Castrated men tend to live much longer than fully endowed guys, according to a new study that suggests male sex hormones are responsible for shortening the lives of men. Actually they don't, it just seems much longer...
The findings, published today in the journal Current Biology, could offer clues on how to extend the male lifespan. There might be a tradeoff of quantity versus quality, though.
The possible negative consequences of castration include "decreased libido, depression and loss of physical strength," according to coauthor Kyung-Jin Min of Inha University.
For the study, Min and colleague Cheol-Koo Lee, an associate professor in the College of Life Sciences and Biotechnology at Korea University, analyzed genealogy records of noble members of the Imperial court of the Korean Chosun dynasty (A.D. 1392-1910).
The castrated boys either lost their reproductive organs in accidents (such as after being bitten by a dog) or they underwent castration purposefully to gain access to the palace. Male rulers, in particular, felt they could trust eunuchs with their female family members and harems, if they had them. Eunuchs could marry, though, and often adopted children, including other castrated boys.
The researchers found that the eunuchs lived 14 to 19 years longer than other men did. Three even lived to 100 or more, a feat of longevity that remains relatively rare among men even today. The effect wasn't just due to fine palace living either, since kings and other male members of the court had the shortest lifespans of all. The eunuchs also spent time both inside the palace and out. Kings had plenty of people trying to kill them, and it sometimes worked...
"Since castration extends lifespan by reducing male sex hormones, we still believe that the effect would be the same today," Min told Discovery News. "In fact, castration was also performed in the early 1900s in a Kansas mental hospital. Castrated patients lived 13 years longer than intact patients, which is similar to (the results) of our study."
Min continued, "Testosterone is known to increase the incidence of coronary heart disease and reduce immune function in males."
Lee added that because of this immune function suppression, eunuchs could be better able to resist infections.
The longevity differences between eunuchs and other men could also relate to lifestyle.
Lee explained that castrated men tend to be less violent, and additionally may avoid physically dangerous situations that could put them at risk.
The researchers next plan to examine the lifespan of eunuchs in other cultures, such as the Chinese and Ottoman empires, to see if the latest conclusions carry over to those individuals.
In the meantime, few expect young men to willingly undergo castration in order to have lengthier lives. Younger people now, however, are often interested in restricting their calorie intake, which can achieve similar benefits.
Lee's lab is currently investigating how calorie restriction may modulate gene expression, leading to possibly reduced testosterone levels.
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"Actually they don't, it just seems much longer..."
I say that also. Then I say meat eaters maybe don't live longer but they are happier.
I can see it now. McDonald's is about to open three Veggie restaurants. I hope they have several visits from patrons wearing skin tight body outfits with serious bulges and Vote Obama logos.
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Married men are supposed to live longer than single men, also. The truth is it just seems to last longer.
(I spent a week in Philadelphia one night - W.C. Fields)
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Today, the usual reason for that operation or the chemical equivalent is for the treatment of aggressive prostate cancer. And most of the sufferers of that are in their eighties already.
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Saudi health authorities downplayed Tuesday the impact of a possible outbreak of a virus from the family of deadly SARS on its forthcoming Hajj pilgrimage, stressing that the cases remain rare.
Pilgrims have begun to arrive in Saudi Arabia for the ritual that represents the world's largest annual gathering as some two million faithful are expected to descend on the Muslim holy city of Mecca for the hajj which peaks in late October.
"There have been two cases of flu over a period of time. This is normal," said health ministry spokesman Khaled al-Mirghalani.
"There are no changes to the conditions put by the health ministry to pilgrims," he said, adding that authorities remain vigilant.
The undersecretary for preventive medicine at the Saudi health ministry, Ziyad Memish, said the "virus has been in the kingdom for three months."
He, however, insisted the situation was "stable and no new cases have been recorded." Memish said the kingdom is not planning to impose new preventive measures on pilgrims.
The virus has caused the death of a Saudi national and has left a Qatari man in serious conditions at a London hospital, said the World Health Organization (WHO).
The 49-year-old Qatari was admitted to an intensive care unit in Doha on September 7 suffering from acute respiratory infection and kidney failure before being transferred to Britain by air ambulance on September 11, the WHO said.
The WHO confirmed the illness was in the coronavirus family but was not SARS, or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, which swept out of China in 2003, killing more than 800 people worldwide.
"This is not SARS, it will not become SARS, and it is not SARS-like," said Gregory Haertl, a WHO spokesman in Geneva, pointing out that what sets the new virus apart was that it caused rapid kidney failure.
Qatar's top health authority announced on Monday that no other cases have been reported in the Gulf state, apart from the citizen who fell ill in Saudi Arabia.
The head of the country's public health authority, Mohammed bin Hamad Al-Thani, said the infected Qatari had "been treated in Qatar for two months before being transferred to London."
Last year, nearly three million Muslim pilgrims performed the hajj, which represents one of the five pillars of Islam and must be performed at least once in a lifetime by all those Muslims who are able to do so.
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We do not wish for an epidemic carried throughout Dar al Islam by the anonymous, white-clad hajjis now in-gathering in the Magic Kingdom. However, the odds are not in their favour.
ROME: Italian prosecutors on Tuesday requested prison sentences of four years each for seven scientists accused of underestimating the risks of an earthquake in L'Aquila in 2009 that killed 309 people.
I don't remember -- were Roman soothsayers executed for getting it wrong, back in the day, or was it understood that prediction is an inexact science?
The scientists are all members of a special committee set up to evaluate the risks of natural disasters, which held an emergency meeting in L'Aquila on May 31, 2009 -- six days before the fatal earthquake which devastated the city. The meeting was called following a series of small tremors and concluded that it was impossible to determine whether a bigger earthquake could follow, although it did call for strict adherence to anti-quake measures in the area.
Prosecutor Fabio Picuti said there had been "an incomplete, inept, unsuitable and criminally mistake analysis" made by the scientists. He said the statement issued by the committee before the earthquake had contained "banal, useless, self-contradictory and mistaken information."
Some of Italy's leading scientists are among the seven defendants, including Enzo Boschi, a former director of the National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology, and Claudio Evo, a physics professor at Genoa University.
Picuti picked up on a phrase attributed to Boschi in which he reportedly said: "I would reject (the possibility) of an earthquake."
"People died because of this phrase," Picuti said.
Defense lawyers are expected to present their final arguments on October 9 and 10 and a verdict is due before October 23, Il Tempo daily reported.
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It's not that it was an inexact science. It's that they neglected their duties.
"The basis of the charges is not that they didn't predict the earthquake. As functionaries of the state, they had certain duties imposed by law: to evaluate and characterize the risks that were present in L'Aquila. They were obligated to evaluate the degree of risk given all these factors, and they did not."
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...I suspect a detention secure facility for government apparatchiks would be smaller and cost less, letting them consider everyone else outside the facility on 'house arrest'.
[Al Ahram] Ousted president and his associates laid claim to hundreds of holding companies as well as properties and luxury goods, says government commission
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A Hong Kong tycoon has offered a $65 million "marriage bounty" to any man who can win the heart of his lesbian daughter, a report said Wednesday.
Cecil Chao announced the financial reward of HK$500 million after his daughter, Gigi, married her same-sex partner of seven years in France earlier this year, the South China Morning Post reported.
"I don't mind whether he is rich or poor. The important thing is that he is generous and kind hearted," 76-year-old Chao was quoted as saying.
"Gigi is a very good woman with both talents and looks. She is devoted to her parents, is generous and does volunteer work," he added.
He also rejected "false reports" that Gigi, 33, had married abroad, saying she was still single.
Chao, who owns publicly-listed property developer Cheuk Nang, could not be reached for comment.
Same-sex marriages are not recognised in Hong Kong, a socially conservative Chinese city where homosexuality was decriminalised in 1991.
Chao is well known in Hong Kong's social circles and regularly appears at public events with his latest young girlfriend.
He reportedly once claimed to have had intimate relations with 10,000 women
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For that kind of loot I am sure she can find a gay friend to 'marry' her. Or even not-gay - community property of $65 million will buy a lot of toys.
A recent series of cyber attacks on Japanese Internet sites originated in China and were viewed as a possible prelude to military action, according to defense officials familiar with details of the attacks.
Japan's National Police Agency revealed last week that at least 19 Japanese websites were hit by cyber attacks timed to increase tensions between Tokyo and Beijing over the Senkaku islands.
U.S. officials said the sites affected included Japan's Defense Ministry, Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry, and the country's supreme court. Banking and utilities networks also were hit. Other sites that were attacked included Japan's Statistics Bureau and the government's Internet TV, which were temporarily blocked. A university hospital network also was hit.
Earlier this month, up to six Chinese military vessels moved into Japanese waters and then withdrew, Japan's coast guard reported. China claims the islands, located west of Okinawa and north of Taiwan, are its territory. Japan has controlled the islands for decades.
According to one U.S. official, the Chinese-origin cyber attacks are considered a preview of how China's military would conduct the opening phase of a military campaign. The official did not say China is preparing some type of military engagement with Japan over the islands, but warned that one could erupt through miscalculation.
The latest cyber attacks began in mid-September and appeared timed to Beijing's growing animosity toward Japan over the island dispute.
The Japanese police said in a statement that the cyber attacks were "presumably connected" to the islands dispute. The attack targets were posted on the web site of the Chinese hacker group "Honker Union" and included "government executive agencies and important infrastructure companies."
The National Police Agency stepped up monitoring of websites through the Cyber Force Center and alerted organizations listed as the attack targets. The center was seeking to analyze the attacks and prevent their spread, the statement said.
Tatsuo Kawabata, Internal Affairs and Communications minister, told Kyodo News that the ministry's network was hit with an intermittent attack for a total of seven-and-a-half hours beginning Sept. 15. The attack was most intense on Sept. 16, when 95 percent of the traffic to the site originated in China.
The recent cyber attacks appeared to be less sophisticated than the kinds of cyber attacks that the Pentagon has detected in recent years and would likely precede a military conflict. However, the attacks also appeared designed to give China's government deniability for the digital strikes and could also be multiple purpose strikes for both political and military goals.
Many of the attacked websites were replaced with a Chinese flag and proclamations that China owned the Senkakus.
Japan's National Police Association reported that the Chinese hackers had targeted 300 organizations in Japan, and that several thousand Chinese had posted notices of the planned attacks and hacker tools to be used on a chat site called "YY Chat."
An official said one Chinese group behind the attacks was identified as a well-known group that is suspected of having ties to the Chinese government. The group is called the Honker Union and surfaced several months ago after a period of relative quiet, the official said.
The U.S. military closely monitors Chinese hacking and cyber espionage for signs of how they would be used in a future conflict.
The beginning stages of a future conflict are expected to begin with crippling cyber attacks against information systems that control large segments of the U.S. system, including power generation, transportation, financial, and other key infrastructure, the official said.
Chinese Sr. Col. Lin Shishan, a member of China's Fourth Department of the General Staff, which is in charge of cyber warfare, stated in a 2008 journal article that the military must prepare to destroy enemy information systems in warfare.
"We must establish the information combat concept of 'attack and destruction of system of systems,'" Lin stated.
Classified State Department cables made public last year revealed that civilian Chinese computer hackers are linked to the military and were behind an aggressive global campaign of economic espionage since 2003. The hacking and cyber espionage program--known to U.S. intelligence by the code name Byzantine Hades--was linked to the Chinese military's Chengdu military region's First Technical Reconnaissance Bureau, one cable stated.
A Chengdu hacker named Chen Xingpeng was tied to the PLA Technical Reconnaissance Bureau. The tie "further emphasizes the idea that this clandestine 'cyber-spying' network may in fact be a state-sponsored intelligence-gathering operation," a cable said.
A March 2009 cable stated that Chinese hacker Yinan Peng, leader of civilian hacker group Javaphile, is suspected of carrying out the major government-sponsored hacking against Google and other U.S. corporations. Key evidence cited for the connection were Internet Protocol addresses traced to Javaphile, and the use of a customized hacking "command and control tool" called eRACS.
Former military intelligence official Larry Wortzel said China's capacity to conduct cyber attacks against Japan and its self-defense forces parallel what it can do to the United States.
"Chinese military doctrine calls for cyber attacks in any conflict," said Wortzel, a member of the congressional U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. "Japan's industry also is vulnerable to cyber espionage by China, as is U.S. industry."
A report by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission said relations between China's military and civilian hackers remain unclear, although it is believed the People's Liberation Army is reluctant to use hackers since they could disrupt PLA data collection or sabotage operations.
However, the report said the PLA in 2005 sponsored hacker competitions "to identify talented civilians who could support military [computer network operations] requirements."
One Chinese hacker, identified in the report as Tan Duilin, leader of the hacker group Network Crack Program Hacker, was recruited by the Sichuan military command communications department to "participate in the network attack and defense training event organized by the provincial military command."
Chinese hackers are active in thousands of Internet-based groups and as individuals. They are known to develop malicious software.
"China's hacker community gained early notoriety for member willingness to engage in large-scale politically motivated denial of service attacks, data destruction, and Web defacements of foreign networks, known as hacktivism," the report said.
The hackers are known to employ "large scale, politically motivated attacks against foreign networks or Websites."
The Honker Union group carried out major cyber attacks on more than 1,000 U.S. Internet sites around the time of the April 2001 incident involving the collision between a U.S. EP-3 surveillance aircraft and a Chinese F-8 jet.
Earlier this year U.S. Cyber Command chief Gen. Keith Alexander said that in the future cyber warfare would transition from "disruptive to destructive attacks."
"Those are coming up, and we have to be ready for that," the four-star general said during remarks to the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
A report made public in October 2011 by the National Counterintelligence Executive stated, "U.S. corporations and cyber security specialists ... have reported an onslaught of computer network intrusions originating from Internet Protocol (IP) addresses in China, which private sector specialists call 'advanced persistent threats.'"
"Some of these reports have alleged a Chinese corporate or government sponsor of the activity, but the [intelligence community] has not been able to attribute many of these private sector data breaches to a state sponsor," the report said.
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BEIJING: China formally entered its first aircraft carrier into service on Tuesday, underscoring its ambitions to be a leading Asian naval power, although the ship is not expected to carry a full complement of planes or be ready for combat for some time.
The Defense Ministrys announcement had been long expected and was not directly linked to current tensions with Japan over a disputed group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea. In a brief notice on its website, the ministry said the carriers commissioning significantly boosted the navys combat capabilities and its ability to cooperate in responding to natural disasters and other non-traditional threats.
It has important significance in effectively safeguarding national sovereignty, security, and development benefits, and advancing world peace and common development, the statement said.
China had partly justified the launching of a carrier by pointing out that it alone among the five permanent United Nations Security Council members had no such craft. That had been particularly glaring given the constant presence in Asia of carriers operated by the US Navy, which maintains 11 worldwide.
President Hu Jintao, also chairman of the commission that controls the military, presided over a ceremony Tuesday morning at the ships home port of Dalian, along with Premier Wen Jiabao and top generals. Hu fully affirmed the efforts of those working on the ship and called on them to complete all remaining tasks according to the highest standard, the Defense Ministry said.
The carrier is the former Soviet navys unfinished Varyag, which was towed from Ukraine in 1998 minus its engines, weaponry and navigation systems. Christened the Liaoning after the northeastern province surrounding Dalian, the ship began sea trials in August 2011 following years of refurbishment.
So far the trial runs of the aircraft carrier have been to test the ships propulsion, communications and navigation systems. But launching and recovering fixed-wing aircraft at sea is a much trickier proposition. It will take years to build the proper aircraft, to train pilots to land in adverse weather on a moving deck, and to develop a proper carrier battle group.
Beijing hasnt said what role it intends the carrier to fill other than helping safeguard Chinas coastline and sea links. The Liaoning has also been portrayed as a kind of test platform for the future development of up to five domestically built Chinese carriers.
Writing in Tuesdays China Daily newspaper, retired Rear Adm. Yang Yi said the carrier will be used to master the technology for more advanced carriers. He said it also will be used to train in how to operate such a craft in a battle group and with vessels from other nations navies.
Whatever its practical effects on Chinas global status, the carrier embodies huge symbolism for Chinas political and military leaders as a totem of their countrys rise from weakness to strength, according to Andrew S. Erickson, a China naval specialist at the US Naval War College.
While (Chinese navy) acceptance of this starter carrier is the first step in a long journey, it is a journey that will take place in full view of the world, and one that will ultimately take Beijing to a new place as a great sea power, Erickson wrote on his blog.
The carriers political importance was highlighted in Wens remarks to the ceremony, in which he said it would arouse national pride and patriotic passion.
This has mighty and deep significance for the opening of a new facet in our enterprise of socialism with Chinese characteristics, he said.
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China intends its new "SHILENG/LIAONING" CV to be dual or multi-use, manly training for its new carrier aviation corps/cadres + "showing the flag", but also for legit MilOps in times of national crisis.
Year 2020 is the yarn to watch, both as per possible SSSSSHHHH...CCCCCCCCC anti-US OWG? + China is planning to dev an additional 2-3 CV Groups, to include possible US-style Supercarrier as well as possible USS WASP-CLASS styled LHDS.
China is also repor mulling purchasing either another ex-Soviet CV or a UK Royal Navy CV to convert into a nuclear CV testbed + CVT.
* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > RUSSIAN MEDIA: CHINA'S TOP LEADERS PROCLAIM THE PLAN'S CARRIER AVIATION TECHNOLOGY AS SUPERIOR TO RUSSIA'S + BRITAIN'S, + SECOND IN THE WORLD ONLY TO THE USA.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Chinese-Military-Aviation = blogspot] CHINA DEVELOPING 40,000-TONNE HELICOPTER CARRIER!?, similar to USN asp-CLASS LHD as per recent Chin Govt. decision.
Its clear that China [+ Iran?] hope one day to effec challenge USN dominance of the seven seas.
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We will still have to wait because it takes a long time to get beyond the amatuer level when it comes to carrier and fleet operations. Also a single carrier is a target, they need more than that to be a serious threat.
Alaska wants a $50 billion pipeline and export complex built to develop natural gas that's stranded on its icy North Slope. The justification: Asia's swelling appetite for the fuel. Maybe we can't burn it for energy in the US, but they surely can in Asia.
Governor Sean Parnell gave Exxon Mobil Corp., BP Plc and ConocoPhillips to the end of this month to provide plans to pipe the gas south and condense it into a liquid, known as LNG, for export. Their joint venture would compete with growing global supplies of LNG coming into markets within two decades from Australia, East Africa, the U.S. Gulf Coast and Canada.
The explosion of output from U.S. shale squelched Alaska's long-held hopes to build a pipeline to the Lower 48 U.S. states, Book said. "So the next most logical place to take it is to liquefy it and ship it at significant price premiums to Japan, China and throughout the Pacific Rim." Turns out fracking is good for Asia, too. Anything to reduce the need for mid-east oil. Might even help balance our trade with China!
By 2025, the four largest consumers of LNG will be Japan, China, India and South Korea. Alaska's isolated location may help insulate it from discussions about whether the U.S. should be exporting gas pumped domestically.
"Sending Alaska gas overseas would not deprive petrochemical companies or utilities in Milwaukee or Shreveport of gas," said the federal coordinator for Alaska gas-transportation projects. "I think generally Alaska gas is absent from those political debates."
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Not to mention the thousands of new JOBS this initiative will create for Americans.
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This would be a win-win for Alaska and the Pacific Rim. Since Japan is shutting down their Nukes, they will need a stable supply of natural gas, and this would bring us closer as allied nations. The price and abundant supply of natural gas in the Lower 48, IMHO, will not support the Canadian pipeline at this time.
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This may give a much needed boost for our 'saloon and cathouse' in Galena business plan AP. :-)
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As we approach an IPO, we'll certainly keep you in mind BP. Right now we're attempting to iron out transport and lodging. There are no roads in or out. Obviously we'll cater to pilots and maintenance crews.
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The problem is that the gas pipeline won't go through Galena, Besoeker, but the principle is the same and we will invest in an S&C installation closer to the pipeline.
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Besoeker:
It has been my life-long dream to own a saloon and cathouse, and I know that several generations of Iblisi would be smiling on me from the great beyond. Please send me a prospectus when it's ready!
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Will do lblis. I've been working on the dinner menu all afternoon. We think Sun-Sat will be ladies nights. Secret Asian Man has e-mailed me regarding a laundry franchise. Not sure we are ready to lease ajoining parcels just yet, but we're hoping to have a golfcart shuttle picnic area and outdoor range nearby, and of course plenty of free parking. We'd appreciate your feedback.
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Why do we need a new pipeline. Just send the LNG tankers up to the Bering Sea. Surely they can store the stuff for the ice bound months and load up the tankers in the summer. That has to be cheaper than a pipeline to the ice free ports.
I wasn't too concerned about yesterday's 2 isolated cases. But 4 people from the same family says highly infectious. The Haj pandemic could be on its way.
FIVE people have been isolated in a hospital in Denmark with symptoms of a new viral respiratory illness from the same family as the deadly SARS virus, the hospital said on Wednesday.
"We have sent samples from the five for testing and hope to get the results this afternoon," chief physician Svend Stenvang Petersen of Odense University Hospital told AFP.
"The five have a fever, coughing and influenza-like symptoms," he added.
Petersen said those admitted were a family of four where the father had been to Saudi Arabia, and an unrelated person who had been to Qatar. Two of those with symptoms were under the age of five.
Trade unions in Greece have called the first general strike since the conservative-led coalition government came to power in June.
Wednesday's 24-hour walkout is to protest at new planned spending cuts of more than 11.5bn euros ($15bn; £9bn). The savings are a pre-condition to Greece receiving its next tranche of bailout funds, without which the country could face bankruptcy in weeks.
Large anti-austerity demonstrations are also planned.
Greece needs the next 31bn-euro instalment of its international bailout, but with record unemployment and a third of Greeks pushed below the poverty line, there is strong resistance to further cuts.
The government of conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is also proposing to slash pensions and raise the retirement age to 67.
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Fox Business Network has live vid of the Greeks protesting against math and checking account balances
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This is all part of the process of a bloodless coup that is occuring in Europe. The decision of Karlsruhe to allow the EUro bonds, the control of taxes and finances by Brussels just about wraps up the project of the elites to subsume all of Europe into the greater good of the EU sovereign.
Bye, bye France, Italy, Germany et. al. Now fess up and take your ONE seat in all the intn'l orgs.
Protesters clashed with police in Spain's capital on Tuesday as the government prepares a new round of unpopular austerity measures for the 2013 budget that will be announced on Thursday. Thousands gathered in Neptune plaza where they planned to form a human chain around parliament, surrounded by barricades, police trucks and more than 1,500 police in riot gear.
Television images showed the police beating some protesters with truncheons, in a brief, tense stand-off one block from parliament as police trucks tried to divide the crowd in two.
The protest, promoted over the Internet by different activist groups, was younger and more rowdy than recent marches called by labour unions. Protesters said they were fed up with cuts to public salaries and health and education.
"My annual salary has dropped by 8000 euros and if it falls much further I won't be able to make ends meet," said Luis Rodriguez, 36, a firefighter who joined the protest. He said he is considering leaving Spain to find a better quality of life.
With this year's budget deficit target looking untenable, the conservative government is now looking at such things as cuts in inflation-linked pensions, taxes on stock transactions, "green taxes" on emissions or eliminating tax breaks.
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Wow pushing taxes over the laffer maximum will harm the economy and drive wealth creation even further away.
Radical CUTS to the extent of the things the state does.
Eliminate taxes on wealth creation.
Tax on things the state creates (property entitlements)
Eliminate means-testing of benefits as this acts like a tax on work.
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Besoeker---They will order 9mm rounds over there, and a lot more than the normal millions needed, as the 9mm rounds don't quite have the oomph that 40s&w have.
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don't quite have the oomph that 40s&w have
Or .45 ACP. Of which I have a few rounds mfg c. 1918 - wonder if they're still any good?
During the Yom Kippur War, in the waters of the Mediterranean, US and Soviet vessels were gearing up for a clash which could have escalated to a global conflict.
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Was at (then) SAC HQ when this first "almost happened." Very interesting time. The phrase "Gritty and Ready Determination" seems to stick in my mind....
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Fellow Rantburgers,
There are 2 things I've heard that are not mentioned in this article:
1) The Soviets had fighter units already in Egypt.
2) There was a dog fight between Soviet and USN fighters with loses on both sides before the two fleets decided to pull back.
Do any any Rantburgers know anything about this?
Al
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Link works now. President Nixon hung tough in support of Israel unlike what is going on today.
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See also RENSE > [Daily Mail] SOVIET SUB COMMANDER WHO SINGE-HANDEDLY AVERTED WW3 AT HEIGHT OF CUBAN MISSLE CRISIS.
* "Diverted 50 B-52 Bombers from Guam" > Yuup, I remember as a kid asking one of my Uncles whom was in the USAF at the time where did all the Bombers go - VIETNAM WAS THAT A'WAYS, BUT HOW COME MANY BOMBERS [loaded] WERE FLYING THE OTHER WAY!?
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Frozen Al: Never heard that before, but I'm a youngin' compared to most of you. I'll have to look that up.
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ALL I know is that I was a reactor Operator on USS Will Rogers and the ship had major hull patches still missing and we had refuelled the reactor and hadn't done initial criticality testing yet. Then the word came down that IF the balloon went up we'd be patched up, underway on nuclear power and armed to the teeth with Mark 14s (WW2 steam torpedoes) within 24 hours.
Oh, joy!
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.
Castrated men tend to live much longer than fully endowed guys, according to a new study that suggests male sex hormones are responsible for shortening the lives of men.
ROME: Italian prosecutors on Tuesday requested prison sentences of four years each for seven scientists accused of underestimating the risks of an earthquake in L'Aquila in 2009 that killed 309 people.
A recent series of cyber attacks on Japanese Internet sites originated in China and were viewed as a possible prelude to military action, according to defense officials familiar with details of the attacks.
Alaska wants a $50 billion pipeline and export complex built to develop natural gas that's stranded on its icy North Slope. The justification: Asia's swelling appetite for the fuel. 
