Patsy Ramsey, the mother of slain child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, died on Saturday from cancer in Atlanta, the family's attorney told CNN. Ramsey's husband, John, was at her side when she died at about 3:30 a.m., attorney L. Lin Wood told the cable network. Ramsey, 49, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1993, underwent treatment and lived cancer-free for nine years, Wood said. Three years ago she suffered a recurrence, he said. JonBenet, 6, was found beaten and strangled in the family's Boulder, Colorado, home on December 26, 1996, in a case that remains unsolved. Her parents came under the Boulder police's "umbrella of suspicion," but a grand jury issued no indictments.
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Whatever happened, this woman has been through Hell. I do believe though that she knew what happened to her daughter - see the book Mindhunter .
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Mike, I believe she sure as hell knew something.
At a press conference not long after the girl's body was found, someone asked the mother if she had killed her child. She very calmly answered no, I did not kill my child.
I realize she was very media-savvy, but to show no outrage at such a suggestion? Something's not right.
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I was into this way back when. It's actually an interesting murder case - despite the headlines. It's a true Agatha Christie murder. The mother and father know what happened and the fact that they refused to cooperate causes me to have zero sympathy for them. I came to the conclusion that the mother could not have done such a brutal murder with those sexual overtones - but is either responsible/complicit in the death or there was sexual abuse going on prior to the murder that forced them into silence.
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not to imply that she killed another child - but I remember the phrasing was just very odd for a mother to refer to her own dearly departed daughter.
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Sexual abuse ? What the fig are they dressing up these little dolls for if not part of the orgy warm up and forplay. I'll bet most of these 'contestants' were/are tongue kissed before they are six.
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..What convinced me that they knew something was watching them at JonBenet's funeral. Did anyone notice that they were walking apart from one another - not even close enough to reach out a hand to each other at the worst moment of their lives together. Even as much as my ex and I loathed each other at the end of our marriage, we would have been beside one another at our child's funeral. They knew...and I'm inclined to agree with Manolo.
Mike
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For God's sake, can you all at least let the body cool?
This just in from the former Breadbasket of Africa...
(SomaliNet) Zimbabwe has registered a decrease in grain supply. This has resulted in the closing down of three of Zimbabwes major grain milling companies. "There is nothing at major millers. We have not been milling for two weeks now," commented an official at a milling company in Zimbabwes capital, Harare.
"We have no idea why this might have happened..."
There also complaints from grain milling companies in Zimbabwe that the Zimbabwe Grain milling Board has ignored them. "The major millers are without grain and we are not getting any explanation from the GMB, said another official.
No doubt they're investigating...
Zimbabwe has for a long time been suffering from the grain problem. "We last received grain in early June by rail from Mutare and we suspect it was imported from Beira," said a source from a major grain milling company in Zimbabwe. However, the government of Zimbabwe reveals that Zimbabwes harvests this year will sustain 12 million Zimbabweans. However, aid agencies do not buy the argument of Zimbabwes government. The Harare authorities two weeks ago began seizing maize from farmers with the GMB.
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By now any farmer in Zim (not related to Bob) knows that whatever they grow will be stolen. But the Miracle of Socialism will be kicking in any minute now...
It is criminal for leaders of such poor countries to look at socalism as some kind of "reformist" method to "alleviate poverty". That country is beyond recovery. Thanks jimmah.
DHAKA - Bangladeshs small Ahmadiyya Muslim community said on Saturday it feared attacks on their mosques, homes and people in the country by groups demanding they be declared non-Muslims. We are very worried about our safety in the face of continuing threats and intimidation, said Ahmed Tabshir Chowdhury, a senior Ahmadiyya leader.
Generally we are happy over the measures the government has so far taken to protect us against vandalism ... but we fear the bigots may launch sudden attacks on us, beyond their announced programmes, he said.
Sucks to live in a backward country, doesn't it.
The Ahmadiyyas number only about 100,000 among Bangladeshs 140 million people, 87 percent of whom are Sunni Muslims. Sunnis refuse to accept the Ahmadiyyas as Muslim because they do not believe Prophet Mohammad (may his gummas heal) was Islams last prophet, and have urged the government to formally declare them non-Muslims.
Last year the government banned Ahmadiyya publications, saying it was necessary to cool down protests and reinforce peace and safety.
On Friday, police prevented activists of Khatme Nabuwat, an umbrella organisation of radical Muslims, from attacking an Ahmadiyya mosque near Dhakas international airport. The group threatened to regroup and storm the mosque again later.
"We shall have Dire Revenge!"
We have conveyed our concern to the authorities and urged them to reinforce security, said Tabshir. Police said security around all Ahmadiyya installations had been tightened.
"Please don't let them kill us!"
A few months ago, an entire village in eastern Bangladesh rose in protest after a Ahmadiyya woman was buried at a Muslim graveyard. Police eventually convinced the villagers not to dig up her body, but told the Ahmadiyyas not to try it again.
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Windsor, regimental goat of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, has been demoted for refusing to keep in step at a parade for Queen Elizabeth II's 80th birthday, officers said on Saturday.
The 1st Battalion lance corporal's lack of decorum landed him in hot water during the bash at Episkopi British military base outside the southern resort of Limassol in Cyprus. "He was charged with disobeying a direct order... the commanding officer had no other option but to reduce his rank to fusilier," Captain Crispin Coates said.
The goat was marched before the CO after being reported for 'unacceptable behaviour' by his handler, also known as the goat major. Six-year-old Billy is on his first overseas tour since joining the regiment in 2001, and according to one parade onlooker is unlucky to be in the dog house. "I thought he was immaculately turned out on the night and marched quite well, but Billy does have a reputation for being a bit frisky and temperamental," he said.
Goats are not mascots but very much members of the regiment. They have their own serial numbers, and march at the head of the battalion. The origin of the custom is unknown but is thought to go back centuries. Queen Victoria presented the regiment with a Kashmiri goat from the royal herd in 1844, and successive monarchs have replaced them ever since.
Because he acted the goat, Billy's drop in rank means fusiliers no longer have to stand to attention when he passes by.
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N.B.: The near destruction of the Royal Welsh Fuisiliers was depicted in the movie "Zulu", with the bulk of the regiment being wiped out. Yet, a single company of the regiment held off the very superior Zulu forces at Rorke's Drift.
An excellent example of talented junior officers succeeding where their senior officers had screwed up.
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One my personal favs, the movie Zulu. Not a good showing by the locals however, galloping away and leaving the company on their own. My favorite actor was the fellow who played the RSM.
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No wonder Kashmiris are so damned arrogant.
Even their goats have to be saluted.
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Iff memory is correct, in the mid- to late 1990's a soldier in one of the Brit Guards regiments accidentally dropped his rifle while on parade attention. He was politely but forcibly transferred to another Brit army, non-Guards unit.
Colombia's left-wing guerrillas, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), have said they are prepared to negotiate with the government. Farc would talk to President Alvaro Uribe if he ended US-backed operations against them and demilitarised swathes of jungle territory, a spokesman said.
"Hey! Stop kicking our asses!"
The group is also prepared to exchange some 60 hostages, the spokesman told Venezuelan TV channel TeleSur. In recent months Farc has rejected any suggestions of formal negotiations.
Mr Uribe has stressed he will not agree to the guerrillas' terms. Mr Uribe, who recently won re-election to the presidency, has repeatedly said he will not halt operations against rebels and narco-traffickers, or withdraw security forces from rebel-dominated territory.
"We have them on the run, and we're going to keep them that way," he added.
A government spokesman told the Reuters news agency that position had not changed. Colombia's other main armed group, the ELN, is currently holding preliminary peace talks with Mr Uribe's government.
Farc spokesman Raul Reyes told TeleSur the organisation had "all the political will" to allow an exchange of hostages. Hostage-taking has played a key role in Colombia's conflict for many years. Former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt is thought to be among the hostages held by Farc, as are some 50 soldiers and police. Three Americans and some politicians are also in captivity. Farc wants to exchange them for some 500 rebel soldiers.
But Mr Reyes added that the group would only come to the negotiating table on its terms. "The Farc won't accept talks under the table, in private, outside the country or any place in Colombia with this government until these areas are demilitarised," he said. "It is Alvaro Uribe who will decide whether to continue the war or seek to sit down with the Farc."
Sounds like Mr. Uribe has already made his decision.
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Airbus has increased the sale price of its A380 superjumbo, whose problems have triggered a management crisis at parent company EADS. Airbus said the price of all its models - including the A380 - rose two weeks ago in a standard annual increase.
Typical Y'urp-peon socialism -- deliveries are delayed, demand has cratered, so let's raise the price!
The disclosure of a six-month delay to delivery of the A380 has thrown its Franco-German parent firm into turmoil.
The French government, a major investor in EADS, is under pressure to force management changes at the firm. French finance minister Thierry Breton has met with senior managers and is expected to put forward measures to rebuild confidence in the company within days.
According to the Financial Times Deutschland, the list price of the A380 - which will become world's largest airliner - rose by 4.7% to between 235.4m euros ($295.6m; £161.9m) and 251.6m euros ($316m; £173.1m) earlier this month. An Airbus spokesman confirmed that the price of all its models had risen but declined to comment on individual figures. The increases were in no way connected to the costly delays to the A380, he stressed. "Like every industry, we raise our list prices each year," he said.
"Whether the market lets us or not!"
Forced to scale back its A380 delivery targets for the next three years, Airbus is set to lose 2bn euros in earnings. It is also likely to face compensation claims from airlines having to wait longer for the new aircraft.
Senior executives have been severely criticised for their handling of the A380's problems and the way they communicated the news to investors.
Noel Forgeard, one of EADS' two co-chief executives, is under added pressure after selling share options in March weeks before the production problems first came to light. He has denied any wrongdoing but financial regulators are investigating movement in EADS shares in recent months.
Amid calls for the French government to increase its role in EADS, defence minister Michele Alliot-Marie said investors needed to address the firm's "structural problems". The firm's dual management structure - consisting of two chief executives and two chairmen representing German and French interests - has been criticised as unwieldy. "The situation must be improved," she said. "It is incontestable."
"Therefore, we shall remove the German executives," she added. "This will solve the problem according to us, no?"
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Priceless: "Like every industry, we raise our list prices each year," he said.
At the price I paid for my TV last year, I can get a new, larger, better model today. Same with the computer I bought 18 months ago. Same with the car I bought two years ago. Same goes for microwave ovens, fridges, skis, light-bulbs, train engines, medical devices, ...
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There are two problems with A380 which make it a castastrophe in the waiting.
1) Logistics, and not what is usually mentioned here regarding runways and gates, but furhter. What do you do, passenger wise, when one of these 800 person flights is canceled?
2) If one ever goes down, and I hope not, the operator (airline) is going to face massive law suits because of scope. Couple this with news of quality problems and you've got a major problem.
Each of these will cause horrible press, long litigations, and a worry from the operators once either occurs for the first time.
Add rising fuel costs and you've got a logistic nightmare for the operators. I suspect A380 will not penetrate as far as the PR from Airbus over last 5 yeast has indicated.
You'll see it only for trans-national ocean crossings.
Besides, regional jets are exploding around the globe, smaller and more flexible will probably win. When you can go down to local airport, pay $50 for an air-taxi ride, that will kill A380.
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I know that they are heavily subsidized, but aren't they sorta/kinda expected to turn a profit? Or am I just being a silly American when I say stuff like that?
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Yes, they are sorta/kinda expected to turn a profit--but only until pursuit of profit conflicts with vainglorious French industrial policy. Which is why BAE and Daimler-Chrysler are looking to reduce their equity stakes in Airbus. BAE is planning on getting out altogether.
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1)...What do you do, passenger wise, when one of these 800 person flights is canceled?
Typical passenger configuration for the A380 is 550, compared to 416 for the 747-8. Not a big deal.
2) If one ever goes down...the operator (airline) is going to face massive law suits because of scope. Couple this with news of quality problems and you've got a major problem.
Airlines are usually well protected with specific laws and treaties or contracts. As well they should be. The industry isn't entirely risk free, obviously.
You'll see it only for trans-national ocean crossings.
It's meant primarily for the Asian market and some US destinations.
Besides, regional jets are exploding around the globe, smaller and more flexible will probably win.
except that the 380 isn't competing in the regional market.
From an aeronautical point of view the 380 is a great aircraft and I hope it becomes successful like the 747 before it. Interestingly, it's not that much bigger than the 747-8 span-wise and length-wise.
Ratko Mladic, the war crimes fugitive, is near to death after suffering his third stroke, it emerged yesterday. According to local reports in Belgrade, loyalists protecting the former Bosnian Serb army commander were already discussing where to bury him. "Ratko Mladic is in a critical state and there is little chance of him surviving," the daily newspaper Kurir quoted a "well-informed source" as saying. The story could not be verified independently.
Mind if we see the body?
Mladic, 64, is wanted on charges of genocide in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Muslims and the 1992-95 siege of Sarajevo, in which 10,000 civilians died. His handover to the UN war crimes tribunal is a key condition for Serbia's eventual European Union and NATO membership. Mladic's death, were it to occur, would resolve a major dilemma for the government of Serbia, where many people regard him as a war hero rather than a war criminal and would regard his arrest and extradition as an act of treason. The EU suspended talks with Serbia and the United States blocked aid last month when another deadline for his capture passed. Mladic has been on the run since 2001.
NEW DELHI: Women who have fallen victim to police high handedness have finally some good news. The core of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act was notified on Friday.
As per the provisions of the law outlined by the home minister Shivraj Patil no women can be arrested after sunset and before sunrise except in exceptional circumstances.
The police will also be required to give information about the arrest of a person as well as place of detention to anyone who may be nominated by the accused. A provision for compensating a person who has been detained by the police without any valid ground has also been made.
The government is also considering changing the definition of rape. The definition is not scientifically correct and we are in the process of formulating a draft, which will define rape. The sentence for a rape accused could also be modified. It is being considered whether 10 years of imprisonment was enough or life imprisonment could be awarded, said Patil.
The government, he said, has also decided to make plea bargaining, a new concept, part of the statute to allow the settlement of cases between the accused and the victim through various measures including compensation. This would only apply to offences carrying jail terms less than 10 years and would have to be done through a court.
Though all other provisions of the CrPC amendment bill were notified and brought into effect on April 12, 2006, plea bargaining was left out deliberately as the Parliamentary Standing Committee had recommended setting up of an independent prosecuting agency for success of this provision, Patil said.
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unbeliveable they have to do this. I forget, which century is this?
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It's grand that they are doing it at all. Remember that Indian jurisprudence came to a screeching halt after independence from Britain. So they ended up with a legal system half British/half Indian, partly frozen in the 1940s, and with the Indian version of socialism mixed in, in convoluted ways.
With Bush opening up India like Nixon did China, all sorts of new ideas are flooding in. It is also of great help that their PM is a Sikh.
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Actually several Justices of the US Supreme Court have visted India. They have had consultations with Indian Supreme Court Justices and decisions of the USSC have been cited in judgements of the Indian courts. They are not binding of course but the reasoning behind them (Scalia's arguments etc) carry great weight.
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The United States said on Friday it saw no need for new international agreements at a U.N. conference opening next week to weigh a tightening of a five-year-old crackdown on illegal trafficking in small arms. "The purpose of this conference is simply to follow up on activities authorized by the 2001 conference, and we don't see any need for treaties or agreements coming out of this," said John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
The June 26-July 7 conference was called to review a 2001 U.N. action plan against the $1 billion-a-year trade in small arms, which as defined by the United Nations range from pistols and rifles to grenades, mortars and shoulder-fired anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles. The 2001 plan set out broad guidelines for national and international measures to better track arms sales, manage government stockpiles and destroy illicit weapons.
Anti-gun activists say they want the 2006 review conference to back a new treaty or, failing that, international guidelines governing arms transfers. Those would aim to prevent, for example, deals with criminals or terrorists, or for use in a genocide or in violation of a U.N. arms embargo.
Bolton saw "no need for that," he said.
Ahead of the U.N. meeting, the U.S. National Rifle Association, a strong supporter of the George W. Bush administration, has warned its members of a July 4 plot to finalize a U.N. treaty stripping citizens of all nations of the right to own guns -- a charge with no basis in fact so it is claimed.
Americans mistakenly worried about the U.S. Independence Day conspiracy have flooded the world body with more than 100,000 letters demanding the nonexistent treaty's defeat. "Illicit trafficking of light weapons is something that can exacerbate conflict situations, but the responsible use of firearms is a legitimate part of national life" in the United States, Bolton said.
"We are not out to take guns away from Americans," U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Friday. "The intention is to ensure that guns do not get into the wrong hands and are used for the civil wars that we see around the world," Annan told reporters. "We are often concerned about weapons of mass destruction, and yet most of the killing taking place today, whether in (Sudan's) Darfur or Congo or elsewhere, is done by small arms."
"Therefore, you Americans should not mind if we regulate them some more. And when that doesn't work, regulate them even more," Mr. Annan added.
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"We are not out to take guns away from Americans," U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Friday.
No you're not. The last Dude to try that got a clear and unquestionable message at the bridge at Concord Massachusetts. The first Bridge too far. The end result was he and his followers ended up out of America. Since "We the people" have had enough political double talk for generations, your little 'redefining' isn't going to work either. Hope you enjoy Geneva boys.
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The UN is nothing if not tactless. Remember that map produced by a UN bureaucrat that proposed moving the entire population of the US to its coasts, and converting the majority of the continent to empty preserve?
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...An acquaintance of mine works for a fairly well known strategic think tank, and some years back he had the opportunity to meet one of his opposite numbers from what had been the Soviet Union. Eventually they got around to the subject of a possible Soviet invasion of the US a la Red Dawn . The Russian's response was horrified. "Are you mad." he asked. "We worked on the assumption that almost every adult male - and most of the juvenile ones - had access to a firearm and wouldn't have been afraid to use it. A physical invasion of the US, no matter how militarily weak, would have been suicidal."
If we had the Red Army that rattled, imagine what the Tranzi/UN crowd thinks of us.
Mike
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Reminiscent of Yamamoto
You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass Japanese Admiral Yamamoto, 1941
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Yamamoto and the Red Army are fools, invading the US is child's play.
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"We are not out to take guns away from Americans," U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said
You bet your ass, you're not! There's an estimated 200 million small arms in the USA alone! Even the Soviet Union wasn't suicidal enough to seriously contemplate an invasion of the US outside the boundaries of a full-scale nuclear exchange (and I think the idea gave them the willies even then).
Go ahead, Coffee - give it your best shot! Some phrase about cold dead fingers comes to mind (though I'm betting the cold dead fingers would be yours and anyone who backed ya')...
On a Web site for gay South Asians, 27-year-old Syed Mansoor uploaded the following message last summer: "Hi, I am looking for a lesbian girl for marriage. I am gay but I would like to get married because of pressure from parents and society. I would like this marriage to be a 'normal' marriage except for the sex part, please don't expect any sexual relationship from me.
"Being an Indian gay person, I believe it is so much worth it to give up sex and have a nice otherwise normal family. We can be good friends and don't have to repent all our life for being gay/lesbian."
Across the globe and especially in America, hundreds of other gay Muslims have started to pursue marriages of convenience--or MOC, as they are known-- in which gay Muslims seek out lesbian Muslims, and vice versa, for appearances' sake.
Mansoor works as an accountant in New York and is a devout Muslim. He abstains from drinking alcohol or eating pork and is particular about offering early morning prayers. To his friends on Wall Street, he is a financial whiz; to his parents, a devoted son. But Mansoor is also part of a burgeoning trend of gay Muslims adopting marriages of convenience. Hard statistics are hard to come by, but on a single Web site for South Asian gays and lesbians seeking such marriages, almost 400 requests had been uploaded.
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C'mon now. Gay/lesbian Episcopalians don't live in fear of their own families. And, they're allowed to marry someone they actually want to be intimate with -- and even have it officiated by a gay cleric. And no one will ever laugh and say "this person is Episcopalian?"
Maybe it's fucked up, but at least no one gets threatened or killed.
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But wouldn't the "when are you getting married?" questions only be replaced by "when are you having kids?" questions?
I'm not saying that they should come out (obviously a bad idea if they are risking death, literally, by being gay/lesbian), but I'm not sure how a marriage of convenience would make their lives that much easier.
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Interestingly enough, homosexuals should be given a lot of credit in the Moslem world for rocking the boat. A lot of them risk their lives to challenge not just the anti-homosexual Sharia laws, but also those laws that try to control people based on their gender.
In Egypt, for example, they have been holding what are being called "homosexual marriages", with 50-300 attendees. When the police raid them, they claim ignorance and act horrified at the very thought of attending a forbidden mixed-gender party, accusing the police of encouraging immorality by even questioning why everyone at the party is male.
Culturally it is permitted for men to hold hands and even sort-of kiss, so it is hard as hell to prove that everybody there is homosexual. And since the whole society is inhibited about even discussing such things, a public trial just makes matters worse.
Lesbians get away with even more, outside of forced marriages, because they can only be dealt with by female police. On top of everything else, women in phony marriages control their own finances and can run a business without interference, and are even out of the grasp of the males in their own family.
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.
Patsy Ramsey, the mother of slain child beauty queen 
(SomaliNet) Zimbabwe has registered a decrease in grain supply. This has resulted in the closing down of three of Zimbabwes major grain milling companies. "There is nothing at major millers. We have not been milling for two weeks now," commented an official at a milling company in Zimbabwes capital, Harare. 
DHAKA - Bangladeshs small Ahmadiyya Muslim community said on Saturday it feared attacks on their mosques, homes and people in the country by groups demanding they be declared non-Muslims. We are very worried about our safety in the face of continuing threats and intimidation, said Ahmed Tabshir Chowdhury, a senior Ahmadiyya leader.
Windsor, regimental goat of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, has been demoted for refusing to keep in step at a parade for Queen Elizabeth II's 80th birthday, officers said on Saturday.
Colombia's left-wing guerrillas, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), have said they are prepared to negotiate with the government. Farc would talk to President Alvaro Uribe if he ended US-backed operations against them and demilitarised swathes of jungle territory, a spokesman said.
Airbus has increased the sale price of its A380 superjumbo, whose problems have triggered a management crisis at parent company EADS. Airbus said the price of all its models - including the A380 - rose two weeks ago in a standard annual increase. 
