A University of Florida student was stunned with a Taser and taken to jail on Monday after police say he disrupted an event with U.S. Sen John Kerry and refused to leave. The incident was caught on video, which has since been distributed on the Internet.
Within hours of the arrest, articles about it and video of the entire incident were posted on Meyer's website, www.theandrewmeyer.com. The website includes writings by Meyer, including one piece against the war in Iraq.
At about 1 p.m., Kerry was nearing the end of a forum (and) audience members were allowed to ask questions at a microphone, university spokesman Steve Orlando said. The person in front of Meyer was told he would be the last person to speak, Orlando said. Meyer said he was upset with that, so Kerry gave him the OK.
When he took the mike, Meyer then asked Kerry several questions. On amateur video linked from Meyer's website, his questions included why Kerry conceded in the 2004 presidential election, why not impeach President George W. Bush now, and whether Kerry was a member of the Skull and Bones secret society at Yale University.
When reminded that he was only supposed to ask one question, Meyer responded in the video ``He's talked for two hours. I think I can have two minutes.'' And it went downhill, from there.
Members of the student group sponsoring the event summoned UF police to escort Meyer out, according to a police statement. At first, students can be heard cheering as he is asked to leave. But Meyer refused to leave, police said. When officers tried escorting him, he resisted, and officers only partially got handcuffs on him, according to police.
By then, officers had moved Meyer to the back of the auditorium, where he was on the floor, Orlando said. Officers told him to stop resisting, and when he still refused, they used the stun gun, Orlando said. On the video, he can be heard screaming at that point. Meyer was then put back on his feet and taken out of the auditorium, he said.
At one point in one of the videos, Meyer says, ''Why am I under arrest?'' and ``They're going to try and kill me.'' O.K., so he was a loony student.
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Unless you read carefully you would think it was a Bush supporter who was zapped, and initially sympathize with the zappee. This just didn't fit the media template so I read more closely and I find the zappee was a sympathetic figure because he was to the LEFT of sKerry.
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He was disrupting the meeting, was asked to leave, did not, then resisted armed peace officers. Watching the video it is clear this was after Senator Kerry attempted to calm the situation (I hate giving that man credit for anything).
Yes, the officers do not appear entirely competent but this was a big guy acting totally erratically. He got less than he deserved. I could care less what ideology he espoused except in so far as had he been conservative it would be an embarrassment and his being a moonbat means I enjoyed listening to him squeal.
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Says something about moonbats, campus cops and Kerry. Nothing in there was worth the 10 trees cut down to report it. It was blue on blue on blue if you ask me.
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Some people were talking about it at work today. I said "If I am ever going to hear John Kerry speak, please Taser me."
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another exciting episode of:
TRUTHER CONSEQUENCES
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Campus cops are usually the guys who failed the exam to work security at the local ballpark ...
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#2: "On one side, you have a raging moonbat.
On the other side, John Kerry you have a raging moonbat."
There - fixed that for ya', Mike. ;-p
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Hee hee, the Doc's bed-side is failed for once.
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Taking the motto "Yesterday's enemies are today's friends," to heart
Gack.
the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in the Riyadh region has decided to embrace Bluetooth technology in its daily activities, despite it condemning it use by the Saudi public for a number of years.
The head of the Riyadh Branch of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice inaugurated the test launch of what it called the "Awareness Messaging System via Bluetooth" at one of the Riyadh's large shopping centers. The service, aims to send a number of awareness messages to youths visiting the shopping center from both genders.
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They use every fruit of Western invention to subvert the liberty that makes such invention possible.
My one hope for the far side of the 1000 Year Night is that the Umma is ultimately self-defeating. Even if we have lost our will and our civilization comes to an end, the new arab masters can offer nothing but a desert. Eternal war, real catastrophic environmental damage later repaired with the advent of global de-industrialization, and the re-introduction of the plague. In such a world a few free men would one day bring back the light.
Hamburg - The new A380 jumbo jet was grounded by technical problems in front of 150,000 people at an air show in the northern German city of Hamburg on Sunday.
The Airbus company said the prototype jet was unable to take off from Hamburg Airport for a demonstration flight and return to Toulouse in France because of a defect in its undercarriage. The jet in Hamburg had been the star turn of the Airport Days - a weekend air show in Hamburg.
Some 150,000 paying guests and tens of thousands more people staring through the airport perimeter fence were waiting at the scheduled take-off time to see the jet lumber into the air. A witness said the jet, serial number MSN 001, which is for tests only and will not be sold to customers, taxied away, then stopped, and after a long delay returned to the apron, disappointing the crowd.
Airbus spokesman Tore Prang said as mechanics worked on the jet, 'This is a test flight for it. It has been under particularly heavy strain. We're going to take our time checking it out and be on the safe side. We've got mechanics and spare parts here in Hamburg. It's not a problem.'
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And in the interest of fair and balanced reporting, in today's Seatlle Times ( and also on Drudge) there is the report of a fired Boeing Engineer that saya the 787 is unsafe in a crash. ( well no shit Sherlock) The carbon fiber would burn, give off toxic fumes and the small carbon particles would be inhaled by ( the supposedly still living victims) and cause lung damage.
The plastic fuselage would not crumple and absorb energy like an aluminum one but would shatter and expose the pax to more energy.
so i guess maybe landing gear is important (notice it is not called take off gear)
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An old aviation maxim goes something like this: "Any landing you can walk away from is a good one; a landing whereby you can re-use the airplane is a great one."
On election day, the Papandreou name failed to work its old magic. Now, Greece's best-known political dynasty could face extinction after a half-century's affair with power. Shocked out of their usual voting patterns by the summer's unprecedented wildfires, Greeks dealt a blow to both major parties on Sunday, switching support to smaller groups.
But the socialists fared by far the worst, clocking their poorest result in 30 years, while the conservatives were narrowly re-elected.
George Papandreou who heads the PASOK party founded by his late father, the anti-U.S. firebrand Andreas Papandreou had barely finished his concession speech when he faced a challenge to his party leadership. The 55-year-old son and grandson of Greek prime ministers could now suffer an embarrassing exit.
Declaring his candidacy, former Culture Minister Evangelos Venizelos asserted: "PASOK could and should have won, for the good of the country, but it lost. We have unfortunately suffered a clear and great defeat." With 99.8 percent of votes counted, PASOK narrowed the gap over Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis' conservatives to 3.7 percent, from 4.8 percent in 2004. But the socialists still lost votes against a government weakened by financial scandal and its response to forest fires that killed at least 65 people.
The left-leaning Ethnos daily said the result "reflects the desperate inability of George Papandreou's PASOK to capitalize on the attrition suffered by ... the worst government since 1974, as (Papandreou) himself termed it, and to establish itself as a credible alternative."
Details of numbers and analysis of Greek 'lectoral systems at the link if you are so inclined.
WASHINGTON - China and Russia are spying on the United States nearly as much as they did during the Cold War, according to the top U.S. intelligence official. Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, says in testimony prepared for a Tuesday congressional hearing that a law passed last month expanding the U.S. government's eavesdropping power is needed to protect not just against terrorists but also against more traditional potential adversaries, such as those two Cold War foes.
"China and Russia's foreign intelligence services are among the most aggressive in collecting against sensitive and protected U.S. systems, facilities and development projects, and their efforts are approaching Cold War levels," McConnell says in his testimony. "Foreign intelligence information concerning the plans, activities and intentions of foreign powers and their agents is critical to protect the nation and preserve our security."
The new law will also enable the intelligence agencies to identify "sleeper cells" of terrorists in the United States, according to McConnell's statement to the House Judiciary Committee. Congress last month hastily adopted the Protect America Act just before it went on summer vacation, propelled by McConnell's warnings of a need to close a dangerous gap in U.S. intelligence law.
Some Dhimmicratic lawmakers are now having second thoughts as the complicated law intended to make it easier for the government to intercept foreign calls and e-mails has come under attack by civil liberties and privacy advocates who contend it gives the government broader powers than intended.
The Protect America Act allows the government to listen in, without a court order, on all communications conducted by a person reasonably believed to be outside the United States, even if an American is on one end of the conversation. Such surveillance was generally prohibited under the original Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and it is one of the more controversial aspects of the new law.
For reasons that no one can really explain other than an appeal to an unnamed civil rights.
But McConnell's prepared testimony says one of the most important new powers granted by the law is the possibility of obtaining a call or e-mail "from a foreign terrorist outside the United States to a previously unknown 'sleeper' or coconspirator inside the United States."
While some Democrats are stoopidly angling to roll back what they consider the excesses of the new law, McConnell and Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Wainstein are pushing Congress to make even more changes to FISA.
Among the changes they seek is a new definition for "electronic surveillance." The legal definition includes not just which technologies are used to conduct the surveillance, but also whom is targeted, what communications are collected, where the target is and where the eavesdropping takes place. The definition is critical because it limits the government's power. FISA generally requires court orders for any activity deemed to be "electronic surveillance."
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FREEREPUBLIC > INDONESIA:RUSSIA OPENS THE PACIFIC FRONT.
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Why the need to spy when it's their ex-pat scientists and engineers developing many of our high tech goods and weapons?
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I don't doubt there are plants among the emigres. But the ones I personally know in the high tech world would spit on Putin if he got near them and twice so on the whole communist aparachnik set.
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And I have met Chinese engineers who I am certain were feeding info back to their homeland. I suspect more than a few Iranians are doing the same. On the plus side, I no longer am involved in defense work, but had defense contractor customers who employed many sci/engrs born in China, Russia, Iran, not even mentioning India (oops, I guess I did). Seems self defeating to me.
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When did they ever stop?
They will always spy on us and try to steal our stuff because we are the best in the world.
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We're easy to spy on because we are hiring lots of foreign nationals into engineering and other highly technical jobs because it is hard to find comparably-qualified Americans for those jobs because American young people avoid classes with math and stuff because they're hard and they don't want to work. Obviously I am generalizing, but unfortunately there is a lot of truth to it.
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I went to school with a kid who took an extra year to graduate because he was too busy harvesting engineering papers from the university library to feed back to his father's company back in Beijing. I don't know whether you can call this sort of open-air data-harvesting "spying", or just business as usual...
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Robbing the Farm, the factory, the school the University the Soul of America....
Does anyone know the exact rational as to why our *State Dept and the Voracious University System gives carte blanche to the Foreign States of the World who then steal our R & D and other critical research?
Let's see, they generously allow China and Russia to use our international student policy to "recruit agents", then let the agents use our facilities to move our Proprietary Intel, Industry R & D, Military and Industry Research etc. back to China and Russia.
NICE WORK STATE!
[*paid for by you and me]
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Just how useful would a sub reactor be as a basis for a comercial nuclear power reactor. IMO one of the big mistakes this country made in the civilian nuclear field was the use of non standard reator designs. Even the Phrench were smart enough to do that. In the future India will need more generating capacity. Are they looking at nuclear? Enquiring minds want to know.
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Reborn reactor
THE 23-year-old first unit of the Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS-1) at Kalpakkam, near Chennai, has virtually had a rebirth. Its lifespan has been extended by another 30 years
According to S. Krishnamurthy, Station Director, MAPS, the engineering feat involved four major jobs. They were: en masse coolant channel replacement (EMCCR), which involved cutting and replacing 306 coolant channels, each 80 mm wide and six metres long; replacement of eight steam generators and 88 heat exchangers; replacement of all 606 feeder pipes; and installation of sparger channels in the calandria or reactor vessel, which forms the heart of the reactor.
Work on the reactor began in October 2004 and went on for 14 months and was smooth and incident-free. On January 4, MAPS-1 attained re-criticality and it was connected to the southern grid on January 18.
"In this campaign, the main components in the heart of the reactor, which is the primary coolant system consisting of coolant channels, feeders, steam generators and spargers, have been changed. All life-limiting components of the primary systems have been replaced. Hence it is a rebirth for the reactor, which can go on for an extended period of 30 years. The reactor will be younger and stronger," said Krishnamurthy.
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The Calandria channels of the TAPS-3, reactor, which takes the fuel bundles.
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Don't ever bet against Hindu engineering geeks. Those guys are good.
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The Large Hadron Collider, which is now under construction in CERN's 27 km ring tunnel, attracts significant contributions from several major nations outside the CERN member state community, making it truly a world machine.
The main Indian hardware contribution is superconducting sextupole and decapole spool pieces amounting to half of the total LHC requirement for such corrector magnet equipment. In addition, India will supply LHC magnet support jacks and quench heater power supplies.
India also manufactured the microprocessors for the experiments at LHC. Called MANAS, the chips will read muon trajectories and their detection rate as they come out of the ionisation chamber during an experiment related to the quark-gluon plasma.
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They build their own particle accelerators too...
The Superconducting Cyclotron at India's Department of Atomic Energy's Cyclotron Center
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Errors in that report
India is installing their reactor in a 5,000 ton Charlie II submarine that was purchased from Russia. This boat will be ready for sea trails next year. Eventually, India wants to build its own nuclear subs.
India is reportedly leasing an Akula class SSN from Russia.
The Indian nuclear submarine is called the ATV. This is being built at Vizag in India. According to reports, it will be launched for sea trials in 2008.
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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf plans to quit as army chief to become a civilian leader, removing a key objection to his proposed re-election in October, a senior ruling party official said on Monday. "We expect that after his re-election process next month, God willing, General Musharraf would take his oath of office as a civilian president before November 15," Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed, secretary-general of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (PML), told Reuters.
Sounds like Benazir wasn't going to sign on to the prez-in-uniform thing. The question now is whether Perv's word on the subject is any better than Nawaz' word was on his subject.
Or whether Benazir's word is any good at all.
We'll know when Perv throws his sprockets over the fence onto the White House lawn.
U.S. ally Musharraf has held the post of army chief since he seized power in a military coup in 1999, despite calls from the opposition to quit the dual office. His acquiescence could be seen as a victory for Benazir Bhutto, who has said that any power-sharing arrangement with Musharraf will depend, among other things, on him becoming a civilian president.
Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party announced on Friday the two-time former prime minister will return to Pakistan on October 18, ending more than eight years of self-exile. Giving up the army role would undoubtedly dilute Musharraf's power in a country that that has been ruled by generals for more than half the 60 years since it was founded. It will also be a wrench for a life-long soldier who described his uniform as a "second skin," but aides say Musharraf has been reconciled to quitting the army for months.
Senator Sayed said that Musharraf would abide by the constitution and quit the army before the end of 2007. Musharraf's current term as president expires on November 15. "Yes, I have no doubt that the president will keep his commitment," said Sayed, who recently met Musharraf. "He is clear on this issue."
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The Home Department has referred 30 books containing hate material to the Punjab Mutahidda Ulema Board (PMUB). The board will meet on September 20 to decide whether to ban the books, an Auqaf Department official told Daily Times on Sunday.
The official said Auqaf minister Saeedul Hassan would chair the PMUB meeting. He said most books among the 30 had already been banned by PMUB and the Home Department, but had reappeared under different names. Sixty-one books have so far been banned on PMUBs recommendations, he added.
The PMUB was formed during the Nawaz Sharif government and its first meeting was presided over by then chief minister Shahbaz Sharif, the Auqaf official said. He said the board had two members each of the Shia, Barelvi, Deobandi and Ahle Hadith sects and the representatives of Auqaf Department and Home Department. He said the boards purpose was to promote sectarian harmony, especially between the Shia and Sunni sects. He said the present board members were selected two years ago. It will be the first meeting after President Pervez Musharrf came to power, the official added.
A Home Department official said numerous books containing hateful material had already been banned by the department, but the books containing less hateful material had been referred to PMUB.
Afzal Haidri, a PMUB member, said he had been told about the meeting and had also received the list of the 30 books. The books include dailies and weekly and monthly magazines and the are from all major sects, he added.
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65 illegal aliens were arrested by special police forces on Monday, Police reported. The illegal workers were all West Bank residents. Criminal records were opened against three Israeli citizens for employing the workers and for supplying them with illegal residency inside Israel.
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Undocumented arabs: Do the self-sploding Israelis won't do.
WASHINGTON - Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that a mandate requiring every American to purchase health insurance was the only way to achieve universal health care but she rejected the notion of punitive measures to force individuals into the health care system.
"At this point, we don't have anything punitive that we have proposed," the presidential candidate said in an interview with The Associated Press. "We're providing incentives and tax credits which we think will be very attractive to the vast majority of Americans."
She said she could envision a day when "you have to show proof to your employer that you're insured as a part of the job interview like when your kid goes to school and has to show proof of vaccination," but said such details would be worked out through negotiations with Congress. More at link from She Who Would Run Our Lives...
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HIGH EFFICIENCY, LOW COST SOLAR TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPED AT COLORADO STATE TO BEGIN MASS PRODUCTION
FORT COLLINS - Today [Sept 5], Colorado State University is taking another big step toward... its innovative method for manufacturing low-cost, high-efficiency solar panels is nearing mass production...
In a new 200-megawatt factory, expected to employ up to 500 people, AVA Solar Inc. will start production by the end of next year on the pioneering, patented technology developed by mechanical engineering Professor W.S. Sampath at Colorado State....
Produced at less than $1 per watt [installation costs unknown but optimistically another $1/watt] the panels will...
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There are a lot of expansive flat roofs in the Phoenix area and for many, if not most of the large energy users (e.g., shopping centers), the peak energy use (mostly for air conditioning) corresponds with peak incoming solar radiation.
In many other parts of the country, use of solar panels will require storage of some kind (that's one reason I put in the link to the capacitors).
Also, I've done the math, and there is no way solar panels can power a typical efficiency a/c. However, they can power other systems *and* indirectly boost the efficiency of a/c.
Crawlspaces are also very popular in the southwest, but in summer, temperatures in them can get upwards of 140 degrees. Even if your solar panels just power a simple blower fan, it can lower the temperature to 110. This takes a major load off of the regular a/c.
Now if you use something like a solar powered room a/c in that crawlspace, not to make it cool, but to lower the temperature to perhaps 80-90 degrees, the load on the grid powered a/c will drop tremendously, and it will be able to cool the interior with a fraction of the energy it typically would use.
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The Southwest, the Southeast, the southern half of California... If the consistently sunny parts of the U.S. can be taken at least partially off the grid, we all would benefit. Thanks, mhw.
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cheap solar cells paired with ubercaps and made into tile replacements for roofs ... would be good for home power in remote places or erratic power grid war zones like Iraq.
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As a guy who actually lives off grid and uses solar (amongst other things), I have only one question for these people: is this really going to be on the market? You hear all sorts of solar blabber from places like MIT, but no actual product.
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Ironically, big, huge enormous savings are going to come not with a bang, but a whimper. That's because they have just created a inexpensive type of aerogel that is also flexible.
Just a few millimeters thick sheet of aerogel insulates from -130 to 1300 degrees Fahrenheit. It is amazing stuff that when incorporated into walls and roofs will radically reduce heating and cooling costs.
The only heat gain or loss will be from air gaps in the insulation, and opening doors and windows, and heat or cool generated inside the house.
This means that even on a scorching hot day, all an a/c would have to overcome would be the heat of appliances, and air temperature differences when doors are opened. This is nothing compared to what they have to do now, and would use just a fraction of the energy.
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Anonymoose, I've been reading about that aerogel stuff and it sounds truly amazing. All initial information on it seems to indicate a potential to make a huge impact on home energy costs related to heating and cooling. That would be pretty awesome.
I'm only pissed that my condo didn't have it when they built it 3 years ago as my energy bills spike quite a bit here in the sultry DC summers.
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The reason was that until just a few months ago, aerogel (invented in 1931) was both expensive as all get out and brittle. And that is why this new breakthrough, making it both inexpensive and flexible, is so huge.
They've already tried putting a thin layer in cold weather garments, but it insulates too well even for Antarctica. Just a few panels put in boots for a frozen mountain climber, and she was amazed that by the time she got to the top, her feet were hot.
NASA is all over this. They are going to be using huge amounts (relatively speaking) as spacecraft, satellite and spacesuit insulation. With some other changes, it will end up with spacesuits that look like TV or movie spacesuits, not the Michelin Man.
But for ordinary people, aerogel might result in huge changes. Home walls and roofs might be very thin, but still insulate marvelously against both heat and sound. A small home would have a lot more interior space.
Aerogel might be wrapped around pipes, wood, or other materials to insulate it or protect it from fire (up to 1300 degrees Fahrenheit).
But back to my original point, with aerogel insulation, a home would use just a fraction of the energy currently needed for heating and/or cooling, unless it had a lot of windows or the doors were opened frequently.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
At about 1 p.m., Kerry was nearing the end of a forum (and) audience members were allowed to ask questions at a microphone, university spokesman Steve Orlando said. The person in front of Meyer was told he would be the last person to speak, Orlando said. Meyer said he was upset with that, so Kerry gave him the OK.
Hamburg - The new A380 jumbo jet was grounded by technical problems in front of 150,000 people at an air show in the northern German city of Hamburg on Sunday.
On election day, the Papandreou name failed to work its old magic. Now, Greece's best-known political dynasty could face extinction after a half-century's affair with power. Shocked out of their usual voting patterns by the summer's unprecedented wildfires, Greeks dealt a blow to both major parties on Sunday, switching support to smaller groups.
WASHINGTON - China and Russia are spying on the United States nearly as much as they did during the Cold War, according to the top U.S. intelligence official. Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, says in testimony prepared for a Tuesday congressional hearing that a law passed last month expanding the U.S. government's eavesdropping power is needed to protect not just against terrorists but also against more traditional potential adversaries, such as those two Cold War foes.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf plans to quit as army chief to become a civilian leader, removing a key objection to his proposed re-election in October, a senior ruling party official said on Monday. "We expect that after his re-election process next month, God willing, General Musharraf would take his oath of office as a civilian president before November 15," Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed, secretary-general of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (PML), told Reuters.
The Home Department has referred 30 books containing hate material to the Punjab Mutahidda Ulema Board (PMUB). The board will meet on September 20 to decide whether to ban the books, an Auqaf Department official told Daily Times on Sunday.
