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Glen, that's the problem with mob justice. Sometimes, all it takes is a rumor that the accused is guilty - and the rumor may be started by anyone, even the actual perpetrator.
We've seen examples in Muslim countries where someone is burned alive or beaten to death because somebody thought they saw that person doing something "blasphemous".
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[An Nahar] Esther Williams, a swimming champion who went on to become a star of Hollywood's golden era in the 1940s and 1950s, died Thursday at her home in Beverly Hills, her publicist told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Williams passed away peacefully in her sleep, the actress's representative Harlan Boll said. She was 91.
A teenage swim star whose Olympic aspirations were thwarted by World War II, Williams was famous for making glitzy aquatic-themed movies featuring swimming and escapism for war-weary audiences.
For a decade, she packed movie houses with her trademark mixture of athletic grace, apple-pie sincerity and stunningly glamorous swimwear that satisfied filmgoers coping with World War II rationing and a post-war economic crunch.
Her movies grossed nearly $90 million.
For "Million Dollar Mermaid" (1952), the story of swimming champion and one-piece bathing suit advocate Annette Kellerman, Williams wore no less than 28 bathing suits -- the show-stopper being a gold mesh unitard that covered her from her neck to fingers to toes.
She caught the public's eye with her second film "Bathing Beauty" in 1942, and made 18 swimming movies in the next decade.
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Has Ms. Williams ever graced the cover of the Rantburg DS&TP?
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I think so - she was wearing a pool
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[An Nahar] After years of communist-era shortages, then a craze for Western fast food, Polish cuisine is undergoing a revival thanks to quality local ingredients and a modern twist on traditional fare.
Leading the renaissance is Atelier Amaro, a Warsaw eatery that won Poland's first Michelin star in March for using "local produce to create innovative cuisine and original combinations".
Tucked away in a wooded area by the capital's modern art center, the 32-seater began serving up modern takes on Polish specialties in September 2011.
With no fixed menu, the dishes change with the season and feature such inspired ingredients as bison grass, burnt oak oil, wild rose petals, and nettle -- a stinging plant common to Poland.
Sample recipes include "pearmain in nettle syrup, cotton candy with ginger and cinnamon, nettle sorbet" and "chilled mirabelle plum soup with vanilla, hazelnut emulsion, lemon verbena leaves".
The emphasis according to owner-chef Wojciech Modest Amaro is on natural ingredients, preferably Polish.
The 41-year-old electronics expert and political scientist learnt to cook while living in England.
He then honed his skills at elBulli, Spain's now shuttered Michelin three-star restaurant, before opening up his own place.
"We want to put Poland on the culinary map of the world ... serving Polish cuisine updated and improved by my husband," his wife Agnieszka Amaro said.
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"Learnt to cook while living in England" > Yuh oh, methinks I've discovered a possible problema.
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Polish food in Poland is okay, never seen anything that could be called innovative, It is better then Hungary, overall better then average but I do think the food in Lithuania and Germany is better.
Nicaragua has awarded a Chinese company a 100-year concession to build an alternative to the Panama Canal, in a step that looks set to have profound geopolitical ramifications.
People have talked about a sea-level canal through Nicaragua for a hundred fify years. Once upon a time we could have done it, but now we give all our money to public employee pensions and health care instead...
The president of the country's national assembly, Rene Nuñez, announced the $40bn (£26bn) project, which will reinforce Beijing's growing influence on global trade and weaken US dominance over the key shipping route between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
The name of the company and other details have yet to be released, but the opposition congressman Luis Callejas said the government planned to grant a 100-year lease to the Chinese operator.
As I recall the French had the first concession in Panama. That didn't end up so well...
The national assembly will debate two bills on the project, including an outline for an environmental impact assessment, on Friday.
Nicaragua's president, Daniel Ortega, said recently that the new channel would be built through the waters of Lake Nicaragua.
Yup, that's the dream...
The new route will be a higher-capacity alternative to the 99-year-old Panama Canal, which is currently being widened at the cost of $5.2bn.
Last year, the Nicaraguan government noted that the new canal should be able to allow passage for mega-container ships with a dead weight of up to 250,000 tonnes. This is more than double the size of the vessels that will be able to pass through the Panama Canal after its expansion, it said.
According to a bill submitted to congress last year, Nicaragua's canal will be 22 metres deep and 286 km (178 miles) long - bigger than Panama and Suez in all dimensions.
The only question is whether it will have locks.
Under the initial plans for the project, the government was expected to be the majority shareholder, with construction taking 10 years and the first ship passing through the canal within six years. It is unclear if this is still the case.
Two former Colombian officials recently accused China of influencing the international court of justice to secure the territorial waters that Nicaragua needs for the project.
In an op-ed piece for the magazine Semana, Noemí Sanín, a former Colombian foreign secretary, and Miguel Ceballos, a former vice-minister of justice, said a Chinese judge had settled in Nicaragua's favour on a 13-year-old dispute over 75,000 square kilometres of sea.
They said this took place soon after Nicaraguan officials signed a memorandum of understanding last September with Wang Jing, the chairman of Xinwei Telecom and president of the newly established Hong Kong firm HK Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Company, to build and operate the canal.
Nicaragua has accused Colombia and Costa Rica, which has a claim on territory likely to be used by the new canal, of trying to prevent the project going ahead.
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The greater issue is whether highly questionable Chinese engineering, stress, + design methods, etc. can be "fixed" before Nicaragua suddenly wakes up one day to finding giant = VLCC ships trapped in the interior + highlands of their country, + Managua having no way to unilater remove 'em???
Not in the Pacific or Atlantic Ocean thingys where such sized ships properly belong???
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Hell more power to 'em. 2 canals are better than one, brings down the tariff, maybe. If it's big enough for a max container ship then it's big enough for a Ford. :)
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It's about time the Chinese used some of that cash we've been shoveling their way.
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it better have locks, Otherwise one ocean will drain into the other and we can walk to Europe
/Hank Johnson's Geography class
Snark of the day.
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Very funny, FrankG. But would it not need locks just to balance the tides? I don't know how big tides are there (certainly not like Maine) but just a couple of feet would drive a stiff current.
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Can you say ecological disaster? Sure you can. Ortega should take a look at what the Chinese have done to their own country before he turns them loose in his.
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"People have talked about a sea-level canal through Nicaragua for a hundred fify years. Once upon a time we could have done it, but now we give all our money to public employee pensions and health care instead..."
Let 'em build it, and we'll manage it...er, wait....is it possible to sell to China something they already own? /sarc
[An Nahar] Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday his Islamic-rooted government opposed violence and was open to "democratic demands" raised by demonstrators whose mass protests have rocked the country.
"What we are against is terrorism, violence, vandalism and actions that threaten others for the sake of freedoms," Erdogan said in a televised conference in Istanbul. "I'm open-hearted to anyone with democratic demands."
Appealing to activists campaigning to save an Istanbul park, a campaign that sparked the nationwide unrest, he urged those with environmental concerns to join him.
"I know what environmentalism means," the former Istanbul mayor said. "Being an environmentalist is not vandalism. Being an environmentalist is not killing people."
Doctors say thousands of people have been injured as police have fired tear-gas and water cannon at stone-throwing protesters across the country.
European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule told Erdogan at the same Istanbul conference that excessive police force against demonstrators "has no place" in a democracy.
Many of Turkey's Western allies have condemned his government's handling of the demonstrations, but the defiant premier hit back at his critics.
"Similar protests have taken place in Britannia, La Belle France, Germany and bigger ones in Greece. All of them are members of the European Union," he said, likening Turkey's demonstrations to the Occupy Wall Street movement that sprang up in the United States in 2011.
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EU Tells Turkey Police Violence Has 'No Place' in Democracy
Which is why they've been losing ground to the Muslims in their own countries who have no qualms about using violence to impose their will upon others. Of course exceptions will be made in the case of 'soccer hooligans' who dare try to defend their territory neighborhoods.
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One difference. In Caliphornia, this is not yet common:
Muhammad Akmal, a 20-year-old ice factory worker, was going home to Punjab for a wedding. Hope to get married myself, soon perhaps to one of my cousins, he said.
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If you have an infidel mow your lawn, and you find a train...you might be a 'Stani.
If you are going to a wedding and hope to pick up your cousin as your next wife...you might be a 'Stani.
[An Nahar] Cambodia on Friday banned the denial of atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge regime with a new law, a move the opposition claims is a political attack weeks ahead of national polls.
The law bans statements denying crimes by the communist regime that ruled from 1975-79 killing an estimated two million people, and carries a sentence of up to two years in jail.
The law, similar to legislation covering Holocaust denial in Germany and La Belle France, was proposed by strongman Prime Minister Hun Sen after a recording emerged of an opposition leader apparently excusing the Khmer Rouge from responsibility for running a notorious torture prison during their rule.
The recording, posted on a government website last month, is of Kem Sokha, deputy head of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), saying the notorious Tuol Sleng prison was run by Vietnamese soldiers who ousted the Khmer Rouge rather than the regime.
Around 15,000 men, women and kiddies were tortured and executed at the prison, also known as S-21, in central Phnom Penh.
Kem Sokha has admitted it is his voice on the recording but alleges it was edited to say the contentious comments, a claim backed by the CNRP which alleges the tape was aired "to cause political trouble" ahead of a general election in July.
Lawmakers, mostly from the ruling party, unanimously approved the law after around an hour of debate on Friday.
The law will prosecute anyone who "does not acknowledge, denies or diminishes... crimes committed under the Democratic Kampuchea", the draft said, referring to the brutal regime's official name.
Lawmaker Cheam Yeap told parliament that denial of the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge was "a serious insult to the souls" of those who died under its rule.
But critics say the law may jeopardize painstaking efforts to heal the country.
"You don't need the law to protect the truth of what happened during the Khmer Rouge," Youk Chhang, director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia which researches Khmer Rouge atrocities, told Agence La Belle France Presse.
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Good move, can't lie about it.
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But critics say the law may jeopardize painstaking efforts to heal the country.
Vegas taking bets that the 'critics' are largely Leftists who want to hide their bloody hands in history, as usual.
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...IIRC, just about everybody in a national position in Cambodia today has some connection with the KR. There's a bunch of reasons people would want to see this go through.
Mike
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Yah, but if you can't get someone unconnected with the Khmer Rouge to _enforce_ the law, there's no point in having it and lots of reasons to be against it.
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For instance, if you can't point out that the Chinese were the major foreign backers of the Khmer Rouge and that the father of the current monarch was living in a townhouse condo in Beijing while that government was supporting the depopulatio of Cambodia, it's just another level of whitewash.
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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[An Nahar] After years of communist-era shortages, then a craze for Western fast food, Polish cuisine is undergoing a revival thanks to quality local ingredients and a modern twist on traditional fare.
Nicaragua has awarded a Chinese company a 100-year concession to build an alternative to the Panama Canal, in a step that looks set to have profound geopolitical ramifications.
[An Nahar] Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday his Islamic-rooted government opposed violence and was open to "democratic demands" raised by demonstrators whose mass protests have rocked the country.
[An Nahar] Cambodia on Friday banned the denial of atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge regime with a new law, a move the opposition claims is a political attack weeks ahead of national polls.
