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AURORA - Police are searching for a man who they say has a history of violence and has attacked his wife in the past.
Police say 35-year-old Joseph Moron has a permanent restraining order against him and two active felony warrants. They say he's wanted for investigation of stalking, second-degree kidnapping, second-degree assault, first-degree burglary and numerous counts of violating a restraining order.
Where,oh where is the Rab when we need them? Here is an American badman, wanted on twelve systems, and no Rab in sight!
Moron is described by police as a 5-foot, 9-inch white man, weighing about 205 pounds with brown eyes and brown hair. They say he's known to frequent the area of Buckley Road and Iliff Avenue in Aurora.
If you see the gentleman, the phone number of the Aurora police is listed in the article at the link.
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With that rap sheet on record, proper gun training course for the missus would be far more effective than the police and all the restraining orders combined. It's a free 'get out of jail' card in a lot of venues.
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ROFL! When I was first stationed at Buckley AFB (was Air National Guard base back then), I used to go to the a mini-mall at Buckley and Iliff! We did McDonalds/Wendy/TacoBell trips there at lunch or dinner from the base out the south gate. There were also some apartments the enlisted used to live in around there too (didn't have much on-base housing back then).
9/11 changed that, its now a USAF facility, lots of housing on post, and locked down solid. And there is a lot more built up in that area now as of about a year ago when I was last over that way.
Let me assure you, they should have not problem finding a Moron in Aurora.
[Emirates 24/7] The former leader of the Scottish Socialist Party, Tommy Sheridan, was jugged for three years for perjury on Wednesday after a lurid trial involving claims he visited a swingers' club.
Sheridan, 46, was convicted in December of lying to the court during his successful defamation action against the News of the World tabloid newspaper in 2006.
After representing himself at a three-month trial at the High Court in Glasgow - the longest perjury case in Scottish legal history - he had been found guilty of lying about the paper's claims that he was an adulterer who visited the sex club.
In a statement before sentencing, the pugnacious politician and one-time "Celebrity Big Brother" contestant
It seems to be the thing to do in certain hate-filled political circles
.maintained that the News of the World's original story was a "pack of lies".
"I accept custody is inevitable," he added. "The punishment is the conviction itself and the impact it will have on my family."
He maintains he was the victim of a vendetta by former political allies.
Sheridan's wife Gail, who was acquitted of the same charge last year, has pledged to stand by her husband.
Judge Alastair Campbell described Sheridan as a "hard-working" politician, but told him that "by pursuing and continuing to pursue a defamation action, you brought the walls of the temple crashing down not only on your own head but also on your family and your political friends and foes."
A News of the Worldfront man said: "This is a just outcome to a long and complex criminal case.
"Today's sentence also provides closure for the many witnesses who very bravely exposed their own lives to public scrutiny when they testified to Mr Sheridan's guilt."
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... has pledged to stand by her husband.
WHAT does a pledge like that really MEAN from a SWINGER?
I am just curious...
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This year marks the 25th anniversary of the loss of NASA's Challenger space shuttle. Just 73 seconds after the launch on Jan. 28, 1986, a booster engine failed and caused the shuttle Challenger to break apart, taking the lives of all seven crew members. The spacecraft broke apart over the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of central Florida at 11:38 EST
"On this Day of Remembrance, as we honor our fallen heroes with tributes and public ceremonies, I will take part in a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. Across the country, flags at NASA Headquarters and the NASA centers will be flown at half-mast in memory of our colleagues lost in the cause of exploration," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, Jr. said.
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What a terrible day that was. I was overseas but saw it live.
Not to get political, but that less than 5 minute speech of Reagan's was a great comfort. We felt he really did care and that it affected him deeply as it did us, as Americans.
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I was overseas too - in Germany, at Ramstein AB for a broadcasters' conference. Our squadron CC was going to take those of us who were interested to the Kino in Landstuhl (a multiplex nearby which showed first-run American movies.) It was early evening, and I was getting dressed to go - and I had the live satellite newsfeed on. I think it was something like the Today Show, which because of the time change, aired in late afternoon/early evening. They broke away from the studio for coverage of the launch ... and there was nothing but the smoke trail in a clear blue sky.
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I remember it well. As or near the time it happend, I dreamed that I was on a cliff in Big Sur, (wearing a bright royal blue shirt), and through an act of betrayl, I was pushed off the cliff. I fell and fell and fell, seemingly forever. Suddenly I realized I was dead. I woke up and was greatly shaken as I had never died in dream before. I usually wake myself up first.
It was strange. I had no TV or radio on, so I don't know if somehow I overheard something or if it was just plain weird.
It was such a real and traumatic dream that I would not wear a bright royal blue shirt for several years.
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I was in Training at Ft. Sam Houston in Texas. I heard Taps playing around the noon hour, and everything went still and I saw the flag being lowered to half mast. It was my first adult experience with a national tragedy and being military at the time, it hit very hard.
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I was just leaving Germany at the time, and walked into a crowded bar, and the whole place got silent as they stared at me. That is never a good sign.
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I actually wasn't even born yet, but I remember my Second-grade teacher talking about it, showing pictures, show the tape. She was a kindergarden teacher then in Florida who had taken her class to see the launch. It was something that haunted her since she herself had entered into the contest Christa McAuliffe won.
The most fascinating thing I've found is the shrugs from those my age when Colombia blew up, yet my parents, teachers, and others all looked back on Challenger as a horrible tragedy. It simply solidified my determination not to forget my betters, who have gone on to The Lord before me.
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Sounds like a ssssteal. A beautiful five-bedroom house in Idaho for only $109,000. It comes with a tiny catch: The house is infested with thousands of live, writhing garter snakes.
One realtor is trying to offload the property, which went into foreclosure after the previously family got sick of the snakes and fled the premises. The realtor hopes the price drop will help, but it may not be enough. Even non snake-infested houses are having a hard time getting sold in this market.
"Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?"
"I guess I need a snake lover," he told The Daily Mail. "Or someone with multiple mongooses."
Previous owners described waking up in the middle of the night with snakes in their bed, finding snakes climbing up the walls all the time, and finding piles of snakes in crawlspaces. Just walking around the yard uncovered enough snakes to fill a bucket. Indiana Jones was unavailable for comment.
It's likely no amount of mongooses or poison will do the trick, as the house was probably built on top of snake den, Joe Collins, director of the Center for North American Herpetology in Lawrence, Kansas told The Daily Mail. Even if most of the snakes were gotten rid of, some snakes would probably remain and give birth again, starting the cycle anew. Also, garter snakes leave phermone trails leading the way to a den, which attracts other snakes from other areas to converge on the den.
"Snakes have a great deal of fidelity to the den site," said Collins. Kinda like Congresscritters and Capitol Hill.
"They're born near there and the animals return each fall to den up and avoid the cold...People always build first and never ask about an area and whether there is a snake den before they do. Afterward, it's too late: the house is there, the snakes are there and people are there. It's a great set up for a wonderful time." For the snakes, that is.
In The Onion's stories Biden invites the "nation's women" to talk taxes at a "private ski chalet", bounces a check at a liquor store, gets banned from Dave & Buster's, and the most famously ... [link to video of him washing his Trans Am in his driveway ].
"I saw the one of me washing a Trans-Am automobile in the driveway shirtless with tattoos all over myself and out there," Biden said with a smile. He took some issue with the story, though. "By the way, I have a Corvette-- a '67 Corvette-- not a Trans-Am."
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KBK - having observed Slow Joe Biden. I'd bet he doesn't get the jokes. Note that he focused on the Trans Am v Corvette aspect. He's still Obama's shoeshine boy. I literally cringed when I heard he commented on the Egyptian strife
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[An Nahar] A furious 36-year-old Italian woman has filed for divorce just a month after her wedding because her husband brought his mother on their honeymoon, ANSA news agency reported Wednesday.
As the couple set off for their honeymoon to France in December, the newly-wed was shocked to find her new mother-in-law at Rome's Fiumicino airport, all set to come on the trip, the agency cited her lawyers as saying.
When she protested, her husband of two days said he couldn't leave his mother alone for health reasons.
The three spent the honeymoon together, but as soon as they returned from France the woman filed for divorce, citing an "excessive emotional attachment" between her future ex-husband and his mother.
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Events in the Middle East are moving too fast for the Obama administration to think it can get away with Plan A and Plan B reaction strategies according to the regimes or leaders it wants to keep in and out of power. Since when has Obean ever been able to keep up, let alone anticipate?
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From the Wall Street Journal this evening:
The Obama administration Friday threatened to cut off its $1.5 billion in annual aid to Egypt if its security forces continue to use violence to crush the protests. That marked a sharp shift in tone from the White House, which even Thursday took a softer line of calling for restraint from the government and protesters.
[Maghrebia] The Libyan Economy Ministry on Wednesday (January 26th) unveiled a 14 billion euro investment and development fund, ANSAmed reported. The fund will sponsor new home construction projects, mortgage lending and a healthcare insurance programme.
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[Ma'an] Tunisian Foreign Minister Kamel Morjane has resigned his post in the interim unity government amid tense consultations over a cabinet reshuffle, the state news agency TAP reported on Thursday.
"I have decided to renounce my functions of foreign minister and I wish success to those who will take part in the government during this period of transition," Morjane was quoted as saying in a written statement.
"The heck with this -- it's not fun any more," he added as he threw down his portfolio and stalked out the door.
US-educated Morjane was discredited because of his family links to ousted president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and has been a leading member of the Constitutional Democratic Rally party, which has dominated Tunisia for decades.
I'm just guessing by the name but they were neither constitutionalist nor democratic...
He was one of the eight ministers including Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi from Ben Ali's last government who stayed on in the new interim government after Ben Ali resigned and decamped to Soddy Arabia on Jan. 14.
Morjane reportedly said his resignation was "in the interests of Tunisia and in support of the actions of the national unity government in leading the country to a stable future and so that the popular revolution can bear fruit."
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[Maghrebia] Under the old regime, Tunisian journalists who took risks faced censorship and arrest, while the less daring chose to comply with strict rules. Now, with the removal of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, some face problems handling freedom, while the others have a hard time relinquishing control.
"Since the flight of the former president, I noticed a complete 180 in the media discourse. Each followed its own agenda. There was no one to monitor what was being propagated and no definite direction," Rajaa Al-Shayeb said.
However, The infamous However... some journalists were sceptical, expressing unease about the performance of news organisations.
"Though Tunisian media broke free from its shackles and though the public discourse became closer to citizens' everyday issues, concerns continue to exist. Conditions may slip to an even worse situation than they were before, if icons of the previous ruling party take over power," Houda Ben Belkassem said.
Mourad al-Mazni said, "I think the Tunisian media has a good chance to prove it was liberated and to regain people's confidence, especially that many of the previously tabooed topics are now being discussed candidly."
Maha Al-Khamousi said, "Frankly, the Tunisian media has become closer to citizens' concerns. It is being very transparent. We no longer see acts of alienation. All intellectual groups get to express themselves freely in the media."
"After the arid years that media in Tunisia sustained, it finally got its long-sought freedom. However, The infamous However... all media institutions need to be cautious about that freedom. Without the necessary warranties, there is a chance it might lapse," said Neji Bghouri, head of the National Syndicate of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT).
Bghouri added that replacing the old journalism law with a new one is a certain requirement at this juncture. He also said that the External Communication Agency must be closed, adding that the old regime rewarded those who followed its commands and punished those who disobeyed.
"We think that closing down the ministry of information will not solve the problem," Haqaiq journalist Walid Ahmed Ferchichi said.
"We need to re-formulate the journalism code, review the profession regulations, grant SNJT full powers as an independent institution so it could perform its duties, namely defending Tunisian journalists' rights. Only SNJT has the right of issuing journalists cards. Only it can define the profession of journalism, away from all confusion, especially after the numerous violations we learned of over the past years, such as granting such cards to secretary generals of political parties or many outsiders," he added.
Ferchichi also brought up the problem of issuing credentials and legal protection to online journalists.
"We can confidently say that the new era can sustain them all. It is no exaggeration to claim that setting the media free and restoring the public's confidence in media is the actual safety valve against political, social or economic quakes," Ferchichi said.
"Tunisian media was in a state of chaos during the early days of the uprising. However, The infamous However... the interim government managed to keep that newly-gained freedom in check and even harnessed it for its own good. The national TV channel only gave up the number 7, but continued to dim information," Mahib Al-Mohamadi said.
Fatine Hafsia of Nationale TV said that Tunis 7 tried to change its coverage just before the regime fell, "but it was too late. January 14th was an exceptional day for the media, compared to January 13th, for instance," she said.
"However, The infamous However... those in charge of the newscast continue to pull the media back. Unconsciously and under the impact of the political shock, they maintained their pro-regime conservative tone," Hafsia alleged.
"As many colleagues in the profession noticed the superficiality of the media coverage, we decided to place them right before their historic responsibility. We refused any censorship over the reports we compiled. That was the case with the report I put together on the protests on the Tunisian streets and on the presence of the former governing party, the Constitutional Democratic Rally, in the present government," Hafsia said.
She added that her network created talk shows, aired political debates and gave voice to citizens for the first time.
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[Al Jazeera] Mohammed Ghannouchi, the Tunisian prime minister, has reshuffled the interim government, dropping key ministers from the heavily criticised government of ousted president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
"This is a temporary government with a clear mission - to allow a transition to democracy," he said in a live television address on Thursday.
"Its mission is to organise elections in which the people will be completely free to choose."
Ghannouchi, also a key figure in the previous administration, said he would stay in his post as the country prepares for parliamentary and presidential elections which are expected to be held in the coming months.
The new cabinet includes 12 new ministers and keeps nine from the previous set-up. Among those replaced with independents were the ministers of interior and defence.
Earlier on Thursday, Kamel Morjane, the foreign minister, resigned saying he was leaving "so that the popular revolution can bear fruit".
Ghannouchi said the new foreign minister will be Ahmed Ounais, a 75-year-old career diplomat who studied at the Sorbonne University in Gay Paree and served as Tunisia's ambassador to Moscow and New Delhi.
The new lineup had been agreed after consultations with all political parties and civil society groups, the prime minister said.
Protesters, who earlier on Thursday stormed police barricades in Tunis, the Tunisian capital, had been calling for a purge of Ben Ali loyalists.
Ben Ali decamped to Soddy Arabia on January 14 when weeks of violent protests against poverty, repression and corruption toppled him after 23 years in power.
The interim government which was appointed after Ben Ali's departure includes many officials of RCD, the former ruling party, prompting an angry reaction from demonstrators.
Morjane and the seven other ministers from the RCD quit the party last week but that gesture did not prove enough to appease protesters.
Tunisia's powerful labour union, UGTT, will not join the new government itself but said it would approve of Ghannouchi staying in power, a factor that could help appease protesters demanding that the government be purged of members of the RCD.
The union has a large membership and has been involved in organising some demonstrations.
In what is being seen as an attempt to ease the tension on the street, the union decided to cancel a big protest rally scheduled for Friday.
However, The infamous However... Al Jizz's Hashem Ahelbarra, reporting from Tunis, later said that the union appeared to backtracking from that position and was now unhappy with the announcement.
"I spoke to a spokesperson of the UGTT and he told me ... they asked the prime minister to include some faces picked by the UGTT, which he didn't, and they asked him to form a 'council of the wise' that includes practically every independent activist or political figure," he said.
Ahelbarra said it was, therefore, unclear if the reshuffle would be enough to placate the thousands of demonstrators who continued to throng the main Tunis boulevard, Bourguiba Avenue, demanding that the transitional government resign.
"Some people are saying that this is quite significant and it will send people back to their homes, on the other hand the thousands who have been demonstrating outside the government compound are saying this is not enough," he said.
"They would like to see the prime minister himself go because he is a reminder of the old regime."
Earlier on Thursday, protesters broke through police lines outside Ghannouchi's office, where hundreds of demonstrators have pledged to camp out until the government is gone.
Tunisia's uprising has electrified Arabs across the Middle East and North Africa, where many countries share the complaints of poor living standards and authoritarian rule.
Inspired by Tunisia's example, thousands of Egyptians have taken to the streets to demand an end to Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule, clashing with police who fired tear gas and used water cannon.
In addition to the cabinet reshuffle, Tunisia is aiming to set up a council of "wise men" to guide the country to democracy from the authoritarian state run by Ben Ali.
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[Emirates 24/7] A Gabon opposition leader who declared himself president was holed up in UN offices on Wednesday demanding recognition, as the government dissolved his party and warned he faced treason charges.
Andre Mba Obame's claim on Tuesday that he was president, and his unveiling of a "government", prompted the 53-nation African Union to voice concern and call for the Gabon opposition to respect the law.
Hours after the announcement, the interior ministry announced that Mba Obame's National Unity party was immediately dissolved and he and his supporters were stripped of their official duties and faced treason charges.
But Mba Obame reiterated on Wednesday: "I am the elected president of Gabon."
In a statement, he called on Gabonese to "overthrow the illegal power" which he said must "cease all functions as head of state".
The former foreign minister has always claimed he won the August 2009 election which official results gave to Ali Bongo Ondimba, son of Omar Bongo Ondimba who held power for 41 years before his death in June 2009.
"He (Ali Bongo) will leave. He will go like Ben Ali," he said referring to Tunisia's Zine El Abidine Ben Ali who bowed to mounting protests nearly two weeks ago, escaping to Soddy Arabia and ending 23 years in power.
Mba Obame remained inside the compound of the UN Development Programme Wednesday, after going there the night before to deliver a letter demanding UN recognition of his claim to the presidency. He said he would not leave until he had a "clear response".
[BANG!!]
"Ok, that's clear enough. I can leave now, right?"
"The Gabon revolution is under way," declared Mba Obame, adding the people of the oil-rich African state were encouraged by the courage of the Tunisian protesters.
About 50 of his supporters waited in front of the compound as police kept watch from a distance.
According to final results of the disputed 2009 vote, Bongo won 41.79 percent of the ballot with veteran opposition leader Pierre Mamboundou taking 25.6 percent and Mba Obame 25.3 percent. The vote was denounced as an "electoral coup" by the opposition and led to rioting in Gabon's oil capital Port Gentil, a bastion of second-placed Mamboundou, that left several people dead.
Interior Minister Jean-Francois Ndongou issued an order late Tuesday on that dissolved Mba Obame's National Union party "with immediate effect", a ministry official said. It also accused Mba Obame of forming an "insurrectional government" in violation of the constitution, amounting to high treason punishable by law.
And it said it would seek to strip Mba Obame of his parliamentary immunity when the National Assembly meets again, expected on Friday.
Gabon's communication council also said it would suspend the broadcasting of Mba Obame's television channel TV+ for three months.
Until Wednesday evening, Mba Obame's channel ran reruns of his "swearing-in ceremony," also naming a scholar as "prime minister" and announcing a 18-member cabinet.
The African Union said in a statement it was surprised and concerned. Pointing out that the 2009 election took place under the watch of international observers, it said the declaration "is likely to damage the integrity of legitimate institutions and to threaten the peace, security and stability of Gabon."
Opposition leader Mamboundou called on government officials to examine Mba Obame's declaration "with calm, judgment and clarity," a statement said. He also called on the government to immediately put in place a fingerprint identification system to avoid vote-rigging ahead of legislative elections planned for later this year.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday dismissed media reports based on WikiLeaks disclosure of diplomatic cables that British forces trained Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) for extra-judicial killings, UNB reports.
"Do you believe that the UK has trained this force to kill our own people? Certainly not. Rab has been trained to protect citizens," she said responding to a query from a student in the UK.
She was taking questions after delivering a statement on Global Peace at the Main Chamber Hall of the Oxford Union at Frewin Court yesterday.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... Amnesia Amnesty International in a blurb yesterday said Rab must stop extrajudicial killings.
The blurb also called on the British government to raise concerns before Sheikh Hasina about reports of torture, extrajudicial executions, and excessive use of force by Rab.
More than 600 people are thought to have been killed by Rab personnel since 2004 when the battalion was created, it said, adding, WikiLeaks sources have recently alleged that the UK police have been training Rab.
Abbas Faiz, Amnesia Amnesty International's Bangladesh researcher, said, "Suggestions that these deaths in jug are just unrelated random incidents, as opposed to targeted executions, are simply not credible. The chance of this same fate befalling so many apprehended individuals defies belief and contradicts eye-witness testimony. These deaths amount to extrajudicial executions."
Hasina, however, said whenever allegations of extra-judicial killings were raised, the government investigated those and took action. "We believe in human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... ."
Asked if Islam will remain in the constitution as state religion, she said secularism does not mean absence of religion.
Hasina said a parliamentary committee is working to amend the constitution in light of a High Court verdict.
On confrontational politics, the premier said her government has ensured all facilities to opposition leader Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... and her party since assuming office in 2009.
Unfortunately, Hasina said, BNP is not joining parliament. "I hope the opposition will return to the House."
Replying to a query on government's relation with Pakistain, she said, "At present, we are enjoying good relations with Pakistain."
Hasina also said India contributed significantly during Bangladesh's Liberation War in 1971.
"True that we have some problems with India such as sharing waters of the common rivers but we're working together to find solutions," she said.
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Given the severity of Muzzi infection in UK, maybe RAB should train the British.
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PEOPLES DAILY FORUM > RUSSIA INVITES JAPAN TO MEETING [on Sakhalin] ON INVESTMENT IN DISPUTED ISLES [former Japanese Kuriles]; + JAPAN, RUSSIA CONFIRM CONTINUATION OF TERRITORIAL DISPUTE TALKS.
* SAME > ANALYSTS: SOUTH KOREA, US MUST TAKE "DECISVE ACTION" AGZ NORTH KOREA [provocatins], including by [Unilateral? Joint?International?] Military Force as pertinent.
* SAME > SEOUL TO INSIST TALKS ARE SEPARATE ON ATTACKS, NUKES, vee North Korea.
* TOPIX > SOUTH KOREA SOFTENS DEMAND FOR NORTH APOLOGY [before Talks].
Politician misdirection trick. Wonder what they are up to now?
France and Germany will never turn their backs on the euro, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said in his most robust defence of the troubled single currency to date.
Addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos, he told speculators to be prepared for big losses if they bet against the euro. "[Germany's] Chancellor Merkel and myself will never -- do you hear me, never -- let the euro fall," he said.
"The euro is Europe. And Europe spells 60 years of peace. Therefore we will never let the euro go or be destroyed... To those who bet against the euro, watch out for your money because we are fully determined to defend the euro."
President Sarkozy's intervention comes with the single currency under greater strain than at any time in its short history. Davos has been abuzz with talk of a two-speed Europe, with billionaire investor George Soros warning that the "euro could possibly fall apart" under the strain.
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So that means Ireland can keep printing zillions of Euros to pay off it's debts to Germany and France and debase the common currency in the process?
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Well, Europe was a laboratory that produced nothing but war for centuries. The last 60 years, not so much. So maybe they've got something there.
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Mr. Sarkozy: who elected you leader of this outfit? Does Merkel agree with your broad sweeping statements that imply that you and Germany will prop up the euro with your assets?
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Right now, I think that all that would need to be done to create a financial panic, would be pictures of a new currency to be unveiled, either a "New Euro", or a return to old national currencies.
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Time to dust off all my old Francs and Lira(s), DM's.
I agree with Merkel. Could be with a rapid dissolving of the Euro the place could boil over, whether nations pissed at nations or just basic breakdown of military and police forces and bad guys rampaging about. Luckily for the average European nearly all have been disarmed for their own protection - wouldn't want to provoke the bad guys you know!
I don't think its at that point, but I am going to check my investments' connections. Again.
France has proposed to sell 18 Mirage fighters to Iraq, which is already negotiating a deal for US F-16s to protect its skies after US forces pull out at the end of this year, the French ambassador said on Thursday.
"France has proposed to sell 18 Mirage F1 retrofitted aircraft that can be delivered from late 2011 and immediately operational because many Iraqi pilots were trained in the past on this type of plane," Boris Boillon told AFP.
The French wouldn't help liberate Iraq but they're more than willing to trade with the new government.
He said France was offering the multi-role planes for $1 billion (733 million euros).
Baghdad has been negotiating to buy 18 US-made F-16s, and the cabinet on Wednesday authorised Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to negotiate the terms of the first payment on the contract, a statement said.
Boillon said that, because of the price tag, the Mirage offer would not affect the F-16 deal.
"This modest price will not affect the purchase of the US F-16s," he said.
"This (Mirage) sale is in the context of a proposal on a comprehensive military air programme that France has submitted to this country," Boillon said.
Iraq's government spokesman said Thursday that Baghdad welcomed any offer.
"Iraq needs to build up its air force and that needs tens of fighters to protect its sovereignty, said Ali-al Dabbagh.
"Any origin of high quality with good offer will be welcomed taking in consideration that we need to unify the source of arming if they fulfill Iraq's requirements," he said, without disclosing the cost of the F-16 deal.
The Iraqi government "has submitted a letter of request for 18 F-16s and packages composed of spare parts, support equipment, weapons, logistics support and training," said Captain Dan Churchill, a US military spokesman in Iraq.
"The delivery and cost of the aircraft will be dependent upon a finalised purchase, which has not yet happened," he said.
In early September, General Michael Barbero, then deputy commander of US forces in Iraq, said the absence of a multi-role fighter limited Iraq's air capabilities. "They will not have the capability to provide air sovereignty, to fully protect the skies over Iraq, because they will lack a multi-role fighter," he said.
Iraq's air force was destroyed during and after the 2003 US-led invasion.
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...Saddam had a bad habit of buying airplanes he didn't need because the people who sold those planes could really sell airplanes. That's why he had something like ten different types of birds in his tactical force, none of which complemented one another and none of which were available in sufficient numbers to use properly. Somebody needs to sit these folks down and explain to them that you get one or two types that compliment each other, not whatever the flavor of the week might happen to be.
Mike
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Never correct your enemy when he's making a mistake, and No we won't be in Iraq forever.
Remember that while they're Grateful right now, They're still Islamic, Following a god that commands Murder of non-islamics, And we're not.
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For cash, oil, or grain they should be able to pick up some Egyptian F-16 at a very good price in a couple days or so. The cost to get them to fly probably will have to be negotiated with competent ground support suppliers.
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Actually, that wouldn't be a bad deal for the Iraqis. The M1 is a decent plane that could be used for some pretty good air-to-ground power. It is rugged, dependable and something that the Iraqi pilots and ground crews are already familiar with. Using it in a support role with F-16s doing top level work would be a good use of the aircraft.
Plus, the M1s could pick off any enemy helicopters freeing up the F-16s for air-to-air, air-to-mud operations.
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The Mirages would be very useful to the Iraqis and would help them with CAS while the F-16s are better for CAP. And they are only considering two major models at this time, which is a lot more rational approach than before. Besides which, we are not likely to sell them a bunch of Strike Eagles anytime soon.
[Straits Times] THE Thai government on Thursday denied opposition claims that it faces a military coup amid intensifying street protests and ahead of expected elections.
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva rejected the suggestion, by a politician and leader of the anti-government 'Red Shirts', that the army was poised to intervene in Thai politics.
'No, they are not thinking of a coup,' he said, adding he was 'confident' that army chief Prayut Chan-O-Cha was not plotting to oust him.
Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban also denied the claims, but acknowledged some in the deeply divided nation would support a military move - which would be the 19th actual or attempted coup in Thailand since 1932.
'There may be some groups calling for a coup, but don't call for that, it's not the solution for our country,' he said, less than five years after the military ousted the Red Shirts' hero then premier Thaksin Shinawatra.
Army front man Colonel Sunsern Kaewkumnerd also denied any such plans. 'The army chief had repeatedly insisted that he will not stage a coup and in the current circumstances, no military figure would dare to mount a coup,' he said.
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See also CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > MULLAHS SUCCESSFULLY DESTROY THAI MILITARY BASE NORTH OF MALAYSIA [Rural Thai ARBASE in Narathiwat].
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