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"If you give an asset $1,000, he'll go out and buy the shiniest junk he can find, and it will be apparent that he has suddenly come into a lot of money from someone,"
Just like after they robbed Air France in "Goodfellas".
As far as giving the chieftain little blue pills, I'm sure the local goats aren't too happy.
(Xinhua) -- Somalia's presidential spokesman, Hussien Mohamed Hubsired, Thursday said President Abdulahi Yusuf Ahmed is not planning to resign next Saturday as media reports has been indicating a day after his newly appointed Prime Minister stepped down.
"The president has no intention of resigning next Saturday or any other time as some media outlets have been speculating about lately," Hubsired told reporters in Mogadishu. "It is a media manipulation and a cheap propaganda by some rival politicians who want to create confusion in the country."
Hubsired has been responding to media reports about repeated suggestions that President Yusuf would resign next Saturday when he is expected to address the parliament.
Mohamed Mohamoud Guled, named by Yusuf last week as new Prime Minister to replace Nur Hassan Hussien whom he fell out with, on Wednesday has tended his resignation, saying he did not want to bean obstacle to peace.
The parliament and other countries around the world rejected to accept the Somali President's decision to sack Hussien whom the parliament overwhelmingly endorsed.
Kenyan and The East African regional body, the Inter Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) threatened to impose sanctions on Yusuf and his associates whom they deemed as an obstacle to peace.
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Somalia has a president?
Is that what they're calling warlords these days?
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POS = President of Somalia, and also, er...
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(Xinhua) -- The South Korean government was to be blamed for chilling the inter-Korean relations, the official KCNA news agency quoted a statement issued by a reunification organization of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) as saying on Thursday.
"The deteriorated inter-Korean relations are entirely attributable to the sycophancy and treachery and anti-DPRK confrontation pursued by the Lee Myung Bak group," the National Reunification Institute (NRI) said in an "indictment."
The South Korean government unilaterally stopped the tour of Mt. Kumgan, selectively restricted visits to the DPRK and imposed provocation against the system of the DPRK, all of which caused worsening relations between the two Koreas, the NRI said.
It warned that "extreme crisis will happen" if South Korea does not drop its hostile policy against the DPRK.
Relations between Pyongyang and Seoul have turned sour since February when conservative president Lee Myung Bak took office pledging to get tough with the DPRK. The DPRK has cut off all official contacts with South Korea.
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Bonus point for using the word treachery; other than that, I can't give this more than a 4.5 on the Spittle Scale.
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Unilaterally? Wasn't that tour suspension after the guards shot a tourist?
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Again, the UNO curr estimates that under-1/2 of North Korea's civilian/general population is de facto starving, and is in immediate need for massive international assistance agz famine, and will so every year afterwards until further notice.
* "US WORLD RECESSION/DEPRESSION" i.e. PROTRACTIVE ECONOMIC CHAOS AS A PRELIMIN BASIS FOR SETTING EXTRA-MATIONAL/REGIONAL REGULATORY GOVT [OWG-NWO] = MULTI-AREA "EMERGING GROWTH BLOCS" > the sanger is, iff pre-Chaos, already at-risk states believe they are getting the short end of the stick = not getting what they believe they deserve or a "fair deal", COULD BE A CATALYST FOR WAR.
PAN-KOREAN DILEMMA AS PER PROTO-OWG "GROWTH BLOCS" > NOKOR's Regime in Pyongyang historically usually demands to be treated as an EQUAL IFF NOT SUPERIOR REGARDLESS OF ITS INTERNAL DEFECTS OR NATIONAL WEAKNESSES [read, COMMIE-SOC PLANNED ECONOMY]. THE NOKORS WILL DEMAND POWER WITHOUT MAKING ANY UNILATERAL CONCESSIONS OR REFORMS - THE LATER IS FOR SOUTH KOREA AND WEST TO MAKE, NOT NORTH KOREA. I see little to nothing to indic that Kimme + regime may change that.
Lahore, Pakistan: Petrol was unavailable at majority of the pumps in the city on Thursday which created huge difficulties for the motorists. The petrol pumps owners said despite the indents sent to the companies the fresh supply had not arrived due to which the sale of petrol was suspended. In a survey conducted by The Newsfrom the different localities of the city, has found the petrol was notavailable while the petrol stations were selling diesel only. The owners and managers said they had sent the supply indents to their respective companies but not received, causing the shortage of petrol. It has found almost 70 per cent petrol pumps of the city had not received fresh supply of petrol. In Lahore, almost 220 petrol pumps are operating. Thus petrol was not available over 150 pumps of different localities.
The pump owners said due to distortions in supply line of petrol from companies, the people had been facing problems. They said storing petrol was not beneficial for the petrol pumps as the prices of it had registered a declining trend. They said the oil companies were not timely supplying petrol to them despite getting payments in advance. They said the oil companies were supplying half of the quantity against their total demand.
Meanwhile, in the wake of unavailability of petrol at pumps, the sale of it continued across the city openly through other channels. The unauthorised dealers have been selling adulterated petrol for Rs 70 to Rs 80 per liter. The motorcyclists were compelled to buy this adulterated petrol at higher prices.
Contrary to this, an official of a private oil marketing company on the condition of anonymity confirmed the shortage of petrol in the country. He said the petrol pumps dealers and owners themselves were sending less demand of petrol as compared to the past. He pointed out the pumps dealers and owners were keeping limited quantity with them in order to avoid loses when the price of petrol decreased. Current shortage was due to the Christmas holiday and the petrol was not supplied from the depot, he said adding that now the fresh supply would start from Friday (today). He added it would again stop on Saturday because of the national holiday. He said currently country had been facing petrol shortage due to the previous backlog which occurred after delay in the payments to the oil refineries.
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Or is it being placed into strategic storage by the military?
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This may explain why oil has fallen so much and demand apparently contracted. The problem is shortages of credit in low creditworthy places like Pakland.
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Nimrods didn't order enough inventory to get them thru the holidays.
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TW - how do they get there? And if there aren't armed convoys, Ima calling in Q-ships and Arclites, just so I can drink up and sleep in. Mazel Tov and Merry Christmas!
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India warned its citizens on Friday it was unsafe to travel to Pakistan after the prime minister met military chiefs, and Pakistan canceled army leave and moved some troops from its western border.
The warning marked a dramatic rise in tension between the nuclear-armed neighbors after last month's attack on Mumbai, in which 179 people were killed and which India has blamed on Islamist militants based in Pakistan. It followed media reports in Pakistan and India that "several" Indian nationals had been arrested in the last two days after bombings in the Pakistani cities of Lahore and Multan.
"Indian citizens are therefore advised that it would be unsafe for them to travel (to) or be in Pakistan," India's Foreign Ministry spokesman said in a statement.
Another Foreign Ministry official contacted by Reuters said the warning referred to all travel to Pakistan.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's office earlier said Singh had discussed tension with Pakistan during a scheduled meeting about military pay with the chiefs of the army, navy and air force. "The prime minister met the tri-services chiefs to discuss the pay commission issues but obviously the situation in the region was also discussed," said an official from Singh's office, who asked not to be identified. There were no other details.
Indian media said national security adviser M.K. Narayanan also attended the meeting.
Many analysts say it is very unlikely that the tension will descend into war. The uneasy neighbors have fought three wars since independence in 1947 and came to the brink of a fourth in 2002 after an attack on the Indian parliament.
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PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > PAKISTAN SENATORS WARN INDIA: ANY SURGICAL/LIMITED STRIKES MEANS WAR; + PAKISTAN ARMY WARNS INDIA OF QUICK RESPONSE [PK will strike back back quickly "within minutes" to any Indian attack] + PAKISTAN AIR FORCE OFFICER: INDIA HAS MARKED OVER 5000 TARGETS INSIDE PAKISTAN + INDIANS ARE TALKING ABOUT NAVAL BLOCKADE OF KARACHI PORT [Mil Option].
Amid heightened tensions between the neighbours in the wake of the Mumbai attacks, former President Pervez Musharraf on Friday said India "cannot dare cast an evil eye" on Pakistan as long as the armed forces are there to defend the country.
Musharraf, who resigned in August to avoid an impeachment, threw his weight behind the government, saying the country had a democratically elected president and prime minister who would take steps for its security.
Perv has to toe the party line right now or risk being whacked ...
As long as the Pakistani armed forces are there, the country is in safe hands, Musharraf told the media at a reception here to mark the wedding of the son of former Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri.
He said the armed forces are fully capable of defending the country against India. As long as the Pakistani military is there, India can not "cast an evil eye" on the country, he said.
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That's not the party line, that's a big ol' shitburger flung in the current administration's face. Notice all the emphasis on "armed forces" defending the country? This is Perv's "told you so, you civilian weasels" war-dance.
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LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that defence of Pakistan is impregnable and no foreign power can look at our country with evil designs. India would have imposed a war on us in the wake of the Mumbai attacks had Pakistan not been a nuclear power, he said. He expressed these views here on Thursday while addressing a function organised to mark 133rd birth anniversary of Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. The function was held under the aegis of Nazria-e-Pakistan Trust.
The ceremony was also addressed by Editor Nawa-i-Waqt and Chairman Nazria-e-Pakistan Trust Majid Nizami, Mr Justice (Retd) Dr. Javed Iqbal, Vice Chairman NPT, Professor Dr. Rafique Ahmad, Patron NPT, Syed Fasih Iqbal, Journalist Nusrat Mirza, Professor Dr. Perveen Shaukat, Former Chief Minister NWFP, Pir Sabir Shah and others. He said late Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was the founder of Pakistans nuclear programme while Nawaz Sharif completed this programme and carried out the explosions. Shahbaz said that if India provided solid evidence of Pak involvement in the Mumbai carnage, Islamabad would be ready to extend its cooperation. The Chief Minister also gave away gold medals to the activists of Pakistan Movement. He said people like Majid Nizami had been confronting the dictators all along their life.
Such people are present in every province and that is the reason that Pakistan is secure so far, he added. He said that it was quite unfortunate that the former rulers compromised on the sovereignty of the country for getting few dollars from abroad. He said that India was involved in creating unrest in Balochistan and an Indian Army Colonel also masterminded Samjhota Express attack. 'These are proven facts but international community never raised its voice against India but on the fake incident of Mumbai international community has made hue and cry , he said.
He was of the view that Pakistan would be developed by Pakistani people and not by any foreign power. An embezzlement of Rs 150 billion was unearthed by audit department in the City District Govts and present govt wanted to take action they were given stay by our courts, he said. He said that the one who awarded stay to the corrupt people in fact is a bigger corrupt. He said that PML(N) would continue efforts for the independence of judiciary under the leadership of Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and would not sit idle till this goal was achieved.
He appealed to the nation to be peaceful and united during the holy month of Muharram and warned that enemy was trying to create unrest in the country.
Earlier he granted Rs 75 lakh for the welfare and medical facility of activists of Pakistan Movement.
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Yea, except Indians know that if they let you get away with Mumbai attack, then---eventually---there will be a suitcase nuke exploding in one of their cities.
The Hamas parliament in the Gaza Strip voted in favor of a law allowing courts to mete out sentences in the spirit of Islam, the London-based Arab daily Al Hayat reported Wednesday.
According to the bill, approved in its second reading and awaiting a third reading before the approval of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, as the Palestinian constitution demands, courts will be able to condemn offenders to a plethora of violent punitive measures in line with Sharia Law.
Because that's what has held Gaza back, a lack of Sharia, by gum!
Such punishments include whipping, severing hands, crucifixion and hanging. The bill reserves death sentences to people who negotiate with a foreign government "against Palestinian interests" and engage in any activity that can "hurt Palestinian morale."
According to the report, any Palestinian caught drinking or selling wine would suffer 40 lashes at the whipping post if the bill passes. Thieves caught red-handed would lose their right hand.
(Xinhua) -- The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is prepared to take actions to restore security to the southern land bordering the Gaza Strip, said IDF Chief of General Staff Gabi Ashkenazi on Thursday. "The current situation cannot continue and we will need to use all our might to hit the terror infrastructure and to create a new secure situation around the Gaza Strip," local daily The Jerusalem Post quoted him as saying at a graduation ceremony for military pilots, in reference to the continuing rocket attacks from the Hamas-ruled enclave.
The IDF is "ready and prepared" to carry out any operation that will be required to defend Israel against terror, said the lieutenant-general, while stressing that "we will act with wisdom, the correct considerations and responsibility... until calm and quiet are restored."
The remarks came as Gazan militants fired at least four rockets and several mortar shells at Israel on Thursday, a day after the Jewish state was pummeled by more than 60 rockets and mortar shells.
Israeli officials have been ratcheting up their rhetoric against the Islamic movement since clashes resumed in early November after the two sides had generally honored an Egypt-brokered truce deal for five months.
Following an emergency meeting of the security cabinet, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that he had instructed the army to prepare itself to deliver a harsh response to the cross-border attacks, and warned that Gazan militants would pay a "heavy price" if they continue to barrage Israel.
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"troops ready to strike Gaza"
So quit jawing and start striking already.
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"When it's time to shoot, shoot! Don't talk!
--Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez
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JPOST > ANALYSTS: CAIRO FEARS LOCAL ISLAMIST FALLOUT [Muslim Brotherhood, Other Radicals] IFF ISRAEL HITS GAZA HARD; + ASSAD: HIZBOLLAH IS NOT MY PROBLEM!?
CAIRO - The Egyptian president urged on Thursday visiting Israeli foreign minister for Israel's restraint in responding to renewed rocket and mortar barrages from the Gaza Strip and said he also wanted the militant Palestinian Hamas to halt its fire immediately. Hosni Mubarak said he expects Gaza's Islamic militant Hamas rulers to immediately halt their fire on Israel, the Israeli official said.
Hosni called on Hamas for 'restraint'? Careful with that feather, you almost knocked me over!
Mubarak made the plea during talks in Cairo with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, according to an Israeli official and Livni's Egyptian counterpart. Livni's visit came after a six-month truce between Israel and Hamas expired last Friday. Egypt had brokered that truce, and Mubarak expressed hope that the agreement could be renewed, if only informally.
Livni's meeting in Cairo originally was designed to renew the Egyptian-mediated truce. But after militants pummeled Israel with more than 80 rockets and mortars on Monday, Livni dismissed that option.
In her meeting with Mubarak, she said Israel must and would respond to protects its citizens, the Israeli official said. Israel would not be deterred from acting because its Feb. 10 elections are approaching, she said. 'If Hamas thinks that because Israel is in election season, that it won't do what any democratic country would do to protect its citizens, then it's wrong,' she said later at a news conference with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul-Gheit. 'We want to negotiate with whoever we can, but we will fight whoever doesn't believe in it.'
Talk is cheap, Tzipi ...
Israel is running out of patience with Hamas, she added, calling the militant group an obstacle on the road to a Palestinian state.
Gheit expressed Egyptian concerns that without restraint, Egypt would no longer be able to mediate between Israel and the Palestinian militants. "We can't imagine that we will be able to convince the two parties to return to a truce, as long as the heightening confrontation continues," Aboul-Gheit said. "We hope for self-restraint and that the two parties apply what they have been implementing in the past six months."
"The Egyptian goal is to keep the truce and securing it. The real goal is to give a chance for a Palestinian-Palestinian reconciliation and for Palestinian-Israeli negotiations," he added.
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Have some fun with it Livni.
Start by bombing that sewage lagoon that is overflowing...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Until more testing can be done, Army medics are being told to stop using a new product just sent to the war front to help control bleeding among wounded troops. Officials were in the process of distributing some 17,000 packets of WoundStat, granules that are poured into wounds when special bandages, tourniquets or other efforts won't work. But a recent study showed that, if used directly on injured blood vessels, the granules may lead to harmful blood clots, officials said Tuesday.
The Army Medical Command will continue its research and work with the manufacturer in hopes of figuring out in the next few months whether to resume use of WoundStat, said Col. Paul Cordts, head of Army health policy and services.
WoundStat manufacturer TraumaCure Inc. of Bethesda, Md., said late Tuesday that "experts differ" on whether the Army's most recent testing, which put the granules into surgically-created injuries in swine, is relevant to a product used in a trauma setting. But the company said it would cooperate with the military on research to clear up any questions. The product had been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. It was one of the latest in a series of Army efforts to improve survival rates on the battlefield.
Today, 90 percent of injured troops survive their wounds, the highest rate of any war, Cordts said in an interview. He credited better training of combat medics, better body armor the troops wear and better tactics they use on the battlefield, as well improved bandages, tourniquets and so on. Excessive blood loss is the number one killer on the battlefield, and the Army announced in October that it was sending two potential lifesavers - the WoundStat packets and a bandage called Combat Gauze - to replace older other products that had been in use at the time.
A committee of Army medics, Navy corpsmen, surgeons and others recommended the Combat Gauze bandage - which has an agent that triggers blood clotting - should be the first-line treatment for life-threatening hemorrhaging in cases where a tourniquet could not be placed, such as the armpit or groin area. The WoundStat granules were to be used if the bandage failed to work.
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If I have a 100% chance of dying from blood loss from a wound and a 50% chance of dying from blood clots caused by something that might give me a 50% chance of survival, please use it.
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I have already used this stuff to effect. The civilian version is called UrgentQR, by Biolife. It is brown powder in ampules. Still hard to find in drug stores. (They also make stuff specifically for nosebleeds, which is more common.)
A friend had a growth removed from his head, and it was not bleeding much, so they just used a bandaid. But the surgeon had nicked a capillary, so when he got home--woosh! I poured an ampule on and used a little direct pressure, and that did the trick.
Other than having to clean up blood for a half hour.
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Better stop issuing tourniquets. They can cut off the blood supply to the arm or leg leading to the loss of the said appendage.
We must be winning the war.
We only put up this BS during peacetime.
(via The Corner)
BBC Persian service has reported a speech by General Mohammad-Ali Ja'fari, chief of the Revolutionary Guards, who had a speech in the former U.S. embassy in Tehran spoke about how it might be necessary for paramilitary and revolutionary students to once again take foreign diplomats hostage. In such a situation, he said, the IRGC would support the hostage-takers. So send somebody you don't mind losing. How about Joey "The Brain" Biden?
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Talk about generals fighting the last war! It wasn't even a war, and it simply begs the question of whether the response will be any different the next time. Who knows?
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i will nominate Jesse Jackson, but leave Al sharpton at least he has entertainment value somtimes. How about we throw in a bfew of those human rights experst from the UN too
BEIRUT - Lebanon's Western-backed Prime Minister Fuad Siniora said his country has no interest in holding peace talks with neighbouring Israel at the moment.
I see no interest for us right now to discuss direct negotiations or indirect negotiations with Israel, Siniora said in an interview with the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation broadcast on Wednesday. No one has challenged our claim of authority and ownership of the land that Israel occupies. So we see it as premature to take a decision in this regard as yet, he added.
Israel withrew from south Lebanon in 2000 after more than two decades of occupation, but Lebanon claims it is still occupying land on the border, including Shebaa Farms, a mountainous sliver of land rich in water resources.
Which belonged to Syria before the games began. If Israel ever gave up Shebaa the Lebanese would just claim something else ...
On Monday, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said his country would eventually embark on direct peace talks with Israel, but that they must be based on UN Security Council resolutions.
We are closely following what the Syrian Arab Republic is undertaking, but that is the decision of the Syrian Arab Republic... we in Lebanon have to look at our situation very carefully, Siniora said. We always have said it is in Lebanon's interest to be the last country to enter into a peace process (with Israel), he added.
Siniora also welcomed the imminent opening of the first-ever Syrian embassy in Beirut after the two countries agreed to reestablish ties for the first time since independence 60 years ago. It is a very important and fundamental step that lays the groundwork for other steps, the Lebanese premier said as he was told to say.
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No point talking peace until the Lebanon elections are over.
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