LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) -- Ohio executed a 5-foot-7, 267-pound double murderer on Tuesday who argued his obesity made death by lethal injection inhumane. Your two murders of the college students was not very humane, either.
Richard Cooey, 41, died at 10:28 a.m. at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, said Jim Gravelle, a spokesman with state attorney general's office.
There were no immediate reports of difficulties finding suitable veins to deliver the deadly chemicals, a problem that has delayed previous executions in the state. We are Americans. We are problem solvers.
Cooey's attorneys had argued that his weight problem would make it difficult for prison staff to access a vein. A prisons spokeswoman said Cooey received a pre-execution exam early Tuesday and was cleared.
He walked into the death chamber at 10:15 a.m. wearing gray pants and was strapped onto the gurney.
"You (expletive) haven't paid any attention to anything I've said in the last 22 1/2 years, why would anyone pay any attention to anything I've had to say now," Cooey said looking at the ceiling. He made no other comment. Point taken.
Cooey tapped the fingers of his left hand several times before he died and his face took on a purple shade.
He was the first inmate executed in Ohio in more than a year, and the state's first since the end of the unofficial moratorium on executions that began last year while the U.S. Supreme Court reviewed Kentucky's lethal injection procedure.
Cooey, who killed two University of Akron students in 1986, lost a final appeal earlier Tuesday when the U.S. Supreme Court turned down without comment his complaint that the state's protocol for lethal injection could cause an agonizing and painful death. He wanted the state to use a single drug rather than a three-drug combination, and asked for a stay of execution pending a hearing on that motion.
The court on Monday denied a separate appeal based on Cooey's claim that his obesity was a bar to humane lethal injection. The argument also had been rejected by a federal appeals court in Cincinnati and the Ohio Supreme Court, with both courts ruling that he missed a deadline for filing appeals. Rules is rules. Your S.O.L.
Cooey is 75 pounds heavier than when he went to death row -- the result of prison food and 23-hour-a-day confinement, his lawyers said.
Send him to Maricopa, I hear the sheriff there doesn't let anyone get fat ...
They also argued that a migraine medicine prescribed by a prison physician could reduce the effect of the anesthetic used as part of the three-drug lethal injection. They claimed that Ohio has a history of botched executions.
The last Ohio inmate to be executed was Christopher Newton -- who was similar in size to Cooey -- in May 2007. The execution team had trouble putting IVs in his arm, which delayed his execution nearly two hours. There were similar problems in the execution of another inmate in 2006. A firing squad could have taken care of that glitch.
Cooey made an earlier trip to the death house. But a U.S. District Court judge intervened hours before his scheduled execution in July 2003 when the Ohio Public Defender's office said it needed more time to assess the case after an appeals court dismissed his previous attorneys for inadequate representation.
Cooey and a co-defendant were convicted in the sexual assaults and slayings of University of Akron students Dawn McCreery, 20, and Wendy Offredo, 21, in September 1986. His co-defendant was 17 and was sentenced to life in prison because of his age.
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Fat lady sings for fat inmate.
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I don't care if they have to tap his groin. He deserved killing and he got a less messy exit than I'da given him
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Oh. There's a note with it. It says, "Enjoy the sushi! It's marvelous! Love, Vlad"
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian human rights lawyer whose clients have included leading Kremlin opponents said on Tuesday she had found poisonous mercury in her car in France and believed it may have been a warning to her. Karina Moskalenko told Russia's Ekho Moskvy radio station the incident had prevented her from traveling to Moscow to take part in the trial of three suspected accomplices in the 2006 murder of journalist and Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya.
"People do not put mercury in your car to improve your health," Moskalenko, who spends much of her time in the French city of Strasbourg, told the radio station. "I am very concerned because there were children in that car. I think it may have been a demonstration because there was lots of it (mercury.) How could you not notice it?" She did not say who she thought might have been responsible. Any guesses, Muldoon?
I'm stumped, sarge. Stumped, I tells ya!
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"the damage to the home will cost nearly $30,000 to repair. The rat was unharmed."
Not after Mom gets home....
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Sounds like George V. Higgins meets Carl Hiaasen. George wrote "The Rat on Fire", you know.
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Hehe - reminds me of RAISING ARIZONA, the scene where the "LONE BIKER OF THE APOCALYPSE" Bounty Hunter = Devil discovers shennagians were afoot in Arizona when His attempt to casually kill a fluffy wabbit via hand grenade failed.
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The US = US-Allies haven't "lost" the GWOT" somuch as haven't absolutely or decisively "won" yet. AS BEFORE, US DOMIN OF DESIRED OWG-NWO = "GLOBALISM", ETC. IS NOT ASSURED OR CERTAIN YET, WHILST RADICAL ISLAM IS SERIOUSLY WEAKENED BUT STILL CAPABLE OF ACHIEVING VICTORY, espec POST-NUCLEARIZATION.
To paraphrase MACARTHUR > PROLONGED IN-DECISION, APPEASEMENT, + POLITICIZATION, etc. in WAR ONLY RESULTS IN PROLONGED/MORE CASUALTIES, + by extension RISK(S) OF DEFEAT.
LOS ANGELES — If Sen. John McCain has more to say publicly about his time in a North Vietnamese prison before next month's election, it will not be with help from Warner Brothers.
The studio moved quietly over the last few weeks to block any promotional showing of an interview — tied to the release of the first DVD version of the 1987 film Hanoi Hilton — in which McCain spoke of his imprisonment in the Hoa Lo prison during the Vietnam War. The studio is concerned that any pre-election showing might embroil the project in electoral politics.
"It's just us trying to be cautious and not affect the election one way or the other," said Ronnee Sass, a spokeswoman for the studio's home entertainment division.
The prohibition came amid a rising tide of politically edged entertainments, from Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, a Lions Gate Films release that presented an unflattering portrait of President Bush in the last presidential election, to Tina Fey's more recent barbed portrayals of Gov. Sarah Palin on NBC's Saturday Night Live.
The interview was recorded in May by the filmmaker and well-known Hollywood conservative Lionel Chetwynd for inclusion on the Hanoi Hilton DVD, which is set for release on Nov. 11.
"Finding someone in Hollywood who says they don't want to affect the election is like finding a virgin in a brothel," Chetwynd said Monday. He noted that studios were plugging movies with far more potential political impact, Oliver Stone's Bush biography W. among them.
Chetwynd wrote and directed Hanoi Hilton, a drama, which starred Michael Moriarty and made only a modest impression at the box office in its original release but became a favorite among veterans and others who warmed to its sympathetic portrayal of American prisoners of war. He had planned to promote the DVD among veterans groups and on Web sites and was preparing to screen the film at the Creative Artists Agency, where he is represented, until Warner called a halt, according to Sass and others.
When queried initially Sass said the studio had blocked showings out of concern that it might violate campaign finance law. After conferring with company lawyers, however, she said Warner was concerned not about legal violation but possible accusations that it was electioneering. "It could have gotten some objections," she said.
Daniel P. Tokaji, an associate professor at the Ohio State University law school, said promotional showings of the McCain interview would present no obvious legal issue. "I don't immediately see what law they would violate," said Tokaji, who specializes in election law.
Uh-huh...
WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton puts the chances of her running for president again at near zero -- slightly higher than the chances she gives for becoming Senate majority leader or a Supreme Court justice. Joe Biden: "I am not running for vice president!"
In an interview aired Tuesday on "Fox & Friends" on the Fox News Channel, Clinton, D-N.Y., was asked the chances, on a scale of 1 to 10, that she would be the next majority leader in the Senate. "Oh, probably zero," she said. "I'm not seeking any other position than to be the best senator from New York that I can be."
Lioness of the Senate and all that ...
Being nominated to the Supreme Court? "Zero," Clinton said. "I have no interest in doing that." Running for president again? "Probably close to zero," she said. "There's an old saying: Bloom where you're planted."
Shoulda stayed at the Rose law firm ...
The former first lady, who was elected to the Senate in 2000 and re-elected in 2006, said she looked forward to working as a senator with a Barack Obama administration. Oh, I'll bet...
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Leaving out HC's ambition (for a change), the national situation is unprecedented and will undergo a lot of change between now & the election of 2012. Asking pols what they will be doing in 4 years is ridiculous.
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"I need that job like a hole in the head" to quote Vince Foster.
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IIRC, TOPIX [old] > WAR [Wars + World Order] IS ON THE AGENDA FOR AMERICA'S NEXT PRESIDENT, or title to that effect.
* 2008-2012 [2016] Post-Dubya Period . IOW, AMERICA = AMERIKA, USSA = USR/Global SSR, ON THE NATIONAL-GLOBAL DEFENSE. I strongly doubt NUCLEAR-AMBITIOUS IRAN = ISLAMISM is gonna wait to 2016 to conduct an indigenous nuke test(s) - even 2012 maxima is "pushing it" as per SAVING THE JIHAD = ISLAMIST ASIA!?
Gaza – Ma’an – Egyptian security forces destroyed eight tunnels under the border between Egypt and Gaza on Tuesday morning. Eyewitnesses in Rafah said the explosions were heard across the district.
The eight tunnels were located between the Salah Addin Gate and As-Salam neighborhood in Rafah city. No injuries or deaths have been reported by Egyptian or Palestinian officials.
According to Egypt, security services warned Egyptian-Rafah residents before the tunnels were destroyed.
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Couldn't the Egyptians just get Israeli agreement on turning a strip of land on the border into an artillery / bomb range for the Egyptian Military?
I can't imagine that those tunnels would stand up very well to an Arty barrage over head.
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Fill any tunnel found with a mixture of concrete and barbed wire, after flushing it with pure chlorine (disinfectant, yeah, that's what it's used for... disinfectant). Eventually the entire border area will be a series of concrete-filled tubes. That'll make a great ballast for a thick, high, razor-wire-encrusted wall. Eventually the paleos will get the message that the rest of the world has nothing but contempt for people who revel in killing women and small children.
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I think this was along the lines of "youse better do as we say or youse are going to be sleeping wit da fishes in da tunnels".
Or something like that.
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you'll never get that smell outta ya, I tells ya
/Jimmy Hoffa, Luca Brasi, et al; direct from hell
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Frankly, LOL, ahem, load up a Q-ship and have it escort 3 elements 3 A54 Assault dredges from the Med to the Red, the resulting new ditch to be filled with thousands and thousands of tiny MOABS. QUID PRO QUO
(CNSNews.com) -- Twelve years after Iran put forward its name for a seat on the United Nations Security Council for the 2009-10 period, its candidacy comes to a vote later this week, at a time of disquiet over Tehran's anti-Israel rhetoric and nuclear activities.
Iran is one of a group of countries vying for five of the council's 10 non-permanent seats. Two are earmarked for Western nations (currently held by Belgium and Italy), and one each for Asia (held by Indonesia), Latin America (Panama) and Africa (South Africa.)
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ION IRAN > BUSHESHR PLANT TO BE OPERATIONAL IN 2009 [ as projected]; + AHMADINEJAD WARNS ABOUT US PLUNDERING OF WORLD RESOURCES [read, US = US-Western Imperialism + NWO]. Warns WORLD NATIONS MUST UNITE AGZ USA TO SAVE THEIR LOCAL-NATIONAL RESOURCES.
Police in Italy are looking into reports that the Naples mafia plans to carry out its threat to kill the author of the best-selling book "Gomorra," which has been made into a hit movie about mafia brutality, by Christmas.
Roberto Saviano, 29, has lived in hiding with 24-hour police protection for the past two years since the "Camorra," as the mob in his hometown is known, decided to punish him for the huge success of his book, which is based on his own investigations. It has sold 1.2 million copies in Italy and been translated into 42 languages. Now that it has hit the big screen and is a candidate for the Oscars, the mafia is even angrier and wants Saviano and his bodyguards killed as soon as possible.
Italian papers said the Naples mob's notorious Casalesi clan -- in the news recently over the murder of six Africans, which sparked riots by other immigrants -- had moved the threat into the "operative" phase and wanted Saviano dead by Christmas. The source of the tip-off was a "supergrass" related to the jailed Camorra godfather Francesco Schiavone, aka "Sandokan."
The Camorra has its finger in every pie in Naples and the surrounding areas, from the protection racket to drugs and even waste disposal, as Saviano's book documents in great detail.
With his shaved head, dark close-cropped beard, piercing eyes and black T-shirt, Saviano has become a symbol of the fight against organized crime for a new generation of Italians. He marked two years living under escort on Monday, telling a radio show of his relationship with the policemen who have been his only company since he was forced to leave his home.
"Many days are terrible," said Saviano, who spends some of his time boxing with escorts "who sometimes call me 'captain.'"
The writer said it was the millions of people who had bought the book who really worried the mafia. "It's the readers who have frightened the crime bosses, not me," said Saviano.
Some politicians urged the Italian public to show their solidarity with the writer. "Nobody must touch Saviano!" said the former cabinet minister Giovanna Melandri, denouncing the Camorra as "one of the main cancers blighting our country."
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I heard a story when I was grwing up, might be true, might be an urban legend, that there was once some sort of protest rally by an "Italian-American Anti-Defamation League" or some such, protesting The Godfather as an inaccurate portrayal of Italian-American subculture. In the middle of the proceedings, so they say, someone got shot to death by a hitman.
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The 2006 controversy over the quality of Harrier support notwithstanding, close air support has proven to be a valuable asset to British forces in Afghanistan. When available and on-station, it provides a high-end counter to the standard enemy tactics of concentration and ambush. The cost of operating modern aircraft, however, and the size of modern air fleets, are both working to put a crimp in that option. Full battlefield coverage that can respond to any emergency within a few minutes is either cost-prohibitive, or beyond most militariesÂ’ capabilities.
Fortunately, the rise of precision artillery fire offers an alternative with less reach, but 100% persistence and availability within its range. By 2010, MBDA expects to begin selling a loitering attack UAV called ‘Fire Shadow’ for use in Afghanistan. This one-shot, rocket-boosted UAV sports a range of 165 km, 10-hour endurance, and a 50 pound warhead. To succeed, however, it will have to outclass an already-fielded option: British forces began using the M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System’s M30/31 GMLRS 227mm GPS-guided rockets and their 200 pound warheads in 2007, as a significant supplement to the UK’s close support options. British forces have recorded over 140 firings of the rockets in Afghanistan, which have earned GMLRS a nickname: “the 70 km sniper”.
During this period, the M270 MLRS has maintained 100% mission availability, often operating in ‘switched on and ready’ mode for 48 hours at a stretch. That kind of use, under conditions that differ significantly from their originally-envisaged role defending NATO from the USSR, created a March 2007 Urgent Operational Request for changes to the vehicle…
UK M270, Helmland
(clickto view full)Air conditioning isn’t critical in Germany’s Fulda Gap, for instance – but it is critical in Afghanistan’s Helmland Province during the hot months. The collapse of the very idea of ‘front lines’ changes vehicle protection requirements. So, too, does the prevalence of mine threats in Afghanistan, whether placed by deliberate enemy action, or present as leftover ordnance from the USSR’s long war.
In response, the GMLRS team, located within the Artillery Systems Integrated Project Team at MOD Abbey Wood in Bristol, worked on a modification set. Bar armour and applique armor now surround the cab, to provide protection against small arms fire and even odds against RPGs. Wire cutters have been added. Some mine protection was added under the vehicle, and energy-absorbing seats minimize the shock transmitted from an underbody blast into the backs of the 3-man crew. A machine gun is mounted on top, supported by 3 thermal imaging cameras with driver and vehicle commander screens for night-time operation and better awareness of nearby threats.
Turnaround was quick, and upgraded M270 vehicles began deploying to Afghanistan in May 2008. Contractors included Lockheed Martin UK Insys (armor, seats, night vision), Dytechna (electronics), and Qinetiq (electronic and automotive trials). UK MoD release.
These upgrades position the M270 GMLRS combination in two ways.
One, they adapt the systems for the needs of modern counter-insurgency warfare. The M270 can now operate on mined battlefields with greater assurance. It can protect itself against surprise enemy infantry attacks through a combination of firepower and true all-terrain mobility, especially if accompanies by firepower support from a fast Jackal wheeled vehicles or a BvS-10 Viking tracked infantry vehicle. Operating autonomously in this fashion, they can remain available for long periods to provide overwatch and close support out to 70 km. With the RAFÂ’s C-17 fleet on call to deploy them if needed, M270 vehicles can be expected to become frequent participants in BritainÂ’s future military operations.
Barney Franks thinks ratings agencies have been too tough.
The U.S. government's $700 billion market rescue plan could assist automakers such as General Motors Corp (GM.N) by buying up distressed auto loans, a top lawmaker said on Tuesday. "Under the buying up of assets, they could buy up automobile loans," said Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat who chairs the House Financial Services Committee.
Why am I not surprised that Barney's got his hands in this? He's been trying to undermine the banks and capital systems since day one ...
Frank also said U.S. banks receiving capital injections under a U.S. Treasury plan to infuse $250 billion into the troubled sector are expected to use the funds to support lending activities.
No, they're supposed to shore up their balance sheets ...
On Tuesday morning the Treasury Department unveiled more details of how it plans to implement the $700 billion bailout plan passed earlier this month, saying it would directly inject capital into U.S. financial institutions. It said nine banks have already signed on to the program; it did not name the nine.
Frank said the nine are "relatively healthy" and do not appear to be at risk of sustaining large losses from credit default swaps, insurance-like products that protect a bigger investment.
He also said he hoped private capital would follow the government funds. "There's a good chance that in at least some of these cases it will work well, and that would encourage private capital," Frank said. "We have to be careful not to insist on instantaneous results."
He said reforms will follow quickly, including global restrictions on leveraging and risk-taking, along with reform of credit rating agencies, which he said "made the mistake of telling us what they didn't know."
The rating agencies were near-fraudulent in their activities, but Frank isn't the fellow to call them on it.
While Frank has been a critic of rating agencies being too lax in the past, he said on Tuesday they now seem to be leaning too far the other way. "Now I think rating agencies in some cases have been too tough," he said. He was speaking following a meeting of the Urban Land Institute, a nonprofit research and education organization.
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Since I'm broke I guess I should go out and buy an new F-350 Diesel four-door dually with the Centurion custom package and ostrich skin seats. Then I can be gettin me some bailouts.
And 40 acres and a mule.
And a pony.
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It's now a certainty - Barney Frank is the biggest Idiot in Congress. I know it took a lot of hard work to get there, but good ol' Barney has never stopped digging.
Frank also said U.S. banks receiving capital injections under a U.S. Treasury plan to infuse $250 billion into the troubled sector are expected to use the funds to support lending activities.
Of course, what Barney really meant to say is that the banks receiving the support should continue to engage in the fraudulent lending processes that got them into the mess in the first place. Good ol' reliable Barney Frank - never met a government program he couldn't screw up.
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While the song came from another annoying Barney, perhaps this Barney could use it to seranade his Wall Street butt buddies:
"I love you, you love me
We saved your ass with the Treasury
With a huge amount of pork and gigantic IOU
The masses might be broke,
But who else you gonna screw"
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Paulson, won't you by me a Mercedes Benz
My friends all by Porches, I must make amends.
Worked hard all my life time
No help from my friends
Oh Paulson wont you by me a Mercedes Benz.
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It may be coming to this soon: Just stop paying your mortgage
"When a financial institution holds a mortgage, homeowners must live with the fear of foreclosure. Private institutions only have obligations to shareholders. In the case of a defaulting borrower, they will look to recover as much of their principal as possible. If foreclosure is their best option, they will take it in a heartbeat.
The government has no such obligations. Its only goal is to keep voters happy. After supposedly bailing out the fat cats on Wall Street, no politician wants to be accused of evicting struggling families. Once you understand this, all of your anxiety should melt away. Why pay your mortgage if foreclosure is off the table, and if you know that lower payments, and possibly a reduced loan amount, would result? A tarnished a credit rating is a small price to pay for such a benefit.
Unfortunately, this boon will not extend to those foolish individuals who either made large down payments or resisted the temptation of cashing out equity. The large amount of home equity built up by these suckers, I mean homeowners, means that in the case of default foreclosure remains a financially attractive option. As a result, these loans will be much less likely to be turned over to the government.
If your mortgage does become the property of Uncle Sam, the growingly popular impulse to “just walk away” should be replaced by “just stay and stop paying.” No one will throw you out. After a few months, or years, of living payment free, you will get a call from a motivated government agent eager to adjust your loan into something affordable."
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I'd like to know where the Government was in late '91, early '92 when I was unemployed for 7 months, staring an eviction notice in the face, and just wanting some help feeding my family. I was told I'd have to sell my car because it eas worth 4500 bucks. I asked how the hell was I supposed to get anywhere without a vehicle and was told, "Those are the rules. Either sell the car or you don't get food stamps".
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Is there anything they won't bail out?
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Yes - Honest, productive, hardworking, Americans who act responsibly.
In other words us.
My wife mentioned the other day (while watching Barney Frank and Friends) that its seems to be just as corrupt here as in the Philippines.
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (AP) - U.S. military successes in Iraq have forced sophisticated and well-trained insurgents to pour into Afghanistan instead, the Afghan defense minister said Tuesday.
In a demonstration of the increasingly deadly attacks unleashed by militants, a roadside bomb exploded near a civilian taxi packed with passengers, killing nine Afghans, including two children, a provincial police chief said.
The defense minister, Gen. Abdul Rahim Wardak, said terrorists who would have once fought in Iraq have been "diverted" to Afghanistan.
"The success of coalition forces in Iraq and also some other issues in some of the neighboring countries have made it possible that there is a major increase in the foreign fighters," Wardak told a news conference. "There is no doubt that they are (better) equipped than before. They are well trained, more sophisticated, their coordination is much better."
The top U.S. commander in eastern Afghanistan, Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Schloesser, told The Associated Press last month that he is seeing a spike in the number of foreign militants _ including Arabs and Chechens _ flowing into Afghanistan. He said militant Web sites have been encouraging fighters to go to Afghanistan instead of Iraq.
"I can't prove they are coming from Iraq to Afghanistan, but I've seen it on Web sites that that's what they're being told to do," Schloesser said.
The bomb attack that killed nine Afghan civilians was apparently intended to hit NATO troops, said Juma Gul Himat, the provincial police chief in Uruzgan province.
Himat blamed the Taliban for the attack and said the road where the bomb exploded is often used by NATO troops. The taxi had been traveling toward the provincial capital.
Most bomb attacks in Afghanistan target Afghan or NATO soldiers, but the blasts are far more likely to kill ordinary civilians.
Violence has risen steadily in Afghanistan since late 2005. More than 4,700 people _ mostly militants _ have been killed in insurgency related-violence this year, according to an Associated Press count of figured provided by Afghan and Western officials.
U.S.-led troops killed five insurgents in central Ghazni province on Monday during a raid to disrupt a foreign fighter network, the coalition said Tuesday.
The coalition also said one of its service members was killed and several others were wounded in southern Afghanistan on Monday when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb. No other information, including the service members' nationalities or precise location of the attack, was released.
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Little do the Iraqis know what a shiathole Afghanistan is. In Iraq, they could get a whole bunch of support from friends and family, live in houses, eat regularly, etc.
In Afghanistan they are going to freeze to death in caves, alone. And if they start a fire...
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The Iraqis got tired of being killed by carpetbaggers and stopped making them welcome. Now it's the Afghanis' turn to have the same realization. After which the Pakistanis can go through the same process, then...
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TW, you're right, the jihadi's tend to wear out their welcome once they get enough of them to be a PIA. It's similar to the drunk that pee's in the corner and won't leave the party. Once he leaves he comes back with a gun.
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This is good news. More proof of victory in Iraq.
As for Afghanistan, it's going to remain a brutish place during our lifetimes, as will Haiti, Sudan and Somalia. I remain, however, hopeful that North Korea and Cuba can be rehabilitated and reintroduced into the fraternity of nations.
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"Diverting ...Encouraging fighters to go to Afghanistan instead of Iraq" . Again, the US etal. is now engaged in a de facto WAR FOR CONTROL OF ASIAN MAINLAND + Perpipheral Enclaves vv Radical Islamism and aligned.
E.g. INDIA > Militants in Afghanistan-Pakistan includ JK = LOC, + NORTHERN INDIA + NE TIBET-NEPAL + SRI LANKA + via BANGLADESH.
*WAFF.com > CHRISTIANS FEAR THE [Hindu]FIRE AND SWORD IN INDIA.
Again, IMO INDIA's HINDU's may not desire to convert to ISLAM/ISLAMISM, but neither do they desire to see a return of European domination and infleunce in INDIAN + PAN-ASIAN AFFAIRS.
IOW, IMO the US = US-Allies are dealing wid FACTORS OF ANTI-FOREIGN/WESTERN LOCAL NATIONALISM, not just Radical Islamism.
D *** NG IT, MORIARITY, THEY MAY BE MUSLIMS + ISLAMISTS, BUT THEY'RE OURS + ASIA'S MUSLIMS + ISLMAISTS, NOT AMERICA'S OR EUROPE = JUDEOCHRISTIANS!?
Remember, COLD WAR > Osama Bin Laden was once "OUR MAN", or one of them for the US-NATO agz the Soviets, as was NORIEGA and even SADDAM, etc.
Poll workers from opposing sides in the presidential race apparently clashed in a physical altercation Friday at a Cuyahoga Falls [OH] nursing home when one accused the other of improperly marking a ballot. The incident is being investigated by both the police and the Summit County elections board. The board probe could lead to a closer examination of the other votes with which the Democrat poll worker was involved.
The alleged assault piqued the interest of Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign -- as the voter in question reportedly wanted to vote for McCain but her ballot was initially marked for Sen. Barack Obama.
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I am sick & tired of voter fraud of any kind. I want to see lawsuits flying right & left, wailing & gnashing of teeth, and buckets of tears shed all around. Maybe someday national elections will be fair and will also seem to be fair.
OPEC countries talk a good game about Third World solidarity, but their predatory pricing policy has thrown Third World countries like Pakistan into economic crisis.
Credit default swap spreads [on Pakistani debt] on Tuesday blew out to 3,084 basis points, according to Markit, up from 520 basis points in January. This is just the latest setback for Asif Ali Zardari, who took up the presidential reins after Pervez Musharraf stepped down in August. The Pakistan stock market, as represented by the Karachi 100 Index, has shed 46 per cent year to date in dollar terms, even though it barely traded in the weeks that global markets were trashed. Efforts to stem the falls have never risen above the level of talk. The currency, reflecting jitters about the external financial position, has slumped 22 per cent against the dollar this year. Pakistan’s position is clearly precarious. Political stability is fragile. High inflation exacerbates social tensions and makes the necessary macroeconomic reforms tougher to implement. Fiscal consolidation has petered out, as evidenced by a deficit of 7 per cent of gross domestic output. Largely due to oil, Pakistanis import roughly double what they export; unsurprisingly the current account deficit has ballooned out to some 9 per cent of GDP. Pakistan has deployed its foreign exchange reserves to try and prop up the rupee, and in doing so has almost halved its total kitty since the end of 2007 to just over $8bn at end September, or not much more than a couple of months’ import cover. Clearly it will be a struggle to roll over the upcoming $3bn of debt falling due – witness Mr Zardari’s pleas for a soft loan from Beijing. Alas, it will take a lot more than that for Pakistan to join the global cheer.
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I never thought I'd have any respect for anything Howard Stern did. He just proved me wrong.
As for the content, well they are voting for Sen. Obama because he's Black. Nothing more, nothing less, nothing else. But we're the racists because we won't mindlessly vote for him. I'm gonna go throw up now.
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You could probably find a similar level of ignorance among any group of voters chosen randomly on the street. Most people aren't political junkies.
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Oh, one other thing folks. Don't put the verb "exposing" next to the proper noun "Howard Stern." It creates a mental picture that I do! not! need!
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I think this little "experiment" is interesting because it reveals the total and blind devotion to The One among these voters that supercedes any ignorance. Does anyone doubt that if you took Obama's policies and assigned them to McCain, they would still pick Obama? Whether or not they know a thing about their respective policies is really beside the point here.
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Should have taken it a step further and asked if they agreed with Obama's policies of annexing the Sudetenland and signing a non-aggression pact with Russia.
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10/14/2008 13:57
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An impressive selection of people to represent our fine country.
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Why bother, Rex? All of them would have said yes.
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10/14/2008 15:25
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Oh yeah, great game I've played a couple of times. Kills'em when I tell them they have been agreeing with the McCain stance. "No, thats Obama's platform!" Nope, unless you count those times at the debate when Obama leads his time with, "well I agree with what John just said.." or that obama may have said something similar but came out later and discounted what he had said so which is it?"
Once upon a time and far, far away from mainstream America, lived a U.S. senator named Barack Obama. Mr. Obama had a gift, a truly wondrous gift. He could spin troublesome facts into political gold. And perhaps, with enough spinning, he could even spin himself into the White House.
Bill Clinton understood this. He called Mr. Obama's spin "the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen." Like other fairy tales, this one requires a total suspension of disbelief. Jack (of Jack and the Beanstalk fame) had his magic beans. Mr. Obama has his magic facts. Consider the following so-called facts:
-- Magic Fact No. 1: Senator Obama will cut income taxes "for 95 percent of working families, 95 percent."
It would be truly magical to be able to cut income taxes on 95 percent of working families when only 68 percent of tax filers actually pay the federal income tax. According to the Internal Revenue Service, of the 136 million income tax returns filed in 2006, 43 million returns reported positive adjusted gross income but had no income tax liability because of assorted deductions, exemptions and tax credits.
So how do you give a tax cut to someone who doesn't pay income taxes? Mr. Obama proposes a massive program of "refundable tax credits." Those on the receiving end would simply get a check from the federal government. In other words, they would pay a "negative tax."
By wrapping a thoroughly liberal position - larger welfare benefits - in the mantle of tax cuts, Mr. Obama has very nearly managed to neutralize one of the defining issues of this presidential campaign. If that sleight of hand isn't magic, we don't know what is.
-- Magic Fact No. 2: Mr. Obama pays "for every dime" of his proposals.
According to the nonpartisan National Taxpayers Union Foundation, Mr. Obama has offered 73 proposals that would collectively increase federal spending $365.6 billion annually. That's literally a $1 billion-a-day spending increase. And, unfortunately, that figure doesn't include the cost of Mr. Obama's 88 other spending proposals for which no reliable cost estimates exist.
How does Mr. Obama propose to pay for these new and expanded spending programs? He begins by squeezing defense spending. He would then repeal "the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans." (Never mind that the Bush tax cuts are already scheduled to expire and that the revenue is already included in the government's budget forecasts.) Finally, he would "close corporate loopholes, [and] stop providing tax cuts to corporations that are shipping jobs overseas."
These steps would not come close to paying for the senator's spending proposals. Assuming they offset $100 billion of new spending, paying for the other $265.6 billion (still ignoring the cost of Mr. Obama's other 88 programs) would require an across-the-board income tax increase of 19 percent. And, of course, this figure does not reflect the tax increase that would be necessary to pay for Mr. Obama's "tax cuts."
The IRS reported earlier this year that the top-earning 5 percent of taxpayers shouldered 60 percent of the federal income tax burden in 2006. If Mr. Obama insists upon having a tiny fraction of Americans shoulder the cost of his spending and tax proposals, the tax increase on those taxpayers would have to be huge - far larger than the 19 percent tax increase described above. This would slow investment, employment and economic growth - and, yes, total governmental receipts.
Sen. Hillary Clinton once threatened, "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." Perhaps she would have been Mr. Obama's ideal running mate after all.
The Obama campaign likes to say it has the support of professional economists. Yet, that "fact" is based on two, methodologically flawed polls circulating the Internet. True enough, majorities of those surveyed said they favor Mr. Obama's economic policies. What else would you expect from a poll where Democrat responders outnumbered Republicans by nearly 3-to-1? Only 17 percent of the surveyed economists were Republican. In the second poll, Democrats outnumbered Republicans nearly 5-to-1. Only 10 percent of the respondents were Republican.
Meanwhile, more than 500 economists from across the country, including five Nobel Laureates, have signed a statement supporting Sen. John McCain's economic plan. (For the text of the statement and a complete list of the signatories, see www.economistsformccain.com.)
The fairy tale candidate may yet become the fairy tale president. But will the story end with "and the American people lived happily ever after?"
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Which Fairy-tale is this, and what part does Obama play? Looks like Hansel & Gretel, with Obama being the wicked witch. We are at the point in the story where the urchins are being lured into the Ginger Bread House.
At least that's what I was taught. A word-for-word translation would substitute "Hölle" (Hell), but apparently the Germans don't say it that way - they use "Scheiße" instead. (I should have capitalized the "s" but tend to forget - I left Germany in 1973.)
But they do say "zum Teufel" (go to the Devil) or "zur Hölle" (go to Hell). Go figure. ;-p
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Why do Asian investors depend on American capital markets? Given the near breakdown of key sectors of the American market, one might expect Asians to bring their money home. Quite the opposite has happened: Asian currencies have fallen sharply against the American dollar.
What does America have that Asia doesn't have? The answer is, Sarah Palin - not Sarah Palin the vice presidential candidate, but Sarah Palin the "hockey mom" turned small-town mayor and reforming Alaska governor. All the PhDs and MBAs in the world can't make a capital market work, but ordinary people like Sarah Palin can. Laws depend on the will of the people to enforce them. It is the initiative of ordinary people that makes America's political system the world's most reliable.
America is the heir to a long tradition of Anglo-Saxon law that began with jury trial and the Magna Carta and continued through the English Revolution of the 17th century and the American Revolution of the 18th. Ordinary people like Palin are the bearers of this tradition.
Outside of the United States, the young governor of Alaska has become a figure of ridicule - someone who did not own a passport until last year and who quaintly believes that her state's proximity to Russia gives her insights on foreign policy. How, my European friends ask, was it possible for such an an ignorant bumpkin to become a candidate for America's second-highest office? They don't understand America.
Provincial America depends on the initiative of ordinary people to get through the day. America has something like an Education Ministry, but it has little money to dispense. Americans pay for most of their school costs out of local taxes, and levy those taxes on themselves. In small towns, many public agencies, including fire protection and emergency medical assistance, depend almost entirely on volunteers. People who tax themselves, and give their own time and money for services on which communities depend, are not easily cowed by the federal government or by large corporations.
But why don't Asians consume what they produce at home? The trouble is that rich Asians don't lend to poor Asians in their own countries. Capital markets don't work in the developing world because it is too easy to steal money. Subprime mortgages in the US have suffered from poor documentation. What kind of documentation does one encounter in countries where everyone from the clerk at the records office to the secretary who hands you a form requires a small bribe? America is litigious to a fault, but its courts are fair and hard to corrupt.
Asians are reluctant to lend money to each other under the circumstances; they would rather lend money in places where a hockey mom can get involved in local politics and, on encountering graft and corruption, run a successful campaign to turn the scoundrels out. You do not need PhDs and MBAs for that. You need ordinary people who care sufficiently about the places in which they live to take control of their own towns and states when required. And, yes, it doesn't hurt if they own guns. Popular gun ownership places a limit on the abuse of state power.
Security forces of the northeastern Somali region on Tuesday freed an abducted ship carrying commercial goods for Somali businesspeople after a gun battle with pirates off the coast of Somalia, local official said.
"After long gun fight, our forces were able to overpower the pirates and take over the ship which is now heading for the port of Bossaso," Farah Ali, regional deputy minister for national security, told Xinhua. Ali said that there were casualties on both sides but declined to give figures.
The ship, laden with commercial goods for local businesspeople, was abducted this week off Somali coast as it tried to dock at the port of Bossaso where piracy and hostage taking has been rampant. Somali pirates do not usually target at locally chartered shipscarrying goods for the war-torn Horn of Africa country.
This is the second time the local security forces were able to free an abducted ship from pirates who are often better trained and well equipped than the local forces.
The IDF nabbed three Palestinians carrying nine pipe bombs at a roadblock west of Nablus Sunday evening, apparently averting a planned terror attack in Israel. The attack was foiled as a result of the alertness and insistence of a female soldier at the checkpoint. No injuries were reported in the incident.
The three Palestinians arrived at the roadblock from the direction of Nablus. The female soldier asked one of them for an identification card, but remained suspicious even after he showed her his ID. At that point, the soldier asked the suspect to open his bag, yet he refused. The soldier insisted, prompting the Palestinian to remove a shirt and pants from the bag before closing it again. However, the soldier was not satisfied, opened the bag herself, and found three pipe bombs inside it. They're...Eid presents. Really.
At that point, troops at the checkpoint activated a special emergency procedure. The Palestinians suspect's two friends were also searched and were found to carry three pipe bombs in each of their bags. They're...his. He said they were Eid presents.
Sappers dispatched to the scene blew up the explosive devices in a controlled detonation. Meanwhile, the three detainees were taken in for interrogation.
A similar attack was thwarted at a different roadblock near Nablus last week. A Palestinian who arrived at the checkpoint with a plastic bag aroused the suspicions of Golani troops and members of the IDF's crossings' unit. The soldiers dispatched a sapper, who discovered two small pipe bombs in the bag and blew them up.
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"Sappers dispatched to the scene blew up the explosive devices in a controlled detonation."
Here's hoping they blew up the car too.
AND, what USN Ret said.
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has anyone ever seen the Women of the Israeli Armed Forces? Some damn nice looking women in their military. I know that has nothing too do with the article just made me think of it
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Almost a year after two teenage girls were found dead -- allegedly executed by their father -- in the back seat of a taxicab in Texas, the FBI is saying for the first time that the case may have been an "honor killing" -- and the bureau is angering Muslim groups by calling it that. If we only had Sharia Law and the girls had worn Burquas this would have never happened.
Sarah Said, 17, and her sister Amina, 18, were killed on New Year's Day, but for nine months authorities deflected questions about whether their father -- the prime suspect and the subject of a nationwide manhunt -- may have targeted them because of a perceived slight upon his honor. How could a POS like this possibly have any honor?
The girls' great-aunt, Gail Gartrell, says the girls' father killed them both because he felt they disgraced the family by dating non-Muslims and acting too Western, and she called the girls' murders an honor killing from the start.
But the FBI held off on calling it an honor killing until just recently, when it made Yaser Abdel Said the "featured fugitive" on its Web site. "That's what I've been trying to tell everybody all along," Gartrell told FOXNews.com. "I would say that's a victory."
But others feel that calling the case an honor killing goes too far.
He said he worries that terms like "honor killing" may stigmatize the Islamic community. "We (Muslims) don't have the market on jealous husbands ... or domestic violence," Carroll said.
The United Nations estimates that 5,000 women are killed worldwide every year in honor killings -- mostly in the Middle East, where many countries still have laws that protect men who murder female relatives they believe have engaged in inappropriate activity. A U.N. report includes chilling examples of such cases.
"On the order of clerics, an 18-year-old woman was flogged to death in Batsail, Bangladesh, for "immoral behaviour," the report reads. "In Egypt, a father paraded his daughter's severed head through the streets shouting, 'I avenged my honour.'"
But Islamic scripture in no way condones such actions, Carroll said. Maybe they get the idea from watching too many Freddie Kruger movies.
"People have their own cultural nuances and norms from before they got their religion," he said. "This is not Islamic culture." These "nuances and norms" are developed in the crib like SIDS.
Regardless of whether religion itself is to blame, Gartrell said it is important that society recognizes the case as having a cultural element, just to prevent similar crimes in the future. "That culture is so different," Gartrell said. "If people had been more educated about it, they would have known that when the girls told people, 'Dad wants to kill me' -- they were serious."
Many of the threats against Sarah and Amina Said were known to their friends and classmates. High school friends told the Dallas Morning News that the girls sometimes came in with welts and bruises, which they confided were inflicted by their father. One time, Yaser Said reportedly went into one daughter's bedroom waving a gun and making threats on her life.
After he threatened to kill one daughter in December 2007 -- documented in text messages Sarah Said sent to a friend -- the girls and their mother, Patricia, fled from their home in Lewisville, Texas, to Tulsa, Okla. But the mother soon had a change of heart and went back, leading to the tragedy on January 1. Some, including Gartrell, believe the mother may even have been complicit in the murders.
Dr. Phyllis Chasler, author of several books, including "The Death of Feminism: What's Next in the Struggle for Women's Freedom," said that the case fits the description of an honor killing. "The premeditation, the family collaboration, and the particular rules (set for the girls) make this consistent with an honor killing -- not just domestic violence," she said.
She said she hoped that calling the case an "honor killing" might indicate a shift in attitude at the FBI. "I think this may suggest that law enforcement is beginning to realize that they may have to treat these incidents differently if they are to either prevent or prosecute," Chasler told FOXNews.com.
She noted that the United Kingdom has a special police unit to deal with "honor-related violence," and said that she hoped that the situation in the U.S. does not get to the point where that becomes necessary.
But an FBI spokesman played down the significance of the listing, saying that the change on the wanted listing was simply due to more information coming out about the case since it was first listed and that it shouldn't matter what the case is called. "We're just looking at how do we find the guy?" said FBI special agent Mark White, media coordinator in the bureau's Dallas office.
Irving Police Department Public Information Officer David Tull agreed. "We just look at the facts. The man killed his two daughters. This is a domestic violence, multiple-capital murder case." Tull said that, unfortunately, there have still been no sightings or major leads -- a fact that distresses Gartrell. Check the local Mosques.
"I'm very upset about it," said Gartrell, who argues that the case needs special consideration. "This is not a typical murder case. When a family member murders another family member to protect [the family] name -- that's different."
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Compare wid WAFF.com > CS MONITOR - IS AMERICA's FIGHTING FORCE BIG ENOUGH? Some Analysts warn or advise that Amer's armed forces must becom bigger in order to successfullly fight anticipated INTENSIVE COUNTERINSURGENCY WAR(S) scenarios ala AFGHANISTAN + IRAQ, as well as to SUPPORT WEAK OR UNSTABLE NATIONS FROM DEVOL INTO DE FACTO MILITARY THREATS. WEAK NATIONS, NOT STRONG ONES, ARE THE LIKELY REALISTIC GREATER MILPOL THREAT TO AMER NATIONAL AND GEOPOL INTERESTS. USDOD must be large enuff to support US Policies and Allies, and contain/isolate Hostile or Enemy States, + any in-betweens.
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I think I'm going to prepare myself for he spectacle if O wins. 12% of the country running around making an ass of themselves. Now the senate could go 60-40 dem which would give them enough votes to manhandle their way out of any argument. This place will look like cuba within a year if these assholes take the white house and the senate. We'll be building ramshackle rafts and trying to make it out into the shipping lanes in hopes of being picked up by Chilean warships or something.
I guess with them in the white house and with a majority in both houses of congress they finally cant blame the Republicans for a change.
What am I saying?
Of course they will, and the dumb bastards that keep voting for them will still believe it.
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I had just been thinking that the usual suspects had been pretty quiet the last few weeks. I thought they had been put on slowboats to Fiji with a pack of whores and barrelfuls of booze to keep them quiet & out of the Zero's hair until after the election.
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I think you are right Mitch. But they came back and can't contain themselves.
#19
The One has many deciples. We'll be seeing more and more of Jesse, AL, and Louis as they begin queuing up for the government cheese and political appointments.
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Actually, boys, it looks like they were trying...
Dateline: EVIAN, FRANCE
Prepare for a new America: That's the message that the Rev. Jesse Jackson conveyed to participants in the first World Policy Forum, held at this French lakeside resort last week.
So I take it that the World Policy Forum has Budweiser distributorships? I mean, why else would he be there?
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Maybe the Rev is trying to undercut BO in w/the Zionist community...
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10/14/2008 17:48
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I believe that Obama will throw Israel under the bus. And I believe the Israelis know that too.
Israel, alone and with no one to count on, WILL pull the trigger if Obama gets elected.
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sigh . . . I miss anti-war and the greek guy . . but here goes . . .
TODD is a troll.
TODD is a troll.
TODD is a troll.
TODD is a troll.
His link is to a Dem activist website. He is here to attempt to discourage Republicans or Independents who are thinking of voting Republican (" I'm leaning . . ." says Todd. Yeah, and I have some prime ocean front property in Florida for $32/acre, too). Anyway, Todd is a leftist operative. He has no intention of gaining an open mind or holding discussion. His aim is to infiltrate and influence for the left. He uses the same stupid “polite” social norming in his exchanges to deflect discovery of his identity and to deflect criticism. I’m not sure Todd is a “he” and I haven’t had enough time reading Todd’s posts to determine that yet.
Nevertheless, let's take a look at the "evil" sign Todd is linking to in order to make his point and aim, which is to "help" posters at rantburg think something along the lines of "gee, as a Republican I sure don't want to be associated with stupid, bad racist guys like the one with the sign . . . I guess I'll vote Obama instead, or maybe I just won’t vote at all”.
Moving on . . .
The actual sign reads:
"Christians Against Baby-Killing Muslims for President"
LetÂ’s analyze.
First, the guy says he's a Christian. Okay. Don't know about that, but let's suppose he is a Christian. According to the Dems, the guy is in the same "camp" as Obama, religiously speaking, so they should have something in common and should be treated with the same respect. As one of millions of Christians in the US, the man has the same legal and constitutional rights (for now) regarding political free speech as any other citizen, so the man can say he is a Christian, whether or not he is a Christian. His religious identity is protected and his free speech is protected, (though we can say he might have a fundamental disagreement with Obama in terms of Christian identity).
At this point, we can conclude:
1.) The man in the photo is, or is not, a Christian.
Next, the man is saying he is against something.
SO:
2.) The man is expressing an opinion.
He is specifying that he is against a baby-killing Moslem, in particular. I share the sentiment, as do others here. The fact is, Moslems around the world kill quite a number of babies, young women, and boys, for a variety of political and pathological reasons.
But of course we all know the man is referring to Obama's PRO-ABORTION stance and record which supports even partial birth abortion. (Abortion is the putting to death of a living human in (whatever) stage of development he or she is at, when his or her life is terminated. For those who doubt (and doubting in this case would be a religious belief, not scientific, researched information) that a human child is not that which defines a pregnancy--terminated or not terminated--there is always the nasty problem of the disposal of the body which proves the point. Some of the dead bodies are put in trash cans, some are burned in little ovens imported from Austria, some are put down garbage disposals, and some are buried. Partial-Birth Abortion is a procedure in which the abortionist pulls a living baby feet-first out of the womb and into the birth canal (vagina), except for the head, which the abortionist purposely keeps lodged just inside the cervix (the opening to the womb). The abortionist punctures the base of the babyÂ’s skull with a surgical instrument, such as a long surgical scissors or a pointed hollow metal tube called a trochar. He then inserts a catheter (tube) into the wound, and removes the baby's brain with a powerful suction machine. This causes the skull to collapse, after which the abortionist completes the delivery of the now-dead baby.) Â
But back to the point. The man is against baby-killing first off, and that opinion is tied to the current Democrat candidate for president, who supports said baby-killing/abortion.
SO:
3.) The man is against baby-killing (abortion).
The man also is expressing that he is against certain baby-killer or pro-abortion persons, which would be Barack Obama, in this case.
4.) The man identifies Obama as a Moslem.
Interestingly, so does most of the rest of the Middle-East and Africa. Whether or not Obama is a “closet” Moslem, it is still true that he clearly supports Moslems around the world, and is very sympathetic toward their “plight.” In any case, Obama is a Marxist aligned with the Black Liberation Theology crowd.
SO:
In summary, the “terrible, racist, stupid” man with the sign is saying that,
as a Christian (however he defines that) he is AGAINST
a baby-killing (or PRO-ABORTION)
moslem (or ISLAMO-FACIST SYMPATHIZER)
for PRESIDENT
Well, I say BFD. I'm against that too.
About Jesse Jackson. The Jewish community is being idiotic to support Obama. He has no commitment to the Jews, Israel, and considers them, like Jackson, to be, for the most part Zionists who need to be eliminated along with Republicans or anyone who does not ascribe to Emperor Obama.
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well now, ex-lib and Todd(who I'm sure, is an 'undecided Christian Conservative who was leaning McCain, but now that I've heard about X, I'm looking at Obama and like his positions)... I was "leaning Obama" but I certainly changed my mind now. Thanks Ex-lib, and Todd(?) ....bite me
Todd is is the David Axelrod Astroturf (fake grassroots) program in "living color". Post-election you'll not see "Todd" posting again
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h/t Gateway Pundit. Original post by Real Debate Wisconsin, at the link.
My 8th grade son is in an advanced English class at a public middle school here in Racine, Wisconsin. I just found out that my son's new (copyright 2008) Wisconsin - McDougal Littell Literature book has 15 pages covering Barack Obama.
I was shocked - No John McCain, no Hillary Clinton, no George Bush - Just Barack Obama. I'm wondering how it is that Obama's story gets put into an 8th grade literature book? It would be one thing, if it was just the tidbit about his boyhood days, but 15 pages, and they talk about his "Life of Service". Honestly, what has Obama really done to be included in this book? Not only that, but on page 847 there is a photo of Obama at the 2004 Democratic Convention with at least 8 Obama signs in the background! Front & center is an www.obama2004.com sign.
Now I understand that many teachers are liberals, but does the school have the right to shove Obama down our kid's throats? All the kids grouped together and read the story. After that, they discussed it... I guess it appears that Obama is planning ahead. If he doesn't get his coveted Presidency, Obama is going to make sure, that the younger generations know all about him, and his "life of service".
If you would like to see the 15 page story on Obama, it appears that you can order this book online. There is a note in the book that says, For more on Barack Obama, visit the Literature Center at www.ClassZone.com The book is: Wisconsin - 8th grade - McDougal Littell Literature - copyright 2008. The Obama story starts on page 830.
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Nice, but not unexpected, schoolbooks and the public education system are big blocks in the whole gramscian scheme.
Funny bit, though, how his (not very successful, except if you include pork money for his cronies) "community organizer" days are a LIFE OF SERVICE, while the actual service of McCain is just a sign he's a warmongering old man. You've got to love the crazy worldview... but, hey, it works pretty well for them!
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In any regards, following this Us presidential election has been very enlightening for me, about lotsa stuff hidden under rocks in the US policies, items you don't mention in polite society. Nice.
A question, still : the "Bizarro world feeling" is unshakable about this whole mess, any of you old timers around here thinks this is a watershed election, a system pushed to its logical end, that however this turns, a step will have been passed???
“The youth of today see African American artifacts and culture but they don’t understand how these pieces are part of a long literary tradition,” said Allen Wheatcroft, president of Holt.
“We want this anthology to help educators reach and inspire the next generation with names like Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, and Queen Latifah. These are names that students recognize and teachers can use the works of these authors to pull students into other literature.”
That is one helluva long and impressive tradition.
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a system pushed to its logical end, that however this turns, a step will have been passed???
I'm in total agreement. Even if the Kenyan is defeated next month, which is of very big 'if' my long view sees more of the same political ideology surfacing in the future. If not from this fellow, from others of similar ilk.
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Some one had a plan and the plan was implemented in 1979. It progressed according to the initial design - to get a young charismatic Marxist/Leninist elected POTUS by pulling all the heart-strings and taking advantage of the leftist slant of educators and media workers. So far, it is working according to plan. No need to change it or cancel it - it is on plan. Hey, 1979 = Iran hostage crisis, Reagan comes alive later and gives the Iranian's an ultimatum, Barry starts school at Occidental. Nah, it couldn't be.
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From the link in the link
Contacts for the Media:
• Jennifer Harrison, for Holt McDougal: 916-716-0636, jennifer@JHarrisonPR.com
• Kate Weber, Holt McDougal: 512-721-7520, kate.weber@hrw.com
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Abu do you love said something about this in yesterday's mega post. This just reinforces that opinion I share.
My niece asked me who I'm voting for last weekend. I said McCain and she asked why...I said, "Well -niece-, I think you are a good person but I don't think you are ready to drive yet (she is 8). Maybe in 8 years but not yet and especially not in city rush hour traffic. You wouldn't want to be riding with someone who has just a couple hours driving experience trying to get across Wichita at 5:00 Friday would you?" So yes, these kids are being tought by their teachers that Beeblebox Obama is the choice and question those who think otherwise (I could tell by the tone of voice).
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I see the Great Leader has already been put in the textbooks for worship.
Obama and his cronies are reminding me more and more of other cults of personality that have been incredibly destructive to the world.
Something about his eyes, which seem smaller, and his forehead, which seems smoother. Compared with images from last year, he seems better rested -- yet also, strangely, a little sleepier.
Or go to YouTube: In the July 2007 CNN debate, his face turned sharp and keen with his impassioned call to send troops to Darfur, a frustrated pair of vertical lines in his brow as he described the suffering of refugees. This month, debating Sarah Palin, we heard similar anger in his voice about a lack of funding in Afghanistan -- but saw a tranquil brow.
Karen Bradley, a University of Maryland professor who studies politicians' body movement and what it conveys to voters, says it's "a little strange that nothing moves from his eyes on up" -- since she otherwise finds Biden a compelling communicator who powerfully telegraphs his conviction on a topic via other body language.
Barry Cohen, a Rockville plastic surgeon, is more blunt. "He clearly has had Botox," the doctor, a Republican, told us. "The lines are gone on his forehead. There is no way makeup or surgery could do that." Georgetown spa owner Erwin Gomez, who knows his way around some of D.C.'s most scrupulously groomed faces, agrees: "On the right and the left temple, you can see the lines, but he has no wrinkles in the forehead." He suspects the senator had a shot of Botox in his brow to disable his scowl muscle -- which can also bring an unwanted heaviness to the eyelids.
Well? "Completely untrue, completely unsubstantiated," said Biden spokesman David Wade. "A lot of Americans will have fewer worry lines on their faces" when George Bush is out office, he added. "But my goodness, until then can't we actually talk about the economy, the millions of foreclosures and the fact that Americans lost 2 trillion bucks in their 401(k)s this month? Seriously."
And if he did choose to try the 'tox -- hey, so what, because, supposedly, everyone is doing it these days! D.C. dermatologist Tina Alster declined to assess any one VIP face ("I know too many of them"), but among her political clientele, as many men as women are getting Botox -- Republicans and Democrats alike. She had to cut her summer vacation short to meet the surge in demand before the conventions. "People who knew they were going to be on TV," she explained. Oh, and not just politicians: journalists, too. Even grubby print journalists, who increasingly fill the ranks of the 24-7 cable punditocracy.
The stuff wears off in about six months, so she expects another rush before the inauguration, "at least among one party or another."
Afghan and international troops have killed 14 Taliban militants while eight civilians were killed in separate incidents of violence, Afghan provincial authorities and the US military said on Monday.
Six civilians were killed and two more wounded when a minibus hit a roadside bomb in Zana Khan district of Ghazni province on Monday. "The roadside bomb was planted by insurgents who were targeting a foreign or Afghan military convoy using this road," said governor's spokesman Sayed Ismail Jahangir.
Separately, two civilians were killed and three injured when a rocket landed on their home in Khost on Sunday. "The rocket was aimed at a nearby foreign troop base," said the provincial police chief Abdul Qayum Batizoy.
In another incident, international and Afghan troops killed five militants in an operation targeting a foreign fighters' network in Ghazni province on Monday, said a statement by US military.
Nine Taliban insurgents were killed during a joint operation by Afghan and international troops in Ghazni's Waghaz district on Sunday, said provincial police chief Mohammad Zaman.
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I hate these headlines. They infer the Afghans and coalition killed both the taliban and civilians. It is only after reading the text that all eight civilians were killed by the Pakistanis taliban.
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It is unimportant who killed the civilians; they were killed only because the Americans (& Coalition) were there, so it is the fault of the Americans. Re-check your style guide.
(Xinhua) -- Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabeon Monday took the second major step towards forming a cabinet when he swore in the country's two vice presidents at the State House.
The two sitting Vice Presidents Joseph Msika and Joyce Mujuru took oaths of office and loyalty before the president in terms of section 31 of the Zimbabwean Constitution, local media New Ziana reported. Vice President Joseph Msika is the first to take the oaths during a brief ceremony that was witnessed by several cabinet ministers and deputies. The vice presidents pledged to "well and truly serve Zimbabwe" in their offices.
Speaking to the media soon after the swearing in ceremony, Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Patrick Chinamasa, who is also a member of the Zimbabwe ruling ZANU-PF negotiating team to the power sharing agreement, said the move was the second step towards forming a cabinet to drive the country which has not had a properly constituted government since the March 29 harmonised elections.
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Preparing for the eventuality that Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah is assassinated or kidnapped, the movement held elections for a new secretary general, according to the Iranian newspaper Khorshed.
According to the Monday newspaper report, Hizbullah expects Israel to attempt to assassinate their leader after their success in killing Imad Moghniyah in February 2008. The paper said the elections were intended as a "clear step" telling Israel that the movement will not be affected by any targeted assassinations.
To succeed Nasrallah in case of death or kidnapping, will be Hashem Safi Ad-Din, a prominent member of Hizbullah currently working as head of executive office. The same position had belonged to Nasrallah before he became secretary general in 1982. So what happens if Hashem Safi Ad-Din is assassinated or kidnapped before Nasrallah? Does Nasrallah appoint yet another successor? But what happens if Hashem is kidnapped, another successor named, and then Hashem's released? Do they have to shoot one of them? Or do they shoot Nasrallah? I'm so confused.
The Israeli paper Ma'ariv, which re-printed the Iranian article on Monday, noted that Israel had also assassinated former Hizbullah secretary Abbas Al-Mousawi in 1992.
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I hope Israel somebody goes for a two-fer....
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Meanwhile, the USA is becom worried over increasing ties bwtn ARMED ISLAMIST MILITANT GROUPS + CENTRAL-SOUTH AMERICAN DRUG GANGS + MAFIAS [e.g. Mexico].
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I think you're all missing the point here, and the point is any of those two guys who will get snuffed first will have a street named after him in teheran.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) restored access for international inspectors to its Yongbyon nuclear facilities for further verification.
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See also FREEREPUBLIC > NORTH KOREA WINS AGAIN! NOKOR is not only effec iff imperfectly achieving its agenda, but - like IRAN - is steadily NUCLEARIZING.
In the dispute over the palatial Jinnah House in south Mumbai, Dina Wadia, the only daughter of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, has stated before the Bombay High Court that her father is not governed by Islamic succession laws, but by Hindu customary law instead.
Wonder how that will go down in Pakistan
The building in question, blessed not only with history but also location -- facing the sea from the posh Malabar Hill -- is currently valued at Rs 300 crore.
In 1947, when Jinnah left India for Pakistan, the Government had taken it over as "evacuee property". However, Dina had remained behind in Mumbai, having been disowned by Jinnah. Now 88 years old, she lives in the United States. After a series of legal moves, Dina Wadia filed a writ petition before the Mumbai High Court in 2007, claiming that Jinnah House could not be classified as "evacuee property", as her father had died without leaving behind a will. So, she went on to claim, all his properties, including Jinnah House, devolved to his successors.
The trouble was that under Muslim succession law, Jinnahs property would devolve to a long list of family claimants, only one of which was his daughter. This meant that even if Jinnah House was not "evacuee property", Dina Wadia would have to share Jinnah House with other relatives of her father.
"Wadia" means shipbuilder. The Wadias built almost 400 ships for the East India Company and the Royal Navy in Bombay such as the HMS Minden, aboard which the Star Spangled Banner was composed, HMS Cornwallis, aboard which the treaty of Nanking ceding Hong Kong to Britain was signed and HMS Tricomalee, the oldest British warship still afloat
To overcome this, her lawyer Fali Nariman has stated in court that Jinnah, as a Khoja-Shia, was not governed by Muslim succession law, but by Hindu customary law -- in which intestate succession is to the daughter alone. To establish this, Nariman has relied on a long line of cases where the Indian Supreme Court has held that Khoja-Shias are governed by Hindu customary law. Khoja-Shias, like many Muslim communities in India, have traditions that are a mix of Islamic and Hindu rituals.
However, given the complicated legal issues involved in the case, what has taken a backseat is this most interesting aspect of the case: the claim by Jinnahs only daughter that the man who forged Pakistan claiming to be the representative of Indias Muslims be governed by Hindu, not Islamic, laws.
The Government, led by Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Gopal Subramaniam, has countered Dina Wadias argument by alleging that Jinnah did not die intestate, but had willed Jinnah House to his sister Fatima. Since Fatima also left India for Pakistan in 1947, ASG Subramanian contends that Jinnah House is rightly classified as "evacuee property", and now belongs to the Government.
Nariman has countered this by arguing that since the will -- even if genuine -- is not probated, it is not admissible in court. Some other relatives of Fatima have joined the melee, claiming that as per the will, Jinnah House devolves to the heirs of Fatima Jinnah -- them.
To further add to the confusion, some within the previous NDA cabinet sided with Dina Wadia, and had informally agreed to give Jinnah House to her on a life-long lease. Former external affairs minister Jaswant Singh says this in a personal affidavit to the court.
While he admitted on August 29 that many within the NDA Government favoured giving Jinnah House to Dina, ASG Subramaniam claims that then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayees final decision was that it remain with the Government.
Adding another twist to the tale, Nusli Wadia -- Dinas son and Jinnahs grandson
How ironic that the descendants of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan, are citizens of India
-- filed a petition with the Central Information Commission (CIC) in December 2007, demanding the release of former Attorney General Soli Sorabjees two legal opinions, in which he reportedly sided with the Wadias. In early October, the CIC ruled that the two opinions be made public. The Court has scheduled the next hearing for October 24.
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Jinnah was a single-minded, tunnel-visioned cynic. If he had died, or Gandhi had died, or Britain could have held on 18 months longer (by which time both were dead), India might very well never have been partitioned. That would have been a tremendous blessing not only for everyone in the subcontinent but for the world as well.
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Humm, if my memory is any good his vision was an India as a confedratoiopn of Muslim states with the Hinus keeping only an area in the far South about twice the size of Ceylan. But perhaps I am confounding him with another guy.
Rehmat Ali’s concept of Pakistan was nebulous, impractical and fantasy-ridden. It was to include the entire northwest of India, Kashmir, the Kathiawar peninsula, Kutch, and several enclaves deep within UP, including Delhi and Lucknow. There were to be two independent Muslim states besides Pakistan: Bangistan comprising Bengal and Assam in the east and Osmanistan in the south. These two were to form a federation with Pakistan. The 243 principalities or Rajwaras were to be divided among caste Hindus and “others” and then herded together in a ghetto called Hanoodia. As for the Sikhs, they were to be pushed into an enclave called Sikhia. Other races and religions were to inhabit an encampment by the name of Hanadika. Every non-Muslim was to remain subservient to the master race he called “The Paks”. And yes, the subcontinent was to be renamed Dinia. He did not say how he was going to bring all that about.
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A High Court (HC) bench yesterday sent back a writ petition that challenged the legality of the constitution of Jamaat-e Islami Bangladesh. The HC bench of justices Syed Mahmud Hossain and Quamrul Islam Siddiqui said the petition involves political matters.
Barrister Tania Amir, who appeared for the petitioners, took back the petition for moving it to another HC bench.
Some 17 leaders and activists of Bangladesh Tarikat Federation, including its Secretary General Md Rezaul Haque Chandpuri, yesterday filed the writ petition saying Jamaat-e Islami is a religion-based political party.
The petition also said the Jamaat constitution has discriminatory rules regarding religion and sex which are against the spirit of the constitution of the republic, Representation of People Order (RPO), 2008, and section 20(1) of Special Powers Act 1974.
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Charsadda police on Monday arrested an American citizen with a laptop, maps and other documents as he tried to enter Mohmand Agency, sources said. "We have arrested an American national at Yakaghund checkpost with a computer, some maps and other documents while crossing into Mohmand," the sources said.
The arrested person's name was not disclosed, but the sources said his facial features suggested he was of Afghan descent. "Documents recovered from his possession establish his American nationality, but he looks like an Afghan Hazara," the officials said. "He has been moved to Peshawar for interrogation by a Joint Investigation Team," they added. I have no idea why he survived the process of apprehension. The teevee sez he's a student at a junior college in Florida.
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I suppose that he was just going to intern with some business activity in the old country (Pakistan and/or Afghanistan). /s
CNN -- A Pakistani man with dual U.S. citizenship was questioned and released after being detained in a dangerous area of Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province, Pakistani police said.
Jawad Ali, a resident of Peshawar, was carrying a U.S. passport when he was detained Monday in a "red zone" area in the village of Shabqadar, said Charsadda District police officer Waqif Khan. Police questioned Ali, told him the area is dangerous and asked him to go back home, Khan said.
Ali's father is a cab driver in the United States, Khan said.
Initial reports on the incident Monday identified Ali as a U.S. student from Florida named Jude Kenan. Khan said he was not aware of an American named Jude Kenan.
U.S. Embassy officials in Islamabad said Monday they had no knowledge of an American being detained.
Senior Joint Secretary of Khulna City Awami League (AL) Khan Ibne Zaman was hacked to death yesterday at his residence at Khalishpur in the city.
Police said the murderers entered Zaman's three-storey house scaling boundary wall at about 8:15pm during a power cut in the area. They tied the hands and legs of the AL leader who was taking rest at his bedroom on the first floor of the house after returning from the party office.
They hacked him to death and escaped through the main gate in presence of security guards Makbul and Tufani. Police arrested the two security guards.
The murderers disconnected the telephone line and ransacked Zaman's bedroom, police added.
Khulna City Corporation Mayor Talukder Abdul Khaleque and AL leaders visited the spot. They demanded fair investigation into the murder and immediate arrest of the killers. City AL General Secretary Mizanur Rahman also demanded immediate arrest of the killers and the mastermind behind the murder.
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World stock markets staged spectacular gains Monday as governments pumped billions of dollars into markets crippled by the credit crunch, coaxing newly confident investors into buying shares. Wall Street skyrocketed at the opening, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average 6.19 percent in positive territory at 8,974.56 by mid-day.
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(AKI) - Thirteen illegal immigrants aboard a people-smuggler's boat were thrown overboard off Sicily's coast for 'bringing bad luck'. Somebody certainly had bad luck...
Five Nigerians have been detained over the incident and accused of multiple aggravated homicide. Looks like they tossed the wrong ones, huh?
Twelve of the immigrants were Nigerian and one was of Ghanaian nationality. They were all males and are presumed dead. Media reports quoted the people-smugglers as claiming the men were 'interfering' with the navigation of the boat as it sailed towards Italy. "How do you mean 'interfering?'"
"We were using a compass. They'd been magnetized."
"It is a horrendous incident. The 13 people were thrown to the water while they were still alive only because of superstition," said Syracuse's public prosecutor Ugo Rossi. And now they're 'believed dead'....
The incident took place on 11 September near Portopalo di Capo Passero on the Sicilian coast, where the boat landed with 59 people on board, among them women and children. Media reports say the illegal immigrants aboard the boat told the Italian authorities the people smugglers had thrown the 13 passengers overboard while still alive.
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Greek captain I read about pitched two Tanzanian stowaways overboard with only a pallet somewhere off Somalia. Where they went overboard is known to be shark-infested.
One of his crew turned him in and he was charged with manslaughter in Greece. When asked about how he could possibly have done such a thing, he replied that "everyone knows that sharks don't eat black people."
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Ex-yougoslavia ethnic cleasing didn't involve lotsa dead bodies, just lotsa rapes (as a terror weapon), and mass forced population movements. Tell the inhabitant they have five minutes to pack out, brutalize them enough to make them understand you mena business, and burn the houses so they can't come back.
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Another post awhile ago mentioned the real reason the Russsians invaded was because Israel was installing structures they could target Iran from without violating ME airspace. Maybe some button pushing from Nevada should clease some Russian structures, especially those to be built in Venezuela?
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Ahhhh, those subtle Russkies! Can't wait for the Chosen One to begin representing our interests with people like this...or, maybe, kindred spirits really don't need to represent anyone?!
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ION TOPIX > ARMENIAN NEWS NETWORK - AZERBAIJAN PRESIDENT: ALL-OUT OFFENSIVE AGZ ARMENIA. Political, Diplomatic, Econ, Military, Information,.....@etc. in full spectrum as long as Armenia occupies "one inch" of Azerbaijan = Azeri, etc. ethnic-historical territory.
Also from ARMENIAN NES NETWORK > GUAM [Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldavia] HAS NO FUTURE UNLESS MEMBER STATES ARE RICH AND POWERFUL. Member-States + Alliance also have NO UNDERLYING OR COMMON FOUNDATION, RARELY OR DON'T INTERACT EITHER LOCALLY OR AS A COOPER ALLIANCE, and ARE NOT REGIONAL LEADERS, etc.
The Surjani Town police have arrested 2 alleged militants and recovered almost 2,000 detonators from their possession, Daily Times learnt on Monday. Gadap Town SP Ejaz Hussain Kumario while talking to Daily Times said that a police party on a tip-off intercepted a yellow cab near Surjani Northern Bypass and arrested two culprits and recovered 2,000 non-electronic detonators from their possessions. The suspected militants were identified as Zahid Shah and Ibarat Shah. During the course of initial investigation, culprits confessed that they picked up the detonators from Sohrab Goth and were on the way to Northern Bypass for delivery but the police have intercepted them, the SP said, adding that the culprits hailed form Dir area of NWFP while further investigation was underway.
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The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) would take initiative to bring back dreaded criminal Trimoti Subrata Bain, who was arrested in Kolkata, India.
Wonder how long he lasts before a 'crossfire' occurs ...
CID chief and Additional Inspector General of Police Mohammad Javed Patwary told The Daily Star last night, "We just heard about the arrest of Subrata Bain but we are yet to get any formal message from the Indian police."
"Being confirmed, we would take initiative to bring him back," the CID chief said. He said, "Even though there is no extradition treaty between Bangladesh and India, we have brought back several criminals who were hiding in India and like them we will try to bring him back following the procedures maintained earlier."
Javed Patwary said, "If the Indian police do not inform us, we will contact them."
The CID so far brought back eight criminals, including two top criminals--Khandaker Tanveerul Islam Joy and Hares Ahmed--who were hiding in India.
CID Special Superintendent of Police Abdullah Aref said the CID would try to bring back Subrata Bain as soon as possible. Sources said Indian Special Force arrested Bain in a midnight drive Saturday at a flat on Park Avenue in Kolkata.
Sources said Subrata Bain had been hiding in India after the home ministry on December 27, 2001, published a list of 23 top criminals of Dhaka and declared rewards for their capture. On the list, Bain was in the top five. Police said Bain has 17 cases including murders cases filed against him in Ramna Police Station alone.
Over/under = 2 days once back in RAB custody.
He has businesses in Kolkata even through his cadres regularly extorted huge amounts of money from businessmen in Bangladesh and sent the money to India through hundi, illegal money laundering.
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Troops and helicopter gunships killed at least 24 Taliban in the restive Bajaur Agency, officials said on Monday. "Helicopter gunships and artillery pounded Taliban hideouts, killing at least 24 Taliban and wounding 10 others," a security official told AFP.
The military offensive began on Sunday afternoon and continued into the early hours of Monday, he said, adding four Taliban and two locals were also killed in an exchange of fire between a tribal lashkar and the Taliban. Four tribesmen were killed in clashes between the Taliban and a tribal lashkar in Kotkai village near Charmang area in Bajaur, Reuters quoted another government official as saying. He said several Taliban were also killed, but was unsure of the number.
Five Taliban were killed and fifteen others arrested in a security forces' operation in Darra Adam Khel on Monday, official sources said, according to NNI.
Swat: In an intensified operation against the Taliban in Swat, security forces killed at least 25 Taliban in parts of Khwazakhela tehsil on Monday. ISPR spokesman Major Farooq Pirzada confirmed to Daily Times the death of 25 Taliban in the two-day clash. He also said that two security officials were also killed and three injured in the clashes.
Separately, four people, including a leader of the ANP, were injured when a roadside bomb struck their vehicle in Dir district, an administration official said.
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Israel security forces sealed off the West Bank early Monday, allowing Palestinian movement out of the area only in special medical cases, ahead of the first day of the Jewish Sukkot holiday.
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CINCINNATI (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from an Ohio prisoner who argued he is too obese to be executed. Richard Cooey is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday. The court denied his request for a stay without comment Monday. Cooey is 5-foot-7 and weighs 267 pounds.
State officials said prison staff examined Cooey's veins and found no problems that would interfere with the execution.
And if they did, it isn't anything that would keep him from a firing squad ...
Cooey has one more appeal pending before the court. It argues Ohio's method for lethal injections could cause an agonizing death and violates the constitutional prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.'
Cooey, 41, raped and killed two college students in 1986.
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I still haven't figured out how he got/stayed so fat in prison.
It's not like he can raid the refrigerator anytime he wants to....
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This jerk has already lived far too long. Kill him and be done with it. Lethal injection is far more merciful than what he did to the young women he killed.
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Cooey, 41, raped and killed two college students in 1986.
Gee. I wonder what sort of humane criteria were factored into his decision to rape and kill these two college students. Any others we don't know about? Execute the ba$tard and be done with it.
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The guillotine would avoid all these arguments about inadequate dosages of chemical agent to cause quick death. Nobody's neck is fat enough to resist the blade.
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Cooey has one more appeal pending before the court
How many appeals did his victim get. Neither this nor the 'one more' indicated that there was anything wrong with the verdict or the penalty. The state either carries out its responsibility or forfeits it to others to do - see first scene from the Godfather movie as one appeals an injustice to another power who will grant justice.
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barbara, if you go too jail fat you usually stay fat. If you go skinny then you tend too gain weight. One thing is that you are in a cell or pod for most the day without anything too do. Also i don't know about other states but when Zell Miller was gov. of georgia he did away with all the weight lifting equipment and such. And if he was that fat before he went too jail he was prob lazy as hell and wasn't going too do any kind of working out after he got there.
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Guess he never read all the studies that show that obesity shortens your life, eh?
(He's lucky I'm not the judge. 1000 calories per day, strictly monitored, until he gets skinny....then we kill 'em. And I would be sure to be eating french fries when giving the ruling, too.)
To give you some context for cruel, here's how Richard Cooey killed his two victims.
A chunk of concrete dropped from an Interstate 77 bridge crashing onto OffredoÂ’s black Pontiac Fiero as she and McCreery were returning from a waitressing shift in the wee hours of the morning.
The concrete had been dropped by then 17 year old Clint Dickens, who along with Cooey and Kenneth Horonetz jumped into Cooey’s car and pretended to rescue the women. Instead, the three men took McCreery and Offredo to a wooded area. Horonetz got “scared” and fled, after which Cooey and Dickens subjected McCreery and Offredo to 3½ hours “of fear and torture and agony,”
By the time McCreery and Offredo were dead, they had been repeatedly raped, stabbed with a pocket knife and bludgeoned with a nightstick. Cooey then carved the letter X into the stomachs of both women.
Dawn McCreevy was a voracious reader who planned a career in fashion and marketing and longed to travel to London. Wendy Offredo was a National Honor Society scholar who aspired to be a fashion model and actress.
How about they beat his fat ass to death with a cinderblock?
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Actually this did work in washington state once - a guy got so fat that he claimed that hanging would be 'cruel and unusreal' punishment and got it deferred to life. I think WA since changed the 'default' method to injection.
Then the SOB got a liver transplant - all on the taxpayers dime.
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His final statement was: ''You [expletive] have not paid attention to anything I've had to say for the past 22 years. Why would you pay attention to anything I have to say now?''
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Personally, there was a movie with Pitt and Freeman which came to mind, then I remembered Method Man had a lyric quote I thought was more appropriate for this POS.
Bless you for your compassion and love for this lost soul. However the Gov't has followed it's God given mandate. Cooey chose not to repent. His choice, given by God.
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And not a single last meal joke in the whole bunch...
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Cooey was given his final meal around 4 p.m. Monday. It consisted of a T-bone steak with A-1 sauce, french fries, onion rings, hash browns, four eggs over easy, toast with butter, a pint of Rocky Road ice cream, and "real" bear claws from the bakery. Prison staff members said Cooey spent much of the early morning pacing and sitting quietly and went to sleep around 4 a.m.
Cooey slept for just over an hour and got up around 5:20 a.m. He showered and declined breakfast.
A Michigan mother drove roughly 12 hours to Omaha, so she could abandon her 13-year-old son at a hospital under the state's unique safe-haven law, Nebraska officials said Monday.
One hell of a car ride for a 13 year old ...
The boy from the Detroit area is the second teenager from outside Nebraska and 18th child overall abandoned in the state since the law took effect in July.
"I certainly recognize and can commiserate and empathize with families across our state and across the country who are obviously struggling with parenting issues, but this is not the appropriate way of dealing with them, whether you're in Nebraska or whether you're in another state," said Todd Landry, who heads the state's Department of Health and Human Services' division of children and family services.
There was no sign the boy was in immediate danger before he was abandoned early Monday, but an investigation into the boy's situation was still continuing, Landry said. The boy has been placed in an emergency shelter. Landry said the family doesn't appear to have ties to Nebraska and he wasn't sure if the family had sought help in Michigan first.
State officials have met with the boy's mother, Landry said but wouldn't immediately address her reasons for leaving her son. He said he believed the boy's parents were married but wasn't sure if the father agreed to the decision. "Regardless of why or how, our focus remains on the safety of the child," he said. If a parent believes that they can no longer support a child, or that the child is at risk by remaining with them, and they have the foresight to give the child to someone who can care for them, then they are probably right. As sad as it sounds, the State will probably take better care of the child.
The Nebraska law is flat-out wrong and needs to be changed. Now.
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Actually, what Nebraska has done is let the chickens come home to roost. States have made it a felony crime to hit your children but sometimes, particularly with young teen males, that's almost the only way to get the message across.
Okay, if the state is going to limit the power of parents to deal with their parenting problems, the state should now have to show how much better it can handle those problems. Nebraska is stepping up to the plate to do so. Let's see how well it works.
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I can't imagine anything more dangerous to a child than MAKING a mother keep it when she doesnt want it. I'm sure there are plenty of fine people in Nebraska that are eager to adopt.
During the investigation, investigators said they found the girl's mother restricted her water intake to about half of a small Dixie cup per day. The mother only let the girl shower every two or three weeks, and watched her during each shower and bathroom break to keep the girl from surreptitiously drinking water, Urquhart said.
OTOH you hear about the parent who nearly lost their son to CPS because they fell at school and scraped their face and then someone at the grocery store turned them in for 'abuse' (look at his bruises! Must be abuse!) - lucky for them the school had documented the fall and scrape.
(AKI) - Al-Qaeda in Iraq has denied responsibility for the recent killings of Christians in the northern city of Mosul, which have driven hundreds of families from their homes. "We honour the agreement signed in Mosul by Abu Hamza al-Muhajir and prominent Christian tribal chiefs in 2007," said the Islamic State of Iraq's spokesman in Mosul, Abu Uthman al-Ansari.
The Islamic State of Iraq is made up of a number of insurgent groups, including its predecessor, the Mujahideen Shura Council and Al-Qaeda in Iraq, whose leader is said to be al-Muhajir. The Islamic State of Iraq has undertaken not to attack those who signed the accord with al-Muhajir, who have paid the Jizia (a tax payable by non-Muslims) in the area we control," said al-Ansari.
Peshmerga militias in Iraqi Kurdistan have rejected charges by Sunnis that they were responsible for the recent murders of Christians in Mosul, which is located in neighbouring Nineveh province. Sunni groups have accused Kurdish militias of seeking to alter the ethnic composition of northern Iraq.
The Iraqi Interior Ministry on Sunday sent two troop battalions to protect Christians in Mosul and secure their churches. The troops are also tasked with stemming any attempts at 'ethnic cleansing' in the area. At least 12 Christians have been murdered in Mosul over the past two weeks and a number of Christian homes destroyed.
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TOPIX > IRANIAN FM: US HEGEMONY IS COLLAPSING; + WAFF.com > HINDUS IN INDIA TELL CHRISTIANS TO CONVERT OR DIE!?
Not that al Queda might not be responsible for a series of killings. I was talking with a former roommate who's getting ready to deploy to the sandbox and he was saying something interesting about the bloodshed and chaos masking a large number of garden-variety serial killers who had been running amuck in the disorder of the insurgency.
I'm just boggled by al Queda piously insisting that they were above randomly slaughtering infidels.
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Mitch,
The same thing happened in Northern Ireland: Several dozen of the murders there were the result of serial killers who made the murders look like acts of the IRA.
As far as Kurds doing it, the Kurds are actually paying Christians to move into the Kurdish region, so I doubt it's them.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The tough economy could make it easier to sign up soldiers. Fewer civilian jobs mean less competition for military recruiters.
"We do benefit when things look less positive in civil society," David Chu, the Pentagon's personnel chief, told a news conference Friday. "I don't have the Dow Jones banner running up behind me here this morning, but that is a situation where more people are willing to give us a chance."
For several years, as the Army in particular struggled to meet its recruiting needs, military officials have cited a strong economy as one obstacle to attracting young people looking at their employment options. It is one reason that over the past year the Army and Marine Corps felt compelled to pay more than $600 million, combined, in bonuses and other financial incentives to entice recruits.
Another negative factor: Parents and others who influence the decisions of enlistment-age men and women have, since the outset of the Iraq war, become less inclined to recommend military service.
In announcing that the Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force all met their recruiting goals for the budget year ended Sept. 30, Chu said the economic downturn offers new possibilities for recruiters.
"What more difficult economic times give us, I think, is an opening to make our case to people (potential enlistees) that we might not otherwise have," Chu said. "And if we make our case, I think we can be successful."
The military needs any break it can get on recruiting, particularly since it is in the midst of a push to substantially increase the size of the nation's ground forces -- a decision driven by an urgent need to reduce the strain on troops and their families from repeated deployments to Iraq. Plans are to boost the active-duty Army by 65,000 soldiers to a total of 547,000 by 2010. The Marines are aiming to grow from 175,000 to 202,000 by 2011.
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yadda, yadda, yadda. The military met recruiting goals [much to the MSM dismay] during the war and 'good' economic times these last 8 years. Ignoring the year during the Clinton era it did not when everything was golden by the MSM measure.
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That's why Obama will reinstate the draft for his Peoples' Militia. You're daughter to be a member of the elite Sandra Bernhart Peoples' Shock Brigade.
Restore the Readiness of the National Guard and Reserves
Barack Obama and Joe Biden will provide the National Guard with the equipment it needs for foreign and domestic emergencies and time to restore and refit before deploying. They will make the head of the National Guard a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to ensure concerns of our citizen soldiers reach the level they mandate.
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No matter how bad the economy, who would want to enlist to serve under CinC Obama?
What do our fellow 'Burgers who are currently serving or have recently served say about this...do you anticipate a serious downturn in enlistments and reenlistments/mass resignations of officers if the media putsch carries The One into the Oval Office?
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i look for The One (if elected) and Harry and Nan to gut the defense budget, thus resulting in a RIF action, in both the uniformed and civilian segments.
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I left the active military during the Carter administration, but not just because Jimmah Kahtuh was elected president. I joined the Reserves shortly after my discharge. I pulled at least one 6-month active duty tour before Ronald Reagan was elected president, and I was convinced I was right to have left. For a lot of people, the CINC doesn't matter - at least, not at first. It's not until the promotion freezes, the inane stupidity, and all the rest coming from the top trickles down that people begin considering leaving. It's just one more matter to consider, but it's frequently the tipping point. If there's another Clinton-style purge, things could get really difficult for the average soldier, and he'll bail. It's one thing to serve when you know the people support you. It's another thing to serve when the most important people in the chain of command consider you just another piece of sh$$.
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No matter how bad the economy, who would want to enlist to serve under CinC Obama?
Somebody not familiar with the story of Uriah the Hittite?
Lawyers from Swat district said on Monday that majority of the people of Malakand division wanted their cases decided under the existing laws of the country and not under the Shariah law as being demanded by the Swat Taliban.
The NWFP government has finalised the draft Shari Nizam-e-Adl Regulations 2008 for its implementation in Malakand which the provincial governor has approved and sent to federal government for approval of the president. "Eighty per cent people of Malakand are in favour of the present Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) law," Yousaf Khan Yousafzai, a Peshawar High Court (PHC) lawyer from Swat district, told Daily Times.
"We (Swat lawyers) have witnessed hundreds of cases in which parties from Malakand division did not want to get their cases decided under Shariah law and declined Qazi courts offer for the same," he said, adding that the problem of the people of Malakand was delay in disposal of their cases and nothing else.
Opposing NWFP government's proposed Shari Nizam-e-Adl Regulations 2008, he said that it will cause judicial complications as one party in a case might demand decision under Pakistani law and the other might want it under Shariah law.
Shaukat Khan, a lawyer from Malakand division, said that it was practically impossible for a judge to decide a criminal case in four months and a civil-nature case in six months (the time frame mentioned in the proposed Shariah law). "If deciding a case in such a limited period is possible, then why thousands of cases have been pending for the last 10 to 15 years in the country courts?" he said.
Another PHC lawyer from Swat district, Mazullah Bar Kundi, said 70 per cent cases in the provincial high court are brought from the Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (PATA) and a case took 10 to 15 years in its disposal. He said that majority of people of PATA are in favour of the existing Pakistani law and are only demanding quick disposal of their cases and not Shariah law.
Shaukat Khan, a lawyer from Malakand division, said that it was practically impossible for a judge to decide a criminal case in four months and a civil-nature case in six months (the time frame mentioned in the proposed Shariah law). "If deciding a case in such a limited period is possible, then why thousands of cases have been pending for the last 10 to 15 years in the country courts?" he said.
He said that under Islamic law, either the accused should plead guilty or at least two Muslim adult male witnesses should be called as eyewitnesses. He said the witnesses should be truthful people and should have abstained from major sins. "In this era, such witnesses are difficult to find," he said.
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(Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday called for "deep and systemic reforms" of the global financial system amid an ongoing financial crisis that has engulfed major markets around the world.
"The ad hoc manner in which governments have had to respond to the management of this crisis is reflective of serious lacunae in the current world financial system," Ban said in a statement.
"To ensure continued stability and protect the economic gains of both developed and developing countries, we need to consider deep and systemic reforms based on an inclusive multilateralism for a global financial system that can better meet the challenges of the 21st century," he said.
Ban expressed deep concern about the impact of the crisis on the developing world, particularly on the "poorest of the poor," saying that it was likely to render serious setback on efforts to meet major development goals.
"The initiatives by the World Bank and the IMF (the International Monetary Fund) to provide new emergency liquidity provisioning to poor countries could help them counteract some of the consequences of this crisis. But more needs to be done," Ban noted.
At the United Nations, the world needs to consider "urgent multilateral action to alleviate the impact of recent events on the development agenda of the organization, covering the entire gamut of issues from the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals to the food and energy crises, as well as the challenges of climate change," he said.
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Harrrrumph harrumph harrumph...
Posted by: Ban Ki-moon ||
10/14/2008 9:47
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Bite me, Ban. You loons get enough of my money now, you sure as hell ain't gonna control the global supply.
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The United Nations is especially irrelevant in this matter; even with all the international meetings, the various affected nations are sorting it out on their own.
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Then the grown-ups told little Ban to go back to the children's table and finish his spinach.
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"UN chief calls for reform of global financial system"
I suppose I should be polite, but I'm way past that point, so....
Fuck you, Ban, and the camel you rode in on. Get your hands out of our friggin' pockets.
The only money I want to give the Useless Nitwits is help moving them lock, stock, and thief to another country. Darfur, Somalia, or Zimbob come to mind.... >:-(
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The Qaumi Aman (peace) Jirga on Monday presented a seven-point formula to security officials to restore peace in the restive areas of Swat. The jirga held at Kanjoo vowed to continue striving for the restoration of peace in the area.
The formula proposed to the security officials includes ceasefire in the entire district, withdrawal of troops from Imam Dheri Markaz and its handover to the grand jirga, withdrawal of troops from all schools and practical steps to resume classes there, consulting the jirga before the launch of any military operation, release of all prisoners, a declaration of general amnesty and practical steps for rehabilitating the affected people.
The peace jirga was convened following negotiations with Taliban leader Mullah Fazlullah on Sunday, locals said.
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Cambodia's Prime Minister, Hun Sen has warned Thailand to immediately withdraw troops from a disputed border area or risk large-scale armed conflict. He warned visiting Thai foreign minister, Sompong Amornviwat, that without a quick pullout, Thai troops could face armed opposition.
Tensions have been high since July when around 1,000 soldiers from both countries took up positions near the 900 year-old Preah Vihear temple. The temple was awarded world heritage status by the United Nations cultural body UNESCO, angering nationalists in Thailand who still claim ownership of the site.
Mr Hun Sen says Thai troops must withdraw this week.
Soon after returning to Bangkok, Mr Sompong announced he will discuss the Cambodian request with the Thai prime minister before taking any action. He says more meetings between the two countries are the best way to solve the stand-off.
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ION WORLD MILITARY FORUM > IIUC, CHINA + VIETNAM are getting into a brouhaha over territorial encroachment vee the PARACELS + SPRATLEYS.
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Cambodia needs Thailand a whole lot more than Thailand needs Cambodia.
In a freeze of traffic - goods, services, and tourists - between the two, Thailand would not even notice a deficit - but Cambodia would suffer greatly.
One interesting aspect is that the U.S. Military Academy at West Point plays a certain background role. The current Supreme Commander of the Thai Armed Forces, GEN Boonsrang Niumpradit, is a West Point graduate, Class of 1971. Hung Manet, who is a son of Cambodian Prime Minister Hung Sen, is a Colonel in the Cambodian Army - and a 1999 graduate of West Point.
COL Hun Manet was a guest of GEN Boonsrang at the 2008 West Point Founders Day dinner held this past March by the West Point Society of Thailand.
So - whatever the political leaders of the two countries decide, there is a friendly military "back channel" through which communications can also flow between the two nation's military arms.
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Cambodia may be in the right here but going balistic and threatening armed conflict is just foolish. I don't know the border areas but I suspect they are primarily triple canopy jungles which make it impossible for serious large-scale warfare. That would leave air and sea as the primarily battlefields and I would think Thailand would have a massive advantage in those areas seeing as the Khmer Rouge probably killed nearly every pilot and most boats that could sale left in the 70s.
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OK, This year there was a bumper crop of Opium in Afghanistan. Each year the warlord generals fight for control over the trafficking of the Opium. This year is nothing different, not politics, not ideology, just drugs.
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10/14/2008 20:08
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you hit the nail on the head 49 pan
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10/14/2008 21:18
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(Xinhua) -- Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has threatened to pull out of a national unity government if President Robert Mugabe's party controls all the key ministries, local media reported on Monday.
I'm guessing that's Bob's plan ...
Tsvangirai told his supporters at Zimbabwe Grounds a rally on Sunday that his Movement for Democratic Change party would rather pull out of the power-sharing accord than accept a bad deal. Tsvangirai said he hopes South African mediator Thabo Mbeki will pressure Mugabe to respect the agreement to share power signed in September.
Mbeki arrives in Harare on Monday to try to break the deadlock in talks over Cabinet seats. The official Herald newspaper on Saturday published a list of ministries to be controlled by Mugabe' s party, including all the key ones.
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U.S. presidential race front-runner Barack Obama on Monday rolled out what his campaign called a four-part "economic rescue plan" for the middle class. "First, we're gonna give everybody money. Then we're gonna take it from them. Then we're gonna give a part of what we took to 95 percent of the people. Then we're gonna take it back..."
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"Obama outlines economic rescue plan"
They misspelled "We're gonna f*ck over and steal from everyone who produces anything - except our donors friends."
That's their real plan. :-(
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Proof positive... "Everyone who smiles at you, is not your friend."
(AKI) - The Sri Lankan military said on Monday that they attacked Tamil Tiger rebels in bunkers, triggering clashes that killed at least 30 people. At least 27 rebels and three soldiers were killed in the clashes that followed in the volatile northern region of Kilinochchi. Meanwhile, Sri Lankan troops claim to have killed six militants and injured six others in the area of Muhamale and Nagarkovil. The Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama said on Monday that the war against separatist rebels would not be slowed by the world financial crisis.
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NAIROBI, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- The Kenyan government on Monday maintained that it will not negotiate with Somali pirates who are demanding 10 million U.S. dollars. "Kenya has stated and will continue to insist that it will not pay the ransom since doing that will only encourage a continuation of such acts," Foreign Affairs minister Moses Wetangula said in Nairobi during celebrations to mark the Spanish Independence Day.
The minister said he is confident that the pirates will not carry the threat to blow up the ship, adding that the economies of countries along the Indian Ocean shoreline have been seriously affected by piracy.
Not that you guys can do anything about it except bleat ...
Wetangula urged the international community to urgently assist in patrolling the unsafe waters near Somalia which has been without a proper government for decades. "The cost of doing business alone particularly along this region is going up. Insurance is going up. Some shipping lines fear coming here and this is affecting us all the way to South Africa," he said.
He pointed out that most countries along the coastline lack the necessary naval resources to adequately deal with the pirates. "We are appealing to those with naval ships deployed on the waters such as France, the United States and Britain to assist us. We should work together so that we can combat the pirates that are lowering the level of business along the Indian Ocean coast," he said.
Sure, but then you have to be quiet while we clean up ...
The remarks came as the hijack of a Ukrainian ship carrying military cargo entered its third week with no end in sight. The Somali pirates over the weekend issued 72-hour deadline for the ransom to be paid or else they blow up the Ukraine ship but analysts say it was a negotiation gimmick. They have since extended the deadline.
BBC News last week revealed what it said was a copy of the freight manifest aboard the hijacked ship, MV Faina. The alleged manifest showed contract numbers for 33 T-72 tanks, grenade launchers and anti-aircraft guns containing the initials GOSS, which is an abbreviation commonly used in the region to refer to the government of southern Sudan. The manifest named Kenya's defense ministry as the consignee.
The developments came as Sudan summoned the Kenyan and Ethiopian ambassadors on Monday to protest against what it said were illegal shipments of arms to its semi-autonomous south. According to state-owned Sudan News Agency (SUNA), Khartoum was protesting over "violations" linked to an arms shipment seized by pirates off Somalia's coast that Western diplomats said was bound for southern Sudan, and a plane-load of weapons from Addis Ababa.
Meanwhile, Somalia's Ambassador to Kenya Mohamed Ali Nur said the transitional government negotiators had not been able to re-establish contact with the pirates since Saturday. "We know that elders have been speaking with them and telling them to come to their senses but up to now we have not had any good outcome," Nur stated.
He also expressed confidence that the situation would be resolved peacefully, adding that the piracy crisis had led to a rise in the price of basic goods in the country. "Food prices in Somalia have really skyrocketed. Ships that used to go to Somalia such as those carrying humanitarian aid cannot do so. Even those that do have increased their insurance premiums and that it is affecting the Somali people," the ambassador said.
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(And also we a'int got ten mil USA)
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Israel's Kadima and Labor parties on Monday reached an agreement in principle that could pave the way for the formation of a new government headed by Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, media reports said. The agreement was signed by MPs from both sides following a marathon 19-hour negotiating session.
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Prosecutor Mark Dennis claimed the two men exchanged emails and 'many telephone conversations'. Dennis, however, said it was not clear whether Corp. James had attempted to become an agent or was already one.
Does it matter?
"The concern is not so much the actual damage done by the known disclosure of information, but in the potential damage that could have occurred if his activities had not been curtailed by his early detection and arrest," Dennis said.
Corp. James has denied collecting and communicating information useful to an enemy and willful misconduct in public office. The Iranian-born translator, however, is accused of carrying confidential NATO files on a computer flash drive when he was arrested in December 2006.
"The value of these documents to anyone trying to sell himself as an agent to a foreign power, or to continue promoting himself as such, trying to show how close he was to sensitive information, is all too clear," Dennis claimed.
The trial is expected to last three to four weeks. Some sessions are expected to be held behind closed doors.
The revelation about James' alleged spying charges comes at a time when Tehran is at loggerheads with London over the imminent release of the only surviving culprit involved in a 1980 terrorist attack on the Iranian embassy in London. Iran has asked Britain to deport Fowzi Badavi-Nejad, the convicted terrorist, to his home country. Badavi-Nejad's release, meanwhile, will reportedly allow the felon to enjoy a safe stay in the UK.
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I don't guess they have the gallows anymore in Britain. A pity.
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You can bet your shepherd's pie this is not an isolated incident considering he's a British raised subject and infiltrated the Army.
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The accused traitor is said to be Iranian born, yet he answers to a Chrisitian name: Daniel James.
Can anyone offer an explanation for that? Odd.
I for one would like to see more and more young non-muslims learning the languages of the middle east and south east asia. I would prefer to rely on non-muslims for tranlation work. Put another way, if a muslim and non-muslim are equally qualified for the translation job, then the job goes to the non-muslim.
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yet he answers to a Chrisitian name: Daniel James.
That would be his English name, so that he didn't have to keep explaining how to pronounce the Iranian one, MarkZ. Much like the Help Desk people answering the phone in India will give their name as Dave or Susan instead of Velmurugan (the real name of the nice man who helped me today) or Nandita.
Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Treasuries fell the most in two weeks as the government prepared to announce a plan to acquire stakes in major banks, giving investors confidence to buy stocks and corporate bonds. Two-year yields approached the highest level this month as Asian stocks gained, following the biggest U.S. stock rally in seven decades. The U.S. plans to invest in Citigroup Inc., Wells Fargo & Co., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley, State Street Corp., and Bank of New York Mellon Corp., according to people briefed on the matter.
Two-year note yields rose 30 basis points to 1.94 percent as of 9:59 a.m. in Tokyo, according to BGCantor Market Data. The price of the 2 percent security due September 2010 fell 18/32, or $5.63 per $1,000 face amount, to 100 3/32. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index of regional shares rallied 6.1 percent. Ten-year yields climbed 15 basis points to 4.03 percent, pushing above 4 percent for the first time since August.
The difference between two- and 10-year yields shrank to 2.1 percentage points from 2.38 percentage points yesterday.
The Bank of Japan added 1 trillion yen ($9.71 billion) to the financial system as central banks around the world boost liquidity to help counter a worsening global financial crisis.
Interest-rate derivatives imply banks are becoming more willing to lend. The difference between the rate banks charge for three-month dollar loans relative to the overnight indexed swap rate, the so-called Libor-OIS spread, narrowed to 3.54 percentage points from 3.66 percentage points last week.
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Torn between fear of economic collapse and fear of runaway inflation.
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Looks to me like nothing more than improving expectations for equity investments.
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If we have economic collapse, we won't have runaway inflation. Can't have runaway inflation when just about every economy in the world is propping up its banks. Including the economies of the oil rich states. What we are seeing is the deflation of a massive and global credit bubble and the destruction of individual and corporate balance sheets, both abetted by unsound lending practices of the past.
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Thanks, Zhang. I was wondering how Zimbabwe was able to avoid runaway inflation all these years, now I know why.
Zimbabwe didn't borrow money. It just printed it. That's why it had hyper-inflation. Zimbabwe also had a non-functioning economy because of Mugabe's policy of confiscating farmland from white owners who knew how to make it productive, and handing it to cronies who did not. This policy of confiscation (essentially a 100% tax) also induced capital flight.
We're not going to get either inflation or hyper-inflation. Uncle Sam doesn't print money; he borrows it. And cuts the budget. And raises taxes.
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An important side not to ZFs comment. Debt doesn't cause inflation, spending does.
Also western economies are all so tied together that one country would really have to do something tricky to collapse the way Zimbob did. I can't imagine how they could pull it off.
Also, with the Euro and Brit bailout looking to be bigger than Uncle Sams, the dollar will continue to strengthen against those currencies and help keep inflation in check.
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I was wondering how Zimbabwe was able to avoid runaway inflation all these years Why has the price of gasoline been falling? Why isn't gold selling at $10,000 an ounce? Why are interest rates in single digits? How can central banks cut rates? Look at the entire picture.
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Also western economies are all so tied together that one country would really have to do something tricky to collapse the way Zimbob did.
It's not just the Western economies. All of the world's economies have been feeding money to their banks. We just don't pay as much attention to the other economies because they're not as important in the overall scheme of things.
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GOld isn't selling at 10k an ounce becuase that 20 times what it's worth.
Gold, as touted as an inflation hedge or a safety investment in bad times is highly overrated. It does not move countrary to inflation or GDP, it is nothing more than a global commodity. The price of gold is not a meaningful economic indicator.
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ZF, I wouldn't argue with you on that one bit. I guess more accurate would be to say that the western economies are the ones big ebough to make a major difference. A country like Goergia could stop producing completely and it wouldn't ruin the system.
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The price of gold is not a meaningful economic indicator. Once more, look at the entire picture.
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The big picture tells me that the panic is starting to weaken. They flight to safety and away form profit is beginning to reverse course and banks are beginning to do more lending (at least to each other).
I suspect Morgan not getting killed in the market has to some degree assuaged fears of another major bank failure.
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ZF--
O. Rilly?
And just how does the market absorb the new trillion dollars--and more on the way--that is being injected into the market? And hasn't Treasury just assured us of infinite shorts against Financials? And since the trillion injected in the short-term is going to have effects, what are the effects on capital markets going to be? No sense of crowding-out? And nine banks that cannot fail?
You may be right. Nothing about nationalising our banks is inherently wrong. Nothing about nationalising our banks changes the market's fundamental view of financials. It could be I'm just a nit-picker.
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> Uncle Sam doesn't print money; he borrows it.
Normally Yes, buy you're only one failed treasury auction away from printing. Also the Inter central bank currency swaps could be argued as being printing...
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what are the effects on capital markets going to be? No sense of crowding-out?
Crowding out might be a problem. But that's not the same as printing money. Crowding out simply means that private sector rates shoot up sky high due to competition from too much government debt.
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With the dollar on the rise, an auction failure is highly unlikely here.
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The big picture tells me the Panic will stumble along for years, requiring a rebuild of financial institutions & the system of checks & balances that regulate them. Housing will either be supported by taxpayer dollars (i.e., a Zombie housing market) or will fall to prices that the population can afford on its own (i.e., about 3X median annual income = median house price in an area). Some institutions, practices, beliefs and attitudes are completely outmoded & will be replaced eventually, although not without a lot of kicking & screaming on the part of the financial Pig Men. I suspect the Panic will be prolonged by the fact that former employees of the Pig Men are currently being hired by the gov't to manage the transition. The stock market will fluctuate.
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Okay...let's say there's some pressure on interest rates.
We're still dealing with gross domestic product. Could a disconnect between commercial rates and interbank rates signal another business cycle? Or, instead, is there going to be a big boost in productivity that will actually shift the GDP growth curve?
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I doubt it's going to cause much of a productivity improvement, so.... Maybe a new business cycle, but I'm not willing to bet the rate disconnect means a new business cycle. At least not yet.
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"Uncle Sam doesn't print money; he borrows it. And cuts the budget. And raises taxes."
Agree with #1 & #3, ZF.
#2? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. FFC of that.
Oh, wait - did you mean the military budget? That I'll agree on.
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ION TOPIX > ARMENIA NEWS NETWORK = THE UN-DMEOCRATIC FACE OF US CAPITALISM IS SHOWING + CHOMSKY: US HEGEMONY WILL CONTINUE.
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From the WSJ: "Government investments in financial institutions could crimp executive pay on Wall Street, at least for a while, and hinder firms' ability to attract and retain top talent."
I have been closely following the current disaster, brought to us courtesy of highly-paid "top talent." I'd settle for someone with common sense, for a change.
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When I started shooting "Police Woman" (1974), someone asked me if I had ever played a sleuth before. I said, "Yes, many times". I thought they were asking me if I had ever played a slut. I didn't know what a sleuth was.
The two-day first Intergovernmental Economic Conference of Caspian littoral states, held Oct. 3 to 5 in the southern Russian city of Astrakhan on the Volga delta, drew surprisingly little coverage in the Western press, despite its potential importance. Russian delegates floated a proposal that the Caspian coastal nations of Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan establish a Caspian Economic Cooperation Organization. If the organization comes to fruition, it could solve one of the most complex diplomatic stalemates stymieing the unbridled development of the Caspian's offshore waters and seabed -- an equitable division of the inland sea's assets.
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The Caspian Sea is already terribly polluted, I understand. Adding Russian-efficiency oil rigs to the mix...not so good for children and other living things.
A research team led by David E. Chavez at Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA) has now developed a novel tetranitrate ester.
As reported in the journal Angewandte Chemie, the compound has a particularly interesting characteristic profile: it is solid at room temperature, is a highly powerful explosive, and can be melt-cast into the desired shape.
Thanks to its low melting point of only about 85 degreesC, which is well below its decomposition point (141 degreesC), it can be melted and poured into molds, a much easier process for the production of explosive components.
The new compound contains four nitrate ester groups (-ONO2) and two nitrate groups (-NO2) bound to a total of six carbon atoms. Its crystals demonstrate the highest density found for a nitrate ester so far.
Computer calculations predict that the new tetranitrate ester should have an explosive power as high as that of octogen (HMX) - currently one of the highest-performance explosives. The sensitivity of the new compound toward shocks, friction, and sparks is equivalent to that of nitropenta.
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With a melting point of only 85 deg C, you would have to be careful not to leave your shaped charges sitting in your closed car in the summer. At least in Iraq.
Ankara has been in secret talks with the Iraqi Kurds to fight Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants holed up in northern Iraq.
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OTOH, see also TOPIX > AL QAEDA'S INFLUENCE IS RISING IN TURKEY + WHY THE NEO-TALIBAN IS WINNING + TURKEY MOVES TOWARDS SEAT ON UNSC + IRAN CLAIMS TO BE MIDDLE EAST'S MOST PWERFUL STATE.
HMMM, HMMMM, at the rate Radical Islamism is rampaging in ASIA gotta personally wonder iff OSAMA, ZAWAHIRI, or MOUD have any [future]ambitions as UNO Secretary General???
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.
LOS ANGELES — If Sen. John McCain has more to say publicly about his time in a North Vietnamese prison before next month's election, it will not be with help from Warner Brothers.
The 2006 controversy over the quality of Harrier support notwithstanding, close air support has proven to be a valuable asset to British forces in Afghanistan. When available and on-station, it provides a high-end counter to the standard enemy tactics of concentration and ambush. The cost of operating modern aircraft, however, and the size of modern air fleets, are both working to put a crimp in that option. Full battlefield coverage that can respond to any emergency within a few minutes is either cost-prohibitive, or beyond most militariesÂ’ capabilities.
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (AP) - U.S. military successes in Iraq have forced sophisticated and well-trained insurgents to pour into Afghanistan instead, the Afghan defense minister said Tuesday.
Poll workers from opposing sides in the presidential race apparently clashed in a physical altercation Friday at a Cuyahoga Falls [OH] nursing home when one accused the other of improperly marking a ballot. The incident is being investigated by both the police and the Summit County elections board. The board probe could lead to a closer examination of the other votes with which the Democrat poll worker was involved.
Once upon a time and far, far away from mainstream America, lived a U.S. senator named Barack Obama. Mr. Obama had a gift, a truly wondrous gift. He could spin troublesome facts into political gold. And perhaps, with enough spinning, he could even spin himself into the White House. 
Joe Biden looks . . . different. 
Afghan and international troops have killed 14 Taliban militants while eight civilians were killed in separate incidents of violence, Afghan provincial authorities and the US military said on Monday.
Charsadda police on Monday arrested an American citizen with a laptop, maps and other documents as he tried to enter Mohmand Agency, sources said. "We have arrested an American national at Yakaghund checkpost with a computer, some maps and other documents while crossing into Mohmand," the sources said. 
Troops and helicopter gunships killed at least 24 Taliban in the restive Bajaur Agency, officials said on Monday. "Helicopter gunships and artillery pounded Taliban hideouts, killing at least 24 Taliban and wounding 10 others," a security official told AFP.
U.S. presidential race front-runner Barack Obama on Monday rolled out what his campaign called a four-part "economic rescue plan" for the middle class.
