[NYPost] The Texas man questioned by the feds in connection with ricin-laced letters sent to Mayor Bloomberg and President B.O. was let go yesterday -- after he wildly claimed his actress wife sent the poisoned screeds, The Post has learned.
The flame-haired, thrice-married mom of five is the one who called police to the couple's New Boston, Texas, home after she found "Tupperware with what looked like ricin in the refrigerator," a source said.
"He says they are going through a divorce and that she was away for a few days," said one law-enforcement source. "He says it was when she got back that she found the [purported] ricin."
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There's a picture of one of the letters, and it wasn't "ricin", but castor bean paste. There's some ricin in there, and you'd be screwed if you ate it, but it's not the same as refined, dried ricin powder.
The stuff is used as a fertilizer, fer crissake.
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[GUARDIAN.CO.UK] Actor reveals to the Guardian that HPV, transmitted through oral sex, was responsible for his throat cancer File under "More than we ever wanted to know." Now we know what Kurt Cobain meant by the lyric "I wish I could eat your cancer..."
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The same HPV virus strain that causes cervical cancer in women also causes oral cancer. Now that tobacco use has declined, HPV is the leading cause of oral cancers in men.
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Gross, but it's good that someone high-profile will admit it. Lots of men out there take stupid risks - and put their partners at risk - thinking it will never happen to them.
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Currently playing Liberace on HBO. Some actors will do anything to get into the role
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Perhaps Bill Hicks wasn't telling jokes.
The stories about Corey Feldman are gross; if only there was a profession whose job it was is to investigate and report new things and wrong doings as vigorously as priests are scrutinized.
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I used to smoke. If I get throat cancer should I sue the tobacco companies? Or The Insatiable [name redacted]?
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There was a inexpensive cervical cancer test reported out of India yesterday. It is a vinegar swab test. A vingar swab is taken of the cervix and the cells are examined under a microscope. I wonder if this will work for HPV oral cancer such as Douglas'?
[Pak Daily Times] Zim-bob-wean President Bob Muggsy Mugabe Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... will hold elections by the end of July in line with a court order, angering rivals who want them delayed to allow for reforms to ensure a fair vote, state media reported on Sunday.
The Constitutional Court ruled on Friday that parliamentary and presidential polls must take place before July 31 and that Mugabe must set a date for them before parliament's term ends on June 29, stoking a political row over the timing and funding of the vote in the southern African state.
The Zim-bob-we Broadcasting Corporation quoted Mugabe as saying he would comply with the court decision and would set the date after consulting Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa.
The court ruling followed an application by rights activist Jealousy Mawarire demanding that Mugabe, 89 and in power since independence from Britannia in 1980, call elections this month.
Mugabe's main challenger for the presidency will be his long-time rival Morgan Tsvangirai, who says the vote can only be truly democratic if reforms are enacted to open up broadcast media, register new voters and make the military apolitical.
His Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said it would have no problem with a July election date if its demands were met.
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Zim-bob-wean President Hyman Roth Bob Muggsy Mugabe thinks he is going to live forever.
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that Mugabe, 89 and in power since independence from Britannia in 1980, call elections this month.
The left's evolution of history once again. The above statement not factually accurate. The Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) of Rhodesia from the United Kingdom was signed on 11 November 1965, by the [now forgotten] administration of Ian Smith.
The fact that UDI came on 11 November, UK's "Remembernace Day", a reminder of Rhodesia's contributions to War efforts....also forgotten or ignored.
[VOA News] South Africa's ruling party says it is taking an active role on the continent, a pronouncement that comes amid conflicts in Mali, Nigeria, Congo, Sudan, and the Central African Republic. Conflict could come much closer to home later this year with what is likely to be a contentious election in Zim-bob-we.
For decades, South Africa's apartheid system kept the nation on the sidelines of continental politics. The African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... was on the side of the then-banned African National Congress, which fought racist white rule.
Today, the ANC is South Africa's ruling party, and has a streak of dominating national elections since the nation's first democratic vote in 1994. The party is also behind the push for South Africa to take a more active role as the continent's economic powerhouse and its most stable democracy.
But the nation's most pressing international issue is the one closest to home: its northern neighbor, Zim-bob-we. Critics say the two countries relationship could cause problems for South Africa's dealings with the rest of the continent and its many entrenched leaders.
Zim-bob-we has been ruled since its 1980 independence by President Bob Muggsy Mugabe Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... . In recent years, Mugabe has been slapped with international sanctions for using political violence against those who oppose his ZANU-PF party. He also been accused of driving the economy of his once-prosperous nation into the ground.
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DHAKA: After a long gap of one and a half year, the main opposition BNP is all set to return to the parliament in the ensuing budget session of the 9th parliament scheduled to start on June 3 (Monday). Its return to the parliament will also coincide with speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chowdhurys debut as Speaker in the House. Shirin who took oath after being elected as first female Speaker of the country on April 20 is yet to preside any session. BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has already convened a meeting of the parliamentary party of her party on June 3 at the national parliament building.
Whether we shall return to the parliament on that day or later will be decided in the BNPP meeting presided over by BNP chairperson and the leader of the opposition, opposition chief whip Joynal Abedin Faruk told The Independent on Saturday.
He hoped that before the starting of the budget session the government will take necessary steps to release arrested BNP lawmakers MK Anwar and Barkatullah Bulu.
Though BNP is going to join the session to retain the membership of its lawmakers, BNP lawmakers are going to raise several issues including partys demand for the restoration of the caretaker government, killing of the opposition activists by law enforcers, crackdown on Hefazat rally, Corruption of the government specially the Padma Bridge scandal, closure of media outlets and law and order situation in the House, a number of senior party leader told this correspondent.
In other words, they can't win an election so they want the country given to them...
When asked several BNP leaders said that they are not going to move any bill for the restoration of the CG saying they would raise the demand in the House in their speeches.
If we find that the treasury bench will not allow us to raise our issue we shall definitely walk out, a senior BNP lawmaker preferring anonymity said.
On March 20 last year, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia delivered a one and half hour long speech in the House and from then she remained absent from the House. According to the parliament secretariat, BNP lawmakers remain absent in the House for consecutive 83 days and as per Constitution the membership of any lawmaker will be annulled if he or she remains absent from the House for 90 consecutive days.
More hartal. Definitely more hartal.
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SINGAPORE In remarks directed at China, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel spoke Saturday of a growing threat of cyberattacks against the United States and called on America and its allies to establish international norms of responsible behavior in cyberspace.
If China won't stop the espionage in cyberspace then (per Jonah Goldberg at the National Review), we should return the favor. How about issuing letters of marque to our own hackers to penetrate Chinese systems?
Speaking to an audience of defense analysts and defense ministers from Asia and Europe at the annual conference of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Mr. Hagel said the United States was cleareyed about the challenges in cyber.
The United States has expressed our concerns about the growing threat of cyberintrusions, some of which appear to be tied to the Chinese government and military, he said in a speech largely devoted to the Obama administrations defense posture in Asia. At the same time, Mr. Hagel emphasized the need for more talks between the American and Chinese militaries to build trust and reduce the risk of miscalculation at a time of mounting rivalry.
His remarks were immediately challenged by a Chinese general in a question-and-answer session after his speech. A delegate to the conference, Maj. Gen. Yao Yunzhu, director of the Center for China-America Defense Relations at the Academy of Military Science in Beijing, said she was not convinced and China was not convinced that the United States wanted a comprehensive relationship with China. The new American policy in Asia and the Pacific amounts to containment of China, General Yao said.
We don't need a 'comprehensive' relationship with you; we do want you to stop the cyber-warfare...
Speaking a week before a summit meeting in California between President Obama and Chinas new leader, Xi Jinping, Mr. Hagel sought to reassure Washingtons nervous Asian allies, who are concerned about Chinas expanding naval activities, that the United States would maintain its presence in the region.
Over all, he said, the United States will keep its decisive military edge, an oblique but distinct reference to American military superiority. China announced an 11.2 percent increase in military spending last year, part of its rapid military modernization.
He emphasized that new technologies would entail spending fewer resources in a smarter way,
...so we're really NOT keeping our 'decisive' military edge...
saying that the Navy had launched an experimental drone from an aircraft carrier last month for the first time. It was a feat that ushered in a new era of naval aviation, he said. Unstated, but understood by many in the audience, was the fact that China just last year put into service its first aircraft carrier, an old Ukrainian vessel refitted by the Chinese.
Mr. Hagel also said the United States would deploy a solid-state laser aboard the Ponce, a naval vessel, next year. He said it would provide an affordable answer to counter threats like missiles, swarming small boats and remotely piloted aircraft.
He said that the first of four littoral combat ships to rotate through Singapore had recently arrived, and that he would visit the ship, the Freedom, on Sunday. The littoral combat ship is a new class of speedy war vessels that can operate on the ocean and in shallow coastal waters. Each costs $700 million, the Pentagon says.
Each is also in search of a mission...
In a feisty address that opened the conference, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung of Vietnam laid bare the rising regional tensions by repeatedly lamenting the lack of trust between China and its neighbors, and between China and the United States, although he did not mention China by name.
Perhaps we could lease back a base at Cam Ranh Bay?
Regional organizations are supposed to take care of such tensions, he said, but what is still missing is strategic trust in the implementation of these arrangements.
As evidence of the problems, several diplomats from nations allied with the United States said they were concerned about a new map of the South China Sea that was issued last week by Sinomaps Press, the Chinese mapping authority. Beijing has long claimed the islands and land features within a nine-dash line drawn decades ago on maps of the South China Sea, a vital trade route where China is growing more assertive.
About 80 percent of the South China Sea is inside that line, which was first drawn up by China in 1947 before the Communist takeover. The boundary is not recognized by any other country but has been the basis of Chinas territorial claims to islands like the Scarborough Shoal, which it effectively seized from the Philippines last year.
The new map, according to Asian diplomats who have seen it, takes a further step and redesignates the nine-dash line as a national boundary. Its release was delayed from late last year so that it could be formally authorized by the Chinese senior leadership, according to a senior Asian diplomat.
Wu Shicun, a Chinese official at the conference, denied that the new map showed national boundaries. Instead, he said, it shows new lines around the islands that China calls the Diaoyu, a group in the East China Sea that Japan, which calls them the Senkaku, nationalized in September, leading Beijing to claim them.
At the time, China said the lines around the islands were drawn in accordance with Chinese law. A recent Pentagon report said they did not comport with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
Mr. Wu, who heads the National Institute for South China Sea Studies, said Saturday that the new map was needed because there had not been an official map of the South China Sea and the East China Sea drawn for about 20 years.
And it couldn't wait until next year, don't you know...
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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
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[GUARDIAN.CO.UK] Actor reveals to the Guardian that HPV, transmitted through oral sex, was responsible for his throat cancer
[Pak Daily Times] Zim-bob-wean President 
SINGAPORE In remarks directed at China, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel spoke Saturday of a growing threat of cyberattacks against the United States and called on America and its allies to establish international norms of responsible behavior in cyberspace.
