Man suffers critical injuries after apparent stunt
MONTREAL -- A man is in critical condition in Montreal after falling off the roof of a moving SUV while performing what may have been a dangerous stunt known as car surfing. The man's head struck the pavement when he lost his balance. Good thing he didn't land on anything he actually uses.
Police say they are attempting to identify the man, who is believed to be in his 20s. Well, he has a really flat face and these red markings all over his torso.
Car surfing is a daredevil-style of acrobatics during which passengers perform stunts while riding on top of a moving vehicle. Stunts beyond riding on a moving vehicle in the first place? Boggle.
Montreal police Const. Anie Lemieux says they are investigating the case as a hit-and-run and are trying to track down the driver. Maybe he was the driver. Look for a car in the weeds with a broken string tied to the steering wheel.
Police went door-to-door at nearby businesses with the hope a surveillance camera may have caught the incident on tape. They should check You-Tube first though. Might save some time.
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I like these kind of idiots: healthy young males with head injuries make for good organ transplant donors. His low-mileage parts will be given to people who will appreciate them. The mint-condition unused brain tissue is discarded however...this is the only part of the body that's worth less the less you use it.
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After watching the news on television and reading the newspaper, I've got to think there is more than person trying to remove themselves from the gene pool and competing for idiot of the day.
The man behind the world's biggest online Michael Jackson fan club has said heartbroken followers of the star have committed suicide because of his death.
Gary Taylor, president and owner of MJJcommunity.com, said he understood the tragedies had mostly taken place outside of the UK but he believed one may have been British.
"I know there has been an increase, I now believe the figure is 12. I believe there may have been one Briton who has taken their life," he said. "It is a serious situation that these people are going through but Michael Jackson would never want this. He would want them to live."
Jesse Jackson, a friend of the singer, --yes, that Jesse Jackson--
has recorded a YouTube film on the site urging fans not to "self destruct". I am not making this up.
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Aw, go ahead and self-destruct. Please.
These idiots need to get a life.
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"Folks say that if you listen real close at the height of the full moon, when the wind is blowin' off Nantucket Sound from the nor' east and the dogs are howlin' for no earthly reason, you can hear the awful screams of the crew of the "Ellie May," a sturdy whaler Captained by John McTavish; for it was on just such a night when the rum was flowin' and, Davey Jones be damned, big John brought his men on deck for the first of several screaming contests."
Other winners:
"How best to pluck the exquisite Toothpick of Ramses from between a pair of acrimonious vipers before the demonic Guards of Nicobar returned should have held Indy's full attention, but in the back of his mind he still wondered why all the others who had agreed to take part in his wife's holiday scavenger hunt had been assigned to find stuff like a Phillips screwdriver or blue masking tape."
"She walked into my office on legs as long as one of those long-legged birds that you see in Florida the pink ones, not the white ones except that she was standing on both of them, not just one of them, like those birds, the pink ones, and she wasn't wearing pink, but I knew right away that she was trouble, which those birds usually aren't."
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I just got an alumni magazine and a guy named Garrison Spik was mentioned as a winner also. His entry:
Theirs was a New York love, a checkered taxi ride burning rubber, and like the city their passion was open 24/7, steam rising from their bodies like slick streets exhaling warm, moist, white breath through manhole covers stamped "Forged by DeLaney Bros., Piscataway, N.N."
The Tunguska event, sometimes referred to as the Tunguska explosion, was a massive explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia, between 7:00 and 8:00 AM on June 30, 1908.
The explosion was most likely caused by the airburst of a large (around 20 m (66 ft) across) meteoroid or comet fragment at an altitude of 5 to 10 kilometers (3-6 mi) above the Earth's surface. . . . The energy of the blast was estimated to be between 10 and 20 megatons of TNT, 1,000 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, or equivalent to Castle Bravo, the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated by the US. . . .
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Rubbish, it was the mexican food and candles conference going on at the time...
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Some people think that one or more of the circular lakes nearby are impact craters. Problem is glacial action can produce similar circular lakes. But finding a large chunk of meteorite would put the alien spaceship theories to bed finally.
[Al Arabiya Latest] A Casablanca court heavily fined three top Moroccan newspapers Monday for publishing critical articles on Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi.
Freedom of the press landed the three local newspapers al-Jarida al-Aoula, al-ahdath al-Maghribia, and al-Massae in hot water after they published articles criticizing Kadhafi, prompting the Libyan leader to sue them for libel.
Actually, it was non-freedom of the press that landed the three in trouble. And Morocco is one of the freer "Arab" countries.
The court fined the dailies three million dirhams ($374,129), an amount far less than the 90 million dirhams Kadahfi initially filed for when he accused the papers of "attacks on the dignity of a head of state."
During the trial an array of defense lawyers argued that the premise upon which Gaddafi's claims were based was out of keeping with the Libyan constitution, as he is nowhere referred to as head of state, but simply as "guide."
Five of nine staff members from the three dailies were each fined 120,200 dirhams ($15,000).
Other journalists who came under fire were Ali Anouzla, director of al-Jarida al-Aoula, Mohamed Brini, director of al-Ahdat al-Maghribia and one of his journalists, Mokhtar Labzioui, and Rachid Nini, director of al-Massae and Youssef Meskine, a journalist from the same paper.
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Two Camerounians and a Nigerian accomplice were recently lynched in Taraba state over allegations that they were involved in a case of missing genital organs. Confirming the incidence in Jalingo, the State Commissioner of Police, Musa Aliyu, gave the names of the suspects as Thomas Actiotus, Fosting Joseph, a driver attached to Cameroun Embassy in Lagos and the name of the Nigerian friend as Avea Torhinbo who said are passing through Kurmi Local Government area to Cameroun Republic when they were burnt to death. "Burn, doinker snatchers! Burn!"
He disclosed that trouble started when one Moses Umaru from Marraraba Donga raised an alarm that the 3 people who were driving a Toyota Jeep marked BV 802 AGL have removed his genital organ. "Whoa! All that beer! I gotta whizz like a racehorse!... Say... What's this?... Where's my hose?"
The police chief added that sympathizers joined Torhinbo in chasing the victims, adding that three suspects, in sensing danger, fled to Kurmi Divisional Police Headquarters for safety. "Help! Help! Save us!"
"Stay outside, schlang snatchers!"
He added that the mob followed them to the station and threaten to set the station ablaze if the 3 suspects were not released to them. "Hand 'em over or you're toast!"
"You mean...?"
"Fire 'em up, boyz!"
"No, wait! You can have 'em!"
According to the Police Boss, the mob later over powered the Policemen on duty, seized the suspects and set them ablaze along with their Jeep. "Help! Help!"
"Shuddup! Hand me that can o' gasoline!"
The Police Commissioner, also added that recently, there was a similar incident that took place in Zing Local Government Area a town located at the Northern part of the state where one person suspected to be a syndicate of Genital organ snatcher also made his waterloo by the angry youths. "You expect me to talk, Goldwiener?"
"No, Mr. Bond! I expect you to die!"
He then advise the members of the public to disregard any rumour of missing genital describing it as a mere false alarm and baseless. "Tut, tut and tut! An international doinker stealing syndicate? Don't be silly!"
"In that case, where's my pud?"
"Did you look in your other pants?"
He threatened to deal with anybody who is in that habit of raising necessary alarm over the issue because according to him investigation by his intelligent department shows that there is no evidence to show the claimed Cameroonians and a Nigerian accomplice were recently lynched in Taraba state over allegations that they were involved in a case of missing genital organs. "Da witnesses are all dead!"
"The victims are, anyway."
"Can I have my hose back?"
"No. We need it for evidence."
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Roving gangs of genital organ snatchers? The world is truly crazy. I am sure that Obama is "deeply concerned and deeply troubled" about these events.
(Another Airbus in the drink)
A Yemeni jetliner with more than 150 people aboard has crashed in the Indian Ocean off the island nation of Comoros, aviation officials in Yemen said Tuesday.
An Airbus 310 like the one pictured has crashed while on the way to the capital of Comoros. The jet was en route to Moroni, the capital of Comoros, from Yemen's capital Sanaa when it crashed about an hour before reaching its destination, officials from the national airline Yemenia said. There was no immediate news of the fate of those on board.
Yemenia Flight 626 left Sanaa at 9:30 p.m. for what was expected to be a 4œ-hour flight. The airline has three regular flights per week to Moroni, off the east coast of Africa about 2,900 kilometers (1,800 miles) south of Yemen.
Most of the 143 passengers aboard the Airbus A310 were Comoran, an official at Sanaa's international airport said. The aircraft also carried a crew of 11, for a total of 154 people on board. There has been no indication of foul play behind the crash, the officials said.
The crash is the second involving an Airbus jet in a month. On June 1, an Air France Airbus A330 crashed off Brazil while en route from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Paris, France. All 228 aboard are presumed dead. The cause remains under investigation.
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when it crashed about an hour before reaching its destination
News reports said the plane crashed during landing in bad weather. One report said the plane aborted one landing and was going around for a second attempt when it crashed.
Hope it wasn't something as stupid as running out of fuel as the plane burned more fuel in bad weather and the go around.
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Anyone besides me no longer believe in Airbus coincidences?
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Yemen, Russia, Greece... inshallah maintenance would be my first bet. Especially if any Jewish employees recently wandered off the reservation in the direction of Israel.
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There is a survivor - a 14-or-15 year old gir. The French are helping search for survivors. Lots of additional information in this article. Apparently the plane had been banned from flying in EU airspace since 2007 for maintenance reasons. The flight still originated in Paris, if I read the article right.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Ex-Congolese Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba is due to stand trial before the International Criminal Court (ICC) for five counts of war crimes.
Bemba is facing war crime charges such as rape, torture and pillaging during the 2002-2003 civil war in the African republic.
The charges relate to the conduct of Bemba's troops in the neighboring Central African Republic.
A panel of ICC judges issued a pre-trial statement saying "There is sufficient evidence to establish substantial grounds to believe that Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo is criminally responsible" for murders, rapes and pillaging.
Bemba's lawyers deny the charges, arguing that Bemba was not in charge of the troops once they crossed the border.
The former vice president led the Movement for the Liberation of Congo during the civil war in Democratic Republic of Congo.
He later became vice president after a peace deal.
Civil war broke out in DR Congo after Rwanda and Uganda backed the rebel movement to overthrow the ruling President Laurent Kabila in 1998.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] The Bangladesh High Court asked the home ministry and security forces on Monday to stop extrajudicial killings of alleged criminals. Spoilsport
Deaths of people detained for alleged criminal links are often reported across the country by security forces who say the prisoners were brought along to assist in purported raids and other action against gangs. You mean the moonlight drives at O-dark-thirty looking for "arms caches", stumbling upon "cohorts" who wildly open fire, then disappear without a trace leaving the dead bodies of the "suspect" bleeding out after he tried to "escape". You mean those deaths? Never heard of um.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch said in May that more than 1,000 people had suffered extrajudicial deaths in Bangladesh over the past five years, though the numbers had dropped since a new government took power in January 2009. "The High Court also asked the secretary of the home ministry and chiefs of police and the elite Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) force to explain within the next four weeks why criminal proceedings should not be drawn against such killings," a court registrar told reporters. The order was issued following a petition by three local rights organizations that claimed at least 10 people had been killed during what they said were recent fake encounters in the capital Dhaka alone.
The latest controversy was sparked when two students were killed in Dhaka during an alleged violent encounter between the battalion and criminals early this month.
" The High Court also asked the secretary of the home ministry and chiefs of police and the elite Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) force to explain within the next four weeks why criminal proceedings should not be drawn against such killings "
A court registrar
After every such death police or the RAB said the suspected criminals were killed in the crossfire after their cohorts attacked security forces during a raid.
Home Minister Sahara Khatun said last week all extrajudicial killings would be investigated, but she again said it was a constitutional right of the security forces to retaliate when attacked. "We was attacked. Honest, you can trust us. One of these days we might even catch one of the guys shooting at us."
HRW urged Bangladesh's democratically elected government to end alleged impunity for unlawful killings. It said the military, the RAB, and the police have been responsible for the killings. According to local rights group Odhikar, 322 people were killed in encounters during the last two years of the interim government ahead of general elections last December. After the election the new Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, announced extrajudicial killings perpetrated during the tenure of the interim government would be investigated.
The RAB was formed in 2004 in the midst of a crime wave and played a key role confronting Islamist militants responsible for a spate of bombings that killed dozens of people, including judges, lawyers, police and officials. Of course, most of the deaders seem to be commies instead of jihadists.
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"Mr. Green, with the pipe wrench, in the Burg Library"
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A burglar who broke into a house and threatened a pensioner with a knife got more than he bargained for when the victim turned out to be a retired boxer who left him bruised and bleeding.
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Presumably the old man will be charged with assault and battery.
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Personally, I'd give him a medal. The burglar should be forced to work at minimum wage to pay for his hospitalization. Maybe they can sentence him to community service taking care of the gardens of retired boxers.
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Nope McCalium, a barman, was given a four-and-a-half year prison sentence at Oxford Crown Court on Monday for aggravated burglary and was told by the judge he had "got what he deserved".
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John, that just talks about what happened to the robber. That brute of a pensioner who attacked the poor lad may be facing separate charges.
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Honduras' ousted president said he will return to his country in two days and reclaim control from coup leaders, urging soldiers to go back to their baracks and stop cracking down on thousands of his supporters who have protested his overthrow. Arrest his ass the minute the plane touches down and put him on trial for treason for usurping the constitution. Then shoot him. That's the only way they're going to stop this nonsense for good.
A great big show trial with lots of television cameras and the entire weight of all branches of government is about all that would shut up the rest of the world.
The military coup has provoked the condemnation of world leaders from U.S. President Barack Obama to Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and sparked clashes in the Honduran capital that have left dozens of people injured. Brought the hairy eyeball from all the leaders who feel like they've got a right to do as they damned well please and the rubes and the rules be damned.
Flanked by leftist Latin American leaders who have vowed to help him regain power, Manuel Zelaya said late Monday that he would accept an offer by Organization of American States Secretary-General Jose Miguel Insulza to accompany him back to Honduras and work for the restoration of the democratic order.
Zelaya, a wealthy rancher who has championed the poor, said he wanted to make the trip Thursday, after attending a meeting of the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday to seek support from its 192 member nations. "I will return Thursday to Tegucigalpa and I want the support of whoever thinks I have the right to finish my presidency," Zelaya said at a late night news conference in Nicaragua, where he earlier received a standing ovation during a meeting of Latin American leaders to discuss the coup. Honduran military leaders arrested him Sunday and flew him to Costa Rica.
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Obama's very own Aristide. Wonderful.
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"The military coup has provoked the condemnation of world leaders from U.S. President Barack Obama to Venezuela's Hugo Chavez..."
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seems the one is very comfortable in the arms of anti constitutional forces...guess he see's his own ass on the line in the future and wants to set the stage for public acceptance of going aganst constitution adhearance...for iranian's who desire freedom he drags his ass for almost a week..but for this anti constitional crowd his condenmations are immediate...time for america to wake up the monster we have and start to deal with it.
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Typical lefty - he never met a totalitarian he didn't like. Note that even Saul Alinsky's trash book for wannabe revolutionaries is called "RULES for Radicals"...
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What's really happening here, Oblahblahblah wants badly to set a precedent where the President (Doesn;t matter where) Can ignore the constitution with impunity.
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Excuse me
"Can ignore both the constitution and the law with impunity".
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TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduras came under pressure on Monday to reinstate ousted President Manuel Zelaya as many Latin American leaders agreed to withdraw envoys, Washington said the ouster was illegal and protesters took to the streets.
Police in the Honduran capital fired tear gas at stone-throwing supporters of Zelaya, who was toppled in an army coup on Sunday. They arrested about two dozen people. Some 1,500 protesters, some of them masked and carrying sticks, taunted solders and burned tires just outside the gates of the presidential palace in a face-off with security forces.
Zelaya, a leftist, was detained and sent into exile in a dispute over his push to extend presidential terms. The coup is Central America's biggest political crisis in decades.
Left-wing Latin American leaders led by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced at a meeting in Managua, capital of neighboring Nicaragua, that they would withdraw their ambassadors from Honduras in protest at the coup. Leaders from Central America, also meeting in Managua, followed suit soon after, a senior diplomatic source said.
Honduras, an impoverished country of 7 million people, is a major coffee producer -- and is expected to export some 3.22 million 60-kg bags in the 2008-2009 harvest season. But there were no immediate signs that output or exports were affected as ports and roads remained open.
In Monday's protests in the capital, about two dozens protesters were arrested in scuffles as police cleared away some barricades behind the presidential palace. "The police surrounded us. They fired gas and they started hitting everyone," said pro-Zelaya demonstrator Joel Flores, 19, who was red-eyed and said a police officer beat him on the back with a baton.
Back to school, Joel, it's either study or pick coffee beans ...
The coup followed a week of tension when Zelaya, a Chavez ally who took office in 2006, angered the Honduran Congress, Supreme Court and army by pushing for a public vote to gauge support for changing the constitution to let presidents seek re-election beyond a single four-year term.
Before he could hold the poll on Sunday, the Honduran military seized Zelaya and flew him to Costa Rica in Central America's first successful army coup since the Cold War era of dictatorships and war in the region. The Supreme Court, which last week overruled Zelaya's attempt to fire the armed forces chief, said it had told the army to remove the president.
Interesting the details the Roooters articles leaves out: that the vote was illegal, that the constitution specifically prohibits trying to change the term of the president, that the Supreme Court had told Zelaya not to hold the vote, that he tried to anyway, that the ballots had been printed in Venezuela and conveniently pre-marked 'Si', and that Zelaya tried to co-opt the army.
Roberto Micheletti, named by Congress within hours of the coup as interim president until elections due in November, imposed a curfew for Sunday and Monday night. Micheletti said no foreign leader had the right to threaten Honduras.
Zelaya met Chavez, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa and Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega in Managua. Bolivia's Evo Morales and OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza were due to join the group for talks later on Monday. Zelaya, 56, is a logger and rancher who was originally close to Honduras' ruling elite but then threw his lot in with Chavez's regional bloc and has steered the country leftward. His close alliance with the Venezuelan leader, and his efforts to lift presidential term limits, upset the army and the conservative elite.
Hondurans are divided over the crisis. Recent polls show support for Zelaya dropped to around 30 percent in recent months.
The country, a coffee, textile and banana exporter, had been politically stable since the end of military rule in the early 1980s. Following the coup, there was panic-buying in stores and many people drew out cash or closed businesses. Disruption to the coffee industry is less likely because the current harvest season is drawing to a close and Honduras only has a few hundred thousand bags left to export. But the longer term outlook for the industry was more uncertain.
Honduras was a U.S. ally in the 1980s when Washington helped Central American governments fight Marxist rebels and the United States still keeps some 600 troops at a Honduran base used for humanitarian and disaster relief operations.
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The usual MSM suspects who pedaled the "Bush Stoled the Election" mantra when it was Al Gore and company who sought to throw out the absentee ballots [ie military voters] as the opening moves of the Florida recount, are now plastering this as a 'coup' rather than the enforcement of Constitutional law. It was the ousted El Presidente who was attempting the coup over the Constitution. Intentional misdirection from the Ministry of Truth(tm-Big Brother).
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Zelaya met Chavez, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa and Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega in Managua. Bolivia's Evo Morales and OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza were due to join the group for talks later on Monday.
Target-rich environment. I hope someone notices...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday the coup that ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was illegal and would set a "terrible precedent" of transition by military force unless it was reversed.
As opposed to all the other times in Latin and South America? This is predictable. Bambi waited a day to see what Fidel and Oogo are saying, and now he's fallen into line. Then again, it's Bambi so this could all be just talk with no practical consequence.
"We believe that the coup was not legal and that President Zelaya remains the president of Honduras, the democratically elected president there," Obama told reporters after an Oval Office meeting with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.
Zelaya, in office since 2006, was overthrown in a dawn coup on Sunday after he angered the judiciary, Congress and the army by seeking constitutional changes that would allow presidents to seek re-election beyond a four-year term.
In violation of the Honduran constitution, apparently. For some reason the latest version of that document doesn't want to re-elect presidents -- something about strongmen ...
The Honduran Congress named an interim president, Roberto Micheletti, and the country's Supreme Court said it had ordered the army to remove Zelaya.
The European Union and a string of foreign governments have voiced support for Zelaya, who was snatched by troops from his residence and whisked away by plane to Costa Rica in his pajamas.
Obama said he would work with the Organization of American States and other international institutions to restore Zelaya to power and "see if we can resolve this in a peaceful way."
This sounds very much like when we forced Haiti to take back that rapacious Priest-President whose name I can't remember, with disastrous results for Haiti.
"It would be a terrible precedent if we start moving backwards into the era in which we are seeing military coups as a means of political transition, rather than democratic elections," Obama said, noting the region's progress in establishing democratic traditions in the past 20 years.
Despite Obama's comments, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the administration was not formally designating the ouster as a military coup for now, a step that would force a cut-off of most U.S. aid to Honduras. Under U.S. law, no aid -- other than for the promotion of democracy -- may be provided to a country whose elected head of government has been toppled in a military coup. "We do think that this has evolved into a coup," Clinton told reporters, adding the administration was withholding that determination for now.
Asked if the United States was currently considering cutting off aid, Clinton shook her head no.
The State Department said it was unable to immediately say how much assistance the United States gives Honduras. The State Department has requested $68.2 million in aid for fiscal year 2010, which begins on October 1, up from $43.2 million. This covers funds for development, Honduran purchases of U.S. arms, military training, counter-narcotics and health care but does not include Defense Department aid, a U.S. official said.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said he did not believe Obama had spoken to Zelaya since the ouster. He said the administration had worked in recent days to try to prevent the coup from happening, and "our goal now is on restoring democratic order in Honduras."
Analysts said quick criticism of the coup by Obama and Clinton on Sunday pleased Latin American countries bitter about the long history of U.S. intervention in the region.
A senior U.S. official who spoke on condition he not be named said that by holding off on a legal determination that a coup has taken place, Washington was trying to provide space for a negotiated settlement. "If we were able to get to a ... status quo that returned to the rule of law and constitutional order within a relatively short period of time, I think that would be a good outcome," Clinton said.
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he angered the judiciary, Congress and the army by seeking illegal constitutional changes
Fixed it for you.
It is unconstitutional in Honduras to force through a change in Honduras constitution without TWO consecutive Congresses voting for it to be allowed to come to a popular vote.
The president was proceeding despite Congress telling he cannot do so, and the Supreme court telling he cannot do so and ORDERING him to stop the illegal plebiscite.
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Hondurus made the best with what they have considering that little dictator squirrel they locked out, let's support it. He was a scumbag destroying all that took but 50 years to make. Support mu army in this.
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Simply put Olahblahblah is a wanna-be dictator, he sees nothing wrong with ignoring the Constitution, or any laws that don't suit him.
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WTF is wrong with that dipshit president of ours?
Other than that he's a communist socialist, America-hating a$$wipe doing everything in his power to sabotage free enterprise and turn our Republic into the next Zimbabwe, I can't think of a thing, OS.
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I think that this is a big moment of truth where Obama has stripped off his mask and revealed his true nature. No turning back now. Now it is just a race to see if Obama can get enough control to squash our freedoms before we can get control back to the people.
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Hint: In the event of an actual coup, President Zelaya would have been shot in his bed and his corpse hung from the highest ventana del palacio by his own sash. Not flown business class to a cozy guest house in Costa Rica.
Just ask the officer corps of the Bangladesh Rifles. Although it may be some time 'til they get back to you with their answer.
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Hopefully our military is as smart as Hounduras'. Posted by: Parabellum
Your military will do exactly as it is told by POTUS and I suspect we all know why. Barry controls the congress. Congress controls the Posse Comitatus Act. Enough said.
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Are not the Honduras officers sworn to loyalty to their Constitution, but not any specific government official?
Is this not also the case with the US Military Oath I found on Wikipedia:
I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic
It is amazing to see your US President criticize this as a coup when it is in fact the Honduras legislature, courts and military acting together to defend their constituted government by acting to prevent a dictatorship from being formed due to an illegal act by the Honduras president.
I am amazed. Does Mr Obama have that little respect for liberty and the law?
If so, it is frightening to have such an unscrupulous man in charge of the US with few limits on him from the US legislature and press.
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It's going to get a LOT worse Lagom. Obama has only been in office for 5 months and is in first gear of his journey to gut capitalism and democracy.
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The Honduran Congress named an interim president, Roberto Micheletti, and the country's Supreme Court said it had ordered the army to remove Zelaya.
Obama has no desire for yet another anti-US Tinhorn with unchecked power in the region. And given the circumstances surrounding Zelayas removal this is, at worst, a Coup-Light. But in order to get a resolution there needs to be cooperation amongst the other OAS toads. So before reading too much into his response, one should view his transition by military force rhetoric for what it is you guessed it appearance.
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Mr Obama now proposes sanctions against Honduras due to the defense of Honduras constitution against a would-be dictator. It makes one wonder what Mr Obama's designs are for the USA and the world.
The inconvenient truth for Mr Obama:
Honduras' now ex-president, Mel Zelaya, last Thursday defied a Supreme Court ruling and tried to hold a "survey" to rewrite the constitution for his permanent re-election. It's the same blueprint for a rigged political system that's made former democracies like Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua and Ecuador into shells of free countries.
Zelaya's operatives did their dirt all the way through. First they got signatures to launch the "citizen's power" survey through threats -- warning those who didn't sign that they'd be denied medical care and worse. Zelaya then had the ballots flown to Tegucigalpa on Venezuelan planes. After his move was declared illegal by the Supreme Court, he tried to do it anyway.
As a result of his brazen disregard for the law, Zelaya found himself escorted from office by the military Sunday morning, and into exile. Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Cuba's Fidel Castro rushed to blame the U.S., calling it a "yanqui coup."
President Obama on Monday called the action "not legal," and claimed that Zelaya is still the legitimate president.
There was a coup all right, but it wasn't committed by the U.S. or the Honduran court. It was committed by Zelaya himself. He brazenly defied the law, and Hondurans overwhelmingly supported his removal (a pro-Zelaya rally Monday drew a mere 200 acolytes).
Yet the U.S. administration stood with Chavez and Castro, calling Zelaya's lawful removal "a coup." Obama called the action a "terrible precedent," and said Zelaya remains president.
In doing this, the U.S. condemned democrats who stood up to save their democracy, a move that should have been hailed as a historic turning of the tide against the false democracies of the region.
The U.S. response has been disgraceful. "We recognize Zelaya as the duly elected and constitutional president of Honduras. We see no other," a State Department official told reporters.
WHY IS MR OBAMA SUPPORTING A VENEZUELAN THUG AND PUPPET?
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Half of us already knew or at least suspected, Lagom. The others are slowly beginning to catch on. The catch is that unless He does something 'Honduran', we are stuck with Him for the next few years.
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Some of Europe is beginning to wake up and see how Mr Obama really is. Will USA wake up?
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Something like malaria eh Lagom? Once you've had it, the recurrent symtoms of headaches, fever, chills, shakes, nausea and vomiting, etc, are quickly identified and self-diagnosed. There are numerous species of the Tsetse. Like all other parasites, we are enduring this one as well. It too shall pass and we shall learn from it.
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WHY IS MR OBAMA SUPPORTING A VENEZUELAN THUG AND PUPPET?
Ask instead "what kind of person would support a Venezuelan thug and puppet in favor of constitutional democracy?". When you answer that question you will know what kind of person Bammo is.
[Beirut Daily Star: Region] Turkey's Parliament speaker said on Monday he favored changes in the Constitution to allow leaders of a 1980 military coup to be put on trial. Koksal Toptan's comments, the latest by a Turkish politician backing a trial of past army plotters, underscore the waning influence of Turkey's generals in the EU candidate nation.
Last week, members of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the main opposition CHP Party, which traditionally sides with the military, held talks to discuss reforming an article in the constitution that bans prosecuting leaders of the coup. "Such an article should not be in the Constitution and it is beneficial to remove it," Koksal told reporters. "It does not belong in a modern constitution."
Such talk would have been unthinkable a few years ago in Turkey where the military has ousted four governments in the past 50 years and regards itself as the ultimate guardian of the republic. But reforms aimed at meeting EU membership criteria have clipped the wings of the military. Legislation passed early on Saturday allows civilian courts to try members of the army accused of threats to national security, constitutional violations and attempts to topple the government.
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NEW DELHI: It's indeed rocket science. And Tessy Thomas is going great guns at unravelling all its complexities. Though women and nuclear-capable ballistic missiles usually don't go together, Thomas is systematically breaking all glass ceilings in the avowedly male bastion of `strategic weapons'.
Thomas has now been appointed the project director (mission) of India's most ambitious missile, Agni-V, with a strike range of 5,000-km, which is slated to be tested for the first time next year.
Thomas, 46, was made the project director of the new advanced version of the 2,500-km Agni-II missile last year after she played a crucial role in the successful firing of the 3,500-km range Agni-III missile as an associate project director, as reported by TOI earlier.
Now, she has added another feather to her cap by being assigned to Agni-V, the test-firing of which will propel India towards having potent ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) capabilities, largely the preserve of the Big-5 countries till now.
Thomas, contacted by TOI on Tuesday, was reluctant to talk till she `had clearance from the top'. Overall Agni programme director, Avinash Chander, however, was full of praise for her. "She is one of the key members of the entire Agni programme,'' he said.
"The designer for the missile guidance systems, among other things, she is one of the most dedicated scientists in our team. She finds solutions to problems,'' he added.
A B.Tech from Thrissur Engineering College, Calicut, and M.Tech from Pune-based Defence Institute of Advanced Technologies, Thomas is an expert on `solid system propellants' which fuel the Agni missiles.
Based at the Advanced Systems Laboratory in Hyderabad, Thomas has been associated with the Agni programme for around two decades now. Her fascination for `rockets' began with the Apollo moon missions when she was in school at Alappuzha in Kerala.
The dream turned to reality when this `missile woman' was assigned to the Agni programme soon after joining DRDO in 1988 by the original `missile man', former President APJ Abdul Kalam. There are around 20 other women scientists working on the Agni programme but Thomas is the first to become a project director of an Agni system.
The work on the solid-fuelled Agni-V basically revolves around incorporating a third composite stage in the two-stage Agni-III, along with some advanced technologies like ring laser gyroscope and accelerator for navigation and guidance.
The endeavour is to ensure that Agni-V, for which the government has sanctioned around Rs 2,500 crore, is also a canister-launch missile system to ensure it has the requisite operational flexibility to be fired from any part of the country. It will be slightly short of true ICBMs, which have ranges in excess of 5,500 km, but enough to take care of existing `threat perceptions'.
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I wonder what would be her career if born in Pakistan?
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Acid burn patient?
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Relatives of a teenager who eloped and married without parental consent shot her dead on Monday in a raid on her new home, also killing her husband and in-laws, police said.
Dressed in police uniforms, dozens of relatives attacked the bridegroom's house in the district of Charsadda. "The assailants took the bridegroom out while some of the attackers climbed the wall and entered the house. They killed the bride, the mother and sister of the bridegroom," said Charsadda district police official Saleem Jan. "They beat them first and then shot them dead," he told AFP. The groom's father was also killed, another police official told AFP from Sardheri village in Charsadda.
The bride was aged 18 to 19 and the groom 29 to 30, he added. Police said the teenager, from the deeply conservative Mardan district next to Charsadda, had run away and recently married without her parents' consent. "They married some weeks ago," the bridegroom's uncle Misal Khan told reporters at the scene. "The attackers were headed by the girl's (paternal) uncle, cousin and maternal uncle. One of the attackers left his police uniform at the site. They also left one mobile phone in a pocket of the uniform," he added.
Police said the main suspects were two uncles and a cousin. "We have registered a case against three of the girl's relatives and their unidentified accomplices," police official Saleem Jan told AFP on telephone.
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The Littoral Combat Ship program just hit a speed bump on the way to the export market. Israel has decided they are no longer interested in the LCS, and cite costs as the major reason.
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Instead, sources say, the Navy is pushing to establish a combat shipbuilding industry through customized, locally built versions of a German corvette design.
Everyone knows German stuff is well built. Besides, the Germans don't meddle in our politics. Create or save how many jobs?
A company based in Berkeley, CA, is developing lightweight, high-energy batteries that can use the surrounding air as a cathode. PolyPlus is partnering with a manufacturing firm to develop single-use lithium metal-air batteries for the government, the use of these batteries would be, at first, limited to underwater vessels
and it expects these batteries to be on the market within a few years. The company also has rechargeable lithium metal-air batteries in the early stages of development that could eventually ten years + probably
power electric vehicles that can go for longer in between charges.
The single-use batteries made by the company employ a piece of lithium metal about two centimeters squared and three millimeters thick; they have a storage capacity close to that of the lithium-ion batteries in today's laptops at one-fifth the weight
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You can already get Zinc Air batteries for hearing aids so what's the big deal?
Uranium exists on the moon, according to new data from a Japanese spacecraft.
The findings are the first conclusive evidence for the presence of the radioactive element in lunar dirt, the researchers said. They announced the discovery recently at the 40th Lunar and Planetary Conference and at the Proceedings of the International Workshop Advances in Cosmic Ray Science.
The revelation suggests that nuclear power plants could be built on the moon, or even that Earth's satellite could serve as a mining source for uranium needed back home.
The Japanese Kaguya spacecraft, which was launched in 2007, detected uranium with a gamma-ray spectrometer. Scientists are using the instrument to create maps of the moon's surface composition, showing the presence of thorium, potassium, oxygen, magnesium, silicon, calcium, titanium and iron.
"We've already gotten uranium results, which have never been reported before," said Robert Reedy, a senior scientist at the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute, and a member of the Kaguya science team. "We're getting more new elements and refining and confirming results found on the old maps."
The findings could help decide where to build future lunar colonies, since manned outposts will need energy, and could potentially derive it from nuclear power plants.
Furthermore, since uranium supplies on Earth are scarce, mining uranium on the moon to satisfy our energy needs at home could prove lucrative.
Kaguya, officially named SELENE ("Selenological and Engineering Explorer"), crashed into the lunar surface at the end of its mission on June 10.
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Uranium is cheap enough on earth that we don't bother recycling the stuff in this country, even though it would help the nuclear waste problem substantially.
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Japan has got the coolest little space program you've never heard of. Nice work, Kaguya!
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Now, let's put a nuclear waste dump on the far side of the moon, and then we'll see what happens.
Am I showing my age?
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There may be U on the moon, but I seriously doubt that there is very much of it or that it is concentrated enough to be economically feasible to mine.
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Publicity report babble. They're looking for He3 and won't release those findings.
This century's gold rush started years ago when He3 was discovered in lunar samples collected by Apollo missions.
www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/1283056.html?page=4
The first 'claim' to be worked for a return trip with a load is right around the corner...if they find what they're looking for.
[Straits Times] ONE of the few survivors of the Khmer Rouge's deadliest torture centre gave a long-awaited testimony on Monday, weeping as he recounted life at the facility where 16,000 others were tortured before execution.
Mr Vann Nath, 63, escaped execution because he was an artist and took the job of painting and sculpting portraits of the Khmer Rouge's late leader, Pol Pot. His special status did not spare him misery. 'The conditions were so inhumane and the food was so little,' Mr Vann Nath told the tribunal, tears streaming down his face. 'I even thought eating human flesh would be a good meal.'
Mr Vann Nath said he was fed twice a day, each meal consisting of three teaspoons of rice porridge. Prisoners were kept shackled and ordered not to speak or move. 'We were so hungry, we would eat insects that dropped from the ceiling,' Mr Vann Nath said. 'We would quickly grab and eat them so we could avoid being seen by the guards.'
'We ate our meals next to dead bodies, and we didn't care because we were like animals,' he added.
The testimony came at the trial of Kaing Guek Eav - better known as Duch, who headed the S-21 prison in Phnom Penh from 1975-1979. Up to 16,000 men, women and children were tortured under his command and later taken away to be killed. Only about a dozen people, including Mr Vann Nath, are thought to have survived, most of whom have since died. Two other survivors are scheduled to testify this week.
Duch is the first senior Khmer Rouge figure to face trial and the only one to acknowledge responsibility for his actions. Senior leaders Khieu Samphan, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary and Ieng Sary's wife, Ieng Thirith, are all detained and likely to face trial in the next year or two.
Duch, 66, sat silently and watched Mr Vann Nath impassively as he spoke. Duch is charged with crimes against humanity and is the first of five defendants scheduled for long-delayed trials by the UN-assisted tribunal.
Duch has previously testified that being sent to S-21 was tantamount to a death sentence and that he was only following orders to save his own life.
Mr Vann Nath said he was arrested Dec 30, 1977, from his home in north-western Battambang province where he worked as a rice farmer.
He was accused of trying to overthrow the Khmer Rouge and of being an enemy of the regime - a common accusation against prisoners. He arrived at S-21 on Jan 7, 1978, and was kept there until the regime collapsed about one year later.
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Thanks for posting. The communisation of SE Asia is not discussed often in polite society. Behold... the Vietnam war pull-out peace dividend.
[Straits Times] SCRAP the policy of teaching Science and Mathe-matics in English and bring back Bahasa Melayu as the medium of instruction in the education system, said Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. He also called for the return of Bahasa Melayu"s status as the supreme language, which includes using it as the medium to teach Science and Maths in national schools and also strengthening its usage in Chinese and Tamil schools.
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The Nebraska man who abandoned his nine children under the state's Safe Haven law last year is expecting to become the father of twins, FOXNews.com has learned.
Gary Staton, 37, became a single father in February 2007 when his wife, RebelJane, died of a cerebral aneurysm shortly after giving birth to the couple's ninth child. Unable to handle the burden alone, Staton made national news more than a year later on Sept. 24 when he dropped off his children -- ages 1 to 17 -- at a hospital in Omaha. According to the law at the time, parents could hand children up to age 18 over to state custody without prosecution. Legislators would later amend the law to limit its reach to infants up to 30 days old.
Joanne Manzer -- the wife of RebelJane's father, Jack Manzer -- told FOXNews.com that Staton informed his children last week that he's expecting to become a father again with his new girlfriend, a woman named Gail.
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Twenty-six percent (26%) of Massachusetts voters say their states health care reform effort has been a success. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state finds that 37% say the reform effort has been a failure, while another 37% are not sure.
Only 10% of Bay State voters say the quality of health care has gotten better as a result of the reform plan while 29% say it has gotten worse. Most (53%) say the quality of care has not changed.
As for cost, 21% say the reform has made health care more affordable in Massachusetts. Twenty-seven percent (27%) say health care is now less affordable while 44% see no change.
(Want a free daily e-mail update? If it's in the news, it's in our polls). Rasmussen Reports updates are also available on Twitter.
The Massachusetts Health Care Reform was enacted in 2006 by Republican Governor Mitt Romney and a Democratic state legislature. Some consider it a bipartisan model for national health care reform.
By a 37% to 17% margin, Massachusetts liberals consider the program a success. By a 55% to 18% margin, conservatives in the state say its been a failure.
From a partisan perspective, Democrats are fairly evenly divided with 49% not sure if the reform effort has been a success or a failure. Sixty-six percent (66%) of Republicans say its been a failure. Among those not affiliated with either major party, 27% consider the reform plan a success while 41% say its been a failure.
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I read an article yesterday on IBD that says Mass is trying to find a way to continue to pay for the current medical program. The state has lost billions in revenue from the financial cricis and unemployment has driven more people to sign up for Mass(casualty)care. The state is whining that it'll run out of money in August if they can't find some way to either cut costs further (ration care) or raise more money (raise taxes). Doesn't sound much like a success to me...
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Always destroying the majority for the miniority. It's so "democratic".
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One major problem in MA is that there are not enough primary care physicians for all those newly insured folks. Universal coverage has not resulted in universal access. The same would happen nationally with Obamacare. Thus far, there've been few specifics by either Congress or the Administration as to how their plans would create an environment conducive to more physicians. Rising malpractice premiums, Loan debt from med school, and decreasing reimbursements do not constitute a model for attracting the best and brightest to medicine.
When more than 160 playwrights and producers, most of them female, filed into a Midtown Manhattan theater Monday night, they expected to hear some concrete evidence that women who are authors have a tougher time getting their work staged than men.
And they did. But they also heard that women who are artistic directors and literary managers are the ones to blame. The NYT gets this out in the second sentence so 90% of their viewers can click to the next article without having their beliefs challenged.
That conclusion was just one surprising piece of a yearlong research project that both confirms and upends assumptions about bias in the playwriting business.
There is discrimination against female playwrights in the theater community, said Emily Glassberg Sands, who conducted the research. Still, she said, that isnt the whole story; there is also a shortage of good scripts by women. Oh, no...no. This can't be. How can this be? There must be more discrimination by men to explain this...somehow.
To sort out the findings, it helps to look at the research. Ms. Sands conducted three separate studies. The first considered the playwrights themselves. Artistic directors of theater companies have maintained that no discrimination exists, rather that good scripts by women are in short supply. That claim elicited snorts and laughter from the audience when it was repeated Monday night, but Ms. Sands declared, Theyre right. Merit is never the answer, this crowd knows that. Even if it's less meritorious, the correct answer is to let society suffer and let the victim class win.
In reviewing information on 20,000 playwrights in the Dramatists Guild and Doollee.com, an online database of playwrights, she found that there were twice as many male playwrights as female ones, and that the men tended to be more prolific, turning out more plays.
Whats more, Ms. Sands found, over all, the work of men and women is produced at the same rate. The artistic directors have a point: they do get many more scripts from men.
For the second study, Ms. Sands sent identical scripts to artistic directors and literary managers around the country. The only difference was that half named a man as the writer (for example, Michael Walker), while half named a woman (i.e., Mary Walker). It turned out that Marys scripts received significantly worse ratings in terms of quality, economic prospects and audience response than Michaels. The biggest surprise? These results are driven exclusively by the responses of female artistic directors and literary managers, Ms. Sands said. And then her head...didn't explode somehow.
Amid the gasps from the audience, an incredulous voice called out, Say that again?
Ms. Sands put it another way: Men rate men and women playwrights exactly the same. I found this gem in an article written before the results:
"I personally dont think playwriting is a gene on a Y chromosome," said Theresa Rebeck, a playwright whose work has been produced frequently on New York stages, including on Broadway. She added that there has been a reluctance to confront the issue: "Many of our male peers find the debate intolerable. Men in the community seem to think that everything is fine."
Ms. Sands also found plays that feature women which are more commonly written by women are also less likely to be produced. Kathryn Walat, a playwright who attended, said, Most startling was the reaction to women writing and I think of my own work about female protagonists and the unlikability of those characters.
Ms. Sands was reluctant to explain the responses in terms of discrimination, suggesting instead that artistic directors who are women perhaps possess a greater awareness of the barriers female playwrights face.
Still, at the end of the evening, Ms. Sands, who seemed surprisingly comfortable on the stage for an aspiring economist, received the kind of reaction that many playwrights in the audience would wish for: prolonged applause. I wondered why she didn't just bury the research when she found the results, but the question answers itself here.
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Having been in both positions; being an office manager with the office comprised mostly of women, and working in an office (also comprised mostly of women) managed by a woman, I can attest to the rampant discrimination, bitchiness, back stabbing and general nastiness done by women to women.
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.
Man suffers critical injuries after apparent stunt
The man behind the world's biggest online Michael Jackson fan club has said heartbroken followers of the star have committed suicide because of his death. 
[Al Arabiya Latest] A Casablanca court heavily fined three top Moroccan newspapers Monday for publishing critical articles on Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi.
Two Camerounians and a Nigerian accomplice were recently lynched in Taraba state over allegations that they were involved in a case of missing genital organs. Confirming the incidence in Jalingo, the State Commissioner of Police, Musa Aliyu, gave the names of the suspects as Thomas Actiotus, Fosting Joseph, a driver attached to Cameroun Embassy in Lagos and the name of the Nigerian friend as Avea Torhinbo who said are passing through Kurmi Local Government area to Cameroun Republic when they were burnt to death. 
[Iran Press TV Latest] Ex-Congolese Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba is due to stand trial before the International Criminal Court (ICC) for five counts of war crimes. 
[Al Arabiya Latest] The Bangladesh High Court asked the home ministry and security forces on Monday to stop extrajudicial killings of alleged criminals.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday the coup that ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was illegal and would set a "terrible precedent" of transition by military force unless it was reversed.
