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Marshall lawyers all think it horrific
Global powers won't be more pacific.
Well, we do have a pile,
And at least for a while,
Renewed tests would make nukes less prolific!
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Weird, half of the Marshall Islands income comes from testing parts of the U.S. nuclear force. Google map is interesting, skip along the mostly tiny islands that make up Kwajalein Atoll and look at all the installations.
Here is an installation on Roi-Namur (site of my Dad's first assault landing) that's looking for someone with just the right background. Walter take a look:
Security Clearance: Applicant selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
Required Skills: Direct experience in designing/implementing improvements with respect to vacuum tube, high power peak pulsed microwave transmitters. Must also have experience in the design, support and debug of general RF equipment. Must be familiar with CAD tools including microwave design software. Experience with standard RF Measurement Equipment such as spectrum and network analyzers, and power meters. Good verbal and written communication skills.
Typical Experience: 10+ years Transmitter design or maintenance experience.
Education: BSEE (MSEE Preferred).
Kwajalein: Top 10 Reasons to Work in Kwajalein:
10 - FREE Furnished Housing
9 - FREE Utilities (excluding phone)
8 - Potential Tax Exclusion
7 - FREE meals for unaccompanied personnel without kitchen facilities
6 - FREE schooling for accompanied children
5 - PAID relocation, storage and shipment of household goods
4 - AMPLE recreational facilities and activities
3 - PAID medical, dental, life insurance, and vacation
2 - Beaches, Beaches, Beaches
And the No. 1 Reason - You Get Paid for This...
[An Nahar] Residents of the southern city of Sidon and its suburbs spotted several locusts on Saturday, which some experts said is due to the hot weather that Leb is witnessing currently, media reports said.
Citizens and farmers of the coastal area fear that an increase in the number of locusts could threaten their fields and crops.
Voice of Leb radio (93.3) reported that some locusts also appeared in the northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... .
Environment activist Najib Sinjer appeased the people's fears and told the radio station that "the number of locusts are unlikely to increase, they are most probably residues from last year's flocks. They are the result of the hot weather that Leb is witnessing."
The wave of locusts witnessed in the region originate from Africa, and several numbers were able to infiltrate Leb where the warm weather is a welcoming factor, reports said.
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One of the Biblical plagues, IIRC. To be followed, no doubt, in short order by water into blood and then Frenchmen.
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I've always thought AlGore would make an exceptional trailer park manager. I suspect he's still looking for his Randy. Not safe for children or Burger Lovers.
[Egypt Independent] More than 100 people have been killed and thousands left homeless by flash floods in north and west Afghanistan, officials said on Friday, prompting desperate pleas for help from the impoverished provincial authorities.
Thousands of homes have been engulfed by flood waters in four provinces after three days of heavy rain in what is traditionally a wet period at the start of spring.
In the northern province of Jawzjan, police chief Faqer Mohammad Jawzjani said 55 bodies had been recovered, and that the number of dead would increase over the coming days.
"Providing aid or help from the ground is impossible," he told Rooters. "We have carried 1,500 people to safe areas of neighboring districts by helicopter. We need emergency assistance from the central government and aid agencies."
The governor of neighboring Faryab province said 33 people had died there and another 80 were missing.
"Ten thousand families have been affected and more than 2,000 houses have been destroyed," Mohammadullah Batazhn said.
Another 13 people were killed in the provinces of Badghis and Sar-e Pol, local officials said.
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[An Nahar] Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Saturday that Russian military aircraft had crossed the country's airspace seven times "to provoke Ukraine to start a war."
"Russian military aircraft today overnight crossed and violated Ukrainian airspace seven times. The only reason is to provoke Ukraine to start a war," he told journalists at a briefing in Rome, following a meeting with Pope Francis and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... shortly after the Ukraine PM's statement, Russia's defense ministry denied claims by the Pentagon and Yatsenyuk that its planes had repeatedly violated Ukrainian airspace in recent days.
"Russia's airspace monitoring systems have not registered any violations of air borders of the states adjacent to Russia, including Ukraine," the defense ministry said in a statement carried by the state ITAR TASS news agency.
The Pentagon had said Russian warplanes had violated Ukraine's airspace several times on Thursday.
The Ukrainian PM also said the seizure of 13 international OSCE observers by pro-Kremlin rebels who accuse them of being "NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... spies" was "another proof and evidence that these so-called peaceful protesters with Russian ideas are terrorists."
Russia pledged Saturday to help free the observers, who were sent to Ukraine to monitor an April 17 accord signed in Geneva between Russia, Ukraine, the United States and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... that was meant to de-escalate the dangerous crisis in the ex-Soviet republic.
But pro-Russian rebels holding the OSCE observers accused them of being "NATO spies" and vowed to continue detaining them.
"Yesterday, we tossed in the slammer ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... some NATO spies... they will be exchanged for our own prisoners. I don't see any other way they will be freed," Denis Pushilin, the head of the turbans' self-declared Donetsk Republic, told news hounds.
Pushilin was speaking in front of the SBU security services building in rebel-held Slavyansk, where the OSCE team was being held.
The town's self-styled mayor, Vyacheslav Ponomaryov, also told Russian TV news crews that the OSCE members were being considered "intelligence officers of NATO country members".
"Military personnel from Denmark, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria I think and -- from somewhere else, I can't immediately recall -- have been detained," he said in broadcasts seen in Moscow.
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"Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Saturday that Russian military aircraft had crossed the country's airspace seven times "to provoke Ukraine to start a war.'"
[An Nahar] Turkish President Abdullah Gul approved a controversial law expanding the powers of the spy agency, a move critics say will tighten the graft-tainted government's control over state institutions.
The new legislation, adopted last week by parliament after heated debates, provides expanded scope for the MIT agency to tap private phone conversations and collect intelligence related to terrorism and international crimes.
It also offers spy agents greater immunity from prosecution and provides for prison terms of up to 10 years for journalists and others who publish leaked information.
The law was signed by Gul late Friday and came into force after being published in the Official Gazette on Saturday.
It is seen as the latest ammunition being deployed by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi only they haven't dumped him yet... after leaked telephone conversations implicating him in a widening corruption scandal and revealing high-level security talks on Syria became public.
Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) argues the law will make the agency more efficient.
Erdogan, in power for 11 years, has accused former ally Fethullah Gulen, a U.S.-based Moslemholy man, and his loyalists in the police and the judiciary, of being behind the corruption probe and the leaks.
The government has reacted by embarking on a mass purge of police and prosecutors and launching an Internet crackdown that saw Twitter -- used to spread the leaks -- banned for two weeks.
Despite the corruption scandal and the highly criticized measures, the AKP won a resounding victory in March 30 local elections.
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Turkish President Abdullah Gul approved a controversial law expanding the powers of the spy agency, a move critics say will tighten the graft-tainted government's control over state institutions.
Clapper, Brennan, and Morell nod their approval, respond with polite golf clap.
"U.S. Magistrate Judge Cam Ferenbach then granted the government's request to keep Ernst in federal custody, saying she was a flight risk and danger to the community. She is being held at a jail operated by a federal contractor in Pahrump, 63 miles west of Las Vegas Enough with the Nevada, already
"Ernst wasn't a credentialed conference attendee and should not have been in the ballroom, authorities said. She somehow got past people checking tickets at the entrance, they said, and she was arrested immediately after the shoe was tossed." I dunno. Something about this story stinks. For starters, was this a Khrushchev shoe trick, or was the lady partially shod on the way out?
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They screw much longer with this minor event they fall into the 'right to speedy trial' zone. How hard is it to put together the case. They're just using their power to punish without due process. She used a shoe. Even though the TSA makes you take them off, you can still fly with them.
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Funny that no mention is made of the stellar security at the door checking off the names of the 'credentialed conference attendees' as they entered. No doubt still being de-briefed then the Bundy Range Wars......
India has successfully test-fired an anti-ballistic missile capable of intercepting targets outside the earth's atmosphere, a major step in development of a missile defence system that is available to only a handful of nations.
The missile dubbed as Prithvi Defence Vehicle (PDV) was launched from a ship in the country's Bay of Bengal at 9:07am on Sunday. It can engage targets in the exo-atmosphere region at more than 120km altitude.
"In an automated operation, radar based detection and tracking system detected and tracked the enemy's ballistic missile," a statement of India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) said.
The test fire has been hailed as "significant milestone" achieved in the direction of developing a two-layered Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) system.
Currently, only a small club of nations including the United States, Russia and Israel possess an anti-ballistic missile system.
"This (test) is part of the ballistic missile defence system which we are developing...," said Ravi Kumar Gupta, DRDO spokesman.
"The mission has been completed and the interception parameter has been achieved."
DRDO, which has developed the missile, said the computer network with the help of data received from radars predicted the trajectory of the incoming ballistic missile while PDV that was kept fully ready, took-off once the computer system gave the necessary command for lift-off.
"Both, the PDV interceptor and the two stage target equipped with motors were specially developed for the mission. The target was developed for mimicking a "hostile" ballistic missile approaching from more than 2000 km away," DRDO said in the statement.
Sharing borders with nuclear armed China and Pakistan, India is developing a two-tier missile defence system that aims to provide a multi-layered shield against ballistic missile attack. India, China and Pakistan are all nuclear powers.
India has fought three wars with Pakistan and came close to a fourth one in 2001. It lost a brief Himalayan border war with its larger neighbour China in 1962 and has ever since strived to improve its defences.
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[DAWN] Recent reports have painted a bleak picture of Pakistan's fight against poliovirus.
"Pakistan which currently stands at the top in the last three polio endemic countries in the world for housing big wild poliovirus (WPV) reservoirs, will be the last place on earth in which polio exists," is a disturbing information shared at a meeting of the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) held in the first week of this month in the World Health Organisation's headquarters at Geneva.
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thought Syria and Nigeria had it as well?
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They are all making progress on eradication. Pakistan on the other hand....
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[An Nahar] The army deployed heavily on Saturday in Beirut's southern suburbs to end festivities that erupted between two families in al-Jamous neighborhood, media reports said.
According to the state-run National News Agency, gunbattles broke out between Nassereddine and Meqdad families in the neighborhood.
Heavy fire was heard in nearby areas.
The reason behind the incident remains unknown.
MTV quoted later the army command as saying: "We will not tolerate any security breach and will strike with an iron fist."
NNA said that several injuries were reported and an apartment was set ablaze after it was hit by a mortar shell.
The army command issued a communique later saying: "at 11:00 am an individual dispute occurred between two families in Beirut's southern suburbs."
The statement described the dispute erupted over previous disagreements between the two families.
"The dispute developed into shootouts between members of the families, prompting an army unity to deploy in the area and restore calm."
The statement said that the army is carrying out raids to detain those involved in the incident and refer them to the competent authorities.
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Rojos and Baxters?
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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.
Mock him at your own peril. 
[DAWN] Recent reports have painted a bleak picture of Pakistan's fight against poliovirus.
