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Posted on 12/31/2009 10:06:46 AM PST by Velveeta
Thank you very much for your dedication
I make my own salsa out of pure habanero peppers...
Nuclear scientist goes missing in Tamil Nadu
February 25th, 2010 - 7:01 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Feb 25 (IANS) A nuclear scientist, S. Ananthanarayanan working in the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) in Tamil Nadu is missing since last week, police said Thursday.
== SNIP ==
According to him, Ananthanarayanan is certainly not deployed on any sensitive assignment nor does he have access to such data.
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But what precisely was he educated in??? Until we know that, we have no idea what value he may have to others, nor if perhaps he had other classified work at the same location. Hard to seriously imagine that a nuclear scientist is hired to code computers for the employees' healthcare, right???
He wouldn’t be that would be like calling a computer programmer a doctor just not possible.
I'll bet that's tasty salso too. I grow jalapeno and habanero peppers here. I'm planting peter peppers this year and hope the seeds (saved from last year) will grow this year.
You’re welcome JP, and thank you for your dedication and efforts to keep TM going strong.
I like our mutual admiration society my sis’dear. Thank you,it lightens the load -g- Hugz!
Ditto what MD said.
Thanks bunches to BOTH of you.
Seldom post, but I read it ALL.
Thanky You RR! Wish you were here more though
Russia looking at China threat....
Generally pretty tough finding info about this. Interesting article..last two paragraphs sort of sum it. Recall I have said Russia and China have vested interest in Middle East rescources...only using Muslims until they are positioned for what they wil one day do.
Good links China’Russia
http://the-diplomat.com/china-power/
http://www.zeenews.com/tags/China.html
http://www.zeenews.com/tags/Russia.html
Articles all excerpted:
Facebook teams with Mideast ad company, anticipating rapid growth among Arab users
http://www.latimes.com/business/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-ml-mideast-facebook,0,3514174.story
ADAM SCHRECK
AP Business Writer
February 24, 2010 | 3:28 a.m.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) Facebook Inc. said Wednesday it is teaming with a Middle Eastern digital advertising company as the online meet-up site looks to capitalize on rapid growth in the Arab world.
Facebook said it hopes the deal with Connect Ads will give it better exposure to advertisers in a socially conservative region where online marketing is in its early stages. The Cairo-based advertising booker already handles sales for Microsoft Corp.’s MSN regional portals and other local sites.
“They have the reach and ... they have the connections,” said Trevor Johnson, Facebook’s head of strategy for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
The tie-up with an outside ad sales provider mirrors a strategy Palo Alto, Calif.-based Facebook has used in other emerging markets, such as Eastern Europe and Asia, Johnson said in an interview.
It also signals the potential the social networking site sees for the young and growing Arab market, where it counts 10 million regular users.
The company expects Mideast user numbers to shoot significantly higher in the coming months, as it has in other markets, as more members follow their friends onto the site.
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The Berlin-Dubai-Tehran Axis
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB40001424052748704240004575085222234577764.html
By Matthias Küntzel
Although Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered the increase of uranium enrichment to 20%bringing Tehran much closer to weapons-grade nuclear materialChina still opposes new United Nations sanctions. The responsibility for stopping the Iranian bomb thus rests with a “coalition of the willing.” The attitude of GermanyIran’s most important Western trading partnerwill be critical to the success of such a coalition. But while the recent announcement by Siemens and Munich Re to exit the Iranian market have garnered headlines, hundreds of German manufacturers remain determined to continue doing business as usual with Tehran.
Much of that business goes undetected via Dubai. Iran’s Mullahs use the United Arab Emirates as a back door through which to funnel goods that cannot be brought in through the front door because of existing sanctions. The role of the German-Emirati Joint Council for Industry & Commerce, founded only last year, on May 20, raises serious questions about the German government’s commitment to meaningful sanctions.
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, the German economics minister at the time (who has since become defense minister), considered the Joint Council so important that he took time from his busy schedule to attend the founding festivities. Partly financed by German taxpayers, the council announced just a few months ago, on Nov. 5., the formation of an “Iran Working Group” to assess “how new trade and investment flows can be createdincluding [for] German companiesusing the United Arab Emirates as a gateway to the Iranian market.”
This state-funded institution thus directly contradicts official German government policies.
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Ivory shipment from Dubai seized by Thai Customs
http://www.arabiansupplychain.com/article-3742-ivory-shipment-from-dubai-seized-by-thai-customs/
by Robeel Haq on Feb 26, 2010
Customs officials from Thailand have confiscated more than two tonnes of ivory that was transported from Dubai International Airport.
The consignment of 239 African elephant tusks, which was reportedly being sent to Laos, had been declared as mobile phone parts and discovered after Thai authorities searched a transit cargo warehouse at Suvarnabhumi airport.
According to a statement from the Customs department, the shipment was flown on an Emirates flight and is the countrys largest-ever hail of ivory, valued at US$3.6 million. No arrests have been made so far.
“This is the biggest seizure we have ever had. This is a real accomplishment for Thailand,” stated Seree Thaijongrak, director of the investigation and suppression bureau for Thai customs. “Normally, this would have gone right through but we got the tip-off.”
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US Rejects Iranian Claims Of Jundallah Links
http://www.rttnews.com/Content/PoliticalNews.aspx?Node=B1&Id=1223885
2/26/2010 4:48 AM ET
The Pentagon has rejected Tehran’s accusations of aiding and abetting the outlawed Jundallah (God’s soldiers) Sunni insurgent outfit prior to the arrest of its leader Abdolmalek Rigi by Iranian authorities earlier this week.
Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said Thursday Iranian claims that the United States supported Sunni extremist groups like Jundallah were “nothing more than Iranian propaganda.”
An Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman told reporters Tuesday that there was strong evidence suggesting that Iran’s most- wanted fugitive was being supported by the United States.
“Not only are we aware of the many crimes against humanity committed by Rigi, but we also have more than enough evidence that this terrorist group was in fact acting on US orders,” he said.
Iranian Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi said besides staying at a US base in Afghanistan, Rigi had also met with the NATO military chief in April 2008 and also had links with some EU member states.
Meanwhile, the Iranian Parliament has expressed satisfaction over the arrest of the Jundallah leader. In a statement on Tuesday, over 200 Iranian lawmakers hailed Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on the successful arrest of Rigi.
Pakistan-based Jundallah group, whose insurgency in southeast Iran has destabilized the Iran-Pakistan border region, has claimed responsibility for a slew of bomb attacks that killed dozens in recent years, including the October 18 bombing in the southeastern city of Pishin in which 15 of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards died.
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Officials puzzle over millions of dollars leaving Afghanistan by plane for Dubai
By Andrew Higgins
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/24/AR2010022404914.html?hpid=sec-world
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, February 25, 2010
KABUL — A blizzard of bank notes is flying out of Afghanistan — often in full view of customs officers at the Kabul airport — as part of a cash exodus that is confounding U.S. officials and raising concerns about the money’s origin.
The cash, estimated to total well over $1 billion a year, flows mostly to the Persian Gulf emirate of Dubai, where many wealthy Afghans now park their families and funds, according to U.S. and Afghan officials. So long as departing cash is declared at the airport here, its transfer is legal.
But at a time when the United States and its allies are spending billions of dollars to prop up the fragile government of President Hamid Karzai, the volume of the outflow has stirred concerns that funds have been diverted from aid. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, for its part, is trying to figure out whether some of the money comes from Afghanistan’s thriving opium trade. And officials in neighboring Pakistan think that at least some of the cash leaving Kabul has been smuggled overland from Pakistan.
“All this money magically appears from nowhere,” said a U.S. official who monitors Afghanistan’s growing role as a hub for cash transfers to Dubai, which has six flights a day to and from Kabul.
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Last month, a well-dressed Afghan man en route to Dubai was found carrying three briefcases stuffed with $3 million in U.S. currency and $2 million in Saudi currency, according to an American official who was present when the notes were counted. A few days later, the same man was back at the Kabul airport, en route to Dubai again, with about $5 million in U.S. and Saudi bank notes.
One theory is that some of the Arab nation’s cash might come from Saudi donations that were supposed to go to mosques and other projects in Afghanistan and Pakistan. But, the American official said, “we don’t really know what is going on.”
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No comment.
Quinn did a segment at 7:05 this AM on the MDA logo. Said it wasn’t so much the resemblance to the obama logo, even though that was a given. He said what I have been badgering him about for several days now...that the thing that sticks out more than anything else is the islamic crescent and star. Then he reiterated what we all know: that obama LOVES to flaunt and taunt us in our face and thinks he gets away with it.
He mentioned the two times bam gave hillary the finger, etc.
But we do all notice these things, don’t we?
From my personal point of view, he is getting away with nothing and even the msm is starting to point this stuff out.
Lost count of the emails and newsflashes I have sent out there on this thing. Started about one minute after I saw the thing and just can’t think of anywhere else to go.
‘nother blizzard today. Dang!
MDA=MDS
beep....early brainfog warning
Threat Matrix Headlines coming ....
Soldiers, Taliban Trash Talk Over 2-Way Radios During Firefights...
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Afghanistan/trust-politics-religion-afghan-war/story?id=9935912
Is the Iranian Regime Collapsing?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2459727/posts
REPORT: Secret Service Computers at 60% Capacity, Using 1980s Mainframe...
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-secret-service-outdated-computer-mainframe-system-1980s/story?id=9945663
Taliban blown up by own bombs
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/campaigns/our_boys/2869375/20-Taliban-blown-up-by-their-own-bombs.html#ixzz0gbV8wx0E
Turkey accuses 51 of plotting coup (military tired of ROP)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2459647/posts
3 Homeland Security computers lost daily
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=126218
60 MINUTES obtains video of pentagon employee selling secrets to Chinese Spy... Developing...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/25/60minutes/main6242498.shtml
Cuban dissident’s death sparks new clampdown...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7038864.ece
THE WALL: Florida school teaching kids what it’s like to live in totalitarian state...
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20100224/ARTICLE/2241029
[Older stuff coming ....]
Threat Matrix: 2010
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418483/posts
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Al-Qaida victims? They’re Muslims
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=125502
“Indeed, only 15 percent of all victims of al-Qaida attacks from 2004-2008 were Westerners, according to a study conducted by West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center.”
[I ask WND critics — do they realise how important this one article is?]
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Striking at the root of Islam and liberalism:
THE EXODUS CONSPIRACY
Film proving Bible true getting major expansion
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=124716
A film that could potentially verify the historical accuracy of much of the Bible is getting a major expansion, causing its producers to be extra sensitive to modern political concerns and anxious fans to wait even longer for its release.
[God bless worldnetdaily.]
INCOMPLETE list of Islamic attacks ON US SOIL — by BP2
(with hundreds of more incidences which likely go unreported):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2454434/posts?page=282#282
Organization of the Islamic Conference Coverup
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2437390/posts?page=580#580
Another senior Taliban figure captured in Pakistan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2453935/posts
[Afghan Taliban ‘shadow governor’]
Russian Raptor Killer is a “Game Changer”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2453922/posts
“Moreover, the Obama administration’s decision to kill the F-22 air superiority fighter in favor of the multi-role F-35 Joint Strike Fighter may prove disastrous ...”
Taliban using human shields
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2453068/posts
Revisionist or Oblivious? (Oliver North)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2454615/posts
FBI closes file on anthrax mailings; says Ivins acted alone
http://www.infowars.com/fbi-closes-file-on-anthrax-mailings-says-ivins-acted-alone
[Move along now. Nothing to see here.]
Army translator program an invitation to jihadists?
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=125618
Ft. Jackson 5 inquiry blows lid off program offering Muslims quick path to citizenship
[Supposedly discredited.]
DOJ: No misconduct for Bush interrogation lawyers (”poor judgment” maybe, but not misconduct)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2455286/posts
Niger: Military Seize Power in Coup dEtat
http://www.infowars.com/niger-military-seize-power-in-coup-detat
UPDATE: Credit cards implicate Mossad in Dubai hit...
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61J14O20100220
Book: Cheney pushed for military conflict with Russia during S. Ossetia conflict
http://www.infowars.com/book-cheney-pushed-for-military-conflict-with-russia
[And Russia grows stronger while we grow weaker.]
Father who threw baby from bridge ‘devout Muslim’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2454750/posts
WIDE SCALE FOOD POISONING of US troops attempted at Ft. Jackson, SC
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2454434/posts?page=1
[supposedly discredited]
CBN Exclusive: Five Muslim Soldiers Arrested at Fort Jackson in South Carolina
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2454447/posts
[supposedly discredited]
Pakistan: We wont hand over the captured Taliban leaders to the U.S.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2455800/posts
Police Chief: More Arab Violent Crime
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2457516/posts
CIA: Pelosi Briefed about Water Boarding, Knew Employed at Gitmo, Raised no Objections
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2457344/posts?page=1
[FoxNews not letting this one die.]
Luke AFB Shooting per Foxnews
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2457339/posts
“I think they ruled out terrorism before the incident actually happened.” — rightwingintelligentsia
Alex Jones Listener Visited by FBI
http://www.infowars.com/alex-jones-listener-visited-by-fbi
All I do is listen to Infowars outside while working in the yard around this house.
CIA wants Baradar sent to Afghanistan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2456421/posts
[To mirandize and give him Klondike bars?]
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CAIR NEWS
Cloak-and-Dagger has CAIR on the Ropes
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=125678
“... Special Agent P. David Gaubatz and his son Chris, who recovered thousands of pages of incriminating CAIR documents meant for a shredder while posing as a Muslim intern.”
Islamist Group, CAIR, in hard legal fight with WND — seeking to “chill” free speech [against Islamics]
HOMELAND INSECURITY
Desperate Muslims launch ‘Hail Mary’
‘It’s like a drowning person flailing water, they grab on to anybody and drown them’
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=125678
On the heels of a major setback in federal court, the Council on American-Islamic Relations is “throwing a Hail Mary pass” to keep its “Muslim Mafia” lawsuit alive by issuing subpoenas to a prominent counter-terror expert, says a lawyer for the two men who probed the Muslim group’s terror ties in a sting operation.
“The timing of their request is a sign of desperation,” said Daniel Horowitz, representing former Special Agent P. David Gaubatz and his son Chris, who recovered thousands of pages of incriminating CAIR documents meant for a shredder while posing as a Muslim intern. [snip]
[End of CAIR News]
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Wacko UNIONIZED Airport Security:
NOT AGAIN! Another Security Breach At Newark Airport Closes Terminal; Confusion Reigns As Suspect Misidentified...
http://wcbstv.com/local/newark.airport.security.2.1502898.html
I put the sliced habaneros in a pot with two parts water to one part white vinegar and a little Splenda, bring it to a boil, remove from heat, let set five minutes. Then place the habaneros and a small ammount of the liquid in a blender and blend it to the consistency that I like.
I use to use garlic cloves and sliced habaneros, got way too many complaints about garlic breath. ;)
Every morning I have bacon and eggs, I put a tablespoon of habanero sauce in three eggs, with a good slice of crumbled white Tillamook extra sharp cheddar cheese, salt and thyme.
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