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Thanks for your service Jack. You were a loyal and faithful servant. WolfDog....I recall the old saying "only the good die young." Guess that doesn't say much about me. :(
The Kemp-Roth act of the early 80s was an important generator of economic growth in that decade.
However, in his later years he coauthored a goofy report on Russia with John Edwards, worked Edwards on some phony baloney poverty workshops, worked with a fellow who was one of Saddam's oil-for-palaces accomplices, supported a number of Farrakhan initiatives and had a number of goofball things to say supporting amnesty for illegal aliens (disguised as immigration reform).
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Lest we fergit, BILL CLINTON widout solicitation person admitted to stealing two POTUS elections by fraud - only God knows how the US-World would've been under a GEORGE HERBERT second term, or a POTUS DOLE + VPOTUS KEMP.
IIRC POTUS NIXON back in the early 1970's once proclaimed "THERE WILL BE NO WHITEWASHING OF THE WHITE HOUSE/PRESIDENCY", or words to that effect ala the then-budding WATERGATE investigation - ALONG CAME THE SO-CALLED "MONICA AFFAIR" WHICH IMO WAS THE NPE'S WAY OF PDENIABLY "WHITEWASHING" A MORE SERIOUS INTERNAL EVENT OR CRISIS, AND DONE SO IN ORDER TO PROTECT USGovt INTEGRITY/
CREDIBILITY.
EcoAmerica has been conducting research for the last several years to find new ways to frame environmental issues and so build public support for climate change legislation and other initiatives. A summary of the groups latest findings and recommendations was accidentally sent by e-mail to a number of news organizations by someone who sat in this week on a briefing intended for government officials and environmental leaders.
Asked about the summary, ecoAmericas president and founder, Robert M. Perkowitz, requested that it not be reported until the formal release of the firms full paper later this month, but acknowledged that its wide distribution now made compliance with his request unlikely.
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Mostly Global Warming is a code word for gullible.
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I'm good with "Gullable".
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dd you know that "gullible" isn't even in the dictionary? You could look it up
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Newspeak by any other name.
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Global warming is code word for communism.
The rest is just dressing for the funeral of freedom.
Looks like Webster's doesn't agree with you Frank
Main Entry: gull·ible
Variant(s): also gull·able ˈgə-lə-bəl
Function: adjective
Date: 1818
: easily duped or cheated
gull·ibil·i·ty ˌgə-lə-ˈbi-lə-tç noun
gull·ibly ˈgə-lə-blç adverb
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Global Warming is a farce. Junk science. It is based on deliberately skewed interpretations of scientific data, put forth by social activists with an agenda to control all human activity.
[Maghrebia] Six Mauritanian political parties declared Thursday (April 30th) their support for the presidential candidature of General Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz, PANA reported. Union for the Republic (UPR) chief Mohamed Ali Chérif told the press that the parties were backing the junta leader in the June 6th election because of his "guarantees of security and stability" and "commitment to continue working for the development of democracy".
Together, the UPR, the Union for Democracy and Progress (UDP), the Union for the Mauritanian People (UPM), the Republican Party for Democracy and Regeneration (PRDR), the Democratic Regeneration (RD) and the Hatem party hold the majority of seats in the nation's two chambers of parliament.
In other news, the African Union will continue mediation efforts aimed at reaching a "consensual solution" to the political crisis in Mauritania, AFP quoted AU Commission President Jean Ping as saying Thursday (April 30th) in Addis Ababa. A mediation atttempt last March by Libyan leader and AU President Moamer Kadhafi proved unsuccessful.
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Africans must travel to the moon to investigate what developed nations have been doing in outer space, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said Saturday.
"The Americans have gone to the moon. And the Russians. The Chinese and Indians will go there soon. Africans are the only ones who are stuck here," Museveni said, addressing a meeting of the Uganda Law Society in Entebbe. "We must also go there and say: 'What are you people doing up here?'."
Stealing the green cheese ...
Museveni urged the assembly of Uganda's top lawyers to support East African integration, arguing that one of the region's goals should be to develop a space programme.
"Uganda alone cannot go to the moon. We are too small. But East Africa united can. That is what East African integration is all about," he said. "Then we can say to the Americans: 'What are you doing here all alone?'."
Museveni has vocally campaigned for a common East African economic and political zone. Negotiations to establish a tariff free trade zone including Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda have been ongoing for months.
Museveni on Saturday also called for enhanced political integration among the East African nations, suggesting the region would be strengthened by becoming one country.
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The temptation for VERY un-PC snark is almost overwhelming.
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or Mars, even: The Congressional bonehead award goes to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) who, on a visit to JPL, asked if Mars Pathfinder had taken an image of the flag planted there in 1969 by Neil Armstrong! Quipped Rep. Vernon Ehlers (R-MI) to the Washington Times: We just dont teach enough science. Worse, Jackson Lee, who represents Houston, is a member of the House Science Committees space subcommittee. Perhaps some committee reassignments are in order
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Sheila Jackson Lee ultimate destination is Uranus.
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she's not welcome on mine
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Please, Africa, when you go to the moon, be prepared, pack a nice picnic basket, dont forget condoms and some food aid from the UN or NATO. A fly swatter and some HIV drugs would be a nice touch.
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I see no reason Africans cannot go to the moon.
in the article Nothing was said about returning?
That's the hardest part.
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"The Americans have gone to the moon. And the Russians. The Chinese and Indians will go there soon. Africans are the only ones who are stuck here,"
Nothing about the Arabs, Persians or Indonesians. He got something against Muzzies?
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Excuse me, but just WHEN did the Russians make it to the Moon? Or is Museveni counting unmanned probes? NO Russian walked the face of the Moon, they quit trying after the US's third landing.
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It's a shame we quit going there. There's lots to learn that can best (or only) be learned there. Besides, it would make the Saudis howl even louder (Islam is supposed to conquer the world before a man walks on the moon - didn't happen, probably won't ever happen, even if the rest of us leave). Landing on the moon was the last great success of NASA. It's been downhill ever since.
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[Khaleej Times] Qatar's Commerce and Business Minister, Sheikh Fahd bin Jassim al-Thani, has been killed in a car accident, the country's official news agency said on Friday.
The accident happened late on Thursday when the minister's vehicle collided with a land cruiser coming in the opposite direction, the daily newspaper Al-Sharq said. He died instantly and a fellow passenger was taken to hospital, the paper said.
Sheikh Fahd took office in July after being head of operations at Qatar Telecommunications Co QTEL.QA (Qtel) since 1997, it said.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Golam Faruk, chairman of Banaripara upazila parishad in Barisal, has accused Monirul Islam Moni, an Awami League (AL) lawmaker from Barisal-2 constituency, of assaulting him at Banaripara police station on Friday.
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[Bangla Daily Star] At least 20 people, including five policemen, were injured yesterday in a clash between Awami League activists and police at Baktabali Bazar in Fatulla upazila over a land dispute.
Locals said AL activists snatched two firearms from the injured police members which later police recovered.
Police arrested Fatulla Thana unit AL General Secretary Shawkat Ali, Jubo League leader Shafiqul Islam and traders Amanullah and Rafiqul Islam for their involvement in the clash.
Witnesses said local AL and BNP workers sat at an arbitration meeting in the morning to settle a dispute over the ownership of a shop and a piece of land in the bazar, as leaders of the two rival parties had long been at loggerheads over taking control of the land and the shop.
At one stage, activists of the two parties locked in an altercation and attacked each other. As a team of police from Baktabali outpost rushed in and tried to calm both the feuding groups, AL activists allegedly attacked the policemen, leaving at least 20 people injured.
Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) at Fatulla Model Police Station Mir Abu Tauhid said police fired 11 blank shots to bring the situation under control. Contingents of police have been deployed in the area as a tense situation prevailed there, he said.
Contacted, Superintendent of Police Biswas Afzal Hossain said those involved in assaulting police and damaging shops would be brought to justice. AL activists also confined SI Shamsul Haq and constable Motaleb in their local office and beat them up, leaving them injured.
On information, Fatulla thana police rushed to the spot and brought the situation under control. Police charged baton and fired 11 blank shots to disperse the troublemakers.
Locals said Fatualla thana AL President Saifullah Badal and General Secretary Shawkat Ali are involved in extortion and other criminal activities. They are allegedly sheltered by a former AL lawmaker.
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In the week British troops formally ended their military operations in Iraq, BAe Systems, which makes the Army's Challenger 2 tanks, revealed it was closing its tank-making operation at Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
It is also shutting its armour business at Telford in Shropshire and at other locations because it sees no prospect of new Government orders.
The closures could result in 500 job losses and means the Army is likely to go into battle in future with tanks using German guns and Swedish chassis.
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Where are they going to get tanks?
Or have they decided to "Make war no more".
I wonder if it's time for a retaking of the "Mother Country" Before it falls , or is it already too late?
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Perhaps the Mother Country will confine their wars to bitching and moaning via keyboards.
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A sad day, indeed... but not the end, hopefully. After all, the Abrams uses a German gum and British armour. Let's hope the Vickers plant is only mothballed.
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The sad truth is that the tank is a victim of its own success. This is why the US is moving to Stryker vehicles.
There are dozens of ways to kill tanks out there, their fuel consumption has long been a problem, the probable battlefields are not tank friendly, state of the art is expensive, maintenance is a headache, etc. Add it all together, and the tank is a reserve vehicle.
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Wondered about that very point. Of course, nothing says you own a road intersection like an Abrams.
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And nothing says you own a tank like shooting an anti-tank guided weapon at one. Like holes on swiss cheese, and the person inside is mincemeat. Not a nice thing.
Better off parking extra tanks at military installation. They look nice sitting next to some cannons from the 1940's. And hey, they can be used if absolutely necessary.
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That is a point, GirlThursday. On the other hand, until that anti-tank thingy actually hits, the tank can be pretty useful, so long as the terrain is navigable and fuel is easily obtained.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Ecuadorian electoral authorities have officially announced that leftist President Rafael Correa has won his second term in office.
The National Electoral Board said on Saturday that Correa had the lead over his main rival Lucio Gutierrez, 51.8 percent to 28.5 percent. The board said that about 816,000 votes still needed to be counted.
About 10.5 million Ecuadorians were eligible for voting in the country's April 26 elections, AFP reported.
Earlier this week, the Ecuadorian president declared victory as the country's first leader selected without a runoff in 30 years. "The people have given us the most splendorous victory of probably the last 50 years," President Correa said on Sunday.
Since coming to power in 2006, Correa has been a close ally of regional leftists, including Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Bolivian President Evo Morales.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Germany is recovering form the aftermath of its worst May Day violence in four years after rallies turned into violent anti-capitalism riots.
On Friday, Police fought with some 700 stone-throwing left-wing rioters in the capital, Berlin, where clashes lasted until pre-dawn hours on Saturday. Attackers torched cars, smashed shop windows, damaged banks and hurled flammable fluids and petrol bombs at security forces, injuring 237 police.
Authorities said 14 of the wounded were in critical condition.
The unrest ended with a total of 289 demonstrators detained on charges of inflicting bodily harm and rioting.
"The violence was more severe than in the past. But for the most part they were not motivated by politics. They only wanted violence," Berlin's Interior Minister Ehrhart Koerting told a news conference.
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But...they were leftists...violence...does not compute...arrgh...
Oh, of course, the pig is lying. Whew! Almost had a mental breakdown there. Lefists are all peaceful and only want the best and are never nihilistically negative in any way.
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It's Berlin, which is an imaginary place populated by unreal people, quite unlike the rest of Germany. As I recall, they were quite dismayed that reunification meant that Berlin really would become the working capitol of Germany. The natives (and immigrants from the rest of the country who'd come for the generous subsidies and protected lifestyle) deeply resented their haven being invaded by those who wouldn't share their vision. The critical question is whether there were similar riots elsewhere in Germany -- if not, this is merely the usual temper tantrum by those who enjoy indulging in such things.
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Germany must have changed more than I thought. I was there in 1972 when a group of thugs tried to cause trouble at Wiesbaden AB. The APs didn't intervene, the German Bundespolizei troops did. About 300 people were admitted to area hospitals with injuries ranging from a severed spinal chord to broken fingers. About 750 were jailed.
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From what I've read, this investigation involved long-term phone taps, surveillance, and a sting operation, and they only managed to catch the staffers in [arguably] illegal activities once Franklin told them that he had classified information that the lives of specific Israeli agents in Iran were in danger. This seems like rather thin gruel given the scope of the investigation, which could mean that (1) the hearsay [that AIPAC staffer were engaging in wrongdoing, leading to the investigation] was wrong or exaggerated; (2) as the commentator above suggests, someone was out to get AIPAC; or (3) that the staffers had become more careful about not stepping over the legal line than when the feds got their original information. We are left to wonder whether 1, 2, or 3, or some combination, is correct. Given the organization that (i) does not recruits Jews of ME origins as translators---cause they're biased; and (ii) constantly works to increase its ties with "American Muslim Comunity"; I---for one---have very little trouble chosing among 1,2,3.
India will set up an unspecified number of nuclear reactors in Kazakhstan under a memorandum of understanding (MoU) reached between the two countries early this year, said the local newspaper Mail Today on Sunday. The MoU was signed during Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev's visit to India in January, the newspaper quoted unidentified sources as saying. The two countries have also reached an advanced stage in discussions on nuclear cooperation and Kazakhstan could well be the first foreign destination for India-made reactors, said the report.
Such reactors would be of medium size, with a capacity to generate 200 to 300 megawatt of power each, according to the report. Kazakhstan has also agreed to supply over 2,000 tons of uranium to India to make fuels for its nuclear plants.
Kazakhstan is the world's second biggest uranium producer and has 15 percent of the global uranium reserves. India has already signed nuclear cooperation deals with Russia, France and the United States.
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ION INDIA, WORLD MILITARY FORUM [GOOGLE Chinglish transl.]> IIUC US EXPERTS: BY 2020-2030 INDIA MAY NO LONGER BE ABLE TO RESIST OR DEFEAT CHINA'S MILITARY DUE TO POOR OR LACK OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS, + US EXPERTS: CHINA VIEWS JAPAN AS ITS PRIMARY/FIRST THREAT IN ASIA, FOLLOWED BY INDIA. CHIN'S PLA IS UNLIKELY TO USE OR PRIORITIZE NUCLEAR WEAPONS AGZ INDIA IN ANY SINO-FUTURE INDIA CONFLICT.
Also from WMF > EURASIAN "TORCH": CHINA'S PLAN NAVY MAPS DEPICT "FLAME" DESIGN OF CHIN TERRITORIES, INCLUDING CHIN SEAS DISPUTED ISLANDS, ENCOMPASSING APPROXIMATELY 300.0MILYUHN SQUARE KMS; + CHINA'S PREMIER WEN JIABIAO TELLS JAPAN'S PM TARO ASO: EAST CHINA SEAS BELONGS TO CHINA.
* SAME > THE USA CONTINUES TO BUY AND WORK FOR THE DISINTEGRATION OF CHINA AND MAINLAND ASIA. ONLY CHINA CARRIES THE TRUE SOCIALIST-COMMUNIST BANNER FOR INNOVATION AND ANTI-CAPITALIST, ANTI-EXPLOITATION SECURITY. WORLD COMMUNIST FORCES INCLUDING CHINA ARE GROWING AND STEADILY BECOMING MORE POWERFUL, AND ARE EXPERIENCING A NEW GLOBAL RENNAISSANCE.
[Straits Times] THAILAND on Saturday sought to reassure Asian leaders that a regional summit to be rescheduled and held on the southern isle of Phuket would not end in chaos as an earlier meeting did in April. The summit of leaders from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations and six dialogue partners was abruptly cancelled last month after anti-government protesters stormed the venue in the coastal city of Pattaya.
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[Straits Times] The head of IndonesiaŽs anti-corruption agency was yesterday named by the government as a suspect and a mastermind in a high-profile murder being investigated by the police - an announcement that has shocked the country. Mr Antasari Azhar, 56, who leads the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), is one of several suspects in the murder of company director Nasrudin Zulkarnaen, said spokesman for the Attorney-GeneralŽs Office Jasman Panjaitan.
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[Straits Times] The Malaysian Cabinet's decision to ban religious conversions of young children has been slammed by various Muslim groups and some leaders of opposition Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS).
The Cabinet had decided last week that minors should be raised according to their parents' common religion when they got married, even after one parent converted.
The Muslim groups say the decision betrayed the religion and infringed on the powers of the Islamic court and the Malay sultans, who have final say on issues involving Islam.
The critics also felt the decision made by Prime Minister Najib Razak's administration was solely to regain the trust of non-Malays, but warned that this could be at the expense of Malay votes.
Their angst was in marked contrast to the reaction of non-Muslims, who hailed the ruling as providing a way out of a string of controversial cases that have raised racial and religious tensions.
Some 100 youth wing members of PAS yesterday held a brief protest against the ruling at a mosque here.
The Cabinet 'is not qualified to issue decisions and directions beyond its scope of power, especially in issues involving religion', said PAS youth leader Kamaruzaman Mohamad.
Jemaah Islah president Zaid Kamaruddin said 'the Cabinet has not taken into account the opinions of the majority (Malay Muslims)'.
The Cabinet made its ruling after a new case of a parent of a non-Muslim family converting to Islam, and then converting the young children without the knowledge of the spouse.
PAS lawmaker Mahfuz Omar said the Cabinet has 'directly ignored the role of the country's rulers...They have betrayed Islam and the Muslim community'.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] A group of Iranian Principlists disgruntled with the incumbent president's course of action has endorsed presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Moussavi.
"Time is approaching for the Principlist camp to pick its nominee for the country's tenth presidential elections. However, the camp is not pleased with the policies adopted by its current nominee," read a statement issued by the group on Saturday.
The group hit out at President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his administration for what they described as lack of "logic and expertise" in the management of the country.
"Due to such fundamental problems, there should be no insistence on the promotion of such techniques in the management of the country."
The group went on to announce the establishment of the Mir-Hossein Moussavi Supporters Front, explaining that the party seeks a different political tone in the Principlist camp.
The newly established front questioned the efficiency of the current government while acknowledging the achievements of the Ahmadinejad government.
Mir-Hossein Moussavi is an independent candidate running for president in Iran's June 12 elections.
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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
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