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This sounds unlikely, except: It seems LESS unlikely than that a SEAL Commander committed suicide. A few weeks ago, I found that report very, very questionable.
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I'm no conspiracy theorist, but I have to wonder if somewhere Ron Brown is laughing...
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Everything was going so well. Meryl Streep had agreed to play Clinton, Paul Ryan had agreed to play Ahmadinejad, Obama had agreed to play Obama.... and then this happened.
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Wait, Teddy, now Hillary? I'm not saying I'm HAPPY, but is God starting to get angry?
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TEHRAN, Iran - A small American commercial plane left Iran on 30 Dec 2012 after it was repaired following an emergency landing at an Iranian airport this month, Iran state TV reported.
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Some actual photos of the damaged C-12 on the ground would support this, however the 'suicide' news struck me as funny as well.
perhaps they are with the Bengahzi survivors, for 'safe keeping.'
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Clearly not the whole story. I find it curious that a google search didn't find a single hit amongst the main stream media. Must not involve any mud against Republicans.
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www.rumormills.com sez the plane encountered turbulence after landing and that caused runway departure. i suspect more like wake turbulence just before touching down, no mention of other aircraft in the area, and if they were following a 'heavy,' (compared to the C-12, just about anythig would be a 'heavy')the wing tip vortices could have got 'em when they were on final with no altitude to play with.
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Well one thing appears certain. The C-12's flight manifest contained no African Americans. The Black Congressional Caucus, led by Maxine Waters would already be screaming for a full investigation.
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I tried to post a question at the O-Club, but it wouldn't 'add'. Question, outside of incompetance and derelection of duty, were any laws broken regarding the Bengazi episode?
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I don't know, Mugsy. My gut feeling is they acted incompetent and committed dereliction of duty because they were trying to hide something. What, I don't know, they seem to have succeeded.
[NY Times] Doctors treating Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Elihu Root ... on Monday said that she suffered a blood clot in a vein between her brain and skull behind her right ear but predicted that she would make a full recovery.
Mrs. Clinton was hospitalized on Sunday with a blood clot stemming from a concussion she suffered earlier this month, a State Department front man said.
Her doctors said in a statement on Monday that the clot did not result in a stroke or neurological damage and that she was being treated with blood thinners.
In a statement, Drs. Lisa Bardack and Gigi El-Bayoumi, who are treating Mrs. Clinton, said: She will be released once the medication dose has been established. In all other aspects of her recovery, the secretary is making excellent progress and we are confident she will make a full recovery. She is in good spirits, engaging with her doctors, her family, and her staff.
Mrs. Clinton, who had canceled most of her public events in recent weeks because of the injury, was at a follow-up examination on Sunday when doctors discovered the blood clot, according to Philippe Reines, her longtime front man.
Aides said that Mrs. Clinton, 65, had become dehydrated this month because of a stomach virus she contracted during a trip to Europe. She fainted and struck her head, causing the concussion.
Among the events she missed because of the injury was a Congressional hearing for the September attack on the United States Mission in Benghazi, Libya.
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Among the events she missed because of the injury was a Congressional hearing for the September attack on the United States Mission in Benghazi, Libya.
...and a secret meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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Congratulations to her doctors for actually finding her brain. And in the same location as the rest of us.
I always thought her (and others of her ilk) brain was firmly planted lower down, and to the rear. We know where Bill's brain is located. :-(
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Bill reminds me of the old Woody Allen line, My brain! That's my second-favorite organ.
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Drs. Lisa Bardack and Gigi El-Bayoumi
Dr. Gigi?
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The State Department first reported a concussion from a fall. Now it is a blood clot. State Department continues to waffle on what really happened on anything since the Al Qaeda assault on Benghazi. Bill Clinton is strangely quiet about it all... And the OPM seems uninterested in asking him one question about the Mrs...
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with her history of lies, prevarication, corruption and partisan hackery, she has earned our skepticism.
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I have strong feelings of indifference.
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Modern science has suggested that humans are chimera with significant numbers cells from playmates and others close to you living quite finely. Perhaps MZ Clinton's "Foster" cells decided to join their namesake?
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The State Department first reported a concussion from a fall. Now it is a blood clot.
Blood clots as well as concussions can result from falls, or many other types of trauma to the head.
And yes, State has been rather quiet.
I suspect we'll see a full court press by the White House within the next two weeks (possibly less) for an expedited confirmation of Monsieur Jawn.
[Daily Mail.CO.UK] Followers of cult leader, Warren Jeffs, who is behind bars for sexually assaulting young girls, are reportedly preparing for the end of the world tomorrow, after their former leader warned of Armageddon before midnight.
The only supermarket and major meeting point of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints community across the movement's key sites - Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah - has been closed, and an expert in the sect has warned CNN the preparations could be a dangerous signal.
Sam Brower, a private investigator who represents more than 100 former FLDS members, said law enforcement officers will monitor the situation in Jeffs' community closely - rather than just dismissing it as another false Armageddon warning from the radical preacher.
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So how many times have I survived the End of the World? And I'm talking just this year...
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You know the "end is NOT near" when a Kroger coin machine charges .09% to cash in your small change jar, but freely accepts EBT cards at no additional charge for prime rib, fresh produce, and Deli treats.
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It didn't end. It just rebooted.
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This rebooted world seems to have the same conditions & cast of characters as the previous one had. This brave new world is, however, deeper in debt than the previous one was.
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This rebooted world seems to have the same conditions & cast of characters as the previous one had. This brave new world is, however, deeper in debt than the previous one was.
Well, OTOH Russia and China seem to be doing just fine.
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D *** NG IT, the World can't end tonite - I haven't exploited McDonald's MCRIB Promo yet! I DEMAND A RECOUNT!
> MASSIVE SOLAR FLARE - the Sun. EARLY/SUDDEN
"RED GIANT" PHASE = SOLAR EXPANSION???
> GLOBAL VOLCANISM = HIMALAYAN SUPER-CALDERA - mostly the Sun [again].
> COMET APOPHIS + GUAM, EARTH-VISIBLE MOON EXPLOSIONS = lack of effec OWG Space Defense because there is reliable OWG because US-World Govts-Perts are still arguing about everything, i.e. "who pays". The International Community mightiest achievemnet is "agreeing to "disagee" hence little or nothing gets done. See also above for SOLAR FLARE/STORM.
> PLANET X/NIBIRU - challenge to the "status quo" of prevailing theories, includ Archaeo-Astronomy, as per our Planetary System.
> 1990'S COMET SHOEMAKER-LEVY 9 BREAKUP + JUPITER IMPACT - did Comet SL9 impact displace surface debris = chunks from Jupiter's surface into its high atmosphere iff not space orbit such as to threaten Earth??? AFAIK, NASA-JPL + UNIVERSITY STAR/SPACE BOYZ HAVE N-O-T ANSWERED THE QUESTION.
> RANDOM/MISCELLANEOUS INCOMING SPACE ROCKS. See for OWG + COMET APOPHIS.
CONSIDERING HOW MANY TIMES NASA + PERTS CALCULATIONS HAVE BEEN WAY OFF, AFAIC THE ABOVE SUBJECT MATTER OR QUESTIONS ARE QUITE VALID.
* "KELLY'S HEROES" > GENERAL CARROL O'CONNOR = "YOU GENTLEMAN ARE THE ONES THATS SUPPOSED TO BE MANAGING/FIGHTING THIS WAR - HELL, YOU DON'T DON'T EVEN KNOW WHERE IT IS! WELL I'LL TELL YOU WHERE IT IS - ITS 30 MILES BEYOND WHERE YOU THOUGHT IT WAS ... ... COME ON, NOW, LETS GET THIS ARMY OF MINE [OWG Space Govt] BACK IN THE WAR"!!
[Washington Post] His Excellency President-for-Life, Caudillo of the Bolivarians Hugo Chavezs new complications after cancer surgery prompted his closest allies to call for Venezuelans to pray for him on Monday, presenting an increasingly bleak outlook and prompting growing speculation about whether the ailing leader has much longer to live.
Vice President Nicolas Maduro looked weary and spoke with a solemn expression as he announced in a televised address from Havana on Sunday that Chavez now confronts new complications due to a respiratory infection nearly three weeks after his operation. He described Chavezs condition as delicate.
The streets of Caracas were abuzz on Monday with talk of Chavezs increasingly tough fight, while the news topped the front pages of the countrys newspapers.
Hes history now, said Cesar Amaro, a street vendor selling newspapers and snacks at a kiosk in downtown Caracas. He motioned to a daily on the rack showing side-by-side photos of Maduro and National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello, and said politics will now turn to them.
Amaro said he expects a new election soon to replace Chavez. For an illness like the one the president has, his days are numbered now, he said matter-of-factly.
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Best Health Care in the Western Hemisphere.
Harry Belafonte told me...
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Poor bastid. A very, very bad way to go. Hope he's reconciled everything with his Intelligent Designer. Like him or not, he's a tough old paratrooper.
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He's a hell of a politician and knew/knows exactly what his peeps want to hear. But tough? After the first coup they found him in the armed forces museum hiding under a desk in um..... smelly drawers.
But paratrooper counts for something, I ain't ever jumped outta no plane.
[An Nahar] Bosnian prosecutors on Monday charged eight former members of Moslem armed and police forces with committing war crimes against ethnic Serb civilians during the country's 1990s conflict.
The eight were charged with "taking part in illegal detention of Serb civilians, their inhuman treatment, beating and inflicting of serious bodily injuries... and other inhuman acts," a national prosecutor's office statement said.
The crimes were committed in the region of the eastern town of Kladanj between May 1992 and July 1993, it said.
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[An Nahar] In La Belle France's rundown suburbs, it has become as much of a New Year tradition as champagne and fireworks in more affluent neighborhoods.
Every year, the night of December 31-January 1 sees more than 1,000 cars set ablaze across the country in an orgy of vandalism to which the authorities have, until now, largely turned a blind eye.
Since 2010, no official figures on the number of vehicles torched have been published, after it was discovered that a district-by-district breakdown was fueling a destructive competition between rival gangs.
But Interior Minister Manuel Valls on Monday promised that this year's figures would be released as soon as they had been collated.
"Because a problem is hidden, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist," Valls said.
"We have to have transparency. I don't want the count of burnt cars stopping at 6:00 am, as it often did in the past to reduce the total. The French have the right to know the reality."
La Belle France will have 65,000 police and other emergency workers on duty for Monday night's end-of-year celebrations.
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With those words to an endangered U.S. diplomat in November 1979, John Sheardown, then Canadas top immigration official in Iran, launched what would become known as the Canadian Caper.
For the next three months, Sheardown and Canadian Ambassador Ken Taylor sheltered six U.S. diplomats in their private homes.
The six Americans were spirited out of Iran in January 1980.
Sheardown, a Second World War bomber pilot and an Order of Canada recipient, died Sunday at The Ottawa Hospital. He was 88.
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Canadians can still buy beer at par in the bars in Buffalo, NY by way of thanks for Ambassador Sheardown's heroism. Granted, now that the Canadian dollar is stronger than ours, it's not quite the special treatment it was when the ratio was the other way round, but even so.
[The Globe And Mail] The family of an Indian gang-rape victim said they would not rest until her killers are hanged as they spoke of their own pain and trauma over a crime that has united the country in grief.
As the ruling Congress party reportedly pushed for tougher punishments for sex crimes, including chemical castration, authorities in New Delhi launched a hotline to improve safety for women in a city dubbed "India's rape capital."
And while the country returned to work after a weekend marked by candlelit vigils and street protests following the 23-year-old's death, few people were in the mood to celebrate the new year. Even the army ordered a halt to its festivities.
The woman, who friends say was planning to marry in February, died of her injuries on Saturday in a Singapore hospital, nearly two weeks after being savagely attacked by a group of men on a bus in New Delhi. She was cremated on Sunday.
In an interview published Monday, her brother said that although the unidentified medical student could now rest in peace, the family would not relent in their fight for justice.
"The fight has just begun. We want all the accused hanged and we will fight for that, till the end," he told The Indian Express.
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And drawn and quartered?
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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
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[NY Times] Doctors treating Secretary of State 
[Daily Mail.CO.UK] Followers of cult leader, Warren Jeffs, who is behind bars for sexually assaulting young girls, are reportedly preparing for the end of the world tomorrow, after their former leader warned of Armageddon before midnight. 
His Excellency President-for-Life, Caudillo of the Bolivarians Hugo Chavez
[An Nahar] In 
[The Globe And Mail] The family of an Indian gang-rape victim said they would not rest until her killers are hanged as they spoke of their own pain and trauma over a crime that has united the country in grief.
