Many automatic garage doors in Ottawa have suddenly, and strangely, stopped working, due to a powerful radio signal that appears to be interfering with the remote controls that open them. The signal is transmitted on the 390-megahertz band, which is used by virtually all garage door openers on the continent. That's the same frequency used by the U.S. military's new state-of-the-art Land Mobile Radio System.
Cleroux said operators have already been warned of this phenomenon by service updates from U.S. manufacturers, who started seeing the same problem around military bases last summer. The strong radio signals on the 390-megahertz band simply overpower the garage door openers. One technician likened it to a whisper competing with a yell. "From what we hear, it is the American Embassy that's operating on 390, and they're the only ones who can block it. But I'm not 100 per cent sure, because we're all kind of up in the air until we know exactly what's going on," said Cleroux. The U.S. Embassy denies any transmissions on that frequency. So does the Canadian military. Isn't this covered by some treaty somewhere? We will not interfere with your garage doors, if you don't interfere with ours. Ratified in 1812, I believe.
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It doesn't matter all those devices like garrage door operners operate on a secondary and non interfering basis. If you get interfered with by the primary user too bad. If it's a government organ thats doing it to you too bad raised to the fifth power. SOP is to say "it's not us."
Leaders debating whether to revitalize talks on a free trade zone spanning the Americas ended their two-day meeting Saturday without an agreement.
A top negotiator told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity that the summit's declaration would state two opposing views: one favoring the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas, and another saying discussions should wait until after World Trade Organization talks in December.
The negotiator asked not to be identified because the declaration had not yet been publicly announced.
Mexico, the United States and 27 other nations wanted to set an April deadline for talks, but that was opposed by Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Venezuela. Interesting - 5 can kill a proposal that 28 support. Very Democratic.
The United States says the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas, stretching from Canada to Chile, would open up new markets for Americans and bring wealth and jobs to Latin America.
President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice attended the summit but left on Air Force One as discussions went past the scheduled deadline. Thomas Shannon, U.S. assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, was left in charge of negotiations for Washington.
The zone's main opponent, Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, says it will enslave Latin American workers. He came to the summit vowing to "bury FTAA."
Brazil - a key regional player with Latin America's largest economy - hedged at setting a firm date for talks because it wants to focus for now on ongoing WTO talks aimed at cutting tariffs around the world and boosting the global economy.
"Anything we do now, before the WTO meeting, could confuse the facts and we'd be creating an impediment to the WTO," Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told reporters on the sidelines of the meeting at Argentina's most renowned summer resort. Bullshit - this is just spin.
Mar del Plata was calm Saturday after protesters opposed to Bush's presence the FTAA clashed in street battles with riot police, burning and ransacking businesses just 10 blocks from the theater where the summit opened.
Protests have become commonplace at summits, especially those dealing with free trade and U.S. policies. But Friday's violence was on a much smaller scale than clashes in 2001 during the Americas Summit in Canada, when police detained 400 people and scores were injured. "much smaller" - Really? Gosh, you wouldn't have known it from the MSM covergae.
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Let's see...Lula wants Brazil to be the big dog economically in the Americas, the President of Argentina's a debt defaulting Socialist, Uruguay's President is an old Lefty radical from the 70's, Hugo is, well, Hugo, and Paraguay's a virtually lawless kleptocracy. You bet they don't want free and equal trade in this hemisphere.
The United States has recently sent replacement parts to Venezuela for U.S.-made warplanes, American officials said Friday, denying claims that it has not honored a supply contract. President Hugo Chavez threatened this week to provide Venezuela's F-16s to Cuba or China earlier this week, because of what he said was Washington's failure to supply the parts needed to keep the aircraft flying.
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"President Hugo Chavez threatened this week to provide Venezuela's F-16s to Cuba or China..."
Lol, and what would third-worlder Fidel do with unflyable F-16's, Hugo? Just cuz they can keep some '57 Chebbys running isn't quite the same thing, drooler. And the Chinese would have to call in the Russkies to help - and neither would be able to maintain them worth shit, lol.
Everything that comes out of this moron's mouth sets a new standard for inanity.
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He sounds like an bratty adolescent with a trust fund and demonstrates the behavior of one. "Ain't I cool." No, Hugo, you playing a very dangerous game that is going to get people killed all for your ego.
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With his dough, please don't tell me he can't find spares. Poor bugger just has a case of the ass because he's got no one bright enough to fly the damn things. Blister his fat ass with a hickory switch and send him to bed without his supper
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No, Hugo, you playing a very dangerous game that is going to get people killed all for your ego.
He already did that once with his coup attempt against the civilian government in the early 90's. One of the F-16's in particular shot down the little rinky-dink bomber and its fascist pilot as it was on its way to bomb government buildings in Caracas. One minute he was large and in charge, the next he was Sidewinder flambe'.
Things finally went South enough that Hugo hopped on a plane and left a bunch of people behind at the airbase to die so he could make his getaway and survive to feed his ego.
With his dough, please don't tell me he can't find spares. Poor bugger just has a case of the ass because he's got no one bright enough to fly the damn things. Blister his fat ass with a hickory switch and send him to bed without his supper
The Venezuelan military is historically reportedly good, although I don't know if he's managed to purge anyone who knows how to do basic addition the way he did with PDVSA. I do know one of the reasons he's trying to build up his "Bolivarian Circles" is because he doesn't trust the regular military there.
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A possibility occured to me: could it be that he doesn't want the F-16's anymore because if he buys some Su-30's they come with rent-a-pilots from somewhere else whose loyalty can be assured?
More than 1,000 demonstrators angry about President Bush's policies clashed with police, shattered storefronts and torched businesses Friday, marring the inauguration of the Summit of the Americas as leaders began debating creation of one of the world's largest free trade zones. The chaos reflected the often violent, worldwide debate on free trade as the United States and Mexico pushed to relaunch talks on a zone stretching from Canada to Chile. Past summits on the issue — including last year's gathering of Asian-Pacific leaders in Chile — have drawn bitter opposition and similarly angry protests.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez emerged as the most strident opponent of the plan, addressing a separate crowd of more than 10,000 peaceful protesters hours before the summit convened in this normally tranquil seaside resort. Chavez vowed to defeat the Free Trade Area of the Americas, or FTAA, once and for all. Speaking before a six-story banner of revolutionary Che Guevara, Chavez urged the throng — including soccer great Diego Maradona and Bolivian presidential hopeful Evo Morales — to help him fight free trade. "Only united can we defeat imperialism and bring our people a better life," he said, adding: "Here, in Mar del Plata, FTAA will be buried!" Before Chavez's speech, demonstrators flooded the streets, shouting "Get out Bush!" and "Fascist Bush! You are the terrorist!"
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If they don't want to participate, I say let them go. They can either play along and keep up, or be left behind.
A Reuters report published in many newspapers all over the world will console the members of the Philippine Air Force. Itâs about âAlbaniaâs antiquated air force of Soviet-designed MiG aircraft, which killed 35 Albanian pilots but no enemies.â Albania is selling these old airplanes to the highest bidder. Its military chief of staff told Reuters some possible buyers from Western countries just want âto turn the planes into bars.â
A satellite of Soviet Union and China during the first decades of the Cold War, the Stalinist regime of Enver Hoxha was given a fleet that grew to 125 MiGs to repel what Qazimi called ''a classic total aggression'' from the West. The first MiG-15 squadron arrived from the Soviet Union in 1951 and it had seen action in Korea, said Perikli Teta, Albania's air force engineer-in-chief for 17 years. ''You could still see where the bullet holes had been repaired,'' Teta told Reuters. The 15s were followed in the 1970s and 1980s by scores of MiG-17s, or Frescoes in NATO parlance, and MiG-19s, known to the alliance as Farmers. All have the stubby swept-back wings, cigar shaped fuselage and nose intake of the iconic communist Cold War interceptor. Albanian pilots were praised in the government-controlled press but had little glory to their credit other than flying low down Tirana's main boulevard, rattling windowpanes and startling citizens with their supersonic booms.
Qazimi said the planes were simply a deterrent, ''a show of force'' in a region bristling with arms. On one occasion they forced a landing by a retired U.S. airman who had lost direction on his way to a holiday in Rome. Teta said MiG flights were curtailed after the fall of communism in 1991, because Albania, Europe's poorest country at that time, could not afford 1,000 litres of fuel per flight.
At the dawn of democracy, some sat forlorn under tattered canvas covers at Tirana's Rinas airport, their wheels deep in mud and their rusty wings tilted. Qazimi some would be going to museums, a few would be kept for instruction and others sold for scrap. None would be sold for military purposes. The Chinese-built versions were dangerous, Teta said.
''I think it was always the aircraft that was to blame (for the fatal accidents),'' he said. ''One accident last year was exactly the same as one that happened 20 years ago.'' With the MiGs out of the sky, Teta now worries about Albania's creaking helicopters of Soviet make. ''Whenever I hear their engine, I follow it until it lands,'' he said.
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When I visited the museum at Peenumunde, they had beside the V-2 stuff alot of former soviet aircraft and missiles on display from the DDR. One was a flogger that had its intake stuffed full of Mc Donald trash. Ah the triumph of the american way we take your weapons and change them into trashcans.
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Yet another Northop Gumman business development opportunity.
North Korea's communist government is urging women in the country to wear traditional Korean clothes instead of pants, according to a North Korean monthly magazine. "Keeping alive our dress style is a very important political issue to adhere to specific national cultural traditions at a time when the U.S. imperialists are maneuvering to spread the rotten bourgeois lifestyle inside North Korea," the Joson Yeosung (Woman) magazine said, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency.
The magazine said exotic dress dampens the revolutionary atmosphere in society and blurs national sentiment and asked the public to reject clothes that aren't North Korean style. Instead, it counsels women to wear Hanbok — the brightly colored, loose-fitting dresses that are traditional in the Koreas. The campaign comes as North Korea struggles to tighten its control over an influx of outside influences, which it claims is part of a U.S. psychological offensive aimed at toppling the communist regime — a charge Washington denies.
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Hanbok uses an awful lot of fabric... and the nicest ones are all over time-consuming embroidery. Then, too, they are a positive danger for factory workers, and impossible to wear while labouring in the fields planting rice. Does the North Korean government wish its women to return to keeping house and caring for babies? With what economic excess is this bourgeois behaviour to be supported?
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It appears they're just following a trend that started in the South a decade before. Its part of the need for unique identity, not much different than the need to wear ledenhosen or african 'traditional' dress or vintage civil war gear.
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Want to bet they're the ones who discouraged wearing hanbok to begin with as part of the creation of the "new juche man/woman/whatever" when they started their revolution?
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Ala the Clinton-led US DemoLefties, any and all International Lefties-Socialists-Marxists-Progressives and aligned are now Rightist- or Right-leaning Repubs, Fascists and Conservatives In-Name-Only, at least for now until either Socialism is entrenched in America, or America is militarily destroyed. Dem startegist BOB BECKEL > iff Dubya nominates a SCOTUS candidate that is pro-Gay/Lesbian and pro-Abortion, etc, the Dems will be obligated to contest/challenge him or her.
Family groups and educators, who breathed a sigh of relief when a teacher who was discovered moonlighting at a brothel was dismissed and de-certified, are shocked to learn that education officials instead helped the woman change her identity and reassigned her to a new school. And all parties are shocked at reports the woman is still working as a prostitute. Actually, if she has an honest job, why is she still in the publik skool system?
The Queensland, Australia, teacher, in her 30s, was first discovered when another teacher visited a legal brothel and told other teachers. At first, education officials balked at doing anything with the information, saying they considered her a good teacher. "She could not be fired because, technically, what she was doing was legal and we got freebies," one education insider told the Sunday Mail. "The Government would have been taken to the cleaners for unfair dismissal. The department advised her there were some moral and ethical concerns about her working in the sex industry and asked her to quit her job as a prostitute."
Reportedly, the woman agreed to quit her night job and was transferred to another school, complete with a new identity and a promotion. The teacher, however, has not stayed in the classroom. Someone contacted the Sunday Mail last week and reported the woman was once again moonlighting at a brothel under the names Tiffany and Candy.
Education Queensland, the authority over the schools, disputes the claim, saying there is "no evidence" she is still working in the sex industry. The brothel, likewise, says it has no prostitutes by those names currently employed, although a Tiffany had worked there the previous year.
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Well I have no problem with that. My world is different than yours I guess. If it's legal (and it should be everywhere IMNSHO) it really isn't anyones business, unless you are a assclown like Joe F.
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was first discovered when another teacher visited a legal brothel and told other teachers
Um, was the other teacher in trouble for frequenting brothels? I mean if its unseemly for one to work there I would think there should at least be some kind of blowback for the John as well.
A BOMB squad robot rescued a woman's pet bird today as police allowed some residents back into a block of apartments damaged in a Sydney road tunnel collapse.
About 50 people were evacuated early on Wednesday when a section of the Lane Cove Tunnel project collapsed, undermining the apartment building and leaving a corner of the block hanging over a massive hole.
With the hole now filled with concrete, residents from 18 of the units were briefly allowed home today to collect a few personal belongings.
Accompanied by police bomb squad personnel, they gathered clothes and personal effects and stuffed them into suitcases before leaving the building for the second time in three days.
Residents from units above the hole were not allowed home.
But a bomb squad robot sent into the units also retrieved a pet bird forgotten by one resident when the block was hurriedly evacuated in the early hours of Wednesday.
Tweety, a much-loved cockatiel belonging to Karen Bruce, was in a cage in an apartment above the unit that suffered the most damage in the collapse.
After the robot emerged from her unit with the caged bird today, an emotional Ms Bruce ran to the two to three month-old cockatiel and held it up triumphantly.
Soon, she was looking forward to taking Tweety out of the cage for a cuddle.
"Tweety is a hand-reared cockatiel who likes daily contact," she explained.
Asked how it was, she said: "I don't know. I'm not a vet, but she's had a bit of (water and) seed left and stuff, so she is quite content.
"(But) it might be a quick rush to the vet."
Many other belongings remain out of reach in the potentially dangerous building.
"We won't be back in for a while and I'm quite emotional that we can't just get back in and get our wallets," Ms Bruce said.
"But there's peace of mind there has been no loss of life."
The evacuees were being put up in a hotel by the project's operators, but do not know when or if they will be allowed to return permanently to their properties.
Two inquiries were announced today into the tunnel collapse, which opened up a hole about 10 metres wide and 10 metres deep near the Pacific Highway exit ramp from Longueville Road, swallowing up sections of the unit block.
The crater has been filled with concrete to stabilise the building's foundations.
Tunnel operator Thiess John Holland said an independent review would be undertaken by a world expert in rock mechanics, Professor Ted Brown.
"That should give you the confidence that what we are talking about is transparent and is properly ... reviewed," said spokesman David Saxelby.
He also announced that residents would be fully compensated.
New South Wales Commerce Minister John Della Bosca said WorkCover inspectors would also examine the risk management processes used in the construction of the Lane Cove Tunnel as part of their investigation into the collapse.
Their report would be tabled in Parliament.
"The cause of the collapse, the systems of work in place at the time and any contributing factors are being examined as part of a full and thorough investigation," Mr Della Bosca said.
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The world's richest man, Bill Gates, believes it is possible to completely wipe out malaria that kills thousands every day but gets comparatively little attention because it mostly affects poor countries.
'The fact that all these kids are dying, over 2,000 a day. That's terrible. If it was happening in rich countries, we'd act,' said the software billionaire _ who has acted by pledging $258.3 million recently for the development of new drugs, a vaccine and better protection against mosquitos.
'Biology has improved, so the chance of having new medicines and vaccines are stronger today than ever,' Gates said in an interview for ABC's 'This Week' to be aired Sunday.
'And yet because the people who need these medicines can't afford them, we haven't put the resources of the world behind us,' said the top philanthropist who has provided about $6 billion over the last five years for various causes and projects.
The largest chunk, $107.6 million, of the new funds to battle malaria will go to develop an experimental malaria vaccine and will cover the completion of testing in Africa and the licensing process, should the vaccine prove viable. A study in Mozambique has found the vaccine cut the risk of severe malaria among young children by 58 percent.
A group working to accelerate the development of affordable drugs, the Medicines for Malaria Venture, will get $100 million. The rest will go to developing better pesticides and bed nets against the disease-spreading mosquitos.
In the United States, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation focuses on education and scholarships. But globally 'We learned about these health issues, we realized that that's where you can make a huge change,' he said.
'With our foundation, with others ... we're getting the brightest scientists to come and work on these problems,' Gates added.
But can the stubborn, age-old infection be fully eradicated?
'Absolutely. It's not going to happen overnight, and we should take the tools we have today and get those applied, because we can save half the lives just that way,' Gates told George Stephanopoulos, a former White House aide and now an ABC anchor.
'With breakthroughs that will come over the next two decades, yes, we can make malaria in the whole world like it is in the United States today, something that we just don't have to worry about,' said Gates.
So will he be remembered more for the work on global health than for Microsoft, Stephanopoulos asked?
'I don't care whether I'm remembered ... empowering people with the Internet and PCs is my lifetime's work. That's my job.' Evil bastard.
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I'm no fan of Gates or Microsoft, but credit is due to him, because he hasn't pushed his money at PC issues, but has concentrated on real healthcare issues like malaria.
Yep, he's an evil bastard, but that doesn't mean he can't do good with his gains.
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The quickest, cheapest and most effective way to reduce malaria is to spray houses with DDT and use DDT impregnated mosquito nets. And I did not even mention the widespread environmental application of DDT that developed countries used to defeat malaria. Ignoring the most effective weapon against a disease that kills 3 million people, disproportionately children, each year is extremely PC. I say use some of that money to build a DDT manufacturing and packaging facility in Africa and sell the insecticide.
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Good for him, its nice to see he's not focusing on stupid crap like most do. Any advances in this area will have a global effect. I hope he continues with it until it's complete.
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If you can read this, thank Bill Gates. If you can read this and your business or flat has not been burned to the ground by raging, shithead muzzies... thank a soldier!
Because Gates invented TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, HTML, and GUI!
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I thought Al Gore invented those...and malaria too
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It's a worthy cause and a noble ambition, but doomed to failure. The real cause of malaria's role in Africa is much the same as is AIDS - grinding poverty, corrupt governments, and rampant tribalism.
Malaria used to be a worldwide problem. The disease was rampant in South and Central America, and even threatened people in the Gulf Coast areas. It was one of the biggest non-military killers of US troops in the Pacific during World War II. My father-in-law still has bouts with his, which he contracted in India. Yet today the disease is primarily known for infecting - and killing - Africans. The Congo alone has more malaria-related deaths than the rest of the entire world, yet there's no nation on earth with more abundant natural resources.
The best solutions to the problems of Africa are education, employment, personal pride, and a sense of belonging. Lack of muslim interference would help a lot, too (I.E., Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone, etc.). Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe is a great example of what NOT to do. If Bill Gates would supply as much money on education, training, fighting for personal property rights, and development of cooperative enterprises, the malaria problem would disapear, along with quite a few other primarily-African problems.
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In the movie Tears of the Sun, Bruce Willis stars as Lt. Waters, a Navy S.E.A.L officer, sent into a war-torn country in Africa to rescue a U.S. citizen. In the midst of tremendous suffering, torture and murder, a priest says: "Go with God". Waters pessimistically replies: "God has left Africa!" I believe he may be right.
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OP your right about Africa, no saving it, but it sure would be nice to have a Malaria shot before deployment like a Tetanus. It could really help the troops.
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I hadn't heard that there was anything approaching a useful vaccine. The search for a malaria vaccine has been a black hole for money (The Malaria Capers by Desowitz) with only a toxic brew for results. The BBC reported last April that there was something with 30% effectiveness, but that's not much different from earlier work.
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It's not France, it's more due to Merkel's nascent coalition falling flat on it's face before even taking office.
Euroland will be delighted at a weakening of their currency as its strength is currently killing exports.
The crowd roars and people swoon as the presidential candidate bounds onto the stage, striding on the powerful legs that propelled him from the slums of Monrovia to international soccer stardom. George Weah hardly glances at the adoring throng. He offers no wave nor victory sign. He delivers his speech in a monotone, reading from notes. His awkward style may be one of the reasons he could win Tuesday's runoff election. Liberians have had enough of polished politicos looting their country's wealth and spilling its blood. And if this election goes well, voters will have finally closed the book on 14 years of civil war and lifted their country into the spreading ranks of African democracies.
That Weah has little formal education hardly matters to his fans. What counts is that he put Liberia on the world sports map, playing for European professional teams that are soccer's equivalent of the New England Patriots. So he highlights his populist strengths, stressing his poverty-stricken past and lack of education to jab at Liberia's political class, which has fielded some of Africa's most corrupt leaders. "Education will only take you so far without honor," he tells the crowd of more than 50,000 supporters, many of them illiterate, unemployed war veterans. "The honest man is the only true one."
Weah (rhymes with player) and his rival, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, represent opposite sides of the great divide that has run through the republic since it was founded by freed American slaves in the 1800s. Johnson-Sirleaf, 67, a Harvard graduate, former finance minister and international banker, belongs to the slave-descended class that ran Liberia until 1980. Weah, 39, is one of the seething underclass of indigenous Africans that grew up under the so-called Americo-Liberian establishment. In the first round of voting, Weah took 29 percent of the vote to Johnson-Sirleaf's 19 percent. If he wins Tuesday's deciding round, he would cap an arc of success that is the opposite of Liberia's descent into anarchy and strife.
But James Smith, a 35-year-old Monrovian, is skeptical. "Having a freshman president who will learn on the job is risky for this nation _ we are saying it loud and clear," Smith said. "Weah needs to learn the principles of leadership at community level first before thinking of the nation's highest office."
When Weah was born in 1966, Liberia was rich from gems, timber and rubber. But while the elite ate oysters beside swimming pools in swanky hotels, Weah grew up kicking a ball around the dirt patches of Monrovia's slums In 1980, an illiterate master sergeant, Samuel Doe, had the president and 13 Cabinet ministers killed. Johnson-Sirleaf was spared death but was jailed and then forced into exile. While Doe grew corrupt and hated, Weah played for Liberian teams, including one called Young Survivors. He got his big international break at 22, joining Monaco. At home, a warlord named Charles Taylor launched an insurgency on Christmas Eve, 1989. As Doe was killed and Liberia fell into chaos, Weah went on to play for Paris-St. Germain and then AC Milan, where he earned the best-player title of 1995.
Marco Simone, a former Milan teammate, says he admires Weah's change of career. "Liberia is a difficult country to head, with many problems to solve," he told The Associated Press. "I would wish him to be the head of a less-complicated country, but his decision not to live where life is easier, and go back home instead, is a sign of his humanity."
In a country of 3 million with 80 percent unemployment, the story of this married father of four, who sometimes dandles his youngest daughter on his knee at campaign rallies, is inspirational. He may be a ghetto child, but "that should not block his chances of leading his people," said Junior Sesay, a 19-year-old student. "Maybe that will enable him to know the danger of a government allowing ghettos to exist in society."
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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
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More than 1,000 demonstrators angry about President Bush's policies clashed with police, shattered storefronts and torched businesses Friday, marring the inauguration of the Summit of the Americas as leaders began debating creation of one of the world's largest free trade zones. The chaos reflected the often violent, worldwide debate on free trade as the United States and Mexico pushed to relaunch talks on a zone stretching from Canada to Chile. Past summits on the issue — including last year's gathering of Asian-Pacific leaders in Chile — have drawn bitter opposition and similarly angry protests.
North Korea's communist government is urging women in the country to wear traditional Korean clothes instead of pants, according to a North Korean monthly magazine. "Keeping alive our dress style is a very important political issue to adhere to specific national cultural traditions at a time when the U.S. imperialists are maneuvering to spread the rotten bourgeois lifestyle inside North Korea," the Joson Yeosung (Woman) magazine said, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency.
The crowd roars and people swoon as the presidential candidate bounds onto the stage, striding on the powerful legs that propelled him from the slums of Monrovia to international soccer stardom. George Weah hardly glances at the adoring throng. He offers no wave nor victory sign. He delivers his speech in a monotone, reading from notes. His awkward style may be one of the reasons he could win Tuesday's runoff election. Liberians have had enough of polished politicos looting their country's wealth and spilling its blood. And if this election goes well, voters will have finally closed the book on 14 years of civil war and lifted their country into the spreading ranks of African democracies.
