[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] Feminists in La Belle France say they have secretly inserted tracts inside children's toys from Barbie dolls to plastic guns issuing a warning that "this toy is sexist". And feminism, upper or lower case, has turned into something the dog barfedd up. Go way. And real women, please raise your daughters to be ladies and your sons to be gentlemen. It will avoid lots of mental trauma later in life.
Hundreds of French girls and boys will open Christmas presents at the foot of the tree to find an unexpected accompanying note resembling those found in Chinese "fortune cookies". Vandalism in the name of a cause is perfectly acceptable unless you're a lady or a gent. Then you don't deface other people's property nor attack their livelihood.
Except in this case, the message will neither provide instructions nor predict the future. It will read: "Warning, this toy is sexist:" And probably racist, too. And homophobic. And you believe in the concept of gender.
The operation was launched by feminist group FierEs, which said that it had inserted "around 500" such tracts into a range of toys in a dozen shops in Gay Paree. That's why they have to wrap toys in impenetrable plastic nowadays. I can still remember walking past bins of toys with no wrapping on them. They're not there anymore because people who weren't raised right stole them or defaced them. 500 'warnings'? I could do that instead of the physician's back nine. How many members does FierES have, two?
"We targeted games that are emblematic of boy-girl stererotypes," said Delphine Asian, legal representative for the feminist group, who added: "We have caused no damage or ripped any plastic. We simply slipped the message in boxes, or in books." They've merely dribbled a bit of poison into little kids minds.
Post feminist kids are gonna regard that kind of people in the same light we regard other proselytizers today. They're gonna smile politely, feel imposed upon, and get rid of them as soon as possible.
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Children will associate the word sexism with fun!
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Ima give out Ron Karenga Kwanzaa dolls - they come with electrical cords and soldering irons accessories
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"Remember this: The strongest sign of the decay of a nation is the feminization of men and the masculinization of women. It is notable that in Communist nations women are exhorted, and compelled, to do what has traditionally been men's work. American women, some of them, feel triumphant that they have broken down the ‘barricades’ between the work of the sexes. I hope they will still feel triumphant when some commissar forces a shovel or an axe into their soft hands and compels them to pound and cut forests and dig ditches. I hope they will be ‘happy’ when a husband deserts them and they must support their children and themselves alone. (After all, if a woman must be ‘free’ she shouldn’t object to men being free too, should she?) I hope they will feel 'fulfilled' when they are given no more courtesies due to their sex and no kindnesses, but are kicked aside on the subways buses by men, and jostled out of the way by men on busy sidewalks and elevators…. I hope, when they look in their mirrors, that they will be pleased to see exhausted, embittered faces, and that they will be consoled by their paychecks."
~ Taylor Caldwell in "They’re Spoiling Eve's Great Con Game," American Opinion, September 1970, page 8.
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It'll work out like all other dirty words and taboo topics - the kids will crave it.
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"Women make both the manners and the morals of a people. Neither rises higher than the gauge which women set in a community.... Where a woman has bad manners, it always has in it an element of vulgarity which is more painful than it could be in a man. The result will be a society hopelessly vulgarized...with no end but to sink in an ever deeper abyss of vulgarity."
~ Thomas Nelson Page, 1911.
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TITUSVILLE, N.J. — George Washington made his Christmas Day trip across the Delaware River — with considerably better weather than the first time.
Re-enactors playing Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware River in the 62nd re-enactment of his daring Christmas 1776 crossing of the river — the trek that turned the tide of the Revolutionary War — between Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania, and Titusville, New Jersey, on Thursday afternoon.
As opposed to the severe weather, including snow and freezing temperatures, that Washington and his troops faced in 1776, the re-enactment was done under mostly sunny skies and 50-degree temperatures.
"This is an iconic event, and for lots of people it's part of their Christmas tradition to see this happen and to honor these early Americans," Joseph Capone, executive director of the nonprofit Friends of Washington Crossing Park, told Trenton's The Times newspaper.
Hundreds of people lined both sides of the river to watch as re-enactors used four replica Durham boats like the ones Washington's troops used. The actor playing Washington, John Godzieba, boarded the final boat, and a cannon blasted as he reached the other side.
Godzieba's three-year term as Washington ends this year.
During the original crossing, boats ferried 2,400 soldiers, 200 horses and 18 cannons across the river. Washington's troops marched 8 miles downriver before battling Hessian mercenaries in the streets of Trenton.
Thirty Hessians were killed, and two Continental soldiers froze to death on the march, but none died in battle.
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Somewhere in the reptilian part of every good 'Murican's brain is a plan for a brutal counter attack, out of a howling snow storm on a feast day, killing the enemy while they sleep.
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The story (Washington's Crossing, David Hackett Fischer) is full of twists and turns, of contingent moments when events seemed likely to move in one direction but then swung in another; when leaders made key choices between two or more alternatives. The storm on December 25-26 delayed the crossing so long that Washington almost called off the whole operations. But the same storm masked the Americans' approach to Trenton and curtailed the normal alert patrolling of the Hessians (Fisher disposes of the old canard that the Hessians were sleeping off a Christmas drunk). A hard freeze on the night of January 2-3 made passable the road taken by the Americans from Trenton to Princeton that had been knee deep in mud the previous day. Many other contingencies large and small await the reader of this dramatic story.
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Fischer, excerpt about the painting:
"The painting is familiar to us in a general way, but when we look again its details take us by surprise. Washington's small boat is crowded with thirteen men. Their dress tells us that they are soldiers from many parts of America, and each of them has a story that is revealed by a few strokes of the artist's brush. One man wears the short tarpaulin jacked of a New England seaman; we look again and discover that he is of African descent. Another is a recent Scottish immigrant, still wearing his Balmoral bonnet. A Third is an androgynous figure in a loose red shirt, maybe a woman in man's clothing, pulling an oar.
The book is simply amazing. IMHO it reads like an action movie, but at the end I realized I had learned a ton.
[DAWN] Two Saudi women detained for nearly a month in defiance of a ban on females driving were referred on Thursday to a court established to try terrorism cases, several people close to the defendants said.
The cases of the two, Loujain al-Hathloul and Maysa al-Amoudi, were sent to the anti-terrorism court in connection to opinions they expressed in tweets and in social media, four people close to the two women told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
They did not elaborate on the specific charges or what the opinions were. Both women have spoken out online against the female driving ban.
Activists say they fear the case is intended to send a warning to others pushing for greater rights. The four people spoke on condition of anonymity because of fear of government reprisals.
The Specialized Criminal Court, to which their cases were referred, was established in the capital Riyadh to try terrorism cases but has also tried and handed long prison sentences to a number of human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... workers, peaceful dissidents, activists and critics of the government.
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Both women have spoken out online against the female driving ban.
Texting their condemnation whilst driving no doubt.
[Dhaka Tribune] Just the day after a clash between the two arch-rivals, Chhatra Dal, the student wing of the BNP, on Thursday said the Chhatra League ... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ... , the student wing of the ruling Awami League, is not a student organization but a "militant" organization.
"Through the statement of general secretary of Chhatra League, it is clear that Chhatra League is an organization of imbeciles. They not only attack opposition men with indecent language but many big shots of the Awami League have also become victims of their indecent attacks," said a Chhatra Dal blurb.
The press statement, signed by Chhatra Dal President Rajib Ahsan and General Secretary Akramul Hasan, also said: "But this time the Chhatra League general secretary's statement has passed all previous records of indecency. This proves that Chhatra League is not a student organization rather a turban organization."
Activists and supporters of arch rivals BNP and Awami League locked in a series of festivities yesterday centring on BNP Chairperson the loathesome Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... 's appearance in a Dhaka court, turning the Bakshibazar, Plassey and Chankharpool areas of the capital into battle zones.
At least 40 people on both sides, including ruling party politician Chhabi Biswas, were maimed during the festivities.
Ruling party MP Chhabi Biswas was injured during the festivities yesterday around noon. In the evening, Siddique Nazmul Alam, general secretary of the Awami League's student body, in a Facebook status threatened to beat up BNP bigwigs like "stray dogs."
"As Chhatra League has lost its courage to face the opposition on a level playing field, they are just screaming. This associate body of the Awami League remains busy in the manipulation of tenders, extortion and other misdeeds under the direct patronage of the government," the press statement said.
"If thy continue such language then turban Chhatra League will be resisted," it said.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Ruling Awami League yesterday squarely blamed BNP for Wednesday's clash at Bakshibazar saying that BNP unleashed the violence as part of its plan to foil the trial of the loathesome Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ...
BNP men created the anarchy on the instruction of its Chairperson Khaleda Zia, it alleged.
Awami League made the remarks at a presser after a party meeting.
The meeting was held at party President the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums.. 's political office at Dhanmondi to finalise programmes to be held on the "Victory of Democracy Day" on January 5 and Bangabandhu's Home Coming Day on January 10.
"BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia let loose a reign of terror at Bakshibazar and Dhaka Medical College areas with her party's armed cadres after being sure about her conviction in corruption," said Mahbub-ul Alam Hanif.
Awami League Joint General Secretary Hanif claimed that the BNP and its student wing Chhatra Dal holy warriors first launched the attacks in a bid to create a political unrest in the country.
Referring to the attack on Awami League politician Chhabi Biswas by Chhatra Dal Hanif said: "If such violence continues people too will attack the cars of BNP leaders."
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[NEWS.YAHOO] Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a new military doctrine, naming NATO expansion among key external risks, the Kremlin said on Friday, days after Ukraine made fresh steps to join the Atlantic military alliance.
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...Well, they gotta blame somebody; they sure as hell aren't going to take responsibility for their own problems.
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...Well, Libya was there just minding its own business when with some family dispute going on these outsiders butted in under the justification of 'humanitarianism'. How'd that all turn out? NATO was originally designed as a defensive pack, but recently has added other missions to its plate. If the shoe fits maybe the propagandists might use something like that to rationalize their point.
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See also GROONG > [Reuters] RUSSIA SAYS NATO [+ EU, you know - the USA] WANT TO TURN UKRAINE INTO A "FRONT-LINE OF [Russo-NATO] CONFRONTATION".
Again, even iff Darth Vlad or even the US-NATO/EU won't say it, Russia's real fear is the Hard Boyz + the expansion-happy Global Jihad = Global Nuclear? Jihad.
On a separate note, UKRAINE = "SECOND GERMANY" common to both NATO-EU + Putin's Eurasian Customs Union. RUSSIA'S TOKEN/CONCESSION TO NATO-EU IN LIEU OF A NUCLEAR-ARMED, RISING GERMANY PER SE???
* SAME > [LA Times] RUSSIA EXPANDS EURASIAN UNION [EEU aka Eurasian Customs Union] IN COMPETITION WID EUROPEAN BLOC [EU].
Russia, Vlad, + Vlad's army of Anti-Vlad Northern Siberian Cranes = Jedi-Sith Birds being good OWG Globalists???
* SAME > [Rediff] RUSSIA, CHINA - NEITHER ALLIES NOR RIVALS.
Lest we fergit, RUSSIA = "CO-AMERICA" = "AMERICA IN EURASIA"; just as CHINA = VPOTUS JOE BIDEN'S " CHINA IS A NORTH AMERICAN COUNTRY" = "AMERICA [Co-America?] IN ASIA/EAST ASIA"???
Yoohoo, CHRISTINA [Argentina] + BRAZIL + MERCUSOR BLOC [future OWG SOUTH AMER UNION], Madonna + I are a'lookin at youse for "Co-America in South America"!
Russia's government said the movie that set off the Sony hacking incident was so scandalous that North Korea's anger was "quite understandable." Foreign Ministry spokesman Aleksandr Lukashevich also said that the US failed to offer any proof to back its claims of Pyongyang's involvement in the hacking of "The Interview".
North Korea has denied a role in the hacking, but also praised it as a "righteous deed."
Lukashevich told Thursday's briefing, "The concept of the movie is so aggressive and scandalous, that the reaction of the North Korean side, and not just it, is quite understandable."
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...Actually, this could well be a sign that things are very VERY bad Back In The USSR. The people are a tough and stoic lot...but screw with the vodka and they start to give the guy in charge funny looks. Putin may be an arschloch, but he's no idiot. When the pain gets too bad, Russians drink. When they can't drink, they will start looking for a new strongman.
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Old lesson learned from the Soviet Union. Vodka was always easily available, and for a pittance.
Drunk people may start a fight with other drunk people but not with the government.
Even the Bavarian started a revolution when beer prices were hiked.
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next up? EBT cards OK for Vodka
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Peace negotiations commenced Wednesday in Kiev aimed at quelling a war between Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels, but recent moves by Ukraine and Russia cast a shadow on the prospects for a resolution emerging from the talks.
On Wednesday, Ukraine briefly cut off power to Crimea, its former territory that Russia annexed earlier this year, while Russia reportedly plans a new air base in Belarus, north of Ukraine.
[AnNahar] South Korea on Thursday ruled out the possibility that a recent string of cyber-attacks on its nuclear power operator could cause a malfunction at any of the country's 23 atomic reactors.
The designs and manuals for two reactors have been published on Twitter over the past week, along with personal information on some 10,000 workers at Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (KHNP).
Officials said Tuesday that South Korea has heightened security in the wake of the leaks, with the defence ministry's cyber warfare unit increasing its watch-level against attacks from North Korean and other hackers.
The presidential Blue House moved Thursday to allay concerns that hackers could cause a malfunction at one of the nation's nuclear plants by breaking into its system.
"The control system of nuclear reactors are separated from external networks, and hacking into the system is fundamentally impossible," the presidential office said in a statement quoted by Yonhap news agency.
KHNP has said the material released on the Gori and Wolsong nuclear power plants was not classified and would not affect safety.
The hacker has styled himself as the president of an anti-nuclear power activist group and threatened to release more information unless the government shuts down three reactors from December 25.
Investigators said Wednesday that the suspect had used multiple Internet protocol (IP) addresses based in China, though this is not always a reliable guide to the geographical location of an Internet user.
Officials have not ruled out the possible involvement of Pyongyang, which Seoul has blamed for a slew of cyber-attacks on South Korean military institutions, banks, government agencies, TV broadcasters and media websites.
But there has been no indication so far that the North was behind the release of the nuclear material.
[NYTimes] A plunge in oil prices has sent tremors through the global political and economic order, setting off an abrupt shift in fortunes that has bolstered the interests of the United States and pushed several big oil-exporting nations — particularly those hostile to the West, like Russia, Iran and Venezuela — to the brink of financial crisis.
The price drop, said Edward N. Luttwak, a longtime Pentagon adviser and author of several books on geopolitical and economic strategy, “is knocking down America’s principal opponents without us even trying.” For Iran, which is estimated to be losing $1 billion a month because of the fall, it is as if Congress had passed the much tougher sanctions that the White House lobbied against, he said.
Iran has been hit so hard that its government, looking for ways to fill a widening hole in its budget, is offering young men the option of buying their way out of an obligatory two years of military service. “We are on the eve of a major crisis,” an Iranian economist, Hossein Raghfar, told the Etemaad newspaper on Sunday. “The government needs money badly.”
“It is a big boost for the U.S. when three out of four of our active antagonists are seriously weakened, when their room for maneuver is seriously reduced,” Mr. Luttwak said, referring to Russia, Iran and Venezuela.
The only major United States antagonist not hurt by the drop in oil prices is North Korea, which imports all of its petroleum.
Even some of the indirect consequences of the price slump, like last week’s break in the half-century diplomatic logjam between Washington and Havana, have generally worked in the United States’ favor. Fearful that Venezuela, its main benefactor, might cut off supplies of cash and cheap oil, Cuba sealed a historic deal that has in turn lifted a shadow over the United States’ standing in much of Latin America.
Hard-hit anti-American oil producers have blamed foreign machinations for their woes, suggesting that Washington, in cahoots with Saudi Arabia, has deliberately driven down prices.
This view is particularly strong in Russia, where former K.G.B. agents close to Mr. Putin have long believed that Washington engineered the collapse of the Soviet Union by getting Saudi Arabia to increase oil output, driving down prices and thus starving Moscow of revenue.
China became the world’s largest importer of oil in 2013, surpassing the United States, and so stands to benefit from plummeting prices. Bank of America Merrill Lynch estimated last month that every 10 percent decline in the price of oil could increase China’s economic growth by 0.15 percent. Seems too good to be true. I remember the fall of 2008 and early 2009. A similar sudden and massive drop in oil prices didn't last long.
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This view is particularly strong in Russia, where former K.G.B. agents close to Mr. Putin have long believed that Washington engineered the collapse of the Soviet Union by getting Saudi Arabia to increase oil output, driving down prices and thus starving Moscow of revenue.
Therein lies the problem with a 'one trick pony' portfolio. Good luck with those stacking dolls.
That price rise was driven by pure market speculation. When the financial institutions could no longer back the paper in the game (cause of the imploding mortgage market), the whole oil thing imploded as well. The balloon could have been stopped far earlier in its tracks if the 'regulating agencies' had call margin far sooner. However those agencies have long since been 'captured' and compromised by the industry they're suppose to be watching.
Oil drilling activity in Texas is falling dramatically, as the steep decline in crude prices since the summer takes hold, state regulators reported Tuesday.
The Texas Railroad Commission issued 1,353 permits for oil drilling last month, 50 percent less than it did the previous month. And in the months ahead, that will likely translate to rigs being shut down and layoffs across oil fields in West and South Texas.
“There’s more to come in the months ahead,” said Pavel Molchanov, an energy analyst with Raymond James. “This isn’t pleasant, but this is how the market rebalances itself.”
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We've released the rig that's been working for us in Louisiana. About $80 per barrel is needed to justify spending millions on the kind of well we can drill in the field I work. Drilling costs will come down as demand for rigs and services falls. Oil supply will decline as new wells are not drilled. Then prices for oil will rise. And we'll drill again. Until/unless costs rise and prices drop again. So rar we haven't started layoffs, but we've cut hiring, and layoffs next summer would not surprise me if prices look like they'll stay low for a significant time.
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Yeah, waiting to see how that hits us out here in the gulf. Off shore rigs cost so much frigging more to operate than land rigs, this may shut down exploration/production wells out here for a while.
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Of course none of this is new to those who smell the sulphur, but a lot of Drillers, roustabouts, pumpers, gaugers and pipeliners made a living and put kids through school when oil was less than $4.00 per barrel. Investors and speculators made money too, and some went bust. The embargo of the early 1970's changed everything and created a 'new normal' in crude oil production and pricing. American ingenuity and technology eventually caught up. Geologic and drilling technologies exist today that no one could have dreamed of back in the 1950-70's. Supply and demand will dictate the price, it always has. I'm optimistic about oil and gas.
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New/planned wells are being affected, however according to railroad stats, existing wells are still pumping as car loadings haven't dropped significantly. This has impacted capital markets for all the various planned pipelines, so CBR (Crude By Rail) is going to be with us for a long time.
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Foolish strategic move. We should push the industry to continue to grow in the US. The Soddies cant hold them this low for long. They are doing it to get exactly this outcome from the US. Never let an addict grow his own. Even the soddies get it.
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The Soddies probably can keep it going. It's the other countries that are "fracked."
I'd like to see the US put a tariff on all imported oil. It would keep domestic industry going and be a source of revenue for the deficit.
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We need to get independent of the ME oil ticks. We have had scary relations with them with respect to our oil supply. Read "The Oil Kings" if you are game for a factual horror story. I see us using coal and nuclear for electricity, some natural gas. Get dual fuel diesel/LNG for long haul trucks and railroads. Save oil for petrochemicals and gasoline.
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AP: LNG/CNG is being used in more OTR rigs; especially the daily delivery types with fixed routes; lack of infrastructure is preventing the long haul use to spread. And the Federal Railroad Admin hasn't (or won't) define requirements for the LNG/CNG tank car style tenders needed to supply the road locomotives. BNSF and UP have done studies and the results are promising; but until the tender issue is solved, it isn't going to happen. UP is currently using LNG in yard switchers in the LA area; the servicing trucks can top them off readily from the access roads.
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This is one place where I might deviate from my usual libertarian economic viewpoint, and say the US should emplace tariffs to maintain $75-80 per barrel, as an incentive for maintaining domestic production -- as a matter of strategic importance. Put the tariff money into an account like most states have, that are "rainy day" money. This would be used only to expand, fill and maintain the strategic petroleum reserve.
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Old Spook, that might be an idea but of course the government would not use the windfall wisely, as usual
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+1 on the tariffs, except I think they should be reserved for advanced energy production - supercapacitors, black solar cells, innovative fusion research, development of thorium fission and other small reactors, magneto-hydrodynamics, and so forth. Putting it in the general fund just pisses it away.
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New/planned wells are being affected, however according to railroad stats, existing wells are still pumping as car loadings haven't dropped significantly. This has impacted capital markets for all the various planned pipelines, so CBR (Crude By Rail) is going to be with us for a long time.
Nothing is more penny wise and pound foolish than Crude By Rail, but the Obamagarches love it, SO....
[IsraelTimes] Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev endorsed a draft Russia-Jordan agreement on the construction and operation of a nuclear plant in Jordan, the official website of the Kremlin said on Thursday.
Jordan announced a tender for the construction of its first nuclear-powered electricity plant in January 2011. In October 2013, Russia?s Rosatom was named as a contender of choice for the construction of a nuclear plant of two energy units with a capacity of 1,000 megawatts each.
One unit is expected to be operational by 2024, and the second one by 2026.
The state-owned company will form a joint venture with the Jordanian government, in which the Russian company will have 49.9 percent of the shares and Jordan will own 50.1%. The agreement will be financed by investments from both parties.
According to the Russian news agency ITAR/TASS the agreement was drafted with ?due account of Russia?s international liabilities and in line with Russia laws.? Thus, the draft provides that nuclear fuel supplied by Russian-authorized organizations to the reactor when completed will be shipped back to Russia after use.
According to the draft approved by Medvedev Thursday, Jordan must commit not to use nuclear materials, equipment and technologies in the manufacture of nuclear weapons or other bombs or for any purpose other than the generation of electricity.
Medvedev vested Rosatom and the Russian Foreign Ministry with the authority to conduct talks with Jordan and sign the agreement.
The statement published on the Russian government?s website said the implementation of the Jordan-Rosatom agreement will positively affect the development of Russia?s nuclear energy sector and will ensure long-term contracts to Russian companies.
[Ynet] An Israeli delegation arrived in Cairo on Thursday as part of a search of the remains of 22 Israeli soldiers whose place of burial is unknown, Paleostinian news agency Ma'an reported.
The soldiers fell in the Yom Kippur War, War of Attrition and the Six-Day War.
According to the report, this is the first such visit since the revolution in Egypt.
So this kind of thing had been permitted in the past? What was the quid pro quo to permit it this time?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] Feminists in 
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as 
Russia's government said the movie that set off the Sony hacking incident was so scandalous that North Korea's anger was "quite understandable." Foreign Ministry spokesman Aleksandr Lukashevich also said that the US failed to offer any proof to back its claims of Pyongyang's involvement in the hacking of "The Interview".
North Korea
Oil drilling activity in Texas is falling dramatically, as the steep decline in crude prices since the summer takes hold, state regulators reported Tuesday.
