SUSPECTED cannibals killed a young man, ATE part of him and then sold other bits to a KEBAB house. Cops also believe the 25-year-old victim's body parts may have been used to fill PIES too.
The trio of homeless men were arrested in Russia - accused of murdering the man with knives and a hammer.
Prosecutors revealed: "After carrying out the crime, the corpse was divided up - part of it was eaten and part of it was sold to a kiosk selling kebabs and pies."
Suspicions were raised when dismembered parts of a human body were found near a bus stop in the outskirts of the Russian city of Perm - which is 720 miles east of Moscow.
TODD: What is that?
LOVETT:
It's fop.
Finest in the shop.
And we have some shepherd's pie peppered
With actual shepherd on top!
And I've just begun
Here's the politician, so oily
It's served with a doily,
Have one!
TODD:
Put it on a bun.
Well, you never know if it's going to run!
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At that point, Mary Maloney simply walked up behind him and without any pause she swung the big frozen leg of lamb high in the air and brought it down as hard as she could on the back of his head.
The British actor Edward Woodward, who started his career treading the boards in Shakespearean rep but went on to become an iconic television hard man, has died at the age of 79.
Woodward found fame in the late 1960s with the TV spy series Callan, in which he played a reluctant professional hitman. His greatest commercial success came almost two decades later in the American series The Equalizer in which he played Robert McCall, a former secret service agent turned urban vigilante.
In 1973 Woodward earned a place in cinematic history with a starring role the horror movie The Wicker Man, in which he played a devoutly Christian police sergeant called to investigate the disappearance of a young girl from a sinister paganist community on a remote Scottish island. The film, in which Woodward played alongside Christopher Lee and Britt Ekland, quickly achieved the status of cult classic.
Its director, Robin Hardy, said of Woodward today: "He was one of the greatest actors of his generation, without any question, with a broad career on American television as well as British film.
"He was an absolute star of The Wicker Man. He was an extremely nice human being."
Woodward had been suffering from various illnesses, including pneumonia, and died in hospital, his agent, Janet Glass.
She said: "Universally loved and admired through his unforgettable roles in classic productions such as Breaker Morant, The Wicker Man, Callan, The Equalizer and many more, he was equally fine and courageous in real life, never losing his brave spirit and wonderful humour throughout his illness.
"He was further sustained by the love of his wife, Michele, children, Tim, Peter, Sarah and Emily, his grandchildren and numerous friends. His passing will leave a huge gap in many lives."
Woodward recently joined EastEnders for a short stint as Tommy Clifford, whose character drew out details of Patrick Trueman's past.
Speaking about the role to What's On TV earlier this year, Woodward said: "I was very pleased. I only like to do a few jobs each year and I pick the ones I can't turn down. I liked the character and six episodes suited me."
He said that as well as working on an autobiography, he had been spending time painting watercolours, adding modestly: "I am not very good at it, but my friends and family all get a copy."
Woodward lived in the Padstow area of Cornwall, with his wife, actress Michele Dotrice, who is known for playing Frank Spencer's long-suffering wife Betty in the classic sitcom Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em.
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The Equalizer was an impressive show for several behind the scenes reasons. First of all, it got the "Sherlock Holmes effect" of people thinking it was real, and contacting the show hoping for help. They were given contact numbers to social service agencies.
Otherwise, during production, Woodward had a heart attack, and Robert Mitchum was brought in as a replacement.
They worked it into a plot line where Woodward had been kidnapped, and when he was finally "rescued", the still unsteady Woodward appeared being transported on a stretcher, which he needed, because standing up was problematic.
[Maghrebia] Morocco's third annual breakdance competition got under way in Dakhla on Saturday night (November 14th), MAP reported. Some 250 dancers and 33 teams are vying for the individual and crew breakdance titles at the 2-day "Coupe de la Marche Verte".
The national event offers youth from different cities of the Kingdom a chance to meet and have friendly exchanges, "just as it is an opportunity to promote this discipline in the southern provinces", said Selma Bennani, president of the Royal Moroccan Sports, Aerobics and Fitness Foundation (FRMSAF), which organises the Cup. This year's competition celebrates the 34th Anniversary of the Green March.
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Well, there were riots all over occupied France as well, see this thread; police already was very tense before,a nd thanks allan, algeria lost (IIUC, winning rioting would have been WORSE); again, real passivity from the law enforcement - let's not provoke the Youths, before the match, as they parade all over France, waving algerian flags and making a ruckus, or after, when disgruntled "french" Youths torch cars, pelt riot cops, and even torch luxury yatchs in marseilles (this is a first!).
As an aside , France had NOTHING to do with that match, it's just that any excuse to riot and spit on France will do, especially from algerians (who REALLY have a chip on their shoulder, and generally are considered the most "aggressive/resentful" of the north africans, mildest & friednly being the tunisians).
Remind sme of this earlier recent match, after which "french" Youths rioted as well (algeria had won against rwanda, go figure), chanting "nique la France" (F8ck France up the @ss", "niquer" is arab slang that means just that, and is a staple of Youthtalk).
And while we're at ethnic violence mixed with football (excuse me, "soccer", sic), see what happens when a match between Paris & marseilles is cancelled, with a group of parisian (white) supporters going to defy marseilles supporters (marseilles IS basically a non-white, muslim city nowadays)... Here is a closer vid of one of the lynchings, guy get ran over by a car, then stomped on by the mob, slashed with boxcutters & razor (and his pockets emptied). For a fun bit, check pic 3.
Incidentally, french flags are not welcome in marseilles stadium , but, then again, while foreign (arab or african) flags swarm the streets at the first occasion, it actually is very badly looked upon to fly a frenhc flag... and, it even can behazardous to your health (earlier this summer, there was an incident during which a military french man who got married had the bad idea of flyng a frenhc falg at the window of his car while going to the after ceremony party... result : he and an handful of friend were ambushed and beaten up by a lynch mob of about 40-50 Youths).
[Al Arabiya Latest] An Egyptian court sentenced two Christian men to death on Sunday for killing the Muslim husband of a female relative who converted to Islam against the wishes of her family, court sources said.
The brother and uncle of Mariam Atef Khilla were convicted of breaking into her Cairo home in 2008 and opening fire on her and her family, killing her husband and hitting her in the hand. The couple's baby daughter was also wounded.
The sources said the death sentence would be sent for review to the state-appointed Grand Mufti, Egypt's highest authority on Islamic law.
Khilla converted to Islam three years earlier to marry her husband in defiance of her family, security sources said at the time.
Was she kidnapped and raped to help her make that decision?
Christians account for up to 10 percent of Egypt's population and relations with the Muslim majority are usually harmonious.
Harmonious, so long as the Christians are properly submissive. But it's Al Arabiya, so that conclusion is foregone.
However, disputes over land, religious buildings, inter-marriage and conversion sometimes lead to violence.
Egypt's most serious Christian-Muslim clashes in decades occurred in southern Egypt in 1999 when 20 Christians were killed, 22 people wounded and scores of shops destroyed.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Two persons, including a pedestrian, sustained bullet injuries as a gang of criminals opened fire on their rivals at Ambagan in the capital's Moghbazar yesterday.
The injured pedestrian is Abul Kalam, 55, and Mohammad Swapan, 27, is a local goon.
What's the difference between a miscreant and a goon?
Status.
They are residents of the area. Locals rushed them to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Swapan said Sentu, also a local goon, and his two accomplices chased him while he was crossing the area around 1:00 a.m. At one stage the criminals opened fire indiscriminately that hit Swapan in the jaw and Kalam in the waist.
The miscreants are so worried about experiencing an Rab encounter that they're handling it internally.
"The attackers left the scene as locals thronged the spot hearing the gunshots", police said, adding Swapan is accused in several cases.
However police could not ascertain the cause of rivalry among the criminals.
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AIR FORCE chiefs are preparing to cut 10,000 staff -- a quarter of their manpower -- and close up to five large air stations.
The plans will reduce the RAF's strength to 31,000 personnel over the next five years, little more than half the level during the recent Iraq conflict and seriously diminishing its capability of fighting another conventional war.
It also intends to retire the majority of its Harrier and Tornado jets early, leaving it with about 80 fewer aircraft by 2025. The cuts are part of a package prepared for the 2010 annual spending round.
They are designed to pre-empt the savage cuts expected as part of the strategic defence review promised by whichever party wins power in next year's general election.
A senior RAF officer said the plans were designed to save "significant amounts of money, measured in billions of pounds a year" rather than having them forced on the service by the review.
The RAF has 19 flying stations in the UK, but the reduction in aircraft means up to five are expected to be closed and sold over the next decade.
The stations most at risk include RAF Cottesmore in Rutland and RAF Wittering in Cambridgeshire, both of which will close when the Harrier fleet is retired.
One of either RAF Marham in Norfolk or RAF Lossiemouth in Morayshire is under threat because of planned cuts to joint strike fighter numbers. So, too, is RAF Kinloss in Morayshire, with the new Nimrod MRA4 expected to move to RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire.
One plan under consideration would see all RAF fast jet training moving to RAF Valley in Anglesey, leading to the possible closure of RAF Linton-on-Ouse and RAF Leeming, both in North Yorkshire.
Other proposals would see all the RAF's Merlin helicopters move from RAF Benson in Oxfordshire to a joint RAFRoyal Navy station at what is currently Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose in Cornwall.
The proposals were ordered by Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton, the new chief of the air staff, and the air force board ahead of the 2010 spending round. It comes with the RAF ordered to find £200m in cuts tand ensure all possible available resources are diverted to Afghanistan.
But don't worry, the £200m will be useful in funding aromatherapy in the NHS ...
Short-term cuts will see reductions in the RAF's flying schedule, the grounding of Nimrod MR2 aircraft and Puma helicopters until April, and the mothballing of four of its seven Boeing E-3D Sentry Awacs airborne warning aircraft.
Senior RAF officers believe that whichever party wins the general election it will have to make cuts to defence because of the economic situation.
The Ministry of Defence said: "These are challenging times and, like all government departments, we routinely review spending to ensure that best use is made of the defence budget."
One of the best kept literary secrets of the decade was revealed last night when 34-year-old scientist Dr Brooke Magnanti announced she was the writer masquerading as call girl Belle de Jour.
The author behind the bestselling books detailing her secret life as a prostitute decided to come out to one of her fiercest critics, Sunday Times columnist India Knight, after claiming anonymity had become "no fun". "I couldn't even go to my own book launch party", she said.
Until last week, even her agent was unaware of her name. But now Magnanti, a respected specialist in developmental neurotoxicology and cancer epidemiology in a hospital research group in Bristol, has spoken of the time six years ago she worked as a £300 an hour prostitute working through a London escort agency.
Magnanti turned to the agency in the final stages of her PhD thesis when she ran out of money. She was already an experienced science blogger and began writing about her experiences in a web diary later adapted into books and a television drama starring Billie Piper.
Magnanti says she has no regrets about the 14 months she spent as a prostitute. "I've felt worse about my writing than I ever have about sex for money," she said.
"I did have another job at one point, as a computer programmer, but I kept up with my other work because it was so much more enjoyable."
One of Britain's new £2bn aircraft carriers could be sold off under cost-cutting plans being considered by the Ministry of Defence. India has lodged a firm expression of interest, the Observer has learned.
The sale of one of the two 65,000-tonne vessels would leave the Royal Navy with a single carrier and could force Britain to borrow from the French fleet, which itself has only one carrier and is reluctant to build more. Last summer the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, proposed to Gordon Brown that the two navies co-ordinate maintenance and refitting so that one was at sea at all times.
According to senior defence sources, Whitehall officials are examining the feasibility of a sale as part of the strategic defence review that will start early next year and is expected to result in savage cuts.
The carrier programme has already been delayed by two years to push back spending commitments, which itself will end up costing the taxpayer more in the long run. BAE Systems began work in July on HMS Queen Elizabeth, which is due to come into service in 2016. Preparatory work on the Prince of Wales, due for launch in 2018, has also started. The two carriers will replace the ageing Invincible class and are three times the size.
There were fears that the government could scrap one altogether. But it is understood that the financial penalties would be prohibitive. About 10,000 jobs in Portsmouth, Barrow-in-Furness, Fife and Glasgow depend on the orders.
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I'll bet that the Indians get the Prince of Wales before they get the Admiral Gorshkov ...
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The way things going, could Britain become Indian colony in like 50 years?
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Ala PAKISTANI DEENCE FORUM Artic > D *** NG IT, INDJUH'S CURR CV = "AGING RUSTBUCKET WID NO PLANES", hence-ly the IN wants a NEW FUTURE SOON-TO-BE-A-RUSTBUCKET WID NO PLANES???
Clearly FRENCH-STYLE "MAGINOT LINE" DISEASE is more widespread than feared by the UNO = UNWHO.
INDIA also repor is waiting for SRI LANKA to return its TWO COAST GUARD VESSELS LEASED FROM INDIA [SRLanka in turn repor getting two new warships from PAK].
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez says he will join a team of Cuban scientists on flights to "bomb clouds" to create rain amid a severe drought that has aroused public anger due to water and electricity rationing.
Chavez, who has asked Venezuelans to take three-minute showers to save water, said the Cubans had arrived in Venezuela and were preparing to fly specially equipped aircraft above the Orinoco river.
"I'm going in a plane; any cloud that crosses me, I'll zap it so that it rains," Chavez said at a ceremony late on Saturday with family members of five Cubans convicted of spying in the United States.
Many countries have programs aimed at altering weather patterns, commonly known as cloud seeding, although the effectiveness of such techniques is disputed.
Firing silver iodine at clouds is one common method. China uses rockets loaded with the chemical to spur rainfall in arid regions. Chavez did not say what technology the Cubans will use.
Venezuela has suffered water and electricity shortages this month after a drought caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon led to critically low water levels at several reservoirs in the oil-exporting nation.
The government has been criticized for poor planning after it was forced to impose strict water rationing in the capital Caracas and power rationing in other parts of the country.
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Proof that Socia1ism causes shortages in everything, including water.
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social15m causes a mismatch between supply and demand signal provided by wages and prices is destroyed.
This means things exist where they shouldn't and don't exist where they should.
Two weeks ago I noted how curious it was that Kevin Rudd had decided to give General David Petraeus the Order of Australia for leading the victorious surge in Iraq which Rudd had, er, opposed.
Has the mystery been solved? I now know for a certainty that Rudd was informed around a month or two earlier that the brilliant Petraeus could well be the next president of the United States.
A team of New Zealanders is preparing to drill in Antarctica in the New Year, and they hope to strike - whisky.
Among the supplies British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton abandoned on his unsuccessful 1909 expedition to the pole were two crates of the now extinct rare old brand of McKinlay and Co whisky.
Now Whyte & Mackay, the drinks giant that owns McKinlay and Co, has asked for a sample of the drink for a series of experiments, the Telegraph newspaper reported in London.
The New Zealanders will use special drills to free the trapped crates and rescue a bottle from the crates, discarded near the Cape Royds hut used by the Nimrod expedition, or at least draw off a sample using a syringe.
The crates were discovered in January 2006, but the bottle couldn't be removed as they were too deeply embedded.
Although the New Zealanders have agreed to try to retrieve some bottles, international protocols agreed by 12 Antarctic Treaty nations say the crates can be taken off Antarctica for only conservation reasons.
A program manager with the Antarctic Heritage Trust, Al Fastier, who is leading the expedition to Cape Royds in January, said he did not want to sample the contents.
He said: "It's better to imagine it than to taste it. That way it keeps its mystery."
The whisky was found under the floorboards of the hut while workers were clearing out a century's worth of ice.
Richard Paterson, Whyte & Mackay's master blender, has said that if he can get a sample, he intends to replicate the famous old whisky.
If the experiment is successful, original McKinlay whisky could be put back on sale.
"I really hope we can get some back here. It's been laying there lonely and neglected. It should come back to Scotland, where it was born.
Comedy gold (except for the people who got beat up & looted; note that similar kinds of stunt have been done without any incident I'm aware of in other big cities, but... the people behind that hadn't taken Paris Diversity into account, nor did they expect law enforcement to be as passive (french authorities' motto : "let's not provoke the Youths, we can barely keep the lid on already")...
It's a riot, literally, there simply cannot be any public gathering in France anymore, without it turning into a riot & antiwhite razzia (latest example was the ill-fated technomix festival)
Take Out Photo Free Money Sparks Riot Today in Paris
(some details & pics).
The world economy is in the tank. So let's cut emissions! Idjits ...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders on Sunday supported delaying a legally binding climate pact until 2010 or even later, but European negotiators said the move did not imply weaker action.
Some argued that legal technicalities might otherwise distract the talks in Copenhagen and it was better to focus on the core issue of cutting climate-warming emissions.
"Given the time factor and the situation of individual countries we must, in the coming weeks, focus on what is possible and not let ourselves be distracted by what is not possible," Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen told the leaders.
"The Copenhagen Agreement should finally mandate continued legal negotiations and set a deadline for their conclusion," said the Copenhagen talks host, who flew into Singapore to lay out his proposal over breakfast at an Asia-Pacific summit.
Rasmussen said the December 7-18 talks should still agree key elements such as cuts in greenhouse gases for industrialised nations and funds to help developing nations. Copenhagen would also set a deadline for writing them into a legal text. "We are not aiming to let anyone off the hook," Rasmussen said after the meeting, which was attended by leaders of the United States, China, Japan, Russia, Mexico, Australia and Indonesia.
French Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo said it was clear the main obstacle was the United States' slow progress in defining its own potential emissions cuts.
"The problem is the United States, there's no doubt about that," Borloo, who has coordinated France's Copenhagen negotiating effort, told Reuters in an interview. "It's the world's number one power, the biggest emitter (of greenhouse gases), the biggest per capita emitter and it's saying 'I'd like to but I can't'. That's the issue."
Danish and Swedish officials said they wanted all developed countries including the United States to promise numbers for cuts in emissions in Copenhagen. The U.S. Senate has not yet agreed carbon-capping legislation.
"There was an assessment by the leaders that it was unrealistic to expect a full, internationally legally binding agreement to be negotiated between now and when Copenhagen starts in 22 days," said U.S. negotiator Michael Froman.
"We believe it is better to have something good than to have nothing at all," said Chilean Foreign Minister Mariano Fernandez. The next major U.N. climate meeting is in Bonn in mid-2010.
"Copenhagen can and must deliver clarity on emission reductions and the finance to kickstart action. I have seen nothing to change my view on that," said Yvo de Boer, the U.N.'s top climate change official. Ministers from 40 nations will meet in Copenhagen on Monday and Tuesday for preparatory talks.
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No sweat, we'll just keep exporting our CO2 production.
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Note: Best 30 mintues EVER for anyone wanting to see REAL scientists doing REAL science. Documentary produced by Finnish scientists, with the real detective work coming from a Canadian scientist
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I'll have to pass this on to my 14 year old daughter who did (and still tweaks) a school presentation debunking much of the AGW hype (for which she was all-but ostracized socially). She's since presented it to several professional groups - recently having the chance to hobnob with some serious anti-AGW professionals - and has been invited to present it at a symposium at the regional NWS headquarters.
/apologies for the personal comment, but I'm button-popping proud
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Congratulations and commiseration to xbalanke's daughter! Trailing daughter #2 ran into similar problems in an Applied Jewish Ethics class at Hebrew school, which is why she has no friends among her age mates there, and came to view herself as a conservative/Republican and Liberals as actually unthinking reactionaries at the ripe old age of fifteen.
Appropriate personal anecdotes are welcome, dear xbalanke -- I look forward to hearing about Miss Xbalanke's future endeavors. With her maturity of outlook, she may find the nearby university a more comfortable environment than high school, as td #2 has done, taking her first class there as a high school junior. Her reasoning was that the high school did not offer a course she really, really wanted (Japanese).
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TW et al, thanks for your kind words. She's gone from feeling put-upon and excluded to relishing being an iconoclast. These days, being proudly conservative is the real teen rebellion. It was hugely empowering for her to get approval, encouragement, and advice for her work from real weather scientists. As for me while watching that: I had to duck behind a column and dab my eyes.
Though her plans are about as firm as jello at this point, she keeps mentioning MIT (optical engineering) and/or the Navy as career options. The sky truly is the limit for her. Oh, and she also really wants to debate Al Gore - especially after being forced to watch "An Inconvenient Truth" in school (state mandate).
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Oh, and she also really wants to debate Al Gore - especially after being forced to watch "An Inconvenient Truth" in school (state mandate).
*choke* *cough* Oh my. The poor man, when he is old, is going to wonder why the grandchildren uniformly gaze at him with pitying expressions. Or he won't wonder, which might well be worse.
[Straits Times] PRESIDENT Barack Obama on Sunday told Myanmar's junta to free pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during an unusual face-to-face interaction with a top leader of the ruling military.
Mr Obama delivered the strong message during his summit with leaders of 10 Southeast Asian nations, which included Myanmar Prime Minister Gen. Thein Sein.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters that Mr Obama called on Myanmar to free Ms Suu Kyi and other political prisoners, and end oppression of minorities.
'Obama brought that up directly with that government,' Mr Gibbs said, indicating that the president spoke directly to Gen. Thein Sein.
For decades, Western governments have avoided direct contacts with leaders of Myanmar because of the regime's poor human rights record and suppression of democracy.
A joint statement to be issued after the summit - their first ever between a US president and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations - is expected to devote an entire section on Myanmar, a major irritant in relations between the two sides.
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Obama is always sending "strong messages" and making "bold Statements". And getting brushed off.
Siuu Kyi is going to remain right where she is and make a sandwich for Lunch. The Burmese Govt is going to ignore Obama and he is going to go take a leak in about a half an hour while his Security Detail will stand outside the door.
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I suppose that sometime some country will do what Obama wants, but I suspect that Myanmar will join Iran, Israel, Honduras, Russia, China, etc., etc., etc.
[Straits Times] THOUSANDS of demonstrators on Sunday attended a protest by Thailand's royalist 'Yellow Shirt' movement against a visit to Cambodia by their arch-foe, fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra.
Four people, including a child, were hurt when men on a motorbike threw a firecracker into the rally in central Bangkok, an organiser said. Police said the event, attended by an estimated 20,000 people, carried on afterwards.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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.
AIR FORCE chiefs are preparing to cut 10,000 staff -- a quarter of their manpower -- and close up to five large air stations. 
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez says he will join a team of Cuban scientists on flights to "bomb clouds" to create rain amid a severe drought that has aroused public anger due to water and electricity rationing.
