*snicker* Um, right.
Angela Merkel, Germany's first woman chancellor, has succeeded U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on the Forbes list as the world's most powerful woman.
Merkel, widely respected for her quiet diplomacy and a firm believer in free-market capitalism, won a tight election last year to unseat Gerhard Schroeder in the top German government post.
Forbes magazine, in announcing its choices for the 100 most powerful women, cited a record 30 women are serving in high echelons of government, up from 24 a year ago, including Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the president of Liberia, and Chilean President Michelle Bachelet. Han Myung-sook is South Korea's first female prime minister.
Forbes said 48 women were running big companies as chief executives or chairwomen throughout the world, up from 35 last year, among them Indra Nooyi, Irene Rosenfeld and Patricia Woertz in the top jobs at PepsiCo, Kraft Foods and Archer Daniels Midland. How sexist.
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I was telecommuting one day and by a stroke of Satan luck, was treated to a camera trip through Katie's colon. Various signposts were noted.."brain", "bright ideas", "fake sincerity" "anti-Bush spin", Something tells me it wasn't treated. Her ads talking about telling us what we need to know and how it affects us sound like the same old crap - with even lower ratings after the meme moves on.
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bwaaaaaa the flash 9 thingy wont play^^%^%%$$#@#@
AN Israeli man was left severely injured and in the middle of a minefield near the Syrian border today after crashing his paraglider. The unidentified man took off from a peak in the Golan Heights and drifted east towards the Syrian and Jordanian borders before crashing in the minefield, injuring his legs and breaking several bones, rescue services said. "He's in the process of being rescued," an army spokesman said.
Paragliding, in which participants jump off tall peaks or cliffs with a parachute strapped to their back, is a popular sport in the Golan, where there are many steep mountains along Israel's northeastern border.
The man's parachute is believed to have malfunctioned.
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.
