DAKAR, Senegal (Reuters) -- In a dirty white T-shirt hanging down to his knees, 4-year-old Harouna Balde begs for coins in bare feet among the traffic on the polluted streets of Dakar Holding a rusty begging tin that is the trademark of the "talibes" -- students at Senegal's Koranic schools -- Balde says he must take back money or face a beating from his religious teacher, or marabout.
"I must bring back 500 francs ($0.90) every day to my master or face punishment," says the tiny boy. He travels from his squalid daara, or religious school, in the distant suburb of Thiaroye to beg all day in the city center.
Balde is one of an estimated 100,000 children begging on the streets of Senegal, according to U.N. officials -- most of them sent out by their religious teachers. The begging is a modern corruption of a Senegalese tradition, which allowed poor rural families to provide their children with a basic education and sometimes send them to towns where they might have greater opportunities.
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Leftists burning Korans in front of Sudan embassy in 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000,
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Mmmmmmmm mmmmmmm good!
Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- The Institute for Nutrition Care of Children under the Academy of Medical Science of the DPRK has made new potato sour milk which is good for promotion of children's health. The potato sour milk is made by the method of fermenting potato mixed with soybean soup, sugar and lactic acid bacteria. It is efficacious for dyspepsia, chronic colitis, constipation and other diseases of children. Dear Leader says, "Drink it, ya little bastards!"
The yellowish-white milk has unique taste and odor. Oh I don't doubt that...
And its acidity is 70-100T. I'd think you'd have to be on acid to drink it...
As it is a kind of health food, the drinking amount and the number of times are not restricted. So drink up, juche heads. Pretend it tastes like Courvoissier.
The potato sour milk enjoys popularity for high nutritive value. ...and it's not like there's a lotta choice in beverages up here.
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Because no North Korean has seen a cow in 15 years.
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cures constipation? Your ass will feel like a sea of fire...
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After you drink it, you must not wander about on Nork streets, or you may get hit. Oops! Disregard. No traffic.
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Poor Norkie kids - their stomachs/GI tracts is prob already filled wid high levels of acids due to irregular food substitutes. Kimmie, like Castro and imported expensive hams, gets to eat whatever he and his clique want everytime.
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It is efficacious for dyspepsia, chronic colitis, constipation and other diseases of children.
If you bozos would play nice (like your brothers to the south) you might find yourself in the 21st century (like your brothers to the south), where children don't have to chronically suffer from conditions related to malnutrition these "diseases" (like your brothers to the south don't).
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Tomorrow's update: How to make something that looks and tastes a lot like soy sauce using stink bugs!
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One of the many steps, ignoring the intent of the law for the appointment of high officials, was one of the landmarks towards the end of the Roman Republic and the arrival of Caesar. Keep tinkering with it to try to fix the outcome and you'll end up with an outcome you didn't expect.
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F**king Democrats! They firmly believe they are the anointed ones who should rule the people. They believe rules and laws only apply to lesser breeds.
#1
So that would let the UN Sec-Gen work unilaterally to stop genocides, eh? The rest of the UN functionaries would still get to argue, hem and haw about what is a genocide, though, right?
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so we could pay for an army, not our own, to possibly be used in the US? Youse guys are learning from the Islamists eh?
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Pity the members of this force if it is deployed against the interests of a veto wielding UN security council member with military muscle (or the militarily powerful ally of one)
Their transport ships get sunk, planes get shot down and cruise missiles with fragmentation and thermobaric warheads decimate their camps.
Then a UN veto loses the chapter on this little exercise. The UN army licks its wounds, buries its dead and goes home.
There are good reasons why the powerful nations that won WW2 (I don't include France here) had a veto in the UNSC. Actions taken against their interests would lead to war.
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This is surreal. Two billion for start-up, with 900 million per year support. At least a quarter of that will be skimmed off.
Where is the UN going to get airlift?
Given their previous "successes", like the earthquake, their logistics are going to be interesting.
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Small armies may be a wave of the future. I have long thought that the English monarch could afford a light "Excalibur" Division, kept in a discreet location offshore and totally loyal to the monarch, just in case something bad happened and there was no loyal British army left.
Major corporations could field permanent battalions and even "reserve-style" brigades to protect their interests in some fourth-world hell hole. Even subcontracting them for profit to other corporations and countries that have no serious military but are otherwise friendly.
Think Blackwater with a parent company of Exxon. With free enterprise involved, they could be some of the best light units around.
This idea of private armies has been around for 40 years. Odd that it hasn't caught on in a big way yet.
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Think, armies that you pay each month, like the cable bill, to keep you alive, from the thousands and thousands of tiny little angry meat eating robots.
Side to 11Afs yeah, Ima kinda of a wet blanket at dream sessions. And yeah Toflver was made some bucks.
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I wouldn't say wet blanket, but it is getting tired. If you don't want to contribute then the polite thing is to move on. It's a drag that innovation and technology messes with your head, but if it bugs you, please keep it to yourself.
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If Kofi wants a private army, he should talk to the Vatican about the Swiss guards. Anything beyond that, particularly a UN force answerable only to the Secretary General is a really bad idea. Hopefully this will die aborning.
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Next come private wars. Exxon v. France's Elf/whatchamacallum. Goody. Kofi proved in Rwanda that he isn't to be trusted with soldiers, in Oil for Food that he isn't to be trusted with finance, and as SecGen that he isn't to be trusted with the bureaucracy of the UN. There isn't a great deal left, as far as I can see.
BBC News recently ran a series to mark 25 years since Israeli bombers destroyed Osirak, Iraq's main nuclear reactor. A contributor to our anniversary Have Your Say alerted us to the untold story of an Indian pilot who also found himself in the air above Baghdad on 7 June 1981. Here Gp Capt (Retd) Anant Bewoor, who trained Iraqi pilots on transport planes, tells BBC News about his experiences, beginning with the start of Iraq's war with Iran in 1980, and what appears to have been an Iranian air attack on Osirak early in 1981:
"I was in Iraq from April 1980 to April 1982 under a government agreement to provide flying instructors to the Iraqi air force which went back to the late 1950s. We had instructors there during the Arab-Israeli wars of 1967 and 1973, and the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s. It was much appreciated by the Iraqis that the Indians did not want to go back home because of a hot shooting war in Iraq. In September 1980 I was with 23 Sqn Iraqi Air Force on An-12s and one afternoon I was told to "take a rest" and not come to work for a few days. Shortly afterwards, [Iraqi leader] Saddam [Hussein] attacked Iran with a midday strike contrary to all strategic and tactical doctrines.
Squadron Leader Panicker put me on to An-24s in January 1981 and all the flying was done at an airstrip 37km [23 miles] west of Habbaniya, a former Royal Air Force base. One late morning in January or February my family and that of Panicker were on a day trip outside Baghdad, very close to the city. Suddenly we heard a couple of loud bangs and a huge column of thick black smoke rose menacingly from the city. It appeared that the Iranians had hit the Baghdad oil refinery. By the evening a thick blanket of smoke covered Baghdad with a strong smell of oil. Later, the gossip in the mess was that Iranian Phantom jets had failed to hit Osirak.
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I recently saw a documentary on the raid. It's amazing the chutzpah (in the best sense of the word) of the plan and the pilots.
Apparently they buzzed King Hussein's yacht near Aqaba at about 100 ft on their way out - purely coincidentally. As they flew almost the whole way at 100 ft, lots of other people saw them but didn't know what to think. The ones that did know what to think were too flabbergasted or incompetent to do anything about it.
LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Ameer Qazi Hussain Ahmad has criticised the government for not allocating funds for preaching in the budget. He said that propagation of Islam was every Muslim's obligation.
I'm holding Qazi personally responsible for the new keyboard-shaped dents in my forehead.
Delivering a Friday sermon at Jamia Mosque in Mansoora, Qazi deplored that a country created in the name of Islam had no allocation for preaching while grants were made for the expenses of cultural troupes and other 'extravaganzas'. Qazi Hussain said that removal of Islamic studies from the syllabus of classes one and two in schools was a conspiracy to secularise Pakistani society.
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No funds for "preaching"? You mean Holy Man welfare?
No wonder he's pissed...
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Qazi Hussain said that removal of Islamic studies from the syllabus of classes one and two in schools was a conspiracy to secularise Pakistani society.
He says that like it were a bad thing. What a crazy Qazi.
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I think they should budget a one-time allocation of $50K to shut this idiot's yap once and for all. That's pretty cheap, and quite effective. I'm sure some talibanana would gladly take the Pak government up on it. Either that, or budget for one round of an AK-47 and some private to take care of it. Either way works.
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PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Friday issued notices to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) director in a writ petition filed by the victim of an international lottery scam. Muhammad Taomoor Zia had filed the petition against a Spanish company, Sorteo De Navidad Espana, claiming that the company informed through a letter that he had won 450,000 euros and asked him to send them Rs 450,000 in delivery/tax charges in order to get his cheque, which, he said, never arrived.
Either the company doesn't exist at all, which is most likely, or it's a legitimate company with Nigerians sending out letters in its name.
A two-member PHC bench, consisting of justices Qaim Jan Khan and Ejaz Afzal, heard the case on Friday and asked the FIA director to explain the departments position in the case, saying, It is the vested duty of FIA (a statutory body established under FIA Act, 1974 on 13 Jan 1975, replacing the Pakistan Special Police Establishment) to investigate such cases.
I'd suggest sending the ISI after the perps and killing them.
Zia, resident of Peshawar, has made several parties to the petition that are: the government of Pakistan through chief secretary Islamabad, FIA through DG FIA Islamabad and director FIA Peshawar, the NWFP government through the home secretary, secretaries foreign and interior affairs of Pakistan and the Wall Street Money Gram Exchange Company Limited through its Chowk Yadgar Peshawar City branch director.
I'm not sure whether he's taking them to court or if they're joining him in the petition against the scam artistes. The Wall Street Money Gram Exchange might possibly be involved, but likely they're an innocent bystander, too. They should be able to provide the address the money was wired to, though it's doubtful the Keystone Kops could actually follow it up.
The petitioners counsel said that Zia had received a letter dated March 1, 2006 in which he was informed he had won prize from a total amount of 26,756,820 euros that would be shared among other international winners. The petitioner was then asked to deposit 4,550 euros through the Wall Street Money Gram company through its Peshawar branch, which were then deposited in the name of Sorteo De Navidad Espana SL through its director program Antonio Reyes Alvaro, Madrid.
Right. Zia won umpty million Euros without even having to go to the trouble of buying a ticket. Due to a mixup in the numbers he was cautioned not to brag about his winning. Zia was also dropped on his turban when very young and unable to scratch his actual head when informed that he had to pay a deposit to receive his unexpected winnings.
After sending the required money, nothing has yet been heard from the company, the counsel said.
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3-D glasses?
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Should have known to only deal with legitimate companies, like the British Lottery. I'll be buying drinks all around as soon as those nice people deposit my winnings in my bank........wait a minute. Buy a ticket? uh oh
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What a scream - it's like a Nigerian got an e-mail letter and fell for it!
Navy divers completed six days of diving operations June 16 on wreckage in the Gulf of Thailand believed to be that of the lost World War II submarine USS Lagarto (SS 371). Divers will send photographs and video of the submarine to the Naval Historical Center in Washington for further analysis.
The divers' observations appear to confirm the discovery made in May 2005 by British wreck diver Jamie MacLeod. "Without a doubt, it's a U.S. submarine, a Balao-class," said U.S. 7th Fleet Diving Officer, Cmdr. Tony San Jose.
San Jose and his fellow divers reported identifying twin 5-inch gun mounts both forward and aft, a feature believed to be unique to Lagarto. They also reported finding serial numbers and the word "Manitowoc" engraved on the submarine's propeller. Lagarto was one of 28 submarines built in Manitowoc, Wisc.
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...Was thinking - I know that Lagarto is a war grave, and that the crew should remain with their boat unto Eternity. IIRC though, this is the only missing boat from WWII that has been positively located and identified. Perhaps we should bring home one set of remains and identify them if at all possible for interment at Arlington. Not that there is anything unique about this boat and its crew, but that one crewmember should represent all the members of the Silent Service who didn't make it home.
Mike
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no Wahoo!
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Wahoo was a Gato-class.
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Wouldn't it be fitting if the Wahoo was located, raised and then berthed in Cleveland? (instead of the Cod)
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Let um sit a bit longer. Marker and survey the area. Seems a little early to recover a well understood artifact. Maybe in 100 years or so.....
But yeah, I certainly can see bringing back one set of reamins for a ceremony.
Rebel soldiers in East Timor have begun handing over their weapons to Australian peacekeepers sent in to restore order in the troubled ex-Portuguese colony after months of unrest.
In a ceremony in a hillside camp outside the capital, Dili, rebel commander Lieutenant Alfredo Reinado surrendered his M-16 rifle to Australian troops and instructed his followers to follow suit. Around a dozen guns were handed in, which Australian officials say will be registered and sealed in metal containers.
Armed rebels led by hundreds of soldiers who were dismissed in March after a mutiny have dug in at two bases outside Dili. Last month fighting between rebel soldiers and security forces loyal to the government escalated sharply, dragging East Timor to the brink of civil war and prompting the intervention of 2,200 Australia-led peacekeepers to restore order.
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Around a dozen guns were handed in, which Australian officials say will be registered and sealed in metal containers.
Ummm, OK I have to ask, does Austrailia have Heavily restrictive anti-firearm Laws, "Sealing" the guns in metal containers seems very odd.
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yep.. we've had tight gun law restrictions ever since the port arthur massacre...
Will it be the salmon teriyaki with organic greens, or asparagus tempura and tuna sashimi? As the waiter hovers with pencil poised, the Dixie Chicks debate the menu with the practised air of professional restaurant critics. The Chicks have traditionally been branded a country band, but clearly it's some time since their diet consisted of ribs, tacos and pancakes.
Sisters Emily Robison and Martie Maguire project a polished Fifth Avenue elegance, and vocalist Natalie Maines is a vision of sculpted cheekbones and smoky eye-shadow...
...Yet within days, their music vanished from the charts and the airwaves, apoplectic rednecks crushed piles of their CDs with tractors...
..."The entire country may disagree with me, but I don't understand the necessity for patriotism," Maines resumes, through gritted teeth. "Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like your life, but as for loving the whole country I don't see why people care about patriotism..."
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always! 6er, if that gives others hope - I'm glad to do it!
LOL :-)~
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If they're so freakin' gorgeous right now, how come the picture with the article is an old one taken back when they sold millions of records, not just 500,000?
#2
After the Mary Mapes memo scandal, Dan felt like a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. His chances of a return to former glory were slim to none, and Slim was leavin' town. Not even Kenneth knew the frequency. So Dan decided to hang up his spurs. As they say in Texas, "Don't taunt the alligator until after you cross the creek."
Courage.
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he would develop and be the host of a weekly interview program on a high-definition television channel known as HDNet.
Looking forward to it, Dan. It'll be like watching Willie Mays play for the Mets when he couldn't make the throws in from centerfield.
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throws a sad sack look back. Should have hung it up sooner, Dan. Now everyone knows that all of your work was basically the same trash as the National Guard episode. Bad thing for Dan is his legacy really is a representation of his life's work - biased, mean-spirited, bogus reporting.
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.
DAKAR, Senegal (Reuters) -- In a dirty white T-shirt hanging down to his knees, 4-year-old Harouna Balde begs for coins in bare feet among the traffic on the polluted streets of Dakar Holding a rusty begging tin that is the trademark of the "talibes" -- students at Senegal's Koranic schools -- Balde says he must take back money or face a beating from his religious teacher, or marabout.
BBC News recently ran a series to mark 25 years since Israeli bombers destroyed Osirak, Iraq's main nuclear reactor. A contributor to our anniversary Have Your Say alerted us to the untold story of an Indian pilot who also found himself in the air above Baghdad on 7 June 1981. Here Gp Capt (Retd) Anant Bewoor, who trained Iraqi pilots on transport planes, tells BBC News about his experiences, beginning with the start of Iraq's war with Iran in 1980, and what appears to have been an Iranian air attack on Osirak early in 1981:
LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Ameer Qazi Hussain Ahmad has criticised the government for not allocating funds for preaching in the budget. He said that propagation of Islam was every Muslim's obligation.
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Friday issued notices to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) director in a writ petition filed by the victim of an international lottery scam. Muhammad Taomoor Zia had filed the petition against a Spanish company, Sorteo De Navidad Espana, claiming that the company informed through a letter that he had won 450,000 euros and asked him to send them Rs 450,000 in delivery/tax charges in order to get his cheque, which, he said, never arrived.
