[Emirates 24/7] Bahrain has nabbed around 200 men for attending a gay party in the Gulf Arab island state, local newspapers reported on Wednesday.
An official at Bahrain's Ministry of Interior, who asked not to be named, told Rooters the group was nabbed last Thursday "due to immoral activities."
Media reports said police in the small conservative town of Muharraq raided a celebration hall filled with cross dressers and male revelers drinking wine and smoking water pipes.
"After entering the room, a secret source said he saw a large group of people from the third sex wearing scandalous female clothing ... and immediately called in the city patrol, which then surrounded the hall and nabbed the suspects," the Bahraini newspaper Al-Ayam said.
The men were between 18 and 30 years old and were mostly from Gulf Arab countries and were also believed to have come to Bahrain specifically for the party, the daily said.
The official said foreign nationals were likely among those nabbed but could not provide further details, adding the case had been referred to prosecutors. Local newspapers said there was one Syrian and one Lebanese man in the group.
Bahrain is considered among the more liberal Gulf states, with alcohol sold in shops while elsewhere in the Gulf sales are limited to hotels.
Its nightlife attracts weekend visitors from other Gulf countries such as Kuwait, Qatar and Soddy Arabia, to which Bahrain is linked via a causeway.
Gulf Arab states ban homosexuality, considering it a violation of Islamic values. Homosexual men in the region are regularly nabbed and sentenced to prison terms.
"Bahrain has been more tolerant compared to for example the United Arab Emirates, without allowing it to be public," Said Boumedouha, a researcher at human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... group Amnesia Amnesty International, said. He urged the Bahraini government to free anyone who had been nabbed based on his sexual preferences.
A municipal official from Muharraq has called for a crackdown on celebration halls after the incident last weekend, the local paper Gulf Daily News said.
"I know the men had conned the hall's manager into believing they were holding a birthday party," Ramzy al-Jalaleef was quoted as saying. "However, The infamous However... it turned out, as I have heard, they were holding a wedding for two of the men."
Jalaleef told the paper that there should be careful investigation of events being booked in the town, which he said had 29 mosques and was very religious and conservative.
Officials at Bahrain's public prosecution could not be reached for comment.
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"Homosexual men in the region are regularly nabbed and sentenced to prison terms."
I can see it now .. "oh, please don't throw me in that briar patch!".
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Again, some credit should go to homosexuals for pestering the heck out of conservative Muslim nations. They do this by finding loopholes in Sharia, and exploiting differences among Sunni and Shiites.
Shiites, for example, have as a rule of thumb that only oral sex is homosexual, not sodomy. (Which along with IV drug use is why Iran has a horrifically high AIDS rate.)
In Egypt, homosexuals hold big parties on houseboats on the Nile, then when police show up, they act outraged at the accusation, complaining that it would be immoral for there to be females at a party.
More than anything else, they get the message out that their *are* homosexuals, and a lot of them, in the ummah. And that alone bugs the heck out of the authorities.
[Emirates 24/7] A Yemeni girl has been missing for nearly a month in Saudi Arabia and her family believe she could have been snatched by jinn (genies), a newspaper reported on Thursday.
The 23-year-old girl stepped out of her house in a mountainous village near the western town of Taif and never returned, prompting a massive police search campaign, Sabq Arabic language daily said.
"Some people told police they saw her walking on a hill not far from her house then vanished again," the paper said.
"Her brothers and some residents in the village said she sometimes appears at night and then suddenly disappears...they told police that they believe she has been haunted and taken by jinn."
The paper quoted her brother, Ahmed Ali, as saying his sister ran away from home a year ago but was found at another house on the same day. He said his sister had been nervous and moody but had no problems with the family just before she vanished again.
"On that day, she was with my other sisters washing in the second floor of the house...she then went down to the ground floor...my sisters waited for her but she never came back," he said.
"Before she vanished, we used to take her to some Koran reciters and scholars...she used to walk into their places but we had to carry her on our way out as she appeared to be in a trance...a red fluid sometimes oozed out of her ears and noses...it was not blood and it had a strange smell...some scholars told us that she is haunted and others said she is under jinn guardianship."
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"We, as a nation, proudly march into the Fifth Century! !
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The U.S. Navy has been blasted for spending almost half a million dollars on a flyover at the Super Bowl - even though the stadium roof was closed. The estimated $450,000 expense was for four fighter jets that flew from Virginia and over the retractable roof of Cowboys Stadium.
Somebody didn't get their snack at nap time?
When it was broadcast on screens at the Super Bowl, fans inside the stadium got the same view as people watching the five-second shot on TV at home.
The $450,000 figure was based on the operational cost, the time it took pilots to fly the mission and a backup plane. But the Navy said the only costs that it recorded were the fuel expenses of $109,000 and the event provided good publicity to help military recruitment.
Military aviation expert Jay Miller has questioned the expense. He said: 'What's the military exercise that's involved unless you're trying to pinpoint a target? And a big coliseum's your target destination?'
This seems like a feeble criticism. I'm no expert, but don't flying time and experience with performing missions count for anything? Are there really no conceivable benefits of any sort other than 'pinpointing a target'?
But military officials said that the flyover was part of a training exercise that gave pilots experience with instruments and communication.
'These missions are included in the annual operating budget of all branches of the military and they are used as training,' said a spokesman for the U.S. Navy Air Force's Atlantic division.
'There was no additional money provided to us - Congress did not cut us a special check to do this flyover. This is considered a training mission whether they were to fly over the Super Bowl or not. I can't put a specific dollar attributed to what we did on Sunday, but we know we gained some recruiting points. Everyone in the stadium saw it on the big television screen and everyone else saw it their TV. From an exposure standpoint it was huge for us.'
And that seems like an effective response.
The air force took in over 3,000 requests last year for flyovers and executed 275 of these at sporting events, with over 600 requests approved in total.
Commander Ben Hewlett from Virginia Beach led the Super Bowl overflight.
'I would hesitate to say there is a need for it,' he told a television station. 'There is a desire for it. There's a want there. There's a public interest. There's a lot of Americans that want to look up and say: "We are super proud of our Marines, our sailors out there doing the job every day".'
Every Super Bowl but one in 1967 has had a flyover, and the NFL in return promises to show the planes and give the Navy exposure.
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It still sounds awesome when they pass overhead. You can barely see them anyway, even with an open roof. They streak past in a second. This is a typical liberal non-story trying to shit on: the military, and the Superbowl.
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...Traditionally, the USN has always been very lenient about letting its airplanes fly, figuring that every minute of stick time makes their guys that much better. My former pastor's nephew - once he soloed at Pensacola - was encouraged to sign out a bird on weekends and fly home to SC. He got valuable cross-country training, and the USN got some free publicity.
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There was a program which followed a flight planning and execution over a stadium, I think Arrowhead in KC (where they just love it). Fascinating what all goes into it. I'm glad they kept the tradition alive, especially when the planning committee banned cheerleaders.
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Green Bay has flyovers at a lot of their home games if it isn't raining or snowing too bad. Usually they're the Air National Guard folks doing it.
Pretty awesome PLUS Lambeau Field doesn't have a roof.
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Even if the flyover does have some value, why fly all the way down from DC to do it? Pretty sure both Air Force and Navy have fighter jets based in or a lot closer to Texas.
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Best flyover for me was a B2 over Foxboro stadium. Low and crystal clear, well received by the crowd.
link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsRIbEjlCK0
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Government Motors spent $9 million of your dollars on commercials for the super bowel. The Air Force spent $450,000. Who got the better deal and the most bang for their buck?
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For decades Americans have been treated to military flyovers of local parades, celebrations, & funerals, along with flyovers for strictly training purposes. Why is this an issue today?
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Last summer, the Blue Angels flew at the local Cherry Festival. Awesome. Still makes my nipples hard to think about it.
Go Navy! Beat Whiny-ass Criticism!
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For future: as this year's baseball post season begins (yeah I know that is like 7 or 8 months away); start bird watching at the local military bases close to the stadiums. There is a ramp-up in cross county training flights during that time frame. And try to get a room in the BOQ, go on, just try. Ain't gonna happen for us retirees.
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The vast majority of Americans respect and admire our Armed Forces - huge numbers of us have served. I and I assume most Americans like to see some tax dollars in action doing something worthwhile, like protecting the nation.
I guess as an alternate they could have 4 welfare queens come to the mid-field and insult the crowd.
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[Straits Times] IN SPICE-CRAZED Indonesia, a meal without fresh chilies is almost unthinkable.
But prices have soared as much as 10-fold in recent months - some say because of climate change - driving up inflation and pulling everyone from housewives to the president into the debate.
Grow your own, some say. Or what about using bottled hot sauces instead? With unusually heavy rainfalls decimating crops, the country's most popular ingredient is hovering at between US$10 (S$13) to US$11 per kg - making it more expensive than beef.
That's put a serious dent in wallets - many people in this nation of 237 million earn less than US$200 a month - but few are willing to cut back.
'Food is tasteless without sambal!' said Nining, a mother of three, referring to the fiery condiment made of the green and red 'lombok' chilies.
'My kids won't eat a thing without it!' Rising global temperatures and wild shifts in weather are hurting palates elsewhere.
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After they get fired up, watch for the slow burn.
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Global Warming!! Is there anything it can't do??
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First the Indos get fired up over blasphemers, now they want cheap chili. Just can't please some people.
[Emirates 24/7] A court in Khorfakkan ordered the deportation of an Egyptian man after serving three months in jail for practising sorcery, report said on Thursday.
A police detective, posing as a patient, went to the sorcerer at his house in Kalba and asked for help to cure him in return for Dh1,200 after reports about his deception of many people, the semi-official Al Ittihad newspaper reported on Thursday.
"Once he paid him and the Egyptian started the examination, the detective arrested him," the paper said.
A court had earlier sentenced the defendant to six months in jail and deportation but an appeal court Wednesday reduced the prison term.
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The sorcerer obviously needed to learn the magical incantations known as "the legal disclaimer", and the EULA.
If he so much as suspected that the guy was a cop, he should have said that while he, the sorcerer, wasn't a sorcerer, he had heard that the local chief of police was a powerful and dangerous sorcerer, the proof of which was that he drank large amounts of coffee or tea at work.
[Maghrebia] Lawyers in Tunisia are calling on Justice Minister Lazhar Karoui Chebbi to ensure the country's judiciary is free from the influence of members of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's regime.
"There is a need to cleanse the judiciary," said Tunisian Bar Association (CNOA) chief Abderrazak Kilani Friday (February 4th), at a meeting in the group's offices in the capital.
Kilani added that lawyers made many sacrifices to maintain their independence. "There are lawyers who were deprived of their livelihoods," he noted. "There are also some others who were targeted by the tax authorities in order to punish them."
"The interior minister took the initiative and removed the symbols of corruption from the interior ministry," lawyer Mohamed al-Habib al-Redifi said.
"However, The infamous However... the justice minister still hesitates to go that route and didn't dare to make the necessary purge. The purges must include all sectors, such as the legal profession and media sectors," he added.
Stressing the need for a clean slate, lawyer Abdulaziz al-Almazoughi said that "now the real revolution has been launched, and we, the lawyers, are its real leaders."
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... the Association of Tunisian Magistrates (AMT) issued a statement Friday in which they called for "adopting the general trend in the country to settle grievances in order to deal with corruption and remove the parties that are responsible for perpetuating the policy of corruption".
The statement also called for ridding the judiciary of all the current restrictions on justice "so as to give room for perpetuating the state judiciary versus the administration judiciary."
The judiciary is still controlled by institutions managed from within the justice ministry and through the High Judicial Council whose members are elected in a way lacking in transparency, AMT President Ahmed al-Rahmuni confirmed.
Members of the executive bureau of AMT met with Justice Minister Chebbi, himself a former bar association president. According to al-Rahmuni, the minister promised to solve judges' problems and that "he would work to enforce full respect for the independence of judiciary authority".
According to al-Rahmuni, the minister stressed the principle of consulting with judges, adding that "The ministry will work hard to liquidate the former system, especially the penalties that were imposed on the members of the AMT under Ben Ali's rule".
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[Ma'an] Tunisia's interim president Foued Mebazaa on Wednesday announced that talks with unions would be held soon, after he was given wide powers to restore order following the ouster of ex-leader Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
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[Bangla Daily Star] It is not only Hena's memory that haunts her family members. They are also deeply worried about repaying the loan taken for her treatment.
Hena's father Darbesh Kha, a day-labourer, borrowed Tk 40,000 to arrange her treatment, burial and other relevant expenses such as food and conveyance, family members said.
The family had to pay Tk 1,500 for the first post-mortem, which, ironically found no injury marks on her body.
More than Tk 20,000 was spent for the treatment at Shariatpur Sadar Hospital, said Riad Kha, Hena's cousin who helped arrange the loan.
Hena Akhter, 15, was whipped to death at Chamta under Naria upazila in the district. She was lashed at least 50 times following a fatwa on January 24, witnesses said.
Darbesh, who earns between Tk 120 and Tk 150 a day, said he could not think of taking Hena to the hospital before her condition worsened the day after.
"I had Tk 500 only on that day," he said.
The family had to pay Tk 1,500 for the first post-mortem, which, ironically found no injury marks on her body.
Darbesh, 50, and his 12-year-old mentally challenged son Iqbal, are the breadwinners of the family of four.
Of the total loan, Tk 10,000 was taken from Brac Bank on condition to repay in 46 weeks at the rate of Tk 250 per week.
The rest of the money was borrowed from relatives and neighbours.
Darbesh is yet to go to work following Hena's death.
Asked how he will pay off the debt, he only gave a blank look.
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[Bangla Daily Star] The High Court yesterday issued eight directives for the government, including filing of a fresh case in connection with teenaged girl Hena Akter's death by whipping following a fatwa in Shariatpur last month.
It ordered to bring five specific charges against the organisers of the fatwa, and to probe why there is a gulf of difference between two post-mortem reports.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... one of the main organisers of the deadly fatwa, Idris Ali Sheikh, was nabbed by police from the HC premises yesterday, right after he appeared before the court responding to a summons.
An HC bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik and Justice Sheikh Md Zakir Hossain ordered the superintendent (SP) of Shariatpur police and the officer-in-charge of Naria Police Station to arrest all organisers of the illegal fatwa and the subsequent arbitration where Hena was whipped.
It ordered them to bring charges of rape, abduction, unlawful assembly, conspiracy, and torture against the accused; and to provide necessary security to Hena's family.
The bench also ordered them to simultaneously proceed with the murder case filed by Hena's father Darbesh Kha with Naria police on January 31.
It directed the inspector general of police (IGP) to take legal and departmental actions against sub-inspectors of Naria police -- Mirza AK Azad and Aslam Uddin -- for manipulating the first information report and the inquest report regarding Hena's unnatural death.
The IGP was ordered to replace existing investigation officer Aslam Uddin with another police officer having the rank of at least an assistant superintendent of police.
The police chief was directed to submit a compliance report to the court within 15 days as well.
The court directed the health secretary, and the director general (DG) of the Directorate of Health to constitute a high-powered committee comprising DG Health, principal of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), director of the hospital, heads of the forensic departments of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medial University and Shuhrawardi Hospital, and joint secretaries of the law and home ministries to examine why the post-mortem reports prepared by Shariatpur Sadar Hospital and DMCH are diametrically different.
The committee will also examine whether the civil surgeon of Shariatpur, and the doctors of the hospital there, who prepared the first post-mortem report, committed any offence or were negligent in their duties.
The DG Health will have to submit a report to the HC within 30 days of receiving the order.
The court ordered the secretaries to the ministries of religious affairs and information to run a campaign at all mosques, madrasas, and union parishads across the country identifying fatwa as a criminal offence.
Hena, 15, was mercilessly whipped at a village arbitration following a fatwa on January 24 for allegedly having an illicit affair with her married cousin Mahbub, while her family kept insisting that she had actually been raped by the man. She died on January 31.
According to the second post-mortem done by DMCH, she died of extensive external and internal injuries.
The inquest report by Naria police and the first post-mortem by Shariatpur Sadar Hospital however had not found any mark of injury on Hena's body right after her death.
The Daily Star in a news report on Feb 7 raised doubt about the reports from Shariatpur and Naria, which prompted the HC to issue a suo moto order the same day for exhumation of Hena's body and a fresh post-mortem.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Two robbers were beaten to death and another was injured by a mob at Rasullabad village in Nabinagar upazila of Brahmanbaria district early yesterday.
It does seem to be what happens to robbers when they aren't gangs caught in cross-fires.
One was identified as Tajul Islam, 29, while identity of another deceased could not be known immediately.
Good lord, too poor even to have a single name? And then got killed while in the process? The gentleman is not having a good day.
Police rescued Titon, 30, in a critical condition from the spot. He is now undergoing treatment at Nabinagar Upazila Health Complex under police custody.
"He's not dead, Jim."
"Dr. Quincy -- how is it you're so discerning?!?"
Police said a gang of nine to ten robbers went to the house of Akbar in Purba Rasullabad around 3:00am and started cutting the window grills.
Spider senses tingling at the proximity of the robbers, Akbar informed his neighbours over the phone.
The robbers tried to flee the scene when the villagers surrounded Akbar's residence.
The villagers caught three of the gang and beat two to death on the spot.
On information, police rushed to the spot and recovered some cocktails and sharp weapons and rescued Titon.
Three ack emma is cocktail hour somewhere.
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Bolivian President Evo Morales has abandoned a public event in the face of an angry protests over food shortages and price rises.
Mr Morales was due to address a parade to commemorate a colonial-era uprising in the mining city of Oruro. But he and his team left the city to avoid a violent demonstration by miners throwing dynamite.
Now that's a violent demonstration!
There have also been protests in other Bolivian cities over the shortage of sugar and other basic foodstuffs.
Mr Morales cut short his visit and returned to La Paz after protesters set off explosions close to where he was preparing to give a speech in Oruro, the capital of his home province in western Bolivia.
"The government took the decision not to respond to shameful provocations of this kind," presidential spokesman Ivan Canelas said.
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Every dictator who is smart right now should very discreetly set up some secret warehouses under heavy guard, and filled with the three most popular staple foods. Then, at the first sign of food riots, flood the market to drive the price far lower than normal.
This will buy a few weeks to redirect funding to food procurement, to insure that emergency stocks are there.
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A number did go on the market and buy what they could, oh a week+ ago. Part of the reason for the market price.
Of course it takes time to get it there after the check clears. Sudden flooding of the market could, better or worse, blow the investments of speculators.
Ever notice authoritarian regimes have a tough time in agriculture.
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If, whattya suppose the pitch line will be for the US Gov to gain authority of US Agriculture?
Any solutions other than big sister locking prices, preventing export, export tariffs? You know, other than mandatory food to fuel programs, cow fart and blowing dust ghost taxing, decreasing fuel taxes for food transport (transport in general), eliminating the programs increasing costs for grocers, packers, et al to have employees?
Blowing dust, really, SFT I've heard - could tax/fine/newspeak a person for mowing the yard.
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So what is the carrying capacity of the earth? How long can countries like Bolivia go on having eight children per family? When will we be told to stop eating beef so they can eat corn?
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How long can countries like Bolivia go on having eight children per family?
Birth rates have fallen dramatically around the world in the past two generations, Ebbang Uluque6305. At the moment, according to the CIA Factbook, the Bolivian fertility rate is 3.07/woman, compared to 2.59 for the world a few years ago.
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If we stopped turning food into fuel (mandated by Congress), we could probably put a dent into the world food shortage. Not eliminate it, but ease it a bit.
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[An Nahar] No sex here please! As Belgium hits eight months without a government this week, a boycott on sex is being suggested as a way out of the nation's longest political impasse. "Until there's a new administration, Hervé, you can just put that thing away!"
"When a situation's dire and nothing's moving, either you become a cynic or you react with humor," said Marleen Temmerman, the Belgian senator and gynecologist who threw up the notion. "I'm cynically going with humor!"
Speaking in her Ghent office, Temmerman said her call for "no more sex until a new administration" dates back to a trip to Kenya last month where she got wind of another novel bid to break the deadlock -- a boycott on shaving.
That was from Belgian actor Benoit Poelvoorde, star of early 1990s mockumentary "Man Bites Dog" and recent movie "Coco After Chanel."
"Let's keep our beards until Belgium rises again," he urged on Belgian TV. Ummm... Again?
Temmerman said "the men loved it and that was when Kenyan women reminded us about their sex strike" in 2009 to demand a political solution. "Within a month a deal was done there."
Colombian women likewise in 2006 staged a strike "of crossed legs" to press gangsters to give up their guns. And in ancient Greece, Aristophanes' play Lysistrata sees women boycotting the marital bed to end the Peloponnesian war.
In Belgium, feuding politicians from the Dutch-speaking north and the francophone south have been squabbling to strike a coalition government deal ever since elections last June 13 failed to produce an outright majority.
As fears mount of a lasting divorce between the two language communities, the figurehead sovereign, King Albert II, has named a succession of special envoys to bridge the divide, but all efforts have floundered.
"People are growing increasingly angry," said Temmerman. "We had to act."
Current go-between, caretaker finance minister Didier Reynders, is due to end a mediation mission next week amid public anger and fears for Belgium's economic future if no solution is found.
The gynecologist, also involved in health projects in Africa, said she has been flooded with positive calls and e-mails over the sex ban.
Asked for response in a busy Belgian shopping mall, Florence Willems said: "Why not? We may as well! We don't know what else to do to get a government."
With policy at a dead end and projects put on hold as a caretaker government deals with daily business, citizens have taken initiatives but see no response.
"Despite all these often novel forms of pressure, a solution seems a long way off," said political scientist Pascal Delwit in the daily Le Soir.
Talk-shows and comics compare the situation in Tunisia, where street protests downed the regime, to events in Belgium, where popular frustration is going unheard.
"The birds are singing, the grass is green, all is quiet here, nothing has changed," said breakfast-hour comic Thomas Gunzig after a mass protest in Brussels last month organized over Facebook by a group of students.
As Belgium headed towards the dubious record of becoming the world's country longest without a government -- currently held by Iraq in 2009 at 289 days -- 35,000 people erupted into the streets waving Belgian flags and shouting "Shame!" at the politicians.
Asked whether the sex boycott could impact, Temmerman said: "I don't think many women are going to practice abstinence, or that it'll have an effect, but it's better to laugh."
As for herself? "My husband's in Kenya at the moment so it's easy."
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I've got an idea: why not just shave, have sex, and then break up the country? The world won't mourn the loss of Belgium.
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They probably figure that if middle-aged and older men no longer have to shave or have sex, they will be so much more relaxed and happy that they will be amenable to reaching an agreement.
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"When a situation's dire and nothing's moving, either you become a cynic or you react with humor," said Marleen Temmerman, the Belgian senator and gynecologist who threw up the notion
Isn't pregnancy and essential part of how a gynecologist earns his money?
We do know that carbon dioxide and other gases trap and re-radiate heat. We also know that humans have emitted ever-more of these gases since the Industrial Revolution. What we don't know is exactly how sensitive the climate is to increases in these gases versus other possible factors--solar variability, oceanic currents, Pacific heating and cooling cycles, planets' gravitational and magnetic oscillations, and so on. Man-Made Solar Variability, that's the answer. I need a Research Grant.
Given the unknowns, it's possible that even if we spend trillions of dollars, and forgo trillions more in future economic growth, to cut carbon emissions to pre-industrial levels, the climate will continue to change--as it always has.
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Global Warming is NOT science, it's religion and the "Believers" will fight tooth and nail to NOT listen to Facts.
Facts are irrelevant to belief.
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Dear James and Karl,
Redneck is correct. As in any religion the dogma explains everything. Global warming, in the dogma, creates cold waves, heat waves, floods, droughts, sea level falling or rising. It's one stop shopping for those whose real agenda is simply power over everything.
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The other part of the AGW religion never spoken of by either side is efficacy. Given that a large spike in manmade CO2 emissions have been going on since about 1700 and given that the putative effects took a couple of centuries to be noticeable, is there anything the human race could do that would reverse the trend. Even if all manmade CO2 emissions ceased immediately, the trend, if it exists, would most likely continue for decades if not centuries.
The AGW theories so far advanced also beg the question of what factors contribute the most to warming, factors like solar & geothermal energy and fluctuations in the earth's magnetic field, none of which are affected by human activity.
Global warmism is religious fanaticism, not science.
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"Global warmism is religious fanaticism, not science."
With the emphasis on the fanaticism, AH. >:-(
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CO2 makes up about 0.035% of the atmosphere. That is about 350 parts per million. MOST of the CO2 comes from decaying plant matter; man-made CO2 is a very small fraction of the total CO2.
And, CO2 does not go into the atmosphere and stay there building up forever. Despite what the EPA says, CO2 is not pollution. It is a vital plant food. Much of the CO2 is absorbed by plants, and by the ocean. Plants grow better with a CO2-enriched atmosphere, and they absorb more.
Besides, the major greenhouse gas is water vapor. However, trying to cut the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere does not give the same opportunities for power that CO2 does.
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CO2 does not CAUSE warming, it is a lagging indicator. Correlation is not causation, and the Warmers have yet to prove any causality in any way other than a model, and their models fail to replicate real-world historical behavior, and have utterly failed to reflect current conditions when given recent historical data.
PEOPLE STOP ACCEPTING THAT CO2 ***CAUSES*** Global Warming/Change. Demand proof, and counter with CO2 levels historically rising in RESPONSE to warming periods.
[Straits Times] THE Dumai chapter of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) in Riau says the celebration of Valentine's Day is haram (forbidden for Mohammedans).
'From its origins, it is recognised that the Valentine's Day is a holiday of non-Mohammedans in Rome, Italy. Therefore, Valentine's Day celebrations are forbidden for Mohammedans,' MUI Dumai chairman Rozai Akbar told Antara in Dumai on Thursday.
He added that Valentine's Day celebrations went against Islamic teachings because the celebration was akin to encouraging young people to build relationships outside marriage.
'What will happen if Valentine's Day becomes part of Islam culture? This was one of the considerations in deciding to forbid the celebration for Mohammedans,' he said.
The MUI has called upon all Mohammedan parents to explain to their children that Valentine's Day is something they must not celebrate.
'It would be better to educate them and give them religious teachings so that Valentine's Day celebrations will not become a tradition among Mohammedans youths,' he said.
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[Straits Times] SISTERS in Islam (SIS) has hit out at PAS Youth over its controversial plans to 'check' sinful activities and play the moral police on Valentine's Day.
Its media and communications senior programme officer, Yasmin Masidi, said moral policing was against Islamic values and fundamental liberties.
She added: 'It violates personal dignity and privacy, which is for-bidden in the Koran and Hadith.'
She was responding to the movement's planned multi-pronged approach to discourage sinful activities on Valentine's Day, which falls on Monday.
PAS Youth chief Nasrudin Hasan At-Tantawi reportedly said that the state governments in Kedah, Kelantan and Selangor had directed the local authorities to work closely with the police and Rela to check on immoral activities that day.
The movement is also working closely with the Islamic Religious Department in Penang to monitor sinful activities.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[Straits Times] THE Dumai chapter of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) in Riau says the celebration of Valentine's Day is haram (forbidden for 
