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Out of this world: The incredibly coloured rocky landscape that looks as though it's been painted
Post Date: 2012-07-18 00:06:10 by A K A Stone
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These incredible landscapes look as if they have been painted in the sweeping pastel brush strokes of an impressionistic artwork. But in fact these remarkable pictures show the actual scenery of Danxia Landform at Nantaizi village of Nijiaying town, in Linzhe county of Zhangye, Gansu province of China. Formed of layers of reddish sandstone, the terrain has over time been eroded into a series of mountains surrounded by curvaceous cliffs and unusual rock formations. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2174115/Unique-rock-formations-China-look-drawn-sweeping-hand-impressionist-artist.html#ixzz20wXgH8JE The scenic area is popular among tourists, who come to enjoy scenic ...
Russia detains 36 Chinese fishermen
Post Date: 2012-07-17 23:55:35 by A K A Stone
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Beijing - Russia has detained 36 Chinese fishermen and seized two ships for entering an exclusive economic zone in its far eastern Primorsky region, China's state news agency Xinhua reported on Tuesday. Xinhua cited the Chinese consulate in the port city of Vladivostok as saying that one ship was detained at the port of Nakhodka, and the other ship was heading there. A Russian coast guard vessel fired warning shots and then opened targeted fire to stop one of the ships, a trawler that had been fishing for squid, Xinhua said, citing Russia's RIA Novosti news agency. None of the Chinese fishermen were killed or wounded during the incident, according to RIA. The two ships were ...
China’s GDP Hit Tells Story of Hubris Run Amok
Post Date: 2012-07-17 23:52:51 by A K A Stone
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The lesson from recent economic data and policy moves in Asia (MXAP) is this: Hubris still has its costs. In recent years, Asia believed its own press a little too much. The way it steered around the financial crisis of 2008, the dizzying stock gains, the migration of bankers from New York to Hong Kong and the region’s mergers-and-acquisitions binge were all interpreted as immutable signs of Asia’s economic arrival. Decoupling-from-the-West euphoria flooded emerging markets in general. The BRIC economies -- Brazil, Russia, India and China -- thought their rapid growth rates would pick up the slack as America and Europe reeled. Debt markets in developing nations reveled in their ...
Portugal Decriminalized All Drugs Eleven Years Ago And The Results Are Staggering
Post Date: 2012-07-17 13:54:16 by jwpegler
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On July 1st, 2001, Portugal decriminalized every imaginable drug, from marijuana, to cocaine, to heroin. Some thought Lisbon would become a drug tourist haven, others predicted usage rates among youths to surge. Eleven years later, it turns out they were both wrong. Over a decade has passed since Portugal changed its philosophy from labeling drug users as criminals to labeling them as people affected by a disease. This time lapse has allowed statistics to develop and in time, has made Portugal an example to follow. First, some clarification. Portugal's move to decriminalize does not mean people can carry around, use, and sell drugs free from police interference. That would be ...
Israeli Man’s Self-Immolation Puts Country’S ‘Land Of Plenty’ Reputation To The Test
Post Date: 2012-07-16 13:09:04 by Brian S
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Moshe Silman couldn’t take it any more. The 57-year-old Israeli father and businessman owns a small shipping and delivery company in Haifa in northern Israel. He did his duty to the state, serving for seven years in the army and fulfilling reserve duty requirements for several years after. He paid his workers, his taxes and his obligations to the country’s national insurance system on behalf of his employees. In the past decade, however, business fell off and Mr. Silman fell slightly behind in his national insurance payments, to the tune of 5000 shekels (about $1,300). For reasons that remain unclear, the state confiscated one of his four delivery trucks, saying it would be ...
Clinton Visits Egypt For First Meeting With Islamist President
Post Date: 2012-07-14 14:59:36 by Brian S
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CAIRO — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi on Saturday in a fresh push to strengthen relations as Egypt enters an unpredictable era in which an untested political Islam is clashing with a secular military over control of the nation. Clinton’s talks with Morsi signaled a stark contrast to the days when U.S. diplomats visited President Hosni Mubarak, a stalwart American partner on countering terrorism and preserving Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel. With Mubarak toppled by popular revolt last year, Washington is recalibrating its approach to a new Islamist president suspicious of American designs on the Middle East. Clinton ...
The World Is Changing Minute by Minute
Post Date: 2012-07-14 09:34:39 by jwpegler
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We are witnessing a seismic shift in global affairs. The shake-up is a perfect storm of political, demographic, and technological change that will soon make the world as we have known it for the last 30 years almost unrecognizable. Since the mid-1980s there have been a number of accepted global constants. The European Union was assumed to have evolved beyond the nation-state as it ended the cycle of militarism and renounced free-market capitalism. With its strong euro, soft power, and nonaligned foreign policy, the EU was praised as a utopian sort of foil to the overarmed U.S. with its ailing dollar. Germany, ostracized after losing two world wars and struggling with the guilt of the ...
Garbage Collectors Trained To Spot Terrorists Before RNC
Post Date: 2012-07-11 14:19:37 by Hondo68
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Garbage collectors are being trained by police to be on the lookout for terrorists in the run-up to this year’s Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida. The terrorist depicted in the role playing scenario used to train garbage workers is a young white woman while her victim is a Middle Eastern man.“Anarchists, terrorists and plain old thieves and creeps, your new foe wears work boots and fluorescent vests. Meet the garbage men,” reports the Tampa Bay Times, noting that police are involved in training garbage collectors to “spot suspicious activity on their routes” in preparation for this August’s RNC in Tampa.Told that the Waste Management company ...
The Human Filth That is Yukon.
Post Date: 2012-07-10 21:00:28 by Biff Tannen
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I've always considered it over the line to tell someone to kill themselves on these stupid forums. To a much lesser extent, it is also over the line to break someone's anonymity or use their real name without their instigating it. Anyway, here is that useless asshole yukon doing both in one breath. Really, Yukon, you fucking loser? You want this guy to kill himself??? Go fuck yourself! yukon: "Then why are you hanging on, Robert? Why don't you just suck an exhaust pipe now and stop the suffering?" Click for Full Text!
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The Collapsing US Economy and the "End of the World"
Post Date: 2012-07-09 14:29:45 by Capitalist Eric
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In a recent column, “Can The World Survive Washington’s Hubris,” I promised to examine whether the US economy will collapse before Washington in its pursuit of world hegemony brings us into military confrontation with Russia and China. This is likely to be an ongoing subject on this site, so this column will not be the final word. Washington has been at war since October, 2001, when President George W. Bush concocted an excuse to order the US invasion of Afghanistan. This war took a back seat when Bush concocted another excuse to order the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a war that went on without significant success for 8 years and has left Iraq in chaos with dozens more killed ...
(Laugh of the Day) Syria Set to Win Seat on UN Human Rights Council
Post Date: 2012-07-08 15:47:14 by CZ82
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That Makes Sense: Syria Set to Win Seat on UN Human Rights Council Kate Hicks Web Editor, Jul 08, 2012 09:41 AM EST Further proof that the UN Human Rights Council is an utterly farcical waste of our money: a nation guilty of some the most egregious human rights violations is slated to win a seat in 2014. That's right. Syria, come on down! President Bashar Assad’s regime is, however, likely to get a spot on the 47-nation council “due to the prevalent system of fixed slates, whereby regional groups orchestrate uncontested elections, naming only as many candidates as allotted seats,” according to UN Watch. Hillel Neuer, the executive director of UN Watch, reported that ...
Mexico's Peńa Nieto calls for 'new debate' on the drug war
Post Date: 2012-07-08 01:29:56 by A K A Stone
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(CNN) -- Mexico's Enrique Peña Nieto called for a "new debate" on the drug war and said the United States must play an important role in that discussion. The presumptive president-elect spoke this week to Fareed Zakaria, host of CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS." His comments will air Sunday. "Yes, I do believe we should open up a new debate regarding how to wage war on drug trafficking. Personally, I'm not in favor of legalizing drugs. I'm not persuaded by that as an argument. However, let's open up a new debate, a review, in which the U.S. plays a fundamental role in conducting this review," said Peña Nieto. More than 47,500 ...
Libya’s new rulers fire up Gaddafi’s surveillance tech
Post Date: 2012-07-07 01:27:45 by A K A Stone
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Libya's transitional government has quietly reactivated the surveillance technology it inherited from the Gaddafi regime, the Wall Street Journal reports. The technology is been used to track the mobile phone calls and online communications of Gaddafi loyalists. Government officials told the paper that they have seen dozens of phone or Internet-chat transcripts, one of which featured a phone call between Saadi Gaddafi, exiled son of the former dictator, and a supporter inside Libya. Saadi Gaddafi fled to Niger during the course of the civil war that ousted his father. Libya's caretaker government has established created two national-security agencies—Preventive Security and ...
Gates Foundation Depopulation Summit Demands Global Approval
Post Date: 2012-07-07 01:26:28 by A K A Stone
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) are focusingon population control through their Global Health Development Programs. By using citizens in underdeveloped nations, like Africa and India, as guinea pigs for their research and development for “new interventions such as vaccines, drugs and diagnostics”, these globalists hope to ensure their family planning schemes are effective. Melinda Gates has made family planning and the population control agenda her personal mission. She justifies her cause by claiming that 100,000 women die in child birth from unintended pregnancies. Although this statistic has no scientific basis, since it sounds good and mainstream media does not ...
NOAH'S FLOOD: 'Britain's Atlantis' found at bottom of North sea - a huge undersea world swallowed by the sea in "6500BC"
Post Date: 2012-07-07 01:24:16 by A K A Stone
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'Britain's Atlantis' - a hidden underwater world swallowed by the North Sea - has been discovered by divers working with science teams from the University of St Andrews. Doggerland, a huge area of dry land that stretched from Scotland to Denmark was slowly submerged by water between 18,000 BC and 5,500 BC. Divers from oil companies have found remains of a 'drowned world' with a population of tens of thousands - which might once have been the 'real heartland' of Europe. A team of climatologists, archaeologists and geophysicists has now mapped the area using new data from oil companies - and revealed the full extent of a 'lost land' once roamed by ...
Libya Elections: Muslim Brotherhood Set To Lead Government
Post Date: 2012-07-05 23:36:11 by Brian S
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While the elections for a 200-member National Congress is unlikely to grant a majority to any one faction, the Muslim Brotherhood and its Islamist allies are confident they can join their counterparts in Tunisia and Egypt at the helm of leadership. Negotiations between the Muslim Brotherhood and a secular-based political movement led by former interim prime minister Mahmoud Jibril have focused on forming a post-election government as soon as the result is known. An adviser to Mr Jibril said the former prime minister was likely to take the post of figurehead president with Mustafa Abu Shagour, currently interim deputy prime minister of the Muslim Brotherhood, taking the prime ...
Libor Exposure Of Banker Corruption, Bank Of England And U.S. Fed Both Implicated
Post Date: 2012-07-05 14:13:10 by Capitalist Eric
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Few observers make the connection, but the current LIBOR scandal is a middle inning of two important events. The first is the demise of the Western banker leadership crew. The executives from the most powerful banks will be last to be deposed, all sharing an ethnic strain. The second is the open fracture of the Western financial system. Over the past few years, to be sure a great many people have grown tired of Jackass descriptions of corruption within the banking sector and financial system in general. Well, hear this: TOLD YA SO! The London Interbank Offered Rate scandal will erupt into an uncontrollable firestorm, hitting one chamber and then the next, with rapid contagion. The Bank ...
Japan's Atomic Disaster Due To "Collusion" : Panel Report
Post Date: 2012-07-05 13:02:33 by Brian S
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(Reuters) - Japan's Fukushima nuclear crisis was a preventable disaster resulting from "collusion" among the government, regulators and the plant operator, an expert panel said on Thursday, wrapping up an inquiry into the worst nuclear accident in 25 years. Damage from the huge March 11, 2011, earthquake, and not just the ensuing tsunami, could not be ruled out as a cause of the accident, the panel added, a finding with serious potential implications as Japan seeks to bring idled reactors on line. The panel criticized the response of Fukushima Daiichi plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co, regulators and then Prime Minister Naoto Kan, who quit last year after criticism of ...
Iran Says Its Prepared To Destroy All U.S. Bases In The Gulf If Attacked
Post Date: 2012-07-05 12:36:35 by Brian S
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Iran is prepared to launch missiles at US bases throughout the Gulf within minutes of an attack on the Islamic Republic, according to a commander of the country’s Revolutionary Guards. In an apparent response to reports that the US has increased its military presence in the Gulf, the commander of the Revolutionary Guards’ air force said on Wednesday that missiles had been aimed at 35 US military bases in the Gulf as well as targets in Israel, ready to be launched in case of an attack. “We have thought of measures to set up bases and deploy missiles to destroy all these bases in the early minutes after an attack,” said Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, according to ...
With Keystone in limbo, VFW helps vets get work on Canada's section
Post Date: 2012-07-04 10:05:50 by calcon
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U.S. veterans looking for jobs have a new employment opportunity -- in Canada, working on that country’s section of the Keystone XL Pipeline. Though the push to start building the Canada-to-Texas oil route has been delayed in the United States amid political and environmental disputes, the Veterans of Foreign Wars is part of a deal that would send veterans and active-duty soldiers across the border to fill as many as 114,000 skilled-labor jobs. The jobs include work on the crude-oil pipeline as well as work on infrastructure and even skyscrapers. The deal is being negotiated by the Edmonton Economic Development Corp. and VetJobs, a job-placement company in which the VFW has a stake. ...
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki Rejects Recognition of Israel by Iraq
Post Date: 2012-07-02 17:23:23 by Brian S
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki underlined his country's willingness to establish relations with all countries, except the Israeli regime. "Iraq does not reject relations with any country and government, and wants to improve its relations with all countries," Maliki said, addressing a ceremony on the occasion of the National Day of Political Prisoners in Baghdad on Saturday. "Iraq does not act under the influence of ethnic and sectarian biases, yet it shuns (relations with) Israel anyway," said the Iraqi premier. He further called on the world states to reciprocate his government's good will by showing mutual respect to Iraq's government ...
Iraq Says No to Western Demands for Making Up for Iran's Oil Drop
Post Date: 2012-07-02 17:19:40 by Brian S
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Iraq refused to cooperate with the western sanctions against Iran through a boost in crude production to make up for a fall in Iran's oil exports. Iraq's oil ministry slammed the current critical conditions reining the market due to the EU sanctions on Iranian oil, and stressed that it would not make up for a fall in supply in the global markets. "Iraq's oil ministry is pursuing a planned agenda to increase its oil production and exports and it will not change the policy to make up for the lack of the global oil supply due to the imposition of EU sanctions against Iran," the ministry's spokesman, Assem Jihad, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency on ...
Colombia decriminalizes cocaine, marijuana
Post Date: 2012-07-02 07:44:09 by A K A Stone
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Colombia has decriminalized cocaine and marijuana, saying that people cannot be jailed for possessing the drugs for personal use. Anyone caught with less 20 grams (0.705 ounces) of marijuana or one gram (0.035 ounces) of cocaine for personal use will not be prosecuted or detained, but could be required to receive physical or psychological treatment, depending on their level of intoxication, according to Colombia Reports. Colombian Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon said law enforcement would continue its fight against drug trafficking, but would not make further comment. More from GlobalPost: Colombia passes first draft of bill to legalize drug crops Thursday's ruling challenged ...
Maya Archaeologists Unearth New 2012 Monument With 'End Date' of Dec. 21, 2012
Post Date: 2012-06-30 17:40:40 by Hondo68
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Marcello A. Canuto, director of Tulane’s Middle American Research Institute, excavating significant hieroglyphic panels in La Corona in Guatemala. (Credit: Image courtesy of Tulane University)ScienceDaily (June 28, 2012) — Archaeologists working at the site of La Corona in Guatemala have discovered a 1,300-year-old-year Maya text that provides only the second known reference to the so-called "end date" of the Maya calendar, December 21, 2012. The discovery, one of the most significant hieroglyphic finds in decades, was announced June 28 at the National Palace in Guatemala. "This text talks about ancient political history rather than prophecy," says Marcello A. ...
Army Hands Over Power To Egypt's First Islamist President
Post Date: 2012-06-30 12:58:32 by Brian S
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Mohamed Mursi was sworn in on Saturday as Egypt's first Islamist, civilian and freely elected president, reaping the fruits of last year's revolt against Hosni Mubarak, although the military remains determined to call the shots. The military council that took over after Mubarak's overthrow on February 11, 2011, formally handed power to Mursi later in an elaborate ceremony at a desert army base outside Cairo. At the ceremony, Mursi hailed what he called a unique model of "how power is transferred from the Egyptian military forces by the will of the people to an elected, civilian power", praising the army for keeping its promise to do so. Field ...
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