EDINBURG TX A welding shop owners dealings in stolen Mexican oil were what eventually led to his murder, not an alleged affair between his wife and his foreman, a defense lawyer said. Attorney Michael Garza told a jury Tuesday that his client, Mirna Matiana Garcia, initially lied to police about details of her husbands 2008 slaying not to cover up her own alleged involvement but for fear that a powerful Mexican drug cartel would come after her and her three grown daughters. But prosecutors balked at that story Tuesday, alleging that the 43-year-old woman made up the tale of a Zeta attack to hide a crime she planned with her lover one she had tried to commit several times before.
Edinburg police found the body of 47-year-old Antonio Manuel Garcia on Nov. 21, 2008, lying in a pool of blood at his office at the Cactus Iron Works, a family business located near the intersection of U.S. 281 and Monte Cristo Road. He had been shot three times, including once to the back of his head, with a revolver he kept in his desk, investigators said. And while his wife initially denied she had been at the office at the time of the shooting, she felt certain the Zetas were behind the attack, said Monica Barron-Augur, an Hidalgo County assistant district attorney.
She said her husband was involved in some crude oil business,' she said. It appeared to be shady, and she believed the Zetas were involved.'
It was only after nearly a month of continued questioning that Mirna Garcia allegedly confessed to trying for months to have her husband killed, according to court documents. Although she had asked others before him, Jose Manuel Gomez the welding business foreman and the man with whom police say she was having an affair allegedly agreed to do it for free. Prosecutors are expected to present a video recording of a conversation between Mirna Garcia and Gomez made shortly after her arrest in which he tells her that he did it' for her and she tries to convince him that there is no need for both of them to take the rap for the crime.
But ever since that alleged confession, Mirna Garcia has alternately denied saying anything to police and claimed she lied because she was afraid of her husbands business contacts.
State investigators said Tuesday that they had linked Antonio Garcia to an ongoing federal probe of oil stolen from Mexicos state-run petroleum monopoly but maintained that they did not believe this illicit side venture had anything to do with his death. For years, criminals south of the border have siphoned off thousands of gallons of natural gas condensate a petroleum precursor from pipelines managed by Petróleos Mexicanos. In 2008 alone, the company better known as Pemex found 400 illegal connections in rural states like Tamaulipas, Veracruz and Nuevo León. In the past nine months, five Texas oil executives have been indicted in federal court on charges of purchasing the stolen product.
Antonio Garcia, however, would be the first U.S. citizen outside the oil industry to be publicly linked to the theft. He allegedly purchased several hundred gallons of the purloined petrol, held it in tanks behind his Edinburg welding shop and sold it to companies north of the border.
His primary vendors, Attorney Garza alleged Tuesday, were the Zetas, who Mirna Garcia maintains employed Gomez to kill her husband.
Gomez has entered a plea of not guilty and has consistently denied any involvement in Antonio Garcias murder. He awaits trial later this year. Testimony in Mirna Garcias case is set to begin this morning. If convicted, she could face up to life in prison.
The man accused of having an arsenal of explosives at his Belen NM home is out of jail on bond Wednesday night. Joe McFarlin, 62, faces a felony charge for possession of explosives. On Tuesday, investigators removed 20 pounds of explosives, blasting caps, detonators, and chemicals inside McFarlin's home on Pueblitos Road. Neighbors say causing harm wasn't McFarlin's plan. Van Johnson says, "I don't think he would do anything like that, Joe is a very honest guy, he's always been honest with me, he's always been honest with other people and--like I said-- he would help you out, if you needed help." Neighbor Jaysen Schraff says, "He didn't have any reason for blowing things up." New Mexico, so far from heaven
Terrorism has been ruled out in the case, but investigators are still looking into why McFarlin has the explosives.
Some people just like to go out in the desert and blow stuff up. Or perhaps he's a hobby miner.
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The next major interstate exit south of Belen is Socorro New Mexico home of New Mexico Tech, engineering, mining and the 'boom' school. They do a lot of explosives work, class and study. Advanced adult education, ie training classes for civilian EODs. Just north of Belen in the southern edge of Albuquerque is Sandia National Laboratories which conducts 'booms' a couple times a year that can be heard and felt just as far Belen. They were the one's who determined the most probable cause of the USS Iowa's turret explosion. We're not going to even mention Trinity site in New Mexico. So he's in the right neighborhood to take his hobby out to the boonies for a little boom time.
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When I camp at Bandelier National Monument, hardly a day passes without loud explosions coming from the Los Alamos National Lab site, across the road from the campground.
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20 pounds is about the minimum it's worth purchasing at a time (to remove stumps, take out boulders, etc). Easy to accumulate that as "leftovers" from even a medium size project.
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Things change. This guy is my age and when I was a kid, the local hobby store showed us how to make small bombs using matcheads, copper pipe and model train transformers. Advanced courses in making your own black gunpowder. This guy just may not have kept up with the changing mores. sigh.
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I remember that, I made plenty of matchhead bombs.
Take several Kitchen matches and with your Scout Knife gently remove the tips, (Gently)
Fold the tips into tinfoil and either hit with a hammer, or heat with a Magnifying glass (Hammer works better)
Also you can make a pretty good Explosive Bullet by putting a kitchen match in a BB gun and shooting at something had, Little Bang when jt hit.
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I see my fingeers are misbehaving again, sorry.
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I know a number of people who have 20 pounds of explosives - if they disassemble all their ammo.
Ummm, Glenmore if not enclosed it's no longer an explosive, it just burns and fizzes.
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Got you all beat, was told I need to do something to green up the plants in the greenhouse. So now it's time to order a couple hundred pounds of ammonium nitrate. As the saying goes a lot of us here know how to cause trouble. Just remember the label a quick kick for the long haul.
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A few years ago an airline baggage handler dropped the crate of a gorgeous Best in Show Whippet at JFK, in February, coming back from the Westminster show. Door opened, dog spooked and raced across the runways, disappearing into the marshes at the edge of the airport. Volunteers searched for weeks and search dogs found traces of scent in the marshes but she was never found. Either she was taken by someone who kept her or, more likely, she died from the winter weather.
All the people associated with her - breeders, owner, fans - were devestated. At a practical level the loss of her joint bloodlines (she hadn't been bred yet) was a loss to the breed as a whole. But at a personal level she was a much beloved pet.
Britain's humbled Labour Party has begun a potentially bitter race for Gordon Brown's successor following its ouster after 13 years in office likely pitting brother against brother and possibly even husband against wife in a race riddled with intrigue and rivalries.
Ex-foreign secretary David Miliband, whose boyish charm left U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton swooning, leads the field to become the opposition leader who'll take on Britain's new coalition chiefs David Cameron and Nick Clegg but his younger sibling Ed Miliband may emerge as his closest challenger. When does the name change to the Marxist-Leninist Party of Britian take effect?
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ed, they were already known as Za-NuLabour for good reason.
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The highest note in the PRC is 100 yuan, worth about $15. Fun walking around with big gangster rolls of cash in your pocket just to buy some furniture. An obligatory rite of passage in China is the photo of yourself flashing a large amount of folding money.
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A $100 doesn't go as far today. A 1945 C-note would buy $1200 worth of goods today. I say go for a $1000 bill. The US will need new bag holders once the Chinese cut us off. Might as well stick it to the criminal class.
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I met a fellow who carried a 1,000,5,000, and 10,000 notes in his wallet, it was his emergency stash, hard to change, so therefore difficult to spend, and the bills were Legitimate so any bank would change them if needed
Seems a simple solution, practicly worthless if stolen. (Easy to catch as only a Bank could change them)
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You know, I like the idea of Grant being on the largest denomination of money; I think he's vastly underappreciated.
[Al Arabiya Latest] The Liberal Democrats agreed on Wednesday to rule with the larger Conservatives under new Prime Minister David Cameron in Britain's first coalition government since 1945.
The agreement between the two parties, reached five days after an inconclusive election, ends 13 years of rule by the center-left Labor Party under Tony Blair and his successor Gordon Brown.
The untested partnership will have to clean up public finances, with a record budget deficit running at more than 11 percent of national output.
Markets welcomed the agreement, hopeful that a government led by the center-right Conservatives will take swift action to bring down spending.
"This is going to be hard and difficult work. A coalition will throw up all sorts of challenges. But I believe together we can provide that strong and stable government that our country needs," Cameron said in his first speech as prime minister.
The Liberal Democrats were also celebrating after decades spent in the shadow of Labor and the Conservatives.
"Hooray," former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown said as he emerged from a late night meeting at which the party put its final seal of approval on the deal.
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My prediction: Liberal Democrats take credit for any good that comes of this, let conservatives take blame for the bad, and make a power play in the next election cycle. The conservatives will play right into their hands in the name of cooperation.
The new book suffers no romantic delusion about the China that shaped American novelist Pearl Buck: It was a harsh land where brides were sold into slavery and newborn girls were strangled and left out for the dogs.
The title alludes to how Buck as a little girl gathered the babies' bones -- hands, limbs, even a head -- in a string bag and buried them. Buck became the first American woman honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Today Buck is largely forgotten, deprived of a place in U.S. letters and feminist mythology. Her application for a visa to China in 1972 was rejected because she had, in the words of a Chinese diplomat, taken an attitude of distortion, smear and vilification toward the people of new China and its leaders.'
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She came to a university where I went way back when speakers had actually accomplished something-- Instead of the PC or radical speakers who come to universities today.
[Iran Press TV Latest] The US Treasury Department says that the federal budget deficit hit a record for the month of April, reaching nearly 83 billion dollars.
On Wednesday, the Treasury Department announced that the April deficit soared to $82.7 billion, the largest imbalance for that month on record.
That was significantly higher than last year's April deficit of $20 billion and above the $30 billion deficit private economists had anticipated.
Revenues for April were down 7.9 percent from a year ago, dipping to $245.3 billion. That decline included a fall in individual income tax payments.
That reflected not only the impact of millions of people out of work but also tax relief provided through the economic stimulus program that Congress passed in February 2009.
The latest data brought the deficit for the first seven months of fiscal year 2010 to around 800 billion dollars.
The White House had warned that the deficit for fiscal year 2010 could go above one and a half trillion dollars.
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The White House had warned that the deficit for fiscal year 2010 could go above one and a half trillion dollars.
A bomb has exploded outside a maximum security prison near the Greek capital, Athens, police say. The blast in Korydallos followed a telephone warning to an Athens newspaper, officials said.
One report says a woman has been injured in the blast, but this has not been confirmed.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but correspondents say suspicion will fall on radical left-wing Greek militant groups.
Athens has seen recent violent protests as the government unveiled tough austerity measures designed to tackle Greece's huge budget deficit.
The BBC's Malcolm Brabant in Athens says that if it turns out to be the work of left-wing guerrillas, it would be a sign that they intend to keep up their violent campaign against the government's austerity programme.
Greek media reported that the device had been hidden in a travel bag. The powerful blast was heard in the centre of Athens several kilometres away.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Greek workers plan to launch a general 24-hour strike next week to express protest against a pension reform, which has its roots in government austerity measures.
The general walkout on May 20th will be in response to planned pension cuts linked to an international 110-billion-euro (139.7-billion-dollar) bailout for Greece.
Greece's main public and private sector unions said in a statement that they are "fundamentally against the proposed pension reform draft bill crafted by the government. We consider that our joint effort has to immediate, dynamic, and unified."
The strike is going to take place one day after the cash-strapped country must repay around EUR 9 billion (USD 11.4 billion) in expiring debt, using loans from its eurozone partners and the International Monetary Fund.
According to a recent deal with the IMF and the European Union, Athens has agreed new budget cuts of EUR 30 billion, to become eligible for receiving a rescue package.
The austerity measures require cuts in wages and increases in taxes, something that both the public and private sector unions are against.
The unions in Greece have vowed to organize even more strikes if the government will not abandon its policies.
"If the government doesn't change course, even more strike action and protests will follow," said Stathis Anestis, spokesman for private sector umbrella union GSEE.
Next week's strike will be the fourth since February.
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Get ready for major spikes in gas, energy and food prices if this thing passes.
And everything else you buy that is hauled in anthing that uses fossil fuels. What will this do to the already struggling airline industry? What about the thousands of self-employed truckers? When was the last time you saw a battery powered jumbo jet or big rig? Not to worry though, the Norks have achieved nuclear fusion; our energy problems are solved!
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Higher taxes and costs of nearly everything at a time of near record unemployment and staggering recovery. What could possibly go wrong with this scheme?
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One load of cow pucky after another coming out of this administration. They are pushing their ideology over what is good for America. But then again I'm not really surprised. This is just another form of statist looting by these socialists. Selling snake-oil.
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The relative productivity between people is maintained POST-Tax, so this is designed to make the poor poorer, and thus in need of even more theft from the productive.
Imagine knowing you'll be too sick to go to work, before the faintest hint of a runny nose or a sore throat my available sick days juxtaposed against my next days schedule is a pretty good predictor......
Now imagine that preemptive diagnosis being transmitted to a national, web-based influenza map -- simply by picking up the phone.
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I saw a piece on PBS that caught my attention the other day about dogs. Some dogs can diagnose cancer. Some dogs are called "Seizure dogs." They can detect the onset of a seizure a half hour before it occurs or shows up on an EEG.
The Thai general popularly known as Seh Daeng has never been shy about talking to the press, even if he is coy about owning up to what he has been charged with: providing security for the Red Shirt protest movement and allegedly fielding a death squad to counter death squads associated with the government. Major General Khattiya Sawatdiphol has been the swashbuckling, profanity-spewing field marshal of the protest movement that has virtually shut down the center of the capital, Bangkok, and withstood military assaults for five weeks. But on Thursday, as he was talking to a reporter from the International Herald Tribune, Seh Daeng was struck in the head by a bullet, an incident captured on video, and rushed to a hospital as the military appeared to have surrounded the Red Shirt encampment.
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swashbuckling days are over, d*ckhead
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My take: this guy was a seditious traitor, and deserved to get shot.
I've finally decided the gov't is right, and the protesters are in the wrong here.
These stupid poor people are screwing up the whole country in the name of Shinawatra, who was a competent P.M., but whose true genius was as a kleptocrat -- pocketing billions in state assets while in power.
These ignorant Isan protesters need to take down the barricades, go home, and patiently wait for the next election.
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The current government came to power in a coup, rigged and stole subsequent elections, and is now assasinating opponents.
A bad day for Thailand.
Shinawatra was the richest man in Thailand before he entered politics. Worth well over a billion dollars. I doubt he entered politics for the money.
His party won every unrigged election in the last 10 years by a huge margin. The Thai electorate appear to have no doubts about who is the best choice to run the country.
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Toxin was, what? Tough on the muslim insurgency? I don't think so. The current is barely better, but hey....
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The current government came to power in a coup, rigged and stole subsequent elections, and is now assasinating opponents.
A bad day for Thailand.
Shinawatra was the richest man in Thailand before he entered politics. Worth well over a billion dollars. I doubt he entered politics for the money.
His party won every unrigged election in the last 10 years by a huge margin. The Thai electorate appear to have no doubts about who is the best choice to run the country.
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Phil, you're reduced to simply repeating yourself already??? Weak!
And re: "His party won every unrigged election in the last 10 years by a huge margin. The Thai electorate appear to have no doubts about who is the best choice to run the country."
Unrigged? I guess that would be ZERO elections then? His party is notorious for naked vote-buying. And guess where they do the buying? Isan, where most of these protesters come from.
Most Thais are loyal to the King and the government and abhor the kind of confrontations going on now. The protesters are a national embarrassment, organized and funded only by Shinawatra and his minions.
[Straits Times] THE Thai government on Wednesday cancelled plans for a November election and scrapped talks with protesters occupying Bangkok's commercial district for nearly six weeks, but softened its line on an earlier crackdown threat.
Hours after announcing they would shut off power and cut water supplies from midnight to thousands of anti-government protesters, authorities postponed the plan, saying it would hurt residents in the ritzy district more than the demonstrators. But the government said it would take other measures to seal off the central Bangkok area packed with hotels, embassies, businesses, high-end apartments and two public hospitals.
'Tonight, we will start preventing taxis and cars delivering protesters into the area and tomorrow, we will divert some public transportation into the area as well,' army spokesman Sansern Kaewkamnerd told reporters. 'Details are still being worked out.'
Leaders of the mostly rural and urban poor protesters remained defiant, refusing to leave their 3 sq km encampment and challenging the government from behind medieval-like walls built of tyres and sharpened bamboo staves. 'We will die here if we must. Your threat will not work,' Nattawut Saikua, a protest leader, told cheering supporters after the government said it may use force to disperse them if other measures failed.
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'Details are still being worked out.'
A Chill just ran down my spine.
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[Straits Times] THE Philippine president-apparent and nominees to what he pledged would be a lean, graft-free Cabinet promised on Wednesday to travel overseas less, investigate corruption and renew peace talks on ending decades-long insurgencies.
With the vote count nearly complete, Benigno Aquino III began assembling his Cabinet from the ranks of defectors from outgoing President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo"s administration. One ministerial nominee said bloated contracts, especially from Mrs Arroyo"s last six months in office, would be investigated before being honoured.
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Ok, look into the rice import and smuggling market, the Chinese bus market, used car import market, Customs, airport fees, and any business dealings Joker Arroyo, the current presidents husband, is involved in.
Just a little spoon feeding...
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Opening it up to foreign investment would be a start....
[Straits Times] OUTGOING Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo appointed an ally as Supreme Court chief justice on Wednesday, a move critics said was aimed at shielding her from graft investigations promised by her likely successor.
Senator Benigno Aquino, son of two revered pro-democracy icons who challenged the kleptocratic regime of Ferdinand Marcos, is far ahead in unofficial vote tallies after national elections on Monday that went far more smoothly than markets had feared.
Mr Aquino, who shares the same reputation for probity as his mother Corazon who died last August, campaigned on a platform of cleaning up politics and cracking down on corruption, tax evasion and smuggling. He looks certain to become the next president.
Mrs Arroyo still plans to be a political force. She has won a seat in Congress in the election and the Philippine media says she hopes to become house speaker and use this position to challenge the power of the presidency.
Mrs Arroyo has said she will ensure a smooth transition before her term ends on June 30. But her appointment of Renato Corona to head the Supreme Court sparked renewed accusations that she is trying to put allies in key positions before leaving office.
Mr Corona was her chief of staff when Arroyo was vice president and also for a year after she became president in 2001. Of 15 Supreme Court judges, 14 will be Mrs Arroyo's appointees when Mr Corona replaces current Chief Justice Reynato Puno, who retires on May 17, with one position remaining vacant.
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Round and round, here we go, change of partners and doe se doe.
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Ok, GMA has long been a proponent of the parlamentary system. Under her system, the one she could not get through congrees, the speaker of the house would rule the country with no term limits. The president would be a figurehead event. She is in the middle of her second Coup.
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[Straits Times] MYANMAR has no need for foreign observers to monitor its first elections in two decades, state media reported on Wednesday, despite international concerns that the polls will lack legitimacy.
'International watchdog groups do not need to come,' the chairman of the country's election body told a visiting US envoy, according to the New Light of Myanmar newspaper.
'Arrangements have been made to ensure free and fair elections,' Election Commission chairman Thein Soe was quoting as telling US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell on Monday.
Election candidates will be allowed to appoint a representative and helper to observe polling stations and the ballots are to be counted in front of the voters, Mr Thein Soe said. Critics say the polls are aimed at simply entrenching the ruling generals' power.
Mr Campbell met several government ministers and opposition leaders, including detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, during his two-day visit to the military-ruled country. He said following his talks that the United States was 'profoundly disappointed' in the junta's preparations for the upcoming elections and wanted 'immediate steps' to address fears that they would lack legitimacy.
Ms Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) was forcibly dissolved last week under widely criticised laws governing the elections, which are scheduled for some time later this year. The NLD refused to meet a May 6 deadline to re-register as a party - a move that would have forced it to expel its own leader - and boycotted the vote.
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Gates famously played the race card when arrested by a white cop in Cambridge, Massachusetts. And yet his new book has dropped like a bomb on those who've made careers out of racial complaints.
I think anyone who was a legal slave in the U.S. before the emancipation proclamation should get $10,000,000 tax free cash upon giving proof and filing the correct paperwork.
The Obama administration is preparing to join an international advisory group that the United States generally has shunned due to fears it would adopt anti-Israeli and anti-Western positions, US officials said Wednesday.
The officials told The Associated Press the administration plans to announce as early as this week that it will begin a formal relationship with the Alliance of Civilizations.
The Bush administration boycotted the group when it was founded in 2005 over because it feared the group would become a forum for bashing Israel and the United States. Those concerns were magnified a year later when the alliance released a report that officials in Washington said unfairly blamed Israel and the United States for many of the world's problems.
Since President Barack Obama came into office last year, the United States has opened the door slowly to informal dealings with the alliance, including attending some of its meetings as an observer.
The United States has yet to join the alliance by becoming a member of its "Group of Friends," countries and organizations that have lent their names and support to its goal of countering the rise of religious extremism and cultural polarization.
The decision to join grows out of Obama's desire to broaden US participation in international groups and improve its standing among Muslims.
Earlier moves have included Obama's thus far failed outreach to Iran and Syria, his failed speech from Egypt last year to the world's Muslims and the US decision to join the failed much-criticized UN Human Rights Commission.
The United States also participated in failed preparatory meetings for a UN conference on racism that the administration ultimately boycotted because of its expected anti-Semitic position.
The US had been the only member of the Group of 20 major advanced and emerging economies to refuse to join the friends group, which now includes 118 countries and organizations. Many nations in Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia are members along with multilateral blocs including the Arab League and the Organization of the Islamic Conference. Israel and the United States have been among the conspicuous holdouts.
The officials said earlier fears about the "imbalances" in the group, which was set up by Spain and Turkey, had been dealt with after the United States expressed "serious concerns" about the 2006 report.
That report focused on the Middle East and identified Israel's "disproportionate retaliatory actions in Gaza and Lebanon" as a main cause of Muslim-Western tension.
The officials said the administration had been assured by its current leader, former Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio, that it would take a "more positive" approach to its work.
The officials said they had consulted closely with Israel on the decision to join the alliance. Israel has no plans to join, diplomats said.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,591845,00.html (Im not wild about G. Beck either. He's made some very compelling arguments in past (3) weeks...Pls chk it out.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,591845,00.html (Im not wild about G. Beck either. He's made some very compelling arguments in past (3) weeks...Pls chk it out.
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.
Britain's humbled Labour Party has begun a potentially bitter race for Gordon Brown's successor following its ouster after 13 years in office likely pitting brother against brother and possibly even husband against wife in a race riddled with intrigue and rivalries.
[Al Arabiya Latest] The Liberal Democrats agreed on Wednesday to rule with the larger Conservatives under new Prime Minister David Cameron in Britain's first coalition government since 1945.
[Iran Press TV Latest] The US Treasury Department says that the federal budget deficit hit a record for the month of April, reaching nearly 83 billion dollars. 
[Iran Press TV Latest] Greek workers plan to launch a general 24-hour strike next week to express protest against a pension reform, which has its roots in government austerity measures. 
