Crime victims staged an angry protest in South Africa yesterday after a government minister suggested those who "whinged" about levels of murder and rape should emigrate.
Demonstrators, who said the 51 murders and 151 rapes recorded daily were unacceptably high, were responding to the safety and security minister, Charles Nqakula, who told parliament this month that those who complained about crime were unpatriotic moaners. "They can continue to whinge until they're blue in the face, be as negative as they want to, or they can simply leave this country so that all of the peace-loving South Africans, good South African people who want to make this a successful country, can continue with their work." So the afrikaneers who think rampant crime and the ineffectual response to it are intrumentalized by the cryptocommie gvt to chase whitey out might be right, after all???
We should make some visas available ...
The comments provoked outrage from relatives of murder victims and survivors of assaults, who filled the media with tales of violence and incompetent policing. "Where, honourable minister, do you propose I go?" asked a letter writer to a newspaper, saying she had been raped and mugged and was now paralysed by fear.
Yesterday's protest was held outside a court where nine men were on trial charged with bludgeoning a 78-year-old woman to death in her home and raping her 25-year-old pregnant neighbour. The attacks, which happened last month at Gordon's Bay, a beauty spot in the Western Cape, followed a series of high-profile incidents, including the killing of a judge's granddaughter and the rape of her nanny.
Dozens of people held placards urging the minister to apologise for his remarks. Fanie le Roux, a relative of the murdered pensioner, said he had not been placated by Mr Nqakula's explanation that the whingeing reference was directed at opposition members of parliament and not South Africans in general.
International comparisons are difficult but there is no doubt South Africa is one of the world's most violent countries. A United Nations survey suggested it had the third highest murder rate, after Colombia and Swaziland.
Quagmire!
Experts blame poverty, unemployment, overstretched police, and the legacy of white minority rule, which damaged the social structure of the black majority. The government says South Africa is becoming safer and cites official statistics that the murder rate has fallen from more than 20,000 a year to 18,615. Critics say the figures are unreliable. There have been calls for South Africa to reinstate the death penalty, which was abolished with apartheid.
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"There have been calls for South Africa to reinstate the death penalty, which was abolished with apartheid."
I'd say reinstate the death penalty AND apartheid. The Native Africans have demonstrated time-after-time, in country after country that they are incapable of governing, themselves or a country.
Re-colonize Africa, most of the natives will thank us!
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Re-colonize Africa, most of the natives will thank us!
Won't happen in this century, nor in the next (europe probably won't exist as such anymore); last time we did it, there was a demographic unbalance in our favor (expansion in Europe, shrinkage in the south, now it's reversed), huge technological advance (now Africa is cramming with small arms), and many natives delighted to be freed from predation and/or oppression from their neigbors by the new european masters.
Furthermore, colonization was a leftwing stuff, brought by a strong belief in the West own values, and the wish to bring them to the less advanced people (for example, AFAIK, the french nationalist clearly opposed colonization after 1870, saying it deprived France from ressources needed for the rematch against Germany, and freemasonry, which here is associated with socialism, was a driving force behind colonization, working hand in hand with the religious they were fighting to the finish at home).
so,, there is no more means, no more will, and it won't happen, except in the neocolonialism form evoked in the shiraq/african coup post, in which decolonization was actually a privatization of colonization for the benefits of "old boys networks", with freemasonry again playing an huge role (for Francafrique, this is the Grande loge nationale de France, IIRC, a rightwing gaullist lodge).
Besides, this is the turn of Europe to be colonized, by its ex-colonized.
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I'd add that white are being chased from Africa since the 60's, and it's continuing (re the mass fleeing of french during the Ivory coast troubles, or the "white flight" of afrikaneers from a country they build, and where they where long the vast demographic majority), and they're being remplaced by indians, lebaneses and chineses who have no wish to "develop" Africa, only to "buy" it and to do business.
Add the loss of the colonial empires in Asia, and you'll find that the white/western sphere of influence is steadily shrinking since WWII, and even the "homeland" (Europe, and also CONUS) is now experiencing influx of aliens, which is IIUC an exception despite the massive intra-african migrations, in that sense there are not millions of non-asians pouring in Asia, or non-african pouring in black Africa, or non-muslim in the Oumma(Tm).
Face it, the West is on the run, and besieged at home.
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Sorry to say but any Afrikans left in South Africa should be taking these guys advice and emigrating. Yeah they have a right to stay, and a historical attachment dating back longer than the Bantus but the place is falling apart and only a fool would stay until the final collapse.
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Afrikaaners are renowned for their stubbornness and their violence. Though they are less common than the lilly-livered British who are most of the whites in SA, they are far less inclined to be pushed.
N.B.: The whites of Rhodesia were Brits. Had they been Afrikaaners, it is unlikely that Bob could have taken as much advantage of them as he did without there being a LOT of bloodshed.
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The safety and security minister, Charles Nqakula, sounds like an urban liberal mayor from the 1970s (*cough* Lindsey! *cough*).
I'd be willing to bet quite a few South Africans of all colors are willing to emigrate. Those would probably be the ones who are interested in bringing their children up in a safe place, self-selected for ambition and willingness to work, and with a low tolerance for leftist BS. In other words, Americans born in the wrong place.
I agree with Steve. Issue visas.
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One quible, anon. Mexicans and South Americans, who account for the vast majority of recent immigrants to the Continental United States, are by definition Westerners (members of western culture).
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One quible, anon. Mexicans and South Americans, who account for the vast majority of recent immigrants to the Continental United States, are by definition Westerners (members of western culture).
I know, I know, I'm just being all Pat Buchananite.
Still, Huntington classified South America as a civilization distinct from the USA-Europe western one, but I'm not savvy enough to know if this is valid or not.
Also, Africa is not as deserted by westerners than in my rant, there's heavy investment in it for oil or other ressources, but this falls in the "neo colonialism" definition (this was invented by marxists, of course), my point about populations shift remains.
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As to the Afrikaans emigration, we certainly see this on the medical end. The number of Afrikaaner-SA and Jewish-SA young physicians looking to leave SA for training in the U.S., followed by the coveted green card, is exploding. I get several applications a year for our program. The young docs are generally superb and work very hard.
University of the Witwatersrand is one of the better medical schools in the world. It's unfortunate that a fair percentage of their graduates are leaving SA; they're just the people SA needs to keep.
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That's step one in creating a dictatorship/ thugocracy...make sure you harass/jail/run off your educated and professional class-- doctors, lawyers, teachers, accountants.
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Side note - due to "diversity" concerns, SA is slated to host the next World Cup in 2010. Either the festivities proceed inside armed camps, or a monumental trainwreck on the way.
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I know, I know, I'm just being all Pat Buchananite.
LOL! Still, Huntington classified South America as a civilization distinct from the USA-Europe western one, but I'm not savvy enough to know if this is valid or not.
Theyre all pretty western, depending on where you go and whom you speak with. In many ways Mexican culture isn't that radically different from American culture. Aside from soccer we like the same sports, drive the same cars, watch similar television programs, practice the same religions, listen to similar pop music, and have similar political systems (although theirs is VERY corrupt). The Brazilians I've known are very much Westerners, abet with their own unique perspective. Argentineans consider themselves to be more-or-less Europeans (again, this is in my limited experience).
Back when Secret Master was young and able (as Slim Harpo would say) I had several rather interesting Latino girlfriends. One was a 5'10" half-Indian, half-French girl from Guatemala. She liked to wear hot pants and listened to Death Metal (Secret Master was an 80's metal musician). Im not sure you can get more western than that. The other girlfriend was a hard-right Bolivian Jew with dual Israeli citizenship (my favorite quote: The Palestinians have their country. Its called Jordan.") Her uncle was Sargent Mario Teran - better known as the man who executed Che Guevara. I honestly not certain you could be more western than that, either.
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Our new Constitution is a powerful symbol of reconciliation, justice and of the ending of centuries of conflict
FW de Klerk, 1993 Nobel Peace Prize
What is important is that we can build an homogeneous South Africa on the basis not of colour but of human values
Albert Luthuli, 1960 Nobel Peace Prize
A person is a person through other people
Desmond Tutu, 1984 Nobel Peace Prize
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will experience the oppression of one by another
Nelson Mandela, 1993 Nobel Peace Prize
As you can see from these august Laureates, there is no problem in SA. Always silent is nie die Boer nie.
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Boesoeker, lol! That would be, "no boer is a good boer?" ?? )BTW, if you England-side, we have the best boerewors in the United Kingdomstan of Engalnd, sic.
anon,
re No 7, "Afrikaaners are renowned for their stubbornness and their violence. Though they are less common than the lilly-livered British who are most of the whites in SA, they are far less inclined to be pushed".
Jeezua, guy, you know what you talking about on this one. Stick to what you really know. Can't tell if you never been there, but I have some books, you can read about it all.
"N.B.: The whites of Rhodesia were Brits. Had they been Afrikaaners, it is unlikely that Bob could have taken as much advantage of them as he did without there being a LOT of bloodshed".
Had they been Afrikaans, I reckon Rhodesia would have been a province of RSA, around the time the Federation collapsed/Independance Post WW2-style, early/middle '60's. You will find out that the South Africans/Afrikaaners pulled their border support around '74-'76, probs to avoid sanctions.
Only the Rhodesians had some sense to resist, but were not supported, and, as a point, deliberately undermined, and, no, I have no axe to grind, I am relating what I see as History, thanks a lot.
My point, anon, is that we are not lily-livered British, we are Rhodesians rejecting what Britain could see in the future for us, (you didn't want to have a British accent out there post '65), and we fought for it until sold out by the expedient politicians (Kissinger/Thatcher), when the war was nearly won by the Rhodesian Security Forces at a kill rate of 10-1, or more for a while. Obviously, if you want more int, there are archives, every sit-rep of every contact that every happened, ongoing project somewhere.
I reckon a small count of 40,000 dead over about a population of 5 million is bloodshed from about '72-'81, when it got hot. But that's my own yard-stick for blood-shed. Are you saying there would have been even more than there was? And whose blood?
The scene is brewing in South Africa for your blood-shed, anon. You only dreamed it, it will happen. That is why people are emigrating, they've had enough of their dogs and cattle getting poisoned and getting car-jacked and shot.
Just for interest, which other country/countries in the world has or have declared Unilateral Independance from the British Empire?
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Still, Huntington classified South America as a civilization distinct from the USA-Europe western one, but I'm not savvy enough to know if this is valid or not.
Do some business in Mexico. Then you'll know. And you'll know why 40% of Mexicans would rather be in America. It's not just the money.
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"No Boer is [n]ever silent," I think. Certainly Mr. Besoeker could be defined so -- when he's charming, when he's informative, and when he would be wiser to say nothing at all.
The problem of child labor persists in the Kingdom, by day or night.
Its 3.30 a.m. in the Mesfala neighborhood of central Makkah, about a half-hour stroll from the Grand Mosque. Though its still an hour before Fajr prayers, hundreds of faithful of different nationalities can already be seen in the streets heading to Islams holiest site.
On the street, a child sleeps next to a trash bin. Another stands nearby selling miswaks, the sticks commonly used by Muslims to clean their teeth. A third child is next to him and says he is nine years old and Burmese.
The boys, who are brothers, say their father prepares the miswak sticks and sends them to the streets to make money. One of the boys says he arrives in the area after Isha prayers and stays until Dhuhr prayers the next day selling in the street.
Afterward, he says they sleep until the next 16-hour shift. It is then that it becomes apparent why one of the kids is sleeping in the street even though he has a home. It is also apparent that all of these three children have, at the behest of their father, replaced school with labor.
The hours are too long and we do not get enough sleep at home, says the nine-year-old, who did not want to give his name. I take a nap every now and then while my brothers watch the goods.
The boy says they earn about SR 150a day, SR 300 on the Thursday-Friday weekends and more during Ramadan and Haj. They admit that most of the earnings are the product of charity by their customers. The youngest brother, the one sleeping next to the garbage, is still learning from his older brothers the art of selling pity and miswak sticks to passers-by.
Nearby another child is seen selling miswak sticks. He says that his shift is based on how fast he can earn SR 100in a shift. The boy claims that his father physically abuses him and sends him to bed without food if he doesnt come home with the money.
Some people give me money as charity and that helps me get money faster, said the boy, who is also too afraid of reprisal to provide his name. If I get one hundred riyals, then I throw the rest of the miswaks in the garbage and go home pretending that I have sold them all.
Nearby a young girl is seen crying and selling napkins. She tells Arab News that she gets pushed around a lot by the flow of pedestrians. She says her father likes the location because crowds make strategic selling locations.
I work for 12 hours, from Fajr prayer until Asr, she said. I sell napkins for 50 halalas.
She said that if she earns SR 30 in a shift its considered a good day. Like the young boys, she admits that most of the money comes from acts of charity.
Dr. Sami Al-Luhayyani, a public mental health psychologist in Makkah, told Arab News that in many countries child labor laws are enforced.
We urge police to arrest these fathers and send them to prison and send their kids to social homes, said Luhayyani. Forcing these children to work is a crime and will have a negative effect on the children in the future. Criminals could use these children for other bad purposes like crimes.
*Trick question, when you take your Philippina maids passport and practice involuntary servitude even in Denver, the practice appears alive and unchanged.
LA PAZ, Bolivia - President Evo Morales drew a sharp denial from the U.S. Embassy when he claimed in a speech that the United States is sending soldiers disguised as students and tourists to Bolivia.
I'm not even real clear on why we'd be sending real students and tourists to Bolivia, much less fake ones.
The accusation, which the U.S. Embassy dismissed as the ravings of a madman unfounded Wednesday, comes as Morales faces attacks by political opponents for his cozy relationship with President Hugo Chavez's Venezuela, including accepting aid from that country's military.
"So tell us, Evo. What's the diffo between American hegemony and Venezuelan hegemony?"
Morales said in a speech Tuesday that U.S. Ambassador David Greenlee had sought a meeting with him. "I don't know what he's looking to discuss. I'm not at all afraid of talking - or perhaps he's angry," Morales told thousands of poor supporters. "But I also have the right to complain because U.S. soldiers disguised as students and tourists are entering the country," said Morales, a leftist who has pledged revolutionary changes for the poor, including his recent move to nationalize Bolivia's natural gas industry. Morales offered no evidence to back his claim. Spokesman Alex Contreras said Morales would provide evidence, though he did not say when. The U.S. Embassy called Morales' charge "unfounded," saying in a statement: "We reiterate once more that we are supporting Bolivian democracy in a consistent way."
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Another graduate of the Robert Mugabe School of Critical Thinking....what a maroon!
Ousted from government last year amid the collapse of Ukraine's Orange Revolution movement, Yulia Tymoshenko will regain her post as prime minister under an accord reached Wednesday with President Viktor Yushchenko's party that preserves the country's pro-West agenda.
The agreement between Ukraine's three Orange parties--Tymoshenko's bloc, Yushchenko's Our Ukraine Party and the Socialists--ends nearly three months of tense, contentious talks that ensued after the March 31 parliament election gave no party a clear majority.
Yushchenko's rival, Viktor Yanukovych, engineered a strong showing in that election, which marked his comeback in Ukrainian politics. But the pro-Russian political leader failed to win enough votes to form a parliamentary majority.
Suffering a humiliating third-place finish in that election, Yushchenko's party was forced to begin talks on forming a government with Tymoshenko, the ally he fired from the prime minister's post last year, and even held consultations with Yanukovych, his nemesis in the rigged presidential election that triggered the Orange Revolution in 2004.
Ultimately, Yushchenko chose to reunite with Tymoshenko, the charismatic 45-year-old Ukrainian whose fiery speeches inspired thousands gathered in Kiev's Independence Square to protest Yanukovych's fraudulent presidential win. The Ukrainian Supreme Court reversed Yanukovych's victory, and Yushchenko later won the election rerun.
The agreement creates an Orange coalition of 243 lawmakers, a majority in the 450-seat parliament, and keeps on track Yushchenko's pro-West program, which includes integration into Europe and independence from the Kremlin.
Yanukovych, whose Party of Regions won 186 parliament seats in the March 31 election, garners most of his support from Ukraine's pro-Russian eastern half and favors a strong relationship with Moscow.
Another nail in Kyoto's coffin.
The United States and European Union reached an agreement Wednesday to find an alternative to the Kyoto Protocol for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. A somewhat misleading intro. I'd say they agreed that they need to do something about energy dependence on overseas sources.
During a summit in Vienna, Austria, President Bush and EU President Manual Barroso agreed to establish the planned High Level Dialogue on Climate Change, Clean Energy and Sustainable Development, which will focus on technology instead of rationing to reduce emissions.
"We talked about energy," Bush said. "I kind of startled my country when, in my State of the Union, I said we're hooked on oil and we need to get off oil. That seemed counterintuitive for some people to hear a Texan say. But the truth of the matter is, we got to diversify away from oil. And the best way to do it is through new technologies.
The United States and European Union countries have agreed to share technologies, Bush said. "The EU needs to get diversified, as well. And so this is going to be a very interesting period for us as new technologies develop and we're willing to share those technologies."
The agreement will look into diversification of energy sources, market transparency and global supply stability.
A free enterprise group praised the agreement, saying that although it is "short on specific commitments, it could be a useful vehicle for steering the Europeans away from their disastrous and failing attempt to go on an energy starvation diet." A good way to describe Kyoto.
"The Vienna announcement diplomatically avoids any definition of what legal structures can be considered 'market'-based, how inexpensive emissions reductions must be to be considered 'cost-effective,' and, most importantly, who decides," said Myron Ebell, director of energy & global warming at the Washington, D.C., think tank Competitive Enterprise Institute. I think what they have agreed is that the 'energy crisis' is at root a supply side problem and not, as Kyoto would have it, a demand side problem. A real win for President Bush BTW.
"Any commitment to truly cost-effective emissions reductions will limit them to voluntary actions undertaken in the market itself, not via a government-simulated 'mechanism,'" Ebell added.
Covert attempts by French President Jacques Chirac to exert influence over Africa were exposed by a French court yesterday as it denounced his secret services for conniving with a band of mercenaries in a coup in Comoros Islands.
In a damning ruling, the Paris Criminal Tribunal said the French authorities had given at least tacit approval to the 1995 coup led by Bob Denard, the best-known French soldier of fortune.
The judgment came as Denard, now 77, and 26 other defendants were found guilty of criminal association in connection with a military operation 11 years ago to oust then Comoros president Said Mohamed Djohar.
The court refused a prosecution demand to jail the plotters. It handed out suspended sentences after hearing them claim they were acting with the backing of Mr Chirac's Government.
Though France has long been accused of secret operations to maintain its influence in Africa, the ruling constitutes an unprecedented public condemnation of these practices. It is particularly embarrassing for Mr Chirac, who has sought to portray himself asone of the Third World's greatest advocates in the West.
"It is clear the French secret services knew of the plan for a coup d'etat conceived by Robert Denard, both its preparation and execution," the court said.
"It is also evident that, at the very least, they did nothing to hinder it and that they therefore allowed it to reach its conclusion.
"That means political leaders must also have wanted it."
Denard led 30 mercenaries, who landed on the Indian Ocean islands in rubber dinghies on September 27, 1995, and captured Mr Djohar in his palace.
A week later, Mr Chirac sent a 600-man force that put down the putsch but did not restore Mr Djohar to power.
Denard has Alzheimer's disease and attended only the first day of the three-week trial, in February. But in testimony read to the court, he said he "never for one moment believed he was acting against the interests of my country - quite the contrary".
Denard spent 30 years in Africa's battlefields, where he was often suspected of acting on behalf of the French authorities. He was involved in four coups or attempted coups in Comoros Islands after it won independence from France in 1975.
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Alzheimer's isn't so bad really, I've a touch of it myself. I'm constantly meeting new people. As for French intelligence reporting, I suspect one could count on that happening anyway.
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My high school Latin teacher was a Hungarian who escaped during the revolution when things started getting really shakey. He had been in the Army and had worked on laying minefields along the Austrian border, so he knew where to go and NOT to go.
His hatred of Communism was red-hot but still poignant. We could get a whole class period wasted by just mentioning Communism then sitting back and listening to him rant (whoo - talk about a "mad Hungarian").
He was (and still is) a true American patriot. He became a US citizen and has a fiercer love of his country than the vast majority of native-born Americans.
OSLO: Schools in the Norwegian capital will ban Muslim girls from wearing the burqa, adding to the list of European cities and states that have banned the headdress. Oslos city council wants to ban the burqa or naqab, which covers the face, because teachers cannot do their job properly without seeing their students faces, the head of the citys Education Department Toerger Odegaard said. We will introduce a ban after the summer holidays at the end of August, he said on Wednesday.
Lawyers at the Ministry of Education had just told the council that it would not be illegal under Norwegian law to ban the headdress. France has banned overt religious symbols at school. In December, the Dutch parliament voted in favour of banning burqas, and the Belgian town of Maaseik has forbidden them through an existing law which required people to be identifiable in public.
Muslims in Norway which has large Pakistani and Somali minorities concentrated mainly in Oslo said the move was an encroachment on personal freedom. We have been having a discussion about whether you should wear the naqab or not, but making laws which ban it is just going too far, said Fakhra Salimi, the head of MiRA, a partly state-sponsored group that helps female immigrants in Norway.
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Nah, it's sensible. Don't like it ? Get out. They don't want you there anyway.
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Aw hell, next thing you know them Norwegians aren't going to give the male students stellar grades for only doing 1/4 of the work of a female student....
PARIS France's Prime Minister apologized Wednesday for calling the opposition Socialist Leader a coward in parliament a day earlier during an outburst over financial problems at the parent company of Airbus. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin grew visibly agitated after Socialist Leader François Hollande accused the government of irresponsibility and questioned him about problems at European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co., which has seen its stock tumble after Airbus announced delays in its much-touted A380 superjumbo jet and questions surfaced about top executives selling off shares. Mr. Hollande, I denounce your facile approach and I will even say this looking you in the eyes the cowardice in your attitude, Mr. de Villepin said Tuesday. I'll say it again: cowardice.
Enraged Socialist deputies responded by jumping up and down from their chairs, rolling their eyes booing and shouting, Resign, resign! The unusual uproar caused the body's president to interrupt the session.
If some words personally injured you, I regret them and I take them back, Mr. de Villepin told the Assembly on Wednesday during a question-and-answer session, with Mr. Hollande looking on. The apology was as uncharacteristic for Mr. de Villepin as the initial outburst. He was often praised for his polish and eloquence before a series of crises this spring battered his reputation. French media made much out of the name-calling, with television and radio stations repeatedly running clips of the incident. Although outbursts are frequent in the National Assembly, the intensity of Tuesday's was rare. Mr. de Villepin called Wednesday for respect and dialogue, and Socialist deputy Jean-Marc Ayrault acknowledged the apology.
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This is what it would have looked like , I mean, if Galouzeau "de Villepin" were a 235lbs professional fighter, and François Hollande a 500lbs black sumotori.
Washington, DC - Federal agents have closed up shop for what they say are eight members of an illegal alien fake-document ring that for years has sold phony driver's licenses, work papers and green cards to other illegals out of an Adams Morgan apartment.
The ring -- thought to be linked to an international organization run by the Castorena-Ibarra family whose kingpin was captured in Mexico this week -- was raided early Tuesday as part of Operation Card Shark, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) initiative that began in 2002. The investigation has dismantled three other counterfeit document rings and arrested 195 persons in Adams Morgan. Of those, all but one have been illegals and most are from Mexico, officials said. Officials have prosecuted 60 illegals, seized about 10,000 documents with an estimated street value of more than $1 million and shut down seven document "mills."
ICE agents, with federal arrest and search warrants in hand, awoke the eight men at 6 a.m. in a two-bedroom apartment at 3636 16th St. NW. Inside, agents seized more than 100 fake documents, including green cards, Social Security cards and employment authorization cards. They also confiscated cell phones, numerous electronic devices, equipment used to make the documents and more than $14,000 in cash.
In ICE custody are: Luis Angel Mendez-Hernandez, 21; Andres Angel Vasquez-Soriano, 41; Eladio Espinoza-Cuevas, 50; Alberto Martin Vasquez-Soriano, 40; Juan Antonio Pacheco-Vasquez, 20; Julio Cesar Pacheco-Vasquez, 24; and Cesar Cuevas-Mendez, 24, all of Mexico. Luis Vasquez, 33, also of Mexico, appeared before an immigration judge Tuesday, and faces criminal charges for immigration fraud. The others will be deported and face charges at a later date. Charges associated with fake-document rings include aggravated identity theft, which carries a minimum of two years in prison, and creating fraudulent immigration documents, which carries a maximum of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, officials said.
ICE officials said yesterday they did not know whether the men are related, but said the ring has ties to others in Detroit, Baltimore and Chicago. "It's basically an international organization that's distributing these documents throughout the country, primarily on the East Coast and in the Midwest," said one agent who declined to be identified. "Most of the money is sent back to Mexico. It's much like the drug trade in that it's such a profitable industry and as long as the demand is out there, the individuals will supply it."
Customers on average pay between $80 and $120 to receive a Social Security card, green card, work permit or driver's license within 30 minutes to two hours.
The Supreme Court on Thursday dealt a blow to some longtime illegal residents, upholding the deportation of a Mexican man who lived in the United States for 20 years. By an 8-1 vote, justices said that Humberto Fernandez-Vargas, who was deported several times from the 1970s to 1981, is subject to a 1996 law Congress passed to streamline the legal process for expelling aliens who have been deported at least once before and returned.
After his last deportation in 1981, Fernandez-Vargas returned to the United States, fathered a child, started a trucking company in Utah and eventually married his longtime companion, a U.S. citizen. But by the time he applied for legal status after his marriage in 2001 Congress had passed the Illegal Immigration and Immigrant Responsibility Act, which revoked the right to appeal to an immigration judge an order of removal.
Fernandez-Vargas was sent back to Mexico in 2004, and wanted to return to his family in the United States. He argued that the 1996 law should not be applied to him because he last entered America more than a decade before Congress passed the statute.
"Fernandez-Vargas continued to violate the law by remaining in this country day after day and ... the United States was entitled to bring that continuing violation to an end," Justice David Souter wrote in the decision.
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He is a business owner and he employs Americans. He is the right kind of person you want immigrating to the US. He was even able to appeal to the Supreme Court because he has a lot of money.
I find it hard to look at this in any way other than man vs. bureaucracy, fighting over arbitrary rules, with bureaucracy winning.
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he broke the law repeatedly enttering illegally, knowing the penalty. F*ck him. If he comes in again and gets caught - it's 10 yrs. You think there wouldn't be a trucking company if he wasn't here? How many illegals did he employ or help ship? Who knows? You think he paid for an appeal to the SCOTUS on his own? Jeeesh.
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wow. A sensible response from our courts. Happy Day. We've entered a new century. The old days privilige status for criminals is over.
Iblis, what we need to do is make the process of "legal immigration" *better* for those foreigners who have higher education degrees (especially engineers, doctors, etc. &/or those who are willing to serve honorably in our military for at least 5 yrs).
I think we have enough low wage earning immigrants coming in all the time. We also do not need to make it *easier*. Easier laws have led to folks bringing in their grandparents who paid very little into our soc/sec & medicare programs but had no problem getting the benefits of them once their kids brought them over. All this from those of us who have been paying into it for years.
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He is a business owner. It is possible that he employs Americans. It is also possible he pays his employess at market rates, and that he has properly paid all federal, state, local and payroll taxes all this time. We've no way of knowing at this point, since the reporter didn't think to ask those questions. But, based on 30+ years of behaviour, he clearly feels entitled to live here, regardless of the will of any Americans he might encounter.
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That pic goes into the Rantburg archives. Expect to see it again ...
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They make sweet wallpaper--woot!
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06/22/2006 12:59 Comments ||
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Earbug alert!
Why do I have the "Imperial March Theme" from the star wars flix going through my head?
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they have Chinese military officials observing the exercise as well. Kinda "don't you think invading Taiwan is gonna be a walk, pal. How many carriers do you have that're not amusement parks?"
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06/22/2006 15:26 Comments ||
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Air force just gotta get in the picture, or maybe it's doing touch and goes from the USS Stephen King (foreground).
LAHORE: Opposition members in the Sindh Assembly on Wednesday beat up a minority member of the treasury benches for sending a "love letter" to female legislator Shazia Mari of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), Geo television reported. Member of the Provincial Assembly (MPA) Ishwar Lal delivered a letter to Mari through the assembly peon during the fourth budget session. Mari showed the letter to all opposition members, who beat up Ishawar Lal and dragged him out of the Assembly Hall. The matter was brought to the notice of the assembly speaker, who suspended Lal and the MPAs who had beaten him. Talking to Geo later, Mari said that Lal had been sending her mobile phone messages for a year, seeking to befriend her.
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The "assembly peon", huh? That's a hell of a job description.
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Ishwar Lal delivered a letter to Mari through the assembly peon during the fourth budget session. Mari showed the letter to all opposition members, who beat up Ishawar
QUETTA: Customs authorities on Wednesday seized nearly a tonne of hashish from a truck carrying fruit from Afghanistan, officials said. "We have recovered 900 kilogrammes of hashish concealed in some fruit crates," customs official Hayatullah Durrani said, adding that the driver and another man fled the scene. The truck crossed into Pakistan from Afghanistan through the Chaman border checkpoint and was headed to Karachi, Durrani said. Last week, the Anti-Narcotics Force seized more than two tonnes of morphine as well as shipments of heroin and weapons in Chaghai.
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I wonder how much will make it to the evidence room?
The Red Thingy Cross admitted Israel to the worldwide humanitarian organization early Thursday, ending decades of exclusion linked to the Jewish state's refusal to accept the traditional cross symbol. The approval came in the early hours Thursday following a two-day International Conference of the Red Thingy Cross and Red Moon-Shaped Thingy Crescent.
With a round of applause the Red Thingy Cross federation admitted Israel's Magen David Adom society simultaneously with the Palestine Red Moon-Shaped Thingy Crescent. An optional new emblem was adopted so that Israel could retain its red star of David instead of having to adopt the red cross or crescent used by the 184 other societies in the global movement. "This has been going on for 58 long years. It's time. It's overdue," said Bonnie McElveen Hunter, chairman of the American Red Thingy Cross, which had been campaigning for years for the Israeli society's admission.
Israeli Ambassador Itzhak Levanon said the International Conference of the Red Thingy Cross and Red Moon-Shaped Thingy Crescent had earlier rejected a Muslim amendment that would have challenged Israel's occupation of Arab territory since the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. The vote was 72 votes for the amendment and 191 against, he said. Then the conference passed by a 237-54 vote a resolution setting up the legal basis for Israelis' admission and making an exception to the rule that societies have to be under a sovereign state so that the Palestinians could join as well.
Israel's military will be able to use the Silly Thingy crystal by itself on a white flag to protect medics and other humanitarian workers helping war casualties. But any society could combine the Silly Thingy emblem with the Thingy cross or Moon-Shaped Thingy crescent _ or both _ for temporary use.
What are the Paleo and Egypto ROE for vehicles/personnel bearing the Silly Thingy?
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06/22/2006 00:00 ||
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And what took them so long, might I ask? All this while the paleo branch was headed by arafat's brother (or brother in law, can't remember, I do not eat enough fish), and definitively and conclusively (lots of evidence for this) used for transporting weapons, fighters, explosives, staging pallywood "dramas" for the msm, etc, etc... in full violation of any kind of ethics.
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The quid pro quo for Israel's acceptance is that it must respect Palestinian emergency vehicles, not stopping them for inspections at checkpoints. Hence the phrasing referencing the Palestinian Crescent (exactly the same as that of the Muslim Red Crescents) simultaneously with the Magen David.
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The quid pro quo for Israel's acceptance is that it must respect Palestinian emergency vehicles, not stopping them for inspections at checkpoints
really? sheesh. Talk about a good idea gone bad. The idea was originally a shared humanitarian one and now it is just another source of political cover for murder and treachery.
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Whenever I hear thingy, I think of this -
3rd: Well most things we do for pleasure nowadays are taxed, except one.
Pol: What do you mean?
3rd: Well, er, smoking's been taxed, drinking's been taxed but not ... thingy.
Pol: Good Lord, you're not suggesting we should tax... thingy?
1st: Not poo poo's?
3rd: No.
1st: Thank God for that. Excuse me for a moment.
3rd: No, no, no - thingy.
2nd: Number ones?
3rd: No, thingy.
Pol: Thingy!
2nd: Ah, thingy. Well it'll certainly make chartered accountancy a much more interesting job.
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Montenegro uniquely for the Balkans was an independent state continuosly for 500 years, until it lost its independence in the machinations after WW1. Everywhere else was conquered multiple times, but Montenegro never was.
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Dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was a big mistake: a marvelous institution that lived cultural pluralism in contrast to today's worldview of decadent multiculturalism.
Anyone out there except yours truly who thinks the U.S. made a major mistake in entering the Great War? (And yes, "The Zimmermann Telegram" was audacious, but threatening the U.S. with a Mexico itself emeshed in a civil war hardly could be taken seriously. The REAL Mexican invasion is occuring now...)
SINJAI: Floods and landslides triggered by torrential rain have killed at least 111 people in Indonesia's South Sulawesi province and left a further 101 missing, an official said on Wednesday. The disaster, which has hit at least seven districts in the province after two days of torrential rain, is the latest in a series of similar tragedies to hit the world's biggest archipelago this year.
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Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay said Wednesday that he was "disgusted" by the presence of a controversial Iranian prosecutor at the inauguration of the newly founded UN Human Rights Council. Mr. MacKay said the Iranian government sent General Prosecutor for Tehran Saeed Motrazavi as part of its delegations to the inauguration of the international rights council on Monday as an attempt to discredit the newly formed international body.
Mr. Motrazavi was found by two Iranian government investigations to have ordered the arrest of Zahra Kazemi in 2003, where she was tortured, raped, and eventually died as of a result of a beating while in custody. Mr. Motrazavi, who was also found to have falsified documents to cover up his involvement in her case, has also been involved in the harsh clampdown on the Iranian press and the arrests of many Iranian journalists, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs. "The presence of Mr. Mortazavi in Iran's delegation demonstrates the Government of Iran's complete contempt for internationally recognized principles of human rights," Mr. MacKay said. "The Government of Canada expresses its disgust at the fact that Iran would choose to include such a person in its delegation to a new UN body intended to promote the highest standards of respect for human rights."
The United Nations inaugurated its new Human Rights Council on Monday. The 47-member council replaces the Human Rights Commission, which was discredited after several countries escaped condemnation for rights abuses. Several of the countries on the old commission accused of rights violations did not seek seats on the new council, including Sudan, Syria, and Zimbabwe, among others.
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Consider it discredited, MacKay. None of us thought of it as "credited" anyway. S
worse than the old one, innit?
Assembly Bill 2602, which would ban possession and purchase of any and all ammunition by anyone who does not possess a valid firearms purchaser identification card (NJFID), a certified copy of a permit to purchase a handgun, a valid permit to carry a handgun, or a valid New Jersey hunting license has passed the House and is awaiting a hearing in the Senate.
Violators would be guilty of a crime of the fourth degree, which is punishable by a fine of $10,000 and a term of imprisonment of up to 18 months or both. The stated purpose of the bill is to reduce gang violence, but its greatest impact will be on lawful gun-owners and competitive shooters.
Currently, the National Rifle Association is working together with many of your clubs, the New Jersey Sporting Clays Association, the Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs, the National Shooting Sports Foundation and various other organizations to oppose this bill.
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it seems to me that this could be struck down in the court of law as it clearly infringes on the right to bear arms. Going for some sort of ammunition loophole is a just another silly liberal idea of being clever - and we are all tired of that nonsense.
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heh. I propose a ban on "break-free", wire bore brushes, and all other firearm maintenance chemicals and tools....
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So they cross state lines and buy.
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06/22/2006 20:04 Comments ||
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That's what I'd think to RC.
Stupid gun nazis - all we have to do is enforce the laws as they are on the books and we'd be fine. Plus, I'd go further in the other direction - any law abiding citizen 21 and over w/a clean record or whatever should have the right to bear arms without any interference whatsoever from big brother.
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What's next in New Jersey's future? Midnight raids with people being arrested for possession of "firearms paraphernalia" like bore snakes, cleaning jags and patches? People being rounded up and put behind bars for possession of "illicit substances" like Hoppes #9?
This is bullshit. And it won't make New Jerseyans one bit safer.
Assholes...
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THE Episcopal Church in America descended into chaos last night after leading bishops on both the liberal and conservative wings dissassociated themselves from a last-gasp effort to avert a schism with the worldwide Anglican Communion. Just hours after its newly elected woman head preached a sermon in praise of "our mother Jesus", the Episcopal Church agreed to "exercise restraint" in appointing any more gay bishops after a tense day of debate and argument. The Archdruid Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, welcomed the resolution with gratitude and what appeared to be relief, but he also made clear his reservations.
He welcomed the "exceptional seriousness" with which the Episcopal Church had treated the calls for it to repent and to impose moratoriums on same-sex blessings and the consecration of any more gay bishops. He said that actions by bishops and laity of the Episcopal Church yesterday showed "how strong is their concern to seek reconciliation and conversation with the rest of the Communion."
Earlier, at the morning Eucharist at the convention in Columbus, Ohio, Dr Schori signalled her feminist credentials in a sermon that drew on the writings of the 14th-century Julian of Norwich. She said: Mother Jesus gives birth to a new creation and you and I are His children. If were going to keep on growing into Christ images for the world around us, were going to have to give up fear.
I'm with Ann Coulter on this. We should kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.
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Mother Jesus gives birth to a new creation and you and I are His children. If were going to keep on growing into Christ images for the world around us, were going to have to give up fear.
What does that statement have to do with: Jesus Christ? The Bible? Christianity?
Incredible how Satan has hijacked the Episcopal Church.
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I really think we need to report these people to the US Disease Control Center. These people MUST have some form of rabies. Appears like they have been bitten by Moonbats.
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Holy crap, WTF does "mother Jesus" mean? I don't care how any organized religion conducts it's ceremonies but damn, last time I checked Jesus wasn't gender confused.
*Side note - As for the Unitarians - you actually are referring to those Americans & Canadians who call themselves "Universalist Unitarians" - a far cry different then old school Unitarians. The early Unitarian church included folks like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Isaac Newton, Susan B. Anthony and Charles Dickens. They did not believe in the classical trinity as per the council of Nicea in 325 a.d. - the early Unitarians said the trinity was not in the bible. The early Unitarians were/are actually very close to Deists. Anyways, their church self destructed in the 1930s from a schism between humanists and theists thus mutating into it's present form as the "Universalist Unitarian Church" - at least on our side of the pond. This is the whole liberal touchy feely nothing to do w/God anymore sect, way far beyond the debate of tritinerian vs. unitarian thought wrt literal scripture interpretation. IIRC there are still old school Unitarian churches in eastern europe that have no connection to the UU's in the states.
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See, I told you it was coming. Here's the payoff when you completely discard the rules (Bible, and centuries of tradition, theology and scholarship) - you lose all grasp of reality. Now they can't even get the gender of Christ right.
They have become completely unmoored.
An good point BH6 - Call them UU's - they are real nutbags in that group, nothing at all to do with the Unitarians, who have a theological beef with the Trinity, but not with God, etc.
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first "Mother Sheehan", now "Mother Jesus". ...next? "Mother Hillary"?
Gaaaaaccckkkk!
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There's a feminist group within the Episcopal Church - officially supported and sanctioned - that was working on an "alternate liturgy" to celebrate the "divine feminine." Their first draft was a direct importation of a rite (words and motions) to the goddess Brigid (IIRC). Subsequent drafts made the origins less obvious, but they still end it with the words "blessed be."
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The Episcopalians have now officially stepped across the bounds and stopped being a "Christian" church. They are embracing things which are fundamentally non-Christian and even anti-Christian.
There is no retreat from such heresy. They have allied themselves with Satan himself.
Rev FOTSGreg, PhD,DD (yeah, it's from the ULC, but I grew up Lutheran and still believe)
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I know we shouldn't swear - this being a family blog and all - but these clowns give a whole new meaning to the term "FUCKING IDIOTS."
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They just made themselves a gay church. It's a free country. Calling themselves Christians is as silly as Osama bin Laden calling himself a Christian.
To be a Christian - you have to follow Christ's teachings. I'm not a free market economist if I teach communism - no matter what I label it.
What's sad about it is that many people - including my family donated their hard earned money to acquire those buildings and bibles and these people basically embezzeled it to use for another purpose.
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X - you mean their using St. Brigid from Ireland? As the story goes she did have pagan origins but converted to christianity later on. Most of the early Irish clergy did as well - starting about 100 years or so after Nicea took place.
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I can see a sign on that church about a year from now:
The First United Pagan Episcopal Church of San Francisco.
Reverend-Mistress Silver Leaf Moonbeam Smith (presiding)
Services: Sundays at 11:00 and also whenever the new moon is. Please bring your goat-leggings and a dish to pass at our upcoming Beltane festival! Yours in the Goddess - Rev-Mis Smith
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It's just the Beast gathering strength. Stay aware, well-armed and supplied.
Submit to Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour.
Admit that, sadly, our beloved USA is in decline because we won't do what is nesessary to win over evil. That said, please protect your loved ones and yourselves as we incrementally get sucked back to the Dark Ages. Lock and Load!
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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
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.
LA PAZ, Bolivia - President 
OSLO: Schools in the Norwegian capital will ban Muslim girls from wearing the burqa, adding to the list of European cities and states that have banned the headdress. Oslos city council wants to ban the burqa or naqab, which covers the face, because teachers cannot do their job properly without seeing their students faces, the head of the citys Education Department Toerger Odegaard said. We will introduce a ban after the summer holidays at the end of August, he said on Wednesday.
PARIS France's Prime Minister apologized Wednesday for calling the opposition Socialist Leader a coward in parliament a day earlier during an outburst over financial problems at the parent company of Airbus. Prime Minister 
LAHORE: Opposition members in the Sindh Assembly on Wednesday beat up a minority member of the treasury benches for sending a "love letter" to female legislator Shazia Mari of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), Geo television reported. Member of the Provincial Assembly (MPA) Ishwar Lal delivered a letter to Mari through the assembly peon during the fourth budget session. Mari showed the letter to all opposition members, who beat up Ishawar Lal and dragged him out of the Assembly Hall. The matter was brought to the notice of the assembly speaker, who suspended Lal and the MPAs who had beaten him. Talking to Geo later, Mari said that Lal had been sending her mobile phone messages for a year, seeking to befriend her.
QUETTA: Customs authorities on Wednesday seized nearly a tonne of hashish from a truck carrying fruit from Afghanistan, officials said. "We have recovered 900 kilogrammes of hashish concealed in some fruit crates," customs official Hayatullah Durrani said, adding that the driver and another man fled the scene. The truck crossed into Pakistan from Afghanistan through the Chaman border checkpoint and was headed to Karachi, Durrani said. Last week, the Anti-Narcotics Force seized more than two tonnes of morphine as well as shipments of heroin and weapons in Chaghai.
The Red 
SINJAI: Floods and landslides triggered by torrential rain have killed at least 111 people in Indonesia's South Sulawesi province and left a further 101 missing, an official said on Wednesday. The disaster, which has hit at least seven districts in the province after two days of torrential rain, is the latest in a series of similar tragedies to hit the world's biggest archipelago this year.
Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister 
THE Episcopal Church in America descended into chaos last night after leading bishops on both the liberal and conservative wings dissassociated themselves from a last-gasp effort to avert a schism with the worldwide Anglican Communion. Just hours after its newly elected woman head preached a sermon in praise of "our mother Jesus", the Episcopal Church agreed to "exercise restraint" in appointing any more gay bishops after a tense day of debate and argument. The 
