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Hey, scientists, wee r stoopid, and no unnerstan fancy wurds gud. Show us what you mean. And do it first, several times. we need examples to follow.
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let the die off's happen naturally and you'll pretty much eliminate most of the developing world where they've been living off US aid for the last 50 years
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Don't know if you are being funny or not, because I saw exactly that proposed by the can-o-loons conference, I think on the bloomberg crawl. Something like a 20 year development freeze for developing countries or some jargon. Perhaps it was a WTO proposal?
Perhaps they'd consider pushing for nuclear power, you know, clean power. But no, the problem is not that serious that they'd consider reopening that old can of worms.
[Chosun Ilbo] North Korea on Saturday accused South Korea of placing "human shields" in military installations on Yeonpyeong Island in an attempt to pass the blame to the South for the death of two civilians in last week's artillery attack. The state-run Korean Central News Agency said reports of civilian deaths, if true, would be "regrettable," but added the fault is entirely with South Korea.
North Korea rained shells on South Korean artillery positions on Yeonpyeong Island as well as a town 1.5 km away. A mountain stands between the Marine positions and the town. Judging by how accurately the shells hit South Korean artillery positions, it appears that the North had been aiming its guns at both military and civilian targets, and the deaths occurred far away from the military installations.
It is a war crime to aim at and kill innocent civilians. North Korean hereditary supremo Kim Jong-il should personally apologize and promise to hold the attackers accountable for their actions. But four days after the attack, only the North Korean media, and not the government, issues an commentary full of lies and finds nothing more poignant to say about these murders than that they were "regrettable." At least when North Korean soldiers rubbed out a South Korean tourist at the Mt. Kumgang resort in 2008 and when civilians in the South drowned after the North released a huge amount of water from its dams without warning, there were comments from the government, however far short they fell of a full apology.
But that grudging use of the word "regrettable" smacks of a clear attempt to avoid mounting international criticism with the absolute minimum concession. The claim about human shields, meanwhile, looks like an attempt to drive a wedge between the military and the 8,300 residents of the five West Sea islands and send them fleeing to the mainland. If the residents leave, the North can turn the area around the Northern Limit Line into an area of conflict and bolster its claims for a different border.
From South Korea's perspective, the five West Sea islands are so close to North Korea that they serve as strategic military positions to strike at the North's heart. But they are also home to generations of South Korean fishermen. We should never forget that protecting the islands is crucial to protecting Seoul.
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I bet N. Korea isn't sincere this time, right Madeleine Halfbright?
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Bullshit
"You jumped in front of my Bullets, it's all your fault"
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Kauft nicht bei Juden -- "Don't buy from Jews" -- is back. The call to boycott Jewish commerce is Europe's oldest political appeal. Once again, as the tsunami of hate against Israel rolls out from the Right and the Left, from Islamist ideologues to Europe's cultural elites, the demand is to punish the Jews. That the actions of the Israeli government are open to criticism is a fact. But what are the real arguments?
The Trans Alaska Pipeline (TAPS) is now two-thirds empty. In the past, great volumes of warm oil moving quickly through the pipeline enabled transportation of up to 20% of Americas domestic crude oil production even in Alaskas cold, dark winters.
With throughput now so low and dropping at a 6% annual rate, that historic investment is on its last legs absent the introduction of new crude supplies.
Loss of the pipeline will immediately curtail one-third of Alaskas economy and up to ninety percent of the States operating budget.
The most prospective source of new supply is the Chukchi. Our OCS likely contains twice as much oil as has been produced from Prudhoe Bay and over five times our proven natural gas reserves which already exceed Americas natural gas demand for nearly two years.
Accessing OCS oil and gas will provide increased income taxes and royalties to the federal government and enable dwindling volumes of existing production to continue moving down the pipeline, supporting a third of Alaskas natural resource dependent economy.
Accordingly, the decision to expedite the stalled Chukchi exploration program could save or doom Alaskas economy within the next 5-7 years.
We could speculate on the effect of your Lease Sale 193 decisions on national security, the balance of payments deficit and the export of hundreds of thousands of oil and gas jobs to parts of the world where regulation is less secure than here.
Barring our OCS work in Alaska would also cause additional environmental risks by causing more ocean going tankers to travel across big oceans to exchange foreign crude oil for our money and our jobs.
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but Leesa Murkowitz said she had so much power, that's why they need her in the Senate...
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This has been a great concern of mine for years. You can see the trend. Senator Stevens worked unceasingly for 2 decades to get ANWR opened up, but to no avail. The Congress thinks that Alaska is a national park or monument, same with some western states. Alaska is screwed and so are western states, and every year puts us worse in the red with respect to oil imports.
Yes there are risks, but the depths are in the order of 200 ft or so, not thousands of feet underwater like the Gulf.
Congress and the President are slitting the throats of Americans on the installment plan.
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AP: Have you seen the part of ANWR they want to drill? It is rocky and desolate *nothing*. Almost no critters there, not scenic at all. Yet when the opponents talk about drilling them, they show pictures of Denali and lots of wildlife.
Fred Kaplan, currently a Slate writer who did undergrad work at Oberlin and is married to an NPR reporter and formerly worked for the Boston Globe and wrote a book criticizing the Bush foreign policy, cherry picks some cables and cherry picks a few sentences from Obama speeches and concludes that the Obama admin is doing a really great job at foreign policy.
If sucking up were an olympic event, this would get a gold medal.
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Looks like Fred could use some new kneepads for the upcoming Winter-Festival-of-no-particular-religious-significance.....
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.
Kauft nicht bei Juden -- "Don't buy from Jews" -- is back. The call to boycott Jewish commerce is Europe's oldest political appeal. Once again, as the tsunami of hate against Israel rolls out from the Right and the Left, from Islamist ideologues to Europe's cultural elites, the demand is to punish the Jews. That the actions of the Israeli government are open to criticism is a fact. But what are the real arguments?
