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Coal fired power plant? I smell giant, mutant rats with this one. These guys need to be vetted by every friendly intelligence agency in the world before they are let go.
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The three were released after being interviewed by task force members, Ehsanipoor said. "They did all have visas that allowed them to be here and are supposed to be leaving the country soon."
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If there was a credible threat against his life the FBI would be called in. He is a minister and any attempt on him would be a hate crime.
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Not sure about that - he's not one of the superior protected classes being white, christian (so he claims), [most likely] heterosexual, and American.
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they could behead him and write honkey on his body with spray paint and it still wouldn't be considered a hate crime.
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Apparently its really easy to become national figure these days: just say that you are going to burn some Koran's and you might as well be the Pope or something.
[Straits Times] A PARIS man who registered 55 children by 55 different mothers faces up to 10 years in jail and fines for suspected paternity fraud and for helping to obtain residency under false pretences, police said on Friday.
The 54 year-old of African origin, who authorities did not identify, was arrested in his two-room flat in Paris during a police raid which yielded documents showing more than 50 people were registered as living at that address.
Police suspect the man was involved in a social benefits scam which could have been costing the state over 1 million euros (S$1.7 million) annually in claims by the mothers. 'At the moment 42 women have been identified and each claim that the man is the biological father of their child,' Paris police said in a statement.
That's easy enough to check. Bill the putative father for the DNA paternity tests. Actually, do it German-style, withdrawing the billed amount directly from his bank account.
Authorities said the man claimed he met the women at bars, night spots and occasionally during visits to their home countries, including Senegal, Cameroon and Mali.
For a fee of 150 to 200 euros, he registered the children and their mothers with French authorities, enabling them to obtain residency permits and claim social benefits. Some of the mothers told authorities they had received up to about 7,500 euros on various monthly allowances.
That one's easy, too. Impound the women's bank accounts and send them and their children back where they came from. Any balance remaining after falsely obtained funds are refunded to the state can be sent to the forwarding address each woman provides upon exit.
'Investigations are on-going and an investigating magistrate will decide whether DNA tests have to be administered to determine the children's paternity,' a police spokesman said.
Yes, they do have to be. If he is the father, he should pay to support his offspring. If he is not, he should be charged with obtaining funds under false pretenses.
And if the latter, don't forget to send the mudders and tykes back from where they came ...
Oh, right. Sorry about that.
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what is wrong with these people? I thought Sarkozy meant business. Send the lot of them back to Africa.
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The 54 year-old of African origin, who authorities did not identify, was arrested in his two-room flat in Paris during a police raid which yielded documents showing more than 50 people were registered as living at that address.
Police suspect the man was involved in a social benefits scam which could have been costing the state over 1 million euros (S$1.7 million) annually in claims by the mothers.
Sounds like NYC's GZ victory mosque builder imam Rauf who had 500 worshippers in his two bedroom apartment so he could claim a tax deduction.
[Straits Times] WASHINGTON state executed its first prisoner in nine years early on Friday, killing by lethal injection a 16-year death row inmate who raped, tortured and murdered a woman in the Seattle area.
Cal Coburn Brown, 52, died at 12:56 am (1956 GMT, 3:59 am S'pore time), after a four-member team injected a lethal one-drug cocktail in the execution chamber of the Washington State Penitentiary as the father, brother and two sisters of his victim watched.
Brown carjacked Holly Washa, 21, in 1991 near Seattle's Sea-Tac airport, robbing, raping and torturing her over a 36-hour period, and then strangling and stabbing her.
Brown protested sentencing disparities, saying that criminals who had killed many more people were serving life sentences while he received a death sentence.
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Number of Washington State citizens (and visitors) executed in their homes, business, streets, etc since 2001 without any due process or appeal? Guess who's winning the body count.
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Brown protested sentencing disparities, saying that criminals who had killed many more people were serving life sentences while he received a death sentence.
I'm sure the jury was sympathetic to that defense.
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I think it is important to distinguish in capital murder trials between true aggravating circumstances, and just "gross".
Only the former warrant distinction in sentencing, whether it deserves life or death. The latter just confuses things, and appeals to emotion.
For example, a killer sneaks up on his victim, and knocks them out with a brick. Then they tie them up, and when they wake up, they torture them. Finally they kill them. Then they have sex with the body, dismember it, and eat some chunks.
All that should be considered for the death penalty is the bashing them on the head, and the aggravating circumstance of torture and murder. After the victim is dead, what the murderer does, does not aggravate the murder, relative to the victim.
That is, after death, the victim cannot suffer further, so the offense is just desecration of a corpse. Yes, gross and extreme, but not expressly related to the crime of murder, in so far as determining the death penalty.
Likewise, other common lesser, after the fact crimes should not matter to deciding death or life. Such as stealing the victim's wallet and using their credit cards after they are dead. They are still crimes, but they are different from the murder itself.
In perspective, I was appalled when after the trial of a child killer in California, followed by his conviction, a juror stated that he was willing to give the murderer the benefit of the doubt, until the murderer "flipped the jury off". From that point, said the juror, "I knew he was guilty."
Ironically, this statement was not enough to warrant a retrial. So the end result was "horrific injustice, that worked out anyway." This is not a good way to run a legal system.
[Pak Daily Times] Floodwaters on Friday inundated several more areas in Dadu district after authorities failed to plug the 100-foot breach in the FP embankment. The floodwater is now threatening Dadu city and the Zamzma oil field located in the area, a private TV channel reported on Friday.
The Dadu district coordination officer (DCO) has ordered the residents of Radhan, Thar De Mahbat and Shah Panju union councils to immediate vacate the area. The breach occurred in the Suprio embankment of the Mehar tehsil five days ago. A large number of people are still stranded in the area, awaiting help. However, fresh rains are hampering rescue efforts.
"Fresh rains have affected rescue and relief efforts and thousands of people are still stranded in various towns of Dadu district," said Sindh Irrigation Minister Jam Saifullah Dharejo.
He said that more rain was due today (Saturday), further endangering the strained river embankments as officials, military and local residents worked to bolster the defences around Dadu district.
"Dadu district and the town of Johi are still in danger of flooding, but rain is hampering our mobility to reach out to the maximum people," he added.
Whereas Jati, a tehsil of Thatta, has been surrounded by floodwater. More than a thousand people are stranded in the area.
Authorities on Friday ordered residents of Warah city to leave the area as water level in Hamal Lake has been rising due to the ongoing rains.
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[Iran Press] The US has fallen to fourth in the annual rankings of the world's most competitive economies, weighed down by massive debt, the World Economic Forum says.
For the first time since the World Economic Forum (WEF) began its current index in 2004, the United States slipped from second position.
According to the WEF's competitiveness ranking, a budget deficit of more than $1 trillion and waning confidence in public institutions were among the weaknesses in the world's largest economy.
"A number of escalating weaknesses have lowered the US ranking over the past two years," the evaluation of 139 nations showed. "A lack of macroeconomic stability continues to be the United States' greatest area of weakness."
"The public does not demonstrate strong trust of politicians, and the business community remains concerned about the government's ability to maintain arms-length relationships with the private sector, and considers that the government spends its resources relatively wastefully," said the report.
America's loss of competitiveness represents another obstacle to economic recovery as President Barack Obama asks Congress to take up proposals to spend $50 billion to repair and rebuild the US transportation infrastructure and spur business investment and research.
Switzerland retained the top spot as the world's most competitive economy, said the report published Thursday. The Geneva-based group released the report ahead of a meeting next week in the port city of Tianjin near Beijing.
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It's because employers cant afford to pay us a living wage to produce a product. Oh, wait, Germans make more than us, get more vacation time, and their compa
Hmm, what in the world could be the problem?
Greed????
Nah!
Must be those darned Obstructionists in the Republican party.
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Try to find something 'Made in China' in a German, Austrian, or even Swiss store
There are plenty of "made in China" labels at the Euro stores (like Dollar Stores here) in Germany. For that matter, I bought a table cloth embroidered in China from one of the shops in my village back in 1994. But Germans are genearlly willing to spend more to get something that is well made and will last -- it's a cultural thing.
Bottom line. Just like in everyone's household. You want that wide screen LCD TV but don't want to lay out five thousand for it, you shop till someone delivers it at the store for under eight hundred. You want the processing power and ability to blitz the net on a 'personal computer', but don't want to lay out eight grand for it, just wait till someone else offers it for six hundred. If there is no demand, the supply will not be sustained. Multiply that by 300 million consumers for hundreds of millions of products and you get what we have. We asked for it.
...proprietary technology with Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) to develop its oilsands leases. This new technology aims to simplify the complexity of the production process, by directly upgrading the SAGD wellhead slurry of bitumen emulsion.
The refinery will no longer need high-power desulphurization or sulphur removal units. What happens to the sulphur is not clear to me.
VCI upgrading technology comprises two processes.
The first process takes hot bitumen emulsion and the produced water directly from the SAGD wells and produces clean decontaminated oil. This premium heavy oil contains small amounts of asphaltenes and can be transported with little or no diluent. The extracted asphaltenes can be sold as solid fuel or used as a fuel for steam generation.
The second process can produce either synthetic crude oil or diluent. It can also produce synthetic gas that can be used for steam generation. Stream generation means power production.
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The article is really vague about the cleansing process but perhaps sulfur has a Specific Gravity, in combination with heat and gravity (centrifuge), that can be used for separation?
TEHRAN - Up to 10 people are feared dead from a gas pipeline blast near Irans northeastern city of Mashhad and another 16 sustained burns of various degrees, the Fars news agency reported on Saturday, the day after the accident.
Around nine or 10 people have been reported dead and some 16 of the people working there have been taken to hospital in Mashhad, out of whom six were treated as outpatients, Fars quoted Alireza Gharibi, managing director of the state-run Iran Gas Engineering and Development Company, as saying.
Officials said on Friday that the explosion occurred when a mechanical shovel struck a pipeline carrying gas from Khangiran refinery near Turkmenistan border to the Iranian holy city of Mashhad.
"Mechanical shovel?! Nice work, Tyrone, that's a new one."
"Thanks Avi. Your agency and mine should work together more."
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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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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Pak Daily Times] Floodwaters on Friday inundated several more areas in Dadu district after authorities failed to plug the 100-foot breach in the FP embankment. The floodwater is now threatening Dadu city and the Zamzma oil field located in the area, a private TV channel reported on Friday.
[Iran Press] The US has fallen to fourth in the annual rankings of the world's most competitive economies, weighed down by massive debt, the World Economic Forum says.
