Report on Arrakis: 5/31/09 - 6/7/09

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Violence leaves 16 dead in Juárez

Some good times down in Jaurez this weekend , Last year it was easy to find out what was happening in Mexico , now with their tourism improvement program , it is very hard to find anything out ! typically what makes it to the news , Is the "High" profile murders (Ones that Happen openly in the streets ).

El Paso Times

The violence in Juárez continues with at least 16 killings in the past two days.

Friday, 13 people were killed, Chihuahua state police said.

The first victim was a 30-year-old man who was shot in the face several times outside his home in east Juárez at 3 a.m.

The violence exploded Friday afternoon when more than six men were killed.

About 6:30 p.m., Manuel Xicotencad Esparda Guerrero, 30, was shot 10 times inside the Mirage Bar, at Colonia Partido Romero.

On
Saturday, three men were taken to Juárez hospitals with gunshot wounds.
The men were pronounced dead later, police said. Two of the men were
identified as Salvador Luna, 49, and Abel Banda Muñoz, 33.

About 2,200 people have been killed in the violence since January 2008.

Chinese net-addict teenagers given electric shocks as treatment

Real nice , I know this was done in America and other countries , Decades ago . But done to Kids simply for being addicted to net surfing ? What Midieval Pricks !
China news
(ANI)Shanghai, : In a bid to prevent Internet addiction of their children,
Chinese parents are turning towards electro-shock therapy at a clinic
that claims they will be "reborn" free of the obsession.

However the harsh methods used by the clinic have caused an outcry among 3000
teenagers, who have been subjected to this odd treatment, The Sunday
Times reports.

At Dr Yang Yonxin's clinic, there are at least 100 young inmates.

Their parents have sent them to the treatment centre in Shandong province,
eastern China, because they have become hyperactive and uncontrollable.

Patients
are forbidden to speak about anything except their struggle to escape
the addiction. The boy or girl is made to write a confession and kneel
in front of his or her parents.

The clinic has 86 rules. The
regulations prescribe electric shocks as punishment for "misdeeds" such
as eating chocolate and locking the bathroom door.

Former patients, writing online, claim the shocks, some severe, were administered continuously.

Villagers fight Taliban after Pakistan mosque blast

Hillarious ! The people of Pakistan turning on the Taliban ! Well it is what they get , You just can't go around forcing people to do what you wish , they usually will push back ! now the only people that the Taliban have on their side is ,Themselves !

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Villagers in northwest Pakistan have attacked Taliban
militants killing seven of them in revenge for a bomb attack on a
mosque that killed at least 40 people, a top government official and
residents said on Sunday.

It was the latest in a series of instances of people turning their guns on the Taliban
in recent weeks and trying to force them out of their areas and will
encourage the Pakistani government which needs public support to defeat
the militants.

One resident of Upper Dir said the militia had demolished houses where Taliban were known to stay.

"We
are Muslims, we pray regularly and read the Koran. We don't want them,
they have to go," resident Samiullah Khan said by telephone. "Attacking
a mosque is not Islam. They're not Muslim."

Ethnic Pashtun tribal elder Mohtabar Khan said letting the Taliban stay was asking for trouble.

Canadians angered over "Buy American" rule

Thats Funny ! I don't recall hearing the Canadian Government Complaining when we were forced to import Canadian goods at the cost of thousands of American Jobs ! We are just trying to help our Economy and our people by trying to create some work ! The Buy American Movement is not really a movement at all , it is more a reinforcement of an old agreement we had for Government funded Jobs ! TO USE AMERICAN MADE GOODS WHENEVER POSSIBLE AND AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE ! Attention Canadian Neighbors , It is not that we have anything against you ! the world is a screwed up place right now ! we are trying to save our country from ruin ! If we have no money to buy your goods or the need to , then your economy will fail right along side us !

WHISTLER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Canadian municipal leaders threatened to retaliate against the "Buy America" movement in the United States on Saturday, warning trade restrictions will hurt both countries' economies.

The Federation of Canadian Municipalities endorsed a controversial proposal to support communities that refuse to buy products from countries that put trade restrictions on products and services from Canada.

The measure is a response to a provision in the U.S. economic stimulus package passed by Congress in February that says public works projects should use iron, steel and other goods made in the United States.

The United States is Canada's largest trading partner, and Canadians have complained the restrictions will bar their companies from billions of dollars in business that they have previously had access to.

"This U.S. protectionist policy is hurting Canadian firms, costing Canadian jobs and damaging Canadian efforts to grow our economy in the midst of a worldwide recession," said Sherbrooke, Quebec, Mayor Jean Perrault, also president of the federation that represents cities and towns across Canada.

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S.Korea makes plans to counter North missile

You can't blame South Korea for having a plan to defend itself , living next to North Korea is a lot like Israel living next to the Palestine , you just never Know what is going to happen next !

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea has outlined a plan to counter a possible missile attack by North Korea, including airstrikes on a missile base, Seoul's Yonhap News reported on Sunday citing military sources.

A scenario by the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff submitted to President Lee Myung-bak on Saturday included a plan to counter-attack in case North Korea fires a missile targeting the South's battleships in the contested waters off the west coast, Yonhap said.

The response under the contingency plan would be joint attacks from surface, air and sea against the North's missile base, it said.

In late May, South Korea and the United States raised the military alert level for the peninsula after the communist North ramped up tensions by war threats, missile launches and a nuclear test.

The South's navy earlier in June also deployed a guided-missile vessel near the sea border off the west coast. The Yellow Sea has been the site of two deadly clashes between the two rival Koreas in the past 10 years.

South Korean president Lee said on Saturday that his government would not back down to the North's threats, saying the South has a strong defense.

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Saturday, June 6, 2009

RED WINGS win game 5

Now three games to two , wings take game five with a shut out by Osgood Final score 5 to 0! Hell yeah !

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'Shipriders' to fight pirates

This to me is ridiculous ! You would think with the Pirate problem as it is that the countries involved would make an easy exception ! Let the weapons used to fight the pirates stay on board ! Let the Shipriders shoot to kill any pirate They need to , to defend the vessel the are protecting ! The world needs to get back to the days where the bad guys had less rights than the good guys ! And the protection of the good guys were held to a higher standard than those of the bad guys !

the straits times
NAIROBI (Kenya) - THERE'S not a warship for miles, a small pirate skiff
is speeding toward you and there's no way the creaking tub you're on
can outrun the bandits.

How long do you wait before you shoot? It's
just one of many possible dilemmas facing an increasing number of
private security companies who offer armed escorts - known in the
industry as 'shipriders' - from Somali pirates.

But legal problems abound for ships that carry guns. The first
hurdle is making sure the countries where ships embark and disembark
the weapons will allow them to do so - a legal nightmare in corrupt
Middle Eastern ports with terrorism problems.

Then there's the
issue of which law applies onboard the ship if a weapon is discharged:
the shooter's nationality, the law of the country whose flag the ship
is flying, or the territorial waters of the country the ship is in.

In
at least one case, a private security consultant said, an armed team
had rented weapons from the Djibouti government then was forced to drop
them over the side of the ship to avoid illegally importing them into
the country where they were due to disembark.

The consultant asked for anonymity because he did not wish to compromise his business.

Ghost captured on CCTV?

WTF ? very strange !

The Straits Times

LONDON - BRITISH media outlets were excited on Friday by supposed footage of a small 'ghost' captured on a CCTV camera.

What has been described by The Sun newspaper as 'the ghost of a small child darting across a busy shopping centre' has set social network website YouTube alight.

The shadowy spirit glides in between oblivious shoppers in the eerily clear video, The Sun reported.

A possible floating phantom figure appears in the bottom right of the screen after a male shopper exits a room to the top left, described news.com.au.

According to news.com.au, the 36-second tape was taken in a shopping mall in Chile, South America, and surfaced on the internet on Friday.

Chilean media claim that the phenomenon is the ghost of a small local boy.

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Uli Jon Roth !

This is a promo of the Scorpians From 1977 , Sails of charon , It is some of uli's best work with the Scorpians , most people don't Know the early works of the Scorps , their first album was released in 1972 ! and their music was far better than the crap they put out after 1981 or so ! Everything after lovedrive was basically downhill !

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Friday, June 5, 2009

U.S. Charges Couple With Spying for Cuba

A three year investigation into this couple ! At there age there will probably not be much done to them ! but for 30 years of giving Diplomatic info to the Communist state , They should rot in a nice U.S prison ! I can think of one in Cuba , Since they love the little country so much , It is the least we can do for them !

New York Times
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department charged Friday that a former State Department analyst and his wife worked as spies for Cuba for nearly 30 years, using a short-wave radio to pass on secret diplomatic information to their Cuban handlers.

Officials said the couple, Walter K. Myers, 72, and Gwendolyn S. Myers, 71, received little in the way of compensation from the Cubans except for the short-wave radio and some travel expenses. Rather, the officials said, the couple appears to have been driven by their strong affinity for Cuba and their bitterness toward “American imperialism.”

“We think they did it because they love Cuba,” said a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the case.

The Myerses, who live in Washington, were arrested on Thursday and charged in a grand jury indictment unsealed Friday with serving as illegal agents of the Cuban government and wire fraud. A defense lawyer declined to comment on the charges.

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Iran in major nuclear expansion, U.N. oversight harder

And Speaking of Iran , Sounds like Iran is really working towards doing some serious Uranium Enrichment ! I may be wrong , but don't you need a nuclear power plant to utilize the material for "Peaceful" purposes ? Does Iran even have one ? or maybe one in the works ?

VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran has significantly expanded uranium enrichment with almost 5,000 centrifuges now operating and this has made it harder for U.N. inspectors to keep track of the disputed nuclear activity, an IAEA report said on Friday.

Obtained by Reuters, the restricted International Atomic Energy Agency report said Iran had increased its rate of production of low-enriched uranium (LEU), boosting its stockpile by 500 kg to 1,339 kg in the past six months.
The U.N. nuclear watchdog report said Iran had 4,920 centrifuges, cylinders that spin at supersonic speed, being fed with uranium hexafluoride gas (UF6) for enrichment nonstop as of May 31, a jump of about 25 percent since February.

Another 2,132 machines were installed and undergoing vacuum tests while a further 169 were being set up -- bringing Iran's total number of deployed centrifuges at its underground Natanz enrichment hall to 7,231 -- with 55,000 eventually planned.

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IAEA finds undeclared uranium at second Syria site

And not a bit of this surprises me ! It should not surprise anyone ! Syria is one of those muslim Countries that like to "not tell the truth " they are exactly like North Korea And Iran when it comes to nuclear development ! And each of them along with many other radical Muslims would love to have A Nuclear arsenal ! if Syria or Iran are allowed to develop Nuclear weapons , You can bet , we will see them used again !

VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Friday it had found traces of processed uranium at a second spot in Syria and was checking for a link to particles retrieved from the site of Washington says was a covert atomic reactor.

The development, coupled with new information about Syrian procurement of large amounts of graphite and a compound used as a radiation shield, could heighten concern about possible undeclared nuclear activity in Syria assisted by North Korea.
The IAEA said in February inspectors had found enough traces of uranium in soil samples collected a year ago at the site, known as Dair Alzour, to constitute a "significant" find.

During the same factfinding visit, IAEA sleuths detected similar "manmade" uranium particles in test swipes done at a small research reactor in Damascus which the IAEA knew about and checks routinely once a year, a new IAEA report said.

These traces were not included in Syria's past declarations of nuclear inventory to the Vienna-based IAEA.

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U.S. to impose financial sanctions on N.Korea

So does this mean that North Korea will be declaring war today ? They said that any action or sanctions by the U.S. would be considered an act of war !

SEOUL (Reuters) - The United States has told South Korea it is preparing financial measures to punish North Korea for illicit weapons trade and counterfeit activities in the wake of its nuclear test last week, a newspaper report said on Friday.

North Korea has been ratcheting up regional tensions since it fired a long-range rocket over Japan in April, and on Thursday the hermit state put two female U.S. journalists on trial accused of illegally entering its territory with "hostile intent."
Plans to hit the North's finances were discussed during a four-day visit to Seoul by U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg, the South Korean daily newspaper Chosun Ilbo said.

"The U.S. delegation led by Steinberg explained when visiting President Lee Myung-bak and others Washington's own sanctions against the North centered around financial sanctions," the paper quoted a presidential Blue House official as saying.

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Wings lose game 2 , 4 to 2 .

Could not watch or listen to this one last night , Was hoping they could take at least one in pittsburgh !

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Thursday, June 4, 2009

Taliban release all kidnapped cadets, teachers

Good news from the Taliban ! Maybe they realized how bad they look for kidnapping a bunch of kids ?

Daily Times
PESHAWAR/BANNU: Taliban on Thursday freed
the remaining 46 students and two teachers of the Razmak Cadet College.

The captives were released to tribal elders, officials and the Taliban said.

Hakimullah Mehsud, a spokesman for the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, told AFP, “We have released them in the interests of peace in the region. We accepted the request of the tribal jirga (council).”

“I have also received information that all the captives have been released. They have not yet arrived here,” Abbas Rind, Bannu administration chief said.

Inter-Services Public Relations Director General Major-General Athar Abbas said the released students were safely back in Razmak.

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10 Taliban killed, six held in Swat

I wonder what they will do with the ones that they arrested ?

Daily times ISLAMABAD: Security forces said on Thursday that they killed 10 Taliban and arrested another six in various areas of Swat and Buner, while a soldier was martyred and two others injured in various clashes. Troops engaged fleeing Taliban at a checkpost at Shangla and killed six of them and arrested four others, according to the Inter-Services Public Relations. staff report

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China security tight in Tiananmen

I put this up a little late today , should have had it up first thing this morning ! A lack of sleep and odd work hours play havoc on your mind !
But for the people of china that is nothing compared to what they have to live through ! Hopefully one day the citizens of China will be able to rise up again without being slaughtered or thrown in Labor camps never to be heard from again !

BEIJING (Reuters) - China smothered Tiananmen Square with police on Thursday to prevent commemoration of the crackdown on pro-democracy protesters 20 years ago and the United States demanded Beijing account for those killed.

Tanks rolled into the square before dawn on June 4, 1989, to crush weeks of student and worker protests. The ruling Communist Party has never released a death toll and fears any public marking of the crackdown could undermine its hold on power.

But some people came quietly to the square to mourn.

"Today is June 4, so we came here to commemorate it," said a man surnamed Wang.

Tens of thousands in China-ruled Hong Kong attended a candlelight vigil on Thursday night to mark the anniversary.

Organizers estimated a record 150,000 people had attended, as crowds overspilled from six football pitches in a downtown park.

"In 20 years, the knot of June 4 has not been untied," said Reverend Chu Yiu-ming, one of the organizers.

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Deter N.Korea says Russia

A bit of a sudden turn around from Russia , Maybe with some increased pressure from Russia , North Korea may have a change of Heart , and stop all their nuclear ambitions and cooperate in the world community like a good little country !... Just joking ! !

MOSCOW - RUSSIAN President Dmitry Medvedev indicated on Wednesday that Moscow may be prepared to support further UN sanctions to deter North Korea from more nuclear tests.

'We support those proposals which have been made - to accept a new, rather serious resolution that condemns what has happened - and to think of introducing certain mechanisms to deter those programmes which are being carried out, including by influencing economic processes,' Mr Medvedev told US television station CNBC, according to a text provided by the Kremlin.

Russia condemned North Korea's nuclear test last week but said it was too early to talk about possible sanctions.

'We have always had quite good relations with the Korean leadership but what has happened arouses very big concern,' Mr Medvedev said.

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3 more police officers slain in Juárez

Maybe not the safest place to be a cop !

Three more off-duty Juárez police officers, the latest slain Wednesday afternoon, have been killed in separate attacks, authorities said.

In all, a total of four officers haved died violently since Friday.

City government officials were asking police to take "extreme precautions" to stem the wave of attacks that began Friday when a policewoman was killed and another policewoman was wounded while driving home after work.

The attacks restarted on Tuesday afternoon when gunmen killed a police captain.

Identified as Juan Gilberto Vasquez Briones, 40, the captain was killed by attackers who fired 15 rounds about 5:40 p.m. Tuesday when Vasquez drove a Ford Explorer into at a gas station, state police said.

About 1:30 a.m. Wednesday, officer Juan Abel Ronquillo Payan, 33, was fatally shot while driving a pickup near Avenida Ejercito Nacional and Neptuno street, state police said. Eleven bullet casings were found by investigators.

The latest shooting was about 1 p.m. Wednesday when another male officer was killed, a city spokesman said.

Officials said about 70 law enforcement officers have been slain in Juárez since January 2008 when a drug war erupted.

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North Korea puts two U.S. journalists on trial

If no one intervenes , Lee and Ling , will be facing 10 years of hard labor !

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea put two U.S. journalists on trial on Thursday on charges of illegally entering the state with "hostile intent," in a case that could worsen tension with Washington after Pyongyang's nuclear test last week.

The journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling of the U.S. media outlet Current TV, were arrested in March near the border between China and North Korea while working on a story. The TV network was co-founded by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore.

North Korea's KCNA news agency said in a one-sentence dispatch that the trial would begin at 2:00 a.m. EDT (3 p.m. local time) at one of the country's highest courts.

Experts say the pair could face a sentence of 10 years or more of hard labor in the reclusive state. They add a guilty verdict is almost certain in a North Korean justice system that protects the unquestioned rule of leader Kim Jong-il.

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Where is Kyros? plus link dump

Chavez says "Comrade" Obama more left wing than him and Fidel What's Chavez's agenda by stating Obama is a far left winger?
Pakistani non-muslims forced to pay jizya tax Religion of tolerance
Inside the military's secret terror tagging tech Uber awesome.
Obama blinging after Saudi visit
Obama says US one of the largest muslim countries in the world If you don't count the 33 countries that have more muslims.
Kim Il eats live fish What do you say to that?
Court allows AIG suit over Islamic insurance to go forward The counter legal jihad begins.
British troops kill Afghan taliban leader Another one bites the dust.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Drug cartel linked to El Paso killing

The first "confirmed" cartel killing ! Many others have been just suspicious Killings !

el paso times
EL PASO -- A man shot and killed outside his East Side home was a mid-level member of the Juárez drug cartel, El Paso police said Wednesday afternoon.

The unsolved homicide is the first confirmed drug cartel-related killing in El Paso since a war among drug cartels erupted in Juárez in January 2008.

El Paso police detectives are looking into a possible drug link in the death of Jose Daniel Gonzalez Galeana, 37, who was killed the night of May 15 when while walking up to his home in the 1300 block of Pony Trail Drive, a police spokesman said.

Police had said Gonzalez may have been approached by another man and shot with a handgun. Neighbors in the area reported hearing at least three gunshots shortly after 10 p.m.

The shooter may have had an accomplice, police said.

Gonzalez was shot eight times with the lethal wound to the chest along with wounds to his left thigh and several grazing wounds, the El Paso County chief medical examiner.

He was dead on arrival at Thomason Hospital.

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Korn

I think this is korn at one of their best moments ! one of those songs that sound better through some headphones with lots of volume !

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OAS ends Cuba suspension after 47 years

Not so sure this is such a good thing !

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (reuters) - The Organization of American States lifted its 47-year suspension of Cuba on Wednesday in a move backed by Washington as it tries to soothe Cold War tensions with the communist-run island.

The 34-member hemispheric body, meeting in Honduras, unanimously scrapped a 1962 decision at the height of the Cold War that barred Cuba as revolutionary leader Fidel Castro took it toward communism and an alliance with the Soviet Union.

While leftists in Latin America hailed the OAS vote as a diplomatic victory for Cuba, Washington said it had succeeded in ensuring that Cuba cannot rejoin the group without moving toward democracy and respect for human rights.

U.S. President Barack Obama has taken steps toward a more open relationship with Cuba, lifting restrictions on travel and cash remittances to Cuba for Cuban-Americans with relatives on the island.

But his administration had said Havana should not be allowed to return to the OAS until it embraces democratic principles and makes progress on human rights.

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All Israeli options against Iran on table

Having a Plan and Planning too , Are two different things !

(reuters) - Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak refused on Wednesday
to rule out a military strike on Iran, just hours after Israel's
foreign minister said the Jewish state would not do so.

"I repeat what I have always said, we are not taking any options off the
table," Barak said after meetings with officials from U.S. President Barack Obama's administration in Washington.

Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said earlier at a Moscow news conference that "Israel is not planning to bomb Iran."

Pakistanis aim to kill leaders of Taliban in Swat

I like this kind of talk ! the Pakistani army and Govt , say the only way to make this work is to kill the Taliban leaders ! That is alright with me !
And then this is funny also ,
There are no independent casualty estimates but the army says more than 1,230 militants have been killed, while it has lost more than 90 men. But Taliban leaders in Swat have apparently escaped the army's fire.
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Of course the Taliban leaders have escaped the Army's fire ! Do you think the pansies are going to actually fight?

MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities are preparing for the return of residents to Swat's main town but decisive victory will only be won when Taliban leaders are dead, an army commander said on Wednesday.

The army began battling Taliban in the region in late April, after a militant thrust into a district 100 km (60 miles) northwest of the capital raised fear at home and abroad that the nuclear-armed country could slowly slip into militant hands.

The army has secured the main town of Mingora and pushed militants out of many other parts of the Swat valley, until recently famous for its ski slopes and summer hiking. But the fighting has also forced about 2 million people from their homes.

There are no independent casualty estimates but the army says more than 1,230 militants have been killed, while it has lost more than 90 men. But Taliban leaders in Swat have apparently escaped the army's fire.

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FDA looking abroad to boost food, drug safety

Really ! Well it is about Damn time !

TOKYO (AP) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has expanded
offices around the world and heightened contacts with counterpart
agencies in order to improve product safety for Americans at home, a
senior agency official said Wednesday.

Globalization has
transformed the food supply as well as the manufacturing process of
drugs and cosmetics, said Dr. Murray Lumpkin, the FDA's deputy
commissioner in charge of international programs.

"What we now
recognize ... is that in order for us to do a better job at home, we
have to do a better job with our counterpart agencies around the
world," he told reporters at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo.

Over the last several months, the FDA has established its first overseas posts in China, India, Latin America and Europe.

"It
shows our agency evolving from a very domestically focused agency
historically to one now that realizes that it does have a place in a
much more complex regulatory world," said Lumpkin, in Tokyo for an
annual meeting with Japanese officials

U.S. Releases Secret Nuclear List by Accident

Why do screw ups like this happen ? Regardless of the info in the document , being tagged "Highly Confidential" means it is not for everyone to see !
The Douche that put this out on the internet should be fired , what is going to be next ? letting china have their way with all our secrets ! Handing Al Qaida everthing they have always wanted to know about the U.S. Infrastructure ?

A 266-page document that gives detailed information about civilian nuclear sites and programs, marked "highly confidential," was accidentally made public by the federal government, the New York Times reported Tuesday.

The document's publication was revealed Monday in an online newsletter about federal secrecy issues. The Times described the document as including maps that identify where nuclear weapons fuel is stockpiled, though it contained no information about military nuclear operations.

It was removed from the Government Printing Office site late Tuesday, after the Federation of American Scientists reported on the document's existence Sunday in an online bulletin.

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Obama to hear Saudi worries on Iran, discuss oil

I hear more pissed off muslims , Ahmadinejad piping up , and much higher gas prices ! oh and America is Bad ,but Obama is going to change that ! he is going to make the Muslim world Like us .

RIYADH (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama is set to discuss with King Abdullah the Arab-Israeli conflict, diplomatic overtures toward Iran and oil prices when he starts a tour to the Middle East and Europe in Riyadh on Wednesday.

Saudi Arabia is the first stop in a tour that will take Obama to Germany, France and Egypt, where he plans to deliver a much-anticipated speech to the Muslim world.

Al Qaeda's second-in-command urged Egyptians on Tuesday to reject Obama's visit, calling him a criminal.

Washington hopes Saudi Arabia will play a moderating role in OPEC and counter price hawks such as Iran after oil prices hit a seventh-month high, threatening prospects of an imminent global economic recovery.

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Somali government forces seize ground in capital

I have no sympathy for this part of the world , it is the cesspool of humanity ! But anytime a blow is delivered to Al Qaida it is a good thing !

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali government forces drove Islamist insurgents from two districts of the capital on Tuesday in another day of heavy fighting that killed dozens of people, residents and officials said.

Hardline rebels with links to al Qaeda stepped up attacks in Mogadishu in early May and government forces have been battling to recapture lost ground. Fighting has killed more than 200 people since then and nearly 70,000 residents have fled.

"We have swept them from the area. Madina and Dharkenley districts are now in our hands," Abdiqadir Odweyne, a senior police officer, told Reuters.

Abdifatah Shaweye, deputy governor of Mogadishu, told Reuters government forces had also ousted the insurgents from a police station in Yaqshid district in the north of the capital.

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Where is Kyros? plus link dump

China buys Hummer This is just great. Will the US military one day be dependent on the Chinese manufracturing sector?
Bomb threat on Air France flight Not the same plane that vanished over the Atlantic. Good thing I'm not flying Air France back home!
Foiled robber cries for mercy and vows to join islam Won't have to worry about that guy anymore [end sarcasm]
Voice of America airs taliban propaganda Voice of taliban.
Gitmo detainee commits suicide One less douche to worry about coming to America.
Al Qaida kills British hostage
Top 5 most dangerous countries to live in are Iraq, Afghanistan, Somlia, Israel, and the Sudan Can anyone guess what the common denominator is?

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

ouch ! Wings lose 4 to 2

Well No sweep here , I did not figure there would be a game 3 win pitsburg is a pretty tough team , The Wings are still up 2 games to 1 ! bring on Thursday night and game 4 !

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Gunmen shoot, kill recovering drug addicts in Juárez

Nice of the drug cartels hitmen , to rampage through a rehab center And shoot people while they are sleeping !
Are their Drug sales dipping so low that they have to result to killing addicts who are trying to get off of drugs !
El Paso Times

Gunmen entered a Juárez drug rehabilitation
center shortly before midnight Sunday and shot five patients to death,
state police said Monday.

The attacks were part of a surge in violence that has claimed 35 lives since Friday.

The
men apparently were asleep when the attack began at 11:37 p.m. inside
the drug rehab center named La Vida Sin Adicciones (Life Without
Addictions) at Ignacio de la Torre and Juan Méndez streets, said Arturo
Sandoval, a spokesman for the Chihuahua state attorney general.

About 50 patients were in the center, and 20 rounds were fired from three different caliber weapons, authorities said.

"The rest (of the center's clients) took off running out a back door and jumping over walls," Sandoval said.

China rounds up dissidents, blocks Twitter

Nothing new here ! Just typical Communist suppression of News !Did anybody really think China would let anything go on ? Including reading about Tiananmen square on the Internet !

BEIJING - Examiner.com
Ahead of the 20th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on Tiananmen Square this week, Chinese authorities have rounded up dissidents and shipped them out of town. Now, they've even shut down Twitter.

Along with their usual methods of muzzling dissent, the authorities extended their efforts Tuesday to silence social networking sites that might foster discussion of any commemoration of the events of June 3-4, 1989.
Government Internet monitors have shut down message boards on more than 6,000 Web sites affiliated with colleges and universities, apparently to head off any talk about the 1989 events, according to the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy.

Numerous blogs maintained by edgy government critics such as avant-garde artist Ai Weiwei have been blocked and the text-messaging service Twitter and photo sharing site Flickr could not be accessed within China on Tuesday. Video sharing site YouTube has been blocked within China since March.

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One more link dump before sightseeing

7 MILF terrorist scum killed in Philippines Just had to post the good news
Philippines wants ceasefire with MILF terrorists I would advise against any ceasefire with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. There are numerous examples of islamic terrorists taking advantage of ceasefires to build up their forces.
Iran, Hizbullah accused of of plotting embassy attack
Teacher fired after forcing students to pray to allah

Muslim world's 'role model'

O.K can we go ahead and censor the Obamasiah ? Give me a break here , what the hell is this man thinking ?
"He said the danger was when the US or any other country thought they could impose these values on another country with different histories and cultures."

And it will be O.K. for muslim's in general to push their agenda !the way they Want ?
Mr Obama , the muslim world is a danger to our well being and our way of life , Be careful of who's toes you step on ! They are most likely ours !

theStraitsTimes
LONDON - THE United States can be a 'role model' to the Muslim world, President Barack Obama said in an interview broadcast on Tuesday.

'The thing that we can do most importantly is serve as a good role model,' he told BBC television in an interview on the eve of a trip to Europe and Egypt, where he plans to deliver a much-anticipated speech to the Muslim world.

He said he hoped his visit would begin a new relationship between America and the wider Muslim community.

'Democracy, rule of law, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, those are not simply principles of the West to be hoisted on these countries - but rather what I believe to be universal principles that they can embrace and affirm as part of their national identity,' President Obama said.

He said the danger was when the US or any other country thought they could impose these values on another country with different histories and cultures.

'(But) absolutely you can encourage and I expect we will be encouraging,' he added. -- REUTERS

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Kim names successor

Great a new Dear leader ! Little , little kimmie ! At about 26 years old little , little Kimmie is very young to be a leader Especially a dear one ! Some of the higher and much older ranking officials are going to have a problem answering to someone so young ! this should be interesting !

the StraitsTimes

SEOUL - NORTH Korean leader Kim Jong Il has asked his country's
overseas missions to pledge loyalty to his youngest son, signalling he
has been anointed as next leader of the communist dynasty, a newspaper
report said on Tuesday.

Mr Kim, 67, is thought to have suffered a stroke in August.

Analysts
have said the North's recent military actions, including a nuclear test
last week, may be aimed at helping him solidify power so that he can
name a successor.

'It has been confirmed through various channels
that North Korea sent emails to legations overseas, asking them to
pledge their loyalty to (youngest son) Kim Jong Un,' the South Korean
daily Dong-A Ilbo reported an 'informed source' as saying.

Analysts
have said succession is one of the most closely guarded secrets in the
highly secretive North, with Mr Kim's plans only known to his small
inner circle.

Pakistan army 'rescues students'

Good news ! the pakistani army rescued some of the students the Taliban kidnapped ,the exact number of students is unknown , the 400 number could be inflated ? either way glad to see some of them rescued !

The Pakistani military says dozens of students abducted by militants in the north-west of the country have been freed by troops.

Several buses carrying students were reported missing in an area near the Afghan border on Monday.

A military spokesman said about 80 students and teachers had been freed.

Pakistani officials believe Taliban militants could be trying to divert attention away from the military offensive against them further north

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Where is Kyros? plus link dump

still on the road visiting family and taking in the sights.

Even though there's so much to see and do over here in Europe I still need to blog!!!! I think I might be addicted to blogging, maybe.

Some gitmo detainees might get laptops Lets give them social housing, welfare benefits and release them into the US. Then maybe the muslim world will love us.
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Chavez's next gift to Obama a book written by Lenin From one socialist to another.
Recent convert to islam shoots army recruiter in Arkansas Sudden jihad syndrome. We shouldn't have to worry about any more of these SJS attacks after we give the gitmo detainees their laptops.
North Korea readying mid range missile launch Giving the finger to President Obama....again.
Chinese students laugh at Geithner's statement that Chinese dollar assets are safe. Not everyone is buying the government's line that everything will be alright.
Mexican drug cartels run local politics and the local police, government soldiers, Mexican border agents, etc...

Pakistan court orders release of Mumbai-linked cleric Which side are the Pakistanis on?

Monday, June 1, 2009

Space shuttle Atlantis lands at Biggs Army Airfield

Last time The shuttle came through El Paso , I only was able to see it fly overhead , today I got a little closer , but not much ! They park this thing way back from everything !

click for larger picture.
ElPasoTimes
EL PASO -- U.S. space shuttle Atlantis, riding atop a modified 747 shuttle carrier aircraft, landed at Biggs Army Airfield shortly after 11:15 a.m. Monday.

Atlantis, which landed May 24 at Edwards Air Force Base in California after a 5.3 million mile journey in space, is headed to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

"The pair will fly to Biggs Army Airfield in El Paso, Texas and spend the night there before resuming the cross-country trip tomorrow," according to a NASA news release.

NASA officials said that while in the region, Atlantis will conduct a flyover of the White Sands test facility.

The astronauts aboard the shuttle recently finished a 13-day trip in space to repair the Hubble space telescope.

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Militants kidnap 400 students, others in Pakistan

This is a friendly move on the part of the Taliban ! I'm sure this will make everyone like them Even more now ! To me the Taliban are nothing but Pussies , A bunch of jealous halfwits who have fire power instead of brains , the worst kind of rejects in the world ! the only reason they attack Schools and school kids , is because they don't want anybody having a brain and figuring them out ! If they can keep a few generations beat down and stupid , they will seem smarter to the people ! It would not surprise me one bit If the Taliban kill some of these students !

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Taliban militants in northwest Pakistan kidnapped up to 400 students from a military-run college, with teachers and relatives, on Monday as they were traveling in mini-buses, police said.
Taliban fighters with hand grenades seized the students' convoy heading home for the summer holiday from the North Waziristan ethnic Pashtun region on the Afghan border to the town of Bannu, 240 km (150 miles) southwest of Islamabad.

"The driver of one of the vehicles managed to escape and students reported to us that their colleagues have been kidnapped by Taliban," said Razaq Khan, a police official in Bakka Kheil village in North West Frontier Province.

"The students reported that one Taliban carrying a hand grenade boarded each of the buses and took them away. We don't know where they have gone," he said.
Bannu police chief Iqbal Marwat said up to 400 people in 28 vehicles were seized. Sixty-seven escaped, he said.

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China silences human rights lawyers as Tiananmen date looms

More strong arming from the communist controllers of china ! Thursday is the actual anniversary of the Tiananmen square uprising ! Saturday there was a big demonstration in Hong Kong About 5000 people marched through the streets ! no incidents as far as I heard !

Timesonline
Chinese authorities effectively disbarred some of the country’s leading civil rights lawyers yesterday, dealing a blow to a group than has done more to hold the Government to account than any other in recent years.

The lawyers described the move as part of a carefully orchestrated government campaign to prevent them from taking on controversial or high-profile cases. They have faced intimidation, threats and violence in the past to deter them from doing so.

The timing of the move is no coincidence. The 20th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown falls on Thursday and the Government is eager to suppress dissenting voices.
Now it is invalid and he is no longer allowed to work. All such licences were due for renewal by May 31. By the close of business that day his permit, along with those of about 20 other lawyers, had expired without a word from the authorities who regulate the legal profession.

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North Korea may launch long-range missile in weeks

More of the same crap coming from North Korea , Another Long range missile launch coming soon !

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea may this month test a missile designed to
fly as far as U.S. territory and may also be gearing up for skirmishes
with the South around their disputed sea border, South Korean news
reports said on Monday.

North Korea is preparing to launch an intercontinental ballistic
missile (ICBM) with an estimated range of 2,500-4,000 miles from a west
coast base, the daily JoongAng Ilbo cited South Korean intelligence
sources as saying.

"Preparations for the launch are likely to be completed in mid-June," one intelligence source said.

Government officials would not confirm the reports.

Train cars carrying a missile left about two weeks ago for a missile base on the North's west coast, the sources said.

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