[An Nahar] Premier-designate Ali Larayedh on Friday unveiled Tunisia's new coalition government after reaching a last-minute deal aimed at ending a major political crisis, with independents given key portfolios in a clear concession by Islamists.
"I presented to the president the dossier containing the list of the new government and a summary of the government program," Larayedh, a member of the powerful Islamist Ennahda party, said on television.
The announcement, just hours before a midnight deadline, came after two weeks of fraught discussions and amid tensions and uncertainty sparked by the killing last month of leftist anti-Islamist politician Chokri Belaid.
Larayedh said the new team, made up from parties of the outgoing coalition and independents, will step down at the end of the year after legislative and presidential elections are held.
Key portfolios -- which had been at the center of a tug of war between Islamists and the opposition -- were given to independent candidates little known by most Tunisians.
Lotfi Ben Jeddou, who served as prosecutor in the western town of Kasserine, will head the interior ministry, while veteran diplomat Othman Jarandi, a former ambassador to the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... and Jordan, becomes foreign minister.
University professor Rachid Sabagh will head the defense ministry and former judge at the court of cassation Nadhir Ben Ammou becomes the new minister of justice.
These appointments reflect a key concession by outgoing ruling party Ennahda to hand key ministries to non-partisan figures while parties in the outgoing coalition got less sensitive posts.
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An official protest has been sent to the White House by the Alouian Embassy in Washington.
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I don't know what that was at the link you provided, Oscar, but it's definitely weird. I didn't see anything about an embassy or an Alouian, though.
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Hmmmm....you know the Bureau of Land Management has a lot of open space out west. I'm sure we can provide them a nice piece for a reservation in which they can exercise the same sovereignty as some people who have been here long before Columbus showed up. It's not Memphis, but then again the Cherokee didn't have much choice either. Then again, they might get lucky, like the Cherokee, and find some lucrative oil (fracking) opportunities the state is passing up.
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Excellent P2k. I understand a few BLM Smoke Jumper aircraft are idle at the moment. If you can get me recertified, I'll be happy to assist with the airborne insertion.
NPR must be laughing their asses off right now.
Excerpted via The Other McCain
The original report on Salon detailing the plagiarism can be found here
A column by Fox News talking head Juan Williams published last month by the Hill was quietly updated last week to fix some pesky instances of plagiarism.
The article, it turned out, featured entire paragraphs from a Center for American Progress report on immigration, with a few words changed here and there, as detailed by Salon. "I was writing a column about the immigration debate and had my researcher look around to see what data existed to pump up this argument and he sent back what I thought were his words and summaries of the data," Williams told Alex Seitz-Wald without apologizing.
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So he's an actor and/or cheerleader. Perhaps salesman is the right word, but we knew that.
News as entertainment has been going on since at least Desert Shield, its just that IMHO Fox pulls it off better than the rest. And to be flat honest, after 30 minutes I usually walk away with more facts and background from other reality as entertainment shows, like pawn or storage or fishing. Even bad girls and teen mom > cnn.
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Yeah. Its amazing he hasn't gone on his segment and rattled off a couple sentences in Chinese before he realizes his mistake...then goes back and correctly pronounces the Chairman's name.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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