[An Nahar] Seven people were injured after a wealthy businessman's prestige prevented him from accepting that a person from a lower social status sit at a front row during a condolences prayer in the south, the National News Agency reported. Hmmmmmmm...Mahmoud, call the boys.
NNA quoted several witnesses in the town of Buyout al-Siyyad in Tyre as saying on Monday that businessman A.Z. viewed a decision by another man to sit at a row in front of him as a challenge. Do you know who I am?
While prayers were taking place on the soul of the deceased, his supporters entered the hall and began firing in the air and attacking people with knives and sticks. Well, you do now! BANGBANGBANGBANG! WHACKWHACKWHACKWHACK!!!
Ow.
Seven people received knife wounds and bruises and one of them suffered injuries from a stray bullet. Let that be a lesson to you, peasants!
Too bad he simply couldn't get the IRS to do a surprise audit, like they do in D.C. Much more civilized.
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To be honest I guess we've all been at funerals like that. I haven't but I don't handle snakes anymore it could be common, so wouldn't want to judge. Now Weddings, that's another story, we require a certification of air cover by the two families.
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I had the honor of living next door to a Death March survivor for about 7 years.
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Oddly enough, though there seems to be a lot of effort to find out how many still live, I haven't seen any indications that anyone knows. I suspect that many just prefer to forget.
Excellent book, gets into the lives of these prisoners (not just US) in a readable fashion yet detailed enough to get the point across. Also covers the commando raid in fine detail which was reminded in the recent movie The Great Raid.
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Leslie Marmon Silko's "Ceremony" is a novel about a Native American (New Mexico) survivor of that kind of experience, from a unusual point of view - how to forget, constructively. There are Bataan memorials all over New Mexico.
Must resist making Scot joke. It certainly is a less stupid and tragic story than the one about the cow that fell off an Alp in Austria and landed on a car a few years ago.
The Scottish SPCA has rescued a cow in South Ayrshire which got its head stuck in a ladder.
Scottish SPCA Inspector Kerry Kirkpatrick said: "When the job came through my first thought was, this is a wind up, but I arrived at the field to find the cow (Belgian Blue bullock) looking confused but surprisingly calm despite having his head wedged tightly in between the rungs of the ladder. They managed to gently pull the ladder off the cow's head and return it to the herd unharmed. Unharmed for now, but perhaps heading for the barbecue soon enough? Hmm, I'm getting hungry.
[Dawn] Thousands of people marooned in rain-hit areas are waiting for rescue and rehabilitation support as breaches in canals and drains, especially in the Left bank Outfall Drain (LBOD), remained unplugged on Monday.
Life in Pakistan becomes ever more interesting. One would think Allah did not approve of the path they have taken.
Fresh breaches developing in waterways and drains inundated another 20 villages, including the village of Golarchi which was flooded after a 50-foot breach in Miyan Drain widened to 300ft.
In Mirpurkhas, the army was called out to rescue thousands of people stranded in flooded villages in Jhuddo taluka where about 15,000 people have taken shelter in makeshift tents along roads and in school buildings.
Army personnel are surveying the affected areas. Jhuddo town and adjoining villages have a population of about 200,000.
In Badin, the breaches in the main LBOD at RD Nos 272, 261 and 268 have caused widespread damage to crops and losses of property and some lives.
The worst his villages include Widhri Chak, Mithi-III, Mubarak Arain and Akhtar Lund. Almost the entire union councils of Ahmed Rajo, Tarai, Khorwah, rural areas of Golarchi, UC Serani, Bhugra Memon, Mithi-III, Kadi Kazia, Abdullah Shah part of Kadhan and Mohammad Khan Bhurgari of Badin taluka, UC Chabralo, Dai Jarkas, Khoski and Khairpur Gamboh of Tando Bago have been inundated.
Villagers have been able to plug a breach in Akram wah but other breaches are flooding crops and villages.
Three breaches have occurred in Imam wah, three in Amir Shah drain, two each in Scap, Bukhari drain and Noor wah. Breaches have also occurred in Baneri minor, Mir wah, Ghooni, Ganj Bahar Wah, Sultani wah, Shadi small, Shadi large wah, Naseer wah, Manak wah and several other drains and distributaries.
If the banks of the canals and drains are not repaired immediately the water may reach Pangrio, Lowari Sharif, Nindo and other towns.
While the district administration has failed to handle the situation and rescue stranded people, villagers in the affected areas have rushed to government buildings and schools and set up camps. A large number of displaced people staying in the open along canal banks and other higher places have not received any government help.
An official said 36,204 people, 8,240 women and 20,253 children among them, had been accommodated in 144 relief camps in Badin district.
APP adds: After the widening of the breach in the LBOD, the biggest saline nullah of Asia, the number of villages inundated in Badin district crossed 100.
According to TV reports, there is fear of more breaches and flooding because of overflowing and reverse flow in the LBOD. Floodwater has also inundated a grid station in Pangrio and washed away standing crops on hundreds of thousands of acres of land.
A large number of people are marooned in remote coastal villages with no road link to safe areas. Thousands of people have been rescued by army and navy personnel.
The camps set up by the district administration lack basic facilities, including food.
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One would think Allah did not approve of the path they have taken.
Neh, it's the true Gods showing their opinion of Allan.
[Bangla Daily Star] The High Court on Tuesday summoned nine people including a union parishad chairman and an officer-in charge of Habiganj to explain their role over the suicide of a housewife and her two children by jumping under a train.
They will have to appear before the court on August 23 to place their statements on whether they insisted the woman to commit suicide.
Ferdausi Akhter, 35, and her two children died as she jumped under the train with her four kids in Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj Monday morning. The two others sustained severe injuries.
It was alleged that village arbitrators brought allegation against Ferdausi, wife of a Saudi expatriate,
A man of no name who appears nowhere else in this little morality play, functioning only to pique our curiosity over what lies behind the scenes.
that she had an illicit relation with one Abdul Kadir.
The arbitrators at an arbitration on Sunday rebuked Ferdausi and asked her to leave the village. Later, she along with her four children jumped under the train.
The HC bench on Tuesday passed the suo moto order following a report published on a Bangla national daily on Tuesday stating that a woman along with her four children jumped under the train as she could not bear the insult.
The court also issued a rule upon the local administration to explain why it should not be directed to prosecute the persons involved in insisting Ferdausi to commit suicide.
The persons who are asked to appear before the court are: Atikur Rahman, chairman of Andiura union in Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj, Mainul Chowdhury, officer-in-charge of Madhappur Police Station, sub inspectors Ehsanul Haque and Md Yasin, Monowar, in-charge of Shahapur Railway Police Box, Tapan Dey, a union parishad member, Malay Mia, a former union parishad member, and arbitrators Karim Khan and Abdur Rahman.
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[Bangla Daily Star] The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) sued former BNP politician Hafiz Ibrahim and his wife on Tuesday for laundering $1.75 lakh.
Lakh is an Indian term meaning 100,000.
It accused Ibrahim and his wife Mafruza Sultana of siphoning off the money paid in kickback to help Siemens obtain a contract for supplying telecommunications core equipments to Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Ltd (BTCL).
The first information report stated that the couple accepted and withdrew the money between 2005 and 2006 using a joint account opened at a Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) branch in Singapore.
Although an ACC enquiry has traced transactions of over $8 lakh in the account between 2005 and 2008, primary information proved that $1.75 lakh of the amount was deposited as bribe for abetting Siemens get the BTCL job, which was required to establish the state-owned Teletalk mobile company.
"A prerequisite for bringing money laundering charges is that the laundered money has to be earned through an offence or by illegal means," said ACC Deputy Director Golam Shahriar Chowdhury, who filed the case with Gulshan Police Station Tuesday afternoon.
In his wealth statement submitted to the commission, the BNP leader did not mention the account.
"We have enough logistic to believe that the entire transaction was illegal. Primary enquiry confirmed only a part of it. A full-fledged investigation would reveal how the rest of the amount was realised," said the ACC official.
According to the complaint, Siemens local consultant Zulfikar Ali paid the kickback after Hafiz and his wife opened a joint account with SCB branch at Battery Road in Singapore on December 19, 2005.
Of the bribe, $1 lakh was paid on the day the account was opened while the rest was deposited on July 25, 2006.
Zulfikar Ali, a local consultant of Siemens, opened an account with the same SCB branch following official order from the company, says the case statement.
Different Siemens offices deposited money in the account to bribe collaborators of the company and pay its consultants. Different persons were bribed using the account and Hafiz was paid as part of the bigger underground transaction network.
Since Hafiz and his wife were not consultants of the company, they did not have any reason to receive money from the company.
Referring to the conviction of Siemens for bribery by Columbia district court in USA, the case statement added that Siemens Bangladesh Ltd confessed before the court of using Zulfikar Ali's account to bribe different influential government officials and politicians in Bangladesh.
A total of $4.70 lakh was deposited in seven phases by November 27, 2006 since opening of the account, the case statement reported.
On January 16, 2008, another amount of $3.39 lakh was transferred to the account from separate accounts of Hafiz and his wife with the same bank.
On several different occasions, the couple bought bonds using bribe money from the account and re-deposited $3.30 lakh.
"Filing of money laundering case is more convenient than merely bringing charges of bribery against an individual. The laundered money can be repatriated through court order once the charge is proved," said Shahriar Chowdhury.
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* ION WAFF > CHINA'S FIRST AIRCRAFT CARRIER TO SERVE IN SOUTH CHINA SEA.
ARTIC > PLA GEN. QIAO LIANG = "AIR + SPACE POWER is the KEY TO FUTURE WARS ... The Aircraft Carrier's dynasty [era = time] has already passed because Econ Activities DO NOT SOLELY RELY ON LAND + MARINE TRANSPORT [anymore?]".
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > MILITARY EXPERT [Yin Zhuo]: CHINA'S CARRIER NEEDS A LONG TIME TO POSSESS COMBAT CAPACITY.
* SAME > CHINA WILL ASSIST SRI LANKA [anytime] WHEN NEEDED: CHINESE PM [Wen Jiaobao], espec as per International affairs.
IIUC, Beijing is politely giving the Indian Navy "the Bird".
* SPACEWAR > REPORT: CHINA TO START LANDING DRILLS ON CARRIER [Shenyang J15's = PLAN copy of navalized Russian SU-33's Flankers].
* TOPIX > CHINESE PRESS QUESTION NEW CARRIER.
PLA DAILY > aka PLA Army = Ground Forces, sub-aka Landlubbers, dare to question the national requirement for Carrier Aviation = Tom Cruise's/Maverick's "Need for Speed".
[USAAC GEN.HAP ARNOLD VERSUS THE ARMY VERSUS THE NAVY VERSUS THE GREAT DEPRESSION VERSUS WAR-NAVY BUDGETS, + "COMMAND DECISION" + "12 O'CLOCK HIGH" + "THE 1000-PLANE RAID" here].
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Taiwan is like Israel in not being able to rely on the US for protection. But to counter the 1,500+ missiles, as well as aircraft, pointed at them, their best bet would be to get the technology to build solid-state lasers.
As a highly classified project run by only the most trustworthy of personnel, this would negate much of the "low tech" mainland offense, meaning that they would have far more of the regular Taiwanese military to contend with.
Which would radically increase the "degree of difficulty" of any attack.
The ruthlessness and daring of the “Masin Gang”, as they were known, continues to divide opinion in the Czech Republic, with some regarding them as resistance heroes, and others (including around half the Czech population, according to a recent poll) regarding them as murderers.
Masin, his brother Josef, and their friend Milan Paumer became part of a resistance cell after the communists took power in Czechoslovakia in 1948. In 1951, determined to get weapons for their struggle, they robbed two police stations, killing two policemen. In one case Ctirad subdued the man with chloroform, before slitting his throat. “We wanted to show the communists what could be done, that we could kill, that we could fight back too,” Paumer recalled.
In 1953 the Masins donned military uniform and flagged down a van carrying a large sum – wages for local factory workers. When the clerk in the van pulled out a gun, Josef Masin grabbed the man’s hand, pushed the weapon into his chest and forced him to pull the trigger.
Paumer was subsequently called up into the military, but in early October he received a telex from the Masin brothers — “The wedding is next Saturday” — a coded message that the time had come to escape.
To begin with the Masins, Paumer and two other gang members, Zbynek Janata and Vaclav Sveda, made good progress, but a few days after crossing the border into East Germany a railway ticket inspector reported the presence of five suspicious-looking foreigners to the police. As their train rolled into the next station, the Czechs found a posse of East German policemen waiting for them. When ordered to put their hands up, the gang opened fire, killing one policeman and wounding another. Zbynek Janata was captured, and the remaining four fled into the night.
There followed a dramatic chase across East Germany. Pursued by perhaps as many as 25,000 policemen, secret agents and Soviet troops, the Czechs made their way through snow-covered forest towards Berlin, hiding at night in branch-covered holes and stealing whatever food they could. The journey of 200 miles took them 28 days. More than once they had to fight their way out of trouble, leaving three policeman dead.
On one occasion, near the town of Waldow, the group found itself surrounded by hundreds of security personnel; but, after waiting until nightfall, they managed to sneak through the police lines. The next day Vaclav Sveda was forced to surrender after being wounded in a gun battle and later, as the group neared Berlin, Paumer was shot in the hip during a struggle with a policeman.
“I nearly gave up the last few miles of the journey, I was so tired and weak,” he recalled. “But Joe [Josef Masin] aimed a gun at me and said: 'Either I will kill you or they will kill you — you choose.’”
Eventually the three men managed to struggle to a railway siding where they stole away in the undercarriage of a train that took them the last few miles to Berlin. Once in the German city, they crawled along a ditch into the American sector on the night of November 2.
Ctirad Masin was born in Prague on August 11 1930, the eldest son of Josef Masin, a Czechoslovak army officer who would be tortured and executed by the Nazis in 1942 for his activities in the Czech resistance and as part of retaliatory measures for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. His wife Zdena was imprisoned for several months.
After the war Josef Masin received a posthumous promotion to brigadier-general and his sons Ctirad and Josef, then 15 and 13 years old, were awarded medals for “personal bravery during the war” by President Edvard Benes.
The boys attended school in Podebrady, but as the communists tightened their grip on power, some of their family friends vanished without a trace or were sentenced to death in public show trials. Believing that the Americans would soon come and “wipe out Communism” they formed a resistance group with a few friends. The Masins’ uncle, Ctibor Novak, a former Secret Service officer, became their adviser; when the Americans did not arrive the group decided to break out to the Free World, learn how to stage an insurgency, and return to carry it out.
After arriving in the American zone of West Berlin, the Masins and Paumer turned themselves over to the police. Paumer was put in a military hospital. All three subsequently joined the US Army. Paumer served in the Korean War and then settled in Miami. Josef Masin moved to Germany and then to Santa Barbara, California, where he started an aviation business and became a millionaire. Ctirad Masin moved to Cleveland and set up in business selling heaters.
Back in Czechoslovakia, while the prosecution of the Masins on charges of sabotage, murder, attempted murder, embezzlement, defection, espionage and treason was suspended in 1954, people who had any association with them were rounded up. Vaclav Sveda, Zbynek Janata and Ctibor Novak were executed, their bodies thrown into common graves. Farewell letters to their families were found 45 years later, after the Velvet Revolution. The MasinsÂ’ mother, Zdena, died in prison in 1956. Even their little sister was thrown into jail.
While Milan Paumer returned home after the fall of communism and died last year in Prague, the Masin brothers refused to return because, they said, the Communist Party had not been banned. A proposal in the Czech Senate that the three men be awarded a state medal for their fight against communism came to nothing. Meanwhile the Czech Communist Party continued to demand that they be tried for their “crimes”.
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Stories like this all over eastern Europe. Especially Yugoslavia and the Balkans. WWII was just the culmination of the bitter fight between everybody else and the communists.
A "potentially catastrophic" bomb plot hatched by an expelled high school student has been foiled by police in the US city of Tampa, Florida.
Police said Jared Cano, 17, planned to lay a device at Freedom High School in north Tampa and detonate it as students began the new school year.
Fuel, shrapnel, plastic tubing and timing and fusing devices were found at his home, a police chief said.
Jane Castor said the plot was of a scale never before seen in Tampa.
Mr Cano had been expelled from the school and had hoped to kill or injure more people than the 1999 shooting by two students at Columbine High School in Colorado, Ms Castor said.
That shooting killed 12 students and a teacher.
The arrest took place after an unnamed individual "came forth with information" about the plot, Ms Castor said.
"That's what we need in this community, to have the citizens involved in keeping this community safe. And that was a prime example of allowing us to avoid a very serious event yesterday."
Jared Cano had been arrested on several juvenile charges in the past, including burglary, drug possession and weapons offences, police said.
"We've been very, very familiar with him," Police Maj John Newman said.
He is now facing charges of threatening to throw, project, place or discharge a destructive device, possession of bomb-making materials and a marijuana charge.
The FBI wants to know about people who purchase "in bulk" things like Meals, Ready to Eat (MREs), waterproof containers for ammunition or matches, shooting accessories, etc., especially if the purchaser insists on paying in cash.
Strangely, though, at least two branches of the federal government advise citizens to have some of these things on hand, in case of a broad range of emergencies.
Ironically, both the CDC [Centers for Disease Control] and DHS [Department of Homeland Security] both say it's a good idea to have most of that stuff on hand.
The lists call for "non-perishable" food--at least a three-day supply for each person. Granted, they don't specify MREs, but those are certainly a logical choice of non-perishable food.
Also, the FBI doesn't seem to specify what constitutes a "bulk" purchase (but remember that the new requirement to report the sale of two rifles is presented as a way of tracking "bulk" purchases of firearms). A family of four, eating three meals per day, would need 12 meals to meet CDC's and DHS's minimum suggestion for food--sounds like "bulk," doesn't it?
The CDC and DHS lists both mention matches, with DHS specifically mentioning waterproof storage for them. Ammunition cans are popular as waterproof storage for all manner of things (like first aid kits) that one would like to be able to keep dry during an emergency.
So why is the federal government advising people to conduct themselves in a manner likely to draw scrutiny as a "suspected terrorist?"
Maybe they're just looking for new ways to populate DHS's massive new database of American citizens who need to be kept under Big Brother's watchful eye.
Not incidentally, this could also add a bunch of names to a list that some propose should be used as the basis to deny firearms purchases, without a conviction, without an indictment, without even an arrest or formal charge.
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ION MIDDLE EAST ONLINE > DID THE US [Govt-People = covertly intentionally] TRADE FREEDOM FOR SECURITY AFTER 9-11?
ARTIC > TERRORISTS, e.g. OSAMA BIN LADEN, etal. HAVE "SUCCEEDED" WIDIN THE CONTEXT THAT THEY HAVE EFFEC CAUSED OR INDUCED A NATION + ITS PEOPLE TO CHANGE [Values = Way of Life], US POST 9-11 RESPONSE NOT PROPORTIONAL TO THE ACTUAL THREAT???
versus
* WORLD NEWS > WEATHER ALERTS IMPERILED, NOAA WARNS, circa 2015 due to lack of proper $$$ Budget.
Again, iff youse are wondering how our future OWG-NWO that no American = Amerikan has yet voted for could cause or induce our future OWG SPACE DEFENSE MISSLES TO CAUSE OR INDUCE COMET APOPHIS TO CRASH INTO THE MOON, WONDER NO MORE!
"GLOBALISM" + OWG-NWO = IMO is safe to say is akin to setting up [future] SPACE GOVT. + SPACE ORDER.
* SAME > SOLAR STORMS MAY CAUSE CATASTROPHIC NUCLEAR THREAT IN US [collapse of NucPlant Control Sys, nationwide power grid].
versus
* SAME > [DailyMail.UK] "TIS STILL A SMALL WORLD: EARTH'S GIRTH ISN'T EXPANDING [or shrinking] + ONLY CHANGES BY 0.1MM EACH YEAR, NASA SCIENTISTS CLAIM.
IIUC, IOW NASA = trying hard not to say that our Sun isn't = won't be entering RED GIANT PHASE FOR A [hopefully]L-O-N-G TIME YET, + AFATK/ITO ISN'T RELEASING ANY OVERWHELMING WAVES OF EMG AT THIS TIME THAT COULD FLEX-N-BEND, ETC. THE EARTH'S SPHERE.
SUB-IOW, read KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED COME 2013 = NASA-FORECASTED SOLAR STORMS, as the magnitude or strength of same is not certain.
Even as U.S.-Pakistani cooperation on anti-terrorism programs is withering, the United States is considering backing the construction of a giant, $12 billion dam in Pakistan that would be the largest civilian aid project the U.S. has undertaken here in decades.
Supporters of a U.S. role in the project say American participation would mend the United States' tattered image, going a long way toward quieting widespread anti-Americanism amid criticism that the U.S. lavishes money on Pakistan's military while doing little for the country's civilian population.
Approval of the project still faces many hurdles. India objects to the dam because it would be in Kashmir, an area that India also claims. The project also is likely to face opposition from Pakistan's critics in the U.S. Congress, who've called for all aid to be cut off after Osama bin Laden was found hiding in northern Pakistan earlier this year.
Recent Pakistani actions, including allegations this week that Pakistan had allowed Chinese military experts to inspect the wreckage of an American stealth helicopter that crashed in the bin Laden compound, are likely to inflame such criticism.
Still, proponents of U.S. aid for the project recall that the United States was popular in Pakistan in the 1960s and '70s, when Washington backed the construction of two enormous dams, Tarbela and Mangla.
"Getting involved in a long-term project like this is very compelling for us," said a senior U.S. official who asked not to be identified because no final decision on the project has been made. "This would be a huge demonstration of our commitment to Pakistan and our faith in the country's future."
The Diamer Basha dam would provide enough power to overcome Pakistan's crippling electricity shortage. Proponents of the project also claim that its water storage capacity, in a 50-mile-long lake that would be created behind the dam, would be so great that it would have averted last's years devastating floods, which deluged a fifth of the country, pushed 20 million people out of their homes and caused an estimated $10 billion in damage. Maybe Warren Buffett will personally contribute the money.
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Could be a useful investment. A 'sword of Damocles', sort of like Aswan. Design/construct it with a target point than can be hit to create a mother of all (recent) floods if Pakistan decides to use its nukes.
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Here's a revolutionary thought, spend $12 Billion HERE on infrastructure projects. Bad idea. Domestically, we should eliminate military pensions in favor of 401(k)s.
From China Daily
TEL AVIV - Chen Bingde, visiting chief of the General Staff of China's People's Liberation Army (PLA), pledged Sunday to lift the friendly ties between the Chinese and Israeli militaries to a new level during a meeting with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak.
A deepening Sino-Israeli cooperation is contributing to regional peace and stability, Chen said, stressing the relationship between the two countries' armies is developing in recent years.
Barak, who visited China two months ago, hopes that the two countries will work together to tackle all kinds of threats and challenges one of those challenges is the President of the US.
Chen's visit is the first of its kind, according to Israel Defense Force (IDF) Chief of Staff Benny Gantz, who said the visit was significant in promoting the relations between the two militaries.
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How's that Smart Diplomacy(tm) working for you? The Chinese have had a hellva time trying to perfect manufacture of (copied) western jet engines. The Israelis have the tech. Just keep stabbing them in the back DoS and WH, they'll seek what ever it takes to protect their own interests.
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This is a futile endeavor. The Israelis have a friend in India, but China will be a waste of time unless they use their power internationally to take UN pressure off Israel, and do so even before there is any other agreement.
This would make sense, as it is no skin off the nose of the Chinese. However, they never give freebies.
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If you remember, Bush was very adamant about protecting our technology that we sold to Israel. I assume this is the backlash for having an eight year old lead our nation and foreign policy now.
Israel must survive and when the king of Edom has forsaken them, they will look at the dragon that will eat it's own tail.
Righthaven, the Las Vegas copyright troll, won't be collecting any damages from a man it once branded as a copyright infringer but instead must pay the man's legal fees of $34,045....
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Another money quote: The bottom line for Righthaven is that so far it has not won a single lawsuit of 275 filed since 2010.
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They were never planning on actually going to court on these claims. They just bludgeoned small guys (without legal defense teams) like Fred who had to make a hard financial choice whether to settle or risk losing everything. Fred made the smart, but painful, decision, IMHO. It would be nice to strip these bastards of everything they own, and their ability to bleed somebody else in the future - take their law license.
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I am waiting for someone to claw back some settlement money. As an example for everyone else. Just saying...
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Dawn] Thousands of people marooned in rain-hit areas are waiting for rescue and rehabilitation support as breaches in canals and drains, especially in the Left bank Outfall Drain (LBOD), remained unplugged on Monday.
