Video at the link. Yikes!
A man tossed in the air and gored repeatedly by a raging bull has lived to tell the tale from his hospital bed. Luis Cuadrado, a bullfighter who goes by the stage name of "El Kaliman", was stabbed by a bull in the face, neck, legs and abdomen during an annual bull festival in northern Colombia. "El Kaliman"? Spanish for "Not Very Good Bullfighter"?
Local television captured the dramatic scene as the bull used its horns to repeatedly launch Cuadrado's body into the air Wheeeeee!
Cuadrado, who is recovering in hospital, said he has been injured by bulls many times before. "I have been hit 55 times in the last four years," he told reporters. ...but I figured my luck would change.
But the latest attack has made Cuadrado rethink his choice of career. "I think I'll quit," he said. ...maybe take up driving nitroglycerin trucks or something.
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Spanish bulls are bigger and nastier than South American ones.
BTW, when I was a child I saw a fight where bullfighter spent more time in the air than on his feet but after he had killed the bull the public still cheered and asked for him being rewarded with an ear. Surprised I asked my father why. "He has made a good killing", was the answer. Unless the sword hits at precise location, angle and timing the sword will either hit a bone or a non-lethal wound also fighter mùst go to the horns and is no longer covered with the cape, so iot is not only difficult but also the most dangerous moment in the fight. That is why many bullfighters either due to poor technique or because they they chicken are unable to kill with a single stroke and that is why public will cheer one who does it well even if he has been a disaster during the fight proper.
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"She remains, for the moment, in most versions of this story, a sympathetic character, even a victim "
This is reminiscent of a recent article about how many thugs are busted for operating dog fighting rackets but received a much lighter sentence then Michael Vick. Of course, in that article, they didnt explore how some parents had to explain to their kids why they cant wear their $75 dollar, #7 jerseys anymore. Much like this story doesnt explore how parents had to try and explain teen sex to their nine year old daughters when they should have been talking about Barbie dolls for Christmas.
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Even in this she is not quite unique. In October 2006, New Zealand actress Keisha Castle-Hughes, then 16 and Oscar-nominated three years earlier for "Whale Rider," announced that she was pregnant.
Hotel party princess Paris Hilton was spotted cozying up to bosom buddy Britney Spears' ex-husband Kevin Federline in Los Angeles this weekend, according to London's Daily Mail.
Capping off a catastrophic year for 26-year-old fallen pop star Spears, her out-on-the-town other half Paris was photographed getting friendly with her babies' daddy K-Fed at hotspot Lax.
Hilton, also 26, hit the club circuit alone and Brit-less over the weekend. But K-Fed soon rushed to the former prisoner's side and planted a kiss on her cheek. The pair were seen giggling and whispering throughout the night.
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We need to start spaying and neutering mindless celebrities before they start to cross-pollinate.
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These skanks quit wearing panties because California law requires public utilities to be open for inspection.
Gromomble, I think that was the snark of the day.
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Help For Paris Hilton.
One of Rantburg's dedicated Senior Engineers, Frank G., in hiz spare time no less, invented this naughty little Something Spechul for Paris Hilton. "SEE A NEED, Invent a Solution" is hiz Motto!
EU monitors cast doubts Tuesday on the results of Kenyas disputed presidential vote, stepping up the pressure on re-elected President Mwai Kibaki as his country reels from violence that has claimed nearly 290 lives.
A second consecutive night of tribal conflict and clashes between police and protestors left more than 100 dead, with no end in sight to the post-election unrest that has plunged one of Africas more stable democracies into an unprecedented crisis. World leaders called on Kenyas rival leaders to open a dialogue, but Raila Odinga, the opposition candidate narrowly defeated in the December 27 poll by Kibaki, said he would only talk when the president owned up to vote-rigging allegations.
The conditions under which we are prepared to negotiate is that Kibaki must first accept that he did not win the elections, Odinga said in an interview with the BBC. His charges of fraud were lent extra weight by the EU election monitoring team which issued a report Tuesday saying the vote had fallen short of international standards and called for an independent audit into the results.
The polls were marred by a lack of transparency in the processing and tallying of presidential results, which raises concerns about the accuracy of the final results, the report said. We believe it is vital that an impartial investigation into the accuracy of the presidential results is conducted, chief EU observer Alexander Graf Lambsdorff told reporters.
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JPOST OP-ED > WHAT FUELS VIOLENCE BEHIND KENYA'S ELECTIONS - TRIBAL ANGER, POVERTY, AND CORRUPTION. Massive, Nation-wide, and Perennial, of which Inter-Ethnic local sectarianism/rivalry is only a part of a bigger tragic reality. 16Milyuhn Kenyans live on one US$1.0 a day.
President Hugo Chavez said Monday he will grant amnesty to people convicted of a failed 2002 coup that briefly drove him from power. Chavez said the amnesty decree he intends to sign will also pardon others accused in suspected attempts to overthrow the government or assassinate him. It was not immediately clear how many accused opponents would be affected by the amnesty. "It's a matter of turning the page," Chavez said in a telephone call to state television on New Year's Eve. "We would like a country that moves toward peace."
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"It's a matter of turning the page..."
Also makes it a lot easier to target them when they come out of hiding...
The Mexican army has confiscated guns from the entire police force of the town of Rosarito, near the Mexican border with the US.
This isn't the first time something like this has happened.
Mexican authorities suspect that the town's police have been colluding with drug trafficking gangs. Mexican troops carried out a similar crackdown in January on Tijuana police.
The Rosarito force's 200 guns will be examined to see whether any were used in an attack on the town's police chief earlier this month. One of his bodyguards was killed in the attack.
"We recognise that the enemy is inside our house and for this reason we are purging the ranks - we need to have confidence in our police," Baja California state police chief Daniel de la Rosa said.
Drug gangs are strong in Mexico's border region, which includes Rosarito, a beach resort town south of Tijuana. Mexican President Felipe Calderon has deployed about 25,000 troops to the region, and to the western state of Michoacan, since taking office 12 months ago. Some 2,500 people have died so far in 2007 in turf wars between rival Mexican drugs gangs.
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Mexican authorities suspect that the town's police have been colluding with drug trafficking gangs
Old family ties and associations are just not good enough these days for a patronage job. These people want real money, imported from the States. [You don't see them doing business in Euros]
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When I was a kid (born/raised here) in San Diego, we had no problems in Rosarito, if you didn't drive shitfaced, spill a drink on the wrong guy/girl, or hit on the wrong girl....just like every bar in America. Times have changed, and not for the better
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Thought MIRVs were against some treaty or other. Guess it expired or something. The Russians really really want to get to use their nukes, they keep polishing them like an old crazy guy with his rifle.
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China's economy, said the bank, is smaller than it thought.
About 40% smaller.
China, it turns out, isn't a $10-trillion economy on the brink of catching up with the United States. It is a $6-trillion economy, less than half our size. For the foreseeable future, China will have far less money to spend on its military and will face much deeper social and economic problems at home than experts previously believed.
What happened to $4 trillion in Chinese gross domestic product?
Statistics. When economists calculate a country's gross domestic product, they add up the prices of the goods and services its economy produces and get a total -- in dollars for the United States, euros for such countries as Germany and France and yuan for China. To compare countries' GDP, they typically convert each country's product into dollars.
The simplest way to do this is to use exchange rates. In 2006, the World Bank calculated that China produced 21 trillion yuan worth of goods and services. Using the market exchange rate of 7.8 yuan to the dollar, the bank pegged China's GDP at $2.7 trillion.
That number is too low
understatement of the year. 40% off? Jeebus
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This combined with Chinas aging population should be enough to take some of the wind out of the 'Fear of China' sales.
The next global recession should hit China very hard, since they're crap is the garbage we can all cut back on.
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China will have far less money to spend on its military
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Hell, we could have done better than that. I demands a recount, make it 60% smaller and ugly.
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OTOH, GLOBALRESEARCH > ANGLO-AMERICAN AMBITIONS LIKELY IN THE ASSASSINATION OF BENAZIR BHUTTO AND THE DETABILIZATION OF PAKISTAN; + WAFF > THE STATESMAN [India] - THE BALANCE OF WORLD POWER CONTINUES CHANGING RAPIDLY.
CHIN MIL FORUM POster - AMERICA IS GETTING WEAKER AND WEAKER IN ASIA. Will be forcibly evicted from Asia sometime in new/21st century by China as per the latter's newfound mil power [read - USA will be nationally-geopol weak?].
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Also from CMF > KENT EWING [Hong Kong] - CHINA FACES A SECOND LAND REVOLUTION. Pro-reform andor Anti-Govt. Cyber War already being waged by Net-saavy upset Chin farmers.
TAIPEI - Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian said on Tuesday China had 1,328 ballistic missiles aimed at the self-ruled island, up by more than a third from a previous estimate, further threatening stability in the Taiwan Strait. In his final New Years Day address before stepping down in May, Chen said the number of short-range ballistic missiles deployed against Taiwan had gone from 200 in 2000, when he took office, and now exceeded his most recent estimate of 988.
Chen railed against Chinas growing military threat, saying its Peoples Liberation Army had finalised plans for an invasion and planned to push out the bounds of its airspace.
In addition to setting in motion a three-stage plan for its Peoples Liberation Army to invade Taiwan, Beijing is poised to designate an air defence identification zone in the Taiwan Strait and open a new civil air route along the median of the Taiwan Strait, said Chen. In doing so, China is once again challenging and attempting to unilaterally change the status quo in the Taiwan Strait.
Chen has previously said the three-stage plan includes establishing combat preparedness for contingencies in the Strait by 2007, ensuring capabilities for large-scale engagements by 2010 and being ready to ensure a decisive victory over Taiwan by 2015.
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See also WAFF.com > CHINA'S ASYMMETRICAL STRATEGY - THE BATTLE FOR ACCESS INTO THE WESTERN PACIFIC. China had already declared Guam + Pacific as future Chinese territories - only a matter/issue of how to get the PLA overseas to militarily enforce Chinese = ChiCom sovereignty and rights, correct???
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SO, as a matter of WAR/BATTLE MAPPING, and drawing a line from Guangzhou to Vietnam to Guam-MIcroneia, CHICOMMIES is to the north of same line, RADICAL ISLAM gener below it [SE-South Asia/Indon-Sumatra-PNG-Austr]
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GLOABL WARMING AND ASTEROIDS ASIDE, which will be first? to destabilize and finally destroy the Catholic Archdiocese and Public Governance here in Guam???
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Definately bears watching post 2008 Olympics. Hopefully, who ever becomes U.S. president will have the stones to deal with the Chinese government and military appropriately.
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The entire region has to be viewed as dynamically as a game of chess. A static defense is useless. Not only must you move elements to counter enemy movements, and move elements for offensive advantage, but you must also move elements for the sake of moving them, so that your enemy will neither know their locations or their destinations.
The mainland probably makes the same mistake that the Soviet Union did in strategy. That is, their strategy is based in doctrine, not pragmatism. They figure that it does not matter if they telegraph their punches, because their punches will be of overwhelming force.
But this makes defense a lot easier. All you have to do is figure a way, or ways, of countering the different attacks, and you win. Often, "by hitting them where they ain't."
Is missile launching going to be one of those new extreme Olympic sport for 2008?
If I was a betting man, I'd go with the Taiwanese to declaring independence during the Olympics. Of course, I'd hedge that by putting money on the Chicoms to launch an invasion while they have thousands of foreign hostages, er visitors.
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ION, TOPIX > AIR FORCE MAGAZINE - GUAM, ALL OVER AGAIN. The military history of Guam as a US bastion in WESTPAC, and its possible future ala Marine Relocation to Guam from Okinawa. In case of any breakout of war or crises in Asia, the USA will operate = strike from GUAM [+ CNMI-Micron] - GUAM MENTIONED AS PART [KEY] OF CHINA'S DESIRED "SECOND ISLAND CHAIN" IN THE PACIFIC AGZ THE USA.
... most of the people filling the dance floor on Saturday at the club SO36 in the Kreuzberg neighborhood were gay, lesbian or bisexual, and of Turkish or Arab background. They were there for the monthly club night known as Gayhane, an all-too-rare opportunity to merge their immigrant cultures and their sexual identities.
...Hasan, a 21-year-old Arab man, sitting at a table in the clubs quieter adjoining cafe, declined to give his last name, saying: They would kill me. My brothers would kill me. Asked if he meant this figuratively, he responded, No, I mean they would kill me.
Im living one life here and the other one the way they wish me to be, Hasan said, referring to his parents. He said he still planned to marry, but when he turned 30 rather than right away, as his parents wished. I have to have children, to do what Islam wants me to do, he said. I would stop with everything in the homosexual life. I would stop it.
[as I understand it, almost all homosexual muslims stay loyal to their homophobic religion despite everything - they can't get past the denial phase]
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Meanwhile, in Egypt, male belly dancing is making a comeback... He clanged metal castanets, magically converted his hips into pistons and twirled his head around like a centrifuge. The crowd seated at tables lining a dirt alley clapped rhythmically. Young men in jeans jumped up to wiggle along.
maybe mhw. or it could be: If I'm gay I might get caught and killed. If I give up islame i will get caught and killed - rolling with that thought it could be that any minor questioning/betrayal of religious practice could give him up: "What's the matter with Hasan, he just doesn't seem to bang his head into the ground as ferverantly as usual?"
"I don't know, lets follow him and find out what is bothering him."
what is that snark on one of the other posts, "Questioned and Arrested for not being able to produce an acceptable batshit crazy hatred of the joooos."
A variety of setbacks will keep the Swedish-led force of 2,800 soldiers from being fully prepared for deployment by its scheduled January 1st, 2008 launch date.
"Ja, sure! The prøcess has a løt øf bugs in it!"
The Nordic Battlegroup (NBG) was supposed to have the capability for mobilization and deployment to conflict areas within ten days for the first six months of 2008. But despite six months of preparations, the group has suffered from both manpower and equipment shortages.
"C'mon. Sven! It's my turn to shøøt the gun!"
Medical and communications equipment, gear for soldiers, as well as vehicles have not been delivered on time.
"Taxi!"
Three custom-built medical transport helicopters wont be able for use before April. In addition, state-of-the-art RG32M Galten all-terrain vehicles will be used to a much lesser degree than originally planned, leaving the NBG to rely instead on much older vehicles.
"Bring førth the arquebus!"
The NBG suffered another serious setback about a month ago when a soldier was killed during a training exercise in Skövde.
"Aaaaiiieee! Røsebud!"
Following their Christmas holiday, the group expects to continue trainingand waiting to learn about their first assignment. Original plans called for the NBG to be sent to Chad or Sudan, but neither location currently appears more likely than the other.
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And he decried the Civil War, calling it a needless effort for which hundreds of thousands of Americans paid with their lives. He rejected that the war spelled the end to slavery in the United States, saying that the U.S. government could have simply bought the slaves from the Confederate States of America and freed them.
Ouch, my head.
Watch out o'shucksonme, ru paul is threatening your claim on the most ludicrous statement.
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here's another RonPaul endorsement: Anisa Abd El Fattah (chair of Nat'l Assoc. of Muslim Women) backs Ron Paul and neo-Nazi STORMFRONT. Nice vidcap, with the subhed: "Vote for Ron Paul, infidel." LOL
caught via Ace of Spades
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You know, Abraham Lincoln would have liked to end the Civil War by buying and freeing the slaves; read his 1862 Message to Congress. But, when neither side showed any interest, he prosecuted that war without wavering or retreating.
Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it.
We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free,--honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just,--a way which, if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless.
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buying them is like an amnesty for illegals - it resolves the status of those currently here, but neither addresses the causes that draw them here, nor the effects: slave states would continue to import more...we bought this crap in 1986, never again
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to bad I'll be dragged off the cliff with all the lemmings. If I had my way I would throw these bastard speculators off the cliff and resume living my life in peace.
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Let 'em speculate. When the bottom falls out, listen to 'em screech and demand that the US taxpayer make them whole, jsut like the sub-prime crooks. It'll be fun to watch 'em take their haircuts, or better yet, head for the window ledges...
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The price of oil on Wednesday hit 100 dollars a barrel for the first time in history, dealers said. On the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) at 1720 GMT, a barrel of "light sweet crude" for February jumped 3.48 dollars to 99.46 dollars. Shortly before it had reached the exact price of 100 dollars a barrel.
In London, Brent North Sea crude for February soared to a record 97.05 dollars per barrel. It later stood at 96.85 dollars, up three dollars from its close on Monday.
Hundreds of thousands of new year's revelers flocked to the 119th Rose Parade on Tuesday to view elaborate floats at an event that this year included protests against the 2008 Beijing Olympics and President Bush. This year's parade, dubbed "Passport to the World's Celebrations," began with bright sunshine bathing the route. There were 46 floats, 21 marching bands and 18 equestrian units. Military fighter jets streaked over cheering spectators to kick off the parade.
Despite the protesters attending the parade, the event was largely a festive affair. The city estimates more than a million people visit Pasadena during the parade and Rose Bowl game festivities. Twenty-three people were arrested by Tuesday afternoon, including one protester, Pasadena Police Department Lt. Keith Jones said. Jones said the protester was "arrested for holding up a sign that blocked other patrons view of the parade."
Dozens of anti-war protesters led by "Peace Mom" Cindy Sheehan staked out spots across from television cameras, hoisting signs reading "Impeachment is Patriotic."
Loves to be near the cameras, doesn't she.
After the procession's last float inched out to start along the parade's 5 1/2-mile route, a group of more than 100 anti-war protesters marched behind it, including Sheehan. Parade watchers sitting in the grandstand booed and yelled at the protesters. "This is not the occasion for this," Mary Feichtel, 63, of Florida, said of the protests.
Heh.
Sheehan spoke later to a gathering of protesters at Pasadena City Hall. "We are all here for accountability," Sheehan said. "You didn't ruin anybody's parade, they got to see the truth."
Members of Falun Gong, the spiritual movement outlawed by the Chinese government in 1999, and other human rights activists protested a float honoring the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Demonstrators wanted people to turn their backs on the float as it rolled along the route, though few appeared to join in the protest. "I don't know enough about it to turn my back," said Marcia Thoop, 55, as she watched the float, adorned with Olympic mascots and flanked by plate-twirling acrobats, drive by.
John Li, a member of the California Institute of Technology's chapter of Falun Gong, said he and other activists intended to sue the city of Pasadena, claiming police rejected the group's plans to stage an organized protest along the parade route.
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Sheehan has become a run of the mill attention whore.
I have my doubts. I mean, have you looked at "her" lately?
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If it was 230 people holding up pro-American or patriotic signs, they wouldn't get any of this attention. It says more about the people that shine the light on the old hag than it does to her cause.
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I don't think the protest movement really gets it. They are all about street theater and feeling good for sticking it to the man but they aren't getting anything done accept improving the approval ratings of things they oppose.
I don't believe the Vietnam marches were all the effective either, except for perhaps they influenced Walter Cronchite.
The Civil Rights marches worked because the people deep down don't support racism and the overreaction to the marchers struck a deep chord. That's just not happening with these fools and morons marching against Bush these days. Nobody can relate to them who doesn't already agree with them. They are sad.
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.
Hotel party princess Paris Hilton was spotted cozying up to bosom buddy Britney Spears' ex-husband Kevin Federline in Los Angeles this weekend, according to London's Daily Mail.
President Hugo Chavez said Monday he will grant amnesty to people convicted of a failed 2002 coup that briefly drove him from power. Chavez said the amnesty decree he intends to sign will also pardon others accused in suspected attempts to overthrow the government or assassinate him. It was not immediately clear how many accused opponents would be affected by the amnesty. "It's a matter of turning the page," Chavez said in a telephone call to state television on New Year's Eve. "We would like a country that moves toward peace."
Hundreds of thousands of new year's revelers flocked to the 119th Rose Parade on Tuesday to view elaborate floats at an event that this year included protests against the 2008 Beijing Olympics and President Bush. This year's parade, dubbed "Passport to the World's Celebrations," began with bright sunshine bathing the route. There were 46 floats, 21 marching bands and 18 equestrian units. Military fighter jets streaked over cheering spectators to kick off the parade. 
