A federal judge refused Friday to block the extradition of former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega to France, where he faces up to 10 years in prison on charges of laundering millions of dollars in drug proceeds through French banks. Senior US District Judge William Hoeveler rejected arguments by Noriega's lawyers that his status as a US prisoner of war negated the French request under the Geneva Conventions and required his return home to Panama.
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I never quite understood the Noriega story. Sure, he was a smuggler and a thug and a general (heh) no-good, but he was our guy for the longest time. So what happened? Did he finally do something so far beyond the pale that even the CIA was horrified? Did he become too self-important and demand too big a payoff? Or did he simply outlive his usefulness? Inquiring minds want to know!
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Lots of escalating arrogance, including fronting for the Medellin cocaine cartel when they were killing many US citizens within the States. Murder & attempted murder of legitimate election winners captured on TV feeds. Increasing harassment of US troops in the canal zone.
Final straw came when a US Marine was stopped and harassed so badly he feared for his life. He tried to flee and was shot dead.
US invaded in a quick response (Operation Just Cause), with nighttime troop drop and a quick march that took Noriega and his Guard by surprise. Noriega fled and took refuge in the Vatican embassy, from which he was finally dislodged due to diplomatic pressure and the famous 24-7 broadcast of loud rock & roll music.
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Thanks, lotp. Interesting wikipedia article, too. Not quite as rabid as some of them.
I do remember the bit about the rock music at the Vatican embassy. I didn't realise so many players were involved. My vague recollection is the news made it sound like just another episode of NYPD Blue.
As for Woodrow, those guys may have been our dog in a particular fight, but once a dog turns and bites you, it is time to put 'em down.
Former Iraqi president Abdel Rahman Aref, who was ousted by Saddam Husseins Baath party in 1968, died in Jordan on Friday at the age of 91, his family said. Aref, who had been living in Amman for three years, died of natural causes at Al-Hussein Medical Centre, a military hospital in the Jordanian capital, according to a family source. Aref, who is survived by five children, took part in the 1958 military coup led by his brother Abdel Salam Aref that overthrew the Iraqi monarchy. After his brother died in a helicopter crash, he ruled the country from 1966 to 1968, until he himself was ousted in a Baathist coup and then lived in exile in Turkey before returning in 1979.
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Floods in North Korea in recent weeks have affected 437,000 people and damaged more than one-fifth of the countrys rice crop, according to official North Korean estimates, the UNs food relief agency said on Friday
According to figures from the North Korean agriculture ministry, 223,381 hectares of rice, corn, and soja have been damaged, or more than 20 percent of rice crops, and 15 percent of corn fields, said World Food Programme spokeswoman Christiane Berthiaume. The reclusive communist state had so far reported about 300 people dead or missing after torrential rain earlier this month, 300,000 homeless and 11 percent of the grain harvest - equivalent to 450,000 tonnes - lost.
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World Food Programme spokeswoman Christiane Berthiaume
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Quick! Throw billions of dollars at Kimmie so he can help his people!
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"Dear Leader and Juche has generously supplied local water supplies far beyond your individual needs. All citizens should give thanks"
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It will be interesting to see how many outsiders they let in to see the damage. One of the NK's favorite games is insurance fraud as I recall - making claims of big losses with perfect documentation, but not allowing any outsiders from the insurance company in to verify the damages.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown faced mounting pressure from within Labour ranks Friday over his rejection of demands for a referendum on the new EU treaty. Leading eurosceptic MP Ian Davidson called on the prime minister to demand a rethink from fellow EU leaders on the controversial reform proposals. He was reported by the Daily Telegraph newspaper to have the backing of at least 40 backbench colleagues for an effective ultimatum on the issue: get the treaty changed or put it to the people.
"This new government has been willing to re-examine a number of areas of policy and has encouraged debate and discussion in a number of fields," Davidson later told BBC Radio. "We want to contribute to that and we're quite clear that there are a number of areas of reform that we would like to see that we think would make Europe more popular and make it work better and we want the prime minister to consider these." The UK government insists the new treaty is not the same as a proposed constitution, eventually scuppered by French and Dutch voters, on which Labour had promised a referendum.
Brown insisted again this week that parliament alone should make the decision, pointing to changes secured by the UK to protect national interests. But critics claim the treaty is almost identical to the abandoned treaty and the campaign for a public vote gathered pace this week with the support of major trade unions.
Davidson said he believed it would be possible to force further changes to the deal agreed by Brown's predecessor Tony Blair shortly before he left office in June.
The final version of the deal is now being drafted, with the aim of agreement between EU leaders this October and ratification - by referendum or national parliament - by June next year at the latest.
Speaking after Downing Street talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel last Wednesday, the prime minister said, "If we can achieve, as we have done so far, our negotiating objectives, then I believe the proper way of considering this is through detailed consideration in parliament itself. We are determined that when the detail of the amending treaty becomes available and when the discussions of the Intergovernmental Conference happen, that we will achieve in detail all these negotiating objectives that we believe are guaranteed by the signatories in the European Council a few weeks ago."
But Davidson said, "Any time you have a meeting of European Union heads of government, there's the opportunity for discussion and debate. A group of us have come together saying we are interested in formulating proposals for change in the EU. The drawing up of this new constitution, or constitutional treaty as they are describing it, does give us the opportunity for a number of positive changes."
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He ain't dead yet, but it won't be long. Raul is doing the necessary getting ready and aligning himself with what might pass for a Cuban reformation movement.
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C'mon, Fidel, hurry up and die already.
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Yeah, we got a massive party to plan in Miami. Die, dammit, die already!!
China is running into problems in its military technology dealings with Russia. The country has postponed high-level military talks on defense technology and stopped all new military contracts until Russia delivers an overdue shipment of aircraft, according to industry sources in both countries.
China has also complained about the quality of Russian weapons. Russian dealers, on the other hand, are upset about blatant Chinese imitations of their products, built from designs supplied in the understanding that the weapons were to be purchased.
The aircraft issue involves a deal signed in 2005 whereby China agreed to purchase from Russia 30 IL-76 transport aircraft and eight IL-78 aerial refueling tankers. However, Tashkent Aircraft Plant, based in the capital of Uzbekistan, which was to have manufactured the IL-76 and IL-78, declared soon after the signing that the plant was unable to build the planes independently due to financial and technical problems.
To resolve this issue, Russia has given three proposals to the Chinese side, according to a source from Rosoboroonexport, a state-owned military trading company. One is to coproduce the plane's parts in Tashkent and Russian Ulianovsk or Voronezh aviation factories, with final assembly of the IL-76 in Voronezh. The second is to fully manufacture the aircraft in Russia. The third is to assemble all the planes in Tashkent with most of the parts produced in Russia.
Whichever solution is selected, additional investment will be required from the Russian side to add new equipment to the Ulianovsk and Voronezh aviation factories. Consequently, Rosoboroonexport has asked the Chinese partner to accept a higher price for the aircraft.
China's response has been to twice postpone an annual high-level conference on cooperation in defense technology. Beijing has indicated that the condition to restart the talks is for Russia to fulfill the aircraft contract. Russia contends that the existence of this problem is reason enough to hold new discussions, without any condition.
This Chinese tendency to set preconditions for political talks and other negotiations is well-known to U.S. and Japanese negotiators. Now the strategy is being applied to the Russians.
To add salt to the wound, China has also criticized the quality of some Russian weapons it previously purchased. For example, it has complained of the short service life of optical/electronic detection devices (IRST) for the SU-27SK fighter. The Russian factory has deflected the blame, saying the problems are caused by improper usage. Photos of the IRST used for the Chinese air force's SU-27SK show that they are used without protective coverings even in inclement weather.
One of the biggest buyers of Russian arms, the Chinese air force, or PLAAF, has purchased 100 advanced Su30MKK multipurpose fighters and 48 earlier version SU-27SK fighters. It also obtained license production rights for the 200 SU-27SK, which started in 1996. However, the contract was suspended after 95 China-made J11A were completed last year. Russia reportedly backed out of the deal due to technical reservations.
The Chinese navy also received 12 Kilo Class 877/636 diesel submarines and four Type 956E/EM missile destroyers, other naval subsystems for Chinese carriers, and new warships as well as more than eight battalions of S-300PMU/PMU-1 and another eight battalions of S-300PMU-2 long range surface-to-air missiles, deployed by the Chinese air force in recent decades.
For its part, Moscow is unhappy with China's massive production of imitation versions of Russian weapons. Many Russian arms manufacturers have told the Western press how surprised they were by the scale of China's copycat capabilities. In many cases, Chinese dealers will express their intention to purchase Russian arms, begin negotiations, ask as many technical questions as possible, take photos and videos of the weapons, request all available documents, come back to the table to "discuss" more technical issues, and after a few more "negotiations," the dealers disappear. Two or three years later, a Chinese copy of the weapon under discussion appears on the international market.
A typical example is the Chinese A100 multiple launch rocket system (MLRS), an imitation of the Russian SMERCH MLRS, without even superficial changes in shape. The Chinese PLZ05 155-mm self-propelled gun (SPG) system is also a copy of the Russian 2S19M1 SPG.
The same trick has been used by the air force and navy. In the mid-1990s, China asked the Russian Phazotron Radar Design Bureau to help the PLAAF to upgrade their F8II fighters. For this purpose, China purchased two ZHUK-8II airborne radars from Phazotron. Certainly many technical documents were transferred, as the Chinese had promised to buy at least 100 of the radar devices. But, the Chinese never came back. Two years ago, the new Chinese F8IIM fighter was released with the new "indigenous multi-function radar."
"That is a copy of our radar," the designer of Phazotrol told this author. "We were so inexperienced at that time."
Along with the Type 956E/EM missile destroyer, the Chinese navy received subsystems from Russia including the Fregat M2EM 3D radar and MR-90 tracking radar and sonar. The same radar system has been seen on China's domestic Type 054A missile frigate (FFG).
"This is our radar!" was the first comment by Russian designers from Salyut factory when they saw photos of the 054A FFG taken from far. After more careful examination, they added, "Unbelievable, the speed at which they were copied."
Italy and France had similar experiences during their military cooperation honeymoon with China in the 1980s. At that time, China purchased two sets of Sea Tiger shipborne radars, two sets of Crotale air defense missiles, and two sets of the TAVITAC naval command and control systems from France, and a few sets of the sonar and EW systems from Italy. Chinese versions of the above systems are fitted on Chinese navy battleships today.
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China has also complained about the quality of Russian weapons.
You know it's got to be bad when the Chinese complain about crappy quality.
Russian dealers, on the other hand, are upset about blatant Chinese imitations of their products, built from designs supplied in the understanding that the weapons were to be purchased.
Nobody saw that coming. Nosiree, Bob.
China's response has been to twice postpone an annual high-level conference on cooperation in defense technology. Beijing has indicated that the condition to restart the talks is for Russia to fulfill the aircraft contract.
Otherwise known as the "North Korean Gambit".
Russia contends that the existence of this problem is reason enough to hold new discussions, without any condition.
Otherwise known as "Hey, wait a minute! We're getting screwed, blued and tattooed!"
This Chinese tendency to set preconditions for political talks and other negotiations is well-known to U.S. and Japanese negotiators.
Who are all fed up with playing on the usual tilted pitch.
Now the strategy is being applied to the Russians.
Awww, poor baby!
To add salt to the wound, China has also criticized the quality of some Russian weapons it previously purchased.
To have chiseling cheapskate Chinese bastards diss your own garbage military gear has really gotta hurt.
For its part, Moscow is unhappy with China's massive production of imitation versions of Russian weapons.
Something China has never, ever done before.
Many Russian arms manufacturers have told the Western press how surprised they were by the scale of China's copycat capabilities. In many cases, Chinese dealers will express their intention to purchase Russian arms, begin negotiations, ask as many technical questions as possible, take photos and videos of the weapons, request all available documents, come back to the table to "discuss" more technical issues, and after a few more "negotiations," the dealers disappear. Two or three years later, a Chinese copy of the weapon under discussion appears on the international market.
So, they finally caught on to China's favorite ploy of buying only one of something?
"That is a copy of our radar," the designer of Phazotrol told this author. "We were so inexperienced at that time."
Translation: "We got taken like a couple of carnival marks!"
Cost of the Cold War with Russia: Untold gazillions of dollars.
Annual trade deficit with China: Over 120 billion dollars
Watching China screw Russia like a two-bit whore: Priceless!
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Neither nation has real power projection capabilities so the only kind of cooperation they could expect is transfering equipment/pilots to fight on the other sides team against an enemy. Since most Chinese equipment is Soviet based I should think they wouldn't require a whole lot of cooperation at all.
Me thinks the cooperation was simply for propoganda purposes.
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The Russians shouldn't take it personally. When I was working in the aerospace industry, Boeing sold the Chinese a 707 as a sign of good will. A few years later the Chinese introduced a near exact copy. Fortunately the Chinese made a few mistakes in their measurements and their copy was dangerously unstable.
You give the Chinese anything at your own risk.
Al
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Or, if you're Clinton and Gore, in exchange for campaign $$ flowing through Buddhist nuns.
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Well all those copys are functional. The Naval one are the big worry. We have a shrinking Navy and they have a growing one even crappy ships can be a threat if you have enough of them. Too few good ones are no protection against them.
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I wouldn't discount Chinese. If we had someone's elses designs on a superior weapon, we'd copy and steal just like we did off of Nazi technologies after the war and put it to maximum use. We've got to keep our secrets close!
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LOL. Em Pot calling kettle darkie.
Tu-4 etc.
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The candidate of Turkey's ruling party, Abdullah Gul, has failed to win the presidency in a second round of voting.
He fell short of a two-thirds majority of votes cast by MPs, but is expected to win in a third round next week, when only a simple majority is needed.
Mr Gul's candidacy has been highly controversial, sparking a political crisis that led to early elections.
But since his AK Party won those polls convincingly, correspondents say it has the authority to push its man through.
The country's military and secular establishment have voiced their opposition to Mr Gul, a devout Muslim who, they believe, has an Islamist agenda.
Mr Gul, currently the foreign minister, denies that, and has vowed to remain loyal to the country's secular constitution
The foreign minister's candidacy in an earlier presidential vote in April prompted a boycott by the opposition, street protests and a warning from the military that it would not allow his election.
The army has kept quiet this time, but there are still fears among secularists that by controlling the presidency as well as the government, the Islamist-rooted AKP will be able to push through reforms undermining the secular constitution.
The military will be watching for his slightest slip, says the BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Istanbul.
And there is already furious debate because Mr Gul's wife wears the Islamic headscarf.
It is seen by some as a symbol of political Islam and is banned in all state institutions, including the presidential palace.
Russian oil supplies to Germany have dropped by as much as one-third in recent weeks, a Russian pipeline official said Friday, sharply pinching supplies at a major German refinery.
Sergei Grigoriev, a top executive with state-controlled pipeline operator OAO Transneft, blamed oil giant OAO Lukoil and several smaller oil companies and said it was not linked to any repairs of the Druzhba pipeline, which runs from Russia through Belarus en route to Europe.
''The reduction was evident last month and this month,'' Grigoriev told Dow Jones Newswires.
''Maybe they're looking for another market,'' he said.
A Lukoil spokesman declined to comment, but said a statement would be released in the coming days.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Schwedt refinery confirmed that the plant in eastern Germany has seen disruptions in supplies from Russia since July.
Karl-Heinz Schwellnus, a spokesman for refinery operator PCK Raffinerie GmbH, would not say what was the causing the disruptions, but said PCK has been talking with suppliers to try and ease the disruptions.
Despite the disruptions in Russian supplies, the refinery was operating at full capacity through the use of its own resources, he said.
The refinery is jointly owned by BP PLC, Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Total SA and Agip, and can process approximately 10 billion tons, or slightly more than 9 billion metric tons, a year, about 10 percent of Germany's capacity.
European leaders have had growing doubts about the reliability of Russian oil and gas supplies following several disputes between state-owned Russian energy companies and Ukraine and Belarus, where transit pipelines for European-bound supplies are located.
The disputes resulted in Russian energy exports being disrupted and led to calls in some European capitals for Europe diversify its sources.
Russia and Germany are also building a natural gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea intended to get Russian supplies directly Germany and bypass transit countries.
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I had a Belgian friend staying out at my ranch for a few days so I can summerize this article for everyone: the Dutch speaking Belgians are getting really, really tired of paying for the French Speaking Belgians. Economically speaking, Wallonia is not pulling its own weight, and probably never will.
Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, the frontrunner to become Turkeys next president, failed to secure the post in a second round of voting in parliament on Friday, but is virtually guaranteed victory in next weeks third ballot. Gul, whose Islamist past is treated with deep suspicion by the army and secular establishment, garnered 337 votes from the 550-seat house, 30 short of the two-thirds majority needed. He had failed by a similar margin in the first round vote on Monday.
The other two candidates, Sabahattin Cakmakoglu from the right-wing Nationalist Action Party and Tayfun Icli from the centre-left Democratic Left Party, were way back on 71 and 14 votes respectively. Gul is now poised for certain victory in the third round next on Tuesday when a simple majority of 276 will suffice. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), to which he belongs, commands 340 parliamentary seats.
The foreign minister had first run for the presidency in April, triggering a political crisis and snap general elections. At that time, his bid was blocked by a boycott by the main opposition Republican Peoples Party (CHP) that denied parliament the quorum needed to vote. The CHP, which argues that a Gul presidency would undermine Turkeys fiercely-guarded secular system, also boycotted Fridays ballot, but the participation of other opposition parties secured the quorum.
The crisis over Guls candidacy in April, which saw millions take to the street to protest against the prospect of an AKP president, climaxed when the army warned it stood ready to step in and defend the secular system. The AKP responded by calling early elections on July 22 in which the party won a huge majority that it hailed as a popular mandate to re-nominate Gul.
Opponents say that with Guls presidency, the AKP, the moderate offshoot of a now-banned Islamist movement, would complete the seizure of all top state offices and get a free hand to erode the separation of state and religion.
Hardline secularists are also irritated by the fact that Guls wife wears the Islamic headscarf, which they see as a symbol of defiance of the secular system. Supporters point out that the AKP has disowned its Islamist roots, pledged loyalty to secularism and conducted far-reaching reforms that stabilised the economy and ensured the start of Turkeys EU membership talks.
Turkeys president is a largely ceremonial figure, but has the authority to name senior bureaucrats and judges and to return legislation to parliament. Gul has repeatedly pledged to stay loyal to the secular system and be impartial if elected. Ten years ago, the army forced the resignation of Turkeys first Islamist-led government of which Gul was a member.
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I'm putting this in non-WOT for now, because it's likely the work of the far left rather than jihadis. But as Rantburg regulars know, there's an increasing tendency for the two camps to ally with one another.
Three explosive devices were discovered at the campus of the HEC School of Management, one of Europe's premier business schools, police said.
The devices -- now the subject of an investigation by anti-terrorist prosecutors -- were found a week before a planned visit by President Nicolas Sarkozy and several government ministers and senior business leaders.
A police official said "a total of three incendiary devices ... made from 16 glass bottles" had been discovered and disarmed. Each had been fitted with "a classic detonation device".
HEC, one of France's elite "grande ecoles," is in the Paris suburb of Jouy-en-Josas. It plays host next week to a summer gathering of political and business leaders organised by the Mouvement des Entreprises de France, the nation's premier employers' group.
Florida Democrats would forfeit their votes in selecting a presidential nominee unless they delay their state election by at least a week, the national party said in a stern action Saturday meant to discourage others from leapfrogging ahead to earlier dates. The Florida party has 30 days to submit an alternative to its planned Jan. 29 primary or lose its 210 delegates to the nominating convention in Denver next summer.
There is general agreement that the eventual nominee will seat Florida's delegates rather than allow a fight at a convention intended to show party unity. But the decision by the Democratic National Committee's rules panel could reduce Florida's influence because candidates may want to campaign in states where the votes are counted.
Florida party officials said they originally opposed the early primary date, which covers both the Democratic and Republican primaries. The Republican-controlled Legislature passed the change and the GOP governor signed it into law in an effort to give the state a more prominent voice in national politics.
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everybody wants to be first so they get mucho attention and faux-love from the candidates (and pork promises for the future). Pretty soon we'll be holding primaries 3-1/2 yrs before the next election
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Actually, time travelling historians will point to the run-up to the 2007~8 primaries as the impetus for the invention of time travel, which allowed the parties to send delegates back in time to stage primaries even earlier. This trend was pulled up short when the dems realized it would eventually allow the unborn to vote, and they realized they couldn't have that...
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of course! *head-smacks* why didn't I think of that! LOL
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Was it Lyndon Johnson who said, "the difference between liberals and cannibals is that cannibals only eat their enemies"?
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Red-on-red - gitcher popcorn right here! :-D
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Guess they're still pissed about 2000 at the DNC. ;)
But on a more serious note, Florida's got more Electoral College votes than the other four states combined, so do you really think they are going to go out of their way to piss us off in the Sunshine State?
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan on Saturday successfully test-fired a new air-launched cruise missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, the military said.
The missile, named Hatf-8 or Ra'ad, has a range of 220 miles, an army statement said.
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I see deliveries from Uncle Hu's takeout have not been disrupted by the Lal Masjid affair...
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Mahmood says Musharrafs options include naming his successor as VCOAS or selecting another general to take over the top post when he leaves in December
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Australian and French scientists have made another breakthrough in the technology that will drive next generation computers and teleportation.
The researchers have successfully superposed light beams, which produces a state that appears to be both on and off at once.
Light beams that are simultaneously on and off are vital for the next-generation super computers which should be faster than current computers based on bits, that are either on or off.
Previously, only smaller light particles had been superposed and the group has also proved a quantum physics theory known as Schrödinger's cat.
This theory, named after an Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, proposed that a large object such as a cat could be simultaneously alive and dead.
Researchers from The University of Queensland and University of Paris South have published the latest breakthrough in the international journal NATURE.
UQ Centre for Quantum Computer Technology researcher Dr Hyunseok Jeong devised the scheme to generate and superpose the beams which was tested and proved by his French collaborators.
Dr Jeong said his group used special lasers, crystals, photon detectors, half-mirrors and other optical devices to generate and measure the superposition of light beams.
"It has been known to be extremely hard to generate Schrödinger cat states, particularly with traveling light," Dr Jeong said.
"Even though one could generate such Schrodinger cat states, it would be extremely hard to observe them because in a very short time, they would be reduced to either alive or dead states."
He said his group's research findings would help speed up the development of quantum information technologies such as quantum computers, quantum cryptography and quantum teleportation.
"Using Schrödinger cat states, quantum teleportation may be performed with nearly 100 percent success probability."
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Further research has proven that while light seems to have two distinct quantum states, Schrödinger's cat actually has nine distinct quantum states, making cats more desirable than light as a medium for memory and communication in the next generation of computers. The challenges now will be developing a computer architecture that can take full advantage of this principle, what form the batteries will take because this kind of computer will consume catfood, and how to minimize and dissipate waste kitty litter smells generated during high-intensity calculations.
Good to hear. I hope he mantains an even state. Many poor animals like Pavlov's Dawg still have the shakes. Now what has become of Schrödinger's Cat's fleas? Were they along for the ride?
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Schrödinger's cat actually has nine distinct quantum states
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Light beams that are simultaneously on and off are vital for the next-generation super computers which should be faster than current computers based on bits, that are either on or off.
Have you ever tried to corral your bits when they start to run hogwild all over your office? It's worse than hurding cats. Then you have to go down to the Bit Store and buy a bunch more to replace the ones that ran off.
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Heisenberg and Schroedinger are driving down the road.
Heisenberg says "Erwin, I think you ran over a cat."
Shroedinger asks "Is it dead?"
Heisenberg replies "I cannot be certain."
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SteveS: The bawdy end to that joke is, that when they get to the nightclub where they were going, they bragged to the other physicists that the reason they were late was because on the way, they knocked off a little pussy.
Iran has shut down barbers shops offering unconventional Western hairstyles amid a police crackdown on dress deemed un-Islamic, reports said.
Over the past 15 days, 13 barber shops that had not respected the unions directives have been closed down, police commander Mohammad Ali Najafi said. He told the Etemad daily that the barbers union had banned eyebrow plucking for men as well as deviant Western styles. Eleven womens beauty saloons were also shut down for not having a license or for violations such as tattooing, which is banned by a health ministry directive, he added. Tehrans barbers union said in April that police had issued a directive forbidding its members from giving men offbeat hairstyles. The directive also banned the use of cosmetics in male salons.
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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.
Former Iraqi president 
Floods in North Korea in recent weeks have affected 437,000 people and damaged more than one-fifth of the countrys rice crop, according to official North Korean estimates, the UNs food relief agency said on Friday
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown faced mounting pressure from within Labour ranks Friday over his rejection of demands for a referendum on the new EU treaty. Leading eurosceptic MP Ian Davidson called on the prime minister to demand a rethink from fellow EU leaders on the controversial reform proposals. He was reported by the Daily Telegraph newspaper to have the backing of at least 40 backbench colleagues for an effective ultimatum on the issue: get the treaty changed or put it to the people.
