German sabotage believed to be cause of deadly explosion
NEW YORK -- The sound of the blast was unearthly, and the tremor was felt 100 miles away in Philadelphia. The night sky over New York Harbor turned orange. People were jolted from bed and windows within 25 miles shattered. The Statue of Liberty, less than a mile away, was damaged by a rain of red-hot shards of steel. Frightened immigrants on Ellis Island were hastily moved to Manhattan.
The epicenter of the blast, a small island called Black Tom, all but disappeared in what was then the largest explosion in the United States, on Sunday, July 30, 1916, at 2:08 a.m. It destroyed about 2,000 tons of munitions parked in freight cars and pierside barges, awaiting transfer to ships and ultimately destined for the World War I battlefields of France.
Evidence pointed to German sabotage, and some historians regard it as the first major terrorist attack on the United States by a foreign party -- 85 years before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Marked today by a plaque in New Jersey's Liberty State Park, the blast site lies less than 2 miles from lower Manhattan and within sight of where the World Trade Center towers stood.
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If the Germans did it then it was a legitimate military target except that Germany and the US weren't at war in 1916. Still, I can't blame them since we were helping their enemies.
If Iran's reactors suddenly exploded one night with no apparent cause I'd be laughing so in the grand scheme of things this seems fair game. Act of war for sure, but the US didn't catch them (or didn't want to get sucked in at that time so didn't say anything about it).
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WWII was a bit different. After the Normandie fire, the NY FBI went to the heads of organized crime and convinced them to watch the waterfront. Nothing happened after that; a few German agents were rumored to have disapeared; it was pretty quiet after that.
this is the BBC coverage of the recent Mel Gibson event. Notice, NOT ONE reference to his Jew spew. Was that part not important? Not newsworthy? If that's not proof of BBC censorship and bias WHAT IS!?!?! It astounds me that every household in the UK has to pay a license fee to fund these asswipes.
Hollywood actor and director Mel Gibson has said he is "ashamed" of the actions that led to his arrest for drink-driving early on Friday morning. The Oscar-winner, 50, was stopped after driving at 87mph in a 45mph zone in Malibu, California. He failed a breath test, was charged with drink-driving and freed on bail.
Gibson also said sorry for "despicable" statements he made during the arrest and for his "horrific relapse", after battling alcoholism all his adult life. "The arresting officer was just doing his job and I feel fortunate that I was apprehended before I caused injury to any other person," he said. Gibson said he "acted like a person completely out of control" when he was arrested and said things "that I do not believe to be true and which are despicable".
NOTE: The BBC story linked to was published on Friday, it may have been written before Mel Gibsons drunken remarks were known. Today the BBC does cover the story:
Gibson 'outburst' under spotlight
Police in Los Angeles are beginning an investigation into an incident in which filmmaker Mel Gibson is alleged to have made anti-Semitic comments. Mr Gibson, 50, was alleged to have made the comments after being arrested for drink-driving in Malibu, California. He later apologised for his outburt, admitting saying things "that I do not believe to be true and which are despicable", but did not give details. His apology was "unremorseful and insufficient", campaigners have said.
On the Anti-Defamation League's website, national director Abraham Foxman said the statement released by Mr Gibson did not constitute "a proper apology".
The New South Wales Board of Jewish Deputies, in Australia, said about Mr Gibson's alleged outburst that "one can only shake one's head in dismay and think where does that come from".
Mr Gibson was stopped by police at about 0235 local time (0935 GMT) on Friday after allegedly driving at 87mph in a 45mph zone. The star was charged with drink-driving and freed on bail. However, Entertainment website tmz.com links to what it says is a copy of a suppressed police report which notes a series of anti-Semitic comments from the actor during the arrest.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is to begin investigating the incident. The Office of Independent Review, a Sheriff's Department watchdog panel, is investigating whether officers covered up the alleged outburst, chief attorney Mike Gennaco told the Associated Press news agency.
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I remember hearing, on the BBC radio (Channel 4), one BBC Journalist asking (with a very gentle Oxford accent) Steven Emerson (the well-known islamism expert), the day after al-Arian was sentenced in Florida for supporting terrorism, "Don't you think that some people may say that this condemnation is the proof of Israel directing the US justice system"...
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NOTE: The BBC story linked to was published on Friday, it may have been written before Mel Gibsons drunken remarks were known. Today the BBC does cover the story
I will grant that it was written on Friday night. However, I searched the entire site. It was the only story on the bbc website referring to gibson as of late Sunday night, eastern time (US), after other major news outlets ran the story that included his rant.
Of course, at the same time, their home page ran a story about Israeli atrocities.
Worried about an excess of flesh visible on the banks of the River Seine, Paris city hall has banned thong bikinis, topless sunbathing and nudity at the summer sand-in-the-city event known as Paris Beaches, reported Le Parisien newspaper on Saturday.
Alright. Now they've gone too far...
Violators will be fined $48, said the report. Thongs and "monokinis" - or bottom-only bikinis - are common sights on France's Mediterrannean and Atlantic shores. Paris was pushed to forbid "indecent attire" because it could "provoke temptation and dangerous behaviour along the bank of a river," said Pascal Cherki, mayoral aide in charge of sports.
There's nothing indecent about skin. How it's displayed can be indecent, we'll admit. I've been on a few beaches with some fairly magnificent titties on display and never noticed any "dangerous behavior." But then, there weren't any Muslims around that I knew of. Among most of the rest of us there's a difference between sweet tempatation and forcible indulgence...
City officials responsible for Paris Beaches could not be reached for comment on Saturday.
Something about fleeing from an angry mob of Frenchmen, complete with pitchforks and tumbrels...
... it could "provoke temptation and dangerous behaviour along the bank of a river..."
It was unclear why the ban was only imposed this year, the fifth year of the event.
Done a turban count lately?
Mayor Bertand Delanoe inaugurated Paris Plages in 2002, filling sections of the left and right banks of the Seine with sand and installing spray misters, hammocks, parasols and other beach-style accoutrements. The month-long event attracted 3.8 million people last year, and this year has pulled in many seeking relief from record heat.
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I first saw this headline earlier when we were putting the Scimitar to bed and thought, "cheez, Paris Hilton has pulled a Madonna on us and found, er, religion. Or something. Thank goodness I was wrong."
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Paris bans nude tanning
Among most of the rest of us there's a difference between sweet tempatation and forcible indulgence
gotta watch out for dem girlz who trips you then beats youse to the floor..
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In France, some people (I am one of them) are outraged by this PC decision. Paris mayor did ban nudity and monokinis on the banks of the River Seine, but he didnt ban muslim veils, although a lot of them have been seen on the same banks during this Paris-Beaches event.
For people who read french, here is a good article on this subject:
It's interesting, too, to notice that Delanoe, Paris mayor, who is openly gay, hasn't forbidden homosexual men to kiss each other publicly in this event (a friend of mine says he saw that).
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Il y a un million d'histoires dans la ville nue . . . .
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Next step is the mandatory wearing of the "Islamokini" TMby all Phrench Wemeen.
The Islamokini is comprised of a light impervious ugly brown burka covering said Womeen from head to toe + a betourbaned Islamic Chastity Guard accompanying the Womeen everywhere she goes.
Long Live the French Sharia (Sharia Ver. 2.0.12.4)
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No, EoZ, this is the Isalmokini:
See? Oh ye of little faith ...
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What a hussy! Where are her brothers, cousins, and nephews!!!!
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Pure pandering to the Mooslims. I for one welcome the freedoms of topless sun bathing. I spent many hours in Greece sipping wine on the beach and taking in the magnificent sites. Unless youre a mooslim bare boobies wont hurt you.
A massive crowd marched through Mexico City on Sunday to back a leftist who claims he was robbed of victory in a fiercely contested presidential election and is demanding a vote-by-vote recount. At least 100,000 protesters swarmed toward the central Zocalo, one of the world's largest squares, where Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was to rally his supporters for a campaign of civil disobedience.
Lopez Obrador, hold on, the people are rising up!
"Lopez Obrador, hold on, the people are rising up," supporters chanted on Sunday, many dressed in the bright yellow of his leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD.
Mexico was plunged into a political crisis by the close July 2 election, which saw ruling party conservative Felipe Calderon beat Lopez Obrador by just around 244,000 votes out of 41 million cast. Lopez Obrador, an austere former mayor of Mexico City who campaigned on promises to help Mexico's poor with ambitious welfare and infrastructure programs, claims the result was rigged against him.
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"The peasants are revolting!"
"You said it. They stink on ice!"
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Thank you, Al Gore. See what you started? We all knew this was going to happen after the stunt you pulled. But then, maybe there will be a revolution south of us, and all those illegals will stay to "fight for my country."
Polls show Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega in a position to win Nicaragua's presidency and return to the office he once took by force... It's not that ''El Comandante'' is particularly popular, but that the opposition is fractured, said Victor Borge of the Costa Rica-based polling firm Borge y Asociados. ''Daniel is no stronger than he has been in the past, and the anti-Sandinista vote remains firm,'' Borge said. ``The new phenomenon here is that we no longer have a two-party race. That's unprecedented.''
In the past, Ortega's foes have lined up behind the Liberal Constitutionalist Party, or PLC. But Montealegre and the emergence of the center-left Sandinista Renovation Movement, known as MRS, have splintered the antiOrtega vote. To complicate the scenario even further, MRS presidential candidate Herty Lewites died of a heart attack July 2. The folksy former mayor of Managua was a Sandinista dissident and vocal critic of Ortega, but he also was seen as the primary suitor for some of Ortega's core left-leaning supporters. Now, it's unclear where those orphaned voters will end up.
None of the major polling firms has released results since Lewites' death. One pollster privately predicted that about two-thirds of MRS supporters would eventually drift back to the Ortega camp. But others expect that many will stick with Lewites' less charismatic but highly respected vice-presidential candidate, Edmundo Jarquín, now the MRS' presidential hopeful, or even jump to Montealegre's camp. ''For [MRS voters] to head back to the Sandinista Front would be a betrayal of everything Herty stood for,'' said Manuel Orozco, Central America director for the Washington-based Inter-American Dialogue. ``If anything, they are closer to Montealegre's position than Ortega's.''
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Much of Latin America is returning to leftism. Ortega has some baggage that will come out: while Lider Principal, he used a New York trip as an excuse to buy his wife thousands of dollars worth of expensive glasses, etc; when he left office his daughter accused him of sexual molestation.
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You see what happens/happened, Moriarty, when Violet Blue's Daddy is ordered not to kill Ortega and Castro, etal - now the whole world has to go thru the motions and do it the hard way. Are you happy now, Moriarty, you see what ya did wid 'em negative waves so early in the morning!?
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You see what happens/happened, Moriarty, when Violet Blue's Daddy is ordered not to kill Ortega and Castro, etal - now the whole world has to go thru the motions and do it the hard way. Are you happy now, Moriarty, you see what ya did wid 'em negative waves so early in the morning!?
TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan (Reuters) - Michael Moore -- gadfly filmmaker, liberal activist and political lightning rod -- says he finds himself being hugged by a lot of Republicans these days. Don't get all excited, Michael. They're just expressing their gratitude that you're a member of the Democratic party is all.
On the streets of Traverse City, where Moore is working on last-minute preparations for a bigger-and-better sequel to the film festival he launched last year in his home state, the Oscar-winning director says he is approached all the time by conservatives ready to make peace. "If you were to hang out with me here it won't be five or 10 minutes before you see a Republican hug me. That is almost as entertaining as some of the films," Moore said in an interview. Almost, Michael. But given that your films are not entertaining, that isn't saying much.
Moore has not budged from the central claim of his 2004 documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" -- that the Bush administration misled the American public about the reasons for war in Iraq -- but he says that more people have come around to his view. "That's the shift that I'm seeing in the past year or so in the country, and as it relates to me," he said. There are pills that can help with those delusions, Michael.
Some in solidly Republican northern Michigan and elsewhere now believe that they made a "colossal mistake" in initially supporting the war in Iraq, Moore said, and they have let him know it in chance encounters on the streets of Traverse City, a resort town where he has relocated from New York.
Used to traveling with security and encountering a barrage of hostility, Moore said he finds people now more accepting, even to the point Republicans are spontaneously hugging him. Looks like you can do away with the security now.
"Look up the definition of liberal. We hug trees. We hug each other. We hug people of the same sex and want to marry each other," Moore said. "It's the other side that we need to get to hold their arms out a little bit and coochey-coo." Keep talking Michael, and you're going to get more hugs from Republicans.
The success of the second annual Traverse City Film Festival, which runs from Monday to Sunday, has also won over some of Moore's political foes -- or at least sidelined them.
This year's slate features 68 films selected by Moore. Festival organizers expect over 75,000 to attend. That would mark a 50-percent gain over the inaugural event, which drew some of the controversy that has become the 52-year-old director's calling card.
In 2005, critics attempted to upstage the Traverse City film festival with a parallel event nearby intended to hammer the message that Moore was out of touch with the mainstream. Moore said the effort failed to draw crowds and fizzled.
AT WORK ON 'SICKO'
Moore says he intends the festival to be "nonpartisan," even as it takes on charged topics with films like "The Road to Guantanamo." Moore calls that film about three British men jailed without charges in the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a look at "a disgraceful moment in our history we're still living through."
Moore is mostly done shooting his own film "Sicko." The movie examines America's health care system and Moore describes it as "a comedy about 45 million people with no health care in the richest country on earth." The film is due out in 2007. How many people didn't have health care in 2000?
For now, he seems pleased with the outbreak of relative goodwill toward him after a depressing period when he thought he might not be able to work again in Hollywood.
Moore was booed and escorted from the Kodak Theater by security when he used his 2003 Oscar acceptance speech for documentary "Bowling for Columbine" to lash out at President George W. Bush. "I remember going back to my hotel room that night, where they had all the pundits on post-Oscar and they were all like, 'That's the end of Michael Moore. That's the last we'll see of him.' By the end of the night, I believed it," he said. It was one of Karl Rove's plots that saved you, you know.
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So he's a big deal in Michigan. Anybody returning his calls in Hollywood? Didn't think so.
BTW, Mikey, I *think* they're hugging you out of gratitude for saving Bush's bacon in the 2004 election. But go ahead and have your Sally Field moment if it makes you happy.
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have your Sally Field moment if it makes you happy LOL!!!
I was in Mesa two weeks ago doin 85 with my hands on fire. Thought of you, DB and your advise to wear oven mits.
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49 pan, ah, yes, I remember those days. (But I usually grew my nails during the summer and drove with two of 'em touching the steering wheel. ;) I know, not really an option for the men, or those who have manual transmissions.)
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Actually, I'm more of a political maverick than most of those usually termed "right wing"--- I even voted for Anderson when he ran as an independent, for Clinton at least once, and in 2000 I honestly couldn't see much to choose between the two, so flipped a coin and voted for Gore--- but the thought of hugging Michael Moore makes me go all nauseous, and want to scour myself all over with about a quart of betadine.
I demand independent documentary evidence of that fat B*****D being hugged by Republicans, including a notarized copy of their voting registration record, and picture ID.
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Moore thinks he's some sort of modern day svengalli or p.t. barnum. I tend to think he was separated from Momma Cass at birth. Where's a ham on rye when you need one.
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry on Saturday challenged Democrats to take back statehouses and governor's mansions across the nation in November, saying the country has become less secure under Republican control. "The fact is, the United States of America is less secure today than we were five years ago," he said. "Less secure because North Korea has four or five times more weapons .... Iran is running amok, the Middle East -- the wheels are coming off, and Iraq is a quagmire."
North Korea has four or five times more weapons .... Iran is running amok, the Middle East -- the wheels are coming off, and Iraq is a quagmire.
Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, said "there's a better course for America," and that begins with electing Democrats in 2006. "Who you chose for your local races is going to have a profound impact on the country as a whole," said Kerry, who was making his fourth trip to Iowa since the state's leadoff caucuses in January 2004.
He has been helping state-level candidates around the nation, and was in Story City for a $30-a-head brunch for Democrat Rich Olive, who is running for the Iowa Senate District 5 seat. Kerry said he's focused on helping other Democrats such as Olive win in 2006, and not on a potential run for president in 2008. "I'm here because '06, not '08, is really important," said Kerry, who has raised and given $10 million to Democratic candidates and committees through his own political action committee.
Kerry took some time to explain what's happened since his defeat by President Bush. "When you run for president of the United States ... and you come as close as we did and you get knocked on your butt, you have to dust yourself off and pick yourself up," he said. "It's a good time to take stock about what life is about, what our country is about and what our challenges are."
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While he's dusting and taking stock and so forth, he might eventually notice that he's a joke.
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DEMOLEFT > USA = AATTTTTAAAAAAAACCCCCCKKKKKK THE ENEMY, D *** IT, but SSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHH don't actually hurt, fight, or destroy your enemy whom is trying to kill and destroy you and your country. Becuz you and all America = Amerika deserve to be destroyed and under OWG without having to be explained or told why!? America = Amerika, USA = USSA = USR, etc is a LEFTIST-SOCIALIST + COMMUNIST COUNTRY THAT IS BEING LED BY THE WRONG KIND OR TYPE OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM + WRONG TYPE OR KIND OF SOCIALISTS. America and Americans can fight, die and war for global empire andor OWG, but just not govern or rule said empire or OWG. Americans = Amerikans can, however, unilaterally = forcibly give up our sovereignty. freedoms, form of government, economy, and other endowments-advantages. HATED DESPICABLE HITLERISTS-NAZIS = MALICIOUS ARROGANT SELFISH COMMUNISTS-STALINISTS, DON'T YA KNOW. Defective Rightist Fascists = Well-meaning De-Regulated Hitlerists-Nazis, i.e. "GOOD HITLERS/NAZIS", DON'T YA KNOW! You know, why America/Amerika = Russia-Commie Asia but Russia-Commie Asia is not = America/Amerika ergo is superior. MSM > COMMIES-MAOISTS SUPPORT RADICAL ISLAMISTS + INTERN TERROR BEFORE = AFTER 9-11, ERGO AMERICA IS THE ONE AND ONLY ONE WHOM MUST BE "CONTAINED/CONTRAINED" AND "CONTROLLED"!?
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DEMS > America = Amerika will be secure when America is defeated, suborned, isolated, contained, andor destroyed, etal. As honest injun as anti-sovereign OWG and National Communism-Totalitarianism = the "status quo" i.e. NUTHIN WILL CHANGE FOR ORDINARY OR MAINSTREAM AMERICA = AMERIKA AND AMER SACRED NATIONAL LEFTISM-SOCIALISM-COMMUNISM. Utopian America = Amerika must be saved from those defective, De-regulatory, Pro-Competition, Limited Totalitarianist-Governmentists known as Fascists and Righist Socialists, D *** it!? How can National-Global Utopianism be achieved without UNIVERSAL PERMANENT DEFICITISM, i.e PROGRESS = REGRESSIONISM!?
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"Who you chose for your local races is going to have a profound impact on the country as a whole."
Well, he's got that right, at least.
Want a quick, easy, sure-fire way to convince the entire world we've descended into utter, blind, drooling idiocy? Looking for that "magic bullet" that'll tell friend and foe alike that we've completely lost our nerve? Desperately seeking a way to signal one and all that we haven't the slightest fucking idea what we're doing-- or how to do it?
Then put the Democrats back in power.
And hunker down against the firestorm that follows.
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Why are all these Democrats such blithering idiots?
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Only blithering idiots would wallow in the corruption of the democrat party and not want to make some honest changes, therefore, only blithering idiots remain democrats. The rest become independent or republican.
The head democrat is nothing but a stain maker.
Aw, how cute. A li'l chinchilla just curled up on his head and went to sleep...
America needs a "new realism" in its foreign policy and a concerted push for energy independence to safeguard national security, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, a former U.N. ambassador, said Saturday. "What the Bush administration has failed to understand is that while diplomacy without power is weak, power without diplomacy is blind," Richardson said in the Democrats' weekly radio address.
"New realism" usually translates into selling your friends down the river and letting your enemies screw you. It's also known as "taking the path of least resistance," or "going with the flow."
Richardson pointed to fighting between Israel and Hezbollah militants, escalating violence in Iraq, the stalemate with North Korea over its missile and nuclear programs and rising oil prices as evidence that "the world around us in on the verge of spiraling out of control."
Much of the world around us is controlled by men who would qualify for jackets with very long sleeves in a rational world. Bill's making the assumption that because they're spiraling out of control we have an obligation to accomodate them.
"If we would have had a permanent Middle East envoy in the region, we would have been in a better position to disarm Hezbollah and protect Israel, and implement a concurrent cease-fire along with a legitimate, international peacekeeping force on the ground," Richardson said.
If Hezbollah was disarmed then we'd be a lot closer to Muddle East peace. Which is the cause and which is the effect?
He called for direct U.S. talks with North Korea and Iran, objecting that the Bush approach has been to "outsource our diplomacy."
"Outsourcing" is a Democrat bad word. If we were doing it ourselves we'd be guilty of "unilateralism."
"We are Democrats and we stand for diplomacy, not threats; bridges, not walls; alliances, not isolation," he said.
Who'd you have in mind to ally with, Bill? La Belle France? China?
"Bill Richardson - much like Howard Dean - can focus on playing small-ball politics, but President Bush and Republicans will continue to focus on the threats facing our nation and delivering long term solutions that increase our safety," responded Danny Diaz, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee.
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Yeah, Bill. Your good offices routine with the Norks really netted some handsome dividends. Back from the slimelight with ye.
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So it's ok to be unilateral with North Korea and Iran instead of getting our allies involved with negotiations? I thought unilateral was bad, multilateral good.
I'm so confused. When is it ok to be a cowboy and when do we have to play nice with others?
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America needs a "new realism" in its foreign policy and a concerted push for energy independence to safeguard national security...
Of course this is why the Gov signed the papers moving a nice chunk of NM land out of exploration and drilling recently. Bill will make a good vice-presidential nominee for Hillary, they both act alike. Try to pander to two sides at once. On immigration, he calls for more enforcement along the border after issuing a directive to state agencies not to cooperate with ICE.
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Thanks for your opinions Bill. Now we know why you're not qualified for any higher office. People like you, Dean, Kerry, etc., just keep talking. The hole is getting deeper.
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Interesting that a White House spokesman invokes Howard Dean. They must be getting the sense that Dean does not do well as the symbol of the Democratic party.
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"If we would have had a permanent Middle East envoy in the region, we would have been in a better position to disarm Hezbollah and protect Israel, and implement a concurrent cease-fire along with a legitimate, international peacekeeping force on the ground,"
What you mean "we," Kimosabe?
Are you offering US troops to fight a war with disarm the most powerful, best equipped, and best organized terrorist group in the world, or are you just blowing smoke from your nether regions?
An explosion in Pakistan's major arms manufacturing factory has caused partial damage to some buildings, but no one was hurt, a spokesman for the factory said Monday.
Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF), located at the town of Wah, some 25 km northwest of Islamabad, are the premier defence industries in the country, producing a wide range of conventional defensive munitions to international standards.
"An explosion occurred in one of the explosive magazine of filling section of Pakistan Ordnance Factories at about 1:30 am on Monday. By the grace of Almighty Allah, there was not human loss or damage to plant and machinery, only some buildings have been partially damaged," the factory spokesman said in a statement.
Chairman of POF Board has constituted a high level committee to ascertain the reasons of the explosion, the statement said.
Military spokesman Major General Shaukat Sultan told a private TV channel that the explosion seems to be an accident and investigation has been ordered.
According to the POF website, the factory is producing a wide range of munitions systems for ground, air and naval forces.
In addition to meeting the domestic demand of the defence forces, POF products are in service with over 30 countries.
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This smells, especially after reading about the munitions train explosion in NY harbor all those long years ago.
So? got a list of who hates Pakistan?
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ISLAMABAD: A Chinese defence delegation will soon visit Pakistan to showcase their countrys Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) following Islamabads recent announcement to purchase a similar Swedish system, sources have said.
The AWACS is believed to be the most cost effective and powerful system for early warning, and command and control missions. According to sources, Pakistan needs a surveillance device to ensure the security of its borders and underwater communication system
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Might be interesting to see if the Paks can even fly one right. If they do (with chinese "Advisers") it will be even more interesting to see how well the Chinese AWACS work.
Mass killings of up to 300,000 chickens are underway in tambon Ban Klang in Nakhon Phanom's Muang district after a laboratory test confirmed the area had been hit by the bird flu outbreak. The province has mobilised 1,500 health officials to carry out the cull on 70 farms.
The Public Health Ministry yesterday put the number of patients suspected of having bird flu at 80, from 19 provinces nationwide. The number has fallen from the 113 suspected cases reported on Saturday.
This will be the second cull in Nakhon Phanom in as many days. Late last week, 40,000 chickens were slaughtered as a precautionary measure, after poultry died mysteriously.
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Thus far, it appears that those humans whom had gotten sick or died from bird flu did so after cooking andor eating already dead birds, i.e. ate CARRION = ROAD KILL?; or it has NOT yet been absolutely determined iff they did or didn't eat same, at least by current reports.
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There have been several H2H confirmed transmissions, and an entire family wiped out, except, oddly enough, two spouses of family members who didn't get sick, implying that the family was unusually sensitive.
The reason is that avian flu, unlike typical flu, is concentrated in the lower trachea, instead of the upper trachea and sinuses. Thus it is harder to spread through coughing and sneezing. This minor difference is the only thing keeping it from becoming easily H2H.
Other oddities include its maintaining an unusually high mortality rate, around 60%, which is three times deadlier than the Spanish flu. It is also much easier to transmit than typical flu, needing only a fraction of the normal amount of contagion (in ppb) to establish a foothold in a new host.
This is why even third and fourth world nations have been stimulated by their own medical communities to take it as serious as war.
Unofficial estimates of worldwide mortality, all else being equal, range from 300M to 1B, with perhaps that number again suffering from severe permanent lung damage. The plague could last from 1-3 years.
The famous Sulzberger dynasty is quietly tightening its financial grip on the New York Times and the Boston Globe, a new analysis shows. And its using shareholders cash, instead of its own, to do it.
A Herald examination of Times financial filings shows that since Arthur Pinch Sulzberger Jr. took over as chairman in 1997, The New York Times Co. has bought up almost one-third of the stock held by outsiders. Meanwhile the Sulzbergers themselves have basically held their shares, says company spokeswoman Catherine Mathis.
And so, without spending a dime, the storied newspaper dynasty has raised its stake to about 20 percent.
If you keep doing that over a period of years, at some point theres only one shareholder left standing, says Putnam fund manager Rich Cervone.
Its a slow process of going private, adds Lee Forker, president of New England Research & Management in Boston.
The Times has spent $3 billion so far buying out shareholders.
Total net income from 1997 through 2005: $2.85 billion...
#4
don't know enough about stocks - but could it be that they've been buying their own stock to prevent shareholders from seeing that the value has been dropping for some time?
If you own lots of stock and it's worth is starting to slip- wouldn't there be a benefit - to a point - of buying back your own stock to prevent the value from sliding further? Especially if you can use the stockholders own money to do it, as they claim in this article?
I also wonder if this is article is just pure spin and whitewash. Rather than say that the stock has fallen dramatically in value, and would have fallen much further if Pinch hadn't bought so much of it back - they are making up this "going private" excuse so any remaining shareholders don't panic and create a fire sale.
If their income is slipping, their shareholders are bailing, where will they get the money to run their operations?
I'd suggest that the lesson here is that stockholders should bail while they still can.
#6
If you're secure enough to hang on to your job, one strategy would be to drive the stock down and then take it private at the bottom for short money.
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