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ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) - For generations, leftist activists have fought the Institutional Revolutionary Party in the southern state of Guerrero through the ballot box and the rifle. After skirmishes, massacres and hundreds of martyrs, they were celebrating victory Monday with dancing and the honking of horns in the state's famous resort, Acapulco. Official state election results showed former Acapulco Mayor Zeferino Torreblanca with a stunning victory, 55 to 42 percent, over the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which has run Guerrero for 76 years. "After nearly 50 years of social struggle, we have achieved the miracle of the vote," said...

BAGHDAD — Iraqi River Police (IRP) conducted operations here on the Tigris River to hone their skills in keeping Iraq’s waterways safe from terrorists, Sept. 1. The mission of the IRP is to provide search and rescue, safety patrol, and counter smuggling operations along the waterways of Iraq. Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq advisors, mentors and trainers help the IRP accomplish this mission. There are two advisors at the River Patrol. One is responsible for teaching waterborne operations, how to pilot the boats, and how to use the boats to conduct the operations found in the mission statement. The second advisor...

WASHINGTON -- Carol Browner, President-elect Barack Obama's choice to be his climate czarina, served until last summer as a member of a socialist organization whose mission is to enact progressive government policies, including toward environmental concerns like climate change. Browner's name and biography have been scrubbed from the Web site of Socialist International, the umbrella group for 170 "social democratic, socialist and labor parties" in 55 countries. But a photo of Browner speaking in Greece to the group's Congress on June 30 remained in the site's archives. Browner, formerly the longest serving administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, having served...

Pasadena's NIRPY Electricity Integrated Resource Plan 1. NIRP - Variation of acronym for NERP, Nefarious Nonprofit Evil Resident Politick A fascist organization bent on the destruction of the human race! "Integrated Resource Plans (IRP's) are a compromise of failed policies. Ours will not fail." ~The NERP doctrine 2. NIRP - Nonprofit Integrated Resources Plan 3. NERP - Non Energy Reporting news Papers Paraphrased from The Urban Dictionary - http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nerp Sum: Will Pasadena's new proposed electricity Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) be a product of NERP - the Nefarious Nonprofit Evil Resident Politick (NERP)? Find out below. Pasadena Water and Power (PWP)...