Does it work on Linux? WIll it survive the daily EXTARNAL scan I apply to my windows partitions and hardware enumeration I have on my tripwires?
I've aleady been set up to DEFEND against such intrusions, because the bad guys have already had kits for this for ages.
Sorry Uncle Sam, but you arent getting in unless you ask me first. You trained me as an ISSO on how to secure the hell out of classified sytems, and I apply the same safeguards and others.
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Okay, I am in linux. Debain's new security made it almost impossible for root to mount a USB thingy let alone an average user.
When I am in Windows it is a Virtual Windows running ontop of Linux (this one KVM not vmware or xen)... It doesn't have access to a USB port unless I give it access by hand...
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More and more corporations are using computers without hard drives. They keep hardware certified computers on site, run from standard certified thumb drive OS, and transfer data files via heavy encryption on the Internet.
Obviously, no corporate business is permitted during commercial travel, and travel itself is minimized.
A Kenyan cabinet minister and assistant minister died on Tuesday along with two others when their light plane crashed near the Masai Mara game reserve, officials said.
Roads Minister Kipkalya Kones, 56, and Assistant Minister for Home Affairs Lorna Laboso, 47, were aboard the plane with a pilot and a security guard, President Mwai Kibaki said in a statement. "The wreckage has been found and there are no survivors," Kibaki said. "Our country has lost leaders of immense potential at their prime age and with a promising future. Let us all remain united at this moment of sorrow as a nation."
There was no immediate confirmation for the cause of the crash in a remote area called Kajong'a, about 90 km (56 miles) west of the capital Nairobi. The plane was bound for Kericho, Kenya's tea-farming capital in the Rift Valley. "The plane came down on an unoccupied house and disintegrated, killing all four occupants," Narok District Police Chief Patrick Wambani told Reuters.
Both politicians were members of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party, which had opposed President Mwai Kibaki and advocated public protests after he won a disputed re-election in December.
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Light planes are hazardous enough without African/Insh'Allah maintenance and possible hostile ground fire.
Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai rejected calls on Tuesday for a national unity government instead of a presidential runoff vote and said his party was sure to win the election despite government violence.
Tsvangirai told a news conference Zimbabwe had suffered a de facto coup and was being run by a military junta.
Problem is, the military isn't going to respect the results of the election.
Some 66 supporters of his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) had been killed since disputed March elections, he said.
Simba Makoni, a defector from the ruling ZANU-PF party and a former finance minister, said earlier the June 27 run-off between President Robert Mugabe and Tsvangirai must be called off because a free and fair vote was impossible. "Following the announcement of the date for the run-off, no one can change that due process unless Robert Mugabe concedes defeat, or collapses. It therefore means that a government of national unity negotiated before the runoff does not arise," Tsvangirai said.
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European Union states are studying ending sanctions on Cuba in defiance of U.S. calls but have yet to agree on how this would be done, diplomats said on Tuesday.
Closed-door talks on the move are continuing as EU leaders hosted U.S. President George W. Bush for a farewell summit in Slovenia. EU foreign ministers will decide on the sanctions at a meeting in Luxembourg next Monday, the envoys said.
The measures were imposed after a crackdown on dissent in 2003 and include a freeze on visits by high-level officials. They were formally suspended in 2005 but an abolition would be the EU's way of encouraging Cuban President Raul Castro, who took over after the February 24 retirement of his brother Fidel. "The time could be right because of changes undertaken by Cuba's new leadership," said one EU diplomat. Changes include new rules allowing Cubans to buy cell phones, rent rooms in hotels once reserved for foreigners, and an increase in public debate. "Sanctions could possibly be lifted ... but linked with dialogue, with a review. We are working on finding the exact formula," another EU diplomat said of discussions ahead of the June 16 meeting of EU foreign ministers.
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LYON - A French Muslim couple who sued a hospital after their son was born heavily handicapped were instead fined EUR 1,000 on Tuesday for refusing the presence of a male doctor during labour.
Mohammed Ijjou was born severely handicapped on 8 November 1998 as a result of neurological complications during birth. According to the appeal court ruling, his father Radouane Ijjou physically barred a male intern from entering his wife's room for half an hour, citing religious reasons, after a midwife asked for help with the labour.
The court in Lyon ruled that "the child's condition is totally due to the attitude of Radouane Ijjou" and that the couple could not hold the hospital responsible. It said the father's attitude had prevented the hospital from carrying out tests that could have prevented the complications.
"This is a very hard decision. This child is being told he has no one to blame but his parents," said the couple's lawyer Isabelle Damiano.
The couple, whose request for damages was rejected once before in May 2006, were seeking EUR 100,000 in damages from the hospital in Bourg-en-Bresse in eastern France.
Uncle Tom, the titular character, was initially seen as a noble long-suffering Christian slave. . . . Stowe intended Tom to be a "noble hero" and praiseworthy person. Throughout the book, far from allowing himself to be exploited, Tom stands up for his beliefs and is grudgingly admired even by his enemies.
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That's the problem--he was not a grievance activist.
THE TITLE of Pierre Frei's Onkel Toms Hutte (hut in English) refers to a subway stop named after a restaurant near the Grunewald, somewhat reminiscent of Berlin Alexanderplatz and somewhat ironic. In 1945 (the setting of the novel), it is in the American occupation zone, and a boy named Ben has found a woman's body, a blue-eyed blond German who had worked for the Americans, the first of four such victims brutally raped and murdered in this area. They are all, in the murderer's eyes, "Aryan" women betraying Germany by "prostituting" themselves to the Americans.
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George Washinton Carver was also regarded as an Uncle Tom, mainly because his black contemporaries believed he gave cover to white people when they idolized him for his many agricultural discoveries. he was also a very fine Christian who'd beat you to the floor whenever the suggestion came up to pray. He continuously emphasized his former slave status and extreme poverty, and insisted that most of his "discoveries" were cued in by plants "telling him about themselves".
I'm convinced he was trying to communicate that he was living in a mode of Christian experience that is more transcendental that what is normally experienced, but lacked the words or concepts to convey it.
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so, so, so sick of hearing about race in this country - instead of talking about what makes us a like and appreciating those "unifying" factors we talk about what makes us "different" & how we need to walk on eggshells around each other so we don't "offend" each other. Time for everyone to truly embrace the golden rule and also realize that Minority is a matter of numbers - get over it.
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Tuesday a EU proposal for an economic and security union with southern Mediterranean states was an insult to Arabs and Africans. "This is taking us for fools," Gaddafi said. "We do not belong to Brussels. Our Arab League is located in Cairo and the African Union is located in Addis Ababa. If they want cooperation they have to go through Cairo and Addis Ababa."
France proposed the union last year as a way of boosting ties with the European Union's southern neighbors and improving trade and security cooperation.
The plan is due to be unveiled in Paris on July 13 but has received a mixed welcome from the southern countries.
Gaddafi said the proposal involved economic projects that had failed already such as the Barcelona Process, an earlier attempt at north-south cooperation launched in 1995. "They are throwing us bait to attract us to such projects. This is an insult to us Arabs and Africans," he said in Tripoli at the start of a mini-summit of five North African states and Syria.
Libya called the meeting to seek a common stance on the proposed union and discuss Israel's role. Arab governments fear that joining the union alongside Israel might imply a normalization of their relations with the Jewish state.
They have also called for clarification on the proposed union's institutions, financing and decision making process. "If they come with an offer based on value and principle like fighting disease or climate change we can maybe discuss this. But they come with economic offers because they consider us as hungry people," Gaddafi said.
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He is looking more and more like Michael Jackson.
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland (D) was Shermanesque on Tuesday in saying that he would "absolutely not" be Sen. Barack Obama's, D-Ill., running mate even if asked to join the Democratic ticket.
Asked on NPR's "All Things Considered" if he is auditioning to be Obama's running mate, Strickland said, "Absolutely not. If drafted I will not run, nominated I will not accept and if elected I will not serve. So, I dont know how more crystal clear I can be."
Strickland was seen by some political handicappers as an attractive vice presidential pick for Obama because he is a popular chief executive and former House member who hails from Ohio, the state which decided the 2004 election. He won in a landslide and has got good approval ratings, but after Bob Taft's screwups, a duckbilled platypus could've gotten elected on the Dem ticket, so I wouldn't attribute his electoral performance to his charm, good looks, and sparkling personality. He's pretty much a standard Mk.1 Mod.0 knee-jerk liberal Democrat, a bit gaffe-prone, and tends to back down when pressed hard (as he did on his crusade to eliminate vouchers and charter schools).
It would also bring back unpleasant memories of the Ohio AG who had to resign in disgrace.
Strickland was also a high-profile backer of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., which would have allowed Obama to present his selection as a play towards party unity. One suspects it was scored as a point against him.
It does make you wonder if Strickland has thoughts about 2012 ...
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Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was gracious in her full-throated endorsement of Senator Barack Obama. "Gracious" and "full-throated" might be overstating the case by just an order of magnitude or two, but go on.
But that does not mean all is forgiven by others in the Clinton universe.
For proof, look no further than Doug Band, chief gatekeeper to former President Bill Clinton. Band keeps close track of the past allies and beneficiaries of the Clintons who supported Obama's campaign, three Clinton associates and campaign officials said. Indeed, he is widely known as a member of the Clinton inner circle whose memory is particularly acute on the matter of who has been there for the couple and who has not.
"The Clintons get hundreds of requests for favors every week," said Terry McAuliffe, the chairman of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. "Clearly, the people you're going to do stuff for in the future are the people who have been there for you." McAuliffe, who knows of Band's diligent scorekeeping, emphasized that "revenge is not what the Clintons are about." Oh, no, not at all. Not at all.
The accounting is more about being practical, he said, adding, "You have to keep track of this." It's business. Just business.
Band, who declined to comment, is hardly alone in tallying those considered to have crossed the former candidate or the former president in recent months by supporting Obama. As the Obama bandwagon has swelled, so have the lists of people Clinton loyalists regard as some variation of "person who needs a horse's head in the bed" "ingrate," "traitor" or "enemy," according to the associates and campaign officials, who would speak only on condition of anonymity. . . .
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What Howard Dean and the DNC forgot in their rush to anoint Obambi is the tens of millions of dollars that the Clintons have raised for Congressional contests over the past 8 years. Hillary has brought in tens of millions on her own - THIS is the favor request that will not granted after this Primary season. Best way in the world to punish a politician is to deny him/her fund-raising and perhaps thereby cost him/her an election.
Rep. Dan Boren, D-Okla., told the Associated Press today that he has no intention of endorsing Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois. And Democratic officials do not expect Boren to be the last to refrain from making a show of not backing his party's presumptive presidential nominee -- though Boren says he will vote for Obama for president in November.
Other House Democrats from swing districts -- Democrats who eked out victories in traditionally GOP districts, whom House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., calls her "majority makers" -- may refrain from even attending their party's convention in Denver in August.
Boren noted that Obama had earned the National Journal's controversial rating as "Most Liberal" U.S. Senator in 2007, and saying though he talks a good game on working with Republicans, "unfortunately, his record does not reflect working in a bipartisan fashion."
Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-Illinois, won Boren's congressional district with 66% of the vote during the Oklahoma primary in February. "Our nominee is not my first choice," Boren says. He adds, "We're much more conservative. I've got to reflect my district. No one means more to me than the people who elected me. I have to listen them."
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Blue dogs trying to hid from what they will empower.
Have some balls and stop trying to fool your districts. If you are a conservative then stop workign with San Fran Nana and her parters who are NOT conservative.
Voters need to chse these peopel out - if only the GOP would have the sense to become a conservative party again, instead of big government pork and earmarks. But the current crop in the GOP are fricken idiots who still think that Tom Delay and the old boy DC insders way of bribing your district with pork would build a GOP majority by abandoning GOP principles.
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BHO's choice to associate with divisive militants will bear similar fruit: white flight from support. Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.
UNITED NATIONS -- A U.N. official showed up at the U.S. mission to the United Nations in 2006 with an alarming story: The U.N. Development Program office he ran in North Korea had stashed thousands of dollars in counterfeit U.S. cash in a safe, diverted tens of millions more into the coffers of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and possibly supported North Korea's weapons programs.
For the next year and half, Artjon "Tony" Shkurtaj, an Albanian national who served as the UNDP's operations manager in Pyongyang, guided U.S. officials on a tour of U.N. malfeasance in North Korea, furnishing internal U.N. documents and an insiders' analysis of how the global body violated its rules and helped North Korea obtain hard currency and sensitive high-tech equipment.
His claims triggered investigations by U.S. officials, the United Nations and the U.S. Congress, and led to Shkurtaj's designation as a whistle-blower by the United Nations' ethics chief. Mark D. Wallace, the U.S. diplomat briefed by Shkurtaj, accused the UNDP of complicity in a scheme to divert millions of dollars worth of aid for the poor to Kim's personal treasure chest.
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OPEC's Secretary General on Tuesday appealed for calm, saying the record-high crude oil price was unbearable and did not reflect any shortage of supply in the market.
Abdullah al-Badri also called for measures to curb market speculation, a factor OPEC says is sending prices to unjustified levels. Oil hit a record $139.12 a barrel on Friday and was trading near $136 on Tuesday. "I ask through you, through Reuters, really we need some calm. We are panicking too much," Badri told the Reuters Global Energy Summit. "The situation is unbearable as far as we are concerned. I want to say, there is no shortage now and in the future."
The comments are the latest to underscore the view of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries that it is pumping more than enough oil and high prices reflect factors beyond its control.
"We are not happy with the current level of price for one reason. It has nothing to do with the fundamentals," he said. "Speculators are playing a big role in high oil prices. Also there are other considerations, the value of the dollar and the geopolitical situation."
Saudi Arabia, the world's top exporter and OPEC's most influential member, said on Monday it would soon call for a meeting to discuss what it called unjustified rises in prices.
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Methinks the push for and breakthroughs of alternate energy is making them nervous for their gravy train.
That is the main reason I want a non-oil energy source or more domestic oil/energy sources. Makes the Middle East completely irrelevant, broke and regulated to the dustbin of history.
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Kind of like the rapist telling his victim to shut up while he performs the deed.
I'm pretty confident they aren't afraid of "alternative energy" sources -- they aren't stupid, and nothing will replace oil for at least a generation, and probably much longer than that. The only conceivable downside for OPEC is that prices get high enough that we start drilling again in the US.
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The problem with trying to corner the oil market is where do you put all the stuff? It's not like there's lots of excess tank space at the local Public Storage.
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OPEC is quite safe. Just think how long it would take to replace just 50% of US cars with electric transportation. Or how long it would take to add commuter train lines from all suburbs to city centers.
The only possible home grown short term solution (10 years), other than basing the economy on making handicrafts from home, is coal to liquids. Yet not one CTL plant has been built since Sept. 11 even though the economics have favored it for several years. An $8B pant producing 100,000 barrels/day at $40-45/barrel could sell its fuel for at least $6B annually in today's market.
Too many regulatory hurdles and skittish money men. You'd hardly know there was a war on and OPEC is being financed to the tune $900 billion this year. Makes our whole military budget look puny in comparison.
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Just think how long it would take to replace just 50% of US cars with electric transportation.
A lot less time than it would take to get the grid in shape to charge them.
There are about 150 million cars registered in the US (actually less)
Annual car sales are 15 million. I'd bet we'd get to 50% of registrations within 7 years of introduction of a 200 mi., 15 minute charge electric car.
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Try to find enough lithium for 75M cars. A 200 mile range implies a 70KwH battery pack using today's car designs.
The US already has enough electric generating potential to charge those cars at night. The charger would need to communicate with the power grid controllers to regulate their power draw in an intelligent manner. Not very complicated. An internet connection would do.
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Try to find enough lithium for 75M cars.
Perhaps not such a big problem. And there will be lots of battery advances over the next 10-20 years.
What will be a big problem is that a lot of overnight charges will run out during the day and will need a quick fill. 200 miles is 3-4 hours of driving.
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From your link: it is not the amount of lithium in total that is likely to be the problem but the rate of recovery of it. To match the present 60 million number of new cars on the roads each year, this would need to be expanded by fifty-fold (200 fold for all BEVs), a considerable undertaking in mining and production which is probably impossible.
Time is a big factor in the conversion equation. Autos will migrate to electric propulsion but it will take at least a generation. Until then OPEC will be swimming in unearned cash. In 2008, the US will spend $1 trillion or more on oil, about $700 billion of that going outside the country.
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PS, while PHEVs like Volt (16KwH battery)are great, it's more important to immediately move to the vast majority of production to hydribs using only 1 or 2 KwH of batteries. It still gives a an up to 70% gas mileage improvement (city driving) and the possibility to go a few city miles on battery alone. In fact I would mandate it for city and suburban dwellers who are not retired. Then when lithium supplies catch up, transition to 5-8KwH then 15-20KwH PHEVs. That will more closely align the battery demand with the probable lithium supply.
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Its now US$4.67 for REGULAR GAS here on Guam, and as per GUAM PDN may go above US$5.00 by end of summer???
FOX NEWS AM > CAVUTO > DEMOCRATS DEFEAT DUBYA-SUPPOR OIL BILL > Cav's GOP Pol Guests are claiming that its actually the Dems that have been obstructing Dubya's + Washington's efforts to begin new domestic oil drilling including as per ANWAR + GULF OF MEXICO, while all the while criticizing Dubya-GOP for not doing enuff to bring down high domestic pump prices via new domestic wells???
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OTOH, also from FOX NEWS > OCEAN CITY [CA] Mayor's GLOBAL WARMING/CLIMATE CHANGE TOURISM PROMO = COME AND ENJOY THE SAND AND SUNNY BEACHES OF OCEAN CITY WHILE YOU STILL CAN, BEFORE THE SUN BOILS OFF THE OCEAN WATERS OF OCEAN CITY + EARTH IN ABOUT A BILYUHN YEARS.
CAVUTO > "The SEAS/OCEANS ARE EVAPORATING...STAY TUNED AFTER THIS MESSAGE".
Protesters marched in India, Hong Kong and Nepal over soaring oil prices on Tuesday and Spaniards stockpiled fuel and food, fearing shortages because of a truck drivers' strike that has halted deliveries.
South Korean truck drivers also threatened to strike, increasing pressure on Asian governments struggling to prevent rising prices from breaking their budgets and avoid making the burden on the public so heavy it threatens political stability.
The strike by Spanish truck drivers, which Portuguese drivers have also joined, was backed by protests across the border in France over the impact of high oil prices, now at record highs of over $139 per barrel.
Diesel has risen to 1.30 euros/liter from 0.95 euros a year ago, putting pressure on European Union governments to help heavy fuel users such as truck and taxi drivers, fishermen and farmers.
In Spain, cars queued at petrol stations -- 40 percent of which had run out of fuel in the worst affected area of Catalonia -- and supplies of fresh food began to run low in some markets, Spanish media reported. "I heard all the petrol stations were running out of fuel so I came to fill up, otherwise I worried I won't be able to get to work tomorrow," said a Madrid driver who gave his name as Raul.
Police motorbike riders escorted fuel tankers to some petrol stations to break picket lines and prevent attacks, after some strikers slashed lorry tires on Monday.
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Looks like there may be a need to stock up on some popcorn. I am not sure that in the swirl of events the true culprits will be nailed down (metaphorically speaking), but watch for the sales of lengthy, fiber based products to go up.
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2008 -2012 POTUS Period in America = Amerika is coming along nicely.
NET Poster > opined that CARTERBAMA hasn't even defeated Gerald Ford yet and the Soviets have already invaded Afghanistan and the US embassy in Tehran has been taken.
ION TIMES OF INDIA [Title Paraphs] > INDIA: GROWING RISK OF TERRORISTS GETTING N-BOMB ACCESS; + GATES:WILL BE CATASTROPHIC CONSEQUENCES FOR INTERNATIONAL STATES THAT GIVE TERRORISTS NUCLEAR WEAPONS, WMDS USED TO ATTACK THE USA.
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...Well, this was something that was definitely forseen: the nations whose expanded use of oil (for instance, India, PRC, and more than a few Euronations - have been able to avoid the pain of cost increases so far because those governments have been subsidizing the cost to their consumers. When those governments have to face either cutting/stopping those subsidies or bankruptcy, you watch demand go down right quick.
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"Looks like there may be a need to stock up on some popcorn."
I've got extra boxcar-loads in the pipeline, Spike. ;-p
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BAGHDAD - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has expressed a desire to visit Baghdad and boost his country's support for Iraqi reconstruction, a statement from the Iraqi premier's office said. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's office quoted Turkish special envoy Murat Ozcelik a saying that Erdogan has "expressed his readiness to visit Iraq in the near future."
Ozcelik met Maliki at his office in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone on Tuesday. The statement did not specify when the Turkish premier's visit was expected. Ozcelik underlined Turkey's desire to support Iraq in its efforts to advance stability and reconstruction.
"The Turkish envoy stressed his country has decided to send the best Turkish companies to contribute in Iraq's reconstruction and development," Maliki's office said. It said a Turkish trade delegation would visit Iraq soon to determine "needs and priorities."
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The Vatican has given warning that the West's efforts at inter-faith dialogue must not be held hostage" by Islam and are in danger of becoming "obsessed" with it at the expense of other religions.
Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, head of the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue, said that the Church has to have regard for all religions". He said that the council had this week discussed new guidelines for inter-faith dialogue.
What was interesting about our discussions was that we did not concentrate on Islam because in a way we are being held hostage by Islam a little bit," he told the Catholic website Terrasanta.net. "Islam is very important, but there are also other great Asiatic religious traditions. Islam is one religion."
However, asked if there was a sense that Islam must not "monopolise" inter-faith dialogue Cardinal Tauran replied: "Yes, people are obsessed by Islam. For example I'm going to India next month and I want to give this message that all religions are equal. Sometimes there are priorities because of particular situations, but we mustn't get the impression there are first-class religions and second-class religions".
He said that the new guidelines being discussed amounted to "a kind of road map for priests, bishops and ordinary brothers and sisters ... Of course, these have to be adapted to local situations, as someone in Morocco is not in the same situation as someone in Japan." The guidelines however would be "more concrete" than those issued in the early 1990s.
The cardinal criticised Saudi Arabia for not allowing Christian worship. What is good for me is good for the other, so if it's possible for Muslims to have a mosque in the West, we should have the same in Muslim countries. This is not the case in many countries."
He said that last week he had celebrated mass at a new church in Doha, Qatar, consecrated a month ago. "It is a very impressive building. Now we're going to have a school there run by nuns. So this is an example of very good inter-religious dialogue with very concrete effects. In Saudi Arabia that is not the case yet."
Asked about reports of a Vatican-Saudi dialogue, Cardinal Tauran said that King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia had in mind a "tripartite dialogue" between Christians, Muslims and Jews. I think he's beginning to convince his own people," the cardinal said. However talk of building a church in Saudi Arabia was premature.
"We don't have precise information about what the King has in mind, but I suppose it will be a gradual evolution, for example the possibility to celebrate services in hotels, in embassies, Cardinal Tauran said. He said that preparations for the ground breaking Islamic-Christian Forum called by the Pope were well under way.
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How about we ignore Islam. To make that possible we need to reverse the number of Islamic peoples coming into the west and cut off trade entirely with them. Yeah it won't be easy with the oil and all, but it would be worthy to see Islamic nations discover what standard of living is below abject poverty as they try to hawk sand and a bankrupt hostile ideology.
Islam: One prophet that lived approximately 60 years delivering messages from some angel (Gabriel). Whose Allah was nothing more than his alter-ego used to scare his followers.
Christianity: Many prophets deliverying messages directly from God for over 1600 of years.
Islam: An individual whose Koran has nothing to do with love for others.
Christianity: Most important commandment: Love God with all your heart. Second most important commandment: Love your neighor as yourself. All the Christian prophets messages center on these two commandments.
Give me Mathew, Mark, James, Stephen, Isaiah, Samuel, etc. as prophets over and above Mohammed any day.
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Look Deadeye Javirong5690, your Jesus and company may be great and wise and all but they never detailed how to properly wipe your bottom and for some that bit of information was vital and world changing.
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Actually looks more like the old Yugoslav design using 8 14.5mm Soviet heavy machine guns - except that I don't see the effective ring sight that the Yugoslavs had on their design. It is a good design for keeping light aircraft up out of your hair and does great job of leveling small hamlets.
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted against taking up a new energy package that would revoke $17 billion in tax breaks extended to big oil companies like Exxon Mobil Corp and slap a 25 percent windfall profits tax on firms that don't invest in new energy sources. A week after U.S. oil prices hit an all-time peak of $139.12 a barrel and average U.S. pump prices topped $4 a gallon for the first time, Democrats moved to act on soaring gasoline pump prices, which are a growing political liability in the November presidential election.
The Consumer-First Energy Act -- assembled by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other key Democrats -- would tax big energy companies and seek to put checks on oil market speculation. But the bill's opponents -- mostly Republicans -- blocked a key vote that would have allowed the Senate to formally debate the bill. The White House had threatened to veto it.
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I would not like to be in the shoes of speculators that would hold the bag when the bubble bursts.
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the price per gallon is approaching: "f*ck the wildlife, drill at ANWR!!" I just hope Maverick's smart enough to get in front of the wave. No assurances yet, and given his previous "principled positions" I ain't holding my breath
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Lets see, we need more petroleum, and the f**king idiot Democrats want to TAX NEW REVENUES?
Way to go Dems- tax it until it disappears. You are at fault for hte shortages already by blocking US drilling, shale na d refineeris and making Nukes prohibitively expensive by allowing the environ nuts to entangle them in long expensve lawsuits. THe Dems alos are hte ones that passed the laws allowing all the specualtion in commodities wiht little money and large margins.
Like $4 gas? Vote DEMOCRAT - they brought it to you.
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Newt Gingrich has a petition at AmericanSolutions.com to get domestic drilling going. Apparently, Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming have supplies that rival the Middle East but it has been cheaper to buy from the Saudis, until now. And why is China drilling 50 miles off US shores?
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.
A Kenyan cabinet minister and assistant minister died on Tuesday along with two others when their light plane crashed near the Masai Mara game reserve, officials said.
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Tuesday a EU proposal for an economic and security union with southern Mediterranean states was an insult to Arabs and Africans. "This is taking us for fools," Gaddafi said. "We do not belong to Brussels. Our Arab League is located in Cairo and the African Union is located in Addis Ababa. If they want cooperation they have to go through Cairo and Addis Ababa."
Mark Leibovich, International Herald-Tribune
UNITED NATIONS -- A U.N. official showed up at the U.S. mission to the United Nations in 2006 with an alarming story: The U.N. Development Program office he ran in North Korea had stashed thousands of dollars in counterfeit U.S. cash in a safe, diverted tens of millions more into the coffers of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and possibly supported North Korea's weapons programs.
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted against taking up a new energy package that would revoke $17 billion in tax breaks extended to big oil companies like Exxon Mobil Corp and slap a 25 percent windfall profits tax on firms that don't invest in new energy sources. A week after U.S. oil prices hit an all-time peak of $139.12 a barrel and average U.S. pump prices topped $4 a gallon for the first time, Democrats moved to act on soaring gasoline pump prices, which are a growing political liability in the November presidential election.
