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Wrongfully convicted rapist is freed after 17 years.. and hit with a $110,000 bill for backdated child maintenance
Post Date: 2011-03-09 17:14:31 by A K A Stone
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An innocent man jailed for 17 years after being wrongfully convicted of rape will not get any compensation for the time he spent behind bars - but he has been given a $111,000 bill for backdated child maintenance payments. Alan Northrop and co-defendant Larry Davis were arrested following the January 1993 rape of a woman near Vancouver, Washington State. In July of that year, the pair were given jail terms of more than 23 years after being convicted of first-degree rape, kidnapping and burglary. But in a dramatic turnaround last year, Washington State prosecutors were forced to withdraw the charges in light of fresh DNA evidence, and the men were released having served 17 years in jail ...
Space weather: Are we ready for a solar strike?
Post Date: 2011-03-09 13:11:29 by go65
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Almost two years ago I asked the question, "Do Solar Storms Threaten Life as We Know it?" The answer then and even more so now could very well be a scary "yes" - even within the next few years - as an increase in solar activity coincides with the increasing vulnerability of technology-dependent societies to powerful solar storms. Moreover, should there be a solar strike capable of causing widespread blackouts and crippling disruptions of satellilte and radio communications, it's likely there would be little advance notice, and currently there is virtually no capability to shield much of the planet and virtually no planning o Click for Full Text!
Anti-war hero Scott Ritter set for trial after child sex sting
Post Date: 2011-03-09 10:50:09 by A K A Stone
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Scott Ritter, the former UN weapons inspector who strived to put the brakes on the 2003 invasion of Iraq by loudly disputing claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, was in court last night on charges of soliciting sex with a minor over the internet.
The trial, barring a last-minute plea bargain, was expected to get under way in a Stroudsburg court in Pennsylvania with jury selection later this week. It stems from his arrest in November 2009 for allegedly soliciting a girl calling herself Emily and showing acts of masturbation via live streaming video -- in an internet chat room. Emily was in fact a male vice officer.
The case is the third in which Mr Ritter has been accused ...
Point Of No Return: U.S. And NATO Prepare For War With Libya
Post Date: 2011-03-09 10:33:53 by A K A Stone
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March 7 was a pivotal moment in plans by Western powers to launch military operations against Libya. After meeting with Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard in Washington, President Barack Obama stated "we've got NATO, as we speak, consulting in Brussels around a wide range of potential options, including potential military options, in response to the violence that continues to take place inside of Libya." In an interview she gave to The Australian newspaper immediately before her departure for the U.S., Gillard stated that she supported the "US placing more military forces on Australian soil if it believes this is necessary in the light of the growing might of ...
Phil Collins confirms retirement
Post Date: 2011-03-09 07:55:20 by A K A Stone
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British singer and drummer Phil Collins has confirmed reports he is to retire from the music business. "I am stopping so I can be a full time father to my two young sons on a daily basis," he wrote on his website. His decision, he said, was not down to "dodgy reviews", "bad treatment in the press" or "because I don't feel loved". Collins' announcement was in response to a series of "distorted" articles that had erroneously painted him as "a tormented weirdo", he added. "There's no need for the straitjacket!" joked the 60-year-old, whose hits include In the Air Tonight and Another Day in Paradise. A former ...
Pirates to be brought to Japan after attack on tanker in Indian Ocean
Post Date: 2011-03-08 20:21:47 by A K A Stone
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TOKYO — The Japanese government will bring to Japan four pirates who were captured after attacking a tanker operated by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. off the coast of Oman in the Indian Ocean, government sources said Tuesday. It will be the first transfer of pirates to Japan since the creation of the country’s antipiracy law in 2009, and experts are watching closely how Tokyo will handle captured pirates when there are no widely recognized international rules on handling them. The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office dispatched prosecutors to Oman Tuesday night, investigative sources said, most likely to question crew members of the tanker and make arrangements for the ...
Queens man accused of bashing Lana Rosas into coma defends actions: 'It was out of reflex'
Post Date: 2011-03-08 20:19:34 by Ferret Mike
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Lana Rosas was knocked out (above) in fight over a parking space with Oscar Fuller (below) on E. 14th St., on Feb. 25. Rosas is now in a coma. The Queens man accused of bashing a woman into a coma over an East Village parking space says he wishes he never raised his fist. Speaking publicly for the first time since the attack on Lana Rosas, Oscar Fuller said he didn't realize the power of his punch until cops arrested him last Tuesday on felony assault charges. "I wish I just let her hit me," Fuller told the Daily News on Sunday. "It was out of reflex, just a reaction that went the wrong way," he said of the Feb. 25 beatdown. "I don't believe this is ...
Chinese man held for exporting US military know-how
Post Date: 2011-03-08 20:17:22 by A K A Stone
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FBI agents Tuesday arrested a Chinese national working for a US technology company for exporting information about sensitive military know-how to China, justice officials said. Liu Sixing, also know as Steve Liu, was arrested at his home in Deerfield, Illinois and charged with one count of exporting defense-related technical data without a license, the Justice Department said in a statement. Liu, a Chinese national with permanent residency in the United States, worked for the New Jersey-based company from March 2009 until November 2010 as a senior engineer on a team developing precision navigation devices. According to the charge, he boarded a flight from Newark last November to China, ...
Bill To Reform Patent System Would Kill Innovation In U.S.
Post Date: 2011-03-08 20:14:35 by A K A Stone
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n September 1941, Japan's leaders had a question for Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto: Could he cripple the U.S. fleet in Hawaii? Yes, he said. Then he had a question for the leaders: But then what? Following an attack, he said, "I shall run wild considerably for the first six months or a year, but I have utterly no confidence" after that. Yamamoto knew America: He had attended Harvard and been naval attache in Japan's embassy in Washington. He knew Japan would be at war with an enraged industrial giant. The tide-turning defeat of Japan's navy at the Battle of Midway occurred June 7, 1942 — exactly six months after Pearl Harbor. Today, some Washington voices are calling ...
Israel may ask U.S. for $20 billion more in security aid, Barak says
Post Date: 2011-03-08 16:40:02 by A K A Stone
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Defense Minister tells Wall Street Journal that Israel must be on guard considering the unrest sweeping the Arab world, adding increased aid could help make Israel a 'stabilizer in such a turbulent region'. Israel may request an addition $20 billion in military aid from the United States in light of the unrest sweeping the Arab world, Defense Minister Ehud Barak told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published Monday. Barak deemed the changes in the region a "movement in the right direction", and said that in the long run, Israel should not fear the "movement of Arab societies toward modernity." But in the more immediate future, he told the WSJ, Israel ...
Two Exceptionally Ugly Women Headline International Women's Day
Post Date: 2011-03-08 13:39:20 by Happy Quanzaa
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First Lady, Secretary of Statecelebrate InternationalWomen's Day WASHINGTON – First Lady Michelle Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton marked the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day Wednesday by honoring 10 women from around the world with awards that recognize efforts they have made to further women's rights. During the 2011 Women of Courage Awards ceremony held at the State Department, Clinton called recipient of this year's awards "remarkable," while Obama lauded it as the "one of the most important" events she will attend. Those honored included Roza Otunbayeva, President of the Kyrgyz Republic and the first woman head of ...
Gingrich: U.S. Military Should Go To War With Libya ‘This Evening'
Post Date: 2011-03-08 12:45:40 by go65
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VAN SUSTEREN: What would you do about Libya? GINGRICH: Exercise a no-fly zone this evening. … It’s also an ideological problem. The United States doesn’t need anybody’s permission. We don’t need to have NATO, who frankly, won’t bring much to the fight. We don’t need to have the United Nations. All we have to say is that we think that slaughtering your own citizens is unacceptable and that we’re intervening. And we don’t have to send troops. All we have to do is suppress his air force, which we could do in minutes. Click for Full Text!
Obama Responding to Proposals From Libya, Cuba, North Korea on Human Rights in the U.S.
Post Date: 2011-03-08 08:00:18 by Happy Quanzaa
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Obama Administration Responding to 228 Proposals --Including Some From Libya, Cuba, North Korea -- onHuman Rights in the U.S. (CNSNews.com) – The United States’ human rights record will be back in the spotlight at the U.N. Human Rights Council next week, when the U.S. delegation provides its response to more than 200 recommendations made by other governments, ranging from liberal democracies to the repressive regimes ruling Libya, Iran, Cuba, North Korea and China. The recommendations cover a broad range of issues, from combating “Islamophobia” to scrapping Arizona’s controversial immigration law, Senate Bill 1070. March 18 marks the final step in the process ...
'I'll cut their throats': Manic Charlie Sheen threatens violence in frenzied F-word webcast
Post Date: 2011-03-07 21:49:37 by A K A Stone
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Charlie Sheen made violent threats in the second and even more frenzied video for his self-produced web series. The second installment, titled Torpedoes of Truth, shows the chain-smoking actor talking on the phone with a camera beneath his chin. Wildly gesticulating and pulling faces, the 45-year-old actor drops the F-word more than a dozen times in the clip, which has already been viewed more than 660,000 times since it was posted last night. The episode of Sheen's Korner follows the actor as he has an intense phone conversation with associate Bob Maron, during which he launches into several nonsensical rants. 'I'm gonna write my sermons, I'm gonna deliver them like ...
Duchess of York admits Duke arranged for convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein to pay off her debts
Post Date: 2011-03-07 20:52:35 by A K A Stone
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The Duchess of York has admitted that her former husband arranged for a convicted paedophile to pay off her debts. In her only interview since the scandal she confirmed that the Duke of York handled the negotiations, as first revealed by The Daily Telegraph. She said that his office arranged for Jeffrey Epstein to give £15,000 to her former personal assistant, Johnny O'Sullivan, and apologised for a "gigantic error of judgment". She said: "I personally, on behalf of myself, deeply regret that Jeffrey Epstein became involved in any way with me. I abhor paedophilia and any sexual abuse of children and know that this was a gigantic error of judgment on my behalf. ...
Hussein Obama threatens Libya w/ considering military action
Post Date: 2011-03-07 14:20:12 by Happy Quanzaa
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Obama: Military actionagainst Libya possible WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama warned Libya's leaders that the U.S. and its NATO allies are still considering military options in response to what he called "unacceptable" violence perpetrated by supporters of Moammar Khadafy. "I want to send a very clear message to those who are around Colonel Gadhafi. It is their choice to make how they operate moving forward. And they will be held accountable for whatever violence continues to take place," Obama said during remarks in the Oval Office Monday. Libyan warplanes launched multiple airstrikes Monday on opposition fighters in the second day of a harsh government ...
Bedbugs at the UN
Post Date: 2011-03-07 12:13:36 by sneakypete
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America's secret plan to arm Libya's rebels
Post Date: 2011-03-06 21:19:08 by A K A Stone
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Desperate to avoid US military involvement in Libya in the event of a prolonged struggle between the Gaddafi regime and its opponents, the Americans have asked Saudi Arabia if it can supply weapons to the rebels in Benghazi. The Saudi Kingdom, already facing a "day of rage" from its 10 per cent Shia Muslim community on Friday, with a ban on all demonstrations, has so far failed to respond to Washington's highly classified request, although King Abdullah personally loathes the Libyan leader, who tried to assassinate him just over a year ago. Washington's request is in line with other US military co-operation with the Saudis. The royal family in Jeddah, which was deeply ...
PAPER: Obama asks Saudi Arabia to supply Libyan rebels with weapons... Developing...
Post Date: 2011-03-06 18:49:37 by A K A Stone
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PAPER: Obama asks Saudi Arabia to supply Libyan rebels with weapons... Developing...
UPDATE 2-Knives, petrol bombs return to Cairo streets
Post Date: 2011-03-06 18:18:27 by Happy Quanzaa
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* Activists face attacks for first time in weeks in Cairo * Protesters seeking end to state security apparatus * Ministers of interior, foreign affairs and justice named (Edits) By Tom Perry and Marwa Awad CAIRO, March 6 (Reuters) - Men in plain clothes armed with swords and petrol bombs attacked protesters in Cairo on Sunday night during a demonstration demanding reform of security services with a reputation for brutality, witnesses said. Dozens of men wielding knives and machetes and hurling bricks and petrol bombs confronted protesters at the headquarters of Egypt's state security, a force whose abuses fuelled an uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak, they said. It appeared to ...
Saudi Arabia detains Shi'ites as clerics ban protests
Post Date: 2011-03-06 18:09:29 by Happy Quanzaa
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DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi security forces have detained at least 22 minority Shi'ites who protested last week against discrimination, activists said on Sunday, as the kingdom tried to keep the wave of Arab unrest outside its borders. Saudi Shi'ites have staged small demonstrations in the Eastern Province, which holds much of the oil wealth of the world's top crude exporter. The province is near Bahrain, the scene of protests in recent weeks by majority Shi'ites against their Sunni rulers. "Twenty-two were arrested on Thursday plus four on Friday ... This was all in Qatif," said rights activist Ibrahim al-Mugaiteeb, who heads the independent Saudi-based Human ...
McCainiac: Bomb Libya
Post Date: 2011-03-06 17:22:46 by Happy Quanzaa
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WASHINGTON -- Sen. John McCain called Moammar Khadafy "insane" today as he reaffirmed his call for a US-backed no-fly zone over Libya to prevent its embattled leader from using aircraft to slaughter its citizens. During an interview on ABC News' "This Week," McCain told Christiane Amanpour that the US cannot "risk allowing Gadhafi to massacre people from the air, both by helicopter and fixed-wing [aircraft]." McCain (R-Ariz.) furthered reiterated his support for imposing a no-fly zone, saying Ghadafi's air assets were "not overwhelming." "Let's just call a spade a spade. A no-fly zone begins with an attack on Libya to destroy the ...
Rep. King: Muslims aren't helping in terror fight
Post Date: 2011-03-06 16:48:28 by Happy Quanzaa
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Muslims in the America aren't cooperating enough with law enforcement to counter the radicalization of young followers by al-Qaeda-linked groups, said a House leader on terrorism issues, renewing debate about religion's role in motivating extremists and what the U.S. can do without alienating the Islamic world. Rep. Peter King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, asserted that al-Qaida terrorists are targeting Muslim youth in this country, previewing his hearing Thursday on the extent of the problem and the Muslim community's response. "The overwhelming majority of Muslims are outstanding Americans, but at this stage in our history there's an effort ... ...
Poll gives France's new far-right leader top spot
Post Date: 2011-03-06 14:26:34 by Happy Quanzaa
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A poll shows that Marine Le Pen, the daughter of France's longtime far-right leader who now heads his National Front party, would gain more votes than President Nicolas Sarkozy if elections were held this weekend. The online poll of 1,618 people by Harris Interactive shows Le Pen with 23 percent of the vote and both the conservative Sarkozy and Socialist leader Martine Aubry with 21 percent. The poll results are so close that Le Pen's lead is statistically insignificant, but they serve as a red flag for Sarkozy ahead of April 2012 presidential elections. No margin of error was provided, but it would normally be plus or minus 3 percentage points. Sarkozy has long trod on the ...
Hussein Obama caught off guard by Middle East (again)
Post Date: 2011-03-06 14:10:43 by Happy Quanzaa
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While the White House slept: Oncegain, our government was caught offguard by the Middle East The Obama administration has seemingly been caught off guard by the recent occurances in theMiddle East. As Libya's bloody conflict rages on, important lessons for U.S. foreign policy are emerging from the past month's Middle East turmoil. Starting with Tunisia, the Obama administration has seemed repeatedly surprised by anti-regime demonstrations, unsure of the stakes for America and its allies and unprepared conceptually and operationally to deal with the consequences. In Egypt, there was contradictory, unhelpful White House rhetoric when silence would have been prudent - and in Libya, ...
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