A senior British banker who was questioned by U.S. authorities in connection with the Enron scandal has been found dead, British media reported Wednesday.
Humm, that makes at least two dead bodies linked to Eron
The Metropolitan Police said a man's body was found Tuesday in a park in east London, but declined to identify him. The force said the death was being treated as unexplained, and homicide officers were investigating.
Could be a heart attack, there's a lot of that going around
The British Broadcasting Corp. and other outlets identified the dead man as a senior banker with the Royal Bank of Scotland who had been questioned by the FBI in the case of three British bankers facing Enron-related fraud charges. The FBI said it would not comment on any aspect of the case. David Bermingham, Gary Mulgrew and Giles Darby, all former bankers with the RBS-owned National Westminster Bank, are due to be extradited Thursday to the United States to face charges of defrauding their ex-employer of $7.3 million. The three men have denied charges that they attempted to sell a part of the U.S.-based energy company Enron Corp. for less than it was worth.
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I bet the conspiricy / Nutroots types are going to be even foamy-er than usual this week. Extra spiitle with only intermittant coherency.
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This proves that Eastern Civilization is declining more than the West. But I prefer to hear of the incident where tough guy actor, Robert Conrad, beat up a Christmas Party Santa Claus.
Jackie Chan disrupted a concert by Taiwanese singer-songwriter Jonathan Lee and exchanged insults with the audience, a news report said Tuesday. Ming Pao Daily News quoted the 52-year-old action star as saying onstage that he was drunk.
Chan suddenly jumped on the stage Monday night and demanded a duet with Lee. He then tried to conduct the band but stopped and restarted the music several times, the newspaper reported. As the awkward interruption dragged on, audience members started to heckle Chan, who replied with an insult, according to the report...
A Clarkson man who once headed a Liberian political party a group accused by some human rights activists of atrocities against civilians was arrested today at his home on federal immigration-related criminal charges.
Agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement allege that George S. Boley, 56, is illegally living in Clarkson. Agents arrested Boley, a married father of seven, at his home at 630 Lawton Road today, and accused him of fraudulent use of visas and other immigration documents to travel to and from the United States. He was released on his own recognizance after a late afternoon hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jonathan Feldman.Much more info at the link
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I didn't look at the pictures - but the constant and brutal death of white farmers in SA is like the constant and brutal death of Christians world wide. It's not considered newsworthy by any major paper anywhere. Yet fail to provide air conditioning to prisoners at gitmo and watch them all light up 24/7 and go completely apeshit over the human rights abuse.
Something is seriously wrong with the mass media. It's all very bizarre.
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I wonder if the farmers ever courted the idea of arming themselves, heavily. They most of the victims look to be old people,women and kids. Typical of the breed, I guess.
DUBAI - Qatar shrugged off on Tuesday Saudi Arabias reported plans to block the completion of a US$3.5 billion (euro2.7 billion) natural gas pipeline. Saudi Arabia reportedly said last week that the pipeline - due to bring gas from Qatar to the neighbouring United Arab Emirates - crossed its underwater territory and that it would object to it.
A senior Qatar energy official laughed off dismissed these reports. We dont think it is very serious. We have been working for a long time on this, and too much expenditure has been made, the official was quoted as saying by the regional Zawya Dow Jones news service on Tuesday.
"Them and what army?" he added.
The sub-sea pipeline is being laid by Dolphin Energy and is 51 percent owned by Abu Dhabi, along with US-based Occidental Petroleum and France-based Total. It is due to provide 2 billion cubic feet of gas a day from Qatar to the Emirates and Oman by 2007.
Qatar has not received official notice from the Saudi government that the Kingdom would block the pipeline, Dow Jones quoted the official as saying. Dolphin Energy also said in a statement Tuesday that it hadnt received any objection or protest from any state concerning the pipeline.
An Emirati official, who declined to be named, said Dolphin plans to complete the pipeline within a few weeks. He said partners of the Abu Dhabi-led project had thoroughly checked all paperwork before investing.
The dispute between the Emirates and Saudi Arabia stems from a 1974 border treaty. Abu Dhabi officials claim the treaty gives the Emirates underwater rights of passage through the stretch of Saudi territory that the Dolphin pipeline crosses, making it unnecessary to obtain Saudi approval ahead of construction.
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"Underwater territory? Station some troops there and we'll talk."
KUWAIT - Kuwaits new cabinet approved on Tuesday a draft law that would reduce the number of parliamentary constituencies in the Gulf Arab state, the official news agency KUNA said. The move meets popular demands for electoral reform, the core of a dispute between the government and parliament, which led to the dissolution of the house in May. Opposition MPs say the reform would guard against vote buying.
The Council of Ministers approved a draft law to divide Kuwait into five electoral constituencies, KUNA said. The cabinet sent the draft to the emir for approval before sending it to parliament for a vote, it said. The move comes a day before the new parliament, dominated by reformist MPs, convenes to elect a speaker.
The government had proposed a bill that sought to reduce the number of constituencies to 10 from 25. The measure failed to impress reformists who insisted there should be five constituencies to make elections easier to monitor. Some MPs in the previous house had even submitted an unprecedented request to grill Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al Mohammad Al Sabah over the disputed draft law.
Next thing you know they'll want to elect the prime minister from amongst the MPs. Recapitulating English history one step at a time.
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A couple's plans for a £5,000 wedding at Alton Towers were thrown into confusion yesterday after it emerged that the theme park had double booked them with a fun day for 20,000 Muslims.
Amanda Morris, 30, and her fiance, Scott Lee, 31, have been told that if they go ahead with the ceremony they will not be allowed to go on celebratory rides together.
Furthermore, Miss Morris and her female guests will have to cover up to be in line with guests of Islamic Leisure wearing hijabs. "I've been looking forward to this day for 18 months, and suddenly it's in ruins," she said yesterday.
"Everything was booked - the photographer, the hotel rooms, everything. Then some of our guests started getting letters saying they would have to cover up because it was a Muslim event.
"Alton Towers haven't even had the decency to let us know they had hired it out. It's not the Muslim event - it's not their fault that Alton Towers have double booked.
"The people with Islamic Leisure want their day as much as we do. I don't blame them at all. But Alton Towers shouldn't have done this. They should at least have rung us to discuss it."
Miss Morris, a recruitment sales advisor, and her fiance, a market trader, booked their wedding in the Emperor's Suite last year.
The bride-to-be said: "It's a nightmare. We have been planning this for so long and now this happens nine weeks before the ceremony.
"People are ringing us saying it must be a joke. I don't know what we are going to do now. I would still like the wedding to go ahead, but I just don't know how it will all work out. I'll be gutted if I have to cancel it now."
The couple, who live in Leeds, chose Alton Towers as the venue for their wedding because they have previously enjoyed staying in the complex's hotel.
At the time they made the booking the only date available was Saturday, Sept 16. They were happy to accept it, believing that they and the 60 guests for whom they had booked 20 rooms would be able to enjoy the following day on the rides.
Since then, however, Alton Towers have hired out the complex for its first Muslim fun day.
Believing that they and their own guests had the complex almost to themselves, Islamic Leisure drew up a list of requirements.
These included the provision of prayer areas and bans on music, alcohol and gambling. In the Muslim tradition, women would also need to cover their bodies, as well as going on rides separately to their menfolk.
The couple have since contacted Islamic Leisure, whose staff confirmed that the wedding party would be asked to adhere to their conditions.
Yaseen Patel, the organisation's director, confirmed: "The body will have to be covered, (though) they do not have to wear the hijab."
An Alton Towers spokesman said staff would be discussing "the options available" with the couple.
She claimed it was a condition of the Islamic Leisure booking that wedding and hotel guests would be exempt from the Muslim dress code.
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Alton Towers will probably decide this will be their last "islamic fun day".
No bar sales. No income from gambling. The islamists will bring their own food and will not buy even that on the grounds. The bathrooms in the hotel rooms will be awash in filth and the rooms trashed by any islmaists who stay in them in the ususal "family group" of 23 to a room. Islamists don't tip either.
Mind you, the eerie sight of black burka clad figures riding a silent roller coaster, like so many penguins on parade, might be worth sticking around to see for Miss Morris.
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Muslim Fun Day? Sign me up for the Interactive IED Construction Jahid-Headband Badge, the "Babes In Burka's On Parade" show, and, of course, the Death To Infidels Kum-by-ah sing-along.
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If somebody wants to buy out Disneyland for a day and say everybody has to wear Mickey Mouse Ears, it's OK with me. How's a Burka different from Mickey Mouse Ears?
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Nimble:
The difference is that someone would be paying for my ticket and as a condition of them paying for me, I would wear their stupid Mickey Mouse ears. I doubt that the Islamic Fun group is paying for the wedding party. And besides, I would assume that I would be told before I committed anything that the Mickey Mouse ears were part of the deal, not after I was halfway to Disney World with the family and already paid.
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Muslims + wedding ceremony normally equals an airstrike.
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I'd go ahead and go, but dress as scantily as I could. And, I'm male, lol!
On a serious note...if the wedding goes on as proceeded, she does NOT have to abide by their rules. PERIOD. Does make me wonder if there will be gun sex allowed though, as celebration for the wedding.
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There were no amusement parks when mo was alive so they can't go on the rides.
MOSCOW Russia will use robots to defend its borders, and President Vladimir Putin does not remember the first time he had sex.
After wrapping up an online conference last Thursday, Putin took a few minutes to answer several of the most-popular questions sent in by Russian Internet users, Kommersant reported Friday. The two journalists who hosted the 130-minute webcast had largely ignored the top-rated questions submitted online from around the world, focusing instead on foreign and domestic policy issues.
Yes, we will use the latest technical devices. Already now they are being stationed, for example, in the southern parts of our country, Putin said when reporters asked him after the conference whether Russia planned to use gigantic, humanoid war robots to defend itself.
Asked to elaborate about what he meant, Putin said: These are unmanned aerial vehicles. And maybe the time will come for gigantic robots. However, so far we have put our main hope on people namely border guards, Putin said, Kommersant reported.
Asked about the possible awakening of the giant mythical octopus Cthulhu, the fourth-most popular question among the more than 150,000 sent to Putin, he said that he believed something more serious was behind the question. Cthulhu was invented by novelist H.P. Lovecraft and was said to be sleeping beneath the Pacific Ocean.
Putin said he viewed mysterious forces with suspicion and advised those who took them seriously to read the Bible, Koran or other religious books.
When did you start to have sex? Kommersant reporter Andrei Kolesnikov then asked, verbalizing a question that was on the minds of 5,640 Internet users.
I dont remember when I started. But I can remember the last time, Putin said.
The EU fined Microsoft Corp. $357 million on Wednesday and threatened new penalties of $3.82 million a day beginning July 31 because it says the software maker failed to obey a 2004 antitrust order to share program code with rivals. Microsoft immediately said it would appeal the fine in court.
The EU said the new fines would take effect unless the company supplies "complete and accurate" technical information to developers to help them make software that works smoothly with its ubiquitous Windows operating system. Fine LVMH $500 million for not sharing their ugly logo, for regional chauvanism for claiming only their nation makes champagne. Fine Porsche $1 billion for not sharing 911 engines with Ford. What a golden opportunity to zero out the trade deficit.
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Europe is just angry that the americans are still kicking the economic crap out of them.
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That would be great to see. Microsoft is probably big enough to be able to survive a move that removes them from the EUrabian market for good too.
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Wow, the EU insists that you help your competitors make better software to compete against you.
I must say, that really sucks ass.
No wonder the european economy is in the crapper. With thinking like that, It will stay there.
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Note to Bill: halt all shipments to EU countries and install a "By The Minute" tech support center for already in-country MS units. Wiat for Native EU-ites to holler and when the fines are dropped, provide a 'gift' to them to restart their sorry computer industry. Don't forget that early Airbus ( another fine EUbased product) had several crashes when their software would not allow the pilots to do their flying thing and instead let them ride the jets into the ground. That must be MS's fault too, right?
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But if we are talking API, howscome no one else is complaining? All that much, anyway.
Complaints have gone back best part of twenty years that MS uses unpublished APIs in its products (Office, etc.) to give them an unfair advantage. Which is why the DoJ wanted to split MS into two companies - and OS company and an Office products company.
It would have made a difference 10 years ago, but is largely irrelevant today.
BTW, watch out for the PS3. It's going to blow a large hole in MSoft's business.
THE HAGUE -The trial of Croatian journalist Josip Jovics on charges of contempt of court opened at the UN war crimes court for the former Yugoslavia here Tuesday after a weeks delay because the defendant failed to show.
He's on trial for contempt and he fails to show ...
On Tuesday Jovic was in court and took the stand to testify. He is the editor of the Croatian newspaper Slobodna Dalmacija and has been charged with contempt because he revealed that Croatian president Stipe Mesic testified during the 1997 trial in The Hague of Bosnian Croat general Tihomir Blaskic as a protected witness. The confidentiality measures for Mesic have since been lifted, the prosecutor said Tuesday.
Jovic testified Tuesday that he had not obeyed an order of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to stop publishing the name of Mesic as a protected witness. It is quite obvious that I flaunted the order but what was not clear to me is whether as a resident of the republic of Croatia I was bound to obey the order, Jovic said Tuesday.
"So howdja them apples, huh?"
Jovics defence stressed that Mesic did not ask for protective measures from the court and has nothing against his testimony being made public. If convicted, Jovic could be sentenced to up to seven years imprisonment or fined up to 100,000 euros (128,000 dollars).
Or he could be taunted by Carla del Ponte.
In March former Croatian intelligence chief Markica Rebic and Ivica Marijacic, editor-in-chief of the Hrvatski List newspaper were fined 15,000 euros (18,150 dollars) for contempt of court. Rebic was convicted of supplying Marijacic with the name of another protected witness who also testified in the Blaskic case in 1997. Hrvatski List published the name in November 2004.
Witness protection is a key focus of the ICTY as it tries to gather evidence of war crimes committed during the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s.
I'm sympathetic to protecting witnesses, but this whole series of trials long ago descended into farce.
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It is quite obvious that I flaunted the order but what was not clear to me is whether as a resident of the republic of Croatia I was bound to obey the order, Jovic said Tuesday.
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Im in a quandary here. The journalist who insist that Americans be beholding to international law are themselves doing what they denounce the US for. On the other hand, it seems consistent with the view that journalist by definition are elitist - one set of rules for us and a separate set of rules for everyone else. Then again hes tell the ICT [which, note very well Hamdan SCOTUS, is not a court approved by Congress in legislation or treaty] to go stuff it. Not being a leftist, I cant hold two opposing thoughts in my head at the same time without it hurting. Excuse me while I get some aspirin.
SUKKUR: At least 9 people were killed and 12 injured in a clash between two rival tribes in Kandh Kot on Tuesday. Armed tribesmen of Teghani clan attacked a village of their rival Ogahi tribe. The attackers used automatic guns, rocket launchers and other weapons during the attack, due to which Gul Hassan Oghai, Shabir Ahmed were killed, while many were wounded. Men belonging to Oghai tribe promptly retaliating the onslaught of the Tifani tribesmen; killing six people and injuring 10. More firing incidents in the area are still being reported.
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But you see two Spaghetti Eating in a Burka techniques here. On the left, the up and under, on the right, the over the top. I'm going with the chicky on the left.
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Expecting a "sternly worded letter"(tm) to the leaders of this country (wherever it is) from NOW in 3, 2, 1...
Oops,
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Meant to add "...crickets chirping."
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Seems to me that one of the Arab bloggers, Religious Policeman, maybe, mentioned just this difficulty once, complete with description of the two techniques.
They seem fully acquainted with spaghetti-eating procedures (including rolling it up, which I have never been able to master). So were they new to their "liberating" outfits?
The woman on the right looked like she was snorting it up her nose.
As an HIV prevention counselor, Sharlene Miles knows a thing or two about slowing the spread of HIV and AIDS.
Still, she was one of hundreds of Washington, D.C., residents waiting in line recently to get a free rapid HIV test. The attendees were there to help kick off Washington's new push to encourage doctors to routinely screen everyone between the ages of 14 and 84 for the virus that causes AIDS.
Her test came back negative, and Miles wasn't surprised. She said she doesn't practice any of the behaviors that put people most at risk. However, she did say knowing your status whether you are HIV positive or negative is important.
Along with Washington's new screening program, the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to release similar guidelines this summer that would expand HIV screening to all adults in the United States
If this happens, it means that just about anybody over the age of 13 could be asked by their doctor, "Would you like an HIV test?"
In Washington, which has one of the highest rates of new AIDS cases in the country, the capital's department of health has encouraged primary care providers, community health clinics and emergency departments to routinely screen patients for HIV. It is the first location to do so, according to Dr. Gregg Pane, the department's director.
'Almost Criminal' to Not Test
But there's benefits to a nationwide program too, experts said. At least 25 percent of Americans infected with HIV are unaware of their status, according to the CDC.
Unlike the early days of the virus in the 1980s, HIV testing is today more accurate, and the disease itself can be treated as a chronic disease, meaning people can live a normal life span, said Dr. Michael Saag, the director of the University of Alabama's Center for AIDS Research in Birmingham.
"Today, in my mind, it would be almost criminal to not test more widely for HIV. The reason people are dying today [from HIV/AIDS] is that they are diagnosed late. The best thing we can do is increase the amount of screening," said Saag, who explained that patients who are diagnosed early have stronger immune systems and the possibility of living longer, healthier lives compared with patients diagnosed late... No, what's criminal is wasting vital health care money on a useless publicity stunt when there is a major epidemic around the corner, that we are woefully unprepared for.
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"Today, in my mind, it would be almost criminal to not test more widely for HIV. The reason people are dying today [from HIV/AIDS] is that they are diagnosed late."
Oh barf! The reason people (care to state which people in particular, hmm?) are dying from HIV/AIDS has nothing to do with inadequate testing and a hell of a lot more to do with recklessly dangerous drug use, prison sex, promiscuous sex, and overall poor health habits (again, drug use).
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Twenty years too late, care of the gay advocates of the 80s who successfully fought against doing this back then. When it could have been useful to id and isolate carriers, just like the old TB cases and other similar diseases. Meanwhile the advocates only succeeded in killing hundreds of thousands of those whom they claimed the represented by blocking this step. Now the much heralded hetero pan-epidemic, as touted by such renowned journals as Time and Newsweek, never materialized in the US, they want to bring this back. Hey, guys, the puritanical behavioral inheritance of the culture somehow has greatly assisted in reducing the effect of the retrovirus which runs rampant elsewhere in the world. Behavior as a means to combat disease and illness, what a concept.
'Almost Criminal' to Not Test
Why not go back through the records and indeed publicly flog those, if they're still alive, and their enablers [MSM] for the obstruction twenty years ago.
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela-owned Citgo Petroleum Corp. has decided to stop distributing gasoline to some 1,800 U.S. stations, shedding a lackluster segment of its business while forcing the owners of those stations to find other suppliers.
While it may create some logistical headaches for gasoline retailers in the short term, the move should not have any impact on the nation's overall fuel supply.
Citgo, which is wholly owned by Venezuela's state oil company, currently has to purchase 130,000 barrels a day from third parties in order to meet its service contracts at 13,100 stations across the U.S. This is less profitable than selling gasoline directly from its refineries.
Instead, the Houston-based company has decided to sell to retailers only the 750,000 barrels a day that it produces at three U.S. refineries in Lake Charles, La., Corpus Christi, Texas and Lemont, Ill., according to a statement late Tuesday.
That will mean that over the next year Citgo will cease distributing gasoline in 10 states and stop supplying some stations in four additional states, Citgo spokesman Fernando Garay said Wednesday.
Chavez has long claimed that parts of Citgo's business produce losses for Venezuela and constitute a subsidy for the U.S. economy.
Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez has also charged that Citgo isn't profitable enough and that its parent, state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela SA, or PDVSA, could at some point sell off some of the company's refineries.
However, in a sign of the apparently lucrative relationship between the two companies, PDVSA announced Wednesday that it has so far earned $400 million in dividends this year from Citgo.
The states where Citgo will stop selling gasoline are: Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma and South Dakota. A limited number of stations in Illinois, Texas, Arkansas and Iowa will also be affected.
Venezuela is the world's fifth-largest oil exporter and the U.S. is its top buyer. The United States relied on Venezuela for about 11 percent of its oil supply in 2005.
Former CBS newsman Dan Rather says he'll have complete editorial control over the content of the weekly newsmagazine he will kick off for Mark Cuban's HDNet in October.
"News at its best is a wake-up call, not a lullaby, and I'm not in the lullaby business," Rather told reporters Tuesday at Summer TV Press Tour 2006.
Three weeks after being shown the door by the broadcast network's news division, Rather appeared before TV critics here to discuss details of his new three-year pact with billionaire Cuban.
Rather, 74, said he was relieved to be moving from news "defined by the economics of the corporation presenting the news" to "independent journalism."
The longtime anchor, who left CBS News last month after he and management could not agree on his future role there, said that "nothing I say here is designed to be critical of CBS."
Then he came out swinging.
"CBS is a large organization . . . with a chain of command that looks like the wiring of a nuclear plant. . . . The difference [at HDNet] is that the chain of command begins and ends with me. With 'Dan Rather Reports' I have creative and editorial control."
When he left CBS, Rather already had relinquished his anchor chair at "CBS Evening News" and was reporting for "60 Minutes"; his final year had been marked by controversy over the network's discredited story on President Bush's National Guard tenure.
Rather acknowledged he comes to HDNet with "baggage."
"Yes, I have baggage -- I have the baggage of being a graduate of the journalism school of South Vietnam," he said.
He also acknowledged he was "biased -- I have a very strong bias toward independent journalism."
"Some of what you describe as 'baggage,' " he told one critic, "comes from people who have the following view: Their view is, 'You report the news the way I want it reported or I'm going to make you pay a price and hang a sign around your neck saying you're a bomb-toting Bolshevik or something.' "
Dallas Mavericks owner Cuban, who sat nodding during most of Rather's comments and even applauded him once, has his own equally colorful reputation as a rabble-rouser; he's been fined for bad behavior courtside during games.
This, he suggested, makes him the perfect employer for Rather.
"I've been painted into so many corners, I'm out of corners," Cuban told the critics. "I'm not concerned at all because the work will speak for itself." He said he'd already been inundated with e-mail from Rather detractors and assumed they were pretty worn out by now.
Cuban said he was thrilled to have Rather on board: "Now that he is finally released from the ratings-driven and limited-depth confines of broadcast television, I am excited about the impact Dan can have on the future of news."
Rather choked up several times during the more than hour-long Q&A session, when talking about his legacy and specifically about his role model, Edward R. Murrow.
He declined to comment on a report in the Hollywood Reporter that he's in discussions with American Online about doing work for its Internet news service, other than to say he was interested in other opportunities. However, he said, that his first, second and third priority is HDNet, which is available in about 3 million homes.
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Dan Rather's "baggage" is more like a 40-foot steel container with hazmat placards.
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Yes, I have baggage -- I have the baggage of being a graduate of the journalism school of South Vietnam," he said.
Always comes back to that don't it? Like a 3-legged yellow dawg limping back to the pig carcasss under the trailer steps.
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I didn't think my opinion of Dan could get any lower.
Then ... Yes, I have baggage -- I have the baggage of being a graduate of the journalism school of South Vietnam," he said.
Now it's all so clear!
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HDNet, which is available in about 3 million homes.
By any count 3 million is such a tiny market that it looks like they hired him just for the splash, not any real content. He is done and HDNet is just using him to get circulation. Pathetic.
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Cuban: another idiot who doesn't understand the economics of the new media.
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"I have the baggage of being a graduate of the journalism school of South Vietnam,"
How very Kerry-esque. Will we be hearing this in every interview from now on?
"I have a very strong bias toward independent journalism."
Tough talk from one of the liberal media's long-time corporate pawns. Personally, I don't count slanderous reports based on forged documents to be journalism, but that's just me.
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yawn. What are they calling the show? DAN RATHER'S INFOMERCIAL TO PROMOTE FAILED 20TH CENTURY IDEALS?
I wonder whose informercial will get better ratings? The preacher with the bad toupee who will pray for you if you send money; the ladies selling skin cream that will instanty make you thin, beautiful, and wrinkle free; or Dan.
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.
A senior British banker who was questioned by U.S. authorities in connection with the Enron scandal has been found dead, British media reported Wednesday. 
KUWAIT - Kuwaits new cabinet approved on Tuesday a draft law that would reduce the number of parliamentary constituencies in the Gulf Arab state, the official news agency KUNA said. The move meets popular demands for electoral reform, the core of a dispute between the government and parliament, which led to the dissolution of the house in May. Opposition MPs say the reform would guard against vote buying.
THE HAGUE -The trial of Croatian journalist Josip Jovics on charges of contempt of court opened at the UN war crimes court for the former Yugoslavia here Tuesday after a weeks delay because the defendant failed to show.
SUKKUR: At least 9 people were killed and 12 injured in a clash between two rival tribes in Kandh Kot on Tuesday. Armed tribesmen of Teghani clan attacked a village of their rival Ogahi tribe. The attackers used automatic guns, rocket launchers and other weapons during the attack, due to which Gul Hassan Oghai, Shabir Ahmed were killed, while many were wounded. Men belonging to Oghai tribe promptly retaliating the onslaught of the Tifani tribesmen; killing six people and injuring 10. More firing incidents in the area are still being reported.
