And just what does Princess Madeleine have to do with this? Nothing at all, except that commies don't approve of royalty (and I will post her image at the slightest excuse.)
The Olympics were supposed to be a showcase for China's progressive socialist society. Sure enough, the Chicoms have managed to showcase not only their pollution, their oppression, and their general incompetence, but now their racism as well.
For "reasons of safety", bars are forbidden to serve "blacks"" and Mongolians or place tables in the street. Street musicians are being banned, and so is buying medicines containing "stimulants" without a prescription. Starbucks coffee perhaps? A broken clock....
Prohibitions are on the rise for the Olympic capital, while the first leaks reveal a grandiose fireworks display for the inauguration.
Bar owners around the Workers' Stadium in downtown Beijing say that public security officials are telling them not to let in "blacks" and Mongolians, and many of them have even had to sign a pledge. The official reason is the fight against drugs and prostitution, dominated in the past by Mongolians and persons of colour. Perhaps the Chicom bigwigs fear that too many new faces will make it harder to collect their usual percentage of the take. Moreover, public places must close by 2 a.m., for security reasons, and the bar owners are being asked to remind their clients that they must always have an identification document with them. What are the black and Mongolian equivalents of a yellow Star of David?
There is even doubt over whether the bars within a radius of two kilometres from the Olympic buildings will be able operate, or whether they will have to shut down for the entire period. In some areas, tables are not permitted outside, because "the presence of too many foreigners gathered outside could create problems". Probably for fear of what a combined mob of blacks and Mongolians might do after they are denied admission.
There is also an attempt to shut down outdoor musical concerts, to prevent disorder. Now if they would just ban karaoke and promise to shoot violators on sight, I might cut them some slack.
Reporting this would present quite a conundrum for the MSM: Offend blacks or offend commies. You might as well put the media beasts in a round room and tell them to piss in a corner. I predict it will get the full 1984 Ministry of Truth treatment.
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I'm reminded of the South Park episode where the Chinese owner of City Wok builds a "Great Wall" around South Park to keep out the Mongolians. Classic.
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The vast majority of Mongolians don't live in the country of Mongolia (which in the old days was the part called "Outer Mongolia.") They live in the northern edge of China that they conquered from the Mongolians.
A farmer has been detained by southern Philippines police after he confessed to shooting and eating one of the world's largest and rarest eagles, wildlife officials told AFP on Friday.
Who the hell eats eagles, fergawdsake?
The July 10 attack on the two-year-old, four-kilogram (8.8-pound) male eagle on the slopes of Mount Kitanglad on Mindanao island was deemed a major setback in attempts to save the critically endangered species from extinction.
Owls, I can understand. Bustards, maybe...
The bird, nicknamed "Kagsabua", had only been released back into the wild four months earlier after it was shot and wounded with a lead pellet by game hunters in the Kitanglad range.
"There! Over there! What's that?"
"Man! That's a big chicken!"
"That ain't no chicken! It's a... a... ummm... a bustard!"
"Quick! Kill it!"
A radio tracking device attached to the eagle and later buried by the 20-year-old suspect led to the arrest on Wednesday, officials said.
"Whatja do with the radio tracking device, Narcisso?"
"I buried it under my bed."
Killing endangered species is punishable by a 12-year prison term and stiff fines. Fewer than 250 adult Pithecophaga jefferyi, with a two-metre (6.6-foot) wingspan and magnificent mantle of feathers on its nape, are estimated to be left in the Philippines, and are found nowhere else, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
"Hey! Check this out!"
"Wow! Three foot buffalo wings!"
"He was worth more than a brother to me," said a devastated Philippine Eagle Foundation biologist Giovanni Tampus, part of a four-member team who had tracked the bird daily after its release back into the wild.
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'They all steal your chickens', classic line from an old Indiana Jones tv episode.
This is the savior of the magnificent Philippine Eagles
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Judge: young man, it says here you shot and killed a Califorina Condor. How do you plead? Defendant: Well guilty your honor. Judge: GUILTY!? Don't you know how endangered these condors are? There are hardly any left at all. Defendant: No sir, But my family was hungry...I had to feed my family, we're so poor, yeah thats it were so poor... Judge: Well, That's no excuse. But OK I'll only sentence you 30 days in jail. Defendant: Oh thank you sir, I can do that standing on my head! Judge: By the way, what does California Condor taste like? Defendant: It's real good, kinda like a cross between Bald Eagle and Spotted Owl!
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LOUD music makes people drink more quickly and in fewer gulps, French researchers say. Their study, published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, found that turning up the music spurred drinkers to down a glass of beer about three minutes more quickly.
To gauge the effect of sound levels on drinking, the team spent three Saturday nights visiting two bars, where they observed 40 men aged between 18 and 25 drinking beer.
"We have shown that environmental music played in a bar is associated with an increase in drinking," Nicolas Gueguen, a behavioral sciences researcher at the University of Southern Brittany in France, who led the study, said in a statement.
With help from the bars' owners, the team turned the music up and down and then recorded how much and how fast people drank. The men did not know they were being observed. Louder music spurred more consumption, with the average number of drinks ordered by patrons rising to 3.4 drinks from 2.6 drinks, Gueguen found. The time taken to drink a beer fell to an average 11.45 minutes from 14.51 minutes.
The researchers acknowledged some limitations to their study, for example that the experiment was on a small scale and could not be applied to every bar. They said it was not clear why louder music appeared to increase alcohol consumption but said it might make conversation more difficult, forcing people to drink more and talk less.
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A million years ago, in college, I read a survey of bar owners who reported on which audiences drank most. IIRC, R&B/Blues audiences drank most while Jazz fans tended to nurse drinks. Rock, folk, etc., all fell in between.
The problem is controlling for so many variables such as age, price, clientle's regular drinking habits, etc.
"We serve hard drinks here for guys who wanna get drunk fast and we don't need no characters to give the joint atmosphere!"
--Nick, owner/operator of Nicks, Pottersville, NY.
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LOL Bon - check out the Live at Donington DVD - they had a giant inflatable Rosie atop the stage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elxyP4yYh4A&feature=related
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Time for someone to stand up to Frank and his... gawd amighty! You can't put that on the interwebs!
Smokers in the desert state of Niger who break newly enforced anti-smoking laws by lighting up in public or at work, face punishments of up to three months in prison, the government said on Friday.
Smugglers, bandits and rebels in Niger profit from the illegal trans-Saharan cigarette trade -- estimated by analysts to be worth $1 billion a year -- criss-crossing the impoverished West African state's lawless north.
The government's council of ministers in the faraway southwestern capital decided late on Thursday to adopt ways of applying a May 2006 anti-smoking law, it said in a statement.
Punishments for breaking the newly-enacted law will range from a 5,000 CFA franc ($12) fine to three months in prison, a government source told Reuters.
Many countries across the world are clamping down on the tobacco industry -- with bans on advertising, fines and even laws against actors smoking on television or in films -- but few have threatened smokers with prison.
The Niger government cites smoking as one of the leading health problems in the country, a uranium-producing nation that regularly faces droughts and needs food aid.
One in five children in Niger die before their fifth birthday and aid agencies fear the current rising world prices for basic foods will put nutrition out of reach of millions even if the harvest there is good.
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1. The Niger government cites smoking as one of the leading health problems in the country
2. One in five children in Niger die before their fifth birthday
Even if children started smoking at birth, I really don't think that they are dying because of tobacco. As usual, government elites are ignoring real problems to solve made up ones.
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A WOMAN was saved by her son's dog when she was attacked by a huge male kangaroo on a farm. Rosemary Neal, 65, suffered facial cuts and other injuries when she was attacked yesterday afternoon while checking on horses in a paddock in Mudgee, central-western New South Wales.
Her son Darren said she was lucky to be alive after being attacked by the male kangaroo - which he estimated as up to 2m tall and weighing 100kg. "The kangaroo has just jumped up and launched straight at her. He hit her once and she just dropped and rolled. My dog heard her screaming and bolted down and chased him off.
"If it wasn't for the dog she'd probably be dead."
Mr Neal said his mother was in a "bad way", but was discharged from hospital late last night. "My mum is 65 years old and about five and a half foot," he said. "Her face has been ripped apart, her hand has been mauled, and she's got scratches all over her back and concussion.
"Her whole body is sore where she has dropped to the ground."
He said Mudgee was overrun by kangaroos. "There would be a couple of hundred kangaroos within a hundred metres of the house, and last night she was just walking down the paddock to check on the horses before it was dark," he said. "A lot of kangaroos have just bolted, but the males don't care, they just stay laying down, they're not scared."
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I wouldn't call a 2 meter kangaroo 'huge'. 2 meters is the norm for adult male Grey Kangaroos here in the West. I once had one charge right of the bush at me when I was horse riding. It wasn't much shorter than the horse.
The attack was no surprise. For many weeks, an increasing number of Berbers had been arriving in Spain from Tangiers under the command of Emir Musa. Tarik Ibn Ziyad, Governor of Tangiers, had landed a few weeks earlier in the Bay of Algeciras with around 8,000 men on the Rock of Calpe. Later, the rock was called Tarik Mountain after Djabal Tarik. Today, it is called Gibraltar.
The Visigoths, with their King Roderich also being Spains sovereign, were already embroiled in a domestic dispute. So they did not respond to the impending invasion. The first bloody battle between the Arabs and the Visigoths took place on July 19, 711. It turned out to make history.
Some 12,000 Arab men squared up against 100,000 Goths, who were led by King Roderich. They met at Laguna de la Janda and the battle lasted for many days. Yet even though the Goths outnumbered the Arabs, they had no chance. The Kings generals were more concerned about their personal struggles than the Arab enemy. The Visigoth era came to an end. The few thousand Arab soldiers advanced into the empire, which was already in a state of internal collapse.
Historian Michael Borgholte of Humboldt University in Berlin says that the Visigoths simply did not perceive the danger that the Arabs posed. "We know that the invasion in 716 advanced almost as far as the Pyrenees," Borgholte explains. "This means that the Arabs had moved at an incredibly fast pace. They had already proven their battle skills in the Middle East during the seventh century. The 716 advance came to an abrupt halt only when the Christians had recovered somewhat and were in a position to take countermeasures."
In only seven years, the Arabs managed to march from the South to the North and to establish themselves as the new rulers. The Caliph Empire now extended from Damascus in Syria to the Coimbra and Pamplona in Spain. The battle against Islam in Europe began with the Arabs' crossing of the Pyrenees in 718. Although they established base camps in Toulouse and Narbonne, they were not able to repeat their initial prompt victory in Spain.
In 732, the advance of the Arabs to the north-west frontier near Poitiers and Tours was brought to a decisive halt by Karl Martell, and the Moors retreated to Spain.
A culture emerged in Spain that enriched Europe with gold-woven fabrics, glass, porcelain, carpets, silk and magnificent ornamental architecture. It was a culture which brought forgotten European knowledge back to Europe. For the Jews in particular, the Muslim age was the "Golden Diaspora."
"We know about Jewish physicians who worked at the Caliph court, not only as physicians, but also as advisors to the Caliphs," Borgholte says. "We also know about Jewish translators, who translated Greek philosophers, such as Aristotle and Euclid, from Arabic into the national language. This enabled Christian authors to translate the texts into Latin."
Numerous academics from England, France and Germany came to Toledo. In this "City of Knowledge," they studied the translations of ancient works.
"It was, in fact, the beginning of the late Medieval period in the western world, based on the acceptance of ancient philosophy and science rendered by the translations from Arabic," Borgholte explains.
Yet the cultural climax is associated with the "Reconquista" that was slowly beginning to take shape, the re-conquering of Spain by the Christians. The Muslims withdrew from the regions they inhabited after battles in which many lives were lost. In 1493, they were finally conquered and the country was radically converted to Catholicism.
Nevertheless, the palaces in Granada and churches that were once mosques in Cordoba and Seville bear witness to the Arab age in Spain, which started on July 19, 711.
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What a load of crock. EVERY prominent Muslim scientist was persecuted at some time during the so-called "golden era." As for a revival of learning, academies were active during the dark ages. Avicenna and Averroes both corresponded with Greek and Roman scholars. And, in order to write on pure science, Averroes was coerced to write on Islamic subjects, one being his "Book of Jihad." So-called "islamic science" was unknown to the general public. The "ornamental" culture is only indicative of elite centrism. Peasants constructed elaborate housing and mosques for earlier day Donald Trumps. Today, Wahabis prohibit ornament on their mosques. After Clinton allowed formation of the Bosnia terror base, the Sauds shelled out $30 million for demolition of the Ottoman mosques. A recent survey of specialization in products, found that the only thing claimable in the entire Muslim cess pool, was: Persian carpets. Muslims are now and have always been global parasites. They need to be colonized and civilized, that is: excised of their numerous malignancies.
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Fascinating. Candidate Obama only seemed interested in the African-American troops. He hugged that first black, female with enthusiasm, but shook the white, man's hand with noticeable restraint. The poses with the troops as well: almost entirely blacks, with a few token whites. I noticed no others at all.
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.
Smokers in the desert state of Niger who break newly enforced anti-smoking laws by lighting up in public or at work, face punishments of up to three months in prison, the government said on Friday.
A WOMAN was saved by her son's dog when she was attacked by a huge male kangaroo on a farm. Rosemary Neal, 65, suffered facial cuts and other injuries when she was attacked yesterday afternoon while checking on horses in a paddock in Mudgee, central-western New South Wales.
