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May she rot in hell.
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As minister of education ... she used her role to politicise the GDR’s state education system, saturating the curriculum with Marxist-Leninist propaganda
This really makes our current regime sound like a blast from the past. Is there anyone that thinks the progressives in the education system here objects to that?
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"Every pilot should fly a Spitfire at least once". AMEN!!!!!!
Spit Mark 11, Merlin engine, no armour plating, no guns, no ammo, LOTS of extra fuel and oil, cameras, climb high and go like blazes, fly all day. Damn but I was born too late (1944).
Since coal use is down so much the farmland in Illinois is getting low in sulfur (air pollution used to provide it) and may now need to be fertilized with sulfur based fertilizers.
Air pollution legislation to control fossil fuel emissions and the associated acid rain has worked - perhaps leading to the need for sulfur fertilizers for crop production. A University of Illinois study drawing from over 20 years of data shows that sulfur levels in Midwest watersheds and rivers have steadily declined, so much so that farmers may need to consider applying sulfur in the not too distant future.
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while this may be so, the article misstates the cause of acidic soil. Rain is naturally acidic in the absence of ash in the air. Ash gets in the air from burning fuel. 'Acid rain' only became a problem when at the behest of the EPA ash was removed from the air to reduce pollution by it. Fortunately acid soil or water is easily sweetened by application of lime, and acid rain is therefore not a significant problem anywhere.
Lack of sulfur in soil can probably be handled by application of some other compound.
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Yet another opportunity for farm subsidy. Evidently there are a few who are not yet Democrats. We must go after them to ensure they vote properly. See your extension office for details.
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No you can't replace sulfur with another compound. Sulfur is a plant nutrient. It was in my old horticulture texts that said that lack of sulfur was rare because of fossil fuel use. So most recommendations for fertilizer was say to use ammonium nitrate instead of ammonium sulfate since the soil had plenty of sulfur.
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Sent the story to a family farmer in Neb who have had their farm for >120 years. This year was the first time their soil ever needed sulfur added. 25lbs/acre. (+3000 acres)
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There are mountains of sulfur in Kazahkstan extracted from the sour oil so they can sell it. You can probably name your price if you come get it. Likewise, lots of sulfur removed from gas and oil in other places - come and get it. So much sulfur is available that the true sulfur mines have shut down as uneconomic.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Sales of Zim-bob-wean 100 trillion-dollar notes ‐ now long defunct as real currency ‐ have been fetching some speculators returns of 1,500 percent.
Back in 2009, as massive hyperinflation in the impoverished African country hit a peak, one of the massive notes would have barely bought a bus fare.
But now, single 100 trillion-dollar bills are fetching up to $57 on auction site Ebay, the UK-based Guardian reported on Saturday.
Zim-bob-we has since abandoned its currency altogether for the US dollar, South African rand and several other foreign currencies.
However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... the notes live on as souvenirs of a time gone by ‐ and a lucrative investment.
John Wolstencroft, a UK-based private investor interviewed by the Guardian, originally bought the novelty notes as gifts before realizing they would soon become a collector’s item.
The notes soon became popular with financial advisors hoping to persuade clients that cash, as with all things, does not hold its value forever.
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Paid much less than that for mine. Have it framed as a reminder of what governments are really about.
... with an original score by Engelbert Humperdinck... [Khaama (Afghanistan)] A teenage girl was burnt alive allegedly by her brother’s wife in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan, local officials said Saturday.
The incident took place in the 2nd police district of Jalalabad city, the thriving provincial capital of Nangarhar earlier today.
According to the police sources, the victim has been identified as Mursal who was around 15-year-old and was a student of 9th grade.
The sources further added that Mursal was thrown into the oven by her brother’s wife who used the opportunity as there was no one present in the house.
The alleged perpetrator has been nabbed Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! and is in police custody for further investigation, police sources said, adding that the woman has not confessed to the horrific crime so far.
The horrific incident has sent shockwaves across the country which comes as violence against women has been rampant across the country.
Incidents involving violence against women are not new but such incidents involving a woman committing violence against another woman has rarely been reported.
The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) in its report released late in November last year said "statistic of violence against women, obtained from the registered cases of violence against women during the first six months in 1394 exceeds 2579 cases."
The report further added that figure was reported 2403 cases during the six months in 1393 which shows 7.32 percent increase in 1394, the last solar year.
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[EC Radio] The South African Navy has been brought in to help give chase to eight Chinese vessels believed to be fishing illegally in the country's waters.
The Department of Fisheries says a total of nine vessels were spotted around Durban, Port St Johns and Cape Recife over the past week.
Spokesperson Bomikazi Molapo says the vessels were traced yesterday after South African patrol ship, Victoria Mxenge was dispatched to search for them.
She says the Chinese fishing trawlers were then escorted to the Port of Saldanha Bay for inspection but things changed in the evening.
"Unfortunately, the vessels started dispersing in different directions, making it difficult for our patrol vessel to give chase to all of them. They gave chase to one of the vessels and have managed to capture it. They've boarded that particular vessel and are currently escorting that vessel to the ports of Cape Town where it should arrive tomorrow morning," she said.
Molapo says they can only confirm what sea species, if any, the vessels were possibly looking for once they have had a thorough look through the seized boat after it arrives at Cape Town Harbour.
Any similarity between the SA Gov't response to this incident and our Champ's response to border security and illegal immigration, are purely coincidental.
It always happens that way: just when the Saudis need to borrow to maintain their standard of living, the interest rate goes up.
[IsraelTimes] Crash in the cost of crude means potential trouble for world’s largest exporter, US-based credit rating
Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ’s credit rating has been downgraded by Moody’s because of the long and deep slump in oil prices.
Moody’s Investors Service said Saturday that it also downgraded Gulf oil producers Bahrain and Oman. It left ratings unchanged for other Gulf states including Kuwait and Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... Saudi Arabia is the world’s largest oil exporter. Moody’s cut the country’s long-term issuer rating one notch to A1 from Aa3 after a review that began in March.
Crude prices fell from more than $100 in mid-2014 to under $30 a barrel in February, although they have recovered into the mid-$40s. Benchmark international crude settled Friday at $47.83 a barrel.
"A combination of lower growth, higher debt levels and smaller domestic and external buffers leave the Kingdom less well positioned to weather future shocks," Moody’s said in a note.
Moody’s lowered Oman to Baa1 from A3 and Bahrain to Ba2 from Ba1. The ratings agency did not downgrade Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates or Abu Dhabi, but it assigned a negative outlook to each.
Oil prices slumped because of production that grew faster than demand. Surging production from shale operators in the United States contributed to the glut. So did the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, which decided in November 2014, several months after prices began falling, to continue pumping rather than give up market share.
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Ah yes let's not revel in our friends misfortune, that would be RONG! Let join together as one in the spiritual sense and pray together for a higher price on war and an even.........
[DAWN] The video of a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) taking oath went viral on Friday. Hoot, mon!
Humza Yousaf, MSP for Glasgow Pollok from the Scottish National Party (SNP), first took the oath of allegiance in English and then in Urdu, as other members gave their oath in Doric, Gaelic and Scots as well as English. O, wad some pow'r the giftie gie us to hear oursel's as others see us...
Yousaf proudly paid homage to his roots with his outfit as well as his language, pairing a traditional Scottish kilt with a sherwani jacket.
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WTF??!!
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Doric???
p.s. what's the difference between Gaelic and Scots?
Badin District and Sessions Judge Tariq Mehmood Khoso on Friday set free 30 men, women and kiddies who were forced into bonded labour by a landowner in Chak-43 of Golarchi for many months.
Complainant Mallah Mohammed had filed his application in the court stating that his family members and relatives had been forced into bonded labour by their employer, Malik Akhtar Awan, on his lands. He stated that they were neither being given their due share in crop nor were they allowed a free movement as per the Tenancy Act.
The judge ordered the Golarchi police to carry out a raid on the specified place and rescue the bonded labourers and their families if found there.
The police found seven men, 10 women and 13 children kept at the raided place and brought them to the court.
After recording the victims’ statements, the judge set all of them at freedom.
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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.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A teenage girl was burnt alive allegedly by her brother’s wife in eastern 
[DAWN] The video of a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) taking oath went viral on Friday.
