Talk about role reversal! lol
Drunken passengers often give air crews trouble, but Russia's leading airline today reported an 'unprecedented' reversal: a passenger was assaulted by intoxicated flight attendants. Two crew members on a domestic Aeroflot flight beat up a passenger who had complained that the flight attendants were drunk, airline spokeswoman Irina Dannenberg said. The passenger, identified only as A. Chernopup, was aboard a recent flight from Moscow to the Siberian city of Nizhnevartovsk, Ms Dannenberg said. She said the crew belonged to another airline, Aviaenergo. Seeing that the crew were intoxicated and were not fulfilling their duties, Chernopup asked to be served by a sober and competent flight attendant, Ms Dannenberg said. He was then beaten up by two crew members.
Ms Dannenberg said flight attendants were so intoxicated that they "behaved improperly" and only began catering to passengers one-and-a-half hours into the four-hour trip. The daily Izvestia quoted another passenger as saying that half of the food the crew served ended up on the floor, leaving the aisle strewn with debris that passengers had to walk over as they disembarked. According to the passenger, Chernopup left the plane with a black eye and was promptly sent to a doctor. Izvestia also reported that a criminal case was opened after Chernopup reported the incident to the police. Dannenberg said that the plane was carrying out an Aeroflot flight, but both the aircraft and the crew belonged to Aviaenergo. The entire crew of the flight had been temporarily dismissed and a joint commission was investigating the incident.
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Drinking coffee can cause tip-of-the-tongue moments when the brain struggles to retrieve information, according to a study. I th...
Caffeine, widely held to make people more alert, can make the mind go blank or struggle to switch between trains of thought. But
It can help the brain process information rapidly but interferes once the brain tries to switch between subjects, researchers claim.
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..say what?..
Mike
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I quit snorting Folger's coffee crystals for that very reason. Now I think clearer and I don't have that brown drool from my nostrils on my upper lip. Quitting has really helped my profesional and social life
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but not my typing/spelling
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I don't have that brown drool from my nostrils on my upper lip.
Taiwan's military will close part of a popular freeway Wednesday so jet fighters can practice using it as an emergency runway - a rare drill to prepare pilots for the possible bombing of air bases by China, officials said. The island hasn't held such an exercise in 26 years, and it comes as China conducts war games that Beijing's state-controlled media have said are practice for a long-threatened attack on Taiwan. The rivals who separated amid civil war in 1949 usually hold large-scale military exercises at this time of year when the weather is good in the Taiwan Strait, the 100-mile-wide body of water that separates the two sides. The drills are partly about posturing, with China trying to warn the Taiwanese against seeking a permanent split, and Taiwan - which has repeatedly rebuffed Beijing's demands to unify - wanting to show that it's ready to fend off any invasion.
Using the highway as a runway is part of Taiwan's series of annual war games, called the Hankuang, or Chinese Glory, said Defense Ministry spokesman Huang Shey-sheng. One popular battle scenario has China destroying Taiwan's air strips with short-range missiles and bombers. To deal with such a loss, the Taiwanese have designated several sections of highway as emergency runways. An five mile section of the freeway in southern Tainan County will be closed to traffic from 3 a.m. to 9 a.m. local time Wednesday as two French-made Mirage jets practice landing, refueling, reloading and taking off, officials said. "We will practice using the freeway as a runway at the time of a war," Huang told reporters Tuesday at a weekly briefing. Shu Hsiao-huang, an editor of the local magazine Defense International, said using the highways is a wise strategy. "With the spare runways, China would have to use up more missiles and this would reduce our risks and increase their costs," Shu said. Taiwan's navy also plans to stage an exercise Wednesday involving anti-submarine aircraft, French-made Lafayette frigates and other vessels, said a naval official, speaking on condition of anonymity. The naval official did not give further details, but the United Evening News said the aircraft will practice bombing submarines.
Message to Chinese Navy, we've been reading your press releases.
Also on Tuesday, Taiwan's military urged the public not to worry about the large-scale military exercises China is holding this month on Dongshan Island, off China's southern coast. The military dismissed them as routine annual drills. But China's state-controlled media have warned that one purpose of the drills was to discourage Taiwan from seeking formal independence. Some Taiwanese - especially the younger generation - oppose unification with China.
Because they no longer think of themselves as Chinese, they're Taiwanese.
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There was a huge scandal on the sale of 6 Lafayettes by the French to the Taiwanwese. There was a $400million kickback to the Taiwan ruling party. Lots of bribery, sex, murder, inflated military sales. You know, regular French foreign policy.
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There was a $400million kickback to the Taiwan ruling party. Lots of bribery, sex, murder, inflated military sales
was that in the contractual boilerplate?
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My only recommendation is that the Taiwanese wait until a few of America's aircraft carriers are in range of the straits. Other than that, good hunting!
An 18-year-old woman was found dead in an apartment in Oslo Sunday. Her 42-year-old father has turned himself into the police and stated that he killed her. The man met up at Sentrum police station in person around midnight and said that he had killed the woman, said Laila Bach at Oslo police district to TV 2 Nettavisen. We still do not know the motive because we have not yet questioned the man, said Finn Abrahamsen, police superintendent, to TV 2 Nettavisen. However, Abrahamsen does not hide that this may be an honor killing, and the police will keep this in mind when the man is questioned today. He said the man does not have a criminal record in Norway. The man is of foreign descent, but has lived in Norway for several years and has Norwegian citizenship. The man lives alone, however, his daughter arrived in Norway a short time ago, and the two of them living in his apartment.
The police in Oslo only became aware of the murder when the man turned himself in. We went up there and saw that his story checked out, Abrahamsen said. The man is now charged, but he has not gotten a lawyer yet. From an investigation perspective, we view this as an uncomplicated case.A post-mortem examination of the 18-year-old women will be conducted today. The police do not wish to say anything regarding presumed cause of death before the report has been made. A 33-year-old woman from Iran, who lives in the same housing complex as the murder victim, said she is horrified by the murder. "I'm terrified," the woman said to TV 2 Nettavisen. "I talked to the woman just two days ago. She was sweet and nice. She seemed depressed."
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Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder confronted the lingering demons of the Nazi era Tuesday and honored Germany's oft-forgotten resistance movement 60 years after the most famous plot to kill Adolf Hitler, saying that the army officers, civic leaders and ordinary people who usually paid with their lives were heroes. Schroeder said July 20 is a reminder to Germans to "defend again and again the values of freedom and tolerance that we consider so self-evident today." And somebody reminded him today that his government failed to do just that... in Iraq. Schroeder's money quote was "One cannot be a traitor when one tries to free one's country and the whole of humanity from a barbarian dictator."
So true, isn't it?
"History would have taken a completely different course" had the plotters killed Hitler and ended the war, 10 months before the Third Reich actually surrendered, said Peter Steinbach of the German Resistance Memorial Center. Historians estimate several hundred thousand Jews of the 6 million who died in the Holocaust would have survived, including those in Hungary. Germany would have avoided Allied bombing of many of its cities and the massive losses of soldiers in the war's final months. And Europe might not have been divided into Soviet and Western camps. We will never know what could have happened had Saddam not ended up in a spider hole. As long as we stand up for civilisation and fight for freedom in the world we don't have to blame ourselves for the consequences. Only if we don't.
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TGA--I'm glad you posted this. I was thinking a few days earlier that the 60th anniversary was coming up, but it slipped my mind until I saw your post.
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well said tga
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Thanks, TGA.
Maybe our pointed barbs about hyper-pacifism are making it through. Is it too much to hope that Europe is awakening, and realizing how suicidal and extreme the policy of "war is never justified" is?
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They stood up against nothing. The fact is that most of the July 20 conjurees wanted was closer tp "nazism light" than anything else. The plan was to make a separate peace with the Allies so to be able to put all German's forces in the eastern front. And they wanted to keep most of the spoils: an Alsace/Lorraine here, an Austria there, the Sudetes of course and so on. Most of the conjurees were, at best, from the imperialist Prussian school (the same one who used Belgian civilans as human shields during WWI). They didn't long for freedom, they didn't long for democracy, they weren't revolted by the atrocities in the eastern front, the murder of the mentally deficient or the final solution. They opposed Nazism only because they thought deposing Hitler would prevent Germany from being crushed.
Stauffenberg was nearly alone to oppose Nazism for moral reasons.
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Basso is Armstrongs' only threat now. The stage tomorrow could go either way since both are climbing so well. The only other chance for Basso will be the time trial Saturday. This is how they signed off today at cyclingnews.com "Although Basso, Ullrich and Klöden are certainly not yet beaten, it does seem that they will not be able to put time into the American unless they catch him on a jour non; if you're betting on it, make sure you get suitably long odds."
That just about sums it up.
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My biggest worry now is that some "fan" along the road will pull a Tanya Harding on him.
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The only other chance for Basso will be the time trial Saturday.
Actually there are two chances, slim and none. Basso's not as good as Lance on a flat TT, and the length of it (55 Km / 34.1 M) does not necessarily favor Basso, spin notwithstanding:
Technically Basso has improved his time trialling to the extent that, though he lost 10 minutes against the clock in individual time trials in 2003, Riis believes he can restrict his losses from Armstrong to around two minutes over 55 kilometres at Besançon on Saturday. Wind-tunnel testing in Massachusetts this spring, weekly training sessions on his time trial bike and a new focus and motivation have all played their part. âIn the final time trial freshness counts a lot more than specialist ability,â Basso added yesterday. âI have always done a lot better in the second long time trial at the Tour than in the first.â
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hmmmm, gromky, could it be courage and cowboy genes? You know he's from Texas, right? What's so hard to understand about getting your ass kicked? Lance's team could make a fortune telling-all - why don't they? because?
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His secret? Riding the hell out of the hill country around Austin Texas in 100 degree weather.
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Turks and Armenians exchanged documents in Austrian capital Vienna to discuss the so-called genocide allegations, sources said on Tuesday. Sources told A.A correspondent that Turkish and Armenian authorities met in Vienna on July 16th under chairmanship of Prof. Bihl of Vienna Armenian Turkish Platform (VAT) and presented 100 documents to each other. Turkish delegation headed by Yusuf Halacoglu, the Chairman of Turkish History Agency (TTK) gave 100 documents collected from several archives and disproving the claims that Turks carried out a genocide against the Armenians.
"Did not!"
On the other hand, Armenian delegation handed over 199 documents to Turkish delegations regarding their own claims.
"Did so!"
Turkish and Armenian authorities will examine these documents till the end of December 2004, and if necessary, they can present 80 more documents to each other till May 2005. Turkish and Armenian officials will meet again in 2005 and discuss so-called genocide allegations in the light of these exchanged documents
After which they'll each write more documents.
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"handed over 199 documents"
Linguistic mind-warp here. Kept on seeing this as meaning "gave more than 199 documents" and was gonna comment on the silliness of the sentence.
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This may seem silly but it does represent progress.
Turkish press now say 'so-called genocide' but 5 years ago they would have said, 'false claims of genocide' or else iced the topic altogether.
Turkey has a long way to go yet in coming to grips with the anti Armenian genocide (or as progressive Turks call it 'massacre') but the sooner they confront this demon the better.
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I wasn't aware that there were ANY questions about the validity of the Armenian Genocide. Geeze, what's next: Germans and Jews to Discuss So-Called Holocaust Claims.
Hummm, that COULD be a New York Times headline....
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former national security adviser Sandy Berger, the subject of a criminal investigation over the disappearance of terrorism documents into his socks, stepped aside on Tuesday as an informal adviser to Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. "Mr. Berger does not want any issue surrounding the 9/11 commission to be used for partisan purposes. With that in mind he has decided to ask that the report not be released until after the election step aside as an informal adviser to the Kerry campaign until this matter is resolved," said Lanny Breuer, Berger's mouthpiece after getting permission from consiglieri in chief Bruce Lindsay attorney. The investigation had threatened to become a political problem for Kerry a week before his nominating convention in Boston in which he hopes to persuade voters that he is ready to be commander in chief. But now it won't. In fact, the New York Times will not carry this story The cornerstone of Kerry's argument against Bush is that he used faulty intelligence and poor judgment in waging war against Iraq. And so Kerry is going to replace Berger with Joe Wilson?
Berger, former President Clinton's national security adviser, is under criminal investigation by the Justice Department after highly classified terrorism documents disappeared while he was reviewing what should be turned over to the Sept. 11 commission. Note use of passive voice. It was just those pesky documents who disappeared. Berger had nothing to do with initiating any action. Sort of like how the Rose Law Firm billing records "appeared" in the White House.
Berger's home and office were searched earlier this year by FBI agents armed with warrants after the former Clinton adviser Archives personnel saw Berger taking documents from the Archives' secure facility voluntarily returned some sensitive documents to the National Archives and admitted he also removed handwritten notes he had made while reviewing the sensitive documents. However, some drafts of a sensitive after-action report on the Clinton administration's handling of al-Qaida terror threats during the December 1999 millennium celebration are still missing, officials and lawyers told The Associated Press.
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Too bad, Inspector Clouseau brought an aura of confidence to the Glow Boys.
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I smell a fishy Richard Clarke in this mix somewhere. Part of what Sponge Sandy Stuff Pants is missing is Year 2000 counterterrorist after matter review material written by Clarke.....hmmm
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Capt., I love Sponge Sandy Stuff Pants far more than even Sandy Burglar!
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Maybe the Kerry campaign's not totally incompetent after all. If he were to go hard right on the war he could still pull this out. Here's his Hail Mary:
1) do a sister souljah on Mikey Boy-- very public and very nasty
2) announce that Holbrooke, reasonably hawkish pro's pro, will be his Secy State
3) castigatge Bush for not accelerating the war and taking Fallujah. Announce that he Kerry would ratchet it up and crush the opposition in short order, as a prelude to rolling elections and a real transfer of power on schedule.
As I say, a Hail Mary pass, but there's no way Kerry can win by trying to straddle normal, hawkish Dems and the Mikey/Kos/DU crowd. Pick one or the other, and fast, and then go balls out.
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On the other hand, this Kerry guy, who I think might have been in Vietnam, flicks off veterans of that war . . .
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"Joins Guard -- Receives Direct Appointment, Avoiding Officer Training School." That doesn't happen unless you are ROTC, Doctor, or Priest. Another pro military website put up by someone wh didn't serve. Will these loons ever learn?
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Its' time Bush stopped screwing around with this. They should make a graphic comparing the two timelines. Show when they each went into the military, when they got out, that sort of thing. If properly done it would end the question. Bush had a far longer commitment even if he never was under fire. While Bush was still serving in the reserve Kerry was telling Congress he and his fellow vets were all war criminals. It would make a nice historical comparison.
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What, A5858, you didn't know we're all secret members of a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy to discredit the Left through our sinister use of facts and logic and reason? It's not so much an attack machine as it is an assassin squad . . .
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She may sport fashionable togs rather than a face mask, but the chaos expected during the upcoming GOP convention, is partly courtesy of the stylish Teresa Heinz-Kerry. The Ketchup Queen financed the shadowy Tides Foundation to the tune of $4 million to date. The Tides Foundation funds the Ruckus Society, a notorious group of anarchists who rioted and looted Seattle during the 1999 World Trade Organization riots. This summer, the Ruckus Society has been training protesters for the GOP Convention. Included in their how-to Book for Dummies are mass sit-ins, blockades and pie throwing at high-level officials enroute to Madison Square Gardens.
With the money of Mrs. John Kerry, Ruckus Society members live up to their name of being ready to create a ruckus anywhere, but they're bound to be more careful in New York than they were in Seattle. And it's not because they are afraid of The Terminator who's scheduled to give one of the GOP' keynote addresses. It's because they don't want their rioting, looting, sit-ins and blockades to leave the impression that the Dems and their gaggle of Hollywood supporters are the bad guys. It's the Johnny America shout mimicking Paul Revere: "The Republicans are coming! The Republicans are coming!" that they want to stick in the public mind. In Ruckus Society Director John Seller's own words: "The Republicans would love to have images coming out of New York City that make them look like the reasonable ones like they're about responsibility and law and order and creating a safe society, and that the left was unreasonable and violent."
Rhetoric aside, with tactics like dog decoys intended to deliberately miscue bomb sniffing dogs in their bag of dirty tricks, tossing marbles under the hooves of police horses and using homemade slingshots to pelt the noble beasts, radical protesters should be prepared to wear the unreasonable shoe that best fits them. While some 600,000 passengers travel to Penn Station on regular working days, protesters are hoping that their handiwork will see the necessity of having to evacuate Madison Square Garden. All lessons being taught to willing protestors at the Ruckus knee are ones to make it less easy for the New York Police Department to maintain public safety. Philadelphia Police Commissioner John Timoney calls radical protesters what they are, "criminal conspirators".
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The GOP oughta go down to Brooklyn and hire some head-breakers to "interact" with these yahoos.
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If any personal injury or property damage at the GOP convention is attributed to these lowlifes, is there any way she and her shadowy foundations could be sued? If anything bad happens, I hope every tabloid east and west of the Mississippi plasters her face on their front covers with headlines like "riot contributor".
How sad that the Democratic Party is now the party of anarchy.
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"The GOP oughta go down to Brooklyn and hire some head-breakers to "interact" with these yahoos."
No way! Don't harm so much as a single hair on any of their cute, pointy little heads! Let them run completely amok, start fires, overturn cars, throw Molotov Cocktails, the whole works: it's all good publicity against the Democrats. Go for it, dudes!
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NYPD will be on a long leash in controlling these asshats. Batons at the ready!
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I hate to have to explain to these idiots, but if you are organized, you aren't anarchists.
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All I hope is that the native NYC lefties inform their out of state bretheren that the people of NYC are not the latte-sucking seattlites they saw in 1999. Id be more worried that some irate driver delayed by thier "protest" may make their displeasure known than that some cop may thump them. Word of advice to protestors, sing your "kumbayas" and behave. try to break stuff up (especially in the outer boros) and expect a good old ass whupping from a private citizen.
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Can we send the human shields back to Iraq? I'm sure that we can find some schools, hospitals, and power plants for them to guard this time (unlike Hussein). Perhaps they'll even get along with their allies.
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This is election that will be studied and analyzed for a long,long time.1/2 population thinks we are at war,1/2 does not.Both candidates have provided reason to think they should be either way ahead or way behind,yet polling indicates they're even.
The Republican candidate is incumbent President who has won 2 wars,and has a surging economy.He is considered far more likeable than his opponent.His opponent has no record of achievement,changes position every time he opens his mouth,has not articulated any vision that voters can follow,and has all the charisma of used toilet tissue.Yet the Republican is even in the polls.
The Democratic candidate has a base that loathes the opposition candidate,and is pouring in money and effort.The mainstream press is acting as campaign surrogate for the Democrat.The opponent has fought 2 wars and hasn't ended either;they are still sputtering along,with American troops continually being killed and no end in sight.The Democratic candidate is a decorated,multi-wounded war hero.The Republican President still hasn't captured/killed Osama after 3 years of looking for him,and senior military leadership is angry at SecDef.The economy stumbled during the Republicans watch.The Republican may be more likeable,but people think the Democrat is smarter,and more people think the Republican's doing a good job as President than say they will vote for him,meaning they are eager for a change.Outsiders are spending millions on ads ripping the Republican candidate,and the Republican has just endured a spring and summer of mainstream press criticism.While the Democrat has no real record of accomplishment,that means there's nothing to criticize,unlike the Republican's record as President.Yet the Democrat is even in the polls.
Going to be a wild ride.
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Kerry's media allies have been flailing at Bush for months.
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"The Toronto-based Web/Nirv, Canadian affiliate of the Institute for Global Communications (IGC) and its offshoot the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), used a 64 KBPS undersea cable IP link from Havana to Sprint in the United States, linking Cubans to the Information Highway."
So the entire nation of Cuba is linked to the Internet through a single connection that has about 1/10th the bandwidth of my home cable modem hookup?
Wow, the wonders that modern socialism can achieve...
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No surprise: Teresa is funding Cuba. I'm sure she'll be grilled hard about it when NYT and Boston Globe ask probing questions. No problem, there
No surprise: Canadian Lefty NGO's are helping out Cuba. I'm sure they'll be grilled hard by Canadian press.
Surprise: Cuban tax law is based on Canada's system. Can somebody please explain? What is Fidel's capital gains tax rate? Is his mortgage deductible? Do Revenue Canadienne tax consultants get paid in hard currency or 16 year olds?
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Do Revenue Canadienne tax consultants get paid in hard currency or 16 year olds?
Follows up this story. [Fired military chief of staff]General Kvashnin will be replaced with his first deputy, General Yury Baluyevsky, who is generally seen as pro-Western and reform-minded. Experts said it has been clear for weeks that drastic changes in the top brass were on the way. "After what happened in Ingushetia, a shakeup was inevitable," said an independent defense analyst, Pavel Felgenhauer. "That was a huge blunder."
But analysts also said that the shakeup and Mr. Kvashnin's firing in particular were a result of a power struggle over the future of the military. Mr. Putin has made a top priority of reforming Russia's increasingly ineffective military, which is beset by funding problems, aging equipment, and frequent desertions. The president has promised to streamline the military by cutting staff and turning the 1.3 million-strong force made up mostly of unwilling conscripts into a professional one. I guess Rummy's unavailable for this one.
General Kvashnin, who first gained prominence as the leader of the failed war to seize control of Chechnya in 1994-96, was known to be among those most opposed to reform plans. "[General Kvashnin] is one of those most responsible for the military's miserable state," Mr. Felgenhauer said. His replacement, General Baluyevsky, is well-regarded as a proponent of change and international cooperation. General Baluyevsky has helped negotiate an arms reduction treaty with America and also set up the joint NATO-Russia Council. Compare Iraq to Chechnya. Yeah, it's reform time.
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they're both martial arts fans...
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The Russian Army is long in need of reform. A lot has been done since 1991, the Russian Army went fron almost 200 divisional flags to about 40, from 16 military districts to eight, changing over from regiments to brigades for independant and cadre units, but the quality has suffered for all branches except for the elites. (naval infantry and airborne troops )
One possible suggestion about ten years ago is that the Russian Army start converting some of its motorized rifle formations into light infantry units to lessen the logistical load required to move such troops. Of course making such a move means the quality of things such as logistics and command/staff would have to improve a bunch before they can do that to make light infantry an effective fighting element.
For decades it was no more than a whispered rumour in the corridors of Soviet medicine but now a team of doctors claim to have proved that Lenin, communism's greatest icon, died of syphilis.
Israeli doctors, writing in the European Journal of Neurology, say they used medical records pieced together from archives released after the fall of communism to reconstruct the first Soviet leader's illness and death.
The team says Lenin's syphilis caused brain damage and later dementia in the last two years of his life. It came at a crucial time for the Soviet Union, when Stalin was plotting his takeover.
The basis of the disclosures are medical charts, results of a post mortem examination and memoirs from physicians who treated Lenin and were sworn to secrecy after he died in 1924.
Officially, Lenin died of arteriosclerosis, but only eight of 27 doctors who treated him were willing to put their names to the death certificate. Among those who refused to sign were his two personal doctors.
The diagnosis of syphilis was particularly problematic in the 19th and early 20th century as the disease often mimics other brain disorders.
But the discovery that a committee of Soviet doctors prescribed the medicine Salvarsan, an arsenic-based treatment with horribly painful side-effects that is used only to treat syphilis, was a strong indication that his doctors knew the true nature of his disease.
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Did anyone know Mugabe supposedly has syphilis?
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There it is. Communism in a nutshell. A product of syphilitic brain damage and dementia. Only 100+ million dead and 2 billion imprisoned to learn the truth.
Did Mo have syphilis?
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Did Mo have syphilis?
It would certainly explain the hatred toward women. "The b*tch gave me the Syp!"
Dear Spengler,
I lead a church whose priests are pledged to celibacy. Nowadays we seem to get no one but gays, and the situation has gotten out of hand. Lawsuits about sex abuse are driving parts of my organization into bankruptcy, and now there are pictures all over the Internet of priests fondling each other at an Austrian seminary. What can I do to keep the gays away?
Red-faced in Rome
Dear Red,
Have you considered giving the Church an anti-queer makeover? Lose the chic black outfits, and instruct your priests to wear plaid polyester instead. No self-respecting gay male will go near you.
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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
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