1. March Of The S.O.D.
2. Sargent 'D' & The S.O.D.
3. Kill Yourself
4. Milano Mosh
5. Speak English Or Die
6. United Forces
7. Chromatic Death
8. Pi Alpha Nu
9. Anti-Procrastination Song
10. What's That Noise
11. Freddy Kreuger
12. Milk
13. Pre-Menstrual Princess Blues
14. Pussy Whipped
15. Fist Banging Mania
16. No Turning Back
17. Fuck The Middle East
18. Douche Crew
19. Hey Gordy!
20. The Ballad Of Jimi Hendrix
Here in D.C. - they talk about 'Euro-disease'
And how the French are always so damn hard to please
Motions are passed in Brussels but no one agrees
And no one walks tall - but no-one gets down on their knees
Once allies laughed and drank
But it was forty years ago
Where I come from
They don't like Americans much
They think they're so loud, so tasteless, and so out of touch
Stiff upper lips are curled into permanent sneers
self-satisfied
Awaiting the next forty years
Also, "Man on the Street" from the same album.
"Highwire", by the Rolling Stones:
Another Munich we just can't afford.
We're gonna send in the Eighty-second Airborne!
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How the heck did I forget punk rock's greatest capitalist, Joey Ramone, and his love song, "Maria Bartiromo"?
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"Midnight" from "Cats" the ultimate "Nobody Cares" song.
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Tongue in cheek:
Political Science - Randy Newman
Algeria's new Prime Minister Abdel-Aziz Belkhadem has promised constitutional reform and ponies for everyone an increase in public workers' salaries after he was appointed on Wednesday night. Belkhadem was quoted in press reports on Thursday saying a "revision" of the Constitution and a long called for increase in pay for public sector workers would be his priorities. The presidential office announced last night that Belkhadem, 61, a confidant of Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, would replace Ahmad Ouyehia as prime minister.
Daily newspaper Le Jeune Independant said Thursday that Ouyehia, who resigned on Wednesday night, had been scuppered by his own opposition to an increase in public salaries. His resignation came after thousands of workers in the industrial area of Rouiba, 20 kilometers east of Algiers, demonstrated Wednesday to demand a raise and Ouyehia's departure.
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KUWAIT CITY A Kuwaiti pressure group called yesterday for international monitors to be allowed to check on the fairness of next months parliamentary elections and vowed to do all it could itself to prevent any violations. We have called on the government to seek international official monitors for the elections and also to allow us to seek the help of international non-governmental organiszations, Anwar Al Rasheed, head of the Kuwaiti Committee for Election Monitoring (Nazaha), said. Nazaha was formed by Kuwaiti campaign groups to ensure fair and fraud-free elections amid allegations of wide-spread irregularities.
I don't think Jimmy Carter is doing anything that weekend, oh wait! You said you wanted a fraud-free election? Never mind...
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KUWAIT CITY: Five Kuwaiti women made history on Thursday by becoming the first women to register as parliamentary election candidates in their country, ending a 44-year-old ban on their political participation. Kuwaiti women won the right to vote and run for public office in May last year. The five female candidates are: Rula Dashti, womens rights activist, Aisha al-Rasheed, a journalist, Khaleda al-Khader, who holds a PhD in public health, Ghanima al-Haider, a local college professor and Taiba Ibrahim, a writer. Elections are scheduled for June 29.
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CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan lawmakers are complaining that a video game to be marketed by a U.S. company next year provides a blueprint for violently overthrowing President Hugo Chavez.
The game, "Mercenaries 2: World in Flames," simulates a military invasion of the oil-rich South American nation and will be released by Pandemic Studios of Los Angeles. "A power-hungry tyrant messes with Venezuela's oil supply, sparking an invasion that turns the country into a war zone," Pandemic says of the game on its Web site.
Venezuelan lawmakers who back Chavez called it the latest example of a U.S. government-inspired propaganda campaign against Chavez that could even help lay the psychological groundwork for an actual invasion. "This could be a point of departure," lawmaker Luis Tascon said on Thursday. "The United States has an impressive media machine. In that machinery the gringos are always the heroes and their adversaries are always the villains."
Yep, that's true. We enjoy being the heroes, smacks of real life.
An executive at Pandemic said the video game would be released in 2007 but declined to comment on its content. A public relations firm representing the company did not return calls for comment.
Last week Venezuela, the world's No. 5 oil exporter, staged a mock invasion complete with naval landing craft and camouflaged tanks to train military troops and communities to defend against an attack.
That's in the game, too, Hugo, you might want to see how we deal with it.
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Hugo's a little late, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon:Advanced Warfighter takes place in Mexico City. He's got to wait his turn. Heh.
Actually, Hugo et al should take advantage of all this convergence and get a PR firm to sell their likeness to a game development company like the sports stars. It'll make a nice little nest egg for retirement or a good set of lawyers in the future.
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Yeah. Future games could feature a fat slob little Venezuelan, in a sash and a too tight suit flinging all his sprocket medals at Delta Force like ninja stars...
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I thought communism was already proven to be a failure? Even china had to make drastic alterations on their version of it to make it halfway work. Hugito needs to double his dosage and try to act sane.
May 26, 2006: In the last 30 years, China's GDP has become ten times larger. During that period, the Chinese armed forces actually shrank, in terms of troops, and didn't increase its combat power in the same proportion. China has bought many new weapons in the last thirty years, in relatively small quantities. Yet China is still largely a force equipped with weapons and equipment several decades behind what the United States possesses. What China is doing is creating the ability to develop and manufacture a wide range of weapons and equipment in the future. Such a capability requires skills and industries that only advanced industrial economies possess. This includes the development and manufacturing of jet engines, nuclear submarines, microelectronics, space satellites and the like.
Build up your industrial and technological base first, while watching developements overseas. Let others try stuff and see what works. China always did think long term.
Officially, the U.S. expresses shock, surprise and uncertainty at what China is doing with its armed forces. But in fact, the Chinese are not building new weapons in large quantities, with the exception of short range ballistic missiles (aimed at Taiwan). However, China is building a capability to, within a few years, manufacture large quantities of new weapons based on newly developed technologies. Thus China is investing heavily in the ability to become a military superpower, but it has not yet used that capability, and may never do so. Long term, the Chinese strategy is far more likely to make China a formidable military power in the future, than if China simply tried to update all the weapons and equipment they currently have, and continue doing so. China is not trying to become a military superpower now, but is laying the groundwork to do so in the future, if it believes it needs to.
China's strategy also leads to disagreements over what China's defense budget actually is. According to the Chinese, it is about a tenth of what the U.S. spends each year. According to the U.S., China's defense spending is about a third of what America spends. China is no doubt spending far less, but investing, by their standards, a lot more into their military future.
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More like stealing and buying technology for the future.
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China's "String of Pearls", "Turtles of War", "Assassin's Mace", and "Battle/War/Local Zone" strategies are directly or indirectly based on a future decline in US power, to include either wilful US abandonment or withdrawal from major geographic regions or areas. Whatever its called/labeled at the moment, China's ultimate intent is to reach parity and then superiority and dominance vv declining America. What China, or RUSSIA, does NOT envision in LT is a Cold War-style bilateral or multilateral geopol competition vv the USA where the USA is Russia-China's permanent equal.
Where do I get one of the shirts in the photo?
BERLIN, May 25 , 2006 With right-wing groups charging batteries to provoke Muslim teams taking part in the FIFA World Cup, to kick off on June 9, Muslim fans are urged not to fall into the trap and to serve as an example.
A German Muslim website has exhorted Muslim football supporters to take into their strides provocations by right-wingers. "Muslim fans should give an example of Muslim behavior and enjoy the contests no matter what the results are," wrote the muslimmarkt website. The website urged Muslim fans to report any law violations to the police. "The far right-wingers are out to provoke the fans to cause riots, particularly during the matches of the Iranian team."
T-shirts emblazoned with anti-Muslim slurs are already been circulated by far rightists. One of these T-shirts reads "Islamophobic And Proud Of It".
The football gala runs from June 9th through July 9 with 32 teams competing for the prestigious trophy.
Anti-Iran
Days before the world event, German right-wing groups have already mobilized to harass Muslim teams in the Mondial. The Iranians are the main focus of the campaign.
Right-wing groups are encouraging supporters to flock to Iran's matches and use Israeli flags in supporting any team playing against the Islamic republic. Israeli flags are being delivered to the homes of those interested at 25 euros per piece.
Iran plays in Group D with Mexico, Angola and Portugal. The team will have its first encounter against Mexico on June 11. Other Muslim teams taking part in the competition are Saudi Arabia and Tunisia.
Anti-Racism Day
Meanwhile, FIFA has set plans to stage an anti-racism day during the World Cup to demonstrate opposition to racism and discrimination. The action, coordinated with the tournament's organizing committee, will take place during the quarter-finals on June 30 and July 1. Television ads and a huge round banner draped over the center circle at each of the 12 World Cup stadiums are also planned as part of the anti-racism campaign.
Bearing the World Cup motto "A Time to Make Friends," the World Cup logo "Germany 2006 " and the slogan "Say No to Racism," the banners will be displayed at each of the 64 matches until shortly before kick-off. "The aim is to send a clear message to the world against racism," the organizing committee said.
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Right-wing groups are encouraging supporters to flock to Iran's matches and use Israeli flags in supporting any team playing against the Islamic republic. Israeli flags are being delivered to the homes of those interested at 25 euros per piece.
1. Does this shirt even exist outside of the Islam-Online photo library?
a. GoV does not have a Cafe Press store.
b. I'm not even sure that the shirt exists at Cafe Press, the logo almost looks like it was photoshopped onto a picture of the shirt.
c. I did a search for "Islamophobia" at Cafe Press, and found no matches. (Though that doesn't surprise me.)
2. If the shirts do exist somewhere, which "Right wing extremists groups" are distributing them and how did Islam-Online discover them and get a picture? Why are no groups specifically named?
I'm sending this post to Gates of Vienna for them to have a look.
In response to reports that 40,000 young women will be brought to Germany from Central and Eastern Europe to "sexually service" men attending the World Cup soccer championship next month, a Catholic group warns that many are desperately poor and will be "sex trafficked" against their will.
Most of the women are told "they are going to be models, waitresses or some other harmless occupation," says the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM). "Many will be brutally assaulted by intoxicated fans."
C-FAM comments: "Whatever their circumstances, each and every one of these young women is someone's daughter, a child of God and deserves our protection! They do not deserve to be exploited and sentenced to a life of misery to satisfy the sexual appetites of soccer fans." What "makes this crime particularly appalling," adds C-FAM, "is the open support it is receiving from the German government. The same government that likes to lecture America on morality!"
The Catholic group is far from alone in its condemnation of the mass prostitution campaign. Before German Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit to the White House earlier this Month, U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, R.-N.J., said: "It is an outrage that the German government is currently facilitating prostitution and we believe women who will be exploited will be treated as commodities."
According to the Christian Science Monitor, Brunhilde Raiser, director of the National Council of German Womens' Organizations, said: "Forced prostitution has yet to become a public issue of concern as a severe violation of human and women's rights. Our goal is to bring it as far up the political agenda as possible."
Even Sweden's "equality ombudsman," Claes Borgström, has reportedly called for a boycott of the World Cup by the Swedish team to highlight the problem.
Because the German red light districts are too small to accommodate the soccer fans, the country's sex industry has built a massive prostitution complex, including a "mega-brothel" in Berlin, next to the main World Cup venue, that can accommodate 650 male clients. Wooden "sex huts" or "performance boxes" have been built in fenced-in areas the size of a football field, with condoms, showers and parking and a special focus on protecting the customers' anonymity.
Some sources estimate that as many as 30 percent of the soccer fans will visit prostitutes at least once.
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Wooden "sex huts" or "performance boxes" have been built in fenced-in areas the size of a football field, with condoms, showers and parking and a special focus on protecting the customers' anonymity.
The eastern European mafia - especially the Russian mafia - have been trafficking girls as young as 13 for prostitution in the west. Often the parents are desperate for money and close their eyes to what they probably know is happening. The girls have no choice.
My contempt for the Germans on this issue is beyond putting into words.
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A perfect opportunity to hide a few video cameras in the "performance" areas and show streaming videos of the "customers" faces on a dedicated website while masking out the prostitutes' faces. Broadcast the videos for all to see-including inquiring wives. That'll liven up the debate.
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Not just the Germans here. It's the whole human trade networks that need to be taken down. This really is not about prostitution. As far as I'm concerned, if a woman wants to do that it's her call. The Russian, Korean, and Chinese Mafias that buy, sell and enslave women and children are where the anger should be directed. This is where the church seems to miss the real point. It's not about the sex and prostitution, the real issue is taking people against their will and selling them as a commodity into slavery. These scum that exploit the weak deserve a slow painful death.
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In December, the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill that strengthens the nation's current human trafficking law ....... and requested maps to the "mega-brothel" in Berlin.
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I'm sure Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International will get right on it. Right after they investigate this non air conditioned room in GITMO used to house feral animals.....
The disgusting thing is that the German Government appears allows this. After all they allow this huge whorehouse complex to be build (was it with tax dollars?).
Its as bad as the 'Comfort Women' of Imperial Japan during WWII.
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Most of this is hype. That is, there is a difference between someone who is "forced" into prostitution, and those who *say* they are forced into prostitution.
While the latter always insist that what they are doing is involuntary, it is always predicated on "ifs".
That is, for example, "If somebody would just give me all the stuff I want, then I wouldn't be *forced* to be a prostitute."
Many "voluntary" prostitutes have a very similar psychology. A combination of very low self-esteem (for which a lot of finger rings and bracelets is a dead giveaway), and a severe addiction to "attention" from others.
This latter is how a pimp keeps control over their prostitutes: dancing with them one minute, slapping them around the next. The form of attention doesn't matter, positive or negative, just that the pimp gives them attention. It can be as addictive as a drug to them.
Things are further muddied because organized crime is involved in both voluntary and involuntary prostitution.
For a large public event like the World Cup, the imported prostitutes would be almost entirely voluntary. First of all, a different country, where legal prostitution has existing rules and a bureaucracy aware of its operations.
Second, the German polizei will have zero tolerance to any unauthorized mischief they get wind of. A human trafficker will be operting in the open mouth of a lion, and they know this; but a legal prostitution operation is fine and dandy--low risk, high reward.
Involuntary prostitutes have to be kept on a tight leash, in a controlled situation, and with a clientele motivated not to spill the beans, like UN personnel. That is why they are kept locally and under strict supervision at all times.
That is why the vast majority of involuntary prostitutes are kept in Moslem countries.
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I'll bet some boxes will be better than others. Wouldn't surprise me at all to find that some of the politicians moralizing on this issue end up being sponsored in the corporate suites.
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... the country's sex industry has built a massive prostitution complex, including a "mega-brothel" in Berlin, next to the main World Cup venue, that can accommodate 650 male clients. Wooden "sex huts" or "performance boxes" have been built in fenced-in areas the size of a football field ... (emphasis mine)
"Fenced-in" to keep the reporters out and the chattel property in. Sex lagers. Will the German government be kind enough to erect "Arbeit Macht Frei" signs over the gates?
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why not just strap em in stirrups and hose em off periodically? Jeebus
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Since the German Govt and Society tolerate prostitution, i.e. so-called "victimless crime(s), is this the German equivalent of the "illegals" issue?
Migrants preparing to sneak into U.S. territory said they were encouraged that immigration reform had cleared the Senate Thursday, expressing hope that the measure allowing them to work legally and gain U.S. citizenship would soon be enacted. But they seemed determined to cross the Rio Grande, with or without help from Washington.
"I think they finally realized that they need us," said Antonio Ortiz, a 31-year-old from El Salvador who was trying to get back to Austin, Texas, where he worked construction jobs before being deported in March. "Everyone who goes there finds work." Ortiz said he swam across the Rio Grande into Laredo, Texas, Thursday morning only to be captured by the U.S. Border Patrol and sent back to Mexico. He said his plan was to slip into American territory and then hope legislation allowing him to simply pay a fine and remain there legally would become law.
The bill giving millions of illegal immigrants a chance at U.S. citizenship passed the U.S. Senate late Thursday 62-36 in a bipartisan compromise. Next come tough negotiations with the House of Representatives, which passed a bill focused on border security that would make all illegal immigrants subject to felony charges, rather than merely civil deportation procedures.
Oscar Martinez, 32, said he arrived at the banks of the Rio Grande after more than three weeks of jumping trains that took him from his native El Salvador through Mexico. "I don't think the majority of the people in the United States only see the negative side" of immigration, said Martinez, who worked as a welder in Virginia in 2004. "I think the program is going to benefit thousands of families and also the United States."
Martinez said he was determined to cross despite heightened border security, but he also said the prospect of a more-dangerous crossing might make him think twice. "I'm not going to risk my life," Martinez said. "I have kids."
Traveling in California, Mexican President Vicente Fox said the Senate vote made Thursday "truly a day of happiness, a historic day." He said it was up to Mexico and the United States to ensure "security and flexibility on an intelligent border that guarantees us tranquility, security and peace." The Senate bill was "undoubtedly a victory" for the Fox administration, said Jorge Castaneda, who resigned as Fox's foreign secretary in January 2003.
The bill calls for a new guest worker program that would admit 200,000 individuals a year. Once in the United States, they would be permitted for the first time to petition on their own for a green card that confers legal permanent residency, a provision designed to reduce the potential for exploitation by employers. Under one proposal, migrants who have been in the U.S. for less than seven years would have to return to their homeland to apply, while those who have been in the country for longer could remain.
"If they allow you to be there a while to work and also allow you to return to your country to see your family that would be a good option," said Christopher Guzman, a 21-year-old Honduran who was trying to get to Ohio. But "if they don't give me anything, we're going to continue as (illegal) migrants, we're going to keep trying." Guzman said he was trying to cross before National Guard troops arrived to the border next week.
And Jorge Bilia, a 36-year-old bus driver from El Salvador, said he has no other choice but to get to the U.S. to try to give his four children a better life: "Only if they put up an electric fence will it stop someone."
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Though US voters had a slightly different view.
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I just wrote George Bush a long letter telling him that his immigration policy was a disaster that was going to send the Republicans back into the political wilderness for a long time. For the last two years every Republican fundraiser who has called me has been told that until the Republicans bluntly agree to stop illegal immigration they can forget about receiving one dime of my money. The selective enforcement of the laws is destroying what is left of America. It's terribly sad to know that, when it comes to politics, my money would be better spent buying guns, ammunition and provisions.
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DMFD - The Senate doesn't give a shit about US Voters - this Amnesty program proves it.
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"Only if they put up an electric fence will it stop someone."
Well, Jorge...that's not a bad idea. No wait...that would comprimise your rights. And with the last minute Spector ammendment the Mexican Govt. would have to allow the US to do it. Nevermind...keep trying...besides, like you say...you have "no other choice".
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CrazyFool - you're right (why am I agreeing with someone who calls themselves 'CrazyFool'?) Anyway, in November, the voters get to return the favor.
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Great...so my previous post/question gets through, but when I tried to post the Senate Vote on the Immigration Reform Act I get sent to Roadside America???
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Dunno, thinks it's some kind of keywords thingie, it has happened to me a coupe of time, or perhaps it's just a fluke. I don't think the mods are on a Jihad(Tm) after you.
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All we have to do is financially support anyone running against those who supported the "Wetbacks can keep their SS even though it's on my SSN" bill
when they come up for election in 2008 or 2010.
That kind of spanking would change American politics for decades to come.
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The problem with "voting the Repuglycon jerks out" is that the dummycritters will likely win in their place - and they're the majority that believe that amnesty and open borders are "just fine". There aren't a lot of good choices out there. It's either find someone you can trust and herd them through the primaries, or find some other way to get rid of the deadwood. A chain saw strikes me as being one good solution.
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Yep. Consider who takes over some rather important congressional committees next time you get a hairball about the Pubs not meeting your personal private Schedule of What's Important.
House
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Government Reform - Henry Waxman
International Relations - Tom Lantos
Judiciary - John Conyers
Ways and Means - Charles Rangel
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence - Jane Harman
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Appropriations - Robert Byrd
Armed Services - Carl Levin
Foreign Relations - Joe Biden
Judiciary - Pat Leahy
Select Committee on Intelligence - John D Rockefeller
Consider the damage that can, and would, be done in just 2 years.
It doesn't get any stupider than shooting everyone else between the eyes because you're impatient and have an itch between your cheeks ears. This shit is important.
President Bush stepped into the Justice Department's constitutional confrontation with Congress on Thursday and ordered that documents seized in an FBI raid on a lawmaker's office be sealed for 45 days.
The president directed that no one involved in the investigation have access to the documents taken last weekend from the office of Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., and that they remain in the custody of the Justice Department's solicitor general. Bush's move was described as an attempt to cool off a heated confrontation between his administration and leaders of House leaders of both parties, particularly Speaker Dennis Hastert.
Hastert and Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said they were asking the House counsel to meet with the Justice Department to work out a resolution. Bush's order "gives us some time to step back and try to negotiate with the Department of Justice," said Hastert. Likewise, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said it would "provide additional time to reach a permanent solution that allows this investigation to continue while accommodating the concerns of certain members of Congress."
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Sorry the FBI and justice made a good call. There is no hint that this investigation has anything to do with other than criminal acts.
Perhaps the FBI can raid some Leakers offices too.
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President Bush stepped into the Justice Department's constitutional confrontation with Congress on Thursday and ordered that documents seized in an FBI raid on a lawmaker's office be sealed for 45 days...... and the 75 year prohibition on MLK files be lifted effective next week!
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#5 This is Rove's idea. It gives the Jefferson case more publicity and keeps it center stage longer; perhaps even to the fall election. Jefferson will be the visual whenever anyone mentions "culture of corruption".
Women police personnel and special police officers (SPOs) in Jammu and Kashmir are intangibly involved in the sex scandal that has rocked the state for the last month, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has found.
"Intangibly" involved? That means you can't quantify it?
The racket, protests against which have led to strikes and rioting, extends well beyond Srinagar and into other towns of the valley, the CBI says. "We have found that several women police constables and SPOs were controlling and running the racket in Srinagar," a senior officer handling the investigation told IANS.
Copperettes running hookers? That's never happened before, has it?
Though several cases were registered against the main accused Sabina who was running the business in the city forcing young girls into prostitution no action was taken because of the influence of senior state police officers and also because it was being run by their own people. Well-informed sources said the three-week investigations revealed that over 10 similar sex rackets were active in Srinagar and places around the city.
Sounds like a regular den of iniquity.
"We have found that one such racket is active in the Gulmarg area," an officer told IANS. He added that it was so deeply embedded in the Kashmir administration that the case would not have been solved had it not been handed over to an outside agency. "We have the names of 45 women who were being forced into prostitution and we have concrete evidence to prove that there are many more women and young girls involved," he said. The sex scandal first came to light when a 15-year-old victim registered a case against the prime accused, Sabina, in early May. The girl named over 56 people, including some high profile personalities, in her complaint.
I think they're all oversexed, myself. But if I was only a decade or two younger, I'd probably book a tour to make sure.
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The government will repeal the Hudood Ordinance because it was being misused, Federal Law Minister Wasi Zafar told Geo television programme Capital Talk on Thursday. Zafar said he had proposed amendments to the Hudood Ordinance and given the draft to the department concerned. Some clauses in the ordinance will be included in the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and the ordinance will be automatically repealed when it is included in common law, he said.
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Now, go undo that Hudood that you dood not so well.
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DERA GHAZI KHAN: Sakhi Sarwar police have registered a case and arrested five people for violating the vani law. Accused Ghulam Akbar, Ghulam Abbas, Nabi Bakhsh, Sadiq Hussain and Qadir Hussain are on judicial remand in the Dera Ghazi Khan district jail, while other accused in this case have not been arrested yet. Nusrat, 9, and her cousin Abida alias Salma, 5, were given to an aggrieved family in compensation for a crime Nusrats brother Abdul Ghafoor committed in the Sakhi Sarwar locality of Dera Ghazi Khan district.
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Islam, what a great culture. So what happened to the girls?? Were they sent back to their family that views their worth lower than that of a goat? Were they put in custody to protect them, I doubt it. All good bets are they are still with the poor "Aggrieved" family.
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Two "honour" killings coming right up. Such a civilized society.
Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif of Lahore High Court on Thursday quashed a second case registered under the slavery vani law because the alleged offence occurred before vani was made a crime. Justice Sharif observed that vani, the custom of enslaving giving girls in marriage as compensation for an offence committed by a family member, as an offence came to statute on November 1, 2005, whereas the alleged contract of marriage in the case took in September 2004, which meant that at the time of action it was not an offence. The judge said the law couldnt be applied with retrospective effect as mentioned in Article 12 of the Constitution.
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The United States wants the hard-won cap on United Nations spending to be extended on June 30 in its push to bring about reform in the 60-year-old international organization, a top diplomat said Thursday.
John Bolton, who represents the US at the UN, told a US Senate panel that the move - which does not yet have wide support in New York - would "give us more time to show progress on the reform front."
The strategy is aimed at breaking down a "whip organisation" of developing countries in the General Assembly that have been blocking attempts to give more power to the secretary general and to cut down on the number of UN-funded mandates, according to Bolton's testimony.
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Senator Richard Lugar, the Republican who chairs the Senate foreign relations committee, said the "predicament" appeared to be "extremely serious" and that reform was not going to occur "very rapidly."
"Demagogues could take hold and things could move the other way," Lugar said.
Australian troops have taken control of Dili as intensive negotiations take place to end the brutal clashes between the army and rebel soldiers and police.
With East Timor's Government paralysed and the President and Prime Minister at loggerheads, sporadic gunfire continued yesterday following Thursday's clashes, which left 15 people dead including 12 policemen.
Rebels attacked the home of East Timor's armed forces commander, Taur Matan Ruak, outside Dili, and the charred bodies of a mother and her five children were found inside a burnt-out house near the airport. Four men were said to have smashed the windows of the house overnight on Thursday, poured petrol inside and set it alight.
AUSTRALIAN troops are ready to shoot to kill to defend themselves as they try to separate warring factions in East Timor's capital, where tensions remained high today and armed gangs threatened thousands of refugees.
Australian soldiers continued to pour into Dili from aircraft and naval vessels today, and patrols fanned out this morning as gunfire and explosions continued to ring around the capital.
The size of the Australian force swelled to nearly 600, with soldiers backed by armoured personnel carriers, Black Hawk helicopters and the navy frigate HMAS Adelaide.
More troops were tonight on their way to East Timor aboard navy transport ships Kanimbla, Manoora and Tobruk, and all 1300 members of the task force were expected in Dili by the weekend.
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I think we are discovering why Washington gave the OK to Suharto when Indonesian forces grabbed East Timor in the 1970's, just as the territory was about to turn communist, thanks to a left-wing coup in Portugal. Indonesian control served several purposes - it provided semi-competent rule in a region (the South Pacific) where indigenous rule is characterized by incompetence, corruption and violence (just look at Papua New Guinea), added a Christian ballast to the primarly-Muslim Indonesian state and prevented the establishment of a Soviet base right next to Australia. I've always thought of the intervention in East Timor as a major mistake by Clinton - it pissed off the Indonesians for nothing - it benefitted neither East Timorese nor Indonesia. The other big Clinton blunder was the snarky remarks out of Washington and the administration's sitting on its hands during the Asian economic crisis of the late 1990's. This last is the primary reason for the virulent anti-Americanism coming out of East Asia - a free enterprise region that should be extremely friendly to the US.
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Something doesn't compute here. We all know that in Chimpy McHitler's Amerikkka dissent is ruthlessly repressed, even to the point that the Dixie Chicks have lost record sales, but this article suggests that two well-connected Texas businessmen are going to jail for the rest of their lives while Noam Chomsky is free to meet with Hezbollah and Cindy Sheehan remains free to make a mockery of her son's sacrifice. How could Cheney's jackbooted stormtroopers have allowed this to happen?
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Even better, Matt, how come Bushitler is waiting for November when the chance for the putsch is now!
What will idiots on Left say when the date for the Bush coup d'etat comes and go and we're all here, safe and sound in our Republic?
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It was a prosecutor appointed by Bush, in a DoJ led by a Bush appointee, who prosecuted Lay and Skilling. I don't know whether the judge was a Bush appointee or not.
And most of the crimes occurred before Jan, 2001.
And who gets the blame?
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Bush, because he didn't sign Kyoto :-)
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Australian troops have taken control of Dili as intensive negotiations take place to end the brutal clashes between the army and rebel soldiers and police.
