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Obama's bomb-proof car beaten by a bump
Post Date: 2011-05-24 02:01:44 by socalv8
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It's a car that has been built to withstand bullets and grenade attacks - but US President Barack Obama's limousine, it seems, can't handle bumpy driveways. The low-riding, six-metre-long Cadillac became stuck on a section of ramp while trying to exit the US embassy during the President's tour of Ireland yesterday. The General Motors-built limo, which is nicknamed "The Beast" and weighs several tonnes more than a regular car due to the layers of protective shielding built into its panels, scraped to a halt in front of a crowd of spectators. Video shot by members of the crowd shows the car crunching to a stop, with the crowd collectively gasping as the car ...
China 'asks USA to respect Pak sovereignty'
Post Date: 2011-05-23 22:46:32 by A K A Stone
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Press Trust of India ISLAMABAD, 19 MAY: In the wake of the US raid in Abbottabad that killed Osama bin Laden, China has “warned in unequivocal terms that any attack on Pakistan would be construed as an attack on China”, a media report claimed today. The warning was formally conveyed by the Chinese foreign minister at last week's China-US strategic dialogue and economic talks in Washington, The News daily quoted diplomatic sources as saying. China also advised the USa to “respect Pakistan's sovereignty and solidarity”, the report said. Chinese Premier Mr Wen Jiabao informed his Pakistani counterpart Mr Yousuf Raza Gilani about the matters taken up with the US ...
Strauss-Kahn, IMF Scam Fails, the Debt Crisis Crescendo
Post Date: 2011-05-23 14:23:23 by Capitalist Eric
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When Dominique Strauss-Kahn, then director of the IMF, fled his Manhattan hotel room in a vain attempt to take an Air France plane to Europe, Roman Polanski style, he inexplicably left his cellphone in the room where he had alledley attempted to rape a hotel maid. The cellphone was of course loaded with a list of very interesting names and numbers, pored over by New York police and Federal US officials. Why was Stauss-Kahn in New York ? He went there instead of flying direct from Washington to Berlin, first stop on a European tour and first meeting set with chancellor Merkel of Germany. To reassure Merkel that the next bailout of Greece would cost little to German finances, that the euro ...
Bin Laden Compound Assault, How Many U.S. Navy Seals Died? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-05-23 13:52:27 by Capitalist Eric
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In a sensational and explosive TV report, the Pakistani News Agency has provided a live interview with an eye witness to the US attack on the alleged compound of Osama bin Laden. The eye witness, Mohammad Bashir, describes the event as it unfolded. Of the three helicopters, "there was only one that landed the men and came back to pick them up, but as he [the helicopter] was picking them up, it blew away and caught fire." The witness says that there were no survivors, just dead bodies and pieces of bodies everywhere. "We saw the helicopter burning, we saw the dead bodies, then everything was removed and now there is nothing." I always wondered how a helicopter could ...
The Hypocrisy of Hosni Mu-Barack Obama
Post Date: 2011-05-23 13:44:09 by Capitalist Eric
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Our President Has Officially Gone Full Retard With all due apologies to intellectually-challenged people - this clown lacks the mental acuity of a fruit fly and is an unabashed liar besides. From today’s “Middle East” speech....For six months, we have witnessed an extraordinary change take place in the Middle East and North Africa. Square by square; town by town; country by country; the people have risen up to demand their basic human rights.That includes rights like peaceful enjoyment of one’s home – the 4th Amendment, pretty much, either in form or substance, right? So that would make this a problem?Barnes contests that the trial court’s failure to advise the ...
Taliban leader Mullah Omar killed
Post Date: 2011-05-23 02:11:27 by socalv8
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KABUL (Xinhua) -- Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has been killed in Pakistan, a private television channel reported Monday. "Mullah Omar was killed on way from Quetta to North Waziristan, " TOLO television said in its news bulletin. However, it did not provide details on how he was killed and by whom. Meanwhile, a security official confirmed the killing, saying, " it is correct that Mullah Omar has been killed." But he did not disclose details.
Obama and the 'Teutonic Shift' in the Middle East
Post Date: 2011-05-22 02:56:34 by socalv8
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One wonders if this is finally the week that the scales fall from the eyes of those Jews who voted for and supported Obama, not to mention these and other voters who hoodwinked themselves into believing that this man was some sort of brilliant new leader. The preamble to this week's Obama epic foreign policy blunder was the president's comment on May 10 in Austin that there was a "Teutonic shift" taking place in the Middle East. To me, the grandiose albeit risibly erroneous description signaled that Obama's narcissistic needs needed stoking with some bold new initiative which no one but such a genius as he is could imagine. The following day, someone in the White ...
In Oval Office, Bibi Offers History Lessons to Obama
Post Date: 2011-05-20 16:13:05 by socalv8
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemed to think he needed to educate President Obama on some issues today, so in the Oval Office he described in some detail to the president a history of the refugee problem in the region dating back 63 years, as well as his view on the need for Israel to be able to defend itself in the context of thousands of years of Jewish suffering. “We don't have a lot of margin for error,” Netanyahu said to the president. “Because, Mr. President, history will not give the Jewish people another chance.” Click for Full Text!
Railways face radical overhaul to give 'better deal for all' [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-05-20 10:16:01 by go65
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Commuters face the biggest shakeup of the railways since the ignominious Railtrack era after a government-commissioned report called for £1bn in costs to be stripped out of the industry – and for it to give all involved a "better deal". An overhaul of the fares system was the most eye-catching recommendation in a study by Sir Roy McNulty, former chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority. The report into rail industry costs also outlined changes to slash the £5.2bn state subsidy, including phasing out ticket offices in small stations, removing conductors and giving train operators control of maintenance on some routes. McNulty said fares in the UK were 30% higher ...
Obama to aides: Netanyahu will never do what it takes to achieve Mideast peace
Post Date: 2011-05-20 02:13:35 by socalv8
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U.S. President Barack Obama does not think Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will never make the concessions necessary to achieve a Middle East peace deal, the New York Times cited Obama aides as saying on Friday. The comments attributed to associates of the U.S. president comes amid what is turning become into a veritable war of words between Israel and the U.S., following Obama's Mideast strategy speech on Thursday in which the American leader voiced his support for a Palestinian state based on 1967 borders. Following Obama's speech, Netanyahu, who is set to meet the U.S. president later today, said Thursday that Israel would object to any withdrawal to "indefensible" ...
Public Service Announcement : Family Radio Predicts the End, May 21, 2011 at 6:00 P.M., EDT
Post Date: 2011-05-18 22:12:53 by Skip Intro
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Family Radio based in Oakland, Calfornia has predicted the end of the world will come this Saturday at 6 PM EDT. At that time those who saved will ascend into heaven, while those who aren't will be part of the rapture. Harold Camping, President of Family Radio which can be heard on WFME 94.7 FM in New York based the end time on bible verses. The last time Mr. Camping made a prediction of the end of the world was back in 1994. But after that time passed, Camping said his calculations were off.
Poster Comment:It's still not too late to leave all of your earthly belongings to me.
Obama to detail Mideast policy
Post Date: 2011-05-18 20:02:33 by socalv8
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Obama's speech, his first major address since the death of Osama bin Laden, is being described by the White House as an effort to assess the historic change sweeping the region in the so-called "Arab Spring." He plans to outline the political, economic and national security opportunities emerging for its people and for the United States. To foster those opportunities, the president will propose billions of dollars in economic help for Egypt and Tunisia as they set up governments to replace their autocratic leaders, both of whom were overthrown earlier this year. In Cairo, Obama sought to repair relations with the 1.5 billion followers of Islam across the world which had been ...
Bionic hand for 'elective amputation' patient
Post Date: 2011-05-18 19:52:43 by A K A Stone
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An Austrian man has voluntarily had his hand amputated so he can be fitted with a bionic limb. The patient, called "Milo", aged 26, lost the use of his right hand in a motorcycle accident a decade ago. After his stump heals in several weeks' time, he will be fitted with a bionic hand which will be controlled by nerve signals in his own arm. The surgery is the second such elective amputation to be performed by Viennese surgeon Professor Oskar Aszmann. The patient, a Serbian national who has lived in Austria since childhood, suffered injuries to a leg and shoulder when he skidded off his motorcycle and smashed into a lamppost in 2001 while on holiday in Serbia. Milo and ...
US publishes white-nose bat killer action plan
Post Date: 2011-05-18 19:18:50 by A K A Stone
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US experts have published an action plan that aims to halt the spread of white-nose syndrome (WNS), which has killed more than a million bats. The document offers guidance on a range of issues, including how to identify the disease and improving bio-security. WNS has spread rapidly since it was first found in 2006, and now affects 18 states and four Canadian provinces. The action plan was unveiled at the fourth annual WNS conference in Arkansas, which runs until Thursday. 'Swift Effort' The US Fish and Wildlife Service, which led the formulation of the plan, said that the mobility of bats, the rapid spread of WNS, the potential for human-assisted transmission and the severity ...
'Free-floating' planets found with no star in sight
Post Date: 2011-05-18 19:04:45 by A K A Stone
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Japanese astronomers claim to have found free-floating planets orbiting no detectable star Japanese astronomers claim to have found free-floating "planets" which do not seem to orbit a star. Writing in Nature, they say they have found 10 Jupiter-sized objects which they could not connect to any solar system. They also believe such objects could be as common as stars are throughout the Milky Way. The objects revealed themselves by bending the light of more distant stars, an effect called "gravitational microlensing". Objects of large enough mass can bend light, as Albert Einstein predicted. If a large object passes in front of a more distant background star, it may ...
Mainstream Media's Mea Culpa: Arab Spring or Nuclear Winter?
Post Date: 2011-05-16 18:45:45 by CZ82
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Mainstream Media's Mea Culpa: Arab Spring or Nuclear Winter? Pamela Geller The Washington Post wrote Thursday that the "Arab Spring" has taken "an altogether darker and more sinister turn, one in which the prospect of a brighter future no longer seems so readily assured." So the media is finally recognizing what was happening from the very first in US-allied Muslim countries across the world. Uh, I told you so -- from the very first "Allahu akbar" I warned readers of my website AtlasShrugs.com (and anyone who would listen) that Islamic supremacists would seize power and destroy the little democratic reforms that had inched their way into many of these ...
Schools arrange secret murders
Post Date: 2011-05-15 12:51:04 by A K A Stone
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Schools are helping teenage girls keep abortions secret from their parents. Imogen Neale reports. A MOTHER is angry her 16-year-old daughter had a secret abortion arranged by a school counsellor. Helen, not her real name, found out about the termination four days after it had happened. "I was horrified. Horrified that she'd had to go through that on her own, and horrified her friends and counsellors had felt that she shouldn't talk to us," she said. She had suspected something was wrong, but her daughter insisted her tears were over everyday teenage dramas. But Helen confronted her daughter's friends, who said the counsellor had taken the girl for a scan and to ...
Ron Paul: IMF Implicated After Chief Arrested on Attempted Rape Charge
Post Date: 2011-05-15 12:45:33 by A K A Stone
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The leader of the International Monetary Fund now embroiled in a criminal assault case in New York City was cleared in 2008 of harassment charges after an affair with an IMF economist. But it's that kind of behavior that should make the world wonder about trusting the IMF, Rep. Ron Paul said Sunday. The 2008 Republican presidential candidate told "Fox News Sunday" that Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was pulled off an Air France flight moments before take-off from New York Saturday and arrested on charges of a criminal sex act, attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment, said the whole course of events "is a bit ironic." Paul, who makes no secret about his disgust of ...
IMF Chief, French Socialist sodomizes Manhattan hotel maid, frog marched off plane @ JFK
Post Date: 2011-05-14 20:06:46 by Happy Quanzaa
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Top French politician DominiqueStrauss-Kahn dragged off flight at JFK, accused of sodomizing maidIMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn is in hot water with American authorities. A top French politician nicknamed "the great seducer" was dragged off a flight at Kennedy Airport Saturday after he was accused of sodomizing a Manhattan hotel maid, sources said. Port Authority cops grabbed Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund and a presidential hopeful in France, moments before his Air France plane took off about 4:45 p.m. Strauss-Kahn, 62, allegedly crept up behind a maid after she entered his room and forced her to perform oral sex on him, ...
Terminally ill to get right to die faster in Spain
Post Date: 2011-05-14 10:25:14 by Ferret Mike
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MADRID—The Spanish government has approved a law that gives terminally ill patients the right to hasten their deaths by halting medical treatment. Health Minister Leire Pajin said that the law would not affect bans on euthanasia or assisted suicide, which outlaw actions that lead to the deaths of those who otherwise would have lived. Halting medical treatment in terminal cases is common practice in Spanish hospitals but was never explicitly permitted. The bill must be approved by Parliament in the coming months. Health officials said the law would apply only to those with months at most to live, and also grants the right to adequate palliative care.
It Begins: US Starting the Baluchi Insurrection
Post Date: 2011-05-13 19:41:21 by A K A Stone
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In the shadow of the “Bin Laden” media circus and increasingly aggressive rhetoric between Washington and Islamabad, the corporate-financier funded NGOs that fomented the “Arab Spring” are now cultivating a united Baluchi front ahead of a proposed US-funded Baluchistan insurrection. As early as 2006, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace identified Pakistan’s Baluchistan province as a potential point of leverage against Islamabad and an opportunity to assert foreign intervention. In a 2006 report by the corporate-financier funded think tank titled, “Pakistan: The Resurgence of Baluch Nationalism,” violence starting as early as 2004-2005 is ...
Nuclear meltdown at Fukushima plant
Post Date: 2011-05-12 23:20:05 by go65
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Engineers from the Tokyo Electric Power company (Tepco) entered the No.1 reactor at the end of last week for the first time and saw the top five feet or so of the core's 13ft-long fuel rods had been exposed to the air and melted down. Previously, Tepco believed that the core of the reactor was submerged in enough water to keep it stable and that only 55 per cent of the core had been damaged. Now the company is worried that the molten pool of radioactive fuel may have burned a hole through the bottom of the containment vessel, causing water to leak. "We will have to revise our plans," said Junichi Matsumoto, a spokesman for Tepco. "We cannot deny the possibility that a ...
WikiLeaks Threatens Its Own Leakers With $20 Million Penalty
Post Date: 2011-05-12 09:19:02 by A K A Stone
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange now makes his associates sign a draconian nondisclosure agreement that, among other things, asserts that the organization’s huge trove of leaked material is “solely the property of WikiLeaks,” according to a report Wednesday. “You accept and agree that the information disclosed, or to be disclosed to you pursuant to this agreement is, by its nature, valuable proprietary commercial information,” the agreement reads, “the misuse or unauthorized disclosure of which would be likely to cause us considerable damage.” The confidentiality agreement (.pdf), revealed by the New Statesman, imposes a penalty of 12 million British ...
Pakistanis Refuse to Turn Wreckage Of Downed Stealth Copter Over To US: "China Wants A Look At It"
Post Date: 2011-05-11 12:07:24 by socalv8
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Unbelievable. The Pakistanis are refusing to comply with US requests to return the wreckage of the downed US Blackhawk helicopter used in the raid to get Osama bin-Laden. The helicopter was modified to contain top secret stealth technology, and the Pakistanis say they're interested in studying the remains. Besides, as one unnamed Pakistani government official told ABC News, the Chinese are very interested in looking at the remains of the helicopter. A U.S. official was quoted as saying he didn't know if the Pakistanis had offered a look at the damaged helicopter to the Chinese, but said he would be "shocked" if the Chinese hadn't already been given access to the ...
Jews will play a leading role in forming a mult-cultural society-Barbara Spectre in Sweden head of PAIDEIA
Post Date: 2011-05-11 06:40:44 by Jack
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