Wednesday, March 10, 2010
I think not.
Al Masry Al Youm ran a story alleging that the Brotherhood is backing out of politics and possibly looking for a “truce” with the Egyptian government.
Maybe they should have turned it over to the Nobel Prize committee.
e beleaguered global warming panel has found an outside group to review how it writes its reports.
An international group, the InterAcademy Council, will be given complete control to review the rules, procedures and reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said a scientist close to the situation. Recently, several unsettling errors have been found in the climate panel reports issued in 2007.
Though the mistakes don’t undercut the broad consensus on global warning, they have shaken the credibility of climate scientists and given skeptics of global warming ammunition.
The InterAcademy Council is a Netherlands-based organization of the science academies of 15 nations. “They will run the review themselves,” said a scientist close to the situation, who asked not to be named because the researcher was not authorized to talk publicly. “It will be independent… They are choosing the reviewers.”
Will we have the opportunity to looks at the reviewers history?
Approaching the bizarre.
This has been getting a lot of press.
It’s hardly surprising. What’s surprising is how nutty a person can be.
Using e-mail, YouTube videos, phony travel documents and a burning desire to kill “or die trying,” a middle-aged American woman from Pennsylvania helped recruit a network for suicide attacks and other terrorist strikes in Europe and Asia, according to a federal grand jury indictment unsealed Tuesday.
Colleen R. LaRose, who dubbed herself “JihadJane,” was so intent on waging jihad, authorities said, that she traveled to Sweden to kill an artist in a way that would frighten “the whole Kufar [nonbeliever] world.”
Taking care of one of the Bali bombers.
Counterterrorism forces have shot and killed one of Southeast Asia’s most-wanted Islamic militants, Indonesia’s president said Wednesday.
The police said the militant, who went by only one name, Dulmatin, was a senior operative for Jemaah Islamiyah, the Southeast Asian terrorist network with links to Al Qaeda. He was killed in a raid near an internet cafe in Jakarta on Tuesday morning, the authorities said.
The authorities had accused Mr. Dulmatin of setting and triggering one of the bombs used in an attack on a Bali nightclub in 2002 that killed 202 people.
More from the Peoples Daily.
”We arrested 15 terrorists in Aceh and killed two. In Java Island, seven were arrested and three were killed,” said Ansyaad Mbai, head of Anti-Terror Desk at the Coordinating Ministry of Politic, Law and Security Affairs in Banda Aceh, the provincial capital of Aceh.
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
So what was the political statement here?
Police said they found the body at a Nicosia cemetery Monday night following an anonymous tip. They went with members of the late president’s family, who identified evidence.
“There has been identification through the means of DNA and it was confirmed that the corpse belongs to the former president,” a police spokesman told CNN. The spokesman could not be named in line with policy.
Update: It was ransom. That makes ‘total’ sense.
Another serious ‘cartoon’ episode.
The four men and three women are all Muslim, according to media reports, though a police statement did not confirm this.
Cartoonist Lars Vilks had depicted the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog in the Nerikes Allehanda newspaper.
Islamic militants then put a $100,000 (£67,000) bounty on his head.
How about sticking to the facts?
This week in Texas, the State Board of Education (SBOE) will consider curriculum modifications that could impact millions of students across America. That’s because what Texas ultimately decides has great influence among textbook publishers. The Lone Star state is one of their biggest customers in the world, so publishers craft their books to meet Texas standards. Those books are then sold nationwide. While the Texas SBOE debates whether to include things like Christmas, Paul Revere and the Liberty Bell - some are calling the textbook showdown the newest frontline of the culture war in the U.S.
Good idea.
Currently, when a bill is introduced into Congress, the Government Printing Office (GPO) automatically prints five copies of the entire text for the office of each co-sponsor. That means that for H.R. 3962, the House’s health care bill, which is 2,070 pages long and has 7 total sponsors, the GPO printed out a total of 72,450 pages. That’s 151 reams.
The STOP the Overprinting Act would only allow bills to be printed by the GPO if they are specifically requested by a member of Congress or a committee. According to Lee, “the Congressional Research Service estimates the potential cost savings of Lee’s legislation would be upwards of $2.2 million in 2010 alone.”
Maybe we should first check and see where the money went.
International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn today called for a huge global warming slush fund to be established as an interim measure before carbon taxes are implemented in the name of preventing weather disasters related to alleged man-made climate change.
Speaking in Nairobi Kenya today, “Strauss-Kahn said the Fund is concerned about the huge amount of funding needed and the effect that will have on the global economy,” reports the Associated Press.
I’m having a little trouble with this.
I remember the al-Arian case taking a long time to develop.
Campbell’s opponents say his letter stands among many signs that indicate he may be soft on terror or hostile toward Israel. Campbell has expressed regret over the letter, but claimed he was not aware of incriminating facts about Al-Arian when he wrote it.
Monday, March 08, 2010
Now this, unlike the post before, makes sense.
Geez ...
Animal rights groups had argued that many instances of cruelty to animals were going unpunished without lawyers to represent their case.
The proposal was rejected by around 70% of voters in a referendum.
Video at the link.
Quotas for parliament.
Some legislators who opposed the Womens’ Reservation bill tore up a copy of the legislation and hurled it at the speaker when it was tabled in the upper house of India’s parliament on Monday.
Finding a way to track the GSE’s
There’s one very important aspect is missing from the sweeping financial reform proposals currently being mulled over in Washington: to fix or wind down the government-sponsored entities (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. But yesterday, I learned of one piece of legislation sponsored by Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ) which seeks to force Washington to face the GSE problem. He’s sponsoring a bill that calls for transparency and accountability for the cost that the GSEs impose on taxpayers. How does he hope to do that? Make the GSEs a part of the budget. While only a start, I think this legislation makes a lot of sense.
Non-capitalists and non- drug users cut deal on drug tariffs.
The three al-Qaeda agents assured the Colombians that they would have no problem moving their shipment of European-bound cocaine through the Islamist badlands of the Sahara. As supporters of the terrorist organisation’s North African branch, they would guarantee shipment of the drugs so long as they were paid fee of $2,000 per kilo. The trio thought they were setting up a deal with representatives of Colombia’s Marxist FARC guerrillas to smuggle up to 1,000 kgs of cocaine.
