A criminal gang forced a helicopter to land in the yard of a Belgian prison to create a diversion that allowed two prisoners to escape, Belgian media reports said Sunday.
VRT television said gangster Nordin Benallal and another inmate fled Belgium's top security jail at Ittre by taking a guard hostage and stealing a car after an accomplice forced a helicopter pilot to land in the prison yard during evening exercise time.
In the confusion, the inmates left the prison in a VW Golf car - which reportedly had a flashing blue light like those used in police cars. The car was found two hours later in a field near the town of Braine-Le-Chateau.
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call superman....lex is out lololol
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In the confusion, the inmates left the prison in a VW Golf car -
waump, there's it is,
near relative of bug.. haz flummox all over it..
/secrete
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Somali pirates have hijacked a Japanese-owned chemical tanker in the latest such seizure in the Horn of Africa nation's notoriously lawless waters, a regional maritime official and a piracy watchdog said on Monday.
Andrew Mwangura, head of the East African Seafarers' Assistance Programme, said shipping sources in both Somalia and Japan had confirmed the vessel was seized eight nautical miles offshore on Sunday morning. "We are trying to establish what demands they have, and how many people were on board," Mwangura told Reuters by telephone from the Kenyan port city of Mombasa. "There are five well-organized pirate groups operating in Somali waters. We know the one which took this boat," he said.
So where was the French protection force?
An official from the International Maritime Bureau's Piracy Reporting Centre in Kuala Lumpur identified the vessel as the 12,000 deadweight-tonne Golden Nory. "She has been taken into Somali waters, and we haven't heard anything from her since," the official said.
Quoting an IMB official, Japanese news agency Kyodo said the tanker had 23 non-Japanese crew on board, made up of its South Korean captain and South Korean, Filipino and Myanmar nationals.
A Comoros-registered cargo ship, the Al Marjan, also went missing off Somalia last week, making a total of five boats believed currently held there by pirates. The other three boats are two Tanzanian fishing vessels, and a ship from Taiwan. The Japanese-owned boat taken at the weekend was carrying a Panamanian flag of convenience, Mwangura said.
The waters off Somalia, which has been in anarchy and without central government since 1991, are considered one of the world's most dangerous due to a proliferation of pirates. Attackers generally use speedboats to surround and board vessels, often justifying their actions as measures against illegal fishing and toxic dumping.
Mwangura said boats with no business in Somalia should stay away, while those who have to go there -- such as contractors for the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) delivering aid -- should only travel with escorts. "Things are not good. We advise ships that are not going to Somalia to stay 200 nautical miles off the coast," he said.
Piracy off Somalia dropped briefly last year during the six month period in which most of the south was ruled by a hardline Islamist movement. But incidents have risen again since the sharia courts movement was toppled from Mogadishu at New Year. Now why did they add that?
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When Russian tourist kids, E-T-A-L. visit Guam after visting England in the late 1960's-70's??? PAULA ABDUL > "YOU'VE GOT TO REMEMBER...", MELLENCAMP AND "CHERRY BOMB", THE BOURNE IDENTITY/CONSPIRACY. What does LINDA BLAIR remember?
A row has split radical chic Parisian intellectuals over the relocation of their college from the affluent Left Bank to an impoverished, multiethnic suburb where they fear being deprived of bistros and boutiques.
Surely this violates at least 39 articles of the Geneva Conventions! Call Human Rights Watch at once!
Some of Frances most eminent academics are campaigning to stop the elite College of Higher Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) from moving to Aubervilliers in the Seine-Saint-Denis département north of the capital. But the moves backers say that the real concern of the intelligentsia is to remain within walking distance of cafés in Saint Germain des Prés and shops selling Prada clothes, Ferragamo shoes, wholemeal bread and smoked salmon.
The row arose after the college announced it would leave Boulevard Raspail in the well-heeled 6th district for an American-style campus nicknamed Berkeley-on-Seine in what is an industrial estate in Aubervilliers. The move was brought forward from 2012 after the Raspail building became unsafe because of asbestos.
The academics said a delegation had visited the new site in Aubervilliers and was appalled. No inhabitants. No green spaces. Practically no trees. No businesses. No cafés. No restaurants, they said in a blog.
Quelle Horreur! Philosophers, historians, economists and sociologists have lined up to denounce the suburb as a cultural desert, far removed from the Parisian café society they have known since the days of Jean-Paul Sartre. They say Seine-Saint-Denis infamous as the centre of the 2005 race riots in France and known from its registration number, 93, as le Neuf-Trois is a zone lacking all the necessary tools for intellectual work.
They claim the EHESS has fallen victim to a Machiavellian plot hatched by President Sarkozys centre-right Government in an attempt to dismantle an antiEstablishment bastion. The college is famed for producing some of Frances greatest left-wing thinkers, such as Pierre Bourdieu, the sociologist, and for its role in the May 1968 student protests in Paris.
Some lecturers have poured scorn on the campaign. Francis Chateau-raynaud, director of the Pragmatic and Reflective Sociology Group, said: The well-to-do people of the 6th district dont want to move their bums and they are scared of le 93.
Supporters of the relocation say that it could help to bridge the gulf separating Pariss white and wealthy city centre from a periphery marked by immigration, unemployment and violence. Catherine Sautter, a member of the college administration, said: Maybe our intellectuals are not that intelligent at the end of the day.
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They claim the EHESS has fallen victim to a Machiavellian plot hatched by President Sarkozys centre-right Government in an attempt to dismantle an antiEstablishment bastion.
Is Sarkozy that good?
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but I thought they loved and championed the underclasses. Going to be hard to warp their students empty little heads over the "nobility" of the underclasses when their students have to actually live and walk in bad neighborhoods.
On the bright side, it will be good business for those neighborhoods. No really. It will.
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Going to be hard to warp their students empty little heads over the "nobility" of the underclasses when their students have to actually live and walk in bad neighborhoods.
In the same vain, I nominate the:
Dept. of HUD to move to East St. Louis
Dept. of Justice to New Orleans
Dept. of Agriculture to downtown Manhattan
Dept. of Labor to Detroit
Dept. of Education to Kansas City MO
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Words of advice I share with the international students who visit our home: If you want to get a good cross-section of American opinion, you will have to get off campus.
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This gave me no small amount of glee. More than say putting Berkeley in the middle of Oakland, this is like putting Berkeley in the middle of South Central LA.
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Thanks for article. I would have missed the great cartoon.
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A year ago, Jared Cohen, who was born in 1981, joined the State Departments Policy Planning Staff as its youngest member. Having completed a degree at Stanford, won a Rhodes Scholarship, and earned a masters in international relations at Oxford, Cohen helps advise the State Department on counter-radicalization, youth, and education, with a special emphasis on the Muslim world.
Slick now this guy. Cecil J. must be puking his guts out up on Matapos.
This summer the House Judiciary Committee launched an effort to collect tips from would-be whistleblowers in the Justice Department. The U.S. attorney firings scandal had shown that much was amiss in the Department, and with the danger of retaliation very real, the committee had set up a form on the committee's website for people to blow the whistle privately about abuses there. Although the panel said it would not accept anonymous tips, it assured those who came forward that their identity would be held in the "strictest confidence."
But in an email sent out today, the committee inadvertently sent the email addresses of all the would-be whistleblowers to everyone who had written in to the tipline. The committee email was sent to tipsters who had used the website form, including presumably whistleblowers themselves, and all of the recipients of the email were accidentally included in the "to:" field -- instead of concealing those addresses with a so-called blind carbon copy or "bcc:"...
It's not immediately clear whether the mistake will lead to the exposure of those who had contacted the committee. There are more than 150 recipient addresses revealed in the email. Some of the email addresses appear to be transparently fake, but there's also, much more troubling, a vice_president@whitehouse.gov carbon copied on the email, which is the public email address for Vice President Dick Cheney. In other words, an email containing the email addresses of all the whistleblowers who had written in to the committee tipline was sent to public email address of Vice President Cheney...
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So, iff I'm interpreting this artiiikle correctly, VPOTUS Cheney is the head honcho turning 'em over to the Bildeburger Group/Global-Space Illuminati???
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which is the public email address of Dick Cheney.
It is highly unlikely that anyone who knew Dick Cheney well enough to send him the names of secret leakers would use Dick Cheney's public e-mail address.
I would suspect that this is more likely an attempt to expose who is leaking within the organization. The fact that they included Dick CHeney's public e-mail address would make me suspicious that whoever did it wanted to make it look like it was an evil Cheney-Halliburton venture but was unaware that it was not his personal e-mail address.
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1) The whole program of congress soliciting anonymous tips is troubling. There are a lot of malcontents in an organization as large as Justice (which itself employs people with overenlarged egos). The program seems more like a source for political ammunition.
2) Using Dick Cheney's public email means that either some "whistle blower" was spoofing congress, or that one did not trust them with his or her real email address.
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I always did suspect Cheney was really king of the mole men.
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#6 I always did suspect Cheney was really king of the mole men.
NO FAIR ed! I sprayed! then I snorted! my nose hurtz! ROLF!
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2) Using Dick Cheney's public email means that either some "whistle blower" was spoofing congress, or that one did not trust them with his or her real email address.
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My question is if any whistleblowers will come forward again soon. I mean, they were outed by the people who swore to keep their identities secret! It's such idiocy! And the juicy thing is, one whistleblower may be ratting on another whistleblower. And now they know he/she is!
I can't help but wonder, is this a Karl Rove plot from before he left, just now taking root? Did he have Cheneys E-mail put on the list, then an agent of his mail it to everyone? Or was it a latent program put onto the computer to send those e-mails back to senders? Either way it's probably a Rovian plan.
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This passes for serious thought among Dems today. I'm not sure why.
John Edwards says if he's elected president, he'll institute a New Deal-like suite of programs to fight poverty and stem growing wealth disparity.
I'm not sure why the same measures that were deemed appropriate in a time of unprecedented unemployment and widespread poverty are just as appropriate in a time of near-full employment and record low levels of poverty. My inability to do so is probably why I'm a -- temporarily -- unemployed computer programmer rather than a trial lawyer with a house that has over a half acre of floor space. I'm obviously missing something, unless we're looking at a case of one tool, to whit, the sledge hammer, being appropriate for all occasions.
That being said, I guess we can always use another Hoover Dam. It'll be interesting to see the show Breck Boy's Green supporters put on when that one comes up.
To do it, he said, he'll ask many Americans to make sacrifices, like paying higher taxes.
You'd expect that being asked to sacrifice would result in an ultimate return that would leave us all in a better position than we are now. But we're already in a desirable position economically. Sacrifice for the sake of sacrifice doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
The tax increases, on the other hand, are the standard Dem solution to all problems, based on that assumption that higher taxes produce more revenues. More revenues is another way of saying "more money." Money is power. It doesn't matter if it's your money, as long as it's your power. And more power is better, isn't it?
Edwards, a former Democratic senator from North Carolina, says the federal government should underwrite universal pre-kindergarten,
This is the measure of the man's brilliance. Universal pre-K has been shown to have indifferent results, but the sight of all those fresh little Sesame Street-aged faces is enough to warm the cockles of most anyone's heart.
At the pre-K age it's probably still better to have the kiddies home with Mommy, but since in the Dems' theoretical world the Mommies of This Great Nation are back battering against the glass ceiling by the time their offspring reaches age 5, the babysitting aspect outweighs the educational utility.
Universal pre-K is the hallmark of a 'just' socialist society; the goal isn't to free Mom for work but to ensure that the little darlings start getting indoctrinated at a suitable age. Can't leave them with Mommy for 5 years, they might learn to love their families more than they love the State ...
create matching savings accounts for low-income people,
I'd be real happy if someone matched every nickle I was able to put away for a rainy day. If I put 50 cents in and got a dollar back without waiting for the vagaries of compound interest to kick in that'd be real handy.
In fact, what I'd prob'ly do would be to put my 50 cents in on Monday afternoon. That way I could sleep in on Monday morning. Tuesday morning, bright and early, I could draw out my dollar, and Tuesday afternoon put it back in. Wednesday morning I could withdraw two dollars in the morning, which could be put back in that afternoon. Thursday morning I'd have four dollars and Friday morning $8.00. Saturday morning I could withdraw $16.00 and spend $15.50 on a case of beer. After spending Saturday night and Sunday drinking beer, I could show up at the bank Monday afternoon, after having slept in, to start saving for the next special purchase.
mandate a minimum wage of $9.50
Edwards is an obvious piker when it comes to minimum wage. I think the minimum should be at least $27.50.
When I was a tad, a fast food hamburger cost 15 cents and the minimum wage was $1 per hour. Today the minimum wage is $6.50 an hour, I believe, and a fast food hamburger costs about a dollar. The fact that you can multiply the cost of that 15 cent hamburger by 6.5 and come out with a cost of 97 and a half cents for a burger is, of course, coincidental. There's no way that a $9.50 miniumum would result in paying $1.43 for that same greaseburger, is there? Or that my $27.50 idea would result in a burger that cost $4.15. Elementary economics just isn't that linear, is it?
The rubes never catch on, do they?
and provide a million new Section 8 housing vouchers for the poor.
If you've never been close to a Section 8 housing development, don't bother rectifying the situation. The words "stench and pestilence" are inadequate in most cases. Breck Boy wants more of it. More section 8 is convenient for the police, since it concentrates most of the crime in a central area, but for the rest of society it sucks. We have a problem with housing being priced too high for the first-time home buyer -- and now for the first-time renter -- but more Section 8 as a solution is like proposing more tuberculosis as a solution to public health problems.
We in Chicago have used Section 8 more creatively -- Da Mayor used it to push a lot of poor people out into Republican areas of suburban Cook County, turning them into Democratic areas. Wonder if that's what Johnny E has in mind?
He also pledged to start a government-funded public higher education program called "College for Everyone."
"College for everyone" makes sense. Of a sort. I guess. If you look at it from just the right angle. In Breck Boy's theoretical world, all the children are above average and everybody likes liberal arts. That has to be the basic premise.
You cannot, in today's world, go to college and major in plumbing or carpentry, though there are programs that will lead you to an electrician's ticket. I think I'm actually frightened at the thought of living in a country where you'll be able to get a master's degree in auto mechanics or steelwork. But even that would be preferable to living in a world where everyone was college educated and constructive work involving manual labor was beneath us all.
I'd like to ask Mr. Breck: "What do you have against plumbers, carpenters, electricians, mechanics, factory workers, welders, linemen, truck drivers, cowboys, and fishermen? Or do you merely want to force all of them to have a college degree? Enquiring minds want to know."
Johnny E's plan also guts the work necessary to get a college degree by many, and by work I mean working to come up with the money. Lots of young people work part/full time to make ends meet while in school; it's an object lesson in how real life works. Johnny E wants to pay for their 'universal college degree', thus cheapening it, while also removing the satisfaction one gets from truly earning something that required hard work and sacrifice.
I'd also add that even if Johnny E promised and delivered $50K per year per student, the college tuition bill would serenely rise to $85K per year per student...
... and if a 'B' average was required to get that $50K, no student would ever again get a 'C' ...
"It is central to what I want to do as president to do something about economic inequality. I do not believe it is okay for the United States of America to have 37 million people living in poverty," he said in a meeting with Monitor reporters and editors this week. "And I think we need, desperately need, a president who will say that to America and call on Americans to show their character."
Poverty has hung around that number since at least 1959, the difference being that in 1959 the population was closer to 180,000,000 than to 300,000,000. That'd say that the level of poverty today is very roughly half what it was about 50 years ago, which was in fact a pretty prosperous period.
This is borne out by the drop in the rate of poverty, which has dropped in that same period from about 23 percent to 12 and a fraction percent.
At every stop, Edwards said, he tells voters he'll ask them to sacrifice.
And at every stop I'll bet everybody hollers "Yeah, buddy! That's fer me!"
Some of them might be hollering, "you first!"
Asked to describe what he means, he described his plan for increases in capital gains taxes, saying taxes on "wealth income" should be in line with those on work income. "I think if we want to fund the things that I think are important to share in prosperity, then people who have done well in this country, including me, have more of a responsibility to give back," he said. Later, he added: "There are no free meals."
Right. But there are lotsa meals somebody else has to pay for.
Like other Democrats, Edwards named his top three priorities as ending the war in Iraq, enacting universal health care and overhauling the American energy system. "Those are three things instantly I would do," he said.
We have a healthcare system that actually works better than anyone else's, precisely because it doesn't work systematically.
Europeans have a hard time understanding that in the U.S. no one goes without health care unless it's by choice. Old folks -- over 65 -- fall under Medicare. People under a certain income level fall under Medicaid. Virtually all children fall under Medicaid to age five or six. Hospitals are forced to treat the uninsured, and they get lower (but still ruinous) rates than do those who're insured. The problem isn't one of lack of availability, but one of too many institutional payers and too many lawyers inflating healthcare prices. If you're a bum, literally a bum living on the street and cadging drink money, and you're diagnosed with cancer, you'll go into a hospital and you'll receive care. The taxpayers will end up stuck with the bill. And if the same bum ends his days homeless, he'll shuffle off the mortal coil in a hospice, again at taxpayer expense. The hospital that's forbidden to turn him away is forced to place him in housing before they can discharge him.
Edwards also ripped fellow Democrat Sen. Hillary Clinton, who leads most polls nationally and in New Hampshire by a wide margin, for taking campaign contributions from federal lobbyists and for her recent vote in favor of naming Iran's Revolutionary Guard a terrorist group. Edwards barely mentioned Sen. Barack Obama.
There's more. You can read it at the link. It's tiresome.
This article starring:
Barack Obama
Hillary Clinton
John Edwards
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What was not tiresome was watching you guys tear him apart on this post. Hillaryous. Some guy down the block has an edwards sticker on both cars. I just cannot respect him, at all.
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Let's define poverty as 'the bottom 15% of the economic ladder.' Now, maintaining that definition into the future, devise a plan to eliminate poverty.
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Edwards head is much smaller than his house, but there is much more vacant space in his head. The really good part is that Hitlery has the same plans. They proudly announce their plans as if people who pay taxes never listen to them.
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This would be significant if he had a snowball's chance in North Korea Hell of actually becoming president, much less getting the nomination.
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wx, they don't need the votes from the people who pay taxes. The system has skewed far enough now that they can win by just getting the non-tax-paying voters to show up and vote for them.
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He's not running for President. He is running to keep his name in lights, so that Hillary will either make him V.P. nominee (he is a Southern dhimmi) or some other plum job in her administration. It goes for the rest of them also. I mean what else is he going to do, go back to being an ambulance chaser or hedge-fund advisor (hee-hee)?
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"...and an extra Jewish holiday - for everybody!"
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> John Edwards says if he's elected president, he'll institute a New Deal-like suite of programs to fight poverty and stem growing wealth disparity.
The "new deal" was a disaster and extended the economic problems rather than helped them.
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A 30,000 square foot house and hot and cold running champagne for everybody. All one needs to to is sue companies into bankruptcy based on discredited science.
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"College for Everyone"
This intrigues me because I'm unclear as to whom it is supposed to appeal. I personally know of one very good state college here in Pennsylvania that has a tough time meeting its admissions goals regarding qualified minority students, possibly because it is rurally located. Minority status, economic need, and any reasonable SAT score will get you tuition, room, and board.
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Jeebus, between Hildebeast and Breck Boy's promised socialist programs, none of us will be able to afford the taxes that will be necessary to support their grandiose programs. They have promised just about everything they can think of to attract potential voters. Unfortunately, some donk voters are going to go for their BS promises. This is as bad as the UN's "oil for food" con game program except it is an "everything for votes" con game program.
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How about bring manufacturing jobs back?
Damn straight, more factory jobs paying triple the market rate is what is required. And open hearth steel! Yeah! And a Massive merchant fleet with rates 25 times world price! Yeah! And more ponys. And cheep beef, and safe skools and dollar gas and not so damn many weird peoples on my.... GIT OFF MY LAWN YOU DAMN KIDZ!
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Aw hell, triple post FTW. Here's the America we want in our hearts. Sadly ain't gonna happen.
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From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
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After you've gone and left me crying
After you've gone there's no denying
You'll feel blue you'll feel sad
You'll miss the dearest pal you've ever had
There'll come a time, now don't forget it
There'll come a time, when you'll regret it
Some day when you'll grow lonely
Your heart will break like mine
And you'll want me only
After you've gone after you've gone away
I'd settle for a Japanese gardener. The Mexican ones just come in, bust their asses, and go to the next job. I want somebody who's gonna sneer at the roses while he prunes them, dammit!
NEW DELHI - India should work out a political mechanism to quickly implement the India-United States civilian nuclear deal, US Treasury Secretary Henry M Paulson was quoted as saying on Sunday. We want the nuclear deal to move as quickly as possible. This is a very important deal, Paulson, a key member of the George W Bush cabinet, was quoted as saying by IANS news agency at a function on the outskirts of Kolkata, capital of eastern West Bengal state.
Paulson said the nuclear deal would help India to meet its energy needs, but it would also have to sort out internal political differences. India has to work out its own mechanism. You all have to work through your own internal political decision. Thats up to India, he said.
Paulson on Saturday began his four-day trip to India with a meeting with West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya to discuss investment and the nuclear deal. He is scheduled to travel to Mumbai and New Delhi for economic conferences and to meet federal Finance Minister P Chidambaram and the heads of the central bank and securities regulator.
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So how does this deal to benefit Americans?
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betcha john knows.. precisely..
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Several billion dollars worth of reactor orders from companies like GE.
Getting India to adhere to MTCR and NSG guidelines even though it is not a member of either. This means no sale of nuclear technology or land attack cruise missiles, to unfriendly countries like Iran.
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But basically the nuclear deal was the price for closer cooperation with the US on military and security matters. India wanted the US to show it would dismantle the various sanctions regimes on nuclear and space technology imposed on India for the last 3 decades.
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heh, yep it's good biz and a very good bridge between us and our Natural Ally, India.. sans the commie-rat-bastids sum day... hopefully!
~:)
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Henry Kissinger is in Calcutta trying to convince the commies to back off.
He has already met with the BJP, trying to turn them around.
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john frum, your factual input is such a welcome addition to these boards.
Thank you.
India and Israel had secretly planned to hit Pakistans nuclear facility in Kahuta in 1983-84, but backed off when the CIA tipped off then president General Ziaul Haq.
According to APP, The Asian Age reported this in a report published on Sunday. The report states that a new book, Deception: Pakistan, the United States and the Global Nuclear Conspiracy by Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark, reveals details about Indias secret intelligence links with Israel. It claims that Indian military officials secretly travelled to Israel in February 1983 to buy electronic warfare equipment to neutralise Kahutas air defences.
According to the book, India put its plans on hold when the chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission warned the director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre that Islamabad would attack Mumbai if Kahuta were attacked.
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BIG NEWS NETWORK > HAARETZ - SYRIAN REACTOR MAY BE AT LEAST SIX YEARS OLD? IOW, Syria may, or may not, have nucmats for bombs already.
Certain individuals at Foggy Bottom are known to have disclosed secret CIA reports to the Paks.
These Islamophiles at State are also known to have facilitated export licenses for sensitive nuclear equipment over the objections of DoD officials.
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#2 Damn shame!
I concur.
#3 Not the CIA, the State Department.
Certain individuals at Foggy Bottom are known to have disclosed secret CIA reports to the Paks.
These Islamophiles at State are also known to have facilitated export licenses for sensitive nuclear equipment over the objections of DoD officials.
It rings so True eh. And comming from you John I trust it.. based on what little first hand exposure I've had of our State Department, it is consistant. albeit the Cold War w/ the USSR came first, the judgement and decision sickens me...
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DEBKA > article indics that FRENCH PM has information that IRAN IS DEVELOPING NUCLEAR WEAPONS, which contradicts UNIAEA's Baradei recent comments to the contrary???
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India and Israel had secretly planned to hit Pakistans nuclear facility in Kahuta in 1983-84, but backed off when the CIA tipped off then president General Ziaul Haq.
More's the pity. Too bad these traitorous bastards can't be executed for treason.
Its hard times for eunuchs, these days. Not long ago, they used to earn their livelihood by singing and dancing at family functions like weddings and births, but things are not the same for them anymore, at least not in urban localities. As people are fast moving away from local customs and traditions and switching over to western culture, eunuchs are no more invited to such family functions. Musical groups and singers have replaced them. Hard pressed in such circumstances, they are found engaged in prostitution to keep them going.
Eunuchs selling sex can be spotted at night on the citys busy roads and markets. The Mall, Liaquat Chowk, Chandni Chowk, 5th Road, 6th Road, Commercial Market, Shamsabad Chowk are a few places where one can find eunuchs standing on roadsides, selling sex. Mostly, youngsters happen to be their clients.
It is also learnt that some people use their particular physical attributes and facial expressions to appear as eunuchs and thus, earn money.
With the business going down, many eunuchs prefer begging on the streets. Some indulge in drug peddling, pick pocketing, mobile, purse and car snatching and kidnapping people for ransom etc. Goodi, a man who looks very feminine, said he was a father of two from Lahore and had disguised himself as a eunuch to earn a livelihood for his family. I beg and sell sex to make ends meet, he said.
Shameela said he had changed his sex through surgery two years ago to earn money for his family. He said people by and large wanted to have sex with him.
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They should emmigrate to Europe and become politicians - they'd fit right in.
arguably the most flummoxed up nation on Earth, haz the most flummoxed up Indices on Earth, and within dem Indices haz the most flummoxed up Index of all..
The Eunuch Index.
Bad time to be a eunuch
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When children's births are not registered they are less likely to benefit from basic human rights social, political, civic or economic
The Health Metrics Network launches a drive today to encourage countries to count all births and deaths through civil registration. The Health Metrics Network is a global partnership hosted by WHO established to address the lack of reliable health information in developing countries.
Civil registration is the way by which countries keep track of births, deaths and marital status of their people. These systems are the best way to produce vital statistics counts of births and deaths and causes of death. Such statistics are needed to show whether health programmes are working. They are also essential to assess whether development aid is well spent.
The lack of civil registration systems means that every year, almost 40% (48 million) of 128 million births worldwide go unregistered. The situation is even worse for death registration. Globally, two-thirds (38 million) of 57 million deaths a year are not registered. WHO receives reliable cause-of-death statistics from only 31 of its 193 Member States.
The absence of civil registration has other implications. When children's births are not registered they are less likely to benefit from basic human rights social, political, civic or economic.
At the other end of the lifespan, when deaths go uncounted and causes of death are not documented, governments are unable to design effective health policies, measure their impact or know whether health budgets are being spent well.
"No single UN agency is responsible for ensuring that births and deaths are registered, so it has fallen between the cracks. That is why we have failed to establish, support, and sustain civil registration systems over the past 30 years in the developing world," WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan said today at the Global Forum for Health Research in Beijing. "Without the statistics that these systems produce, we can only have a partial view of the impact of US$ 120 billion spent annually in official development aid."
The drive to encourage countries to improve civil registration is launched today with a series of papers published in the tranzi propaganda media center medical journal The Lancet, entitled "Who counts?" This series shows that most developing countries have rudimentary or non-existent civil registration systems. This means that they cannot count how many people are born and how many die, and they cannot record how long they live or what kills them. The papers also underscore the challenges of establishing civil registration, including new legislation and governance structures.
The drive marks the start of intensive work to help six countries most in need to improve civil registration. The Health Metrics Network has already started working with Cambodia, Sierra Leone and Syria. By the end of the year, three other countries will have been identified for assistance.
"The lack of civil registration systems has been partially compensated by surveys, sample registration and surveillance sites," says Dr Sally Stansfield, Executive Secretary of the Health Metrics Network. "These provide some useful information, but they give an incomplete picture of population size and needs. And they certainly cannot give individuals the basic human right to a legal identity that comes from civil registration. Its a major challenge to build civil registration systems: this is the job no one wants."
As part of this drive, the Health Metrics Network is releasing today a Monitoring vital events resource kit CD-ROM. This kit contains the tools and reference texts that countries can use to guide them in their work towards full civil registration.
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Not ironically, the value of the individual is only held in high regard in those nations who record births and deaths. And while we assume both that the rest of the world has these standards, and that having the ability to create statistics is important, it could be enlightening to point out that neither really matters.
In a manner of speaking, some wit once pointed out that there are few ordinary reasons to count over a million except for money.
Every 100 years - all new people. The recording of information about individuals is mostly interesting to only trivia experts, genealogists and those who think it gives them some degree of control over their own people.
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.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Somali pirates have hijacked a Japanese-owned chemical tanker in the latest such seizure in the Horn of Africa nation's notoriously lawless waters, a regional maritime official and a piracy watchdog said on Monday.
A row has split radical chic Parisian intellectuals over the relocation of their college from the affluent Left Bank to an impoverished, multiethnic suburb where they fear being deprived of bistros and boutiques. 
I'm not sure why the same measures that were deemed appropriate in a time of unprecedented unemployment and widespread poverty are just as appropriate in a time of near-full employment and record low levels of poverty. My inability to do so is probably why I'm a -- temporarily -- unemployed computer programmer rather than a trial lawyer with a house that has over a half acre of floor space. I'm obviously missing something, unless we're looking at a case of one tool, to whit, the sledge hammer, being appropriate for all occasions. 
"College for everyone" makes sense. Of a sort. I guess. If you look at it from just the right angle. In Breck Boy's theoretical world, all the children are above average and everybody likes liberal arts. That has to be the basic premise. 
NEW DELHI - India should work out a political mechanism to quickly implement the India-United States civilian nuclear deal, US Treasury Secretary Henry M Paulson was quoted as saying on Sunday. We want the nuclear deal to move as quickly as possible. This is a very important deal, Paulson, a key member of the George W Bush cabinet, was quoted as saying by IANS news agency at a function on the outskirts of Kolkata, capital of eastern West Bengal state.
