[An Nahar] McDonald's said Friday it was dropping ketchup king Heinz as a supplier of the key hamburger condiment, citing management changes at Heinz that put the company closer to rival Burger King.
McDonald's said it was ending a relationship of over 40 years as it axed Heinz from its supplier list.
"As a result of recent management changes at Heinz, we have decided to transition our business to other suppliers over time," it said.
In February U.S. investment star Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway together with Brazil's 3G Capital took over Heinz in a $28 billion deal.
That move brought Heinz closer to Burger King, which is controlled by 3G.
The change would not be a large blow to Heinz. McDonald's said it only used Heinz ketchup in two U.S. markets, Minneapolis and Pittsburgh, as well as some foreign markets.
McDonald's said in a statement that it would work with Heinz "to ensure a smooth and orderly transition of the McDonald's restaurant business."
The company said they "are confident that there will be no impact to our business, our customers and our great tasting food at McDonald's."
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The change would not be a large blow to Heinz. McDonald's said it only used Heinz ketchup in two U.S. markets, Minneapolis and Pittsburgh, as well as some foreign markets
Detroit?
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Its a racist ploy to hurt the people in those cities. Sharpton is leading the protest as we speak. In other news the King from burger king is well, um, I cant say right now...
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[Libya Herald] Today's General National Congress (GNC) sitting was the scene of a mass walk-out, by 94 members, who left in protest over last-minute changes to the agenda of the session.
They later released a statement explaining their decision came after the agreed agenda was unexpectedly changed by Congress President Nuri Abu Sahmain. The altered agenda, it said, suited his own interests rather than those of the Congress.
The original agenda had included a request to cancel the establishment of the Libyan Revolutionaries Operation Room (LROR), set up by the Congress President and accused of involvement in the kidnapping on 10 October of the Prime Minister. Another item was a proposal to form a committee to investigate the allocation of LD 900 million to LROR and various revolutionary brigades by Abu Sahmain which, members said, was a constitutional violation. They also had expected to discuss restricting the powers of the President of Congress, including his assumption of the post of Commander on Chief, and to vote for a new First Deputy President. The post has been vacant since the departure of Juma Ateega who resigned following the enactment of the Political Isolation Law. The vote for a replacement has been postponed on more than one occasion.
The walk-out was particularly embarrassing because the session was the first to be televised live in more than five months.
Abu Sahmain said members who refused to attend the sitting were blocking the legislative authority's path. If they wanted debate, he said, they should attend Congress sessions in a national and legal debate for everyone.
Most of those who attended today's sitting were from the Justice and Construction Party (J&C). Most of them spent a good deal of the time attacking the Prime Minister and his government. Members from Benghazi stayed on to argue that today's session should have concentrated on addressing the city's security crisis.
Responding to the walkout, Congress' Second Deputy President, Saleh Al-Makhzoum, has said that negotiations would take place with the 94 members.
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which mall?
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GNC? General Nutrition Company?
Give a shit.
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[Libya Herald] Some 80 armed Amazigh from Zuwara are preventing oil tankers from docking at the Mellitah oil terminal, and are threatening to close the terminal's pipeline, in the latest protest targeting the country's oil industry. Amazigh are the non-Arabized Berbers, the original inhabitants of North Africa.
The group are protesting over demands for more seats in the 60-member Constitutional Committee, which will be be elected, probably in December. Just two seats have been reserved for the Amazigh community.
The group started the protest at the terminal, operated by ENI and the National Oil Corporation (NOC), last night and it has continued throughout today.
"The protesters are from Zuwara and are revolutionaries who fought for Libya's interests and unity, not for political and individual interests," a member of the political committee of the Supreme Amazigh Council, Ayoub Sufian, told the Libya Herald.
He said that there had been discussions with the Libyan staff at the Mellitah complex and an agreement had been reached to await a response from the General National Congress (GNC). But if the protestors' demands were not considered, Sufian said, they would close the terminal's pipelines.
Amazigh activists, mainly from Nalut, have already closed the gas pipeline to the complex from the Wafa gas field in pursuit of their political demands.
The Supreme Council of Amazigh have warned on several occasions of the consequences of ignoring the demands of the Amazigh people, Sufian said. On Wednesday, the Supreme Amazigh Council called for a boycott of the forthcoming elections and said that any Amazigh who tried to stand for election or worked for the poll would be considered a traitor.
"We were neglected by the former regime," Sufian said, adding that the new State of Libya needed to understand that matters relating to ethnic representation in the Constitutional Committee had to have the agreement of the representatives of the Amazigh community.
None of the Amazigh people wanted anything bad to happen to the country, Sufian said. "However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... we have waited for a long time for our rights and now it is the time for the legally-elected GNC to take important measures regarding this," he said.
Sufian described the Amazigh as the "conscience" of Libya and said they could save the country from falling into an abyss, because their aim was a unified Libya for all.
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[Al Ahram] Egypt's constitution drafting panel, tasked with amending the 2012 constitution, has drawn up an article establishing human dignity as an inalienable right, introducing a sub-article incriminating torture, official sources told Al-Ahram's Arabic website.
The turmoil-hit country has received fierce condemnation from international organizations for continued violations of human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. , with police often reviled for flagrant abuses and excessive use of force against protesters.
Article 37 -- the first of the constitution's "human rights and liberties" section -- stipulates that "human dignity is an inherent right for every human and shall not be compromised, and the state is committed to respect and protect it."
The wording of the article has been slightly altered from that of the 2012 Islamist-drafted constitution, which was suspended pending amendment following the overthrow of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... in July.
The provision has also dispensed with a proposition listing "torture, offence, physical assault and humiliation" as means of undermining personal and human dignity.
The move comes on the grounds that the protection of 'human dignity' should not be restricted to certain violations and not others.
A sub-article which criminalises all forms of torture has been added, sources said.
Amendment of the national charter is part of a transitional roadmap set forth by Egypt's interim authorities following Morsi's ouster, which promises parliamentary and presidential elections by mid-2014.
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[An Nahar] Twelve people were killed in fierce festivities over the weekend between vigilante groups and former rebels in the western Central African town of Bouar, according to a military source Sunday.
The updated corpse count came after militias armed with machetes encircled Bouar, a town some 400 kilometers (250 miles) northwest of the capital Bangui on Saturday morning, the same source said on condition of anonymity.
They were later confronted by troops from the Central African Republic, formerly members of the Seleka rebel group, now integrated into the country's regular armed forces. The troops were able to seize back control of the town.
The latest reports showed that "12 people died, seven from the vigilante groups and five from the ranks of former Seleka members, with several injured on both sides", said the source.
Previous reports said that four people had been killed in Saturday's fighting.
Some calm had returned to the town by Sunday, and there was no exchange of gunfire reported as government forces tried to reassure those residents remaining in Bouar, a town of 40,000 people.
Up to 6,000 people had sought refuge in a church in the town during fighting on Saturday and many were still inside the sanctuary on Sunday, where food was increasingly scarce, the church abbot said.
Maxime Lalai, a local resident who spoke to Agence La Belle France Presse by telephone, said the attackers had "surrounded the town" on Saturday trapping those residents who were unable to flee beforehand.
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[An Nahar] Fighting between rebels and government soldiers in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... entered a third day Sunday, sources said, in a fresh flare-up that has prompted international calls for restraint.
"Some fighting is still going on in Kibumba," some 25 kilometers (12 miles) north of the regional mining hub of Goma, a U.N. official told AFP.
A high-ranking army officer confirmed the fighting in the area, but the rebel M23 movement could not be reached for comment on the reports.
Kibumba, high on a plateau at an altitude of nearly 1,800 meters (6,000 feet), is an outpost that commands access to rebel territory further north.
The rebels withdrew to Kibumba after a major offensive by the army backed by the U.N. force MONUSCO in late August pushed the frontline back some 15 kilometers.
Fresh fighting broke out around Kibumba on Friday, the heaviest since August, with each side accusing the other of initiating the violence and claiming to win ground.
The new festivities come less than a week after Kinshasa and the M23 rebels announced that peace talks in the Ugandan capital Kampala had collapsed.
The negotiations were part of a framework both sides agreed to last year, following a rebel offensive that saw the M23 briefly take control of Goma.
The United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... has since deployed a special brigade of 3,000 African forces with an unprecedented offensive mandate but observers remain wary of an escalation that could draw in the entire region.
Late Saturday, the army claimed to have captured Kibumba, but the M23 dismissed the claim as "propaganda", while the MONUSCO officer described it as a partial takeover.
The MONUSCO officer said Sunday that other fighting was under way on a second front that opened Saturday on the road between Mabenga and Kahunga, further north, where the army recently beefed up its positions.
U.N. chief the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... 's top envoys to the conflict, Mary Robinson and Martin Kobler, issued a statement voicing grave concern over the fresh fighting and calling for "maximum restraint".
The United States and European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... also voiced alarm, urging all parties to return to negotiations.
Rwanda, which lies just a few miles from the areas where the fighting took place Saturday, on Friday accused the Congolese army of firing three shells over the border into its territory and threatened to retaliate.
Kinshasa has long accused Kigali of pulling the strings behind the rebellion and U.N. experts have even said that the M23's "de facto chain of command" was topped by Rwanda's defense minister.
Rwanda has vehemently denied accusations that it is arming, financing and supporting the rebels by sending some of its own forces to the frontlines in DR Congo.
Rwanda in turn has accused Kinshasa of coordinating attacks against Kigali with the FDLR, a DR Congo-based Rwandan group which includes the remnants of Hutu militia who carried out the 1994 genocide.
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At least 16 Saudi women have received fines for taking the wheel on a day set by campaigners to defy the kingdom's traditional ban on female driving, police and reports said on Sunday.
Only few women braved official threats of punishment and drove on Saturday in response to an online campaign headlined "Women's driving is a choice."
"Police stopped six women driving in Riyadh, and fined them 300 riyals ($80) each," said the capital's police deputy spokesman, Colonel Fawaz Al Miman.
Each of the women, along with her male guardian -- who could be a father, husband, brother, uncle, or grandson -- had to "sign a pledge to respect the kingdom's laws," Miman said.
In Jeddah, police also fined two women for driving, according to the Red Sea city's police spokesman, Nawaf Al Bouq.
Saudi newspapers, meanwhile, reported that six women were stopped by police in Eastern Province, and at least two others were stopped in other parts of the kingdom.
A dozen Saudi women posted videos on the Twitter account of the campaign, @oct26driving, showing themselves driving. The campaigners had originally issued a call on social media networks for women across the kingdom to drive their cars on Saturday to challenge and defy the ban. Some say they received telephone calls from the interior ministry asking them to promise they would not drive on Saturday.
On Wednesday, the ministry said it would act against anyone who attempts to "disturb public peace" by congregating or marching "under the pretext of an alleged day of female driving."
The next day ministry spokesman General Mansur Al Turki told AFP: "It is known that women in Saudi are banned from driving and laws will be applied against violators and those who demonstrate in support" of this cause.
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I support the Kingdom. They've obviously visited Georgia and are attempting to head-off the inevitable cranial mounted cellie, texting, and makeup.
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...Britain is obliged under the 2008 Climate Change Act to meet certain targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Despite its considerable expense, nuclear power is the cheapest way of doing this. The price of renewables such as offshore wind is substantially greater.
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This comment by the Brits should get the "Captain Obvious of the Year" award.
Nuclear power is far cheaper than other forms on a per kilowatt basis.
I bet in 10 years when the price of electricity goes through the roof in France and Germany, they might be inclined to rethink their kneejerk response to Fukashima.
Of course, the quickest way to put an enviro-nazi into a tie chewing barking dog slavering fit is to tell him nuclear power is far more eco friendly than his wind, solar, or biogas schemes ever will be.
Of course the main reason the enviro-nazis hate nuclear power is because it will allow the modern industrialized state to continue which is completely against their goals of everyone living in a cave with a fire pit while they and the others of the "select" in the liberal oligarchy live in nice well heated homes.
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Amen, Bill. They want us hungry, shivering in the dark and dying in our 40's -- just like mother Gaia intended.
[An Nahar] The United States welcomed Sunday the release of a former U.S. Marine who had been held for several weeks by leftist rebels in Colombia.
"We welcome the release today of Kevin Scott Sutay from captivity at the hands of the FARC," Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... said in a statement.
"The United States is profoundly grateful to the government of Colombia and commends its tireless efforts to secure his release. We offer special thanks to President Juan Manuel Santos for his assistance," Kerry added.
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I wonder what price Greenpeace will have to pay to get their enforcers out of the GuLag-lite.
Probably they will have promise not to molest or criticize Gasprom ever again and to strengthen their efforts to shut down new fossil fuel sources in the West i.e. fracking and oil sands.
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Well , the consensus here seems to be a noted lack of sympathy. If I were there I would go get a mug of hot coffee ( for me ) and stand there and look at him in his cell awhile I drank my coffee.
It IS hard to feel sorry for him isn't it? I wouldn't even try.
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give him a club and a baby harp seal. Lessee how hungry he is
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Russia has gone soft. This moron attacked Rodinia. His fate should have resembled that of Hitler's 6th army -- and I'm referring to the poor devils who eventually surrendered.
Of course, when Greenpeace does make its 'deal with the devil' to free these imbeciles the terms had better be leaked far and wide. Greenpeace should forever be marginalized by accepting terms which violate its stated objectives and turn it into Gazprom's mouthpiece.
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Ahhhh, price controls and rationing, a sure formula for success.........
success for the doctors and hospitals in NH, MA & NY.
This is the kind of sophmoric idealism seen in all those communist communes formed by college students that last only until someone doesn't do their fair share of the cleaning & paying.
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Often pity the 40% of Vermonters who are good, salt of the earth conservatives and who hate this sort of imported NY idiocy (Vermin) just as much as any of us.
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Another example of why economics should be a compulsory subject in every school and another example of why the libs do not want economics taught in every school.
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Iblis, I believe that you will find that MA has contributed more than our fair share to the downfall of VT.
Bill, you really expect the academic establishment to teach REAL economics? Students get fed a steady diet of Marx & Keynes et.al.
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This is scheduled to launch in 2017. Good scheduling - that'll give all the freeloaders plenty of time to migrate to VT and all the 'producers' to migrate from VT.
This is like the often expressed idea to 'take care of all the homeless'. Sounds good on paper but in practice you can never take care of all the homeless - more and more will just keep coming (and more and more producers will just keep leaving or joining them) that it's simply unsustainable.
It's amazing how many people who are supposed to be 'smart' just don't get this. Perhaps because they stopped thinking and only feel.
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It's amazing how many people who are supposed to be 'smart' just don't get this. Perhaps because they stopped thinking and only feel.
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Keep doing that Vermont. We'll take your best Docs down here in Texas, to join up with a lot of other top flight folks that are fleeing the collectivists in Colorado, California and other would-be socialist gulags.
[Dawn] A woman, fearing her husband who had threatened her if a girl was born, tried to flee Polyclinic on Saturday afternoon after giving birth to a baby girl.
However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... the hospital staff caught her, and her husband was later produced in front of the magistrate. Deputy Medical Superintendent Polyclinic Dr Tanveer Afsar, when contacted by Dawn, said the woman was a resident of Bhara Kahu and had attempted to flee after giving birth to a girl.
She had claimed that her husband was threatening her if she gave birth to a baby girl. Dr Afsar said the woman's husband was later produced in front of the magistrate who recorded his statement. The husband was allowed to leave after he assured the magistrate that he would not torture the woman. "The woman was also discharged from the hospital along with the baby," Dr Afsar added.
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[Dawn] Three armed robbers, including one clad in a burqa, held hostage staff of a foreign exchange company on I.I. Chundrigar Road on Saturday and walked off with a bag filled with local and foreign currency worth around Rs10 million, police said.
The officials added that two men and apparently a woman clad in a burqa entered Glaxy Exchange posing as customers.
"According to the staff, all the three persons posing as customers took their seats in the waiting area," said Mithadar SHO Inspector Yar Muhammad Rind. "One of the staffers was upstairs and the moment he came to sit at his place carrying a bag filled with foreign and local currency, the burqa-clad bandit rushed to him and put pistol to his forehead."
In the meantime, he said, two other men pulled out pistols and held the other staff hostage. They snatched the currency bag and bravely ran away to the bikes waiting outside, he said, adding that the private security guards deployed at the company 'surprisingly' did not put any resistance.
"We have incarcerated Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! the five guards of a private company that was given the contract for the exchange company security and they are being questioned," the police inspector said.
The episode came only a day after more than half a dozen armed bandidos stormed into a private bank branch in North Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... and walked off with around Rs4.5 million.
In the fresh case, however, the police Sherlocks claimed that they were very confident about tracking down the suspects after getting hold of some 'key evidence'.
"We are questioning the relevant people and examining the entire situation very closely," said SP Farooq Awan of the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) which has been tasked with the investigation of extortion cases along with bank robberies and terrorist activities.
He said there were three bandidos and as one of them was wearing a veil the Sherlocks counted her as a woman though they were not sure about it.
"The bandidos took just a few minutes to complete the job. They had accurate information about the company's operations and the entire system. They even knew when cash is brought down from the first floor to the cash counter on the ground floor. This raises several questions and we are very confident about solving the case and reaching the suspects very soon."
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[Dawn] The notion that Pakistain's is the most violent parliament in the world was mooted by an expert at a seminar on deweaponisation in society, raising eyebrows among participants many of whom were affiliated with political parties but none argued against it on Saturday.
"Some 69,473 prohibited bore licences have been issued to the members of the National Assembly in the past five years, averaging over 300 lethal licences per peace-loving MNA," said Naeem Sadiq, an independent expert, during his presentation at a seminar held to discuss the importance of deweaponsation in Pak society.
The seminar was organised by the National Organisation of Working Communities (Now-communities) at a hotel on Saturday.
Mr Sadiq said no one actually knew how massively Pak society was infested with weaponry. However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... he banked on some independent figures putting around 20 million weapons in a nation of 180 million -- meaning every ninth Pak had a gun. Of the 20 million, the government has issued licences to a staggering seven million people to keep weapons; the rest carries guns without government permits.
He did not speak about Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , but recent reports suggest the city is awash with some two million weapons.
"The Pakistain government is the single largest promoter of weapons. The federal government issued 46,114 licences of prohibited bore and 1,202,470 licences of non-prohibited bore in the past five years. The Sindh government admitted to issuing another 400,000 gun licences," he said.
He said Article 256 of the constitution forbade formation of any private army -- licenced or otherwise. However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... he claimed that at least 1,000 private armies consisting of five to 2,000 gunnies were already operating in the country.
"Monopoly over violence now rests with the mafias not with the state institutions," he remarked.
He discussed at length the prohibition of firearms elsewhere in the world and said Japan awarded 10-year imprisonment to anyone found holding a gun.
He called it a myth that a licensed weapon was legal and said more than half of the licences were fraudulently issued and a shocking 70 per cent of the licencees had not paid mandatory taxes. In Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , some 3.5 million licences had been issued, which were not traceable in records.
Speakers discussed the arms laws which had been promulgated for over a century, but had little effect on society, particularly after the Afghan conflict spread and messed up Pak society.
Salahuddin Gandapur, a member of the Supreme Court Bar Association, said the first arms control law was introduced by the British in 1877, which provided for Rs50 fine and three years sentences, which remained in effect till 1965 when the Pakistain Arms Ordinance was promulgated with about a similar sentence.
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I would think knowing your opposite number in a debate was well armed would make the debate more civil.
That would be a great idea...give every Congressman an AK-47 and 400 rounds of ammo before they start the debate on the budget...
Should be fun to watch.
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This is a very serious Windows virus that encrypts your files with a 2048 bit key and demands a $300 ransom. Many are paying, if you don't have offline backup, you're screwed. Cloud synch just copies the encrypted files. Besides the referenced article, there's lots more info at reddit. Apparently Avast will catch it, but many av programs don't.
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With Windows' hidden extensions feature, the sender simply adds ".pdf" to the end of the file (Windows hides the .exe) and the unwitting user is fooled into thinking the attachment is a harmless PDF file from a trusted sender.
I always hated Microsoft's default behavior of hiding file extensions.
[JALOPNIK] When General Motors shut down Pontiac, it left a lot of enthusiasts wondering why. It was primed with a lineup of powerful, rear-wheel drive models, and seemed like it had a bright future ahead of it. It turns out that GM killed it on government orders, according to former GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz.
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All vestiges of 20th century Americana must be purged, we all know that.
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...that's the aboriginals' point as they depend upon the ultimate Big Brother Government on the reservations. [Coming to a reservation neighborhood to you too]
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So the wienies who couldn't get a date in high school took their revenge on the cool guy with the GTO?
Amazing how small minded they are.
I guess Pontiac's reputation for loud raucous fast roaring horsepower got under the skin of the envirowienies at the EPA?
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Right on, Bill. If I could get a new GTO I just might consider GM for my next car purchase in spite of the bailout. Now I'm left to choose between Toyata and Nissan. They're almost as boring as Buick.
[NYPOST] It's an express train -- to the bad old days.
Cops are giving homeless people and panhandlers in the subways the kid-glove treatment, arresting subterranean scofflaws far less frequently than just two years ago, data show. They do vote, after all... Multiple times...
The ranks of the homeless, meanwhile, have swelled to 1,841 this year -- a 13 percent increase over last year's tally, the city's Department of Homeless Services says.
For straphangers, it has created an atmosphere of fear.
"I feel threatened, especially taking the train at night," explained Brooklynite Lortashia Smith, who said she has been followed off trains several times. "The police can definitely do more."
The NYPD said panhandler/peddler arrests in the subway have increased over the past year, with 409 pinched so far in 2013 versus 395 in 2012. But those numbers pale in comparison to 2011, when it was reported that in a six-month span that year, a whopping 930 panhandlers and peddlers -- the two are not separated in the data -- were arrested.
"There's been a drop-off," acknowledged one police source.
The NYPD refused to provide full-year data for 2011, when cops were busy cracking down on underground quality-of-life issues as part of a Transit Bureau initiative called Operation Moving Target.
At that time, the NYPD explained arrests were up because of a targeted effort by the Transit Bureau to tackle quality-of-life offenses, which can lead to worse crime.
Late Saturday, an NYPD spokesperson said a comparison to 2011 data is not "apples to apples" because the department removed arrests for soliciting and selling MetroCard swipes from the panhandler/peddler category last year.
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NYPD is feeling the heat on crime stats, so if they arrest less people, there's less crime! And Mayor Wanna-be-Tyrant doesn't look like dog turds on the national stage.
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Everyone in New York should start telling these 'freeriders' that the mayor's office is giving away free 64 oz drinks and free starbucks coffee gift cards.
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
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[An Nahar] McDonald's said Friday it was dropping ketchup king Heinz as a supplier of the key hamburger condiment, citing management changes at Heinz that put the company closer to rival Burger King.
That move brought Heinz closer to Burger King, which is controlled by 3G.
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the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
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[Dawn] A woman, fearing her husband who had threatened her if a girl was born, tried to flee Polyclinic on Saturday afternoon after giving birth to a baby girl.
