Doug Marlette, who won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1988, died this morning in a single-car accident near Holly Springs in northwest Mississippi. He was 57.
Marlette was with the Tulsa (Okla.) World at the time of his death. Prior to joining that paper in 2006, he worked for the Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat, Newsday of Melville, N.Y., The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer.
His editorial cartoons were syndicated by Tribune Media Services, which also distributed Marlette's "Kudzu" comic strip. And the North Carolina native was a novelist who wrote "The Bridge" and "Magic Time."
In a Web story about Marlette's death, The Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Miss., reported that the cartoonist was a passenger in the vehicle. And a Tulsa World article quoted John Garrison, the coroner in Mississippi's Marshall County, as saying: "Evidently it hydroplaned, left the highway, and struck the tree. There was heavy rain in the area at the time."
According to the World, Marlette had been in Charlotte for the funeral of his father, Elmer Monroe Marlette, who was buried Friday. He was on his way to see friends in Oxford, Miss., at the time of the accident.
Robert E. Lorton III, publisher and president of the Oklahoma paper, said: '"This is a great tragedy, not only for the Tulsa World family, but for all who knew Doug."
Kathleen Parker, the Washington Post Writers Group (WPWG) columnist who knew Marlette, said when contacted by E&P: "I am speechless and breathless, absolutely spinning from this horrible, horrible news. I can't begin to tell you what a loss this is. To me and to all his friends, personally. But also to the great big world that will only know in his absence how much he delivered. He was a force of nature and an artist in every sense of the word."
Nick Anderson, the Houston Chronicle/WPWG creator and president-elect of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, said: "This is really shocking. He was only 57. It's a loss to the world of cartooning. He was a respected member of our profession. There will be a conspicuous absence on the pages of American newspapers. I'd like to extend my sympathies to his family."
Marlette is survived by his wife, Melinda, and his adult son, Jackson.
Tulsa World Web Editor Jason Collington told E&P that a slideshow of Marlette's cartoons has been posted on the paper's Web site .
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Aieee! Global warming® is bringing about a new ice age, and it's all my fault for driving an SUV!
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Believe it or not but according to the Greenies - the phenom of "global cooling" versus "global warming" is caused by "global warming"!! Even Gore says not to be confused by lower tempuratures in the winter, or snow in July (winter in Argentina)because that is also an indicator of global warming. In other words, the sun may rise in the east but it does set in the west proving the sun rotates around us - not the other way around. Get it?
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Oh-oh. Look like it might be time for a big rock concert or sumthin...
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I recently saw an ad (I can't remember where) for a tee shirt saying..."Al Gore should be able to cure global warming with all the money he made inventing the internet"...Priceless!!!!
A total of 1,328 Zimbabwean businessmen and women have been arrested and fined for breaking official price controls in the past two weeks, police say. The government ordered that the prices of many goods be cut in half, in order to tackle the world's highest rate of inflation - more than 3,700%. But businesses say the new prices are below cost, so some firms have closed.
Officials have been visiting shops and businesses to ensure they are respecting the new prices. But this has led to panic buying and goods running short, when the prices are reduced.
Police spokesperson Chief Superintendent Oliver Mandipaka told the state-owned Herald newspaper that some businesses were raising prices again, as soon as the officials left. "We urge consumers to report such cases, using our police hotlines," he said.
Assuming they still have phones ...
"We will sustain this operation at all costs to make sure at the end of it there is sanity in the business sector," he said.
It's not the business sector that's insane.
Those arrested and fined include workers from most of Zimbabwe's top firms, across the country. One businessmen was arrested transporting a tonne of sugar to rural areas, The Herald reports.
Supt Mandipaka said 33 top executives were in custody and would be taken to court shortly.
Unless they pay 'fines'.
One Harare resident told the BBC that a single banana now cost more than she had paid for her four-bedroom house in 2000.
The government has accused businessmen of deliberately raising prices in order to cause unrest and bring down President Robert Mugabe. Most economists say Mr Mugabe's policies are to blame for ruining the economy.
It has been suggested that the Southern African Development Community (SADC) could offer to help Zimbabwe's economy in exchange for political reforms. The MDC and western observers say previous elections have been rigged.
Lies, all lies. They weren't rigged, they were ... 'adjusted' ... just like the exit polls that originally showed John F'n Kerry to be trailing in the vote in 2004. The pollsters ... fixed ... that since it was CLEARLY wrong. We're just following the esteemed example of our Donkey brethren and mentors.
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And what is really sad about all of this is that South Africa could have deposed Mugabe at any time prior to this complete meltdown. But then, the ANC comrades are just waiting their turn to gut SA and run away with the loot, so professional courtesy requires that they let Bob steal everything he can.
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This is the penultimate state of collapse; having looted all the productive industries and farms Mugabe's thugs are now stealing all the goods in stores. The last step will be the looting of all private property after which no one will have anything in Zimbabwe. You won't even hear the sounds of crickets chirping because the crickets will have been eaten.
Following Khaleda Zia's strong criticism of BNP's reformist faction led by Secretary General Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan on Sunday, leaders of that faction took their turn yesterday in coming down hard on their chairperson. They said they do not want to split the party rather they want to make it stronger. Alluding to Khaleda, BNP's reformist leaders of Mannan faction alleged that people who are talking about a possible split in the party themselves probably want to break it up.
The pro-Mannan leaders also decided to discuss with district level leaders their party reform proposal to make the initiative a success through getting that adopted by a party council. The dissident leaders during a meeting with Mannan Bhuiyan in his residence yesterday blasted Khaleda for her accusations against them and their leader of reforms.
Khaleda Zia in her Sunday's speech had also said the reform proposal placed by the party secretary general is personal, but the pro-Mannan reformist leaders yesterday said that proposal is of the entire party, which will be adopted through a council.
Khaleda Zia on Sunday addressed a Jubo Dal meeting in New York over the phone and said, "Those who joined BNP from other parties, are conspiring to destroy the party in the name of reforms, taking the opportunity of the state of emergency. The conspiring leaders who came from other parties do not love BNP, they just want to stay close to the state power at any cost and have no ideal, they just love power."
But denying Khaleda's allegations ZA Khan, an adviser to the BNP chairperson, told reporters yesterday, "We are in the party and trying to keep the party united... Those who are talking about breaking up the party, might be thinking of splitting it themselves."
"We will continue our efforts to keep her [khaleda] with us at least till the council, which will finally decide all of our fates," he said after meeting Bhuiyan yesterday. When asked about the allegations raised by Khaleda against the reformist leaders, Kamal Ibne Yusuf, a former minister and a vice-president of the party said, "We are working to bring changes to the party constitution and to make the party stronger keeping everyone with us."
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It was, as has become customary in Vladimir Putin's Russia, a supremely Soviet-style sacking. A brief and uninformative item posted by the Interfax news agency yesterday morning tersely reported that Igor Ivanov, the secretary of the Kremlin's potentially extremely powerful security council, had "resigned" a fortnight ago to pursue academic interests.
Few Kremlin watchers were surprised. A carefully controlled media campaign in the past week indicated that Mr Ivanov, for all his slavish loyalty to the president, was heading for a fall.
One television station called for an investigation into his financial dealings in the 1970s.
How could anyone in Soviet Union in 1970s have 'financial dealings'?
A newspaper claimed that he harboured presidential ambitions while some websites suggested he had "pro-Georgian sympathies" - both deeply damaging accusations in the country's febrile political climate.
Given the state's heavy influence on an increasingly cowed media, most analysts agree that such stories can only have been placed. But if such methods seem redolent of Russia's communist past, the speculation that followed immediately after the announcement - which drew no comment from the Kremlin itself - was even more so.
Some political scientists suggested that the Kremlin was preparing to strengthen the security council's power, preparing the way for Mr Putin to take over the body and retain sweeping powers.
Some political scientists suggested that the Kremlin was preparing to strengthen the security council's power, preparing the way for Mr Putin to take over the body and retain sweeping powers when he steps down as president after elections next March. Others pointed to long persisting rumours that Russia was preparing to authorise the use of military force against political demonstrators and to once again name the United States as one of the country's main enemies.
Under Mr Ivanov the security council was largely sidelined. But its potential remit is enormous, ranging from defence to internal and foreign affairs, including intelligence.
Under Mr Ivanov, who was foreign minister from 1998 to 2003, the security council was largely sidelined. But its potential remit is enormous, ranging from defence to internal and foreign affairs, including intelligence. Equally likely, the analysts say, Mr Ivanov's departure is a sign of the factional warfare that secretly rages within the Kremlin.
Several said that the campaign against Mr Ivanov, not regarded as one of the president's inner circle, was led by Viktor Cherkesov, a close friend of Mr Putin and the powerful head of the antinarcotics agency. He is said to represent a faction led by the former chief of staff, Alexander Voloshin, and the oligarch Roman Abramovich, who owns Chelsea football club. "Ivanov's departure is either a sign that a reform is in the making to elevate the role of the security council or that some influential figure wants to take it under his control," said Andrei Ryabov, a leading political analyst.
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How could anyone in Soviet Union in 1970s have 'financial dealings'?
You'd be surprised. Members of nomenclatura were always more equal than others. For instance, it was illegal to hold any foreign currency for the common Ivan, but not so for a member of higher echelons of CP.
Swiss accounts were a norm. Intended for the most part to finance spiedom and subversions, accounts managers were free to speculate provided that they showed consistently a net gain. Some, though, did not limit their initiative for the common good and used these instruments for their own gain. Of course, it was working as long as some higher ups did not get envious. Then the poor party animal was as good as cooked.
Seems that the old style is coming back into fashion, in Russia.
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Traditionally, Soviet politics were such that their balance of power was divided between the KGB, the military and the communist party. If one branch got too powerful, the other two would gang up against it.
Ivanov was seen a few weeks ago as one of two possible replacements for Putin, and he was seen as the FSB (KGB) candidate. But curiously, the other candidate was neither FSB, a political or a military candidate. He is the head of their government petroleum concern. A businessman?
While he is still an insider, he would be a radical choice, probably representing a major shift in leadership dynamics.
Ooooh, that'll leave a mark...
BEIJING - China executed the former head of its food and drug watchdog on Tuesday for approving untested medicine in exchange for cash, the strongest signal yet from Beijing that it is serious about tackling its product safety crisis.
During Zheng Xiaoyu's tenure from 1998 to 2005, the State Food and Drug Administration approved six medicines that turned out to be fake, and the drug-makers used falsified documents to apply for approvals, according to previous state media reports. One antibiotic caused the deaths of at least 10 people.
His execution was confirmed by state television and the official Xinhua News Agency. "The few corrupt officials of the SFDA are the shame of the whole system and their scandals have revealed some very serious problems," agency spokeswoman Yan Jiangying said at a news conference held to highlight efforts to improve China's track record on food and drug safety.
The government also assured athletes, coaches, officials, and others could count on safe meals at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games, and that food would be free of substances that could trigger a positive result in tests for banned performance enhancing drugs.
Food safety authorities, meanwhile, promised to investigate a newspaper report that more than half of the water coolers in Beijing used counterfeit branded water. How do you counterfeit water?
Yan was asked to comment on Zheng's sentence and that of his subordinate, Cao Wenzhuang, a former director of SFDA's drug registration department who was last week sentenced to death for accepting bribes and dereliction of duty. Cao was given a two-year reprieve, a ruling which is usually commuted to life in prison if the convict is deemed to have reformed. "We should seriously reflect and learn lessons from these cases," Yan said.
Zheng, 63, was convicted of taking cash and gifts worth $832,000 when he was in charge of the State Food and Drug Administration. His death sentence was unusually heavy even for China, believed to carry out more court-ordered executions than all other nations combined, and indicates the leadership's determination to confront the country's dire product safety record. I'll bet the price just went up for whoever the new guy is.
Last year, dozens of people died in Panama after taking medicine contaminated with diethylene glycol imported from China. It was passed off as harmless glycerin. Yan said she did not have any information about whether the Chinese manufacturer, Taixing Glycerin Factory, and the Chinese distributor, CNSC Fortune Way, had been punished.
China admitted last month that it was the source of the deadly chemical that ended up in cough syrup and other treatments but insists the chemical was originally labeled as for industrial use only. Beijing blames the Panama traders who eventually bought the shipment for fraudulently relabeling it as medical-grade glycerin.
Scandals over contaminated Chinese food exports have underscored chronic problems with adulterated ingredients and fake products in the domestic supply, raising questions of how well China can guarantee the purity of food for the Olympics. "All the procedures involving Olympic food, including production, processing, packaging, storing and transporting will be closely monitored," Sun Wenxu, an official with the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, told reporters Tuesday.
A food safety official also promised an investigation into the Beijing Times newspaper report about water coolers, but noted that a May inspection of Beijing's drinking water products found more than 96 percent were safe."Problems found with some individual cases cannot be interpreted to mean that the entire water industry has problems," Wu Jianping of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine told a news conference.
In North America earlier this year, pet food containing Chinese wheat gluten tainted with the chemical melamine was blamed for the deaths of dogs and cats. Since then, U.S. authorities have turned away or recalled toxic fish, juice containing unsafe color additives and popular toy trains decorated with lead paint.
Yan said the food and drug administration was working to strengthen its safety procedures. The administration has already announced a series of measures to tighten safety controls and closed factories where illegal chemicals or other problems were found. But Yan acknowledged that her agency's supervision of food and drug safety remains unsatisfactory and that it has been slow to tackle the problem. Might wanna pick it up a bit. Ask Zheng. Oooops, ya can't...
"China is a developing country and our supervision of food and drugs started quite late and our foundation for this work is weak, so we are not optimistic about the current food and drug safety situation," Yan said. Unfrozen Chinese Cavewoman Bureaucrat.
Chinese officials have already said the country faces social unrest and a further tarnished image abroad unless it improves the quality and safety of its food and medicine. Last week, China's food safety watchdog said almost 20 percent of products made for domestic consumption were found to be substandard in the first half of 2007.
China has also stepped up its inspections of imported products and said some U.S. products are not safe. In the latest case, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Tuesday that a shipment of sugar-free drink mix from the United States had been rejected for having too much red dye.
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The found a scapegoat and they took him out and shot him. Such wonderful people they are. I just love doing business with them because, after all, it is just business.
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Remember, this is all window dressing. The incidents that resulted in Zheng's departure off of this mortal coil happened years ago. NONE of this is related to the current spate of tainted goods. You want the real reason for this highly public execution? Here it is:
The government also assured athletes, coaches, officials, and others could count on safe meals at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games, and that food would be free of substances that could trigger a positive result in tests for banned performance enhancing drugs.
The Chinese are scared shitless that a continued reputation for nasty, icky, deadly foodstuffs could put a kink in attendance at the Olympics. This is the bottom line and, as usual, it involves money.
Food safety authorities, meanwhile, promised to investigate a newspaper report that more than half of the water coolers in Beijing used counterfeit branded water. "How do you counterfeit water?"
It can be done but requires special Swiss-built 5 color intaglio printing presses.
BEIJING (AP) -- China's food safety monitor promised Tuesday to investigate a report that more than half of the water coolers in Beijing use counterfeit branded water. The water is either tap water or purified water from small suppliers put into the water jugs and sealed with bogus quality standard marks, the Beijing Times newspaper said in a lengthy report Monday.
The newspaper said Tuesday local officials shut down a Beijing bottled water distributing station and seized safety seals and labels bearing the names of local brands.
Beijing's tap water is generally not safe to drink because of the city's aging pipes; boiling water leaves a white powdery residue inside pots and kettles.Signs in luxury hotels in the capital tell guests that water has been treated and is safe to drink, but most Chinese consider it unsafe and do not drink it themselves.
Then the camera pans to Mikey. Be sure to catch his face, head hanging to one side, mouth open, eyes fixed. The deer in the headlight phrase gets used purhaps to much. But not in this case.
Wolf Blitzer finally has to slap him out of it. unMoored never sees it coming. Tub O'Lard spends the rest of the interview trying to change the subject and it really isn't worth watching. FYI, Mikey hasn't been on CNN for three years becaues he refused their invites.
But enjoy the "look" as the fat man develops Type II diabetes right on camera. For a moment there I honestly thought my video was on pause...
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I didn't see Gupta's stuff, but did listen to all of Mikey's bluster. He goes off for a long time on the war, attacking CNN and the main stream media because they "failed to ask the hard questions and get the honest answers" on the war.
"Honest answers" would be the ones Mikey wants to hear. Just answer your own questions, Blimpo.
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In 2003, Gupta traveled to Iraq to cover the medical aspects of 2003 invasion of Iraq. While in Iraq, Gupta performed emergency surgery on both U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians. One such case was a young marine named Jesus Vidana. Gupta was embedded with a Marine medical unit at the time. Vidana had a severe head injury and the Marines asked for Gupta's assistance because of his background in neurosurgery. Vidana survived and was sent back to the United States for rehabilitation.
I like this man.
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Agreed Mike. Gupta seems to have his heart in the right place.
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That's because he actually followed the Hippocratic oath, not the Hypocritical oath, xb!
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BA - 10-4.
See this is the trouble with MSM and journalists in particular. They believe that if you were a doctor, lawyer, or in Michael Yon's case a SFs soldier, you can never again perform your other job once you become one of them. Every time Bill Frist got involved in a medical emergency, the journalists first reaction was that he was grandstanding and somehow caused the accident so he could use his medical training for "political" purposes. I wonder how one of them would feel if while embedded with Gupta their Humvee got IED'd and asked Gupta for help but he refused because he was now a "journalist" but he would make every effort to spell their name correctly.
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Like Mikeul cheesburger fatpig blubberhead Mure ?
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10 years ago when I began to run across Canadien doctors that were practicing in rural Kentucky for an upgrade, I wondered how Canada was staffing its wonderful health care system. Within the last fortnight I learned the answer.
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Yes, Canadians all over are dying for lack of health care. Please send donations and band-aids (and a few insurance companies too) up north. Just think what a few cents can do for a Canadian dying of lack of health care. But please hurry, U.S. dollars won't be worth as much up here soon.
Shannon Fezer is a beauty pageant contestant with several titles. She is also Staff Sargeant Shannon Fezer, a flight medic with the United States Army serving in Iraq
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Jeebus, I saw her title as "Ms United Nation"! Then, I realized that the title pageant is held in Savannah, GA, and that made me realize, they left off the "s" at the end of "Nation". Jeez, for a minute I thought that Koffee et al (and the new guy, same as the old guy) had sunk their UN tentacles into our pageants, but I realized it's actually a "Pro-American" pageant (the fact that an American military female won it, should've been my first tip that it was not the UN we all hold in such high esteeem here).
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Kelly George by a landslide. Good thing she has weapons training. She'll need it - in the barracks:)
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Looks like its about time for the first annual Rantburg beauty pageant. Only women who have or are serving our nation can apply. GS and contractors welcome as well.
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A man convicted of adultery was stoned to death last week in a village in northern Iran, a judiciary spokesman said Tuesday, the first time in years that the country has confirmed such an execution. Jafar Kiani was stoned to death Thursday in Aghchekand, 124 miles west of Tehran, said spokesman Ali Reza Jamshidi.
Death sentences are carried out in Iran after they are upheld by the Supreme Court. Under Iran's Islamic law, adultery is punishable by stoning.
Jamshidi did not elaborate on how the stoning was carried out. Under Islamic rulings, a man is usually buried up to his waist, while a woman is buried up to her neck with her hands also buried. Those carrying out the verdict then throw stones until the condemned dies.
International human rights groups have long criticized stoning in Iran as a "cruel and barbaric" punishment.
Not that they've done anything about it, of course.
Before Iran's confirmation, U.N. human rights chief Louise Arbour condemned the execution, her spokesman said.
Was that a condemnation or a serious condemnation?
"The execution has apparently gone ahead despite Iran's moratorium on execution by stoning, a moratorium that had been in effect since said Jose Diaz of U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights. Works fine, apparently, because iran respects and pays attention to the international community.
"Stoning is in clear violation of international law," Diaz said in Geneva. He said Arbour considered stoning to be a form of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment that is prohibited under an international treaty that Iran has signed.
It's different for Muslim countries. Mo' said it was okay. You could look it up.
In Oslo, Norway, Iran's ambassador was summoned by Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere to protest the stoning, the Norwegian Foreign Ministry said.
No herring for you!
Gahr Stoere was "deeply upset" that the death penalty had been carried out and called stoning an "inhumane and barbaric method of punishment," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Frode Andersen.
The reported execution came two weeks after international pressure, including protests from Norway, caused Iranian officials to delay carrying out the sentence against Kiani and his female companion, Mokarrameh Ebrahimi, who also was sentenced to death by stoning. It was not known if a date had been set for her execution. The couple had reportedly been imprisoned for 11 years.
Stoning was widely imposed in the early years after the 1979 Islamic revolution that toppled the pro-Western Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and brought hard-line clerics to power. But in recent years, it has seldom been applied, although the government rarely confirms when it carries out stoning sentences.
For obvious reasons.
There is no official report of the last time Iran stoned someone to death, but there were unconfirmed media reports that a couple was stoned in 2006 in the northeastern town of Mashhad.
Women's rights activists headed by feminist lawyer Shadi Sadr have been campaigning to have the sentence removed from Iran's statutes.
Iran's reformist legislators have demanded an end to death by stoning as a punishment for adultery, but opposition from hard-line clerics sidelined their efforts. Capital offenses in Iran include murder, rape, armed robbery, apostasy, blasphemy, serious drug trafficking, adultery or prostitution, treason and espionage.
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Never heard of this one before and in Memphis of all places? Seems a lot of prison gangs use rape as a power vice sex thing but this seems pretty far out.
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.
A total of 1,328 Zimbabwean businessmen and women have been arrested and fined for breaking official price controls in the past two weeks, police say. The government ordered that the prices of many goods be cut in half, in order to tackle the world's highest rate of inflation - more than 3,700%. But businesses say the new prices are below cost, so some firms have closed. 
Following Khaleda Zia's strong criticism of BNP's reformist faction led by Secretary General Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan on Sunday, leaders of that faction took their turn yesterday in coming down hard on their chairperson. They said they do not want to split the party rather they want to make it stronger. Alluding to Khaleda, BNP's reformist leaders of Mannan faction alleged that people who are talking about a possible split in the party themselves probably want to break it up. 
It was, as has become customary in Vladimir Putin's Russia, a supremely Soviet-style sacking. A brief and uninformative item posted by the Interfax news agency yesterday morning tersely reported that Igor Ivanov, the secretary of the Kremlin's potentially extremely powerful security council, had "resigned" a fortnight ago to pursue academic interests.
The set up. Michael Moore has to sit through a 3 minute or so tear apart of his movie Sicko. 
