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U.S. Customs and Border Protection Marine Interdiction agents at the National Harbor marina in Washington D.C., prepare to launch their vessels to provide security operations support for the 59th Presidential Inauguration along the Potomac, January 19, 2021.

CBP Photo by Michael Pope

U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel perform in the Steve Young Honor Guard Pipes and Drums Competition during Police Week in Washington, D.C., May 14, 2019. CBP Acting Commissioner John P. Sanders speaks to families of the agents and officers at the event....Photographer: Donna Burton

Vancouver, Canada - U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) preclearance operations at Vancouver International Airport. Passengers wait time in processing is limited through the use of kiosk programs such as Global Entry and NEXUS.

 

Photographer: Donna Burton

Halloween '13. Polaroid Supercolor 635CL with IP PX680 Color Protection.

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051613: Washington, DC - Customs and Border Protection Valor Memorial and Wreath Laying Ceremony.

 

Photographer: Josh Denmark

Vancouver, Canada - U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) preclearance operations at Vancouver International Airport. Handheld devices are used for faster processing of passengers through airports on international travel.

 

Photographer: Donna Burton

Vancouver, Canada - U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) preclearance operations at Vancouver International Airport. Handheld devices are used for faster processing of passengers through airports on international travel.

 

Photographer: Donna Burton

In Anlehnung an die tollen Poster der GVU* hier die Kampagne zum Schutz des Dr. Karl Theodor Baron zu Münchhausen und Guttenberg vor der Verfolgung durch Pöbel und Gesetz. Der Adel ist natürlich vor Nachstellungen durch den Abschaum (im GG euphemistisch als Souverän umschrieben) zu schützen.

Nach dem ich in mühevoller Kleinstarbeit dieses Bild zusammengestellt habe hatte ich eigentlich keine Lust mehr mich um die Quellenangaben zu kümmern - aber in Ermangelung eines Ministerpostens, Adlestitels oder Ghostwriters muss ich mich wohl doch selber darum kümmern:

Alcatraz: Eigene Aufnahme

Linker Gutti: 'Wirtschaftskongress von JU und MIT' by Junge Union Deutschlands license: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Mittlerer Gutti: 'Übergabe des Berichtes der Strukturkommission' by Bundeswehr-Fotos license: CC BY 2.0

Rechter Gutti: 'Wirtschaftskongress von JU und MIT' by Junge Union Deutschlands license: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

 

*GVU: Ich weiss nicht mehr wofür GVU stand.. ich bin mir nicht ganz sicher, aber ich glaube es handelt sich um die Marketing Divison von Sirius Cybernetics: ENG DEU

051613: Washington, DC - Customs and Border Protection Valor Memorial and Wreath Laying Ceremony.

 

Photographer: Josh Denmark

Schwetzingen im November 2024

 

DE: Zu Besuch bei den Katzen im Tierschutzverein

EN: Visiting the cats at the animal protection association

Customs and Border Protection's Air and Marine Operations deploy a new asset to protect the United States. Marine Interdiction Agents use the Coastal Interceptor Vessel in coastal waters to combat maritime smuggling and defend the waterways along our nation’s border from acts of terrorism. The 41-Foot Interceptor Class Coastal Interceptor Vessel provides Marine Interdiction Agents with the protection, mobility, and reliability to intercept and apprehend maritime smugglers. The Coastal Interceptor Vessel will be deployed to marine units nationwide, including Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, throughout southeast Florida, and in San Diego, California. Photos by James Tourtellotte.

Balsam woolly adelgid (Chermes piceae; Adelges piceae). Detail of bark surface showing egg masses and wax-covered females on Abies grandis. Sample from Wilsonville, Oregon.

 

Photo by: Robert L. Furniss

Date: April 10, 1942

 

Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.

Collection: Bureau of Entomology, Portland Station Collection; La Grande, Oregon.

Image: PS-571

 

For more about the balsam woolly adelgid see: Ragenovich, I.R. and R.G. Mitchell. 2006. Balsam Woolly Adelgid. Forest Insect and Disease Leaflet 118. USDA Forest Service, available here: www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fsbdev2_043667.pdf

 

To learn more about this photo collection see:

Wickman, B.E., Torgersen, T.R. and Furniss, M.M. 2002. Photographic images and history of forest insect investigations on the Pacific Slope, 1903-1953. Part 2. Oregon and Washington. American Entomologist, 48(3), p. 178-185.

 

For additional historical forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources

 

Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth

Edward Snowden should have been at the European Parliament this week to give his testimony

 

Instead, MEPs failed to support a Green call to protect him as a whistleblower. This display of cowardice sends out a negative message that whistleblowers who expose injustice will not be protected.

 

It's a cop-out, from a desire not to "offend" the US, whose own citizens are equally shocked. And it's made worse by the failure to support calls for a suspension of negotiations on an EU-US trade agreement (TTIP) until the US ceases its mass surveillance of EU citizens.

 

Read more at www.greens-efa.eu/nsa-scandal-ep-inquiry-12026.html

 

See our campaign for protection for Edward Snowden, and respect for our privacy

 

blamethegame.respect-my-privacy.eu/

#blamethegame

 

And the EU-US trade agreement

ttip2014.eu/

  

Photo in action on NSA scandal/asylum for Snowden.

 

"C European Union 2014"

(Wilson, Michigan) – A native plants restoration and pollinator protection workshop in July 2012 was held at the Hannahville Indian Community in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and attended by the representatives of five Michigan and Wisconsin Native American communities.

 

At the end of the workshop, students from the Hannahville Indian School (Nah Tah Wahsh PSA) enjoyed planting saplings including apple trees on April 12, 2012 at the Hannahville Indian Community nation.

 

The planting and a workshop are part of the U.S. Forest Service-funded Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project.

 

With smiles on their faces and dirt on their hands, the students had fun planting the apple tree and cedar tree saplings.

  

Kinomaagewin-Aki: Teachings from the Earth

Videos about the workshop that include the children can be found at:

www.youtube.com/ZaagkiiTV

www.WingsAndSeeds.org

 

During the Hannahville workshop, a northern Michigan Native American elder said he believes something is amiss in nature and encouraged tribal communities to join with non-tribal partners for pollinator protection and the restoration of native plants.

 

A crisis is imminent.

 

Honeybees and native pollinators such as bumblebees are declining at alarming rates as the native plants that sustain them are decreasing due to habitat loss via non-native invasive plants.

 

“It is your responsibility – as well as ours – to be tenders of the garden,” said Earl Meshigaud, Hannahville Potawatomi Indian Community Tribal Council Member and Culture Department Director. “That’s what we were put here for – to take care of God’s Creation.”

 

The workshop and other related projects like a tribal greenhouse are examples of Native American tribes and the U.S. Forest Service working together to restore native plants and protect pollinators.

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The workshop was entitled:

Kinomaagewin-Aki

Teachings from the Earth

 

A Native Plants Restoration and Pollinator Protection Workshop – For Native American Tribal Communities in Northern Michigan

 

Insights into traditional Native cultural teachings, medicinal plants and challenges facing native plants restoration efforts in Indian country

 

An overview of native plant restoration and pollinator protection efforts among Native American tribal communities

 

Perspectives from the U.S. Forest Service on grant possibilities and technical support

 

Sponsored by the Cedar Tree Institute in collaboration with the U.S. Forest Service and the Hannahville Indian Community

 

Representatives of 5 tribal communities attended the April 2012 pollinator protection and native plants restoration workshop hosted by the Hannahville Indian Community

 

Represented at the workshop:

The Hannahville Indian Community

The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC)

The Sault Ste. Marie Band of Chippewa Indians

Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians

Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin (MITW)

Center for Native American Studies at Northern Michigan University

 

The Hannahville meeting was the third in a series of Zaagkii Project/U.S. Forest Service tribal workshops in northern Michigan.

Prior workshops were held in July 2012 at KBIC and July 2011 at Presque Isle Park in Marquette.

 

The fourth workshop will be on Thursday, Sept. 13 and Friday, Sept., 14, 2012 at Lac Vieux Desert (LVD) near Watersmeet, Michigan.

The LVD workshop will include pollinator protection and native plants restoration information with a focus on wild rice, among other topics.

 

Zaagkii Project sponsors include Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, United States Forest Service (USFS), Marquette County Juvenile Court, U.P. Children's Museum and the Center for Native American Studies at Northern Michigan University

 

The Zaagkii Project is coordinated by the Cedar Tree Institute, a nonprofit organization that provides services and initiates projects in the areas of mental health, religion and the environment.

 

For more info:

 

Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute (CTI)

www.CedarTreeInstitute.org

 

Rev. Jon Magnuson

Director

Cedar Tree Institute

906-228-5494

magnusonx2@charter.net

 

Tom Biron, Sault Ste. Marie Band of Chippewa Indians

tom@reinhardtassociates.net

 

Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project:

Pollinator protection and native plants restoration project with the U.S. Forest Service, U.P. Native American tribes, The Cedar Tree Institute, The Center for Native American Studies at Northern Michigan University, Marquette County Juvenile Court

Zaagkii is Anishinaabe for “The love that comes from the Earth”

www.WingsAndSeeds.org

WingsAndSeeds.org/2011/08/05/efforts-plant-restoration-un...

 

Kinomaagewin-Aki: Teachings from the Earth

wingsandseeds.org/2012/03/08/kinomaagewin-aki-teachings-f...

 

“There’s always been one deep conviction underlying the Zaagkii Project,” Magnuson says. “Restoring the earth is inextricably linked to a healing of the human spirit.”

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The USDA United States Forest Service:

www.fs.fed.us

www.fs.usda.gov/r9

www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers

 

Larry Stritch

USDA U.S. Forest Service

National Botanist

Washington, D.C.

 

1-202-205-1279 (office)

email USFS National Botanist Larry Stritch

lstritch@fs.fed.us

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Jan Schultz, USFS

Botany, Non-native Invasive Species

Special Forest Products Program Leader

USDA Forest Service Eastern Region

Milwaukee, WI

1-414-297-1189 (office)

email USFS regional botanist Jan Schultz

jschultz@fs.fed.us

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USFS Eastern Region Native Plant Materials Accomplishments

Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project: A Native Plants & Pollinator Protection Initiative

www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5353195.pdf

www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/nativeplantmaterials/documents/...

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The Pollinator Partnership:

www.pollinator.org

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Workshop host:

 

Hannahville Indian Community:

“Keepers of the Fire”

hannahville.net

 

Hannahville Indian Community

N14911 Hannahville B-1 Road

Wilson, Michigan

49896

 

906-723-2270 (office)

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Hannahville Indian School

Nah Tah Wahsh PSA

Wilson, Michigan

906-466-2952 (office)

www.hannahvilleschool.net

 

Hannahville Potawatomi Indian Community Department of Culture, Language and History: Potawatomi Language website

www.potawatomilanguage.org

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Scott Wieting

Environmental Programs Coordinator for the Hannahville Indian Community

906-723-2295

swieting@hannahville.org

hannahville.net/services/details/309

 

Wieting oversees the implementation and management of all tribal environmental protection programs.

He oversees the tribes’ environment-related federal grant programs.

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Workshop Presenters/Related Info:

 

Earl Meshigaud, Hannahville Potawatomi Indian Community Tribal Council Member and Culture Department Director

(Contact info above)

 

2012 Zaagkii Project: "Be tenders of the garden" - Hannahville Potawatomi Elder Earl Meshigaud

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvOCHCaM-r8&list=UUL8j3hNz2Xa...

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Dr. Scott Herron, PhD.,

Ethnobotanist (Odawa, Anishinaabe)

Biology professor at Ferris State University

Program Coordinator Wild Rice/Ethnobiology Lab

www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/colleges/artsands/Biological-Science...

231-591-2087

herrons@ferris.edu

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Jan Schultz, Botanist

U.S. Forest Service Eastern Region Botanist

(Contact info above)

www.fs.usda.gov/r9

www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers

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Dr. Martin Reinhardt, Ph.D.,

Assistant Professor

Center for Native American Studies at Northern Michigan University

906-227-1397 (office)

mreinhar@nmu.edu

www.nmu.edu/nativeamericanstudies

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Karen Anderson

KBIC Greenhouse Staff

Keweenaw Bay Indian Community

Lake Superior Band of Chippewa Indians

906-524-5757

906-353-6623

www.kbic-nsn.gov

 

The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community 16-foot geodesic dome solar-powered native plants greenhouse was built in cooperation with the USDA U.S. Forest Service, Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project and nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute in Marquette, Michigan

The wide-range of indigenous plants includes:

Evening primrose, Black-eyed Susan and bee balm

www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5336

www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5499

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Stephanie Blumer

USFS Eastern Zone Botanist

Hiawatha National Forest

Escanaba, Michigan

906-643-7900 ext. 155

sblumer@fs.fed.us

www.fs.usda.gov/hiawatha

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Nicole Shutt

USFS Biological Science Technician

Chequamegon–Nicolet National Forest

Lakewood Ranger Station

Lakewood, Wisconsin

715-276-6333

nshutt@fs.fed.us

www.fs.usda.gov/cnnf

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Melissa Simpson

USFS Ecologist

Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest

Florence, Wisconsin

715-528-4464 ext. 139

mdsimpson@fs.fed.us

www.fs.usda.gov/cnnf

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Nathan Wright

Sault Ste. Marie Band of Chippewa Indians

Herbal Lodge, owner

Petoskey, Michigan

herballodge.com

www.linkedin.com/in/nathanjohnwright

www.facebook.com/herballodge

twitter.com/#!/herballodge

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Laura Bermudez

Hannahville Potawatomi Indian Community

www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1558516746&sk=wall

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Cherice Williams

Hannahville Potawatomi Indian Community

Fitness Center Aide

hannahville.net/files/documents/Issue_5_May_2011.pdf

www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001272622067

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Sweet Sixteen Apple Tree Saplings:

www.apples.umn.edu/varieties.html

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Air and Marine Operations and Office of Field Operations SRT provide air space security prior to Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta, Georgia. Photo by Ozzy Trevino, U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Cloud protection, cloud safety, cloud computing, cloud security

 

When using this image please provide photo credit (link) to: www.bluecoat.com/

CBP Agriculture Specialists at the El Paso port of entry Bridge of the Americas cargo lot inspect a commercial shipment of flowers and plants for disease and pests February 10, 2020. The days before Valentine’s Day are some the busiest for Agriculture Specialists at border locations like El Paso. Other busy periods include Mother’s Day and Easter week.

Photo by U.S. Customs and Border Protection

  

My Christmas and Birthday present to myself, Extra Padding Professional Cleto Reyes Boxing Gloves. :)

Edward Snowden should have been at the European Parliament this week to give his testimony

 

Instead, MEPs failed to support a Green call to protect him as a whistleblower. This display of cowardice sends out a negative message that whistleblowers who expose injustice will not be protected.

 

It's a cop-out, from a desire not to "offend" the US, whose own citizens are equally shocked. And it's made worse by the failure to support calls for a suspension of negotiations on an EU-US trade agreement (TTIP) until the US ceases its mass surveillance of EU citizens.

 

Read more at www.greens-efa.eu/nsa-scandal-ep-inquiry-12026.html

 

See our campaign for protection for Edward Snowden, and respect for our privacy

 

blamethegame.respect-my-privacy.eu/

#blamethegame

 

And the EU-US trade agreement

ttip2014.eu/

  

Photo in action on NSA scandal/asylum for Snowden.

 

"C European Union 2014"

Edward Snowden should have been at the European Parliament this week to give his testimony

 

Instead, MEPs failed to support a Green call to protect him as a whistleblower. This display of cowardice sends out a negative message that whistleblowers who expose injustice will not be protected.

 

It's a cop-out, from a desire not to "offend" the US, whose own citizens are equally shocked. And it's made worse by the failure to support calls for a suspension of negotiations on an EU-US trade agreement (TTIP) until the US ceases its mass surveillance of EU citizens.

 

Read more at www.greens-efa.eu/nsa-scandal-ep-inquiry-12026.html

 

See our campaign for protection for Edward Snowden, and respect for our privacy

 

blamethegame.respect-my-privacy.eu/

#blamethegame

 

And the EU-US trade agreement

ttip2014.eu/

  

Photo in action on NSA scandal/asylum for Snowden.

 

"C European Union 2014"

COVID-19 Testing

 

Extraction of the virus genome

 

Real time RT-PCR is the most accurate method to detect the COVID-19 virus. The FAO/IAEA Animal Protection and Health Laboratory has been helping countries use this technique to detect zoonotic (animal to human) diseases like COVID-19 and Ebola for decades. IAEA Seibersdorf, Austria. 7 May 2020

 

Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA

Excursions from cruise ship included a bicycle tour around SB. Santa Barbara, California

110612: Port of New York / Newark - Three CBP Officers search the outside of a container aboard a cargo ship. The CBP Officers are part of a large team that are dispersed throughout the ship to search and inspect it.

 

Photographer: Josh Denmark

All outstanding issues between Bangladesh and India are expected to be resolved before the upcoming visit of Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to Bangladesh, reports BSS.

 

This optimism was expressed when visiting Indian Foreign Minister S M Krishna called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and discussed various matters of common interests with her, at her office in Dhaka on Thursday.

 

They discussed various issues of bilateral interest, said Mr. Abul Kalam Azad, Press Secretary to the prime minister, while briefing the newsmen after the meeting.

 

Appreciating the dynamic and prudent leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the Indian Foreign Minister said the existing bilateral relations between the two friendly countries will be a role model for other co0untries in Asia.

 

The issue of providing transit facilities to Nepal and Bhutan also came up for discussion in the meeting.

 

Sheikh Hasina said her government was working relentlessly for improving the lot of the common people in Bangladesh.

 

Describing poverty as the main impediment to development in the South Asian region, she said continuity of democracy is needed for eradicating poverty from South Asia.

 

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina emphasised the need for working together for alleviating poverty in the region for the benefit of the peoples of the two countries. He referred to various programmes undertaken by her government to ameliorate the condition of the people.

 

The conference on austism, scheduled to be held in Dhaka on July 25 and 26, was also discussed in the meeting. President of Indian Congress Party Sonia Gandhi is expected to inaugurate the conference.

 

Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni, Advisers to the Prime Minister Dr Gowher Rizvi and Dr Mashiur Rahman, Bangladesh High Commissioner to New Delhi Mr. Tareque A Karim, Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Mr. Rajeet Mitter, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister Mr. M A Karim, Foreign Secretary Mr. Mijarul Quayes and PM's Press Secretary Mr. Abul Kalam Azad, among others, were present on the occasion.

 

UNB adds: Bangladesh and India on Thursday expressed optimism about signing interim deals on water sharing of the common rivers, Teesta and Feni, and on border demarcation during Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Dhaka on September 6-7.

 

The details of the accords, however, are still to be worked out.

 

At a joint press conference after the official talks between the two Foreign Ministers, Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni and Indian External Affairs Minister SM Krishna came up with the identical views on resolving the outstanding issues.

 

Replying to a question, Dipu Moni said the waters of the common rivers will be shared on the basis of equity and fairness and the demarcation of 6.5 km border and transfer of enclaves and lands in 'adverse possession' will be made under "a package" deal, in the spirit of 1974 Mujib-Indira Land Boundary Agreement.

 

About the use of Chittagong and Mongla ports, she said it would be done under a framework of agreement, encompassing India, Nepal and Bhutan.

 

"It is a part of transit issue. We're trying to come up with a framework under which a number of protocols will be signed and that work is going on," Dipu Moni said.

 

She said the Joint River Commission has nearly finalised the issue about the sharing of the Teesta and Feni river waters and "we will be able to sign something during the visit."

 

About the killing of Bangladeshi civilians by Indian BSF at the border, Dipu Moni said Dhaka's concern was conveyed to her Indian counterpart during the official meeting and India reassured Bangladesh that the killing at the border would be brought down to a zero level through a joint border management.

 

Both the Foreign Ministers reiterated that no insurgent, extremist or terrorist group would be allowed to use the soil of their respective countries to carry out activities inimical to each other's interest.

 

On the border issue, both the Foreign Ministers said the Joint Border Working Group has been working on it and they will be able to conclude their work before Manmohan's visit.

 

In reply to a question about cooperation in the energy sector, Indian Foreign Minister Mr. S. M. Krishna said India will supply 250 MW of electricity to Bangladesh by the end of 2112 or early 2013 at a preferential tariff at which the Indian power sector giant, NTPC supplies electricity to other Indian states.

 

Both India and Bangladesh will set up a 1300 MW coal-based power plant in Bagerhat and the feasibility study on the plan has been completed, he noted.

 

Regarding bilateral trade, Mr. Krishna said Bangladesh's export to India has increased by 56 per cent in the first 10 months of fiscal 2010-11 and "we would very much like to see further growth of the export to India by Bangladesh."

 

Under the duty-free quota, India, he added, has increased the volume of Bangladesh's export of readymade garment (RMG) products to 10 million pieces from 8.0 million pieces.

 

Asked if the Indian government still holds Manmohan's recent remarks that 25 per cent population of Bangladesh are Jamaat-e-Islami and they are, many times, in the clutches of Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI), Krishna said the matter was also discussed during his meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

 

He avoided a direct reply to the question and said it is Manmohan's consistent stand to consider Bangladesh as a close friend and the relations between Bangladesh and India are a role model for other countries in the region.

 

Asked if Manmohan made the remarks due to lack of any trust on Bangladesh, Krishna said there is 'no trust deficit' between Bangladesh and India. "India has total trust and confidence on Bangladesh", he strongly reiterated.

 

Replying to another question, the Indian External Affairs Minister said he is going back to New Delhi with a memory of the emergence of a resurgent Bangladesh.

 

BSS further adds: Bangladesh and India Thursday signed two agreements on investment protection and promotion and the operating procedure for the movement of the Bhutanese vehicles to Bangladesh through the Indian territory.

 

Visiting Indian external affairs minister SM Krishna and his Bangladesh counterpart Dipu Moni witnessed the signing of the deals before the media at the Sonargaon Hotel.

 

The Agreement on Promotion and Protection of Investments is aimed at creating favourable conditions for fostering and encouraging investment.

 

Officials familiar with the process said the deal envisaged that 'national treatment' and 'the most favoured nation treatment' would be accorded by either country to investments by investors of the other country.

 

They said the agreement also states that investments of either country will not be nationalised or expropriated except for public purpose, in accordance with law and against fair and equitable compensation.

 

It also provides for repatriation of capital investment, non-operating profits, loan repayments, royalty payments and service fees without delay and on a non-discriminatory basis.

 

The two countries signed the Agreement on Promotion and Protection of Investments on February 9, 2009 while it was ratified Thursday as Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Mr. Rajeet Mitter and Bangladesh's envoy to New Delhi Ahmed Mr. Tariq Karim signed the protocol.

 

The deal which would be effective from July 7, 2011 will be valid for ten years and thereafter it would be deemed to have been automatically extended unless either government gives a written notice to the other of its intention to terminate it.

 

The second agreement, titled Standard Operating Procedure for movement of the Bhutanese vehicles between Indian Land Customs Stations (LCS) and Bangladesh LCS, was signed Thursday, in line with a decision reached between Dhaka and New Delhi during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to India in January 2010.

 

The two sides at that time agreed that trucks for movement from Bhutan and Nepal would be allowed to enter 200 meters inside the Bangladesh border under arrangements to be mutually agreed upon, and put in place in both the countries.

 

The Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), aimed at facilitating movement of trucks from Nepal, was concluded in October 2010 during the visit of the Bangladesh commerce minister to New Delhi.

 

An identical SOP to facilitate movement of trucks from Bhutan that was signed on July 7, 2011, will promote bilateral trade between Bhutan and Bangladesh.

 

Members of Bangladesh National Board of Revenue (NBR) Mr. M Shah Alam Khan and Joint Secretary of the Indian External Affairs Ministry Mr. Harshabardhan Sinla signed the deal on behalf of their respective side.

 

Reuters adds: India will sell 500 megawatts of electricity to Bangladesh and half of it will be available by the end of 2012 or early 2013, Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna said in Dhaka on Thursday.

 

He told reporters at a news conference that India also agreed to install a coal-based thermal power plant with 1,300 megawatts (MW) of electricity in Bangladesh's southern Khulna area.

 

"The connectivity work between the two countries for Bangladesh importing the electricity is going on smoothly while the feasibility study for setting up the coal-based power plant has just been completed," Krishna said.

 

The Indian minister, who arrived Dhaka on Wednesday on a three-day visit, met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and other senior ministers including the finance minister.

 

He will also meet President Zillur Rahman and opposition leader Begum Khaleda Zia .

 

Bangladesh aims to nearly triple power generation to 15,357 megawatts (MW) by the end of 2015 as it scrambles to improve living conditions for its people and to become a middle income country by 2021, Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni told at the same news conference.

 

The plan includes import of 1,000 MW of power from India, Nepal and Bhutan.

 

Besides, the south Asian country expects to generate 2,000 MW of electricity from a nuclear power plant, construction of which will begin next year.

 

"The details of the thermal power plant project fired by coal are under process and things are moving fast," Mohammad Mijarul Quaes Bangladesh's foreign secretary, told the news agency.

 

The Fainancial Express 08/07/2011

Edward Snowden should have been at the European Parliament this week to give his testimony

 

Instead, MEPs failed to support a Green call to protect him as a whistleblower. This display of cowardice sends out a negative message that whistleblowers who expose injustice will not be protected.

 

It's a cop-out, from a desire not to "offend" the US, whose own citizens are equally shocked. And it's made worse by the failure to support calls for a suspension of negotiations on an EU-US trade agreement (TTIP) until the US ceases its mass surveillance of EU citizens.

 

Read more at www.greens-efa.eu/nsa-scandal-ep-inquiry-12026.html

 

See our campaign for protection for Edward Snowden, and respect for our privacy

 

blamethegame.respect-my-privacy.eu/

#blamethegame

 

And the EU-US trade agreement

ttip2014.eu/

  

Photo in action on NSA scandal/asylum for Snowden.

 

"C European Union 2014"

Shades to regulate the amount of sun that gets into a greenhouse

This was interesting. She came towards us not the other way around but the elephant suddenly stopped and ut her trunk between the baby and us. The trunk was curved back towards the baby.

Location: Masai Mara

Customs and Border Protection officers and import specialists assigned to the Area Port of Jacksonville, inspect shipments of possible intellectual property rights violations on Feb. 21. Photo by Ozzy Trevino, U.S. Customs and Border Protection

U.S. Customs and Border Protection held their annual Valor Memorial and Wreath Laying Ceremony to honor those offers and agents who have died in the line of duty making the ultimate sacrifice. The event was attended by Dept. of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan and other DHS and CBP leadership and families of the fallen.

 

Photographer: Donna Burton

If you want to use this image, ask permission PRIOR to use. Don't be a thief - under most circumstances, I'm quite reasonable.

 

Copyright 2013 - Alan B.

Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine agents survey damage caused by Hurricane Sally near Mobile, Ala., Sept. 16, 2020. Hurricane Sally battered the region and is the fourth hurricane to make landfall in the US this year. (CBP photo by Jerry Glaser)

Under the umbrella

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced Jan. 31 that collaborative enforcement efforts led by its Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) component and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) resulted in the seizure of nearly 285,000 counterfeit sports-related items worth an estimated $24.2 million. Deputy Commissioner Robert Perez represented CBP during the press event. Photo by Ozzy Trevino, U.S. Customs and Border Protection

051315: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Customs and Border Protection held their annual Valor Memorial and Wreath Laying Ceremony, on a beautiful day, to honor those that have died in the line of duty this past year. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, DHS Deputy Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner R. Gil Kerliowske, and CBP Deputy Commissioner Kevin McAleenan were all in attendance.

 

Photographer: Josh Denmark

Ground protection soldiers extending around a supposed helicopter landing site to protect it, during their commander course.

 

Photo by: Carmel Horowitz.

 

חיילי הגנה הקרקעית מתרסים מסביב לאתר נחיתת מסויק כביכול, במהלך קורס המפקדים שלהם.

 

צילום: כרמל הורוביץ.

A force protection member conducts a radio check on the gun deck of HMCS HARRY DEWOLF during a proficiency sail on November 6, 2020.

 

Photo by Corporal David Veldman, Canadian Armed Forces Photo

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Un membre de la protection de la force effectue une vérification radio sur le pont du canon du NCSM HARRY DEWOLF lors d’un exercice de vérification des compétences en mer, le 6 novembre 2020.

 

Photo : Caporal David Veldman, Forces armées canadiennes

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On a trip to Protection Island

U.S. Air Force fire protection specialists from the New Jersey Air National Guard's 177th Fighter Wing brief door breaching techniques using Halligan Bars and axes at the Federal Air Marshal Training Center shoot house on March 11, 2014. The shoot house is located at the Federal Aviation Administration's William J. Hughes Technical Center, N.J. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Matt Hecht/Released)

Paris : Confinement Covid-19

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