11-02-2010, 11:17
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US to spend $200 mn a day on Obama's Mumbai visit
This has to be a mistake??
Could this be in Rupee's and stated backwards??
Rs = rupee
1 crore = 10,000,000
  
Butt,, Then again Berry never does anything small.. Case in point,, Michelle...
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http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/us...ai-visit-64106
US to spend $200 mn a day on Obama's Mumbai visit
Press Trust of India, Updated: November 02, 2010 21:07 IST
Mumbai: The US would be spending a whopping $200 million (Rs. 900 crore approx) per day on President Barack Obama's visit to the city.
"The huge amount of around $200 million would be spent on security, stay and other aspects of the Presidential visit," a top official of the Maharashtra Government privy to the arrangements for the high-profile visit said.
About 3,000 people including Secret Service agents, US government officials and journalists would accompany the President. Several officials from the White House and US security agencies are already here for the past one week with helicopters, a ship and high-end security instruments.
"Except for personnel providing immediate security to the President, the US officials may not be allowed to carry weapons. The state police is competent to take care of the security measures and they would be piloting the Presidential convoy," the official said on condition of anonymity.
Navy and Air Force has been asked by the state government to intensify patrolling along the Mumbai coastline and its airspace during Obama's stay. The city's airspace will be closed half-an-hour before the President's arrival for all aircraft barring those carrying the US delegation.
The personnel from SRPF, Force One, besides the NSG contingent stationed here would be roped in for the President's security, the official said.
The area from Hotel Taj, where Obama and his wife Michelle would stay, to Shikra helipad in Colaba would be cordoned off completely during the movement of the President.
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11-02-2010, 11:29
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Is this the same "competent" state police force that handled the terrorist attack in Mumbai?
Better have a good Plan B. I do not want to see Joe Biden as POTUS.
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11-02-2010, 11:53
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I do not want to see Joe Biden as POTUS.
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Nor numbers 2 (Nancy Pelosi), 4 (Hillary Clinton), or 5 (Timothy Geithner) on the current Presidential line of succession list.
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11-02-2010, 11:55
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Is it me, or is that a lot of semi-specific details for a short press release? What is the purpose of saying where exactly the POTUS is staying, specifically how many will be guarding him and who will/won't be armed? I know it's not getting into the nitty-gritty (Obama will be in Room XXX of the Hotel Taj ...), but it still seems a little too much to be putting out.
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11-02-2010, 13:23
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Is it me, or is that a lot of semi-specific details for a short press release? What is the purpose of saying where exactly the POTUS is staying, specifically how many will be guarding him and who will/won't be armed? I know it's not getting into the nitty-gritty (Obama will be in Room XXX of the Hotel Taj ...), but it still seems a little too much to be putting out.
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NDTV (New Delhi Television Limited)..
I think we may be dealing with the Bollywood version of USAToday merged into The Huffington Post, with a healthy dash of The National Enquirer..
The story is not important,, it's how you tell it,, that's circulation... 
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11-02-2010, 15:48
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Nor numbers 2 (Nancy Pelosi), 4 (Hillary Clinton), or 5 (Timothy Geithner) on the current Presidential line of succession list.
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11-02-2010, 16:02
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Is this the same "competent" state police force that handled the terrorist attack in Mumbai?
Better have a good Plan B. I do not want to see Joe Biden as POTUS.
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Just can only hope more Americans feel the same, and get out and VOTE!!!!!
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11-02-2010, 16:32
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Nor numbers 2 (Nancy Pelosi), 4 (Hillary Clinton), or 5 (Timothy Geithner) on the current Presidential line of succession list.
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That team has a pretty thin bench. How does the farm club look? YIKES
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11-02-2010, 17:29
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Passage to India
From the Left Coast it seems Nancy Pelosi has been president for some time now...
Seriously though while the security of the POTUS is no laughing matter, could you make the argument given Mr. Obama's foreign policy he needs more security in the capitals of our allies then our adversaries, with the exception of Iran?
The Indians seem sikh of him already....
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11-03-2010, 17:16
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From the Left Coast it seems Nancy Pelosi has been president for some time now...
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Not any more.  
3000 people on this entourage? I missed the press conference, did anyone question the President about this? I mean, if true...the trip is 10 days at 200M, do the math.
And no, I don't want anything to happen to the President.
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11-03-2010, 17:33
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Not any more.
3000 people on this entourage? I missed the press conference, did anyone question the President about this? I mean, if true...the trip is 10 days at 200M, do the math.
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Don't write the Wicked Witch of the West off that easy. She is still going to have her fingers in some pies. She will still make plenty of trouble.
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11-03-2010, 18:38
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Don't write the Wicked Witch of the West off that easy.
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Sir, IMHO the above comparison is an affront to Wicked Witches everywhere...
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11-03-2010, 18:55
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This has to be a mistake??
Could this be in Rupee's and stated backwards??
Rs = rupee
1 crore = 10,000,000
Butt,, Then again Berry never does anything small.. Case in point,, Michelle...
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I'd be willing to pay that if they kept him.
(You know I bet they have a village without an idiot there somewhere?)
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11-03-2010, 19:59
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The personnel from SRPF, Force One, besides the NSG contingent stationed here would be roped in for the President's security, the official said.
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I assume that is their way of saying "roped off" as in "separated."
Unless we are going to have a massive fast rope into India.
Now that I would want to see. 
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11-03-2010, 20:11
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we are going to have a massive fast rope into India.
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You want a rope trick???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0AgvxEx754
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