[POL SC 1254] potverdikkie.

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Op vrijdag 29 juni 2007 21:21 schreef PJORourke het volgende:
Triest, die aanpassing van de TT.

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Op vrijdag 29 juni 2007 22:18 schreef Rock_de_Braziliaan het volgende:
En als laatste:

Schuren in de disco

"Dryhumpen"

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Soennieten staken deelname aan Iraakse regering

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BAGDAD - De belangrijkste Iraakse soennitische coalitie, het Iraaks Consensus Front (ICF), heeft vrijdag zijn zes ministers uit de Iraakse regering teruggetrokken. Uit protest tegen een arrestatiebevel dat tegen een van de bewindslieden is uitgevaardigd, liet de leider van het blok weten.

De boycot betekent een nieuwe tegenslag voor de toch wankelijke regering van premier Nuri al-Maliki. Door de soennitische terugtrekking zitten nu alleen nog sjiieten en Koerden in zijn nationale eenheidsregering.

De kwestie draait om de vervolging van minister van Cultuur Asaad Kamal al-Hashemi. Hij zou twee jaar geleden opdracht hebben gegeven voor een aanslag op een soennitische parlementariėr in Bagdad. De man ontsnapte maar zijn twee zoons kwamen om. Eerder deze week doorzocht de politie de woning van Hashemi en arresteerde enkele lijfwachten van hem.

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Op zaterdag 30 juni 2007 00:23 schreef problematiQue het volgende:
Zou Bush nou ooit tegen zichzelf zeggen als hij in de spiegel staat, "George, wat ben jij toch eigenlijk een eikel"?

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FBI Terror Watch List 'Out of Control'

June 13, 2007 8:55 AM

Justin Rood Reports:

A terrorist watch list compiled by the FBI has apparently swelled to include more than half a million names.

Privacy and civil liberties advocates say the list is growing uncontrollably, threatening its usefulness in the war on terror.

The bureau says the number of names on its terrorist watch list is classified.

A portion of the FBI's unclassified 2008 budget request posted to the Department of Justice Web site, however, refers to "the entire watch list of 509,000 names," which is utilized by its Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force.

A spokesman for the interagency National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), which maintains the government's list of all suspected terrorists with links to international organizations, said they had 465,000 names covering 350,000 individuals. Many names are different versions of the same identity -- "Usama bin Laden" and "Osama bin Laden" for the al Qaeda chief, for example.

In addition to the NCTC list, the FBI keeps a list of U.S. persons who are believed to be domestic terrorists -- abortion clinic bombers, for example, or firebombing environmental extremists, who have no known tie to an international terrorist group.

Combined, the NCTC and FBI compendia comprise the watch list used by federal security screening personnel on the lookout for terrorists.

While the NCTC has made no secret of its terrorist tally, the FBI has consistently declined to tell the public how many names are on its list. Because the number is classified, an FBI spokesman told the Blotter on ABCNews.com, he was unable to comment for this story.

"It grows seemingly without control or limitation," said ACLU senior legislative counsel Tim Sparapani of the terrorism watch list. Sparapani called the 509,000 figure "stunning."

"If we have 509,000 names on that list, the watch list is virtually useless," he told ABC News. "You'll be capturing innocent individuals with no connection to crime or terror."

U.S. lawmakers and their spouses have been detained because their names were on the watch list.
Reporters who have reviewed versions of the list found it included the names of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, at the time he was alive but in custody in Iraq; imprisoned al Qaeda plotter Zacarias Moussaoui; and 14 of the 19 Sept. 11, 2001 hijackers, all of whom perished in the attacks.

"There's a reason the FBI has a '10 Most Wanted' list, right? We need to focus the government's efforts on the greatest threats. When the watch list grows to this level, it's useless as an anti-terror tool," Sparapani said.

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This year is on track to be the second warmest since records began in the 1860s and floods in Pakistan or a heatwave in Greece may herald worse disruptions in store from global warming, experts said on Friday.

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Op zaterdag 30 juni 2007 01:10 schreef Monidique het volgende:
http://www.reuters.com/ar(...)0070629?feedType=RSS

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Op zaterdag 30 juni 2007 01:27 schreef HenriOsewoudt het volgende:

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OMFG!!!!!!! Laten we snel Jan Peter Balkenende, Angela Merkel en Al Gore al ons geld geven, plus de bevoegdheid om mensen die dat niet zien zitten in de gevangenis te gooien. Dan komt alles toch nog goed.

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Op zaterdag 30 juni 2007 01:30 schreef Monidique het volgende:
Wel erg Pavloviaans; een simpel bericht dat dit jaar mogelijk een van de warmste in eeuwen wordt en je begint meteen over al die enge politici en overheden die įl je geld nodig hebben...

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Op zaterdag 30 juni 2007 01:30 schreef HenriOsewoudt het volgende:

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Wat wilde je er dan mee zeggen?

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nough fertile land could turn into desert within the next generation to create an “environmental crisis of global proportions,” large-scale migrations and political instability in parts of Africa and Central Asia unless current trends are quickly stemmed, a new United Nations report concludes.

“The costs of desertification are large,” said Zafar Adeel of the United Nations University, who is based in Canada and is an author of the report, to be released Thursday.

“Already at the moment there are tens of millions of people on the move,” Dr. Adeel said in an interview. “There’s internal displacement. There’s international migration. There are a number of causes. But by and large, in sub-Saharan Africa and Central Asia this movement is triggered by degradation of land.”

The report’s authors say individual nations and international groups must collaborate to solve what has so far been an underrecognized crisis in the making, caused mainly by climate change. Water resources are overexploited because the poor have no other options, and climate change has exacerbated the cycle. Governments and wealthier countries must aid these populations to develop more sustainable livelihoods or suffer the consequences, the report says.

“Today, those migrants who are escaping dry lands are mostly moving around far from the developed world,” Janos Bogardi of the United Nations University in Bonn, Germany, a technical adviser on the report, said in an interview. “Those who end up on boats to Europe are the tip of an iceberg.”

Far more people move within their homeland, or to adjacent countries. Case studies have shown that up to 20 percent of Malians move to Ivory Coast in search of agricultural work during years of drought, for example. But as temperatures rise and desertification increases, such safer places may be overwhelmed.

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Op zaterdag 30 juni 2007 01:33 schreef Monidique het volgende:
Ik vind het vrij interessant wat er nu gebeurt met het klimaat en in mijn enthousiasme gun ik anderen dezelfde wetenswaardigheden.