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MIAMI -- Former Attorney General Janet Reno got up and sang Aretha Franklin's "Respect" at a Miami fundraiser Thursday night. The karaoke performance was caught on tape. Yes, it's painfully bad...
It happened at an event honoring the 10th anniversary of the Human Services Coalition. Proceeds went to help fight poverty.
Reno suffers from Parkinson's disease, but that hasn't stopped her public appearances. Recently, she gave speeches on law enforcement at the University of Iowa and Pennsylvania State University.
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Evan? Elians' british cousin? :-)
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I've always held that Reno was a pathetic dupe -out of her element. Eric Holder, Jamie Gorelick, and the other Justice Deputies were the evil ones: sharp, no ethics, no truthtelling morals, and totally Clintonite
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Frank, yes Eric Holder, Jamie Gorelick et al were and are dirtbags, agreed.
But Janet was a key player and certainly enabled treason.
Janet did yomens work for Clintoons, AlGORE, Sandy Burglar etc. by quashing ChinaGate and more.
.....in a 19-page court filing yesterday, Reno said, ``There are no reasonable grounds to believe that further investigation is warranted'' into an allegation that Gore lied to investigators last year about how a Democratic media fund was financed.
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On the day Attorney General Janet Reno declined, as expected, to order an independent counsel investigation of Vice President Al Gore over campaign fund raising, a public-interest legal group filed an explosive, omnibus racketeering lawsuit against Gore, President Clinton, the Loral Corp. executives, John Huang and the Democratic National Committee over what has become known as the "China-gate" scandal.
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PRC
China National Aero-Technology Import-Export Corporation
46 supercomputers rated at 2,000 MTOPS and ABOVE
Uses for supercomputers include: design and testing of nuclear weapons; sophisticated weather forecasting; weapons optimization studies crucial for the efficient use of chemical and biological weapons; aerospace design and testing; creating and breaking codes; miniaturizing nuclear weapons; and finding objects on the ocean floor, including submarines.
In 1994, sophisticated telecommunications technology was transferred to a U.S.-Chinese joint venture called HUA MEI, in which the Chinese partner is an entity controlled by the Chinese military. This particular transfer included fiber optic communications equipment which is used for high-speed, secure communications over long distances. Also included in the package was advanced encryption software.
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Commerce Secretary Ron Brown headed a trade mission to China. He is joined by Joseph Giroir and Bernard Schwartz. Schwartz is president of Loral Space and Communications.
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...Q. Your March 15th speech mentioned two major categories of technology that the Chinese were given: W-88 nuclear warhead capability and missile guidance technology. Has new information come to light about other formerly secret technology ending up in China?
A. Yes, we have learned that a great deal more of our once-secret technology has been compromised to China and other potential adversaries. The lost secrets include details about the neutron bomb, electromagnetic pulse weapons, re-entry vehicles, 50 years of information gathered from nuclear testing, every phase of nuclear weapon design, space radar capabilities, and even the procedures to simulate nuclear testing with computers. Also, data related to the use of other nuclear warheads such as the W-56, W-62, W-76, W-87 (for MX land-based missiles), and W-88 (for Trident submarine-based missiles). It is apparent that the ongoing cover-up of Chinas theft of nuclear secrets is one of the greatest national security scandals in American history. Secret files on virtually every technology used in the design of our nuclear arsenal have been compromised.
When it comes to buying souvenirs, anti-globalization activists have found a shopping paradise at the World Social Forum. From "Che" Gueverra T-shirts to books on "21-Century Socialism" and "Low-impact backpacking," Venezuela's street vendors are offering just about anything a leftist activist might want, eager to capitalize on the gathering of more than 60,000 people.
Any of the Che pics with mouse ears on them?
Activists are digging in their pockets for posters of Cuban President Fidel Castro or pins bearing photos of Vladimir Lenin and Colombian rebel leader Manuel Marulanda. Others are themselves selling handmade jewelry and political pamphlets to bankroll their trip to the Venezuelan capital.
A lucky few are snapping up talking dolls of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez -- the hero of this year's World Social Forum, an annual event timed to coincide with the market-friendly World Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
In one street market, French activist Rene Villepin (who may or may not be a man) haggled with a vendor before paying $30 for the talking "Chavecito," or "Little Chavez." The doll sports the Venezuelan leader's signature red-beret and at the push of a button says: "It's your dream, it's your hope and it's your job to be free and equal."
"I usually buy only reading material at these types of events, but I had to have one," Villepin said, smiling.
Chavez's image and the slogans of his leftist government seem to be everywhere at the six-day forum, which has drawn anti-globalization activists, peace advocates, labor leaders and intellectuals from around the world. Many hunted for interesting trinkets, but others urged fellow attendees to avoid certain "imperialist" products, like Coca-Cola and Pepsi.
In keeping with the event's distaste for corporate giants, forum organizers set up public computers running on the open-source operating system Linux, which unlike Microsoft's Windows is free, said Carlos Torres, a Montreal-based Chilean organizer.
I'm sure Bill Gates noticed.
The event brought out Venezuela's many part-time street vendors. Luis Escobar, a 38-year-old unemployed construction worker, was selling Chavez masks amid thousands of anti-war marchers during the forum's opening "anti-imperialist" demonstration. "They're going fast! They're going fast!" he called out to activists, holding up the mask which sold for $23. But privately he said he'd found few takers. "Nobody's buying," Escobar said in a low voice, adding that he opposes Chavez but doesn't mind capitalizing on the president's image.
Which is why Chavez is still around.
Hundreds of visitors from Europe, the United States and Latin America camped out in parks, some hawking their own items, from beaded necklaces to books on the Palestinian cause. Nestor Petrola, who came by bus from Argentina, offered copies of his "Worker's Weekly" newspaper in exchange for "a small contribution," or "whatever they can give." "It's not much, but it helps with travel costs," he said.
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those socialists are good marketers. They could make a fortune selling ice to eskimos. Everyone knows that their tonic to create utopia/cure baldness/enlarge breasts doesn't work, but they still make a fortune selling it.
A high-ranking Venezuelan army commander charged the US Embassy on Thursday with trying to persuade a group of Venezuelan military officers to hand over state secrets to the Pentagon. Armed Forces Inspector Gen. Melvin Lopez said navy authorities had opened a judicial probe into the case, which could further chill relations between Washington and the worlds fifth-largest oil exporter.
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Add this to the "list" of supposed anti-Chavez provications.
or is that a package of chiclets in your pocket? No doubt there'll be many of these in the run-up to Martial Law as Fidel Jr. tries to emulate the master
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A journey of 10,000 miles begins with a single step, or so the Chinese tell me. On the other hand, if you're on a treadmill it doesn't matter how fast you walk.
Pro-Kremlin party United Russia has proposed signing an anti-fascist pact with other political parties and public movements. The new document, signed by several parties already, is called the Anti-fascist Pact Agreement to Oppose Nationalism, Xenophobia and Religious Discord. Activities aimed at arousing national, racial or religious hatred is forbidden by law in our country, the agreement quoted on the partys Web site read. However, such activities must be also condemned morally. A social and information vacuum must be formed around those who profess and propagate fascism, racism, nationalism and xenophobia. They must become social outcasts.
United Russia has called for political parties and social organizations not to admit and to expel people with racist positions, who propagate national superiority, not to nominate or support candidates for parliament who propagate such ideas, and to condemn any such statement. The agreement has already been signed by such parties as the liberal Union of the Right Forces and the Russian Party of Liberal Democrats who often make nationalist statements.
The pro-Kremlin youth movement Ours, or Nashi, is planning to hold rallies commemorating the International Holocaust Day. They will be present outside a Moscow synagogue and a plaque there stating that 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust years in Europe and Russia. Jan. 27 was proclaimed the International Holocaust Day by the UN General Assembly, marking the 1945 liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by Soviet troops.
From LGF:
For immediate release: Friday, January 27, 2006
Contacts:
Jodie Evans, (310) 621-5635 (in Venezula and US)
Medea Benjamin, (58 416) 208-0134; (415) 235-6517
Cindy Sheehan to Dianne Feinstein: Fillibuster Alito or Ill Challenge Your Senate Seat
Caracas, Venezuela - Gold star mother Cindy Sheehan has decided to run against California Senator Diane Feinstein if Feinstein does not filibuster the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel Alito. While in Venezuela attending the World Social Forum, Sheehan learned that several Democratic Senators had announced their plans for a filibuster but that Senator Feinstein, whos up for re-election in November, had stated she would vote against the nomination but not filibuster it. Im appalled that Diane Feinstein wouldnt recognize how dangerous Alitos nomination is to upholding the values of our constitution and restricting the usurpation of presidential powers, for which Ive already paid the ultimate price, Sheehan said.
Note the presse contact: Medea Benjamin is the founder of Code Pink and a radical, thuggist Communist from way back.
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Whoa. Medea looks like a 10 years younger Cindy Sheehan. The future ain't pretty.
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If Cindy runs I will send her money. Living in Califoirnia it would give me great pleasure to watch that catfight while a GOP candidate slides in for a victory.
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Did Ms. Benjamin's parents saddle her with that appalling first name, or did she rename herself? Look up the story of Jason and the Argonauts in Hamilton's Mythology. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned--and Medea reacted to being scorned by killing her children.
Everyone thought the humuhumunukunukuapuaa was Hawaii's state fish. As it turns out, the brightly colored fish with the excessively long name has been dethroned.
The news shook the world of Rep. Blake Oshiro, who found out the designation was no longer official from Joel Itomura, a 6-year-old fish-loving son of a friend and constituent.
"I was really surprised," said Oshiro, who has drawn up a bill that would make humuhumunukunukuapuaa - also known as the rectangular triggerfish or "humuhumu" for short - the official state fish for the islands. The stubby-nosed, brightly striped and slightly aggressive little fish whose name few tourists even try to utter (it's pronounced HOO-moo-HOO-moo-NOO-koo-NOO-koo-AH-poo-AH-ah) is commonly believed to be the state's favorite. The fish figures into tourist trinkets, broadcast commercials and a much-beloved song about a little grass shack.
Much like its name, the fish's road to titlelessness is long and confusing. In 1984 the state Legislature asked the University of Hawaii and the Waikiki Aquarium to survey the public and come up with a candidate for the state fish. The humuhumu was swept into the spot in part through the support of school children who learned of the campaign through classroom projects.
Although the issue of the state fish would seem to come with little controversy, the method used to poll the public was questioned and lawmakers limited the designation to five years. No one told the public that the humuhumu's reign was over, so few knew anything had changed.
And the humuhumu has its opponents. State Rep. K. Mark Takai said he had objections to a similar bill a decade ago because many of his constituents were in favor of the oopu, a brownish, freshwater gobbie endemic to the islands, he said. The humuhumu is not unique to Hawaii, he said.
There is no lack of fish species specific to the islands. Thirteen species of wrass alone are found here and nowhere else in the world. But while humuhumu may call more than just Hawaii its home, it has a few undeniable attributes on its side - cuteness and unpalatability.
"Here's a cute little fish. It kind of looks like a pig and it squawks and everything," said Chuck Johnston, editor of Hawaii Fishing News. It's also a good candidate because no one eats a humuhumu, he said. Picking a popular game fish such as the ulua could be a problem if environmentalists push to protect the fish from fishermen, he said.
Johnston has asked Gov. Linda Lingle to give the fish the state title in perpetuity through an executive order. In her reply early last year, Lingle said that decision should instead be left to the public. She also pointed out that the humuhumu has not historically been held in very high regard, having been used by early Hawaiians as fuel for their fires, not their stomachs. While Johnston had originally advocated for the Pacific blue marlin two decades ago, his support now for the humuhumu is unwavering.
"The logical choice is the one that was already selected," Johnston said. "It has been there. He's been crowned."
THERE'S A PLACE IN HAWAII
THAT IS VERY DEAR TO ME
I AM HOMESICK AS CAN BE
WON'T YOU LISTEN TO MY PLEA?
I WANT TO GO BACK TO MY LITTLE GRASS SHACK IN KEALAKEKUA HAWAII
I WANT TO BE WITH ALL THE KANES AND WAHINES THAT I KNEW LONG AGO
I CAN HEAR OLD GUITARS A-PLAYING
ON THE BEACH AT HO'ONAUNAU
I CAN HEAR THE HAWAIIANS SAYING
"KOMO MAI NO KAUA IKA HALE WELAKAHAO"
IT WON'T BE LONG 'TIL MY SHIP WILL BE SAILING BACK TO KONA
A GRAND OLD PLACE THAT'S ALWAYS FAIR TO SEE.
I'M JUST A LITTLE HAWAIIAN AND A HOMESICK ISLAND BOY,
I WANT TO GO BACK TO MY FISH AND POI,
I WANT TO GO BACK TO MY LITTLE GRASS SHACK IN KEALAKEKUA, HAWAII
WHERE THE HUMUHUMUNUKUNUKUAPUAA GOES SWIMMING BY
WHERE THE HUMUHUMUNUKUNUKUAPUAA GOES SWIMMING BY
Britain, Nigeria and US software tycoon Bill Gates have unveiled a $56bn plan to prevent 14m tuberculosis deaths over the next decade.
Good idea. Make sure you use Islamic serum, though, otherwise it's not gonna work in Nigeria.
Speaking at the launch at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Mr Gates committed himself to tripling his own foundation's funding against TB from $300m to a total of $900m by 2015. Mr Gates, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown urged business and political leaders to back the new programme.
I'm wondering how much is going to be raked off by the pols and how much will actually buy treatment and immunization...
The Global Plan to Stop Tuberculosis aims to increase access to control programs and spur research on new ways to fight the disease, which was declared an emergency by 46 African countries last year. Mr Brown called on the G8 to formally designate TB - which kills 5,000 people daily - a top priority at its next meeting in July. $47bn of the cost of the plan would be for control of the disease and $9bn for research and development. TB is still one of the world's deadliest diseases and campaigners say it is responsible for killing one person every 15 seconds. 15 million patients in India account for nearly one third of the world's cases. If global controls are not strengthened, an estimated 1bn people will be infected by 2020 and 36m people worldwide could die. Few people today know how devastating the plague of TB used to be. It influenced entire generations with its unpredictable cruelty. The prospect of antibiotic-resistant strains is frightening.
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I remember sitting in the Abecorn restaraunt (well known for a terrorist bombing shortly afterwards) in Belfast in 1972. A man at the next table kept making a slight cough. The Irish girl with me, told me it was what they called the 'polite disease' = TB.
I'm no fan of BG, but kudos to him for helping tackle this scourge.
TB is one of the world's biggest killers, right up there with malaria and typhus. Anything we can do to control TB rebounds to our benefit. If Bill Gates wants to spend on money on this, great, he's the kind of guy who will make people accountable.
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That's what we're going to do before this war is over. The sooner we start, the sooner the war is over.
NEWPORT, Tenn. (AP) -- When agents swooped in last year with helicopters and machine guns in a raid on what was said to be the nation's largest illegal cockfighting pit, they shined new light on a tradition of good ol' boy vice in aptly named Cocke County. Moonshine, hookers and drug dealing had for decades been as much a part of the landscape as the foggy haze that settles over the community of 35,000 in the Great Smoky Mountains, along the North Carolina state line.
"You could go to Cocke County years ago and you didn't have to look very far to find trouble," District Attorney Al Schmutzer said. He recalled a $20,000 contract on his head in the late 1970s for breaking up an interstate prostitution ring that served - then robbed - customers at a truck stop brothel so brazen it had no fuel pumps.
Last June's cockfighting bust - which netted 143 arrests, the seizure of $40,000 in cash and capture of 305 fighting roosters - blew the lid on a four-year federal and state probe that suggested the bad old days were back again - or may have never left. Agents returned in the ensuing months to make a series of barroom sweeps for video-poker machines, prostitution and other graft.
Five sheriff's officers and two Newport police sergeants are now charged with a variety of offenses. The crimes include money laundering, drug dealing, witness tampering, insurance scams, stealing money from illegal immigrants during a traffic stop and receiving stolen NASCAR merchandise. The accused include the sheriff's nephew, a chief deputy. Three of the lawmen have pleaded guilty.
Last week, Sheriff D.C. Ramsey, whose own record includes an overturned conviction for extorting money from drunken driving suspects three decades ago, said he was quitting because of a heart condition and "all the negative publicity about myself and Cocke County." Court papers filed unsealed just days before the sheriff's resignation said the FBI was looking into allegations that the sheriff and his nephew took payoffs to protect gambling.
Ramsey, who unlike two of his predecessors has not been charged with a crime, said in his resignation letter, "I think it would be in the best interest of myself and Cocke County, which I dearly love, to step aside now so some good things can be said about our county." His letter was submitted to County Mayor Iliff McMahan, a Cocke County native who lived for years in Washington and has been on a mission to boost the picturesque area's tourism potential and show it has more to offer than "moonshine, marijuana and chop shops."
Nothing torpedoed those efforts more than last year's cockfighting bust, when 100 state and federal agents swept into the Del Rio Cockfight Pit in Parrottsville. As many as 700 people from several states wagered as much as $3 million there on a single Saturday night.
Some considered the $400,000 raid overkill. Republican Rep. Bill Jenkins complained the FBI was wasting resources for fighting terrorism and methamphetamine production "on a thing like cockfighting." The blood sport that pits roosters in a fight to death with razor-sharp spurs is illegal in all states except New Mexico and Louisiana. However, it is only a misdemeanor in 16 states, including Tennessee, which downgraded it from a felony in 1990.
A large majority of Germans associate the European Union with economic and social problems and as many as 84 percent fear jobs may be lost to EU countries where labour costs are lower. The figures appeared in a Eurobarometer study carried out on behalf of the European Commission and seen by the German newspaper Berliner Zeitung.
In the survey 64 percent said they saw loss of social standards and benefits as a problem. The European Union was not a solution to this, but rather part of the negative development. The survey was carried out among 1,534 citizens in October and November 2005. It showed that one in two Germans expected further European integration could result in an economic crisis. Fears of job-losses are generally leading to scepticism towards widening the bloc, with 59 percent saying no further enlargement should take place in the years ahead.
German business also noted negative impressions on Brussels. In a survey among members of the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce, a central organisation for 81 chambers, 76 percent said that the EU "interferes too much into business." Published by daily newspaper Die Welt, the poll showed a majority of 58 percent would like harmonised environmental rules in Europe and also harmonised tax-rules. But only 9 percent wanted labour market rules to be uniform across the EU.
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"A large majority of Germans associate the European Union with economic and social problems"
I'm sure it won't take long before their "betters" explain to them that it's really America's fault. More specifically, George Bush's.
After all, everything else is. Unless it's good, of course. Then it "just happened" in spite of America and Bush. :-(
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as many as 84 percent fear jobs may be lost to EU countries where labour costs are lower
No sh*t sherlok. Tends to happen in free trade zones. But Eastern Europe is not the source of your concerns. Look east. No, not Russia, further east. Past Mongolia. That's it...China. Your problem is, like everyone else's, that you can't compete with China. To do so would mean you'd have to give up that ol' German treasure...quality. There's your dilemma.
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I'm sure it won't take long before their "betters" explain to them that it's really America's fault. More specifically, George Bush's.
Blaming America for all problems, inciting people to hate America has been at the heart of the Europeist discourse and that since at least the end of the eighties when two crucial events happenned: 1) the collapsus of Soviet Union so Europeans no longer feared an invasion
2) When the EU began to evolve from a mere free market zone into a political entity. Mere geopolitics (ie the population and richness of the EU) and the need to constrain the population into an undemocratic (cf the constitution) entity with people they did not feel affinity (cf the indifference after the Madrid bombings) lead to the elites broadacsting an incresingly anti-american discourse. All while the Clinton administration applauded
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Hmmm....
Choice between a German made Zeiss camera or a Japanese digital likely manufactured in China?
Choice between a Mercedes or a Lexus?
Choice between German whine or Ozzie wine?
Who promotes business development and jobs more? The Commie government of China or the neo-Socialist bureaucratic government of Berlin and Brussels?
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One thing to remember is that the Germans, like the French and the Russians, like to be negative about things. By complaining, they show how clever and knowledgeable they are -- the "turn lemons into lemonade" outlook to them only demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of the pitfalls of the situation. One reason they respond so negatively to the congenital American cheerfulness when confronted with obstacles.
Not to say they aren't correct that the EU is a major cause of their problems. But they would have the same problems with competition for business and jobs under any other scenario, just under a slightly different timespan.
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Average hourly wage in Germany :$30
Average hourly wage in Poland: $5
You do the math. Using government to "harmonize tax rules" will not do anything but incentivize the talented to leave for greener pastures.
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See the post on Chancellor Merkel, above. She has a solution to this, even if her countrymen don't yet realize it.
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Germans and Europeans love to blame the "others." Not good idea. Seems thay haven't learned that lesson. Instead of fixing their structural problem it's someone elses fault. Like good Europeans the government must fix it and take care of them. Last time that didn't work out very well for the Germans. If the true figures came out for Germany, France the EU would crater.
By the way anti-US propaganda is endemic in the German and European press. It's been that way since we became a country. They don't just hate George Bush, they hate us. The sooner people in the US understand that the more sane our EU relationship will become. We have no obligation to defend or support those who hate us. We need to let the European Union and it's citizens understand that. They need to tone their BS down and focus on their real problems. Get that plank out of your eye you are ignoring before you try to pull the sliver I can see in mine out.
We have our faults and problems. You can read about them in our MSM. We are not ignoring them and hoping the government makes them go away. Only the lefist morons and Europeans expect perfection from us.
Anti-american propaganda has been endemic (in France it began with Napoleon III who wished to help the Confedearacy but faced a pro-Union public opinion) but it has really acquired a peculiar virulence in the 90s. For intance the history books in use when I graduated (written during the watch of Gaullist ministers, those supposedly anti-american gaullists) were generally positive about American involvement in WWII. Today's books teach the new generations of French that the guys who fell at Omaha did it to bring new markets to American companies. Oh, and Arte TV (a joint French-German public-funded cultural TV) lately broadcasted a documentary stating that Germans were just poor victims of Nazism and that the Holocaust was... America's fault, because Americans didn't bomb the railways leading to Auschwitz(1). Such things would have been unthinkable twenty years ago.
(1) The fact is that until the very end of 1943 daytime raids over by the VIIIth Air Force over Germany, and railways cannot be attacked at night, ended with from 20% to 25% of the bombers being downed. In other words four raids and no more bombers. But Auschwitz is in Poland and bombing Poland would have been far worse due to the longer time outside fighter escort. It was only by the end of 1943 that an improved Mustang was released who was able to escort the bombers as far as Berlin. And by begining 1944 that new tactics were designed (don't fly along the bombers thuis conceeding speed and altitude to the Germans) but go in front of the bombers and attack the German planes just after take off when they were still low and slow (ie vulnerable). So by the end of march 1944 the Mustangs had wiped off the Luftwaffe from German airspace but by then there were only two months remaining for softening the German positins before D-Day. What would have happenned if D-Day had failed due to using resources on Auschwitz (who was out of range even of the new Mustang) instead of on the Atalntic wall? While we are at it, why is that our leftist and pan-europeist historians never blame Soviet Union for not bombing the railways to Auschwitz? It was far closer to Soviet airfields than to British ones. Why no blame on the Soviets?
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JFM, the antipathy goes back forever. The French helped us in the Revolution on a my enemy's enemy is my friend basis. As soon as the war was over, the ways to subvert the new nation and regain a position in North America. M. Genet toured the U. S. in 1793 to subvert American neutrality in Franc's war with Britain and to stir revolutionary fervor in the U. S. This evolved to an undeclared naval war in 1797. So the antipathy goes way back because the bottom up anglospheric politics has always represented a threat to the top dsown power structures that run Europe.
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.
When it comes to buying souvenirs, anti-globalization activists have found a shopping paradise at the World Social Forum. From "Che" Gueverra T-shirts to books on "21-Century Socialism" and "Low-impact backpacking," Venezuela's street vendors are offering just about anything a leftist activist might want, eager to capitalize on the gathering of more than 60,000 people.
Britain, Nigeria and US software tycoon Bill Gates have unveiled a $56bn plan to prevent 14m tuberculosis deaths over the next decade.
NEWPORT, Tenn. (AP) -- When agents swooped in last year with helicopters and machine guns in a raid on what was said to be the nation's largest illegal cockfighting pit, they shined new light on a tradition of good ol' boy vice in aptly named Cocke County. Moonshine, hookers and drug dealing had for decades been as much a part of the landscape as the foggy haze that settles over the community of 35,000 in the Great Smoky Mountains, along the North Carolina state line.
A large majority of Germans associate the European Union with economic and social problems and as many as 84 percent fear jobs may be lost to EU countries where labour costs are lower. The figures appeared in a Eurobarometer study carried out on behalf of the European Commission and seen by the German newspaper Berliner Zeitung.
