Andrew Breitbart passed away unexpectedly from natural causes shortly after midnight this morning in Los Angeles. Apparently it was a heart attack, he was walking near his house and just dropped dead. Paramedics were called immediately but could not revive him. He was an immensely influential voice for modern conservatism, and will be missed.
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03/01/2012 11:39 Comments ||
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Not coincidence as such, DanNY. The man always had projects either about to go live or just revealed -- dynamo doesn't come close. He was a joyful warrior for the truth, and his impact will continue through the work of the team he built and the projects yet to be revealed.
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The likelihood of "dead before you hit the ground" type heart attacks is the reason to take one or two fish oil pills a week, as it reduces the odds by about 1/3rd.
I gather Breitbart had also recently been diagnosed with a heart problem as well.
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Iblis:
It can happen. Almost the exact same thing happend to a dear friend of mine two months ago. He just dropped dead, with his wife nearby. She called paramedics and attempted CPR immediately but he was gone. He was only 46.
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Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) is a leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for an estimated 250,000-325,000 deaths each year. 95% are dead before they get to a hospital.
About two-thirds of unexpected cardiac deaths occur without prior indication of heart disease.
Posted by: Barbara ||
03/01/2012 16:16 Comments ||
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I feell so sad for his wife and kids. I lost my brother when he was 43, leaving two young kids and a wife behind. It certainly put them at sea for a long time and the kids are still impacted.
To the left, Andrew was a hater...just filled wiht anger. They could not be more wrong. Like the Colonel said...they can't handle the truth.
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Famous folks have died before -- but I've never felt the depth of hurt I've had ever since hearing this report about 8:30 am on the way to work today.
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He may be gone, but the reason he fought, and the people he rallied to that reason, still fight on. The left might be celebrating, but we are tightening our armor.
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He + family visited Guam long ago back in the early 1970's - surprised he didn't run into Glenn Beck, etal. I had difficulties pronouncing his last name properly. i.e. I kept overemphasizing the "t"s.
We met again later on in life - used to have dedicated, intense, even angry convabs ala Political Affairs + Conservatism-vs-Liberalism-vs-Socialism in America.
On Tuesday, an Egyptian court dismissed lawsuit brought by an Islamist ultraconservative Muslim lawyer who accused a Christian tycoon of insulting Islam by posting an online cartoon of Mickey Mouse with a beard and Minnie in a face veil. The court tossed out the case and fined the plaintiffs less than $10 for the court's time.
Media mogul Naguib Sawiris enraged Muslim hard-liners in June by posting the cartoon on his Twitter account. The picture was a parody about the growing influence of Islamists in Egypt following Mubarak's ouster. After the cartoon sparked an uproar, Sawiris tweeted an apology and removed the post. He tweeted, "I apologize for those who don't take this as a joke; I just thought it was a funny picture; no disrespect meant. I am sorry."
Salafis began an online campaign in June calling on Egyptian Muslims to boycott Sawiris' mobile phone company, Mobinil. Shares of Mobinil and Orascom Telecom, founded by Sawiris, briefly fell on the Egyptian stock exchange that same month.
Lawyer Mamdouh Ismail, who filed the complaint against Sawiris, is a memeber of the Salafi Al-Nour party that won 25% of elected seats in both houses of parliament.
Following Mubarak's ouster, Sawiris helped found a political party that advocates a secular state. It is part of a liberal coalition in the newly elected parliament, which won just 9% of the seats in the more powerful of the two houses.
Earlier this month, one of the Arab world's most famous Egyptian comedians was sentenced to three months in jail for offending Islam in his films. Adel Imam, who has appeared in many films and ten plays in a career that spans nearly 50 years, has the right to appeal.
In exchange for F-1 jetfighters, vehicles and an assortment of weapons, president for life Robert Mugabe would give the Chinese platinum, lithium, aluminum, zinc and diamonds ...
So the weapons came, amid much controversy except in the US and Zimbabwe is now at the mercy of the Communist Chinese, who now control most facets of business in the country. Platinum and diamond mines have been seized from their owners and given to the Chinese. Farms and even buildings have been mortgaged for weapons.
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A cheap jet fighter is just the thing for cowing your population. Ditto cheap Russian tanks and APCs. They'd never make it in a stand-up fight against a real military, but as Pencilneck in Syria is demonstrating, they're wonderful in suppressing those who oppose you.
Posted by: Steve White ||
03/01/2012 8:37 Comments ||
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Wasn't worth fighting for then, not worth fighting for at all, the West don't need no steenking platinum, (or gold, diamonds, copper or chrome).
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In exchange for F-1 jetfighters
The actual name is FC-1; the Pakistani equivalent is the JF-17. Which makes sense of a sort, considering Zimbawe uses Pakistani contract personnel to maintain its aircraft and, at least as of a few years ago, Pakistanis flew and maintained ZimBob police helicopters.
The Anglican bishop for Brazils northeastern state of Pernambuco was killed along with his wife by their son.
Edward Robinson Cavalcanti, 68, and his 64-year-old wife Miriam were stabbed to death on Sunday, February 26, in their home in the city of Olinda.
After killing his parents, Eduardo Olímpio Cotias Cavalcanti, 29, tried to commit suicide by drinking poison, and was hospitalized.
His father frequently wrote and preached diatribes against the United States as a white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, conservative nation. Yet, strangely, he visited the US regularly. And when his son was 16 years old, he sent him to study and live in the US.
Police inspector Joao Brito Alves told the Globo television network that he had learned that the son had a violent temper and was frequently under the influence of drugs.
Cavalcanti headed the Philosophy and Human Sciences Department of the Federal University of Pernambuco. He was a columnist in the leftist Calvinist magazine Ultimato. He was also the founder of Movimento Evangélico Progressista (Progressive Evangelical Movement), a NGO composed of leftist Protestant militants in Brazil.
Today the Progressive Evangelical Movement has changed its name for Evangelicals for Social Justice.
In the past, Cavalcanti was an active member of the socialist Workers Party, of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who even visited him. The Anglican bishop said that he left the Workers Party because, in his view, the party softened its socialist speech:
Since 1997, I am no longer a member of the Workers Party, because I was elected as an Anglican bishop. I have positive memoirs of my past of fights for the democratic State, for national sovereignty and for social justice. I also have increasingly negative perceptions of the ideological and programmatic rupture of that party. (Ultimato magazine, September/October 2004)
His diatribes against American conservatives consistently plagued his articles and sermons for years.
The Roman Catholic archbishop of Olinda and Recife, Rev. Fernando Saburido, said Cavalcantis death was a loss for Christianity.
He was sensitive to social issues and concerned with problems that affected the poor, Saburido told G1, Globo TVs Internet portal. He will be sorely missed.
Saburido is best known in Brazil as a liberal Catholic. In 2011, the Catholic university under his responsibility hosted a symposium on homoaffective law that gave advocates of the homosexual agenda a platform for promoting their ideology.
In the same year, the archbishop also led a march under the banner, The Cry of the Excluded (Grito dos Excluídos), in which pro-abortion, homosexualist, and socialist organizations had freely participated.
The killing of Cavalcanti shocked progressive evangelicals in Brazil, and is being mourned on The Huffington Post.
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You'd think they would ban Carnival Lines, owner of Costa Cruises, but no, they ban the British.
Oh, well. That's what happens when you play "The Iron Lady". Blocks "Socialist Governments", but gives the USSR 1 Influence in Argentina.
Posted by: Eric Jablow ||
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I'm sure the argentines don't need all that tourist cash. There is probably another port in the area that wouldn't mind. Argentina is shooting themselves in the foot to make a point that nobody cares about.
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IIRC DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > WIKILEAKS: BRAZIL WANTS BRITAIN OUT OF THE FALKLANDS [Malvinas], as it deems the South Atlantic its "sphere of influence", + stands wid Argentina, etc. agz the vestiges of alleged historical Euro-Colonialism in the Americas.
China is planning an investment blitz to unlock its vast reserves of shale gas, convinced it can match the energy revolution under way in the US and meet a significant part of its fast-growing fuel needs.
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Well, good! Go for it, China. If it is only half the size they say it is, that could be a game changer, and would make some turbans spin the same rpms as Iran UF6 centrifuges.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
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Indeed, Alaska Paul. Not to mention that this would turn them inward rather than buying up sellable corners of the world to empty of fuel supplies, a very good thing indeed.
Australia's Chief of the Army has vowed to take action over a private Facebook group of Defence Force members which contains racist, sexist and abusive material.
The site, which is used by more than 1,000 former and current members of the Royal Australian Regiment, refers to Muslims as "ragheads", suggests immigrants are unwelcome, and one post says "all women are filthy, lying whores."
Lieutenant-General David Morrison has launched an probe to find out if any of the obscene comments were posted by serving members. He says any serving members involved will be reprimanded.
Australia Defence Association executive director Neil James says, "Everyone should be horrified. I mean we had this problem in March last year with some racial postings on YouTube, and as the Defence Association said at the time, this type of things lets down your soldiers because it just provides propaganda to the enemy."
Dr Mark Drummond, a retired Navy officer and former lecturer at the Australian Defence Force Academy, says there should be no excuses for this type of activity.
He said, "The whole reason for being of the Defence Force is to uphold those values of freedom, democracy and justice and so on. It is the ultimate hypocrisy if the very institution responsible for upholding all of those values, breaches those values so blatantly."
Defence brass was alerted to the Facebook group and its contents eight months ago, when a member of the group contacted the Chief of Defence and the Department Secretary. He also took his concerns to the Defence Minister's office more than once.
The online group also serves a decent purpose, conducting fundraising for serving soldiers. Its administrators have warned members repeatedly to avoid overtly offensive material, but finding the right balance has presented a challenge.
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On Tuesday, an Egyptian court dismissed lawsuit brought by an 
Australia's Chief of the Army has vowed to take action over a private Facebook group of Defence Force members which contains racist, sexist and abusive material.
