BRIDGETON A 50-year-old city woman was read her rights Friday night after reporting she had not been delivered the marijuana she had attempted to purchase. "Hello? Police? Can you help me get my pot?" Law enforcers were dispatched to the area of Walnut and Marion streets shortly after 11 p.m. Friday for a reported theft. They said they were informed by Marsha A. Wilcox, of North Laurel Street, that she had come to that location to buy cannabis leaves. "Did we hear that right?"
According to police, Wilcox said that when she met with the subject she intended to buy from, he took her $20 but failed to hold up his end of the bargain by providing Mary Jane. "So he has broken the law, and must... ****!"
Wilcox immediately was given connected braclets and charged with wandering for purposes of obtaining a controlled dangerous substance. She was processed and released on a summons.
Chicago Mayor Rahm 'dancing man' Emanuel has a very strongly worded warning for gangs: Stay away from our kids.
Emanuel--formerly President Barack Obama's White House chief of staff and a Chicago-area congressman--is asking that even gang members show some regard for innocent children, and take their brawls "away to the alley" where bullets don't richochet much, dumpsters are readily available for the non-survivors.....and you are generally out of sight of the media.
Since machined into office 13 months ago, Emanuel has been embarrassed with a soaring values based murder, now the envy of the Taliban. As non-values related crime overall has dropped in the city and across the nation, Chicago already has had 275 murders this year, according to CBS News.
That's a staggering number, though still off pace to break the single-year homicide record of 970.
To combat the escalating murder rate, Emanuel's moved more than 1,000 very reluctant police officers from behind the safety of desks to the mean streets and beefed up patrols on pay day Fridays and weekends, when much of the violence and drug purchasing occurs, according to the Guardian and anyone else with an once of sense. The reluctant cops won't do much except eat donuts...
However, a look at the headlines at the top of ChicagoTribune.com this morning--"Clerk hurt when values deficient masked men armed with knife rob store," "8 wounded by gunfire in series of city shootings" and "Man acquitted of murder last year gunned down--make a pretty compelling statement: The Second City is still a violent place.
Emanuel puts the blame for the city's recent eruption of violence on gangs. The city has adjusted its strategy to focus on gang violence, he told CBS News. Certain liquor stores and communities where gangs congregate have been closed, and abandoned buildings have been boarded up or torn down.
He's also making a useless, but media savy appeal to gang members. That's our Rahm, useless but savvy...
When questioned about the death of 7-year-old Heaven Sutton, who was caught in the crossfire of rival gang members as she sold candy in front of her home in June, Emanuel commented, "It's not about crime, or candy, it's about values." He was pressed to clarify the comment.
His weak response:
"We've got two gang-bangers along with tens of thousands just like them, one standing next to a kid. Get away from that kid. Take your stuff [dope] away to the alley. Don't touch the children of the city of Chicago. Don't get near them. And it is about values. ... And I don't buy this case where people say they don't have values. They do have values. They have the wrong values. Don't come near the kids--don't touch them and don't touch me either."
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this is funny, what a bunch of nonsense. The values of gangbangers will only be altered insofar as the govt gets out of the welfare entitlement business, promotes the worth of the family, and when the state of Illinois allows concealed-carry permits to flourish amongst its residents. The same policies Rahm & his old-boss endorse enables this behavior.
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Of course, when republicans/conservatives pointed out the values problem a lot earlier, when it would have helped, THEY were declared the problem, and their assertion as a crime.
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Gotta wonder how much drugs have to do with this crime wave, especially with the Mexican border now wide open due to the policies of Emanuel's old boss. With an increased flow of drugs you might expect gangs to be fighting over turf and junkies to be stealing for their next fix.
Spam, the legendary canned meat whose very name invokes delight in some and queasiness in many more, turns 75 this month. The product's parent company, Hormel Foods Corp., is celebrating with what it calls a "Spamtastic" birthday bash at the Spam manufacturing plant in Austin, Minn., complete with a headlining performance by the Temptations.
On the advertising front, Spam is marking the occasion by introducing its first-ever mascot -- a stubby, mustachioed cartoon knight named Sir Can-A-Lot. Visit Spam's surprisingly lush product website, and you can follow the little fellow on an animated journey through the Glorious Spam Tower and up into outer space, where you will be greeted by the knight in constellation form.
Sir Can-A-Lot is just the latest in long tradition of shrewd marketing moves for Spam, which seems to have thrived in the US more by poking gentle fun at itself than by actual taste (though enthusiasts in Hawaii and Asia might disagree). Hormel first introduced the canned, processed lunch meat in 1937; the name "Spam" came from combining the words "spiced" and "ham." Shortly thereafter, it became a staple of army diets during World War II, when an estimated 100 million pounds of Spam were shipped overseas to feed Allied troops. Many returned home without much enthusiasm for the stuff -- real meat was hard to come by during the war, and low-cost Spam found its way into nearly every meal for the troops, who called it "ham that didn't pass its physical." Today, an estimated 3.8 cans of Spam are eaten every second in the United States -- even if we don't always like to admit it.
The same can't be said for parts of Asia and Hawaii, where Spam is hugely -- and, unironically -- popular. Residents of Hawaii, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands eat the most Spam per capita in the US and its territories. Burger King and McDonald's locations in Hawaii both feature Spam on their menus, and Spam musubi -- a sort of spam in sushi form, paired with white rice and wrapped in seaweed -- is a signature dish of the islands. You can also get certain varieties of Spam in these regions that you won't find in the mainland US, including Honey Spam, Spam with bacon, and Hot and Spicy Spam (with Tabasco sauce).
Seven billion cans of Spam have been manufactured worldwide as of 2007, but its image in the States is still that of an unappetizing, indestructible mystery meat -- a throwback to the Twinkie-dominated era of midcentury non-perishables that have gone largely out of fashion today. Spam even had its own Rockettes-style dance troupe for a time after World War II, the Hormel Girls. Made up of former G.I. women, the group toured around the country promoting Spam and even had a short-lived radio show.
But the canned meat may have gone the way of the Twinkie (parent company Hostess filed for bankruptcy protection earlier this year) if not for the British sketch comedy troupe Monty Python. Their classic "Spam" sketch features a woman unsuccessfully trying to avoid Spam on a diner's breakfast menu (the word "Spam" even badgers its way into the ending credits). The sketch is credited with popularizing the term "spam" for unwanted emails. (Hormel tried to fight this as trademark infringement initially, but eventually just requested that email "spam" remained lowercase.) Hormel has embraced the Monty Python connection, lending Spam's name and corporate sponsorship to the hit 2004 musical, "Spamalot." The new knight mascot, too, seems inspired by that show, a remake of the 1975 classic "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."
Spam's tradition of loving self-deprecation continues, if sometimes reluctantly. In 2001, Hormel opened an expansive Spam musem at the Austin, Minn, manufacturing plant location, where, in addition to canning Spam in a mock assembly line and eating at an all-Spam restaurant, you can screen Monty Python sketches. Another big facet of Spam's popularity is state fairs, many of which hold Spam recipe contests. The annual "Spamarama" held every April Fool's Day in Austin, Texas, has a contest with the objective of coming up with a way to make Spam edible, and one suspects that's the unspoken goal of many other such contests.
And Hormel doesn't always take the Spam bashing in stride. In 2006, the company threatened to sue a local Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands newspaper for articles decrying Spam, which has a very high salt content, as having adverse effects on the local population.
Still, if it continues selling at its current rate (122 million can per year, according to Hormel), Spam will roll out its 8 billionth can in two years or so. So while many of us may love Spam solely for its joke potential, many more love it honestly, and have for three quarters of a century.
A spoon of butter is a good addition, and an old cast iron skillet.
MUCH better.
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Origin of Spam's Pacific region popularity:
Spam was introduced into the aforementioned areas, in addition to other islands in the Pacific such as Okinawa and the Philippine Islands, during the U.S. military occupation after World War II. Since fresh meat was difficult to get to the soldiers on the front, World War II saw the largest use of Spam. G.I. started eating Spam for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. (Some soldiers referred to Spam as "ham that didn't pass its physical" and "meatloaf without basic training".)[16] Army soldiers commonly refer to SPAM as Special Army Meat due to its introduction during the war. Surpluses of Spam from the soldiers' supplies made their way into native diets. Consequently, Spam is a unique part of the history and effects of U.S. influence in the Pacific.
My own favorite is a Spam and peanut butter sandwich. Slice the Spam thin (1/8" or thereabouts) and fry it up nice and crispy, then put it in a sandwich with peanut butter on lightly-toasted rye bread.
Heaven.
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Spam Fajitas.
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I think I'll just have more of my Totrtelini Al Arabiata.
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Where's Joe M! Out celebrating? My Chamorro neighbors love the stuff. They grill it, teriyaki it, do just about everything with it, and make it pretty tasty
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The trick with Spam is, y'gotta slice it thin. If it's too thick it's too salty.
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Spam is a staple in Hawai'i... that and poi... ukka.
[An Nahar] Egypt's dissolved parliament convened on Tuesday in defiance of the powerful military and the judiciary, amid a legal crisis triggered by a presidential decree to reinstate the Islamist-led assembly.
"We are gathered today to review the court rulings, the ruling of the Supreme Constitutional Court," which ordered the house invalid, speaker Saad al-Katatni said.
"I want to stress, we are not contradicting the ruling, but looking at a mechanism for the implementation of the ruling of the respected court. There is no other agenda today," he added.
Last month, the Supreme Constitutional Court said certain articles in the law governing the parliamentary elections were invalid, annulling the house.
The military, which ruled Egypt after Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... was ousted in last year's popular uprising, then dissolved the house and took legislative control using a document granting the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) sweeping powers.
But on Sunday, President Mohammed Morsi, a former member of the powerful Moslem Brüderbund, ordered the lower house to reconvene just a week after taking the oath as head of state.
His move highlighted the power struggle between the president and the SCAF, after the constitutional declaration issued by the military basically defanged the post of president.
Morsi's decree was hailed by those who want to see the army return to barracks, but it was slammed by those who fear an Islamist monopolization of power as a "constitutional coup."
Islamist parties including the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party -- which Morsi headed before becoming president -- and Salafist parties attended Tuesday's parliamentary session.
But several MPs from liberal and leftist parties boycotted the gathering.
Katatni insisted during a brief opening statement aired live on television that the house "respects the law and judicial rulings."
On Monday, the Supreme Constitutional Court rejected Morsi's decree, saying that all of its rulings were binding.
"All the rulings and decisions of the Supreme Constitutional Court are final and not subject to appeal... and are binding for all state institutions," it said.
The court stressed that it was "not a part of any political conflict... but the limit of its sacred duty is the protection of the texts of the constitution."
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According to several reports in the Arabic media, prominent Mohammedanholy men have begun to call for the demolition of Egypt's Great Pyramids--or, in the words of Saudi Sheikh Ali bin Said al-Rabi'i, those "symbols of paganism," which Egypt's Salafi party has long planned to cover with wax. Most recently, Bahrain's "Sheikh of Sunni Sheikhs" and President of National Unity, Abd al-Latif al-Mahmoud, called on Egypt's new president, Muhammad Morsi, to "destroy the Pyramids and accomplish what the Sahabi Amr bin al-As could not."
This is a reference to the Mohammedan Prophet Muhammad's companion, Amr bin al-As and his Arabian rustics, who invaded and conquered Egypt circa 641. Under al-As and subsequent Mohammedan rule, many Egyptian antiquities were destroyed as relics of infidelity. While most Western academics argue otherwise, according to early Mohammedan writers, the great Library of Alexandria itself--deemed a repository of pagan knowledge contradicting the Koran--was destroyed under bin al-As's reign and in compliance with Caliph Omar's command.
However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... while book-burning was an easy activity in the 7th century, destroying the mountain-like pyramids and their guardian Sphinx was not--even if Egypt's Medieval Mamluk rulers "de-nosed" the latter during target practice (though popular legend still attributes it to a Westerner, Napoleon).
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The lazy ba$tards already ripped off all the beautiful white limestone coverings to build Cairo. Can't they just leave it at that? They also volunteered to deconstruct the Red Pyramid back in the 1800s or so if I remember right.
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See also WAFF [old] > [Ayatollah Khamenei]IRAN LEADER: WE MUST PREPARE FOR WAR AND END-TIMES.
Wehell ya know, DAILY MAIL.UK > CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY = "MAVERICK", aka TOM CRUISE, may have TELEKINETIC + TELEPATHIC POWERS???
[MADONNA-N-MAVERICK-RECORDS here].
OOOOOOOOOO, you just know OWG MADONNA = BIG SIS isn't gonna like it iff His Jedi powers are stronger than hers.
and
* SAME > IRAN [nuke-powered]SUBMARINE PLAN MAY FUEL WESTERN NUCLEAR WORRIES.
versus
* TOPIX > JALILI: IRAN'S ENEMIES FEAR ISLAMIC AWAKENING, NOT [Iran = Islamic]NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
* SAME, DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > MUSLIMS MAY COMPRISE ONE-FOURTH OF WORLD POPULATION BY 2015, ONE-THIRD BY 2030, iff current Birth = Demographic rates hold true.
Looks like CHINA [Indjuh = India?] has competition???
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The Pyramids don't worry me much. I'm far more concerned about the treasures of the Egyptian Museum. Take 50 heavily armed man and the treasures of Tutankhamun would be gone before we'd even have a chance to react.
Wouldn't hurt to have a rescue plan ready if the situation worsens.
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I've been predicting this since the Taliban blew up the Buddhas. Too bad I was right this time. I expect the treasures of Luxor to go first and the treasures of the museums as they are easiest to destroy.
The pyramids will take some doing but they'll get there eventually.
Have we decided on the lowest level of scum to compare these "people" to? Even pond scum has some redeeming value.
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Shovel ready for the vast unemployed of Egypt. If they working, they're too busy to revolt [again]. /sarc off
Haven't we seen this movie already were disturbing long buried antiquities unleashes unimaginable horrors. It couldn't happen to a better set of characters. Pass the popcorn.
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Islamists are to hate idols. And idol worshippers. They believe that anything that is made from material, can be seen that represents diety should be destroyed. They have been doing this for 1600 years. Pyramids, statues, carvings, the Bible...
They believe that one should worship the unseen Allah.
(sarc)(But don't you dare touch that Koran!!!!)(/sarc)
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"It's a World Heritage Site, it belongs to the entire Human species, not just to Egypt. Tell them if they destroy the pyramids, we'll destroy Cairo. Your call."
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Seriously, I could see the MB holding the antiqities hostage, demanding payments to not destroy the Pyramids and the various temples, shrines, etc. I can totally see them doing that ... and after shaking down the rest of the world going ahead and doing it anyway.
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Well, it's not like they'll have a tourist industry anymore, so they might as well tear them down and build another (insert arabic word for "barrio" here).
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Why is it that as soon as current adherents of Islam take charge of a polity they immediately decide to either kill people or destroy something, or both?
In that the future must contain people and things that were not destroyed today, how can this concept of Islam hope to continue into the future? Unless Islam changes its nature, it must be opposed by everything else that hopes to be part of the future. And everything else is a lot.
Take this as a warning, all adherents of Islam reading this now. Choose to change in your own ways, before change comes upon you. The death and destruction you espouse today will redound upon you a thousand times more in the future.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] The International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... enjugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga for 14 years Tuesday for using child soldiers in his rebel army, the first sentence to be handed down by the world's only permanent war crimes tribunal.
"Taking into account all the factors... the court sentences Mr Lubanga to 14 years in prison," presiding Judge Adrian Fulford said at the tribunal in an address in which he also took aim at the prosecution in the case.
Lubanga, 51, was convicted in March of war crimes, specifically for using child soldiers in his rebel army in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo or Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. It's principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... in 2002-03, in the ICC's first verdict since it started work a decade ago.
The former militia commander was sentenced Tuesday by a three-judge bench at a public hearing in The Hague for his part in a war in the Ituri region which rights groups say killed some 60,000 civilians between 1999 and 2006.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] More than 200 former fighters of the Sierra Leonean army have threatened to disrupt the November elections over delayed retirement benefits.
The former Death Eaters on Monday occupied part of the police headquarters in Freetown and barricaded the iconic Cotton Tree in the city as they demonstrated against continued failure of the government to pay their retirement benefits.
"We will disrupt the elections on November if our benefits are not paid by the government," one of the protesters said.
The former fighters, some of whom waved placards carrying various messages, also threatened to return to the bush if the authorities failed to pay them.
One of the protesters said that as trained fighters, they would have no choice but to go "back to the bush" if that is what it would take to resolve their problems.
The Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone last year ruled that the war veterans be paid their dues.
The 235 former jihad boys, who fought in the 1991-2002 civil war, challenged their "unlawful dismissal" and "unfair categorisation" when they were retired from the military in 2009.
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Whoever promised to pay them, arrest them and charge them with Terrorism, it'l stick.
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The aging Mau Mau are also pushing for veteran's status and reparations pensions. One must wonder how many murdered British families or butchered Christian missionaries it actually takes to qualify.
[Bangla Daily Star] BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday claimed that the World Bank had specifically accused three persons, including Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since 1981. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide... , of being involved in the Padma bridge corruption.
"The names of the prime minister, Finance Minister AMA Muhith and former communications minister Syed Abul Hossain were mentioned in the World Bank letter," he said, without mentioning how he had come to know this piece of information.
Mirza Fakhrul, acting secretary general of the main opposition, was addressing a discussion at the Jatiya Press Club in the capital.
He also said the international community was now pointing fingers at the premier and that the government should step down.
The ruling Awami League men had already embezzled $35 million even before the start of the bridge construction, the opposition leader alleged.
"The Awami League had promised that it would show zero tolerance to corruption but the fact is that corruption is now rife everywhere from the grassroots level to government high-ups."
Asking the government to make public the World Bank letter on the issue, he said it had been revealed in national and international media that persons close to the prime minister's family were also involved with the Padma bridge corruption.
Zia Adarsha Sangsad organised the programme, which was chaired by BNP Standing Committee Member Abdul Moyeen Khan.
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Ronald Reagan made secret plans to loan Britain a U.S. warship if she lost an aircraft carrier during the Falklands War, it has emerged. The then-president was prepared to support Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher despite the U.S. being officially neutral during the 1982 conflict.
The stunning revelation was made by John Lehman, the former U.S. Secretary of the Navy, to the U.S. Naval Institute on Tuesday.
Mr Reagan would have loaned Britain the use of the amphibious warship USS Iwo Jima should harm have come to either HMS Invincible or HMS Hermes, which the Royal Navy had deployed to defend the islands from Argentinian forces.
Mr Lehman said that he formulated the plans to stand behind Mrs Thatcher with Secretary of Defence Caspar Weinberger following a British request. Mr Reagan is said to have approved their proposal without hesitation, telling Mr Lehman: 'Give Maggie everything she needs to get on with it.'
The plans were put together in complete secrecy.
Mr Lehman said: 'We would leave the State Department, except for [Secretary of State Al] Haig, out of it.
'As in most of the requests from the Brits at the time, it was an informal request on a "what if" basis, Navy to Navy.'
Both HMS Invincible or HMS Hermes were equipped to handle five vertical take-off Sea Harriers armed with American Sidewinder missiles. These specifications made the USS Iwo Jima an ideal replacement as, although primarily a helicopter carrier, it was able to operate the U.S. version of the Sea Harrier.
It is likely that the ship would have been manned by a mix of retired seamen and privately contracted Americans familiar with the ship's operating systems.
Admiral James 'Ace' Lyson, commander of the U.S. Second Fleet in 1982, helped plan the possible deployment of a U.S. ship in the South Atlantic. Now retired, he said: 'We decided that the USS Iwo Jima would be the ship that would be the easiest for the British to operate and would make for a smooth transfer.
'We also identified "contract advisors" who would be on board to help the British with some of the systems.'
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Should things take a turn, owing to his obvious distate for Bangers and Mash anything British, and of course out of fairness, the Champ will probably give the Argies CVN 76, the USS Ronald Reagan. The classic Obama, twofold stick in the eye.
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Possibly the same thing will happen with the PI.
'Loan' them aging vessels to get them out of DoD inventory as a operational cost reduction, then charge the PI for upgrades, which will be paid for thru State Dept. aid programs.
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Not a bad thought but the PI needs, more than even the ships or planes, the training to handle same. I don't doubt the intelligence or bravery of the average Filipino solider or sailor, but one doesn't create a modern military overnight.
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Takes alot to run a carrier. The Iwo Jima was close to what the Brits had at the time. If the Argies got the Reagan they probably couldn't get it out of port without a full american crew.
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dad reminded me about the first warship the US gave Taiwan. Before their navy could secure it mobs stole all the brass and copper out of it. The PI today is in even worse shape. Perhaps ultra-lights would be a better gift?
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"Mr Reagan would have loaned Britain the use of the amphibious warship USS Iwo Jima should harm have come to either HMS Invincible or HMS Hermes, which the Royal Navy had deployed to defend the islands from Argentinian forces."
So ... if the British had lost just one of these ships - they had no backup? None??
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Raider, yes. They really took a chance. Which is why when the Gnrl Belgrano was in the sites they took the shot despite it being outside the UKs declared exclusion zone.
Plan b was probably (this is a guess) to land Harriers on the Falklands and attack more directly than intended to secure a runway there to bring in aviation fuel.
Military operations are about risk management while pursuing the intended goal. Did the British send one carrier? No, they sent two. Did they make a deal with the U.S. to get a third if needed? Yes. Did they send one nuke submarine south? No, they sent a bunch. Could they at any time nuke everyone? Yes.
The Argentinians were fools to fight. They were doomed to lose. And the better they fought the more horrible the forces would have been to crush them. Thank God for the perfidy of the French, which may have saved the lives of millions.
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IIRC the ATLANTIC CONVEYOR was converted to carry a couple of RN Harriers - what in WW2 were labeled as "Merchant Aircraft Carriers" for the air, anti-sub defense or support of organz Allied convoys in the ATO.
Once it became clear that a shooting war between the UK + Argies was inevitable, the US' priority became making sure NATO principal UK emerged victorious ASAP, albeit at minimal losses AMAP to the Argies, due to the then-Soviet threat [ Western Europe + Afghanistan + Africa]. This made an active USN Carrier [wid non-USN Crews] paramount, NOT a MARAD RR/IFR vessel.
[El Universal] Government officials met with Venezuelan bishops at the headquarters of the Venezuelan Bishops' Conference (CEV) in Montalban, southwest Caracas. President Hugo Chavez telephoned Monsignor Diego Padrón, the President of the CEV
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Yup, Church is all he has left, and I doubt he'll be heard.
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[Dawn] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) chief Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five... on Tuesday assailed the government again by severally criticising the recently adopted contempt of court bill and said that it will be challenged in court, DawnNews reported.
Speaking to media representatives, Khan said that the bill is based on 'ill-intentions' of the rulers and has divided the nation.
The PTI chief said that the rulers have introduced the bill to hide their pilfering and corruption. "There is a big cirque about to commence between government and judiciary," he envisaged.
Khan further went on to say that the government will milk this law first and then will contest election with that money.
He alleged that the government has tried providing a cover to country's bureaucracy with the help of this law. "These rulers have removed 'law' from the county all together," he added.
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[An Nahar] Pak politicians have passed a bill that would exempt senior government ministers from contempt of court proceedings, a move seen as a bid to save the new prime minister from disqualification.
The Supreme Court has given Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf until Thursday to indicate whether he will obey an order to ask Swiss authorities to reopen multi-million dollar corruption cases against the president.
The court dismissed Yousuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's former prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics could be awe-inspiring ... as prime minister on June 19 after convicting him of contempt in April for refusing to reopen the cases against President Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari ... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in ... The bill passed by the lower house of the Pak parliament on Monday night said senior government figures including the president, prime minister and ministers could not be found guilty of contempt for acts performed as part of their job.
The bill must be passed by the upper house and signed off by the president before it becomes law.
The main opposition party Pakistain Moslem League-N headed by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... boycotted the proceedings, but party front man Siddiqul Farooq condemned the new bill.
"Since it is designed and aimed to protect one person namely Asif Ali Zardari from accountability, therefore it has no constitutional, legal and moral effects," he told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Ashraf defended the bill, saying it would not obstruct anyone from doing their duties, nor would it make anyone a "holy cow".
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Pak politicians have passed a bill that would exempt senior government ministers from contempt of court proceedings
The Margalla police tossed in the slammer You have the right to remain silent... 42 persons on separate charges, including alleged bootlegging and sex trade.
On a tip-off, the police raided two guest houses in F-8/3 and F-8/4.
The F-8/4 guest house was owned by a Chinese national where he had set up a distillery. As many as 319 bottles of liquor were recovered from there. The police also tossed in the slammer You have the right to remain silent... the owner of the guest house.
In another raid at the guest house of a retired army officer, the police tossed in the slammer You have the right to remain silent... eight persons, including three sex workers, two of them from Azerbaijan. However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... the owner is still on the lam.
Meanwhile, ...back at the sandwich shop, Caroline was experimenting with ingredients of increasing volatility... 33 outlaws, including an impersonator, were also tossed in the slammer You have the right to remain silent... from different areas.
The Crime Investigation Agency raided Noorpur Shahan and recovered 210 bottles of wine and 600gm hashish. However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... the two carriers of the liquor and narcotics escaped.
The Tarnol police tossed in the slammer You have the right to remain silent... a man who had impersonated himself as a policeman.The Shalimar police took into custody seven Afghan nationals on their failure to produce traveling documents and valid visas.
The Kohsar police, in response to a complaint, raided a hotel in Blue Area and tossed in the slammer You have the right to remain silent... 22 persons, including seven girls. The group of youngsters was creating a scene under the
influence of alcohol.
The police also tossed in the slammer You have the right to remain silent... a man after recovery of 110gm hashish from his possession.
The Sabzi Mandi and Golra police tossed in the slammer You have the right to remain silent... one person each after recovering a 30-bore pistol and four cans of beer from them.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] An Israeli court on Tuesday found former prime minister Ehud Olmert guilty on one charge in a closely watched corruption case, but cleared him on two other charges, in a verdict he hailed as just.
The decision to convict Olmert on the lesser charge of "breach of trust," over favours he granted a former colleague during his time as minister, could jeopardise Olmert's political future.
But the Jerusalem district court's acquittal of the former leader on the two more serious corruption charges, related to his alleged receipt of cash-stuffed envelopes and multiple-billing for trips abroad, was seen as a victory for Olmert.
"We unanimously decided... to convict the defendant on the felony of breach of trust," the three judges overseeing the case wrote in the verdict.
Olmert still faces a second trial over allegations he accepted bribes during his time as Jerusalem mayor to smooth the way for the construction of the massive Holyland residential complex in the city.
But his acquittal on the most serious charges against him in this trial, including the allegations that forced him to resign from his post as prime minister in 2008, was described as a win for him by political observers.
Olmert faced three primary allegations in the first trial against him. The first charge, on which he was convicted, related to favours he granted a former colleague, Uri Messer, during his time as trade and industry minister.
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[Saudi Gazette] Philippine police said an alleged bandit leader and 10 other inmates beat feet from a jail in the south of the country Tuesday by cutting through iron bars with a hacksaw.
The group bolted from the jail in Cotabato City after using the smuggled saw to get through the iron grills of a toilet room window, local police chief Danny Reyes told news hounds.
"Pursuit operations involving the Marines are ongoing," said Reyes, adding that the manhunt involved dozens of police and military units.
The group's leader was identified as Datukan Samad, described by police as a "high profile" bandit charged with a spate of murders, highway robberies, kidnappings, and cattle rustling operations in the south.
Reyes said it was not clear how the inmates obtained the crude hacksaw, but jail officials admitted corruption was a major problem in many detention facilities especially in provincial areas.
The escape happened a day after President Benigno Aquino III lauded jail authorities for tightening notoriously lax security in prisons.
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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
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BRIDGETON A 50-year-old city woman was 
Egypt's dissolved parliament convened on Tuesday in defiance of the powerful military and the judiciary, amid a legal crisis triggered by a presidential decree to reinstate the Islamist-led assembly.
According to several reports in the Arabic media, prominent 
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More than 200 former fighters of the Sierra Leonean army have threatened to disrupt the November elections over delayed retirement benefits.
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since 1981. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide...
Government officials met with Venezuelan bishops at the headquarters of the Venezuelan Bishops' Conference (CEV) in Montalban, southwest Caracas. President Hugo Chavez telephoned Monsignor Diego Padrón, the President of the CEV
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The Margalla police 
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] An Israeli court on Tuesday found former prime minister Ehud Olmert guilty on one charge in a closely watched corruption case, but cleared him on two other charges, in a verdict he hailed as just.
