Left to die.
JoLynn Worley, a spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, said: 'The mine is so unstable that walls were crumbling and rocks were hitting rescuers on the head when they tried to reach him.
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Nice to see that the EU maintains the 4/5 posters are bugwits ratio, same as US.
I'm not going to lay blame or say a damn thing about a decision on the spot, a situation I know nothing about, or the qualities of the rescuers. This quick article does not say how wide the shaft is, or the extent of the injuries of the victim.
Others apparently do not have that problem, Dueling U's:
EU - poster wants to build a shark cage like device and lower it, I guess so the rescuer could be buried alive in collapse? Indictments of US business practice and how much worse we are than chilians etc.
US - they should at least euthanize him, somehow not surprised when location was San Francisco, but is a fellow who knows he can do it with his bike helmut and steel-tipped boots. I assume a motorcycle helmut but am unsure.
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I was a rescuer for many years. Never heard of a death zone. I will say something about the quality of rescuers. They are unintelligent cowards. But try to get past the feds now if you have the ability to pull of the rescue. They won't let you. Gauranteed. This is murder.
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Speaking on behalf of those terrified of abandoned mines, let me assure everyone that they are death traps. Poison and explosive gases, rotten support members, rabid animals, unexpected vertical shafts, rock falls, unpredictable water, even abandoned explosives. The ceilings can kill, the floors can kill, the walls can kill.
The State of AZ has had enough of them, so is planning to dump old tires down them. Even that is extremely dangerous, because vertical shafts are often invisible, covered with rotten timbers and enough dust to look like solid ground. Until you put weight on them.
That's if the horizontal shafts don't collapse, which also happens.
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When we were kids, my buddies and I used to explore abandoned shafts and adits with our handy dandy carbide lamps. One time we had the sh*t scared out of us by some rotten timbers that fell and some rock came down. We got out. Told my dad, and he gave us a lecture about abandoned mines and tunnels, what could happen, including bad gas and lack of oxygen. We gave up on that hobby, but not on our carbide lamps.
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AP - my NV relations have all said don't even walk close to them, you never know how stable the surrounding ground is. Exhibit one - this poor guy
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This has to be the most disgusting story of the day. Maybe Obama should call our friends in South America and learn something about mine rescues, tenacity, never quitting, and courage.
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whatadeal - if you lose 3 or 4 rescuers trying to save a dying victim, is that competence? I'm thinking locals, not Obama, were the first on the scene and if the shaft was unstable, made the right decision. Sad to say...
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[Straits Times] A CONSIGNMENT containing at least 100 live pigs was hijacked by three armed robbers in Bidor near here.
First 75,000 extra-thin condoms, now a truckload of pigs, minus the truck. What's going on over there?
Tapah OCPD Supt Roslan Bek Ahmad said the robbers also held the lorry driver captive before ditching him by the roadside.
'The driver was about to leave the pig farm to deliver the consignment when he was ambushed by the robbers. One of them placed a parang on his neck and forced him into the lorry before speeding off,' he said.
Supt Roslan said the driver was tied up during the incident at about 2.20pm on Wednesday.
He said shortly after, the robbers released him and sped off with the consignment.
Supt Roslan said the lorry was later found abandoned in Pedas, Negri Sembilan, about 230km away, minus the pigs.
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They won't get away with this. Eventually someone's gonna squeal.
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"First 75,000 extra-thin condoms, now a truckload of pigs, minus the truck. What's going on over there?"
do you suppose there is some "connection" between these two incidents> Only metaphorically speaking, of course. What would YOU do with 100 pigs if you had 75,000 extra-thin Condoms?
Just asking.
Throw water balloons at them from a very safe distance. From all I've heard, pigs can be killers when disturbed, no matter what it says in Charlotte's Web.
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Throw water balloons at them from a very safe distance. From all I've heard, pigs can be killers when disturbed, no matter what it says in Charlotte's Web.
TW - Quite so, swine can be very dangerous animals. There is also the matter of them being very intelligent, smarter than dogs.
But they contain the raw material for BACON! Here piggie piggie piggie.
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pick a particularly virulent mosque and stampede them in. Hilarity ensues.
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[Asharq al-Aswat] US television talk show star Oprah Winfrey is to host a live show from Cairo's Tahrir Square, the epicentre of a revolution that ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, a report said Friday.
Egypt's new tourism minister Munir Fakhri Abdelnur was quoted by the state-owned Al-Ahram newspaper as saying Winfrey had accepted an invitation "without hesitation."
"The plan is for her to broadcast a live show from Tahrir Square on a Friday in March, but the date has not been finalised," the mass-circulation paper said.
It was part of a campaign to revive tourism in Egypt after the huge uprising that forced Mubarak to resign on February 11 after 30 years in power, the paper said.
"The most famous TV hostess in the world accepted without hesitation," Abdelnur as saying.
There was no immediate confirmation from Winfrey, who in January launched her OWN cable network, aired in 145 countries around the world.
Has she received the invitation yet? Egyptians have been known, on occasion, to mistake a nice idea for an executed plan for up to six months or until the Westerner notices nothing has been done, whichever comes later.
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So what happens if perchance some locals think she's a US network woman reporter?
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To revive tourism in Egypt, huh?
I take it Lara Logan won't be among her guests. That would be...awkward.
[Maghrebia] Algeria on Tuesday (March 1st) inaugurated the Medgaz submarine pipeline between Beni Saf and Almeria in Spain. Sonatrach CEO Nourredine Cherouati and his Medgaz counterpart, Pedro Miro, attended the opening ceremony.
Cherouati symbolically opened the valve, saying that gas will reach Almeria within three hours, to give confidence to Medgaz customers awaiting the official operation, which is scheduled for the first trimester of 2011.
The 1,050km long pipeline, 550km of which run through Algerian territories, cost about 900 million euros to build. With a depth of more than 2,000 metres under the sea, Medgaz will export up to 8 billion cubic metres of natural gas per year directly to Spain. Its total capacity is estimated at 11.4 billion cubic metres.
Sonatrach owns 36 percent of the pipeline, while Spanish companies Iberdrola and Cepsa own 20 percent each. Additionally, the stakes of Endesa (Spain) and Gas de La Belle France are estimated at 12 percent each.
Local environmental organisations expressed concerns about possible contamination in the event of pipeline damage. Sonatrach downplayed the fears.
"All aspects related to the environment were addressed at the first phase of the project, and therefore there is no risk of contamination, whether land or sea, both for the region or for the rest of the project pathway," the company management said.
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[Asharq al-Aswat] Tunisia's new Prime Minister Beji Caid Essebsi on Friday accused toppled president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali of "high treason" during his first public appearance.
"I have no doubt that the former president made himself guilty of high treason for having renounced upholding his responsibility of ensuring security and stability" and for "having left" the country when he was "commander in chief of the armed forces," Caid Essebsi told a news briefing.
Ben Ali decamped his north African country for Soddy Arabia on January 14 after a month-long popular uprising against his rule, which began in 1987.
Caid Essebsi, who took office last Sunday, stressed that high treason was a crime punishable by the death penalty.
He also said that he would announce a government "within two days" in view of "restarting the economic cycle without any delay, because we are on the edge of a precipice."
"Our priority will be to re-establish the authority of the state, which has declined to an unsupportable extent, which means the re-establishment of security for all citizens, regions and institutions," he said.
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[Al Jazeera] A bomb has went kaboom! near the venue of a ruling party election rally in Suleija near Nigeria's capital city of Abuja, killing three people and injuring 21, a federal police front man has said.
Olusola Amore said that unknown attackers lobbed a bomb from a moving vehicle on Thursday. Amore said the bomb bounced and landed at the feet of women who set up a market to sell goods to those attending the rally for Babangida Aliyu, the gubernatorial candidate for the People's Democratic Party.
He said police had no immediate suspects for the attack on the supporters of the party, which has ruled Nigeria since the country became a democracy more than a decade ago.
Members of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps treated some victims and transported them to local hospitals in Suleija, Emmanuel Ekeh, the corps front man, said.
Aliyu was not injured in the attack. In 2007, he became governor of Niger state, a rural state with two major hydroelectric dams on the Niger River that provide much-needed electricity for the nation.
Aliyu's rally in Suleija happened as former military dictator Muhammadu Buhari held a major political rally in Minna for his own presidential bid as the candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change.
Political killings
The blast occured just a month ahead of general elections in the oil-rich nation.
Since becoming a democracy in 1999, Nigeria has been dominated by the People's Democratic Party.
However, The infamous However... opposition parties have made gains in recent years as courts overturned flawed elections and the public grew increasingly exasperated with the graft and mismanagement plaguing the country.
Violence remains a part of the country's elections, political killings were reported in the run-up to the country's last set of elections four years ago.
This year, bombings have targeted a gubernatorial candidate in the oil-producing southern delta, while a radical Islamic sect grabbed credit for the liquidation of a candidate in the country's restive northeast fire.
Goodluck Jonathan, ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). On 13 January 2010, a federal court handed him the power to carry out state affairs while President Umaru Yar'Adua received medical treatment in a Soddy Arabian hospital, a fatal move on his part. On 24 February 2010 Yar'Adua returned to Nigeria, but Jonathan continued as acting president. When Yar'Adua departed this vale of tears less than three months later Jonathan succeeded to the Presidency. He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... the Nigerian president, and former military dictator Muhammadu Buhari are vying for the top post in the forthcoming elections.
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[Al Jazeera] Zimbabwe's president has threatened to seize foreign firms and boycott their products in retaliation for Western sanctions against him and senior members of his ruling ZANU-PF party.
Bob Muggsy Mugabe ... who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... made special mention on Wednesday of British-controlled banks and businesses, saying they controlled 400 businesses in the former British colony in southern Africa.
"It is now time to take action," Mugabe told thousands of supporters at an outdoor rally in the capital, Harare.
"Indigenisation and empowerment should start with those companies. We must take them over. We are not ashamed of that."
The European Union and US imposed a travel ban and financial sanctions on Mugabe and his ZANU-PF allies over suspected human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... abuses spanning more than a decade as well as election fraud.
Mugabe, who insists the sanctions were imposed after he seized land belonging to white Zimbabwean farmers, said British firms and other European and American interests took out profits on mining and other ventures.
"We say no to that. If we know that some of them have products which we are buying, including foodstuffs, before we seize those companies, we can boycott their products," he said.
Mugabe has said previously ZANU-PF will nationalise firms from countries that have imposed sanctions, arguing they cannot operate freely while Western powers punish his party.
The threats heightened worries of foreign investors in the resource-rich country, which introduced a law specifying 51 per cent of firms worth over $500,000 should be owned by black Zimbabweans.
Opposition boycott
Lorries and buses carrying Mugabe supporters arrived earlier on Wednesday at an open field on the edge of Harare. The supporters sang slogans and raised Mugabe's trademark clenched-fist salute.
The political party of Morgan Tsvangirai, the Zimbabwean prime minister, boycotted the gathering.
In a statement, Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) - currently in a shaky coalition with Mugabe - said the measures against Mugabe and his ZANU-PF party resulted from its record of violence, intimidation and vote-rigging.
The statement said Tsvangirai distanced himself from the "unpopular and bloodthirsty" party, referring to the ZANU-PF.
The 87-year-old Mugabe, in power since independence from Britain in 1980, says Western sanctions have destroyed Zimbabwe's economy, although critics and economists blame his violent land distribution programme for crippling the country's agriculture industry since 2000.
Barack B.O. Obama, the US president, extended on Wednesday for one year the Bush-era sanctions against individuals closely linked to Mugabe. The sanctions had been scheduled to end on March 6.
"While some advances have been made in Zimbabwe, particularly on economic stabilization, since the signing of the power-sharing agreement, the absence of progress on the most fundamental reforms needed to ensure rule of law and democratic governance leaves Zimbabweans vulnerable to ongoing repression and presents a continuing threat to peace and security in the region and the foreign policy of the United States," Obama said in a statement to the US congress.
"Politically motivated violence and intimidation, and the undermining of the power-sharing agreement by elements of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front party, continue to be of grave concern."
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Yo, Bob. Doan be forgettin us war vetrins wen divvyin up them ferms! Ferms almost be the same as farms right? Cept make sure a whitey stay around this time to do my fermin fer me, okay. That stuff be hard, man.
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There are still firms in Zimbobland? Who would have thought it?
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Is that Krauthammer or Edward Everett Horton on the dashiki?
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I wonder what voodoo is keeping the old reprobate alive. It's a shame that he will not live long enough to see everything he has created torn down in gleeful celebration.
[Asharq al-Aswat] Dozens of Saudi faceless myrmidons descended on the Riyadh International Book Fair late Wednesday night denouncing the sale of books "contrary to Islam," witnesses said.
Even though the government permitted it? Interesting.
Turki al-Shalil, a front man for the powerful Saudi religious police, told news hounds that his men were not involved in the incident.
According to one witness, dozens of bearded young men entered the venue in the capital as the Saudi information minister, Abdel Aziz Khoja, was touring the fair on the first day it was open to the public.
They asked Khoja "how he could allow such a fair," and said that certain books on display were the work "of infidels who would go to hell," the witness said.
Another witness said that the men went around the fair harassing women, a number of whom then departed, and also prevented a female television presenter from doing her job.
The Riyadh International Book Fair is an annual event attended by a number of Saudis, and censorship on books there is less stringent than that against bookstores in the kingdom.
According to the Sabq.org news website, three of the hardliners have been nabbed.
Khoja on his Facebook page on Thursday criticised "the harassment of visitors and publishers," and said that the fair is "a cultural showcase for our country."
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Islam cant compete in an open society. Its their Values and their Culture.
Islam relies on suppressing ideas and on violence. The Prophet (Piss BUH) was like that himself.
Let's respect these people and their religion, shall we?
You realize, of course, that if the Moslems controlled our society they would kill all of you. Allah doesnt like you. Do you like Allah? That why they call it Islamofascism.
[Geo News] Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif Friday reiterated that Interior Minister Rehman Malik used the term 'Punjabi Taliban' in a bid to spread hatred among provinces, Geo News reported.
Talking to media men after laying the foundation stone of Kalma Chowk flyover, Shahbaz sharif said Rehman Malik used the term 'Punjabi Taliban' before the Prime Minister and Federal Cabinet. This is tantamount to fanning hatred between the Federation and provinces and also among provinces and to smashing national unity, he maintained.
Earlier, in his meeting with a Turkish delegation, the Punjab Chief Minister said the governments of Pakistain and Turkey and their peoples are tied in relations of love and brotherhood.
He said he wanted to see Lahore as clean and beautiful as Istanbul.
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Beats testing new sensors in a vacuum chamber ....
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I have it from a leak that they are putting Elvis' ashes in orbit. They are keeping it Classified to keep the fans from rioting since they have removed the remains from Graceland!
[Straits Times] THE call to remove the ethnicity ('race') category from forms has received support but most said it has to be carried out gradually.
Many quarters said the matter should be looked at realistically and some questioned how any review should be done.
Malaysian Employers Federation executive director Shamsuddin Bardan lauded the call, saying it was in the right direction towards achieving the 1Malaysia vision.
He said a gradual review was needed because change was never easy to implement.
'It needs to be done gradually so people have time to get used to it,' he said, adding that it was natural for people to initially have different or opposing views.
'We are living in one nation. So long as we are divided along racial line, we will not fully achieve the 1Malaysia aspiration.'
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Harvard University President Drew Faust has signed an agreement officially welcoming the return of the Reserve Officer Training Corps after a four-decade ban.
Faust signed the deal Friday with Navy Secretary Ray Mabus that will recognize Naval ROTC on campus.
We've done quite well without 'em or their brethren.
Seems the uniform troglodytes have built a working [of sorts] democracy in Iraq, something all those Ivy Leaguers, particularly at State, never were able to achieve. Who needs them?
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does the ROTC really want to be associated with Khaddafy-dollars-loving Harvard?
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Actually, ROTC was available, but next door at MIT. The Navy ROTC there supports students at MIT, Harvard, and Tufts. They commute to MIT for the program.
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#7 Besoeker Prediction:
I wouldn't take that bet; sucker's bet. First enrolled will probably be an African-American lesbian or additional any other hyphenated American they can add to this mix. Diversity and multi-cultural goals must be met over educational goals.
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.
[Asharq al-Aswat] US television talk show star Oprah Winfrey is to host a live show from Cairo's Tahrir Square, the epicentre of a revolution that ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, a report said Friday.
[Asharq al-Aswat] Tunisia's new Prime Minister Beji Caid Essebsi on Friday accused toppled president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali of "high treason" during his first public appearance.
Aliyu was not injured in the attack. In 2007, he became governor of Niger state, a rural state with two major hydroelectric dams on the Niger River that provide much-needed electricity for the nation.
[Al Jazeera] Zimbabwe's president has threatened to seize foreign firms and boycott their products in retaliation for Western sanctions against him and senior members of his ruling ZANU-PF party.
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