The United Nations is investigating a suspected child prostitution ring involving its peacekeepers and government soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the U.N. mission said on Thursday. Among accusations being investigated is that pimps are using the presence of U.N. peacekeepers to lure vulnerable girls to go and work as prostitutes in areas of South Kivu where they are deployed, the mission said in a statement.
The U.N.'s 17,000-strong mission MONUC, which is backing a string of peace deals in the vast African nation following a 1998-2003 war and helping to run elections, has been hit by a series of sex scandals and last year banned sex with locals. "Although the majority of their patrons are Congolese soldiers and civilians, some of the girls involved mentioned that elements of MONUC contingents based in the region were also among their clients," the statement said. "MONUC takes these allegations very seriously and has expressed extreme shock at the testimonies of the victims of this illegal activity," it added.
The U.N. mission said it had launched a special investigation to investigate the allegations and stressed that there would be "zero tolerance" of sexual abuses by its troops.
Ummm... I have no great love for the UN or its peacekeepers, but just going to a whorehouse is no great scandal.
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Robust but not offensive?
Well, they are consistent
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last year banned sex with locals
Somehow I don't think that's what the locals had in mind when they told the peacekeepers to go fuck themselves.
Ukraine's national intelligence agency, the SBU, today declassified 130 state archive files on the country's Stalin-era famine.
Between five and seven million Ukrainians are estimated to have died during the 1932-33 famine.
Many Ukrainians claim the famine was deliberately orchestrated by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
SBU spokesman Vasyl Danielenko says Ukraine is the first former Soviet country to open up secret documents on the famines. Ioseb Jughashvili, the pride of communism, proved he could kill more of his own people, and faster, than could Hitler.
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Ned Lamont needs to be reminded that his grandfather was a Stalinist communist way back when.
Corliss Lamont was an unapologetic Stalinist and atheist. Congress once declared him "probably the most persistent propagandist for the Soviet Union to be found anywhere in the United States." As national chairman of The Friends of Soviet Russia, he refused to condemn Josef Stalin's show trials in the 1930s.
I wonder what Ned Lamont would have to say if confronted by Ukranians today? Would he loudly condemn Joe Stalin?
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what the f*ck are you insinuating Mr "6". It was all reported according to the NYT stylebook. Facts? Bah! Sometimes you have to break 5 or 6 million eggs to make an omellette. Punk
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I thought all the dearly beloved deceased were "Trotskyite Deviationist Wreckers"...
The United States should "shut up" with its concerns about China's growing military spending because the increase is no threat, a Chinese ambassador said Thursday.
Sha Zukang, China's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, told British Broadcasting Corp. radio that American concerns about his country's growing military might were misguided. "It's better for the U.S. to shut up," Sha said. "Keep quiet. It's much, much better."
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Every purchase we make from China enables them.
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Agree Ed.
A few years ago we had a Communist Regime empowered by rigid state run controls and strict socialism. Now we have a Communist Regime (although we no longer call it that), empowered and funded via capitalism. Don't think we've gained much.
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When I shop, I look at country of origin and avoid buying from unfriendly nations. I am even to the point where I no longer fly if at all possible and consolidate car trips.
Unfortunately it is getting more difficult to avoid buying Chinese. Unknown to me, even my new mail ordered Japanese laptop was made in China (probably only the CPU and other ICs, maybe the LCD screen, were not made in China).
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Ed, it was assembled in China. The high value added components, as you note, were probably made elsewhere, including Taiwan, South Korea and Malaysia based on designs created by Indians working in Silicon Valley. China didn't make the computer any more than the guy stocking the shelves at Safeway made your food.
Buying Chinese means you are allowing the Chinese people to subsidize your purchase through their policy of keeping the yuan artificially low.
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And the only reason few ICs are made in China is that the US gov refuses to allow exports to China of chip making equipment that is within several generations of the leading edge.
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The United States should "shut up" with its concerns about China's growing military spending because the increase is no threat, a Chinese ambassador said Thursday.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!
Every purchase we make from China enables them.
Word, ed. Now if only we could convince our politicians of this. Remember, Bush's "Pioneers" (the ones who contribute $100,000 or more to his campaign) include major corporate players with significant interests in China. Where do you think Wal-Mart, The Good Guys and Circuit City get their cheap consumer electronics assembled? Out of our ~$127 BILLION trade defecit with China, Wal-Mart alone accounts for $12.7 BILLION (2005 figures). That's a solid 10% of the entire trade defecit due to a single corporation.
Now, considering that so much re-election capital comes from these players, what's the chance of obtaining even the most remote form of trade embargo against China?
[crickets]
And the only reason few ICs are made in China is that the US gov refuses to allow exports to China of chip making equipment that is within several generations of the leading edge.
I wish this were true. China is already at 8" (750mm) wafer fab capability. That is only one generation away from the current 12" (1,000mm) state-of-the-art. True, x-ray and scanning electron beam lithography are probably denied to them (I can only wonder if Europe fills this technology gap for the Chinese), by us but 8" wafer fabs are a much more mature technology base and therefore deliver higher yields with greater reliability.
China badly needs to be hauled up short. Their looming AIDS crisis (the largest medically caused AIDS epidemic in all history), combined with massive bad bank loans (some estimates exceed ONE TRILLION $USD) and potential constrictions in vital raw resources (Iran's petroleum supply being taken off line), all point to the potential for a gigantic crash in China's near term.
A group of Senate Democrats is growing increasingly angry about Sen. Joe Liebermans (D-Conn.) campaign tactics since he lost the Democratic primary last week. If he continues to alienate his colleagues, Lieberman could be stripped of his seniority within the Democratic caucus should he defeat Democrat Ned Lamont in the general election this November, according to some senior Democratic aides.
In recent days, Lieberman has rankled Democrats in the upper chamber by suggesting that those who support bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq by a certain date would bolster terrorists planning attacks against the U.S. and its allies. He also sparked resentment by saying last week on NBCs Today show that the Democratic Party was out of the political mainstream. Democrats are worried that Lieberman may be giving Republicans a golden opportunity to undermine their message.
The issue of Liebermans seniority would arise most dramatically if Lieberman wins re-election and Democrats recapture control of the chamber. That would slot Lieberman to take over as chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the panel primarily responsible for investigating the executive branch.
Democrats think their chances of taking back the Senate are growing more and more likely. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) last week said he was more confident that Democrats would pick up at least five Senate seats.
Allowing Lieberman to retain his seniority could put the senator now running as an independent in charge of the Senates chief investigative committee. If Democrats took control of either chamber they would likely launch investigations of the White Houses handling of the war in Iraq and homeland security.
At this point Lieberman cannot expect to just keep his seniority, said the aide. He cant run against a Democrat and expect to waltz back to the caucus with the same seniority as before. It would give the view that the Senate is a country club rather than representative of a political party and political movement.
The view that Lieberman should lose his seniority is likely to become more ingrained among Democrats if Lieberman continues to align himself with Republicans, as he has in the last few days. Lieberman took a call from senior White House political strategist Karl Rove on the day of his primary election. And since losing, he has adopted rhetoric echoing Republican talking points.
If we pick up like Ned Lamont wants us to do, get out by a date certain, it will be taken as a tremendous victory by the same people who wanted to blow up these planes in this plot hatched in England, Lieberman said about U.S. troops in Iraq and the recently foiled terrorism scheme. It will strengthen them, and they will strike again.
Sen. Russ Feingold (Wis.) called Liebermans statement regrettable and said Lieberman doesnt get it.
Asked yesterday about the race, Dean said, Ned will win, adding that Democratic turnout for Lamont will help the party in other Connecticut races.
Lieberman is expected to make a hard sell to Republican voters. Sean Smith, who stepped down as Liebermans campaign manager after the primary, told Lieberman as he was resigning that the candidate would have to pursue Republican voters in order to win the general election, said sources familiar with the conversation. Lieberman said he agreed with the analysis, according to the sources.
So far, at least 26 Democratic senators have said they are supporting Lamont, including Reid, according to a survey conducted by The Hill. Reid spokesman Jim Manley said Democratic leaders would make no decisions about committees until after the election.
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Polls are looking good for Lieberman. Looking like 0 for 30 for the Kos Kiddies.
Now, the latest poll shows Lieberman at 49 percent, Lamont at 38 percent and Schlesinger at 4 percent.
But Poll Director Douglas Schwartz stresses that those numbers only scratch the surface of how voters really feel about this race. One potentially troublesome indicator for Lamont lies in voters' opinions of the candidates: Only 23 percent in the new survey had a favorable opinion of Lamont, while 28 percent had an unfavorable opinion and the rest were mixed. Meanwhile, 43 percent viewed Lieberman favorably and 28 percent viewed him unfavorably, with the rest mixed.
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the Dem party is like an aircraft being shot down. The pilots are desperately trying to keep it flying but the damage is done and it will soon self destruck.
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I don't care much for Lieberman anyway, except for support on Iraq and war on terror. He grabbed the ankles of Hollywierd when running for vice president, and he has been a strong "progressive" on other major issues.
Last I checked, he didn't want to kill babies like the other donks.
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Of course, they fail to realize that when Lieberman wins the election, they lose a seat. He won't count as a Donkey anymore.
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The Angry Left wants a Judenfrei Democratic Party.
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Don't kid yourselves on this one. If the Dhimmis get to 52 seats, they'll strip Lieberman of everything -- seniority, committee assignments, and his name on the coat hook in the Senate cloak room. If the Dhimmis are at 50 or 51, they'll grudgingly tolerate Joe so as to hold a parity or majority, but few of them will go out of their way to work with him.
Joe's an outsider now; he thinks he can fix this by winning re-election, but the Dhimmis will never consider him part of them again.
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Additionally, if they anger him, he isn't likely to feel the party-line loyalty he's thus far evinced, when he votes. On matters of conscience no doubt he will continue to vote as he has, but most votes are merely about politicking, after all.
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It will be interesting to see what happens when he wins. Taranto's been keeping count and something like 6 or 7 current Donk Senators are on record endorsing/supporting Lieberman against Lamont, including all of them that signed the Judicial filibuster "compromise."
Could very well get interesting if some of them jump ship, or at least call themselves "Independent".
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Coming from the same Dem leadership bunch that thought Kerry was going to win, I think ol Joe has a pretty decent chance. Pass the popcorn, this is going to be interesting.....
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No matter how this plays out Joe will not put an R after his name and he won't caucus with the Republicans. IMHO this is just a Donk Side show that we should not spend too much time on because either way we will not pick up this seat. OTWH I do love it when they turn on each other and I hope that this pushed the Donks more to the LLL.
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"Joe's an outsider now; he thinks he can fix this by winning re-election, but the Dhimmis will never consider him part of them again."
Nah, hes not JUST useful against the GOP in an evenly decided Senate. Hes also useful for the Bidens, Bayh, Clintons, against their opponents within the Dem caucus. Now with Kos riding high, and Lieberman running as an indie they cant say that out loud. But they all know that the forces that gave the nod to Lamont have no love for them. Theyve got a tricky game to play. If Lieberman does well, that changes things. Also Cantwell. And also, it depends on what happens in Iraq. Every bomb in Baghdad, every dead US soldier in Anbar, is another nail in the coffin for the Presidential ambitions of the Dem Senators who voted for the war. To the point where, Im afraid, Hillary may not run in 2008, let the Kossacks have their day, and lose, and then try in 2012. Kinda the flip side of the Cuomo dilemma in '92. Course he turned out to be wrong, and Iraq war one turned out to be a minor issue.
And of course Joe running as an indie bothers some dems. How do y'all feel about McCain? If he ran as an indie against the winner of a GOP primary, would that increase your love for him? I mean it would boost MY respect for him - as Joes run undoubtedly respects yours for Joe.
Of course i realize some of you cant see the symmetry between Joe and the RINOs, cause Joe is leaving the "nest of treason and socialism" and McCain is insufficiently loyal to the great hope of the Republic. you cant expect others to share those views though.
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Lieberman will win in November and the KOS kids will be in full uproar mode; their Lamontations will be heard all across the country. Even in the Governators Mansion in California. It will be best.
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Every bomb in Baghdad, every dead US soldier in Anbar, is another nail in the coffin for the Presidential ambitions of the Dem Senators who voted for the war.
Which, after all, is all that matters to Democrats.
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But they are a boon to the economy!! Really!!
From a remote mountaintop overlooking the vast Tohono O'odham Reservation, the smugglers have created their own sacred spot, a shrine to the Virgin de Guadalupe covered in prayer cards and candles.
Slowly over the years, the Tohono O'odham Nation has tried to take its land back from people-smugglers and drug runners, tribal leaders say, giving the U.S. Border Patrol unprecedented access to their reservation in hopes of stemming the tide of illegal activity.
But tribal leaders are crying out for more help from the Department of Homeland Security, saying they are incurring $3 million annually in costs associated with the federal government's failure to secure their 75-mile stretch of U.S.-Mexican border. The tribe is seeking compensation for costs ranging from migrant autopsies to police overtime. I doubt the illegals even contributed $3 total to the Tohono economy in the meantime....
"We're caught in the middle of this whole problem," Tribal Chairwoman Vivian Juan-Saunders said. "It creates a really high stress level for our people."
Juan-Saunders said the problem stems directly from a piece of legislation, the Homeland Security Act of 2002, that did not recognize Indian nations as sovereign governments. So the 25 tribes along the nation's northern and southern borders have to go through states for security funding, adding a layer of bureaucracy and leading to consternation by tribal members. They have complained that they are often left out of federal decision-making. Meanwhile, the Feds are busy consulting with the Mexican government to ensure their feelings aren't hurt by us taking effective enforcement action....
U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., said he wants to help the Tohono O'odhams, but the window to get a bill passed this session is closing. "They're supplementing this enforcement activity, and they deserve to have a direct pipeline," Grijalva said. "I think their request is more than justified; I think it's overdue."
In the meantime, the Tohono O'odhams say they are having trouble controlling the illegal crossings through their land, which has been crisscrossed with at least 160 smuggling trails. Agents have made more than 187,000 arrests since Oct. 1 in the "west desert," a 160-mile stretch from Sasabe to the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge that includes the Tohono O'odham Reservation.
Because the tribe's land is so vast and remote, roughly 2.8 million acres, comparable to the size of Connecticut, the smugglers still operate in some areas with impunity. They built their shrine, leaving piles of pesos in the wooden box that holds the figurine. Whoops, my bad, I guess this is their "contribution" to the Tohono economy.
Nearby, smugglers have discarded empty canvas bags used to carry work supplies, since all they want are jobs, right? marijuana over the tribe's sacred mountains.
The Tohono O'odham Police Department, with 65 sworn officers, spends 60 percent of its time on illegal immigration. Border Patrol agents scour the tribe's land, and the tribe recently approved allowing the National Guard onto the reservation.
The nation has tons of trash dumped on its land by undocumented immigrants, even on sacred sites, Juan-Saunders said. It has paid for the autopsies of at least 51 migrants, including three children, since January, at a cost of $1,200 to $1,400 each, she said. "These resources should be spent on education and health care and infrastructure and economic development," she said. "But we have no other choice than to do what we can to protect our people."
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Are the Tohono O'odham considered a sovereign nation?
If so, they can just shoot the invaders.
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Subcontract out to the Apaches. They have some experience both in dealing with such a situation and in doing their handy work on both sides of the border.
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Has anyone told Teddy Kennedy about this problem yet??
Does anyone remember the details of Teddy's legislation back in the 1960's that started this whole illegal immigration mess? I remember hearing that is was somekind of immigration bill at the time.
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Teddy's immigration bill no longer set quotas based on national origin. That changed the ethnic mix of immigrants (and exploded the number of immigrants), but I doubt it had much effect on illegal immigration.
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Sell the scalps on ebay.
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U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., said he wants to help the Tohono O'odhams, but the window to get a bill passed this session is closing.
YJCMTSU. An Indian (Asian Indian) helping out the Indians (Native Americans) with their "issues" with the Mexicans.
And why are they stuck footing the bill for the autopsy? Why autopsy at all? If they're here illegaly, it's not like we're mailin' someone a death certificate is it? Actually, RC's approach would probably work best. Allow the Tohono O'odham to shoot to kill and you have plausible deniability, as they are a sovereign nation, as far as I understand it.
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Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said Wednesday that his frequent verbal volleys at the Republican Party aren't aimed at typical GOP voters like those in South Dakota. Dean, who appeared in Rapid City as part of a 50-state outreach to Democratic voters, said his battles with GOP leaders don't reflect his feelings about rank-and-file Republicans. "Look, I don't believe in putting what I call civilians in the line of fire. The Republican officeholders, I think, have been a deep disappointment to the country," Dean told reporters. "The Republican voters are Americans first, and then they are either Republican or Democrat second. I don't think Republican voters should be in the line of fire, and I don't put them in the line of fire."
Howard, I've got bad news for you: Publican offieholders have been a deep disappointment to the country because they're not Republican enough.
Dean is sharply critical of the Bush administration and Republicans in Congress for policies on the Iraq War and the nation's huge budget deficits. Republican officials argue that he goes beyond criticism to divisive attack politics. South Dakota GOP officials issued a statement Monday that included a Dean quote that said, "I hate Republicans and everything they stand for ..." as an example of his style.
That, and screaming. Or maybe it was shrieking.
'What the Republicans do is attack people with lies. And it's gutter politics,' Dean said.
Republican National Committee officials contend that Dean's attacks show disrespect for GOP voters. RNC spokesman Kevin McLaughlin said by e-mail Wednesday that Dean's "wild-eyed, hate-filled rhetoric short-changes not only South Dakotans, but all Americans. People deserve to have leaders that are more interested in solutions than they are insults."
When you're hollering and rolling your eyes and calling people names, nobody's supposed to notice that you've only got opinions, not ideas.
A group of young Republicans planned a "scream-alike" contest outside a Democratic reception for Dean and party candidates Wednesday night, to parrot one of Dean's more emotional public speeches.
Sounds like fun, though I don't think my throat would be up to it.
Wonder if I can reset my ululator?
Dean said national Republican officials "massage" his words to manipulate their meaning and mislead the public. "What the Republicans do is attack people with lies. And it's gutter politics," Dean said.
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Hey Dean, we the people got this thing called the internet look it up, we don't need republicans to massage the message we can read it for ourselves you nitwit.
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"What the Republicans do is attack people with lies. And it's gutter politics," Dean said.
"I mean, they photoshop them wearing black face, call them "Rape Gurney Joe", and fake photos of them in homosexual acts! How gutter is that?!"
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Kevin McLaughlin said by e-mail Wednesday that Dean's "wild-eyed, hate-filled rhetoric short-changes not only South Dakotans, but all Americans. People deserve to have leaders that are more interested in solutions than they are insults."
I'd say that pretty well sums it up. That the Democrats have, since at least the 2000 election, been consistently far more interested in insults-- stupid ones, at that-- than they are in solutions, is a major part of the reason I'm no longer a Democrat after 31 years in the Party.
Screw these idiots.
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"Not only are we going to insult the Republican voters in New Hampshire, we're going to insult 'em South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico, and we're going to curse 'em in California and Texas and New York. And we're going to call 'em names in South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan. And then we're going to Washington, D.C., to yell nasty insults at George Bush in the White House. Yeeeeeaaaaaaagggggghhhhhh!
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re: djohn66 (#1):
Now, aren't ya glad that Al Gore did something right in creatin' the internet? (/sarcasm off)
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The widow of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has denied Arab press reports that she had married a brother-in-law of Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. "I absolutely deny reports about my marriage with Mr Belhassen Trabelsi and will take legal action against the media who published this wrong piece of information," Suha Arafat, who has French citizenship, told AFP on Thursday.
"We're just good friends. We share a house, but that's it. No hanky-panky."
Maybe he couldn't come up with his share of the Kruegerrands ...
Trabelsi is a brother of Leila Trabelsi, the wife of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Suha Arafat said she was living in Tunis with her daughter and had no marriage plans. "Yasser Arafat is the love of my life and will be until I die," she said.
"Can't help lovin' dat late man of mine!"
Yasser Arafat is the love of my life and will be until I die...
Suha, who grew up in a well-off Christian Palestinian family, married Arafat in 1990 after being his economic advisor following his organization's move from Lebanon into exile in Tunisia. He died in Paris at the age of 75 in 2004. She said that at the request of her late husband she had never sued any media for publishing "lies about my family" and details of her private life, but was now prepared to do so.
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lmao! shez denyin it? ima wuld theenk it wuld be him not wanna admiterin he tuched dat pig!
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Arafat widow denies reports she remarried
retraction: Dear readers, We regret to inform you that we released an incorrect report earlier this week that Suha Arafat had been remaried.
The report was not true and we would like to extend our deepest apologies to Mrs. Arafat for the error.
Apparently one of our new cub reporters actually mistook an unusually large flap of Suha's loose fat as her new companion/husband, hence the cub's mistaken report.
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"we're not married, but I'm carrying his spawn love-child"
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Is her daughter from Arafish? If so, we may have a runner in the competition against Chelsea. Jeebus, could you imagine Ms. Piggy and Mr. fish having a love child?
Gorb, when you find the steel wool and citrus cleaner, pass it over here'z.
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Beer goggles don't work in this case.
Front-runner nominee for Snark of the Day Award!
I can only assume that Suha is in possession of evidence that Arafat did, indeed, die of AIDS or some other embarassing complication (i.e., unsuccessful pig heart-valve implants). There is not much else that can explain how this truly excessive waste-of-skin is able to skim off $22 MILLION per year from a starving economy. That she can do so without the least pangs of conscience is another matter entirely and speaks volumes about why both the Palestinians and all Arabs in general live in the sh!tholes they do.
Not exactly a "starving economy" if they didn't want it to be. Yesterday's Opinion Journal had some "experts" supposedly in the know saying that the PA had an estimated $4billion (with a B) socked away in Zurich, South Africa, and get this, Tel Aviv (oh, the irony). Starving economy only because of graft/corruption of Arafish.
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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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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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The United Nations is investigating a suspected child prostitution ring involving its peacekeepers and government soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the U.N. mission said on Thursday. Among accusations being investigated is that pimps are using the presence of U.N. peacekeepers to lure vulnerable girls to go and work as prostitutes in areas of South Kivu where they are deployed, the mission said in a statement.
The United States should "shut up" with its concerns about China's growing military spending because the increase is no threat, a Chinese ambassador said Thursday.
Democratic National Committee Chairman 
The widow of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has denied Arab press reports that she had married a brother-in-law of Tunisian president 
