I recall reading about it in the Economist, which doenst give away any content online

but here's a summary of the actions

http://www1.american.edu/ted/ice/spratly.htm

does this rag smell like chloroform to you?

of course just ask our govt

ummmmm Rotterdam is below sea level innit?

Madagascar does have airports unfortunately

" In the laboratory, it was possible to change H5N1 into an aerosol-transmissible virus that can easily be rapidly spread through the air," Dr Fouchier said. "This process could also take place in a natural setting."

When I was a boy back in the cold war, this was called 'weaponizing the bio-war agent"

>>> [TI] arsbury wrote:

> Need your cash Zarf!

Fine... sent...<<

How despicable! You totally caved to that OWS bullshit.  It's YOUR money, just becasue he THINKS he needs it is no reason to give it to him!

ummm the shah raped women with dogs while their husbands watched  I don't think he's ever coming back.

This would be a good time to remind the Chinese that if they help us sink the North Korean govt. in favor of unification of the peninsula under Seoul, both Korea and Japan would holler Yankee-go-home  and we wouldn't have carriers west of Manila; as long as there's a insane clown posse running the worlds biggest concentration camp in Pyongyang threatening the whole northern hemisphere with nukes, our Navy is going to be right there 1 hour from Beijing. We're only over there because the locals like the idea that that we'll throw a billion dollars of ordnance on Pyongyang if it bites.  Without that threat they remember they hate our guts.

wukan clan ain't nothing to smurf wid?

Wornstrum if your argument is

Not Guilty, and So What If They Did

there's not really a need to make the case is there?

set his truck on fire next time

they hate that

i understood the volume was the same, it was the pitch that made it seem louder

>>The point I believe you are trying to make is "even though there are controls on explosives, this nut job managed to get hold of some and commit an attack. The ban is therefore empirically shown to be ineffective, so we may as well not have it". The flaw in your argument is that you have focused on one incident whereas a proper empirical analysis would look at statistics over much greater populations.<<

So you renounce the gun control tactic of pretending such outrages are demonstrations of a failed gun policy?  My point was that pretending the "entire society failed to stop the madness" meme is outre.

>> Anyway, comparing  USA with other Western nations with tighter gun control laws:

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