ATHENS, Ga. - Residents of an Eastside neighborhood may have found relief from a gang that laid siege to the area over the past few months, kicking and biting at people, jamming up traffic and chasing terrified residents into their homes.
The gang - that's what the U.S. Geological Survey calls a flock of wild turkeys - went after 68-year-old Carol Herzog on Monday, she said. "Hey, you wit da skirt, c'mere."
"I was outside, and the two toms kept walking toward me, pushing me backwards," Herzog said. "What's da matter, babe, you don't like turkeys? Hey, you didn't call me 'Butterball,' did ya? 'Cause if you did, me an' da boys here are gonna hafta mess ya up."
"They were flying up to my face as I kept backing up. I was scared to death."
Officers with the state Department of Natural Resources took down both toms in the gang of six Tuesday morning, likely putting an end to the gang's rampage. "Turkeys, come out to play-i-ay."
"It's da cops!"
"Okay, Tom, come out with your beaks up and nobody has to get hurt."
"We ain't afraid a you flatfoots!"
"You'll never take us alive, coppers!"
BLAM! BLAM!
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And 5 round of bullet and a shutter gun were recovered from the scene.
Phoenix police are investigating an incident in which a northeast Phoenix homeowner shot and killed an intruder with a 12-gauge shotgun blast to the belly.
The homeowner phoned 911 at 1:45 p.m. after shooting the intruder at his home in the 4300 block of East Libby Street, northwest of Bell Road and 44th Street, according to the Phoenix Fire Department. The homeowner told police that the intruder had asked for his car keys, money and identification.
The incident is believed to have started at approximately 1:15 p.m. when the suspect was spotted burglarizing a vending machine at a car wash on Tatum Boulevard and Charleston Avenue, said Sgt. Tommy Thompson. In his attempt to leave the scene, the suspect cracked his axle but continued to drive away, stopping by an elementary school close to the home he invaded.
Foothills Elementary School was put on lockdown for a short time while police searched the area for the burglar.
"As they were searching the area, they heard a pop," said Thompson. The pop was the blast from the homeowner's shotgun.
Firefighters transported the intruder to an area hospital where he died from his injuries. More like "transported both halves of the intruder..."
Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and whose books, such as "A People's History of the United States," inspired young and old to rethink the way textbooks present the American experience, died today in Santa Monica, Calif, where he was traveling. He was 87. His daughter, Myla Kabat-Zinn of Lexington, said he suffered a heart attack. God finally got around to smiting him, huh? Not to second-guess or anything, but He shoulda done it in 1979.
"He's made an amazing contribution to American intellectual and moral culture," Noam Chomsky, the left-wing activist and MIT professor, said tonight. "He's changed the conscience of America in a highly constructive way. I really can't think of anyone I can compare him to in this respect." Except for Chomsky himself, of course.
Chomsky added that Dr. Zinn's writings "simply changed perspective and understanding for a whole generation. He opened up approaches to history that were novel and highly significant. Both by his actions, and his writings for 50 years, he played a powerful role in helping and in many ways inspiring the Civil rights movement and the anti-war movement." As a foremost proponent of revisionism he charted the path toward assigning more significance to historical events than applied at the time, selectively denigrating the significance of others, and actually ignoring still others. As a member of the Procrustean school of historians, anything that fit his ideological outlook was included, elaborated, and in many cases glorified, while the rest was dismissed as bunk.
For Dr. Zinn, activism was a natural extension of the revisionist brand of history he taught. "A People's History of the United States" (1980), his best-known book, had for its heroes not the Founding Fathers -- many of them slaveholders and deeply attached to the status quo, as Dr. Zinn was quick to point out -- but rather the farmers of Shays' Rebellion and union organizers of the 1930s. It will probably be a hundred years before historians have shaken the Zinnean dust from their feet.
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Turd...
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you are more generous than I. Turds have a use on occasion.
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Equal parts Mao, Stalin, and Goebbels, this creature was one of the creators of the academic Hate America cult. Good riddance.
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the real tragedy is not his passing, but that it is over 60 years too late.
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The Boston Globe obit that Fred linked was basically a tongue-bath from start to finish for this communist a$$hat. Amazingly, the NYT's version was considerably more balanced. Here's an excerpt:
"Even liberal historians were uneasy with Professor Zinn, who taught for many years at Boston University. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. once said: 'I know he regards me as a dangerous reactionary. And I dont take him very seriously. Hes a polemicist, not a historian.'...In a 1998 interview with The Associated Press, Professor Zinn acknowledged that he was not trying to write an objective history, or a complete one."
Good riddance, dirtbag, and I feel sorry for the worms. Now if only Chomsky will join you...
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Now, if Chomsky and Ramsey Clark will kick the bucket, the not-so-grim reaper will have given us a triple play.
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If there was a serious community of historians around, they would celebrate by subjecting Zinn's work to the bonfire of criticism and moral odium it deserves. But my expectations are WAY too high- I do not think such a community exists.
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There is an upside to this. Because of Bambi's SOTU blather, Zinn will be pushed off center stage, and there will be far fewer Chris Matthews type syrupy epitaphs to him.
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As I ponder Barry's angry lecture, I'm really wondering if watching 'Chris Matthews type syrupy epitaphs' would have been a better expenditure of time. The lad is in some serious denial and those talking head comments about him "pivoting".... not a chance.
Tiger Woods' alleged call-girl Loredana Jolie says the disgraced golfer is such a freak in bed, his stint in a rehab for sex addiction probably won't cure him.
"He would engage in sex from 9 p.m. until the sun came up the next morning. But he wasn't a healthy guy. He couldn't sleep and would stay up all night. I am not really sure rehab for sex addiction will help him," Jolie told Page Six yesterday.
Jolie -- who initially claimed to The Post she never slept with Tiger, then declared she wanted $1 million for her story about their alleged sex -- is now shopping a tell-all book to publishers.
The Sicilian-born stunner, who also goes by Loredana Ferriolo, promises to name other clients she serviced while working as an escort for famed madam Michelle Braun. Loredana's rep, Teisha Dynell, told us, "There are many other celebrity clients, actors and businessmen from New York, California and around the world."
But it is doubtful she "escorted" anyone more famous than Tiger, who supposedly hired her for a series of sessions for two years until 2008.
"Tiger's sexual fantasies were not normal," the wannabe author says. "He likes role-playing, he likes to be the guy in control and wearing a suit while there are girls performing girl-on-girl and guys entertaining guys. By that, I mean they would dance for each other like girls would do for a man," the would-be author claimed.
"He'd have different girls all the time, entertaining, role play, fetishes, stuff like that . . . But he would only watch . . . He would also ask me to text him pictures of myself when we weren't together.
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. - An animal rights group wants organizers of Pennsylvania's Groundhog Day festival to replace Punxsutawney Phil with a robotic stand-in.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals says it's unfair to keep the animal in captivity and subject him to the huge crowds and bright lights that accompany tens of thousands of revelers each Feb. 2 in Punxsutawney, a tiny borough about 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. PETA is suggesting the use of an animatronic model.
But William Deeley, president of the Inner Circle of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, says the animal is "being treated better than the average child in Pennsylvania." The groundhog is kept in a climate-controlled environment and is inspected annually by the state Department of Agriculture.
Deeley says PETA isn't interested in Phil from Feb. 2 on, and is looking for publicity.
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I, for one, welcome our new robotic groundhog overlord.
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It's time to add a ceremonial "beating of the animal activists" to the Punxsutawney festivities. Actually, I've never been to the festival despite having lived within two hours of the place my whole life. Maybe I ought to go this year, and punch a PETA hippie if I see one.
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Watching an out of control robot groundhog go on a berserk rampage would be pretty cool.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Chief of Turkish General Staff Gen. Ilker Basbug has dismissed allegation of a military plan to overthrow the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party).
Gen. Ilker Basbug delivered a televised address in Ankara on Monday during which he warned that the military's patience over a stream of allegations level against it had limits.
"How on earth could the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) plan to bomb mosques? This is unjust. The TSK has limits to its patience. I denounce these claims," the Turkish military chief stated.
He insisted that coups were a old-fashioned phenomena, and that power should only change through democratic means.
Last week, the liberal Taraf daily uncovered a conspiracy by the Turkish army against ruling the AK Party. The alleged plan, according to the daily, sought to sink the country into chaos through a spate of terrorist attacks that would ultimately pave the way for a military coup.
The scheme, titled the Balyoz (Sledgehammer), was drawn up in 2003 shortly after AK Party assumed power, Taraf reported.
The masterminds of the plan were retired Gen. Cetin Dogan, then commander of the Turkish army, retired Former Air Forces Commander Gen. Ibrahim Firtina and retired Gen. Ergin Saygun, according to the report published on Wednesday.
The plan was agreed at a military meeting attended by 162 active army members, among them 29 generals, the paper said.
the military was tasked with inciting bedlam in the society through organized acts of violence, amongst which were bomb attacks on the Fatih and Beyazit mosques in the largest Turkish city, Istanbul.
The desired result of these rallies would be an increase in domestic pressure on the AK Party government over its failure to ensure the security across the country. This would eventually result in the AK Party's removal from power, Taraf reported.
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Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, has complained of the tiring nature of her job and said she will step back from the role before the end of Barack Obama's presidency.
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Sounds like a big deal. Jumping ship. Bet it happens soon.
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Barry sees himself as the chief foreign policy negotiator. He distrusts both Clintons and keeps them close at hand for good reason. Ambitions dashed, Clinton has defaulted to the role of State Department administrator or custodian. Barry uses Richard Holbrooke and George Mitchell to execute the heavy lifting and duties of a real Sec. of State. Holbrooke is in charge of both Pak and Afghan housekeeping, while Mitchell essentially has responsibility for the Middle East.
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If she's too tired to be SoS then she's too tired to be Prez. Just saying ...
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perhaps this belongs under Short Attention Span Theater
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If she's too tired to be SoS then she's too tired to be Prez. Just saying ...
There is no way HRC can become President in 2012. Perhaps in 2016 but not in 2012
It is very, very, very difficult to beat a sitting President in the primaries. Ronald Reagan ran against Gerald Ford, unelected Gerald Ford, and still lost
So if Obamas presidency is successful or only a mild failure (just an hypothesis) he will be nominated as the Democratic candidate.
If Obamas presidency is such an unmitigated disaster he is beaten in the primaries then people will be so sour with democrats that the Democrat candidate will consider him lucky if he wins in _one_ state. So Hillary will not even run.
Unless Hillary runs as a Republican :-), her only chance in 2012 is the conjunction of Obama not botching up his presidency (highly improbable) and EGObama deciding not to run (still more improbable).
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If party leaders beg her to run to save the country then she will reluctantly make the sacrifice.
Only if she has a chance to win. If things are going so badly that party leaders ask her to save the country in 2012 then running would only burn her chances in 2016 and without preventing a Republican landslide.
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Barry's desperate blatherings last evening squarely place him in the screaming meme crowd.
Meme (pron. meem): A contagious information pattern that replicates by parasitically infecting human minds and altering their behavior, causing them to propagate the pattern. (Term coined by Dawkins, by analogy with "gene".) An idea or information pattern is not a meme until it causes someone to replicate it, to repeat it to someone else.
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Hillary Clinton raises prospect of resignation
OHPLEASE OHPLEASE OHPLEASE OHPLEASE
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My bet is she'd resign to position herself for the next Supreme Court opening. She gets a job for life / never has to run an election campaign again. And totally neutered from being challenge to the Lightbringer in the next election cycle. Nobody has ever stepped down from the court to run for public office that I can recall.
David Davis of Illinois resigned from the US Supreme Court to become a US Senator. However he was elected by the State legislature, not the general voting population.
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She's just tired of testing the DOD's new invisibility field generator. The good news is the test was successful, she's been pretty much invisible since she got the post.
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has disclosed plans for a deep ocean sensor network that could provide a long-range anti-submarine surveillance capability sufficient to protect 'blue water' Carrier Strike Group operations.
This new initiative, which envisions a distributed system of sensors and sources on or near the ocean floor, harks back to the SOSUS (Sound Surveillance System) deep-water long-range detection capability deployed by the US Navy during the Cold War. It also signals a revival in interest in blue-water anti-submarine warfare (ASW), an area that has largely taken a back seat in the two decades since the end of the Cold War and the demise of the erstwhile Soviet submarine fleet.
SOSUS used chains of bottom-mounted hydrophone arrays, connected by undersea communication cables to facilities on shore, to achieve long-range detections and cue area ASW forces. It is thought that DARPA's latest effort is looking at a deep-water sensor system that would afford a greater level of tactical utility.
In a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Deep Sea Operations (DSOP) released on 15 January 2010, DARPA's Strategic Technology Office suggests that as "technology drives peer-nation parity in traditional domains, the deep ocean offers an unused operational space to achieve significant gains in strategic capability". Truly glad to see this. There are far too many submarines in the world for them to be ignored.
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In its time, SOSUS was a military wonder of the world, that kept the Soviet North Sea fleet neutralized to a great extent.
A new version will likely be combined with the new world surface ship locator, which is a wonder in its own right. But then there is the problem of how to communicate this information to our submarines.
I'm not sure what system is currently used to communicate with our submarines. I gather that ELF is no longer used.
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ELF is still usable. All other modes are available. Still have HF antennae, but I'm about 23 years out of date. Probably a good number of satellite communications going on.
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I recall reading articles as far as twenty years ago saying to a satellite oceans are as transparent as air.
I can see the hydrophones as an assist only.
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"I recall reading articles as far as twenty years ago saying to a satellite oceans are as transparent as air."
No. You need VLF or ELF. There are laser experiments too, and of course there are buoys.
NASA's plans to return astronauts to the moon are dead. So are the rockets being designed to take them there -- that is, if President Barack Obama gets his way.
When the White House releases his budget proposal Monday, there will be no money for the Constellation program that was supposed to return humans to the moon by 2020. The troubled and expensive Ares I rocket that was to replace the space shuttle to ferry humans to space will be gone, along with money for its big brother, the Ares V cargo rocket that was to launch the fuel and supplies needed to take humans back to the moon.
There will be no lunar landers, no moon bases, no Constellation program at all.
In their place, according to White House insiders, agency officials, industry executives and congressional sources familiar with Obama's long-awaited plans for the space agency, NASA will look at developing a new "heavy-lift" rocket that one day will take humans and robots to explore beyond low Earth orbit. But that day will be years -- possibly even a decade or more -- away.
In the meantime, the White House will direct NASA to concentrate on Earth-science projects -- principally, researching and monitoring climate change -- and on a new technology research and development program that will one day make human exploration of asteroids and the inner solar system possible.
There will also be funding for private companies to develop capsules and rockets that can be used as space taxis to take astronauts on fixed-price contracts to and from the International Space Station -- a major change in the way the agency has done business for the past 50 years.
The White House budget request, which is certain to meet fierce resistance in Congress, scraps the Bush administration's Vision for Space Exploration and signals a major reorientation of NASA, especially in the area of human spaceflight.
"We certainly don't need to go back to the moon," said one administration official.
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"We certainly don't need to go back to the Moon" > The US-WORLD + future OWG-NWO will see come Year 2029/30-2036 + COMET APOPHIS. This opinion might change iff at that time, OWG SCIENCE-PERTS amke errors in their Calcs which causes SMALL/TINY SPACE ROCK APOPHIS to slam into the BIG SPACE ROCK MOON, destabilz its orbit and causing the Moon to reverse vector back towards Earth.
JUGGERNAUT > in Myth, among other one way to destroy a Juggernaut is to apply exactly a right amount of force at an exact point.
AKA MURPHY'S LAW > WHAT CAN GO WRONG, WILL GO WRONG.
MSM-NET > US, GLOBAL RECESSION-DEPRESSION > may last for DECADES + SCORES LONGER ["score" = 20 Years ea.] that what our Parents, Grandparents, + Great Grandparents = so-called "Greatest Generation" from WW2 went thru from 1929-1937/39.
WHAT MORE IFF THE US IS STILL FIGHTING RADICAL ISLAM, ETC. [NUCLEAR MILITANCY-TERRORISM]AT THAT TIME.
IOW, COMET APOPHIS 2029/30-2036 = future OWG SCIENCE at that time , as affected by FLUXES/CHANGES IN GEOPOLITICS AT THAT TIME INCLUD [POOR?]OWG US-WORLD ECON AT THAT TIME.
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Scientific exploration, return trips to the Moon and beyond are lofty future goals. At the present however, ensuring that Americans can make trips to the grocery store must take priority.
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Call me crazy, but wouldn't figuring out how to establish a functioning moon base have some kind of relevance to exploring asteroids and/or the inner solar system?
So, other than politics, why are we hopscotching straight to re-enacting the blowing up the asteroid scene out of "Armageddon"?
(BTW, am oh so happy Teh One figured out how to keep the money flowing to junk science, sorry, I meant climate change research.)
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I'm kinda not feeling sympathy myself. They've gotten hundreds of billions of dollars over the last thirty years, and managed to spend damn little of it on developing a launcher that costs less than half a billion dollars a launch.
(They did manage to throw a billion dollars or so allegedly 'proving' that cheap launch couldn't be done with the X-33 program. They should have stuck with macdac's proposal instead, at least they were trying to get stuff done).
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WOW Now lets blame OBAMA for not getting us to the moon LOL
LETS SEE HOW MUCH MONEY HAS NASA JACKED OFF REALLY?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Budget
The history of failed missions to Mars,Moon stretches back 40 years, so are they a waste of taxpayers' money, which would be better spent on more earthly needs?
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It depends, Play4keeps. How badly do you want the entirety of Earthly species on this planet when the next dinosaur-killer asteroid hits? It would be awfully nice if someone could drop by after the volcanoes calm down, to open the seed vaults and jump start the reseeding of the earth so the surviving critters didn't subsequently starve to death.
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You see in Florida we are going to get enough money for HIGH SPEED RAIL! Enough money a billion and change to build a line from Tampa to Lakeland, which is around 30 miles give or take. So the question is how does a train do 100 mph with stops to make it better than driving?
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I've been expecting this. While I admit NASA has p*%%#d a pretty sum away in comparison to the Federal budget it really isn't all that much. NASA gets .6% of the budget. That means for every 10 bucks they get 6 cents. What does piss me off is the way NASA starts a project at Administration or Congressional bequest, works on it for a few years and then the political winds change and the project gets shelved. And a couple years down the road the whole thing starts over again. Heavy Lift is but one good example.
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The history of failed missions to Mars,Moon War on Poverty stretches back 40 years, so are they a waste of taxpayers' money, which would be better spent on more earthly needs?
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Good Lord.
Satelites that guide smart bombs.
Take pictures of enemy dug in.
That can pin point an incoming Nuclear Warhead tipped missle and direct an interceptor to take it out before it hits us.
Provide us with GPS Navigation capabilities.
Allow us to test many technologies used on passenger airliners.
Weather research (but don't tell that to Al Gore, now we know why Obama doesn't want NASA.)
The list goes on and on and on as to how NASA has made the US a super power. And that is precisely why Obama is afraid of such technologies.
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[Straits Times] FOUR pigs' heads were found on the premises of two mosques in Kuala Lumpur yesterday, almost a week after two suraus (Muslim prayer rooms) were torched in Johor.
The incidents followed a spate of attacks on churches and other places of worship over the Allah issue, which has raised tensions.
Worshippers who went to the mosques for morning prayers found the plastic bags with the pigs' heads inside. Two heads were left at each mosque.
The mosques are the Al-Imam Tirmizi mosque in Kuala Lumpur and the Masjid Jumhuriyah in a suburb between Kuala Lumpur and Petaling Jaya.
Both are located near Kampung Medan, where a bloody ethnic riot took place in March 2001.
Police said they believed that the same people were behind the two incidents, which occurred around 6am.
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Everybody! Come on in, everybody! Who's next? Who wants some head cheese?
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I'm with you on that, CrazyFool. The give-away is that the heads were in plastic bags. Easy to carry in (and then out again) without having to actually touch the forbidden haram pig. A non-muslim perpetrator would have no problem carrying unbagged pork. And would certainly have removed the bags before leaving in order to create the most horror in the mosque. probably would have hit four mosques with a porker each instead of running out of courage at 2.
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#2 and #3, of course they dunnit themselves - using wild boar heads. You can't expect 'em to purchase the regular hairless(farm reared)pig heads from Chinese butchers, can you?
Besides it's a common practice for Malays living in the rural areas to be approved shotgun license and they commonly hunt wild boars which they then sell to the Chinese.
Dead giveaway that doesn't require a Sherlock Holmes, really.
[Dawn] Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has won a second term in office, state-run Rupavahini television reported on Wednesday.
"The president has recorded a remarkable victory, with a more than 1.8 million vote majority," Rupavahini said.
Official final results were not due for another three hours, but polling showed the incumbent with a powerful lead over his chief opponent, former army commander General Sarath Fonseka.
The two war victors turned to foes in a bloody campaign that culminated in a largely peaceful election on Tuesday, with turnout that independent observers placed at between 70 and 80 per cent of the Indian Ocean island's 14 million registered voters.
Fonseka, a political neophyte, delivered an election day shock by admitting he was not registered to vote, after saying he may have done so but did not want to say where for security reasons.
The winner will take the reins of a $40 billion economy which has enjoyed a partial peace dividend, and is on the path to recovery with big Chinese and Indian investments into infrastructure and plans to put $4 billion into development.
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The university at the centre of the climate change row over stolen e-mails broke the law by refusing to hand over its raw data for public scrutiny.
The University of East Anglia breached the Freedom of Information Act by refusing to comply with requests for data concerning claims by its scientists that man-made emissions were causing global warming.
The Information Commissioner's Office decided that UEA failed in its duties under the Act but said that it could not prosecute those involved because the complaint was made too late, The Times has learnt. The ICO is now seeking to change the law to allow prosecutions if a complaint is made more than six months after a breach.
The stolen e-mails , revealed on the eve of the Copenhagen summit, showed how the university's Climatic Research Unit attempted to thwart requests for scientific data and other information, and suggest that senior figures at the university were involved in decisions to refuse the requests. It is not known who stole the e-mails.
Professor Phil Jones, the unit's director, stood down while an inquiry took place. The ICO's decision could make it difficult for him to resume his post.
Details of the breach emerged the day after John Beddington, the Chief Scientific Adviser, warned that there was an urgent need for more honesty about the uncertainty of some predictions. His intervention followed admissions from scientists that the rate of glacial melt in the Himalayas had been grossly exaggerated.
In one e-mail, Professor Jones asked a colleague to delete e-mails relating to the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
He also told a colleague that he had persuaded the university authorities to ignore information requests under the act from people linked to a website run by climate sceptics.
A spokesman for the ICO said: The legislation prevents us from taking any action but from looking at the emails it's clear to us a breach has occurred.' Breaches of the act are punishable by an unlimited fine.
The complaint to the ICO was made by David Holland, a retired engineer from Northampton. He had been seeking information to support his theory that the unit broke the IPCC's rules to discredit sceptic scientists.
In a statement, Graham Smith, Deputy Commissioner at the ICO, said: The e-mails which are now public reveal that Mr Holland's requests under the Freedom of Information Act were not dealt with as they should have been under the legislation. Section 77 of the Act makes it an offence for public authorities to act so as to prevent intentionally the disclosure of requested information.'
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UEA failed in its duties under the Act but said that it could not prosecute those involved because the complaint was made too late,
The UEA may not be able to be prosecuted under FOIA but there appears to be a case of criminal obstruction and conspiracy which is usually covered by a different law.
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.
ATHENS, Ga. - Residents of an Eastside neighborhood may have found relief from a gang that laid siege to the area over the past few months, kicking and biting at people, jamming up traffic and chasing terrified residents into their homes.
Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and whose books, such as "A People's History of the United States," inspired young and old to rethink the way textbooks present the American experience, died today in Santa Monica, Calif, where he was traveling. He was 87. His daughter, Myla Kabat-Zinn of Lexington, said he suffered a heart attack.
Tiger Woods' alleged call-girl Loredana Jolie says the disgraced golfer is such a freak in bed, his stint in a rehab for sex addiction probably won't cure him.
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. - An animal rights group wants organizers of Pennsylvania's Groundhog Day festival to replace Punxsutawney Phil with a robotic stand-in.
he university at the centre of the climate change row over stolen e-mails broke the law by refusing to hand over its raw data for public scrutiny.
