The "Civil War" was not started nor fought over slavery!
The flag does not represent a "pro-slavery" position, but a pro-American, pro-Constitution position
Slavery was legal in the US from 1776 to 1865, under the US flag...not the Battle flag
The CSA Constitution made the slave trade illegal (in the South) before the war even started
All slaves brought to America were done so by Northern ships, not Southern ones
Sappers Patrick Azimkar and Mark Quinsey were killed just hours before they were due to be deployed to Afghanistan.
The Real IRA was blamed for this attack.
Within 48 hours a policeman, Stephen Carroll, was shot dead in Craigavon.[Cira)
He was the first police officer to be murdered in Northern Ireland since 1998."
BBC timeline of 'dissident' irish republicanism 2009-2010.
Regardless, the centuary aniverserty looms as a dark spectre over 2016 and 2021 when the demographics begin to deliver for the irish vote fraction over the British Empire vote fraction.
other news. Dogs of Diana.
after recieving calls of bullying by the british PM from staff, government ministers bully and discret head of anti-bully charity (bully; ie slander, intimidation, harassment, assault, consipiracy to murder; ianna) NBH organisation. such behaviour is criminal under law - & so lawful administrations.
"Government criticism of the head of an anti-bullying charity morphed into an outright personal attack today when Christine Pratt was mocked by a minister as a “prat of a woman”.
The founder of the National Bullying Helpline has faced a concerted campaign to discredit her and her organisation since claiming that staff at No 10 had asked for help to flight bullying at work.
Phil Woolas, the Immigration minister, launched the most aggressive attack yet while suggesting that she would be regretting her actions. “It’s a tough business, politics. It’s 18, 20 hours a day that people like the Prime Minister work,” he told LBC, a London radio station.
“I think this attack on him by this prat of a woman down in - where’s she from, Swindon? - I think that’s backfiring on her.""
Basically the immigration minister of Gorden Brown, though not his usual types for abuse, has been drafted in to call her a Slag. This has gone some distance into exhonurating the PM from the violence and cruelty allegations by senior civial servants, ( whos bosses were forced to take action), at least among the gullible british population... who are after all the voters.
the british and english have been warned that she is against child-baiting and child-rape as well.... ignore that at your peril!
A proclamation naming Vernet as Governor was issued by the Government in Buenos Aires in 1829. The proclamation followed his petition to the Government to provide a warship to police the settlement. That request was refused and instead the proclamation issued giving Vernet the authority to act with his own means. Vernet was anxious to establish the colony quickly as he was promised that it would be free from taxation if it could be established within 3 years."
Vernet arrived in Puerto Soledad in 1829 and reverted to the use of the original French name as Puerto Luis. The settlement was only established in 1828 after several attempts and following the abandonment of the previous Spanish and British colonies in the Falklands in 1811 and 1776 respectively (although both nations left behind declarations of their continued sovereignty).
The spanish was the prior claim which went with Argentina.
Mount Vernet on East Falkland is named after him. (and Port Luis really).
Port Luis. History.
It was established by Louis de Bougainville in 1764 as the first French settlement on the islands, but was then transferred to Spain in 1767 and renamed Puerto Soledad (In Spanish, East Falkland is known as Isla Soledad).
establishment of British rule over the argentine settlement in 1833.
"Under the command of Captain John James Onslow, the brig-sloop HMS Clio, previously stationed at Rio de Janeiro, reached Port Egmont on 20 December 1832. It was later joined by HMS Tyne.
Onslow arrived at Puerto Luis on 2 January 1833. Pinedo sent an officer to the British ship, where he was presented with a written request to replace the Argentine flag with the British one, and leave the location. Pinedo entertained plans for resisting, but finally desisted because of his obvious numerical inferiority and the want of enough nationals among his crew (approximately 80% of his forces were British mercenaries who refused to fight their countrymen). The British forces disembarked on 3 January and switched the flags, delivering the Argentine one to Pinedo, who left on 5 January"
In fact, the Navy has so few available planes that they had to ask the U.S. Marine Corps for some of theirs, just to provide Illustrious's crew with a bit of practice.
But the figures are grim wherever you look. We had 320,000 armed forces personnel in 1982; now we have 188,000. And with so many serving in theatres around the world, where would we now muster the thousands of elite troops it took to win the 1982 conflict?
And so it goes on. In 1982, we had 17 destroyers and sent eight to the Falklands. Now we have only seven - and many of them are engaged in policing waters elsewhere."
The deep-sea platform, which is due to begin exploration today, has been shadowed by Argentine air force jets and Buenos Aires has declared a shipping blockade.
While this is hardly the Cuban missile crisis and no one is suggesting it could lead to a second Falkands war, the diplomatic tensions have thrown into sharp relief Britain's ability to defend her sovereign territory in the South Atlantic.
Our under-equipped armed forces have been stretched to breaking point in Afghanistan and Iraq. A recent spending review even proposed merging all three branches of the services to save money.
Let's imagine Argentina attempted a second invasion. The British garrison would offer fierce resistence. So would the local territorials, Port Stanley's answer to the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard. We've also got four fighter planes, one destroyer and one patrol boat stationed in the area.
But military experts have been saying for years that we would never again be able to mount another Falklands rescue.
And even if we tried, how would we go about it? The Americans wouldn't be too thrilled if we withdrew our troops from the global war on terror in Helmand Province to relieve an obscure outcrop of empire in the South Atlantic.
Even if we had enough soldiers back home ready to deploy, we'd have trouble getting them there. The QE2, which last time served as a troop ship, is now a floating hotel and casino in Dubai harbour."
It seems the Brits have been sneaking a moveable oil-rig past the Argentinians and the race is on to loot the disputed Falkland-Malvinas oil-fields.
During a rally held in the Buenos Aires neighbourhood of Merlo, the president said that the United Kingdom has "systematically misunderstood" the UN resolutions and that "they have rejected the idea of sitting down" for negotiation."Bueonos argentina.
.2009 it was a war for oil.
Feb 15 (Reuters) - Falkland Oil and Gas Ltd (FOGL.L) said it agreed with Desire Petroleum Plc (DES.L) to contract a rig to drill the first ever well in the East Falklands Basin.
The AIM-listed oil and gas explorer said it expected the drilling to start within the first half of 2010."
A rig, the Ocean Guardian, is due to arrive by mid-February and will almost immediately begin drilling for hydrocarbon deposits 100 miles north of the archipelago.
Geological surveys suggest there could be up to 60bn barrels beneath the seabed around the British territory, a bonanza that would transform islands famed for sheep, fish and remoteness.
"The rig won't come into sight of Port Stanley unfortunately, it'll be out too far," said Phyll Rendell, the islands' director of mineral resources. "But everyone knows it's coming."
A British company, Desire Petroleum, has hired the rig to drill prospects in the North Falkland basin and will later lease it to two other British companies and an Australian one – Rockhopper, and Falklands Oil and Gas; and BHP Billiton – which also have exploration contracts. They will use the rig in rotation throughout 2010.
It will be the first drilling in Falkland waters since Shell suspended exploration in 1998 after oil prices slumped to $12 a barrel."
Buenos aires herald article.... Deseret News. "
BUENOS AIRES — Argentina's president issued a decree Tuesday seeking to control all shipping to and from the Falkland Islands, escalating her fight with Britain over drilling for oil and gas in the South Atlantic.
Cristina Fernandez's order doesn't stop at shipping for the oil industry: It applies to any boat going to or from the islands, which Argentina refers to as the Malvinas."
Buenos aires herald....;
"Vice-Chancellor Victorio Taccetti explained today that Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana would try to make the Río group release a statement demanding the British government to abide by UN resolutions, and assured that "any decision the President makes is part of Argentina's defence over the Malvinas sovereignty." "Many times we've asked other Latin-American countries for help and they've always been there for us," he explained. Taiana is to meet other Foreign Ministers of the Río group in Mexico today and tomorrow, and under orders of President Fernández de Kirchner, he will work for a joint statement from them demanding UN resolutions regarding the Malvinas be followed by the British government."
The Ministry of Defence has denied reports a naval taskforce is on its way to the Falklands.
The Sun newspaper reported up to three ships were to join the islands' regular patrol vessel.
BBC defence correspondent Caroline Wyatt understands the destroyer HMS York and the oil supply tanker RFA Wave Ruler are in the area, as well as HMS Clyde, which is permanently based there.
However, the MoD said Britain already had a permanent naval presence in the South Atlantic as well as more than a thousand military personnel on the islands"
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Earlier this month, the country, ravaged by 23 years of civil war, received what United Nations information technology workers say is the first inexpensive public Internet service there. In August, five more Kabul post offices will be outfitted with Internet connections, where it costs the equivalent of $1 an hour to check e-mail and surf the Web, said Karen Gray, project manager for the United Nations Development Programme, one of three parties rolling out the service.
"There is so much hunger for information here," Gray said in a telephone interview from Kabul. "We opened the first telekiosk on July 6. We've had them for 3 weeks and we had over 1,000 people visit.""...
"Afghans are so hungry for information from the outside world, Braish said, that he was only mildly surprised to learn from some Afghan schoolchildren that they preferred to read websites in English rather than have the content translated into their native Dari or Pashto by their instructors. But until now, they never had the opportunity to use a computer, much less the Internet.
Like any other major city in the world, Kabul does have Internet cafes. But for the most part, the service is available only to tourists and wealthy Afghan émigrés who can afford to put down $3 to $5 an hour to peruse the Web. The average Afghan makes about $30 a month, Gray said."...
BBC.
"But at the Excelnet Cafe, the enthusiasm is hard to miss.
The eight terminals are all occupied and 10 Afghans wait patiently for their turn, squeezed on to a wooden bench.
One reason for its popularity is that it is the cheapest one in town, charging $1 for an hour's access."...
"That is lower than the $3 charged by most of the others, but still quite expensive in a country where the average income is less than $1 a day.
Zabiullah, an English language instructor, is not put off, however, and has bought himself a $50 card allowing him use of the internet for two hours every day."
The Few.
""I hope to then bring the cost of access to below $1, and even open a centre at Kabul University, making it free for college students."
Most of those who use Kabul's four internet cafes are young, men and women, using it mainly to stay in touch, chat and to find out about opportunities abroad or to study.
"But increasingly people are using it to pursue their own interests, such as growing crops," adds Mr Bayer."
another quick article summery.,, Life...(or feminist version)... kabul stall picture-foto...
laptops from £202. matho-gunk. 202 x 100,000 = 20,200,000
2005 kabul internet explosion kills 3."Five people were injured in the explosion at the Park Net Cafe in Kabul's upscale Shahr-e-Naw district, a hangout also popular with foreigners, said city police chief Gen. Akram Khakrezwal."
Concrete seperation walls help stop blast.
have these people never heard of 25 hour opening? 25/8 free. Then too there is the hot porn area reserved for just porn searches ? good idea.
Fred's site doesnt work but... FAG TROOPS of a fag nation vid.... ok; no-names no pack-drill.
SHOT AT RELIGOUS FREEDOM AND FREE SPEECH IN usa BY americans SO IS SOMEONE SKITZO HERE?
US smarmy song. Westboro. yeah a curious point..
get the fuck out of america!.... counter protesters. well the mormons tried that in goingto mexico state of utah but the anti-poly-bibleists USA came after them. soo which recomended safer-country, for them pilgirms, do you, consider more appropriate? this would help speed up the process of reclocation of pilgrim scum.
Mexico maybe, canada?
Brewers say an increase in the price of raw materials such as malted barley, hikes in the cost of metal used in storage barrels and increases in transport fuel have combined to make the rise inevitable.
The British Beer and Pub Association said the £4 pint would hit London first - but then spread across the country."
£5 a pint in UK pubs come the 2012 London Olympics....
" Britain currently has the highest rate of beer tax in the EU, with the taxman receiving 80p in duty and tax for every pint sold in a pub. [This is not high enough 7 billion tax as another £8 billion is needed because of, and a possible 6.4 billion for buisnesses ie 160p or even 240p]
A new survey has also revealed that 62% of pub goers blame the Government for high pub beer prices."
"The average price of a pint of real ale is currently £2.59 whilst lager costs £2.82".
While some are snapped up by smaller pub chains, others have been levelled for redevelopment. The latest survey from the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) reveals 2,365 pubs closed in 2009.
By the second half of the year pub closures had slowed to 39 a week from 52 a week in the first six months, but it still meant the closure of 1,103 pubs and the loss of more than 10,000 jobs between July and December.
There are now 52,500 pubs in Britain – well down on the 58,600 pubs operating when the Licensing Act came into force in 2005.
Wolverhampton-based pub and brewing chain Marston’s has closed 400 pubs over the last three years, leaving it with a 2,177-strong estate employing 12,000 people. It has announced plans for 60 bigger new pubs, concentrating on food, over the next three years."
Closed pubs pictures, flicker photo-fotos.Sometimes, with denominations such as the Methodists split into three types, there could be as many as seven or eight churches in one small town to cater for Roman Catholics, Anglicans and different groups of Protestants.
By 2005 the number of churches had fallen to 47,600. According to the organisation Christian Research, another 4,000 are likely to go in the next 15 years.
In the Church of England alone, which still has 16,000 churches, 1,700 have been made redundant since 1969.
Over the same period, the number of mosques in Britain has grown to almost the number of Anglian churches that have closed. The Islamic website Salaam records a total of 1,689 mosques."...
Methodist churches, down from 14,000 in 1932 to 6,000, and closing at the rate of 100 a year, are often sold with no restrictive covenant attached."...
The study by the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit shows 17 million working days are lost to hangovers and drink-related illness each year.
The annual cost to employers is estimated to be £6.4 billion while the cost to the NHS is in the region of £1.7bn.
Billions more are spent clearing up alcohol-related crime [£7.4 billion] and social problems.[£4.7 billion]
In addition, alcohol-related problems are responsible for 22,000 premature deaths each year.
However, the authors of the report said that even these figures may be a conservative estimate.They found that there are 1.2 million incidents of alcohol-related violence a year.
Around 40% of A&E admissions are alcohol-related. Between midnight and 5am that figure rises to 70%.
Alcohol-related accidents and illnesses land around 150,000 people in hospital each year.
Up to 1.3 million children are affected by parents with drink problems, the report said." BBC 2003.
EEK!
"The annual cost of alcohol-related crime and public disorder has been estimated at £7.3bn, the cost to employers has been put at £6.4bn." - BBC 2004. ...
"Doctors say the NHS cannot cope.
Palani Muthu, a consultant in A&E at Darlington Memorial Hospital, told the BBC: "I think alcohol puts a huge strain on the health service, in terms of the cost and in terms of it being a very stressful situation for the staff.
"That increases the staff leaving the NHS."
He said most incidents involved verbal abuse.
Darlington is currently trying to deal with problem drinking by arming its city patrol wardens with hats with hidden cameras.""
Britons spend £30bn on alcohol each year The government raises £7bn through taxes on alcohol Alcohol costs £6.4bn in lost productivity The NHS spends £1.7bn treating alcohol-related illnesses Alcohol-related crime costs £7.3bn Another £4.7bn is spent on the human and emotional costs of alcohol-related crime Some 22,000 people die prematurely each year because of alcohol misuse
This means the tax-payer is subsidizing bars-clubs private-profits.
(capitalism could not spend 50% of take (gross) on the clean up operation - or 60% incase of bars-clubs-resta who are the main liable culprit). There-for this private-profit scam is government funded or covered-for. Costs country £21 billion year (government £14.6 billion gross)
Governemnt loss: -$7.6 billion net. (14.6 gross - 7 tax)
also loss: government advertizing (not included, hidden) £141 million. extra. (ie £8 billion)
"The government should develop mass media campaigns to curb excessive drinking, funded at the same level as its drink-drive campaigns over the years." " -isa uk.
in 2002 £17 billion spent in pubs, £1.7 billion in clubs. axe the beer tax campaigneres!
This is only the short view (not including hidden costs of damaged lives).
Industrious army chef Corporal Liam Francis, 26, stirred up several new recipes to try to keep troops’ morale up as they munched the infamous meat product.
“I was surprised what we could do - sweet and sour Spam, Spam fritters, Spam carbonara, Spam stroganoff and Spam stir fry,” said father-of-one Francis from Wiltshire, England.
For a full six weeks, the troops at the forward operating base in Sangin lived on Francis’ Spam-and-field-rations creations before finally receiving fresh supplies.
“The first day off Spam, I prepared battered sausages, chips [french fries] and curry sauce,” the young chef said.
“The Sergeant Major said it was the best meal he had ever had.” - news link 5 feb 2010.
same story, Telegraph UK link.
"But he found the store cupboards at the Forward Operating Base had only one staple ingredient - Spam.
Taliban fighters shot down a civilian supply helicopter the day before he arrived leaving him without the usual beef burgers, chicken, sausages and fish and chips.
Cpl Francis, who joined the Army in 2004, drew up a Spam-based menu which he served to frontline troops until fresh supplies finally arrived six weeks later."
Obama grandmother Sarah in kenya makes Hajj, 25 nov 2009.
Mormons across the Western United States can now relax. Their marital questions are now being answered -- well, most of them, anyway -- with the publication of a new sex manual targeted specifically to Latter-day Saints.
"Between Husband & Wife: Gospel Perspectives on Marital Intimacy" is flying off the shelves of Mormon bookstores. According to a spokesperson for Covenant Books, the manual's publisher, the initial print run of 6,000 copies sold out in two weeks, and a second printing of 20,000 also sold out within two weeks. The sex guide now sits at the top of the bestseller list at Deseret Books, a 35-store chain owned by the Mormon Church, and even briefly outsold the latest book by church president Gordon B. Hinckley.
"To me the amazing part is that it was outselling Hinckley's book," said the Covenant Books spokesperson. "In the LDS (Latter-day Saints) market, this is huge.""
Mormon sex education; a misonomer but anyhow...
