The suspect is a member of the 50th security forces squadron, officials said. This is not a hostage situation and no one has been hurt. Officials at the base released the following statement:
"Special control measures were activated here because of an ongoing incident. At this time Schriever and local first responders are on scene and have secured the area."
"The security of Schriever personnel and their families is paramount. We are taking every precaution to ensure their safety," said Col. James P. Ross, 50th Space Wing commander. All base members are asked to avoid the west side of the base until further notice.
NEW YORK November 21, 2011 Meghan McCain has joined MSNBC as a contributor, with her first appearance today at noon ET on NOW with Alex Wagner. She has been a frequent MSNBC guest since 2009.
"I couldn't more be excited to be joining the MSNBC family, said McCain. It's a unique opportunity to share my perspective as a Republican on a network I respect and have built a relationship with over the past two years."
And Chelsea Clinton just joined NBC News, a part of Crony-Socialist extraordinaire (and China's Panda) General Electric.
Is there no limit to what Nouveau Royal blood qualifies one for? How about Field Marshal of the Armies?
Chelsea Clinton joins IAC board Chelsea Clinton has joined the board of directors at IAC, the Internet media giant said late Monday. IAC, headed by media mogul Barry Diller, said in a regulatory filing that former First Daughter Clinton was elected to the post on September 22.
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Chelsea also worked for McKinsey & Co and the Avenue Group. Presumably, her main function was to lend them her name and let clients look at her(similar to what Newt did for Freddie Mac except Chelsea is much better looking).
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Chelsea is much better looking
Really? I think we have a difference in taste
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Chelsea is much better looking.
Perhaps on the outside (but not by much). Don't know about the inside....
TANGIER, Morocco: Thousands of Moroccans protested in cities across the country on Sunday calling for a boycott of a parliamentary election later this week which they say will not be truly democratic.
Thus ensuring that their supporters will not be represented in the new parliament. Shrewd, real shrewd...
The Nov. 25 vote is a test of reforms made by Morocco's ruler, King Mohammed, to try to defuse pressure for change in the Arab world's longest-serving dynasty in the wake of uprisings this year across the Middle East.
A Reuters reporter in the city of Tangier, across the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain, said about 10,000 protesters had gathered in a square in the working class Beni Mkada district.
A witness in Casablanca, Morocco's commercial hub, said at least 6,000 people had turned up for a parallel protest, despite heavy rain. Two western diplomats and a resident in the capital, Rabat, put the turnout for a protest there at about 3,000 people.
At the Tangier protest, one group of protesters carried a mock casket draped in white with the words "parliamentary elections" written across it. Demonstrators chanted "We are not voting. Long live the people" and "We are not voting because we are not cattle."
About 200 police officers, equipped with metal riot shields, helmets and truncheons, cordoned off the square but there were no clashes. One police officer put the number of protesters in Tangier at less than 1,000.
Or about 10 times larger than most US 'Occupy' protests...
Faced earlier this year with protests inspired by the "Arab Spring" uprising, King Mohammed backed constitutional reforms which handed over some of his powers to elected officials. He kept his final say on issues of defense, national security and religion.
The palace wants the election to clear out a government associated in the minds of many Moroccans with graft and replace it with new faces who will implement the king's reforms. The vote has pitted a party of moderate Islamists, who swear loyalty to the king, against a coalition of mainly liberal parties with close ties to the palace.
The movement in support of the boycott is unlikely to derail the election because it does not resonate with the majority of the population, who are not politically engaged and revere the king.
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Say what you will about hereditary monarchies, they do result in stable government generally. Although Nepal is a recent exception.
While everyone is focused on Iran, North Korea has been making steady progress on the Yongbyon LWR. Their uranium enrichment program is coming along, too.
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VARIOUS > CHINA VOWS CLOSER MILITARY TIES WID NORTH KOREA.
Yokay, I'll a'say it - A-G-A-I-N!?
and
* TOPIX > CHINA TO EXPAND AIRBASE IN COCO ISLANDS [Bay of Bengal]
IRAN [North Korea] GETS ITS NUKES, OR ELSE IRAN [North Korea] GETS INVADED???
"Post-US" wannabe Rising China wants PLA base rights throughout the "First Island Chain" [+ beyond], to project unilateral power into WESTPAC, CENTRAL, + ultimately EASTPAC + CONUS, i.e. outside of East Asia, but is instead being blocked or "channelled" southward SE Asia + Indian Ocean where it cannot expand. ITS MUST ACCEPT MULTINATIONAL "SHARING" OF DISPUTED + OTHER REGIONS, OR ELSE WAGE WAR TO ACHIEVE ITS MANIFEST DESTINY.
Rumors were circulating recently in the Korean military and defense industry that U.S. intelligence agencies are investigating Korea's weapons production and exports.
"The rumors said that CIA and FBI agents have arrived and are investigating the Defense Acquisition Program Administration and defense firms to find out whether Korea has developed and exported weapons based on stolen U.S. military technologies," a government official said Thursday. "But our own probe into these rumors found no investigation of DAPA or defense firms by any U.S. agencies."
The rumors began circulating after an unusual joint Korea-U.S. investigation in September of suspicions that Korea illegally disassembled the Tiger Eye, a key component of the cutting-edge U.S.-made F-15K fighter jet equipment for low-altitude night penetration attacks.
In early June, U.S. officials raised suspicions that the seal of one box which the Air Force had sent to the U.S. for maintenance showed evidence of having been broken, disassembled and put back together again. But a weeklong joint investigation in September failed to find proof that Korea had disassembled the Tiger Eye.
Afterwards, there was talk that the U.S. was probing whether Korea had stolen U.S. technologies, because it was very sensitive to Korean exports of the T-50 supersonic jet trainers and missiles.
A military source said, "It's true that the U.S. is responding sensitively to the increase in our arms exports and that it's holding our exports of weapons made with U.S. technological assistance strongly in check. But it would make no sense for the FBI, a U.S. agency tasked with investigating internal U.S. issues, to conduct an investigation here."
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"But Tiger Eye is much more advanced, and the U.S. is reluctant to transfer the technology. It therefore seals the box before it exports the device to other countries, and the contract stipulates that it cannot be disassembled.
But the U.S. said one box which the Air Force had sent to the U.S. for maintenance and repair showed evidence of the seal having been broken, illegally disassembled and put back together again, according to a source.
Korea has a history of disassembling U.S.-made weapons in the 1980s and using what it learned to develop its own weapons. But since the 1990s this has supposedly not happened again."
h/t Instapundit
Late Thursday the Obama administration abruptly knocked Kansas aircraft maker Hawker Beechcraft out of contention for a $1 billion project to make a fleet of lightweight counterinsurgency aircraft for the Air Force. Hawker Beechcraft is, understandably, disturbed and asking questions.
...By knocking Hawker Beechcraft out, the Pentagon has limited the competition to one company, a company that is not only not an American manufacturer, its a government-owned entity with ties to our enemies. The company is Embraer, which is controlled by the government of Brazil and has close ties to the government of Iran
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BO's next step is to end all US major oil and gas subsidies, including... ethanol subsidies in the US to bolster the Brazilian ethanol market.
Corn ethanol is a boondoggle anyway, but at least its one of the few boondoggles that benefits hard working American farmers not foreign interests like Brazilian sugar lords.
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Can't issue a pardon for something you haven't been convicted of. I thought that was exactly what Pres. Ford did for tricky Dick - gave him a blanket pardon.
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True. Can you name any others?
It was an extraordinary event and circumstances. As they may say the exception to the rule. No one pressed about the constitutionality of the act. Those in the various levels of power in the event were happy to 'move on'.
The danger of issuing a flurry of pardons of officials and employees of the government is that it sets a precedent that those then moving in can follow as they engage in actions against those who've just lost power. What LITTLE integrity is left in the system will basically be exhausted. That gets to the legitimacy of the government itself. Who'll die defending it? We witnessed that when the Communist regime in Moscow fell.
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Well, 2 down, only 55 to go. Can't build planes in South Carolina, can't build planes in Kansas, which state is next? Texas maybe, home of the V-22, a candidate for budget cuts, despite the recent Panetta show and tell test drive....
MADRID Spanish conservatives won a resounding mandate at the polls Sunday, freeing them to make deep austerity cuts as they struggle to pull the countrys economy out of a tailspin.
In an election marked by bitter disappointment and desperation over the euro zones highest unemployment rate, the Socialists who have led the country since 2004 were cast from office in their worst showing in the modern era of Spains democracy.
Conservatives won 186 of the 350 seats in parliament; the Socialists won 110. But the sharp swing was more a result of millions of voters abandoning the Socialists for smaller parties, not conservatives picking up new voters, suggesting a country more dispirited with the policies of the past than excited about the future.
The leader of the conservatives, Mariano Rajoy, 56, will not take over for another month, but he is widely expected to announce his economic team and strategy in the coming days.
It is times like these that measure what men and societies are made of, Rajoy said Sunday in his victory speech. Our destiny is to play a big role in and with Europe. We will be more loyal but also more demanding. . . . There arent going to be any miracles, but we didnt promise them.
Sundays vote gives Europe another leader closely aligned with the austerity-based consensus that the continents strongest economies say is the solution to what plagues the weaker ones. In recent weeks, leaders in Italy and Greece have been forced from their perches.
Still, Rajoy may have limited influence over problems that have spread to France, Austria and the Netherlands countries long associated with fiscal discipline and economic power which saw their borrowing costs spike last week. France has called for continent-wide solutions more radical than those applied so far, including the printing of more money to prop up struggling countries, something Germany staunchly opposes.
In Spain, Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero had abandoned many of his partys historic positions to implement budget cuts aimed at getting the countrys finances under control. But they did little to head off the nations 22.6 percent unemployment rate.
Last week, Spains borrowing costs spiked to their highest level since 1997, and one of Rajoys first tasks will be to soothe investors fears about his countrys viability.
Rajoys challenger, Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, 60, seemed to accept defeat long before the election was held. Zapatero decided earlier this year not to stand for reelection.
Countries like Spain are on the brink, said Fernando Fernandez, an economist and former International Monetary Fund official who teaches at IE Business School in Madrid. This government will have the moral authority to make changes, he said.
Fernandez said that in addition to another round of budget cuts, he expected the new government would overhaul the labor market to make it easier to hire and fire workers, which could help create jobs in the long term but might add to joblessness in the immediate future.
Voters Sunday had little enthusiasm for the election, and many said they saw little difference between the two main parties. The Socialists had 4 million fewer votes than in the 2008 election. The conservatives gained just over 500,000 compared with their previous results.
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Calling this party "conservative" is a bit of a stretch. While they are considered "center-right" in a European perspective, we would still consider them to be social democrats.
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Aznar was a good friend to the US and was fiscally conservative. Zapatero went on a spending spree and spent a fortune on a failed "green jobs" program. Now that Spain is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy voters threw him out.
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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.
While everyone is focused on Iran, North Korea has been making steady progress on the Yongbyon LWR. Their uranium enrichment program is coming along, too.
