BoRev.Net

Yes, 'The Hindu' is a great resource for South Asian news. Apart from the great political coverage, I use it as a companion to Jane's for defense-related South Asian news.

On your WEIRD article...
He should have studied rap.
He'd learn to channel that rage into catchy rhymes & metaphors...while getting paid.
Instead, he'll probably end up in jail....tossing salad.

Paul: here's something else from The Hindu from you:

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IIT alumnus Vikram Buddhi was sentenced to 57 months in prison and three years of supervised release for posting hate messages in 2006 to the then President George W Bush.

Buddhi, who was arrested in 2006, was sentenced by senior Judge James T Moody after being convicted of making threats to Bush, the then Vice President Dick Cheney and their wives, and calling for bombings of US infrastructure.

The 38-year-old Phd student of Purdue University, will have to spend an additional three years under “supervised release” under the supervision of a probation officer, the court said.

He can though appeal the sentence in a Chicago court within 10 days of this judgement. Since he has already been in prison since April 2006, the months are likely to be deducted from his sentence term.

Buddhi, who represented himself during the sentence hearing after firing his lawyer, said earlier that he was given the short end of the stick, and claimed the trial had been unfair.

Before the sentencing Buddhi submitted to the judge that he had got “ineffective assistance” of the counsel and said it was the “gravest error of justice“.

Buddhi had fired his lawyer Arlington Foley for not discussing the case properly, and said would “involuntarily represent himself” at the hearing.

Keywords: IIT, Vikram Buddhi, United States, George W Bush, Dick Cheney
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Vikram Buddhi and I share the same alma mater.

I see you read the Hindu. It's one of the few Indian political mags still worth reading.

Expect a strongly worded reprimand, from Hilary Clinton:
http://beta.thehindu.com/news/article61693.ece

Expect a friendly warning for Chavez, from me:
http://beta.thehindu.com/news/international/article63215.ece
[LOL! - Here's your UFO, Norway]

The song's a hoot, but what really makes my day is hearing that Branko is getting his hit-ordering ass KICKED. Yessssss!

Oops. That should have read:

It just occurred to me the US Treasury Dept. has claimed that Rodriguez Chacin (ex-interior minister), Henry Silva (ex-chief of DISIP) and Hugo Carvajal (chief of military intelligence) were involved in some kind of drugs for arms deal.

El_Cid: It just occurred to me the US Treasury Dept. has claimed that Rodriguez Chacin (ex-interior minister), Henry Silva (ex-chief of DISIP) and Hugo Carvajal (chief of military intelligence). The evidence apparently comes from DAS, pretty much (including the ineffable laptop). I think it's the same stuff repeated. Now they've added Makled into the mix.

The Americas' best Democracy:

Concluyó la Entidad que en efecto fueron creados verdaderos “distritos electorales”, donde de antemano las Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia tenían dispuesto, de ser necesario, el sometimiento de la voluntad del electorado, la adulteración de los resultados oficiales el día de la votación y finalmente la victoria de sus candidatos.

En esta decisión se detalla la estrategia que utilizaron las autodefensas para asegurar las ventajas políticas esperadas por parte de la agrupación paramilitar.

Es así como se explica que en el sur del departamento del Magdalena aparecían como “beneficiados” con la votación los ex Congresistas Luis Eduardo Vives Lacuture y Alfonso Antonio Campo Escobar; en el centro del departamento los señores Dieb Nicolás Maloof Cuse y José Rosario Gamarra Sierra y en los municipios ribereños Salomón Saade Abdalá y Jorge Luis Caballero Caballero.

Estos datos fueron luego corroborados no solo con la prueba testimonial, sino con las informaciones remitidas por la Registraduría Nacional del Estado Civil, que mostró aplastantes mayorías, que en algunas localidades llegaron a superar incluso el 90% de los votantes a favor de la fórmula respectiva.

Now that's what you call free and fair elections!

A stretch? Hardly.
A metaphor, surely.

Now, a "stretch" might be Claudia admitting to Duston:
"Nobody snuggles with Evo.
You strap yourself in and feeeeel the Geeee's!"

Btw, Chavez is still not 100% sure if he will be in Kobnhavn, but most likely he will.

Paul: that song is a bit of a stretch, but it sure livens us up!

Any of you in Denmark, next Thursday?

Then, playa, hook up with the dirty south at the Valbyhallen auditorium:
http://www.cphpost.dk/climate/91-climate/47744-valby-goes-latino-with-chavez.html

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Any of you married to Branko Marinkovic?

Then Evo dedicates this song to you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmEpgnRGZTI

Boom! I got your boyfriend!
Boom! I got your land!
Boom! I got your boyfriend!
I got your land!

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j1FGWgydq49J6-GfrL9KwwJ7m8xAD9CH48JG0

Who deserves a real peace prize? Gee, I wonder...

http://www.radiomundial.com.ve/yvke/noticia.php?38867

Here's a couple of links on Makled-related news:

http://www.radiomundial.com.ve/yvke/noticia.php?t=15021&highlight=walid+makled

http://www.radiomundial.com.ve/yvke/noticia.php?t=14811&highlight=walid+makled

The Miami Herald report doesn't actually say "high" official, though "officials in Venezuelan govt." is rather vague.

Colombian TV has been screeching anti-Vzlan rhetoric for some time now, but the funniest part was lurid stuff about the lack of "seguridad", which is funny, because Colombia's murder rate is about twice Vzla's (Vzla's is quite bad now, as is).

This is also Hugo Chavez' fault, even though it's happening in Colombia, because, otherwise, it's the sort of thing which you'd be reading about, because the press would cover it!

The Uribe government negotiated a peace treaty in Tierralta with the AUC, then a powerful paramilitary federation, in 2003. But this attempt at peace, a cornerstone of the government’s ‘democratic security’ policy, had no sustainable impact for Tierralta.

Quite the contrary, in Córdoba, the number of homicides doubled between 2004 – before the demobilization of the Córdoba-based factions of the AUC – and 2008.

Tierralta has seen a steady rise of homicide and forced displacement rates since 2004. A recent report from the Colombian public defender's office (Defensoría) qualifies Tierralta as a high-risk municipality. “This region has been forgotten by the government,” says Enrique.

The Black Eagles of the now-imprisoned former AUC member Daniel Rendón Herrera, also known as ‘Don Mario,’ dominate Tierralta. The Paisas are the military arm of a Medellín-based criminal organization formerly led by AUC commander Diego Fernando Murillo, or ‘Don Berna.’ The two groups are locked in a battle for influence over Tierralta.

Local sources claim that the authorities somehow tolerate the activities of the new armed groups and concentrate their efforts on FARC, which is still present in remote areas of Tierralta. Two high-ranking military officials have even been arrested for collaborating with the new groups.

Clearly the fact that high-ranking Colombian military officials have been collaborating with massacring, drug-running paramilitaries who continue to work without harassment in entire sections of the country means that poor Alvaro Uribe is saddled with rogue criminal elements totally not under his influence, whereas if someone farts in Venezuela it's a Hugo Chavez plot.

I wish all you people would stop making fun of Trig Palin and Alvaro Uribe! They don't deserve it!

A chunk of the Makled family is in jail in Vzla actually (a couple of brothers, I think). The suspicion was that Felipe Acosta Carles (the Chavista governor of Carabobo, expelled from the party in 2007 because of his connections with Makled) was in cahoots with him.

Which one of the following 3 paragraphs do you anticipate not hearing from the anti-Chavez scream-athonistas in the U.S. press?

A U.S. government investigation has found evidence of a massive drug smuggling operation out of Venezuela, linking a powerful trafficker who is accused of supplying arms to Colombian guerrillas with a fugitive Venezuelan businessman, El Nuevo Herald has learned.

At the center of the investigation is Walid Makled, whose family controlled Venezuela's leading airline, Aeropostal, and operated one of the largest cargo facilities at Puerto Cabello, the second largest port in Venezuela.

Makled is a fugitive, accused of drug trafficking by Venezuelan authorities. Federal agents say officials in the Venezuelan military and the government were complicit in Makled's operation with Colombian trafficker José María Corredor Ibagué, according to the document filed by the Drug Enforcement Agency in court in Puerto Rico.

This now proves that Hugo Chavez was aiding the FARC rebels, because, you see, if Venezuelan high officials are found to have collaborated with narco-traffickers, then it goes all the way up, but when 1/3 of the Colombian Congress is under investigation for narco-paramilitary links, well, SHUT UP, it does not.

Meanwhile, in Colombia, a mass grave with 2,000+ bodies in it is discovered by meddling foreign observers...

La versión de Ramírez es que varios de hallados en la fosa fueron asesinados durante el presente año, lo cual demuestra que sigue la desaparición forzada.

The fact that it appears to investigators that many of them were assassinated this past year will also be Hugo Chavez' fault, because, SHUT UP.

LOL! Nice angle to the story BoRev.
Looks like you took a toke from Otto's herb.

This proves what a narco-terrorist drug dealer Zelaya is, because, this is obviously his fault somehow.

Yay, Tegucigolpe.