MIAMI, July 6 (UPI) -- Police were called to O.J. Simpson's home after he allegedly was attacked by his ex-girlfriend, a published report said.
On-again, off-again girlfriend Christie Prody allegedly attacked Simpson outside his Kendall, Fla. home on the Fourth of July, Simpson's friend Steve Dockendorf said.
Girl, you got a death wish?
Dockendorf told the Miami Herald that Prody slapped and scratched Simpson and then went after Dockendorf after he said that he had called 911 from his cell phone. "She was like a wild animal," Dockendorf said. "I just want to say that through it all, O.J. was not violent at all."
"He just kept walking around the house, looking for a pair of gloves"
Dockendorf said Simpson drove to Dockendorf's nearby home and asked for a battery charger to start Prody's car. They drove back to Simpson's house. The fight began, Dockendorf said, when Simpson noticed Prody had taken items from his house and stuffed them in a bag. "He reached into her car to get the bag and that's when she went crazy on him," Dockendorf said. Police said no charges will be field against Prody, who was described as intoxicated when officers arrived.
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Hmmmm......maybe Ms. Prody was Nicole's "real" killer....
EFL:
HURRICANE DENNIS INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY NUMBER 11A
8 AM EDT THU JUL 07 2005
AT 8 AM EDT...1200Z...THE CENTER OF HURRICANE DENNIS WAS LOCATED
NEAR LATITUDE 17.5 NORTH...LONGITUDE 74.9 WEST OR ABOUT 130
MILES...205 KM...EAST-SOUTHEAST OF KINGSTON JAMAICA AND ABOUT 165
MILES... 265 KM...SOUTH OF GUANTANAMO CUBA. DENNIS WOBBLED TOWARD THE NORTHWEST AROUND 10 MPH...16 KM/HR...OVER THE PAST FEW HOURS...BUT A GENERALLY WEST-NORTHWESTWARD MOTION NEAR 13 MPH...20 KM/HR...IS EXPECTED DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS. ON THIS TRACK...DENNIS IS EXPECTED TO BE OVER OR VERY NEAR JAMAICA LATER TODAY.
REPORTS FROM AN AIR FORCE HURRICANE HUNTER PLANE INDICATE THAT THE
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS HAVE INCREASED TO NEAR 105 MPH...165 KM/HR...WITH HIGHER GUSTS. DENNIS IS NOW A CATEGORY TWO HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON SCALE. ADDITIONAL STRENGTHENING IS FORECAST DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS.
HURRICANE FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 25 MILES... 35 KM...
FROM THE CENTER...AND TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP
TO 125 MILES...205 KM. LATEST MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE REPORTED BY AN AIR FORCE RESERVE HURRICANE HUNTER PLANE WAS 968 MB...28.58 INCHES.
DENNIS IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE TOTAL RAINFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF 5 TO
10 INCHES OVER SOUTHERN HISPANIOLA...JAMAICA...EASTERN CUBA...AND
THE CAYMAN ISLANDS. ISOLATED MAXIMUM AMOUNTS OF 15 TO 20 INCHES ARE
POSSIBLE OVER THE MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN OF JAMAICA. THESE RAINS
COULD PRODUCE LIFE-THREATENING FLASH FLOODS AND MUD SLIDES.
THE NEXT ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER AT
11 AM EDT. Track map
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It's a damn fine looking storm if you're into that sorta thing.
FIXES FROM RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT AND SATELLITE INDICATE THAT THE
MOTION HAS BEEN MORE NORTHWESTWARD THAN WEST-NORTHWESTWARD. THE
MID-TROPOSPHERIC RIDGE TO THE NORTH OF DENNIS IS APPARENTLY WEAKER
THAN EARLIER PREDICTED. THIS MAY IN PART BE A RESULT OF ADDITIONAL
STEERING FLOW INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM THE NOAA G-IV JET
SURVEILLANCE MISSION LAST NIGHT. CONSEQUENTLY...SOME OF THE TRACK
GUIDANCE...IN PARTICULAR THE GFDL AND GFS MODELS...HAVE SHIFTED TO
THE RIGHT OF THEIR EARLIER SOLUTIONS. THIS NECESSITATES AN
EASTWARD ADJUSTMENT OF THE OFFICIAL TRACK. ADDITIONALLY...THE
AIRCRAFT DATA SHOW THAT DENNIS HAS STRENGTHENED AND THAT THE WIND
FIELD HAS EXPANDED...ESPECIALLY TO THE NORTHEAST. THE NEW TRACK
AND WIND FIELD FORECAST REQUIRES THE ISSUANCE OF WATCHES FOR
EXTREME SOUTHERN FLORIDA AT THIS TIME.
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Phil - no sweat - we just got tangled up. I actually agree with you on NASA - they squandered my childhood dreams and the good will of 2 generations. Kills me. And I agree the private sector will do a better job, if left to pure entrepreneurial capitalism - and not regulated to ruin. And our kids? Sheesh. They start out "perfect" - with some measure of potential. Then we (society) fill 'em up with [insert % here] bullshit. My relief at how cool my kid turned out is beyond palpable - it can walk and talk, lol! We're both actually concerned and have hard experience to back up our views. I know you're as sincere as I am about such truly future-shaping concerns. I'm cool and happy and know you know your stuff. The crosstalk was on high in that thread, lol! A nick in the Cat-5, I bet.
Progress contiues it's inexorable march in the DPRK!
Pyongyang, July 6 (KCNA) -- Various kinds of mud goods made in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea are popular in local and foreign markets for their medicinal and nutritive properties. A place on the west coast of the DPRK abounds in uncontaminated mud. It contains S, mineral matters, various vitamins, essential amino acid, organic acid, hormone, antibiotic medicine, enzyme, anti-oxidants and other useful substances. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...mud!
"Ryuhwanggamthang" (Sulfur Mud) is efficacious for treating and preventing various skin diseases including eczema, and chilblain, burn, neuralgia, arthritis, arteriosclerosis, chronic hepatitis, ulcer diseases, etc. And it's soooooo much cheaper then actual medicine!
"Hanjungyokje" (Sauna Mud) is rubbed all over the body before and after sauna. It helps sweat well and makes the skin soft and fair and removes scurf. Especially it is potent for pruritus, nutrition impediment, aging, neuralgia, arthritis and arteriosclerosis. ...and not only that. It's one of the few things we've got plenty of!
The cosmetics made with the mud improve the skin nutrition. They help people have dark spots, wrinkles and others removed from their faces. It also helps to camoflage the face when sneaking over the Chinese border!
Meanwhile, the seed-covering material and feed additive made with by-products of above-said mud goods make it possible to increase grain output and the production of domestic animals, spawns and meat, and to prevent diseases. Mud steak, mud burgers, mud salad dressing... even on a bad day, there's always KCNA to take the edge off.
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This land is made of mountains
This land is made of mud
This land is made of everything
for me and Elmer Fudd
This land is full of trousers
This land is full of mausers
and pussycats to hunt them all
when the sun goes down.
--Firesign Theater
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VALLETTA, Malta (AP) - Malta's parliament unanimously ratified the European Union constitution on Wednesday, adding another "yes" vote to the treaty whose future remains uncertain following rejections of the pact by French and Dutch voters.
The vote from the tiny Mediterranean island nation - about twice the size of Washington, D.C. - came after the opposition Labour Party decided to vote in favor of the constitution. "This new chapter offers many opportunities for the Maltese people and both sides were going forward together," Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi said. "Through its vote, Parliament is closing a long, controversial, divisive, chapter in its history and opening another where there is national support on European policy," he said.
All 25 nations must ratify the charter for it to take effect, and - with the addition of Malta - 12 have already done so. Some other nations, including Britain, have put the ratifications on hold while the EU decides how to proceed.
Some in Malta had debated in the media why Malta should bother voting on the constitution when its future was in such doubt. But others reasoned that the French and Dutch rejections were more about disaffection for their own governments than any opposition to the EU pact.
With just under 400,000 residents, Malta is the least populous of the 25 EU nations. It entered the bloc on May 1, 2004, one of 10 new members.
According to Mr Sarkozy, "Countries of 40, 60 or 80 million inhabitants count for more in Europe than countries with a few 100,000 inhabitants." Way to go, Malta.
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"Malta's parliament"
Oh yeah, a resounding vote of confidence by another parliamentary vote. Um, why didn't they hold a public referendum and let each individual voter in Malta decide?
An interesting debate over France's national anthem. Money graf:
A recent poll however found 72 percent of the French liked having 'La Marseillaise' as their national anthem, saying it was patriotic, rousing and pleasant to listen to. Two out of three said they knew the words to the song. And in the national assembly, several deputies described the moment when a band strikes up the song as "spine-chilling" and "always emotional." But fears of the anthem's racist overtones have been raised recently when it was whistled (booed) during a France-Algeria football match in Paris, and according to the pollsters the song finds less resonance among the under-30s with only 56 percent saying they were attached to it.
France having a bit of trouble with the Tranzis and thesurging Moose limb population...
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Arise children of the fatherland
The day of glory has arrived Against us tyranny's
Bloody standard is raised
Listen to the sound in the fields
The howling of these fearsome soldiers
They are coming into our midst
To cut the throats of your sons and consorts
To arms citizens Form your battalions
March, march
Let impure blood
Water our furrows
What do they want this horde of slaves
Of traitors and conspiratorial kings? For whom these vile chains
These long-prepared irons? Frenchmen, for us, ah! What outrage
What methods must be taken?
It is us they dare plan
To return to the old slavery!
What! These foreign cohorts!
They would make laws in our courts!
What! These mercenary phalanxes
Would cut down our warrior sons
Good Lord! By chained hands
Our brow would yield under the yoke The vile despots would have themselves be
The masters of destiny
Tremble, tyrants and traitors
The shame of all good men
Tremble! Your parricidal schemes
Will receive their just reward Against you we are all soldiers
If they fall, our young heros
France will bear new ones
Ready to join the fight against you
We too shall enlist
When our elders' time has come To add to the list of deeds
Inscribed upon their tombs
We are much less jealous of surviving them
Than of sharing their coffins
We shall have the sublime pride
Of avenging or joining them
Drive on sacred patriotism
Support our avenging arms Liberty, cherished liberty
Join the struggle with your defenders
Under our flags, let victory
Hurry to your manly tone So that in death your enemies
See your triumph and our glory!
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The howling of these fearsome soldiers
They are coming into our midst
To cut the throats of your sons and consorts
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hmmm. dont looker like rasism to me to be onest. jus a litter nashenal pride. but mebbe thatn ofensive itself to em frensh now. nyoo sugeschen for frensh antheme:
Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated
Nothin' to do and no where to go-o-oh I wanna be sedated
Just get me to the airport put me on a plane
Hurry hurry hurry before I go insane
I can't control my fingers I can't control my brain
Oh no no no no no
Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go....
Just put me in a wheelchair and put me on a plane
Hurry hurry hurry before I go insane
I can't control my fingers I can't control my brain
Oh no no no no no
Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated
Nothin' to do and no where to go-o-o I wanna be sedated
Just put me in a wheelchair get me to the show
Hurry hurry hurry before I gotta go
I can't control my fingers I can't control my toes
Oh no no no no no
Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go...
Just put me in a wheelchair...
Ba-ba-bamp-ba ba-ba-ba-bamp-ba I wanna be sedated
Ba-ba-bamp-ba ba-ba-ba-bamp-ba I wanna be sedated
Ba-ba-bamp-ba ba-ba-ba-bamp-ba I wanna be sedated
Ba-ba-bamp-ba ba-ba-ba-bamp-ba I wanna be sedated
comin thinkn it, thatn probly shuld be my antheme.
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There are a few errors in the translation: the worst of them is the howling of those fearsome soldiers
it is: the howling of those ferocious soldiers
But I certainly see why both Islamists and eurocrats would dislike the part where it tells: What! These foreign cohorts!
They would make laws in our courts!
"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Times is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tommorrow will be dying."
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HHHHHhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmm, A chanty popular but allegedly racist song from a French revolution whom legend states was started by poor Hungarian and Gypsy emigres to a'Paris!?
Now Im headed to sleep hearing the Ramones in my head.
...
DDT did a job on me
Now I am a real sickie
Guess I'll have to break the news
That I got no mind to lose
All the girls are in love with me
I'm a teenage lobotomy
#15
I've always liked the tune. It is something a human being can sing. I certainly don't have the range to deal with "The Star Spangled Banner." (And my father-in-law tried to join in singing the anthem at a ball game one afternoon, and the fellow in front of him turned around and demanded "Are you some kind of Communist?")
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Sounds like the Phrench need to start taking the words to heart. What! These foreign cohorts!
They would make laws in our courts!
Already happening. Both in France and the US. Damn SCOTUS.
SACRAMENTO â U.S. military authorities on Wednesday began investigating whether a California National Guard unit was established to spy on U.S. citizens, as about 30 demonstrators outside guard headquarters confronted officials backed by armed soldiers. The federal probe of the nation's largest National Guard force involves the U.S. Army's inspector general, the federal National Guard Bureau's inspector general and the National Guard Bureau's legal division.
The unit has raised concern among peace activists that the Guard is resorting to the same type of civilian monitoring that characterized Vietnam War-era protests.
Well, we're dealing with the same suspects.
"These are your mothers, grandmothers and neighbors," said George Main, president of Veterans for Peace and an organizer of Wednesday's protest outside guard headquarters. "They are not potential terrorist threats. The excuse that these groups might be infiltrated is an insult to the intelligence of every Californian."
Under scrutiny is a California National Guard unit with a tongue-twisting name â the Information Synchronization, Knowledge Management and Intelligence Fusion program. It was created last year and came to public light after a recent story in the San Jose Mercury News.
Investigators also are looking into the Guard's monitoring of a Mother's Day anti-war demonstration at the state Capitol that was organized by several peace groups. The activities were documented in an e-mail chain originating in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's press office and made public by the newspaper. That monitoring was by a second unit, the Guard's Domestic Watch Center. Both units were under the command of Col. Jeff Davis, who has since retired and left the state.
Guard spokesman Col. Doug Hart said monitoring activities merely meant tracking media coverage of the protest, which included the Gold Star Families for Peace, Raging Grannies and Code Pink. "Even with a seemingly innocent act as watching TV, they're breaking the law," said Natalie Wormeli, a member of Code Pinko Pink, a women's peace group.
How dare they watch TV
She sat in a wheelchair at Wednesday's protest wearing a T-shirt reading "One Nation Under Surveillance." The protesters spoke outside the Guard's headquarters in a suburban Sacramento office park, and at one point engaged in a verbal confrontation with Guard officials as soldiers carrying M-16 rifles stood in the background. One soldier blocked the locked headquarters door as the protesters tried to enter.
California National Guard officials defended the unit. "We do not spy on people," Hart said. "Never have, never will." The Guard has described the unit as consisting of two members who monitor the military's classified e-mail system and seven others who help gauge terrorist threats to bridges, buildings and other structures. Officials in the guard and the governor's office said they will cooperate in the federal inquiry. Hart said the federal units were declining comment on their probe. Army spokeswoman Lt. Col. Pamela Hart declined to even acknowledge that an investigation was under way.
Meanwhile, a state senator has begun his own investigation into the guard unit. Sen. Joe Dunn, D-Garden Grove, said he is concerned that Davis, who oversaw the unit, not only has retired but that the hard drive on his computer was erased. Doug Hart said Davis' retirement and the cleansing of the computer were routine and happened before Dunn began investigating the unit last week.
SOP, someone leaves, his computer is wiped and issued to someone else. Any official documents and e-mail logs should still be on a backup tape somewhere.
Dunn runs a subcommittee that oversees the Guard's funding and is seeking Senate subpoenas for Davis and the computer. In a news conference Wednesday, Dunn said he suspects the federal probe is designed to keep evidence away from state investigators and the witch hunt public hearings he plans.
The acting adjutant general for the California National Guard, Brigadier General John R. Alexander, said he would provide no details to Dunn while the federal investigation is ongoing. Dunn questioned federal jurisdiction in the case and suggested that Schwarzenegger, as the state's commander in chief, should order the Guard to cooperate. He also said the governor should consider involving the California Highway Patrol to ensure that no evidence is destroyed or removed from the state. State Guard officials said they expect to be able to convince Dunn that they have done nothing wrong.
Schwarzenegger originally sought a federal review of possible accounting irregularities under the Guard's former commander, Major Gen. Thomas Eres. Eres resigned abruptly in June amid questions about whether he falsified passing a required marksmanship test and tried to arrange a flight on a military aircraft for members of a Republican group. The governor's office expanded the request after questions arose about the special unit arose.
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Hmm.. looks like a witch hunt by the dems.
If I was the commander of the Guard unit, I would watch the protesters too, in the off chance I was called out to surpress a riot. Happens all the time and is NOT illegal on public property. Now if the guard unit snuck into the homes of the nut-jobs, different story.
Much ado about nothing and as I said, a witch-hunt by the dems and LLL. Two words for you groups.
FUCK OFF!
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When I read the headline, I thought maybe the feds were probing the NG for real spying - the type on behalf of foreign agents. Oh well, nothing to see here; move along.
#3
They were fulfilling the part of their service oath about "enemies both foreign and domestic".
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I'm with you all on this one. Although, I'd have to say, you'd have to pay me one he!! of a salary to watch the Raging Grannies and Code Pink. Sure hope those Guardsmen are mentally o.k. still after that!
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The San Jose Mercury News should be renamed "Moonbat Central News" for the good it does. They are the ones that broke the story of the CIA selling crack in black communities. Of course you know this is another poo poo fling at Arnold and has nothing to do with the Guard.
Burma's military government yesterday released about 240 prisoners, most of them political detainees, an opposition spokesman said. Those released included members of the National League for Democracy, a party spokesman, Nyan Win, said. There was no sign that the party's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, would be released from house arrest.
"As far as we know, some 240 prisoners, mostly political prisoners and some NLD lawmakers, were released from prisons," the spokesman said. He said 118 prisoners were freed from Insein prison in northern Yangon, including some held for staging solo protests in front of the city hall. Among those released yesterday was the former newspaper editor Sein Hla Oo, who had been serving a 20-year sentence.
The junta is estimated to be holding more than 1,300 political detainees, including many who are old and in poor health. The most prominent is Ms Suu Kyi, a Nobel peace prize laureate, who was most recently taken into custody in May 2003 and is being held at her home in Yangon.
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New York Times corrects an "error".
Editors' Note
Published: July 7, 2005
The Op-Ed page in some copies yesterday carried an incorrect version of an article about military recruitment. The writer, an Army reserve officer, did not say, "Imagine my surprise the other day when I received orders to report to Fort Campbell, Ky., next Sunday," nor did he characterize his recent call-up to active duty as the precursor to a "surprise tour of Iraq."That language was added by an editor and was to have been removed before the article was published. Because of a production error, it was not. The Times regrets the error.
Hat tip to Captain's Quarters
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That language was added by an editor and was to have been removed before the article was published. Because of a production error, it was not.
Um, which is it, the editor's fault or the convenient 'production error'?
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Tut, tut, boys. Even I must admit that was a bit blatant. I can't stress enough how much we really have to make an effort not to get caught at these shenanigans all the time. It's starting to get embarrassing.
Oh, well. Off to the club to have one for Judy Miller. Anything for the First Amendment, eh Judy? Bring my limo around. Ta-ta...
#4
"That language was added by an editor and was to have been removed before the article was published. Because of a production error, it was not."
Removed before publishing?!? The fact it was in there in the first place shows that the New Yuck Times' "knee-jerks" are America hating blame-US-first scumbags first, and journalists second.
EFL: NEW YORK (AP) - Nearly 23 percent of all people born in the U.S. in 2002 had a foreign-born mother - the largest percentage since a wave of immigration more than 90 years ago, a study of birth records by a private nonprofit group shows. The Center for Immigration Studies said the country has not seen as large a share of its children born to immigrants since 1910, when the number reached 22 percent as shiploads of Italians and eastern Europeans crowded America's port cities.
This time, Hispanics are the driving force, according to the study being released Thursday. Nearly 1 in 10 births in the United States in 2002 were to women born in Mexico. Hispanics, as a whole, accounted for 59 percent of all births by immigrants. The boom in second-generation Americans is bound to have an effect on the country that is equal, if not greater, than the sea-changes of the early 20th century, said Steven Camarota, the Center for Immigration Studies researcher who wrote the report. He said the influx of immigrants in the early 1900s was curtailed significantly by a tightening of entry rules and two world wars, and that no such cutoff appears imminent now. ``It just tells you that we are headed into uncharted territory,'' Camarota said.
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It just tells you that we are headed into uncharted territory,''
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We need to only grant citizenship to newborns if *both* parents are here as legal residence (either as citizens or permanent residents) or if one parent is a citizen or PR and the other parent is here on a *valid* visa.
#7
Agreed, Crazyfool! I can't believe how big an Achille's heel this could be to Bush, except that the Demos want them for votes. Could cause a rise in a competitive 3rd party, possibly?
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In the whole article, the word "illegal" was only mentioned ONCE.
With estimates of between nine to eleven million illegal immigrants on U.S. soil, those "1 in 10" births are more likely than not to be births to illegal immgrant women.
..and that no such cutoff appears imminent now.
Nope, we'll just have to learn Spanish in order not to offend the sensitivities of illegal immigrants...
#9
HISPANICS accor to US Census and other definitions embodies a wide variety of races or internat ethnic groups, except specific Asian types. Is no more a Achille's Heel than for the Scotch-Irish, Irish, Germans, Italians and later immigrant groups - Capitalism and freedom are the best catalysts for diversity and utopianism. Western and Asian Socialism is demographically shrinking and dying while America keeps getting bigger - will reverse to America's detriment iff keep PC accomo the Commie Clintons and Socialist World Order.
SPIEGEL: Mr. Shikwati, the G8 summit at Gleneagles is about to beef up the development aid for Africa...
Shikwati: ... for God's sake, please just stop.
SPIEGEL: Stop? The industrialized nations of the West want to eliminate hunger and poverty.
Shikwati: Such intentions have been damaging our continent for the past 40 years. If the industrial nations really want to help the Africans, they should finally terminate this awful aid. The countries that have collected the most development aid are also the ones that are in the worst shape. Despite the billions that have poured in to Africa, the continent remains poor.
SPIEGEL: Do you have an explanation for this paradox?
Shikwati: Huge bureaucracies are financed (with the aid money), corruption and complacency are promoted, Africans are taught to be beggars and not to be independent. In addition, development aid weakens the local markets everywhere and dampens the spirit of entrepreneurship that we so desperately need. As absurd as it may sound: Development aid is one of the reasons for Africa's problems. If the West were to cancel these payments, normal Africans wouldn't even notice. Only the functionaries would be hard hit. Which is why they maintain that the world would stop turning without this development aid.
SPIEGEL: Even in a country like Kenya, people are starving to death each year. Someone has got to help them.
Shikwati: But it has to be the Kenyans themselves who help these people. When there's a drought in a region of Kenya, our corrupt politicians reflexively cry out for more help. This call then reaches the United Nations World Food Program -- which is a massive agency of apparatchiks who are in the absurd situation of, on the one hand, being dedicated to the fight against hunger while, on the other hand, being faced with unemployment were hunger actually eliminated. It's only natural that they willingly accept the plea for more help. And it's not uncommon that they demand a little more money than the respective African government originally requested. They then forward that request to their headquarters, and before long, several thousands tons of corn are shipped to Africa ... Read the rest. This guy really knows what is going on and how to fix it. Hattip Vodkapundit
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Shikwati: If one were to believe all the horrorifying reports, then all Kenyans should actually be dead by now. But now, tests are being carried out everywhere, and it turns out that the figures were vastly exaggerated. It's not three million Kenyans that are infected. All of the sudden, it's only about one million. Malaria is just as much of a problem, but people rarely talk about that.
SPIEGEL: And why's that?
Shikwati: AIDS is big business, maybe Africa's biggest business. There's nothing else that can generate as much aid money as shocking figures on AIDS. AIDS is a political disease here, and we should be very skeptical.
Bring home our $15 billion now, President! Wonder how long this guy's gonna last now that he speaks the truth.
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This guy really knows what is going on and how to fix it.
Take care if you are travelling in Asia ... and be concerned about its spread further.
The deadly H5N1 strain of avian flu has been found for the first time in migratory birds.
The discovery in China, published in scientific journals today, raises fears that wild birds could spread the virus to regions that have not been affected so far notably south Asia.
Two scientific teams in China and Hong Kong have confirmed that the H5N1 strain, which has killed 54 people and tens of millions of chickens in south-east Asia, was responsible for the current flu outbreak among geese and other wildfowl at the remote Qinghai Lake in the west of the country. About 6,000 birds have died there since the end of April.
âThe occurrence of highly pathogenic H5N1 infection in migrant waterfowl indicates that this virus has the potential to be a global threat,â wrote George Gao and colleagues at the Institute of Microbiology, Beijing, in the journal Science.
âLake [Qinghai] is a breeding centre for migrant birds that congregate from south-east Asia, Siberia, Australia and New Zealand.â
The other team, led by Yi Guan of the University of Hong Kong, wrote in Nature that the discovery was a particular threat to India, which has not so far been affected by H5N1. In September large flocks of bar-headed geese will migrate to the south Asian subcontinent from Qinghai.
Genetic analysis of the virus taken from dead birds at the lake showed a close relationship to the H5N1 virus that has infected people in Thailand and Vietnam, but there have been some slight mutations.
Dr Guan and colleagues said the analysis suggested that the virus was introduced just once to Qinghai, probably from poultry hundreds of kilometres away in southern China. Although the outbreak could burn itself out, the large migratory bird population at the lake made this unlikely, they wrote.
Before the Qinghai outbreak, the H5N1 virus had occurred only sporadically in wild birds close to poultry farms. Ian Jones, a virologist at Reading University in the UK, said: âIt was expected to spread to migratory birds at some point but it is bad news that this has now happened.â
It was impossible to predict the impact of the development on the chance of H5N1 mutating into a form capable of causing a human pandemic, Prof Jones said. The optimistic view was that as the virus spread through the bird population it would become less virulent.
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Sheesh. China and Southeast Asia are going to be the death of us yet.
This suit had big play in the Chicago papers. As we say around here, "they could smell the meat a-cookin'."
CHICAGO (AP) - An effort by slave descendants to gain reparations from corporations that allegedly benefited from slavery was dismissed Wednesday by a federal judge.
Judge Charles R. Norgle characterized the issue as basically political, and said it should be decided by the legislative or executive branch. He added that the plaintiffs have failed to show a link between themselves and the 17 corporations named as defendants, and that the statute of limitations rules out damages for wrongs committed before slavery was abolished in 1868.
It was the second time Norgle dismissed a version of the slave reparations suit and this time he did it with prejudice - meaning that any hopes of reviving it at the District Court level most likely are dead.
Nah, it's like Rasputin -- it will keep coming back one way or another.
Norgle based his decision partly on ``the long-standing'' doctrine that political issues should be resolved in the Congress or the executive branch, and noted that slavery reparations issues historically have been fought there rather than the courts.
Attorney Benjamin Obi Nwoye said he and other lawyers who have worked on the suit planned to appeal. ``We don't agree with his reasoning,'' he said. ``We are hopeful that we will get justices who are fair-minded so the descendants of slaves can be repaid for the work of their forefathers.'' Attorneys for the slave descendants say they want to use any damages to create a fund to feather their own nests help correct problems in the black community.
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Thanks, Norgle. Takes guts to buck the PC Swindle Game - especially in Illinois, Land of Lincoln Machine Lunacy.
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Better chance in targeting the Democrats, their 'Copperhead' moonbat wing, and their longtime allies, the KKK, not only for slavery but conspiracy to deny civil rights. Maybe all those records of highly regarded Democratic filibusters on lynching and civil rights laws can be introduced. Oh, that would mean you'd be sueing yourselves. Have at it.
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Welcome to the blatant "federal case" losers circle counsellor Obi One Knotheadi! Read up on the statute of limitations, count your blessings, and get back to reality and the present.
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This will be tried again. They'll go court shoppin' in order to find a sympathetic judge. One question...why Chicago? That court would have to have jurisdiction in order to rule on it, right? Were most of the involved companies headquartered there?
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You know, I'm of Irish descent. My forefathers broke their backs building the transcontinental railroad, and I bet they did't make minimun wage! I wonder if the ACLU or People for the American Way would like to get me a settlement for their work? I'd give them 30% of any actual cash I put in my pocket. So do you think I have a case?
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Isn't there some sort of process that can stop stupid law suits like this one? I mean do these lawyers really think that they can prosecute a ompany for something that (while wrong) was legal and there are NO direct injured party? I like this judge and his ruling, maybe he is on the short list for SCOTUS.
I believe the Emancipation Proclamation was delivered in 1863.
There may have been some silly governmental bureaucracy thing that kept the ratification of the EM tied up legally until 1868, but the officialemancipation of slaves in the south (and effectively everywhere else) was made in 1863.
Remarkable attitude change when confronted by Indian Air Force attack helicopters U.N. peacekeeping troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo say an ongoing "show of force" operation is initially successful at a park in Walungu Province. Monday's operation Falcon Sweep involved a helicopter drop of Guatemalan and Pakistani peacekeepers in Kahuzi Bega National Park in eastern Congo, said a U.N. spokesman on Wednesday. In a report to U.N. headquarters peacekeepers said 150 Rwandan rebels "threateningly encircled" Pakistani peacekeepers who took a "defensive posture" with their Guatemalan counterparts. After the Pakistani commander called in Mi-35 attack helicopters "as a deterrent," the "attitude" of the rebels "immediately changed and they quickly ran away dispersed." The report said one of the operation's objectives was "area domination and show of force." All peacekeepers "returned to Kavmu Airbase safe and sound" the report said. No shots were reported to have been fired.
Imagine how attitudes will change if you helizap a few of them.
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"quickly dispersed" ???
You let them live / leave? What fucking good is this UN "force", pray tell? What is the point?
Five men have been arrested for allegedly kidnapping and gang raping a woman in eastern Pakistan yesterday. The married woman was attacked because one of her cousins had an affair with a woman whose father disapproved of the relationship, police said yesterday. âThe accused say they carried out this horrible act as an act of honor,â said police official Mohammad Mumtaz.
The suspects kidnapped the woman, Fauzia Altaf, in the town of Chiniot in late June after the main suspect, Anwar Ali, got angry about an affair between her cousin and his daughter. Ali was among the five men accused of raping and torturing the woman for two days. Two other suspects had absconded while one had turned himself in and been released on bail, Mumtaz said. The suspects were arrested on Tuesday after police received a complaint from her family, he said. âThe woman has told us that she was kidnapped and raped by seven men last week,â he said.
Mumtaz said the lead suspect in the gang rape told police that his daughter was kidnapped and sexually assaulted by the youth, but that an initial police investigation showed that the woman willingly went with the young man to a nearby city last month. Police plan to question the daughter and the young man to find out âthe nature of their relations,â he said, adding that officers will âdetermine who is right and who is wrongâ and âsend this to a court soon.â Mumtaz earlier said the lead suspect was the brother of the 17-year-old woman, but later clarified that he was her father.
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"an act of honor"
How do they keep their heads from exploding? Oh, yeah, the turbans...
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