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Home Front: WoT
AZ cleans up tons of debris left over by illegal immigration
AMADO, Ariz (KGUN9-TV) - At least once a year Arizona's Game and Fish Department takes spring cleaning to a whole new level. Crews are dispatched to remote areas along the border to pick up garbage left by illegal immigrants. Crews collected bag after bag of garbage, trash left behind in the desert by illegal immigrants.

"This is where the traffic is," Arizona Game and Fish spokesperson Mark Hart said. "The people who left all this trash were probably picked up in this area and taken to Tucson or Phoenix." Arizona Game and Fish officials tell 9OYS they collected close to 10 tons in one day's work.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 03/25/2012 15:11 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  replace debris with little things that go bang in the dark.
Posted by: bman || 03/25/2012 15:46 Comments || Top||

#2  bman, I hear ya, but I have this visceral hatred for those little things that go bang in the dark. Would prefer a bounty system, myself (of course I AM from New Orleans....)
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/25/2012 18:09 Comments || Top||

#3  How about little things that go bang in the dark and cover any people in the area with a permanent flourescent dye (that can't be washed off for a least a week)?

Naaahhhh - the ICE would just hide them for a week. :-(
Posted by: Barbara || 03/25/2012 20:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Charge it all to the fucked up Federal government.
Posted by: newc || 03/25/2012 20:46 Comments || Top||

#5  The Bounty vs. Brawny debate continues.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/25/2012 22:16 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Japanese tsunami debris may be causing mild temperatures, meteorologist says

I don't know how many of you have been following the massive Japanese tsunami debris field heading for California. But I ran across this interesting speculation on a connection between the debris field and the warmer than normal weather in North America.

Meteorologist and AccuWeather.com news director Henry Margusity offered the theory that the drifting Japanese tsunami debris field seems to be sending warm air aloft above the Pacific Ocean, which could be contributing to warmer temperatures in North America.

"If you match up where that debris field is right now with where the warmer-than-normal water temperatures are, they match up perfectly".
Posted by: Mike Ramsey || 03/25/2012 12:59 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, if you look at the jet stream, it is pretty obvious why North America has been warmer this winter. The jet has been dropping deeply South over the Pacific (meaning pretty COLD are over most of the eastern Pacific) and then looping way North, all the way up to British Columbia and Alaska. This is why Anchorage has a snowfall record. The storms that usually come in to California, Oregon, and Washington have been pushed Northward by this jet and are landing in Alaska and Northern BC. Because the jet is so far North, most of CONUS has been under milder air. This is not an uncommon jet flow for La Nina years. When the La Nina weakens, we will get a more "zonal" flow across CONUS in winter which will bring the storms in across the Great Basin, Rockies, and Northern plains again.
Posted by: crosspatch || 03/25/2012 15:15 Comments || Top||

#2  For example, look at this graphic (flash) of atmospheric water vapor. Look at California. Notice the clouds going South to North rather than West to East. There's a storm in the Gulf of Alaska and rather than moving in to California or Oregon, it is probably going to move into BC or possibly be pushed by that jet into Alaska around Anchorage. Even the Southern jet from Mexico is going way North to nearly Montana. Everything to the right of that jet is going to have warmer than normal temperatures which explains why Omaha is forecasting 80 degrees today. That air isn't coming from the Pacific, it is coming from the Gulf of Mexico.
Posted by: crosspatch || 03/25/2012 15:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Oops, forgot the link. Here it is.
Posted by: crosspatch || 03/25/2012 15:21 Comments || Top||

#4  "If you match up where that debris field is right now with where the warmer-than-normal water temperatures are, they match up perfectly".

Correllation is not causation, Mr. Margusity - any scientist should know that.
Posted by: Barbara || 03/25/2012 17:35 Comments || Top||

#5  Correllation is not causation
No, but is generally a good place to start looking for causation. I would be surprised if a debris field was able to generate such a strong global effect, but I cannot say offhand it is impossible - for instance, it only takes a tap on the beaker to precipitate a supersaturated solution.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/25/2012 18:01 Comments || Top||

#6  Yeah, right now the jet streams are "loopy" going way North then back way South rather than being more "zonal" West to East flows that we have been used to seeing. This is more likely due to the switch of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation from its positive phase (roughly 1976-2006) to negative phase (since 2006). The PDO has a roughly 60 year cycle with a 30 year "positive" or warm phase and a 30 year negative or "cold" phase. The trend in global sea surface temperatures is basically negative since 2006. For the Eastern Pacific, the trend is cooler surface temperatures since 1980 and are currently below the long term average. There is no warming of the ocean in the Eastern Pacific.
Posted by: crosspatch || 03/25/2012 18:48 Comments || Top||

#7  The ocean is surprisingly reflective (has a high albedo). Dark colored junk on the surface will decrease the albedo, warm the ocean surface layer and then warm the air above it.

But I'm sceptical there's enough floating junk to produce a measurable effect. Could be wrong though.
Posted by: phil_b || 03/25/2012 18:59 Comments || Top||

#8  So far there is no evidence that the ocean surface IS warming and the warmth in Chicago is coming from warm Gulf of Mexico air that is being pulled North by a very "loopy" jet. The flip side of that was central Europe where an equally "loopy" jet was pulling arctic air far South over the continent causing record low temperatures. This was one of the coldest winters on record in many parts of Europe.

We had an equally "loop" pulling cold air down but it was over the ocean. If there had been an island 300 miles off the coast of California, it would have had a record cold winter this year. The jet came down at about the longitude of Hawaii, but cut East before reaching Hawaii, then cut North again near the California coast. The result was that storms did not come across the continental US but were pushed up into Alaska and Canada. They hit the coastal Mountains and when the air looped back down again over the Great Basin, it was quite dry.

Look at this representation of an Arctic Oscillation Negative jet pattern. That is what we have now. We have grown used to a Arctic Oscillation Positive jet where the flow is more West/East.
Posted by: crosspatch || 03/25/2012 20:42 Comments || Top||

#9  NOt just "pretty cold" over EASTPAC but simil here in WESTPAC as Guam + Region has also received bouts of cold air.

Reminded me of some of the Mild Winters I'd experienced over the years back in CONUS.

Personally, I blame the future "GREAT SLUSHY" = GWCC ICE AGE/MINI-ICE AGE.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/25/2012 22:23 Comments || Top||

#10  Related: A common observation at NASCAR events is that if precipitation is in the area, often times it is delayed or never falls on the track during an event; the theory is that that heat generated by the cars creates a vortex that locally alters the wx patterns.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 03/25/2012 22:57 Comments || Top||

#11  Yes, JM. There are some COLD October-April periods coming our way beginning this year. FYI: A reliable meteorological source, who, in my humble opinion almost always "gets it right", is Joe Bastardi; formally of the politicized "Weather Channel".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Bastardi
Posted by: canalzone || 03/25/2012 22:59 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
United States Marine takes heat for public criticism of Light Giver
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/25/2012 12:09 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Remember, this is the same thin skinned prez who fired the chief architect of our success in Iraq and who was crafting the plan for Afghanistan because an aide criticized him. Why do you think he would overlook a sergeant?

B.O. doesn't need to hire people to compile an enemies list, just open a web site and people will volunteer to put their names on it.
Posted by: Mike Ramsey || 03/25/2012 13:29 Comments || Top||

#2  As far as I can tell, he did not criticise the POTUS personally, but attacked specific positions and policies, none of which were related to the President's role as Commander in Chief. Unless there is more, I think he's within his rights.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/25/2012 13:33 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Libya ex-PM Says West has Abandoned his Country
[An Nahar] Libya's former Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril on Saturday expressed concern
...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended...
that the West had abandoned his country after the collapse of Muammar Qadaffy
... who is now napping peacefully in the dirt...
's regime.

"It is a fatal mistake to abandon Libya", Jibril said at a forum organized by public policy institute the German Marshall Fund of the United States. "When the regime collapsed, the state collapsed as well. And when the regime collapsed, everyone disappeared."
As you may recall, at the time you didn't want Westerners, particularly Americans, setting foot in your country. We remember even if you don't...
Jibril stepped down last October after serving as interim premier under the rebels' National Transitional Council.

Libya, with only embryonic state institutions, is going through a delicate post-conflict period, and the unilateral proclamation of independence by figures in eastern Libya has revived fears of a partition of the country.
Posted by: Fred || 03/25/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  Yes, what goes on in Libya is the west's responsibility. Perhaps what is necessary is for one of the countries in the west to take special interest in the Libyans. To guide them and train them in the ways of civilization. To feed them and clothe them, like the rambunctious juveniles they are. Italy, perhaps?
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 03/25/2012 7:03 Comments || Top||

#2  "When the regime collapsed, the state collapsed as well. And when the regime collapsed, everyone disappeared."

Revisionist history so SOON? The regime didn't "callapse".... the country was overthrown and 'sprockets' was brutally murdered. The only reason the US State Department standard program of Nation Building has not kick-in is where fresh outta cash and the Chinese see no reason to back the loan.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/25/2012 11:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Don't think 'nation building' was ever in the plans. Libya was a test case.

Sorry, dudes - you were lab rats.
Posted by: Pappy || 03/25/2012 14:43 Comments || Top||

#4  You should be so lucky.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/25/2012 16:05 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Dick Cheney receives heart transplant
Former Vice President Dick Cheney received a heart transplant on Saturday, his office announced.
Best wishes.
A statement from the former vice president's office said the 71-year-old is now recovering in the intensive care unit of Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va., outside Washington.
I'm a touch surprised. At 71 he is a little old for a transplant even if the rest of his body is doing well. He had the LVAD implanted and those aren't meant to last forever, so it just have been time to, as we say in the medical biz, to 'defecate or decommode'.
The statement said Cheney had been on the transplant list for 20 months and did not know the identity of the donor.

"Although the former vice president and his family do not know the identity of the donor, they will be forever grateful for this lifesaving gift," the statement read.

Cheney, who served as President George W. Bush's vice president from 2001 to 2009, has a long history of heart problems. He suffered his first heart attack at age 37 and his fifth in 2010. In 1988, he underwent quadruple bypass surgery and has had several other heart surgeries since then.

In 2010, he had a battery-powered heart pump known as a Left Ventricular Assist Device implanted to keep his heart working - a device that is often used for short periods by patients awaiting a transplant.
The heart transplant groups are using LVADs more and more as longer-term bridges to transplant, and some enterprising ones are using LVADs in place of transplant in higher-risk patients.
Posted by: Steve White || 03/25/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Those LVADs rock. At least one guy sporting one of those things has returned to the doctor without a heartbeat but otherwise feeling perfectly fine.
Posted by: gorb || 03/25/2012 5:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Getting in before the Death Panels could nix it.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/25/2012 8:48 Comments || Top||

#3  This after years of heart trouble. He has always in my opinion had access to the best medical minds in healthcare(GWH). He is one tough cookie. I hope things go well for him. The physical part of this is known. The mental stress of living with this day by day must be faced and endured each day and night.
Posted by: Dale || 03/25/2012 10:26 Comments || Top||

#4  Nothing personal, but when your number is up... there are very few deferments issued. Good luck to you Darth.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/25/2012 11:37 Comments || Top||

#5  I can imagine what is happening on the democrat hate sites like democratic underground and the like.
Posted by: newc || 03/25/2012 12:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Search for "Dick Cheney" on twitter to see what the civil compassionate left are saying. If you have low blood pressure & a strong stomach.
Posted by: Cincinnatus Chili || 03/25/2012 13:45 Comments || Top||

#7  Heh heh, yep.
Posted by: newc || 03/25/2012 15:16 Comments || Top||

#8  I like Cheney, but given the supposed system of allocation of scarce resources (doner organs) I do wonder why he - or Jobs, or Hagman - was able to get a transplant.
On the other hand, if the system allowed compensation to the estate of the donor, there might be a lot larger supply.
Then again, there's the Chinese system...
Complex issue.
I do wish Dick well.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/25/2012 18:29 Comments || Top||

#9  Re: Comments regarding his age: Dick Cheney was probably on an alternate list. This has been studied and recipients over 70 have had good results. The are allocated hearts that would normally be turned down for younger donors.

Reference:

Use of two recipient lists for adults requiring heart transplantation
Hillel Laks, MD, Daniel Marelli, MD, Gregg C. Fonarow, MD, Michele A. Hamilton, MD, Abbas Ardehali, MD, Jaime D. Moriguchi, MD, Jessica Bresson, BS, David Gjertson, PhD, Jon A. Kobashigawa, MD, For the UCLA Heart Transplant Group*
From the Heart Transplant Program, University of California, Los Angeles, Calif.
Received 24 January 2002. Revised 18 April 2002. Available online 31 January 2003.
Posted by: Bushman || 03/25/2012 21:12 Comments || Top||

#10  Sorry that should read: They are allocated hearts that would be turned down for younger recipients.
Posted by: Bushman || 03/25/2012 21:13 Comments || Top||

#11  Isn't Soros on his fourth total organ-harvest refresh/re-set?

He's a Major Demon. That would make sense.
Posted by: canalzone || 03/25/2012 21:24 Comments || Top||

#12  OBTW...Dick Cheney is a National Treasure.
Posted by: canalzone || 03/25/2012 21:52 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
JSQM joins call for Sindh independence
[Dawn] The Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) on Friday staged a rally at Tibet Centre on M.A. Jinnah Road for the 'independence of Sindh' -- a call made by another nationalist party, the Jeay Sindh Tehrik, at a similar rally held at the same place last Sunday.

"The two-nation theory had become false and irrelevant when Punjabis did not transfer powers to Bengalis after the latter won the 1970 elections; the Bengalis eventually chose to secede," said JSQM chief Bashir Khan Qureshi while speaking at the rally.

He said that Sindhi nationalist leader G.M. Syed, who had been kept behind bars for 32 years, in his book 'Sindh speaks' quoted from Pakistain Movement leader Sir Feroze Khan Noon's autobiography the 'Eyewitness' as saying: "Punjabis were rewarded with Pakistain for the services they had rendered in the first and second world wars."

Claiming that Pakistain had now become a symbol of religious extremism and terrorism and, as such, a threat to global peace and humanity, he urged the international community to help the Sindhi nation gain independence from Punjabi-dominated country.

He further claimed that soon after Pakistain came into being, religious riots were triggered in Sindh under a conspiracy to convert Sindhis into a minority and this forced over 1.3 million Sindhi Hindus to migrate to India leaving behind their lands measuring over 2.5 million acres and other properties. The assets were then distributed among 'settlers'. After the construction of barrages, more land in Sindh measuring around 3.5 million acres was allotted to the settlers brought from Punjab in large numbers, he added.

"A new conspiracy is being hatched to bring in more settlers by creating cities like Zulfikarabad," alleged the JSQM chief. He declared that Sindhis would not let the conspiracy succeed.

He also supported the Hindu families whose female members had reportedly converted to Islam, and said that Hindu girls were being kidnapped and forcibly converted to compel Hindus to quit the country. He advised Sindhi Hindus not to get panicked and keep living in Sindh as Sindhis were there to protect their life and honour.

Mr Qureshi said that Sindh had welcomed refugees from India in 1947. Therefore, he said, they should remain faithful to Sindh. "The future of the Urdu-speaking people of Sindh is with Sindh and not with Pakistain," he said.

Condemning Punjab for "usurping Sindh's resources", Mr Qureshi said the same was the case of Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
, and called on the international community to help Sindh and Balochistan secede from the Punjabi-dominated Pakistain.
Posted by: Fred || 03/25/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  See also PAKISTAN DEFENCE FORUM > PAKISTAN ON BRINK OF DISINTEGRATION AMID CHAOS | DEMONSTRATORS DENOUNCE PAKISTAN RESOLUTION OF 1940 AND CHANT SLOGANS IN FAVOR OF "SINDH DESH".

Another wannabe REGIONAL INDO, PAK breakway province to add to Khalistan + Baluchistan.

and

* WAFF [old = Poster rehash]> IRANIAN TURKS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/25/2012 23:51 Comments || Top||


Study reveals trafficking of poor Chitrali girls
[Dawn] Trafficking of Chitrali girls in the garb of marriage goes on unchecked for last many years by professional human traffickers who take advantage of the poverty, ignorance and weaker social fabric of the area.

A study recently conducted by Regional Women Empowerment Project of Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP) reveals that 74 per cent of marriages of Chitrali girls with people from other districts, specially in Punjab, turn out to be fake.

It says that the trafficking of girls is done for exploitative domestic servitude, while there has been ample evidence of using such girls in the abhorrent prostitution trade. The study reveals the regrettable fact that if a woman becomes victim of trafficking, she compromises with the situation due to the fact that her family would not accept her back due to the stigma.

About grooms from other districts, it says that majority of them are above age 50 and already married, and introduce themselves as high government officers or land and business owners.

Unveiling the trafficking mechanism, the study puts the local 'middlemen' in centre of the dirty business, who introduce the groom to the girl's family and provide accommodation and transportation to him till the marriage is solemnised. The middlemen mostly target the households with poor financial condition and lure the parents by presenting a bright future for their daughters.

"The poor victims have no exposure and hold a wrong perception that all the people in central districts of the country are affluent and noble," the study goes and adds that these gullible people have no source of information to verify the claims of the prospective grooms.

About payment made to the parents or guardians, the report says that it ranges from Rs50,000 to Rs500,000 depending on the age and complexion of a girl, but over 50 per cent of the amount goes to the middleman.

About the factors responsible for unchecked women trafficking, the field study pointed out poverty, attraction of city life, negative customs and traditions, and lack of verification mechanism of the grooms and legal framework etc.

According to the study, the unfortunate victims are rejected both by their own families and the society in case of divorce, making them more vulnerable to the abuse on their return to native areas.

The study suggests that a proper mechanism should urgently be devised to check the information claimed by the prospective grooms and in case of any fraud they should be duly punished along with the middlemen, which is essential to saving future of Chitrali women.

Economic empowerment of womenfolk must be ensured by the government and non-government agencies so that they could not be a burden on others and contribute to the prosperity of their families, recommends the study.
Posted by: Fred || 03/25/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Something about ----DAWN---- and pathetic strtegic planning and little kids and leaders. What is the connection?
Posted by: Thromotle Thud7822 || 03/25/2012 8:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Left out the A oops!
Posted by: Kofi Lumplump4124 || 03/25/2012 8:55 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Mexico will seek extradition if Villarreal is arrested in the US
To read two general Rantburg reports on the Coahuila debt scandal, click here and here.

By Chris Covert
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The Mexican Procuraduria General de la Republica (PGR), or attorney general's office has submitted to US Department of Justice a request for provisional extradition of fugitive Javier Villarreal Hernandez upon his arrest, according to Mexican news accounts.

Villarreal Hernandez is being sought by Mexican authorities for his role in a debt scheme that drove the state of Coahuila into the deepest debt per capita of any state in Mexico. His alleged activities took place during his role as the Coahuila state Servicio de Administración Tributaria del Estado de Coahuila (SATEC), or tax collection service between 2009 and 2011.

Villarreal Hernandez has been on the run since December when PGR officials decided to begin investigating 12 former and concurrent Coahuila state officials for their role in gaining loans from local Coahuila state banks based on falsified documentation. Two officials, Jaime Rene Jimenez Flores and Jorge Lopez Alarcon, have been held by Mexican federal authorities since December, and are expected to go on trial for their alleged role in the scandal.

Five more former officials not including Villareal are subject to federal bench warrants. They cannot be served because all five have apparently fled Mexico. Officials include:
  • Miguel Ramon Rodriguez Flores formerly Tesoreria General del Estado de Coahuila, or Coahuila state treasurer.

  • Sergio Ricardo Fuentes Flores, formerly Administrador General de Politicas Publicas del SATEC, or Director of Public Policy under the Tax Administration Service.

  • Juan Manuel Froto Garcia, formerly General del Fondo de Garantias para el Impulso de la Micro Empresa del Estado de Coahuila, or Director General of the Guarantee Fund for the Promotion of Micro Enterprises of the State of Coahuila.

  • Enrique Ledezma Sanchez, formerly Subadministrador de Politicas PÃublicas del SATEC, under Undersecretary for Public Policy of the Tax Administration Service.

  • Jaime Rene Jimenez Flores formerly Director de Deuda Publica de Entidades y Municipios de la Unidad de Coordinacion con Entidades Federativas de la Secretaria de Hacienda y Credito Publico, or Director of Public Debt and Municipal Entities Unit Coordination with Federal Entities of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit.

Seven other officials have been subjected to investigation for their role last December. The legal fate of those officials is unknown. They are:
  • Juan Ochoa Jesus Galindo, Coahuila's concurrent finance secretary.

  • Carlos Mauricio Aguillen, ex Direccion General de Politica Financiera de la Secretaria de Finanzas, or Director General of Financial Policy of Coahuila finance ministry.

  • Victor Manuel Zamora

  • Miguel Ramon Rodriguez

  • Alfredo Vald"s Menchaca

  • Juan Manuel Delgado, a manager who worked for Coahuila.

  • Fausto Destenave, director general of the Comision Estatal de Aguas y Saneamiento de Coahuila, or Water and Sanitation Commission.

Last month Villareal Hernandez won an amparo suit delaying a Coahuila state re-arrest warrant for violating the terms of bail he posted last November. The bail condition that he check in with the state court periodically was set at the time, and then he apparently fled to the US. Villareal Hernandez has never checked in with the state court.

Villareal Hernandez and the five other officials listed fled the jurisdiction when it was learned they would be facing felony charges under the relatively new Credit Institutions Act of 2005. The state charges are minor charges netting less jail time.

Villareal Hernandez and his wife, Maria Botella, two unidentified children and an unidentified adult were arrested on charges of money laundering in Smith County, Texas last February incident to a traffic stop when USD $67,000 was found in the vehicle he was driving. Villareal Hernandez was released on USD $20,000 bond a week later.

It has not been disclosed who provided the bail and in what form the bail took.

The Spanish language report now says Villareal Hernandez may have fled to France.

The central figure in the Coahuila debt scandal, former governor of Coahuila Humberto Moreira Valdes, who oversaw the state government during the unprecedented run up of public debt has never been charged with a crime even though Mexican news reports say his treasurer was on the cc of one of the falsified documents.

The debt scandal, which began to unravel just after he became Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) president last year, dogged his tenure as PRI president until last December when he resigned his post. The pressure to resign came from both inside and outside his political party even though at first he attempted to deflect blame, and later protested he knew nothing about what was going on. The final act for Moreira was the Michoacan state gubernatorial election November 13th, a state the PRI barely managed to capture, even though Mexican press hopefully called it a bellwether for PRI fortunes in 2012.

In an informal exchange on a forum on BorderlandBeat.com, the writer known as Chivas said that Moreira was abroad, apparently in San Antonio where Moreira allegedly owns a multimillion dollar home.

This writer also writes Mexican Drug War news for BorderlandBeat.com

Current PRI president Pedro Coldwater has said Moreira was studying abroad for his masters degree. presumably in Texas.

Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com
Posted by: badanov || 03/25/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...and not Holder?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/25/2012 8:50 Comments || Top||

#2  I for one have absolutely no problem with the extradition of Mr. Hernanadez.... as long as he takes 11 million illegals with him! Send the busses.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/25/2012 12:21 Comments || Top||

#3  What I don't know, since I am not very well-informed on the internal politics of Mexicon, is whether the want him extradited so they can make sure he IS punished, or to see that he is NOT.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/25/2012 13:29 Comments || Top||


Britain
Another Gang of Islamic Child Rapists in the U.K. (this time Oxford)
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/25/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This shit is only coming out now under the David Cameron Govt.This thing has been covered up for years under the Labour Govt.
Posted by: Gruth McGurque5303 || 03/25/2012 9:50 Comments || Top||



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Steve White
Seafarious
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Fred
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Two weeks of WOT
Sun 2012-03-25
  Syrian Rebel Chiefs Form Military Council to Unify Ranks
Sat 2012-03-24
  At Least 26 Dead as Tens of Thousands Rally in Syria
Fri 2012-03-23
  German court gives online terror recruiter five year sentence
Thu 2012-03-22
  Gunman dead as French siege ends
Wed 2012-03-21
  French police in standoff with Jewish school killing suspect
Tue 2012-03-20
  Turkish Diplomat Says Two More Syrian Generals Defect
Mon 2012-03-19
  Heavy Shelling Kills 16 'Qaida' Fighters in Yemen
Sun 2012-03-18
  Five Killed In Bali Terror Raids
Sat 2012-03-17
  Qaeda suspects kidnap Swiss woman: Yemeni officials
Fri 2012-03-16
  Philly man arrested on charges of supporting Uzbeki terrorists
Thu 2012-03-15
   Karzai orders NATO out of all Afghan villages
Wed 2012-03-14
  Leon Panetta unhurt after suspected attack
Tue 2012-03-13
  U.S. Drone Attack In Pakistan Reportedly Kills 15 Suspected Militants
Mon 2012-03-12
  Army airstrikes kill 20 al-Qaeda militants in south Yemen
Sun 2012-03-11
  Syrian Ground Forces Storm Rebel Stronghold of Idlib, 62 Killed in Violence

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