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I see that Salt Lake City has a higher crime rate than San Francisco. Both have a much higher crime rate than North Las Vegas and Reno. Could we see the data that went into forming this list? Seein the data may explain the missing data for Chicago, also.
McCaskill still working toward goal of reading the healthcare bill
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) is still reading the 2,074-page Senate healthcare bill. McCaskill has promised to read the bill in its entirety before it comes up for the amendment and final voting process, which is expected to occur after Thanksgiving....
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McCaskill is actually reading the bill? Generally, the attitude of these donks is: "We don need no stinkinngg reeeeading of bills."
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Rasmussen Today
Favor Health Reform 38%
Oppose Health Reform 56%
Undecided 6%
Oppose Margin 18%
What do the Totalitarian clowns in the Capital not underastand? Every day these idiots proceed under circumstances like this, it is more and more evidence that we are under a dictatorship.
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That 38% are still in favor will be all the Senate Dhimmicrats -- (and Snowe) need.
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The donks will take these numbers to mean that 100% of the 38% in favor of health care reform are for reform. It will soon become 100% of the people are for reform. If that logic {or lies}makes your head spin; mine too. But confusion is what is sought. You know the usual Washington numbers game spin.
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What do the Totalitarian clowns in the Capital not underastand? Every day these idiots proceed under circumstances like this, it is more and more evidence that we are under a dictatorship
No, it's more of an Idiot-ocracy.
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Even in troubled times, there are still fools eager to be parted from excess money.
I just found a revenue source for health care reform ...
[Al Arabiya Latest] Michael Jackson's famous white glove sold for $350,000 at a memorabilia auction on Saturday, soaring far past pre-sale estimates, while a black jacket he wore during a 1989 world tour fetched $225,000.
The Jackson memorabilia was the highlight of an auction of hundreds of rock'n'roll items, including many not associated with the "King of Pop," who died in June.
Darren Julien, CEO of Julien's Auctions, which ran the auction, called the glove "the Holy Grail of Michael Jackson," and many expected it to sell for far more than its pre-sale estimate of about $50,000. With the added commission, the final price excluding taxes, ran to some $420,000. The buyer was Hong Kong businessman Hoffman Ma.
Bidding for the black, strap and zipper-laden jacket Jackson wore during the 1989 "Bad" tour soared to $225,000, more than 20 times its estimate. With commission, the tab came to about $275,000.
Fans and dealers turned out at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York's Times Square for the sale that included a car driven by Jackson, as well as David Bowie's guitar and memorabilia from the Beatles to Bo Diddley.
"I never got to see Michael, and now that he's gone this is the closest I could get," said Jazmynn Moore, 19, a student from Manhattan.
The glove was worn by Jackson when he first staged the famous moonwalk dance at the 1983 Motown 25 television special. The opening bid of $10,000 leaped immediately to $120,000 before peaking at $350,000.
Most of the 80 Jackson lots consisted of items that came from friends and family to whom Jackson had given them, the auctioneer said.
Jackson was somewhat of a collector himself, having paid more than $1.5 million for the "Gone With the Wind" best picture Oscar statue at Sotheby's auction, one of the highest prices ever paid for memorabilia at auction.
Other memorabilia sold included sparkle-encrusted shoes and socks, portraits of Charlie Chaplin drawn by Jackson as a child, an autographed shirt, a 1985 Mercedes, handwritten letters, and posters.
Almost every lot was sold, commonly at three or more times the estimated price and often at least 10 times over, with bidders from Australia, Dubai, France, Hong Kong and Japan competing by telephone or Internet with the raucous, highly excited crowd in the room.
Mr.Jackson's executors will find themselves able to pay off considerably more of his vast debt than anticipated. And those he owed so much will be able to pay off their debts, etc and so forth. No doubt this will jump-start the troubled world economy, freeing the U.S. government from the need to pass a second stimulus bill.
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Most of the 80 Jackson lots consisted of items that came from friends and family to whom Jackson had given them, the auctioneer said.
....friends and family who plan to donate their proceeds to schools, hospitals, widows and orphans funds, veterans groups and other philanthropic pursuits.
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This is a 21 page report that outlines the scope of this negotiation. There is a lot of stuff to wade through. I have not done it yet, but the little voice in me that keeps me from crashing into mountains when flying sez that we better be vigilant as our fearless leader will sell this country down the river with an agreement on climate change.
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AP, that seems to be pretty much his default mode, doesn't it?
[Bangla Daily Star] The High Court directed the government yesterday to place before it by December 9 the details of Rab officials involved in detaining Lutfor Rahman Khalasi and Khairul Haque Khalasi who were killed in a 'shootout' in Madaripur on November 16.
After their death in custody, the court on November 17 issued a suo moto rule, asking the government to explain in 48 hours why appropriate actions should not be taken against Rab officials Major Kazi Wahiduzzaman and Lieutenant Hasan and their companions.
The High Court passed the directive, as Deputy Attorney General Kazi Ejarul Haque Akand Sagor told the court that no one by the name Major Kazi Wahiduzzaman was found in the Madaripur Rab unit.
The court also allowed Ain O Shalish Kendra, a human rights organisation, to place arguments as an intervener in this case.
The hearing on government's explanation of the extra-judicial killings will be held on December 9.
The High Court bench of Justice AFM Abdur Rahman and Justice Md Emdadul Haque Azad came up with the order following a government prayer moved by Kazi Ezarul Haque Akand Sagor and an application filed by Sultana Kamal, the executive director of Ain O Salish Kendra.
Ezarul told the court yesterday that the government could not explain the extra-judicial killings within the given timeframe.
He prayed for time-extension to deliver a reply to the rule.
Lutfor Rahman Khalasi and his younger brother Khairul Haque Khalasi, operatives of outlawed Purba Banglar Communist Party, were killed during a "shootout" between their cohorts and Rab on November 16.
Following a newspaper report, the High Court bench issued the suo moto rule.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] A survey suggests that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's ruling Labour Party is slashing the chances of an easy victory for the Conservatives' in the upcoming election. As long as Brits keep voting for Labour they'll have the government they deserve.
The Observer newspaper published a new poll on Sunday, showing that center-left Labour is closing in on the Conservatives (Tories) with 31 percent support. So sez the Labour mouthpiece ...
The poll, conducted for the paper by Ipsos Mori, put Conservatives in the lead with 37 percent, which considering that the center-left Liberal Democrats have 17 percent of the vote, raises the prospect of a hung parliament at the general election.
The six percent Tory lead is the narrowest gap between the rival parties since December and could cost the Conservatives their victory, just short of 35 parliament seats.
The survey also asked the public's opinion on the path of recovery from the recession. Some 43 percent said they believed the economy would perform better over the next year. Around 28 percent predicted no change, while 23 percent said it would deteriorate.
Despite the poll boost for Labour and growing public optimism, Brown's personal ratings remain poor, with 34 percent of respondents saying they are happy with his performance and 59 percent saying they are dissatisfied. Opposition leader David Cameron, on the other hand, 48 percent public support and 35 percent disapproval.
While it has become a common political solution in many European countries, coalition governments are rare in Britain, usually formed during times of war.
The survey based its findings on data gathered from interviewing 1,006 adults by telephone from November 13 to 15.
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The pollster, Ipsos, is a pay-for-the-results-you-want organization out of Paris. AP uses them as well, because as a private company, they are not available for auditing.
Ugandan officials say they are offended that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has praised former dictator Idi Amin.
Officials including President Yoweri Museveni's secretary Tamale Mirundi say Amin ruled brutally in the 1970s. Chavez on Friday called the East African dictator a nationalist and a patriot.
Mirundi countered on Sunday with Amin's record of torturing and killing opponents -- including one of his wives. James Kizza Baliruno said he was offended by the praise as Amin's soldiers killed both of his parents in front of him when he was 4 years old.
Ugandan officials did not say whether they would take any action. Venezuela has no embassy in Uganda.
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Which is pretty much unsuprizing from hugo, as people tend to forget he's an ethno-nationalist, in addition to being a marxist. Of course, he'll praise a racist, third world thug. Birds of a feather...
Since the 1920's (was it the 1922 bakou conference? Can't remember right now), revolutionary marxist has had a defintively racist component, no matter the own russian racism/xenophobia, as it projected of using non-white nationalism, notably asian ones at the time, as a force multiplier against western Imperialism. Imperialism could only be western, what the commies did was... something else, countries they occupied & sucked dry were "liberated". Sure, why not? words have no meaning anyway, past the ones the Party gives them.
This is why international communism fusioned so well with third worldism.
So, hugo is just following those trends, and he's been using anti-white european resentment to bolster his base (IE "white venezuelans are not real venezuelans, I'll Spread the Wealth to you, my injuns followers, who are the true south americans"), just as morales is doing. Doesn't matter that he's supposedly a "bolivarist" (because, yeah, Simon bolivar was a marxist indian, of course), or that he's the official heir to castro, the white catalan spaniard with a classical european education from jesuits.
What I find hysterical, as an aside, is those red-brown french "wingnuts" who praise him as a bulkwark to the Empire, and get all hot and bothered when people call him a "dictator" ("stop watching teevee, he's Democratically Elected, Loved By his People",...)... they're basically rooting for an anti-white racist, believing that since they share common hatred (the jooooos, the USA, free-markets), then, they're allies!
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Chavez trying to burnish his own image - Stalins (fictional tie-ins/comradship) withe "Great" Lenin come to mind. Yet charisma can never be transferred. There is only one "Big Daddy" - whom some Ugandans simultaneously loved/hated.
Chavez CAN do what "Big Daddy" did when faced with being overthrown: convert to Islam and flee to Saudi Arabia - then living a life of leisure with a looted treasury.
Myself, I prefer "Baby Doc's" escape plan - fleeing to the south of France and living in a Chateau with wives and looted Haitian treasury - none of this phoney baloney coverting to Islam agenda. Or perhaps "Papa Doc" had it right all along - descend to to the netherworld and rule Haiti as "Baron Samedi". "Papa Doc's" tomb is indeed and in reality empty...
A bomb exploded on Saturday at the offices of the opposition, center-right National Party in the northern city of El Progreso, causing damage to the main gate but no injuries.
The blast left the gate "destroyed," Ricardo Bermudez, a National Party congressional candidate, told HRN radio.
At the time of the explosion, which occurred at around 7:45 a.m. local time (1345 GMT), "none of our activists was inside the building" and the guard had gone out for breakfast, he said.
Bermudez added that, according to preliminary reports by the National Police, the bomb, hurled by unknown assailants, was made of a "plastic explosive."
The candidate said the perpetrators of the attack, rather than seeking to cause material damage, were trying to "intimidate citizens" into staying away from the Nov. 29 general elections, the first since a June 28 coup ousted elected President Mel Zelaya.
"Those few (who reject the elections) are trying to intimidate people from going to the polling stations, but that won't happen; the Honduran people won't let themselves be intimidated, they like to live in peace," he said.
Several bombs have exploded in recent weeks in Honduras, although no one has been injured and no arrests have been made in connection with the attacks.
The leader of the Honduran de facto government installed by the coup, Roberto Micheletti, said Thursday he will step down for a week on either side of the election to choose a successor to Zelaya.
Honduran opponents of the coup, backed by most of the international community, say a free and fair vote is impossible given the repression imposed by the de facto regime, which is blamed for at least a dozen deaths and numerous other human rights abuses.
Zelaya dismissed Micheletti's plan to temporarily step down as a machination "to deceive fools."
Hours before Micheletti's announcement, Zelaya urged Hondurans to continue peaceful resistance to the coup and suggested delaying the elections at least until after Dec. 2, when Congress is to begin debate on reinstating the ousted president, whose terms ends in late January.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] The Azerbaijani and Armenian heads of state have met to attempt to resolve the longstanding territorial dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh.
On Sunday, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev held talks with his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sarkisian with hopes of reestablishing Baku's authority over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which Azerbaijan lost to Armenia in the 1990s, the AzerTAj state news agency reported.
The meeting took place at the residence of the Consul General of France in Munich and was also joined by the co-chairmen of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Robert Bradtke (US), Bernard Fassier (France), and Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia).
Azerbaijan lost control of the region in a rebellion by local Armenians, who were supported by the military of the Republic of Armenia. The conflict killed tens of thousands of people and displaced over a million others.
However, the international community has refused to recognize the de facto rule of the ensuing Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
"That meeting must play a decisive role in the process of negotiations," the Azerbaijani president said on Friday, adding that should the session end short of a deal, "then our hopes in negotiations will be exhausted and then we are left with no other option" than to reclaim the territory by force.
"We are doing that because we never excluded and we do not exclude that option. We have the full right to liberate our land by military means," he insisted.
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...For many years, most oil was used for lighting and lubrication, and the amounts extracted were modest. Then in 1901, a new well named for an East Texas hillock, Spindletop, began gushing more per day than all other U.S. wells combined.
Since then, America has exhausted its hydrocarbon supplies. Repeatedly.
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I guarantee we are running out of fossil fuels.
We're running out of cheap fossil fuels relatively quickly. At some point synthesis will reach cost parity with extraction so actually completely running out is very unlikely though our usage profile will change as increased costs dictate.
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OK Glenmore I see your Bullshit Statement and Raise you (Dare you) to name the century?
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Jim, it's a moving target based on price. What is a recoverable reserve at $500 is not at $20. Or $100/50. We already saw the economic consequences of oil at $140/bbl one year ago.
At some point, the reserves will will be used up faster than can be discovered or reclassified at any meaningful price. That day is approaching faster as the US exports it's industrial and knowledge base as the importers will want the same lifestyle we were able to make for ourselves.
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at $50 is not at $20.
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Being "awashed" in something doesn't mean we can nor should waste it.
* 1990's MAHA-RUSHIE LUMBAUGH > when done properly, there's no reason for any Conservative, GOP-Right'er, or other to be against ENVIRONMENTALISM [ e.g. RECYCLING]. WASTE NOT, WANT NOT.
Cash-strapped Spaniards are pulling their hair out over the economic crisis -- literally.
Faced with the country's deep recession and soaring unemployment, many women are selling off their locks to pay the bills.
And Justino Delgado, who exports natural hair for wigs and extensions, couldn't be happier. He began his business 50 years ago, going from village to village to collect hair from women, before he started importing much of it from Asia, mainly from India and China.
But for the past several months women have been showing up at his warehouse near Madrid in growing numbers.
"A lot of women come to sell their hair, just this morning a young woman with a ponytail came in and we bought it from her," he said. "It's worth between 50 and 150 euros (75 and 220 dollars). There are some women who have a lot of hair, and as the price depends on the length and the weight, they can get well paid for it," he said.
But he has some conditions: the hair must be more than 40 centimetres (16 inches) long and have never been coloured. Sometimes "pony tails have been kept for months in a drawer after being cut off at the hairdressers, but are still good quality," said Yolanda, one of his daughters who works at this family business employing about 30 people.
The trend has been particularly good for Delgado as "European hair is finer and very sought after, and sells for more than Asian hair for example," which is thicker. He has about 90 tonnes of blond, brown and red braided locks spread out on a vast floor at the warehouse.
He now exports about 80 percent of the production, mainly to the rest of Europe and to the United States. His business has also benefited from the growing fashion among young women for hair extensions, in which strands of hair are attached to a person's natural hair.
Before being sold, the hair must first be washed several times. Then some of it is coloured by "secret machines which have been specially adapted for us by an engineer," said Delgado, who bars visitors from even seeing the machines. It is then dried, carefully combed and then braided.
The company has tried to adapt to the needs of its clients. "Countries in northern Europe for example are looking for particular colours," said Yolanda. Germans prefer the light chestnut colour, which is less common in Spain, she said.
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I heard one wanted to buy a fob for her husband's pocket watch.
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Like us, they've sold their souls to the communists. Move along now, we've seen it all before have we not?
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Disregard all the above comments, it's BRILLIANT! It's a shrewd move, the first step toward REAL energy independence!
Can't you see? Come on, folks. Just see this promotional clip from the Argon society (about 1'05" to 2'15"). And this clip is vintage 80's tech, with lily-white anglo-saxons.
Today, it's 2000's tech AND greasy, old school spics from the old country, the Real Deal.
You do the math, people. Spain is the new saudi arabia.
A cutting-edge French warship sailed into St. Petersburg Monday to show off its capabilities to potential buyers in the Russian navy, whose pursuit of an amphibious assault capacity is frightening some neighboring countries.
Russia's once-mighty navy was severely degraded after the fall of the Soviet Union and it currently has no big ship with the power to anchor in coastal waters and deploy troops onto land.
Russian officials announced this year that they were planning to make their first arms deal with a NATO country by buying a French vessel like the Mistral, a 23,700-ton (21,500-metric ton), 980-foot (299-meter) vessel able carry more than a dozen helicopters able to haul hundreds of troops directly onto enemy territory.
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RUSSIA = VLADVEDEV at this time need only focus on parameters of MilEcon "sufficiency" while modernz Russia's industrial, other national sectors.
OTOH CHINESE MIL FORUMS > many Chin Netters + Politicos are repor in favor of using MISTRAL-style and related Helo-Amphib Carrier designs as the base for FUTURIST MULTI-CAPABLE/ASSET, ANTI-US = ANTI-USN, "MOTHER/ARSENAL SHIPS", espec as per UV's + SPAWAR.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Former Labour cabinet member and distinguished political activist Tony Benn has challenged Prime Minister Gordon Brown's defense of the European Union's new foreign affairs chief.
Briton Catherine Ashton was named Thursday as the new EU foreign policy chief, with many critics questioning her foreign policy credentials as a former EU trade commissioner.
In a phone interview with Press TV on Sunday, Benn criticized the manner in which the top European Parliament jobs were handed.
Although EU membership remains unpopular with a large number of people in the UK, Benn's objection to the bloc stems from democratic concerns rather than nationalistic ones.
"Some people object to the European Union on nationalist ground. I don't. My objection is on democratic ground. Europe is run by appointed people, who are not elected, can not be removed, and therefore do not have to listen to the public," he noted.
He said that Ashton also had been appointed and not elected, therefore could only push for the EU commission's views and policies, while the policy of individual nations could be ignored.
"I don't think it really is a question of qualifications, [but]...how can we have a foreign policy spokesperson, who is not elected by the body? Catherine Ashton has been chosen by the European Commission members, who were all appointed, and she is supposed to talk for the whole of Europe."
"What happens if she says something that is contrary to British foreign policy? What happens if she says something that is contrary to, say, German foreign policy? I think it reveals the fundamentally undemocratic nature of the European Union."
In order to stressing on the need for fundamental reforms within the EU policymaking body, Benn resorted to a comparison between the EU and the United States.
"The difference between the president of the United States, is that he is elected by the American people. The president of European Union is appointed by 27 officials...."
"Although Europe is a very powerful body in the world, it has no democratic mechanism for choosing its leaders or deciding its policy," Benn said.
Ashton was given the powerful post under a deal at the EU summit on Thursday, with Belgium's Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy chosen as the EU's first president.
Both jobs were created under the Lisbon Treaty, designed to ease policymaking and management of the 27-naion bloc.
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It used to be that Europe's nobility were wealthy noblemen who had earned respect on the battlefield fighting for their king or prince.
Today, the wealthy who aspire to the trappings of nobility are larger varieties of leeches, slugs and nematodes, who having emerged from their tunnels in the polytechnic schools, desire to parasitically attach themselves to the body politic, from which they feed and lay their eggs.
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Titles have been sold to the highest bidder for at least 500 years. The idea of noblemen who had earned respect on the battlefield fighting for their king or prince is positively medieval.
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Well, just as two 'pro-eminent' french examples, think of dominique galouzeau "de villepin", or valérie giscard "d'estaing". Anyway, buying extinct families nobility titles is a long standing republican tradition in France. The Enlightened Elites looooove nobility titles.
[Straits Times] THAI Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva visited the north of the country amid heavy security on Saturday after receiving death threats over a planned trip to a stronghold of ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra.
Some 1,500 police were sent to guard Mr Abhisit as he toured the three northern provinces of Sukhothai, Phitsanulok and Phichit, to inspect government works.
A supporter of fugitive Thaksin has reportedly used his radio show to threaten Mr Abhisit with a car bomb when he travels to the northern city of Chiang Mai for a commerce meeting next Sunday. The city is a stronghold for Thaksin loyalists, known as Red Shirts, who want to see the former leader return from his self-imposed exile as he dodges a jail term for graft.
A member of Mr Abhisit's Democrat party, Mr Boonyod Sooktinthai, said he had filed a police complaint against Red Shirt leader Petchawat Wattanapongsirikul for comments made on a community radio station earlier this month.
'In the radio clip that we obtained, Petchawat on Nov 3 said that a car bomb is ready to kill Abhisit when he arrives in Chiang Mai,' MP and party spokesman Boonyod told AFP. He added that in another show on Nov 13 the community radio presenter called on Red Shirts in the north to rally in Chiang Mai during the visit and again threatened Mr Abhisit's life.
Petchawat could not be reached for comment, but fellow Red Shirt leader Jatuporn Prompan accused the Democrats of playing politics by overemphasising the risk of violence.
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IRAN'S moral police have arrested a dozen couples for engaging in illicit sexual acts, including swapping partners, according to reports.
Conservative newspaper Jomhuri Eslami reported the couples and another individual were running a website, Iran Multiplication, which was aimed at promoting illicit sexual relations.
The couples were said to have carried out sexual acts in the presence of each other and several times with multiple partners, it said. Those arrested held university degrees, while some were government employees and had children.
The paper gave no further details about their identities or when or where they were arrested.
Extra-marital sex is illegal in Iran where Islamic sharia law is the principal source of legislation. If found guilty of adultery, those arrested in the crackdown face being stoned to death.
Reports of partner-swapping are a rarity in conservative Iran, but in March the elite Revolutionary Guards said it had launched a crackdown on several groups who had set up anti-Islamic and pornographic internet sites. The Guards, set up to defend the ideals of the Islamic republic, said they had "dismantled several networks that had set up anti-religious, anti-revolution and obscene internet sites". Thus demonstrating the need for Revolutionary Guards ...
Among those also targeted are people deemed to be Baha'isChristiansJewsBuddhists Satan worshippers, while moral police often also carry out raids on concerts and parties as part of their tough crackdown on "un-Islamic" attire and behaviour.
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While I don't approve (Aids) it's slap in the face for Muzzie "Religious Leadership"
so "Well done' Y'all.
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You'd have to be a bit nutz to live in Iran while engaging in that kind of behaviour and then to advertise it on the net. Indeed.
The advertising is the risky part, IIUC, iran is an hotbed of prostitution, hard drug abuses, and human traffiking (major exporter of wimmen for sale); the MM themselves are not behold to very high moral standards, not only the big ones with their looting of the economy, but even the cogs, who behave much more like a corrupt, self-indulgent aristocracy than anything else. But, then again, that's what they are isn't it?, the local aristocrats who rule over the plebe, 'coz allan sez so.
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.
Ugandan officials say they are offended that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has praised former dictator Idi Amin.
A bomb exploded on Saturday at the offices of the opposition, center-right National Party in the northern city of El Progreso, causing damage to the main gate but no injuries.
Cash-strapped Spaniards are pulling their hair out over the economic crisis -- literally.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Former Labour cabinet member and distinguished political activist Tony Benn has challenged Prime Minister Gordon Brown's defense of the European Union's new foreign affairs chief. 
IRAN'S moral police have arrested a dozen couples for engaging in illicit sexual acts, including swapping partners, according to reports.
