National Geographic, from 2002, although I can't get to "The Whole Story", there's still some interesting stuff there.
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"Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force!
"You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world. . . . "
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I am sure that cuttent New York Times would not hesitate a single second to reveal the bluff of Patton's ghost Army facing Calais.
New York, June 6--(AP)--The German transocean news service has announced that the Allied invasion has begun.
Ten minutes later CBS news put this on the air:
We are interrupting this program to bring you a special bulletin. A bulletin has just been received from the London office of the Associated Press which quotes the German Transocean News Agency as asserting that the invasion of Western Europe has begun.
This report--and we stress it is of enemy origin with absolutely no confirmation from Allied source--says that American landings were made this morning on the shores of northwestern France.
There is as yet no reason to believe that this report is anything more than a German propaganda move or a fishing expedition for information.
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ANNOUNCES ALLIES BEGIN OPERATIONS
ON NORTHERN COAST OF FRANCE.
BULLETIN
THE COMMUNIQUE SAID "UNDER THE COMMAND OF GENERAL EISENHOWER
ALLIED NAVAL FORCES, SUPPORTED BY STRONG AIR FORCES, BEGAN
LANDING ALLIED ARMIES ON THE NORTHERN COAST OF FRANCE."
3:34AM WASHINGTON
ROME (AP) - A poor harvest coupled with a worsening economic crisis will leave more than a third of Zimbabwe's population in need of food assistance by early 2008, two U.N. food agencies said Tuesday.
Around 2.1 million people in the country's southern provinces will face serious food shortages by the third quarter of 2007, and the number will reach 4.1 million of the country's 12 million population in the first three months of 2008, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Food Program said. About 352,000 tons of cereals and 90,000 tons of other food aid will be needed, the Rome-based agencies said in a joint statement.
While drought has affected other countries, Zimbabwe's poor harvest is being "exacerbated by the country's unprecedented economic decline, extremely high unemployment and the impact of HIV/AIDS," said Amir Abdulla, WFP's regional director for southern Africa.
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Damn! How I gonna be eatin now!
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12 million - 5000 white farmers = famine.
Probably un PC to put it like this.
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No food until Mugabe is twisting gently in the breeze. If Zimbabweans do not want to solve the real problem at hand, then they do not deserve to survive. Enough of this preposterous bullshit.
We got an abundance of "agricultural" workers here in the US that don't really belong (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) How's about we send you some cheap farmin' labor to help y'all out?
Former premier Khaleda Zia, her son Tarique Rahman, Jamaat chief Matiur Rahman Nizami and 25 others were charged with murder yesterday in the August 21 grenade attacks on an Awami League (AL) rally about three years ago.
Badar Aziz Uddin of Cox's Bazar filed the case with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court, Dhaka. He too was injured in the blasts that left 23 killed and scores wounded on the city's Bangabandhu Avenue in 2004.
The other accused include Jamaat Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid, former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar, former BNP lawmakers Amanullah Aman, Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, Mirza Abbas, Mosaddek Ali Falu, Barkat Ullah Bulu, Salahuddin Ahmed, Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu, Helaluzzaman Talukder Lalu, Krishak Dal General Secretary Shahjahan Mian, Islami Bank Managing Director Nurul Islam, and businessman Giasuddin Al Mamun. The complainant said former BNP lawmakers Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu, Helaluzzaman Talukder Lalu, businessman Giasuddin Al Mamun, Islami Bank Managing Director Nurul Islam, Krishak Dal General Secretary Shahjahan, and some unidentified goons hurled grenades moments after Sheikh Hasina had stepped down from the dais.
The blasts were carried out on instructions from BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, Senior Joint Secretary General Tarique Rahman, Matiur Rahman Nizami, former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar, Jamaat Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid, former BNP lawmakers Amanullah Aman, Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, Mirza Abbas, Mosaddek Ali Falu, Barkat Ullah Bulu, and Salahuddin Ahmed.
The other accused include Jamaat leader Abdul Kader Mollah, Brig Gen (retired) Hannan Shah, the then National Security Intelligence (NSI) boss Maj Gen (retired) Rezzakul Haider, police chief Modabbir Hossain Chowdhury, BNP leader and former minister Aminul Huq, Rajshahi City Mayor Mizanur Rahman Minu, ex-additional IGP Faruq Ahmed, ex-DMP commissioner Khoda Bux, Islami Bank Chairman Abdul Halim, Shahidul Huq Jamal of Pirojpur, Ward Commissioner and BNP leader Chowdhury Alam and AKM Ahsanul Tayab Zakir of Bogra.
The magistrate asked the officer-in-charge of Paltan police to inquire into the case and submit a report.
Earlier, on August 22, 2004, police filed a case with the Motijheel Police Station against 200 people in connection with the grenade blasts. Two GDs filed by AL leaders Abdul Jalil and Saber Hossain Chowdhury the same day were merged into the police case.
The interim government on March 25 described the case as sensational and placed it on the list of the home ministry's monitoring cell for proper investigation and quick disposal.
However, sources said no headway has yet been made in the investigation.
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Yeah, she looks like a nice old lady. Probably has a coupla cats, some of thse red and white minty candys for the the grandkids on the coffe table, some freshly dug graves in the back yard in case she needs one in a hurry...
The moveable properties of former state minister Ziaul Haq Zia and five others, who remained fugitive since an extortion case filed against them on April 4, were attached yesterday. Police, led by a magistrate, raided the houses of Zia, his associates Kabir Hossain Patwary, Monwar Hossain, Sahed Ahmed, Taslim Hossain and Zafar Ahmed in Ramganj and attached electronic gadgets and furniture.
The court had earlier ordered attachment of the moveable properties of the accused for their failure to appear before it. Abul Khair of Lamchar had filed the case, accusing Zia and his five associates of extorting Tk one lakh from him.
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Police in a raid yesterday seized seven firearms, 263 bullets and arrested five people from an abandoned rubber factory at the city's Nasirabad Industrial Area. Industrialist Engineer Afsaruddin Ahmad, a leader of Chittagong South District Awami League, owns the factory -- Bangladesh Chemical Complex (pvt) Ltd. The cache of weaponry included four three-knot-three rifles, two shotguns, a 9 mm pistol, 122 rifle bullets, 141 shot gun bullets, two magazines and 32 empty bullet shells.
Among the arrestees, Fazlul Haq alias Dulal, 45, is a nephew of Eng Afsaruddin and the caretaker of the factory. The other four arrestees are Abu Bakar, Jasim Uddin, Rabiul Hossain and Abdul Alam -- all from Chandanaish and Patiya upazilas.
A team of police from Bayezid Bostami Police Station led by Officer in Charge (OC) Matiul Islam raided a two-storied building at the abandoned factory on 74/81 Nasirabad Industrial Area at around 2.00pm yesterday. At one stage of quizzing, Dulal, the caretaker, admitted to having licensed firearms and bullets kept in the toilet. The law enforcers recovered the arms and ammunition hidden inside a steel armoire in the toilet, said OC Matiul. Two of the arrestees, Bakar and Jasim, told journalists that they were hired and stationed there to help Dulal guard the abandoned factory.
OC Matiul suspects that the firearms and bullets could belong to a crime gang based in Chandanaish of south Chittagong and these were meant for use during parliamentary elections. Sources said police might interrogate Eng Afsaruddin over the recovery. Eng Afsaruddin ran for member of parliament in the 2001 general elections on AL ticket from Chittagong 13 (Chandanaish) against Col (retd) Oli Ahmad.
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four three-knot-three rifles
I assume the writer means 303 -- naught or aught vs. knot. (I think there's a decimal point in there somewhere, but I'm afraid I don't know quite where.)
They gonna shut off the light?
Pyongyang, June 5 (KCNA) -- The abnormal climate phenomena caused by global warming has been raised today as a hard problem in the world. I wonder if he's set up his Carbon Credit Scam Company in Macau yet?
The UN Environment Programme set "Global Warming" as the theme for this year on the occasion of the World Environment Day (June 5), since it threatens the life and security of humankind. Organized on the occasion of the day in the country were colorful events including a scientific symposium and a national seminar on reducing the emission of atmospheric green-house gases and preventing global warming, and film shows for arousing profound social interest in the issue. Damn, if you didn't think "An Inconvienient Truth" was bad enough, try watching it in Korean.
Jong Hyong Il, a department director in the Ministry of Land and Environment Preservation, told KCNA that the DPRK which has been suffering from the upward temperature in recent years is conducting varied activities in accordance with the world trend for preventing such phenomena. He went on: Could get a lot warmer there a lot quicker, Jong, if ya know what I mean...
It deepens the scientific researches into elevation of energy efficiency and utilization of regenerated energy and directs efforts to the work for applying the results. We will cut back from the 17 cars in Pyongyang, to 16...
The construction of large and minor hydro-power stations is being pushed ahead through an all-people movement and application of wind power positively encouraged. An effort to improve the efficiency of solar batteries is being made, too. Meanwhile, a brisk tree-planting campaign is being launched to increase the adsorption of carbon. ...so please, DO NOT EAT THE TREES!
The DPRK, a signatory to the Kyoto Protocol and the Montreal Protocol on Substances Destroying Ozone Layer, is doing its best to restrict and reduce the emission of atmospheric green-house gases as much as possible. I, Dear Leader decree that all North Korean cows will no longer fart.
But we have no North Korean cows, Dear Leader.
Very well then. Once again, my on the spot field guidance bears fruit.
No fruit either, Dear Leader.
Shoot him...
A man has vaulted security barriers and tried to jump into the Pope's specially adapted popemobile as the pontiff was greeting crowds in St Peter's Square. The man, who appeared to be between 20 or 30 years old, was immediately wrestled to the ground by the group of black-suited security officers who constantly guard Pope Benedict XVI when he is in public.
He appeared to be trying to grab the pontiff but he was no match for the ever-vigilant security staff. Not only was the Pope unhurt, but he didn't even appear to notice that anything out of the ordinary was happening.
He continued waving to crowds as if nothing untoward had happened as the man was being dealt with in his wake.
A Vatican official said the man was being held for questioning by police. He said the man had got as far as the back of the pope's white jeep before being subdued. The man, whose nationality is unknown, was wearing a pink T-shirt and dark shorts, a beige baseball cap and sunglasses.
He appeared to have from the second or third row back before vaulting and over the barricade. The jeep kept moving, Benedict kept waving and greeting the audience as if nothing had happened.
Security is always tight around the Vatican. In 1981, Benedict's predecessor, John Paul II survived being shot four times by a Turkish attacker.
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Saw him live on Hannity and Colmes. He called the people trying to dig up dirt on his wife and kids Bozos. He gave straight answers to questions and when he didn't have an answer he said so. He really blasted Harry Reid for saying we had lost the War.
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I think this needs authentication. Is there a wxjames in the house? ;)
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I signed up and felt this part of the confirmation email was worth sharing.
First, I want to thank you for the encouragement youve provided me over the past few months. As Ive said, for a lot of politicians, encouragement to run from three relatives and an unemployed campaign consultant is considered an unstoppable groundswell. Ive heard from a lot more people, including you. Now were moving forward together.
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So if I cross the border from Canada now how long do I have to hold on to a Z-visa before I can vote for Thompson?
Seriously though, if I was younger I would volunteer for the USN and earn citizenship if it meant I could vote for Thompson. Godspeed.
Seriously though, what's your thoughts on this guy?
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Excalibur,
If you come down the day of the election, you just need to find a leftist advocacy group and they will show you how you can vote.
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Mike, I think he is the best of the bunch for my views. For the most part, I'm a federalist that likes smaller central government, stronger states rights and a powerful common defense (or attack, whatever is needed).
(No problem doing it - since I will anyway. Just wonderin')
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Thanks, OS. I got it bookmarked.
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Mike N, I voted for Bush twice, so now I'm trapwise. When they talk like a country boy, and have big money behind them, and have spent more than a fortnight in DC, then I start sniffin' for the exits. I'll vote for any republican that wins the nomination, but I like guys who have a record of standing firm, and with Thompson, we have a McCain/Fiengold approver. Kind of blowin' in the wind.
I remember we had an actor who made all the great speeches, but when it came to live ammunition, he left 241 marines without protection and pulled out to grieve. Not a Teddy Roosevelt moment. This is war, damnit, we don't have time for on-the-job training.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House approved a speedy internal investigation of indicted Rep. William J. Jefferson with a pair of votes Tuesday that could nudge him from Congress before his bribery trial. Recalling the message of the November elections that stripped Republicans of control of Congress, House members endorsed two resolutions that require the ethics committee to investigate allegations of wrongdoing more quickly than in past years.
Jefferson, meanwhile, resigned his seat on the Small Business Committee in response to his indictment on federal charges of taking more than $500,000 in bribes. Democrats already had moved to take that seat away from him. Jefferson admitted no wrongdoing. The nine-term congressman had few allies among the leaders of his own party.
Sorta like what happens when a Chicago alderman gets indicted by the Feds. All of a sudden no one knows him and no one will stand near him on the council floor. Might be contagious, after all.
The charges against Jefferson, ``if proven true, should lead to the expulsion of the member in question,'' said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who succeeded in ousting Jefferson from the Ways and Means Committee, issued a similar statement Monday.
Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio offered a resolution directing the ethics committee to report on whether the charges in the indictment merit Jefferson's expulsion. The House passed it, 373-26. Thirteen members voted present.
Wonder if Allan Mollohan gets the same treatment as Jefferson? His 'alleged' crimes are just as serious, if not more so.
Expelling a House member before a conviction would be unprecedented, according to the Congressional Research Service. But it was not clear that would happen in Jefferson's case, because the ethics committee could refuse to rule on whether the nine-term congressman should be thrown out of the House, according to a Democratic leadership aide. Still, Republicans and a few Democrats said publicly and privately that Jefferson should step down.
He'll resign before the end of the month.
I dunno. He's pretty shameless.
Hoyer, meanwhile, proposed a second resolution that directs the ethics committee to respond to the indictment of any House member by empaneling an investigative committee within 30 days. Hoyer's resolution passed 387-10, with 15 members voting present.
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Speedy?
Odd choice of words. Do they mean as speedy as it took them to approve the probe? The guy might die of old age before this is all done.
One bit of data that seems to be missing from this article for some reason is which year the dirtbag got caught with the money in his freezer. Was it 2005?
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I think he should stay in Congress. We have a representative government, and the criminals have a right to representation too. His district has the highest murder rate in the country (by a factor of 50-100%!), so who better than he should be that representative?
Seriously, shouldn't he be convicted before being kicked out? He should resign, but I am not so sure he should be kicked out. Sets kind of a bad precenent.
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Speedy, as in, not-too-soon-after-the-last-election-but-a-long-way-away-from-the-next-one.
I question the timing. Again.
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Spineless Reps that voted 'present.' i have more respect for those that voted against that these jellyfish. any bets as to the party breakdown of these scumsuckers?
The people of Pakistan will resist any move to impose martial law in the country again, Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan, lead counsel of Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, said during the hearing of a constitutional petition by the CJP against the presidential reference against him.
Ahsan made the remark when lawyer Abdul Mujeeb Pirzada requested the full court to restore CJP Chaudhry for an interim period to quell the present unrest in the country that may lead to the imposition of martial law again by General Pervez Musharraf. Pirzada made the request when Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday said the bench was fed up with the repetitive arguments being submitted for the last 15 days. Pirzada said that hearings in such constitutional cases often consumed much time thats why the bench should restore the CJP for an interim period. There is no fear of another martial law because those who have seen the rousing welcome accorded to the CJP in Lahore and Abbottabad know that people are on the roads and will resist imposition of a new military rule, Ahsan told Pirzada.
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US prosecutors have charged nine people with plotting a coup in Laos, in a conspiracy to murder thousands. The suspects were seized in dawn raids across California following a six-month covert investigation by US police.
Officials say the detained ringleaders include Gen Vang Pao, a prominent member of the ethnic Hmong group who emigrated to the US in the 1970s. As a Laotian general, he led CIA-backed forces that fought communist guerrillas before they seized power in 1975. The accused allegedly conspired to buy hundreds of machine-guns, rockets and explosives from US federal agents who were working undercover as arms dealers.
Seems like everybody selling illegal arms these days is either FBI or ATF
Look for the union label
They are said to have sought to spend millions of dollars on weapons to carry out attacks.
Prosecutors said the coup leaders planned to blow up government buildings and kill "thousands of people". The "Hmong insurgency planned to use AK-47 automatic rifles, Stinger missiles, LAW rockets, anti-tank rockets and other arms and munitions to topple [the] Lao government and reduce government buildings in Vientiane to rubble," a public prosecutor in California said in a statement.
Laos Foreign Ministry spokesman Yong Chanhthalansy said it was "great news" for Laos. "We hope the United States will prosecute them strictly under the Patriot Act and punish the violators of the law severely," he told the Reuters news agency. Mr Yong said he hoped the development would improve relations with neighbouring Thailand, whom Vientiane has suspected of turning a blind eye to Hmong militant activity within its borders. "I am sure that such vigorous investigation will lead to the uprooting of the network of the villains who have caused the most difficulty in bilateral relations between the Lao and Thai governments," he said.
The defendants could face life in prison if found guilty. A 10th person was arrested but has not been charged.
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http://althouse.blogspot.com
This story has attracted attention here in the Madison area because members of the Hmong community here had asked that a school be named for Vang Pao. I think you will find the discussion interesting.
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I think Laos still has a communist government, so I'm not real attached to it. However, when someone plans to conduct terrorist attacks from our soil to put in, what most likely would be a dictatorship, it really gives me a case of the ass.
Hand 'em over to the Laos government and let them deal with the punks.
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From the little I know about them, these guys seem like they're on our side. But, if you're going to break the law like this, you'd better have very good friends in very high places, and it appears they did not.
I wonder if we could make them a deal, and let them go if they take their efforts to somewhere else (first) - for instance, Iran.
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It's pretty sad. Here in Orange County we have many brave anti-communist veterans from Viet Nam and Laos. They are here and patriotic Americans. Much more patriotic in my opinion than the scum who belittled our own troops and cheered on the NVA who now hold places of power in our own government on both sides of the ailse. After 9/11 however, we cannot knowingly allow groups to plan war against another country on our soil. If we did, we would have no place to criticize the Irans and Syrias of the world. It is tragic.
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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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
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Former premier Khaleda Zia, her son Tarique Rahman, Jamaat chief Matiur Rahman Nizami and 25 others were charged with murder yesterday in the August 21 grenade attacks on an Awami League (AL) rally about three years ago.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House approved a speedy internal investigation of indicted Rep. William J. Jefferson with a pair of votes Tuesday that could nudge him from Congress before his bribery trial. Recalling the message of the November elections that stripped Republicans of control of Congress, House members endorsed two resolutions that require the ethics committee to investigate allegations of wrongdoing more quickly than in past years.
