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Norwegians are getting upset about this sort of thing. I recall some Norwegian soldiers said that combat was better than sex. This is a socialist country. This is not supposed to happen. The Government controls everything.
Bahrains opposition stood to capture an unprecedented half of the seats on Saturday in parliamentary polls which could also see a female candidate elected for the first time.
Bahrain held the first round of parliamentary elections last week, in which the main opposition group Wefaq won all 18 seats it contested in the 40-seat assembly.
Munira Fakhro, from the Waad group, is running in one of two key second-round races, held in nine districts in which no candidate obtained a majority in the first round. If Fakhro and another Waad candidate win their seats, the opposition would for the first time hold half of all seats, paving the way for more questioning of the government on alleged corruption and the extent of the ruling familys land ownership.
Wefaq and Waad would also team up in an attempt to expand limited powers of the parliament. Bills need to pass an upper house whose members are appointed by the king.
(The constitution) gives all power to the king instead of parliament, said Fakhro as she greeted voters who trickled into a school used as a polling station. She won 33 per cent of votes in the first round in her district in the centre of Bahrain last week, 10 per cent less than her rival, independent candidate Esa Al Qadhi.
Waad fielded three candidates, one of whom lost last week.
Fakhro said Waad would propose changing the districts and electoral rules to also increase the chances of female candidates running against Bahrains main political blocs. Waad is the only group that endorses female candidates.
Mona Fadhel, a supporter of Fakhro and author on Gulf womens political role, said women were quite active in community groups but had gained few official posts. Their presence in the official institutions does not reflect the level of activities of women in politics, she said.
Latifa Al Gaoud, an independent, is the first female member of parliament but she won her district a strip of desert in Bahrains south without any voting for the second time this year as she faced no other candidate.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Three extortionists were jugged after a shootout with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members at Shahjahanpur in Motijheel early yesterday.
The arrestees are Ashraful Islam, 33, Shimul, 30, and Mohammad Shakil, 30.
All of them received bullet wounds during the fight. "Aaaaiiieee! My kneecap!"
"Aaaaiiieee! My kneecap!"
"Aaaaiiieee! My kneecap!"
Lt Col Md Rafiqul Islam, director of Rab-3, said a detective team of Rab went to Jheelpar of the area to nab a group of extortionists while they were waiting for toll around 2:00am.
Sensing their presence, My spider sense! It's tingling again! To arms! Aux barricades! the criminals shot up the law enforcers forcing them to retaliate, he added.
However, The infamous However... the accomplices of the three arrestees decamped.
The team went there on a complaint filed by a trader of Shahjahanpur on Wednesday that he was threatened for extortion.
The arrestees were admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) under police custody.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... in separate incidents, Rab-3 jugged three bullet-hit muggers from Sabujbagh and one from Tikatuli of the capital yesterday.
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What the hell? What's up with all these people surviving their shootouts? Some new incompetent commander or something?
(KUNA) -- The German government is working on a scheme to decrease the country's debts to 45 billion euro by next year, said Bild Zeitung newspaper Saturday.
The newspaper quoted political sources as saying that the mentioned sum was reasonable to reach due to German economic recovery in the second quarter of this year.
Germany is hoping that the additional debt would reach 57.5 billion euro in the general budget planned for 2011.
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FREEREPUBLIC > {German CHancellor = FRG Germany] GERMANY CONSIGNS IRELAND, PORTUGAL, + SPAIN TO THEIR FATES. Consequences for helping allay prohibitive Greek Debt, etc.
ARTIC = As an organized Polity, the new EU needs a RELIABLE, EFFECTIVE, INTERNAL "SOVEREIGN/
STATE DEFAULT" MECHANISM to deal wid poor Member State-specific $$$ decisions + mishandling.
POSTERS = ITO read, EU NATIONS = FUTURE OWG = CONTINENTAL/TRANS-REGION GOVTS IN FUTURE TO MAKE LEGIT THE SALE OF AECITIES + SOVEREIGN LANDS OF SOVEREIGN STATES to resolve TRANSREGIONAL = "GLOBAL" DEBTS.
E.g. USA > OWG Mighty USSA = OWG Weak USRoA GSR-SSR = SALE OF DETROIT + STTAE OF MICHEGAN, CALIFORNIA [Cities + State land.
[PRE-WW2 SUDETENLAND [Czechoslovakia], Nazi-Soviet PARTITION OF POLAND, ALSACE-LORRAINE, Chinese MANCHURIA = Japanese MANCHUKO, etc. here].
ME > I'm telling or advising local Guam Patrons that, iff US-WORLD ECON TROUBLES is to be believed, NOT TO UNDERSTIMATE THE WILLINGNESS OF THE USA = MAJOR WORLD POWERS TO GIVE UP STRATEGIC OR KEY TERRITORIES TO PAY DEBTS ANDOR AVOID MUTUALLY DSTRUCTIVE NUCLEAR, WORLD WAR, ala USA-VS-CHINA-VS-NUCLEAR-RADICAL-ISLAM oer Asia-Pacific.
AS RELATED TO
* MSM-NET > CHAVEZ + MOUD > claiming that the US has "EARTHQUAKE BOMBS".
Iff the US unilaterally decides to strategically withdraw from the PACIFIC, espec iff due to DEFEAT + SETBACK IN MAJOR WAR + TO AVOID MUTUAL DESTRUCTION, THE US MAY DESTROY KEY PACIFIC ISLANDS. e.g. GUAM-CNMI-MICRONESIA, VIA BURIED UNDERGROUND NUCBOMBS IN ORDER TO DENY MIL USE TO ENEMY STATES.
DON'T SAY IT CAN'T, WON'T HAPPEN BECAUSE MIL, WORLD HISTORY SAYS OTHERWISE.
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OOOPSIES forgot DAILY TIMES.Pk > BRITAIN + FRANCE ON VERGE OF [historic] AMBITIOUS DEFENCE PARTNERSHIP.
PERT-VERIFIED "LONGER-N-GREATER-THAN-1929/GREATDEPRESSION US-WORLD ECON TRUBLES [econ austerity] is achieving what AGINCOURT + NAPOLEON + ADOLF, ETC. FAILED TO DO - indcue the UK + France to work together,
At least on NATIONAL, EU DEFENCE [for time ebing], + PRESUM THE SUN KEEP SHINING + FNS CV "DE GAULLE'S PROPELLER DOESN'T PLAN ANY NEW REBELLIONS = FALL OFF.
and
* PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > RUSSIA'S DEFENSE MINISTRY CONFIRMS PLANS TO BUY TWO FOREIGN HELICOPTER CARRIERS [e.g. French "MISTRAL"].
Lest we fergit, the OWG-NWO "GLOBAL TASK FORCE" = "1000-FLAG OWG NAVY".
USN-DOD is no exception, as one day so-called "HYBRID/HERMAPHRODITE" NT SHIPS = "MOTHER-SHIPS", Manned or All-Robotic UV, will call on Guam-WESTPAC.
ARISE, STARFLEET COMMAND, ARISE - And BTW SSSSHSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH OWG MADONNA ALSO.
D *** NG IT, WOMAN, ONCE AGAIN DO YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU LET PAULA PLAY WID THE VEGGIES!
[Pak Daily Times] Federal Finance Minister Dr Hafeez Sheikh on Saturday announced that 10 federal ministries would be abolished by the end of the year.
I'm shocked. But perhaps the personnel will be distributed among the remaining ministries -- it's always been about jobs for the lads anyway, right?
Five ministries are to be abolished within a few days and the remaining five by the end of the year, he said.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) authorities were not annoyed with Pakistain and everything had been going as per schedule, he said. Sheikh made these comments while talking to the media after inaugurating a two-day national conference on making the 18th Amendment and the National Finance Commission (NFC) Award successful. The conference was organised by the Forum of Federations, a global network on federalism and the Pakistain Centre for Civic Education, supported by the German Foreign Office.
When asked whether the federal ministries would be transferred to the provinces or abolished, the finance minister said that a few ministries would be abolished, while some would be transferred to the provinces, as per the decision taken on abolishing of the Concurrent List under the 18th Amendment.
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ION PAKISTAN DEFENCE FORUM > [Asian Dev Bank, UN World Bank] ADB, WB ESTIMATE PAK FLOOD LOSSES AT US$9.7BILYUHN, + NOT the previously estimated US$43.7BILYUHN [just under US$45.0Bil].
A school superintendent in western Kentucky said he will not punish two principals who circulated an e-mail that warned of Muslim jihad against America. The Carlisle County superintendent said the principals each forwarded the e-mail, which said Muslim women are slaves who are hit by their husbands and that Muslims were planning an attack on Americans.
The superintendent said the e-mail did not violate school policy because the principals were not the authors, but he said they should not have used school computers to forward it.
The ACLU was alerted to the content of the e-mail by one of its recipients.
KYKOTSMOVI, Ariz. - The Hopi Tribe has a message for the Sierra Club and other environmental groups: Keep out!
That is the response of the Hopi Tribal Council on Monday to what it says has been continuous concerted attacks from local and national environmental groups "bent on advancing their interests and agenda at the expense of the Hopi Tribe and its sovereign interest."
The council wants the Sierra Club and other environmental groups and on-reservation organizations affiliated with these groups to know they are not welcome on the Hopi Reservation, declaring them persona non grata - no longer favored or welcome.
By a resolution approved 12-0, the council said environmentalists have deprived the tribe "of markets for its coal resources" and coal revenues needed to sustain governmental services, provide jobs for tribal members and safeguard Hopi culture and tradition.
In 2005, environmental groups played a significant role in the shutdown of the Mohave Generating Station, which the Hopi Council contends "deprived the Hopi Tribe of many millions of dollars of annual operating revenues," according to the resolution.
Revenue losses from the Mohave power plant range from an estimated $6.5 million to $8.5 million annually.
The council feels that the economic viability of the Navajo Generating Station - the tribe's only remaining coal customer - is also being threatened, and that environmentalists' actions could lead to "total economic collapse of the tribe."
The Navajo Generating Station provides about $11 million a year in revenue for the tribe.
"The Mohave closure did little more than balance the politically expedient needs of these environmental organizations on the already impoverished backs of the Hopi and Navajo people ... without providing any reasonable means of replacing the tribal revenues lost to the closure," the resolution states.
In response to these allegations, the Sierra Club released a statement on Monday saying, "Sierra Club has been invited to work with many Hopi individuals and groups ... who want to stop global warming and protect the environment and feel that Peabody's coal operations on Black Mesa is a direct threat to sacred Hopi springs."
The resolution, however, states that environmental groups "have manufactured and spread misinformation concerning the water and energy resources of the Hopi Tribe in an effort to instill unfounded fears into the hearts and minds of the Hopi public."
They have acted, the council alleges, with no regard for the tribe's right to determine how best to develop and manage its natural resources. Nor, the council said, has any concern been shown for the future welfare of the tribe.
Besides the Sierra Club, the resolution has also banned The Natural Resources Defense Council, the National Parks Conservation Association and the Grand Canyon Trust from the Hopi Reservation.
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...resolution approved 12-0, the council said environmentalists have deprived the tribe "of markets for its coal resources" and coal revenues needed to sustain governmental services, provide jobs for tribal members and safeguard Hopi culture and tradition.
A vote for capitalism? The statists in D.C. aren't going to like this.
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Is this the beginning of sanity? One can only hope so.
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"They have acted with no regard for the tribe's right to determine how best to develop and manage its natural resources. Nor has any concern been shown for the future welfare of the tribe."
Word. Can we trade Congress for the Hopi Tribal Council?
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Boxer got her language into the Omnibus Indian Advancement Act of 2000, and with the changes unbeknownst to either fellow Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D) or House sponsor Woolsey (D), the bill was signed into law by then-President Clinton.
Donks also didn't read bills when Clinton was president. Good catch Frank. One more reason to dump Madam Boxer.
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They have acted, the council alleges, with no regard for the tribe's right to determine how best to develop and manage its natural resources. Nor, the council said, has any concern been shown for the future welfare of the tribe.
That is because the greenie-weenie's agenda isn't about you. It is about depriving everyone and bringing everyone down to the stone age (minus the stone).
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We've met quite a few Hopi and Navajo folks on our travels to the southwest. Pretty straightforward and unassuming so I don't believe that this is a 'grandstanding' ploy that some media outlets are trying to paint is as.
The Sierra Club on the other hand.......
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