Saudi Arabia is the Middle Eastâs largest consumer of Viagra despite contradictory media reports about its adverse impact on the human eye. âIt seems more Saudis are taking Viagra than any other men in the Middle East,â said Khalifa, adding that Viagra was the second top selling drug in Saudi Arabia and the eighth in the UAE.
Khalifa said that according to experts, increased recreational use of Viagra was safe and effective for men of all ages, provided patients consult with their doctors first to determine if the drug was safe for them in the light of their own individual medical history. More than 50 percent men over 45 years of age in the Kingdom are suffering from sexual dysfunction. According to a report, the ED has been commonly diagnosed among Saudis that affects at least one in 10 of the adult male population. The report has further revealed that more than 10 percent of Arab men are suffering from sexual impotence, which is among the highest rates in the world.
The sale of all kinds of sexual dysfunction drugs in Saudi Arabia and the other five Gulf states is growing progressively.
Khalifa said that Viagra was not only leading to âbetter sexâ for couples in the region but had helped destigmatize the laymanâs view of ED. âWhen men of all ages and backgrounds feel comfortable approaching their wives and doctors about their ED without embarrassment or hesitation, then the world will truly realize the monumental impact the drug has had on menâs sexual health.â No one told them about the anti-Jihadi ingredient?
The growth in the sale of such drugs is necessitated by the growth in the number of patients suffering from sexual problems including impotence and ED. The UN estimates that more than 322 million men will be suffering from ED by the year 2025.
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ANARCHIST protesters brought chaos to the city centre today as they clashed with police in a series of violent confrontations. Every business in the city centre was advised to close their doors as riot police confronted protesters along Princes Street and in the West End. Bottles and plants were used as missiles as the violence spilled over into Princes Street Gardens. Police appealed for motorists to steer clear of the city centre.
About 200 protesters, some dressed as clowns, tried to break through police lines after being corralled in to Canning Street in the West End as they staged their Carnival for Full Enjoyment. Officers were punched and kicked as they lined the road to prevent the hoards of protesters pushing on towards the Capital's financial quarter. Riot police lined up behind mounted officers on Princes Street as they confronted protesters near the Scott Monument. The anarchists responded by trying to pull benches onto the road before the police advance forced them to flee.
Outside HMV at the West End of Princes Street, mounted police were also forced to call for back up as they confronted protesters. Shoppers were told to stay inside the store while skirmishes outside - described as "a riot" by one frightened witness - were brought under control by police.
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"One anarchist from Sussex said: "I don't have a problem with violence against property because the people with the money can pay for it to get it fixed.
We're all autonomous individuals."
Anarchist from Sussex... Right.
People with money... Okay.
Autonomous... No, not quite. I think you're the obviously broken toys and tools of someone else. Everybody gotta serve somebody, they say, and you serve as world jesters for the "isms" and "ists". A pretty sad end, IMHO.
They didn't need the G8, G7, whatever turns you on, to stage this wankfest. AP, AFP, Rooters, Beeb, etc would show up anytime, anywhere, for this level of self-flagellation.
I hope they don't spare the rod, lest they (further) spoil the child.
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You haven't been cool for years .com. Probably ugly too, poor and American. No Porche car for you!
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Lol! Why that's positively pointless, coming from a dead guy, heh. Don't want no Porche car, fool... Now if you have a spare '67 GTO in perfect condition, then we'll talk... Otherwise, back to subterrana for you, too cool to live, lol!
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Porsche, Governor, and that tells me you don't either :-p
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Anarchist from Sussex...I can only think it's from Brighton. Used to be lovely, now it's full of deadbeats on social security.
It costs over 200 pounds to get from Brighton to Edinburgh on the train, so I can only assume they're all being bussed there in an organised way (as if we didn't already know that).
Also, the Princes Street Gardens are were lovely, so those buggers have pissed off all the horticulturists in Edinburgh as well.
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Demonstrate solidarity with Africans by bringing Mogadishu to a neighborhood near you.
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Where are the soccer hooligans when you need them? Missed opportunity.
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Hundreds of black-clad anarchists and anti-G-8 protesters clashed violently with police in Scotland's capital Monday, as demonstrators sought to keep up pressure on world leaders ahead of a summit of wealthy nations. Summertime...and the livin's easy...
Shield-carrying police locked down entire streets, penning in protesters with the help of officers on horseback. Authorities advised businesses to close, describing the protesters' behavior as threatening. Groups of up to 200 demonstrators, some unintentionally dressed as clowns, roamed Edinburgh, banging drums, blowing whistles and taunting officers. Police said they had arrested nearly 30 protesters. Put em in with soccer fans, let em know what a beatings REALLY like
The protests were aimed at Wednesday's meeting of the Group of Eight industrialized nations at the nearby Gleneagles Hotel, where world leaders will discuss African poverty and ways to deals with global warming. Terminate the CO2 emissions from some of the protesters?
Some demonstrators are demanding that leaders take urgent action on world poverty and the environment, while anarchists don't want the summit itself to go ahead. "you say tomayto, I say tomahto kill them all, capitalist pigs!" Continued on Page 49
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IPSALA BORDER CROSSING, Turkey - The Turkish and Greek prime ministers met on Sunday on a bridge across the river that divides their countries to launch a joint construction project to connect rich natural gas fields in the Caspian and Central Asia to energy-hungry markets in Europe.
The 300-kilometer (186-mile) pipeline from Bursa in Turkey to Komotini in Greece is expected to be operational in 2006, and will later be extended to Italy as part of an extensive pipeline initiative known as the Southern Europe Gas Ring Project.
The Greek-Turkish pipeline is expected to carry 11.5 billion cubic meters (405 billion cubic feet) of gas per year once connections are made to other planned pipelines, and as demand for Caspian gas expands in coming years.
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A happy development. Turkey don't have any Bugtis does it?
An excavator uproots trees. Rakes scrape the ground. A grinder turns limbs into mulch. Deer scramble for cover. For the first time in a decade, expansion is coming to the pre-eminent military burial ground in the United States. It means a major upheaval. As a fawn dashes away, worker Scott Mills says, "I feel bad for them. And I hate tearing trees down. But this is for a good cause."
Arlington National Cemetery is adding 26,000 graves to the roughly 215,000 already in place on the sweeping lawns across the Potomac River from the nation's capital. An additional 77,000 remains are in columbariums, tombs for urns with cremated remains. Matt Strittmatter, 45, of Richmond, Ind., was making his fourth visit to the cemetery. He appreciated the bustle at what is normally a quiet place. "It's important for the families to have the option to bury their loved ones who've served here because of the sacrifice they made," he said. "War affects everyone. It affects the families. They've earned the honor."
The expansion means installing roads and utilities, building a new stone wall as a boundary, landscaping and creating 5,000 cremation niches. The work is necessary to accommodate the large number of veterans from World War II. "Their population is of an age where the passing rate is about 1,200 a day. They are the largest population of daily burials," said John Metzler, cemetery superintendent.
Arlington holds about 6,400 funerals a year, Monday through Friday. The peak year for deaths is expected to be 2008, when an estimated 30 funerals a day will be conducted.
The hilltop expansion, overlooking the Pentagon on one side and the Washington Monument on the other, was initially planned for 1990 but was delayed by money problems. It finally got under way in May.
The $12 million, 40-acre project will allow the cemetery to accommodate burials up to 2030. Two more expansions are planned, making enough space for ground burials for nearly six more decades. The last expansion was done in 1995. It involved 10 acres.
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...This is long overdue, though it's a shame that this is what it's taken to get it done.
Mike
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May all those there rest in peace.
Nothing we can say will be thanks enough to them or their families. {}
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RE: Picture. Been there. That's the Luxembourg Cemetery, better known as the American Battle Monument located about 3 miles from the Luxembourg City airport. General Patton is buried up front between the two flags. But I agree it's a more impressive picture than any one that I could find of Arlington on google.
And they want ponies, too. And they wanna go to Disneyland...
SIRTE, Libya (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) â African Union leaders, due meet here on Monday, July 4, will press for allocating two permanent seats for Africa in an expanded UN Security Council. The draft declaration, approved by the foreign ministers Saturday, June 2, calls for "two permanent seats with full privileges including veto rights... and five non-permanent seats on the Security Council," AU spokesman Desmond Orjiako told Agence France-Presse (AFP). He added that the document also reaffirms "the need to re-establish Africa's legitimate right to fair and equitable geographical representation."
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Sure, why not? Add 'em to all the other thugocracies on the UselessNitwits.
And move the whole UN to Africa. Let them finance themselves.
Let's kick these thieving bastards out of the US and start a League of Democracies. It will be a much smaller club. (And nations whose names start with "Democratic Republic of..." are automatically disqualified.)
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Surely they should work on the more basic stuff first, like how to feed themselves, and then go for the security council seats.
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I believe Kim du Toit still says it best: Let Africa Sink. I know, I know, "What does he know? He only lived there for 30 years." We wouldn't want that to trump the voyeurs who get their miracles second-hand, now would we? Sheesh.
That said, I want to ask our UK cousins for a favor. Get Tony a chippie or two who'll do him right every time he even thinks about spending our money on his wife's pet causes. He's only doing the Africa gig to renew his Moonbat credentials so his resident femalian will give him some. Sheesh. It'd be a lot cheaper and more effective just to buy him a stable, y'know? Thanx for listening, please help if you can. Appreciated.
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This really is a laugher. There is not one functional state on the continent that I am aware of. Of course, adding two of these disfunctional entities onto the UN Sec. Council would write in highly visible crayon what a waste the entire UN is. Short term pain, long term gain.
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Said it before - let's give every country a seat (and a veto) on the Security Council. Then let's throw Kofi and his gang of thieves out of the country.
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The problerm with letting it rot is it will become a bigger breeding ground for assclown followers of monsters like OBL.
I am no moonbat but I can't look at a image of any child who is suffering due to no fault of it's own and say or do nothing. It's a totally screwed up mess, but some how, some way, we have to get these people to stand on their own 2 feet and make something of Africa.
Europe is responsible for much of the African mess and it's they who should be doing more than talking about it and having rock concerts. Giant puppets and marches against the G8 are not going to do it. Blaming the guiltless USA will not do it. They, Europe, have to personally open some pocket books and put their asses personally in Africa on the ground. The Unites States of America never had a colony in Africa. Europeans and Arabs raped and pillaged Africa and left the environment that created the current mess . Not the United Stats of America. The pressure should be on Europe. Arab raiders, islamifiers and European powers were the expanisonist, imperalist, colonial bastards that did this to Africa. The Arabs will not do shit. They are happy to continue to islamify the rest of Africa and let them rot, starve and die of preventable and cureable diease, just like 99% of Europeans would.
UNSC seat? My ass. No way in hell. Get us the hell out of the UN and the UN out of the United States of America.
Myanmar's military government may be readying to move part of its administration outside the capital to somewhere "safer", analysts and diplomats here say.
Pyinmana, a region described by tour guides as full of "verdant charm", could become the "escape city" for top leaders, military commanders and some ministers, they said.
Some suggested that the relocation inland would be aimed at warding off a potential Iraq-style invasion by the United States, one of the staunchest critics of Myanmar.
Several ministries are preparing to move from October to the mountainous region, about six hours north of the capital Yangon along the road to Mandalay, analysts said.
"Starting in October, some ministries are going to move -- defence, agriculture and energy," one Western diplomat said.
"The ministers would go there, but they would keep a presence here in Yangon with the deputy ministers," he said, noting that "this would allow another layer of screening when it comes to welcoming visiting foreigners."
"These are rumours, but Myanmar bureaucrats are busy finding housing there, thinking of schools for their children," he said. "I am told that they have laid a lot of concrete."
Another observer said five ministries could move to the region which used to be a bastion of communist insurgents.
"It's been in the works for three or four years. It's pretty well prepared," he said. The Myanmar authorities have called "for help from foreign experts, especially Russian".
Plans for the site call for a military base, a large hydroelectric dam at Paung Laung built with Chinese assistance, as well as tunnels, bunkers, hospitals and, of course, a golf course, observers said.
A Myanmar businessman said the government's military headquarters could leave Yangon in the next month and set up in Pyinmana. "Some went already," he said.
Government officials will neither confirm nor deny the rumours, but admit they exist.
Some are skeptical about the talk.
"They're building something, that's certain, but nobody knows exactly what it's going to be," another diplomat said.
"I don't believe part of the government will move," he said. "Either everyone moves, or no one. It wouldn't make much sense (for only part to move)."
"And this is not a move of the capital, it's not Brasilia," he said.
Talk of an "escape city" for the generals has spread throughout Yangon.
The plan was apparently reinforced by the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, which heightened the government's fears of attack by the United States, analysts say.
While Myanmar is not among the White House's top foreign policy priorities, as are Iran, North Korea, Cuba or Syria, it imagines it isn't far behind.
Some observers believe the generals think the United States could invade by sea, which would put Yangon -- a port on the Andaman Sea -- and all the top command on the front line.
"Some people describe it (Pyinmana) as a strategic base to which they would retreat in case of an attack by sea," one analyst said.
Another diplomat agreed that the US-led invasion of Iraq had rattled military leader Senior General Than Shwe.
The army has boosted its military spending in the past few years, according to experts, notably buying MiG 29s.
"There's a clear phenomenon of bunkerization," he said. "They feel threatened and have become paranoid. They think that the Americans have an Iraq-style solution" for Myanmar.
"If all this turns out to be true, the top leaders would also go. The country functions like an army with a chain of command, and the chief of staff would move," he said.
"The army could fall back to the north," a mountainous and forested region, "to organize a guerrilla-style resistance not far from China," he said. "It's like something from science fiction."
Twenty-one members of a religious sect in Malaysia have been arrested for allegedly possessing documents contrary to Islam, an official said yesterday.
Contrary to Islam! Oh, hold me, Ethel!
Muhammad Ramli Nuh, deputy chairman of Terengganu state Islamic development committee, said 14 men and seven women aged between 30 and 60 were detained. Muhammad Ramli said the seven-hour operation began late Saturday and was carried out by religious and regular police officers. Among those arrested were a police officer, a member of a popular local rock group and the fourth wife of the sect leader who managed to evade arrest, the official Bernama news agency reported. The remote commune is led by a 65-year-old illiterate Malay man, Ariffin Mohammad, better known as Ayah Pin. The village is popular among Muslims, Chinese and Indians and foreign tourists who visit to discuss various issues with Ayah Pin on weekends. The sect has had run-ins with the authorities in the past, with four members being jailed for two years in 1998 for attempting to renounce Islam.
You can't renounce Islam. Once you're in the club there's no exit, unless somebody will declare you apostate. Then they kill you.
Muhammad Ramli said they would be charged under the Shariah Criminal Offenses Act and if found guilty could be fined and jailed up to two years.
Jail 'em and jug 'em. That's the way to keep 'em in the fold!
In April the local land office ordered the community to destroy unusual structures it had built over the years â including a âteapotâ which stands several meters high, a giant vase and an umbrella-like tower â by May 28. It said they breached national regulations. âWe will not comply with the order,â a spokesman for the Ayah Pin cult, Rosli Abdul Samad, 37, told AFP. âWe have done no wrong. We promote peace and unity for all races. We are not militants.â
The fact that you have no firearms is the reason you're being jugged. If you were jumping up and down and waving your armaments and hollering "jihad" they'd deny you were there.
The structures are designed to promote unity among all religions, he said, accusing local religious leaders of attempting to contain the teachings of Ayah Pin by ordering their destruction. The issue of religion in Malaysia is sensitive. The government is always on the lookout for what it calls deviant sects.
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"We are not militants.â
"And if yez call us militants again, we'll kill yez!"
Mike
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the inability to quit the club shows how weakass the religion is. Given their druthers, there'd be muzzies running for the exits of the extremist (and moderate) sects. That's why they have to bar the doors. The inscurity shows the innate fear that Allah and the 72 virgins is a lie
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Heh, FrankG... Now factor in how they hide their wymyns in Ninja gear and demand 24x7 Qu'uran indoctrination (at the expense of health, science, mathematics, et al) and beat individualism out of anyone who dares even dream of thinking differently and... ad infinitum ad nauseum... Guaranteed to keep the lot of them at the bottom of the barrel.
Ideology of fear and hate. Mindfuck. Pathogen. Fatal.
COLOMBO - Five men were on Monday sentenced to death for killing a Sri Lankan judge who had handed down heavy sentences on gangsters. The murder of Judge Sarath Ambepitiya, who was gunned down at his home in Colombo last November 19, had rocked the judiciary and the political establishment. Police chief Chandra Fernando personally took over the investigation.
The five sentenced to hang were led by Potta Nauffer, a man suspected of running an underworld gang linked to the drugs trade. They were sentenced by the Colombo High Court and can appeal to the Court of Appeal and to the Supreme Court. If these legal recourses fail, they can seek clemency from the president.
Although Sri Lankan courts hand down death sentences, capital punishment has not been carried out since 1976.
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This Woman deserves a Nobel Peace Prize much more than man;y of those who've won it. If the Feminists were worth anything, they would be taking up her cause.
They're not worth anything, and they won't. But I think this might be based on old data. The pressure came from the State Department...
Mukhtaran was 31 years old when she was abducted and gang-raped by 4 men of a village tribe in June 2002. One of the men was the chief of the tribe. Her family did not complain fearing their lives. However Mukhtaran herself insisted on taking the gang to court.... Since 2002, Mukhtaran has been advocating human and womenâs rights in Pakistan and is now a well known figure supported by many nationally and internationally.
Mukhtaran was supposed to travel to the USA this month to talk about her experiences... According to latest news she is being held in a secret location and her lawyer has not been allowed to visit her.
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What the hell is going in in wakistan? First they take her passport, then they give it back, now she's being detained. Where the hell is Amnesty Int.?????
Since this doesn't have any anti-american flavour to it you won't hear a word out of them.
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It's an old article, she was released by the Pakistani authorities, the latest is that they won't let her go to America unless she is accompanied by Pak 'minders', but she is refusing to go unless she can go alone.
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Fox has a couple of good shows..but here is a fun game to play when tuning to Fox news.
Turn to Fox, check the time on the little time box and time how long it take them to bring up Natalie Halloway. Unless you are watching one of their big shows, it will always take less than 5 minutes - and usually only 2 -3. If you include the other sensational murder/abduction their all esteemed content board has decided to shove down our throats - (previously Michael Jackson, currently Idaho abduction) then you can get that time down even further.
We used to play this game with one of those used-salesmen-turned-preacher on his TV show. It would always take him less than one minute to ask for money.
I think that bookies could have fun with this one.
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It's amusing how outfits like the AP can dig deep on things like this, find some alarming stuff, then publish it, yet if the government were to get serious about illegal immigrants and begin roundups and deportations, these guys would almost surely be running a ton of articles condemning the crackdown.
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ship - somehow you'd have to factor "NEWS ALERT!" into the equation - though I have yet to figure out how news, already covered for the last 24 hours, qualifies as "alert".
And they wonder why their ratings are slipping. Honest to goodness - I think if we could use that Optical scanning software, get a photo of a bubble headed blonde with good cleavage whose mouth moves up and down, we could get much better ratings than either CNN or FOX.
Today is the 4th of July - so much news, so little time. I've been forced to watch Fox today, and it amuses me to no end to count the time spent on Natalie's case.
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and dont get me wrong - I hope for her family she gets all the tv time they can muster - it's just that she's not the only one missing and there is other more earth shaking news. I wish her family the best - it's just that giving me 30 second updates isn't going to help anyone.
If folks want to rip Fox, et al, for their lurid coverage, fine. But the kid, who apparently made a fatal mistake - and maybe the first and only remotely dangerous stupid decision of her short life - certainly paid the ultimate price. Leave her out of any criticisms.
And her parents are obviously blameless. If it was my kid and some newsjerk put a mike in my face, I'd use it to shake the tree - especially given how fucked up the Danish legal system appears to be. Leave them out of any criticisms.
Having a daughter, myself, this story (overplayed or not) certainly hits home. Words fail me regards the actions of the Aruban police and the Dutch notion of law.
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true .com. But it's always bad news when the media circus moves into town. Look at the cases they cover like this...Polly Klass, Yosemite Murders, Chandra Levy, Laci Peterson, etc. Jon Benet Ramsey was an exception. If they turn the TV focus on, you can almost bet the body won't be found anytime soon. Don't know why that is - but it is. I made bet when this got the intense coverage from the get go that her body would not be found anytime soon.
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I think you misuderstood my point. I used to follow crime chat until I burned out on the underbelly of society and just couldn't take it anymore. Every day women and children go missing - usually at the hands of people they know. But until the Amber Alert was initiated, families could do little to get air time. The Yosemite Murders are common knowledge only because the family was wealthy enough to put up, I believe, a hundred of thousand in reward money.
I hope and pray they find her, but she's not the only one missing. It's great for her family that they get the press, but it strikes me as a bit unfair that the other thousands that go missing are so unworthy of even a mention when covering this story.
5 minute updates? Is it really that cold for me to point out that perhaps there are other stories that might deserve air time?
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slow days in summer for news, thta's why the shark bites, missing blondes, found kidnapped kids get so much coverage...just wait and soon it'll be Charles Schumer, Ted Kennedy, and Joe Biden (w/ hair plugs intact), along with ReidPelosi (the dim dual-headed monster) spouting bald-faced lies and smears about a good American nominated to SCOTUS...this is the lull
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Listening to CCR's Heard It Through The Grapevine, followed by Susie Q, Run through the Jungle, and I Put A Spell On You. Who can't be getting friendly today? Later...Ray Charles on the stereo with Johnny Cash and Grateful Dead ...
that sh*ts AMERICAN lol! Enjoy the fourth, all!
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here here Frank, and to all the Rantburgers Thanks!!!!
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Lol, 2b! What, and endanger the sacred stability of ZimBobLand? Surely, you jest!
The magic phrase, one that the knee-jerks (emphasis on jerks) had enshrined in a Presidential order because they deemed it misused once, is wet work. I suggest that the tool is never at fault for flawed work, the user is. Taking the tool from the toolbox merely guarantees you'll end up having to use the wrong tool for the job at that future time - such as ZimBob, now. Here we need an icepick, and the closest thing we have is a hammer. Stupid is as stupid does, it seems.
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Not just "one well placed bullet." I'm not aware of any designated successor for Mr M, but some of the likely victors in the power struggle are about as nasty as he--the tools he's used aren't going to be saints. That doesn't mean the plan isn't doable, just not quite as simple as one shot.
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correct - take that bitch Grace out as well, and save half the countrie's treasure. The heads of all facets of the gov't, military, and police have to go, as well. Where are those covert AK47 shipments?
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I would add the whole of zanu-pf, (half the shona tribe), and any "war-vet" who got a farm, but Bob would do for a start, make it fast and furious.
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On the serious side, the word is that they are targetting all those with satellites and foreign comms, now.....your dish must be cammoed-up if you're a civvie even.
There is no point asking the Church or Opposition to do anything without some kind of support. None from the powers that gave Mad Bob access to Congo diamonds and rape of the land for a Mercedes-Benz convoy, and a Swiss Hotel.
The History tells me that the Western World sold the Rhodesians down the River, and now it's no-one's problem. No-one expected it could go so wrong, not Wilson, who probably thought it a joke, not Thatcher and not Kissinger
And who exactly said he could attend the Pope's funeral? I'm not RC, but I think
that would be grounds for ex-commumication, the little I know of it, inviting the Devil to a funeral. I say, scope 'em.
In a bizarre development in the alleged rape of 32 years old Muslim woman Imrana by her father-in-law, a fact-finding team of the All Indian Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) which went to Muzaffarnagar to probe the incident, reported that the alleged rape never took place.
"Nope. Nope. Never happened."
The surprising revelation of the AIMPLB team raises a valid question of whether the alleged rape was faked by Imrana and the reason for her doing so. The answer to this question appears to be in the affirmative, if the report is to be believed. According to team leader Qasim Rasool Ilyas, the incident was due to a fallout over a property dispute. The father-in-law Ali Ahmed was in heavy debt and wanted to sell his property, which was opposed by Imrana and her husband Noor Elahi, a rickshaw puller. Ilyas who recorded the statement of Imrana and others, said that based on the circumstantial evidence collected by the team from the place of the incident and the statements of Imranaâs family members and neighbors, it does not appear that she was raped by her father-in-law and also her claim has not been corroborated by others, as such the veracity of her statement was doubtful. Further Imranaâs claim that she was gagged by her father-in-law before the rape does not hold water as it is not possible for the rape to have taken place in view of the condition of her one room small house which had little privacy, Ilyas said.
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This was inevitable, given the enormous success of Air America Radio:
(EFL)
Before, there were no means to directly raise funds from people around the world. Now, the web allows millions to band together and raise capital to compete with corporate media outlets. Think of the 15 million people who demonstrated against war in Iraq on one day in 2003. Think of the internet fundraising successes of MoveOn.org and the Howard Dean presidential campaign. Members of the Dean fundraising operation are already on board. Note that they claim to respect "diversity of opinion"
yet are already committed to a specific viewpoint, as though no others exist.
The Launch Plan
The network is raising a $7 million start-up budget from individual donors and foundations. The MacArthur, Ford and Phoebe Haas Trust foundations and the Canadian Auto Workers Union have contributed to a planning study. In its next phase, IWTnews will build the online community necessary for an international mass fundraising campaign launching in early 2006. The campaign will use concerts and media events headlined by socially-conscious celebrities to drive the internet fundraising. If half a million people in the entire world contribute just $50, IWTnews will secure the $25 million it needs to fund its first year of broadcasting, in 2007.
The Programming
To be seen on satellite, digital TV and the web, IWTnews is also negotiating alliances with public and nonprofit channels to carry its programming. IWTnews will cover the big issues -- war and peace, political campaigns, environment, global economy, civil rights, labor issues and social policy. IWTnews will hire journalists for their experience, political acumen and understanding of history. Complex issues will be addressed with energy, bite and wit. Citizen journalism will bring insight from people around the world. Informed by a commitment to social justice and respecting diversity of opinion, IWTnews will focus on news other media ignore or suppress, and on individuals and groups that are transforming the world.
Translation: Authoritarian propaganda and Michael-Moorish Goebbelism that fails to pass the smell test on other outlets.
Check out their programming and the videos. Arch-lefty Goebbelist Howard Zinn will be a regular guest, as will such luminaries as Medea Benjamin, Helen Caldicott, Linda Foley, Janeane Garofalo, and Gore Vidal.
This entire effort is based on a strawman, the notion that the business interests of commercial media are best served by promoting the conservative agenda. This fantasy version of the "corporate media" has become an obsession with left-conformists, largely thanks to Chomsky's ludicrous screed, Manufacturing Consent. As we have seen many times, the actual agenda of the corporate media is to sell ads and for 40 years this has best been done by pushing the pseudo-rebel lefty line. This meme has dominated mass media culture for decades, as documented in Thomas Frank's The Conquest of Cool. These fools do not offer an alternative to institutional media interests and values, they are its purest expression. They are not rebels opposing the establishment, they are fanatics who don't think the establishment goes far enough.
#1
It's pretty clear this organization intends to supplant NPR and PBS by offering this product in lieu of CPB news. So my thinking is that once this network is established, the heads will begin pressuring CPB to use their news instead of locally produced news. Which means that were the CPB allowed to exist ( which I do not think it should ) the leftist bias we complain about would be mild compared to the Marxist program these folks have in mind. At this point, I can't be too certain that the blatent bias would be any worse, but it is clear would be far more intense.
I think that by 2007, when the show it s'posed to go on the road, our republican senators will wish to hell they did kill CPB.
Many of the "luminaries" in this project are leftists from the CND days, most notably, Dr. Helen Caldicott, the Aussie doc.
We can sit back and sneer at these folks, but the primary thrust of what they are going to attempt is not funny at all.
#8
Makes sense - there's a HUGE market for leftist news and commentary. And very little competition. The only other media outlets serving this market are: ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, CNN-I, PBS, Sundance Channel, NPR, Air America, New York Times, Washington, Post, LA Times, Minn. Star Tribune, Philly Inquirer, Seattle PI, Boston Globe, Time Magazine, Newsweek, most Hollywood Movies, and TV Shows (aka "The Left Wing"). They'll just about have the whole market to themselves!
#9
Can someone who knows the economics of TV comment on whether 25 M$ is even in the right ballpark for a startup? Says here CBN had an annual budget of 230 M$ back in 86, and that's without hiring lots of reporters to make stuff up. Of course CBN is noncommercial and MoonTV probably wouldn't be. No doubt Pepsi is dying to plant ads in a daily Chomsky rant.
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$25M might get a major market TV News show (two hours daily) off the ground IIRC. That's it.... No ads? No viewers? No revenoooo
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#11
Wouldn't they be more inclined to use the Anglo-Saxon letter Wynn since it's not W?
#12
This is excellent because is takes the covers off of the left. They will spout their true agenda, without reservation. The koolaid drinkers will revel in it. Any normal person who happens to land on this drivel will be repulsed. It is in lockstep with what the Dems are doing with MoveOn, Soros and Moore. Speak their true heart and drive away anyone with a brain.
#13
Even better, Remoteman, any passersby will surely note the affinity and cross-feeding between Moonbat TV and the general media culture, further exposing the latter for what it is. You can't tell if something walks, looks, and quacks like a duck unless you have seen an actual duck.
No doubt the finest collection of Moonbats since the Dimocratic convention. So we don't add anymore hits thsn necessary, I would suggest perusing Left Wings finest below. Some of the credentials are just prescious. It's such a target rich environment, I just don't have time to comment on all. Enjoy:
Paul Jay (Canada), founding Chair of IWTnews. He was Creator and Executive Producer of CBC Newsworld's debate program counterSpin. He is also an award winning documentary filmmaker and founding Chair of Hot Docs!, the Canadian International Documentary Film Festival. www.jfilm.org No doubt, I have credential-envy!
Laszlo Barna (Canada), CEO of Barna-Alper Productions, Chair of the Canadian Film and Television Producers Association and a past board member of the Canadian Television Fund.
Odelia Bay (Canada), a freelance journalist, radio broadcaster and CBC television news producer.
Medea Benjamin (USA), Leading peace activist, cofounder of the human rights group âGlobal Exchangeâ and the womenâs peace group âCode Pink.â Helped form the âUnited for Peace and Justiceâ coalition. Her work focuses on unfair global trade policies and promoting "fair trade" alternatives.
Tony Benn (UK), for fifty years a Labour MP, served as Cabinet Minister and Chairman of the Labour Party. Benn is Chair of the UK anti-war coalition and spoke at the massive London rally against war in Iraq. www.tonybenn.com
Phyllis Bennis (USA), author and fellow with the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington D.C. and the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. www.ips-dc.org
Charles Benton (USA), Chair of the Benton Foundation. A former Chair of the National Commission on Libraries and Information and the Presidential Advisory Committee on the Public Interest Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters. www.benton.org
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Take a look at the backgrounders on all those folks - not one of them has ever held a real job in their professional lives.
Should give you a pretty good idea where they'll be coming from.
Mike
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Eegad! That's the whole moonbat media pantheon and most of the second-order devils as well.
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Sir Anthony Wedgewood-Benn (Tony Benn). His father was a Duke or an Earl. Impecable man of the people credentials. In fact he is a typical priveledged never done a real job in his life socialist dolt. I once heard him speak. I think I learned what meaningless rhetoric was that day.
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