The murderous cult leader was one of thousands of California inmates busted with a cell phone last year, which he used to call unidentified people in California, New Jersey, Florida and British Columbia, according to the Los Angeles Times.
"It's troubling that he had a cellphone since he's a person who got other people to murder on his behalf," said Terry Thornton, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections. She added that it is not known if the one-time cult leader, now 76, used the phone to order up any crimes.
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Opinion from NJ Star Ledger 10/2010: In the constant — and costly — game of cat and mouse, prison officials are investing in phone-sniffing dogs, more sensitive metal-detection, high-tech devices that detect cell phone signals, and more frequent searches of cells and common areas by guards.
Despite that, and increased penalties for having phones in prison, the problem is getting worse. The number of phones found in jails and prisons rose 50 percent over the last year.
ThereÂ’s a new technology that could eliminate the problem overnight: signal jamming. But jamming cell phone signals, even in prisons, is banned by the Federal Communications Commission. A bill making its way through Congress would change that. It has cleared the U.S. Senate, but the House version is still in committee.
[Bangla Daily Star] A woman died and two of her family members fell sick allegedly due to drinking "blessed water" from a pir (spiritual healer) in Sylhet city yesterday.
Deceased Syeda Marufa Rifat, 20, was the daughter of late Abdul Mukit and lived with her mother Siddiqua Akhtar Chowdhury and two brothers on Electric Supply Road at Ambarkhana.
Sources said the mother and daughter along with Siddiqua's brother Ishtiaque Chowdhury yesterday went to local pir Tofura Begum. They drank the "blessed water" and fell sick.
Police, on information, sent them to a local hospital and then to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital where doctors declared Rifat dead, family sources said.
Rifat passed the HSC exams this year and was about to enrol in a university.
Tofura is on the run.
Officer-in-Charge of Sylhet Police Station Khondaker Naoroj Ahmed told The Daily Star that four people including two aides of Tofura and the house help of the victim were picked up for quizzing.
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He's a 24-year old breakdancer who lives in a council flat in Lyon. Either he'll murder her, or she'll chew him up and spit him out. Let me know in six months which way it turned out.
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If this was done using an official GOVT xray machine, you can bet Big Sis is doubly pissed, one for mis use of Govt property, and second; jealous that she wasn't asked to pose ( probably would bust the CRT, no ugly filter strong enough)
He kinda looks like a skinhead. I wonder if this guy wasn't hanging around after the fire was set. Some firebugs just can't control themselves this way and end up getting caught because of it.
I wouldn't take my eye off the imam, though. The brick had to come from somewhere. It would have been easier to just use a local rock rather than lug one from a distance away and risk getting caught.
In an unrelated article about citrus disease.
It has been more than half a century since the Great Leap Forward in China under Chairman Mao, when a failed experiment in pest eradication included issuing everyone in China a flyswatter.
The fly problem persisted, even though millions of the insects were killed. But the benefits of close coordination, if not the collectivized agriculture that inspired Mao, seemed lost on Florida's citrus producers until quite recently. WHAT THE F^%K. Collectivization killed tens of millions of people in the 20th century. And Florida's citrus growers are idiots for not following in their lead?
Finally recognizing the need to work together, the growers have organized into so-called "citrus health management associations" throughout the state. Well, heavens to Betsy these flyover territory fools saw the light.
Jerkins, who also heads Florida's Citrus Research and Development Foundation, said this means farmers now all disperse pesticides at about the same time. That leads to more powerful insect suppression by avoiding a "checkerboard effect" where bugs in a grove where chemicals are dispersed can find safe haven in a grove just next door. Surely, cooperating in the face of a common threat is a welcome step towards socialization of agriculture. Where does Reuters get these people?
Here's another gem from earlier in the article:
Arnold, a native Floridian who speaks with a distinct southern drawl rarely heard across the state these days, remembers when Florida had about 900,000 acres planted with citrus. Let me guess, the Reuters reporter freaked out when he heard an accent. He just HAD to add this bit of utterly irrelevant data to his report. "This guy doesn't speak English like a newscaster! Weird! I'll have to share this with everyone." Florida imported huge numbers of people from elsewhere, which explains the lack of native culture.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Guinea's losing presidential poll candidate Cellou Dalein Diallo on Friday accepted results of the election, saying he had no choice but to comply with the Supreme Court's decision.
"Our complaints were not taken into account despite the strength of our arguments and the relevance of our evidence," Diallo said in a statement referring to disputed results in a poll won by rival Alpha Conde.
"As Supreme Court decisions are final ... we have no choice but to abide by this judgement delivered by the highest judicial institution of the republic."
Addressing his supporters he said commitment to peace and a united Guinea "commands us to stifle our frustration and our suffering, to remain calm and serene and avoid any form of violence."
He added that he remained convinced "that our inevitable victory has only been delayed."
The special envoy of the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society secretary-general in West Africa, Said Djinnit, paid tribute to Diallo for accepting the outcome.
After a tense two-week wait under a state of emergency, imposed in the wake of three days of festivities after the initial announcement, the Supreme Court validated Conde's victory with 52.5 percent of the votes early Friday.
The 72-year-old former opposition leader will become the country's first democratically-elected president since independence from France in 1958.
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[Al Jazeera] Cote D'Ivoire's constitutional court has named Laurent Gbagbo, the incumbent president, as the winner of the country's presidential run-off vote, despite electoral official having earlier declared opposition leader Alassane Outtara as the victor.
The opposition has warned that the conflict over the results of Sunday's election threatens to push the West African nation back towards war.
Al Jizz's Yvonne Ndege reported from Abidjan that the violence has indeed materialised on the streets of the costal city late on Friday night.
"It's bad news from Abidjan tonight. Those outbreaks of violence that people had feared, particularly amongst supporters of the opposition leader, Alassane Ouattara, have started to break out across Abidjan," Ndege said.
"From my hotel room alone, I saw four plumes of black smoke, thick black smoke. And what we're told by people on the ground is the supporters are on the rampage. Burning houses, burning public buildings, burning tyres. They're furious that Laurent Gbagbo has been declared the president."
Anticipating the constitutional court's decision on Friday, Ouattara's camp said it would reject any legal bid to overturn the provisional results which made Ouattara, the country's former prime minister, the president by 54.1 per cent to 45.9.
"We will not recognise any decisions by the constitutional council taken under such conditions," Amadou Gon, a senior campaign aide, said.
However, The infamous However... the president of the constitutional council dismissed the provisional results in a 30-minute presentation, detailing what he described as irregularities that had led to his decision.
No process for appeals
There is no legal means for the opposition to appeal the decision by the country's highest legal body.
"The opposition leaders has few options on the table because the constitutional court is the ultimate decider in this race and it's decided that the incumbent, Laurent Gbagbo, who's been president for ten years already, won the election last Sunday," Al Jizz's correspondent said.
"The question now is, will pressure be brought to bear on Gbagbo if [Ouattara's] supporters go out there and start tearing up the city?"
However, Another infamous However... most major international bodies are calling on Gbagbo and the constitutional court to respect the election outcome.
And while the council the final word on the outcome of the vote, the UN must also certify the results under a 2007 peace deal signed by Gbagbo.
Young-Jin Choi, the special representative of the UN Secretary-General in Cote d'Ivoire, held a presser to denounce the new results.
He said that even if the seven contested regions are thrown out, the opposition candidate is still ahead, saying he has "absolute confidence that there is only one winner - Mr Alassane Ouattara".
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Obooboo channelling Gen. Buck Turgidson: "Man, I wish we had one o' them constitutional courts..."
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What happens when the consent of the governed is frustrated.
[Bangla Daily Star] An alleged robber was beaten to death by a mob in Ashulia on the outskirt of the city early yesterday.
The dear departed Alamgir Hossain, 32, hailed from Faridganj upazila of Chandpur.
Dewan Kaushik Ahmed, sub-inspector of Ashulia Police Station, said locals chased a gang of 6-7 people while they were attempting a robbery at Nutupara of Dandabor after hearing warning screams from a night guard of the area around 3:00am. So, looking for a guard job are ya? Lemme hear your warning scream.
At one stage, the mob managed to catch Alamgir and beat him up severely.
However, The infamous However... his cohorts decamped the scene, he added.
Police on information rescued Alamgir in a critical condition and took him to nearby Gonoshasthya Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
Police also recovered machetes, a knife and grill cutting instruments from the spot.
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Justice never sleeps in Bangladesh. Nor does anyone else, it seems.
The improbably named Cholmondeley [pronounced, IIRC, "Chumley"] and Montagu earlier in WWII had created a network of fictitious double agents to feed misinformation to the Nazis. These imaginary spies were given jobs, hobbies, family, lovers and bank managers. The Germans thought they had an established spy network in the UK - in reality, they had none.
"I doubt such a plan would be feasible today, even in wartime. Imagine the scandal if it was revealed that British agents had deliberately stolen a dead body. One of the reasons it worked so well was that the organisers were left alone to get on with it, almost without supervision."
Eventually the planted disinformation made it to Hitler's desk. He took the bait and transferred 90,000 troops to Greece to defend against what he thought was the planned Allied invasion of Greece.
The irony of a homeless man posthumously impressed into His Majesty's Secret Service still catches the imagination.
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A related incident from the Battle of Britain: During one of the nightly Luftwaffe attacks, an urgent call went out from a British camoufleur in charge of an elaborate fake airfield, complete with dummy planes, to an RAF fighter pilot.
Camoufleur: “Sir! We’re being attacked!”
Pilot: “Splendid, Sergeant. Good show.”
Camoufleur: “They’re smashing the place to bits!”
Pilot: “Yes, excellent. Carry on.”
Camoufleur: “But, sir—we need fighter cover! They’re wrecking my best decoys.”
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Another story from the start of WWII, was how a survey was being conducted along the coast to determine where best to set up anti-aircraft guns. Each gun would be mounted on rails, so could be moved to cover a larger area as needed. And with inclement weather, they would be moved into a shed at the end of the tracks.
Well, in one coastal town, they figured they had the ideal place to set up a gun, then discovered to their dismay that there were already tracks laid there.
With nothing on their charts, they followed the tracks to their shed, where looking inside, they discovered a World War I anti-aircraft gun. Asking around, they discovered an elderly resident was still receiving a small stipend to maintain the gun and the tracks, by error it not having been discontinued with the armistice.
They noted that both the tracks and the gun were in fine condition, though of the wrong type for current needs.
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Montagu's book, The Man Who Never Was, is good reading. It includes copies of the letters sent along with Martin and the "Lieber Grossadmiral!" translation of the fake explanation of plans, with Doenitz' official "squiggle" of initials.
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Eventually the planted disinformation made it to Hitler's desk.
Then there's the tendency of bureaucracy to lie up the chain to keep the bosses happy as was the case in the former Soviet Union. Those official reports made it to the CIA desk and were taken as gospel. Thus the utter surprise to the CIA when the Soviet Union collapsed.
[El Universal] The presidents of the Ibero-American Business Organizations, who are holding a meeting in Buenos Aires, condemned recent attacks on the Venezuelan business sector.
In a statement, the businessmen rejected the attacks on several executives of Venezuela's main private business chamber (the Venezuelan Federation of Trade and Industry Chamber, Fedecamaras) last October 27, when a group of gunnies tried to kidnap them.
They also rejected "the serious and permanent harassment of the Venezuelan private sector, which has translated into a government policy based on seizures and expropriations of business in all the sectors of the economy. This is leading not only to the destruction of the national production system, but to the loss of hundreds of thousands jobs."
Business organizations have urged the government to open a dialogue with Venezuelan entrepreneurs and resolve the pending cases that have been reported to the International Labor Organization (ILO) by business and labor organizations.
They also requested the International Organization of Employers (OIE) to "make all efforts to create, as soon as possible, an ILO Commission of Inquiry to examine the allegations of violation of freedom of association against employers and workers in the last decade" in Venezuela.
They also urged the OIE "to use all existing international bodies, particularly the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society Commission on Human Rights and the OAS Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to discuss in those bodies the hostile policies and attacks on private property and business leaders."
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The WikiLeaks affair has claimed its first victim after Germany's vice-chancellor Guido Westerwelle sacked his chief of staff for spying for the Americans.
Mr Westerwelle's chief of staff, Helmut Metzner, admitted that he gave regular information to the US embassy in Berlin, and has been "relieved from his duties," a spokesman for the Liberal Free Democrats (FDP) said in a statement.
Another official in the spotlight is Swedish diplomat Johan Frisell who briefed the US on internal talks between EU ministers about the 2008 Georgia war.
The Candian ambassador to Kabul, William Crosbie, has also offered to resign if future cables damage his relationship with the Afghani administration.
In Italy, pressure is mounting for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to step down, after a series of revelations concerning alleged bribe-taking from his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.
The WikiLeaks cables may also have burned the leader of the Communist Party in Moldova, Vladimir Voronin, who is said to have offered $10 million last year for one of the ruling party leaders, Marian Lupu, to defect to his side. The revelation comes in a sensitive post-election coalition-building moment.
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of course they do - they don't use it to damage an ally, though. I can virtually guarantee Germany does it as well, as they should, especially with Oblahblah "Citizen of the World" in office
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"Damage" is a harsh word but you don't take unfair advantage of a friend either.
Mr Westerwelle is Germany's Foreign Minister. It is not a friendly act when the other side has his negotiation points before the talks.
We are friends, we are partners. But we are also competitors.
I think Hillary Clinton would not be amused to learn that her chief of staff is handing over confidential/secret information to the German ambassador.
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US-based online payment service PayPal has decided to block financial transfers to WikiLeaks after governments around the world initiated legal action against the whistleblower website.
"PayPal has permanently restricted the account used by WikiLeaks due to a violation of the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy, which states that our payment service cannot be used for any activities that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity," PayPal said in a statement released late on Friday.
"We've notified the account holder of this action," the statement said.
Over the past several days, WikiLeaks has begun publishing the first of 250,000 US diplomatic cables, creating an international firestorm as American diplomats' private assessments of foreign leaders and politics has been publicly aired.
The release was the third major publication of secret US files by WikiLeaks this year, after the whistleblower website published tens of thousands of American military files from the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts.
[Arab News] Bristol Babycakes Palin is striking back against MSNBC host Keith Chewing His Straps Olbermann for dubbing her "worst person in the world." Bring back "Celebrity Boxing"...
Olbermann gave her the title on his show earlier this week, casting her as a hypocrite for appearing in a public service announcement promoting abstinence and safe sex. Palin was an unmarried teenager when she had her son, Tripp. He likened her being an abstinence spokeswoman to saying former President George W. Bush "kept us safe, 'cept for that 9/11 thing, which doesn't count."
The 20-year-old "Dancing With the Stars" diva and daughter of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Mama Grizzly Palin ... the babe libs love to hate ... said Thursday via Facebook that calling her a hypocrite is an "old canard." She says that what Olbermann lacks in originality, he makes up for with "insincere incredulity." She also apologized for not being "absolutely faultless like he undoubtedly must be."
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I'd rather she strike back with a Louisville slugger to Olberman's head.
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This is all they have to talk about on MSNBC? No wonder I never watch.
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I am basically forced to watch the show 16 and pregnant - and every single one of them says the exact same thing. And considering how levi turned out to be bigtime d!k can't blame the young lady. And is she wrong?
Or do you also have 15 minutes to rail about Mrs. Obama telling me to eat carrots?
But now I get it - thank you. The lean forward, it isn't a slogon, it is a suggestion so views do not asphyxiate on their vomit.
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Regarding calling Bristol Palin a hypocrite for backing abstinence, I guess Olbermann would disqualify St Augustine (of Hippo) from being a Christian of any note due to Augustine's unchaste lifestyle and actions prior to Christian conversion, as indicated by this aspiration (semi-prayer) Augustine confessed to "praying" during unchaste times with several concubines:
[Dawn] Mismanagement and misuse of cash are hampering relief efforts for Pakistain's flood victims with nearly 60 million dollars in a prime minister's fund still unspent, officials say.
Catastrophic monsoon rains that swept north to south in July and August affected 21 million people, consumed entire villages, wiped out agricultural land and destroyed industries in the country's worst ever natural disaster.
Foreign donors have stumped up just half of a UN appeal target of 1.93 billion dollars, sparking fears for 6.8 million who need emergency shelter as winter sets in, while farmland could remain flooded for another six months.
But officials say efforts to rebuild 1.6 million homes are being compromised by infighting between federal and provincial authorities, and express amazement that a 58.5 million dollar prime minister's fund remains entirely unspent.
Shabbir Anwar, a front man for Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, said plans for the money were still being finalised as part of a national recovery plan."The government has prepared a national strategy for rehabilitation and reconstruction. The details are being finalised by the financial division," he told AFP. Yeah, they're waiting to implement the plan for doubling it. Gomez is taking it all to Vegas and putting it on "red"...
But a top Pak official said "malaise" at the heart of government was to blame for inaction, as thousands of families remain camped out on roadsides in makeshift tents.
"Once a decision is taken at the highest level it must be done -- but it doesn't get done," he told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Huge swaths of Sindh province in the south remain underwater. From the air all that can be seen in the worst-affected parts of Dadu province are the tips of trees jutting above inland lakes.
Just outside Gul Mohammad Chandio village, families languish under tents overlooking fields submerged in water, clamouring for the relief that they say has failed to arrive in the months since the disaster.
Villagers returning from relief camps by donkey found homes still flooded or destroyed. A chair balanced on a rubber ring was the only way to ferry people across a flooded street.
"We're very worried about our income because our land is under water. Nobody has helped us," said 45-year-old Mohammad Khan, who returned to his home with seven children to find a pile of rubble.
"Please rebuild our homes. We're worried, we don't have anything."
UN officials have complained about a lack of international financial support for Pakistain, blaming that partly on the government's poor reputation for mismanagement and corruption.
The World Bank has put the overall figure for flood recovery at 9.7 billion dollars.
But despite crippling debts, the federal government insists on doling out the money itself to rebuild schools and hospitals, and has asked donors to contribute only to a cash fund, rather than offer infrastructure assistance. Yeah, it's more...ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...convenient.
Under a cash compensation scheme, 1.6 million of the worst-off families should each receive more than 85,450 rupees to rebuild their homes using an electronic card system. Sure. Lotsa ATM's up there I'll bet. Home Depot's too...
The United States has been quick to endorse the fund, with US envoy Richard Holbrooke telling a development conference in Islamabad that its aid could be fast-tracked into the scheme.
But the World Bank has refused to back the scheme until the fund is made more transparent and accountable, and there have been widespread reports of problems with the cash card system, said Oxfam media officer Amil Khan.
"We have reports of people not knowing how to use the cash cards, machines not having any cash, not having any power. There have been issues of access...it's a significant issue," said Khan. Ya don't say? Sorry, guys. I don't want the job.
Head of the National Disaster Management Authority that coordinates flood relief, General Nadeem Ahmed, said he has "strong reservations" over the plan because there is no system in place to oversee the home rebuilding.
Of the 1.6 million homes earmarked for construction, he said 400,000 needed to be built elsewhere to avoid flood plains and fault lines in the earthquake-prone country.
"People are making houses and schools in the river beds," said Ahmed.
"We want to make sure that whatever reconstruction we do must make use of the opportunity to build back better."
USAID officials met Pakistain's National Accountability Board last week to discuss allegations of misuse of American money by aid organisations, a Pak official said on condition of anonymity.
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We need to send some New Orleans politicians to teach them how to use flood aid - or maybe we did, since I think some is still unspent and a lot was obviously mismanaged.
[Dawn] A hardline holy man has offered a reward to anyone who kills a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy against Islam.
Maulana Yousef Qureshi made the announcement Friday at a rally in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar. He said his mosque would give $6,000 to the person who kills Aasia Bibi. I'll throw twenty in the pot if somebody wants to take out the cranky holy man...
Bibi was sentenced Nov. 8 to hang for insulting Islam's Prophet Mohammad (PTUI!). She and her family say the charge is baseless.
Her case has attracted international attention and a personal appeal from Pope Benedict XVI for her freedom, while government officials have talked about the possibility of a presidential pardon.
Bibi is currently in jail. Authorities were not immediately available for comment on Qureshi's announcement.
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Maulana Yousef Qureshi
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After years of debate and a fundraising campaign launched by investor Warren Buffett, the U.N. atomic agency decided Friday to set up a $150 million uranium-fuel "bank".
The idea of such a bank has been floated for decades, but the concept took on new urgency with the development of Iran's nuclear program. The bank would guarantee the sale of fuel grade enriched uranium for countries' nuclear-power plants, eliminating their need to develop it themselves. So they can move directly to high grade enrichment and weaponization at much less cost. Also generates large profits and employment for France, since the reactors would (of course) have to be located there ...
The same centrifuges used to prepare uranium for power plants can also be used to enrich it to higher, weapons-grade levels.
President Barack Obama has touted the fuel bank, which will get $50 million from the U.S. government. Because we've got plenty of money to give away, especially to the cause of giving dictators an easier path to nuclear weapons. We're only borrowing 43% of what we spend, what's the big deal ...
"This is a breakthrough in global cooperation just like the UN Human Rights Commission
to enable peaceful uses of nuclear energy while reducing the risks of proliferation and catastrophic terrorism," said former Sen. Sam Nunn, co-chairman of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a private group that played a key role in getting the bank off the ground.
Although more guarded, academic experts "You know, 'experts' "
said the bank is a positive step at a time of rising fears of nuclear proliferation.
"The bank is not a guarantee against the risk some countries might choose to proliferate," said Lawrence Scheinman of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. "But the fewer the countries that have capacity to enrich uranium in the first place, the lower the prospect is they will be able to weaponize." Oh, except for the part about it being much easier and cheaper for them to weaponize if you give them already enriched raw materials. Gee, only if they hide the facilities to do that. Who would do such a dastardly thing?
Nations on the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency voted 28-0 to approve the bank, with six abstentions and one country absent. Because the IAEA's track record with Pakistan and Iran was so incredibly successful.
The fuel bank, in essence, will ensure the sale of uranium for power plants to countries that are in good standing with the U.N. energy watchdog. The new institution is meant to be a backup in case countries face a cutoff from commercial suppliers. Except that commercial suppliers have always delivered, except when ordered not to, making this a completely vapid excuse. Vapid is a UN specialty ...
A senior U.S. official said the bank is not likely to prompt Iran to alter its nuclear program, which is widely suspected of being aimed at developing weapons, a charge Tehran denies. Nor would it do so for any country, under any, ANY other circumstance.
"But it does undercut their argument that they need to have an indigenous uranium-enrichment program because they can't be confident they can rely on" outside suppliers of fuel, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Because it is so much more important to undercut a lie than to keep enriched uranium out of the hands of genocidal psychopaths.
The fuel-bank project got going in 2006 after Nunn approached Buffett with the idea. Buffett pledged $50 million on the condition that governments kick in an additional $100 million. That total was reached last year. And Warren Buffett hopes to make billions with his uranium investments.
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.
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