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I had no idea he was ill. I saw him in the midst of channel surfing about a month ago, and I remember thinking to myself that he sure looked old and frail. Now we know why.
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Damn. He did a great job interviewing musicians and such. About the only 60 Minutes segments worth watching.
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I thought he was older than 65. Dang.
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He was a good tough reporter with a hell of a sense of humor. Now we get Katie Courie (gag).
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I always liked Bradley - he was cool, enjoyed his work, didn't do the hypocritical attack journo that Rather and Wallace mastered...just seemed like a guy you would like to have a beer with... RIP
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Its a cultural thing. Whats important? When you have many things to do, sitting down to a civilized meal as opposed to quick, fast, standard, mass produced isnt a priority. When you are just awaiting the barbarian, then even the condemned are, by ritual, offered one last good meal. Bon Appetit!
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Other priorities also matter. If you issue one meal a day, then troops have to carry around uneaten food for half of it.
The comparison also isn't quite fair, as the US also makes LRRP rations that would kick the French as far as calories and all. Each LRRP provided 1560 calories (15% protein, 35% fat, and 50% carbohydrate).
And, from personal experience, let me tell you that one of those LRRPs can feed three hungry men.
Nicaragua's leftist President-elect Daniel Ortega promised on Wednesday the United States and business leaders scared of his Marxist revolutionary past that he will not push for radical economic reforms. Ortega, who led Nicaragua through a bitter civil war with U.S.-backed Contra rebels in the 1980s, returned to power in Sunday's presidential election, 16 years after voters threw out his left-wing Sandinista government. Washington worries Ortega will join a bloc of radical leaders in Latin America headed by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, and some in Nicaragua fear he could spark a new confrontation with the United States.
"I am not contemplating dramatic, radical changes in the economy, which has stabilized in recent years," he said.
Ortega, 60, tried to ease those fears. "I am not contemplating dramatic, radical changes in the economy, which has stabilized in recent years," he said.
In the 1980s, the Sandinistas confiscated many businesses and lands. Combined with the fierce Contra rebellion and a U.S. economic blockade, the policies plunged coffee producer Nicaragua into chaos and wrecked ambitious anti-poverty plans.
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I should go sell real estate in Nicaragua, they sound like real pushovers.
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Ortega is a pathological liar. In 1998 his step daughter accused him of molestation when she was under age. He denied it, and used political pressure to ensure that the complaint was sandbagged.
The State Department said Wednesday that it looks to establish "positive relations" with the Nicaraguan government of President-elect Daniel Ortega, a former rival who won Sunday's presidential elections. Spokesman Gonzalo Gallegos said cooperation with Ortega and his Sandinista colleagues will be "based on their action in support of Nicaragua's democratic future."
Ortega has said he wants to maintain relations with Washington while having it both ways forging closer ties with Cuba and Venezuela. During the campaign, he also projected a far more moderate image compared with his days as a Marxist-Leninist firebrand.
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(RIA Novosti) - Kyrgyzstan's parliament will start discussing a new draft Constitution, following a week-long confrontation between the opposition and the president, the speaker said Wednesday. Mass street protests demanding constitutional change resulted Wednesday in a compromise agreement between the opposition and pro-presidential lawmakers. The agreement will strip the president of the right to dissolve parliament and entitle legislators to appoint the prime minister and the Cabinet. "We have coordinated the last contested issues. We will start discussing the new basic law of the country at 10.00 p.m.," Marat Sultanov said, adding that the new Constitution would be considered in two readings.
The proposed constitution must be approved by a quorum of 51 votes in the country's 75-seat legislature. Parliamentarians and President Kurmanbek Bakiyev have agreed that parliament will consist of 90 members, half of whom will be elected on a single constituency basis and the other half will represent political parties.
Parliament also agreed to the president's proposal to alter the impeachment procedure. The number of votes required for impeachment will be increased from two thirds to three quarters, or 68 members in the new 90-seat parliament. Parliament has now recessed, while protests of opposition and government supporters are continuing in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek. On Tuesday, the protests turned violent, resulting in six people being injured after police used tear gas against the crowd.
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FIJI'S defiant military chief refused to rule out overthrowing the South Pacific island nation's Government after delivering a series of demands today amid fears of a fourth coup in 20 years. Commodore Frank Bainimarama, who threatened last month to remove Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase if he did not drop two contentious pieces of legislation, said he would prefer to negotiate a settlement to a crisis which has dragged in Australia and New Zealand. Asked in Fijian and English what he would do if the Government failed to meet his demands, Commodore Bainimarama said: "We'll go back at them".
Commodore Bainimarama also said he did not hold much hope for a meeting of the Great Council of Chiefs, the representatives of Fiji's 14 chiefly provinces who are the nation's ultimate powerbrokers, called for tomorrow in an effort to resolve the crisis. He said the council only ever meets "to suit the Government's agenda".
Commodore Bainimarama said the continuing speculation of more political upheaval was bad for the island nation's fragile tourism- and sugar-based economy, which suffered after a May 2000 coup by armed indigenous nationalists.
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Ahh, nothing like a little jungle warfare to ruin your tourist business. Too bad they don't have a tech sector to fall back on.
Berlin (dpa) - Legendary East German spy chief Markus Wolf, whose agents brought down West German chancellor Willy Brandt, died Thursday at the age of 83, a family member said.
Wolf died peacefully in his sleep at the family apartment in Berlin, said his daughter-in-law. Wolf's publisher, the Eulenspiegel Verlag, also confirmed the death to Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
Dubbed the "man without a face" for managing to avoid being photographed, Wolf headed East Germany's foreign intelligence services from 1952 to 1986.
Wolf's "Hauptverwaltung Aufklaerung" (HVA) - a branch of East Germany's Stasi secret police - ran a network of 4,000 spies. One of his agents, Guenter Guillaume, became a top aide to chancellor Brandt. After years of spying in the heart of West German power the stunning unmasking of Guillaume forced Brandt to resign in 1974. And the Cold War fades into the sunset...
Oh, MUCH more at the link
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But, but there were no such things as communist spies!
It was all McCarthyite propaganda, so they could have an excuse to raid all those beatnik coffee houses in the Village, and throw thousands of professors in concentration camps, and burn books with napalm with the librarians tied on top of the pile. I know cuz that cute poli-sci TA told us all about it!
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In a tough progress report Wednesday, the European Commission threatened Turkey with possible suspension of membership talks unless Ankara does more - by mid-December - to protect human rights and implements a customs pact with EU member Cyprus. The commission decided against recommending the immediate suspension of year-old entry talks with Turkey, commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said. "We decided to give a chance for the diplomatic efforts to find a solution."
But Ankara must forge ahead with political and economic reforms - "with full determination" - and open its ports and airports to Cypriot goods before EU leaders meet at a Dec. 14-15 summit in Brussels, he said in a statement. "Failure to implement its obligations in full will affect the overall progress in the negotiations," Barroso said, adding that the bloc now expected "words to lead to deeds as soon as possible."
Ankara, however, insisted that Cyprus was a political issue that should have no bearing on Turkey's entry negotiations. "The Cyprus problem is a political one and is not an obligation for the negotiation process, which is a technical one," the Turkish government said in a statement.
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Hurry up with those reforms even though we still won't let you in!
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Iff the Left suceeds in suborning America to ANTI-AMER AMER SOCIALISM + OWG, America can't help Europe iff it can't help itself. CLINTON-SPEAK > FASCISM = NEW COMMUNISM/DE-REGUL-COMPETITIVE COMMUNISM, and USA-WEST = Russia-China/EAST/ASIA.
AMER-WESTERNISM = ORIENTALISM/ASIANISM/
EURASIANISM, AND NOT IN THE GOOD, MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL, PRO-PEACE UTOPIANIST WAY.
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Since the Democrats are the party that wishes to transform America into a society not meaningfully different from a western European socialist state, this one ought to get the surprise meter graphic.
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Withdraw the troops and trade concessions from Europe. Bring the jobs and production machinery back home where the goods are consumed. No sense in leaving it there for the muzzies to take over lock, stock and barrel.
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Analysts also warned that the Democrats were more protectionist when it came to trade and would kill off lingering hopes of a global trade accord by stripping Bush of his fast-track negotiating power, which lets him authorise deals. With that goes any chance of the US helping to revive the Doha round of world trade talks, although they may be dead anyway, commentator Bronwen Maddox wrote in British daily The Times. Those carried the hope that the US might wean itself off farm subsidies, and force Europe to do the same, she added.
Duh.
I've read variations of that theme in a lot of European English-language journals today. And western European countries are concerned that there will be a heightened call for more European military force contributions in the WoT.
Many things have become clearer after the elections, one of them is that it is slowly dawning on (some) of the Western non-Atlanticists that the American security umbrella is not eternal and that a day in the rain without it might be very uncomfortable.
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I've been wondering what would happen if the US really turned isolationist. What if our navy didn't worry so much about keeping the sea-lanes open except for US Flagged ships.
You'd find a rush as folks dumped Panama and Liberia to register for US protection. If the US can tax the goods on US flagged ships we'd probably do pretty well rather than simply providing our Navy for the worlds use in keeping the sea-lanes open.
I don't think the world has truly through through their dreams of endign Pax Americana.
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Hmm, the return of privateers. I wonder if I can fit a 76mm gun on the cabin cruiser?
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The democraps are corrupt. Any deal can be reached with the proper amount of street money.
The European impact will be that dhimmitude for all Europeans will be reached sooner rather than later.
Since the Democrats are the party that wishes to transform America into a society not meaningfully different from a western European socialist state, this one ought to get the surprise meter graphic.
Aaah no mo euro... Europe. Such a lovely society... And now thanks to the incompetence of the outgoing leadership, our Legislative branch is filled with Neville Chamberlains.
Forget the war in Iraq. The political war in America this year proved to be a bloodbath for the "fighting Dems," who might more aptly be called the "fallen Dems" after Tuesday's election.
After Iraq war veteran Paul Hackett, a Democrat, nearly scored a special-election upset in Ohio's strongly Republican 2nd District last summer, bloggers and other Democrats began touting war veterans as candidates for 2006. They touted dozens of such candidates as the antidote for the Democratic Party's long-running electoral ailments on the defense and security fronts.
But if Democrats have the same low tolerance for political casualties as they have shown for battlefield casualties in Iraq, their push to recruit and elect to Congress military veterans who run as Democrats will be short-lived.
A few of the anointed candidates dropped out of their races well before the general election, and 18 others were defeated in primaries, suggesting that the party as a whole is not eager to rally around veterans. Most of the other fighting Dems were soundly defeated Tuesday.
The outcome in Texas was particularly brutal for Democratic candidates with a military past. Not a single one survived the Election Day Alamo; in fact, none even came close to victory. The highest finish by a fighting Dem in Texas was 40 percent, and one of them, Rick Bolanos, only netted 2 percent in an eight-candidate race.
Hit the link for a casualty list summary of the results.
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"Election Day Alamo"
I wonder if he recognizes that the side that was defeated at the Alamo won the war.
WASHINGTON - A key Democratic senator on Wednesday said he was ready to have the US Senate act quickly to approve a landmark nuclear deal with India but other congressional sources said much depends on Republicans who suffered major defeats in mid-term elections. I think were ready to do it. Im ready to go on the India bill, Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware told reporters.
The initiative would allow nuclear-armed India access to US nuclear fuel and reactors for the first time in three decades. It has been hailed by President George W. Bush and others as the core of a new US relationship with India after years of estrangement, and a financial boon to American business.
The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved the bill in July. But despite more than a year of upbeat assessments by administration officials and the intervention of Bush and other top officials, the Republican-led Senate let the India bill languish when the congressional session ended last month.
Whether there will be time for the Senate to act on the India bill, then have the House and Senate resolve differences in their respective versions of the legislation, then cast a final vote, is unclear.
Biden says he believes final passage is possible but it depends on the mood of defeated Republicans and whether they are mature enough to say the voters have spoken. A spokesman for Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Senates No. 2 Republican, told Reuters: Theres a very good chance the India bill will come up in the lame duck session.
But an aide to Senate Republican leader Bill Frist said Republicans are still insisting Democrats reduce the number of amendments to the bill that would have to be taken up in Senate floor debate. Biden said he believed the number of Democratic amendments is manageable but the Frist aide said: We still need them to cut their amendments.
If the Senate fails to pass the bill in November, the entire process must start again the bill will have to go through the just-elected new Congress, whose new session starts in January.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA - IOW, even after [barely]winning both Houses of Congress, the GOP still has to be the one to do the dirty work so that Dems can take the full credit, or in the alt don't get blamed for anything.
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Biden says he believes final passage is possible but it depends on the mood of defeated Republicans and whether they are mature enough to say the voters have spoken.
Funny, I don't remember the Dhimmocrats behaving in the mature fashion Biden mentions after they got absolutely crushed. I say get rid of the filibuser and other stalling/avoidance tactics once and for all and we'll talk.
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"Stupid Joe" Biden is easily the biggest empty headed, blowhard know-nothing in the Senate. That's saying something. It's unfortunate for anyone with an IQ over 80 that Tuesday's election puts this posturing moron back in the spotlight.
I'd wager he couldn't give two shits about the actual bill itself much less understand it, but the wad of pork it contains he understands very well.
President General Pervez Musharraf has told the federal cabinet not to bow to the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amals pressure on the Womens Protection Bill and pass the legislation. Sources told Online that the president told the cabinet members not to be swayed by threats by the MMA and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz to resign if the bill is passed. If they tender resignations from the assemblies in the event of passage of bill, let them do so and dont be worried about it. It will reinforce the government writ, the sources quoted Gen Musharraf as saying.
The president told the cabinet that if the bill were not passed, the MMA would exploit it for political gains. The sources said Railways Minister Sheikh Rashid opined the bill should not be passed in haste and all parties should be taken on board. The MMA should not be sidelined all at once as it will trigger a crisis in two provinces where they are in power. It is not easy to hold by-polls there too, he said.
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The Moon is geologically active and has a volcano, according to Nasa-funded scientists. They have found evidence on the surface of recent eruptions, which they say can only have been caused by huge spurts of gas from a volcano.
One large eruption is calculated to have occurred two million years ago hundreds of millions of years after the last volcano was thought to have died. The volcano shows signs of still being active, the researchers reported in the journal Nature.
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We never had volcanos on the Moon when Clinton was in the White House. Lord knows what that sucker is contributing to Global Warming.
On a more sciencey note, to have a volcano you need a molten core. You'd think a teensy little moon would have cooled off by now. Since the Moon's rotation is locked to the Earth, I wouldn't expect much in the way of tidal heating. So - heat from radioactive decay? Secret alien moonbase?
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My guess is that you had trapped gas pockets that were released due to an impact of some kind. That way you could have what looks like a volcano on an otherwise dead moon.
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Great. Now the moon god Allen has thermodynamic power too? Wonder if he'll use it against his people like the tsunami.
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This discovery plays an important role in helping scientists determine which of two dominant scenarios will win out. They are:
1.) The Raisin Pudding Model
The moon has numerous "mini-cores" scattered throughout its deep interior that can vent to the surface.
2.) The Standard Model
The moon is similar in structure to the earth with just one central core.
Perhaps measurements of the outflow's volume will help them determine whether a mini-core could provide its entire capacity or if it needed a central core to create such. Very interesting.
Anyone have data on how this might influence the presence (or reduced inventory) of lunar water? (Critical to the establishment of a long term moon base.)
Wal-Mart will put "Christmas" back into the holidays this year, the retailer plans to announce Thursday. A year after religious and other groups boycotted retailers, including Wal-Mart, for downplaying Christmas, the world's largest retail chain will have an in-your-face Christmas theme this year. "We, quite frankly, have learned a lesson from last year," says Wal-Mart spokeswoman Linda Blakley. "We're not afraid to use the term 'Merry Christmas.' We'll use it early, and we'll use it often."
Wal-Mart told about 7,000 associates of the plans at a conference last month and "was met with rapturous applause. ... We know many of our customers will feel the same," says John Fleming, Wal-Mart's executive vice president of marketing.
Fleming says the retailer, which recently lowered prices on toys and electronics, will be pitching Christmas almost as much as "value" to holiday shoppers.
New this year:
A TV ad trumpeting Christmas will air for the first time next week. Wal-Mart also will air TV ads along with the Salvation Army mentioning Christmas.
The name of the department with Christmas decorating needs will change from The Holiday Shop, which it was for the past several years, to The Christmas Shop.
Store signs will count down the days until Christmas, and Christmas carols will be piped throughout the season.
About 60% more merchandise will be labeled "Christmas" rather than "holiday" this year over last.
The Christmas spirit is spreading. Macy's, the largest U.S. department store chain, plans to have "Merry Christmas" signs in all departments. All of Macy's window displays will have Christmas themes. At New York's Herald Square, the theme will be "Oh, Christmas Tree." "Our intention is to make every customer feel welcomed and appreciated, whether they celebrate Christmas or other holidays," spokesman Jim Sluzewski says.
As at Wal-Mart, Macy's employees are encouraged to consider wishing customers holiday greetings that are appropriate to their race or religion, including Happy Kwanzaa or Feliz Navidad.
Sometimes, even the best intentions can backfire. The Catholic League, one of the groups fighting what it calls the Christmas Wars, says a member alerted it that Macy's was pitching a "Happy Hanukkah" gift card but not a "Merry Christmas" one.
After he was contacted by the group, Sluzewski determined a production "glitch" meant the Merry Christmas gift cards were available everywhere but in its Western region, where there were plenty of Happy Hanukkah gift cards. "We are correcting the problem," Sluzewski says. "Of all the cards to have a glitch with."
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A year after religious and other groups boycotted retailers, including Wal-Mart (WMT), for downplaying Christmas, the world's largest retail chain will have an in-your-face Christmas theme this year.
Anyone who's been stationed in Japan or South Korea know that the local merchants have adopted the holiday as well even though they're not Christian nations. If you look into the background of the Christmas as practiced today, it has strong ties to the efforts of New York merchants of the early half of the 19th Century to promote commercial business more than tied to a 'Christian' religious celebration with significant pagan rituals and associations. Its a feature, not a bug. Just enjoy.
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South Korea is quarter Christian (same as Buddhism) and Christianity will be the undisputed largest religion. In addition many are more fervent than in the West.
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PS. Happy Festivus.
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lol, ed. This announcement the day after I got a notice that Wal-Mart will be donating 5% of its online sales to homosexual agneda-pusher.
Marry Merry Christmas, indeed!
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YA,BA I got the same notice from AFA Action alert. Ya'll go there and sign the petition!!
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yes they have, like the day after Hallo-frickin-ween. No Christmas decorations until AFTER the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade has launched all the balloons. dammit.
/thank you
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The old low-sales shoe is beginning to pinch, eh Wal-Mart?
Remember, this one single organization is responsible for a solid ten percent of our trade deficit with communist China. Help wipe out America's manufacturing base while supporting the politburo, shop Wal-Mart. For those unfamiliar with the topic:
Wal-Mart reports that it purchased $18 billion of goods from China in 2004.
Wal-Mart was responsible for about 1/10th of the U.S. trade deficit with China in 2005. [U.S. Stock Investors Wary of Analyst `Yuan Plays': Taking Stock, Bloomberg, 7/1/05]
If Wal-Mart were an individual economy, it would rank as Chinas eighth-biggest trading partner, ahead of Russia, Australia and Canada. [China Business Weekly, 12/02/2004]
Many of Wal-Mart's American Suppliers actually manufacture most or all of their products in China
An example of an American Supplier is Hasbro, headquartered in Rhode Island. Today, Wal-Mart is the largest purchaser of Hasbro productsaccounting for 21 percent of all Hasbro goods or more than $600 million in sales. But Hasbro reports, We source production of substantially all of our toy products and certain of our game products through unrelated manufacturers in various Far East countries, principally China. Hasbro specifies that the substantial majority of our toy products are manufactured in China. [2004 Hasbro 10-K filed with the SEC]
Wal-Mart's Chinese factory workers are treated poorly
Workers making clothing for Wal-Mart in Shenzhen, China filed a class action lawsuit against Wal-Mart in September 2005 claiming that they were not paid the legal minimum wage, not permitted to take holidays off and were forced to work overtime. They said their employer had withheld the first three months of all workers' pay, almost making them indentured servants because the company refused to pay the money if they quit. [New York Times, September 14, 2005]
Workers making toys for Wal-Mart in Chinas Guangdong Province reported that they would have to meet a quota of painting 8,900 toy pieces in an eight hour shift in order to earn the stated wage of $3.45 a day. If they failed to meet that quota, the factory would only pay them $1.23 for a days work. [China Labor Watch, December 21, 2005]
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Zenster - I can't believe that you fell for all that "for the children" hype. Do you think that Macys or Staples doesn't get their stuff from China? Unless you are buying wool sweaters knitted by your neighbor, or wooden spoons whittled by the guy down the road, it's made in China. Boycotting WalMart is like buying the New York Times instead of the Boston Globe.
When mega corporations spend their millions to produce documentaries to tell me I shouldn't shop at their competetors - I'm there, baby. I want to see what they don't want me to see.
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Z: Remember, this one single organization is responsible for a solid ten percent of our trade deficit with communist China. Help wipe out America's manufacturing base while supporting the politburo, shop Wal-Mart.
As a New Yorker, I don't shop Wal-Mart at all. Not because I hate Wal-Mart - it's just that I have to go into the burbs to do that. And let tell you - despite not shopping at Wal-Mart, almost every one of the little knick-knacks I buy, ranging from nail clippers to photo frames, all come from China. There's no way to avoid it. In time, Chinese wages and commercial rents will rise, and we will get our junk from somewhere else. Until then, it won't do any good to boycott Wal-Mart - we'd simply be buying the identical Chinese-made goods from Wal-Mart's competitors, but at a higher price.
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that reminds me something funny. I knew a guy who was hooked into the local surf scene. He used to make a pretty good summer profit by repackaging suntan oil and slapping his own label on it. Then he would pay cute girls go into the local drug stores and surf shops and ask for it for a couple of weeks before he'd go in and pitch it to the store. Then he and his friend would bad mouth any other product they saw someone using. Your using that? Did you know that caused an outbreak of rashes? You're using that? It's tested on animals.I know a girl who got third degree burns after using that... it turns your skin yellow - etc.
Then he'd tell them you should use (his) product X because everyone is using it, it's great. Often they would be using the same product he was selling. He made a pretty good profit.
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
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Nicaragua's leftist President-elect Daniel Ortega promised on Wednesday the United States and business leaders scared of his Marxist revolutionary past that he will not push for radical economic reforms. Ortega, who led Nicaragua through a bitter civil war with U.S.-backed Contra rebels in the 1980s, returned to power in Sunday's presidential election, 16 years after voters threw out his left-wing Sandinista government. Washington worries Ortega will join a bloc of radical leaders in Latin America headed by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, and some in Nicaragua fear he could spark a new confrontation with the United States. 
(RIA Novosti) - Kyrgyzstan's parliament will start discussing a new draft Constitution, following a week-long confrontation between the opposition and the president, the speaker said Wednesday. Mass street protests demanding constitutional change resulted Wednesday in a compromise agreement between the opposition and pro-presidential lawmakers. The agreement will strip the president of the right to dissolve parliament and entitle legislators to appoint the prime minister and the Cabinet. "We have coordinated the last contested issues. We will start discussing the new basic law of the country at 10.00 p.m.," Marat Sultanov said, adding that the new Constitution would be considered in two readings. 
FIJI'S defiant military chief refused to rule out overthrowing the South Pacific island nation's Government after delivering a series of demands today amid fears of a fourth coup in 20 years. Commodore Frank Bainimarama, who threatened last month to remove Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase if he did not drop two contentious pieces of legislation, said he would prefer to negotiate a settlement to a crisis which has dragged in Australia and New Zealand. Asked in Fijian and English what he would do if the Government failed to meet his demands, Commodore Bainimarama said: "We'll go back at them".
Berlin (dpa) - Legendary East German spy chief 
WASHINGTON - A key Democratic senator on Wednesday said he was ready to have the US Senate act quickly to approve a landmark nuclear deal with India but other congressional sources said much depends on Republicans who suffered major defeats in mid-term elections. I think were ready to do it. Im ready to go on the India bill, Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware told reporters.
