hindu Indians, Tamils, etc.
Kuwaits native population rose 3.1 percent to 1.023 million from 992,200, said the report, which is based on figures from the Public Authority for Civil Information.
Doesn't sound like they're trying to out-breed anyone, does it.
The labour force also increased by 7.9 percent in 2006 to 1.96 million from 1.82 million, with foreigners representing a massive 82.6 percent of the total. About 83.6 percent of the national workforce of 341,500 is employed in the government, while Kuwaitis form about 3.5 percent of private-sector workers of 1.58 million.
What that means is that the furriners are doing all the useful, produtive work, and the Kuwaitis are in the various Ministries.
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It almost sounds like an apartheid state. But that can't be possible. We all know Zionists, etc. etc. etc.
Thousands of Luddites people filled the streets of five French cities Saturday to protest plans to build the next generation of nuclear reactors - fuel-efficient but seen by anti-nuclear activists as a re-launching of France's nuclear energy program. Much better to spend all your dough buying oil from those nice Arabs...
Organizers put the number of protesters in the western city of Rennes at 30,000 to 40,000 - a figure that could not be officially confirmed. The collective Get out of Nuclear put the number in Lyon and Toulouse at 10,000 and claimed another 5,000 protesters in Lille, in the north, as well as in the eastern city of Strasbourg. The simultaneous protests organized by the collective, made up of hundreds of associations, was a way to get the issue in the eye of candidates in the April-May two-round presidential elections. Only the Greens party, whose candidate is Dominique Voynet, is resolutely opposed to the third-generation European pressurized-water reactor, or EPR, technology that aims to use 17 percent less fuel.
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Take every anti-nuke Protester's name and address.
After the protest, go to their homes and permanently disconnect their electricity, (France uses Nukes to power their grid).
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Dude, electricity is like sooo evil. It was invented by dead white guys, you know.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, facing another tough week amid calls for his ouster, has offered a mea culpa to the nation's 93 U.S. attorneys for the way the Justice Department fired eight of their colleagues.
He's toast. He'll be gone next Friday.
During the conference call Friday, planned as a pep talk to raise morale at a Justice Department tainted by the firings and the FBI's misuse of the Patriot Act, Gonzales apologized for how the dismissals were handled and for suggesting there were problems with the prosecutors' job performances, according to an official familiar with the conversation. But the official said Gonzales did not apologize for firing the eight U.S. attorneys, a decision he and President Bush have defended.
Justice Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said Saturday the call was set up to allow Gonzales to reiterate ``how important the U.S. attorneys are to him as his representatives in the communities they serve and as prosecutors charged with protecting their communities from violent criminals, drug dealers and predators.''
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LAHORE: About 250 journalists staged a protest outside the LHC after they were beaten up by police when they were trying to cover a lawyers convention at the LHCBA on Saturday. Police thrashed Daily Times reporter Rana Tanveer, snatched his press card and ordered him to run away. Police also snatched the camera and cell phone of photographer Taqveem-e-Millat Shah. They beat up Royal TV cameraman Rana Shahzad and snatched his camera and recorded material. Geo TV reporter Mudasher Butt and cameraman Mohammad Afaq were also injured by the police.
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Geo TV reporter Mudasher Butt -- had his name changed from Dan Rather, as it was too embarrassing.
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Yeah, I intellectually recognize the value of freedom of the press and all that, but I have to admit there are times I would viscerally just LOVE to see some of America's big MSM jerkoffs get seriously ruffed and cuffed by the cops. Particularly the NYT MSM types.
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wow, journalists and lawyers beaten...I think I got a woody...of course, Ima conflicted a bit though....
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