They refuse to rally for neo-Nazis, but as long as the price is right a new type of German mercenary will take to the streets and protest for you.
Young, good-looking, and available for around 150 euros (£100), more than 300 would-be protesters are marketing themselves on a German rental website.
Their descriptions read like those on a dating site. Next to a black and white posed picture, Melanie lists her details from her jeans size to her shoe size and tells potential protest organisers that she is willing to be deployed up to 100km around Berlin. Six hours of Melanie bearing your banner or shouting your slogan will set you back 145 euros.
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Pretty low rates.
For the chance of getting your head smashed or put in jail... $200/hr would be a better price.
From the poor rates I must assume that they have low self worth.
Mods, as this is future predictions, I threw it in WoT Politix. Please move if needed. I did note the title used "Climate Change", whereas the article itself uses "Global Warming" *snicker* Methinks Mr. Trevelyan is gonna get 40 lashes by the enviros over that one, lol!
LONDON (Reuters) - Global warming could exacerbate the world's rich-poor divide and help to radicalize populations and fan terrorism in the countries worst affected, security and climate experts said on Wednesday. Naw, couldn't be Islamo-fascism, it's gotta be climate change global warming!
"We have to reckon with the human propensity for violence," Sir Crispin Tickell, Britain's former ambassador to the United Nations, told a London conference on "Climate Change: the Global Security Impact." Of course, he's assuming the Islamo-nazis are human, there.
"Violence within and between communities and between nation states, we must accept, could possibly increase, because the precedents are all around." He cited Rwanda and Sudan's Darfur region as two examples where drought and overpopulation, relative to scarce resources, had helped to fuel deadly conflicts. Funny, I blame tribal resentments from colonialism and the Arab janjaweed for those 2 "conflicts. In fact, I think we've called them (both) genocide.
Bin Laden On Climate Change Who knew binny had time to worry about Climate Change?
John Mitchell, chief scientist at Britain's Met Office, noted al Qaeda had already listed environmental damage among its litany of grievances against the United States. "You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto agreement so that you can secure the profit of your greedy companies and industries," al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden wrote in a 2002 "letter to the American people." More nonsense at link.
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These people actually buy into our enemy's propaganda. Do they do it out of ignorance, or willingness?
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So is global warming climate change responsible for bunions? My bad knees? The Washington Redskins not having a decent season in a decade? Let's put it this way: What ISN'T global warming climate change responsible for?
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"You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto agreement so that you can secure the profit of your greedy companies and industries," al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden wrote in a 2002 "letter to the American people."
Yes, and how come it took so long to get steroid testing in Major League baseball? Answer me that...INFIDELS!
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As more and more First World food crops are converted into ethanol, that overpopulation problem will take care of itself.
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Has anyone ever tracked the amount of time the left has used an issue as and excuse to justify Islamic attacks and the time the Islamic propoganda started to use that excuse?
I'm thinking there is a few months lag time but not too much more. I'll wait for Al Queda to start banging on about Climate change sometime by midsummer.
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New from RonCo: the Global Warminizer™. It slices; it dices; it causes record cold and record heat and killer hurricanes. But wait, that's not all: it also radicalizes populations and fans terrorism. One size definitely fits all.
(SomaliNet) Liberia's Supreme Court has asked for the reinstatement of ex speaker of parliament, Edwin Snowe. Snowe was an ally of former Liberias president, Charles Taylor. Snowe is also the warlords ex son in law.
On Thursday, 43 members of Liberias parliament are expected to testify after parliament threw out Snowe last week. Snowe appealed against is fate saying that some Members of Parliament had been bribed to vote against him. He added that the session that threw him out was carried out in an illegal location. Snowe was ousted out of parliament after he failed to respond to a parliamentary call asking him to explain why he had violated parliamentary law on two occasions.
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Blowing whistles and waving flags, hundreds of Venezuelans protested Tuesday against a congressional measure that would grant President Hugo Chavez unbridled powers to pass laws by decree in areas from the economy to defense. Raising their hands in the air, some 400 to 500 protesters stood in a Caracas plaza and shouted in unison: "Faced with authoritarianism, more democracy!"
The protest came as lawmakers in the entirely pro-Chavez National Assembly announced they would postpone until next Tuesday a session to grant final approval of a so-called "enabling law" allowing Chavez to enact laws by decree during an 18-month period. "It gives him total power," said Greys Pulido, a 40-year-old protester. "We don't want a dictatorship."
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The Russians protested Lenin's getting full power. Much good it did them.
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1. I dont think anyone has suggested there was a miscount. The main undemocratic thing about the last Venezualan election was the Putinesque limits on press freedom in Venezuala.
2. I doubt the guys in question voted for Chavez. Over a third of the votes WERE counted against Chavez, and that certainly includes the 500 or so folks here.
3. Protests can matter at the appropriate time. But they would have to be far bigger. 500 is meaningless.
4. As long as the price of oil is high enough for Chavez to be able to fund social programs for the poor the way no one in Venezuala has seen before, its not going to be possible to get him out. Best strategy A. Containment - let him do what he wants in Ven, but watch vigilantly for him to do something to his neighbors that gives us a Casus Belli (dont count on anything, hes smart enough to know we're watching for that) B. Do something about energy. Seems to me someone talked about that last night.
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Yeah, TW! While I'm born/bred from the South (GA actually), I apologize for this puke.
Plains, GA: an old train depot, stifingly hot weather, red clay and no breezes. Kind of like Brunswick, GA w/o the mosquitoes, gnats and paper mill smells.
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Chavez and his ego will self destruct, they always do. The question is how much of Venezuela will he take with him.
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Ptah makes a very interesting historical point that I am sure is lost of the LLL Mo0b@+5. Hitler was granted a similar decree, socialized the entire country, built up his military, and then began looking for more territory. Chavez is every bit as dangerous because like Iran he is CRAZY and has petrol $$$ to fund his causes. 500 protesters won't keep him awake at night but given that he has a history of locking up dissenters, 500 is a large number.
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Liberhawk, Even in Socialized countries there are some private businesses. Of course Krupps, Mercedes, etc operated factories but the raw materials, transportation, and especially the manpower were controlled by the state.
HAVANA (AP) - Cuba's vice president said Monday that Fidel Castro continued to recover from intestinal surgery and the country was operating normally in his absence.
Vice President Jose Ramon "Fernandez indicated the leader is recovering and added that after six months of his convalescence the nation is functioning with normality," the official Prensa Latina news agency reported. Cuban officials have nonetheless stopped insisting Castro will return to power.
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Criminal gangs of latin americans? Who has ever heard of that? I wonder if they've got a spanish version of la raza or those aztlan guys (Spain being... hum... huh, an ex-colony of the mayas, yes, that's the ticket), though the "reconquista" meme could be misinterpreted back there.
About 1,000 Spanish youths have clashed with police during the night on the edge of the capital Madrid. The youths said they wanted to take on criminal gangs of Latin American immigrants who they complained were dominating their neighbourhood. Three people were hurt and seven held in the clashes in the Alcorcon suburb.
Police fired tear gas at the rioters, who wore balaclavas or scarves to hide their faces and pelted them with bottles and coins. Some armed with baseball bats and knives shouted: "Let's go and get some ice cream those Dominicans."
The riot is linked to an incident in the same neighbourhood on Saturday night in which a young Spaniard fought with a Dominican resident in what locals say was a clash between rival gangs. A gang of mainly Latin American immigrants, calling themselves the Latin Kings, is active in Alcorcon.
But many Spanish locals said that despite the slogans, this was not a race riot but the result of delinquency in a neighbourhood with high unemployment, which they say is neglected by the authorities.
I thought the EU had solved all these problems.
Meanwhile Latin American immigrants in the area told reporters they feared they would be the target of more violence in the coming days. Also.
Democratic Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, who lost the 2004 election to President George W. Bush, will not run for the White House in 2008, a Democratic Party source said on Wednesday.
Kerry officially will announce his decision in a message later on Wednesday, the source said. Whew! Dodged another one. Now if we could only get the other 8 or so idjits to bow out.
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I'm actually a bit bummed out by this news. One Kerry speech is worth 2 or 3 derisive blog postings. I might even have to put some thought into mocking the DemonRats now. Oh well.
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To whom is he going to donate his surplus 2004 campaign funds? Is he perhaps thinking of buying a vice presidency? This could be fun!
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He was for running for the presidency before he was against it.
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Dear John-
Remember Vince?
Good boy. Now stay home and help Teresa put labels on the ketchup bottles or whatever it is you do when you're not using up precious oxygen in the Senate.
Love,
Hillary
Mike
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The Scaramouche could use a new engine and wetbar.
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This is definitely disappointing. Sure Kerry/Edwards was a failure, but that does not mean Edwards/Kerry could not carry (heh) the day.
Besides, if we could harness the energy from the scorn and ridicule his campaign would generate, why there's 10% of our foreign oil imports right there. Sneer on, dudes.
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I wonder how Mass. feels with two failures as Senators.
Oh...it's been so long, we're used to it by now. It gives us something to talk about when we meet people from other states when we go on vacation. Because it's always the first words outta their mouths...
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Ima sad...I had all the snarky comments macro'd....damn
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I knows what you means, Frank. One the one hand, I could be very, very grateful this braying jackass won't be running around spewing inanities all through the campaign. On the other hand, I could be bereft that this braying jackass won't be running around spewing inanities all through the campaign so we could make fun of him.
Hillary just isn't funny.
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she is, but in a "way that could cause you personal harm"
the Illinois/Ark/NY mafia.... danger in pantsuits...ask Vince
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Many Netters are still betting on GORE to declare for 2008, includ to be unilater nominated by the Dems. LUCIANNE.com > 2008 and "X-FACTOR" of WOT, read new 9-11's/Amer Hiroshimas + regional wars. Don't count 'em out yet until after the 2008 Nominations for POTUS.
Senator Barak Obama the Democratic hopeful for the presidency, whom some conservative quarters have tried to paint as an undeclared Muslim who went to a madrassa in Indonesia turns out to be neither a Muslim nor a former madrassa student. Although his African father was a Muslim, Obama is a church-going Christian. According to a report, Hardi Priyono, the deputy headmaster at the Basuki school in Indonesia, told CNN that his institution which Obama attended four decades ago, beginning when he was six was not a madrassa.
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Keep looking, you'll find something. 20 years of indoctrination must result in some effect.
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not enough details: It could be that it was called a madrassah to avoid being shut down by the Muslim authorities, and maybe had a few show-classes to add to the deception. I would like to know church affiliation and how many times it was attacked by Muslims over the last 40 years.
If it's true, it's true, and let the Democrats howl. If it's false, it's false, and shame on the Republicans if they howl. Falsehood and deception is acceptable in the War on Terror, but only in the military theatre, NOT in the theatre of ideas.
We MUST know the truth, for it is the only thing that does, can, and will, set us free and keep us free.
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Remember, this is a story pushed by Senator Clinton's people. As far as I'm concerned, it doesn't matter whether Sen. Obama was madrassah-trained or became a party line Progressive out of personal faith -- either way his views are aimed against the welfare of America.
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it's CNN...c'mon! Let's see some unbiased investigative reporting
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Damn you incompetent bastards! Keep digging! And you better find something if you don't want your skulls crushed between my massive thighs!
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Have to disagree with you there, tw. While most Dems and Progressives are not bright enough to recognize the threat from radical Islam, they have a legitimate right to participate in the politics of our country. We are not, nor should we ever be, a one party country. OTOH, the madrassah mentality can have no place in our country's political makeup; it is a vehicle for making Islam and sharia law dominant over every human in the world.
I think Mr. Obama is going to have to come out publicly, strongly against his experiences in the madrassah if he is to have a snowball's chance in hel7 of running a competitive presidential campaign.
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apparently Obama attended an Indon public school. Indonesia, unfortunatetly lacking its own answer to the ACLU or to SCOTUS, has classes on Islam in its public schools. Thats all folks.
And oh yeah, if this was a smear from Hilary, then Wash Times et al could have either A. Refused to run with it - why should THEY be fronts for the Clinton campaign or B. Checked it out first, so that when it turned out to be wrong, they could have really slammed Hilary.
Nah, this is a double smear, on Hilary as well as Obama.
Im not sure Obama is even a party line progressive - he looks like hes trying to be all things to all sides. Some of the party line progressives dont really like that, but who else have they got? Feingolds out, doesnt look like Gore is running, and I dont think theyve yet really acccepted Edwards. And they want to stop Hilary at all costs.
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A little background on foreigners educating their children in Asia.
There is no way a foriegn couple would sent their child to an Indo school except through financial necessity or some kind of ideological choice. I don't know why the family was in Indo (apparently for 4 years), I don't see how it could be other than in some expatriate position, which would exclude financial necessity; there are plenty of 'overseas' schools for foreigners).
Which leaves ideological choice; His parents definitely didn't send him there for the quality of the education. They may have had dreamy liberal notions about experiencing another culture, but in my experience even liberals are hard nosed about their kids education.
Which begs the question, why did his parents send him to an Indo school? An islamic education is a possible/likely answer.
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From what I've gathered, it wasn't his father (who's also Muslim) that pushed this, but his stepfather. And, LH, some of the reports coming out claim he attended a Catholic (or some other Christian) school after the madrassah/Muslim schooling.
And, I agree with TW. I'll try and judge him based upon his voting record. If the madrassah thingy turns out true, that's just icing on the cake. I'll work against either him or Hillary, whomever wins, because the Donks as a whole, have NO clue what we're up against.
Further, I'm hoping this will lead to a third party rising. While the WoT is Bush's bread and butter, his domestic policies are leaning left further and further. Someone needs to listen to the public on illegal immigration, federal spending, etc.
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No matter what the details of the Madrassa, it seems BObama is an apostate from Islam.
Hmmmmmmm.
If only we had some reporters who knew enough to engage Mr. Audacity of Hope in some serious discussion on the subject of apostasy (also they would have to be the kind of reporters that Obama would agree to talk to).
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"I don't see how it could be other than in some expatriate position, which would exclude financial necessity; there are plenty of 'overseas' schools for foreigners). "
wouldnt that depend where he was? Maybe he was in a small town with only one foreign school, and the kids there were mean to little Obama. As a parent, I can say there are all kinds of reasons for selecting a school, and we shouldnt judge without more info.
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The fact are almost irrelevant in this story. If Obama becomes President, he will be claimed as a Muslim. If he rejects Islam... well, we all knows where that goes. But up intil then, silence is golden.
Whatever advances the cause, will be used.
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I'll try and judge him based upon his voting record.--
He votes mostly w/Dickie Durbin, he's a socialist and a gun-grabber.
Agreed, a2u! That's why I was insinuating that I'd do everything in my power to assure he loses on his RECORD ALONE. The "muslim issue" is just icing on the cake to make sure he fails in his bid at President. Of course, that benefits Sir Hillary.
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As far as I am concerned, this is red on red. May the Trump-Rosie Obama-Hillary theatrics never cease.
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A few inquiries of the Demo moneybags who informed him he had FU'ed for the last time. All their nickels are going to Osama Obama or Hilldebeast. They're tired of no ROI. And, TW, he has no extra campaign funds. He has a lot of bills to pay yet. Trips to Switzerland, new yacht, new Rolls, etc.
Israeli President Moshe Katsav is to step down in order to address impending charges of rape, sexual harassment, obstruction of justice and breach of trust, his attorney David Libai said Tuesday in Tel Aviv.
Katsav, whose seven-year presidency officially ends this August, would enjoy full immunity from prosecution while in office. Under Israeli law, a sitting president cannot be put on trial until he leaves office, whether through resignation, impeachment by parliament or simply the conclusion of his term. "The president is convinced that he is a victim of false allegations and attempts to remove him from his office, and he will fight to prove his innocence," one of his lawyers, David Libai, told reporters in Tel Aviv. "I assume that this is probably his last night in the presidency," said Libai.
Commenting on Katsav's promise to leave office should the country's attorney general Menahem Mazuz recommend Katsav's indictment, Libai said, "I have no doubt that he will keep his word. But this lies in his hands."
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Cat owners are at a greater risk of catching bird flu as the deadly virus is most likely to mutate in felines, experts say.
A study on cats in areas where outbreaks have occurred found that the virus is changing in felines more quickly than thought.
It raises the chilling prospect that the disease could soon easily be spread from cats to people, leading to a human pandemic.
And it shows that should bird flu ever break out in Britain, cat owners should be particularly on their guard.
Scientists point to the alarming precedent of the Spanish flu pandemic, which killed tens of millions at the end of the first world war. It spread from birds to humans via pigs.
Dr Albert Osterhaus of Erasmus University in Rotterdam said: "We know the 1918 pandemic was a bird flu virus that adapted to mammals in some intermediate mammalian host, possibly pigs. Maybe for H5N1 the intermediate host is cats."
Two other viruses which spread all over the world - the 1957 Asian flu and the Hong Kong flu of 1968 - also mutated in pigs.
He said that if bird flu strikes, cats should be kepy away from birds and their droppings.
He advised that all pets should be kept indoors and if they become ill they should be tested immediately for the bird flu virus.
The latest study by an Indonesian university follows reports of unusually large numbers of dead cats being found near outbreaks of H5N1, the bird flu virus.
All the cats in one Bangkok household died of H5N1 in 2004, and tigers and leopards - members of the cat family - died in Thai zoos in the same year.
Last year three cats died in Germany after eating wild birds.
Dr Chiarul Anwar Nidom of Airlangga University took blood samples from 500 cats living near poultry markets in four areas of the island of Java.
All these areas had recently had outbreaks of H5N1 in poultry and people.
Of the cats, one in five was carrying antibodies to the virus - meaning that they had been infected with it at some point, probably through eating infected birds.
Dr Nidom said that many other infected cats would have died from the virus, meaning that many more than 20 per cent may have picked up the infection.
He told New Scientist magazine: "I am quite taken aback by the results."
Tests in 2004 showed for the first time that cats could catch the virus from each other - not just by eating infected birds.
Scientists are concerned that as the virus replicates in cats it will further adapt to mammals' bodies.
This in turn will give H5N1 the ability to spread more efficiently to people and then from person to person - unleashing a devastating human pandemic.
The new study comes after reports that the virus may already be developing resistance to Tamiflu, the powerful antiviral drug on which the NHS is relying to stem the spread of the disease.
In late December, a man and his neice died of H5N1 flu in Egypt - even though they had been taking Tamiflu.
Both were found to be infected with a mutated version of the virus, making it partially resistant to the drug.
They had been on Tamiflu for only two days - meaning the virus may have been resistant before they caught it.
The news is a concern because it had previously been thought that Tamiflu-resistant strains are not usually contagious because the mutations that make it resistant also cripple it.
Scientists predict that once the virus mutates to allow it to spread between humans, it will take between six and eight months to develop a new drug to combat it.
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This is not good news at all. WHile I am not a cat lover, the millions who do have cats will protest loudly if the mutation and predicted jump occurs, forcing the authorities to eradicate cats in the affected regions. There will be those feral cats as well as those hidden by their onwers that will continue to cause the spread of the flu.
Like it or not, H5N1 is coming.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
They refuse to rally for neo-Nazis, but as long as the price is right a new type of German mercenary will take to the streets and protest for you.
HAVANA (AP) - Cuba's vice president said Monday that Fidel Castro continued to recover from intestinal surgery and the country was operating normally in his absence.
Israeli President Moshe Katsav is to step down in order to address impending charges of rape, sexual harassment, obstruction of justice and breach of trust, his attorney David Libai said Tuesday in Tel Aviv. 
