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Russia: Activists Supporting Band Are Detained After Demonstration
Post Date: 2013-03-09 00:42:55 by The Blue Cat
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ussian police temporarily detained six activists protesting on Friday against the incarceration of members of the punk rock band Pussy Riot and charged them with holding a demonstration of more than one person without a permit. In front of the Federal Penitentiary Service building, activists, actors and writers took turns holding posters demanding freedom for the jailed musicians, Maria Alyokhina, 24, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 23. According to Russian media reports, the police made the arrests when more than one person at a time held the posters. The six were charged with administrative misdemeanors, released and handed orders for court hearings on Monday. The jailed women are serving ...
Alvin Lee, Ten Years After guitarist and Woodstock standout, dead at 68
Post Date: 2013-03-07 08:28:03 by sneakypete
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Alvin Lee, one of the major guitar virtuosos from the 1960s British school of blues-and-rock purism, died Wednesday of "complications from a routine surgical procedure." He was 68. Lee was best known as the lead guitarist of the band Ten Years After, whose 11-minute version of "I'm Going Home" at Woodstock in 1969 became one of the memorable musical segments of the subsequent concert film. Woodstock propelled Ten Years After into the forefront of the second-wave British Invasion, whose emphasis often was on flashy guitar playing with extensive solos. Lee told the BBC in 2012 that he still had the 335 he played at Woodstock, but that he didn't use it much any ...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez dead
Post Date: 2013-03-05 17:22:25 by calcon
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CARACAS, Venezuela – President Hugo Chavez, the fiery populist who declared a socialist revolution in Venezuela, crusaded against U.S. influence and championed a leftist revival across Latin America, died Tuesday at age 58 after a nearly two-year bout with cancer. Vice President Nicolas Maduro, surrounded by other government officials, announced the death in a national television broadcast. He said Chavez died at 4:25 p.m. local time. During more than 14 years in office, Chavez routinely challenged the status quo at home and internationally. He polarized Venezuelans with his confrontational and domineering style, yet was also a masterful communicator and strategist who tapped into ...
Bradley Manning Nobel Peace Prize Nomination 2013
Post Date: 2013-03-04 21:00:40 by Ferret Mike
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February 1st 2013 the entire parliamentary group of The Movement in the Icelandic Parliament, the Pirates of the EU; representatives from the Swedish Pirate Party, the former Secretary of State in Tunisia for Sport & Youth nominated Private Bradley Manning for the Nobel Peace Prize. Following is the reasoning we sent to the committee explaining why we felt compelled to nominate Private Bradley Manning for this important recognition of an individual effort to have an impact for peace in our world. The lengthy personal statement to the pre-trial hearing February 28th by Bradley Manning in his own words validate that his motives were for the greater good of humankind. Read his full ...
Lech Walesa accused of hate speech after gay rights criticism
Post Date: 2013-03-03 10:49:22 by A K A Stone
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A national committee devoted to fighting hate speech and other crimes in Poland has filed a complaint with prosecutors in Gdansk accusing Lech Walesa of promoting a "propaganda of hate against a sexual minority", after the Nobel peace prize-winner said gay people had no right to a prominent role in politics. Walesa said in a television interview on Friday that he believed gay people had no right to sit on the front benches in parliament and, if there at all, should sit in the back "or even behind a wall". "They have to know that they are a minority and adjust to smaller things, and not rise to the greatest heights," he told the private broadcaster TVN ...
NATO apologises for killing boys
Post Date: 2013-03-03 09:36:23 by A K A Stone
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The U.S.-led coalition says its forces accidentally killed two Afghan boys during an operation in southern Afghanistan.
Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, the commander of U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan, offered his "personal apology and condolences to the family of the boys who were killed" and said the coalition takes full responsibility for the deaths.
A statement issued by the coalition says the boys were killed Thursday when coalition forces fired at what they thought were insurgent forces in the Shahid-e Hasas district of Uruzgan province. It says a joint Afghan-NATO investigation team visited the location Saturday and met with local leaders.
The killing of civilians by ...
Hunter-gatherer master chefs
Post Date: 2013-03-03 00:28:13 by A K A Stone
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Would you cut the head off a chicken in front of your children? Survive only on what you can grow? What about needing a licence to eat meat? The harsh realities of food production that have all but disappeared from daily life are being reintroduced with vigour by a new flock of radical chefs. The farmer and Whole Larder Love blogger Rohan Anderson has been called a chicken murderer on Twitter and been forced to defend teaching his young daughters the bloody realities of the meat they eat. "Killing is considered so offensive because it's hidden from view of most people who consume meat," Anderson said. Four years ago he quit the rat race to live sustainably off a small ...
Paraded, then executed
Post Date: 2013-03-03 00:22:41 by A K A Stone
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During a two-hour television broadcast that was part morality play, part propaganda tour de force, the Chinese government sent four foreign drug traffickers to their deaths. They were convicted of killing 13 Chinese sailors two years ago as they sailed down the Mekong River through Burma. Although Friday's live program ended shortly before the men were executed by lethal injection, it became instantly polarising, with viewers divided on whether the broadcast was a crass exercise in bloodlust or a long-awaited catharsis for a nation outraged by the killings in October 2011. Some critics said the program recalled an era not long ago when condemned prisoners were paraded through the ...
Syrian army, rebel clashes bring conflict to Iraq doorstep
Post Date: 2013-03-03 00:15:26 by A K A Stone
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Clashes between the Syrian army and rebels at a border post brought the civil war close to neighbouring Iraq, where troops fired warning shots into the air, residents, officials and a Reuters reporter said. Insurgents seized control of half of the northeastern Syrian town of Yaarabiya, including a border post with Iraq, in a battle with forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad on Friday and early Saturday, the pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group, said. The fighting on Iraq's doorstep shows how Syria's near-two-year conflict could spill over its borders, threatening to drag in neighbouring countries and further destabilise the region. Iraqi ...
Chad says soldiers in Mali kill al Qaeda's Belmokhtar
Post Date: 2013-03-03 00:12:47 by A K A Stone
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Chadian soldiers in Mali have killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the al Qaeda mastermind of a bloody hostage-taking at an Algerian gas plant in January, Chad's military said today. The death of one of the world's most wanted jihadists would be a major blow to al Qaeda in the region and to the Islamist rebels forced to flee towns they had seized in northern Mali by an offensive by French and African troops. "On Saturday, March 2, at noon, Chadian armed forces operating in northern Mali completely destroyed a terrorist base (...) The toll included several dead terrorists, including their leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar," Chad's armed forces said in a statement read on national ...
The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking
Post Date: 2013-03-02 10:19:28 by A K A Stone
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THIRTEEN years ago, researchers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum began the grim task of documenting all the ghettos, slave labor sites, concentration camps and killing factories that the Nazis set up throughout Europe. What they have found so far has shocked even scholars steeped in the history of the Holocaust. The researchers have cataloged some 42,500 Nazi ghettos and camps throughout Europe, spanning German-controlled areas from France to Russia and Germany itself, during Hitler’s reign of brutality from 1933 to 1945. The figure is so staggering that even fellow Holocaust scholars had to make sure they had heard it correctly when the lead researchers previewed ...
One Brick At A Time Good old fashion hard work
Post Date: 2013-03-02 09:48:23 by A K A Stone
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John Kerry: Turkish prime minister's Zionism remarks "objectionable"
Post Date: 2013-03-01 16:35:13 by Ferret Mike
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday waded into the controversy over comments by Turkey's prime minister equating Zionism to a crime against humanity, rebuking the leader of the NATO ally by saying such remarks complicate efforts to find peace in the Middle East. Kerry said the Obama administration found the statements by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan "objectionable" and he stressed the "urgent need to promote a spirit of tolerance, and that includes all of the public statements made by all leaders" at a news conference in Ankara with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. "We not only disagree with it; we found it objectionable," Kerry ...
No One Can Take Issue with DPRK's Just Step for Self-Defence: Rodong Sinmun
Post Date: 2013-02-26 00:33:29 by A K A Stone
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Pyongyang, February 25 (KCNA) -- The underground nuclear test of the DPRK is a product of the high-handed moves of the U.S. and other hostile forces to stifle it and part of its just step for self-defence to cope with the U.S. imperialists' undisguised nuclear threat and blackmail, Rodong Sinmun Monday says in a bylined article. In the new century the U.S. imperialists have more persistently resorted to the nuclear blackmail against the DPRK since they put it on the list of targets of their nuclear attacks, the article says, and goes on: This compelled the DPRK to have access to nuclear deterrence to foil the U.S. imperialists' scenario for a nuclear war. Had the DPRK failed to ...
Kim Jong Un Inspects Artillery Firing Drill of KPA
Post Date: 2013-02-26 00:28:05 by A K A Stone
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Pyongyang, February 25 (KCNA) -- The dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, issued an order to conduct an artillery firing drill in order to examine the capability of artillery units to fight an actual war and guided it on the spot. He learned about the training program and the deployment of firepower units from the commander of the exercise before ordering its start. At that moment, an endless barrage of shells were fired by artillery pieces on the "enemy's positions," their roar rocking heaven and earth, and ...
Beach Energy to sell shale gas assets to Chevron
Post Date: 2013-02-26 00:22:10 by A K A Stone
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• Chevron, the largest holder of natural gas resources in Australia, is buying up to 60 per cent of Beach's interest in two blocks • The deal would see Beach receive about US$207 mn of cash and have about US$142 mn of exploration and pilot production funding met by Chevron • Asset sale scheduled to be carried out soon MELBOURNE - Chevron Corporation, the second largest US energy company, has agreed to pay up to US$349million for stakes in two shale prospects being developed by Adelaide-based Beach Energy. Chevron, the largest holder of natural gas resources in Australia, is buying up to 60 per cent of Beach's interest in two blocks. As per the deal, Beach Energy ...
Killer robots must be stopped, say campaigners (new weapon in develpment stage)
Post Date: 2013-02-24 15:53:47 by Ferret Mike
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A new global campaign to persuade nations to ban "killer robots" before they reach the production stage is to be launched in the UK by a group of academics, pressure groups and Nobel peace prize laureates. Robot warfare and autonomous weapons, the next step from unmanned drones, are already being worked on by scientists and will be available within the decade, said Dr Noel Sharkey, a leading robotics and artificial intelligence expert and professor at Sheffield University. He believes that development of the weapons is taking place in an effectively unregulated environment, with little attention being paid to moral implications and international law. The Stop the Killer Robots ...
Afghan president orders US special forces to leave province over torture-related allegations
Post Date: 2013-02-24 14:21:24 by Ferret Mike
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Feb 24, 2013: A security official stands guard the scene of a suicide car bomb attack which killed and injured several people at the National Directorate of Security in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. (AP) KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghanistan's president on Sunday ordered all U.S. special forces to leave a strategically important eastern province within two weeks because of allegations that Afghans working with them are torturing and abusing other Afghans. The decision seems to have caught the coalition and U.S. Forces Afghanistan, a separate command, by surprise. Americans have frequently drawn anger from the Afghan public over issues ranging from Qurans burned at a U.S. base to ...
What George W. Bush did right
Post Date: 2013-02-24 14:12:59 by Ferret Mike
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President George W. Bush during a 2007 news conference on AIDS prevention efforts. Bush’s legacy includes the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. (Mark Wilson, Getty photo / May 30, 2007) WASHINGTON— — Which United States president will go down in history as the greatest humanitarian to have served in the office? The Republican Herbert Hoover is often known as the "Great Humanitarian" for his work administering famine relief in post-World War I Europe (and Bolshevik Russia) in the 1920s — but he did all that before he actually became president. Others might make the case for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Democrat who succeeded Hoover in ...
Ford to manufacture 60,000 B-Max units in Craiova in 2012
Post Date: 2013-02-23 22:23:56 by A K A Stone
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Ford will manufacture some 60,000 B-Max units in 2012 at its Romanian factory in Craiova, starting in the second quarter of the year, while in 2013 it will manufacture over 100,000 such units, Ford Romania President and CEO Jan Gijsen said. In 2013, the factory will also increase its output of engines, so that it may manufacture engines for other Ford factories as well. Early this month, a team of nearly 100 German and British engineers came to Craiova to work with the Ford factory and assist in starting off the manufacturing of the B-Max model in Romania and the EcoBoost engine. The Ford Company last summer confirmed the mass production of the B-Max model at the Criova factory, of a 1l, ...
Give horsemeat-tainted food to poor - German minister
Post Date: 2013-02-23 18:19:23 by A K A Stone
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Germany's development minister has suggested that horsemeat mislabelled as beef should be distributed to the poor. Dirk Niebel said he supported the proposal by a member of the governing CDU party, and concluded: "We can't just throw away good food." The opposition dismissed the idea, but a priest said it should be considered. Meanwhile, traces of horse DNA have been found in six tonnes of minced beef and 2,400 packs of lasagne Bolognese seized from a company in Italy. The products were packaged by Italian group Primia, based near Bologna. The health ministry said Primia had used meat from another company in Brescia and originally supplied by two other companies, also ...
Revealed: al-Qaeda's 22 tips for dodging drones
Post Date: 2013-02-21 19:02:12 by calcon
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7:20PM GMT 21 Feb 2013 Read the list in full here The document includes advice such as "hide under thick trees" (believed to be bin Laden's contribution), and instructions for setting up a "fake gathering" using dolls to "mislead the enemy". Found by the Associated Press in a building in Timbuktu, the ancient city occupied by Islamists last year, the document is believed to have been abandoned as extremists fled a French military intervention last month. It is a Xeroxed copy of a tipsheet authored by a Yemeni extremist that has been published on some jihadi forums, but that has made little appearance in English. The list reflects how al-Qaeda in the ...
Inside Combat Rescue-New Reality Show About Para-Jumpers in Afghanistan [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2013-02-20 19:56:42 by sneakypete
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Guys,I just watched the first episode of this show a couple of nights ago,and it's a real winner. IMHO,it is long past time these guys start to get a little bit of the credit they deserve for all the bravery and dedication they have displayed for decades,as they have winched into jungle and other hot spots while under enemy fire everywhere our men have been sent to fight,in order to rescue pilots and other air crew that were shot down behind enemy lines. People tend to not even consider the USAF when it comes to ground combat,but let me tell you these guys are a match for anybody in any branch of the military when it comes to courage,skills,and dedication to duty. Episode 1 airs ...
Ancient Art of Weather Forecasting
Post Date: 2013-02-20 01:00:00 by A K A Stone
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That night more than two dozen people in Ugtaal locality in Dund Gobi province walked over the top of Kharaatyn Mountain. The group is led by an old herder, M. Baasanjav and his son, Puntsagdorj. Herder Bayar from nearby Undurshil soum also joins them along the way. For many years they have gone to the mountaintop together. As soon as the moon appears, they raise their binoculars and start to survey the surrounding landscape. Through the night until morning, they will sit and watch intently for the slightest changes in nature. Only the keen and trained eyes of a nomadic herder can detect the smallest changes of colors in the moon lit scenery. At last, dawn slips in. The group starts a ...
Six Winter Days Alone with Death
Post Date: 2013-02-20 00:51:28 by A K A Stone
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A wolf cry came out from the nearby forest. Dogs jumped up and began to bark wildly. Man, with eight ribs and one hip broken, could hardly move and just lay still listening intently to the sounds of winter night, thinking how long longer he can hold on. It was second day he was laying buried under snow. Bat-Ochir Oidov, 39-years-old nomadic herder from Tsenkher Mandal soum (county) of Khentii province lives some 60 km away from the soum center, wintering with his horses in the valleys of the Red Willow Mountain range. The day of January 7, 2012 began as usual. He woke up in the morning, made fire in a metal stove to warm up the gher (felt walled tent) which got cold during the previous ...
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