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SUV arsonist Jeffrey "Free" Luers released from prison (Charleton Street in Eugene, Oregon currently closed because of suspicious device) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-12-17 22:37:26 by Ferret Mike
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PORTLAND -- Radical environmentalist Jeffrey "Free" Luers has been released from prison after spending more than nine years behind bars for setting three SUVs on fire at a Eugene dealership. Luers was initially sentenced to almost 23 years in prison. That was a sentence many considered disproportionately harsh because no one was injured. The Oregon Court of Appeals reduced the sentence in 2007. A spokeswoman for the Oregon Department of Corrections said he was released from prison on Wednesday. Luers' co-defendant, Craig "Critter" Marshall, accepted a plea bargain and served less than five years in prison. -- The Associated Press Eugene Poice are in the process ...
Winter weather whips nation (Blizzard in Denmark )
Post Date: 2009-12-17 21:05:23 by borntoweardiamonds
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More snow could be on the way tomorrow as temperatures are set to drop even further Bitter cold and steady snowfall has paralyzed the country’s roads and public transport since yesterday, and the icy cold weather is expected to get even worse over the next couple days. On the island of Funen up to a metre of snow fell in some places, while in mid-Jutland several snow plows were reported to be stuck. National train service DSB had delays on nearly all its lines, with delays of up to an hour on some routes. The S-train system and Metro trains serving the Greater Copenhagen area have also experienced considerable delays. No serious injuries or deaths have been reported so far as a ...
Suspected U.S. Drone Strike Kills 15 in Pakistan
Post Date: 2009-12-17 13:40:18 by WhiteSands
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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistani intelligence officials say the latest suspected U.S. missile strike along the Afghan border has killed 15 people, including seven alleged foreign militants. The officials say the strike involved five drones and 10 missiles, a massing of resources that suggests the U.S. had homed in on a high-profile target. The missiles Thursday hit two compounds in the Ambarshaga area of the North Waziristan tribal region. It was the second such strike of the day in the Pakistani territory. The two officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to media. The U.S. rarely confirms such strikes. Pakistan protests them, but ...
WND news rejected – Nation of Islam, Hamas welcome
Post Date: 2009-12-17 13:18:15 by Joe Snuffy
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WND news rejected – Nation of Islam, Hamas welcome U.N. access policies reveal spotty history Posted: December 17, 2009 12:20 am Eastern By Stewart Stogel © 2009 WorldNetDaily United Nations headquarters in New York UNITED NATIONS – A review of access policy decisions by the United Nations has revealed a spotty history, with organizations such as the Nation of Islam and Hamas welcomed even though news site WorldNetDaily's recent request for permission for a senior reporter to cover the organization's Copenhagen global warming summit was denied. U.N. officials rejected WND's request then stood by the decision even though their stated reason for rejection ...
New Swiss Referendum to Deport all Criminal Immigrants(Isn't Democracy Beautiful?)
Post Date: 2009-12-17 12:10:06 by Thor
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The Swiss people recently ratified a referendum that forbids the construction of Muslim mosques with minarets attached, and now Swiss People’s Party proposed the organizing of a new referendum that will deport from Switzerland all immigrants who committed a crime. This new referendum could enter in a conflict with the 1951 Geneva Convention about immigrants status. The convention says that no immigrant should be deported if he faces inhuman treatment, racial, political or religious discrimination in his own country of origin. However the Geneva Convention was clearly made to protect fellow Europeans from Communist tyranny but today the convention is highly outdated as no one really ...
EXCLUSIVE: Obama tries to thin Taliban with jobs, cash offers
Post Date: 2009-12-17 10:35:58 by Happy Quanzaa
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The United States and its allies are stepping up efforts to persuade Afghan insurgents to put down their arms by negotiating with representatives of Mullah Mohammed Omar and other Taliban commanders and offering cash and jobs to low-level fighters, according to Pakistani, Middle Eastern and U.S. officials and analysts. The efforts, coupled with an increased U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, are meant to weaken the insurgency and promote a negotiated end to the region's violence. "The strategy is to peel away so many fighters" from the insurgent chiefs that they will be left like "floating icebergs and have no one left to command," said Kenneth Katzman, an ...
Limousine liberals enjoy the weather in Copenhagen
Post Date: 2009-12-17 07:39:49 by Happy Quanzaa
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As the world's leaders come together to try to hammer out measures to fight global warming, they are not forgetting to take time out to live it up. Junketeers at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen -- many of them from developing nations -- are enjoying luxuries like limos, private jets, and fancy gourmet food while claiming that the world is going to hell in a handbasket because of our consumption. "We haven't got enough limos in the country to fulfill the demand," car-service manager Majken Friss Jorgensen told The Daily Telegraph. "We're having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden." While US drivers may be forced to face carbon ...
Africa's $10bn climate bill (Not a request, a DEMAND)
Post Date: 2009-12-17 03:23:17 by borntoweardiamonds
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Compiled by the Government Communication and Information System Date: 17 Dec 2009 Title: Africa's $10bn climate bill By Chris Bathembu Copenhagen - Africa has demanded a start-up fund of $10 billion per annum for the next three years to help curb the effects of climate change. Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who is leading the African delegation at the climate change summit in Denmark, on Wednesday said the money would be used to fund, among other things, forestry projects and other ambitious adaptation and mitigation needs. He made it clear to the thousands of delegates attending the meeting that this was not a request but a demand. "Every one of us knows that Africa ...
Mountain of Waste at Copenhagen [ Live in the forest to save it! ]
Post Date: 2009-12-16 22:33:17 by WhiteSands
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Use less water. Drive smaller cars. Turn down the heat. Save the planet. Those are the messages coming from the United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen, but the environmental elite here may have a problem with saying one thing while doing another -- at least when it comes to paper. The green-conscious conference is utterly buried in it. Not just 8x11 white sheets, but the heavy cream-colored paper used in brochures and glossy red-and-yellow papers the United Nations uses to urge attendees to live a low-carbon lifestyle. "It is so unnecessary," said Anna, one of about 35 Friends of the Earth employees who flew in for the conference. "Could we use any more paper? I ...
As Copenhagen Falls Apart Filmmaker Phelim McAleer Asks The Tough Questions & Gets Assaulted
Post Date: 2009-12-16 21:04:57 by borntoweardiamonds
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Journalist and filmmaker Phelim McAleer, the maker of Not Evil, Just Wrong, has been doing a standup job of showing the hypocrisy inherent in not only the man-made global warming schizo’s but the left side of the aisle as a whole. Here he is questioning the hypocrisy of those “representatives” to the Copenhagen climate change conference who have belittled and shamed people about the effects of flying a plane. Funny how they dismiss McAleer as not worth their trouble. How dare he question them on their “green” credentials. Right? The U.N. estimates 40,500 tons of carbon dioxide will be pumped into the atmosphere during the 12-day conference – 90 percent of ...
BBC slammed for debating Ugandan bill to kill gays
Post Date: 2009-12-16 20:20:32 by A K A Stone
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LONDON – Politicians are criticizing the BBC for inviting debate on whether homosexuals should face execution in Uganda. The broadcaster launched an on-line debate over a proposed Ugandan law that would punish some homosexual acts by life imprisonment or death. BBC's "Africa Have Your Say" Web site asked for people's views on whether Uganda has gone too far and whether there should be any laws against gays. But several British politicians said Wednesday that the BBC should not treat the execution of gays as a legitimate topic for discussion. Opposition lawmaker Lynne Featherstone has written to BBC executives seeking an apology and end to the Web discussion. ...
Canadian Company Will ‘Offset’ Emissions From Obama’s Air Force One Flight to Copenhagen Climate Conference
Post Date: 2009-12-16 16:56:34 by Happy Quanzaa
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(CNSNews.com) – A private Canadian company says it will plant 1,176 trees to offset the carbon emitted by Air Force One when it carries President Barack Obama to Copenhagen for the international climate conference. President Obama will travel 3,979 miles to Denmark on Friday, Dec. 18, and Air Force One will emit an estimated 196 tons of carbon on that trip, said LimeGreen Earth, Inc., in a news release. "By offsetting President Obama's carbon emission, we are setting a precedent for the global community," said the company’s president, Andrew Thomas. "It is up to every individual to do their part to eliminate carbon emissions. There is no one better to lead ...
Tiger Woods named AP Athlete of the Decade
Post Date: 2009-12-16 16:39:36 by Happy Quanzaa
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The cad of the year has just been named Athlete of the Decade. Tiger Woods – who insisted golf came second to family just days before the lie unraveled in a relentless stream of adulterous affairs – was named Athlete of the Decade by the Associated Press Any other time, even a month earlier, the honor would have been another jewel in the King of Golf’s crown. But with a scandal that has generated endless headlines, family heartache and an uncertain future for him and the sport, the award is an ignominious irony that even his Nike handlers can’t spin. ELIN SENDING MESSAGE: MARRIAGE IS OVER ELIN TAKING KIDS AWAY FOR HOLIDAYS WOODS' JET ZIPS TO SILICON VALLEY ...
Freedin4um poster Beyond The Sea says- Go Iran ........ nuke Israel!
Post Date: 2009-12-16 15:29:45 by Biff Tannen
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Joe Lieberman just caved on the health care bill.
If it is true as Glenn Beck just announced on the radio...........
Joe Lieberman is just another example as to why Jews are the worst group of people in the WORLD.
Go Iran ........ nuke Israel!
****
Now .......... if the story I just heard on Glenn Beck's show is incorrect................ Lieberman is still a useless, dirt-bag Jew!
Poster Comment:
This beyond-the-sea fellow is quite the asshole.
(posters original Title "Beyond The Sea - Jew-Hating Asshole"
Aussie scientists find coconut-carrying octopus
Post Date: 2009-12-16 15:26:36 by A K A Stone
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SYDNEY – Australian scientists have discovered an octopus in Indonesia that collects coconut shells for shelter — unusually sophisticated behavior that the researchers believe is the first evidence of tool use in an invertebrate animal. The scientists filmed the veined octopus, Amphioctopus marginatus, selecting halved coconut shells from the sea floor, emptying them out, carrying them under their bodies up to 65 feet (20 meters), and assembling two shells together to make a spherical hiding spot. Julian Finn and Mark Norman of Museum Victoria in Melbourne observed the odd activity in four of the creatures during a series of dive trips to North Sulawesi and Bali in Indonesia ...
Brazil toddler has 50 sewing needles inside body
Post Date: 2009-12-16 14:56:59 by A K A Stone
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BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - A 2-year-old Brazilian boy has as many as 50 metal sewing needles inside his body and a doctor treating the boy said Wednesday they were apparently stuck there one by one. Dr. Luiz Cesar Soltoski told The Associated Press that surgeons hope to remove most of the needles—some as long as 2 inches (5 centimeters)_ but because some are stuck in his lungs, they have to wait until the child's breathing improves. Some cannot be removed; they are too close to vital organs or actually inside them, Soltoski said. The boy's mother, a maid, brought him to a hospital in the small northeastern city of Ibotirama on Thursday, saying he was complaining of pain. Three ...
UN climate sham - evil Mugabe an honored guest
Post Date: 2009-12-16 14:45:57 by Happy Quanzaa
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WASHINGTON -- Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe turned the UN climate-change summit in Copenhagen into a farce yesterday, laughing off the travel sanctions of Western governments and throwing the harsh disapproval of his Danish hosts back in their faces. Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said his government had no choice but to allow Mugabe to attend the conference, just as New York City or the United States have no choice when horrible heads of state attend UN meetings in Manhattan. "That is the spirit of the UN -- that the world needs a place where we can meet with those we basically don't like," Rasmussen explained to reporters who had inquired about Mugabe's ...
ADL - The World Is Awash With Anti-Semitism
Post Date: 2009-12-16 12:27:33 by Joe Snuffy
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ADL - The World Is Awash With Anti-Semitism By Rev. Ted Pike 12-16-9 In a recent video alert on the Anti-Defamation League website, ADL national director Abraham H. Foxman says anti-Semitism is growing explosively worldwide, especially during the last year. It is also "invading the mainstream," says ADL. We are going to hear a lot about anti-Semitism in the months ahead-not only from ADL but from ADL's Dept. of Anti-Semitism in the US State Department. President Obama recently appointed the State Department's US Envoy on Anti-Semitism, Hannah Rosenthal. She is charged with helping subdue what Foxman describes as perhaps the worst global anti-Semitism outbreak he has ...
AP: Obama writes love letter to North Korean leader
Post Date: 2009-12-16 09:02:58 by Happy Quanzaa
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama has written a personal letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il as part of an intense effort to draw the reclusive nation back to nuclear disarmament talks, a senior State Department official said Tuesday. The letter was delivered to North Korean officials last week by Obama's special envoy for North Korea, Stephen Bosworth, during a visit to Pyongyang aimed at restarting the stalled negotiations, the official said. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the diplomacy, would not describe the contents of the letter but said they fit with Bosworth's general message. "The North Koreans have ...
Missing George W. Bush
Post Date: 2009-12-16 08:54:59 by dont eat that
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Each day of the Obama presidency seems to bring a new, perversely delicious irony. Last week, on the same day that Mr. Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize solely for being the "anti-Bush," former President George W. Bush got a lovely prize of his own: the growing appreciation of the American people. Public Policy Polling released a new survey that showed that while 50 percent preferred Mr. Obama to Mr. Bush, a stunning 44 percent preferred Mr. Bush to Mr. Obama. Further, a separate poll showed public approval of former Vice President Dick Cheney moving up by 10 points to 39 percent. Making these poll numbers even more remarkable is Mr. Obama's own free-falling job approval: ...
Gulf petro-powers to launch currency in latest threat to dollar hegemony
Post Date: 2009-12-16 01:34:00 by borntoweardiamonds
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The Arab states of the Gulf region have agreed to launch a single currency modelled on the euro, hoping to blaze a trail towards a pan-Arab monetary union swelling to the ancient borders of the Ummayad Caliphate The Gulf monetary union pact has come into effect,” said Kuwait’s finance minister, Mustafa al-Shamali, speaking at a Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) summit in Kuwait. The move will give the hyper-rich club of oil exporters a petro-currency of their own, greatly increasing their influence in the global exchange and capital markets and potentially displacing the US dollar as the pricing currency for oil contracts. Between them they amount to regional superpower with a GDP ...
Mystery as Lockerbie bomber goes missing from home and hospital
Post Date: 2009-12-16 01:03:22 by borntoweardiamonds
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Mystery surrounded the Lockerbie bomber last night after he could not be reached at his home or in hospital. Libyan officials could say nothing about the whereabouts of Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi, and his Scottish monitors could not contact him by telephone. They will try again to speak to him today but if they fail to reach him, the Scottish government could face a new crisis. Under the terms of his release from jail, the bomber cannot change his address or leave Tripoli, and must keep in regular communication with East Renfrewshire Council. Politicians on both sides of the Atlantic and relatives of the 270 people who died in the 1988 bombing expressed anger about al-Megrahi’s ...
Freezing weather strikes Europe
Post Date: 2009-12-15 17:17:13 by borntoweardiamonds
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VIDEO They may be focused on global warming in Copenhagen, but in many other parts of Europe the focus at the moment is more on how to warm up. Temperatures in Moscow have plunged to minus 21 degrees celsius (minus 70 fahrenheit) after the city had its warmest December day in recorded history earlier this month. The average winter temperature in Moscow is minus two degrees celsius (minus 25 fahrenheit). At least three weather systems are currently bringing freezing temperatures to Europe, with warnings that bad weather is on the way for those not yet affected. Serbia was just one of the countries to experience its first snow storm of the year. There are similar scenes in countries ...
Israel fury at UK attempt to arrest Tzipi Livni
Post Date: 2009-12-15 14:43:35 by Goldi-lox
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Former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni Tzipi Livni was foreign minister during Israel's Gaza offensive Israel has reacted angrily to the issuing by a British court of an arrest warrant for the former Israeli Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni. The warrant, granted by a London court on Saturday, was revoked on Monday when it was found Ms Livni was not visiting the UK. Ms Livni was foreign minister during Israel's Gaza assault last winter. It is the first time a UK court has issued a warrant for the arrest of a former Israeli minister. Ms Livni said the court had been "abused" by the Palestinian plaintiffs who requested the warrant. "What needs to be put on trial ...
Walkout heightens failure fears for climate marathon
Post Date: 2009-12-15 00:24:03 by borntoweardiamonds
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COPENHAGEN (AFP) - Negotiators worked through the night Tuesday to prevent a UN climate summit from ending in catastrophic failure after developing nations staged a five-hour walkout and China accused the West of trickery. As the White House said Barack Obama wants a deal that imposes "meaningful steps" to combat global warming, ministers admitted they had to start making giant strides before 120 heads of state arrived for the summit's climax Friday. But their hopes were hit when Africa led a boycott by developing nations of working groups, only returning after securing guarantees the summit would not sideline talks about the future of the Kyoto Protocol. That core ...
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