The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
Superior, they said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy....
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That song always sends shivers down my spine... it really is very powerful.
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I remember looking it up years ago.
The ship was long and skinny(To fit through th locks) and twisted, she was found ripped apart in the center.
They realised the design was the cause, and scrapped plans to build any more Long skinny Lakers.
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THE locks, fingers not working right this morning, sorry.
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At least that tune has pushed those other songs out of my head for a while.
Oh, no, here comes on now... "Hot stuff, mumble mumble now
Hot stuff, mumble mumble...."
(Xinhuanet) --U.S. troubled actress Lindsay Lohan wants to open her own rehab facilities, according to media reports Tuesday. Good idea. She can live over the store.
Lohan's mother said on Monday that Lohan's experience at the Betty Ford Center has led her to want to open rehab centers for other young troubled people.
"We take it one day at a time, addiction is difficult. I don't know, I don't have a crystal ball. I pray hard and I hope she will be able -- she wants to start her own facilities, help other children. She is so public that I think we can only be positive and look to the future to help other families."
The 24-year-old actress is currently being treated at the center in southern Caliphornia, famed for treating stars, in what is her fifth stint in rehab in three years. She was ordered by a judge last month back to the drug and alcohol rehab until January, after failing a random drug test.
The former teen idol's movie career has been derailed for three years because of failed drug tests, missed alcohol education classes, stints in rehab and three brief spells in jail. And because she's not all that good ...
This article starring:
Betty Ford Center
Lindsay Lohan
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[El Universal] Venezuela's His Excellency President-for-Life, Caudillo of the Bolivarians Hugo Chavez is an "anti-US dictator" similar to his Zimbabwe's counterpart Bob Muggsy Mugabe. He is bringing his country to "ruin," said former US President George W. Bush in his memoirs entitled Decision Points that went on sale on Tuesday in the United States.
In the chapter entitled Freedom Agenda, in which Bush discusses the democratic situation in several countries, the former US president considered that with Chavez's inauguration, Venezuela "also diverted from democracy," DPA reported.
"Unfortunately, (Chavez) squandered the money of Venezuelans and is bringing his country to ruin," he said.
Chavez "has become the Bob Muggsy Mugabe of South America," Bush wrote. He regretted that other regional leaders, particularly those of Nicaragua, Bolivia and Ecuador, "are following suit with Chavez."
Among the "other isolated outposts of tyranny," Bush mentioned Cuba along with Belarus, Myanmar and Sudan.
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Would that make Obummer the Mugabe of North America?
(Itar-Tass) - Republican Senators Lindsey Graham ...the endangered South Carolina RINO...
and John Maverick McCain ... the former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution... stand for ratification by the US Congress' Senate of a new Russian-American treaty on further reductions of strategic offensive arms (New START), however, they doubt that it will happen. The US senators made this statement in an interview published in the press on Monday.
Graham said that he would definitely love to have this treaty ratified. If it is possible to reduce the number of nuclear warheads and launch platforms, while maintaining the deterrence option, that is fine, he noted. According to him, it would be good both from an economic point of view - as it will reduce costs, and from the national security viewpoint, if a simultaneous decision is made on the modernisation of the remaining nuclear systems.
Senator Graham also said that he, however, sees a danger that the new members of the Congress do not want to take the risks. He said he would like to see this issue settled. McCain noted for his part that he does not know, however, whether this will work out.
The New START Treaty (for STrategic Arms Reduction Treaty) is a bilateral nuclear arms reduction treaty between the United States and the Russian Federation. It is a follow-up to the 1991 START I treaty, which expired in December 2009, and to START II and the 2002 Treaty of Moscow (SORT), which was due to expire in December 2012. Prolonged talks were conducted by US and Russian delegations in Geneva, led on the American side by US State Department Assistant Secretary Rose Gottemoeller. The Russian delegation was headed by Anatoly Antonov, director of security and disarmament at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Presidents Barack B.O. Obama and Dmitry Medvedev then announced on 26 March 2010 that they had reached an agreement. The new treaty was signed on 8 April 2010 in Prague by Obama and Medvedev.
If ratified, the treaty will limit the number of deployed strategic nuclear warheads to 1,550, which is down nearly two-thirds from the original START treaty, as well as 30 percent lower than the deployed strategic warhead limit of the 2002 Moscow Treaty. It will also limit the number of deployed and non-deployed inter-continental ballistic missile (ICBM) launchers, submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) launchers, and heavy bombers equipped for nuclear armaments to 800. Also, it will limit the number of deployed ICBMs, deployed SLBMs, and deployed heavy bombers equipped for nuclear armaments to 700.
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#1,and 2 Couldn't agree with you more. This is what they do. It will be more of the same with them around. They will attack their own party with more vitriol than they would Dem's.
McCain needs to join Soros in the "hurry up and die before you do even more harm" club. Thank you for your service, now apologize for the harm you've done since then on Capitol Hill.
And Graham had better enjoy his final term - he is getting a primary opponent who will beat him. How this douchebag RINO ever go elected in SC is a mystery to me. I wonder if the TEA Party people in SC will run Tim Scott against him in 2014? Whoever they run against him, I'll give money to.
I'm sure it was expected that gov't would mandate all this crap and force the purchase of this technology. They were trying to get a jumb on the ordered consumption.
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And the CCX in Chicago is closed. I hope Soros and Gore lost some skin in that one rather than some gullible "global warming" suckers.
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Hello #2; CSX is hiring in the East. Many going to retire. Year hire 2000 will be senior people.
You go on line take an English test then math test and upon successfully doing that you pass go or go to Jail(a little monopoly talk he,he).
DUBLINWith doubts swirling about the solvency of the Irish state in early September, Finance Minister Brian Lenihan summoned a dozen senior government and bank officials to a conference room nicknamed the "torture chamber," a nod to its history as a venue for painful meetings.
For two years, Ireland had poured money on a raging banking crisis, to no avail. Each estimate of the rising price of rescuing Ireland's banks turned out too low. Mr. Lenihan needed to halt the drip-drip of bad news that was leading his country to ruin. "I want a final figure ASAP," he told the group.
Two weeks later, the estimate came in: Up to 50 billionnearly $50,000 for every household in the Emerald Isle.
But now, investors are betting the bill could be higher still and could reignite Europe's sovereign-debt crisis. The unpopular government is bracing for collapse, and on Tuesday, Irish government bonds continued a week-long slide to a fresh record low. The debt is judged as risky as Greece's was this spring just before that nation begged for a European Union bailout.
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FTA: Desperate to preserve the homegrown banking system, the governmentblind to just how sour Irish loans had goneyoked the fate of the nation to the fate of its banks. Along the way, the government was hobbled by faulty information from outside advisers, from a trust-and-don't-verify regulatory culture and from the troubled banks themselves.
This sounds just like the ol' USA.
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BP- Of your list, Detroit easily meets items one and two, and is nowhere close to three and four. Worst of all is a fifth category - quality of state and local government. Cheap and plentiful housing, much of it simply abandoned awaiting repair, typical US consurmer goods availability, the home of rigid and recalcitrant unionization, moribund industry, and awful governance - though they're just beginning to fix that.
(KUNA) -- The European Commission released here Tuesday its annual enlargement reports which includes the current state of preparations, the challenges ahead, and the way forward for Western Balkan countries, Turkey and Iceland.
Presenting the report in a presser this evening, EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy Stefan Fulle said "despite overall progress in 2009, we are concerned that Turkey's accession process is losing its momentum." "The key to changing this is primarily with Turkey, which is expected to fully implement its current contractual relations with the EU - the Customs Union - before it it can gear up to full membership of the Union," he said.
The report concluded that Turkey has made progress in meeting EU membership criteria, in particular through the reform of its constitution.
However, The infamous However... it noted that further results are needed as regards fundamental rights, in particular to assure freedom of expression in practice.
Full implementation of the obligations under the Customs Union and progress towards normalisation of relations with Cyprus are needed before the country can advance more vigorously in its accession negotiations, said the report.
Turkey began EU accession talks in 2005 but only 13 of the 33 areas of negotiation - known as "chapters" - have been opened till now and only one chapter completed.
The European Commission proposed candidate status for Montenegro, and recommended that accession negotiations with Montenegro and Albania should be opened once these countries have met a number of key conditions and priorities.
The EU's executive body confirmed that Croatia is entering the final phase of its accession preparations.
Accession negotiations with Iceland were launched in July and Serbia's EU membership application is being processed.
The European Commission renewed its 2009 recommendation that accession negotiations with Macedonia should be opened, and reconfirmed the European perspective for Bosnia Herzegovina and for Kosovo.
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[Al Jazeera] Barack B.O. Obama, the US president, has said he is making progress towards ending the mistrust between Mohammedan countries and the United States, but that the effort is incomplete. Obama flew from India to Indonesia, his former boyhood home, on Tuesday for the second leg of his 10-day Asia trip.
At a joint news conference with Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the Indonesian president, Obama said his efforts to improve the relationship between Mohammedans and the West had been "earnest" and "sustained".
However, The infamous However... he said the progress was "incomplete" and there was more work to do.
Obama also said he did not think "we're going to completely eliminate some of the misunderstandings and mistrust".
The president said he wanted to make sure the US is "building bridges and expanding our interactions with Mohammedan countries". He needed TOTUS to say all that boilerplate?
During their meeting in Jakarata, the Indonesian capital, Obama and Yudhoyono signed a "comprehensive partnership" that they had agreed to a year ago, including co-operation on economic and security issues.
Though religious extremism often dominates the tensions between the Mohammedan world and the West, Obama said the relationship must expand beyond security issues.
At the news conference, Obama also criticised Israel's plans to build about 1,300 new apartments in disputed East Jerusalem.
"This kind of activity is never helpful when it comes to peace negotiations," Obama said.
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At the news conference, Obama also criticised Israel's plans to build about 1,300 new apartments in disputed East Jerusalem.
Just think what a wonderful world we would have if it wasn't' for the Juice.
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I thought Muslims were opposed to ties because they're cross-shaped or something.
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"we're going to completely eliminate some of the misunderstandings ..."
What Bozo doesn't understand is that it's not the "misunderstandings" that are the problem. It is the understanding that Muslims want to kill or enslave us all, especially the Jews and Hindus. There's no misunderstanding there for anyone that's paying attention despite the obtuseness of the left or tacquiya (sp) on this point.
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For BHO to criticize Israel in a country that does not recognize Israel was a break from diplomatic tradition (and pretty despicable).
For BHO to ignore the persecution of Christians, Hindus, etc. in Islamic lands is pretty much par for the course (W pretty much ignored it also).
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kicking ass and taking names for 235 yrs
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Y'all might find this interesting. I was ALMOST a Marine.
I enlisted the Navy in march 1966 and when we got to Great Lakes (Boot camp) we were all seated in a huge auditorium and they announced "As recruiting is down, You first ten are now Coast Guard, You second thirty are Now Marines, and the rest are Navy".
Well since I enlisted Navy, and as I wasn't in the first 40 all was well, then as we left A JG blocked the door and said Y'all are Marines too, we need more than thirty, I spoke up "I enlisted as Navy, I'm already sworn in, and either you move or I'm going to walk over you"
(I enlisted under a special program, as I was already a Machinist, I was an E-3 from the start, I didn't think the marines needed Machinists and figured they'd take it away)
He moved.
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Now it was downhill all the way. Brushing aside roadblocks, snipers, and attempted ambushes, the two regiments crashed down toward Hagaru. Coming toward the friendly lines, some of the Marines tried to sing. Others marched in, erect, in column, picking up a cadence without order. Men so tired they could hardly stand, who had fouled themselves repeatedly from raging dysentary, who had frostbitten faces and fingers and who were weak from hunger, made one final effort - and marched in like Marines.
This Kind of War, Changjin Reservoir, T.R. Fehrenbach
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I think this ties in nicely with the article yesterday about Ted Rall threatening to "take up arms." Go ahead, Ted: take a couple of shots at that Marine rifle platoon over there and lemme know how it works out for you.
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(KUNA) -- Scholars and experts on Islamic ecological and environmental matters stressed that the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have a profound role to play in spreading and propagating the Islamic message on environment.
"The Gulf countries have a major role in promoting environmental issues. They are the leaders and they follow the example of Prophet Mohammad (Peace Be Upon Him). He was a leader in promoting all aspects of ethics and today one of our main ethical problems is the environmental problem," Dr. Mawil Izzidien, a lecturer in religion and Islamic Studies at the University of Wales, UK, told KUNA.
He said several Gulf countries likes Kuwait and Soddy Arabia are doing a lot of work on environmental issues.
The first green book on Islam and the environment was published some two decades ago in Jeddah, Soddy Arabia and has been republished seven times, he said.
Izzidien said the Mohammedan world needs to move from the theory to practice and needs to establish chairs at the universities on Islam and environment.
Izzidien taught in King Abdul Aziz University in Soddy Arabia and in 1980 the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society published his first study on the subject of environment.
He is considered to be the world's leading authority on the subject and is the author of the book "The environmental Dimensions of Islam." He is also the founding member of the Association of Mohammedan Social Scientists.
"I am appealing now through KUNA for the establishment of a chair on environment. There is no chair till now on Islam and environment," he said.
"There is a need to start this chair in Europe and I am happy to help in any way that I can. These kinds of chairs need to be established in the Arab-Mohammedan world but first it has to be in Europe to give it more effect and resonance," he clarified.
Izzidien said he is very optimistic about the increasing awareness of Islam and the environment in the world.
On his part, Director of Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Sciences based in Birmingham, UK, Fazlun Khalid told KUNA that the GCC countries have a profound role to play.
"They need to support this movement. First they have to take it upon themselves and realize the value of the Islamic message on environment," he said.
Since mid 1980s, Khalid said he has devoted his energies to promoting Islamic environmentalism in both its theological traditional beliefs.
He is recognized as the foremost expert on ecology from the Islamic perspective.
"We work with anybody who would work with us, NGOs, with governments and academics. Our reputation is to producing successful results on the ground," he said, pointing to his successful projects in stopping fishing by dynamites in Zanzibar, working with madrasas in Indonesia and reforestation in Pakistain.
Both the Mohammedan experts were invited by the European Parliament in Brussels on Monday to listen what Islam has to say about environmental issues.
"There are very, very positive Islamic environmental messages that can be got out and the GCC countries could be profoundly important in this area of concern," stressed Khalid.
"We inherited a planet that was livable and we need to leave a legacy of planet that can be lived by our children. Islam has not only a profound and important message to give to the world on environmental issues but it also has the solutions," he told KUNA.
"The Arab and Mohammedan world should take theses teachings and publicize them and take it on their education system. Non-Mohammedans are amazed by the teachings of Islam on environment," he added.
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[Al Arabiya] A long dispute between Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards and the Heritage Authority at the predominantly Arab province of Khuzestan ended with the demolition of the palace of Feilieh, one of the landmarks of Ahwazi culture in Iran.
A military force destroyed the palace of Sheikh Khazaal al-Kaabi, the ruler of the then semi-autonomous Sheikhdom of Muhammarah, now called Khorramshahr, and the last Arab prince in Iran, local press reported. The mansion, which overlooks the Shatt al-Arab waterway, is commonly known as the Feilieh Palace and is considered an integral part of the Ahwaz heritage.
After failing to stop the demolition of the palace, Hassan Mohseni, front man of the Heritage Authority, said the authority will file a complaint against the Revolutionary Guards, according to the semi-official Fars News Agency.
The Feilieh Palace was built in 1917, eight years before the end of Arab rule in the Khuzestan province, and was listed as a cultural heritage site under the number 2845.
The demotion of the Feilieh Palace demonstrates the growing chauvinistic attitude of the Iranian regime towards the Arab minority as well as the collaboration of the authorities in Khuzestan, said Yousef Azizi, Ahwaz journalist and human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... activist and secretary general of the Association against Anti-Arab Discrimination in Iran.
"Some officials in the province of Khuzestan try to cater to the needs of the Iranian government and they did that to satisfy their accomplices in Tehran," he told Al Arabiya.net.
"The main purpose of the Iranian government is to erase the Arab heritage in Iran through demolishing all proof of its existence."
Azizi added that the demolition is also motivated by the government plan to take advantage of the priceless land on which the palace was located.
"Because of the corruption that pervades its institutions, the Revolutionary Guard is not only dominating political decision making but also the economy."
The Feilieh Palace, Azizi added, is not the first cultural site that suffers this fate. The government also demolished the palace of Sheikh Abdul-Hamid, son and heir of Sheikh Khazaal al-Kaabi in the city of Ahwaz, the capital of Khuzestan, and turned it into a parking lot.
"The government also demolished another palace that belonged to Prince Khazaal in the city of al-Hamidiya north of Ahwaz city. It was leveled to the ground," Azizi said.
Khuzestan would do better as a province of Iraq ...
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The Feilieh Palace was built in 1917
Not even a century old? They've got about as much cultural heritage as one of Saddam Hussein's little gold and marble palaces.
The Orlando Sentinel reports that police in Pine Hills have been conducting warrantless raids of barbershops and arresting barbers for cutting hair without a license.
The Haircut Police
Orange County, Florida has seen a sharp increase in crime: Murders are up 45% . Maybe its because the police are busy with more important things. As the Orlando Sentinel reports:
As many as 14 armed Orange County deputies, including narcotics agents, stormed Strictly Skillz barbershop handcuffing barbers
It was just one of a series of unprecedented raid-style inspections the Orange County Sheriff's Office recently conducted with a state regulating agency, targeting several predominantly black- and Hispanic-owned barbershops deputies arrested 37 people the majority charged with "barbering without a license"
Jeff Weiner, the reporter who broke the story, tells us that the barbers were taken to jail. They were only let out if they were able to post bond. Some said they stayed in prison for days.
So you may get mugged or murdered in Orange County, but at least you wont get a bad haircut. Actually, you might get a bad haircut theres no evidence that government-regulated barbers give better haircuts. Regulation just means theyve paid thousands of dollars for courses they probably dont need, and kissed some bureaucrats rings.
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Any police force and district attorney's office that has the time and resources to engage in barbershop raids is a police force and office that could do with a budget cut.
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This is just reinforcing the belief that the government is part of the problem and is only looking after its own interests.
Good way to keep resentment brewing and making an uprising even more likely, dumbasses.
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I'm from Orlando, actually, and I find this totally believable. Notice this part: "predominantly black- and Hispanic-owned barbershops?" That would be typical of Orlando, which has some actual (rather than imagined) class and race problems.
OTOH, maybe their competitors got mad and simply called the cops. These would be people from the same communities, probably better established and politically connected... and maybe not so happy about newcomers.
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Its fine to cut hair at home, or cut friends and relatives hair. Hanging out your shingle, though, when unlicensed, is the gateway to tax evasion, chemical burns, and who knows what other dirty deals.
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Hair cutting I'm less concerned with than the all too frequent unlicensed dentistry, liposuction, collagen injection, and the insidious smuggling of Mexican bologna.
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Or this type of thiking is the gateway to straight up pumping parties = how to look great at your funeral!
A few nights ago I was watching a show regarding Pumping Parties. I was really quite blown out of the water when hearing about these parties and how they continue to increase in popularity despite the inherent risks. A pumping party is when you are invited to a hosts home and "everyone is injected with silicone in the parts of the body they want to see rapid results. They pay hundreds of dollars to the injectee, who has no medical training, versus the sometimes costly price of plastic surgery and Botox. Many see this as an easier and less costly way to obtain pseudo plastic surgery results." http://www.piercemattie.com/blogs/2006/12/pumping_parties_a_deadly_trend.html
I think the point is that the unlicensed barbers are doing the equivalent of being a tenant putting out a cigarette onto the floor of a white man's apartment building. However, such trivilalizing such minutiae is dangerous. It leads to pumping parties and other problems. "Minorities" need to follow the laws of the land, small or large. No quarter just 'cuz day po folk.
Only 12 percent of black fourth-grade boys are proficient in reading, compared with 38 percent of white boys, and only 12 percent of black eighth-grade boys are proficient in math, compared with 44 percent of white boys.
Poverty alone does not seem to explain the differences: poor white boys do just as well as African-American boys who do not live in poverty, measured by whether they qualify for subsidized school lunches. Is there any subject on which our "cognitive" elites hold a view that matches observable reality?
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Poverty alone does not seem to explain the differences
I recommend they study..... individual cultures and sub-cultures! Just so you don't bias the effort, begin with the Japanese. Then possibly Sweden or Norway, making your way to Germany. I would further recommend a study of not only how cultures exist and survive, but WHY they exist.
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I believe this is purely poor parenting, My mother read us the "Little Golden Books" aloud as we grew, and when school time came around we could already read, and write. (Print, and cursive, The teachers were amazed, shows that many couldn't)
Mama gave us a "Jump Start so to speak.
We ALL(3) rated Genius and above, we considered it Normal.
We weren't oversmart, others were Undersmart or had NO preschooling So we effectively started school in the second grade
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Obviously, the answer is racism. The article writes itself!
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There are many kinds of poverty, lack of income is only one. Lack of imagination, parental attention and lack of respect for learning are other kinds of poverty, much less responsive to infusions of taxpayer cash (the underlying goal of this article.) Learning to read is not rocket science.
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.
(Xinhuanet) --U.S. troubled actress 
[El Universal] Venezuela's 
(Itar-Tass) - Republican Senators 
DUBLINWith doubts swirling about the solvency of the Irish state in early September, Finance Minister Brian Lenihan summoned a dozen senior government and bank officials to a conference room nicknamed the "torture chamber," a nod to its history as a venue for painful meetings.
