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She became an American citizen in 1939, and should be remembered for her wartime service. From her Wikipedia entry:
In December 1941, the U.S. entered World War II, and Dietrich became one of the first celebrities to raise war bonds. She entertained troops on the front lines in a USO revue that included future TV pioneer Danny Thomas as her opening act. Dietrich was known to have strong political convictions and the mind to speak them. Like many Weimar-era German entertainers, she was a staunch anti-Nazi who despised antisemitism.
Dietrich recorded a number of anti-Nazi records in German for the OSS, including Lili Marleen. She also played the musical saw to entertain troops. She sang for the Allied troops on the front lines in Algeria and France, and went into Germany with Generals James M. Gavin and George S. Patton. When asked why she had done this, in spite of the obvious danger of being within a few kilometers of German lines, she replied, "aus Anstand" "it was the decent thing to do."
The U.S. Government awarded Marlene Dietrich the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her war work. Dietrich has been quoted as saying this was the honor of which she was most proud in her life. She was also made a chevalier (later commandeur) of the Légion d'honneur by the French government.
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MD WAS A VERY lOOSE WOMAN.... But there was something very very *HOT* about Marlene Dietrich!!
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Another drawback of a smoke free society - no more voices like Marlene's or Edith Piaf's!
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It's not a sin, you know.
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It's not like you were born French.
Nevermind 5089 and JFM have ruined it for me.
Meh...
"It is a war of brute material; for hours on end you bombard them with 210's, 305's, and 380's, and when everything appears dead, when there's no more wire and no more trenches and when the survivors have been reduced to a state of madness, they send the masses out to attack. When the French are on the receiving end, not one of them breaks through and if there's only 10 out of 100 left, these 10 will fight on..."
Afghan and coalition troops have seized and destroyed forty tons of Hashish while dismantling a drug producing facility in Afghanistan. The drugs were found during the raid in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar province, on the border with Pakistan, said Monday Lt. Cmdr. Walter Matthews, a US military spokesman.
Abdul Raziq, Pakistani police commander said the drugs were found in the basement of a compound in Nawa Kili village. Authorities valued the drug haul at around $400 million. That's pretty significant money. Lemme see, here... (carry the 4, divide by the square root of 79, divide by 6...) That's $10 million a ton, or maybe $10 million per 2000 pounds... (carry the 3, divide by the square root of 23, divide by 51...)... That makes $5000 a pound, or $312.50 an ounce, presumably wholesale, at the source. That's not a market I keep up with, but it does sounds a little high, doesn't it?
At the time of the fall of the Taliban regime, Afghan drug production accounted for 11 percent of world production. A recent study carried out by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reveals that more than half of the country's farms now grow cannabis.
Cannabis produced in Afghanistan supplies at least 90 percent of the world heroin stock.
Cannabis produced in Afghanistan supplies at least 90 percent of the world heroin stock. That sounds resonable. It's nonsense, but it sounds reasonable.
Since the US-led invasion of the country in 2001, the heroin trade has swollen in value to an estimated $4 billion per year and employs over 1 in 10 Afghans.
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Cannabis produced in Afghanistan supplies at least 90 percent of the world heroin stock.
The Iranians may have invented a new chemical process or an ayatollah pronounced a fatwa.
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I didn't know one could make heroin from pot. I thought it was poppys.
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Hash comes from cannabis. Opium/heroin from da poppys
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Cannabis produced in Afghanistan supplies at least 90 percent of the world heroin stock.
I was trying to be sarcastic. It didn't woik.
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i think they are supplying a price on that hash i cocaine prices aren't they . 400 million dollars seems kinda high
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yeah like cutting down a bunch of hemp and letting them catch that for a decoy
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Cannabis grows wild in Nebraska. You can drive along any dirt country road and see it along both sides. It's not supposed to be very potent, but I guess it would work as a biofuel.
If you need something "else" to make the day worthwhile, you're not living right.
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Yep.
George Washington and Abe Lincoln grew it to make fine clothes and cut down their dependence on foreign oilz. It also preducers fine fibres which u kan mak rop frum. Teh bRetish,um royles Naaaaayvee made speshul HEMP linz with a really crazy red thread in it. I muss go na0, remember it is deh sed, times wit no mushrooms is bad but times wit no wym
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Hash is not seen much in the US marketplace. The pot here is so strong there is no need for it. Hashish is essentially processed pot, concentrated to increase potency.
At least that's what I remember from my college days.
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At 70 GB pounds per ounce/120 for pollen the UK giving them money to fight us, never mind the smack. Geez, 0.5 you make me laugh.
Actually, supplies of hashish in the UK virtually disappeared around the time of the Gulf Wars, thus locals started hydroponics, which I think is a good thing, just need to get off the oil tit now, I can't wait for Skunk oil.
(SomaliNet) Five people have been killed in a bomb attack aimed at a government official in southern Somalia. A source said three bodyguards and two bystanders died in the attack.
The actual target, District Commissioner Hassan Moalim Ahmed, was injured together with six other people.
A roadside bomb exploded as the district commissioner's convoy was passing. Baidoa, more than 200 kilometres south of Mogadishu, is the seat of the Somali transitional government, but fundamentalist rebels still control large areas of the countryside.
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(SomaliNet) Security sources said gunmen in speedboats attacked an oil vessel off the coast of Cameroon early on Friday and seized a dozen crew members including seven from France. The vessel, contracted by French oil major Total, was towing a barge along the coast close to an oil installation, the sources said.
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The Crime Investigation Department (CID) arrested eight persons belonging to Harkatul Mujahideen, a banned religious organisation, Daily Times learnt on Monday.
They were arrested between October 20 and 22 in raids in various parts of Karachi, before they could reportedly carry out planned terrorist activities in the city. Sources said that the arrested men were Asad Ahmed, Ali Ahmed Siddiqui, Asim Farman, Imran Yousuf, Tuaqeer, Munir Nasir, Noorul Hassan and Rafaqat Hussain.
They said the men were handed over to the Sohrab Goth Supervisory Police Officer (SPO) Irfan Bahadur on November 1.
Police said the men were arrested from an area near Al-Asif Square, Sohrab Goth and claimed to have recovered around eight kilogramme of explosives and weapons from their possession. According to initial interrogation, the arrested men were reportedly trained in Afghanistan and were plotting terrorist activities in Karachi.
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A rocket fired by unidentified persons landed in a grove of trees in Peshawar Airport premises in the limits of Tehkal Police Station late on Sunday. There were no reports of causalities or damage, police said. Police sources said the rocket was fired at around 3am. Earlier, a bomb blast damaged Gambati police checkpost, injuring a policeman. Separately, a rocket fired by unidentified persons landed in the fields in Sheru area on Sunday, about 19 kilometres from Mardan district. No causalities were reported.
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Eighteen Taliban were killed in the security forces' operation in Bajaur Agency on Monday.
Four Taliban died in artillery shelling in different areas of Mamond tehsil on Monday morning, while 14 Taliban were killed in bombing by jet fighters in the afternoon, officials said.
Jirga: In Khar, the agency headquarters, a grand jirga of tribal elders decided to take strict action against those found involved in anti-state activities. They said the houses of those found sheltering the Taliban would be torhced and they would be expelled from the area.
The jirga decided to impose a fine of Rs 2 million on those who sheltered the Taliban in their areas.
The jirga members assured the government of their full co-operation, and said they would fight alongside the security forces for restoration of peace in the agency.
The jirga members expressed satisfaction over the restoration of the government's writ in many areas of Salarzai tehsil. They asked the tribesmen to continue co-operation with the government to ensure lasting peace in the agency.
US drone: A suspected US drone was seen flying at low altitude over several areas of North Waziristan Agency, spreading panic among the people.
Locals said drones that fly low usually fire missiles. But, the white-coloured spy plane did not fire. Speaking at an emergency news conference following drone flights in the area, local elders asked the government to stop US attacks in the agency.
They said the violation of Pakistani airspace by US spy planes was a threat to the country's security. The elders asked the government to take practical steps instead of lodging protests with the US.
Retaliation: The elders said if the attacks were not stopped, the tribesmen would join the Taliban to fight against US and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
They asked the government to ensure the joint resolution passed after an in-camera briefing to parliamentarians is implemented.
APP reported that the political administration of Orakzai Agency arrested at least 20 tribesmen accused of involvement in the abduction of six people on Saturday. The abducted included two Levies personnel. The arrested included men of the Rabia Khel and Asa Khel tribes. The political administration said it would continue action against the tribes until the recovery of the abducted people.
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"A suspected US drone was seen flying at low altitude over several areas of North Waziristan Agency, spreading panic among the people."
A simple, yet satisfying, example of cause and effect.
(AKI) - Two bombs exploded in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Monday, killing six people and wounding about 20 others, police say. An Iraqi police source told the news agency, Voices of Iraq, that the two explosive devices went off almost simultaneously. Ten policemen were also reportedly wounded in the attacks.
One of the explosions hit the busy Karrada district, damaging many shops. The other bomb exploded outside the house of the Deputy Oil Minister, Salman Qutob, and he suffered minor injuries.
The number of bomb attacks in Baghdad has fallen in the last year, but an attack on a minister there killed nine people and wounded 20 others two weeks ago.
Meanwhile in a separate incident on Monday, a source in Diyala province told Voices of Iraq that three women from one family were killed in Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, by an armed group suspected of belonging to Al -Qaeda.
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An IAF strike killed four Palestinian gunmen in Gaza on Tuesday night, Palestinian officials said.
The reports came after seven mortar shells were fired at Israel and IDF special forces entered Gaza in order to blow up a tunnel dug by Hamas terrorists for the purpose of kidnapping Israeli soldiers. What will happen to the fragile truce?
Its only when you fly over the Wanni jungle do you begin to understand why its taken the Sri Lankan armed forces months to wrest territory from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). And why despite launching a decisive assault to recapture the crucial city of Kilinochchi, the LTTEs headquarters in the northern province, the security forces have made slow progress.
They are still some 10 km from the main town which they had planned to take before they got bogged down by the north-east monsoon that has just set in. The trees of the surrounding tropical jungle soar to over 60 ft in many places and the canopy is so thick and dense that even sunlight finds it difficult to penetrate. These are the jungles that the LTTE has made its second home, melting into greenery whenever there is a major assault and setting up deadly booby traps and ambushes for government troops in pursuit.
Its the reason why the Sri Lankan Air Force Bell 212 helicopter flies at tree-top height right through the 40-minute-ride from Anuradhapura to the frontlines of the battle. As Squadron Leader Dakshin Pereira explained later, "If we fly higher we become sitting ducks to sniper fire--it gives the terrorists time to aim and shoot. When we fly just over the trees they have no time to cock their guns and fire."
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Tuesday's failure to shoot down a single LTTE aircraft despite timely detection by radar has jolted the SLAF into investigating its limitations amidst evidence that the enemy has acquired a capability to neutralise the threat of a heat seeking missile attack.
An authoritative source said that Chinese F7s launched from Katunayake air base had failed to zero-in-on the enemy aircraft. "Their (F7s) missile systems failed to 'lock on with the enemy aircraft," the source said. This would necessitate an overall review of the SLAF's strategy, the source said. The military asserted that the LTTE could try to exploit the situation.
The initial detection had been made north-east of Mannar at 10.18 p.m. by 2D radar installed by the Government of India at the SLAF base at Vavuniya.
Thaladdi had come under attack within minutes after the detection, the source said.
Both the Indian radar and a Chinese 3D radar station located in the Western Province had detected the enemy aircraft but interceptors failed to carry out a successful missile strike. 2D radar provides direction and the distance of a target whereas the Chinese radar provides even the altitude of a target.
Last September, a heat seeking missile fired by an interceptor brought down one of the two LTTE aircraft returning to their base after attacking Vavuniya air base. Although the LTTE denied the SLAF claim, a senior military official pointed out that the LTTE had deployed only one aircraft to carry out Tuesday's operation. Each previous raid directed at military and economic targets had involved two aircraft, the official said. "May be they are now left with one aircraft," he speculated. But the possibility of their having additional aircraft couldn't be ruled out, he said.
The SLAF said that after dropping two bombs on Thaladdi base, the aircraft had veered westwards towards the sea and flew southwards before moving back towards land at a point near estuary of the Kelani River. The SLAF said that the aircraft had taken almost the same route back to its base in the Vanni. Under anti-aircraft fire, the LTTE plane had dropped two bombs over the Kelanitissa power facility.
The damage caused to two power stations, combined cycle power plant and diesel powered Fiat GT 7 installed within the Kelanitissa complex would cause a severe deficit in the country's electricity demand.
Although Power Minister John Seneviratne and his Deputy Mahindananda Aluthgamage played down the issue, The Island learns that the GT 7 had been severely damaged. After inspecting the damaged facility, Seneviratne said that it would take about six months restore GT 7.
Addressing a hurriedly arranged press conference at Kelanitissa, the minister expressed confidence that the CEB would be able to meet any shortfall of supply through other means. Kelanitssa workers told The Island that both stations had been switched off pending investigations. They said that the GT 7 generated 110 mega watts while the combined cycle power plant generated 165 mega watts. Altogether, they generated 275 mega watts out of 530 mega watts produced by Kelanitissa facility.
They said the severe damage caused to the combined cycle power plant would deny the country the capacity to generate 55 mega watts almost free of charge. Of this particular plant, 110 mega watts were generated by using naphtha and 55 mega watts produced as a byproduct, they said. "This would be heavy burden on the taxpayer," a senior employee told The Island.
The SLAF is responsible for a series of highly successful air strikes against the LTTE since August 2006. The LTTE fighting capability has been greatly reduced to SLAF action directed against a range of targets.
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How effective are heat seeking missiles against aircraft that are not jets? Lot less heat to lock on to?
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It's extremely difficult to get a heat-seeking missile to lock onto a small propeller-driven aircraft. There just isn't that much heat generated. That' one of several reasons the US requires combat aircraft to be armed with a cannon. An A-10 would be the most useful aircraft to use against these lightly-armed, relatively slow-moving aircraft. It's got enough speed to catch them, and can slow down enough that it has a lot of time to aim and fire at the craft.
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A P51 would also get the job done well too.
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So would a MOAB... eventually. If I'm wrong, we'd just have to keep trying, right? ;-)
(AKI) - The United States Embassy in Damascus reopened on Sunday following massive protests against an alleged air raid by the US on a village near the Iraqi border last weekend. The embassy had been closed on Thursday after Syrian riot police were deployed to protect it as tens of thousands of students, unions, religious and civic leaders protested.
Syrian sources exclude the possibility of a permanent closure of the US Embassy or any move to recall Syria's Ambassador in the United States.
A top Syrian militant, Budran Hisham also known as Abu Ghadiya died in the alleged US raid on a village near the Iraqi border on 26 October. He was reportedly among eight people killed in the controversial attack.
US officials said he was a suspected Al-Qaeda leader responsible for a series of attacks and murders in Iraq, including the killings of 12 Iraqi policemen in May.
However, SANA reported on Thursday that the alleged raid claimed the lives of "eight defenceless civilians....which targeted peaceful building workers in a farm in Abu Kamal."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Afghan and coalition troops have seized and destroyed forty tons of Hashish while dismantling a drug producing facility in Afghanistan. The drugs were found during the raid in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar province, on the border with Pakistan, said Monday Lt. Cmdr. Walter Matthews, a US military spokesman. 
The Crime Investigation Department (CID) arrested eight persons belonging to Harkatul Mujahideen, a banned religious organisation, Daily Times learnt on Monday.
A rocket fired by unidentified persons landed in a grove of trees in Peshawar Airport premises in the limits of Tehkal Police Station late on Sunday. There were no reports of causalities or damage, police said. Police sources said the rocket was fired at around 3am. Earlier, a bomb blast damaged Gambati police checkpost, injuring a policeman. Separately, a rocket fired by unidentified persons landed in the fields in Sheru area on Sunday, about 19 kilometres from Mardan district. No causalities were reported.
Eighteen Taliban were killed in the security forces' operation in Bajaur Agency on Monday. 
(AKI) - Two bombs exploded in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Monday, killing six people and wounding about 20 others, police say. An Iraqi police source told the news agency, Voices of Iraq, that the two explosive devices went off almost simultaneously. Ten policemen were also reportedly wounded in the attacks.
