Vincent P. McCrudden, 49, was arrested yesterday at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey after returning from Singapore, said Robert Nardoza, a spokesman for U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch in Brooklyn, New York.
McCrudden appeared today in federal court in Central Islip, New York, and was held without bail, Nardoza said. Last month, the CFTC sued McCrudden, Alnbri Management LLC and Managed Accounts Asset Management LLC, saying he solicited customers for his Hybrid Fund II without being registered with the commission. McCrudden was the owner and sole officer of the two companies, according to a CFTC statement.
The website of Long Beach-based Alnbri had an "Execution List" of 47 current and former officials of the CFTC, SEC, FINRA and the National Futures Association, including Gensler, SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro and FINRA Chairman Richard Ketchum, according to the complaint.
[Straits Times] A SUSPECTED Iranian drug trafficker died after the rupture in his stomach of some of the 137 methamphetamine capsules he had swallowed, Malaysian police said on Friday.
The 52-year-old traveller was taken to a public hospital after appearing ill at the country's low cost budget air terminal late on Thursday, local police chief Abdul Razak Abdul Majid told AFP.
Surgeons discovered the drugs during an operation, he said.
'The Iranian was in critical condition following the surgery and died on Friday, with initial reports indicating that some of the pills burst, which is what is believed to have made him sick and killed him,' Mr Abdul Razak said.
'We will know more after the autopsy, but the surgeons removed 137 compressed slabs in the form of capsules, weighing 765 grams in total, from his stomach,' he added.
He said police were still investigating where the Iranian had flown in from, and trying to determine his identity through the Iranian embassy.
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Iranian? Meth? Look for a North Korean connection.
Bill Bower, the last surviving bomber pilot of the audacious Doolittle Raid, a morale-boosting strike against the Japanese months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, died Jan. 10 at his home in Boulder, Colo. He was 93.
As a 25-year-old first lieutenant, Col. Bower commanded one of the 16 Army Air Forces' B-25s in the top-secret mission under the direction of then-Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle.
Col. Bower and the 79 other men who participated in the bombing run came to be known as the Doolittle Raiders.
On April 18, 1942, the Doolittle Raiders carried out a daring bombing run over Tokyo and the surrounding area. Although the bombing run had resulted in minimal damage, the Doolittle Raiders returned to the United States as heroes, hailed as having delivered a symbolic blow to the Axis powers early in the war.
For his integral role, Col. Bower received the Distinguished Flying Cross.
When Doolittle died in 1993, Col. Bower was picked to play "Taps" at the funeral in Arlington. Col. Bower managed to play a few notes before he was overcome with emotion and passed the bugle on to Doolittle's great-grandson.
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I remember watching Tora Tora Tora, a 1970 movie that dramatized the Pearl Harbor attack. Having grown up in an era where planes were hurled off the carrier deck by a catapult, I was amazed watching the planes waddle off the deck. I thought "Boy, those guys were brave!".
So, thinking about pilots in a BOMBER taking off from a carrier, all I can say is: those guys had seriously large brass balls! And, they realized that it was likely to be a suicide mission - even if they managed to attack Japan.
Again, RIP to all the heroes of the Doolittle raid.
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Can we grow them anymore?
All the time. Iraq and Afghanistan proved we have ranks filled with such brave and wonderful soldiers.
We'll see if the rot in the political class and the liberal areas can overcome them.
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So, thinking about pilots in a BOMBER taking off from a carrier...
The descriptions from Ted Lawson's book Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo made quite an impression on me as a child. I haven't seen the book in 35(?) years and can still remember his description of his crew yelling all at once when they first saw the Hornet, how much time they spent saying 'this will NEVER work' and how angry they were on the actual takeoff when the deck crew spent too much time (in his opinion) letting the engines warm up- wasting precious fuel.
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Doolittle was born in 1896. The Last Doolittle raider died Jan 10, 2011. A life span some of the 80 men of 115 years. Others died shortly after the raid in other battles during WWII.
One of the Japanese who held a few captured raiders became a Christian Missionary. The Japanese killed 250,000 Chinese civilians looking for these men. Immediately after the raid when Doolittle realized his planes were all lost thought he would be court marshalled. Instead he recieved the Medal of Honor.
[Iran Press TV] Tunisian demonstrators have called on Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi to step down and leave the country, shortly after he announced that he had taken over as interim president.
Ghannouchi announced that he was assuming power on Friday, promising to enact social and political reforms. But tensions remain high and protesters in the capital are now reportedly demanding that Ghannouchi resign and leave the country.
The Tunisian army took control of the North African nation when President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali left the country due to a groundswell of public discontent shortly after sacking his cabinet members, AFP reported.
Tunisian military units have surrounded the international airport on the outskirts of Tunis after another day of unrest on the streets of the capital.
There are reports that Ghannouchi plans to hand over power to the leader of the Tunisian parliament, Fouad Mbazaa.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... there are conflicting reports about where Ben Ali is headed. Some reports say the president is heading for Qatar but Maltese air traffic controllers said that he is on his way to Gay Paree via Malta.
Some sources close to the government say members of the Ben Ali family have been jugged, while his wife is reportedly in Dubai.
Ben Ali's fall comes after weeks of bloody protests over corruption, unemployment, and high food prices.
Human rights groups say dozens of Tunisian protesters were killed in the government crackdown before Ben Ali stepped down and decamped the country.
Earlier on Friday, Ben Ali, who had ruled the country since 1987, declared a national state of emergency as anti-government demonstrations across Tunisia reached a breaking point.
Public gatherings have been banned in Tunis and security forces have been authorized to fire on anyone refusing to obey orders. A dusk-till-dawn curfew has also been imposed.
Tunisians are furious about the fact that the police potted 13 more people on Thursday night, especially since the president had promised to end the use of live rounds on protesters.
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[Ennahar] Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has asked his government to "take urgent measures" to "keep prices down" of foodstuffs, according to a report by the Cabinet on Friday.
The country has known for some time, soaring prices, particularly sugar, oil and milk powder, much criticized by the opposition.
Global cooling's never fun. Still, there's the moldy grain to look forward to, that causes LSD hallucinations...
"Given the evolution of prices of certain foodstuffs, the President instructed the Government to take urgent measures likely to help keep prices down to levels more accessible to people throughout the territory, "said the statement issued by the Mauritanian News Agency (AMI Service).
The announcement comes amid rising prices of basic commodities has been the source of deadly riots in neighboring Algeria, which left five people dead and 800 maimed last week.
Moreover, Tunisia is experiencing since mid-December unprecedented revolt against unemployment of young graduates and the regime of Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali, who made 66 dead in one month according to a human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... NGO's.
On Thursday in a district of Nouakchott, schoolchildren demonstrated against rising prices of basic commodities.
And the Coordination of the democratic opposition (COD) organized a march Thursday afternoon and a rally attended by several thousand of people in the Mauritanian capital.
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[Ennahar] The situation in Tunisia has developed these past twenty-four hours of popular protest, Tuesday and Wednesday, there is even talk of the fall of the Tunisian President Zinelabidine Benali.
Last Tuesday, the Tunisian president makes the decision to sack the head of the Tunisian army, General Rachid Ben Amar and replaces him by intelligence chief. No official statement on this decision or the reasons for the dismissal was announced. But the reason is that the army refused to intervene and confront the demonstrators.
Hours before, websites and forums publish a video of the Tunisian army units protecting the demonstrators against the police riot. On the videos, you could hear the protesters shouting "Long live the army".
In the same evening of Tuesday, the Iranian channel "El Aâlem" broadcasts a report according to which the president's wife Benali would have decamped abroad with her daughters. Social networking websites like facebook, youtube and tweeter, publish video showing significant crowd of Morocco and Tunisia at Montreal airport after being informed of the arrival of the Tunisian president's wife with her daughter and her stepson. According to these sites, Canadian police have helped escape Leila Benali and members of her family for fear of seeing them attacked by Tunisian immigrants.
Wednesday morning, the Tunisian authorities announced the president's decision to release all those jugged during the demonstrations before announcing the dismissal of Interior Minister.
President Benali has also ordered an investigation into the involvement of some officials, without citing names, in cases of corruption. Considered by some experts as "Powder into the eyes", i.e., a temptation to control the situation. Despite this, protests have continued in Tunis and the rest of the major Tunisian cities reaching even southern regions on the border with Libya.
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[Al Jazeera] Nigeria's ruling Peoples Democratic Party has nominated incumbent Goodluck Jonathan as its presidential candidate after fending off a primary challenge in the country's mainly Mohammedan north.
Jonathan's nomination on Friday allows him to stand in the April presidential elections, which are viewed as one of the most important in the history of Africa's most populous country.
The primary win for Jonathan means he has upended an arrangement within the PDP that rotates candidates between the north and south every two terms.
The incumbent had been expected to win the party primary, despite the challenge from Atiku Abubakar, a former vice-president who had the backing of a group of elite politicians from northern Nigeria.
Good lord -- Nigeria has a Tea Party, too?
In the end, Jonathan won handily with 2,736 votes compared to Abubakar's 805. A front man for Abubakar, however, alleged rigging and intimidation.
Of course.
The PDP has won every presidential vote since Nigeria returned to civilian rule in 1999.
How jealous the Democrats must be. The Republicans, too, come to think of it.
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[Pak Daily Times] Supporters of embattled Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo on Thursday attacked at least four UN vehicles in Abidjan, with peacekeepers increasingly targeted in the deadly presidential stand-off.
UN patrols have previously come under attack from forces loyal to Gbagbo, who refuses to concede a November 28 presidential election to his besieged rival Alassane Ouattara, but not on the scale of Thursday's attacks.
"There were three vehicles which were burnt this morning in the Riviera II area," UN mission in Ivory Coast (UNOCI) front man Kenneth Blackman told AFP, adding that Gbagbo loyalists were "certainly" responsible. "There is no doubt about it," he said. A UN ambulance was also stoned on one of Abidjan's main bridges "by elements of the security forces of the Gbagbo camp," he said.
He was unable to say if there were any casualties in any of the attacks, which a front man for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said in Geneva could amount to war crimes. "We are very concerned by these attacks," front man Rupert Colville said. "Attacks on peacekeepers may be considered as war crime."
Troops loyal to Gbagbo on Tuesday night attacked a UN patrol in Abidjan, wounding three peacekeepers. That attack happened in Abidjan's tense Abobo district, largely loyal to Ouattara, where hundreds of Gbagbo's Defence and Security Forces (FDS) moved in early on Tuesday.
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Since Hugo Chávez came to power in Venezuela in 1998, Cuba has been bartering doctors for Venezuelan oil. The U.S. Energy Department estimates that Venezuela ships Cuba 90,000 barrels of oil a dayworth more than $2 billion a year at current prices. In addition, Venezuela pays Cuba for medical teams sent to countries that Mr. Chávez considers part of Venezuela's "Bolivarian" sphere. Bolivia, Honduras, Ecuador and Paraguay all use Cuban doctors paid for by Venezuela.
So the Cuban Docs are bought, sold and traded by socialist governments.
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Why would these doctors want to come from one of the best medical programs in the world (according to Michael Moore)to a completely broken one like we have in the US (according to Democrats)?
Answer: a) money b) the freedom to be able to criticize the government and not to to jail (at least for now) and c) a much better life.
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d) ability to use current medical technology and equipment to treat patients
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e) To able to work in a hospital that actually has supplies in it and treat any patient that comes in, rather than refuse them since they lack a Communist Party membership card.
BPs chief executive has dismissed concerns that Russia is an unreliable business partner, after making a Kremlin-controlled oil giant its second largest shareholder.
Bob Dudley said there was mutual confidence and trust between BP and Rosneft, as they agreed to buy £5bn of each others shares and explore the Arctic together.
The agreement, backed by Prime Minister David Cameron and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, has already drawn anger from American politicians. It comes at a sensitive time for BP as the energy major tries to repair its relationship with the US following the Gulf of Mexico oil spill last year.
US congressman Edward Markey, a prominent Democrat who led investigations into the giant leak, questioned the deal on grounds of national and economic security. On Friday night, he claimed that BP once stood for British Petroleum. With this deal, it now stands for Bolshoi Petroleum.
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They have not faced a confiscatory policy out of proportion to what they've done.
The administration has done nothing about their core business of reselling oil from elsewhere, while they have enabled the administration in its quest to shut down _exploration_ by everyone else in the United States.
The Russians are rewarding them for a Mission Well Accomplished which is going to give their country a whole lot of money.
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We should investigate BP further, I sense shenanigans, financial, moral and legal. Also they should pay...... for stuff, I know personally of a motel that went telly uno in Albany right after the spill and have received not jack dime from the company and that includes Haliburton which should give them money too.
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Zombie, go away and eat some fucking brains and replentish your supply of cells before coming back here to post, it's kinda obvious you've run below the thinking threshold with this one.
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They and You have used the phrases "Big Oil" and "Big Evil" interchangably for every second worth's of the last twenty-five years of handing over the industry, bit by bit, to fascist countries that are also by and large rabidly antisemitic.
And all y'all have gotten out of it is massive trade deficits and now multi-trillion-dollar-a-year federal deficits too.
Lie to yourself about it, lie to me about it, lie to the working plurality of idiots in this country about it, but those decisions still won't work.
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I would recommend reading up on some of the history between BP and the Russian Government. Russia has been putting tremendous pressure on BP for the last few years in an effort to control BP's interest within Russia, which account for approx. 25% of the companies interests worldwide. They forced out Dudley in 2008 and he ran BP in Russia in absentia until he finally was forced to change positions. The Russians have been playing hardball with BP for a while. The play is obvious, energy superpower supplier of the west, but the west is doing very little about it.
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Snowy you Bastard child of two Albio Guerillas , you're standing in the way of Millions of Green Jobs and plentiful Nutria. Oil is the Devils Own Shit as you well know by now. I frankly (can I say that) don't know how you can live with yourself. But Lord knows, we all love a lathe.
So carry on.
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You told yourself we were evil and you'd have Green Jobs if only the oilfield were shut down when we made 65% of the oil consumed in this country.
And you told yourself that you were creating Magical Green Jobs when you got it down to 45%.
And when you got it down to 35%.
And now you're on the road to 20% because there's no drilling in the gulf.
You tell yourself you're blameless and the people who do the dirty jobs are morally repugnant _every single percentage point_ of the decline.
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Meanwhile, North Dakota which has oilfields on land, is right on schedule to be producing 900,000 barrels per day of oil in the next 5-7 years. Screw the Greens : Green on the outside, and Red on the inside; Communists wearing protective camouflage.
The national electricity grid is wide open to a devastating cyber attack that could wreak havoc on the economy and make the 2008 financial crisis seem puny by comparison, a leading computer industry guru has told The Independent.
James Martin, who has made a fortune from making predictions about future developments in computers, warned that the only sure way of safeguarding the electricity grid against a coordinated cyber assault is to disconnect it completely from the internet.
Martin, who has advised various governments during his long career and has donated $150m (£95m) to Oxford University for studying future problems, said that the national electricity grids of Britain and the United States are especially vulnerable because they are controlled by computers that use the internet to communicate.
In a wide-ranging interview with The Independent at his home on a private island off Bermuda, Martin warned that there is ample evidence that hostile foreign agents have already targeted the American electricity grid in order to test whether it would be possible to cause widespread blackouts for long periods of time.
There is quite a lot of evidence that people have been hacking into the American grid, and probably the grids of other countries to, Martin said.
In the American grid theyve found quite a large number of Trojan horses and trap doors, theyve found quite a lot of hidden malware, not coming from the States but coming from somewhere outside the States, he said.
If you knocked out all the power in America, it would be devastating. Normally when you get a blackout it comes back very quickly but there have been some that dont. If it was a deliberate attack, then the people attacking it would try to do damage that could not be repaired quickly, he said.
If they caused the grid to crash it would be much worse than 2008. This is known today, but what I find rather alarming is that although it is known the authorities are not really trying to stop it by making it secure.
You could make it extremely secure and one very important part of it would be to disconnect it from the internet completely so there is no on-line interface between the internet and the grid, Martin explained.
The computers controlling the electricity grids in Britain and the United States are constantly sending messages to one another over the internet in order to balance supply with demand. This enables hackers to gain access to critical control systems, Martin said.
The country is totally dependent on its electricity. Its totally dependent on its power grid and, in the US, there are 10,000 electric power stations and there are many hundred thousand miles of grid connecting them together, and the grid is exceedingly complex.
There is almost no storage so its got to switch electricity constantly to get the electricity from the generator to the customer by a very complex path and its doing that all the time, constantly. And everything is controlled by computers, totally and absolutely, he said.
Computers are doing the buying and selling. Computers are giving the instructions to the generators and the transformers and the sub-grids.
Officials in both the US and Britain have already warned that their respective electricity grids have been targeted by hackers. In Britain, Iain Lobban, the director of GCHQ, said last October that the threat of a cyber attack on critical national infrastructure such as the grid is a real and credible one.
Meanwhile, Joel Brenner of the US National Counterintelligence Executive said in April 2009 that the US authorities have detected Chinese network operations inside certain of our electricity grids.
Despite knowing the risks, however, Martin believes that not enough is being done by western governments to address the threat, largely because the security of the power supply is seen as the responsibility of the private companies in charge of the grids.
If you talk to government they say its not their problem because everything on the grid is private corporations and we cant tell individual corporations how to behave so its up to them to make it secure, Martin said.
Certainly an outside entity could have a capability today to send many different malware messages into the grid at the same time in such a way that you could take down most of the grid, and may be all of the grid, he said.
That avalanche could be done deliberately, by hackers or by a country that is deliberately planning a cyber-attack for some reason on another country, he said.
The grid is full of huge transformers and pumps that are one off, which means that if you knock them out you cant go and buy them off the shelf. If you picked out the things that could not be bought or not replicated quickly, and there a lot of those, then that would be damage that you couldnt repair quickly.
You have a large amount of company-to-company automation and all of that could be put out of operation. If it was put out of operation it could do immense financial damage, enormously greater than the 2008 crash, he told The Independent.
The only real solution to the problem posed by a cyber attack is to develop a completely secure communications network that is not connected to the internet. However, Martin fears that this will only be done after a major crisis.
If you set out very rigorously it would probably take about five years to make the grid really secure, but what might trigger that would be some kind of electronic 9/11, some kind of cyber attack that was equivalent to 9/11, he said. We won't turn it off willingly ourselves, but we will sit on our a$$es and allow others to turn it off at their whim. Nice stragegy you've got there, Napolitano. Let's worry about fractions of a percent risk of terror in the air and ignore the possibility that someone could paralyze the country. Oh yeah, I forgot, that doesn't really grow your empire, does it? Continued on Page 49
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ample evidence that hostile foreign agents have already targeted the American electricity grid in order to test whether it would be possible to cause widespread blackouts for long periods of time.
...And the foreign agents would be from China? Cyberblackmail? They want their principle and interest on the money we borrowed from them? Zweeesh! These guys are as bad as Wall Street bankers.
The meeting room at St. Odilia's Catholic Church on the city's northwest side was packed with local dignitaries, witnesses to the mass shooting Jan. 8, some of the witnesses to the shootings and the first responders to the scene for a taping of an ABC-TV special, a town hall event, at 11 a.m. Saturday. Host of the program, This Week, is Christianne Amanpour. The show will air at 7 a.m. Sunday on KGUN9-TV.
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head at close range last Saturday by a lone gunman. She survived. A total of six people were killed. Nineteen were shot.
Jared Loughner, 22, a former Pima Community College student, is the sole suspect in the shootings. He is in FBI custody.
Toward the end of the town hall meeting Saturday morning, one of the shooting victims, J. Eric Fuller, took exception to comments by two of the speakers: Ariz. state Rep. Terri Proud, a Dist. 26 Republican, and Tucson Tea Party spokesman Trent Humphries.
According to sheriff's deputies at the scene, Fuller took a photo of Humphries and said, "You're Dead."
Deputies immediately escorted Fuller from the room.
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Thanks to NYT's and the others that generated the "blood libel" an apparently unstable man who got shot by another unstable man is in a rage. He apparently now blames anyone with a conservative view.
A trend toward gay and lesbian sex in Pakistani society is rapidly emerging among teenage boys and girls.
Watching "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer", or going Pashtun?
In Pakistan's so-called Islamic society, it is a great transgression even to discuss homosexuality, yet youths have been heading toward a sexual mutiny for a decade and a half.
The new generation of Pakistan has rejected all the norms, values, and ethics of a Muslim society. They are totally Westernized and have adopted all the Western societies' norms and values.
Quick, Manolo -- fetch my smelling salts... and a strong martini with an extra olive. Someone is having the vapours! I mean, this Westernized generation is the same one rallying on the ground and on Facebook for that taqfiri security guard who murdered the governor for wanting to pardon a dhimmi.
In much of Pakistani society, being a lesbian or gay is considered one of the most corrupt and shameful acts, and the society curses it; but despite this hard reality, many young girls and boys are indulging in homosexual relations.
Pakistani society has a number of classes and social divisions, separated by social status, as well as economic, religious, ethnic, and cultural divisions.
The elite class of the country, called the aristocrats by the lower and middle classes, has little to do with the religion in broader aspect of the masses, and they turn themselves toward each and every culture. Among this group, homosexuality is not viewed as objectionable or bad.
Neither is boy-love among the Pashtuns... for the last several thousand years. And who has ever known or cared what the womenfolk do among themselves when the men are off enjoying the performances of the dancing boys? Dinner is cooked and the clothes are washed, and that's what counts.
Among religious Pakistanis, however, homosexuality -- in Islam the proper terminology for homosexuality is sodomy -- is a great sin and one of the most distressing acts in Islam.
In this religious society such acts are hidden. Websites of gays and lesbians in Pakistan can be accessed, and the users of these websites can get connected with each other for the fulfillment of sexual desires.
Young college and university boys and girls who cannot take part in sexual intercourse with the opposite sex often turn to gays and lesbians in Pakistan.
The number of lesbians in Pakistan has increased at an alarming rate owing to the increasing percentage of females in Pakistan. According to the government's population census, females make up 52 percent of the total population, but NGOs place the percentage of females in the population closer to 60 percent.
Time to invest in flannel burkas?
So the saga behind the lesbian phenomenon in Pakistan is that when females mature they want sexual interaction, but owing to the late marriages of the girls and the non-availability of life partners, they fail to start matrimonial life and turn toward lesbianism.
Many girls who are residing in hostels away from their homes and getting an education in the colleges and universities sexually interact with each other, according to homosexuals who have left the country. (There aren't official records on Pakistani sexual practices because Pakistanis wouldn't typically risk answering questions about their sexuality for fear of reprisals.)
When questioned by The New American, a 24-year-old university student named Saba, who has been residing in a girls' hostel in Islamabad, commented:
I am very happy with my roommate as we both satisfy each other and even to the peak of a pleasant orgasm. It is a safe and sound sexual relation as it protects our virginity. That is vital for us because if we lost our virginities, then it is not possible for us to get into a marriage with any respectable man.
Saba said that she can enjoy more with the lesbian girls as compared with boys because males and females are often culturally segregated.
A trend toward watching porn movies is also likely having an impact on Pakistani youths. One study reported that Pakistani people most frequently access porn on the Internet, but the study was strongly rejected by the government of Pakistan.
Teenage boys and girls have porn movie clips in their mobile phones which they share with others. They also make movies of one another while performing sex and then later these movies come out in the public due to their own negligence.
Not surprisingly, the increase in sex outside of marriage is causing a burgeoning of AIDS throughout the country.
The tendency toward homosexuality in Pakistan -- behavior clearly the result of a conscious choice by the youth influenced by Western culture -- is shocking in this Muslim country, and reflects the absence of effective countering influences by religious authorities and public health workers.
Malik Ayub Sumbal is a freelance journalist based in Islamabad, Pakistan.
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According to the government's population census, females make up 52 percent of the total population, but NGOs place the percentage of females in the population closer to 60 percent.
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..I vaguely recall that in order to have a gaggle the owner must be able to provide for the group. Since most males in the region can't really afford to support one, it puts a brake on multiple ownership. Islam lacking a means of 'reform' hasn't come up with the Western version of serial polygamy and polyandry to accommodate the less than wealthy.
In mammals, about halfway through gestation, the testes of male fetuses emit a squirt of testosterone that travels to its brain and tells it, it is a male brain. Otherwise, the brain is female by default. This distinguishes the animals gender behavior.
In animals, this generally also determines sexuality. But humans are more complex, so errors in the process result in feminine personality males and masculine personality females, but with normal sexual attraction.
This has been known since the 1960s.
Importantly, there are some powerful chemicals found in the third world that can definitely interfere with this squirt of testosterone in males, or mimic the chemical effects of testosterone in female brains.
In the west, this is no problem, because sexual attraction is unchanged. But in a place like Pakistan, with intense sexual inhibition, it might theoretically lead to a major jump in homosexual attraction.
That is, because of feminization, males don't want to be macho and dominant over females; and females reject obnoxious males entirely.
Thank you Moosey, a good read and possible good theory. Thanks for taking credit. Srsly. That's how you do it. If it's your idea, your story or your concept say it, write it, do it!
You're a good guy and smart, take credit for your ideas. Some are nuts (like the giant chicken theory) but some aren't.
I'll be watching.
Zombie: you're on notice, and as a moderator I'm watching you.
Knock off harassing other posters. We don't do that here. You have a point to make about the news item, make it.
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That is, because of feminization, males don't want to be macho and dominant over females; and females reject obnoxious males entirely.
In a society where children have no say in who they marry, neither male feminization nor female rejection thereof have any evolutionary impact. In a society where women have no power, men have no restraint on the gender-free impulse to bully.
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In discussing Imperial Chinese culture, years and years ago, Sinologist Robert van Gulik noted that "sapphism" was common among women in polygamous families and among prostitutes. Between the brutality of some of the mothers-in-law toward the younger women, and the degrading way men treated women in that culture, the younger women turned to each other for comfort in many different ways, including sexual.
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lesbian sex is hot... when it doesn't look like John Goodman making out with Rex Ryan.
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seems like alot of women in the US hate men , so I guess this too be true in any Islamic country where the women really are regarded as property. Not really a question as too why they would turn to each other.
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TRIVANDRUM - More than 100 pilgrims were feared dead and more than 125 injured in a stampede after a bus returning from the Sabarimala Hill temple ran over pilgrims in the Indian state of Kerala before plunging into a gorge.
Kerala Devaswom Minister Kadannapally Ramachandran told the Khaleej Times that the death toll may rise as most of the injured are in a critical condition.
According to initial reports, the bus carrying pilgrims from Karnataka hit a jeep and lost control and ran over resting pilgrims in Uppupara, around 30km from Sabarimala in Idukki district. The accident triggered a stampede and many lost their lives in the mad rush. The incident took place around 9pm.
Rescue operations are difficult as the incident had occurred in the dense forests of the Western Ghats. There are no power and communication facilities in the area. Fire force personnel from different parts of the district have rushed to the area with lights.
Health Minister P K Sreemathy said that doctors from all over Idukki district had reached the spot as it was difficult to bring the injured to the hospitals. She said arrangements for the treatment of seriously injured persons have been made in Kottayam Medical College.
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[Iran Press TV] Thousands of Jordanians have taken to the streets of the country to protest the government's inability to control the rising price of commodities.
Everybody has the same problem, guys. Global cooling stinks, expecially for the poor.
Chanting anti-government slogans, demonstrators in the capital Amman and other cities denounced the government economic policies on Friday, saying Prime Minister Samir Rifai policies have caused the rising food and fuel prices, unemployment and poverty.
"We are protesting the policies of the government, high prices and repeated taxation that made the Jordanian people revolt," a protester said.
"Jordan is not only for the rich. Bread is a red line. Beware of our starvation and fury," read one of the banners carried by the protesters.
"Prices, particularly gasoline and food, are getting out of hand," Buthaina Iftial, a 24-year-old civil servant, said, adding that "We're becoming poorer every."
Police and plainclothes officers formed rings around t demonstrators to contain the protests. There were no reports of violence or arrests.
Earlier this week, following riots in Algeria and Tunisia, Jordan announced a USD 225 million package of cuts in the prices of some types of fuel and of staple products including sugar and rice on the orders of King Abdullah I to help ease the burden on the poor.
Protesters, however, say such measures are too little, too late. Major trade unions have planned a sit-in outside the parliament on Sunday to "denounce government economic policies."
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#3
More like, Paleos meet Bedouins. Though the Paleos outnumber the Bedouins, the Bedouins generally take no shiat from the Paleos, most of whom aren't even citizens.
So, if these are Bedouins protesting, it's one thing. If it is Paleos, dollars for donuts there is going to be a crackdown.
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The wheat crop here in Kansas in under intense stress. Only 29% looks good, zero looks excellent, the rest is poor or dead. Look for prices to continue to go upwards with the added cost of fuel and petro based fertilizer and the decrease in bushels per acre.
The Department of Defense announced today its program to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War. The program will:
Thank and honor veterans of the Vietnam War, including personnel who were held as prisoners of war or listed as missing in action, for their service and sacrifice on behalf of the United States and to thank and honor the families of these veterans.
Highlight the service of the armed forces during the Vietnam War and the contributions of federal agencies and governmental and non-governmental organizations that served with, or in support of, the armed forces.
Pay tribute to the contributions made on the home front by the people of the United States during the Vietnam War.
Highlight the advances in technology, science, and medicine related to the military research conducted during the Vietnam War.
Recognize the contributions and sacrifices made by the allies of the United States during the Vietnam War.
DoD representatives will coordinate with other federal agencies, veteran groups, state, local government and non-government organizations for their input in Vietnam War commemoration activities. For more information call 877-387-9951 or visit the official website at http://www.vietnamwar50th.com/ .
U.S. military advisers arrived beginning in 1950. U.S. involvement escalated in the early 1960s, with U.S. troop levels tripling in 1961 and tripling again in 1962.
U.S. combat units were deployed beginning in 1965.
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heh, TW. Nope, those are all actual MOH recipients, not lying self-awarded PH's or Lucky Hat bearers. Jahn Karry is SOL
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Tom Kelley was head of veterans affairs up here and apparently a quite capable one. I say "was" because, a couple of weeks ago, he was screwed by Deval Patrick.
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Indeed it is as Moosey said, my Uncle Harold was seconded somehow to Flying Tigers (airlines) even prior to formal commitment. And yes, he was magically accepted back into MAC 3 or 4 years later. There is a lot of blurr. I own two Montagnard crossbows, both childhood gifts from my Uncle H. The first has a bow string made of woven bamboo, the darts are (in a museum) 1 singular piece of bamboo with the fletching teased out of the back. The second bow is made out of what I think is a salvaged jeep spring (?) The darts look like perhaps they are left-end-of-Piano-wire, I dunno. But the Indo-Civil war started early and lasted for a damn long time.
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Hey Zombie; Had an Uncle like that also. He was a flying Tiger pilot. He was always larger than life. Sent us stuff home also. Reddish cheeks like the English he had. Went on to fly for Pan AM. Helped airlift Cubans fleeing castro(yea lower case). Never ever would have expected Pan Am to go down.
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.
TRIVANDRUM - More than 100 pilgrims were feared dead and more than 125 injured in a stampede after a bus returning from the Sabarimala Hill temple ran over pilgrims in the Indian state of Kerala before plunging into a gorge.
The Department of Defense announced today its program to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War. The program will:
