A group of vicious robbers on the loose around South Pyongan Province since 2009 has finally been caught, according to a source from the city. The members of the group were allegedly all students in their teens. Surprise!
Speaking with The Daily NK yesterday, the source explained, "On around April 10th, 15 upper middle school grade 5 and 6 students who had been robbing people for three years, killing seven, were caught. They used to target people on bicycles riding in secluded areas." So they were in grade 2 when they began? It's maddening when otherwise credible stories like these contain inconsistencies.
The gang apparently contained both male and female members. First, a female member lured someone riding alone in a quiet area into giving them a ride, and then male members attacked the rider from behind and stole the bicycle. In this way, the group was able to steal more than 40 bicycles. Even in poorest China, people can afford bicycles.
Although there were dozens of people hurt in the attacks, by attacking people in various rural areas the group was apparently able to evade capture. Well, holding up bicycles isn't exactly the same as holding up stagecoaches, but I'm willing to let that slide.
However, they were finally apprehended thanks to a lengthy People's Safety Ministry operation, the source explained, saying, "People's Safety agents, who had not been able to catch them even though the same thing kept happening here and there for three years, eventually caught them after staking out the area for 40 days. Both the agents and other people got a big shock when they realized that the people guilty of killing others were students; they couldn't even imagine that."
When asked about the reason behind the crime spree, the source suggested, "They have to spend money for school and don't get any from home, so committing crimes is inevitable," but added, "They may also have done it for fun." Koreans. Kids get upset and violent when they can't go to school.
"In the past few years there has been a dramatic expansion in the number of robberies, and moreover society is pretty chaotic," another source from South Pyongan Province said, but agreed, "Everyone is shocked when I tell them about this."
"It wasn't even homeless kids; it is extraordinary to find that even kids who were attending school would go around robbing people," the source added. I thought socialist societies rid themselves of homelessness?
"It apparently started with simple robbery, but people ended up dying because they were hit with blunt objects after resisting the attack," the same source went on. "The investigating agents were stunned because the kids didn't seem to have any particular guilty conscience." I wonder where they learned that? I'm sure Koreans are beside themselves with bafflement. And I don't mean this sarcastically, I mean they can't see the forest for the trees. Sort of like liberals.
Now, however, the entire group has apparently been jailed irrespective of age. The source explained, "Those kids caught after leaving school and joining the army or entering society were sent to jail, while those not yet old enough to have received their official I.D. were given one anyway, and then sent to jail." Sort of like when teens begged to get into the army in WWII. How kind of the Norks.
By doing so, the authorities were able to punish the younger gang members as adults. Had they been punished as children, i.e. before receiving their I.D. at the age of 16, their punishment would have been comparatively light.
"People hear about the events, and then every one of them is lost in shock," the Nampo source reiterated. "It is obvious that if they are released they will do it again. There are loud calls for them never to be released."
However, the source also expressed sadness at the situation, saying, "Kids don't get free school uniforms and other things which they used to get; they don't have any will to go to school," and adding that people believe 'it is the world that is making criminals of children'. Road agent (n.) A highwayman in the mountain districts of North America. (cit.) "Road-agent is the name applied in the mountains to a ruffian who has given up honest work in the store, in the mine, in the ranch, for the perils and profits of the highway." --W. Hepworth Dixon: New America, i. 14.
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"Kids don't get free school uniforms and other things which they used to get; they don't have any will to go to school," and adding that people believe 'it is the world that is making criminals of children'.
Yep, blame the Americans for not sending enough aid....
Prosecutors have rested their case at the corruption retrial of impeached Illinois Gov. Rod Y'gotta pay to play! Blagojevich. Who was tried on federal corruption charges that he tried to sell or trade Obama's old U.S. Senate seat, resulting in a hung jury. He was convicted of lying to the FBI. Government attorneys wrapped up Thursday after presenting evidence for three weeks and calling their last few witnesses earlier in the day.
Prosecutors drastically streamlined their presentation after criticism that their six-week case last year was overly complicated. Jurors in the first trial could agree on only one count, convicting Blagojevich of lying to the FBI.
Blagojevich faces 20 charges this time, including that he tried to sell or trade President Barack B.O. Obama's vacated U.S. Senate seat. He has denied any wrongdoing.
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[Iran Press TV] La Belle France's Dominique Strauss-Kahn has resigned as managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) under pressures over alleged sexual assault charges that he strongly denies.
"It is with infinite sadness that I feel compelled today to present to the Executive Board my resignation from my post of Managing Director of the IMF," AFP quoted Strauss-Kahn as saying on Thursday.
"I want to say that I deny with the greatest possible firmness all of the allegations that have been made against me," he said.
"I want to protect this institution which I have served with honor and devotion, and especially-especially-I want to devote all my strength, all my time, and all my energy to proving my innocence," he went on to say.
The leading French politician, who is tossed in the calaboose in New York's notorious Rikers Island, awaits a grand jury decision on whether to indict him on charges of the alleged sexual assault and attempted rape of a 32-year-old Manhattan hotel chambermaid.
Strauss-Kahn was nabbed on May 14 over allegations that he had sexually attacked the cleaning lady at the luxury hotel near Times Square on Saturday.
He was expected to declare his candidacy for the French presidency soon and was considered as a strong contender to defeat President Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... in next year's elections.
The 62-year-old Strauss-Kahn could face 5 to 25 years in prison if convicted.
The IMF is the intergovernmental organization which oversees the global financial system through the macroeconomic policies of its member countries.
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His bail means that rape will mean 3 days in jail for him.
No, he will not run immediately, he doesn't have to.
His lawyers will chase down the maid, smear her, try to destroy her credibility. Then they will offer money and the maid will disappear.
Without her, proving nonconsensual sex will be almost impossible. DSK will leave through the front door.
Just in case the maid is a real hero, he will run. He won't be French president, but he he can still tour French talkshows complaining about US justice.
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The one story I've heard that makes sense is that DSK had ordered a 'fantasy' s*x service and the real maid showed up before the fantasy one. Tough break for him.
Is truth stranger than conspiracy-theory fiction? A new book on Area 51 that's already generating a ton of buzz says there was no alien spacecraft that crashed in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. Instead, Stalin did it--maybe.
According to Annie Jacobsen, the reporter who authored "Area 51," the spaceship was actually a Soviet spy plane that came down during a storm. Jacobsen claims it was filled with bizarre-looking, genetically engineered child-sized pilots. Then-Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was hoping, Jacobsen alleges, that the news would cause widespread panic in the U.S.
The story gets even stranger: The leader of the USSR had apparently been inspired by the 1938 radio adaptation of the HG Wells story "War of the Worlds," produced by Orson Welles. The broadcast triggered panic in some listeners who tuned in and mistook it for a real-life alien invasion. (Though later students of the episode claim that the media of Welles' day vastly exaggerated the scale of public alarm over the broadcast.)
And those ET-looking aviators? They were scientific experiments created by the "Angel of Death," Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, for the USSR after the war. The flight was piloted remotely, according to accounts in the book, and was filled with a crew of "alien-like children."
According to Jacobsen's source, a retired engineer who was put on the project in 1978, the look of the human experiments could explain the alien conspiracy theories: "They were grotesquely deformed, but each in the same manner as the others. They had unusually large heads and abnormally shaped oversize eyes."
Is any of this true? There's no way to prove it. Documents surrounding the Roswell incident are still classified--as is virtually all information related to the mystery spot.
Still, lack of proof hasn't exactly stopped the book from sparking speculation on the media circuit and on the Web. In the last day, Yahoo! searches skyrocketed 3,000 percent for "area 51 book." And the tome is penned not by a crackpot conspirator, but a respected journalist.
Even the New York Times gives her credence, writing in its review: "Although this connect-the-dots UFO thesis is only a hasty-sounding addendum to an otherwise straightforward investigative book about aviation and military history, it makes an indelible impression. 'Area 51' is liable to become best known for sci-fi provocation."
But sci-fi provocation may be all the book generates. After all, without the government coming out and saying what happened back in 1947, even if there was no conspiracy, the stories of the "Roswell Incident" will remain just that.
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Doctors are blaming financial pressures on the NHS for an increase in the number of patients who are not being treated within the 18 weeks that the government recommends.
New NHS performance data reveal that the number of people in England who are being forced to wait more than 18 weeks has risen by 26% in the last year, while the number who had to wait longer than six months has shot up by 43%.
Despite rising demand for healthcare caused by the increasingly elderly population and growing numbers of people with long-term conditions, the NHS treated 16,201 fewer people as inpatients in March 2011 compared to March 2010, the latest Referral To Treatment data disclose. They either died waiting or went to India for treatment.
The British Medical Association said the longer waits and fewer treatments were inevitable: "Given the massive financial pressures on the NHS, it was always likely that hospital activity would decrease and waiting times would increase," said a spokesperson.
"Doctors are blaming financial pressures on the NHS for an increase in the number of patients who are not being treated within the 18 weeks that the government recommends.
New NHS performance data reveal that the number of people in England who are being forced to wait more than 18 weeks has risen by 26% in the last year, while the number who had to wait longer than six months has shot up by 43%.
Despite rising demand for healthcare caused by the increasingly elderly population and growing numbers of people with long-term conditions, the NHS treated 16,201 fewer people as inpatients in March 2011 compared to March 2010, the latest Referral To Treatment data disclose. They either died waiting or went to India for treatment.
The British Medical Association said the longer waits and fewer treatments were inevitable: "Given the massive financial pressures on the NHS, it was always likely that hospital activity would decrease and waiting times would increase," said a spokesperson.
[An Nahar] It's raining in New York, and everyone tries to get out of the rain. Not Manny. The 56-year old Dominican, unflappable, stands on a corner with his umbrella, warning people that on Saturday, May 21, the world will end. Don't make any plans for Sunday...
All over New York, preachers armed with T-shirts, brochures, books and posters are preaching the end of the world. Using a complex numerical calculation from the Bible, there are even advertisements on the New York city subway warning of the "great earthquake" that accompanies the advent of Judgement Day.
"According to the Bible, in the Book of Revelations there will be a worldwide earthquake," Manny told Agence France Presse. "We're not sure if it will happen at the same time everywhere, because times are different. But it is supposed to happen simultaneously around the world," he said.
The date of May 21, 2011 may seem random, but it is based on a numerical analysis by the American, Harold Camping, the president of Family Radio, a religious broadcaster based in California.
"According to Genesis, when the flood occurred in the year 4990, God told Noah that in seven days he would destroy the earth," Manny explained. "And he destroyed it in seven days.
"But Peter said: 'I know that one day for me is like a thousand years.' So 4990 plus 7001 years (the equivalent of seven days) equals 2011," he explained.
Not only that, May 21 coincides with the 17th day of the second month of the calendar used during the Biblical flood, according to Camping.
Nearby the corner where Manny is prophesying, Borce, 43, is handing out leaflets and explaining to anyone who will listen that they have a few hours left to find salvation.
"Right now there is still salvation, but when May 21st gonna come, the salvation program is finished, God gonna shut the door, and after that only five months remain for the unsaved of the world, and they're gonna be suffering and on the 21st October, God gonna destroy this world with fire," Borce said.
If Manny and Borce are out on the noisy New York City streets everyday spreading the word, they are planning to be in a quieter place when the fateful moment arrives.
"Until Friday, I gonna still pray for God for mercy. Saturday I'll be at home, just watching the news, because the doors will be shut," said Borce, who is American.
"I will kneel and ask God's mercy to see if he can save me, because God wants salvation for everyone," said Manny, who was at his side.
Despite their faith, both men realize that their message is often ridiculed. "People do not believe it," said Manny. "It is typical of what happened in Noah's time, where only eight people were saved. According to the Bible, only 200 million people will be saved" this time, Manny said.
To Borce, that reaction is predictable. "The people are laughing, they laugh at us," he says, adding: "Pray until Friday."
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World to end May 21st
...Women and minorities hardest hit.
Mike
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Well...I guess this makes the Aztecs look like a bunch of assholes.
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A group of wits have started a campaign to buy cheap used clothing and shoes, and put sets: shoes, socks, pants, and shirt out on the street here and there.
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well now that I know when the Savior is showing up, I can start baking that cake...I hope this Camping guy took into effect leap yrs or my cake might be stale...
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We're not sure if it will happen at the same time everywhere, because times are different. But it is supposed to happen simultaneously around the world,"
Tight time slot. When the clock strikes midnight in Hawaii it's almost Sunday on Fiji.
According to the Bible, only 200 million people will be saved" this time, Manny said.
Quite the cruel God. There should be more then 200 million babies and little children in this world. What did they do?
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I have a plan.
Please send me 10 million dollars today and I will stop the apocalypse.
If not you'll get a full refund!
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What time of day?
I'd like to get a morning fishing trip in, if possible.
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Make it a very early morning trip if you live in the U.S.
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My Rice Krispies told me it'll be at about 11:34:18 AM.
But there is some disagreement between them and the corn flakes on which time zone - Eastern or Central.
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My Name is Angus Matabuto Nimgali DeBeers. I am a Nigerian diamond merchant stranded on holiday in Florida, Miama USA. Here in Florida, Miama USA it is very inconvenient to leave under the circumstances of World Ending Day. I could use your assistance in delivering my most recent shipment of yellow diamonds worth $ 47,000,000. in time for the holidays, if you could allow me to place shipment funds in your account.........
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Darn , its my birthday then .. However *chuckle* I dont think God is an early riser, should be able to sneak in a cast or two before breakfast and death !
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What those prophets haven't disclosed is that immediately after this world ends on the 21st, a new one will spring into existence with the same cast of characters, memories & social arrangements as before. The creator is just rebooting the universe.
You know, my copy of the bible says 144,000, not 200 million...
And it says elsewhere "But of that day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only", so these chowderheads are a bunch of heretics if you ask me.
Not that I'd be a fundamentalist, if I were an actual member of the faithful. The so-called rapture is a metaphor for death, and comes every day, every hour to some soul somewhere. If God saves, he saves retail, not wholesale.
Still and all, if they all go off in a flash tomorrow, I'll cheer for them. Damnation might be worth knowing there's a God in Israel after all.
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And the rock cried out, no hiding place.
Babylon Five. Near the end of the episode, a Protestant minister holds an enthusiastic interfaith religious service and invited human and alien alike; as the choir sings "No Hiding Place Down Here", the song coincides with images of Refa's capture and subsequent (beating to) death at the hands of the Narns.
One of my favorite episodes.
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And the rock cried out, no hiding place.
Sinnerman is a great song
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As Solomon, the wisest man to have lived, said "Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die" so I think I'll go out for steak and beer tonight.
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I saw a suggestion that we should lay out a set of clothes in the front yard, such that they look like the person wearing them just suddenly disappeared, to freak-out any neighbors who might believe this stuff. Might just try that. ;)
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what's the difference between a kilt and a skirt?
At least a half-pound of facial hair?
I dunno, but having known men who wore kilts and men who were just cross-dressers, you certainly can tell. I rather think the difference between the men who wear kilts and the men who wear skirts is that the latter can tell you the difference between a kilt and a skirt... ^_^
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what's the difference between a kilt and a skirt?
Men wear kilts with furry wallet modestly in front and at least the idea of sharp blades tucked into knee sock tops. Women wear kilts with no furry wallet, having no need for that kind of modesty. Women also wear skirts, which can be fashionable or dowdy, but still don't have a furry wallet worn round the waist.
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A young lass dying of curiosity asked of a Scott what was worn under his kilt. He promptly hoisted the kilt and she responded "that's gruesome!". Well lassie if you give'em your hand he might grrrrruesome more.
[The Nation (Nairobi)] President Bob Muggsy Mugabe Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... says Zim-bob-we should have fresh elections this year, once the country holds a referendum to adopt a new constitution, a state daily reported Thursday.
"We should not delay the process any further than is necessary," The Heraldstate mouthpiece newspaper quoted Mugabe as saying in an interview.
"Once you have gone to the people and asked their views and if they support that constitution why should we wait any further," he said. "Then we proceed to hold elections because that is the mission of the global political agreement."
"We have now said to ourselves let's establish timelines... and see whether the timelines required cannot all be fitted into 2011," he added.
Mugabe and long-time rival Morgan Tsvangirai formed a power-sharing government two years ago to avoid a descent into full-fledged conflict in the aftermath of a bloody presidential run-off election. As part of the pact the parties agreed to a raft of reforms including amendments to the media and electoral laws and drafting a new constitution before new elections.
But public consultations on a new constitution have been repeatedly postponed after outbreaks of violence, mainly blamed on the supporters of Mugabe's ZANU-PF.
Since its formation, the unity government has been marred by disagreements and boycotts, with Mugabe last year suggesting that elections be held to dissolve the deal.
Tsvangirai has said that elections were not possible before reforms were in place.
Last month a senior member from Mugabe's party said the country could see polls at least in 2013, but others in his party continue to insist on polls later this year, in an unusually public show of dissent within the ranks.
Local business leaders and central bank chief Gideon Gono have voiced concern saying the country is not ready for polls.
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Mugabe just wants to be elected to another term before he meets his Maker - which at his age, and where he lives, could be any minute now.
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New NHS performance data reveal that the number of people in England who are being forced to wait more than 18 weeks has risen by 26% in the last year, while the number who had to wait longer than six months has shot up by 43%.
Despite rising demand for healthcare caused by the increasingly elderly population and growing numbers of people with long-term conditions, the NHS treated 16,201 fewer people as inpatients in March 2011 compared to March 2010, the latest Referral To Treatment data disclose. They either died waiting or went to India for treatment.
The British Medical Association said the longer waits and fewer treatments were inevitable: "Given the massive financial pressures on the NHS, it was always likely that hospital activity would decrease and waiting times would increase," said a spokesperson.
Doctors are blaming financial pressures on the NHS for an increase in the number of patients who are not being treated within the 18 weeks that the government recommends.
New NHS performance data reveal that the number of people in England who are being forced to wait more than 18 weeks has risen by 26% in the last year, while the number who had to wait longer than six months has shot up by 43%.
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Britain is an interesting case, because 1 in 6 people are not enrolled in the NHS, but get private care, often by insurance.
However, almost every private policy excludes accident and emergency, pregnancy and long-term chronic illness. Many also exclude psychiatric care and pre-existing conditions. So there is a balance of sorts.
Canada, on the other hand, is much more vicious, prohibiting private care under most circumstances, leaving people little choice but to flee to the US for care.
So the bottom line is that even though the British NHS sucks, if you have money, you can choose otherwise.
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No socialized medicine story will ever beat Canada's 40-week wait for prenatal care. It's perfectly encapsulated everything wrong with this approach.
[Iran Press TV] Recent surveys show that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has a high chance of being re-elected in 2012 as he has rated positive in performance during his tenure.
"There has been an increase in the positive assessment of the president and about 50 percent say his administration is doing a good job," Oscar Schemel, president of think tank Hinterlaces, told a Press TV correspondent in Caracas.
Polls show that the president's main supporters are among the middle and lower class.
Pollsters attribute the rising popularity of the president to political and social reasons.
Surveys also show that the nearest rival from the opposition trails with 39 percent possibly because the opposition has not come up with a government plan, while in the last months Chavez has re-designed his social programs and created new ones that address the main problems of the nation.
Also behind Chavez' popularity is the Housing Mission which has invested about USD 7 billion to resolve the housing shortage nationwide. The writer should work for the Obama administration...
Analysts believe that if the current trend continues, Chavez will be re-elected in 2012.
Chavez is currently the only official candidate as the opposition has not yet introduced a strong contender who might be an option for those Venezuelans who do not agree with the incumbent president's policies.
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Chavez studied election tactics at the J. Stalin Institute for Government. He won't lose.
Japan's economy contracts sharply after devastating earthquake and tsunami. Worst earthquake in 1200 years followed by gigantic tsunami, and you expected prosperity to follow in its wake?
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The whole world is going to be in recession for a long while. Everyone wants a pushbutton cure and a reset to 2005 but that isn't happening.
Natural disasters make this worse for Japan but until the world and especially the Boomer generation gets the cluebat applied at its temple sufficiently they aren't going to make the changes necessary to alter the direction we've been on. The cluebat will be endless recession caused by endless big government and endless unreasonable expectations of material comfort and personal security and absolute freedom from any environmental hazard whatsoever.
Sooner or later the public will figure it out, but they will only care enough to spend the mental energy doing so if there is a LOT of hurt. Such is human nature.
It's a vicious circle we're in, that will need to be broken by the nonfunctioning of the post-New Deal world to the point where people have to rethink what's important. We need to destroy the mindset of entitlement and outcome egalitarianism and government guaranteed income stream security and bubblewrap protection from all risks of any kind in order to get back to sanity. We need the public to reconnect with the notion that what is great about America is not a guarantee of a certain level of material well-being at a certain age, but rather the opportunity to get to where you want and more importantly LIBERTY. Most people 100 years ago didn't have the affluence and trinkets people have now but they were a lot freer, and if things like this could be measured, I would guess a lot happier.
It appears at this point that only prolonged hurt (10 years or longer) will wake the public up enough for them to support the changes necessary to get us back on track.
I feel for the Japanese but the difference between their recession and our next one might work out to a few weeks or months in the onset.
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# 1 no mo uro Hello. Well said. I could say many things in tandem to your thoughts. So much government, socialism and blind dependency will prolong the pain beyond ten years I believe. Stalin was said to have asked his economic advisers what economy would pull them out of their economic doldrums. One unfortunate adviser said capitalism. Why? free the people who hunger for ambition or something like that. So when you have a economic winter it will be over sooner. Well that poor chap was dead about two months later. Until people are free. The ball and chains of government will stifle any country and its people. We will have less of everything and attack those we think have more than ourselves.
[Iran Press TV] Japanese workers have entered reactor No.3 of the damaged Fukushima power plant for the first time since twin disasters hit the station more than two months ago.
On March 11, a massive earthquake and an ensuing tsunami in Japan's northeastern coast set off a nuclear crisis by knocking out power to cooling systems of reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant and causing radiation leaks.
The plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCP), has been struggling to stop radioactive leaks from the plant's damaged reactors.
Workers, wearing protective gear, began inspecting the reactor No.3, which was further damaged when a hydrogen kaboom in March blew off the building's roof, TEPCO said on Thursday.
Following the twin disasters, Japan's government evacuated people living within a 20-kilometer (12.4-mile) radius around the plant and told people residing between 20 kilometers and 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) from the plant to remain indoors.
Last week, Japan began widening the evacuation zone around the plant and transferred about 4,000 residents of Iidate-mura village and 1,100 people in Kawamata-cho town to public housing, hotels and other facilities in nearby cities.
Earlier in May, TEPCO said that new measurements indicate that water pumped into the pressure vessel had quickly leaked out from reactor No.1 building.
The company has also reported another spill of contaminated water despite efforts to stop spills into the Pacific Ocean.
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RENSE > AIR [atmosphere] ABOVE JAPAN HEATED RAPIDLY [days] BEFORE 9.0 EARTHQUAKE.
Yuuuuuupp - 'Tis routine for me oer the skies of GUAM-WESTPAC, espec after Midnite(s) days or hours before, + as also complemented by ground motion observations. THE GROUND MOVES ALL THE TIME, BUT MANY PEOPLE AREN'T ABLE TO DETECT OR SENSE IT.
FYI ONCE AGAIN, AGANA = GUAM HAD A FEW GOOD ONES THIS WEEK, BUT IT HASN'T EVEN BEEN MENTIONED IN THE LOCAL MEDIAS OR USGS YET.
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* SAME > [Guardian.UK] US PREPARES FOR ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE.
IMO Brains-lovin' "Zombies" read = LITTLE TO NO CONSENSUS BY US-WORLD PERTS ON MAGNITUDE OF [New "Ice-Age" causing]ANTICIPATED SOLAR STORMS.
The Sun's gonna give out Solar Flares = Snot, but the Boyz don't know or aren't certain how strong its gonna be???
* SAME > JAKARTA WORRIED ABOUT [Pert-forecasted]LARGE QUAKE IN INDONESIA. Mag9.0 Japan Tohoku/Sensai-style quake bigger, worse than 2004 Sumatra Quake.
* PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > [Japan Coast Guard]INSTRUMENTS SAW JAPAN QUAKE LURCH, more than 20+ meters or 65+ feet, + 10 feet in upward motion.
[Iran Press TV] Environmentalists have filed a lawsuit against the US State Department to demand the release of documents related to a controversial US-Canada pipeline project.
Green groups sued the State Department on Wednesday seeking access to communications with a lobbyist linked to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John Jay ... regarding a planned USD 7 billion TransCanada oil sands pipeline, Rooters reported.
TransCanada is hoping to win the State Department's approval of its planned Keystone XL pipeline. The State Department's approval is needed because the project crosses the Canada-US border.
Paul Elliott, who was national deputy director for Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, has been accused of taking advantage of his previous service to Clinton to get the go-ahead for the controversial project.
"We think the public has a right to know in what ways TransCanada and Mr. Elliott have attempted to influence Secretary Clinton's view of this controversial project," said Kenny Bruno from Corporate Ethics International, which has participated in filing the lawsuit against the State Department.
Activists have harshly criticized the huge environmental risks that the planned project could pose because of the use of the carbon-intensive oil sands crude and possible leaks over fragile water supplies.
The pipeline project would span 1,700 miles and transport crude from Canada's oil sands to the US Gulf coast.
The lawsuit comes following a Freedom of Information Act request for detailed contacts between Elliott and the US State Department filed by the green groups last year.
Clinton had earlier said the US State Department was "inclined" to endorse the pipeline project mainly due to energy security concerns.
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Amazing how iran press tv is more newsworthy than American media.
[Iran Press TV] Thousands of Spanish protesters have camped out in Madrid and several other cities to demand jobs as well as political change ahead of weekend local elections.
Outraged by Spain's economic crisis and soaring jobless rate, demonstrators defied a ban by authorities and poured onto Madrid's central Puerta del Sol square and in several cities, including Granada, Seville, Barcelona, Valencia, Zaragoza and Palma de Majorca, AFP reported on Wednesday.
Many protesters held up placards reading "Make the guilty pay for the crisis" and chanted "They call this democracy but it is not", as they tried to draw attention to their economic hardships ahead of the regional and municipal elections on Sunday.
Disgruntled Spaniards, who began their protests on May 15 to demand jobs, housing and "real democracy," have vowed to stay until Sunday elections if police try to use force to disperse their peaceful protest.
Reports indicate that about 15 police vehicles took up positions in and around the emblematic square in the capital Madrid on Wednesday evening.
Meanwhile, ...back at the hoedown, Bob finally got to dance with Sally... opinion polls by the centre-left El Pais and the conservative El Mundo portend humiliating losses for the Socialist candidates in the forthcoming regional and municipal elections, as voters are expected to punish them for the government's handling of the economic crisis, including the failure to curb high employment rates.
Spain's unemployment rate soared to 21.29 percent, with 4.9 million jobless for the first quarter of 2011, according to the government statistics published in late April.
In May 2010, the government of Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero introduced a slew of drastic austerity measures, including cutting civil servants pay as part of plans to curb budget deficit from 11 percent a year earlier to within the 3 percent of GDP limit set by the European Union by 2013.
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After an announcement earlier this week that fired University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill was being invited to town to speak over the Memorial Day weekend, the church where he was set to speak has retracted their invitation.
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Grand Valley, in a statement on their website, cited many members of their congregation with relatives serving in military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for the change.
The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Grand Valley will not be offering a venue to the Confluence Media Collective to bring Ward Churchill to speak on Memorial Weekend.
While we have a commitment to providing a forum for a wide platform of ideas and people, we had not fully vetted the speaker or the date when we offered use of our building.
Some of our congregants have close relatives and friends now serving in the armed services in Iraq and Afghanistan, and have expressed dismay about having Churchill speak during a weekend of remembrance.
Because our mission guides us toward unity with one another, we will not be using our time and space to bring a controversial and possibly divisive speaker into our community during such a poignant time.
It wasnt clear if the Confluence Media Collective, a group that publishes The Red Pill magazine and who coordinated Churchills appearance, will try to find another venue for him to speak.
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I have a real hard time grasping the concept of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation being called a church. Or of a Church even contemplating inviting that piece of excrement to speak.
[Iran Press TV] An opinion poll shows Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is heading towards an easy win against its rival Republican People's Party (CHP).
In its latest report released Wednesday, the polling company IKSara said that although the AKP's score has decreased by one percentage point in comparison to 2007, 45.5 percent of the voters still supported the ruling party, Xinhua reported.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Jack stuck the cigar in his mouth and stepped onto the gantry. Got a light, Mac? He asked.
Von Schtinken stopped short, lowering the dagger and trying to control his features. If you light that thing, Herr Armschtröng, he pointed out, his voice tense, we all die!... votes for Turkey's main opposition group CHP have increased to 30.5 percent from 20.7 percent in 2007.
The second biggest opposition faction, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), received 13.1 percent of the votes in the poll, while the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) garnered 6.4 percent of the votes. According to the report, votes below 10 percent will prevent the groups from gaining seats in the parliament.
The CHP -- with its new leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu -- is gaining strength, the report further said.
The survey covered 2,504 voters from all the 81 provinces of Turkey.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of the AKP promised in his election campaign that the new parliament's first job would be to draft a new constitution to replace the 1982 constitution, which was adopted after a military coup. Said new constitution will conveniently provide him with more power for a long, long time...
Turkey is scheduled to hold the general elections on June 12 with 50 million eligible voters voting for 15 political parties running for 550 seats in the parliament.
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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
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.
A group of vicious robbers on the loose around South Pyongan Province since 2009 has finally been caught, according to a source from the city. The members of the group were allegedly all students in their teens.
Prosecutors have rested their case at the corruption retrial of impeached Illinois Gov. 
[Iran Press TV] 
Doctors are blaming financial pressures on the NHS for an increase in the number of patients who are not being treated within the 18 weeks that the government recommends.
[An Nahar] It's raining in New York, and everyone tries to get out of the rain. Not Manny. The 56-year old Dominican, unflappable, stands on a corner with his umbrella, warning people that on Saturday, May 21, the world will end.
Recent surveys show that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has a high chance of being re-elected in 2012 as he has rated positive in performance during his tenure.
Environmentalists have filed a lawsuit against the US State Department to demand the release of documents related to a controversial US-Canada pipeline project.
