DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh's new Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina allocated portfolios to her 23 cabinet members, offering the Finance Ministry to economist Abul Maal Abdul Muhit.
The Foreign and Home Ministries went, for the first time, to women legislators. Hasina named senior Supreme Court lawyer Sahara Khatun to head the Home (interior) Ministry and the leader of her Awami League women's front, Dipu Moni, to head foreign affairs.
Hasina, winner of last month's parliamentary election, was sworn in as prime minister for a second five-year term on Tuesday by President Iajuddin Ahmed, ending two years of rule by an army-backed interim government. Iajuddin also administered the oath to Hasina's ministers, hours before she allocated them ministries.
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The British Government is contemplating the third-party construction of a super database containing the identities and location of every person in Britain. The 'super database,' which comes at the hefty cost of 12 billion British pounds, would be run by one or a number of private companies and would track every citizen's Internet usage, every phone call, every text message, as well as many other transactions.
The government claims the database is necessary to fight terrorism and serious crime.
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If I trusted the government I might not have a problem with this - mught even favor it. But I will NEVER trust ANY government that much (or much at all.)
The Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov is having some problems in the Med, and we are only getting partial details...
The fire, lasting about two hours, was caused by a short circuit in the ship's wiring and the sailor died from smoke inhalation late on Tuesday, RIA news agency reported.
The accident occurred while the ship was docked in the Turkish port of Aksaz Karagac. It will stay in Turkey until Jan. 8 before continuing maneuvers in the region, RIA reported.
On Jan. 2, the Greek Defense Ministry said the carrier was due to carry out a series of military exercises near the islands of Rhodes and Crete from Jan. 3-11.
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ION WORLD MIL FORUM > US: ONCE FULLY OPERATIONAL, CHINA's PROPOSED NEW AIRCRAFT CARRIERS [ten years dev = post-2019/2020?] WILL DRAMATICALLY ALTER THE BALANCE OF POWER IN ASIA, ESPEC IN EAST-SOUTH CHINA SEAS.
* MAJOR PLAN SUB/CARRIER? NAVBASE in HAINAN.
* PLAN, Other PLA use of CAM RANH BAY [negotiations-in-progress wid VIETNAM].
* Proposed constux of SU-30 capable "unsinkable aircraft carrier" = ARTIFICIAL AIR-NAV ISLAND BASE on YONGXING ISLET.
* Taiwan thru Straits of Malacca = "CHINESE LAKE"
THE USA WILL BE FORCED TO UPGRADE AND DEPLOY SIZABLE POTENT MIL ASSETS TO GUAM IN RESPONSE.
ALso from WMF > NEW ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN/HAMAS FIGHT IN GAZA BODES ILL IN LONG-TERM FOR TAIWAN. TAIWAN's ARMED FORCES REMAINS SERIOUSLY DEFICIENT IN MANY IMPORTANT TECH, OPERATIONAL AREAS COMPARED TO CHINA'S PLA. [Powerful Israel = China, Paleos = Taiwan]. Author - CHINA [Israel] can easily attack and overwhelm Taiwan iff it really Really REALLY R-E-A-L-L-Y REEEEEEEEELLLLLLLYYYYYY..... WANTED TO!?
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As per GUAM, POSTERS > China's best protection agz the USN and its Aircraft Carriers is to PROCEED WID ITS "CHAIN OF PEARLS/ISLAND TIERS" STRATEGY OF ESTABLISHING EVER-EXPANDING ANTI-US BOUNDARIES OF CONFRONTATION IN THE PACIFIC [OTH force projection] CHINESE CONTROL OR DOMINATION OF THE MARIANAS [ + even HAWAIIAN CHAINS, ETC.] WILL ASSURE CHINESE SECURITY AND STRATEGIC VICTORY OVER THE US NAVY IN A MAJOR SINO-AMER ASIA-PACIFIC WAR.
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WORLD MIL FORUM > PAPUA NEW GUINEA IS NOW A PART OF CHINA's NEW "OVERSEAS EMPIRE" OF PACIFIC NATIONS [RESOURCE MINING = ECONOMIC, for now].
* SAME > RISING CHINA MUST BE KEEN TO PROTECT ITSELF FROM PRE-WW2-STYLE REGIONAL OR GEOPOL CHAOSES WHICH CAN RESULT IN "PEARL HARBOR" MIL ATTACKS AGZ CHINA.
An article in next month's Atlantic asks, "Is pr0n recession proof?" According to pr0n magnate Larry Flynt and "Girls Gone Wild" king Joe Francis, the answer is no.
TMZ reports that the pr0nographer pair is heading to Washington to ask for a $5 billion porn bailout: "With all this economic misery and people losing all that money, sex is the farthest thing from their mind," Flynt says. "It's time for Congress to rejuvenate the sexual appetite of America."
Francis sees his industry like the big three automakers, only BIGGER: "Congress seems willing to help shore up our nation's most important businesses; we feel we deserve the same consideration."
In the Atlantic article, Tom Johansmeyer reports that AdultVest, a hedge fund run by Francis Koenig that invests in pr0n-related assets, was up 50% in 2008 (a number that Joe Wiesenthal at ClusterStock says ought to be taken with a grain of salt). Johansmeyer goes on to discuss the recession effect on the pr0n industry:
Relatively small, fragmented, and unaccustomed to outside investment, the U.S. pr0n industry (which generated roughly $12 billion in 2007) is somewhat buffered from today's credit crunch, but it has its own problems. Video sales have been falling by 15 percent a year since 2005, and online content doesn't deliver the returns it used to, now that Web sites such as RedTube and Pr0nHub basically give it away. Struggling companies need investors to help right their operations, and those that are thriving in a brutal market need funding for growth.
Enter Koenig and AdultVest. He sees the pr0n downturn as temporary and believes that technological improvements will trigger a turnaround. One example: iPr0n, a start-up in AdultVest's portfolio that is developing an application to deliver pr0n to the Apple iPod. "The industry's not going anywhere," Koenig says. "You've got 6 billion people on the planet," he laughs, "and they're all h0rny."
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It's not the 'recession' [boy, is there a line in there someplace], it's the internet stupid. Why anyone pays for what's free out there is still a wonder. Now if we can just make free internet available to every Ahmad and Mohammad out there, they'd be too busy on line to bother the rest of the world. It would be similar to the impact of alcohol on native Americans who lacked a few thousand years of genetic adaptation to the stuff. Bam! It wouldn't be suicide vests going off.
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.
