BLOCKBUSTER REPORT: 23-YEAR OLD, FORMER WHITE HOUSE INTERN, SEX RELATIONSHIP WITH PRESIDENT
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At the last minute, at 6 p.m. on Saturday evening, NEWSWEEK magazine killed a story that was destined to shake official Washington to its foundation: A White House intern carried on a sexual affair with the President of the United States!
The DRUDGE REPORT has learned that reporter Michael Isikoff developed the story of his career, only to have it spiked by top NEWSWEEK suits hours before publication. A young woman, 23, sexually involved with the love of her life, the President of the United States, since she was a 21-year-old intern at the White House. She was a frequent visitor to a small study just off the Oval Office where she claims to have indulged the president's sexual preference. Reports of the relationship spread in White House quarters and she was moved to a job at the Pentagon, where she worked until last month.
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It wasn't ... technically .. er ... a sexual relationship.
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Yes, that's right. I did not have sex with that women - Monica Lewinsky. She had sex with me!
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REYKJAVIK, Iceland Bobby Fischer, the reclusive American chess master who became a Cold War icon when he dethroned the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky as world champion in 1972, has died. He was 64.
Fischer died Thursday in a Reykjavik hospital, his spokesman, Gardar Sverrisson, said. There was no immediate word on the cause of death.
Born in Chicago and raised in Brooklyn, Robert James Fischer was a U.S. chess champion at 14 and a grand master at 15. He beat Spassky in a series of games in Reykjavik to claim America's first world chess championship in more than a century.
The event had tremendous symbolic importance, pitting the intensely individualistic young American against a product of the grim and soulless Soviet Union. It also was marked by Fischer's odd behavior possibly calculated psychological warfare against Spassky that ranged from arriving two days late to complaining about the lighting, TV cameras, the spectators, even the shine on the table.
Spassky said in a brief phone call from France, where he lives, that he was "very sorry" to hear of Fischer's death.
Former Russian chess champion Garry Kasparov said Fischer's conquest of the chess world in the 1960s was "a revolutionary breakthrough" for the game.
But Fischer's reputation as a chess genius soon was eclipsed by his idiosyncrasies. He lost his world title in 1975 after refusing to defend it against Anatoly Karpov. He dropped out of competitive chess and largely out of view, emerging occasionally to make erratic and often anti-Semitic comments, although his mother was Jewish.
"The tragedy is that he left this world too early, and his extravagant life and scandalous statements did not contribute to the popularity of chess," Kasparov told The Associated Press.
Fischer lived in secret outside the United States but emerged in 1992 to confront Spassky again, in a highly publicized match in Yugoslavia. Fischer beat Spassky 10-5 to win $3.35 million. The U.S. government said Fischer's playing the match violated U.N. sanctions against Yugoslavia, imposed for Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic's role in fomenting war in the Balkans.
Over the years, Fischer gave occasional interviews with a radio station in the Philippines, often digressing into anti-Semitic rants and accusing American officials of hounding him. He praised the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, saying America should be "wiped out," and described Jews as "thieving, lying bastards." His mother was Jewish.
He also announced he had abandoned chess in 1996 and launched a new version in Argentina, "Fischerandom," a computerized shuffler that randomly distributes chess pieces on the back row of the board at the start of each game. Fischer claimed it would bring the fun back into the game and rid it of cheats.
In July 2004, Fischer was arrested in Japan and threatened with extradition to the United States to face sanctions-busting charges. He spent nine months in custody before the dispute was resolved when Iceland a chess-mad nation and site of his greatest triumph granted him citizenship.
Fischer told reporters that he was finished with a chess world he regarded as corrupt, and sparred with U.S. journalists who asked about his anti-American tirades. "The United States is evil. There's this axis of evil. What about the allies of evil the United States, England, Japan, Australia? These are the evildoers," Fischer said.
In his final years, Fischer railed against the chess establishment, alleging that the outcomes of many top-level chess matches were decided in advance.
Instead, he championed his concept of random chess. "I don't play the old chess," he told reporters upon arrival in Iceland. "But obviously if I did, I would be the best. Check out the picture at the link. Fischer looked like he'd been dead for a couple of weeks already.
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I whipped Lasker and Capablanca too, this guy was easy.
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Ok, Fisher was nuts (just like Nimlzovitch, Rubsinstein, Korchnoi, Steitnitz). Nuts but also displeasant as a person. He also was an immmense chess player who at thirteen crushed a Grand Master in one most atonishing games ever played, at fourteen qualified for the interzonal tournament and ended it as one of the eight canbdidates to the title of world champion. And had the system for designating the challenger been fair (the bround robin system allowed the Sovieyt masters to suffer "diplomatic defeats" against other Soviet players who were in better position) he would have had a real chance (at fifteen!) to become the chammenger to the crown. Then followed a series of years of "chess suicides" (he simply walked away from tournaments) and finally in 1971 he qualidied as challenger (after forcing areform of the selction process). He got 19 (nineteen) staright wins aginst world class players (wins are rare between such players, normal result is a draw). He sent two of his opponents (bith in world's top ten) to hospital for psychologic assiatnce after inflicting a 6-0.
And finally he met Spasski. He played quite absurdly in the first game trying to force a win in an obviously drawn game, then he didn't show for second match so he started with a two points handicap. Moreover, everyone of the fifty Soviet grandmlasters was busy preparing opening improvements and, whenn games were postopned, thoroughly analyzing them to give Spasski (a formidable opponent by himself) the best line of play. It is alos highly probable that like for the Korchnoi-Karpov games, the Soviets used spying and psychological destabilization. On his side Fischer had only his trainer. Despite this he lost a single game and won seven with eleven draws. In other words, he crushed Spassski, he crushed trhe fifty grand masters and he crushed Spasski's KGB assiatants.
But then, madeness who was never that far from him, finally caught him. It would have been better he had died in 1972. But he is still one of the two or theree greatest chess players ever and the one who better synthesized the three poles of the game: art, science and fighting.
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JFM, nice recap. I followed his 1972 games and was glad. I didn't care about the 1992 games because I already knew he would beat Spassky again. That Fischer was a nut to begin with, I think the U.S. shouldn't have started a criminal case against him, cause his obvious defense was he was a nut. It did, however, piss me off that he would use a platform from the PI to to deride the U.S.
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BOBBY FISCHER singlehandedly inspired many Amers to learn, play and compete locally and internationally in chess, including many local Guamanians vv forming chess clubs and tournaments.
YEAH, HE WAS OFTEN AN ECCENTRIC BASTARD/RECLUSE BUT WE DIDN'T CARE - IT WAS THE COLD WAR = VIETNAM, THE MAN WAS A CHESS GENIUS, AND HE MADE THE COMMIES SHAKE IN FEAR AS MUCH AS HE HIMSELF CRITICIZED THE ILLS OF AMERICA.
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Twin cubs were born in Denver, and there wasn't this much hoopla. The same mother has given birth to three other cubs over the last ten years. Why is this German cub so special? I could see it if it were a baby PANDA, but a polar bear?
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It's a brave, brave survivor of US-made Global Warming, you see ....
Mumia Abu-Jamal began his journalism career with the Black Panther Party. The Panthers were the original "affirmative action" employer, and Mumia (then Wesley Cook) was Minister of Information for the Philadelphia chapter at age 15, writing for the national newspaper. A heady beginning for a West Philly kid. After the Panthers fell apart (helped by a stiff dose of FBI harassment) Mumia turned to broadcasting. He had the voice, the writing talent and the ambition, and by age 25, he was one of the top names in local radio, interviewing such luminaries as Jesse Jackson and the Pointer Sisters and winning a Peabody Award for his coverage of the Pope's visit. He was president of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists, called "one to watch" by Philadelphia magazine.
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I don't think, Sgt. Mom, it's as much of a parody as some of the Iowahawk stuff. At least some of the links went to articles describing the crime committed by the named journalist.
Not that jurnos are bad, per se, but that they commit crimes more often than ex-military guys. And gals. It's all about context, something shamefully lacking in the NYT original hit pioece.
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As with most great satire, there is more than a grain of truth in this one.
Broadcast journalism in particular is propbably the most competitive and fastest paced profession in the world. There are only a handful of job openings for each new graduating class, and even some of those do not go to journalism school graduates. The stakes in turn are enormously high. Fame and immense fortune can result for the lucky few, and utter failure for a lot more. One cannot help but wonder what kind of driven, obsessive personality is required to reach the very top in such an environment.
On top of that, we have the journalism culture itself, the characteristic internal culture of the media-industrial complex as I have called it. As documented by Thomas Frank in his brilliant cultural history, The Consquest of Cool, this internal culture is still solidly based on the counterculture of the 1960s. This brings its own set of attendant problems and distortions.
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Kenya's opposition accused police of killing seven people on Thursday during a second day of clashes with demonstrators protesting against President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election.
In the capital Nairobi, and the western towns of Kisumu and Eldoret, police fired teargas and bullets during rallies called by opposition leader Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), but banned by police. More protests are planned on Friday.
Odinga, who accuses Kibaki of stealing victory in the December 27 ballot, said police shot dead seven people in the capital. "Police are shooting innocent civilians at will ... the government has turned this country into a killing field of innocents," he told reporters.
Police had no immediate comment. ODM member of parliament Elizabeth Ongoro Masha said her driver was among those killed by officers who surrounded part of the Mathare slum overnight. "They were targeting people perceived as being group leaders," she told Reuters.
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Zimbabweans will be soon lining their pockets with 10-million-dollar bills. The central bank annouced Thursday it would increase the denomination of the nation's highest bank note more than tenfold to keep pace with the world's highest inflation rate, officially estimated at 25,000 percent annually. Independent financial institutions say real inflation is closer to 150,000 percent. The new 10-million note is the equivalent of about $4 at the dominant black market exchange rate.
In an effort to end chronic cash shortages and long, chaotic lines at banks and automated teller machines, the bank will issue the new notes on Friday along with 1-million and 5-million dollar bills, said Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono. The highest existing note, introduced last month, is 750,000 Zimbabwe dollars. A hamburger at an ordinary cafe costs about 15 million Zimbabwe dollars ($6). But that price has trebled this month amid shortages of bread, meat and most other basic goods.
Acknowledging the inflation crisis, Gono said individuals from Friday would be allowed to withdraw an increased limit of 500 million Zimbabwe dollars ($200) in a single day, up from 50 million.
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This forum is read worldwide, I offer ten dollars american for a ten million zimbabwe bill, a straight swap, you send me the Zimbob bill and I send you an american ten, (Or 2 fives, or ten ones, however you want it)
Jim David jdavid1258@peoplepc.com
No JOKE
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RJ - send 'em $20 for 2 and I'll buy one from you. (Also no joke.) I'll even pay you more than $10 so you make a profit.
Talk about an unusual souvenir! (The best part is we don't have to go there to get the souvenir.)
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Deal Barbara, now let's see if I get any offers.
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10 Megabuck ZimBob Bill. Wow! Wonder who is on the picture, maybe some famous mathematician, like Fibbonaci, or Pythagorus? I also wonder if the NORKS are going to cash in on counterfitting this one. The sky is the limit, ya know. They could make good money selling them as collector's items, claiming that they were the real ZimBob thing.
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Wonder who is on the picture, maybe some famous mathematician, like Fibbonaci, or Pythagorus?
Or Ponzi?
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Do you suppose there actually are any Zim ATM machines operating as mentioned in the article.
Fresh evidence that the Saudi royal family demanded secret commissions on arms sales emerged yesterday raising further questions about the propriety of Britain's dealings with the kingdom and the government's defence of them. Documents seen by the Commons export control committee reveal Whitehall's concern about Saudi demands that "appropriately discreet arrangements" should be made to secure defence contracts.
One document states that the Saudi government "would certainly not officially approve the payment of fees although they undoubtedly expect appropriately discreet arrangements to be made".
Written by Lester Suffield, a former head of defence sales, it continues: "Statements to this effect are made by senior Saudis to visiting senior businessmen in somewhat elliptical language whenever a suitable opportunity occurs ..."
The documents, released at the National Archives, were obtained by the Commons committee as part of its inquiry into British arms sales - including allegations by the Guardian of corruption. They show that in 1976 Sir Frank Cooper, then top official at the Ministry of Defence, drew up a new directive covering the conduct of civil servants negotiating arms sales. "Public money is not to be used for illegal or improper purposes," it said. "What is 'illegal' or 'improper' will depend in the last resort on the law and practice of the country or countries concerned and it is for the foreign government to determine what are acceptable standards within its jurisdiction."
The documents show Cooper approved "agency fees" of about 15% on contracts for the Saudi air force and national guard.
The defence secretary, Des Browne, yesterday told the committee that the documents also suggested that officials were conscious about the use of public funds and the need to "restrain payments". Asked whether, since the 1970s, UK civil servants had been "aware of, connived at, and have facilitated defence exports to Saudi Arabia tainted with corruption", he reiterated the MoD's assertion that such claims were "totally unfounded".
A bribery investigation by the Serious Fraud Office into earlier dealings between Britain and Saudi Arabia was dropped in 2006 after Tony Blair and Lord Goldsmith, the then attorney general, said it would harm Britain's security interests. The SFO spent £2m and two years amassing documents that showed BAE, the UK's biggest arms company, had transferred £1bn to Washington bank accounts controlled by Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia and large amounts to Swiss bank accounts linked to agents for Saudi royals.
The US justice department has launched an investigation into the allegations. The MoD told the Commons committee yesterday that a request for information by the US was "currently being considered by the Home Office in the normal way".
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The US justice department has launched an investigation into the allegations.
An "investigation into" the cultural reality of Bakshish? Upccoming DOJ investigatory topics include the haunting paradoxical anomolies of death, taxes, male pattern baldness and gravity....
GENEVA - Saudi Arabia, appearing for the first time before a UN watchdog for womens rights, faced tough questions on Thursday and was challenged to grant gender equality.
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women has 23 independent experts monitoring adherence to a 1979 international bill of rights for women.
Oh boy girl! More experts!
The worlds biggest oil exporter ratified the pact in 2000, with the proviso that Islamic Sharia law would prevail if there were any contradiction with its provisions.
And now you see why they insisted. Go ahead and 'grill' the Saoodis, you maroons, for all the good it will do.
At a one-day debate on its record, the Saudi delegation came under fire for failing to meet international norms guaranteeing womens political, economic, social and civil rights. Only when women are free to make their own decisions on all aspects of their life are they full citizens, committee member Maria Regina Tavares da Silva told the Geneva session.
That's right up there with 'freedom of thought', as Fred notes, as a prerequisite for a free, democratic society. Thinking as you wish, and acting on those thoughts, are the first steps, and nothing else matters if you don't have freedom of thought and action.
Heisoo Shin, another committee member, said that a system of male guardianship governed virtually every aspect of a womens life in Saudi Arabia. Without a mans consent, a woman cannot study or get health service, work, marry, conduct business or even get an ambulance service in an emergency, she said.
Just noticing that, are we?
A report submitted by Riyadh on its compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women said that there was no discrimination against women in the laws of the Kingdom.
Super-glued their lips on before they typed that.
The Saudi government said while womens rights outlined in the Convention could be invoked before the courts or state authorities, Sharia law must ultimately prevail.
So there, ya Euro pansies!
The application of Sharia law in a rape case last month drew international criticism and fanned concerns about the status of women in the conservative Islamic state where powerful clerics demand the strict seclusion of females. In that case, King Abdullah pardoned a 19-year-old woman who was sentenced to flogging for being in the company of a man she was not related to. Her indiscretion came to light because she and her companion had been abducted and gang-rape by seven other men.
Zeid Bin Abdul Mushin Al Hussein, vice president of the Saudi Human Rights Commission, told the experts: Human rights in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia are based on Sharia law.
Which doesn't recognize much in the way of human rights.
Saudi officials emphasised progress for women in terms of greater employment and education in the country, where women may now study both law and engineering.
And still can't drive a car, manage a bank account or appear in public without a man.
The UN experts are expected to raise further questions on womens rights in Saudi Arabia before issuing conclusions on the kingdom and seven other countries at the end of their three-week session on Feb. 1.
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So how many is this Hugo? I could go back and count them but I don't particulary care if they're trying to do your fat ass or not.
Wait, I know! You could ask your buddy Joe Kennedy about assassination plots against Latin American dictators. I hear his family has some expertise on the subject. Maybe conference in Fidel on the speakerphone...
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Fred Tupper, Fatima and Baber state openly that they are against same-sex marriage and/or homosexuality, but to varying degrees. For example, although Fatima tells Johnny that she does not "approve" of homosexuality, she does agree to cater his wedding, because, for her, good food is more important than issues of morality. Baber, in contrast, declares he will picket outside the church during the wedding, which he considers "an abomination." Comments in favor of the marriage come from Reverend McGee, who says that it is not that he "likes it, but that it's the right thing to do."
What a horrific bore this movie sounds like. People who write such mind-numbing drool-dripping, preachy, screechy stuff like this really need to get out more. zzzzzSNORTzzzz
My idea for item #1 on the agenda: Get a horsewhip and get Bernanke to get off his butt and sieze the initiative. Sheesh. Don't these Fed Chairmen learn by watching their predecessors?
President Bush is putting together his first public call for an emergency fiscal stimulus bill while negotiations on Capitol Hill focus on rebates for taxpayers and other steps to jump-start the sagging economy.
Bush planned to lay out his position Friday, but he wasn't expected to go into specifics. Press secretary Dana Perino said Bush would demand that any package be effective, simple and temporary mirroring calls by Democratic lawmakers for a "timely, targeted and temporary" stimulus measure.
Taxpayers could receive rebates of up to $800 for individuals and $1,600 for married couples under a White House plan. Although lawmakers were considering smaller rebate checks and more money for food stamp recipients and the unemployed, Bush told congressional leaders that he favors income tax rebates for people and tax breaks for business investment.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke entered the stimulus debate Thursday, endorsing the idea of putting money into the hands of those who would spend it quickly and boost the flagging economy.
The scramble to take action came as fears mounted that a severe housing slump and a painful credit crisis could cause people to clamp down on their spending and businesses to put a lid on hiring, throwing the country into its first recession since 2001.
Aides to lawmakers involved in the talks said the White House also wants to eliminate the 10 percent income tax bracket for one year and issue a rebate within months. Advocates for the poor said that tens of millions of people in lower income ranges would be left out or not fully feel the benefit of the White House plan.
Lawmakers were instead discussing a $500 rebate for individuals, the aides said, with details for couples and people with children still being negotiated.
The rebates would likely be limited to individuals with incomes of $85,000 or less and couples with incomes of $110,000 or less, the aides said, speaking on condition of anonymity because no final decisions had been made.
The president did not push for a permanent extension of his 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, many of which are due to expire in 2010, officials said. That would eliminate a potential stumbling block to swift action by Congress, since most Democrats oppose making the tax cuts permanent.
Bernanke voiced his support for a stimulus package in an appearance before the House Budget Committee. He stressed that it must be temporary and must be implemented quickly so that its economic effects could be felt as much as possible within the next 12 months.
"Putting money into the hands of households and firms that would spend it in the near term" is a priority, he said.
Especially important is making sure a plan can put cash into the hands of poor people and the middle class, who are most likely to spend it right away, he said, though he added that research shows affluent people also spend some of their rebates.
Bernanke declined to endorse any particular approach, but he did say he preferred one that would not have a long-term adverse impact on the government's budget deficit.
Senior aides to House Democrats and Republicans said in addition to included tax rebates for individuals, the emerging measure would contain tax breaks for businesses investing in new equipment, increases in food stamps, and higher unemployment benefits. They spoke on condition of anonymity, since the talks are ongoing and lawmakers have promised not to reveal details.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she wanted legislation enacted within a month and said the government must "spend the money, invest the resources, give the tax relief in a way that again injects demand into the economy, puts it in the hands of those who need it most and into the middle class ... so that we can create jobs."
For now, Bernanke was hopeful the country could skirt a dangerous downturn.
"We're not forecasting recession but, rather, at this point, slow growth," he told lawmakers. Still, the toll of the housing and credit debacles will be felt into early next year, he added.
With protests rumbling, MSNBC's Chris Matthews said Thursday that he was wrong to say last week that the reason Hillary Clinton is a senator and a candidate for president "is that her husband messed around."
On the program, Matthews said: "Let's not forget, and I'll be brutal, the reason she's a U.S. senator, the reason she's a candidate for president, the reason she may be a front-runner, is that her husband messed around."
He explained in a later interview with The Associated Press that it was a reference to New York Democrats asking her to run for Senate when she showed dignity in the face of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. He called it an "unexceptional statement."
But now, Matthews said Thursday, "I get it."
"If I'd said that the only reason John McCain has come so far is that he got shot down over North Vietnam and captured by the enemy, I'd be brutally ignoring the courage and guts he showed in bearing up under his captivity," he said. "Saying Sen. Clinton got where she's got simply because her husband did what he did to her is just as callous and, I can see now, came across just as nasty, worse yet just as dismissive."
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On the program, Matthews said: "Let's not forget, and I'll be brutal, the reason she's a U.S. senator, the reason she's a candidate for president, the reason she may be a front-runner, is that her husband messed around." .......and did I ever tell you about the time I served my country as a member of the United States Peace Corps?
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Chris just voiced what many had been thinking but had not verbalized.
Suspicions are that the Senate seat and making the way clear for Hillary to pursue her political career was a form of restitution to her by Bill Clinton over what she went through during the Lewinsky debacle.
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How did this guy get that job? The few times I've watched him, it's like sitting in a bar next to an obnoxious drunk who's an expert on everything and wants to make sure you know it.
Republican John McCain holds a steady 7-point lead over rival Mike Huckabee in South Carolina two days before the state casts votes in an unpredictable presidential nominating race, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Thursday.
Support for McCain, an Arizona senator, held firm overnight at 29 percent, with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee sliding one point to 22 percent. Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson climbed two points to move into third place at 14 percent. A portion of the polling was conducted after former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's breakthrough win in Michigan on Tuesday, but he still slipped one point to 12 percent. Texas Rep. Ron Paul and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani were tied at 5 percent.
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Two anti-whaling activists held aboard a Japanese whaling ship have been released and transferred to an Australian fisheries patrol ship in the Southern Ocean, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said on Friday. "We received confirmation, and I've since spoken with one of the hostages who's no longer being held hostage, on board the Oceanic Viking. He confirmed that they're both completely safe," Sea Shepherd Executive Director Kim McCoy told Australian radio.
Australian Benjamin Potts and Briton Giles Lane were been picked up from Japanese whale hunter Yushin Maru 2 in the early hours of this morning and would be transferred to the protest ship Steve Irwin later on Friday.
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Those who jump uninvited aboard a vessel under the command of a captain at sea are not hostages. At best they're trespassers and usually pirates, though they also could be legitimate lawfully empowered representatives of another sovereign government engaged in the enforcement of real precedent law. Not to be confused with fantasy law declared by self appointed individual, see reference to pirate.
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If its whales that need protecting then the Senior Senator from Massechesy, er Massechuchets, er Massaer, er The Bay State could most likely stand some.
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Icerigger, the same reason we hunt, kill, and eat Deer, Elk, Moose, Carabou, Sheep, Cattle, Pigs, Sharks, crabs, Lobster, shellfish of all kinds, and too many others to name them all , down to and inluding squirrels, FOOD TO EAT.
(Moron)
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Ummm, I have to ask, Icerigger, just where do you think all the food in your local Grocery Store comes from anyway?
Some magical food machine?
And yes it depends greatly on oil and it's price.
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Didn't they attack the whaling ship by attempting to entangle its propeller and throw acid on its deck (a direct assault on the crew if you ask me).
That definitely places them in the Pirate category.
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There is whaling done by Eskimo whaling crews in Alaska. It is strictly controlled (whale strikes) by the International Whaling Commission. It is still an important part of the diet of people in coastal communities in NW and western Alaska, as well as St. Lawrence Island. Whale meat, blubber, etc. is shared. When I lived in NW Alaska, we would get whale muktuk from Point Hope and Kivalina people. Whale or seal oil, fresh or fresh from frozen state with carrots, hunks of meat is good stuff. You feel like you have a little furnace going in the tum-tum. Especially in cold weather. Excellent source of energy.
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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.
REYKJAVIK, Iceland Bobby Fischer, the reclusive American chess master who became a Cold War icon when he dethroned the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky as world champion in 1972, has died. He was 64.
Kenya's opposition accused police of killing seven people on Thursday during a second day of clashes with demonstrators protesting against President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election.
Fresh evidence that the Saudi royal family demanded secret commissions on arms sales emerged yesterday raising further questions about the propriety of Britain's dealings with the kingdom and the government's defence of them. Documents seen by the Commons export control committee reveal Whitehall's concern about Saudi demands that "appropriately discreet arrangements" should be made to secure defence contracts.
GENEVA - Saudi Arabia, appearing for the first time before a UN watchdog for womens rights, faced tough questions on Thursday and was challenged to grant gender equality.
On the program, Matthews said: "Let's not forget, and I'll be brutal, the reason she's a U.S. senator, the reason she's a candidate for president, the reason she may be a front-runner, is that her husband messed around."
Republican John McCain holds a steady 7-point lead over rival Mike Huckabee in South Carolina two days before the state casts votes in an unpredictable presidential nominating race, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Thursday.
