Well, I do give him points for originality...
A 41-year-old city man who got into an argument with his girlfriend at his job on Saturday was charged with lifting her car up with a forklift and then dropping it to the ground with her in it, police said. I think we've finally found the mythical "somebody, somewhere who's sick of putting up with her shit" guy...
Brian Hurley of 188 Dayton St., was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, a forklift, assault and battery, and malicious damage to a motor vehicle, police said. The incident took place at New England Warehousing Inc., 125 Paridon St., in East Forest Park. Police were called to the scene at 9:40 a.m. Car 12. Investigate a report of a man attacking a woman with a forklift at 125 Paridon.
Very funny, dispatch.
The victim, whose name was not released, told police she was dropping Hurley off at work when the two got into an argument over money. She told police Hurley slapped her, got out of the car and started kicking the sides of the vehicle, causing several dents. She said he then got into a forklift and then drove it into her car while she was still in it. He then hoisted the car up, carried it several feet and then dropped it to the ground, police said. Yeah! Thanks for dropping in, bitch!
Hurley ran off before police arrived. He was later located sitting on the back steps of his residence on Dayton Street. You the forklift guy?
[An Nahar] Police questioned on Friday a French politician who sparked fury when he alleged that a former minister molested boys at a Moroccan orgy and that senior figures covered it up, officials said.
Fury is the correct response, if it's true.
Luc Ferry, a celebrity philosopher and former education minister, claimed this week in a televised debate that he had heard about the scandal from "a prime minister" during his own time in office between 2002 and 2004.
According to Wikipedia, Lionel Jospin of the Socialist Party was prime minister until 6 May, 2002. After that it was Jean-Pierre Raffarin of the Union for a Popular Movement, no doubt just as worthy an institution.
Prosecutors responded by opening an investigation on Wednesday. Sources close to the probe told Agence La Belle France Presse that police in the child protection brigade questioned Ferry as a witness at their headquarters on Friday morning.
Monsieur Strauss-Kahn is submitted to the humiliation as being treated like a commoner, and now it's all the rage.
In the debate Ferry said he had been told about a former minister, whom he did not name, who was said to have been jugged in Marrakesh on suspicion of pedophilia but flown back to La Belle France in secret while the report was hushed up.
The creme de la creme of la belle France does seem in the habit of hushing...
The claim -- which came when La Belle France was reeling over news of two other senior figures implicated in sex crimes investigations -- fired up the rubes, with current ministers demanding Ferry produce proof or drop his claim.
Ferry has already insisted that he has no specific proof that a sex crime took place, but was merely recounting anecdotally what he had heard during his time in government from other senior French officials.
The shock claim came as La Belle France engaged in soul-searching about the behavior of its allegedly chauvinist political elite in the wake of two scandals.
On May 14, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the IMF and favorite to lead the Socialist ticket in next year's presidential showdown with incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy, ...23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... was jugged in New York on suspicion of attempted rape.
Then, earlier this week, junior public service minister Georges Tron was forced to resign after two municipal employees from the town where he is mayor accused him of sexual assault.
Both men deny all wrongdoing, but the reporting of their cases has breached the wall of silence surrounding the sexual lives of French leaders and led to a string of allegations of predatory behavior in high office.
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Anyone ever wonder if the roots of all the global Islamic rage and violence is due to widespread sodomy of young boys in the Arab world, who eventually learn to channel their pain, anger, and shame into socially-acceptable hatred toward Jooos and the West???
[Al Jazeera] Troops loyal to Alassane Ouattara, ...the current president-for-life of Ivory Coast. He actually beat his predecessor in an election before having to eject him from the presidential palazzo.... the Ivorian president, have killed at least 149 real or suspected supporters of Laurent Gbagbo ... Former President-for-Life of Ivory Coast from 2000 to 2011. Laurent lost to Alassane Ouattara in 2010 but his representtive tore up the results on the teevee and he refused to vacate the presidential palace. French troops assisted the Oattara forces in extricating him from his Fuhrerbunker... in Abidjan since the capture and arrest of the former leader, according to Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... (HRW).
At least 95 unarmed people mostly from ethnic groups aligned to Gbagbo were executed in operations in late April and May, HRW said in findings that will raise further questions over the behaviour of soldiers already suspected of abuses elsewhere.
"The hope of a new era following President Ouattara's inauguration will fade fast unless these horrible abuses against pro-Gbagbo groups stop immediately," Corinne Dufka, senior West Africa researcher at the New York-based group, said on Thursday.
"The president has repeatedly promised credible, impartial investigations and prosecutions. Now is the time to keep those promises."
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Only 149? Used to be thousands executed after an African coup.
[Bangla Daily Star] A local BNP leader was chopped to death by unknown assailants at Baidanga union in Jhenaidah district yesterday.
The dead Shahjahan Seraj, 55, son of late Solaiman Hossain of Saganna union of Jhenidah Sadar upazila, was a joint secretary of Baidanga BNP unit.
Police said some myrmidons called Shahjahan to come out of his house at about 1:30 am saying that they need to discuss an emergency issue regarding the union parishad (UP) elections campaign.
When Shahjahan came out of his house, the myrmidons swooped on him with sharp weapons leaving him critically injured.
He was admitted to Jhenidah General Hospital at about 2:00 am from where he was referred to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) as his condition deteriorated.
Shahjahan, also a former union parishad chairman, pegged out on way to DMCH at about 12:00 noon.
He might have been killed due to his active support for local BNP candidate Alauddin Al Mamun in the coming UP election, locals alleged.
Feroja Kulsum, on-duty officer of Jhenidah Police Station, said an autopsy of the body will be conducted at Jhenidah General Hospital morgue.
BNP Jhenidah district unit president Mashiur Rahman condemned the killing and demanded proper investigation into the incident.
No case was filed till filing of this report last night.
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[Bangla Daily Star] A woman got shot allegedly by a stray bullet
They're putting bullets on trial now? What wonderful times we live in!
in a drive of Rapid Action Battalion at a slum of Panchabait in Bhairab yesterday afternoon.
Rab claimed they recovered 41 bottles of Phensydil
...a cough medicine, the abuse of which leads to hard drug use on the Indian subcontinent...
and set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock a man during the drive against drug peddlers.
Rahima Akhter, 35, wife of Dhan Mia of the slum, with a bullet injury to the head was rushed to Narsingdi Hospital and then shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where she is undergoing treatment at the intensive care unit.
A group of 10 to 12 Rab personnel in plain clothes went to Dhan Mia's shanty around 3:30pm, witnesses said.
After a while, locals heard someone screaming from that shanty and rushed to the spot to find Rahima lying in a pool of blood. The group then identified themselves as members of Rab-11. The Rab members pointed guns at the crowd and warned them that they would open fire if the local people come forward, locals said.
Dhan Mia's brother Dulal Mia said Dhan Mia is a rickshaw-puller and Rahima is a house-wife and they are not engaged in drug peddling.
"Wudn't them."
Meanwhile, ...back at the pound, Zebulon finally found just the friend he'd been looking for... Lt Col Gazi Mohammad Ahsanuzzaman of Rab-11 at a press briefing at Rab-9 headquarters in Bhairab yesterday said that on information they conducted the drive. Rahima was locked in a tussle with Rab personnel. At one stage, a stray bullet from one of the Rab personnel's arms hit her.
"Accidentally behind her right ear -- statistics are a wonderful thing."
Rab claimed that before this incident, they set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock Mohammad Faruque from an adjacent shanty in connection with drug peddling.
"And those slum dwellers are all in cahoots. Everyone knows that."
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[An Nahar] Russian firefighters on Friday battled a blaze raging through an arms depot where tones of artillery shells and rockets were stored, as some 28,000 people living nearby were evacuated from their homes.
As a result of the night-time blaze at the arms depot near the city of Izhevsk in the Volga region of Udmurtia, 30 people were maimed and nine hospitalized including a child, an emergency ministry front man told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"Nine people were hospitalized, three people with burns," said Mikhail Surkov, a front man for Volga region.
"One person has light concussion, one person has a broken leg, and the others have cuts and scratches."
"A total of more than 28,000 people have been evacuated," the regional emergency ministry said in a statement.
That seems wise...
The residents of the neighboring town of Argyz of around 19,000 people and the nearby village of Pugachyovo were evacuated in buses to nearby villages at a radius of 30 to 60 kilometers, officials said.
Balls of fire rose up from the depot in regular kabooms, television footage showed, while by morning a thick column of smoke poured from the site.
The defense ministry said that the military personnel at the depot did not sustain any casualties.
"According to a report from the scene at 06:30 Moscow time (02:30 GMT), there were no casualties as a result of the fire and exploding shells among the military personnel," the ministry said in a statement.
The depot contained rockets but they are safely stored and have not went kaboom!, deputy defense minister Dmitry Bulgakov told the RIA Novosti news agency from the scene.
"The rockets did not explode. They are in a concrete shelter up to 70 centimeters (28 inches) thick," Bulgakov told the agency. The ministry had said earlier that the depot contained only "classic artillery shells".
A source in the law enforcement authorities told the Interfax news agency the rockets were stored without their warheads, making them less dangerous.
"At the moment they do not present a serious threat to the public," the source said.
The depot, which housed old ammunition which was due to be decommissioned, contained explosives equivalent to 58 tones of TNT, Russian television reported.
The force of the blast broke windows in the nearby village and the fire burnt down a two-storey building where the personnel lived, the defense ministry said.
The force of the kabooms had slightly diminished early Friday, the emergency ministry. "There is no threat to nearby villages and the town of Izhevsk."
More than 100 firefighters were battling the blaze, along with water-bombing planes and robotic equipment, officials said.
Explosions at military weapons depots are relatively common in Russia and are often linked to aging equipment and lax enforcement of safety rules.
Late last month a similar fire at a munitions depot in the region of Bashkortostan triggered kabooms and forced the evacuation of thousands of residents, according to officials.
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The Google coordinates for this site are 56.35.44.86N 053.05.35.80E, if anyone's interested. I remember this site from my years of keeping track of such things. It's pretty big.
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Sir, do you remember the Great Murmansk Kaboom Of 1985? The main weapons storage area for the Atlantic Red Banner Fleet went up in a series of blasts that had a lot of people scared for a few minutes that a nuclear warhead had gone off. Turns out that the Soviet ordnance guys had problems closing the doors on the mags (Socialist engineering triumphs) and didn't like the fact that they had to drive one way in the storage area (lots safer, don't ya know). A collision between two trucks, one of which was carrying SLCM warheads. Put the Soviet Atlantic Fleet out of the warfighting business for almost a year.
Mike
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heh heh - I love history repeated
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Behind the hard numbers in Friday's dismal report on the job market are scared small-business owners, slashed state budgets, dried-up federal stimulus funds and a lingering uncertainty that has taken hold from corporate boardrooms to factory floors around the country. I'm beginning think our President has not delivered the change I hoped for!
Employers added 54,000 jobs in May, the Labor Department said Friday, down from 232,000 in April. The unemployment rate rose to 9.1 percent from 9 percent. That deterioration in the labor market marks only the latest in a slew of recent signs that the economic recovery is losing momentum. We can't say it's "unexpected" anymore! We can't but the MSM will...
Employers from coast to coast describe a situation in which tepid economic growth alone isn't enough to offset their fears of Obumblecare and prompt them to add to their payrolls. Sales have been rising, but slowly and tenuously. Doubts about the future have continued to chip away at confidence and prevented many business people from taking the leap of faith required to expand and hire new workers.
CNS News so some salt required. But we have some numbers to work with on the total US debt.
China has dropped 97 percent of its holdings in U.S. Treasury bills, decreasing its ownership of the short-term U.S. government securities from a peak of $210.4 billion in May 2009 to $5.69 billion in March 2011, the most recent month reported by the U.S. Treasury. Treasury bills are securities that mature in one year or less that are sold by the U.S. Treasury Department to fund the nation's debt.
Until October, the Chinese were generally making up for their decreasing holdings in Treasury bills by increasing their holdings of longer-term U.S. Treasury securities. Thus, until October, China's overall holdings of U.S. debt continued to increase. Since October, however, China has also started to divest from longer-term U.S. Treasury securities. Thus, as reported by the Treasury Department, China's ownership of the U.S. national debt has decreased in each of the last five months on record, including November, December, January, February and March.
Prior to the fall of 2008, acccording to Treasury Department data, Chinese ownership of short-term Treasury bills was modest, standing at only $19.8 billion in August of that year. But when President George W. Bush signed legislation to authorize a $700-billion bailout of the U.S. financial industry in October 2008 and President Barack Obama signed a $787-billion economic stimulus law in February 2009, Chinese ownership of short-term U.S. Treasury bills skyrocketed. By December 2008, China owned $165.2 billion in U.S. Treasury bills, according to the Treasury Department. By March 2009, Chinese Treasury bill holdings were at $191.1 billion. By May 2009, Chinese holdings of Treasury bills were peaking at $210.4 billion.
However, China's overall appetite for U.S. debt increased over a longer span than did its appetite for short-term U.S. Treasury bills. In August 2008, before the bank bailout and the stimulus law, overall Chinese holdings of U.S. debt stood at $573.7 billion. That number continued to escalate past May 2009-- when China started to reduce its holdings in short-term Treasury bills--and ultimately peaked at $1.1753 trillion last October. As of March 2011, overall Chinese holdings of U.S. debt had decreased to 1.1449 trillion.
So who's buying the bills that China is selling?
Most of the U.S. national debt is made up of publicly marketable securities sold by the Treasury Department and I.O.U.s called "intragovernmental" bonds that the Treasury has given to so-called government trust funds--such as the Social Security trust funds--when it has spent the trust funds' money on other government expenses.
The publicly marketable segment of the national debt includes Treasury bills, which (as defined by the Treasury) mature in terms of one-year or less; Treasury notes, which mature in terms of 2 to 10 years; Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS), which mature in terms of 5, 10 and 30 years; and Treasury bonds, which mature in terms of 30 years.
At the end of August 2008, before the financial bailout and the stimulus, the publicly marketable segment of the U.S. national debt was 4.88 trillion. Of that, $2.56 trillion was in the intermediate-term Treasury notes, $1.22 trillion was in short-term Treasury bills, $582.8 billion was in long-term Treasury bonds, and $521.3 billion was in TIPS.
At the end of March 2011, by which time the Chinese had dropped their Treasury bill holdings 97 percent from their peak, the publicly marketable segment of the U.S. national debt had almost doubled from August 2008, hitting $9.11 trillion. Of that $9.11 trillion, $5.8 trillion was in intermediate-term Treasury notes, $1.7 trillion was in short-term Treasury bills; $931.5 billion was in long-term Treasury bonds, and $640.7 billion was in TIPS.
Before the end of March 2012, the Treasury must redeem all of the $1.7 trillion in Treasury bills that were extant as of March 2011 and find new or old buyers who will continue to invest in U.S. debt. But, for now, the Chinese at least do not appear to be bullish customers of short-term U.S. debt.
Treasury bills carry lower interest rates than longer-term Treasury notes and bonds, but the longer term notes and bonds are exposed to a greater risk of losing their value to inflation. To the degree that the $1.7 trillion in short-term U.S. Treasury bills extant as of March must be converted into longer-term U.S. Treasury securities, the U.S. government will be forced to pay a higher annual interest rate on the national debt.
As of the close of business on Thursday, the total U.S. debt was $14.34 trillion, according to the Daily Treasury Statement. Of that, approximately $9.74 trillion was debt held by the public and approximately $4.61 trillion was "intragovernmental" debt.
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Racist Chinese punishing the first non African state to elect a Black to highest office?
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Half-black. Now if Tiger Woods was president ...
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The long-threatened move away from the US dollar and Treasuries has begun in earnest. Lots of heads are firmly buried in sand ... or elsewhere ... to avoid acknowledging this.
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They pull a shell game, in which the Treasury redeems the T-bills with "newly printed money", then puts them in a new issue which is sold to the FED.
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So China is redeeming the bonds for (devalued) cash dollars? And what are they buying with those dollars? Greek debt? (More likely US & global stocks - SOMETHING is supporting their prices, and it isn't earnings or anticipated earnings.)
They bought up 600,000 acres of drilling rights in the Eagle Ford formation last year. To get that oil, the Chinese are going to need to use "fracking" (hydraulic fracturing) of the shale. I expect EPA opposition to fracking will now end.
[An Nahar] A Turkish court Friday charged another four soldiers over an alleged 2003 plot to overthrow the Islamist-rooted government and ordered them to be jugged pending trial, Anatolia news agency reported.
At the rate they're going, the entire army will be behind bars pretty soon, and then who will keep the benighted Arabs from rushing in?
A general heading Turkey's air force academy was among the suspects charged with "an attempt to remove the government by force" after lengthy questioning, Anatolia said.
Four others were released, it said.
The arrests bring to 12 the number of soldiers who have been placed in long-term storage pending trial as part of an expanding probe into the purported coup plot, codenamed "Operation Sledgehammer", according to Anatolia.
Among them is four-star general Bilgin Balanli, the head of Turkey's military academies who was in line to become air force commander this year.
The investigation, the toughest challenge yet to the once-omnipotent Turkish army, has already landed 196 serving and retired officers in court. Most of them remain in prison.
The trial, which opened in December, has been marred by serious doubts over the authenticity of some implicating documents, fueling mistrust between army and government.
Media reports have said the army's annoyance over the expansion of the probe might be behind its surprise decision last month to cancel two major military exercises without explanation, a move that has added to political jitters ahead of Turkey's June 12 general elections.
Prosecutors argue the coup plan was drawn up shortly after the Justice and Development Party, moderate offshoot of a banned Islamist movement, came to power in November 2002 amid fears it would undermine Turkey's secular system.
The soldiers allegedly plotted to bomb mosques, and down a Turkish jet over the Aegean and blame it on Greece, hoping to destabilize the government and garner public support for a coup.
The alleged plot leader says papers from a seminar on a contingency plan based on a scenario of tensions with Greece and domestic unrest have been doctored to look like a coup plan.
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Any notion that President Obama's reelection campaign was gaining momentum was shaken this week by a string of worrisome economic reports showing weakness in the job market and new lows for housing prices. Except in that bastion of government workers, the Washington, D.C. area.
The bad news for Obama stood in contrast to a run of positive developments so widely reported in the media that had given many Democrats reason for confidence. The economy had been adding jobs at a steady clip. A president once accused of being weak on national security heroically ordered the raid that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden. Not to mention adding a third war - excuse me - kinetic action - in Libya.
And several potentially strong Republican presidential candidates took a pass on the race.
"The prospect of economic growth getting up to a point and unemployment getting down to a point that is comfortable for an incumbent are declining by the month, and are now not very high at all," said William Galston, a policy adviser in the Clinton White House and a veteran of Democratic presidential campaigns. "I hope there's someone on the inner circle with the standing and the guts to tell the president that, if things continue the way they're going, despite everything he's done, he's going to be in trouble." So many snarks, so little bandwidth.
However...
Obama's advisers said Friday's job report could be an aberration and should not distract from the president's success in helping rescue the economy from the worst recession since the Great Depression. Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director, said on MSNBC that the plant Obama visited would have been closed if any of the Republican candidates had been president. Keep going, Danny Boy!
Behind the economic distress is a series of unexpected events which can hardly be blamed on Bush, including the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the European debt crisis and rising gasoline prices. Which can still be blamed on Bush, unless someone remembers the gulf drilling ban. And the talk of energy taxes. And cap and trade. Et cetera.
As a result of the unemployment rate turning back up and the housing market reaching new lows since the slump began in 2006, numerous economists have reduced their expectations for economic growth this year.
Even more challenging for Obama is that some of the hardest-hit states, such as Florida, Nevada and Michigan, are critically important for his reelection strategy. I think the proper term here is "Karma, Baby".
Democrats believe the auto bailout can be a big political winner in the industrial Midwest. But the administration has struggled to show progress in helping struggling homeowners. Some of us bought our present dwelling in 2006, thinking the slump was short-lived and are now upside down, hoping to retire 1,500 miles away, in a few years, near the grandchildren. Not all the victims deserved the housing crash. Stoopid? Perhaps. Greedy? Deserving? No.
White House allies grudgingly concede that the economy may present greater challenges than they had thought. "The president is going to be running for reelection in an economy that's still too weak," said Jared Bernstein, who until last month was chief economic adviser to Vice President Biden. "It is improving and is in a far better place than it was when he got there but still is not adequately lifting the living standards of the broad middle class." As long as they keep disillusioning themselves this way, the Anti-Dems have a chance in 2012.
"The main worry for Republicans at this point is nominating a strong and credible potential president," said Whit Ayers, a GOP pollster. "I think we will, but obviously if you want to replace a current president, you have to nominate a credible alternative."
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"I think we will, but obviously if you want to replace a current president, you have to nominate a credible alternative."
It's getting to the point of anyone but Obummer. Of course such knee jerk responses are what got us Obummer last time. I don't see anyone in the field of Pub possibilities who wouldn't be an improvement.
Full details are in a PDF file at the link. Seems like the aircraft aren't true 'fighters' for fighter pilots but rather excel at war-fighting proficiency. The Indians want the latter, of course, but aren't willing to give up the former to get it. The planes still in the running: the Eurofighter and the Rafale. Also out: the Gripen and the MiG-35.
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ignoring their huge success rate.
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Its a bit more complicated than that. The IAF and some of their pols were asking for a bunch of items that are specifically restricted from foreign military sales, they wouldn't take no for an answer and well..that's why the US stuff isn't in the running for it. There's also the possibility that they weren't offering a big enough kickback to the pols (which is quite common in indian military acquisitions).
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Also remember that the standard export version of the F-16 and F-18 doesn't have all the electronic goodies that make them deadly before they hit a dogfight. It takes some real dealing to get a F-16 with the electronics to make it lethal at 90 miles.
The SU-27/35 would actually make a really nice fit with the IAF and their supply structure and system.
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LOL...the poor Gripen...how many times have I heard this exact story. "The Gripen was also cut from the purchase consideration." It's not even news, it just rates an extra sentence.
âThe US companies, which flaunt their technological leadership, are feigning hurt that their fighters were found technologically unsuitable. But it was their misjudgement to offer the IAF fighters like the F-16 and the F-18 that are decades old. It is arrogance to claim these have been modernised and are good enough for a country like India. If they wanted to argue technology, they should have fielded the F-35.â
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...don't forget to throw in the possibility of an American administration that would cut off material logistics in supporting a boycott to leverage Israel is something new in the equation. Congress could put on a big show, but unless they act to withdraw the power from the Executive, it's a done deal.
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The F-35 won't be available in the time frame the IAF needs. Heck, it's not available in the time frame the USAF and USN need. And the U.S. won't (though perhaps should) offer an export version of the F-22.
Technology transfers are also apparently a sticking point on offering the F-35.
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Um, it's 'India', not Israel.
Then again, the title threw me for bit of a loop as well.
[Dawn] The Jungle Khel police on Thursday booked the brother of a local MNA for harassing and beating a woman in her house.
Clearly the woman was not his wife.
The victim, Nayab Akhtar, told the police that Zakir Shah, the brother of the MNA, Pir Dalawar Shah, barged into her house near the Kohat cricket ground and asked her to leave the official quarter. Ms Akhtar said, when she refused, Zakir Shah threatened her with dire consequences and misbehaved with her.
The police registered case against the accused and started raids for his arrest.
DIES: Another young victim of the November 5, 2010 suicide kaboom inside a mosque in Dara Adam Khel died after five months on Thursday.
Officials said young Yar Shah who had been injured in the suicide kaboom in a mosque during Friday prayers in Aatari Wal area of Darra Adam Khel lost his fight against death after so many months. He was buried in his ancestral graveyard in Balaki Khel area in the presence of a large number of people.
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TEL AVIV- Israeli shipping mogul Sammy Ofer, at the centre of a scandal over business contacts with Iran, was found dead at his home on Friday, Israeli Channel 10 Television reported.
The United States last month imposed sanctions on the Ofer Brothers Group, accusing it of selling an oil tanker to Iran -- Israel's arch foe. Sammy Ofer and the company's co-owner, brother Yuli, denied any wrongdoing.
Sammy Ofer, 89, was one of Israel's richest men. Channel 10 did not say how he died and police did not have any immediate comment on the report.
Very interesting...
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But since he made it to 89 - proving he knows how to protect himself from unnatural causes, and having passed the 'use by' date - I think natural causes is a reasonable bet.
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
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Police questioned on Friday a French politician who sparked fury when he alleged that a former minister molested boys at a Moroccan orgy and that senior figures covered it up, officials said.
Controversial right-to-die activist who assisted more than 100 people in ending their lives pegs out at US hospital
Troops loyal to 
Russian firefighters on Friday battled a blaze raging through an arms depot where tones of artillery shells and rockets were stored, as some 28,000 people living nearby were evacuated from their homes.
[An Nahar] A Turkish court Friday charged another four soldiers over an alleged 2003 plot to overthrow the Islamist-rooted government and ordered them to be 
Any notion that President Obama's reelection campaign was gaining momentum was shaken this week by a string of worrisome economic reports showing weakness in the job market and new lows for housing prices. 
TEL AVIV- Israeli shipping mogul Sammy Ofer, at the centre of a scandal over business contacts with Iran, was found dead at his home on Friday, Israeli Channel 10 Television reported.
