As someone who grew up in Kansas in the 70s and 80s, and was told, 'You better be good, or BTK is gonna get ya,' this is a happy day ...
The 59-year-old man who police say confounded them for more than 30 years as the BTK Killer has lived what to all appearances was an unexceptional life during that period, working as a city employee in the Wichita suburb of Park City and serving on several county boards.
Authorities said the suspect, Dennis Rader, was arrested without incident Friday after a traffic stop near his suburban home.
Ten homicides, maybe more. Book 'em, Danno.
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Crossing fingers and hoping for a long drive to left field.... 1968 wise.. unlikely. Still gives evidence and hope that cops don't forget.
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DNA don't lie - good catch - he'll burn in hell. Unfortunately KS doesn't have a death penalty for his time period...maybe a Dahmer repeat in prison? Sadistic bastard deserves some pain
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"48 hours mystery: Rescued from the Shadows" 10 p.m. CBS
In perhaps a first on TV ~ CBS News correspondant Peter VanSant actually buys a slave on-camera, in tonight's "48 Hours Mystery:Rescused from the Shadows". Van Sant and crew traveled to Romania, among other places, to investigate the billion dollar slave trade, which is flourishing all over the world, and was able to but a young woman within one day of arrival. Yes, buy. To keep. Of course they bought her to rescue her and ensconse her safely in a shelter for women victims of the slave trade.
According to the show, "There are more slaves now than at any other time in human history". While that claim seems exaggerated at best, or at least impossible to prove (after all, before our modern age, either a person fell onto the side of conqueroror the conqueror or the conquered, and those who fell into the latter, generally became slaves). the show does stand behind it. Many of them fall victim to flourishing slave trade. Often times lured with promises of jobs, food and shelter, they become trapped as sex slaves, where they are beaten, bought and sold. Van Sant's cameras take us into a middle class area of Queens, N.Y. and into an apartment where young girl's work as sex slaves. (ALthough it is impossible to prove that they aren't there of their own free will.)
Most astounding is an interview with a Mexican woman who daughter had been abducted by a criminal slave- dealing family and sold into slavery in the U.S. This woman not only managed to fight the system but get her story told on the front page of the New York Times magazine. Eventually, against all odds, the woman's daughter was found and is now a government witness.
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The U.S. ought to be in the forefront in the fight against slavery, just as it is in the WoT. I rather doubt the story about the Mexican woman (not saying it couldn't happen), but wherever in the world slavery is occuring, the U.S. ought to hold governments to account. We don't necessarily need to JDAM them, but the possibility shouldn't be publicly dismissed.
One of the best things the Brits ever did (amongst many) was their naval blockade of the Middle Passage in the 1800's. It didn't end slavery by itself, but it made clear what the price was. We and the Anglosphere should be doing the same.
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CBS huh? Are we sure these are even girls? Fake, but accurate?
How about Sudan? Why didn't they go there? Or Riyadh?
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...Because the Sudanese and the Saudis would kill them, that's why.
The sad part is that - IMHO - CBS has laid out an important story about a horror that still lurks in our country, and all anyone will think of is how they managed to tarnish themselves with the Memos.
Mike
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Even Israel, god bless em, has a bad habit of being an import point of E. European sex slaves
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02/26/2005 14:28 Comments ||
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Harvest of Shame anyone? Remember when CBS was news? Dan?
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all over the world who live in the sewers and back alleys from Bucharest to Bangkok to Bangalor. (watch the show and see).
Andrea Jackson
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Harvest of Shame. Yeah, that got us the War on Poverty. We won that one too, Ed.
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People, what the hell is this? M'perfectly willing to watch -- no, I WILL watch -- because isn't the perfect cover for lies a smathering of truth? We've found the lies, so I'm with Steve White, Frank G (your second point), Andrea Jackson and Mike Kozlowski on this.
It being from CBS doesn't make this any less factual, does it? (Let's take 60 Minutes out of the equation, people ...)
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SW - Bush actually has made an issue of it, but the UN and others keep trying to shove it under the rug. Wonder why? Bosnia, Congo, oh, that's right.
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It's shoved under the table because people at the UN and in governments world wide are profiting from the Slave trade. If you doubt a rural Mexican could be brought to the US and enslaved you are mistaken. It would be very easy. Just as easy as it is to do it to eastern European women.
As a pseudo-libertarian this crap sickens me to the point of being moved to violence if I discovered it. I don't have any problem with prostitution when free and willing adults are involved but this crap is pure evil.
Laoag City, Philippines: Councilor Melvin dela Cuesta of Laoag City has finally come out in the open, rectifying all his previous statements on the recent assassination of Vice Mayor Jimmy Chua, pointing to Mayor Michael V. Fariñas of Laoag City as the gunman who accidentally killed Chua inside the Eagle's nest bar and restaurant in Barangay Salet in this city. In dela Cuesta's public statement aired over MBC-DZJC while he was still in the custody of the NBI in Manila on Friday, he said that in the interest of justice and in accordance with the dictates of his conscience, he could no longer hide the truth. He said, "at dawn of February 2, 2005, I saw Vice Mayor Jimmy Chua accidentally shot to death by Mayor Michael V. Fariñas inside the Eagle's nest restaurant."
Lessee: Mayor +
Vice-mayor +
Alcohol +
Firearms =
Whoopsie!
Apparently in a deep shock after the incident, dela Cuesta said that he could hardly compose himself during the Laoag City PNP's initial investigation; hence, he made up false testimony during the investigation. According to dela Cuesta, his conscience had deeply bothered him the following days, which prompted him to report to the PNP and the NBI and recant his initial testimony.
"I am very sorry to whoever is involved in this incident. I did not want it to happen. I didn't want to hurt Mayor Fariñas and the whole Fariñas clan. I can't take it. This is not an act of ungratefulness, but as an elected official, I should be a person of honesty and integrity. I feel that I have the moral obligation to society to tell the truth and nothing but the truth. More so, as a radio broadcaster and a print journalist, I have the obligation to the people to say the truth. Again, I am very sorry to my friend Mayor Fariñas and his whole family, including his supporters for revealing the truth regarding the killing of Vice Mayor Chua," dela Cuesta said in a long-distance call from Manila aired exclusively over the local radio station DZJZ, where dela Cuesta maintains a radio program.
Fariñas has scheduled a press conference at press time to answer in detail dela Cuesta's accusation. Fariñas's supporters also appealed to the people not to "overreact" to dela Cuesta's latest statement and wait for the city mayor's side to be heard. "Mayor Fariñas should be treated fairly and let us not overreact to dela Cuesta's open statement. Let us not make any judgment until and unless the accused will be proven guilty," a Fariñas supporter, who declined to be identified, said.
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The mayor will probably have some trouble lining up another vice mayor. Wearing body armor all the time is pretty uncomfortable, I'm told.
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A moderate earthquake struck near India's remote Nicobar Islands, which have been jolted by aftershocks since the Dec. 26 tsunami disaster, Hong Kong seismologists said on Saturday. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage from the 5.4-magnitude quake, which struck at 1336 GMT on Friday. The tremor was centered about 300 kilometers (185 miles) northwest of Banda Aceh, the Indonesian city that was battered by the Asian earthquake-tsunami disaster, the Hong Kong Observatory said. Several moderate quakes have struck the same area in recent weeks.
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DUBAI — Religious scholar from Pakistan, Maulana Ahmed Siraj, delivered a lecture on 'Natural disasters and the role of a Muslim' at the Pakistan Sports and Recreation Centre, Dubai on Thursday. In his lecture, he said: "It is the duty of every Muslim to help and aid brothers and sisters in times of tragedy. This applies to individuals and governments."
"It's the duty of every Muslim to supply his brothers with a Kalshnikov," he added.
He added that every Muslim must share the sorrow of those suffering due to natural disasters. "The obligation upon Muslim governments is more than upon individuals. They have to do their best to help ease the plight and suffering of those people," he added.
"If they're suffering, ease their plight. Kill a Joooo."
"I call upon our beloved rich Muslim individuals as well as governments to gain the pleasure of Allah, as according to the Holy Prophet (PTUI) whoever assists a needy Muslim by removing his hardship, Allah would assist him and remove all his hardship on the Day of Judgment," he said. Referring to the tsunami victims, he said: "Our brothers and sisters in South Asia are like parts of our body; therefore, we should feel their pain and agony. Let's not leave them in the hands of others! All of us will be held responsible if we don't assist and feel their sorrow and difficult time." At the end of the lecture, attended by several people including men and women, Maulana Siraj answered questions.
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he then started a wafq charity to help tsunami victims and sought donations for its military wing also
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Did you notice? "Assist a needy Muslim". Ok for me. Let's non-muslims assist non-muslims only. Let the Gulf princes assist the Muslims.
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Despite the tidal wave of criticism of Putin, I have to cut him considerable slack, knowing something of Russian history and culture. It is easy to forget that he, or George Bush, for that matter, are not dictators (in the old sense), able to rule by decree. More than anything else, he is trying to reassert Russia's deservedly prominent place in the world. But he must do so in consensus with his government, a Duma, parliament, that is just getting used to the idea of multiple political parties (several of which are extremist), the complete re-ordering of their judicial branch to conform with international legal standards, and an executive bureaucracy that must be ruled with an iron fist just to do its job and not collapse under the weight of its own corruption. Now, in addition to this, he is in the middle of several national and international conflicts; a US that seems to want to separate Central Asia from Russia in mysterious and threatening ways; and now, to select a successor who won't screw it all up. These are maybe his top ten nightmares. But the list is very, very long.
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More than anything else, he is trying to reassert Russia's deservedly prominent place in the world.
So was Hitler with Germany.
"deservedly" in what sense, btw?
a US that seems to want to separate Central Asia from Russia
Geez, I thought that happened when those Central Asian nations *and* Russia signed a document calling themselves "independent states", thus abolishing the Soviet Union.
As for the Duma and the parliament, and having to deal with parties, several of which are "extremist": If you are referring to the communists and nationalists, I might have a bit more sympathy for Putin's position, IF he'd not been hunting down all actually liberal-democratic forces in his nations, with the clear intention of keeping *only* the communists and hypernationalists in opposition and thus presenting himself as a "moderate", something which would have been impossible had actually democratic forces been allowed to prosper.
It's a neat trick really. Let only the unreformed communists and lunatic nationalists around as theoretical opposition (in truth, letting aside stuff like Babuska revolution and fancy crap like that aside, he hardly ever gets opposed by them)and you therefore make yourself look *good* in comparison.
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Air A** Catharsis: yadayadayadayadayadayadayadayadayadayada
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Anyway, you made some good points, Anonymoose. I'm not quite sure about the "mysterious and threatening ways" thingy, but maybe it's still The Great Game 2005.
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For Pete's krutzing sake, Dr. August, please don't stretch the page like that!
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Whaddid I do? (I admit 2being pooter-challenged.)
I'm re-minded of some movie (I 4get which) where the guy sez, "But I didn't touch anything!"
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Whaddid I do?
Well, you used "catharsis" as a ridicule, without knowing that the Greek connotations of the word are quite positive actually. It's the word primarily used for the eradication of political corruption. In US catharsis may be what a doctor prescribes, in Greece it's what a politician promises.
You are welcome for the free linguistic lesson.
And also you wrote a too long word that ended up stretching the page before a mod corrected it for you.
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Well it went up without a problem this time. No kabooming or very expensive fireworks displays. They must have hired some more rocket scientists.
I am sure the NORKS and China took notice. Anyone that can put a satellite up (for real cough, cough) can put a ballistic missile in your back yard. Japan once was able to build some really big subs. They could start laying a hull tomorrow. We wouldn't say a peep either I bet. A missle and a sub combo is even better.
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The reason the Japanese don't start building Missle Subs is simple, with the current state of the art radar (Etc) systems the oceans of the world are as transparent as glass.
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Jim - I think hope you overestimate that capacity
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The US has the tools to find just about anything that swims underwater, but the ChiComs and the Norks don't. A Japanese ballistic missile submarine could have any number of Chinese officials reaching for their pills.
And just imagine their reaction to a Taiwanese missile sub.
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If our ability to find anything underwater is so good, how come an ozzie sub "san a CV in an exercise? Western electric (and other propulsions systems) subs are a lot quieter than Ruskie nukes.
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current state of the art radar (Etc) systems the oceans of the world are as transparent as glass.
It's true, it's how they found Atlantis.
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Everbody puter away you MAD booms, and big listeners, radar looks deep now.
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...One line I have heard repeatedly over the last few weeks is how if the Japanese made the decision tomorrow, they could have functioning, deliverable, and reliable nuclear warheads on alert within about 120 days. I hope that's true, because the satellite launch should have made a serious point with the Norks.
Also, Mrs D - the version of the story I heard is that the Aussie boat did get a 'hit', but was then 'sunk' itself. Keep in mind that the CVBG was not running a full wartime ASW effort, just an escort or two and a couple helos. In a combat or potential combat situation, there would have been a lot more out there. The Collins class subs are probably the quietest boats in Western service, and that helped too. It would, however, take a lot more than one torpedo to sink a CV or CVN.
Mike
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Would five be enough? If she were in full water tight condition, I doubt it, but still 10 SS's for a CV is a good trade. Especially if you're China.
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Mrs D,
I stand most humbly corrected.
Mike
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well no wonder they perform so well:
"DECHAINEUX’s new Motor room spa and jacuzzi".???
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Israeli President Moshe Katzav is to visit Australia against the backdrop of a diplomatic incident that shook the two countries' otherwise close relations. Mr Katzav and his wife Gila will leave Israel on Saturday night on a flight bound for Canberra and then Melbourne. Officials say a 19-strong business delegation will accompany them.
The visit comes as the reported the expulsion of senior Israeli diplomat Amir Lati for an unspecified offence, which officials in both countries refused to discuss. Australian authorities "insisted that the diplomat return to Israel, but he was not formally expelled," an Israeli foreign ministry official told AFP.
Media reports speculated Mr Lati's enforced departure might have been connected to a row last year over two alleged Israeli intelligence agents accused of trying to fraudulently obtain New Zealand passports. The diplomat's official duties included visiting the two alleged spies while they were in prison in New Zealand, the reports said.
The English-language Jerusalem Post speculated that Mr Lati might have been ordered out because of a "close friendship" with Caitlin Ruddock, the daughter of Attorney-General Philip Ruddock.
During his trip, Mr Katsav will meet Prime Minister John Howard, Governor-General Michael Jeffrey and local Jewish leaders.
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I read the article. It seemed to be mostly about the EU wanting the Chinese to not flood their markets with goods if the EU eased trade restrictions. So it's really nuanced.
Black box data recorders could be installed in new cars as standard if a Europe-wide study gives them backing. Police forces across the continent are looking at whether the aircraft-style technology could improve road safety. Why, it'll do away with the need for speed cameras! Next step: satellite trackers, and simultaneous or daily sumbission of data to the EU's soon-to-appear Citizen Organisation Authority.
The European Commission will use their research to decide if the devices could help in accident investigations. They are able to record information, including speed and the rate of braking in cars, in the vital seconds leading up to a crash. It is hoped accident investigators would be able to use the black box information to get a detailed picture of the circumstances surrounding a collision.
The European Commission asked senior police officers across Europe to work on the study looking at the feasibility of installing the devices all new vehicles. If it is a success, legislation could be passed by ministers in Brussels.
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EU government:
Too many bureaucrats-- Not enough real work.
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Half the cars already sold in the US (including My 300C) already have this. Daimler/Chrysler promises to only use the data to "make safer cars" or to "defend ourselves in a lawsuit." So far, governments can only get these data with subpoena.
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The neat part about bureaucracies with no external controls is that, as they devolve into minutiae, their authority also diminishes. One regulation that almost everybody obeys is better than one billion that nobody has ever heard of, and are enforced randomly and vindictively.
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jackal's right, and the tech is evolving to record you avg speeds and info which could eventually be used to, say, raise your insurance rates...
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Its worse. I read the specs of the next version.. The EPA even wants the ability to shut your car off when it starts polluting and vector a police car to you. GPS is part of it. Also, constant reporting of speed over posted speed. You really want older cars without these devices. They are like the one that rats you out through the plug under your dash but are 2 way wireless.
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You people are embarrassing Bulldog's europhobia, when you are telling him that the measure he describes as Big-Brother-come-to-life, is already in wide execution in USA.
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Not at all, Aris. The EU is debating whether it should make such technology compulsory (and will no doubt make incorporation of new developments in the technology mandatory in turn, such as downloadablity or live transmission of the data recorded, and eventually satellite tracking of private vehicles). There's a difference between that and voluntary adoption of the technology by American consumers - which happens without state involvement. I'm surprised you can't see the difference. Maybe I'm not.
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Mrs. Davis - I'm not sure, I'd have to run it by them. I'd think most circuits could be bypassed but I don't know much about modern car electronics.
They can, however, disable the governor in my Intrepid (top speed's limited to 107 MPH), but I think that's a device that will prevent me from doing three or four barrel rolls down I-93.
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and an asterisk by his name..hey! Asterisk? doesn't that sound like someone's name? Gotta go - bye
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It does see as though this is a case of the EU belatedly waking up to the potential of Big Brother technology car manufacturers elsewhere have been developing and using for a while. This is apparently true:
"When AutoWeek conducted handling tests on a mundane Chevy Malibu Maxx hatchback earlier this year, the recorder automatically alerted GM OnStar officials, who called the car to make sure the driver was OK after a particularly severe cornering maneuver."
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A year or two ago, "Car and Driver" had an article on how Volvo and MB use this to determine the details of an accident. Add to this their experts, who can tell if you were awake or asleep (the bruises left by seat belts is one clue), and it's an episode of "CSI"! There are only one or two countires that allow the info to be used for law siuts or insurance settlements.
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Unlike the "good" days of the 70s, in which every system was separate and could be disabled separately, everything is integrated now. For example, to plain disable the speed recording means your automatic transmission (if you have one) won't upshift, since you're still doing 0 MPH.
You can change some of the values by getting a new ROM with the values replaced, but the company doesn't publish the values (drivetrain computers are not open-source), so it's whatever the hackers can find. Since this is all undocumented, interactions and limits are unknown, except by trial and error.
Similarly, you can't really disable the black box, unless you are willing to do without airbags and seatbelt locking, and maybe stability control?
Of course, some car makers do not have this stuff installed, so you have a choice, but any car I would consider driving has all the data recorders.
I know one insurance company is offering a discount to drivers who let them add a monitoring box to see if they exceed the speed limit. Of course, since it's a private company, you can simply choose not to do business with them.
Actually, I really don't mind the black box for accident investigation, but we know it won't stop there. Allowing the government to read the contents annually (or whatever) without a warrant would be way over the line.
Holland's leading football team, is locked in a dispute with its fans, but the row has nothing to do with coaching, the players or anything that happens on the pitch or in the club's boardroom. Instead, Ajax Amsterdam is struggling to stamp out the bizarre tradition by which its most devoted fans call themselves "Jews", even tattooing themselves with Stars of David and waving Israeli flags, although they are not Jewish and know little of Judaism.
The dispute has escalated into the latest test case for Dutch tolerance, already under siege following the assassination of Pim Fortuyn, a populist politician, and last November's slaying of Theo van Gogh, a controversial filmmaker, by a Muslim extremist. At the same time, it has shone a harsh light on the growth of "virtual" anti-Semitism in Europe, in which the hate-filled slogans of the Middle East are adopted by those who wish merely to provoke or shock.
Hardcore Ajax supporters have been calling themselves "Jews" or even "super Jews" for about 20 years in defiance of fans from rival clubs, who yell anti-Semitic jibes at them in reference to Amsterdam's long Jewish history. For years, the club's management turned a blind eye to escalating displays of "Jewish" pride among its supporters. Still Ajax did nothing when the jibes from rival fans turned increasingly disturbing, with chants of "there goes the Ajax train to Auschwitz" and "Hamas, Hamas, the Jews to the gas". The most sinister insult of all - a long hissing "ssssssss" to imitate a gas chamber - was invented in Rotterdam, the home to Ajax's rivals, Feyenoord FC.
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The late French president Francois Mitterrand lived for much of his 14 years in power not at the Elysee Palace but at the home of his mistress and their illegitimate daughter Mazarine Pingeot, according to her new book of memoirs. In Bouche Cousue (Sealed Lips) - to be published on Monday - Pingeot speaks for the first time of the 19 years she spent as a state secret, unable to acknowledge her father in public but greeting him every evening at their flat in central Paris. Now a 30 year-old novelist and lecturer, Pingeot paints a picture of an attentive father who spent more time and affection on his hidden second family than on his wife Danielle.
But she also writes with anguish of her relationship with a man she could never openly call "Papa". "Officially I did not have a father. My classmates knew nothing of my home, of my evenings and weekends and holidays ... The pact of silence was more than a family affair. Apparently everyone was signed up to it," she writes in extracts published in Le Nouvel Observateur magazine. The world only became aware of Pingeot in 1994 when Paris-Match magazine published a now famous photograph of her emerging with her father from a Paris restaurant. The first time the French got a full view of her was at her father's televised funeral two years later.
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a loving and attentive father that she couldn't say hello to in public. Uh..yeah.. ok..if it makes you feel happy.
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Was it legal for the French taxpayer to pay for Mitterrand's mistress's home? Just asking, since a day or two ago, the French finance minister resigned for using government money to pay for his luxury apartment.
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It's even better when family shame is enforced by the government. Can you imagine a US law that required a presidential family member to not talk about things that would embarass the president politically?
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"Gay night life stories" seems to have had a different meaning back in the day, huh? Now it's 20+ sex partners in a single night on Meth at the ol' bathhouse
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Luv the pic, heh!
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The European Union has abandoned plans to ban swastikas and other Nazi symbols but said work would continue on a wider law to fight racism and xenophobia. EU justice ministers dropped the planned ban on swastikas after Britain, Hungary and Denmark objected, saying a discussion on symbols would detract from the wider and more important fight against racism. Calls for such a move emerged last month after Britain's Prince Harry caused outrage by wearing a swastika armband and a Nazi costume to a fancy dress party. The debate grew more heated after others in the EU called for communist symbols, including the red star and the hammer and the sickle, to be subject to a similar ban.
"You'll pry my hammer and sickle out of my cold dead fingers!"
Germany is so far the only EU country to ban the use of Nazi insignia.
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The truth the EU couldn't bring it's self to ban the Hammer and Sickle. It is the Flag many EUcrats and European TRANZIs would proudly display.
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besides the costume party supplier mafia the banning would have hurt the feelings of appreciators of early bhuddist symbols [all six]
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...What suprises me a little about this article is that for decades now, you have not been able to show a swastika in books, TV shows, or plastic models in continental Europe. I have several kits of WWII german a/c where the swastika is either not included in the markings at all or printed in such a way that it has to be assembled on the model.
Mike
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Does this mean the French will quit their legal harrassment of Yahoo and Ebay for stuff displaying materials related to the National Socialist German Workers Party on their sites?
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Is anyone setting up a Bloggers' Virtual Trophy Room? There are enough heads to start a collection. Churchill's proving an admirable quarry - how many pellets in his rump, and he's still running? - but he'll drop soon...
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Oh, man, a moonbat professor, AND a faux-Indian, AND an intellectual fraud, AND a bully, AND a ripper-off of other people's art, AND exaggerating his military service, AND roughing up news reporters! He is the gift that keeps on giving; what's next--- video of him swiping the newspaper out of his neighbor's driveway in the early hours? Not properly separating the recyclables? I await the next development with breathless anticipation.
Say, anyone want some more popcorn?
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He reminds me of pathological liars (actually, he seems to be one--forgeries could be another form of expression of the trait). They build their construct, incorporating previous lies, into a masterful edifice. But yank out something at the foundation and the whole construct unravels. Looking forward to more skeletons. Sticking a fork in him may be premature.
TOKYO — Former President Bill Clinton said Saturday he expects diplomacy to play a larger role in President Bush's second term in office because of "the drain on our military."
Speaking at an international forum in Japan, Clinton said Bush's second-term appointment of Condoleezza Rice (search) as secretary of state marked a new beginning for the administration. Not the way you think it is, bub.
"I think by sending Condoleezza Rice to the State Department (search), (the president) was saying diplomacy will be more important in his second term," Clinton said. "The drain on our military has made this administration more interested in diplomacy." Clinton also was in Tokyo to promote a Japanese-language edition of his best-selling memoir "My Life." (search)
Listing a series of trouble spots from Iran to North Korea, Clinton said the need for diplomacy is greater than ever.
"If you look at the stress on our military, I think most people in the Bush administration would be thrilled if diplomacy works with Iran," he said.
The United States has accused Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons — a claim denied by Tehran. Bush said rumors that Washington planned military action against Iran were "simply ridiculous," but he quickly added that "all options are on the table" when it comes to dealing with Iran's nuclear threat.
Clinton also said the United States should be firm but fair with North Korea. The impoverished, isolated state, which declared earlier this month that it had nuclear weapons, is believed to be seeking concessions in return for returning to the six-nation nuclear disarmament talks.
"I think the six-party talks are good," said Clinton. "America should talk firmly and make it clear that we will be a part of helping them build a modern economy, but they can't have it both ways. We have to make a deal."
Clinton said North Korea's recent revelation that it has nuclear weapons was likely a sign that the reclusive communist state was prepared to negotiate. That claim has not been verified independently.
"The real problem is North Korea feels its only leverage is to threaten to do what it does best: make bombs and build missiles. It is the most curious, reclusive place in the world. They can grow bombs, but not rice," he said.
On China's emerging power, Clinton said it makes no sense for Washington to get into an arms race with Beijing.
"We will be far better off if our competitions with China are economic, athletic, cultural, scientific and not military," Clinton said. "We should have a strategic partnership that gives China every incentive to act responsibly."
Clinton will visit Singapore next week to meet the city-state's leaders and play golf.
Clinton and former President Bush were in Asia to tour tsunami-hit countries, including Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka.
"I followed the tsunami disaster in the international media," Clinton said. "But until I actually visited, I had no idea of how physically and emotionally devastating it was." "...Or how hot those Thai girls can be!"
Mike
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If we want to hear what Sluggo has to say, especially regards the heavily decimated US Armed Forces thanks to his self-serving greed and hurry to expand and spend the imaginary "Peace Dividend", we'll buy him some sex slaves.
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CAIRO, Egypt - In a surprise and dramatic reversal, President Hosni Mubarak took a first significant step Saturday toward democratic reform in the world's most populous Arab country, ordering the constitution changed to allow presidential challengers on the ballot this fall. Could it be, he was scared by Condi's boots!
An open election has long been a demand of the opposition but was repeatedly rejected by the ruling party, with Mubarak only last month dismissing calls for reform as "futile."
The sudden shift was the first sign from the key U.S. ally that it was ready to participate in the democratic evolution in the Middle East, particularly historic elections in Iraq (news - web sites) and the Palestinian territories. Mubarak's government has faced increasingly vocal opposition at home and growing friction with the United States over the lack of reform.
"We have moved a mountain," said Rifaat el-Said, leader of the opposition Tagammu party. "This should open the gate for other democratic reforms."
But Mubarak's order to parliament declared the amendment must state that any potential candidate be a member of an official political party and win the endorsement of parliament, which is dominated by the president's ruling party.
Most opposition parties and reform activists, therefore, said the initiative, though welcome, did not go far enough and that they feared it was only cosmetic. All acknowledged that Mubarak was likely to stay in power after the September vote.
One party has held a lock on power for more than half a century and every president has been unopposed in elections since the 1952 revolution overthrew the monarchy.
Egypt currently holds presidential referendums every six years in which people vote "yes" or "no" for a single candidate approved by parliament. Mubarak, who came to power in 1981 after the assassination of Anwar Sadat, has stood in four ballots, winning more than 90 percent each time.
Mubarak made the announcement in a nationally televised speech, surprising even some in his inner circle, one source close to the presidency said.
Touting "freedom and democracy," Mubarak told an audience at Menoufia University, north of Cairo, that he asked parliament and the consultative Shura Council to amend the constitution's Article 76 on presidential elections.
The changes would set a direct vote "giving the chance for political parties to run" and "providing guarantees that allow more than one candidate for the people to choose among them," Mubarak said.
The audience broke into applause, with some shouting, "Long live Mubarak, mentor of freedom and democracy!" Others recited verses of poetry praising the government.
Ayman Nour, who is one of the strongest proponents of an open election and who was arrested by Egyptian police last month, praised Mubarak's announcement in a statement from jail. Nour called it "an important and courageous move" toward "comprehensive constitutional reform," in a statement read by his wife, Gamila Ismael. snip
Iran's Industrial Development and Renovation Organization (IDRO) is planning to implement two major cement projects in Syria and Venezuela, said a senior IDRO official on Wednesday. Abbas Shoufi, the organization's director for cement affairs, put the production capacity of each of these projects at 1 mln tons per annum. He told ILNA that IDRO will invest $197 mln in the Homam project in Syria and $200 mln in the Venezuelan project. The official further noted that the organization has received offers from Tunisia, Afghanistan and Iraq for cooperation in the sector, stressing that IDRO affiliates produce five million tons of cement per annum. Shoufi predicted that state cement companies will offer their shares on the stock market by late March. Cement industry has made remarkable progress in the past one and a half years given the state financial support. Some 38 factories nationwide have produced 26.7 mln tons of cement since March 2004, registering an eight-percent increase against the figure for the corresponding period the previous year. Cement production is expected to reach 31.5 mln tons by March, when production capacity will also hit 32.5 mln tons. Iran accounts for some 1.7% of the total world cement production.
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Wasn't Hariri in the cement business? A little googling and yes, yes he was!! Looks like we found a motive. I can't help but wonder how Jacques plays into all this.
Cement was Lebanon's biggest single industrial export in 1980, accounting for 15.5 percent of industrial exports. Sales to Syria at that time accounted for about 40 percent of all cement exports. In early 1981, however, exports to that country came to a complete standstill because the Syrians, then in the middle of a major program to construct their own cement works, could not reach agreement with the two principal Lebanese cement works on the terms and conditions of cement sales. Thus cement exports to Syria in 1981 totaled only L£34 million, down from L£119 million a year earlier. Overall cement exports dropped to L£201 million but recovered to L£227 million in 1982 as alternative export markets were found. Lebanon's principal cement works in 1982 were situated in the north, away from the fighting around Beirut, so the industry could continue exporting by sea from Tripoli and overland by truck.
But Syria's decision to terminate Lebanese cement imports, the return of instability, and difficulties in finding fresh export markets destroyed prospects for the revival of the cement industry. In July 1983, SCL laid off 300 workers at its Shikka works as it became clear that the industry faced disaster. By the end of 1983, the scope of the disaster was starkly apparent: total cement exports amounted to only L£27.5 million--an 88- percent drop from the 1982 level.
In the early 1980s, the Jumblatt family established the Siblin Cement Company, building a factory near Sidon to provide cement for the local construction industry. The Siblin plant, built with Romanian technical assistance and with a production capacity of 300,000 tons per year, was formally opened just before the Israeli invasion of June 1982. The plant was badly damaged during the fighting, and it was not until 1986 that work to get the plant back into commission could begin in earnest. A fresh injection of L£15 million in capital from local entrepreneur Rafiq Hariri made the company Lebanon's largest shareholding venture.
don't need it if you up the Flyash content to ..oh..65%, if my 3-Gorges Dam discussions with AP are correct
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Judging from the images of damage at Bam, Iran, it must be against Allan to use rebar in construction. Where is that Halliburton Earthquake/Tsunami Division rep anyway?
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Visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Wednesday that expediting the construction of Kerman-Zahedan-Pakistan rail link could help accelerate the country's access to European markets. According to ILNA, the Premier, who is on a three-day official visit to Tehran to discuss bilateral, economic and trade cooperation with Iranian officials, told reporters that Islamabad expects Tehran to facilitate its access to European markets, stressing that Iran has managed to greatly improve its transportation sector. He called for further cooperation in marine transport sector, adding that the rail link between Kerman in southern Iran and the southeastern city of Zahedan could help boost bilateral trade.
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Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has increasingly turned to hard-line military commanders to cow his factious country and now is relying on them to ensure a ruling party triumph in March 31 parliamentary elections. He appointed a former colonel to run the new Election Commission last month and passed laws that placed the army in charge of polling stations and allows military officers to serve as election officials. Analysts said it follows a trend in recent years of militarizing Zimbabwean society. Mugabe clings to power, they said, by placing men who unflinchingly follow orders in charge of strategic industries and ministries, the secret police, justice system, youth militias and food and fuel distribution. "The strategy is to get people in key positions that share the hard-line attitudes of the government," Lovemore Madhuku, the chairman of the National Constitutional Assembly, an opposition coalition of churches and unions, said in a telephone interview.
"You appoint the military because they follow orders. They will do what is required," Madhuku said. Senior military officers are closely aligned politically to Mugabe, a strongman who has led this country since independence in 1980s, and many have lucrative business ties to ruling party stalwarts. "Mugabe has never been comfortable with people not in the military. As his popularity has progressively declined, he has run back to the military for his own protection," said University of Zimbabwe political scientist John Makumbe. This proclivity became more pronounced this winter as the ruling party fractured in December from political infighting. "He is a frightened man," said Makumbe, speaking by telephone from the United States, where he is a guest lecturer at Michigan State University. "The infighting shook him greatly. His party is weaker than ever before, more vulnerable. It has enemies without and now seemingly enemies within."
To shore up military support, troops recently received raises of up to 1,400 percent, said Makumbe. He said Mugabe has also given large commercial farms confiscated by the government from white farmers to top officers. The army and police services also purged and punished thousands in junior ranks suspected of supporting Mugabe's opponents. The upcoming elections "will take place under the most repressive laws in our history. Not a single electoral body is impartial," said David Coltart, a spokesman for the Movement for Democratic Change, the main opposition party.
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More than one candidate will be able to stand in presidential elections in Egypt under a constitutional change proposed by President Hosni Mubarak on Saturday, partially meeting opposition demands for reform.
The move would allow the first multi-candidate presidential elections since the 1952 revolution, and follows pressure from the United States for political changes.
Opposition activists welcomed the step but some said it fell short of their demands because Mubarak's comments, made in a televised speech, appeared to limit potential presidential rivals to political parties rather than letting any citizen run.
Mubarak, 76, said he had proposed to parliament changing the constitution "to give the opportunity to political parties to enter the presidential elections and provide guarantees that allow more than one candidate to be put forward to the presidency for people to choose among them freely."
Under the existing system, parliament, which is dominated by Mubarak's ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), has to approve the sole candidate, who then must be approved in a referendum-style public vote.
The next presidential vote was due in September.
"I took the reins of this initiative in order to start a new era ... on the way of reform," Mubarak, who has ruled since 1981, told a gathering in the Nile Delta, north of Cairo.
Although an economic reform program was launched with a new cabinet in July, there has been little movement on the political front until now.
Mubarak said the proposal to change article 76 of the constitution had been presented to parliament, and would then go to a public referendum before the coming presidential vote.
Analysts said the step was both a response to calls from Washington for political reform and an increasingly vocal opposition inside Egypt, which analysts say has been emboldened by U.S. pressure on Egypt. Cairo has always insisted that reforms are homegrown.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice canceled plans to visit Egypt next week, which one U.S. official said was to give Egyptians more time to work on issues of democratic reform.
EGYPT UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT
Egypt has also come under the spotlight for the detention in January of Ayman Nour, the leader of the opposition Ghad (Tomorrow) party. Rice expressed Washington's "very strong concerns" and said she wanted the case resolved swiftly.
Egypt says the Nour case is a judicial not political matter.
Several opposition activists welcomed Mubarak's announcement but some said any citizen should be allowed to stand and said they also wanted steps to restrict the number of terms a president could serve.
Mubarak is currently serving his fourth six-year term, and is widely expected to run for a fifth term although he has not announced his intentions.
Restricting presidential candidates to political parties would prevent groups like the officially banned Muslim Brotherhood, one of the biggest opposition groups in Egypt, from fielding a candidate.
"This is a historic step. For the first time since the days of the pharaohs, the Egyptian people will choose their ruler," said Mohamed Ulwan, assistant head of the opposition Al-Wafd party, but said any citizen should be allowed to run.
"What the president proposed today is a just a crack in the wall ... This step is not enough," said Abdel-Halim Qandil, editor of an opposition newspaper and a campaigner for reform.
Mazen Mostafa, a member of the Ghad party, said he welcomed the move but worried that the arrest of Nour could be used to undermine his party's ability to campaign in any election.
Mostafa had joined Monday's protest in Cairo in which several hundred Egyptians called for an end to Mubarak's rule.
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For the first time since the days of the pharaohs, the Egyptian people will choose their ruler,"
Learn your own history, O Egyptian person, the Egyptian people have never had a voice in choosing their rulers. Honestly!
This is a snippet of a long post I stumbled on this morning. In light of the Ward Churchill fraud and the numerous other academic frauds that have come to light in recent years, I was shocked, but should not have been, to see this discussion focus on systemic weaknesses in academic publication and defence of research that would never be allowed in financial reporting or drug testing, for example.
I'm beginning to wonder if Churchill, Bellesiles, et al are not a few bad apples, but the tip of an iceberg. The treatment and supine response of Lawrence Summers leads me to believe that as there is no real external authority to which academics are accoutable. When the bonds of intellectual integrity are broken, academe becomes a rogue institution pursuing political ends without control or objectivity. And the tuition I'm paying is too damn high if this is what I'm purchasing.
Sorry this went so long, but this is Rantburg.
The 2001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report produced findings that have guided investment decisions, which vastly exceed the sums involved in even the largest financial scandals of recent years. Since the IPCC leaned heavily on a novel approach called a "multiproxy climate study" and in particular the "hockey stick graph" of Mann et al., this is where I've focused my attention. An audit trail in this case is easily defined: the data in the form used by the authors and the computer scripts used to generate the results. In principle, these can be easily buttoned up and publicly archived. I think that most civilians would assume (as I did prior to starting my studies in this area) that such packages would be standard as part of a peer review process.
In fact, this is not the case. None of the major multiproxy studies have anything remotely like a complete due diligence packages and most have none at all. The author of one of the most quoted studies [Crowley and Lowery, 2000] told me that he has "mis-placed" his data. In the case of the Mann et al [1998,1999] study, used for the IPCC's "hockey stick" graph, Mann was initially unable to remember where the data was located, then provided inaccurate data, then provided a new version of the data which was inconsistent with previously published material, etc. The National Post has recently reported on my experience as this unfolded.
In addition to the lack of due diligence packages, authors typically refuse to make their source code and data available for verification, even with a specific request. Even after inaccuracies in a major study had been proven, when we sought source code, the original journal (Nature) and the original funding agency (the U.S. National Science Foundation) refused to intervene. In the opinion of the latter, the code is Mann's personal commercial property. Mann recently told the Wall Street Journal that "Giving them the algorithm would be giving in to the intimidation tactics that these people employ". My first request for source code was a very simple request and could in now way be construed as "intimidation".
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Sort of gives new meaning to 'faith' based initiatives doesn't it? When its not real science, when it is not real fact, its belief/faith based.
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Gunmen killed nine U.N. Bangladeshi peacekeeping troops Friday in an ambush in northeastern Congo, the deadliest assault ever on the 6-year-old mission trying to shepherd the nation out of the chaos of a civil war that left some 3 million dead.
The attack occurred near the town of Kafe as 21 Bangladeshi peacekeepers were patrolling in the area of a camp housing families displaced by persistent fighting in Congo's lawless Ituri province, U.N. spokesman Mamadou Bah said. The assailants are believed to have been hiding in the thick grass along the roadside and pounced on the patrol as it drove past, said Col. Dominique Demange, head of U.N. troops in Congo. The gunmen escaped before peacekeepers could fully react.
Sounds like the Benglas didn't have a good convey protection plan.
The United Nations sent an attack helicopter and a rapid reaction force, but bad weather limited their effectiveness, Demange said.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan condemned the "reprehensible and criminal attack" and called on Congo's transitional government to bring the killers to justice, his spokesman Fred Eckhard said in New York. Annan said the Congo peacekeeping mission would not be deterred from carrying out its mandate.
Speak for yourself. The Banglas might feel differently.
Bangladeshi President Iajuddin Ahmed and Prime Minister Khaleda Zia issued messages of "condolence and profound sorrow."
The peacekeepers had arrived in Kafe, 20 miles northwest of the provincial capital of Bunia, on Jan. 23 to help secure and feed and administer medicine to people who'd fled the fighting. "These blue helmets were out there protecting people, and they got ambushed while doing it," Bah said, referring to the helmets worn by peacekeepers.
The identity of Friday's attackers, who wore no uniforms, was not known. Suspicion fell on Lendu militia belonging to the group Patriotic Force of Resistance in Ituri, responsible for several massacres in the region.
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A producer involved in CBS's discredited report on President Bush's National Guard service resigned Friday, nearly two months after an independent report criticized the handling of the story. Mary Murphy, another producer and an executive were asked by CBS to leave because of the "60 Minutes Wednesday" report, but she was the first to do so. A third producer, Mary Mapes, was fired. "CBS News and I have reached an amicable resolution, and I have resigned my position," Murphy said in a statement. She said she wished "my good colleagues well" and looked forward to moving on in her career.
The truck stop off I-35 is hiring ...
Murphy and "60 Minutes Wednesday" executive producer Josh Howard were asked to resign after an independent panel found they rushed the Bush report to the air without proper checks. CBS News senior vice president Betsy West also was asked to give up her job. Murphy, Howard's top deputy, worked at CBS News for more than 17 years and was head of the political desk covering the 2004 presidential campaign. CBS confirmed Murphy's resignation but had no comment, a spokeswoman said.
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everybody resigns--gets fired--from seeBS after 5 on a friday--hmmm....very strange
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...And if they came to an 'amicable resolution', you can bet she's required to amicably keep her mouth shut...
Mike
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Don't kid yourself, if the parting was amicable, she doesn't need a job anymore.
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The AP says the Bush report was "flawed"? That's like describing a bank robbery as a "questionable withdrawal of funds."
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Yeah, it was "flawed." It wasn't a good enough lie to fool voters.
Togo's leader Faure Gnassingbe has decided to step down as president of the West African country, bowing to massive international pressure to quit. The resignation came hours after the African Union had suspended Togo on Friday in the latest blow to Gnassingbe. Shortly after Gnassingbe's announcement, Abass Bonfoh was elected chairman of Togo's national assembly and took over as the country's interim president. A special session of the national assembly elected Bonfoh, the sole candidate, by 57 votes to four with one abstention to replace Gnassingbe.
African leaders, European officials and the United States had all urged Gnassingbe to quit since he was appointed president by Togo's powerful army soon after his father, Gnassingbe Eyadema died on 5 February, ending his 38-year rule. Under Togo's constitution, the head of the national assembly should have become the acting president on the death of Eyadema. But the army named Gnassingbe president and Togo's national assembly elected Gnassingbe as its head making him the legal interim president.
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Togo! Togo! Togo!
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Got a email from his sister this morning. Seems her dad stashed all the cash in a overseas account before he kicked off and she needs help to get to it. Sounds like a nice girl.....
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that's just a ripoff of the legit deal I've got going in Nigeria...
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Yeah, but the Shah's niece in Switzerland was the real thing....
A group of 22 men have broken up an Egyptian opposition party meeting in a Cairo hotel and assaulted at least three leading members of al-Ghad (Tomorrow) Party, a party official said. Wail Nawara - assistant to jailed party leader Ayman Nur - said on Friday that he and Ihab al-Khuly, Nur's lawyer and the party assistant secretary-general, were attacked on Thursday evening. The Interior Ministry media office referred questions about the incident to the office of the public prosecutor, which is closed on Fridays. Nawara said he had received several warnings in the last two weeks from sources connected to Egyptian security.
"Fifteen thugs in white training suits, accompanying seven men wearing plain civilian suits but armed with handguns, stormed the hall, interrupted the speaker and started insulting the panel," a statement from the party said. "When Nawara attempted to ask them to be seated ... about 10 of the thugs attacked him, threw chairs, glasses and cups at him then got closer and started to beat him on the head, chest and back. They smashed his spectacles and attempted to strangle him with his own tie, then scarf," it added. Police, who are posted at the door of every large Egyptian hotel, did not turn up to help for 60 minutes, Nawara claimed.
Nur was stripped of his parliamentary immunity in late January and detained for questioning about allegations that his party submitted forged documents when it applied for legal recognition last year. He is on hunger strike. The liberal party says the allegations have been fabricated to punish Nur and his party for their vocal advocacy of constitutional change which would make it more difficult for President Husni Mubarak to stay in power.
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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.
Laoag City, Philippines: Councilor Melvin dela Cuesta of Laoag City has finally come out in the open, rectifying all his previous statements on the recent assassination of Vice Mayor Jimmy Chua, pointing to Mayor Michael V. Fariñas of Laoag City as the gunman who accidentally killed Chua inside the Eagle's nest bar and restaurant in Barangay Salet in this city. In dela Cuesta's public statement aired over MBC-DZJC while he was still in the custody of the NBI in Manila on Friday, he said that in the interest of justice and in accordance with the dictates of his conscience, he could no longer hide the truth. He said, "at dawn of February 2, 2005, I saw Vice Mayor Jimmy Chua accidentally shot to death by Mayor Michael V. Fariñas inside the Eagle's nest restaurant." 
The late French president Francois Mitterrand lived for much of his 14 years in power not at the Elysee Palace but at the home of his mistress and their illegitimate daughter Mazarine Pingeot, according to her new book of memoirs. In Bouche Cousue (Sealed Lips) - to be published on Monday - Pingeot speaks for the first time of the 19 years she spent as a state secret, unable to acknowledge her father in public but greeting him every evening at their flat in central Paris. Now a 30 year-old novelist and lecturer, Pingeot paints a picture of an attentive father who spent more time and affection on his hidden second family than on his wife Danielle.
Visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Wednesday that expediting the construction of Kerman-Zahedan-Pakistan rail link could help accelerate the country's access to European markets. According to ILNA, the Premier, who is on a three-day official visit to Tehran to discuss bilateral, economic and trade cooperation with Iranian officials, told reporters that Islamabad expects Tehran to facilitate its access to European markets, stressing that Iran has managed to greatly improve its transportation sector. He called for further cooperation in marine transport sector, adding that the rail link between Kerman in southern Iran and the southeastern city of Zahedan could help boost bilateral trade.
Zimbabwe's President 
A producer involved in CBS's discredited report on President Bush's National Guard service resigned Friday, nearly two months after an independent report criticized the handling of the story. Mary Murphy, another producer and an executive were asked by CBS to leave because of the "60 Minutes Wednesday" report, but she was the first to do so. A third producer, Mary Mapes, was fired. "CBS News and I have reached an amicable resolution, and I have resigned my position," Murphy said in a statement. She said she wished "my good colleagues well" and looked forward to moving on in her career.
Togo's leader 
A group of 22 men have broken up an Egyptian opposition party meeting in a Cairo hotel and assaulted at least three leading members of al-Ghad (Tomorrow) Party, a party official said. Wail Nawara - assistant to jailed party leader Ayman Nur - said on Friday that he and Ihab al-Khuly, Nur's lawyer and the party assistant secretary-general, were attacked on Thursday evening. The Interior Ministry media office referred questions about the incident to the office of the public prosecutor, which is closed on Fridays. Nawara said he had received several warnings in the last two weeks from sources connected to Egyptian security. 
