[An Nahar] Police on Friday charged a drunk man after pulling over a car on Australia's Gold Coast to allegedly find a seven-year-old boy driving him home at 3:00 am.
A patrol car stopped the vehicle after it went by without its headlights on early Friday, to find the boy at the wheel and the man in the passenger seat.
"A man has been charged with serious traffic offences after police intercepted a car allegedly being driven by a seven-year-old boy at Surfers Paradise in the early hours of this morning," police said.
The 41-year-old was charged with dangerous operation of a motor vehicle and being an adult in charge under the influence of alcohol.
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Great premise for a reality tv show: Can you drive better than a 7 yr old? Contestants consume massive amounts of alcohol and then compete with 7 year olds on a simulated drive home from the pub.
This appears to be the raw email spools, not just some redacted data from a Google email server.
For once Google by virtue of sheer incompetence was not evil.
Way to go!
By the way the data is downloadable via PDF and text. It also appears to be just ten days of email exchanges, so by no means more than maybe two percent of the total.
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Way back in 2009, the hottest media story was the exposure of the existence of "Journolist," a private listserv of several hundred mostly liberal journalists, talking to each other about crap. This was perceived as a big scandal! Andrew Breitbart offered $100,000 for the full archives. Well, we got (some of) them. Here they are.
Not having been subscribed to cable TV in 10 years, I know nothing of this individual. Only that she admitted using the word "ni**er" in one context of another and her contract for her cooking show was not renewed.
Clearly blue on blue action.
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Anyway, Paula Deen is a horrible racist who has never had a progressive thought in her life because who would ever use that term to refer to a minority in this day and age? Why, she must be one of those Republican, church-going, hatred-supporting vote suppressors we're always hearing about! Which would probably be accurate if she didn't happen to be close personal friends with the Obamas.
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I'm certainly no fan of Deen or her resturants, but her teevee apology was quite lame. She should have just told them to fok and walked away whistling Dixie.
Of course there was no mention made of the millions in federal and state taxes, or wages, and social security she has paid for her employees over the many yeas of her successful food empire run. If you've ever visited one of her southern fried food [artery blocking] establishments.... you know whom I'm referring to. Once again, class warfare trumps reality and truth.
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Paula Deen and her ilk are old time Plantaion Democrats, willing to kiss liberal ass in order to gain "acceptance"l by "all the right people". despite the southern accent, she is not country folk by a long shot. Yellow dog democrat.
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Hilarious, because the page has a link to a stupidly busty gal and a rapper/rapist.
Yeah, she is as country as John Fogerty is Southern, but I am coming of the solid opinion that democrats are the descendants of the plantation owners - or wannabe's.
I have heard the term about rigging applied to all peoples, and always when the work was shoddy. True or not, as it has the small town gossip feel about it, she did own up to it, which is much much more than we can say about certain politicians. Right Mr. Reid and Mr. Wright? Mr. Biden? Mr. Gates? Mrs. Hutt of the Chicago Teachers Union?
So let me ask this question, because it is a difference: Obama supporter out of character or convienance - as in support or local ward heeler community organizer (or else)?
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but I am coming of the solid opinion that democrats are the descendants of the plantation owners - or wannabe's.
Most Democrats Progressives want to separate themselves from their past. Most of the South of the Civil War era was Democrat with the exception of a very few isolated pockets. The KKK roots were in the South. I seldom heard Senator Byrd (now of ground temperature) mention his KKK roots.
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Want to, or have to? To sell the product of a sh!!y brand the salesmanperson has to convince themself that this time, the product will be better.
Like in acting, be the part. Like the 'money shot' face on the cooking shows in order to convince the viewer via TV that the taste and smell is exquisite.
"Today we will cook up some progressivism. Because something everyone has in common is pooping, first roll a turd in flour, then deep fry in ethenol and guilt. (takes a taste, rolls eyes, humms, does little happy dance) Now that is what I'm-a talkn' about!"
[An Nahar] South African troops have begun deploying to the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... 's volatile east as part of a special U.N. brigade to battle armed rebels, a junior minister said Friday.
"South African troops are on their way to the DRC now," deputy foreign minister Ebrahim Ebrahim told news hounds.
South Africa has pledged 1,345 soldiers to the first-ever offensive United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... brigade.
Tanzania and Malawi are also part of the 3,000-strong force, which began deploying to Goma on May 13.
"The Tanzanians are already on the ground," said Ebrahim.
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Afri solutions for Afri problems. I'm all for it.
[Pak Daily Times] Zim-bob-wean President Bob Muggsy Mugabe Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... appears to have caved in to regional pressure to delay key elections, but analysts warn the veteran ruler could yet forge ahead with the polls without making key reforms.
Last week Mugabe swept aside considerable opposition, mustered all the powers of the presidency and declared Zim-bob-we's elections will be held July 31. In doing so he plunged the country into a fresh political crisis, with long-time rival Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai vowing to veto any unilaterally declared poll date.
But within a week Mugabe was looking less than omnipotent.
Southern African leaders -- fearing Mugabe was hurtling Zim-bob-we toward another flawed election, yet more violence and another political and economic meltdown -- stepped in. In an unusual public rebuke of their old comrade, leaders from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) demanded Mugabe push back the election date.
SADC leaders said time must be given to introduce reforms that would make the elections free and fair, or at least allow a vote that would not derail their own plan to stabilise Zim-bob-we, which has been half a decade in the making.
Dumisani Nkomo, a Bulawayo-based independent political analyst said Mugabe got the message loud and clear.
"Mugabe is under pressure to ensure elections which will be credible and acceptable to SADC," Nkomo said. "This means if Mugabe decides to go ahead with the elections on July 31, the results won't be accepted by SADC."
But many observers see Mugabe's request to the constitutional court for a two-week delay until August 14 as necessary, but not sufficient to ensure a fair vote.
"There is no guarantee that the two weeks will be granted by the court," said Takavafira Zhou, a political scientist at Masvingo State University.
Rights groups and Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have already accused the government of lodging an application to the consitutional court that was intended to fail.
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Prepare for the Saoodi medical system to be modestly over-stressed this Ramadan...
Amid fears of a new pandemic more deadly than SARS, 80 officials and doctors, including two from Britain, gathered in Cairo yesterday to examine ways of tackling Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, dubbed MERS.
The coronavirus is casting a shadow over the annual Muslim pilgrimages to Saudi Arabia, where four new deaths were announced on Monday.
The three-day meeting called by the World Health Organisation will look at developing guidelines for Ramadan. In October, more than two million people are expected to attend the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca.
"Everyone is very aware of the fact that Ramadan begins next month and that there will be a large, large movement of people in a small crowded spaces," said Gregory Hartl, a spokesman for the WHO. "So the more we know about this virus before that starts the better."
There are also concerns that tourists could bring the virus back to their home countries. It appears to have an incubation period of up to 12 days and a fatality rate of 60 per cent.
Cases have also been found in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Tunisia and Jordan. Most were patients transferred home from the Middle East for treatment or people who had travelled to the region and became ill after they returned.
Dr Jon Bible, a clinical scientist, who treated one of the three British cases last year, said: "You don't want to have this."
Sufferers, he said, "are very close to death at all times. They are in respiratory distress at all times, it's like a very serious pneumonia".
The relief for authorities is that it has not yet mutated so as to gain the ability to jump easily from person to person.
Mr Hartl said: "We have been lucky it hasn't started to spread in any sustainable way between humans. We still have time, but we have to use that time to act."
An international team of doctors who investigated nearly two dozen cases in eastern Saudi Arabia found the virus has some striking similarities to SARS, which killed 800 people around the world as it spread a global health panic in 2003. Unlike SARS, though, scientists remain baffled about the source of the new virus, which was first reported in April 2012.
The symptoms of both are similar, with an initial fever and cough that may last for a few days before overpowering pneumonia develops.
"To me, this felt a lot like SARS did," said Trish Perl, a senior hospital epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Medicine, who was part of the team. Their report was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The team was alarmed to find MERS only spread within hospitals, even though some hospital patients were not close to the infected person.
"In the right circumstances, the spread could be explosive," said Dr Perl.
What is of particular concern is the high fatality rate of the virus. It has caused death in about 60 percent of patients so far, with 75 percent of cases in men and most in people with serious health conditions. There are currently no known treatments.
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WHO calls emergency meeting:
The sky is falling ----oooooooohhhh !
Global Warming ------ oooooooohhhh !
My dog has fleas ------ oooooooohhhh !
This one turns out to be serious. Sometimes the WHO gets it right.
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The team was alarmed to find MERS only spread within hospitals, even though some hospital patients were not close to the infected person.
Some lunatic with a syringe?
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Hmmm. Does anybody in the saudi hospital system actually wash their hands, or is that unislamic? We know they won't use hand sanitizer since it contains alcohol.
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Everyone is very aware of the fact that Ramadan begins next month and that there will be a large, large movement of people in a small crowded spaces
As for Prepare for the Saoodi medical system to be modestly over-stressed this Ramadan..., as long as the medical system wears a burka and only goes out in the company of a male relative...
[Bangla Daily Star] Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums.. yesterday called upon all to remain alert about any conspiracy of the leader of the opposition against the nation after her return from Singapore.
"Last time she conspired in Singapore to topple the government. I don't know what conspiracy she will hatch this time against the nation," she said.
"So, I urge people to remain alert and forge unity against the conspiracy," she added.
The premier was addressing a discussion marking the 64th founding anniversary of Bangladesh Awami League at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the capital.
Hasina urged the leader of the opposition not to argue in favour of the caretaker government, saying it would not bring any benefit for her party.
"The caretaker government will try to stay in power sending you and me to jail," she said.
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[Pak Daily Times] Senior members of Nicaragua's air force were killed on Thursday when a helicopter they were flying in crashed near Lake Managua, officials said.
Ten people died in the crash, including Air Force Chief of Staff Colonel Manuel Lopez, the head of Air Force counterintelligence, Colonel Chester Vargas, and air defense chief Lieutenant Colonel Aldo Herrera, the Nicaraguan Army said in a statement. The MI-17 helicopter went down after visiting the El Papalonal firing range in La Paz Centro, 52 kilometers (32 miles) northwest of Managua, the statement said. The senior officers killed were mostly former Sandinista guerrillas who helped found Nicaragua's modern military after the leftist revolutionaries triumphed in 1979 against the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza. The officers were returning to the capital Managua when, soon after departing, the helicopter pilot made an emergency call to warn of unspecified flight difficulties, said army front man, Colonel Orlando Palacios.
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Uh, uh, OBAMA'S "CONTRAS" ATTACKED THE WRONG COUNTRY + GOVT.???
[An Nahar] Belgian politicians on Thursday moved closer to legalising the euthanasia of minors, so long as they are judged capable of deciding for themselves. Another step closer to post-natal abortion.
Four senators from parties in the governing coalition formally put forward changes to a 2002 law that made Belgium the second country in the world after The Netherlands to legalise mercy killing in certain cases. If post-natal abortion to the age of 23 had been around, how many of us would have made it through our teenage years?
Their parties said they would back the changes and parliament is likely to approve them in coming months.
Euthanasia is currently legal only for those aged 18 but experts have told parliament that in practice euthanasia on children was already taking place, without any set guidelines.
Changes to the law were submitted for debate in parliament in December and politicians have been discussing them there since February.
Discussions have centred on the minimum age should the law be changed, and senators on Thursday settled on a young person's "capacity to discern", which would be assessed by a psychiatrist.
The proposals have the support of the four senators' parties although they will be opposed by two of the other parties in the senate majority -- the Christian Democrat, Phlegmish speaking CD&V and the centrist but Christian-inspired Frenchie-loving CDH.
They are then expected to win a parliamentary majority in the following months with several parties saying they would back them.
A separate issue of whether to extend the law to those suffering from a mental deficiency remains unresolved.
Belgium recorded a record 1,432 cases of euthanasia in 2012, up 25 percent from the previous year. They represented two percent of all deaths.
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Belgium Moves Closer to Euthanasia for Minors should read
The World is Moving Closer Condemning and Euthanizing All Belgians
- Since it has become a fascist, Anti-Christian nation - state the difference between WWII Nazis and the present people in power: eliminate the weak to make the nation stronger ?
Immigrants since 1945 and their descendants are estimated by 2008 to have formed 22% of the total population. Of these New Belgians, 1,313,000 (56%) are of European ancestry and the 950,000 others originated from the rest of the world.
The prevalent foreign nationals were Italian (171,918), French (125,061), Dutch (116,970), Moroccan (80,579), Spanish (42,765), Turkish (39,419) and German (37,621).
The ones in bold print were nations of the Axis powers of WWII, has any of this "purification" philosophy rubbed off on the present inhabitants ?
You can call yourselves Christian, but frankly there is nothing Christian about you or your philosophy.
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If post-natal abortion to the age of 23 had been around, how many of us would have made it through our teenage years?
Excellent point, which leads me to the next question. How do now survive Obamacare? [which is little more than a gummit adaptation of seniors euthanasia]
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It's sort of practiced naturally in America as young males 13-24 have a tendency to off themselves at a much higher rate than most other Western countries. Call it the 'here hold my beer' or the Chicago Hood syndrome. Part of the reason for the American disparity in male life expectancies among Western countries.
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Belgian politicians on Thursday moved closer to legalising the euthanasia of minors,...
This is a big issue for the voters? And nothing else to worry about?
What do we conclude from this? That it's cheaper to put them in gas chambers than to give them antidepressants?
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Its very simple. If a person is willing to kill a child, then the elderly is a given. The only question at that point is where is the line, and it is always drawen with a 6H quite lightly and with plenty of erasers handy.
[An Nahar] Turkey will charge 18 more people over recent mass anti-government protests, including with alleged membership in a "terror" group, lawyers and media said on Thursday.
The 18 were among the 90 members of the small leftist group, the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP), who were tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! over the demonstrations that have presented Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan with the biggest challenge of his decade-long rule.
They will face charges of "membership in a terrorist organization" and "damaging public property" and will face several years in prison if convicted, NTV reported.
The group is among several that has been active in the anti-government protests and its members were jugged Please don't kill me! in a police raid on Tuesday, the Contemporary Lawyers Association (CHD) said.
They bring to at least 24 the number of people who will face charges over the demonstrations that infuriated Erdogan and that have earned Turkey criticism from the West. Most observers expect the number of those charged to rise.
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Plenty of people here predicted something like this.
Controversy is heating up over an administration plan to drastically reduce the amount of federal lands available for oil shale development in the American West. Yup, not out of character at all for Champ. Fortunately there's plenty of private land for development...
The Bush administration had set aside 1.3 million acres for oil shale and tar sands development in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. The new Bureau of Land Management plan cuts that amount by two-thirds, down to 700,000 acres, a decision that has prompted industry outrage.
Umm, the math says that a little over half the land will still be available...
"What they basically did was make it so that nobody is going to want to spend money going after oil shale on federal government lands," said Dan Kish, Senior Vice President of Institute for Energy Research. It's almost as if it's a plan...
Oil shale refers to shale rock itself, which contains mineralized hydrocarbons. When subject to intense pressure and extremely high temperatures, oil develops. This can be done by mining the rock first or by leaving it in place and doing the pressurized heating process deep underground.
"That raises all kinds of concerns about what kind of impact that's going to have on our land and on our water," said Todd Malmsbury, spokesperson for the Colorado Wildlife Federation. "Water is the most important resource we have in the West. If we pollute that water, if we deplete that water it's going to hurt everyone out here."
In a statement to Fox News, the BLM says it is not against oil shale and tar sands deveopment, No! Certainly not! Allowing the USA to be energy independent however....
but will restrict the amount of public lands available for leasing until the processes are proven, and proven safe. Which will be at least until they find some endangered imaginary bug or something.
If shown to be viable in coming years, the agency says more federal lands may be opened up to oil shale and tar sands development. Unless an environmentalist somewhere protests...
Kish said the decision will effectively put an end to the development in America of a resource with massive potential because the energy industry will simply go elsewhere.
"The Chinese are inviting companies in, companies that may have done business in the United States if we'd had a better approach. As designed.
But the BLM's plan has certainly not made all environmentalists happy. Hey! Careful with that feather! You almost knocked me over!
A coalition of seven groups has notified the agency of their intent to sue, saying BLM did not take into account the impact of oil shale and tar sands development on endangered species. BINGO! The reduction will discourage investment until someone can find, or make up (i.e. pull out of their asses), some spottedground unicorn-dung beetle who might be hurt....
[Pak Daily Times] The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Friday interrogated renowned property tycoon and founder of Bahria Town, Malik Riazm in the Hajj scandal. According to media reports, Malik Riaz said that he had nothing to do with the Hajj scandal, adding that he advised the investigation officer to hang those involved in the scandal. FIA investigation officer Husain Asghar interrogated Riaz in the agency's special investigation unit.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has criticised a proposal by nationalist monks to restrict marriages between Buddhist women and men of other faiths, describing it as a violation of human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... , a report said yesterday.
"This is one-sided. Why only women? You cannot treat the women unfairly," Radio Free Asia quoted the Nobel Peace Laureate as saying in an interview.
"I also understand that this is not in accordance with the laws of the country and especially that it is not part of Buddhism," the veteran activist said.
"It is a violation of women's rights and human rights."
Under the proposal -- spearheaded by the controversial Mandalay holy man Wirathu -- non-Buddhist men wishing to marry a Buddhist woman would have to convert and gain permission from her parents to wed or risk 10 years in jail.
The idea was raised at a recent meeting of more than 200 monks called to discuss a surge in Buddhist-Mohammedan violence in the former junta-ruled country.
Wirathu said the law was needed "because Buddhist girls have lost freedom of religion when they married Mohammedan men".
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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
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