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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 ...
Abe to ask Obama to approve shale gas exports to Japan
Post Date: 2013-02-20 00:47:03 by A K A Stone
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The Japanese government is making arrangements for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to ask U.S. President Barack Obama at their talks Friday to approve U.S. shale gas exports to Japan, government sources said Wednesday. A similar Japanese request came at last April's Japan-U.S. summit. U.S. government approval is required for U.S. shale gas exports to Japan and other countries that have no free trade agreement with the United States. The Japanese government plans to use cheap shale gas imports to reduce non-nuclear thermal power generation costs that have been expanding due to a prolonged shutdown of nuclear power plants amid safety concerns following the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis. ...
Rise of Islamists frays strategic UAE-Egyptian relations
Post Date: 2013-02-20 00:28:17 by A K A Stone
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DUBAI – Days before his overthrow, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak received a senior visitor from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), one of several Gulf monarchies long supportive of the most Arab populous country and its veteran strongman. What transpired between Mubarak and Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan is not known, beyond the fact that a letter from UAE ruler Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan was delivered. But the significance of the February 8, 2011 visit was clear: It was a gesture of understanding and concern for a longtime friend who had been a trusted diplomatic ally for most Gulf Arabs, not least in their confrontation with non-Arab Iran. Fast ...
Young Generation Need to Take Over Africa’s Politics for Africa to Compete in the 21st Century
Post Date: 2013-02-20 00:26:31 by A K A Stone
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Presidential elections are imminent in Kenya. The interesting fact according to Wikipedia, is that the youngest of the aspirants to the Kenyan presidency, Peter Kenneth is 48 years old. In 2014, Malawi will go to the polls. Of those that have declared interest to run for the Malawian presidency, the youngest, Atupele Muluzi, only interested in the race because of his ex-president father’s extreme desperation to somehow return to power, is between 33 and 35 depending on which biography one reads. It has been frequently observed that in Africa, politics is an occupation of the old. Where does this view come from? African Constitutions do not stipulate any specific age at which a citizen ...
Iran Says Drone Captured, U.S. Denies
Post Date: 2013-02-20 00:19:16 by A K A Stone
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TEHRAN: Iran claimed on Tuesday to have captured a small US drone that penetrated its airspace over GULF waters...
Djibouti: Guelleh Meets With British Minister for Africa
Post Date: 2013-02-20 00:01:38 by A K A Stone
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Djiboutian President Ismail Omar Guelleh met with British Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Mark Simmonds on Tuesday (February 12th), the Djiboutian Information Agency reported. Guelleh and Simmonds reaffirmed their countries' commitment to bilateral co-operation and discussed the situation in Somalia. Simmonds also officially invited Guelleh to participate in the May donor conference for Somalia in London. Simmonds thanked Djibouti for its contribution to the fight against terrorism and piracy, and for its military contributions to the African Union Mission in Somalia.
Coronavirus: Sars-like virus death reported in UK
Post Date: 2013-02-19 23:45:27 by A K A Stone
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A patient infected with a new respiratory illness similar to the deadly Sars virus has died in the UK. He was being treated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham and died on Sunday morning, the hospital has confirmed. Of the 12 people known to have been infected with the virus around the world, six have died. The threat to the general population is thought to be small, although the virus has shown signs of spreading in people. Three members of the same family have been infected with the virus in the UK as well as another patient who was flown in from Qatar for treatment. It is thought one family member picked up the virus while travelling to the Middle East and Pakistan and ...
'30 HIROSHIMAS' - Divers Scour Lake For Fragments After Meteor Injures 1,200 In Russia’s Urals
Post Date: 2013-02-16 17:37:06 by A K A Stone
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Divers scoured the bottom of a Russian lake on Saturday for fragments of a meteorite that plunged to Earth in a blinding fireball whose shockwaves injured 1,200 people and damaged thousands of homes. The 10-tonnes meteor streaked across the sky in the Urals region on Friday morning just as the world braced for a close encounter with a large asteroid that left some Russian officials calling for the creation of a global system of space object defence. The unpredicted meteor strike brought traffic to a halt in the industrial city of Chelyabinsk as residents poured out on the streets to watch the light show before hovering for safety as a sonic boom shattered glass and set off car alarms. ...
Iran's Puppet Threatens Israeli Power Grid
Post Date: 2013-02-16 17:19:04 by A K A Stone
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The head of Lebanon's Hizbullah movement, which is an Iranian proxy militia, warned Israel on Saturday not to think that a weakening of Bashar Assad's regime in Syria means his group is also weaker. "Those who think Syria is no longer a player and cannot help the resistance (Hizbullah)... and that the resistance is going through a period of weakness and confusion, are mistaken," Hassan Nasrallah said. "We have everything we need in Lebanon. We don't need to transport (arms) from Syria or Iran," he said, in a speech to his supporters broadcast on a giant video screen in southern Beirut. "I warn the Israelis... that the resistance in Lebanon will not ...
World Collapse Explained in 3 Minutes
Post Date: 2013-02-16 16:30:38 by A K A Stone
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César López: Turning Guns into Guitars (Colombia)
Post Date: 2013-02-12 16:30:46 by Ferret Mike
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Leaked: Bin Laden not buried at sea, body moved on CIA plane to US...
Post Date: 2013-02-12 07:24:17 by A K A Stone
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The body of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was not buried at sea, according to leaked emails of intelligence firm Stratfor, as revealed by WikiLeaks. Stratfor’s vice-president for intelligence, Fred Burton, believes the body was “bound for Dover, [Delaware] on [a] CIA plane” and then “onward to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Bethesda [Maryland],” an email says. The official version is that the body of Al-Qaeda’s top man, who was killed by a US raid in Pakistan on May 2, 2011, was buried at an undisclosed location at sea in a proper Muslim ceremony. "If body dumped at sea, which I doubt, the touch is very Adolph Eichman like. The Tribe did ...
Wrestling - IOC recommends to cut wrestling from 2020 Olympics
Post Date: 2013-02-12 07:21:02 by A K A Stone
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Wrestling should be removed from the 2020 Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee's Executive Board recommended on Tuesday as it looks to revamp the Games sports programme. Wrestling, contested in the first modern Olympics in 1896, will join a list of seven other candidate sports battling for one spot on the programme. It is very unlikely, however, that wrestling will get back in. The IOC session in Buenos Aires in September will still need to ratify the decision.
Putin Turns Black Gold to Bullion as Russia Outbuys World
Post Date: 2013-02-11 06:53:10 by A K A Stone
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When Vladimir Putin says the U.S. is endangering the global economy by abusing its dollar monopoly, he’s not just talking. He’s betting on it. Not only has Putin made Russia the world’s largest oil producer, he’s also made it the biggest gold buyer. His central bank has added 570 metric tons of the metal in the past decade, a quarter more than runner-up China, according to IMF data compiled by Bloomberg. The added gold is also almost triple the weight of the Statue of Liberty. “The more gold a country has, the more sovereignty it will have if there’s a cataclysm with the dollar, the euro, the pound or any other reserve currency,” Evgeny Fedorov, a ...
Pope Benedict XVI Says He Will Retire
Post Date: 2013-02-11 06:47:37 by A K A Stone
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ROME — Pope Benedict XVI, the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger who took office in 2005 following the death of his predecessor, said on Monday that he will retire on Feb. 28, the first pope to do so in six centuries. Regarded as a doctrinal conservative, the pope, 85, said that after examining his conscience “before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are longer suited to an adequate exercise” of his position as head of the world’s Roman Catholics. The announcement is certain to plunge the Roman Catholic world into frenzied speculation about his likely successor and to evaluations of a papacy that was seen as both conservative ...
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