[An Nahar] Opposition parties in Liberia on Saturday said they were pulling out of the elections, claiming fraud, as vote-counting put incumbent President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in the lead. Winning, or at least splitting, the Nobel Peace Prize may have helped Ellen's chances...
"We are pulling out of the process because it is not democratic and there is a lot of fraud," an opposition source said in the wake of the October 11 elections which also included parliamentary and senatorial polls.
The parties concerned included the Congress for Democratic Change of Winston Tubman, lying second in the count, and the National Union for Democratic Progress of former warlord Prince Johnson, ranked third. Prince Johnson was formerly considered the Most Evil Man in the World in intel circles, based on his videotaped torture-mutilation of Liberia's former dictator Samuel Doe. He held the title only for a couple or three years before Gulbuddin Hekmatyar took it away by rocketing Kabul, among other actions, during the 1992 Dog Eat Dog. Johnson retired to Nigeria, where he became a mealy-mouthed preacher and loudly, if insincerely, repented his evil ways. I confess that I didn't work up much moral outrage when he mutilated Mr. Doe. I suppose that makes me a bad person...
The opposition move follows a fire overnight in offices of Sireleaf's Unity Party in a Monrovia district. Police chief Al Karlay said it was not yet known if the blaze was deliberate.
With more than half of polling stations tallied, Sirleaf mustered 45.4 percent of the vote while former diplomat Tubman came in with 29.5 percent, elections chief James Fromayan said at a presser late Friday.
With a run-off election looming, Johnson looked poised to become a surprise kingmaker, in third place with 11.4 percent. "Prince" is his actual first name, not a title. Unlike some people, he's never been formerly known as Prince. Somehow I just can't see Prince Johnson answering to .
Voter turnout stood at 70.2 percent with 585,179 valid votes counted. The elections commission reported a high number of 44,096 invalid votes.
The election, seen as key to cementing the country's fragile eight-year peace after two back-to-back civil wars, was lauded as peaceful by the United Nations ...what started out as a a diplomatic initiative, now trying to edge its way into legislative, judicial, and executive areas... and African observers.
Tubman had alleged ballot stuffing, but Fromayan said no official complaint had been filed.
Observers from the Carter Center urged parties not to make any statements concerning the results until the process was complete.
International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo's office in The Hague said Friday he was closely monitoring election-related developments.
"We will pay close attention to the actions and statements of the political class, and in particular to the presidential candidates, including after the elections.
"Resorting to violence will not be tolerated," said a statement.
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The orders -- which record an advance decision that a patient's life should not be saved if their heart stops -- are routinely being applied without the knowledge of the patient or their relatives.
On one ward, one-third of DNR orders were issued without consultation with the patient or their family, according to the NHS's own records. At another hospital, junior doctors freely admitted that the forms were filled out by medical teams without the involvement of patients or relatives.
Under medical guidelines, the orders should only be issued after senior staff have discussed the matter with the patient's family. A form, signed by two doctors, is then placed in the patient's notes to record what decision was taken.
The findings emerged in spot checks of 100 hospitals undertaken by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), an official watchdog, earlier this year.
A charity for the elderly said the disclosures were evidence of "euthanasia by the backdoor," with potentially-lethal notices being placed on the files of patients simply because they were old and frail.
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Hmm... someone had a name for this sort of thing in the US about 2-3 years ago. Now what was it. She was derived as a foolish, emotional, know-nothing and ridiculed by the media and hollywood establishment for daring to use it.
It's a funny thing. I actually remember when people used to die from heart attacks when they were fairly young. It was just a part of life, and a good reason to buy insurance and live a 'good' life. And it wasn't very long ago. Just about the time we started spending way beyond our means. Perhaps we're heading back to those simpler days, you never know.
Road accidents way up, so Britain to stop giving road tests in foreign languages.
Transport minister Mike Penning told The Daily Telegraph he was working out how to implement a ban on foreign language tests without the new regulations falling foul of anti-discrimination legislation. 'I find it incredible that Labour thought it was a god idea to let people without a basis grasp of English loose on our roads,' he said.
A Department For Transport source said there had recently been a spate of crashes involving Polish-speaking drivers.
Government figures showed that last year around seven per cent of theory tests were taken in a foreign language - almost 19,000 of them were in Urdu, 13,000 in Polish and 298 in Albanian. For the practical tests 452 Romanians, 230 Russians and 21 Bulgarians used translators, while more than 1,500 bus drivers took a theory test in a foreign language.
According to transport officials other European countries do not routinely allow people to sit driving tests in foreign languages.
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Kind of think this was the kind of thing a United Europe would have stream-lined long ago. Even a disunited Europe where travel was frequent should have created a more or less unified signage by now. Certainly there would be local differences (English and their round-abouts for example) but these would be minor and could be covered by brochures at the border (or the rental car place).
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I drove all over Europe (except in Britain - I'm not stupid) and never had a problem with the signs even in the countries where I didn't speak the language - and this was before the U.S. adopted universal signage.
Perhaps it's not the signs but the foreigners involved ....?
I'd also bet it has something to do - at least for the Poles - with the fact that the Brits drive on the wrong side of the road. That would have to be very confusing, particularly if you're driving a standard left-hand drive truck or car. I remember what it was like in Bermuda, and that was just on a scooter. I finally decided that if it looked "normal" to me, I was on the wrong side of the road for there, and started enjoying my ride.
"According to transport officials other European countries do not routinely allow people to sit driving tests in foreign languages."
Duh.
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Lousy and dangerous drivers in Poland tend be like that in other countries too. This may not be a language problem. Modern countries should use driving simulators to test license applicants, not written tests.
Ed Crawford wants to unscrew 130 years' worth of the light bulb's history. But how many MBAs, engineers and lobbyists will it take to help him do that?
As retailers and governments begin phasing out incandescent light bulbs, lighting companies are scrambling to introduce products and change public mind-sets about how much a light bulb should cost. Crawford has a big challenge ahead of him: He's chief executive of the North American lighting division of the world's largest lighting company, Philips Electronics.
"Our marketing mix has to become more creative," Crawford says while walking the halls of the Philips offices, past rooms where high-tech displays show how lighting affects moods in kitchens and living areas. Did you know some guy made millions selling Pet Rocks?
Philips has been hiring marketers and engineers from consumer products companies to prepare for the change. Its North American headquarters in suburban New Jersey is a short drive from the red-brick labs where Thomas Edison developed and improved early light bulb technology.
The National Resources Defense Council said that by 2020, the new law will reduce energy costs by $100 to $200 per household each year. That could eliminate about 30 large power plants, according to the NRDC. The U.S. Department of Energy predicts that the new law could save households in the United States nearly $6 billion in energy costs by 2015. After the expense of buying the new bulbs. Is everybody like the stereotypical spouse - "Look honey, I saved $100 at the shoe store!"
The world's largest home furnishings retailer, Ikea, stopped selling incandescent light bulbs in January. The State of California mandated that retailers stop selling 100-watt incandescent bulbs last Dec. 31, a year earlier than federal legislation requires. Naturally! California leads the way!
But an Ikea lighting survey, conducted by Harris Interactive, showed that 61 percent of Americans are not even aware of the legislation that phases out incandescent bulbs.
"We're used to thinking of light bulbs as a replacement business," Crawford said. "Transitioning our mind-set is absolutely a business challenge. It's a completely different sale. Getting people to think that way requires different skills, different marketing and salespeople." We older guys remember buying razor blades, then disposable shavers, then two bladed shavers (where I stopped), then triple and quadruple-bladed disposables. Marketing!
The new hires are studying and segmenting the market. They've identified early adopters who might buy LED bulbs, dividing them into categories such as "young affluent" and "pre-empty nest," who are environmentally conscious, brand oriented and not price sensitive. The "green socialites" like to entertain and impress others with their home. You got a category for "skeptical libertarian"?
A few skeptics in the industry suggest that American consumers will always migrate to the cheaper compact fluorescent and halogen bulbs instead of LEDs. One of the first CFLs I put in the can light in the kitchen lasted a week. Others fared better. Watts the reliability of the products? At $25 a pop, your failure rate needs to be one in a million.
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The bottom line is that America has an abundance of cheap energy, and could have a huge amount more, except for government actively trying to stop energy development, solely to create an artificial shortage out of abundance.
It is literally insane, like declaring that a shortage of seawater exists, and demanding that all marine craft cannot float on water, but must fly above it like hovercraft, so as to "conserve seawater."
The bottom line is that socialism and government control only exists when there is shortage in *everything*. Thus government needs to ration *everything*. Like living on the Moon, where everything is in shortage.
The reason that *everything* must be in shortage, is because anything *not* in shortage becomes a de facto currency, that people can use to trade to achieve unequal portions based on what *they* need and want, *not* what government insists on giving them.
"I do not need a dozen ping pong balls, but I want three grapefruit. I will trade you for them." "I need a dozen more ping pong balls, and I have too many grapefruit, so you've got a deal."
A totally anti-state activity. "Capitalist anarchism" as far as socialists are concerned. "Unfair inequality".
And they are absolutist in their demand that "equality of everything" is the "highest good", so that *any* inequality is inherently evil and unfair. To the point where it is "better" that everyone have nothing, than that some people have and some people do not.
Thus it is better that all ping pong balls and grapefruit be confiscated and destroyed.
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"And they are absolutist in their demand that "equality of everything" is the "highest good", so that *any* inequality is inherently evil and unfair. To the point where it is "better" that everyone except themselves have nothing, than that some other people have and some people other do not."
FTFY, 'moose.
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Good point. Socialists also adore the 10% elite masters and 90% slaves theory, with them as the masters.
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Canada has just delayed banning of IC light-bulbs until 2014. I see a market opportunity and a need to increase budgets man up Border Patrol.
The Good Old Days of Prohibition are back!
Drugs from the south, bulbs from the north, what's a good Obama to do? Get Holder to set up a Dim and Dimmer program to track down the vicious filament cartels operating out of the Great White North.
[Dawn] Protesters set fire to a government building, torched cars and smashed bank windows in Rome on Saturday in the worst violence of worldwide demonstrations against corporate greed and government cutbacks.
Tens of thousands erupted into the streets of the Italian capital for a march that turned violent and equal numbers rallied in Madrid and Lisbon while Wikileaks founder Julian Assange joined angry demonstrators in London.
The protests were inspired by the "Occupy Wall Street" movement in the United States and the "Indignants" in Spain, targeting 951 cities in 82 countries across the planet in Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas.
It was the biggest show of power yet by a movement born on May 15 when a rally in Madrid's central Puerta del Sol square sparked a worldwide movement.
Anger over unemployment and opposition to the financial elite hung over the protests, which coincided with a Gay Paree meeting of G20 financial powers preoccupied by the eurozone debt crisis.
In Rome, the march degenerated into running street battles between groups of hooded protesters and riot police who fired tear gas and water jets into the crowd.
Security forces locked down the centre of the Italian capital and closed metro stations and major monuments including the Colosseum and the Roman Forum.
"Today is only the beginning. We hope to move forward with a global movement. There are many of us and we want the same things," said one protester, Andrea Muraro, a 24-year-old engineering student from Padua.
"Only One Solution: Revolution!" read one placard at the protest. Another said: "We Are Not Assets in the Hands of Bankers!" One group carried a cardboard coffin with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's ...current Italian prime minister, known for his plain (for a European politician) speaking and his liking for hookers a third his age or less... name on it.
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no previous generation was sufficiently dumbed down for this to happen. the idiocy being spouted by these protesters and those who support them is mind boggling.
there has been a serious lack of selection on the species of late. seems that the stupid gene is exploding
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Protesters set fire to a government building, torched and carBQ'd cars and smashed bank windows in Rome on Saturday in the worst violence of worldwide demonstrations against corporate greed and government cutbacks.
Mostly "gov't cutbacks." Pattern developing in 5,4,3,2......
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Gr(o)m, I agree with your nicely tidy statement, and Abu sparks my thought.
I do not mean to speak for, or puts words into the statements of either, just a personal mull and please disagree.
Now, only speaking for USA pop media, I have a theory that the biggest threat to the mass media storyline is the potential uncivilized behavior of, let me be only descriptive here, the white male.
That is, watching TV and movies etc, one would come to the conclusion that the white male is an effiminate go-along, and resorts to violent behavior if mentally ill or caught at a bar full of vampires. If I tilt my foil hat just right, I would call it, politely, the wussification project, removing a sense of competition while emploring passification audio/visual as a peer pressure on how to behave, and I believe that it is in its third generation. I theorize that in a third generation of behavior is where we find if it is a gold or fool's gold.
To the point, low on time, I believe it actually fosters low level agitation projects to be more effective than it really is, that not the fear of actual violence but the backtrack of a narrative prevents the rule of law.
Quite honestly, the TEA Party movement is a classic example of pacifist protest, this being an excuse to go out and break shit, be part of the movement maaaan! Problem is that eventually the do everything right and get screwed people are going to tire of no protection by those selling the idea of protection, then the govs will have real problems, and the whole European Unity Project may just fall apart, or perhaps more accurately, revert. I hope not, Europe is neat and quite unique.
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The welfare state (and parewnts that spoil their children) neotenises the next generation, who have lost the connection between fulfilling their needs and work.
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no previous generation was sufficiently dumbed down for this to happen The Roman mobs back in the days of Imperium Romanum were rather similar IIRC. Eventually Roman taxpayers gave up on the imperial thingy & went over to the barbarians.
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DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > "OCCUPY" ANTI-CAPITALISM PROTESTS SPREAD AROUND THE WORLD, THOUSANDS MARCH IN ROME, SIDNEY, + MADRID [+ London] AS "OCCUPY WALL STREET" PROTESTS GO GLOBAL.
and
* CHINA DAILY FORUM > "OCCUPY" PARADEPLATZ [Zurich, Switzerland = popular locale]: EUROPE IS SPRINGING "OCCUPY WALL STREET" COPYCATS.
[Dawn] Tens of thousands of people on Saturday erupted into the streets of Lisbon to protest against the austerity programmes of the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and the International Monetary Fund.
The large turn-out came just days after Portugal's rightwing coalition government announced a tough austerity budget -- one of the conditions of the 78-billion-euro EU-IMF bailout the country earlier this year.
Organisers said 50,000 people of all ages marched peacefully through the streets of Lisbon to parliament, shouting slogans and carrying barriers denouncing the EU, the IMF and the European Central Bank.
The three international organizations have imposed tough austerity programmes on debt-hit Greece, Ireland and Portugal in return for multi-billion euro bail-out loans.
Amid world wide protests about handling of the economy, demonstrators turned out for marches in nine other towns and cities around the country, organised by an array of campaigning groups, local news media reported, with turn-out particularly strong in the northern city of Porto.
"We are victims of financial speculation and this austerity programme is going to ruin us," 25-year-old Mathieu Rego told AFP, as he marched in Lisbon.
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The Free Lunch Party is an international movement. That having been said, I expect the worldwide economic crisis will ruin a great many.
Pedestrians weave their way through a sea of cars, rickshaws and motorbikes, a desperate scramble for space just making the gridlock worse. The sidewalks are swallowed up by stalls and piles of garbage. The smell of open drains hangs in the air while overhead a web of electric cables crisscrosses the sky.
India is one of the main engines of global population growth, and nowhere is that more apparent than in the crowded northern state of Uttar Pradesh, home to 200 million people. The world's 7 billionth person will be born on the last day of this month, according to U.N. estimates, and Uttar Pradesh, which added 33 million people to the global population in the last decade, is already staking its claim to be the birthplace of that child.
The world has added 1 billion people in just the past 12 years. Though the rate of growth is expected to stabilize around 2050, India's will continue to climb. In the past decade, the country's population grew to 1.21 billion. India is set to overtake China as the world's largest country by 2025, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. I wonder how much we could save if we got the U.S. Census Bureau to confine itself to the U.S. population?
By 2020, the average age of an Indian will be 29, and the country, like East Asian economies in the 1970s, is hoping to reap a "demographic dividend" from this army of young people as they enter the workforce and bolster the economy. They're ripe for the FDR solution - let the young pay for the old! Heck - let their young pay for our old!
"It will be a dividend if we empower our young. It will be a disaster if we fail to put in place a policy and framework where they can be empowered," said Kapil Sibal, India's minister of human resource development, who said the country needs to impart job skills to 500 million people over the next decade.
In Delhi, the Finance Ministry's chief economic adviser, Kaushik Basu, admitted that there are risks. "If the newly minted youngsters are not adequately educated and employed, they can become a source of disturbance, as happened in many Arab countries," he said. "We need to be concerned about this, though, frankly, if youngsters by causing a disturbance can strengthen democracy, I am not so sure that that is a bad thing." Wait until 'Democracy' settles down the in Arab countries, Kaushik. They don't think it means what you think it means.
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One simple solution would be to reduce the size of the bureaucracy by 2/3rds. Wide open entrepreneurship for small business would send their economy up like a skyrocket.
They have an abundance of highly educated people who are so buried in government red tape that they have to leave the country to make their fortune. Lucky for us that many of them come to America.
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Anonymoose we are very much in agreement on this. I believe that India could be a tremendous ally. The future will require freedom. These are a very industrious people. Anything is possible. The government bureaucracy will retard their potential.Which shall it be. A future of hope or a future of despair. We were never to remain static. Develop all possible resources to the benefit of humankind.I see this as a dividend. Many will long for the old days and the old ways.
That is not the future. Never resting and never ending."He who rests rots" Arthur Fiedler.
[Dawn] Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... on Saturday condemned the politics of agitation by PML-N, which, he said, wanted the fall of PPP-led government before Senate elections in March, but the masses would not accept it and the Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP) would emerge as a single largest party in the Senate.
"There are all the indications that PPP will emerge as a single largest party in the Senate after March elections with its coalition partners, and they (the PML-N leaders) want the fall of government before March by hook or by crook," Gilani said in an interview with a private television on Saturday evening.
The prime minister criticised the Pakistain Mohammedan League- Nawaz (PML-N) for provoking people and promoting the politics of agitation in the name of electricity loadshedding or any other issue. "it will not be acceptable to masses," he added.
To a question about the reports of PML-N's intentions for en-bloc resignations from the assemblies to block the Senate elections, he said majority of the PML-N members of parliament would not support such a move.
"I have talked to several PML-N parliamentarians, who said they will not support any such move," he said.
The prime minister, however, added that any unconstitutional act would not be good for the country and democracy.
Mr Gilani also criticised the PML-N leaders for accepting turn-coats in Punjab as a "forward bloc" and said by doing so they had abandoned the 'politics of principles'. On the other hand PPP did not indulge itself into such a practice at the centre and formed a coalition with political parties in a democratic way, he added.
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[Dawn] Pakistain Mohammedan League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Saturday announced the schedule for protest rallies against the federal government, DawnNews reported.
Speaking at a presser, Deputy Secretary General PML-N Ahsan Iqbal said the electricity loadshedding had resumed again and the government was not serious in putting any substantial effort to control the crisis.
Announcing the protest rallies schedule, Mr Ibal said a 'public-coordination-campaign' would be started from Dera Ghazi Khan on October 19 and would be followed by protest rallies in Lahore and Faisalabad on October 26 and November 4 respectively.
He further said that hike in electricity and oil tariffs were one of the main reasons for the inflation.
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[Dawn] Pakistain People's Party (PPP) and Pakistain Mohammedan League -- Quaid (PML-Q) MPAs Saturday staged a sit-in outside the Chief Minister's Secretariat on The Mall to protest against what they called the Punjab government's inadequate measures to control the dengue virus.
Opposition Leader in the Punjab Assembly Raja Riaz Ahmed led the sit-in. A large number of opposition politicians participated in the demonstration. They were carrying placards and banners with slogans against Shahbaz Sharif.
Mr Riaz demanded the immediate resignation of the chief minister for failure to take timely measures to control the deadly virus. He was of the opinion that the chief minister was informed about the expected dengue outbreak a year ago but he did not pay any heed to the matter. "Dengue mosquito rules during the day while dacoits rule the province at night," he added.
He also asked Pakistain Mohammedan League -- Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Müslim League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... to seek resignation from his younger brother Shahbaz for what he called his failure to take measures to control dengue in the province.
He said the law and order situation had worsened. "Law abiding citizens are at the mercy of hardened criminals," he added.
He accused the chief minister of holding 16 ministries and said consequently there was no proper work in an important ministry like health.
Mr Riaz affirmed that the opposition would continue its forceful protest within and outside the Punjab Assembly. PPP Punjab President Imtiaz Safdar Warriach and General Secretary Samiullah Khan were also present.
The MPAs also offered prayers for people who died of dengue and for the early recovery of patients.
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Commissioned a study of GPS about a decade ago to figure out how "fine grained" I could use its time results to stamp recordings of packets across a geographic area for relationship analysis. (cause and effect etc..)... Study came back 60ns so set my measurement bucket threshold at 120ns. Note it's the same 60ns they are arguing about here.
That implies poor science at the backend of this experiment.
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If they had a passive repeater antenna to get the signal down into the mountain it would be worse.
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It always sounded a bit iffy as they couldn't send a laser beam there and back (or the neutrinos) in order to get a proper "relativistic ping" test
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It gets worse. You need storage and communication and timing and drivers on the measurement platform. If you use a PC and custom OS you might be able to tweak the platform clock down to a jittery 50ns. If you use specialized hardware (SGI etc) you might get a jumpy 5ns. If you are writing to disk or memory or have a interrupt or whatever forget that measurement. The same for processing communication or GPS signal. What you need is an OS that syncs its local clock with the GPS once in awhile.. with all the latency of the sync accounted for. The local computer clock needs to be temp controlled or calibrated at all conditions. You can't use a commercial OS like windows... Gates doesn't give enough info to understand the time constraints. (I know as I used to try working with them on this as we had a boss who was windows-centric) Best is a rigorous real-time multi-processing OS with separate processors for communications and storage. (maybe time to?)
It doesn't sound like they did this basic science.
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ION RENSE > US SCIENTISTS PATENTS TIME MACHINE.
Dr. Marvin B. Pohlman from Tulsa, OK.
Either those visiting Space Aliens are our Star Relatives or Graduate Students from Rigel Space University, OR THE CANNIBAL MORLOCKS WILL BE COMING BACK IN TIME TO EAT THEIR PRE-NUCWAR/CATACLYSM HUMAN ANCESTORS???
The Morlocks are coming, the Morlocks are coming!
[TWILIGHT ZONE = "TO SERVE MAN" Episode here].
* SAME > GOVT. CAMERAS [standardized]IN YOUR CAR? E-TOLL PATENT HINTS AT BIG BROTHERISH FUTURE.
Whoa, Sith Lord Darth Vader was George Jetson's illegitimate son - who knew?
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.
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International Criminal Court
Road accidents way up, so Britain to stop giving road tests in foreign languages. 
[Dawn] Protesters set fire to a government building, torched cars and smashed bank windows in Rome on Saturday in the worst violence of worldwide demonstrations against corporate greed and government cutbacks.
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Pakistain People's Party (PPP) and Pakistain 
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