 The annual cost of replacing, repairing and upgrading Army equipment in Iraq and Afghanistan is expected to more than triple next year to more than $17 billion, according to Army documents obtained by the Associated Press. From 2002 to 2006, the Army spent an average of $4 billion a year in annual equipment costs. But as the war takes a harder toll on the military, that number is projected to balloon to more than $12 billion for the federal budget year that starts next Oct. 1, the documents show. The $17 billion also includes an additional $5 billion in equipment expenses that the Army requested in previous years but has not yet been provided. The latest costs include the transfer of more than 1,200 2½-ton trucks, nearly 1,100 Humvees and $8.8 million in other equipment from the U.S. Army to the Iraqi security forces. ...
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 U.S. rejects limits on personal guns. Well not really. They use the weasel words like Legal Guns. They pretend they don’t understand the word “Infringe” |
The United States will oppose any international effort to limit access of U.S. civilians to legal firearms but supports stronger controls on arms imports and exports, a senior State Department official said yesterday. "The United States believes it is important for all of us to speak with one voice concerning the grave matter of the international illicit trade in small arms and light weapons," said Robert Joseph, the undersecretary of state for arms control and international security. "The U.S. Constitution guarantees the rights of our citizens to keep and bear arms, and there will be no infringement of those rights," Mr. Joseph said. "The United States will not agree to any provisions restricting civilian possession, use or legal trade of firearms inconsistent with our laws and practices." He actual said, “there will be no infringement of those rights”??? What the hell does he think the 20.000 + un-constitutional gun laws do? Illegal Guns? No such thing...
http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20060627-103617-7798r.htm
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| Officials Clash Over Shuttle Safety. Engineer Says He Was Reassigned After Supporting Workers Wanting Launch Delay |
The crew of the space shuttle Discovery is at the Kennedy Space Center Tuesday to begin training for this weekend's launch. But as they prepare, the risks of their flight are coming under the spotlight. Two top space officials are dissenting from NASA's decision to send the shuttle up, and a third, Johnson Space Center's director of engineers, says he was fired for supporting them. The agency's safety director and chief engineer took the unusual step of dissenting from the space agency's decision to go ahead with the launch without correcting the potentially catastrophic problem of foam falling from the external fuel tank. NASA Administrator Michael Griffin decided that a July 1 launch was worth the added risk for a variety of reasons. ...
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| Doctor: Gitmo suicides passed psych exams Results suggest men committed political act, he says |
Three Guantanamo Bay detainees who hung themselves in their cells received psychological exams days before their suicides and showed no signs of being depressed, a military doctor said Tuesday.The doctor suggested the exams, performed one to two weeks before the June 10 suicides, supported assertions by military officials that the prisoners killed themselves as a political act -- not because they were despondent about their prolonged detention."None had showed any signs of being depressed or having a mental condition," said the doctor, who is the medical officer in charge of the remote U.S. prison on Cuba's southeastern tip.He said he wished to speak on condition of anonymity to protect his personal safety.The three detainees -- two Saudis and a Yemeni -- were given psychological exams as a formality because they had recently participated in hunger strikes, including one who refused meals for 180 days....
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/06/27/guantanamo.detainees.ap/index.html?section=cnn_world
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| Asian Stocks Fall By Most in 2 Weeks on Fed; Honda Leads Slide |
Asian stocks fell by the most in two weeks, extending a global slump, on speculation the Federal Reserve will tomorrow raise U.S. interest rates and signal further increases. Honda Motor Co. and LG Electronics Inc. slid. BHP Billiton and Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. led shares of commodity suppliers lower on concern that higher borrowing costs around the world will reduce demand for metals. ``There will be concerns about rate hikes in August and even September,'' said Soichiro Monji, who helps oversee $47 billion as a strategist at Daiwa SB Investments Ltd. in Tokyo. ``Such ongoing rate hikes would negatively impact on the U.S. economy,'' resulting in decreased earnings for exporters. ...
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| China finds 55 miners' bodies, fresh disaster hits |
China has finally recovered the bodies of 55 coal miners trapped underground by flooding over a month ago, the government said, as a fresh accident claimed 13 lives in the world's deadliest mining industry on Wednesday.Bodies of all but one of the miners trapped on May 18 in Zuoyun county in the northern province of Shanxi had been found by Tuesday night, China's top work safety watchdog said. "The search is still going on," the State Administration of Work Safety said on its Web site, www.chinasafety.gov.cn. State media said the first body had not been retrieved until June 14 as a large amount of water in the pits and an initial cover-up by the mine owners greatly hindered rescue efforts. ...
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