Polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea may be turning to cannibalism because longer seasons without ice keep them from getting to their natural food, a new study by American and Canadian scientists has found.
The study reviewed three examples of polar bears preying on each other from January to April 2004 north of Alaska and western Canada, including the first-ever reported killing of a female in a den shortly after it gave birth.
Polar bears feed primarily on ringed seals and use sea ice for feeding, mating and giving birth.
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Another possibility: One possibility is that there are just more bears around in general. Their numbers have increased steadily over the last 25 years, perhaps to historic highs, and it is thought that about 2,000 polar bears may now live in the Beaufort Sea area.
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"During 24 years of research on polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea region of northern Alaska and 34 years in northwestern Canada, we have not seen other incidents of polar bears stalking, killing and eating other polar bears," the scientists said.
Gee, ya think meebe the reason why scientists study stuff is to learn something new that they've never seen before. Does the fact that we've never sen this in 34 years of studying bears mean that: a) we didn't see that many bears to make ironclad generalizations or b) it's the end of polar bear life as we know it.
JUBA, Sudan - Gunmen from Ugandas Lords Resistance Army guerrillas killed nine people in an attack on the outskirts of the south Sudanese capital Juba, an army officer and residents said on Monday. Residents said the victims of Sunday nights attack were foreigners working for a Russian road construction company.
Achol Achol, the officer with the governments Sudan Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA), told Reuters Sundays attack at about 10 p.m. (1900 GMT) was in the Gumba area on the east bank of the Nile and a few miles from the city centre. Nine people were wounded, including two children and five women, Achol added. In the morning hundreds of villagers took shelter in the compound around the Juba Radio transmitter, which has a small police contingent, witnesses said.
LRA guerrillas have been operating in the area but are not necessarily under the control of the LRA leadership, who are holding talks with the south Sudanese government.
The vice president of the southern Sudan government, Riek Machar, met with LRA leader Joseph Kony on Monday near the southern town of Maridi, Juba Radio said later. They talked about the agenda for discussions expected to take place in Juba in a few days between the LRA, the government and representatives of the Ugandan government, it said.
The LRA is notorious for killing civilians, abducting children and mutilating victims in a campaign without clearly stated political aims. The government of southern Sudan is trying to persuade the group to leave the country.
How 'bout just killing them? You'd be doing everyone a favor.
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A Libyan court began on Tuesday retrying five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV, witnesses said. Court President Mahmoud Haouissa began the hearing by reading out the names of the defendants and asking them to confirm their presence.
Libya's supreme court overturned death sentences in December against the nurses and the Palestinian doctor, who are accused of deliberately injecting 426 youngsters with the virus, and ordered a retrial. Washington has long backed Bulgaria and the European Union in saying the medics, in jail in Libya since 1999, are innocent.
Around 50 of the children have died and the case has fuelled outrage among the families of the victims. Bulgaria and its allies say the medics were tortured to confess and global AIDS experts say the outbreak at the Benghazi hospital where they worked first happened before they arrived.
The first session of the retrial was rapidly adjourned on May 11. The judge said the postponement was needed to allow lawyers who lacked proper papers to bring the documents to court.
Tripoli has suggested the nurses could go free if Bulgaria pays compensation to the children and their families, who have demanded 4.4 billion euros ($NZ8.8 billion). Bulgaria has refused to pay, saying this would be an admission of guilt.But the United States, the EU, Libya and Bulgaria have agreed to back the establishment of an aid fund, and are seeking ways to help the victims and their families.
On April 28, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on a visit to Bulgaria that the nurses had been jailed for too long and should be allowed to return home.
LUXEMBOURG - European Union foreign ministers gave the green light on Monday to the deployment of some 2,000 troops charged with helping protect the Democratic Republic of Congos watershed July 30 elections. Under an agreement with the United Nations, the EU will contribute around 450 troops on the ground in Congo and most of the rest will be based in neighbouring countries. Those troops will intervene only if asked to by the United Nations.
So they'll stand around alot, diddle the Congolese girls and watch the place crumble. Smart.
Germany and France will be the main troop contributors, with Berlin sending 780 troops and Paris some 800. Around 16 other countries including Turkey will also be present. Poland and Spain will send some 100 soldiers each, Sweden 50 and the Netherlands 40, diplomats said.
Wouldn't it just be better to send a few thousand troops from one Euro country instead of having six of these and a dozen of those?
Advance units of the European force have begun arriving in Congo. But Mondays decision will authorise the forces German commander to launch full deployment, with the aim of being fully operational about 10 days before the elections.
The vote will be the Democratic Republic of Congos first free and fair elections in more than 40 years. But preparations are being overshadowed by an opposition boycott and continued fighting in the east of the country. A 17,000-strong UN peacekeeping mission is trying to help the fledgling army pacify Congos lawless east, where militia groups still roam.
The potentially risky mission is controversial notably in Germany, which has stressed that it will have a maximum duration of four months and not foreshadow any long-term EU presence. My expectation is that these four months will be sufficient, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told reporters as he arrived in Luxembourg.
Don't worry, Wally, Congo will still be there when you leave. Ask Joseph Conrad.
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Will these be actual troops or those 36-hrs-a-week union guys?
HAVANA: The US diplomatic mission in the Cuban capital has been without electricity for a week, an employee at the building said on Monday, in what may be the start of a new crisis in always tense relations between the two countries. "Sunday marked a week since we have had electricity. We are using a generator," the employee said. He said the State Department was expected to issue a statement later in the day.
US diplomats and Cuban officials were not immediately available for comment. The US mission was denied power even as Cuba declared an end to the daily blackouts that have wreaked havoc on peoples' lives and the economy since 1991. Parliament was told on Saturday that hundreds of generators have been linked to the energy grid under a $1 billion programme.
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Cuba seems to be dead in the path of every hurricane I can remember, I'll bet the Cuban Embassy has a huge generator (I would have three, for backup and maintenance) with lots of diesel stored to run it.
Also I remember a few weeks back Cuba stating that they were having a power shortage and were going to have to start rolling blackouts.
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Those generators will use twice as much fuel (and more expensive gasoline and diesel) than large thermal power plants. Socialist planning at its best.
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Support within the EU for a tougher stance on Cuba is strongest in the eight eastern European nations that joined the bloc in 2004 and where memories of the legacy of communism are still fresh. The Netherlands and Sweden also favor a tougher stance, but Spain is among countries that oppose it, officials said.
Czech officials said that not only have Europe's policies failed to foster a measure of democracy in Cuba, but the emergence of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been a boon for Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Czech officials said they want the EU to provide more funding for civil society groups as it has done for Belarus, a country widely seen as flouting democracy.
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Boy, the Czechs hold a grudge against commies. They have been just pestiferous to Cuba for years now, doing a whole bunch of things to piss them off.
WASHINGTON - Rep. Patrick Kennedy reached a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to a charge of driving under the influence of prescription drugs in connection with his middle-of-the-night car crash last month near the U.S. Capitol. Two additional charges of reckless driving and failure to exhibit a driving permit will be dismissed under the plea agreement.
Announcing the agreement, Kennedy's chief of staff, Sean Richardson, said the Rhode Island Democrat would appear in District of Columbia Superior Court Tuesday afternoon "to accept the consequences of his actions." "He is looking forward to closing this chapter," Richardson said. "He's feeling great and is expected to be back to work."
Kennedy returned to Congress last week after nearly a month of treatment for addiction to prescription pain drugs at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. The six-term congressman, who has struggled with addiction since high school, had entered the clinic one day after the May 4 crash on Capitol Hill that he said he could not remember.
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Ok, it's a pretty sweet deal, but he is being 'punished', nonetheless. The comparison between Kennedy's 'special treatment' with McKinney's is now gone. When will McKinney be charged? Assault on a Police Officer is a felony. DUI is a misdemeanor.
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His 28-day 'treatment' is known as a "spin-dry" and not very effective. The real treatments are 6 months to a year. Plus, you live in recovery for the rest of your life. Expect to see more DUI mug shots of Rep. Kennedy in the future, at least until he kills someone (or himself). Of course, other members of his family do get away with it.
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As puny as it is, I still think they came down harder on him then Mass did on Teddy back in '69.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has approved plans to foil any Republican Party campaign to attack her marriage in the 2008 presidential election.
Democratic Party sources said Mrs. Clinton has decided to force the issue of her relationship with Bill Clinton during her current re-election campaign for senator of New York. The decision has included giving the former president a high-profile role over the next few months. "You're going to see Hillary and Bill together a lot during the campaign," a party source knowledgeable of Mrs. Clintons campaign said. "Bill will be politicking alone and with Hillary, and the idea is to present them as a loving couple."
Snake and mongoose ...
The sources said Mrs. Clinton has assessed that the GOP plans to make her marriage a key issue in any presidential race in 2008. They said this could include questions as to whether the Clintons are living together as husband and wife or are simply maintaining a marriage of convenience to preserve Mrs. Clinton's presidential ambitions. The Clintons have been married for 30 years.
Nope, HRC has a good deal of baggage in her own right. I'm glad to support women in public office, on the strength of their records. She's not one of the ones I support, for precisely that reason.
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WASHINGTON - A liberal crowd both booed and cheered Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton Tuesday after she encouraged Democrats to have a "difficult conversation" about their position on the Iraq war in order to win over middle-of-the-road voters.
Clinton's attempt to strike a moderate stance on the divisive issue of the war contrasted sharply with the angry words of another potential presidential contender, Sen. John Kerry, the party's 2004 standard-bearer, who called the war "immoral" and a "quagmire."
At a speech before a liberal gathering dubbed "Take Back America," the New York senator took grief from those in the audience critical of her vote for the Iraq war and her opposition to an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops.
"I do not think it is a smart strategy, either, for the president to continue with his open-ended commitment, which I think does not put enough pressure on the new Iraqi government," said Clinton, before turning to the anti-war liberals' core beef with her.
"Nor do I think it is smart strategy to set a date certain. I do not agree that that is in the best interests," said Clinton, prompting loud booing from some at the gathering.
Clinton has been seen as the early favorite among potential Democratic candidates for president in 2008, but she is increasingly at odds with anti-war liberals over her past vote and current position on Iraq.
"Sometimes this is a difficult conversation, in part because this administration has made our world more dangerous than it should be," she said.
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I disagree with every GOP figure on issues as well. Even McCain. But I am comforted to know that if its McCain against some Democrat I cant stomach (say Howard Dean, for arguments sake, though i dont expect he'll be the left standard bearer) there will be Republican whom I feel I can trust the future of the republic to.
I dont expect the Repubs here to PREFER Hillary to, well, Republicans. Im not here to argue the merits of say, national health insurance, or community policing. I DO think you should consider, when YOU have your own difficulties with any particular Repub nominee, that IF Hillary is the Dem nominee, you will have someone who is in the right place on national security. And has the courage to stand up for beliefs to a hostile audience.
and there just may be some of you out there, who follow the logic of Robert Kagan - that the WOT cant be seen as the property of the GOP, and that its important for US interests, that the Dems be forced to take responsibility for the hard choices it involves.
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Frank G, etc.
Could you do me a favor, please?
Mosey over to Kos, DU, etc, and explain to them how youre a firm conservative Republican, and how you wont vote for Hillary cause shes a firm liberal, a socialist, etc, etc. Remind them of her pro-choice politics,her support for "that commie health care scheme", her support for gays in the military, and other stuff like that, would you?
We gots terrorists trying to take over Iraq, and over 50 Iraqis a day dying, and a bunch of Americans trying to get us out (which would meant the terrs takeover)
We got Americans and foreigners whove forgotten there are jihadis trying to kill us, and who think the WOT is something invented by George Bush.
at this point, I dont care if Hillary sleeps with Bill. I dont care who or what she sleeps with. I want more Jihadis to sleep in the dirt, and if she can get the US more united in support of that, well .....
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Besides, if she wins, it doesn't follow she gets the legislature, especially the Senate. In fact, the donks have been giving the trunks ugly minority legislator lessons. I would not want to be the donk president in 2009.
according to the TNR blog, Murtha has given up his quest to be majority leader. If the dems win and Pelosi becomes speaker, at least the majority leader will be the reliable and competent Steny Hoyer.
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Liberalhawk raises an important point: whatever his or her other faults, we want both parties' winning candidates to be pro-WoT. There are a lot of issues I used to vote on, but now this is non-negotiable for me. Suppose we are presented with -- and I do not think this is going to happen, but let's blue sky it -- the choice of Clinton (D) vs. McCain (R)? Both bad choices, but at least better than Murtha (duplicitious, undermining, Marine in name only) vs. Pat Robertson (Know Nothing, Paleocon). Do not try to argue the examples, please, I am still refusing to give 2008 brain space until January of that year. ;-)
The prosecutor in the C.I.A. leak case on Monday advised Karl Rove, the senior White House adviser, that he would not be charged with any wrongdoing, effectively ending the nearly three-year criminal investigation that had at times focused intensely on Mr. Rove.
The decision by the prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, announced in a letter to Mr. Rove's lawyer, Robert D. Luskin, lifted a pall that had hung over Mr. Rove who testified on five occasions to a federal grand jury about his involvement in the disclosure of an intelligence officer's identity.
In a statement, Mr. Luskin said, "On June 12, 2006, Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald formally advised us that he does not anticipate seeking charges against Karl Rove."
Mr. Fitzgerald's spokesman, Randall Samborn, said he would not comment on Mr. Rove's status. RTWT, if only just to gloat. Oh, and that grinding sound you hear is the NYT's editorial board gnashing its teeth.
Too bad this didn't happen last week during Kos-Fest in Las Vegas, it would have made the Joe Wilson autograph signing something special.
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headlines on Drudge LOL....wailing and gnashing of teeth! No Fitzmas this year!
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Response from Yeeaaarrrgghhhh! Howard Dean:
DNC CHAIRMAN DEAN: ROVE HAS REAL SIN
Tue Jun 13 2006 08:29:32 ET
DNC Chair Howard Dean on NBC's 'TODAY': 'If Karl Rove had been indicted it would have been for perjury. That does not excuse his real sin which is leaking the name of an intelligence operative during the time of war. He doesn't belong in the White House. If the President valued America more than he valued his connection to Karl Rove, then Karl Rove would have been fired a long time ago. So I think this is probably good news for the White House, but its not very good news for America'...
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This should really whip up the Koss Klan Kiddies meeting in DC today. Should get lots of quotes, heh.
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Slereth Whereque8037 is me (although that's a pretty cool handle). I heard this on NPR while commuting to work. The other drivers must have thought this middle-aged fat guy roaring with laughter was about to snap and go on a road-rage rampage.
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Who's paying this phalking Fitzgerald ?
The only crime in this whole smoke screen is that asshole Joe Wilson inpersonating a human being.
Phalking Fitzgerald should give back all his pay that incompetent boob. He wouldn't know a fact if it bit him in the nuts.
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Does this mean there is no Fitzmas this year? A morning stroll in the fever swamp reflects one of three scenarios:
1)Karl Rove is under Double Secret Indictment
2)Karl Rove sold out Cheney
-In this scenario Cheney will resign and Bush will choose a successor and next Republican Presidential candidate.
3) The Bush-Hitler crowd got to Fitz and has leverage over him
Like the SeeBS Guard story, the overall scenario that Karl outed Plame is still true. Of course nobody has any evidence which lends itself to the many sub-conspiracies. If my prediction comes true and Fitz dismisses charges against Libby (for lack of evidence) you will really see the fur fly on the left.
P.S. I must have been good because Fitz gave me almost everything I wanted!
Okay, Rove may not be indicted in this universe, but what about in parallel universes? Somewhere on the planet Zargon in an unknown universe, there's a Karl Rove who's doing the perp walk right this minute. TO just got a little too far ahead of the universe cycle. No big deal.
Glorious!
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Tomorrow's headlines:
Fitz indicts Cheney, Bush replaces Cheney with Karl Rove
Democrats jumping out of windows, in front of trains and buses. Film at eleven.
Now that the Big Game (Rove) has been taken off the table in the Beltway Night of the Long Knives, why don't we get back to the real mystery in the Plame Affair - just why did Joseph C. Wilson go to Niger? It doesn't take a rocket scientist - or even a crime writer - to see something fishy in sending the hubby of a hemi-semi-demi-out CIA agent for a week to drink tea in Africa to find out whether someone had been selling yellowcake to Saddam. And it doesn't take that same rocket scientist - or crime writer - to figure that the expected... and wanted... answer was "no." So what's the real crime here? Who sent Wilson and why? And who's the real Mr. Big?
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From Wilson's lawyer: We have become aware of the communication between Mr. Fitzgerald and Mr. Luskin concerning Karl Rove's status in the criminal investigation. We have no first-hand knowledge of the reason for the communication or what further developments in the criminal investigation it may signal. While it appears that Mr. Rove will not be called to answer in criminal court for his participation in the wrongful disclosure of Valerie Wilson's classified employment status at the CIA in retaliation against Joe Wilson for questioning the rationale for war in Iraq, that obviously does not end the matter. The day still may come when Mr. Rove and others are called to account in a court of law for their attacks on the Wilsons.
Oh, horseshit. That's the kind of chest-thumping lawyers do when they're holding a pair of deuces. He's implying that the Wilsons will file a civil suit against Rove. But to prosecute the suit successfully the Wilsons would either (a) have to put their reputations at issue ("everyone thought highly of us until the evil Rove disclosed that Valerie worked for the CIA, which caused us to lose innumerable party invitations") or (b) claim mental anguish and emotional distress, in which case (bwahaha) their medical records become fair game. In either event, Rove's lawyers would get to depose the Wilsons about all this, and the Wilsons ain't about to let that happen.
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Even before the depositions, you get what are called, 'interrogatories' -- a series of questions that you get to ask that the other side has to answer. The judge has to approve the questions, and the other side can propose different answers, etc., but it sure can be entertaining.
Additional points of fun include the inevitable and ubiquitous demand for documents. Which documents? All of them, counseler, including whole bunches that you didn't even know existed.
There is so much that could be done to ruin Joe Wilson before the depositions are collected that the deposition itself could be anti-climatic. Not that I'd ever let that happen, of course :-)
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"It's beginning to look it's not like Fitzmas"
SAN LUIS RIO COLORADO, Mexico -- The arrival of U.S. National Guard troops in Arizona has scared off illegal Mexican migrants along the border as a whole, significantly reducing crossings, according to U.S. and Mexican officials. U.S. authorities said Monday that detentions along the U.S.-Mexico border have decreased by 21 percent, to 26,994, in the first 10 days of June, compared with 34,077 for the same period a year ago.
Along the Arizona border, once the busiest crossing spot, detentions have dropped 23 percent, according to the U.S. Border Patrol. The desert region's blistering June temperatures typically drive down the number of migrants, but not so drastically, said Mario Martinez, a spokesman with the U.S. Border Patrol in Washington.
The 55 soldiers who arrived June 3 are the first of some 6,000 troops to be gradually dispatched all along the border as part of President Bush's plan to stem illegal immigration to the United States. The soldiers aren't allowed to detain migrants and have been limited to projects like extending border fences and repairing roads, but the military's presence are keeping would-be crossers away from the area, migrant rights activists said.
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Migrants? Migrant rights? Try using the word "invaders". So, what rights do invaders have?
Wonder if the reporter would care to give us a human interest story about the impact of 100,000 trespassers a month on the Arizonans living in the invasion zone?
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The arrival of U.S. National Guard troops in Arizona has scared off illegal Mexican migrants along the border as a whole, significantly reducing crossings, according to U.S. and Mexican officials.
The one small bright lining in the false paint of our troops in Iraq is that the Mexican et al illegals believe they're going to be treated in a manner similar to that they know they'd receive at the end of a Mexican soldato's hands.
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"because the U.S. Army doesn't have a very good reputation, they prefer not to cross"
Unadulterated bullshit. It's because they have a good reputation that the illegals 'prefer not to cross'. Oh, and while we're on the subject of 'reputations', how about the reputation of the mexican army, the mexican police, the mexican government, mexican jails, etc.???
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#4: Hard to believe someone would pay $3,000 $30,000,000. to come here and make $5 an hour $150,000 per year as a congressman in Washington washing dishes or working for a landscaper.
Good point...
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) - An American lawmaker said Monday that any U.S. financial support for the renovation U.N. headquarters depends on how the money will be used and the transparency of the process.
Republican Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, who serves on a financial management subcommittee in the Senate, met with U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown to discuss the renovation plan. ``The U.S. Senate is not going to decide what they do, but we are going to decide whether we help pay for that based on whether there's transparency'' on the part of the U.N. as the plan is developed, Coburn told reporters after the meeting.
The senator's visit comes days after a speech by Malloch Brown that rebuked the United States, the top financial contributor to the U.N. He said Washington relies on the U.N. as a diplomatic tool but refuses to defend it before its critics at home.
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There should be no renovation in NY. Give them a 30 day notice to pack their rotten asses up and move out. Let them go to Brussels, Khartoum, etc. Matter of fact, we don't give a shit where they go. Just get the hell out of the US.
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Coburn should offer to build new digs anywhere in his state so that he can show how inexpensively it can be done by and how friendly the middle Americans are.
The shameless master liar strikes again
As Tropical Storm Alberto threatened to strengthen into the ninth hurricane in 22 months to affect Florida, former President Clinton predicted Monday that Republican environmental policies will lead to more severe storms.
Personally, I think it's the wind from Dem politicians, but what the hell do I know?
"It is now generally recognized that while Al Gore and I were ridiculed, we were right about global warming," Clinton said at a fundraiser for the Florida Democratic Party. "It's a serious problem. It's going to lead to more hurricanes." "The greenhouse gas building from both of us speaking on tour will overcome any technological advances"
Gore's documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," chronicles the former vice president's efforts to educate the public about global warming. It's in limited release around the country. just like Bill!
In his critique of the GOP, Clinton also touched on the war in Iraq, the rising federal deficit and high health care costs. The crowd of about 500 greeted him with loud applause and shouts of "We love you, Bill!" and "Four more years!" "pass the koolaid!"
Jeff Sadosky, spokesman for the state Republican Party, decried Clinton's rhetoric. "Bill Clinton's class warfare and race-baiting message gets us no closer to solutions for the issues he brings up," he said. Sadosky referred in part to Clinton's comments earlier this month in Arizona. At that event, Clinton characterized Republican Party leaders as right-wing, white Southerners.
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"Environmental policies" > MAN IS/MUST CONTROL GOD = SUN = UNIVERSE, etal. just as Mankind failed to know, let alone stop, the NORWAY METEOR, etal. Don't go around arguing that Man is God-Universe but then PYWAR-INTEL's psychics can't do a simple thing like divert a meteor from crashing into Scandinavia! "Man is God" > becomes "God Save Us" but God afterward still has to do what Man tells/demands God to do. NO NATION ON EARTH = NO SPACE ALIEN, ETC CONTROLS GABRIEL'S SWORD.
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There was no bad weather while I was President!
Except that in a survey taken at westher.com in Dec, 1999, 7 of the ALL-TIME top 20 storms to that date occurred while you were "dicking around" playing President... 1993 through 2000. In fact, 5 of the Top 10 were on your watch:
Survey Results 1. 1992 Hurricane Andrew (28.6%)
2. 1969 Hurricane Camille (27.0 %)
3. 1900 Galveston Hurricane (18.6 %)
4. 1989 Hurricane Hugo (18.5 %) 5. 1996 Blizzard of '96 (18.2 %) 6. 1993 March 12-15 Superstorm (17.6 %) 7. 1999 Hurricane Floyd Floods (15.7 %) 8. 1993 Mississippi River Flood (15.6 %)
9. 1930-41 Midwest Drought / "Dust Bowl"
(14.2 %)
10. 1974 April 3-4 Tornado Super Outbreak
(13.6 %)
11. 1978 New England Blizzard of '78 (12.5 %) 12. 1999 May 3rd Tornado Outbreak (9.3 %)
13. 1991 Halloween "Perfect " Storm (8.3 %) 14. 1998 Jarrell TX Tornado (8.1 %)
15. 1925 Tri-State Tornado (7.4 %)
16. 1967 Chicago Blizzard (7.2 %)
17. 1988 Drought (6.8 %)
18. 1978 January Midwest Superbomb (6.6 %)
19. 1965 Hurricane Betsy (6.6 %)
20. 1936 Johnstown PA Flood (6.3 %)
Were you personally blamed? No, of course not - we weren't infected with BDS, then. Pandering, posturing, preening asshole.
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No one was there to ask BillieBob or AlBore why, if they thought Kyoto was so important, did they not submit it for ratification before the US Senate.
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Just when you think this rapist felon asshat has said his last ridiculous thing, he says shit like this.
Oh, and by the way Bill, what does 'generally recognized' mean? Does it mean you and your ilk got every liberal progressive 'scientist' to agree with you? E S & D.
KARACHI: An official of a major seminary expressed his displeasure Monday over a debate on the Hudood Ordinance on a private TV channel and programmes organized by a private FM radio station on issues related to madrassas. He demanded that the government take action against these organisations for stirring up controversy on settled issues.
The West is busy implementing its vicious plans against Islam and a secular segment in our society is serving the West by creating ambiguity against Islamic laws, which are otherwise settled and commonly agreed upon, opined Mufti Mohammad Naeem, who runs the Jamia Binoria SITE Town, one of the citys major seminaries. Naeem believed the debate on the Hudood Ordinance organized by a private TV channel was just the beginning and would be followed by similar propaganda against other Islamic laws, which have been formulated to make a true Islamic society in Pakistan.
He said a private FM radio channel was broadcasting debates on issues relating to seminaries, urging the authorities to take action against madrassas and their international students. He said the radio station was broadcasting fake calls to create hatred for seminaries. He demanded the government take action against these TV and radio channels and ban unnecessary debates on settled issues.
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KATHMANDU -Nepals Premier Girija Prasad Koirala and Maoist rebel leader Prachanda will soon hold historic peace talks, a senior insurgent said Monday, as the government pledged to release hundreds of jailed Maoists. Our chairman Prachanda said that the high-level talks with Prime Minister Koirala should be held soon, Maoist spokesman Krishna Bahadur Mahara told a press conference.
Home Minister Krishna Sitaula had earlier Monday indicated that the talks, which would be the first face-to-face meeting between a prime minister and the rebel leader, were on the cards. Talks between the top leaders will be held soon, Sitaula told reporters after a cabinet meeting. He did not elaborate.
Both the government and the Maoists are very positive about the peace process. It is heading in the right direction, added Sitaula, who on Sunday paid a flying visit to a remote western hamlet to meet Prachanda and his second in command Baburam Bhattarai.
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United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan called on rich and developing countries Monday to reach agreement on a UN reform plan so as not to paralyse the international body. In an article in the Financial Times, he said: "It is time for those who really care about reform to come together and form a new coalition - one that bridges the artificial, destructive divide between north and south and brings together all those who are willing to work together because they share the vision of a UN that really works, for the benefit of all the world's peoples."
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STOCKHOLM - Record overall military spending in 2005 masked divergent trends across the globe, with expenditure on the rise in the US and the Middle East but on the decline in Europe, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said on Monday.
The United States remained the biggest worldwide spender with 48 percent of the 1.118 trillion dollar (885 million euros) pie and alone accounted for 80 percent of the 33-billion-dollar increase in global spending, it said in its annual report.
But the Middle East was the region with the highest relative spending increase, mostly due to a massive increase in Saudi Arabias defence budget. Total military spending numbers for the region would have been even higher if Iraq and Qatar had not been excluded because of inconsistent data, SIPRI said.
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It tells me western Europe feels secure enough for the US to pull out all troops.
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I like how they throw in all the US spending like that is all the US spends money on. We only spend 3-3.5% of our GDP. Tell you something? Oh, ya. The US is kicking the ever-loving crap out of the EU and the rest of the world economicaly. China and the other dictatorship countries spend a much higher % of their GDP and can't even come close to what the US spends, even though we use a very small amount of our GDP.
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And how much of the US spending is actually spent directly defending others, doing for them that which they've chosen not to do themselves? The personnel, equipment, the GPS system, etc. and bases in Europe, SKor, etc... not to mention the US military is always on the scene at almost every major disaster, if allowed access, spending freely to provide transportation, manpower, fuel, materials, etc...
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Record overall military spending in 2005 masked divergent trends across the globe...
Since when there were nation states or tribal kingdoms, has not military spending usually been on the top of the list of 'things to do'?
There is an unending list of 'neat' things to do across the globe since the earliest writings. So what? Feel guilty? That's your problem bud. My ancestors got their act together and made hard and often painful decisions, sometime written in blood. That's why I'm here now and you're trying to hit me up for some change. Maybe if you or those you are standing in for would make the same hard decision and pay the same price, you or they could do it on their own. I have no problem helping those who will help themselves, but I'm not going to throw good money down a blackhole just to get that loving feeling.
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations asked donor nations and relief groups on Monday for $18.9 million for emergency humanitarian aid for troubled East Timor after a wave of deadly clashes, arson and looting. Those who have been displaced by the deplorable violence of the past weeks need our help, said UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland in a statement announcing the appeal.
Some 70,000 people have left their homes for refuge in safe locations across the capital Dili while an additional 63,000 have fled the capital for the countryside, straining supplies of food and other emergency goods, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said.
While immediate needs have been met, the $18.9 million now being sought is intended to meet basic needs, prevent the spread of disease and provide shelter to those in need over the next three months, the UN office said.
The United Nations is weighing whether to send in a small peacekeeping mission to take over from the Australians. UN peacekeepers had been in East Timor until a year ago but were pulled out after officials concluded the area had sufficiently stabilized.
Guess they were wrong, huh? Gives me a lot of confidence as to your plans now.
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The United Nations asked donor nations and relief groups on Monday for $18.9 million (Snip) after a wave of deadly clashes, arson and looting
Ummmm, yeah sounds just like the UN to gice relief to the rioters, arsonists, and looters,
No thanks, no cash, if the UN sends troops fine, but no American Troopies. How about the Russians this time?
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If you don't like the food, then don't eat there. Quit wasting everyone else's time and money with obviously frivolous lawsuits. If you want a jackpot, buy a lottery ticket.
To quote Bugs Bunny, "What a bunch of maroons!" Another word comes to mind.
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WASHINGTON - Rep. Patrick Kennedy reached a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to a charge of driving under the influence of prescription drugs in connection with his middle-of-the-night car crash last month near the U.S. Capitol. Two additional charges of reckless driving and failure to exhibit a driving permit will be dismissed under the plea agreement.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has approved plans to foil any Republican Party campaign to attack her marriage in the 2008 presidential election.
The prosecutor in the C.I.A. leak case on Monday advised Karl Rove, the senior White House adviser, that he would not be charged with any wrongdoing, effectively ending the nearly three-year criminal investigation that had at times focused intensely on Mr. Rove.
SAN LUIS RIO COLORADO, Mexico -- The arrival of U.S. National Guard troops in Arizona has scared off illegal Mexican migrants along the border as a whole, significantly reducing crossings, according to U.S. and Mexican officials. U.S. authorities said Monday that detentions along the U.S.-Mexico border have decreased by 21 percent, to 26,994, in the first 10 days of June, compared with 34,077 for the same period a year ago. 
KARACHI: An official of a major seminary expressed his displeasure Monday over a debate on the Hudood Ordinance on a private TV channel and programmes organized by a private FM radio station on issues related to madrassas. He demanded that the government take action against these organisations for stirring up controversy on settled issues.
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan called on rich and developing countries Monday to reach agreement on a UN reform plan so as not to paralyse the international body. In an article in the Financial Times, he said: "It is time for those who really care about reform to come together and form a new coalition - one that bridges the artificial, destructive divide between north and south and brings together all those who are willing to work together because they share the vision of a UN that really works, for the benefit of all the world's peoples."
STOCKHOLM - Record overall military spending in 2005 masked divergent trends across the globe, with expenditure on the rise in the US and the Middle East but on the decline in Europe, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said on Monday.
