Get Al Gore up there in the Gulfstream. Maybe get some pictures...
A rescue effort is under way to save hundreds of seal hunters whose boats have been stuck in a block of thick ice in the North Atlantic Ocean for more than a week. Hey, skipper? How come we're stuck in ice? What happened to all that Global Warming?
It went away, Johnson. This is...Climate Change I think.
The hunters' ships are stuck in a solid ice pack 140 miles long and 70 miles wide. Two huge storms trapped more than 100 vessels just as they were setting out for Canada's annual seal hunt. Looks like we found a new place to move the polar bears.
"Many of the vessels have run out of provisions, fresh water, fuel in some cases," Canadian Coast Guard Capt. Windross Banton told "Good Morning America" from his ship as he engaged in the rescue effort. Banton is trying to get food to more than 300 sailors and help their ships break free from the ice. "Right now, outside as far as the eye can see, there is nothing but a field of ice," he said. Calling all celebrities! Calling all celebrities! Get up here in your Gulfstreams and Lears and fly around and melt some of this ice!
The biggest danger is the pressure the ice puts on the vessels. The pressure can actually lift them out of the water. "The pans of ice and the pieces of ice are big enough and severe enough they could potentially crush the hull of the long liners," said the Canadian Coast Guard's Brian Penney.
Better weather conditions have now allowed several ships to be rescued. For some, it was in the nick of time. "The last couple of days got scary there," said Rodney Gray, captain of the Cape John Navigator. "We were caught in ice that was getting very close to land. We never had control of anything. Wherever the ice went, we had to go."
These boats are engaged in the highly controversial seal hunt. Over the last three years, 1 million seals have been killed, and animal rights activists say they're sometimes killed in inhumane ways. Now it is the hunters who are in danger. Animal rights activists might take solace in the fact that because so many ships have been stranded, the seal hunters will most likely not meet their quota. An estimated 60,000 seals have been spared because of the stranded ships. Okay, a baby seal walks into a club...
(SomaliNet) President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwean has threatened to "kick out" Western ambassadors from Harare, and called British Prime Minister Tony Blair a "dictator" coordinating sanctions against his country.
"If America wants a man like Christopher Dell [United States ambassador to Harare] to remain here, then he's got to behave because we will not brook further nonsense from him," he told the London-based monthly New African magazine.
Dell should read him the riot act and then pack his bags ...
"We have read them the riot act," he said, referring to Western ambassadors accused of interfering in Harare. "If they continue to do that, we will certainly kick them out of the country. It doesn't matter who it is."
Kick them all out. See what happens then ...
In a wide-ranging magazine interview, he also defended the recent beating of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, saying "these things happen" and warning that others will meet the same fate if they provoke the police.
The Zimbabwean leader rounded on critics who describe Zimbabwe as a "dictatorship" -- and pointed the finger at Blair for reneging on a deal to provide compensation for land reform after the country's independence in 1980. "He is very much more of a dictator than any dictator I have read about in modern times in Britain and in Europe," he told the magazine.
He's more and more like a bad comic book villian. I'm guessing a monomanical laugh followed ...
Specifically he accused Blair of persuading his European allies, and countries further afield including in Asia, to join in seeking to isolate Zimbabwe. "They interfere with even our friends in the East and try to persuade them to reduce their relations with us," he said, lamenting that sanctions "have wreaked quite some havoc on our economy".
Gee, Bob, thought you and cronies did that all on your own ...
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Every time I start to feel some sympathy for the Zims I remember that they did it to themselves. They wanted Bad Bob over much better alternatives, threatened to keep killing unless they got him, and got what they wanted. Now they're not happy with it, but that's how it goes sometimes. People and countries choose their actions; they just can't choose the consequences.
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Don't push and shove there, ambassadors. Let's keep this a nice, orderly line...
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You got it Mac,
They raped and killed and pillaged until they wrested the country for themselves. Now when they get raped and killed and pillaged, they cant understand it. They have created their own situation, with great vigor and effort. Yes, they do deserve better, yes, they do have human rights. But after all they are reaping what they have sown themselves.
For the first time in the country's history, the government has retrieved Tk 270 crore of illegal money from seven businessmen and is expecting to recover around Tk 3,000 crore more soon. In the face of the government's anti-corruption drive conducted by the joint forces, these businessmen have paid the amount through several pay orders in local currency, banking sources said.
Sources said this is also the first time the government exchequer has collected money recovered after being pilfered from the public coffers. The central bank will consider the recovered money as "non-tax revenue". Bangladesh Bank (BB) yesterday informed the finance ministry that the money has been deposited in the government account.
Meanwhile, the recovered money directly contributed to the improvement of the government's borrowing status, bringing it down to Tk 4,300 crore on Monday from Tk 4,700 crore in the first week of this month, according to BB sources. Of the seven businessmen who deposited the amount through pay-orders, the names of three could be learnt. They are Anis Ahmed Gorki of MGH Group--business partner of former prime minister Khaleda Zia's son and BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Tarique Rahman, Nader Khan whose identity details were not available, and Salman Ispahani of the Ispahani Group. But, talking to The Daily Star, Salman Ispahani refuted the BB report, claiming that he did not deposit any money. Gorki was earlier arrested and subsequently released upon his promise to cooperate in refunding the money gained through ill means.
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What's a Crore worth? 1/10 cent?
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A Bangladesh crore is a measure of amount,usually equal to 100Lakh. A lakh is equal to 100,000, so a crore is equal to 10 million. Tk is the abbreviation for "taka", the main currency in Bangladesh. The current exchange rate is Tk69,20 per US$1. Tk270 crore = Tk2,700,000,000, or just over $39million. That's not a bad haul in anyone's book.
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The BNP will not initiate any reforms in the party as long as its Chairperson Khaleda Zia is kept isolated from the leaders and workers. My guess is no BNP reforms ever, under any circumstances.
The leaders and workers alike think that implementation of reforms is simply not possible in absence of the former premier. "Nope. Nope. Can't do it. Don't even ask."
They said without her the party should not think of joining the dialogue on electoral reforms as well, said party insiders. However, other sources say senior leaders are divided over the reforms issue as some stress that the top leadership should be changed immediately to have the party back on track while others say that ensuring a democratic system within the party should take precedence over the leadership issue. Besides, the damage control should also kick in.
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BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's younger brother Sayeed Iskandar last night said the party will not miss the leadership of the party chief if she goes abroad. "If Khaleda Zia goes abroad, she could lead the BNP from there as it is the age of cellphone and Internet," Iskandar told a private television channel last night on a query from the reporters whether the party would face any leadership crisis if Khaleda goes abroad.
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And now... The Russkie take on the Tallinan festivities
MOSCOW, April 28 (RIA Novosti) - Russia demands that Estonian authorities provide information on a Russian national killed in clashes with police over the removal of a WWII statue earlier this week, the Foreign Ministry said Saturday.
"We are expressing condolences to the family and friends of the killed citizen and demanding Estonian authorities provide full information on what happened, promptly conduct an investigation and bring those guilty to justice," the ministry said.
The ministry said Tallinn has not named the Russian, who had permanent residency in Estonia and was killed in the early hours of Friday, or provided the circumstances of his death so far, while also condemning the excessive use of force against people who defended the monument to fighters against Nazism.
Latest police reports said about 800 people had been arrested between Thursday night and Saturday morning in Tallinn, where police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse protestors, who shattered windows in buildings near the Soviet Bronze Soldier statue in the city center, damaged bus stops and parked cars and set billboards on fire. Sixty people, including police officers, have been injured.
Estonian police have not disclosed the whereabouts of those arrested.
"After consultations with the prosecutor's office, we made a decision that police should not disclose where people detained during mass riots on Thursday and Friday are being held," Taavi Kullerkupp from the press service of a police precinct in Tallinn said Saturday. A small country with a lot of Angry Russians on the loose. Smart move.
The protests erupted after Estonian authorities cordoned off the area around the Soviet World War II memorial Thursday in the run-up to Victory Day May 9. They moved to dismantle and relocate the Bronze Soldier late Thursday, when protests turned into violent riots.
Estonia has said the Bronze Statue and other Soviet monuments - rallying points for ethnic Russians and places of their clashes with Estonian nationalists - "divide society," and the central square is not a proper burial place.
The Foreign Ministry said Russia, which has repeatedly voiced concerns over discrimination against ethnic Russians in Estonia and the other ex-Soviet states in the Baltics, hoped "international, above all European, organizations and European officialdom will take a sharply critical position [on the events in Tallinn] without double standards." Whoa. A "hope" for the Western powers to "do the Neville" ... and without "double standards", too!
European bodies have made no comment on the dismantling of the monument in EU member Estonia so far. so far Don't worry, Moskva; Brussels is well-acquainted with the gas pipe.
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The ministry said Tallinn has not named the Russian, who had permanent residency in Estonia and was killed in the early hours of Friday, or provided the circumstances of his death so far, while also condemning the excessive use of force against people who defended the monument to fighters against Nazism.
I was about two blocks away when this happened on Tartari Street, which is a side street with a lot of shops and one bar with a Harley theme. The original stories reported that "Oleg stabbed Dmitri".
Turned out that wasn't true, and they didn't have a suspect in hand, although they did have another Russian with bad injuries.
There were no police in the vicinity, because there were trying to control the square where the party started. Russians leaving the square turned to looting shops in that area.
This link gives you a taste of the chaos in that area.
As for "excessive use of force," the police were professional and very-well under control. Problem is, there weren't enough of them to control other areas of the city where the looting broke out.
A SECOND night of clashes in Estonia's capital after the removal of a disputed World War Two Red Army monument led to 600 arrests and injured 96 people. Estonia has said it had become a public order menace as a focus for Estonian and Russian nationalists, and protests have mainly been by young Russian-speaking people.
Police charged protesters, fired tear gas and rubber bullets and used water cannon last night to break up gangs of youths, many in their early teens, marauding through the city. The situation calmed down at 2am (2300 GMT) on Saturday morning after police dispersed the crowds, and has been peaceful from that time, police spokesman Taavi Kullerkupp said.
Some 50 premises, mostly shops, were vandalised, compared with about 100 the day before.
Baltic news agency BNS said some disturbances involving youths had broken out yesterday in the town of Johvi, in the northeast, where many Russian-speakers live.
The removal of the two-metre-high bronze statue of a World War Two Red Army soldier angered some Russian-speakers, who number about 300,000 in a country of 1.3 million. It was taken away at dawn yesterday after riots on Thursday led to the death of one man in a stabbing. The man who died in the Thursday disturbances was stabbed by another demonstrator.
Estonians tend to view the monument as a reminder of 50 years of Soviet occupation. The Government also says it shows greater respect to the soldiers buried in the city centre spot to move them to a military cemetery.
Estonia said official websites had come under cyber attack and restricted access to them from outside the country. Radio said hackers had attacked the website of the Reform Party of Prime Minister Andrus Ansip, putting out a bogus apology from the head of government.
Russia, which has had troubled ties with Estonia since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, had said moving the monument was an insult to those who fought against fascism.
A Muslim woman denounced and ridiculed by nationalists for wearing an Islamic head scarf announced Friday she was running for Parliament a move bound to rekindle heated debate about Islam in Denmark.
The next election is not expected until 2009, but the mere thought of Asama Abdol-Hamid entering the legislature has revived fears of clashing cultures that emerged last year when Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad sparked riots in Muslim countries.
Even mainstream politicians and party colleagues in the left-wing Red-Green Alliance have questioned whether Abdol-Hamid, who moved to Denmark at age 6 with her Palestinian family, shares the fundamental values of Danish society.
Besides covering her hair, the 25-year-old refuses to shake hands with men. Instead, she greets them by laying her right hand on her heart in Muslim tradition. I want another Denmark where we talk about the difference between groups, she said at a news conference announcing her candidacy. When we talk about values, (we need) to be open to whatever people are, Muslim or non-Muslim.
Abdol-Hamid has repeatedly been questioned about her views on the death penalty, gender equality and gay rights issues on which many Danes believe Islam conflicts with their values. Abdol-Hamid said she does not support the death penalty, which is outlawed in Denmark, and is unconcerned with whatever sexual or ethnic background people have.
We have a constitution in Denmark and it will be upheld, she added, smiling broadly under a shimmering, turquoise head scarf.
A social worker from the central city of Odense, Abdol-Hamid made headlines in 2006 when she became the first woman to host a Danish TV show wearing a head scarf. The program sought to promote dialogue between Muslims and non-Muslims in Denmark in the wake of the prophet cartoon crisis.
After her plans to run for Parliament became known last week, members of the anti-immigration Danish People's Party, a partner of the center-right government, took turns explaining why she was not fit for the assembly. One said the Islamic head scarf was a totalitarian symbol and compared it to a swastika. Another suggested Abdol-Hamid had been brainwashed and needed psychiatric help.
Most other parties dismissed such comments, while Muslim leaders said they underscored a lack of respect for Islam in Denmark. I thought we had learned something from the cartoon crisis but we haven't, said Zubair Butt Hussain, spokesman for Muslims in Dialogue. We are still engaging in monologues, blaming each other and making generalizations about Islam.
But even among those who rejected the People's Party's comments, there were some who felt Abdol-Hamid's religious views could be problematic. If you don't shake hands with men, you can't be a part of the Danish Parliament, said Hamid El Mousti, a member of Copenhagen's city council. I'm from Morocco and we shake hands with women. If you do not salute people, communication between you and others will be very bad.
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"I want another Denmark where we talk about the difference between groups," she said at a news conference announcing her candidacy.
Gee, I wonder what would happen if a European woman went to Gaza and announced that she was running for Parliament, without a headscarf, and that she wanted "another Palestine."
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Mass deportation. She has no reason beneficial to Denmark to be there and adds nothing to the country. She, and her family, should be back in Gaza where they came from. She can practice Islam there to her heart's content and it won't disturb her neighbors at all.
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The French dislike themselves even more than the Americans dislike them, according to an opinion poll published on Friday. The survey of six nations, carried out for the International Herald Tribune daily and France 24 TV station, said 44 percent of French people thought badly of themselves against 38 percent of U.S. respondents who had a negative view of the French.
Only 14 percent of Germans, 25 percent of Italians, 29 percent of Spaniards and 33 percent of Britons had a negative view of the French, according to the Harris/Novatris poll, which questioned more than 1,000 people in each country.
Looked at from another perspective, the Germans have the highest regard for their neighbors, with 73 percent saying they had a positive view of the French. By contrast, some 63 percent of Italians had a positive view of the French, 54 percent of Spaniards, 51 percent of French, 41 percent of Britons and just 35 percent of Americans.
Relations between France and the United States plunged following Paris's fierce opposition to the U.S.-led war in Iraq.
Thursday's poll said 74 percent of Americans said whoever wins the second round of France's presidential election on May 6 should try to improve relations with the United States. Some 41 percent of French agreed, but 20 percent believed Paris should be even more distant with Washington.
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"I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me."
I am sorry to disapoint you but your quote is probably apocriphal. According to Martin Blumenson Patton was quite a francophile and freindaly towards the "real Free French" instead of the Vichy dropouts favoured by the Roosevelt administration.
I know that has been rude blow to you, but there is nothing who can't be fixed with a lerge bottle of whisky.
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Only 33 percent of Britons had a negative view of the French. I thought the figure would be double that.
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JFM, what the hell happened to Frenchmen like Massu, Leclerc, De Lattre and Bigeard? Is there anyone, besides the muzzys, left in your country who has any balls?
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Massu: Died in 2002. BTW, my blood boils when I see in Wikipedia that he used torture. It is true but Wikipedia doesn't tell that rthe alternative was either you make that guy confess or you will have dozens of dead in the bombing of a bar or an entire village will be massacred in the most horrendous way.
Leclerc: died in a plane crash during the Indochina war.
De Lattre: died in 1952, a broken man after the loss of his son in Indochina.
Bigeard: He is still alive. Two years ago he published a book "Adieu ma France" (farewll my France) whre he detailed how Chirac and Mitterrand had destroyed France , how values like work existed no more and alerted about France's dhimmification.
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JFM, I've always thought that the worst betrayal France ever suffered was DeGaulle throwing away Challe's military victory in Algeria. He thought France could run away from its North African troubles; instead, they followed the departing French back to Europe.
As for men like Massu and Aussaresses using torture in Algeria, I have no problem with it. The ONLY thing the muzzies understand is force and I think your side proved that when you conclusively won the Battle of Algiers. Ben M'hidi deserved to die and I'm glad Aussaresses strangled him. Your side should have executed Ben Bella and his compatriots as well. God knows the FLN took a savagely bloody revenge against harkis who fought for you, and they used torture more often than you did. It was a bitter, no-holds-barred war, and you won--then threw your victory away.
Your military was tough enough to win; your government was too cowardly to let them. I could understand that from the Fourth Republic; it was unforgiveable coming from DeGaulle. It has to be truly sickening to be in the French military these days because you could not help but know that there are no conceivable circumstances where your government would not be looking to stab you in the back for taking the actions necessary to prevail in conflicts THEY sent you to fight. It's tough enough beating the enemy in front; it's hell when you've got to beat your own side first.
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One of the worse things was when after eth offical end of war, the FLN masscred French civilians at Oran while the French Army stood idle following De Gaulles's orders. The only one who didobeyed was a lieutenant (don't rember) who assmbled a few men ad went to the rescue of the civilans. He was an Algerian.
But for de Gaulle the French of North Africa who had more Spanih and Italian blood than from France's heartland were not true French: thay died at Cassino while the French were serving champgne to the Germans but still unworthey to breathe the same air than the real French.
I will not tell about the shameful way harkis were abandonned (it was to be the French Army who disarmed them, FLM couldn't have done it because the harkis heavily outnumbered the FLN) and the appalling treatment that the few ones who managed to escape got from the Gaullist authorities. Example: a woman gives birth and teh same day they are brought back to their extermination refugee camp where they would lodge in a tent in subzero temperatures.
I will not tell about his total lack of interst for the French who were left in FLN's hands, about wives of officers who ended in Algerian brothels.
Much later he commented one of his actions during the May 68 riotes telling: "That was not De Gaulle, that was Pétain" (Ce n'était pas du De Gaulle c'était du Pétain".) But his pPetainistaion had begun ten years before.
Do you think there is any non-Muslim group in France with sufficient will to fight the islamicization that is happening? How does the military feel about what is happening there? Does it have too many muzzy troops to be considered reliable for suppressing terror in the banlieues? Are most of the French who feel as you do worried to the point of considering emigrating?
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It's tough enough beating the enemy in front; it's hell when you've got to beat your own side first.
That analog exists in the US today also. The donks in Congress, the left, the left msm are all conspirators courting defeat and dhemmitude. The American version of Adieu ma France" will be written here if we are not careful.
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You have to wonder about this self-loathing in a country. It does seem to be a real thing for some people. Where is the love of country? Is this the result of years of multiculturalism, lack of assimilation and the encouragement of such, pseudo-illectualism, an open-door for immigrants both legal and illegal, the welfare state, school systems that inculcate horse pucky, and politicians greedy for votes?
Authorities dropped charges yesterday against an aide to Virginia Sen. Jim Webb who carried a loaded gun into the U.S. Capitol complex.
"After reviewing and analyzing all of the evidence in the case, we do not believe the essential elements of the crime of carrying a pistol without a license can be proved beyond a reasonable doubt," said U.S. Attorney Jeff Taylor, top prosecutor in the District of Columbia. hmmm. He got stopped with a pistol without a license. Where's the doubt? Oh yeah....different rules for thee and me. Webb is an arrogant lying sack of shit for allowing his aide to take his rap
Webb senior aide Phillip Thompson, 45, of Stafford County, was arrested on March 26 after Capitol Police spotted the loaded pistol and two other loaded magazines in a briefcase being scanned by an X-ray machine at the entrance of the Russell Senate office building.
Thompson told the officer at the building's entrance that the weapon belonged to Webb. and they did
The senator said later he did not give Thompson the gun but refused to say whether it was his. Webb told reporters Thompson had carried the gun into the building "completely inadvertently." I'm sure he did, but if it had been Sea or Dave D, we'd be looking for a replacement moderator.
District of Columbia law prohibits carrying a handgun or concealed weapon without a license. and licenses only go to the Elite
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Typical of the attitudes & exemptions enjoyed by our Ruling Class. Webb is not alone in this.
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My guess is that it was Webb's gun, that he has a aConcealed Carry for VA, put it in his briefcase, and it was Webb's briefcase the aide was carrying into the building. The kid tries to protect the boss, the boss initially throws him to the wolves, them the mess gets identified and the USCP pretends it didn't happen. See how easy it is when the rules don't really apply to important people...
Chennai: The 'core-alone' configuration of ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) seems to have attracted immediate international attention, with an Israeli observation satellite, Polaris, heading for an early launch in August this year. The satellite, weighing 300 kg, can take pictures of the earth through cloud and rain, 24 hours of the day.
On Monday, the core-alone configured PSLV-C8 lifted off successfully from Sriharikota to put an Italian satellite, Agile, into orbit.
In its normal set up, the PSLV has six strap-on booster motors around the first stage. The core-alone version discards these boosters as they are meant to put higher payloads into orbit.
The PSLV is a four-stage vehicle that is 44 metres tall and weighs 295 tonnes. The core-alone version sheds about 65 tonnes, and weighs in at 230 tonnes.
Chennai: The 'core-alone' configuration of ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) seems to have attracted immediate international attention, with an Israeli observation satellite, Polaris, heading for an early launch in August this year. The satellite, weighing 300 kg, can take pictures of the earth through cloud and rain, 24 hours of the day.
On Monday, the core-alone configured PSLV-C8 lifted off successfully from Sriharikota to put an Italian satellite, Agile, into orbit.
In its normal set up, the PSLV has six strap-on booster motors around the first stage. The core-alone version discards these boosters as they are meant to put higher payloads into orbit.
The PSLV is a four-stage vehicle that is 44 metres tall and weighs 295 tonnes. The core-alone version sheds about 65 tonnes, and weighs in at 230 tonnes.
These confirmations come on the back of an announcement by ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair, immediately after Monday's successful PSLV launch, that ISRO was planning three more year end launches.
"We are targeting a re-launch of the GSLV, which failed last year, one PSLV with Cartosat and hopefully another commercial launch in the PSLV."
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"Oh Noooooo! A Joooo eye in the sky!"
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And not even night or clouds can shield you from its gaze..
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"Oh Noooooo! A Joooo eye in the sky!"
And not even night or clouds can shield you from its gaze.
Days of present regime are numbered and nation will soon hear good news, said Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairwoman Benazir Bhutto in her message, which was read at the death anniversary of the mother of PPP MPA Faiza Malik. Several PPP leaders and workers attended the ceremony at Hamdard Hall on Friday. Benazir said Pakistan was facing political, social and economic problems. She urged party workers to continue their struggle for the restoration of democracy. PPP Secretary General Jahangir Badar said people were fed up with the policies of the incumbent government. He claimed that a change was round the corner.
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Wel-l-l, when Iran's leaders say "good news" it usually involves ala the nuclear cycle.
USAGE RULES FOR USE OF AUDIO OR VIDEO OF MSNBC MATERIAL RULES FOR THE SOUTH CAROLINA DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES DEBATE FROM MSNBC:
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Yup. SOP.
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interesting. How about a news blackout by the rest of the media on any and all information coming from such closed event, including a blackout on all press releases? All it would take is one such blackout and the candidates wouldn't allow a news org to monopolize the message. I knowe, I know, some whore network would break the blackout....
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Yet one more reason why Microsoft may be hazardous to your health. Restricting the free flow of information, especially that related to political debate over this nation's highest office is an insult to the American public and can only serve to increase opportunities for poor judgement and mistaken choice.
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.
For the first time in the country's history, the government has retrieved Tk 270 crore of illegal money from seven businessmen and is expecting to recover around Tk 3,000 crore more soon. In the face of the government's anti-corruption drive conducted by the joint forces, these businessmen have paid the amount through several pay orders in local currency, banking sources said.
The BNP will not initiate any reforms in the party as long as its Chairperson Khaleda Zia is kept isolated from the leaders and workers.
"I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me." 
Authorities dropped charges yesterday against an aide to Virginia Sen. Jim Webb who carried a loaded gun into the U.S. Capitol complex.
Days of present regime are numbered and nation will soon hear good news, said Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairwoman Benazir Bhutto in her message, which was read at the death anniversary of the mother of PPP MPA Faiza Malik. Several PPP leaders and workers attended the ceremony at Hamdard Hall on Friday. Benazir said Pakistan was facing political, social and economic problems. She urged party workers to continue their struggle for the restoration of democracy. PPP Secretary General Jahangir Badar said people were fed up with the policies of the incumbent government. He claimed that a change was round the corner.
