A NEW York appeals court has ruled that a landlord can evict Bianca Jagger from her Park Avenue apartment because of her immigration status.
The former wife of Rolling Stone Mick Jagger has lived in the rent-stabilised apartment for 20 years and argued that it was her primary residence and her landlord should be barred from evicting her.
A British citizen who was born in Nicaragua, Jagger is in the United States on a B-2 tourist visa.
Her lawyer Ryan Goldstein had argued that mould in the apartment had made it unliveable and she had stopped paying the $US4614 ($5148) a month rent in 2003.
The landlord, Katz Park Avenue Corporation, said Jagger was in the US on a tourist visa and was not eligible to maintain permanent residence.
The 3-2 decision by New York State Supreme Court's Appellate Division reversed a lower court's finding.
The decision, which noted that the environmental activist also had a luxury apartment in London's Belgravia, said Jagger would also have to pay back rent and other fees.
Tenants in rent-stablised apartments are protected from sharp increases in rent. Once a tenant leaves a rent-stabilised apartment, the landlord is free to charge market rate.
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Oh, Bianca. Remember the good old days? Everybody wanting Mick's lady to show up here, show up there, wanting your opinion on everything just as if it actually meant something, doing coke in the can at Studio 54 with Maggie Trudeau? Good times...good times...
Now your an illegal immigrant trying to hold onto a rent controlled moldy apartment.
Why am I smilin...
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hmm... my sis-inlaw has a rent controlled apt in Paris (Moulin Rouge). Shows up there every two years or so for a week or two. Rent was set in the early 70's so she would be a fool to ever give it up. (less than $100/yr)
So the real fault is Rent Control. Its a dumb idea.
LONDON A Nobel prize-winning scientist who reportedly claimed Africans and Europeans had different levels of intelligence is no longer welcome to deliver a lecture at London's Science Museum, the museum said Wednesday.
Dr. Watson has been known for a long time in the scientific community as a brilliant geneticist and a first-class nut.
James Watson, who won the Nobel Prize for co-discovering DNA, drew widespread outrage when he told The Sunday Times that Africans and Europeans did not share the same brain power.
The newspaper quoted the 79-year-old American geneticist as saying he was "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours whereas all the testing says not really."
He told the paper he hoped that everyone was equal, but added: "people who have to deal with black employees find this not true."
So, he's a maroon.
The comments drew condemnation from British lawmakers, scientists, and equality campaigners. On Wednesday The Independent newspaper put Watson on its front page, against the words: "Africans are less intelligent than Westerners, says DNA pioneer."
The Independent catalogued what it said were a series of controversial statements from Watson, including one in which he reportedly suggested women should have the right to abort their unborn children if tests could determine they would grow into homosexuals.
Watson, who serves as chancellor of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, was due to speak Friday at a sold-out event at the Science Museum, but on Wednesday night the institution said Watson's comments had gone too far and the lecture had been canceled.
This is not the first time Watson's speaking engagements have caused a stir. In 2000 Watson shocked an audience at the University of California, Berkeley, when he advanced his theory about a link between skin color and sex drive. His lecture, complete with slides of bikini-clad women, argued that extracts of melanin which give skin its color had been found to boost subjects' sex drive. "That's why you have Latin lovers," he said, according to people who attended the lecture. "You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient."
Telephone and e-mail messages left with the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory after business hours Wednesday were not immediately returned.
Internet users in Egypt, India and Turkey are the world's most frequent searchers for Websites using the keyword sex on Google search engines, according to statistics just provided by Google Inc.
Germany, Mexico and Austria were world's top three searchers of the word Hitler while Nazi scored the most hits in Chile, Australia and the United Kingdom, data from 2004 until now on the Google Trends website reflects.
Chile also came in first position in searching for the word gay, followed by Mexico and Colombia. We are not saying this, but it is the God of Search which has revealed so.
Interestingly, Morocco, Indonesia and Pakistan were among world's top three countries to search for the word Jihad while Pakistan, Philippines and Australia sought the word "Terrorism" the most.
The statistics also revealed that the Internet users in Ireland, United Kingdom and United States searched most for the word Hangover. A list of other word searches is on page two of the article at link.
We're not used to thinking of them this way. But many advanced military weapons are essentially robotic -- picking targets out automatically, slewing into position, and waiting only for a human to pull the trigger. Most of the time. Once in a while, though, these machines start firing mysteriously on their own. The South African National Defence Force "is probing whether a software glitch led to an antiaircraft cannon malfunction that killed nine soldiers and seriously injured 14 others during a shooting exercise on Friday." . . .
According to The Star, "a female artillery officer risked her life... in a desperate bid " to save members of her battery from the gun."
But the brave, as yet unnamed officer was unable to stop the wildly swinging computerised Swiss/German Oerlikon 35mm MK5 anti-aircraft twin-barrelled gun. It sprayed hundreds of high-explosive 0,5kg 35mm cannon shells around the five-gun firing position.
By the time the gun had emptied its twin 250-round auto-loader magazines, nine soldiers were dead and 11 injured.
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A dozen headless female bodies hang from industrial metal hooks in the center of the room. To the left are a table of plastic faces, awaiting makeup. To the right, a stack of silicone molds ready for the next order of life-sized love toys.
Normally reserved for private play, these high-end, anatomically correct dolls are getting big-screen exposure with the recent release of "Lars and the Real Girl," an offbeat, surprisingly chaste comedy about a lonely introvert (Ryan Gosling) and Bianca, the silicone object of his affection.
Bianca, a freckle-nosed brunette, was born just east of San Diego at Abyss Creations. The 11-year-old company that makes RealDolls will ship 400 dolls to the U.S. and abroad this year at upward of $6,500 each... It's been suggested that eventually Real Doll exteriors will be used on humanoid robots, as they are perhaps the top of the line exterior manufacturers.
2. Once robotics gets just a little bit better than it is now, you really will be able to have lifelike robotic actors indistinguishable from real people--except that they always show up on time and never forget their lines.
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Mike, and they won't spend the rest of their time telling the rest of us peasants how we should live, think, vote, etc.
Oh yeah, and they won't set a bad example by driving drunk, flashing their private parts, snorting coke and other substances, and so on.
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Why? Robotic actors are another Polavision which was a day and a dollar short up against VHS, a technological leap. Who needs robots when you have ever increasing abilities of CGI. Soon[tm] you'll see and hear a fully passable CGI Clark Gable doing a sequel to Gone With the Wind. Of course Hollyweird will still lack writing talent to justify doing the production, but that is another issue [Intelligence is finite, there are just more people today].
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Dekker never had any problems telling them apart.
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Why the hell not? I'm positive they could out-act Cameron Diaz, Keanu Reeves and Ben Affleck.
Well, my dog can outact Reeves and Affleck -- he's got very expressive ears -- and Cameron isn't depending on her acting skills to get by. But point taken. And P2K is right -- actors' days are numbered.
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Robots will not replace actors, CGI will. Computer simulated voices may or may not be used. At some point a kid at home can create a movie for cheap. It may not be a good movie, but the pressure will be on Hollywood to truly improve quality and tone down the other noise.
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This was made in 48 hours, including writing, shooting, and editing. There was a little professional-grade equipment -- a small crane and some Kinoflo lights -- but I have a book that shows how to build an equivalent crane out of hardware, and I have a pretty good idea how to replicate the lights.
The editing was done primarily on a Mac, but some of the effects were done on a Windows editor, Vegas 7.
It came in second out of the 15 or so projects it was shown with.
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an old college buddy is now an EE professor. His latest endeavors have been with a Hollywood Studio that wants to redo Casablanca in color and 3D as a technical experiment.
They will have people replay the scenes while scanned in 3D and imaged. Then the facial and body features will be extrapolated from the existing movie with some of his tools and painted on the 3d scans as a modified "skins".
If it works as easily as they expect it to then actors are in big trouble.
The actors know this. Many refuse to allow 3D scans to be made of them. Others have paid lots of money for hi-res extreme 3D scans of themselves. Then copyrighted them and their skins.
Its a brave new medium and hollywood actors are closer to been buggy whip manufactures then they ever imagined.
(SomaliNet) Being the highest in the world already, Zimbabwes inflation rate, rose to a new peak of nearly 8 000 percent last month, figures released by the central statistics bureau showed on Wednesday. "The year-on-year inflation rate in September 2007 was 7 892,1 percent, gaining 1 389,3 percentage points on the August rate of 6 592,8 percent," the bureau said in a statement.
The month-on-month rate of inflation was 38,7 percent, the CSO added. The new rise reverses a slight fall in the monthly rate that was recorded in September and punctures hopes by government that it was beginning to tame what central bank governor Gideon Gono has termed the country's "economic HIV".
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Those who locked in their mort-gages (banned woid) at 5% are really making out.
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So how much was it for all those Humvees, wrap-around shades and mobiles phones then, Bob?
Somebody, somewhere, put this place outa its misery.
The Church of England is facing a rift similar to that in the US Church after hundreds of leading evangelical clergy were told to invite bishops from outside their dioceses to carry out ordinations.
Members of the 1,700-strong Reform group were told at their conference that they must not be afraid to ignore the wishes of their diocesan bishop if he refused to ordain conservative evangelical clergy. The advice mirrors the situation in the US, where conservatives have even had their own bishops ordained by evangelical Archbishops from Global South provinces such as Uganda.
The Rev Rod Thomas, the groups new chairman, urged his members to resist the Church of Englands increasingly liberal agenda.
Mr Thomas also called on the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, to recall invitations to next years Lambeth Conference issued to pro-gay US bishops.
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they must not be afraid to ignore the wishes of their diocesan bishop if he refused to ordain conservative evangelical clergy.
heheh. Pretty clever move. If you won't give us the ball to play with, Bob's got one and we'll just invite him over and you can go play with yourself. Whatcha gonna do 'bout it?
Heh...heh...heh RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Hundreds of loggers and angry residents have surrounded eight Greenpeace members who tried to leave an Amazon town with a scorched tree trunk for an exhibit on global warming, the environmental group said Wednesday. Damn you, peasants! Didn't you hear about Al Gore!
The activists are holed up in the makeshift headquarters of the federal environmental agency in the town of Castelo dos Sonhos, Greenpeace campaigner Andre Muggiati said. They are being protected by police and army soldiers. The region in the Amazon state of Para is part of the so-called "arc of destruction," the southern edge of the rain forest that has been devastated by loggers. In 2005, American missionary Dorothy Stang was shot dead in the region during a land dispute. Which has no relevance to the story, but we're AP so we'll throw it in...
On Tuesday, the Greenpeace activists tried to haul away a badly burned fallen tree trunk for an exhibit on global warming in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Muggiati said. Where ya going with my tree, ya dirty hippies?
Marcelo Marquesini, who is charge of the Greenpeace expedition, said that the loggers had sent a committee Wednesday to meet with the environmentalists. "The situation is calmer now," he said in a telephone interview from inside the besieged headquarters. "I told them we've been illegally imprisoned and they said they'd let us go soon." Yes, Everything is always fine at a beseiged headquarters. Why don't you spout more legalese at them. I'm sure they love that.
Marquesini said he expected they would be allowed to leave either Wednesday afternoon or Thursday morning. The environmentalists, however, will not leave at night for safety reasons, he said. Yeah. Bad things out there in the dark...you could disappear without a trace.
Muggiati said the federal environmental agency Ibama gave Greenpeace the OK to transport the tree trunk, but the permission was suspended in the wake of the standoff. An Ibama press officer, who declined to be identified according to agency policy, said the permission was suspended in an attempt to diffuse the situation. The newspaper Jornal Provincia do Tapajos said residents were angry Greenpeace removed the trunk without getting the local community's permission. Oh...them? Well, what do they know?
They know you ain't leaving with that tree....
"How can Ibama allow Greenpeace to do this type of extraction when they're not even capable of approving our management plans?" community leader Vilson Ketterman told the newspaper. He was referring to plans loggers must file to show their operations meet basic environmental standards. Management plans and permissions to transport tree trunks are the main tools the Brazilian government uses to control illegal logging in the Amazon. But...they're Greenpeace. They're so much better then you... Marquesini said loggers had hauled the tree trunk away and told him they planned to make it into a monument in a public square. "They're probably going to use it to commemorate the day they expelled Greenpeace from the town," he added. Y'all come back now, ya heah...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
The region around Castelo dos Sonhos has a long history of tension between the federal government, loggers and environmentalists. Greenpeace is especially unwelcome in the region, where the group has denounced illegal logging done to make way for soybean fields. Bet if they were growing weed down there, Greenpeace wouldn't be pissed...
In his autobiographical book "Revolution of Hope," former Mexican president Vicente Fox admits he pushed for a European Union-style merger of the U.S., Canada and Mexico, validating a central argument of WND staff writer Jerome R. Corsi's New York Times best-selling book, "The Late Great USA: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada."
On page 101, Fox writes: "I proposed a 'NAFTA Plus' plan to President Bush and Canada's Prime Minister Jean Chrétien to move us toward a single continental economic union, modeled on the European example."
On the next page, Fox notes the White House was reluctant for this theme to be discussed openly. "Bush shot the idea down," Fox continued. "The White House sent word that life would be easier if this Mexican cowboy would stop raising hackles with his talk of a North American Union."
"Evidently, George Bush forgot to brief Vicente Fox before he began his book tour," Corsi commented. "Just give Vicente Fox a microphone," Corsi told WND. "That's the best way to bring the SPP out of the shadows and expose the real conspirators, George Bush and Vicente Fox, not those of us who are pointing to government websites and asking questions.
Corsi pointed out that at the third annual Security and Prosperity Partnership meeting in August, Bush told a Fox News reporter that anyone who thought the SPP could evolve into a North American Union was a conspiracy theorist.
"Now what's Bush going to say?" Corsi asked. "Vicente Fox has spilled the beans, admitting he was the chief conspirator in the plan to bring the North American Union into reality."
As WND reported last week, Fox admitted on CNN's "Larry King Live" show that he and Bush had a plan to extend NAFTA to the tip of South America through the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas, or FTAA.
Responding to a question from a CNN viewer, Fox told King he and Bush planned to evolve the Western Hemisphere free trade agreements into a regional currency.
According to a transcript posted on the CNN website, King asked Fox, "It's going to be like the euro dollar, you mean?"
Fox responded: "Well, that would be long, long term. I think the processes to go, first step into is trading agreement. And then further on, a new vision, like we are trying to do with NAFTA."
In his book, Fox is open in his support for globalism and his determination to create a North American Union, Corsi said, pointing out he portrays Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as the villain who blocked the North American Union plan.
On page 317 of his book, Fox writes: "At summits I took every opportunity to advocate clearly for free-market policies; showing what sound economics could do to fund social justice; arguing for globalism, NAFTA and the Free Trade Area of the Americas."
In the next sentence, Fox tags Chavez for blocking the plan. "This was a red cape to Hugo [Chavez]," Fox wrote. "He [Chavez] has a blind hatred of George W. Bush and the United States. It is easy to get that bull to charge." We have Chavez to thank for derailing this nonsense?
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No, you are to blame for derailing the NAU. In the US, it's best to include the people in major decisions. Those who ignore that advice are known as elites. Bush, Clinton, Gore, Kerry, McCain, and even Thompson think that supporting the elite position without first asking begging the people for permission to dream big dreams on their behalf. The SPP, and NAU will now suffer because of one GWBush's conspiracy tactics.
Call us after the fence is built.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, portrayed as a man of god-like wisdom and talents at home, has defined the characteristics of the ideal woman - beauty, a big heart and a communist fighting spirit. Of course women have to be beautiful in appearance, but its not the whole of true beauty, Kim was quoted as saying in the pro-Pyongyang periodical Joguk.
The diminutive Kim, 65, known for his bouffant hair-do, jumpsuits and potbelly, is a widower. Also, two actress concubines companions who gave birth to his three known sons, have passed away. It is the women who can give up their youth, love and family for the fatherland and the nation - those who can put the mass and their comrades before themselves for the happiness of the people and the prosperity of the nation that are true beauties, he told the magazine published in Japan and made available in Seoul on Wednesday.
North Koreas official media likes to call Korean women the flowers of the peninsula who honour their country by marrying wounded soldiers and are able to fight off 100 invaders while achieving breakthroughs in science.
And cook a mean grass stew.
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WORLDNEWS > CHINA - NO [formal] END TO KOREAN WAR UNLESS NORTH KOREA GIVES UP ITS NUKES; + USA EXPECTS NORTH KOREA TO HAND OVER ITS PLUTONIUM. USA sending a team to collect nucmats.
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Hey, I'm with Kim when it comes to hot revolutionary babes. The fiery eyes, the smudge of dirt on the cheek, the cammies pulled tight across their...well, enough of that. The downside is you have to gag them to shut off the silly commie leftist drivel they spout. But that's just part of the struggle, right? Viva la Revolution!
The Russian Embassy in Helsinki has repudiated comments made by its diplomat Vladimir Kozin on how Russia would react to Finland's possible membership in NATO. Kozin said in a television interview on Wednesday that Finnish membership in NATO would pose a direct military threat to Russia.
Kozin also suggested that Finland and Russia might hold joint military exercises. In a statement issued on Thursday, Ambassador Alexander Rumyanchev said that Kozin's statements do not represent the official views of Russia, or the views of the Russian Embassy in Finland. According to the Embassy, the statements were Kozin's personal opinions, which he made in his capacity as a researcher.
President Tarja Halonen said on Wednesday that she does not believe that Russia sees possible Finnish NATO membership as a military threat. "I met President Putin about a week ago, and the issue was not raised in any way. If Finland were to become militarily allied, it would be Finland's own affair", said Halonen at a press conference on Wednesday during a visit to London.
High-ranking Russian diplomat Vladimir Kozin said on YLE TV News on Wednesday that Finnish membership in NATO would be a direct military threat to Russia. He also commented on the matter in an interview with the private MTV3 network on Tuesday, using somewhat more moderate turns of phrase.
Kozin also suggested that Finland and Russia might hold common military exercises.
Foreign Minister Ilkka Kanerva (Nat. Coalition Party), Defence Minister Jyri Häkämies (Nat. Coalition Party) and Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen (Centre) did not want to comment on the statements. President Halonen was also brief in her comments.
At the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Undersecretary of State Markus Lyra says that Kozin's statements should not be given too much weight. Lyra told Helsingin Sanomat that Kozin is a minor civil servant, who is not one of the top figures at the Russian Embassy. "Russia does not support the enlargement of NATO, that is certainly clear", Lyra said, adding that Russia's criticism of NATO is not directed particularly at Finland.
Lyra notes that Russia has always emphasised that possible NATO membership is Finland's own affair. Lyra has reservations about Kozin's offer for common military exercises.
According to the chairman of Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, Pertti Salolainen (Nat. Coalition Party), Kozin's comments should be taken seriously. "It appears that he has the blessing of higher-ups to speak like this, and that this is not a matter of private initiative", Salolainen said on Wednesday.
Salolainen did not take a stand on whether or not the purpose of the statements is to influence public opinion in Finland, while a new defence policy report is being planned. "If the aim is to influence public opinion, the time is well chosen." Salolainen feels that the statements reflect an increasingly tough foreign policy line in Russia.
Former Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja (SDP) has criticised the way that the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) reported the story on Wednesday. Tuomioja said that YLE is engaged in an "unusually open and stupid campaign to frighten Finns into supporting NATO membership".
Sweden's Migration Court has turned down calls from a 51-year-old Iraqi man to overturn the Migration Board's decision to refuse him asylum. The man has not been able to prove that he is particularly vulnerable and in need of protection, according to the court.
In July, Migration Board boss Dan Eliasson came in for severe criticism for his decision to turn down the Baghdad native's asylum application. Under the new guidelines laid down by Eliasson, refugees must be able to show that there is a specific threat against them if they are to be considered eligible for permanent residency.
Thursday's decision was based on an interpretation of three Migration Court of Appeal decisions classifying the situation in Iraq as "difficult circumstances" rather than an "internal armed conflict". According to the appeal court, the terrorist groups and armed militias currently operating in Iraq are not engaged in full-blown warfare either with the government or each other.
That's actually correct.
The Migration Court further pointed out that the number of deaths and violent incidents had decreased this year both in Baghdad and the rest of Iraq.
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"The Migration Court further pointed out that the number of deaths and violent incidents had decreased this year both in Baghdad and the rest of Iraq."
Shhhhhh. Don't tell the MSM and the DemoncRats; it'll ruin their whole dayyear decade.
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Mexican soldiers and civilian smugglers engaged in an armed standoff with nearly 30 American law enforcement officials on the southern U.S. border, according to Texas police and the FBI.
At a spot more than 200 yards inside the U.S., Mexican Army troops set up several mounted machine guns when U.S. Border Patrol agents called for backup Monday, the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin of Ontario, Calif., reported.
Remind me: isn't that an act of war?
The paper said Mexican military Humvees were towing what appeared to be thousands of pounds of marijuana across the border into the U.S., according to Chief Deputy Mike Doyal of the Hudspeth County Sheriff's Department. The incident took place on the Rio Grande near Neely's Crossing, about 50 miles east of El Paso.
"It's been so bred into everyone not to start an international incident with Mexico that it's been going on for years," Doyal told the Daily Bulletin. "When you're up against mounted machine guns, what can you do? Who wants to pull the trigger first? Certainly not us."
Confirming the afternoon encounter, FBI spokeswoman Andrea Simmons told the paper, "Bad guys in three vehicles ended up on the border. People with Humvees, who appeared to be with the Mexican Army, were involved with the three vehicles in getting them back across."
Deputies captured one vehicle and found 1,477 pounds of marijuana inside, according to Doyal, who added Mexican soldiers set fire to one of the Humvees stuck in the river.
Such incidents are common, Doyal told the Daily Bulletin. Last November, his deputies were called on to back up agents from the Fort Hancock border patrol station in Texas after confronting more than six fully armed men dressed in Mexican military uniforms. Armed with machine guns, the men were trying to bring more than three tons of marijuana across the border in military vehicles.
Doyal insisted the federal government must do something about the incursions, pointing out the deputies and border agents are not equipped for combat.
But Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff today played down the reports of Mexican military incursions, suggesting many could have been mistakes or criminals dressed in military garb. Last week, Mexican officials denied their military made any incursions.
Then they won't mind if we kill the 'imposters'.
The Daily Bulletin reported, however, border agents interviewed over the past year believe the confrontations were with Mexican military personnel. A story by the paper last year highlighted a Department of Homeland Security document reporting 216 incursions by Mexican soldiers during the previous 10 years. Chertoff downplayed the reports at that time, as well, calling them "overblown."
But border agents contend otherwise. "We're sitting ducks," said one who spoke to the Daily Bulletin on condition of anonymity. "The government has our hands tied."
As WND reported in February 2006, an American law enforcement officer and news crew in Hudspeth County, Texas, witnessed an armed incursion into the U.S. by men dressed in Mexican army attire, the second such incident in two weeks.
Mexican officials have said their military is forbidden from traveling within three miles of the border, though U.S. border residents repeatedly have spotted mobile patrols of Mexican military units traversing roads that run directly parallel to the international boundary. Mexico says the armed men crossing into the U.S. are paramilitary forces loyal to drug-smuggling cartels.
Okay, so a joint ops by the real Mexican military and US military could handle the problem.
Republican Reps. Duncan Hunter and David Drier of California last week asked Chertoff, the House Judiciary Committee, the House Homeland Security Committee and the House International Relations Committee to investigate the incursions.
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Where's the video? These stories have no impact if they don't have video. Some good action shots and it would be in red on the Drudge Report. Otherwise, just wring your hands boys.
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Fort Bliss is right there. Plenty of combat-experienced folks are usually around training more folks for combat experience. Neely's Crossing would be a much shorter commute that Iraq. I believe the place (Fort Bliss) was Gen. Pershing's base for defending America against analagous threats nearly 100 years ago.
3. Post to all the other video-sharing sites, since YouTube will likely yank it as "hate".
4. Pass the video around to as many people as possible.
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I agree with RC. Get some video on the web and the news! Once the American people SEE it for themselves, maybe, just maybe, our government will freaking do something about it. We can't put our police officers in danger like that. They aren't equipped to deal with a military force. Arrrrrgggggh. This really makes my blood boil.
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Mexico says the armed men crossing into the U.S. are paramilitary forces loyal to drug-smuggling cartels.
So in the near future, when they're just a pile of burnt cinder on the northern side of the Rio, there'll be no repercussions, cause you know that they're really not part of the official Mexican government. Even if there are a few more empty billets back in the Mexican Army base south of the border.
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"When you're up against mounted machine guns, what can you do?
Combined arms doctrine says airstrikes, armor or artillery.
I rather suspect the sonic boommage from a fighter making a low pass with afterburner cranked would quickly change the tactical situation without a single shot being fired.
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I told Mr. Wife about it this morning, and he commented, "If this has been going on for a while, it's because Bush is ok with it."
Definitely photos and video, whether on YouTube or forwarded to the entire address book, and the border states will vote for whichever candidate most believably promises to stop it.
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Eventually this is going to turn into a shooting incident, with casualties, followed by a desperate attempt the the US government to hush it up.
Only when a bunch of US civilians are gunned down by Mexican Army personnel is there going to be a response, unless some US citizens with sniper rifles take down an entire Mexican Army unit inside the US.
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plz add my outrage to the list,
absoulutely outrageous.. we've been betrayed by Bush and his cronies big time..
If both Bill Clinton and GW Bush owned a Feed Lot and sold Bull Shit for a living instead of making a living in US politics, Americans would have been better off.
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...At a spot more than 200 yards inside the U.S., Mexican Army troops set up several mounted machine guns
It is an invading force. Treat them as such.
These greed based narco-terrorists are as bad as the religion fueled muslim terrorists.
Drugs are destroying this country.
What's it going to take until something is done by the U.S.?
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Bull$hit "One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon has not aroused much deliberate concern, or attracted much sustained inquiry. In consequence, we have no clear understanding of what bullshit is, why there is so much of it, or what functions it serves.
One who is concerned to report or to conceal the facts assumes that there are indeed facts that are in some way both determinate and knowable. His interest in telling the truth or in lying presupposes that there is a difference between getting things wrong and getting them right, and that it is at least occasionally possible to tell the difference. Someone who ceases to believe in the possibility of identifying certain statements as true and others as false can have only two alternatives. The first is to desist both from efforts to tell the truth and from efforts to deceive. This would mean refraining from making any assertion whatever about the facts. The second alternative is to continue making assertions that purport to describe the way things are but that cannot be anything except bullshit."
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"If this has been going on for a while, it's because Bush is ok with it."
I've said as much myself before. The drug problem is the same as illegal immigration. If the government was serious about stopping it, they could. All the solutions you good Rantburgers have offered here could be easily brought to bear and yet they are not. The problem is that too many people are making too much money from it. Is it any surprise? If the cheap labor from illegal aliens is enough to corrupt them, how much more corrupting would be the fabulous amounts of lucre from the drug trade?
I took a lot heat here yesterday for wondering if I could vote for Giuliani against Hillary. But this is the problem I have unless Giuliani promises in no uncertain terms to disavow amnesty and to secure the damn border. What good is it to win in Iraq if we lose our own country?
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When you make the pooplist your comments vanish into the ether, seen by no one. Sure hope Aris kept a copy. AoS.
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I went to his blog to see if he's posting them there. Nope. And that's the problem. He doesn't have anything to really say; he just wants to be disruptive.
It will be interesting to see how long he keeps trying to post. If the definition of insanity is repeatedly doing the same thing and expecting a different result...
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"Do I understand correctly that so long as Mr. Katsaris is pooplisted, his comments are visible only to him?"
No. Troll 753433 (his official designation since being PL'd) can't see his comments any more than you can. That he keeps on posting them is kinda bogglesome, when you think about it...
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So what's the difference between being pooplisted and being designated a troll?
MOSCOW - Russia and India will collaborate on building a new fifth generation fighter plane, the Indian defence minister confirmed here on Wednesday. We are collaborating on the BrahMos missiles, on a new fifth generation combat plane and on a multi-purpose transport plane... demonstrating the strategic nature of Russo-Indian cooperation, Arackaparambil Kurian Antony said at a high-level meeting in Moscow.
For his part, Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov pointed out the importance of military cooperation between the two countries currently shown in the joint construction of the Su-30 MKI fighter plane and the T-90 tank. The Su30-MKI, the export version of the Su-30M, is a two-seater multi-purpose fighter plane.
Russia accounts for 70 percent of Indian military equipment but late deliveries, especially of tanks, and commercial disagreements have forced New Delhi to also use other suppliers including Britain, France, Israel and the United States. In fact India is no longer content simply to purchase arms but now favours joint productions thanks to the transfer of technologies.
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Yo, India, ask the Ruskies about anti-aircraft issues. Got it?
...For all of Gore's later fascination with science and technology, he often struggled academically in those subjects. The political champion of the natural world received (at Harvard) sophomore D in Natural Sciences 6 (Man's Place in Nature) and then got a C-plus in Natural Sciences 118 his senior year...
...488 score (out of a possible 800) in physics...
...(519) in chemistry...
...Said astute observation neglected to include the fact that HARVARD has an infamous reputation for grade inflation- 90% of undergraduates graduate with a " w/ HONORS" or higher designation. You must really be a "bag of smashed a**holes" to earn a D at Harvard University...
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I thought Mr. Gore studied Divinity and Journalism? The science courses (Seriously, Man's Place in Nature? That sounds like another name for Science for Dance Majors...). His scores in Physics, which it must be admitted is difficult for brains weak on the math/science side -- I did very poorly in that sequence -- and chemistry make sensed in view of his silly claims about global warming.
Nowadays the average grade at Harvard College is an A. It takes real effort to get a B, although apparently some work is being done to change that.
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Yet 110,000 years later, no such modern activity, except for seafood dining, could be found in that part of South Africa, said Alison Brooks, a George Washington University anthropology professor who was not associated with Marean's study. That shows that the dip into modern life was not built upon
Myanmars ruling junta blamed Buddhist monks Wednesday for last months violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests, as it admitted nearly 3,000 people had been detained over the rallies.
The official New Light of Myanmar newspaper, a government mouthpiece, said that if the monks had remained in their monasteries, the government would not have used force to prevent protests. If... they had not staged protest marches, demanding release of political prisoners, the nation would not have seen any chaos, it added.
State media also gave a sharply higher figure for the number of people who were detained in connection with the protests, saying 2,927 had been locked up around the country and 468 remained behind bars. Earlier state media had indicated about 2,100 people had been arrested. The newspaper said security forces were continuing to make arrests, despite a statement last week by the UN Security Council demanding the release of all political prisoners. Some are still (being) called in for questioning, and those who should be released will be released, the paper added.
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Well, duh. Everyone knows Buddhist monks are hard boyz prone to violence.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - A series of battles between soldiers and Tamil rebels in northern Sri Lanka left eight guerrillas dead, the military said Wednesday as troops uncovered a massive weapons cache hidden in a house in the region.
Acting on a tip, Sri Lankan forces searched a house in the volatile northern Jaffna Peninsula on Wednesday, discovering eight suicide bomb vests, 26 boxes of C-4 explosives totaling nearly 600 kilograms (1,320 pounds), rifles and other bombs, the military said in a statement. The military said the weapons were hidden by the Tamil Tiger rebels to be used in their ongoing separatist war against government forces.
Fighting has flared in recent weeks between the government and the rebels along the front lines surrounding the Tigers mini-state in part of northern Sri Lanka. The latest wave of battles began about 10:20 a.m. Tuesday when rebels tried to cross into the government-controlled Jaffna peninsula at the village of Nagarkovil, the military said in a statement. Troops killed one rebel in the fighting, the military said. Later in the day, rebels attacked soldiers in the village of Muhamalai in two separate incidents that left six rebels dead, the military reported.
Early Wednesday, 10 rebels believed to be fleeing from the northeastern wilderness of Thoppigala were attacked by security forces who killed one fighter outside the city of Trincomalee, the military said.
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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
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.
LONDON A Nobel prize-winning scientist who reportedly claimed Africans and Europeans had different levels of intelligence is no longer welcome to deliver a lecture at London's Science Museum, the museum said Wednesday.
Internet users in Egypt, India and Turkey are the world's most frequent searchers for Websites using the keyword sex on Google search engines, according to statistics just provided by Google Inc. 
In his autobiographical book "Revolution of Hope," former Mexican president Vicente Fox admits he pushed for a European Union-style merger of the U.S., Canada and Mexico, validating a central argument of WND staff writer Jerome R. Corsi's New York Times best-selling book, "The Late Great USA: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada."
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, portrayed as a man of god-like wisdom and talents at home, has defined the characteristics of the ideal woman - beauty, a big heart and a communist fighting spirit. Of course women have to be beautiful in appearance, but its not the whole of true beauty, Kim was quoted as saying in the pro-Pyongyang periodical Joguk. 
Myanmars ruling junta blamed Buddhist monks Wednesday for last months violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests, as it admitted nearly 3,000 people had been detained over the rallies.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - A series of battles between soldiers and Tamil rebels in northern Sri Lanka left eight guerrillas dead, the military said Wednesday as troops uncovered a massive weapons cache hidden in a house in the region.
