It always strikes me odd that the leader of the non-aligned nations needs nuclear weapons. Not only nukes but missile delivery systems for their nukes.
India tests missile capable of reaching Beijing
NEW DELHI
— India successfully test-launched a long-range missile on Thursday that would give it the capability for the first time of sending a nuclear warhead as far as China’s capital, Beijing, officials said.
Officials and defense experts said the Agni-V missile marks a significant improvement in India’s nuclear-deterrent capability and was clearly aimed at bolstering its defense against neighboring China.
They arn't making any bones about it.
The new Agni, which is the Sanskrit word for fire, is seen as part of this military buildup. Although China’s nuclear-missile capability is far greater than India’s, experts said the new missile would help redress the imbalance.
“If you are in a hostile environment, power respects power,” Bhaskar said.
But China reacted frostily, with the Global Times newspaper warning that India was being swept up by “missile delusion” and recalling that it has not signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
The Washington Post
Seems the Chinese are a little miffed.
Yup, spring is upon us and the usual vermin erupt out of the soil, jumping, crawling and flying at us from all directions.
In a few weeks we will contract a company to spray chemicals. It is to control or at least minimize the annoying parasites like chiggers and ticks.
Gee, if it were so easy to erase the ignorance of the blind or expose the hypocrisy of the rich who feed upon them.
BIG FAT RICH HYPOCRITE
Imagine that BLOB inspiring anybody while becoming rich beyond belief doing so.
Not only consuming so much of the Earth's resources to maintain his enormous being, but what else does he consume with his $50 million dollars?
I could give a rats ass as to what he does with his personal live, but just where does he stash that 50mil?
He seeks publicity as an advocate for the poor or whatever. One would wonder from which multi national coporations he continues to further enrich himself. Maybe, just maybe a few of his OCCUPY followers are catching on?
OK folks, this ain't exactly Earth shattering news, but I find it of interest.
Mormons posthumously baptize slain Jewish reporter Daniel Pearl
Records indicate Pearl was baptized by proxy on June 1, 2011 at a Mormon temple in Twin Falls, Idaho, in practice that recently raised public outcry.
I just love expletives like public outcry.
Anyway, I have known of that practice for a lot of years now and find it offensive. I learned of it from a Mormon coworker. He just couldn't see why anybody would be offended.
Oh well. As a religious person myself, I understand my faith and practices would seem, to others, to say the least, odd. Odd practices abound amongst the various faiths.
Odd is OK, but the Mormons crossed a line in that in that they actively denounce the faith and practice of individual persons.
Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints posthumously baptized slain Jewish reporter Daniel Pearl last year, the Boston Globe reported on Wednesday.
Pearl was kidnapped in Pakistan's biggest city of Karachi in January 2002, where he was researching a story for the Wall Street Journal on Islamist militants, and was later beheaded.
Jews are particularly offended by an attempt to alter the religion of Holocaust victims, who were murdered because of their religion, and the baptism of Holocaust survivors was supposed to have been barred by a 1995 agreement.
Mormons believe posthumous baptism by proxy allows deceased persons to receive the Gospel in the afterlife. The church believes departed souls can then accept or reject the baptismal rites and contends the offerings are not intended to offend anyone.
HAARETZ
