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The universities and colleges should have turned all of these types of actions over to the local DA (see-Duke) to process rather than engage in extrajudicial processes in house. They've set themselves up for tort lawyers who hungrily look at all that endowment money already being looted by various levels of administrators.
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It's conspiracy, I tell ya! A disease made to kill off the population of fly-over country! Genetically engineered at Berkley and Columbia, funded by the New York Times.
[takes off tin foil hat] But MERS is a hundred times more common.
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Treatment not covered under Obamacare due to entomological, vector-borne professional courtesy.
[AlAhram] In a bid to up production of natural gas to meet shortfalls in supply, some 17 new wells will be opened, with drilling starting September
Something new for the jihadis to blow up. But perhaps Al Sisi will win his election, and with an iron hand suppress the violence for another generation.
Egypt's Ministry of Petroleum plans to add 17 new natural gas wells to its production grid in an attempt to increase the daily production of gas by nearly one billion cubic feet, reported the state-owned Al-Ahram news website Sunday.
According to Sherif Ismail, minister of petroleum, drilling the wells will start in September and is expected to cost $2.4 billion.
Earlier this week, Ismail told Rooters that two new natural gas fields -- different from the aforementioned -- will start production in June and August to support the national gas grid.
The ministry forecasts total natural gas production to increase 1.7 percent to reach 5.4 billion cubic feet per day in the coming fiscal year 2014/15 compared to the current fiscal year, while consumption is projected to increase 12.5 percent to amount to 5.57 billion cubic feet per day in the same period.
Egypt has suffered an energy crisis in the past three years, most evident in frequent electricity blackouts. Several government officials have attributed the power cuts to a growing fuel subsidies bill and declining gas production.
The Cabinet's Information and Decision Support Centre (IDSC) showed in its latest reports that Egypt's production of natural gas fell by more than 13 percent in March 2014 to 3.2 million tons compared to the same period a year earlier, while local consumption of natural gas fell 3.6 percent in the same period to reach 3.1 million tons.
Natural gas exports dropped 76 percent annually to record $46 million in March, IDSC added
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Russia just signed a 30 year major gas deal with China. Building blocks to world power shift to this part of the world. Putin will secure bonds with Latin America and Africa also. I see even Israel will want to work with them. India could go this way also in time(space program). I don't see China pulling this off but Russia's Putin, yes. No war, no problems.
[AnNahar] Sudanese authorities have refused to register a political party based on the ideas of a peaceful Moslem activist who was hanged for apostasy, his daughter said on Sunday.
Asma Mahmoud Muhammad Taha had sought official permission to revive the Republican Party of Mahmoud Muhammad Taha, who was hanged on January 18, 1985 under the regime of former president Jaafar Nimeiri.
She said the Political Parties Affairs Council gave the party preliminary approval but then reversed its decision after hardline Islamists objected arguing that "these people are apostates."
The ruling came despite the Islamist government's talk of greater freedom for political parties in Sudan.
Mohammed Adam Ismail, secretary general of the Council, said the denial was based "on pure legal grounds", although some people had voiced objection to the Republicans.
"They didn't meet all the requirements," Ismail told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Although the Republicans lack official sanction, Asma Mahmoud said they are carrying out their activities and have taken their case to the country's top Constitutional Court.
"We are going to have this right, no matter what," she said.
Before he was hanged, Taha had criticized Nimeiri's imposition of Islamic sharia law which included amputations and other harsh punishments.
Taha said the poor were being unfairly targeted.
In 1986, following Nimeiri's overthrow, Sudan's top court annulled the entire case against Taha.
His message of a tolerant Islam and equality for all Sudanese has survived among a devoted and intellectual group of followers, led by his daughter.
Taha was the last person to be hanged for "apostasy" in Sudan, she said, calling "very unusual" the death sentence passed last Thursday against a Christian woman convicted of the same crime.
A judge in the Khartoum area sentenced Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, 27, to hang after she refused to recant.
The sentence came under sharia that outlaws conversions of faith on pain of death, and was accompanied by a penalty of 100 lashes for "adultery."
Britannia described the sentence as "barbaric."
Rights activists said Ishag is pregnant and married to a Christian. She was raised a Christian by her mother after her Moslem father left the family, the activists said.
Asma Mahmoud said Ishag's case points to the validity of her father's ideas.
"We cannot just drag the laws from the seventh century and apply them in the 20th and 21st centuries," she said.
The Citizen newspaper, in an editorial, said members of Ishag's family filed the court case "for other hidden purposes."
One of her lawyers said the sentence would be appealed.
Legal experts said the woman would be allowed to give birth and nurse her baby for two years before any death sentence is carried out.
[AnNahar] Morocco has placed in durance vile ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... four Europeans of Moroccan origin wanted in Belgium and the Netherlands in connection with armed attacks, attempted murders and jewelry thefts, state media reported.
It seems the rulers of Morocco don't hold with the idea that unbelievers may not sit in judgement over members of the Master Religion...
The men were arrested by security forces acting on international arrest warrants issued by Brussels and The Hague, the state news agency MAP said on Saturday, quoting the interior ministry.
No date for the arrests was given.
The ministry said the four were wanted in connection with attempted murder, armed robbery, jewelry theft and helping a detainee flee from a Belgian hospital.
Officials in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... are raising alarm that the kingdom is not doing enough to prevent Mecca from becoming a route for exporting an often deadly respiratory virus as millions of Mohammedans from around the world converge on the city to perform pilgrimage at Islam's holiest site.
The calls have taken on greater urgency as Saudi Arabia struggles to contain a surge in infections from the Middle East respiratory syndrome, or MERS. The country has seen the most infections worldwide by far -- more than 500 since 2012 -- and in past weeks the numbers have accelerated with several deaths reported nearly every day and new infections often numbering in the double digits.
So far Mecca, near the western Red Sea coast, has seen fewer cases than other parts of Saudi Arabia. Since the coronavirus was first discovered in 2012, there have been two annual hajj pilgrimages to the city, and neither saw instances of pilgrims being infected. Most of the cases that have appeared outside Saudi Arabia, including two in the United States, have been from foreigners returning home from work in the kingdom or from Saudis traveling abroad. But as the number of cases rises in the kingdom, the concern is that there are not enough precautions being taken in Mecca, an obvious potential hotspot for spreading the disease.
Another Yahoo article points out the risk that foreign medical personnel will be a vector for spreading the disease around the world as they travel home, especially given the number of them who have caught MERS from patients. This completely ignores the fun to be had during the Haj, but that would be projection rather than proper news.
Epoch Times, but they have apparent photos they've taken from the net
Troops, tanks, trucks, artillery, and armored personnel carriers of China's military were seen heading to the Vietnamese border on May 16 and 17, according to photographs taken by by residents near the border.
Chinese netizens have been posting photographs of the large movement of the People's Liberation Army, many of them showing Chinese troops in full combat gear heading to the local train station in Chongzuo, along with military vehicles.
One netizen said the Chinese military was taking the train from the Chongzuo station to Pingxiang City, which shares a 60-mile border with Vietnam. The netizen said that the Huu Nghi Border Gate to Vietnam is also now closed.
One of the photos, taken from inside a passenger train, shows the Chinese military preparing artillery for transport on a train track. Others show Chinese troops and military vehicles traveling along dirt roads.
Another photograph shows troops walking under the red-colored entrance to the Longzhou International Building Materials Market, on Provincial Road in the city of Chongzuo.
A reverse image search of each of the photographs using Google indicated that the photographs had appeared on the Internet only recently. Most were indexed by Google on Saturday.
Collectively, the images and eyewitness reports from the ground show what Taiwanese media are calling an "endless stream" of Chinese troops.
One netizen, with the username Zhiyuan0703, echoed a common sentiment on the Chinese social media site, "Conflict between China and Vietnam is imminent."
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Is there gonna be the same outrage over this as there was for Crimea? We gonna slap a few sanctions on the Chicoms?
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Back in 1979, the PLA (about 200,00 troops and 200 tanks) got their nose blooded. Do they really want another round? I wonder what help, if any, Modi will send. Last November, India offered Vietnam a $100 million line of credit to buy military equipment.
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China can see the lack of leadership in the world that would keep their expansion ideas in check. They, like the Russians, are taking advantage of the situation. But I'm sure our fearless leader can take a stern selfie on the golf course and tweet it to the world to fix this. Both China and Russia see the US and any other old world power as not have any strength for the next ten years, if we ever get it back. They are taking advantage of the situation, the world will be an interesting place in ten years...
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As Squinty said, the Chinese got hurt last time. While they are better armed this time around, they are not better trained and led. If they do push into Vietnam, I predict a successful Chinese surge with high casualties that grounds down after a couple days and then a slug match which the Chinese will lose.
This would also be a great opportunity for a warming relationship with Vietnam and the US if the US provided more advanced anti-air weapons and anti-tank weapons.
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Opinion seems to be that China wants a fight. Their plan is to take their neighbors down one by one and force them to cede control over their part of the south china sea. First up, Vietnam.
Japan would be wise to not wait for it to be their turn, say in 2014.
"The Vietnamese base that would annoy the Chinese most is the one on an islet on South Johnson Reef just seven kilometres north of where the Chinese are now purportedly building an airstrip. The scale of the operation, including a large dredge, suggests thats what its purpose is. There are other airfields in the Spratlys -- Taiwan has one on Taiping Island and the Philippines one on Thitu Island. China was late to this part of the South China Sea and, with no natural islands left, has to dredge up all the coral needed to make its artificial island. "
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...proper environmental statements filed, of course. [I'm sure the usual suspects could find at least a hundred new and unique species of coral there needing vital protection if this was an American dredging]
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Squinty: a thousand or so nuclear weapons, a surplus rebuilt originally-Russian aircraft carrier, and a national leader that likes winning also helps.
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Squinty: a thousand or so nuclear weapons, a surplus rebuilt originally-Russian aircraft carrier, and a national leader that likes winning also helps.
China wants these various SCS + ECS territorial disputes settled quickly, permanently, + in its favor.
China already has more than enough PLAN + CG armed assets in the area to crush any Viet Naval + CG opposition.
The above being said, I don't believe China + PLA need to completely mil conquer Vietnam - IMO it just needs to send in PLAA ground forces circa 100-kms inside the Sino-Viet border while simul letting LR PLAAF airpower destroy major Viet economic + infrastructure targets, thus hurting Vietnam's budding economy.
AS VIETNAM = PHIL = JAPAN, ETAL. EAST ASIA STATES, CHINA WANTS THESE IN ITS CAMP, NOT THE US', CHINA'S PRIMARY FOCII IS ERGO PRESSURING VIETNAM TO PERMANENTLY GIVE UP MOST OR ALL CLAIMS TO THE SCS.
Besides, IMO again China is eyeing the Northern PHIL, not just its well-dev Air-Sea ports but also locales where it can base LR DF-21 + TLCMS to challenge intervening USN Carrier BGS.
Some commentators link this to an attempt by North Korea to contrast its efforts against South Koreas Sewol Ferry Disaster, while others claimed that North Korea couldnt hide the accident from foreigners, and needed to seize the media initiative. Of course, the fact that the accident happened on May 13 (5 days earlier), and is only known to global media through North Koreas announcement, calls into question the latter claim.
Instead, people are missing out on broad shifts in North Korean propaganda over the last 3 years. The propaganda narrative, and this specific Phyongchon-gate article, captures fairly dramatic shifts in the context of State-Grassroots relations in the country. Accidents and mistakes do happen in North Korea, as in any other country, but have traditionally been glossed over in domestic media. In the past, problems highlighted in public media were attributed to foreign causes (e.g. saboteurs, spies and sanctions) or natural disasters (e.g. droughts). Phyongchon-gate reflects a new propaganda style, where the government acknowledges a mistake, have senior-level officials or party cadres assume responsibility, and highlight corrective measures.
This shift started in 2012, when North Korea publicly admitted that its attempted rocket launch in April did not succeed. North Korea mentioned at that time that its scientists were assessing what caused the failure. Kim Jong Un followed up on this narrative when he castigated officials for failing to properly maintain Mangyongdae funfair in May that year, pointing to the funfairs dilapidated state, even pulling weeds from the ground himself. Last month, Kim Jong Un during a military exercise, severely criticized the [artillery] sub-unit for failing to make good combat preparations. It is the public nature of such criticism and the blame attributed to government officials that should draw our attention.
Phyongchon-gate and similar stories reflect a government trying to portray itself as accountable and responsive to its grassroots. The top leadership acknowledges public concerns, and shows that it is standing with the grassroots by holding middle- or senior-level management responsible. This message is not just reactive. It is also proactive. Economic development is an area where the leadership is assuming responsibility for progress, by saying it is possible despite sanctions. In the past, sanctions were blamed for a stalled economy. This style also appears to have filtered down to the grassroots. Younger participants in Choson Exchange's workshops ask us to be more blunt with our advice on economic or business issues, even though they might reject or argue with our criticisms.
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Perhaps the kid isn't a complete psychopath after all, but learnt something useful about the fragility of the position of kings from his Swiss schooling.
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Sonu Hyong Chol said that he was chiefly to blame for the accident as he was in charge of the construction. He expressed heart-felt consolation and sympathy to the victims and the bereaved families and said he was making an apology, his head bent, to other Pyongyang citizens who were greatly shocked by the recent accident.
His head bent, ready for the headman's axe.
(Please don't kill me.)
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Tesla Motors, an electric car maker backed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), posted a $49.8 million loss in the first quarter of 2014. This loss compared to a profit of $11.2 million in the same period a year earlier despite selling more cars. Last year's profit was not due to electric car sales, but to sales of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, zero-emission-vehicle environmental credits to other auto manufacturers. Those lucrative credits have declined and tight battery supply has made it harder to produce the carmaker's electric vehicles.
Last year, Tesla Motors paid back its $465 million loan to the Department of Energy, nine years before its full loan was due. Tesla was awarded the loan, requiring matching private capital obtained through public offerings, in 2010 as part of the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing program. This program was signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2008, but the awards were made by the B.O. regime. While other electric vehicle and battery companies under this program went bankrupt, Tesla was able to survive. One major reason is that Tesla was able to amass environmental credits from Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, valued at $250 million for 2013.
Tesla has been able to garner millions from Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,'s zero emission vehicle standard. Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,'s Air Resources Board has mandated that zero emission vehicles (cars with zero emissions of tailpipe pollutants) comprise 15 percent of new-car sales by 2025. Those vehicles comprise less than 1 percent of new car sales in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, today. Companies that exceed Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,'s milestones towards its zero emission vehicle goal receive credits that are worth cash when sold to auto manufacturers that do not meet the state's requirements. Essentially, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, has mandated the sale of electric cars, and enforces the mandate by requiring that companies that do not sell enough electric cars pay into a fund that subsidizes those companies that do.
During the first quarter of 2013, Tesla received about $68 million (12 percent of revenue) from the sale of zero vehicle emission credits. Note that without the sale of these credits, the company would have lost over $50 million during the first quarter of 2013. According to a Wall Street analyst, Tesla earned as much as $250 million in 2013 on their sale.
Tesla Motors, the 'cadillac' of full electric vehicles, are being purchased by extremely wealthy individuals aided by lucrative subsidies and incentives from federal and state taxpayers and those who choose to buy more affordable vehicles. In particular, the credits from the Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, zero-emission vehicle program have enabled Tesla to reap huge revenues and to repay its DOE loan. But, the company still has a long way to go to make it in today's vehicle markets where few people can afford Teslas.
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Tesla Motors, an electric car maker backed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), posted a $49.8 million loss in the first quarter of 2014
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Tesla is still working on its Gigafactory project a plan to build a giant battery cell factory in the United States that is expected to begin operation in 2017.
BOONDOGLE, watch out.
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Tesla has been able to garner millions from Californias zero emission vehicle standard.
In othr wors, made mony,faked a shortage (Taxes, probably), and laughed all the way to the bank.
at $100 grand a car, they a'int losing shit.
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Tesla, SpaceX, and SolarCity are Musk's sister companies.
Musk wants to go to Mars. There is not enough oxygen to run a combustion engine on Mars so he needs Tesla and the battery companies to perfect his electric transports and learn mass production skills.
Musk needs SolarCity to perfect his solar power and distribution schemes for Mars and Space.
Musk still has billions in liquid assets so $50 million is not a major problem. That said a bit of the problem is due to states like Texas insisting new cars must be sold from dealerships so forbidding the sale of his cars because Musk does not DO DEALERSHIPS. He thinks dealerships are just rip offs of the consumer.
You have to look at it from Musk's perspective. If you really really wanted to do something too expensive for even nations to consider... you play every angle you can to run your game plan.
Caliphornia is more than happy enough to dance to Electric Cars and Solar City. To be honest a desert full of dead batteries likely doesn't bother the soul of Caliphornia, in most areas of the state the winter is not cold enough for the heater to drain the car's batteries and Solar City electric charging stations are so cute when you are stoned.
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This is why I have been posting on the US/Russia Space Tiff.
No SpaceStation and Musk doesn't perfect manned flight on his critical timeline.
Musk NEEDS TO GET TO MARS!
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Jerkface Killa - Just think of California with their biggest ego elites gulping cold air on Mars and kicking dead Solar City power units when it's 100 below.
Doesn't it warm the cockles of your heart?
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BTW - Based on the air pollution Chinese cities had this winter I predict them begging at TESLA's doorstep in a few years. The US doesn't need TESLA as natural gas powers cars and trucks would be more efficient and cleaner for us. China doesn't have the natural gas and they will need to get the Smog out. Tesla will be their best choice.
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Just think of California with their biggest ego elites gulping cold air on Mars and kicking dead Solar City power units when it's 100 below.
Doesn't it warm the cockles of your heart?
As an incentive, the Shanghai government is providing Model S drivers in the city with free license plates, allowing them to avoid the public auction price of $10,000 to $15,000 per plate..
Yes, it warms my cock-les...as long as Elon spends his own money doing it. Manned mission to Mars = $1 trillion at a bare minimum. So he better start saving...
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Jerkface Killa - it looks like his current plans for that involve monster rockets that can carry 100 astronauts at a time to Mars. Fuel: liquid Natural Gas and LOX. Both of which he thinks he can make on Mars for the return trip (sans astro-colonists )
Motor will be clusters of Raptors. Google Raptor and SpaceX
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Shipman - One of my hobbies is watching SpaceX advance and retreat. Any group led by a man whose "Jones" is requiring him to do what he does and not the bank balance or market has got to operate in "interesting" space. Or maybe I've just been married too long to a lady who specialized in real nutcases so the attraction is there to figure the guy's angles out.
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Jerkface Killa - He's good at doing it cheaper than even the ChiComs. I would guess his $ figure for multiple colonization missions is more in the $100 billion range.
That's one reason "Reusable" is so important to him.
[Daily Caller] Why should they? Their volume and margins are high enough to absorb the impact. Consumers can easily pick up the price increase balance. Besides, they've already been BOUGHT! They're 'plank holders' in the gov't EBT [free cheese] team. Can't bite the gov't hand that feeds you.
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Walmart top executives have gone over to kowtowing to the Liberals. When the regime told them to stop selling guns in the sports department, they stopped selling guns.
Also, Walmart has no real competition on their level. They wiped out much of their local competition years ago. So keep some costs down is not an issue of being competitive. Even though some competition is springing up such as Aldi Food Stores being an effective competitor to Walmarts food department.
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What local competition there is can't afford the minimum wage marginal increase. MW becomes a way to keep out competition. BTW - McDonald's hires 7,000 touch-screen cashiers. Keep pushing MW and the geniuses out there start to find more substitutes for labor.
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Why should Walmart care as long as all their competition has to pay the same wages? Walmart can follow whatever their surviving competiton does to compensate, too.
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Raise wages, then raise prices. Nothing gets accomplished except the Goverment gets a more tax revenue on the higher percentage of tax on the higher wage. Billions of dollars across the 50 states.
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#5 Why should Walmart care as long as all their competition has to pay the same wages?
What gorb said. Plus, if they oppose it (on totally rational grounds), they look like dicks and nobody wants to be the target of the next Two Minute Hate.
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..they've already been the target of the usual Two Minutes of Hate for years as the union minions show up at public zoning hearings and business applications. Anytime a new store is proposed, usually near any urban area, they bus the pig squads in to disrupt and slander without consequences.
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part of the deal for their employees to get free health care. They get a pay raise and no longer get a GIVERnment subsidy. WALMART saves on healthcare, GIVERnment saves on subsidy (I wish) and the employee continues to run on the treadmill of life.
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#8 ..they've already been the target of the usual Two Minutes of Hate for years as the union minions show up at public zoning hearings and business applications.
Very true. However, it is one thing to picketed by the usual gang of wreckers, and quite another to be called out on national tv by POTUS himself (cue Hail to the Chief)
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The headline could have stopped after the first two words.
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NATO - actually a acronym from a quaint old celtic phrase that roughly translates as - keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down while we spend our resources on bread and games.
[Ynet] Technological and Logistics Directorate's refurbishment factory helps military save during budget crisis by renovating US-made M-16s, Humvees.
The IDF's Technological and Logistics Directorate (known as Atal in Israel) is expected to wrap up a special project soon -- refurbishing 150,000 M-16 rifles. The military is also in the process of accepting delivery on 2,000 Humvee military jeeps purchased from the United States.
According to Atal's plan, some 1,600 of the US-made SUVs -- deemed as surplus by the US after the end of its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -- will be refurbished and the rest disassembled for parts.
"(The vehicles) will replace outdated reconnaissance vehicles like the M462 Abir and the old American Jeep (M151)," Lieut. Col. Amir Shantel, the commander of the factory, told Ynet.
"We'll change the headlights, give them a fresh coat of paint, we will fix them up and add designated equipment: Humvees armed with Spike anti-tank missiles, Humvees for detecting and indentifying unconventional explosives, and others."
By the end of the year, the Atal factory is expected to complete the assault-rifle refurbishing project, which began back in 2001. The idea behind the 13-year-long project was to provide combat soldiers a lighter, shorter, and more convenient rifle without purchasing the newer, shorter version valued at 4,000 shekels.
Atal's refurbishment project only cost half that amount; at maximum productivity the factory completed 22,000 rifles an hour -- with each M-16 requiring three hours of work.
The iconic American rifle was first drafted into the IDF in the early 1970s, when the US had large surpluses after the Vietnam War. The M-16 eventually replaced the Israeli-made Galil, which was considered cumbersome and unreliable.
Homefront Command units and many other combat units are still equipped with a variety of M-16 versions. In the future, the infamous American rifle will be replaced with the Israeli Tavor, which has already seen action with Givati, Golani, and Nahal Brigades.
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After Iraq and Afghanistan those HumVees have got to be pretty tired. Esp. if they were retrofitted with more armor in the field.
Might take more than lights and paint.
[AnNahar] Tensions were running high Sunday in the northern Metn area of Bourj Hammoud, in the wake of a clash that erupted Saturday between residents and a number of Kurd young men.
"Residents staged a sit-in outside the Bourj Hammoud Municipality, demanding that security be imposed in the area," LBCI television reported.
They also called for "protecting them from the Kurds," saying they must be kicked out of their houses.
Another sit-in was held outside the water firm in Bourj Hammoud amid the deployment of army troops and Internal Security Forces members.
According to the Internal Security Forces' Traffic Management Center, the road was blocked near the Saint Joseph Church during the protests.
In the evening, the ISF issued a statement saying "the Bourj Hammoud department tossed in the slammer Book 'im, Mahmoud! overnight 5 Syrians in connection with the clash," noting that "investigations are underway under the supervision of the judiciary."
Later, state-run National News Agency said security forces restored calm on Bourj Hammoud's streets after staging patrols and arresting a number of people suspected of "involvement in Saturday's clash and in creating new tensions on Sunday."
The agency said the area had witnessed a commotion "after some residents noticed that a number of Kurds were carrying knives."
A verbal dispute had erupted into a major brawl on Saturday. According to witnesses, sharp objects were used in the fight.
A video showing a man hurling a big gas cylinder at a crowd from the second floor of a building has gone viral on social media.
The man who was hit by the cylinder, Elias Kalash, is reportedly lying in hospital in a critical condition.
Fistfights involving foreign workers are frequent in Bourj Hammoud, a predominantly Armenian Lebanese neighborhood.
That kind of thing will only get worse as populations move around in response to the Arab Spring troubles. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are ranging wide.
[Yid with Lid] A new study commissioned by the Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) finds that many consumers in ObamaCares insurance exchanges will end up paying more than twice as much in out-of-pocket drug costs. Milliman Client report.
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The good news is you'll save on an average of $2500. per year on premiums.You'll also be able to keep you doctor, and your insurance provider if you like them.
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Probably most people on one of the plans via the exchanges are getting big subsidies (the admin probably knows but isn't saying).
My massage therapist still can't afford the cheapest plan with a heavy subsidy -- with subsidy the premium plus deductible equals a third of her pre-tax income.
[Victory Girls] The federal government has decided that your cancer diagnosis should not be called cancer. Why? Well, you see, you might want it treated, you may want to be proactive and have it removed. You may want to have a second opinion, have more tests and so on, and the Feds just don't want you to do that. It is costly. You may even want to see a nutritionist to change your diet, join a gym, start an exercise routine and get healthy. A bunch of bother all for naught. All of these decisions are being taken away from you. Not by your doctor -- their hands are being tied more and more every day by the red tape of Obamacare. These decisions are made by the federal government.
They have no idea if skin cancer runs in your family, if your grandmother and her sister had breast cancer, or if prostate or colon cancer has hit every male in your family between the age of 45 and 50. But there they are, sitting in that exam room with you and your doctor, who has your test results right there on the computer screen and she or he is telling you what you thought might be cancer is actually something called 'IDLE' -Indolent Lesions of Epithelial Origin. The National Cancer Institute proposed this change in a paper written 29 July 2013, and mind you, they are the main government agency for cancer research. In other words, they will say what the government wants them to say.
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We'll keep Jones busy for the next five years with IRS audits. NEXT please.
Xavier May 15, 2014 at 7:19 am
Mr. Jones, were trying to correlate disease with lifestyle behaviors. Do you belong to any political organizations? Tea Party, yes I have heard of them. Well, I have some very good news for you you dont need any treatment at all.
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The federal government has decided that your cancer diagnosis should not be called cancer. Why? Well, you see, you might want it treated, you may want to be proactive and have it removed.
"Congratulations! Some of your cells have..... evolved"
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Some of your cells have..... evolved"
As long as the little sumbitches don't start voting Democratic....
- They exhibit run away growth that is unchecked
- They invade and destroy normal cells around them
- They cause all sorts of unexpected consequences (Paraneoplastic syndrome)
- they wind up causing vast sums to be spent undoing the damage they cause
I'd say they are classic representatives of the current Hope and Change crew..
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...cause hard drinking and whoring are no longer acceptable behavior and we're starting to get some negative feedback on plying lots of psychotropic drugs on them as an alternative.
This is the second high level editor canned in 20 months for plagiarism. Fareed Zakaria was sent packing in August, 2012 by CNN for plagiarism.
Miss Marie-Louise Gumuchian has been in the news business for almost 10 years: Here is her profile from Reuters.
In an editor's note quietly posted Friday morning, CNN announced that Marie-Louise Gumuchian, a former CNN News editor, who mostly covered international affairs, plagiarized at least 50 published stories.
Apparently she was caught after an internal editing process caught an instance of plagiarism before the story was published. This led to an internal investigation that uncovered at least 50 other instances and to Gumuchian's termination:
CNN has discovered multiple instances of plagiarism by Marie-Louise Gumuchian, a former CNN news editor. She wrote frequently about international news, writing and reporting about Africa, Europe, and the Middle East from our London bureau.
An unpublished story flagged last week during our editing process led to an internal investigation that uncovered other examples in about 50 published stories, and our investigation is ongoing.
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Got to do this nowadays. All the great plots have been written.
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Seems amazing to me that she could get past one article. I understand that software exists that allow the education field to identify students who do this kind of thing almost instantly.
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I thought it might be common practice. (?) When I look at the mainstream media, more or less the same stories with similar slants appear worldwide on the same day. Hence I check out sites like Rantburg to read news not otherwise mentioned through other outlets. Being supposedly credible CNN et al might have to appear to react to the plagiarism in an honorable way, using buzz words such as "internal audit". Organizational heads often resign or are dismissed during some type of catastrophic bungling as a form of scapegoating. This begs the question, has there been pieces released by CNN contrary to company line? I note that The Times replaced it's editor last week also, so maybe there's some type of political shift going on.
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Cutting staff and you wonder why those that remain do the old 'cut and paste'. If you don't have agents out there in the field, where do you suppose the guys back in the office are getting their fill for the columns or air time?
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so verbatim rehashing Democrat Talking Points should also be called plagiarism, except we'd have almost no reporters left
Posted by: Frank G ||
05/19/2014 16:01 Comments ||
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Look at it from the reporter's point of view. You have to print/air a story everyday. How much "investigative" journalism are you actually going to do?
You have sources who feed you information that become grist for a story. You might call up someone you know from the opposition to "fact check" and to present a "balanced" view but you do not want to antagonize your original source because you will need a story tomorrow. They can always pick a different reporter who is more willing to go with administration talking points.
Perhaps that is what happened here and Fareed ran out of sources willing to talk.
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Look at it from the reporter's point of view. You have to print/air a story everyday. How much "investigative" journalism are you actually going to do?
It's more a problem with the news organizations. Coming up with news reports and stories costs money. News organizations need content but don't want to spend the money on staff.
[Politico] Attorney General Eric Holder took a swipe Saturday at Chief Justice John Roberts's jurisprudence on the issue of race, arguing that forcing the government to be entirely color-blind isn't the way to heal America's racial ills. Er huh...justice should not be blind ?
Speaking at commencement exercises for historically-black Morgan State University in Baltimore, Holder alluded to high-profile controversies over racial comments by figured like rancher Clive Bundy and L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling, but said that it's a mistake to think that America's most serious racial problems stem from repugnant public statements. The attorney general argued that it's more important to end policies that perpetuate racial differences than to dwell on occasional spurts of racist rhetoric. He clearly recognizes the benefits of judicial fiat over simply ignoring the law.
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The attorney general argued that it's more important to end policies that perpetuate racial differences
So I take that to mean that Holder will start prosecuting the likes of the Black Panthers for voter intimidation and start focusing on black-on-black violence. Right?
Posted by: Black Charlie Jamble8148 ||
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The attorney general argued that it's more important to end policies that perpetuate racial differences than to dwell on occasional spurts of racist rhetoric.
Does that mean we can finally put Affirmative Action to rest?
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Segregation, racism, pitting one group against another, devisiveness, weak or no leadership, weakening the country are going to be the hallmark of this administration--that will be BHO's their legacy.
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