According to her wikipedia bio, Hines and Alan Young appeared together again in 1996, in the two-person play Love Letters. Alan Young, btw, is now 90 years old.
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Whale-hugging eco-freaks with death rays? This must be the 21st century!
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Sea Shepherd is a criminal organization openly organizing and funding piracy and terrorism in the US and Europe. Our failure to prosecute this gang and its numerous enablers will come back to haunt as Japan continues to asserts itself in the future.
Didn't the Sea Shepard earlier file a complaint that a Japanese Wailer had 'attached' a helicopter with fire-hoses? (What was the Helo doing within firehouse range anyway?).
If you look at some of the linked videos you can see what appears to be 'Greenpace' actually ramming a whaler. And another were GP complains that two of their activists are 'kidnapped' when they are detained while boarding (uninvited) a whaler.
Didn't the Sea Shepard earlier file a complaint that a Japanese Whailer had 'attacked' a helicopter with fire-hoses? (What was the Helo doing within firehouse range anyway?).
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And another were GP complains that two of their activists are 'kidnapped' when they are detained while boarding (uninvited) a whaler.
Another case for "shoot, shovel, and shut up". Uninvited boarders are just pirates; treat them that way.
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"Well, you see, officer, when one of them tried to climb aboard, we turned hard to port to try to shake him off. Unfortunately, he fell overboard. When we came about to try to pick him up, we accidentally rammed the Sea Shepherd at full speed. The thing sunk like a stone. By that time, the guy who had fallen overboard had disappeared too. We looked for them for a while, but couldn't find him. Or any other survivors from the Sea Shepherd."
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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[Bangla Daily Star] One person was trampled to death and two others were injured by a wild elephant at Lama upazila of Bandarban district on Monday.
The death is third of its kind within 15 days after elephants killed a four-year-old child and his father on December 14 at Bangali Para village under the upazila.
The deceased was identified as Moulavi Ayub Ali, 35, of Faitong union who died on the spot and the injured Noab Ali, 65, and Hasan Rob, 43, were sent to Chittagong Medical College Hospital.
Local people said Ayub Ali and few others were going to attend a wedding ceremony around 8:00pm when a herd of wild elephants attacked them at Keijja Khola area.
Lama upazila chairman Mohammad Ismail said at least 50 families from Muslim Para, Keijja Khola and Bangali Para villages left their dwelling houses in the face of continued attacks by wild elephants.
He also said ripe paddy, several thousand banana trees and more than 150 dwelling houses bore the brunt of the attacks by the wild elephants.
But those who are still living in the area appealed to the government for taking steps to save them from the attack.
Two groups of about 15 or 16 wild elephants were seen on the nearby hills, said local sources.
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The Myanmar authorities on Tuesday agreed to repatriate soon around 9,000 of its nationals out of 28,000 who are staying in two camps in Cox's Bazar as registered refugees.
Myanmar's visiting Deputy Foreign Minister Maung Myint, who held foreign secretary level talks here with Bangladesh Foreign Secre-tary Mijarul Quayes, agreed to take back the refugees shortly as Bangladesh handed over a list of 28,000 Myanmar nationals registered by the UNHCR as refugees.
Briefing reporters on the outcome of the 4th Foreign Secretary level consultations, Mijarul Quayes said the remaining registered refugees will also be repatriated after verification by the Myanmar government about their nationality. The Myanmar side has no reservation to repatriate them back after verification of the nationality of these undocumented refugees.
The refugees, popularly known as Rohingyas from Myanmar state of Arakan, started entering the country since late 1991. So far, 236,000 refugees were sent back over the decades with the help of UNHCR.
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HMMMM, HMMMMM, DAILY TIMES.PK has it as > NO COUNTRY FOR 400,000 [Myanmar] MUSLIM REFUGEES, REFUGEES IN BANGLADESH SAY "NO" TO REPATRIATION.
Methinks its safe to say that for every Muslim refugee Myanmar/Burma takes back, TWO OR MORE go over the border into BANGLA.
TEGUCIGALPA -- Just days after Honduras' recent presidential elections, Tegucigalpa Chamber of Commerce members gathered for their monthly meeting and breathed a collective sigh of relief.
``Finally, we can get back to business,'' said Luisa Maria Willingham, the chamber's director.
For five months, talks of networking and sales projections were put on hold as business owners tried to navigate through the civil unrest caused by the forced removal of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya in June.
Getting back to business now means facing the harsh economic landscape of a country that has essentially been on standby for half of the year. Almost 180,000 jobs have been lost since Zelaya's ouster, according to studies by Honduran business groups. A study by the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C., found that nearly $50 million was lost each day during a series of curfews imposed by the de facto government.
While the Nov. 29 elections won by conservative Porfirio Lobo are seen by many as the country's way out of political turmoil, business leaders are hoping that international acceptance of the election will also restore faith among foreign investors and local consumers.
``Foreign businesses often have a fear of investing in Latin America because of the problems that have resulted from someone like [Venezuelan President] Hugo Chávez nationalizing businesses,'' said Adolfo Facusse, president of the National Association of Honduran Industry.
``What Honduras has demonstrated is that we're not going to follow in the political path of Chávez,'' Facusse said. ``Many business owners will look at what happened here, will note our elections and see Honduras as a more stable place where the government will not try to take over your business.''
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Parts of this headline need saved for use here in 2010......
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has accused the United States and Colombia of conspiring to build a fake guerrilla camp on Venezuelan territory in order to undermine his rule.
In a televised address at Fort Mara military base in the western city of Maracaibo, Chavez referred to the 'possibility' of a US-sponsored initiative by Colombia to put bodies and weapons of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) fighters in a neglected region of Venezuela in order to 'discredit' his government.
Colombia may transport corpses of leftist FARC rebels "to a mountain in Venezuelan territory, build some huts, an improvised camp, put some rifles there... and say 'There it is, the guerrilla camp in Venezuela,'" the Associated Press quoted him as saying on Monday.
"We have evidence that the Colombian government, instructed and supported, or rather directed by the United States, is preparing a false positive," he noted, using statistical terminology to describe the feasibility of such a scheme.
"The verbal war against Venezuela began weeks ago, saying that we have I don't know how many guerrilla chiefs hidden here... that in Venezuela there are rebel camps protected by the Venezuelan government, which is absolutely false," the Venezuelan president told soldiers stationed near the country's second largest city.
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned Tuesday that Russia will have to go ahead with a new class of advanced offensive nuclear missiles if the United States continues with plans to develop a defensive missile shield.
The powerful ex-president said in Vladivostok that the dispute was the main issue holding up negotiations on a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). Those tensions could be eased if Washington provides Moscow with full details of the missile shield plan, Mr. Putin added. He said Russia would reciprocate with information about its offensive missiles.
We should hope that Putin carries through with his threat. Every ruble he spends on new strategic missiles is a ruble unavailable to modernize the conventional forces which are in desperate need of new equipment, better training and better pay. The Bulava missile in particular has been one of the most expensive strategic turkeys in history. We can afford strategic defense, Russia can't afford strategic offense.
Russia analysts said the remarks appeared to be an effort by Mr. Putin to squeeze as many concessions as possible from the Obama administration before agreeing to a new treaty to replace an arms reduction pact that expired Dec. 5.
"It's a negotiating ploy," said Clifford Kupchan, a Russia specialist at the Eurasia Group, a risk analysis and consulting firm. "Both sides want a START treaty, but Putin wants at least informal constraints even around Obama's missile defense lite."
Hoping to chain down President Palin (or Pawlenty) in 2013 is more like it ...
Earlier this year, the Obama administration scrapped plans by the George W. Bush administration to base interceptors and radar in the Czech Republic and Poland in favor of a largely sea-based program.
Nevertheless, Mr. Kupchan said, Russia remains "in perpetuity scared of a potential U.S. ability to neutralize their second strike capability."
A former U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile officer and current Defense Department official told The Washington Times that Mr. Putin is "trying to get us to drop as many missile defense systems as we will drop. He is going to push until he finds that line where we say, 'No more.' "
You may not find that day while Bambi is around ...
Mr. Putin, who is widely considered to be more powerful than Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, appeared to deliberately link U.S. missile defense plans to the treaty aimed at reducing U.S. and Russian stockpiles of offensive nuclear weapons.
"If we want to retain the balance, we have to establish an exchange of information: Let the U.S. partners provide us information on [their] missile defense while we will give them information on [our] offensive weapons," Mr. Putin said.
A U.S. official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the delicate state of negotiations told The Times, "We are aware of Putin's comments. The bottom line is that as the president said alongside President Medvedev in Copenhagen, we continue to work on the START treaty."
Indeed, Mr. Medvedev said in Copenhagen on Dec. 18, "Our positions are very close and almost all the issues that we've been discussing for the last month are almost closed. And there are certain technical details which we can encounter, many agreements which require further work. I hope that we will be able to do it in a quite brief period of time."
The Obama administration -- like its predecessor -- has insisted that missile defense is aimed not at Russia but at Iran and North Korea. Its decision to scrap the Bush plan, however, was seen by many as a concession to Russia and part of an effort to "reset" relations and improve cooperation on other issues, including Iran.
That worked well ...
Toby Gati, who was a special assistant for Russia to President Clinton and is a former assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research, said the Russians "always regard their missile forces as the one element of their national defense which is the absolute equivalent of U.S. systems and gives them the stature of a great power on par with the United States in this area. They jealously guard any action which might undermine it."
Mrs. Gati said the Putin remarks could reflect Russian concern that the U.S. decision not to base a missile defense system in the Czech Republic and Poland did not eliminate plans for the system altogether.
"The Russians have always been concerned about our defensive systems, and their original satisfaction that we backed away from the plan in Central Europe is now over," she said. "Now they are facing the realities of what that new system is and the fact that the U.S. continues and will continue to have systems that they regard as a threat, even if these systems are not a threat."
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Our defensive systems aren't designed to defend against a massive attack from a country such as Russia. They are designed to defend against smaller attack.
If Russia is worried about this, it says to me that they must have a strategy of limited nuclear war that such a defensive system would interfere with. It would potentially eliminate the ability or Russia to intimidate by threatening to launch a small number of nukes and force them to go "big" quickly.
It stinks. Force them to go big or keep them on the launcher. I am not in favor of anything that allows Russia or anyone else to play an intimidation game with the threat of a small strike.
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I think Putin is trying to make lemonade out of the Bulava lemons. They need a new class of missile anyway, but the Duma doesn't want to pay for it, so Putin is trying to pretend that Russia is threatened to squeeze the money out of them.
A top Chinese naval official has proposed setting up a permanent base to support ships on an anti-piracy mission in the Gulf of Aden, raising the idea that China could build foreign bases elsewhere.
In an interview posted on the defence ministry website, Yin Zhuo -- an admiral and senior researcher at the navy's Equipment Research Centre -- said such a base would bolster China's long-term participation in the operation.
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As the world's largest importer of crude oil, China is reportedly interested in establishing naval bases in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Thailand and the South China Sea to protect its sea transportation lines.
And to establish hegemony in the Indian Ocean ...
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Picking up where Zheng He left off, about 500 years tardy. How different the world would be if the insular culture had acted differently.
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I'd suggest one each in Yemen, Somalia, and Eritrea, Thing.
Something would happen. :-D
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"And to establish hegemony in the Indian Ocean ..."
yup, I think the Indians would have something to say about that. Seeing as the Indians have a much larger blue water navy and they take very seriously their interests around the Indian Ocean
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These wackos seriously need their I-Phones crushed in front of their beady little eyes
EcoSnoop.- Sustainability through Activism EcoSnoop for iPhone is an activism tool that allows green-aware users to assist and encourage corporate green initiatives. What's the big deal?
It has been estimated that as much as 30% of the energy consumed in office buildings is wasted. This suggests a significant opportunity for energy use reduction, cost savings, and the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions through cost-effective energy efficiency opportunities.
To help identify the best opportunities, both from the perspective of the building owner and the utility, it is important to examine how, where, and when energy is used and the savings are likely to occur. (Excerpt taken from the National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency Sector Collaborative on Energy Efficiency Office Building Energy Use Profile)
Q: How can I help using my iPhone?
A: Users locate and report on eco-offenders by submitting pictures and descriptions of blatant abuse and misuse issues.
Q: What happens with my pictures?
A:The EcoSnoop website and iPhone applications are a centralized repository of environmental awareness and a tool for actively promoting energy conservancy and green awareness. By using the EcoSnoop iPhone application, the user becomes an important link in the chain of helping to report and mediate green waste (energy, pollution, etc.). Additionally, by going yourself and encouraging friends to utilize the website to add as much information as possible about the picture (address information, responsible party information, etc.) you are giving the EcoSnoop community the tools to encourage positive change!
EcoSnoop: We need your help saving the world; 1 picture at a time.
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"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy."
-- George Orwell, "1984"
[Al Arabiya Latest] Israel's two chief rabbis said they will renew the fight against pregnancy terminations as they warned that the high number of abortions in the Jewish state was delaying the arrival of the Messiah, Israeli press reported on Tuesday.
" The vast majority of abortions are unnecessary and forbidden by Halacha, adding to the gravity of this transgression is the fact that it impedes the coming of redemption. "
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Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger and his Sephardic colleague Shlomo Amar condemned, in a letter to Israel's faithful, what they called "a veritable epidemic, which every year claims the lives of tens of thousands of Jews," Ynet news said.
The rabbis said "the vast majority of abortions are unnecessary and forbidden by Halacha" but also "adding to the gravity of this transgression is the fact that it impedes the coming of redemption."
According to the two rabbis some 50,000 abortions are performed in Israel every year and said only 20,000 are legal.
"What heart doesn't cringe by these numbers which indicate nothing less than a pandemic... and the loss of tens of thousands of Jewish souls every year," the paper quoted the rabbis as saying.
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I agree, abortions is bad for the souls of the unborn. Except chinese abortions, of course. Since chinese have no soul (or, if they have one, it's painted full of lead, and filled with alkali-softened carboard mixed with ground pork fat).
Bottom line, less abortions for real people, more abortions for chinese - problem solved.
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Well, oddly enough this is in Holland(!). And it wouldn't be able to detect modest indoor setups, looks like an outdoor-only tool for large-scale drying sheds and such.
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.
[Bangla Daily Star] One person was trampled to death and two others were injured by a wild elephant at Lama upazila of Bandarban district on Monday.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has accused the United States and Colombia of conspiring to build a fake guerrilla camp on Venezuelan territory in order to undermine his rule. 
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned Tuesday that Russia will have to go ahead with a new class of advanced offensive nuclear missiles if the United States continues with plans to develop a defensive missile shield.
