Milan - Now I know there are many out there who will think I have lost it when I write that a key, new must-have for men this coming fall will be a pair of leggings to be worn outside, not just in, the house, but that was the big message at the debut Marni men's runway show this morning in Milan.
Leggings made of microfiber cotton and wool, shown in violet, forest green and Milan fog gray, all of them with stirrup straps, except of course for a couple of them cut above the knee, accompanied half the looks in this poetic, polished and unexpected collection.
These leggy knits were paired with mercerized cotton jerkins, snug little Rude Boy with manners jackets and Two Tone era skinny ties a big Milan trend. Marni shoes were also real winners, knobby workerist boots in bottle green or metallic gray with subtle strips of contrasting color like burgundy.
"Unconventional but sophisticated," smiled Consuelo Castiglioni, Marni's Creative Director, backstage after the show. One of several smart women setting the fashion agenda in Milan don't forget Miuccia, Donatella or Silvia Consuelo has been a major force in women's fashion for nearly a decade. Arguably no designer has a more devoted following among card-carrying fashionistas, editors, critics, stylists and PR folk, than Castiglioni. After just three seasons in men's wear she looks poised to extend her style hegemony into the masculine world.
That said, I know a lot of guys who wear leggings around the home to watch DVDs, lounge around before Premiership games or surf the Internet. But actually on the street, never mind into a nightclub or bar? Yet, the truth is that leggings are way more comfortable than pants and that if we fellows were not all so uptight and worried about our status we would have all begun wearing them a long time ago. So hats off to Castiglioni, and on with the leggings.
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Damn. Saw this & my snark pipeline just clogged.
"That said, I know a lot of gay guys who wear leggings around the home to watch DVD's, lounge around before Premiership games or surf the Internet."
I am sure you do.
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Oh, I don't know, Leonard Whiting and Michael York looked pretty darned sexy in them in Zeffirelli's "Romeo and Juliet". The metrosexual in this "fashion" photo, however, is another matter.
I love em. Easy on, easy off, which should hold great appeal for most men I know. :) Great for movement. A good pair that mixes cotton and lycra will never cut off the circulation to the "nether fellas" and they really show off the body to its best. They are as comfortable as yoga pants or those flannel plaid pajama pants guys like to wear around the home.
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I disagree. While leggings are extremely comfortable, there is no male body type capable of looking anything other than dorky and half-dressed in them. That poor model in the picture looks as if he'd got on his long underwear, but forgot his pants... and is trying hard to carry off that nightmare with aplomb, poor boy.
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Everybody has overlooked the mandatory Stirrups!
I thought that stirrups looked super stupid on girls, and that, fortunately passed soon enough, so now the fashion barons think guys want to wear this faggy sh!t. I'll pass.
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Jeebus, I'm still getting over the fact that these are "coming back" for wimmins. Then, the good doc, puts that Man(?) pic up (the one who needs a "bro" or a "mansere"). Who has the steel wool for our eyes?
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Basically, footballs pants are tights/leggings-they just close differently. Still feel the same way?
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Leggings wid 3-Piece, Coat-and-Tie Italian/Professional Suit > can't see it save for Lefty College anarchists. Good for drunken Toga parties but not for corporate job-hunting + marrying your girlfriend after graduation/grad school.
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Basically, footballs pants are tights/leggings-they just close differently. Still feel the same way?
At least the football players are wearing a codpiece to balance out the look, Jules. ;-) I never could muster a passion for American football, I fear. We lacked a television during my critical formative years for such things. Although come to think of it, the uniform of the boys on my high school gymnastics team was essentially stirrup pants over shorts with a sleeveless undershirt... But they only went between the gym and the locker room so clothed, wearing only their team jackets over street clothes for spirit day, unlike us girls who wandered the school in full regalia, such as it was.
A powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck Sunday under the Molucca Sea in northeastern Indonesia. The quake's epicentre was about 130 kilometres from the city of Ternate, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It had a depth of more than 10 kilometres below the ocean floor. No tsunami warning has been issued, although the quake was large enough to cause the phenomenon.
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Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin....
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Sorry for being picky, but it's Upharsin, Frank.
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colloquial spelling...as in "youse guys are f*cked"
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According to Wiki, both Parsin and Upharsin are proper. I was wondering about that too which is why I looked.
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man.... tough crowd!
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Well, it's STILL the writing on the wall, fellows. Let's not split hairs. We are still doomed---doomed, I tell ya! Doomed!
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T'ain't US that's doomed, it's all them there Christian-hatin', goat-lovin' Martains that have landed in Indonesia. Gotta be that. Can't be that the Big Guy don't like muzzies, nah, never. I'm sure He's targeting a 9.3 for Isfahan, a 9.6 for Qom, an 8.8 for Peshawar, a 9.0 for Damascus, and an 11.9 for Soddy Rabida. All on Thursday. At noon.
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In a front-page article on Wednesday, the state-owned Herald newspaper said US ambassador Christopher Dell had summoned the two factions of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) to a meeting in Harare where he ordered them to reunite. The Herald said Dell promised to hand over US$1 million to a reunited MDC during the meeting that it said took place on January 9 2007.
But in a statement to the media yesterday, Paul Engelstad, the embassy spokesman said: "The story in The Herald newspaper alleging a meeting on January 9 2007 between US Ambassador Christopher Dell and representatives of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is false. Neither Ambassador Dell, who was not in Harare on that date, nor any other United States of America Embassy official, attended the alleged meeting referred to in the story."
The Herald claimed that Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara, who head rival factions of the MDC, had attended the meeting together with senior officials from the factions. Both factions have also dismissed the story as false.
The Herald is one of three state-controlled daily newspapers left in Zimbabwe after the government banned the popular privately owned Daily News four years ago.
A batch of 270 Pakistani troops on Saturday left for Liberia on the United Nations (UN) mission to restore peace in the war-ravaged country.
Bidding farewell to the troops at the Allama Iqbal International Airport, Brigadier Tauqir Ahmad said Pakistani troops had always earned laurels for the country under various UN peacekeeping missions, says a press release. They are looked as a role model by other military components, Tauqir said.
Mogadishu, 1992 - 93.
He urged the troops to perform their duties diligently.
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Liberians lock up your girl children.
And your goats. Keep them safe...
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ACCRA - Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is due to return to his native Ghana on Tuesday night where he is being urged to contest the West African countrys presidential election in 2008.
The movement set up the website draftkofiannan2008.com to campaign for his candidacy. The website, which is not endorsed by Annan, said is the best qualified person to lead the country at this crucial time.
How millions of people in Ghana and this is the best they can do? Sure hope the second-best guy in Ghana is never put in charge of the U.N.
Annan, 68, is reported to have turned down the advances of the New Life Ghana Movement urging his candidacy.
"No, no, I couldn't, really. How much does it pay?"
The draftkofiannan2008.com website said its team was calling on Annan to come and lead us as a nation and contest the election as an independent candidate. We find it necessary that Mr. Annan take up this challenge as an independent presidential candidate so that he can concentrate on building the administrative and managerial competences of our ministries and departments while oversight is provided by political activity, parliament, the judiciary, media, and society at large, without the dangers of a one-party state, the website said.
"Just like he did at the U.N.!"
An official statement Saturday asked the public to come to the airport to give Annan a heros welcome.
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>Annan, 68, is reported to have turned down the advances of the New Life Ghana Movement urging his candidacy.<
I'm sure Kofi was thinking - why on Earth would I want to come back to this sh*thole? It's already pretty well looted and I've got a great place in NYC not to mention the nice apartment in Geneva. Besides, when I was at the UN, I didn't have to worry if those Blue Helmet guys would bust in one day and haul me off.
LONDON - British police have made a breakthrough and identified the man they believe poisoned Alexander Litvinenko, a friend of the murdered former Russian spy told Saturdays edition of The Times newspaper. Police tracked down the man, who was introduced to Litvinenko and his associates as Vladislav, using details that the ex-agent recounted on his deathbed, The Times said.
The suspected killer travelled to London on a forged European Union passport and slipped the radioactive isotope polonium-210 into Litvinenkos tea, according to Oleg Gordievsky, a friend of the defector to Britain who has worked closely with detectives on the murder investigation.
So some salt is required here.
The Times reported that the suspected assassin was spotted on security camera footage at London Heathrow airport as he flew into the British capital from Hamburg in Germany on November 1, the day Litvinenko fell ill. He reportedly travelled on the same flight as Russian businessman Dimitri Kovtun, who later met Litvinenko.
This man is believed to have used a Lithuanian or Slovak passport, Gordievsky, a former KGB Soviet agent, told The Times. He did not check into any hotel in London using the name or that passport and he left the country using another EU passport.
Decent enough tradecraft (better than our CIA in Italy!) but cameras are everywhere these days and they always archive the tapes.
Police sources told The Times it had not previously been revealed that Litvinenko visited a fourth-floor room at the Millennium Hotel in London to discuss a business deal. He went to the room with Kovtun and Andrei Lugovoy, another former Russian agent.
The trio were joined in the room by a mystery man who was introduced as Vladislav. Vladislav was described as someone who could help Mr Litvinenko win a lucrative contract with a Moscow-based private security company, Gordievsky said. Sasha (Litvinenko) remembered the man making him a cup of tea.
His belief is that the water from the kettle was only lukewarm and that the polonium-210 was added, which heated the drink through radiation so he had a hot cup of tea. The poison would have showed up in a cold drink.
The polonium heated the tea? I'm not sure about that.
The Times said police have decided not to release a picture of the man.
Because it would violate his rights in Britain.
He is described as being in his early 30s, tall, strong, with short black hair and Central Asian features.
Lugovoy and Kovtun were questioned and both deny any part in Litvinenkos death. Russias prosecutors classify Kovtun as victim of an attempted murder involving polonium-210, while police in Germany suspect he may have been transporting the deadly material.
The Millennium Hotel room remains sealed off and has reportedly shown the heaviest concentration of polonium of all the locations searched across London, The Times said.
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So what they're saying is they don't have any idea who the guy is that killed him.
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But I bet you Putin does!
Al
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word is, "Vladislav" died a month ago. Go figure...Putin cleans up his messes
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday told the U.S. government to "go to hell" after it questioned his plan to seek special powers to legislate by decree as part of his self-styled socialist revolution. A State Department spokesman on Friday said Chavez's reform plans have caused "some concern," describing the proposal allowing presidents to rule by decree as "a bit odd" in a democracy.
"That is a sacrosanct legal authority of Venezuela, go to hell gringos! Go home! Go home!" Chavez said during his weekly Sunday broadcast. "We're free here, and every day we'll be more free."
Venezuela's legislature this week is expected to fully approve the Enabling Law that would give Chavez 18 months to decree legislation.
State Department spokesman Tom Casey on Friday said the legislation by decree proposal was "a sovereign right of Venezuela but certainly ... a bit odd in terms of a democratic system."
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Pull out. Pull every single American, every American-based company, and every piece of American-made equipment under US business control. Leave, lock the doors, and NEVER, EVER, do business with Venezuela again. Cut all banking ties, cut all communications ties, cut all loans, cash payments, or any other business with Venezuela until Chavez is feeding maggots. Do it now, and the maggot feast will occur sooner.
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OP, we can do that, but may take a (short-lived) bite in the shorts over their oil. They are actually one of our biggest oil providers.
Oh well, I'll still be behind you if you wanna stir that up. Just another reason to drill ANWR, do tar sands/oil sends out west, etc. Get us off the terrorist supporting and communist loving countries' teets, Mr. President, ASAP!
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Every time we drive past Citgo headquarters I hold my own little personal protest by shouting things out the window.
Of course, every time we drive past it's like 11pm, or (as today) on a weekend, so that does limit the effect of my fearless demonstration of free speech.
The main suspect in the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink has been arrested, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. The governor of Istanbul said police captured Ogun Samast, aged 16 or 17, on a bus in the Black Sea city of Samsun. Mr Samast was earlier named as the suspect pictured in security camera images near the scene of the killing.
Mr Dink, 53, was shot dead in broad daylight outside his newspaper offices in Istanbul on Friday. He was well-known for writing controversial articles about the mass killing of Armenians by Turks during World War I.
Istanbul governor Muammer Guler announced the details of the capture in a live television broadcast. He said Mr Samast had been detained at Samsun bus station while apparently returning to his hometown of Trabzon from Istanbul.
The governor added that Mr Samast was carrying a gun at the time, and that six other suspects had been detained in Trabzon. All seven will be brought to Istanbul for questioning on Sunday and police are investigating whether they were part of a group, Mr Guler said.
"Mahmoud, my #7 truncheon and my wrist brace, please!"
"Yes, effendi! Will you take your mustache wax now?"
"Hmmm, yes, it's going to be a long day!"
The governor emphasised that Ogun Samast - who he said was born in 1990 - had been detained after 32 hours.
The suspect was identified by his own father when he saw television images taken at the scene of Friday's killing. A clear image taken from security camera footage showed a man apparently running from the scene, tucking what officials said was a gun into his belt.
Dink's secretary told investigators Mr Samast had asked to meet Mr Dink earlier on Friday, before the killing, Mr Guler said. After the request was turned down, the secretary saw Mr Samast waiting on the street outside Mr Dink's office, he said.
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Heh heh RantBurg #1 and @2 on the olde mustache wax truncheon Google Search.
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Via LGF: As shooter was led away, shouted something about killing "the infidel".
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"The suspect was identified by his own father when he saw television images" The other article today said a "tip" from his father. I gather the father has a somewhat nobler conception of family honor than some others reported on here.
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'...The suspect was identified by his own father'
possibly dad is secular and junior is an Islamist(he was a quiet boy, then he started praying 5 times a day and going to the mosque for extra lessons).
An Arizona lawmaker has introduced a bill to revise the state's statutes on organized crime and fraud by defining "domestic terrorism" in such a way that members of the Minuteman Project or other border-patrol groups could be prosecuted and forced to serve a minimum six-month jail term.
Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Mexico Phoenix, introduced HB 2286 in the Arizona House on Thursday. Sinema, formerly of the lunaticGreen Party, had earlier submitted a bill asking the legislature to make changes to a law used to prosecute customers of immigrant smugglers as conspirators under Arizona's human trafficking law. "None of us every dreamed it would be used in a co-conspirator fashion," Sinema said. After all, there's no possible connection between the coyotes and the invaders who create a market for their services.
As WND reported, it was federal inaction that motivated Arizona lawmakers to approve the new law creating the crime of smuggling in 2005. Maricopa County District Attorney Andrew Thomas announced he would interpret the law to mean illegals caught with a smuggler could be prosecuted as co-conspirators if they paid a coyote to transport them across the border. "If the customer pays a dope peddler money, he's violated the law," said Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who compares the relationship between coyotes and illegals to drug dealers and their customers. "(Here), they're paying for transport."
That law was upheld last year by a county judge after defense attorneys questioned its constitutionality. Last month, the same judge who upheld the law also overturned the first jury conviction of an illegal immigrant charged as a conspirator under the law, Associated Press made up reported.
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said women and moms who stay at home and don't work are dependent on men and "leeching off their husbands."
Perhaps there are those stay-at-home spouses who are parasitical on their husbands. All the ones I know, however, work in partnership managing household and family while the job-holding partner manages his career. In fact, the several househusbands I know deliberately made the choice to put less-stellar careers on hold because having a parent involved in the child rearing full time was important to them. Arizona State Representative Sinema ought to be careful should she ever find herself talking with them though, as one is a former prosecuting attorney with a small consulting practice, while another has a concealed carry licence and little tolerance for fools. (He took on the re-training of the compound security staff when he followed his wife's career down to Caracas, Venezeula, back in the 1990s.)
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She can just FOAD!! She is on my list and when I move to Phoenix this spring I will do everything I can to see she is not elected again. I don't care if a dead roach is running against her I will campaign to see her and her lunacy stopped.
My wife is a stay at home mom,a decision we made as a team. She is more educated than I am, and could certainly get a better paying job. She works harder than I ever did, she is raising two sons, mostly alone with my trips. Her stress levels skyrocket and she worries while I am gone and she alone running the house, she's more akin to a single parent with an occasional house guest that she has to feed and do laundry for. Our decision was made to give our son's the best household possible, and I don't mean the money either. What a miserable egocentric bag of wind for degrading the most important person in the family, I wish her the worst.
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You realize this would make members of the neighborhood watch "domestic terrorists"? It could be used to prosecute everyone who takes part in a "take back the night" march.
Big ol' can a worms this bint wants to open. Can't wait to see her reaction when it's used against people who report illegal dumping or other Green-party concerns.
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Idiot-stick's proposed "law" is a violation of the Second Amendment. Read it - it says an armed militia. It says nothing about being affiliated with any law enforcement or government agency. This bitch should not only lose her seat, she should be run out of town trussed to a 30-foot cedar timber, and dumped well inside Mexico - without any identification. I can believe the ACLU would want to try something like this. That's an organization that should be declared an enemy of the state, and run out of the country.
49Pan - I'm not a citizen of Arizona, but I'll vote for you anyway!
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When he promotes his tax cut record, and he has done them, note very well he was able to because the state is heavily invested in Big Oil and that has generated significant income to the state treasury.
Note well his backing of the former state AG for Congress who ignored repeated reports of corruption in the Treasurer's office. The Fed's got the former and previous Treasurer for criminal activity.
He waffles on the open border issue, one day demanding the feds do something and the next day directing state agencies to "don't ask, don't tell" when illegals use state services.
He took a low profile during the Wen Ho Lee 'get the Chinaman' witch hunt carried out at Los Alamos during his tenure as Energy Secretary.
Another one hiding behind a mask seeking power. Not that bad for a governor, but not one we could afford during the WoT to be on the threat. More talk much less action type.
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And he's the most qualified donk in the race so far. And the most likely to win in the general election. Thank goodness they'll nominate Hillary or Gore.
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so "the best of the worst" is what you're saying?
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Yup.
The most interesting part of the donk race will be to see who hires Sandy Burglar as foreign policy advisor. Otherwise, it'll be like the village idiot contest at the county fair.
By DESMOND BUTLER (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated Press
January 21, 2007 11:53 AM EST
WASHINGTON - The Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman warned on Sunday against fostering an arms race in space after China was reported to have conducted an anti-satellite weapons test.
Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., said the test was provocative, but that the United States had ways to combat the threat posed by it.
"I don't think we should be overly worried about this at this point," Biden said. "We have ways to deal with that ability." Nope, Nuthin' here, just hide your head in the sand, Joe.
The U.S. said China conducted the test earlier this month in which an old Chinese weather satellite was destroyed by a missile.
Biden, who is running for president in 2008, said President Bush's policy on weapons in space need to be reviewed. Yup, we Democrats are Surrender Monkeys. Besides, people are too fat and too rich, which is much more important for us to address.
"One of the things we have to talk about is whether or not the, sort of, ideological base notion about how we deal with space and weapons in space and the use of weapons from space is something that is a path we should continue to follow," he said.
In October, Bush signed an order asserting the United States' right to deny adversaries access to space for hostile purposes. As part of the first revision of U.S. space policy in nearly 10 years, the update said the U.S. would oppose the development of treaties or other restrictions that seek to prohibit or limit America's access to or use of space.
"This is not the direction we want to go, in escalating competition in space. And we should be talking about it," Biden said. I guess this means Ole' Joe wants restrictions on what the US can do in Space.
Analysts said China's weather satellites would travel at about the same altitude as U.S. spy satellites, so the test represented an indirect threat to American defense systems.
The Chinese foreign ministry has denied knowledge of the test.
Biden appeared on "Fox News Sunday."
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I can just see that smarmy look and smile of his as he makes these wild, incredible statements. "Can we bargain away our right to protect ourselves soon, please? I really want to make a deal with you so I can spend more time in front of cameras and showing them my teeth."
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The Chicoms are exploring the edge of the envelope, w/r/t satellite destruction by kinetic kill vehicle or lasers. They have made it clear that they are definitely in that game.
Biden wants to do in space what the Dems et al did to the CIA---they want to hamstring us. Biden needs to be asked some tough questions on scenarios facing our military and our satellites. Turn the tables on him and corner him with tough questions. Rat out these closet enemies.
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One of the things we have to talk about is whether or not the, sort of, ideological base notion about how we deal with space and weapons in space and the use of weapons from space is something that is a path we should continue to follow," he said.
That's all I hear, we need to talk, but nobody talks, it's just "we can't do this or that", we need to talk about the "root" problems. Nothing get's done like that.
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KERRY??? > "AMERICA MUST RECOGNIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF CHINA + ASIA". Iff CLINTONISM > Hated "FASCISTS" are also well-meaning but error-prone/-ful LIMITED COMMUNISTS, from America's sacred Commie-SOcialist mainstream, then by opposing CHINA + COMMIE-SUPPOR RADICAL GROUPS, COMMIE-SOCILAIST AMERICA IS ACTUALLY WARRING AGZ OUR OWN COMRADES IN SOCIALISM. * WOT > by CLINTONISM = INTER-SOCIALIST [Fascist vs Commie/Rightist Socie vz Leftist Socie]+ INTRA-SOCIALIST WAR [Limited Commie vs FULL Commie] FOR WORLD/OWG. Sub-IOW, WOT > WAR FOR FORM/TYPE/KIND OF LEFTISM-COMMUNISM.
The commander of a US submarine has been removed from his post following the deaths of two crew members off the south-west English coast in December. The two sailors were among four who were swept off the submarine, the USS Minneapolis-St Paul, by strong winds. They were working in poor weather on the outside casing of the submarine.
Officials said a navy investigation had determined that the incident was avoidable and due in part to a poor decision by the commander, Edwin Ruff. He has now been reassigned to a position on shore, the navy said in a statement. The decision was taken "due to a loss of confidence in Ruff's ability to command", it added.
The submarine's executive officer, Peter Young, was reprimanded. A US Navy spokesman said: "The facts of the investigation led the admiral to determine that non-judicial punishment was warranted."
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Career over in both cases. May the sailors rest in peace.
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Anonymoose - uh, those are baby chickens. Domestic leghorns, from the looks of them. My mother bought 400 of them once, when I was a kid. We raised over 380 of them to full growth. I never got so tired of chicken in my whole life. Took a decade or more before I could face it again.
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Moscow, Jan 21: Describing the BrahMos cruise missile, developed jointly by India and Russia, as "highly lethal" and capable of upsetting the balance of forces in any region where they may appear, a top Russian defence official has said Moscow was not keen on its export to other countries.
BrahMos is the joint Indo-Russian venture for the production of the high-tech cruise missiles.
Under the initial agreement, Moscow and New Delhi had agreed to jointly export it to "friendly" countries. However, recent aggressive marketing moves by the New Delhi-based JV had drawn flaks from the Russian missile industry.
"This is a very lethal and potent weapon system, which can upset balance of forces in any region where it may appear, be it in our neighbourhood, Indian Ocean or Latin America.
"India is one thing, she is our strategic partnership and poses no military threat to Russia, but we are not keen on giving it to other countries, be it China or any other friendly nation," Colonel-General Anatoly Mazurkevich said.
Mazurkevich, who heads international cooperation department of the Russian Defence Ministry, said that one of the reasons for not Russia not keen to export this weapon, "highly lethal for potential enemies", is that its range could be easily extended from the current 300 km, allowed under Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR).
"We are not worried about it as we have nuclear weapons, but this (unauthorised extension of range) may pose threat not only to India but also to our other friends and allies," Mazurkevich underscored.
He said BrahMos is initially an anti-ship cruise missile and Russia is closely cooperating with India in the development of its other variants including land and air based.
"Coupled with Sukhoi SU-30MKI it makes a highly potent weapon system," General Mazurkevich said.
However, the trial of this system requires heavy financing and Russia would help India in this, he said.
"Two-three trials of BrahMos Air Force version would equal the cost of a SU-30MKI fighter, but we have expertise, how to do this at much lesser cost," Mazurkevich said, adding that "unveiling and enhancing" the hidden potential of new weapon systems like BrahMos cruise missiles, SU-30MKI fighters and T-90s Main Battle Tanks would be one of the thrust areas Indo-Russian military-to-military cooperation.
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The Russian political faction that is anti-Chinese has gained some clout recently, especially with the troubles the Russians are having with the Chinese "businessmen" operating in Siberia. The Russian Mafia is not too thrilled with the Triads taking over their historic turf, and are funding politicians that stress the permanent Russian nature of Siberia. Also, even though China is now buying a lot of gear from the Russians, the Chinese are really pushing the technology transfer angle, which means in 10 or so years, bye bye to sales. The Indians on the other hand are doing joint development, paying for research in hard currency, have been major Russian/Soviet arms buyers for 4 decades, and are not making any suggestions of possible switchover about any areas in Russia. There has been a strong pro-Indian faction in Russia, at least from the 1920s on, when the Indian Communist Party was so supportive of the Soviets. Plus, a counterbalancing force to the 1.2 billion Chinese is a geopolitical godsend.
The U.S. military medical community is "quite concerned" about Japans latest case of bird flu, Col. Mark Presson said Friday.
Last week, a disease-control team incinerated about 12,000 chickens that died of avian influenza or were culled at a farm in Miyazaki prefecture, according to The Associated Press. Inspections were conducted at about a dozen nearby farms, and authorities banned the shipment of eggs and chickens from those farms.
"This always causes some concern but Japan has taken a very aggressive approach," Presson said. "They rounded up those birds and destroyed the ones that were affected.
"But I think we all see the potential. We haven't had a major pandemic for some time. It can be devastating across all ages. Regardless of where you go, this issue is talked about."
The animals at the southern Japan farm tested positive for the H5N1 strain of the virus the one blamed for more than 160 human deaths worldwide. No one at the southern Japan farm has fallen ill from the disease, according to The Associated Press.
Presson said the lethal H5N1 strain of the virus doesnt move easily from person to person. But viruses mutate constantly, and thats driving concerns.
"It makes managing a viral pandemic very difficult," he said. "Todays issue may not be tomorrow's. Thats the challenge of flu management and prevention."
USFJ and its component branches all have mapped out contingency plans to deal with the significant numbers of patients they would face in the event of a major outbreak, he added. U.S. and Japanese hospitals also have stockpiles of medication such as Tamiflu.
In next months combined Keen Edge and Yama Sakura exercises, a bird-flu scenario will be played out among participants, Presson said.
As with the seasonal variety, there also are simple steps people can take to avoid contracting the bird flu, he said, including:
- Get a flu shot to decrease the risk of a compounding viral infection and possible complications.
- Wash your hands regularly, especially after coughing or sneezing.
- Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth as much as possible.
- Stay away from sick people and avoid others by staying at home if you feel ill.
- Don't go near sick or dead birds.
"These are real basic things, but when you know there's an outbreak, keep your distance," Presson said.
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While I applaud the action taken (quarintine of the suspected flock), I have reservations about the method, and controls associated w/it: When I was stationed at NAF Atsugi, 91-94, there was a commercial incinerator adjacent to the base. The prevailing winds would carry the smoke plume right over the base and more often than not, directly over the base housing complex. There were lots of high level discussions, but when I left, there was nothing on the table regarding improving the situation. So my question to the medical types: Is it likely there is still H5N1 present in the smoke plume?
Last week, a fire ignited at the Akron Airdock that once housed a fleet of Goodyear blimps. Firemen rushed to the 211-foot-tall structure and quickly doused the flames. Reporters and photographers descended on the landmark. Many were surprised to learn the blimps were no longer being stored there.
Turns out Lockheed Martin -- the company that gave us the Trident intercontinental ballistic missile -- was renovating the site for an upcoming project when the fire started. It's being turned into a hangar for a prototype airship. If you're frightened of this administration's habit of spying on American citizens, you may want to stop reading.
The prototype is called the High Altitude Airship, or HAA. Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems & Sensors in Akron won the $40 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency to build HAA in 2003. It is essentially another blimp. A giant one. Seventeen times the size of the Goodyear dirigible. It's designed to float 12 miles above the earth, far above planes and weather systems. It will be powered by solar energy, and will stay in a geocentric orbit for up to a year, undetectable by ground-based radar. You can't see it from the ground. But it can see you.
"The possibilities are endless for homeland security," says Kate Dunlap, a Lockheed Martin spokesperson. "It could house cameras, and other surveillance equipment. It would be an eye in the sky."
According to a summary released by the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, the HAA can watch over a circle of countryside 600 miles in diameter. That's everything between Toledo and New York City. And they want to build 11. With high-res cameras, that could mean constant surveillance of every square inch of American soil. "If you had a fleet of them, this could be used for border surveillance," suggests Dunlap.
Launch date: 2009.
Of course, mimicking its defense of warrantless wiretapping and phone-log data mining, the government maintains it only wants to protect its citizens from external threats. But as any geek can tell you, blimps were ubiquitous in The Watchmen, the seminal '80s graphic novel in which heroes have been driven underground and Nixon is still president.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not watching you.
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Turns out Lockheed Martin -- the company that gave us the Trident intercontinental ballistic missile -- was renovating the site for an upcoming project when the fire started. It's being turned into a hangar for a prototype airship. If you're frightened of this administration's habit of spying on American citizens, you may want to stop reading.
Hell, just Google your address. Get sat photos on line right now. Don't think those are going to get better with HD? Wait till it's live broadcast too. It's just not the government.
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Um, works over Iran, too. Undetectable by ground based radar. At that size, they should be able to put a Keyhole quality camera 10 times closer to the subject for 10 times the resolution.
Hopefully Ms. Dunlap is looking for a new position after that; she's not doing Lockheed any good. The contract was from the Missle Defense Agency, which seems reasonable.
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It's designed to float 12 miles above the earth, far above planes and weather systems. It will be powered by solar energy, and will stay in a geocentric orbit for up to a year, undetectable by ground-based radar.
Yeah, sure. Where do they get these story writers. Something 17 times the size of a GY blimp is not going to be invisible to radar.
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CD- Its possible, all you need is a hull covering that will reflect incoming radar so that internal structre will not give its location away.
We have several front line warbirds today that have special coatings on their canopies / windscreens to reflect radar so the various cockpit sructures don't provide a good return. Remember LM built the F-117 and I expect the next gen of faceting will be in play by then.
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My elderly Mom wants to wave back all the time at Dubya, Condi, + FBI-CIA-NSA??? at the other end of our household boom tube ala MATRIX + SKYNET, etal.
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A composite frame with a nylon cover doesn't reflect radar. And 17 times larger means a 17 times heavier payload but less than 3 times bigger in any dimension. Since the central core with the surveillance gear is always oriented the same way, it would be relatively easy to apply stealth engineering techniques to it. There is always the issue of bistatic radar but most of the baddies don't have it.
The military regime in Burma is intent on wiping out Christianity in the country, according to claims in a secret document believed to have been leaked from a government ministry. Entitled "Programme to destroy the Christian religion in Burma", the incendiary memo contains point by point instructions on how to drive Christians out of the state.
The text, which opens with the line "There shall be no home where the Christian religion is practised", calls for anyone caught evangelising to be imprisoned. It advises: "The Christian religion is very gentle identify and utilise its weakness."
Its discovery follows widespread reports of religious persecution, with churches burnt to the ground, Christians forced to convert to the state religion, Buddhism, and their children barred from school.
Human rights groups claim that the treatment meted out to Christians, who make up six per cent of the population, is part of a wider campaign by the regime, also targeted at ethnic minority tribes, to create a uniform society in which the race and language is Burmese and the only accepted religion is Buddhism.
In the past year, an estimated 27,000 members of the predominantly Christian Karen tribe were driven from their homes in eastern Burma.
In Koh Kyi village, in Arakan State, a monk backed by the military burnt down the local church. In another state, 300 monks were allegedly sent by the regime to forcibly convert the populace, all of whom belonged to the Chin ethnic group, which is mostly Christian.
The document, shown to The Sunday Telegraph by human rights groups, may have been produced by a state-sponsored Buddhist group, but with the tacit approval of the military junta. The regime has denied authorship of the document which also calls for teenagers to be prevented from wearing Western clothes but has made no public attempt to refute or repudiate its contents.
The dictatorship has long been accused of large-scale human rights abuses. In power since 1988, the generals annulled the National League for Democracy's sweeping 1990 election victory and jailed its leader, the Nobel peace prize-winner Aung San Suu Kyi. She remains under house arrest. Last week she was accused of tax evasion for failing to hand over any of her Nobel prize winnings to the authorities.
Eha Hsar Paw, a Karen Christian, who fled her village while heavily pregnant to a refugee camp near the border with Thailand, said: "The journey here was very difficult. It was hard to leave our village, but if we had stayed there we would all be dead."
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The Christian religion is very gentle identify and utilise its weakness
Is that a fact?
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To be pointed at people who believe asian buddhism is like the post-modern, non-threatening feel-god religion that's practised by hollyweird "celebrities".
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I really don't know what your implying, nothing about the Burmese government's behavior is Buddhist, if you've ever learned about it. And Buddhism doesn't have a GOD btw. Sounds more like they are practicing Sun Tzu.
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I really don't know what your implying, nothing about the Burmese government's behavior is Buddhist, if you've ever learned about it.
From the article: "In Koh Kyi village, in Arakan State, a monk backed by the military burnt down the local church. In another state, 300 monks were allegedly sent by the regime to forcibly convert the populace, all of whom belonged to the Chin ethnic group, which is mostly Christian."
The country is Buddhist 89%, Christian 4% (Baptist 3%, Roman Catholic 1%), Muslim 4%, animist 1%, other 2% (source CIA factbook)
And Buddhism doesn't have a GOD btw. Sounds more like they are practicing Sun Tzu.
I believe he was trying to say 'feel good'. So a)get off your high-horse and b)read the article.
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I'm not convinced - Burma, at least during Reagan-Bush 1, normally had a high tolerance for Christianity despite human rights controversies-"abuses". I have read from var sources that CHINA is exerting econ and diplom pressures on Burma, containing INDIA under the guise of China-spicific, "harmless" national econ modernization.
Police said they detained 15 suspects including some military officers Saturday over a string of New Year's bombings that killed three people, wounded dozens of others and stunned the Thai capital.
Nearly 100 police officers and soldiers searched 18 locations early Saturday in Bangkok and its outlying suburbs where they detained the eight military officers and seven civilians, a police officer, who requested anonymity said. None of the suspects have been charged and no further details were released. Among the locations searched was a community radio station in Lopburi just outside of Bangkok where authorities believe the bombs were assembled, police said.
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The Muzzi dictator begins cleansing infedels from positions of power?
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"LAST TRAIN" by CINDERELLA. You are there in the 1960's wid NOBODY'S FOOL. No - NUGENT? DOKKEN? GNR? D *** it, what kind of MOUDIAN APOCALYPSE = NIGHTRANGER is this??? * "IT WILL STRIKE THE EARTH IN ......" - iff our own elected leaders won't tell us, why should HEADBANGERS BALL during the 1980's. Just becuz the future USSA is a REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY, wid DUE PROCESS OF LAW + ELECTION, doesn't mean our SchadenFuehrer leaders have to tell us anything. The USSA = Amerika > the People serve the Process, NOT the Process serve the People.
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.
Milan - Now I know there are many out there who will think I have lost it when I write that a key, new must-have for men this coming fall will be a pair of leggings to be worn outside, not just in, the house, but that was the big message at the debut Marni men's runway show this morning in Milan.
"Unconventional but sophisticated," smiled Consuelo Castiglioni, Marni's Creative Director, backstage after the show. One of several smart women setting the fashion agenda in Milan don't forget Miuccia, Donatella or Silvia Consuelo has been a major force in women's fashion for nearly a decade. Arguably no designer has a more devoted following among card-carrying fashionistas, editors, critics, stylists and PR folk, than Castiglioni. After just three seasons in men's wear she looks poised to extend her style hegemony into the masculine world.
A powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck Sunday under the Molucca Sea in northeastern Indonesia. The quake's epicentre was about 130 kilometres from the city of Ternate, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It had a depth of more than 10 kilometres below the ocean floor. No tsunami warning has been issued, although the quake was large enough to cause the phenomenon.
A batch of 270 Pakistani troops on Saturday left for Liberia on the United Nations (UN) mission to restore peace in the war-ravaged country. 
LONDON - British police have made a breakthrough and identified the man they believe poisoned 
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday told the U.S. government to "go to hell" after it questioned his plan to seek special powers to legislate by decree as part of his self-styled socialist revolution. A State Department spokesman on Friday said Chavez's reform plans have caused "some concern," describing the proposal allowing presidents to rule by decree as "a bit odd" in a democracy.
The main suspect in the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist 
