[Emirates 24/7] A court in Soddy Arabia sentenced the son of one of the chiefs of the most feared Islamic police in the Gulf Kingdom for 50 lashes in public on charges of fighting, prompting his father to appeal for mercy.
In a report on Wednesday, the online Arabic language newspaper Anbakum said the court issued its sentence nearly eight months ago against the son of Sheikh Ahmed al Ghamdi, head of the Makkah branch of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the most influential religious law enforcement body in the world's dominant oil power.
It said the court found Ghamdi's son guilty of fighting with another man, who will also get 70 lashes with the whip in public.
"I hope the court will revise its sentence against my son, who I believe is a victim," Ghamdi was quoted as saying.
The paper did not name the son and the other defendant nor did it make clear if they were jugged.
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Hmmm, the first thing I've found about the Islamonuts I LIKE.
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From the moment we took the photo and it popped up on IcanStalkU.com all it took was fifteen minutes for Jackson to close in on us. At the 20-minute mark we watched him walk right up to us. Hmm. I can think of a couple of good uses for this.
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Such a woman should [be] spirited and playful, of high intelligence, though not necessarily formally educated, have spunk, class & inner strength and be able to think strategically about the world and the people she cares about. And some personality test results, too. Perhaps we could send some of .com's old pics to him. Just to help out.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Libyan leader Moamer Qadaffy pushed again Tuesday his dream for a sole African government and was backed by Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade as he urged the creation of a single African army.
Dressed in flowing gold robes, Libya's maverick leader told a ceremony at a festival in Senegal celebrating black identity and culture that Africa was "experiencing a new submissiveness".
He described the continent as "prey that all the world's wolves want to devour" by monopolising its mineral resources or fisheries.
"Down with imperialism! Africa must unite, so that we do not again become serfs or slaves," he said.
"It is necessary to establish a unity government for the African continent and that Africa has one army ... which could consist of a million soldiers," he said.
"Even the South African army is worthless to Nato or the United States of America. Even Libya is not even able to protect its territorial waters alone."
Africa's longest-standing Arab leader having been in power for 41 years, Qadaffy appeared to improvise his speech, which was made in Arabic and translated simultaneously into French.
He said African leaders who "do not want to put in place a single African army" were "agents of imperialism, myopic, or traitors who do not think about the future of Africa."
"It is not enough to dwell on the past of the continent, we were treated like animals, we were hunted in the forest, they enslaved us ... they appropriated Africa. But why fight for liberation, if we remain satellites of our colonial powers?"
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Would-be Cote d'Ivoire leader Alassane Ouattara stepped up his efforts to seize the levers of power today, urging people to take to the streets to help him seize control of key government offices.
Mr Ouattara has been recognised as winner of last month's election by the UN and the international community, but previous leader Laurent Gbagbo has also declared himself president and has kept command of the army and ministries.
There were signs today the dangerous two-week-old stand-off was coming to a head, with Ouattara's camp urging supporters to engage in "peaceful combat" to take charge of state television and the Abidjan seat of government.
In the central town of Tiebissou, pro-Gbagbo security forces fired tear gas to disperse a crowd of a few hundred Cote d'Ivoire's ceasefire line from the formerly rebel-held north, witnesses said.
Cote d'Ivoire's split between a mainly Mohammedan north and the mainly Christian south after a failed putsch against Gbagbo in 2002. The dispute between the northern and southern presidential candidates has revived tension.
In a statement issued from the hotel where Ouattara's shadow administration is holed up behind a cordon of UN armoured vehicles, his party urged citizens to march on state broadcaster RTI on Thursday and the cabinet on Friday.
"The RHDP calls on the valiant people of Ivory Coast to engage in a noble combat aimed at restoring a state of law, at guaranteeing fundamental freedoms and at ensuring social cohesion," the party said in a statement.
The statement, which was co-signed by Mr Ouattara's party and former rebel army the New Forces (FN), also urged the public "to accompany the government to the prime minister's office to accomplish its duties on Friday."
The prime minister's office is in the downtown Plateau district of Abidjan, an area fully under the control of pro-Gbagbo forces, and it is occupied and used by Gbagbo's choice for prime minister, Ake N'Gbo.
Mr Ouattara's choice, FN commander Guillaume Soro, has said he plans to hold a cabinet meeting in the offices on Friday, but has not said whether he is ready to use force in the event that loyalist troops oppose his entry.
"We have the means. We won't need to rely on the 'impartial forces'. It will get done," a close aide to Mr Soro told AFP without elaborating, referring to Ivory Coast's United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society peacekeeping force.
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The £3.95 drink - a combination of superstrong absinthe and pineapple juice - is being promoted at The Lounge in Swansea, South Wales, with a poster showing a suicide vest.
[Al Jazeera] Venezuela's parliament has given preliminary approval for His Excellency President-for-Life, Caudillo of the Bolivarians Hugo Chavez to rule South America's top oil producer by decree for a year, prompting opposition accusations that the socialist leader is behaving like a dictator.
Chavez has ruled by decree three times before during his 11 years in power, and says he needs it again to deal with a national emergency caused by floods that have killed about 40 people and left almost 140,000 homeless.
Venezuela's National Assembly supported the controversial proposal with a first vote on Tuesday. A second and final vote on the "Enabling Law" was expected by Thursday. Once passed, it would allow Chavez to issue decrees across a wide range of areas including housing, land, finances and security.
Opponents fear he will use the powers to legislate in areas unrelated to the crisis sparked by rains.
They say Monday's presidential announcement would effectively eliminate any chance for the opposition to influence national politics for the next few months.
Special powers
The current parliament is almost entirely made up of toadiessycophants allies because the opposition chose not to participate in legislative elections in 2005, making it a rubber-stamp assembly.
Chavez, who rejects criticism that this would undermine democracy, has used decree powers in the past to pass about 100 laws. They include controversial measures to nationalise part of the oil sector and increase the number of supreme court judges.
Opposition parties had said that it would be illegitimate to extend the measure beyond January 5 when a new parliament, with a larger presence of Chavez opponents, is to convene.
Opponents fear that he will use them to step up his drive to entrench "21st-style socialism" in Venezuela.
Pastora Medina, an opposition politician, said: "This is madness, a lack of respect for the popular will and a coup d'etat against the constitution. He's consolidating himself as a dictator."
Beating opposition
But Chavez, in an address carried live on TV, laughed at the opposition as "crazy" and "in need of Valium".
Chavez, who wants to seek re-election in 2012, has generally beaten Venezuela's opposition during his 11 years, winning all but one of about a dozen elections. He accepted the results of a September vote that gave opponents about 40 per cent of seats in the 165-member National Assembly.
Opposition parties had feared he would simply bypass parliament rather than face a curb on power.
Minutes before his announcement, Chavez took state TV cameras on a walkabout in his presidential palace, interviewing homeless women sheltering there and showing children playing around an ornate fountain in a cobbled square.
The president, who is seen as Latin America's leading opponent of Washington, has a strong power base among Venezuela's poor whom he says were ignored by past right-wing governments. They see him as a leader who has ushered in greater democracy through increased participation in politics and decision-making, with grass-roots councils and other organisations giving communities funding for public works.
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The Congressional Budget Office estimated last month that TARP will cost taxpayers $25 billion, down from a previous projected cost of $109 billion in March.
[Al Jazeera] The United States government has filed a lawuit against the oil company BP and eight other companies over a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year.
The complaint filed by the justice department in New Orleans on Wednesday accuses the companies of violating safety and operating regulations in the period before the April 20 kaboom on the Deepwater Horizon rig, which caused nearly five million barrels of oil to pour into the water.
"We intend to prove that these violations caused or contributed to the massive oil spill and that the defendants are therefore responsible under the Oil Pollution Act for government removal losses, economic losses, as well as environmental damages," Eric Inaction Jackson Holder, the attorney-general, said.
"We're also seeking civil penalties under the Clean Water Act which prohibits the unauthorised use of oil in the waters."
The defendants named in the suit were BP Exploration and Production Inc; Transocean Deepwater Inc.; Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling Inc; Transocean Holdings LLC; Anadarko Exploration and Production LP; Anadarko Petroleum Corporation; MOEX Offshore 2007 LLC; Triton Asset Leasing GMBH; and QBE Underwriting Ltd/Lloyd's syndicate 1036.
The lawsuit did not name Halliburton, which carried out the cementing work for the Macondo Well, which was criticised in a report into the incident, or Cameron International, which provided equipment for the well.
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So, the exhortation of 30 Billion Dollars by the executive office was not enough. The corrupt "Justice Department" must now file "unlimited damage"? WTF does that mean?
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Start by suing the Coast Guard, they flooded the burning drill platform with Piss poor fire fighting, that's why the pipe broke off, the barge supporting it sank and the pipe collapsed unsupported.
So In reality it was a Government Caused disaster, (But Obullshit's desperately trying to blame another, ANY other)
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So much for the theory of the 30 Billion Dollar (Holder will never touch you) buy off, .....or did the Gummit renig?
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The USGov is hoping for a cash settlement so they don't actually have to prove 'gross negligence'.
This will be difficult because this is such a complicated technical matter. It will not be difficult to get experts who say that BP (for example) should have done this or should have done that. However, it will difficult to get technical experts who will definitively and without caveat say the defendants were grossly careless and far beyond ordinary negligence.
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Everybody (except those named Mohammed) are not happy with this. If the law isn't working, it should be changed.
Ibrahim was jailed for four months after admitting driving while disqualified and failing to stop after an accident. Amy does not approve.
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The British must relearn vigilantism, because their government has left them no choice. They are in the same position as a common man, stripped and given a knife, then thrown into a pit with a dangerous and starved animal.
"Kill it or die trying. Your life is now our entertainment, because your life means nothing to us. If you win, you live to fight again. If you lose, the animal feeds on your carcass."
[Arab News] Greek protesters clashed with police and set fire to cars and a hotel in central Athens on Wednesday as tens of thousands marched against austerity measures aimed at pulling the country out of a debt crisis.
Riot police responded with dozens of rounds of teargas in festivities that lasted more than an hour in the biggest and most violent march since three people died in protests in May. Police chased hooded youths who threw sticks and stones.
Hours earlier, parliament approved reforms and spending cuts that are a condition of a 110-billion-euro ($150-billion) EU/IMF bailout granted in May in exchange for austerity measures.
Striking public and private sector workers grounded flights, shut down schools and paralyzed public transport and about 50,000 marched through the capital. Some shouted: "Revolt! Overturn government measures!"
As the march reached parliament, about 200 leftists attacked former conservative minister Kostis Hatzidakis with their fists, stones and sticks, shouting: "Thieves! Shame on you!"
His face was covered in blood as he took shelter in a building, Rooters witnesses said. Police said nine people were jugged and another 11 temporarily nabbed, while three were maimed.
Three cars on Syntagma Square were in flames, while a fire started on the balcony of a luxury hotel after petrol bombs were thrown. Smoke and teargas covered the square and bystanders scrambled frantically to safety.
RISING ANGER
The 300-seat house voted into law measures that cut wages in state-owned bus and railway companies and weakened the power of collective bargaining to permit company-level deals.
"People have had enough. The anger is so great that nobody can stop it," said Ilias Iliopoulos, general secretary at the civil servants' union ADEDY, adding that the march was bigger than one in May, when 50,000 participated.
"Today is a warning for what will follow after the holidays," he added.
Ships remained docked at ports, hospitals were working on skeleton staff and ministries shut down as civil servants and private sector workers stayed away.
With public transport crippled, major roads to the center of Athens were jammed as motorists struggled to get to work. There was no news on TV or radio as journalists were on strike.
"With public anger mounting, the support of trade unions waning, and backing from the political opposition absent, the government is bracing for some difficult months ahead," IHS Global Insight consultancy said in a note. "But the government's resolve to remain on a reformist path remains intact."
Prime Minister George Papandreou expelled a deputy from his parliamentary caucus for failing to back the government in the vote. But his Socialist party still commands a comfortable 156 votes ahead of more belt-tightening in the 2011 budget next week.
With a parliamentary majority and future bailout instalments at stake, the ruling socialists are unlikely to change course althought their popularity is waning amid a deepening recession.
"I can't sit on the sofa and watch my country go down. I'm here to shout and struggle. I'm a school teacher and many of my students' parents are jobless," said Anastasia Antonopoulou, 50, who traveled from the Ionian island of Zakynthos for the march.
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What's mine is mine and what's yours is mine and I don't care if you have no more to give me!
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An Obama administration initiative that aims to create jobs and economic growth has been derailed in some states while it speeds along in others. He's making a list, he's checking it twice ...
The loss of a total of $1.2 billion in high-speed rail funds in Wisconsin and Ohio means the promise of thousands of new jobs in those states will not be realized, according to proponents of the fast passenger trains. Of course California, an economic black hole, is getting more than their share. Do you find yourself wondering how that ever happened? I find myself wondering how otherwise intelligent people think high-speed rail is going to survive in the US, let alone how it's going to create jobs (other than the kickbacks to the pols, their former staffers and the lobbyists).
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they have already admitted that the unsubsidized cost of a ticket from LA to SF or Sacramento will likely exceed the cost of airfare (Southwest) by a factor of 2. So aside from the unemployed illegals in Fresno wanting to go see the unemployed illegals in Modesto, or do a daily commute from Fresno to the Bay area for $75 bucks each way, whats the point?
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Try building a high speed rail network and avoid Ohio. Look at a map - cannot be done. Amtrak hasn't figured out how to include Ohio in its routes, so why should these proposals be any more successful.
Deregulate the rails (i.e. scale back the unions, modernize safety rules, etc..) and their would be plenty of investors. Then again, why not optimize long haul rail for what it's best at - freight, and leave the passengers to road and air.
Finally, if we ever get serious about energy policy, we electrify the rail network since most of the engineering is already there, the demand is relatively predictable, and it could act as a portion of the grid itself.
All of the above is way too much for the gubmint in any event.
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Although they only have a peak speed of 150 mph (it averages about 75 mph between DC and NYC including stops, acceleration and deacceleration), the Acela Express trains are something of a success.
They have steadily increasing ridership, increasing revenue, etc.
The existence and operation of the Acela gives the DC to NYC traveler another choice (they can drive, take a plane, take a bus or take the regular Amtrak).
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Here in Florida the fare for a one way trip Orlando to Tampa was quoted as $30 so that would make a round trip to $60. The time of the trip was one hour for the around 70 mile trip. So the trip would take about as long as me to drive on I-4 and would cost twice what I would spend on gas. Add in the fact that I don't have to worry about getting around once I get to Tampa. I don't see this working.
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I might be talked into a public works black hole of a sea level canal between Brownsville TX and San Diego CA. Those illegals caught here could be used to help dig it, shovel ready of course.
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Have the government buy the existing rail right of way and maintain it just like we do highway right of way. Allow any company to use the tracks. Manage traffic with a central rail traffic management system much as we do with air traffic.
Bullet trains would then happen on their own as more companies could compete in the rail transportation business if they don't have to own the trackage. The railroads would take off.
What stifles natural development in the railroad industry is that nobody can compete against the railroad that owns the track without buying their own right of way and building a completely separate road. That's stupid.
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BT utility at present is for "niche" or selec market use - MASS-SCALE CONSUMER, INDUSTRIAL USE OF SAME WON'T BE WORTH THE COSTS WIDOUT NAU + RELATED NAFTAS
D *** NG IT, SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL NORTH AMERIKAN OWG = GLOBAL LLC! Its for the OWG Mighty USSA = OWG Weak USRA Global SSR, + BTW also for the Children.
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the railroads got a lot of grandfathering when the laws were written - they were here first, and they are a PAIN IN THE ASS to deal with, because they know it
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I might be talked into a public works black hole of a sea level canal between Brownsville TX and San Diego CA. Those illegals caught here could be used to help dig it, shovel ready of course.
Only if you fill it with starving sharks P2Kontheroad.
Sorry, DeFazio, you misheard. What Obama said was not passing his tax deal could end his vacation.
"The president hasnt said anything remotely like that and has never spoken with Mr. DeFazio about the issue," said White House spokesman Tommy Vietor. One or the other is lying. And only one of them has a presidential track record to back up their claim.
This must have disappeared down the article hole. I'm re-posting it.
Proposed by a gentleman named Lamar Mickens, president of the not-for-profit Quality Day Campus, the $48 billion earmark would funnel money into the inner cities to give money to the poor and thereby produce a much larger consumer class to buy the goods and services produced in this country. Why didn't someone think of this before?
"The Epicenter is a proposed estimated $48 billion (Phase One) mass scale urban reclamation project for combating, reducing, reversing and/or eliminating poverty within under served communities by utilizing mass scale economic redevelopment to bring about stability and self reliance. And to buy lots of votes for whomever might be willing to pros+itute themselves by supporting this crap. Any politician with half a brain will know what this is all about and support it. Politicians wit more of a brain will truly be upset.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced on Wednesday that a new coordinator for cyber security will be created at the State Department to help ensure classified material remains protected.
The new post was being created as part of a larger plan to reform the department and U.S. diplomacy to make it more streamlined, effective, and faster at responding to international crises and developments, Ms. Clinton said.
Ms. Clintons announcement about the new plans was contained in the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review at a townhall-style meeting with State Department employees.
In a separate process, the U.S. government has launched a comprehensive review on the safety of secret documents and diplomatic correspondence since WikiLeaks began publishing classified State Department documents from November 28.
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Ms. Clinton's announcement about the new plans was contained in the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review at a townhall-style meeting with State Department employees.
....where Clinton did ALL the talking, ie, discussions about airing dirty US State laundry, the new Cyber Gestapo, and ratting out your co-workers.
A woman suing the TSA for an invasive pat-down at the Albuquerque Sunport speaks only with KOB Eyewitness News 4.
Adrienne Durso of Carlsbad, California spoke over the phone - she describes her experience during a TSA pat-down at the Sunport back in August.
"Heavily concentrating on my breast area where I told her I had a mastectomy the year previous and in just seemed to go on and on," said Durso.
She says she felt humiliated as the extensive pat-down happened in front of her 17 year old son and hundreds of other travelers.
"I felt as though I didn't have any rights other than I had to stand there and let them do what they want to do to my body," Durso continued.
She says she knew her rights had been violated so she asked to speak to a supervisor who she thought would help.
All the while her son stood by her side and couldn't remain silent anymore
"My son, who I'm very proud of spoke up and said 'I went through the metal detector and I did not get a pat-down' to which the supervisor said 'well you don't have boobs'," she said. I'm all for a good cleavage show, but this is ridiculous. Remember, for all the invasive searches, inconvenience, hudge cost and robbing of our rights the TSA has caught ZERO terrorists.
It's security theater at best. The Washington elites seem to miss that stories like this have a way of turning people against government in a way that far outweighs the actual incident itself. How many inappropriate pat-downs does one need to hear about before one concludes that the entire process is flawed? But the elites don't get that.
[Straits Times] THE new head of Thailand's 'Red Shirts' said on Wednesday the anti-government movement would step up its campaign to secure the release of its leaders with gatherings twice a month in Bangkok.
'From now on Red Shirt people will rally on the 10th and 19th of every month to intensify our fight in terms of number of protesters and activities,' Thida Thavornseth, acting chairman of the movement, said at a news conference.
A two-month rally by the Reds from mid-March of this year attracted 100,000 people at its peak demanding immediate elections.
More than 90 people were killed in violence sparked by the protests, which saw a series of street battles between demonstrators and armed soldiers in the heart of the capital.
The rally came to a bloody end on May 19 with a deadly army assault on the Red Shirts' base, after which a small band of Islamic myrmidon protesters set dozens of buildings ablaze across Bangkok, including a glitzy shopping mall.
Senior figures in the movement, including Mdm Thida's husband Weng Tojirakarn, have been nabbed on terrorism charges since the end of the demonstration, awaiting possible trial.
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Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that the contents of the messages in an email inbox hosted on a provider's servers are protected by the Fourth Amendment, even though the messages are accessible to an email provider. As the court puts it, "[t]he government may not compel a commercial ISP to turn over the contents of a subscriber's emails without first obtaining a warrant based on probable cause."
This is a very big deal; it marks the first time a federal court of appeals has extended the Fourth Amendment to email with such care and detail. Orin Kerr calls the opinion, at least on his initial read, "quite persuasive" and "likely . . . influential," and I agree, but I'd go further: this is the opinion privacy activists and many legal scholars, myself included, have been waiting and calling for, for more than a decade. It may someday be seen as a watershed moment in the extension of our Constitutional rights to the Internet.
And it may have a more immediate impact on Capitol Hill, because in its ruling the Sixth Circuit also declares part of the Stored Communications Act (SCA) of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act unconstitutional. 18 U.S.C. 2703(b) allows the government to obtain email messages with less than a search warrant. This section has been targeted for amendment by the Digital Due Process coalition of companies, privacy groups, and academics (I have signed on) for precisely the reason now attacked by this opinion, because it allows warrantless government access to communications stored online. I am sure some congressional staffers are paying close attention to this opinion, and I hope it helps clear the way for an amendment to the SCA, to fix a now-declared unconstitutional law, if not during the lame duck session, then early in the next Congressional term.
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One of America's great intellectual tragedies is the idea that, "If a little is good, more is *necessarily* better". It is found across the political and cultural spectrum, and bears all the pitfalls found in the lack of true moderation.
Yes, it is interesting to watch a lack of moderation in practice. It is stimulating, and entertaining. But it should never for a moment be assumed to be better than even too little.
America has 16 major intelligence agencies, and more than 150 federal police agencies and organizations.
Why?
But even if there was just a CIA and an FBI, there is no need for them to conduct surveillance on every single person in the world, or every single person in the United States.
Yet they strive for this, preying on paranoia and fear that unless all are watched all the time, in a hundred different ways, with fat dossiers and data mining of databases, something *bad* *may* happen.
In itself, it becomes far worse than any external or internal threat. The policeman becomes the oppressive jailer, and the spy becomes the perverted voyeur.
Their ambitions are limitless. They seek to even monitor our bodies, and if there was some way, they would label, bar code and license our very souls. Because if they don't, they cry over and over again, something *bad* *may* happen.
They have become the bad. What they do is wrong and must cease. It is irrational and ineffective, claiming credit for the successes of far less invasive traditional policing and espionage.
And they always cry for more. More power, more money, more liberty to oppress and survey.
Years ago, someone of this mindset openly proclaimed that NASA should erect giant space mirrors, so that we would never again have to live in the concealment of darkness. They promised that by doing this, we would be able to work much harder, and have much more safety, because the *bad* could never again lurk in the shadows to menace us.
And this showed the real truth of such ideas. It is not us who are afraid of the natural darkness, but the few who are proponents of such schemes. They never outgrew their terror of the night, their dread of silence and stillness. The monster that lurks under their bed.
How sad for them. But it should be between them and their headshrinker, not forced on us all.
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
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WARNING: Want a regular, down to earth guy? Keep moving. I am not the droid you're looking for. Save us both while you still can. Passionate, and often pig headed activist intellectual seeks siren for love affair, children and occasional criminal conspiracy.
Libyan leader Moamer Qadaffy pushed again Tuesday his dream for a sole African government and was backed by Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade as he urged the creation of a single African army.
Would-be Cote d'Ivoire leader Alassane Ouattara stepped up his efforts to seize the levers of power today, urging people to take to the streets to help him seize control of key government offices.
[Al Jazeera] The United States government has filed a lawuit against the oil company BP and eight other companies over a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year.
An Obama administration initiative that aims to create jobs and economic growth has been derailed in some states while it speeds along in others.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced on Wednesday that a new coordinator for cyber security will be created at the State Department to help ensure classified material remains protected.
A woman suing the TSA for an invasive pat-down at the Albuquerque Sunport speaks only with KOB Eyewitness News 4.
Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that the contents of the messages in an email inbox hosted on a provider's servers are protected by the Fourth Amendment, even though the messages are accessible to an email provider. As the court puts it, "[t]he government may not compel a commercial ISP to turn over the contents of a subscriber's emails without first obtaining a warrant based on probable cause."
