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Posted on 07/11/2004 12:55:04 AM PDT by JustPiper
Picture credit: TheCabal
"I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat"
LUCKY THREAD NUMBER:
HOMELAND INSECURITY
Backup electrical systems failed to kick in
A mysterious power failure at Logan Airport that delayed dozens of flights for more than five hours has still not been explained six days later.
Airport officials insist airline security was not compromised during the blackout Monday at Logan International's Terminal E, but backup electrical systems failed to kick in as they are programmed under such circumstances.
We are the "Stotters" who make ourselves aware of the enemy who wishes to do us harm
Meet It!
Greet It!
Defeat It!
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
when they get close to 5000 posts we get a new thread. Maybe Just Piper could ping you to the new one?
New thread is started when the thread hits the 5000 mark.
If you're interested, JustPiper has the ping list.
Sounds like a plan to me! Thanks for the info.
A look at Fires now by LA CAD TRAFFIC SCREEN Print Out:
http://cad.chp.ca.gov/ii.asp?Center=LACC&LogNumber=1423D0717
http://cad.chp.ca.gov/ii.asp?Center=LACC&LogNumber=1756D0717
http://cad.chp.ca.gov/ii.asp?Center=LACC&LogNumber=1803D0717
Indeed. Heart skipped a beat when I heard the bystanders say it was an "explosion."
Tarheel as in North Carolina?
Yep, the great state of North Carolina.
Welcome.
Glad you found us.
Yep, north of Charlotte.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The Los Alamos National Laboratory, a key U.S. center for nuclear weapons research, has suspended virtually all its operations after an intern sustained a serious eye injury while working with a laser, a spokesman said on Saturday.
more at link
You bet.
That would get my heart thumping, too.
Thanks.
North Carolina has some very beautiful areas.
"Los Alamos" can't seem to get any thing right.
Welcome to TM Tarheel.
Thanks for that link. Apparently the fire started around noon. I called my Mother, who lives around the corner, five minutes after I heard that rumble (about 45 min ago?). She said she didn't hear it, but heard a long rumble about an hour or two before and just thought it was one of cars going up the street, you know the little jerks with the loud thump thump crap. I can't wait until they are all deaf. When they pass my house I dream of having an RPG pointed at them. LOL. That's all I know for now.
Fire season is absolutely no fun.
Take care.
Hi granny missed you...
My mother would never have understood what I would tell her
today. Her Daddy was a democrat and so was she, end of the argument with her.
SAME HERE MON AND DAD...oh but I have a good time...I tell them all the time there party has changed but they just cannot see it. Loyal till death.
I proud of GW for this one, But why on earth were we doing it to began with?
Posted: July 17, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
WASHINGTON The Bush administration yesterday announced it will withhold a $34 million payment from the United Nations Population Fund to China over the issue of forced abortions.
The Communist government of China maintains, at least in some areas of the country, a one-child policy sometimes enforced through a policy of forced abortions. It is believed China performs some 10 million involuntary abortions a year.
State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said the U.S. is the world's largest donor to health programs for women and children, to the tune of $1.8 billion this year, of which over $400 million is for reproductive health and family planning. As WND has reported, the abortions disproportionately affect female babies.
Facing a critical shortage of women that could leave millions of men without wives, China is trying to convince its populace of the value of girls, who have been systematically killed during birth or after as a result of the one-child limit on most families.
Beijing has developed a five-year plan to correct the alarming disparity in the numbers of males and females in the country.
First exposed by WND in 1997, what has come to be known as "gendercide" in China has resulted in the deaths of at least 50 million girls.
The government is promoting what it calls "Girl Care Project" teaching rural families to value daughters as much as sons and strengthening the social welfare system, especially in rural areas, said Zhao Baige, a vice-minister of the State Population and Family Planning Commission.
She said Beijing was committed to bringing the sex ratio, which now sees 117 boys born for every 100 girls, back in line with international standards. The world average is 107 boys to 100 girls.
Only seven mainland provinces come close to matching the world's average, with fewer than 110 boys against 100 girls. Some have 130 boys for every 100 girls.
Experts have warned that if the problem is not corrected soon, China will face dire social problems, with millions of men unable to find wives. The imbalance will also aggravate the problem of an aging population in the future.
Five years ago, each retiree in China was supported by 10 workers. By 2020 this ratio will have fallen to one to six, and by 2050 to one to three.
China's population grew at an estimated average rate of 1 percent a year between 1991 and 2002. It was then officially estimated at 1.28 billion, though this may be a significant underestimate. Under-reporting of births has become common since the government's strict one-child family policy was introduced in 1980.
The birth rate fell from 37 per 1,000 people in 1952 to 12.9 per 1,000 in 2002. The death rate fell from 17 per 1,000 in the early years of the People's Republic of China to 6.4 per 1,000 in 2002.
This shortage of workers to support an aging population including more and more retirees will cause an economic crisis in China, say analysts.
In addition, to an aging population, China increasingly is developing a population dominated by males. This, too, is a direct offshoot of the one-child policy, which has resulted in the "disappearance" of millions of girls most of whom are assumed to have been killed at birth or shortly afterward, while others were the victims of sex-selection abortion procedures. Many other young girls are put up for foreign adoption. Two-thirds of Chinese children put up for adoption are female.
As first reported in WND in September 1997, the World Health Organization released a report at WHO's Regional Committee for the Western Pacific that said more than 50 million women were estimated to be "missing" in China because of the institutionalized killing and neglect of girls due to Beijing's population control program that limits parents to one child.
Many of the girls were killed while still in the womb the victims of ultrasound technology that revealed the baby's sex. Others, WHO said, were starved to death after birth, the victims of violence or were not treated when they became ill.
The report's statistics showed that in 1994, 117 boys were born for every 100 girls in China. That is the same ratio today in China 10 years later. Though baby girls tend to have a higher survival rate than boys, that natural process has been dramatically reversed in China by infanticide, gross neglect, maltreatment and malnutrition of females in a culture that regards boys as more desirable especially when couples get only one chance at parenthood.
The trend transcends the infancy stage, too, the report shows. Girls are at higher risk than boys of dying before the age of 5 in China despite their natural biological advantages.
"In many cases, mothers are more likely to bring their male children to health centers particularly to private physicians and they may be treated at an earlier stage of disease than girls," the paper reported.
WHO documented what can only be described as the biggest single holocaust in human history and doing it in a surprisingly clinical and low-key fashion. It was characterized in that WorldNetDaily report, for the first time, as "gendercide," a phrase that has been picked up by other organizations and activists around the globe
Some Chinese couples who want a boy simply choose to abandon female infants to die.
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