"Bush you are a lying failure and a charlatan"
"Why isn't the black market included in GDP?" said minister one.Et voila. Greek GDP is up over 25% from last year now that the underground economy is included.
"I do not know. It's domestic, it's product and it's often gross" said minister two.
In a separate move, the US department of agriculture yesterday said it was helping Bayer to fast track retroactive approval for the rice so it could be consumed by humans.
Arguing that the offending strain is similar to other strains that have already been approved, it has now filed a request for deregulation of the Bayer rice to the US plant health inspection service and prepared an environmental assessment on the company's behalf for a preliminary decision.
What is LLRICE 601?
Liberty Link 601 is a strain of long grain rice which contains a gene that makes it resistant to the herbicide Liberty. It was grown as an experiment in five US states between 1998 and 2001 by agrochemical giant Bayer but was never intended for commercial release.
How much contaminated rice has got into the food chain?
The US government says it has no idea, has no way of finding out and cannot predict where it may turn up.
Is it dangerous to health?
It has never been tested or approved for human consumption. But US agriculture secretary Mike Johanns insists the rice is similar to other approved strains and poses no risk to health or the environment.
"This burger might better be called the quadruple-bypass special. Fast food like this is great if you're in a hurry -- to die."I guess it's OK for McDonalds to drop the salads then.
book on the topic with which I cannot even attempt to compete. Living in south London there was the local vernacular to get used to as well."The truth is that the assessment by intelligence experts is that next year, 2007, is going to get worse and, in public, you have the president and you have the Pentagon saying, 'Oh, no, things are going to get better'."
In Iraq journalist have long had to live in fear. First from US attacks and more recently from insurgents and death squads. Now the Iraqi government itself joins the mix. New laws* make it an offence to ridicule the government or government officials. A dozen or more journalists have been charged and at least three have been imprisoned for these offences. On the 7th of September the "police sealed the offices of Al Arabiya...for what the government said was inflammatory reporting" and some other news outlets have been shut down.
The "Freedom Agenda"(TM) marches on.
*Note: it is rumoured that President Bush as tasked Attorney General Gonzales with "getting us some of them laws". The Attorney General was not available for comment.
Punchlines: A Crash Course in English with John Prescott (which may unfortunately be out of print).He has punched a protester who hit him with an egg.
He is known as "Two Jags" as he keeps (actually he may have got rid of one by now) two Jaguars, his official chauffeur driven car and one he actually owns.
At the Labour party's 1999 conference in Bournemouth he hopped in a Jag to traverse the 250 yards from his hotel to the conference centre. He later blamed this on the need to protect his wife's coiffure from the wind. He later, sans wife, repeated this performance at a climate change conference in Providence, Rhode Island.
Despite a certain physical resemblance to a bulldog and a physique like a sumo wrestler he managed to have a two year affair with his secretary. (Well - Henry Kissinger used to get laid too!)
After this affair he fought tooth and nail to hang on to his grace and favour governemnt homes even after being stripped of much of his portfolio.
The bodies of 40 man, most apparently tortured, have been found on the streets of Baghdad over the last 24 hours.
A suicide bomber has killed 19 in an attack in Helmand province where British troops are primarily deployed.
Lincoln Group, who has admitted paying journalist to plant pro-American articles in the Iraqi press, has been awarded a new contract, worth 6.2 million USD over two years, to "monitor a number of English and Arabic news outlets and to produce public-relations products like talking points or speeches for American forces in Iraq".
The war in Iraq is now costing US taxpayers nearly 2 billion USD a week up 20% on last year. Running ahead of inflation then!
"we are taking steps to reduce and minimise carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions from our own operations. In addition we support approaches to reduce emissions more broadly in ways that are cost effective for society and that consider the uncertainties that remain."
While assessments such as those of the IPCC have expressed growing confidence that recent warming can be attributed to increases in greenhouse gases, these conclusions rely on expert judgment rather than objective, reproducible statistical methods. Taken together, gaps in the scientific basis for theoretical climate models and the interplay of significant natural variability make it very difficult to determine objectively the extent to which recent climate changes might be the result of human actions. These gaps also make it difficult to predict the timing, extent, and consequences of future climate change.
Even with many scientific uncertainties, the risk that greenhouse gas emissions may have serious impacts justifies taking action. The choice of action must consider environmental, social, and economic consequences, as well as recognize the long-term nature of climate change.
Test matches are international matches between countries that are rated sufficiently highly by the International Cricket Council or ICC to be awarded test status. (Current test nations are England, Australia, South Africa, West Indies, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh.)Test matches are played over five days with each side getting an opportunity to bat twice. The total score between the two innings wins. A match is drawn if a team is behind but hasn't had a chance to get through all its allotted wickets (or outs) before the end of the fifth day. Confused yet? It gets worse but I'll leave you to find out for yourself should you so desire.
In Affectionate Rememberance of English Cricket Which Died At The Oval on 29th August 1882, Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing friends and acquaintances R.I.P.
The body will be cremated, and the ashes taken to Australia
They must be kept at 20C.I think the entire membership of the MCC would perish if they could see what happens to the Stanley Cup.
The must be kept at 50% humidity.
They must
not be exposed to more than 50 lux of light.
The MCC will supervise the
placing of the urn and its base in a purpose-built hydraulic, double-alarmed
8mm-thick glass case.
The public will not be allowed within one metre of the
case.
"The truth is, you cannot go on forever. That is why it is right this is my last conference as leader. Of course it is hard to let go, but it is also right to let go; for the country and for you, the party."
"but because our idea of liberty is not keeping pace with change in reality, those freedoms are in jeopardy ... we can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world" i.e. by redefining freedom to fit his purpose.
"If we retreat now, hand Iraq over to al-Qaeda and sectarian death squads and Afghanistan back to al-Qaeda and the Taliban, we won't be safer; we will be committing a craven act of surrender that will put our future security in the deepest peril ..."
"From now until I leave office I will dedicate myself, with the same commitment I have given to Northern Ireland , to advancing peace between Israel and Palestine. I may not succeed."
"But I will try because peace in the Middle East is a defeat for terrorism."
"I really think the quality has gone down. All they do is try to take high out of everything."
Keith Richards - commenting on the declining standards in today's recreational pharmaceuticals.
In a post cold war era whom are we attempting to deter and will it work? In my mind it would not be effective against a rogue state and could only be used for revenge. Would a British government ever use it for this purpose? I don't wish to ask (or answer this question for the US.)
Does replacing the system violate the anti-proliferation treaty? I think so. However the major powers have been in violation of this treaty since before the ink was dry. It was really only meant to apply to other countries anyway. We know how that's turned out: Israel, India, Pakistan and North Korea!
Would the new systems be free and independent? Would the UK have the authority and the power if the US disagreed? This is critical. The government has always asserted that it would be independent but experts have disagreed. They contend that the US might retain the power to prevent the missiles from being used. This is critical. The rogue state that worries me the most is America. They (we) have the most weapons and the government is drifting further from the no first strike policy every day.
I like a woman with a broad ranging imagination.On Iraq: "You're never going to have a just Sunni-Shia reconciliation if you don't have a political system in which the interests of all can be represented - and that's what Iraq represents."
On Pakistan: "The future of Pakistan, as [President Pervez] Musharraf and his people fully understand, is to de-radicalize elements of the population."
On the Middle East conflict: "It would help to have a moderate force in the Palestinian territories and to have the beginnings of rapprochement with Israel and the rest of its neighbors."
On the Far East: "I would like to see an improvement in Japanese-China relations."In general: she said that U.S. forces must finish the job in Iraq and the wider Middle East to wipe out the "root cause" of violent extremism.
A parent dies leaving you a detached house in greater London worth £400,000. The tax due on this is £46,000. To pay that back over a 10 year mortgage at 7.5% would mean monthly payments of around £560. I assume that you're living somewhere. Renting a two bedroom flat in London is going to be at least £750 a month.
Get ready. This week brings us the Labour Party conference from sunny Manchester.
Better than reality TV or an old episode of Morse.
Errr, scratch that last one I may have gotten carried away.
Or it may just be full of boring platitudes and mind numbing speeches.
Let's hope for excitement!
He is not being held at Guantánamo.
He has not been extraordinarily rendered to a country were he will be tortured.
We know where he is.
He is about to be released!
The countries that have requested his extradition are Cuba and Venezuela. (The extradition requests have been refused as - wait for me here - he might be tortured!)
He is accused of blowing up a Cuban plane flying between Cuba and Venezuela along with other acts of terrorism.
He is reputed to be a current or former CIA operative.
There are strong indications that the CIA and others in the US government knew of his plans before the airplane was blown up.
He's just an all around nice guy.
