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Snubbed Norwegians replace absent Obama at event with … cardboard cutout; Update: Photo added
Post Date: 2009-12-10 18:44:55 by borntoweardiamonds
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Wait ’til you hear what the event was. Obama had quite a whirlwind day Thursday – he signed the Nobel guest book, huddled with Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, met with King Harald V and Queen Sonja, and delivered an acceptance speech after he was formally presented with the prize. He also joined the king and queen at an evening banquet. But he skipped out on several other activities, including lunch with the king, a news conference at Oslo’s Grand Hotel, CNN’s traditional interview with the prize winner and a “Save the Children” benefit concert, where organizers replaced him with an Obama cardboard cutout. Obama also won’t be around for Friday’s ...
Canada mocked and praised at Copenhagen
Post Date: 2009-12-10 18:02:05 by Ibluafartsky
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Canada mocked and praised at Copenhagen By Kelly Cryderman, Calgary Herald December 10, 2009 1:33 PM COPENHAGEN — At a small booth in the Copenhagen conference centre, a colourful scoreboard shows Canada has racked up four Fossil Awards — sardonic nods to countries judged by a coalition of environmental groups to have performed the worst during any given day of climate negotiations. On Thursday, on the other end of the Copenhagen's Bella Centre, there was a different type of discussion on an issue where Canada actually earns faint praise — or at the very least, is ignored: carbon capture and storage (CCS). At a discussion sponsored by the U.S. delegation, major ...
Profile of NAtionalist Leaders around the World: Nick Griffin
Post Date: 2009-12-10 17:02:13 by Thor
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Nicholas John "Nick" Griffin is a British politician, chairman of the British National Party (BNP) and Member of the European Parliament for North West England. Griffin was born in Barnet, London, and was educated in Suffolk. He joined the National Front aged fifteen, and following his graduation from Cambridge University became a political worker for the party. In 1980 he became a member of its governing body, and later wrote articles for several right-wing magazines. He was the National Front's candidate for the seat of Croydon North West in 1981 and 1983 before leaving in 1989. In 1995, he joined the BNP, and became leader in 1999. He stood as the party's candidate in ...
Russian nuclear missile test fails, visible in Norway
Post Date: 2009-12-10 15:36:25 by WhiteSands
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MOSCOW — Russia admitted on Thursday another failed test of its much-touted Bulava intercontinental missile, after unusual lights were spotted in Norway across the border from the launch site. The submarine-based Bulava (Mace) missile has been billed as Russia's newest technological breakthrough to support its nuclear deterrent, but the repeated test failures are an embarrassment for the Kremlin. The missile failed in its 13th test on Wednesday morning, Russia's leading economic dailies Vedomosti and Kommersant reported on Thursday, quoting sources in the military-industrial complex. Hours later, the Defense Ministry admitted the failure, saying the launch had been ...
Some Norwegians call Obama 'arrogant' after he skips several Nobel Peace Prize events
Post Date: 2009-12-10 15:30:21 by WhiteSands
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OSLO, Norway -- President Obama's visit to Norway to accept the Nobel Peace Prize has been billed as a 26-hour whirlwind tour with an itinerary that's turned heads because of the many activities he managed to pack into a day. But what's managed to turn more heads in the Scandinavian country is the number of events the president didn't attend. A headline in Norway's biggest newspaper VG questions Obama's perceived arrogance that led him to cancel lunch with King Harald and a pre-planned children's event outside Oslo City Hall -- events that have been longstanding traditions for Peace Prize winners. Obama also declined to attend the annual Nobel concert, an ...
Spotlight on Nationalist Leaders:Yulia Tymoshenko (Ukraine)
Post Date: 2009-12-10 15:03:14 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Today, in a first of a series, we highlight leaders of the Nationalist movement around the world starting with the vivacious Yulia Tymoshenko. Yulia was born on November 27th, 1960. She is the first Prime Minister of Ukraine and is currently the leader of All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" party and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. She has been in politics since 1996, while President Clinton was busy getting his cock sucked by Monica Lewinski. Tymoshenko is no quitter, like some American politicians who can't even serve one term as governor, as she was a key player in Ukraine's Orange Revolution. Tymoshenko is a very intelligent leader who has stunning looks, without a lot ...
EU urges Ukraine to hold free, fair Jan election (Upcoming NATO defeat!)
Post Date: 2009-12-10 00:33:00 by Nebuchadnezzar
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KIEV, Dec 4 (Reuters) - European Union officials urged Ukraine on Friday to hold a free and fair presidential election in January to help it advance towards integration with Europe. The ex-Soviet state is holding on Jan. 17 its first election for president since the 2004 pro-western "Orange Revolution", against a backdrop of a poorly performing economy and tension with Russia on which it relies for energy supplies. "We expect these elections to be free and fair as has happened in the past, and after the elections that there will be a commitment for strong governance so that Ukraine can advance towards its legitimate European aspirations," European Commission President ...
Britain angers poor nations with plan to switch cash from health to climate
Post Date: 2009-12-09 21:23:29 by borntoweardiamonds
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National aid budgets dedicated to reducing global poverty would be raided to establish a “climate fund” to help developing countries to adapt to climate change, under a British plan tabled yesterday in Copenhagen. Money earmarked for education or health would be diverted into projects such as solar panels and wind farms. The proposal has angered developing countries, which are demanding that all the money in the climate fund be additional to the 0.7 per cent of income that industrialised countries have pledged to give as overseas aid. Poor nations had hoped that the British plan, devised with Norway, Australia and Mexico, would establish the principle that the climate fund be ...
Mega Corruption Scandal At The WHO
Post Date: 2009-12-09 21:02:48 by Joe Snuffy
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Mega Corruption Scandal At The WHO By F. William Engdahl Author of Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order 12-9-9 WHO's 'Mr Flu' Holland's Albert Osterhaus has deep ties to pharma industry The WHO gets more money from private pharma and related industry sources than from governments The UK Pharma Giant GlaxoSmithKline is at the heart of the WHO scandals of influence peddling The man with the nickname "Dr Flu", Professor Albert Osterhaus, of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam Holland has been named by Dutch media researchers as the person at the center of the worldwide Swine Flu H1N1 Influenza A 2009 pandemic hysteria. Not ...
United Nations backtracks on Climategate email scandal, will not investigate
Post Date: 2009-12-09 20:34:00 by A Pole
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Last week Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), promised an investigation into the Climategate email scandal. Today at a press conference at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen, Pachauri backtracked entirely saying, “I want to clarify that this is not an investigation.” After trying to ignore the brewing firestorm, the IPCC was finally forced to acknowledge the event last week. “We certainly are going to take a look at the whole lot of it and then are going to take a position on it,” Pachauri said. “We certainly don’t want to brush anything under the carpet. This is a ...
Russia seeks U.S. help in fight against heroin epidemic
Post Date: 2009-12-09 18:39:12 by Ibluafartsky
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Russia seeks U.S. help in fight against heroin epidemic By Paul Armstrong, CNN December 9, 2009 -- Updated 1454 GMT (2254 HKT) (CNN) -- Russia's top drugs adviser has called on the United States to use its troop surge into Afghanistan to help stem the flow of drugs entering its borders, as heroin addiction reaches epidemic levels. Last week President Barack Obama announced plans to send an extra 30,000 U.S. troops to the region in an effort to stabilize the Afghan government by defeating the Taliban, who are believed to be heavily involved in the country's burgeoning drugs trade. However the strategy of destroying the poppy fields of southern Afghanistan, which yield the heroin ...
Obama Snubs the King
Post Date: 2009-12-09 17:53:18 by borntoweardiamonds
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Finally some Europeans are angry with Obama—the very ones who are awarding him his Nobel. Katarina Andersson on the president's decision to decline lunch with King Harald and skip his own Nobel exhibit. A day before President Obama receives his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, the president’s treatment of his Norwegian hosts has become hot news across Scandinavia. News outlets across the region are calling Obama arrogant for slashing some of the prize winners’ traditional duties from his schedule. “Everybody wants to visit the Peace Center except Obama,” sniped the Norwegian daily Aftenposten, amid reports the president would snub his own exhibition at the Nobel ...
Giant Mysterious Spiral Takes Over the Skies of Norway
Post Date: 2009-12-09 17:39:37 by borntoweardiamonds
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http://>>cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2009/12/500x_fenomen_over_borras_340152c.jpg"> People are freaking out all over Norway because of what you are seeing here. According to Norwegian news outlets, the spooky giant spiral was seen, photographed, and recorded on video from all over the country. Updated with video Click for Full Text!
Giant iceberg heading for Australia
Post Date: 2009-12-09 17:22:49 by borntoweardiamonds
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A giant iceberg double the size of Sydney Harbour is on a slow but steady collision course with Australia, scientists have said. A satellite image released by the Australian Antarctic Division howing a giant iceberg (4th from right) which is drifting towards Western Australia Photo: EPA The mammoth chunk of ice, which measures 12 miles long and five miles wide, was spotted floating surprisingly close to the mainland by scientists at the Australian Antarctic Division (ADD). Known as B17B, it is currently drifting 1,000 miles from Australia's west coast and is moving gradually north with the ocean current and prevailing wind. Dr Neal Young, a glaciologist working for the ADD, said ...
Copenhagen Live Broadcast
Post Date: 2009-12-09 15:55:58 by We The People
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Hot Air Tour: Copenhagen Live Broadcast In a few short days President Barack Obama will go to Copenhagen, Denmark for the United Nations Climate Change Conference. No doubt, the President intends to commit the United States to an energy rationing scheme that makes the U.S. accountable to U.N. bureaucrats, kills jobs here, dramatically raises the price of gasoline and electricity, and infringes on our personal and national freedoms. Fill out the form below to watch AFP President Tim Phillips, AFP Foundation Policy Director Phil Kerpen, and other European free market allies as they broadcast a live update from Copenhagen. The broadcast starts at 12pm EST on Wednesday, December 9th. Please ...
5 American terrorists detained in Pakistan
Post Date: 2009-12-09 15:07:40 by Happy Quanzaa
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistani police on Wednesday arrested five American men believed to have gone missing from the Washington, D.C. area last month, officials from both countries said. The men were picked up in a raid on a house in Sarghoda in the eastern province of Punjab, police officer Tahir Gujjar said, adding that three of the men are of Pakistani descent, one is of Egyptian descent and the other is of Yemeni heritage. Regional police chief Mian Javed Islam told The Associated Press that the men were between the ages of 18 and 20 and had spent the past few days in the city, which is near an air base about 125 miles south of the capital, Islamabad. He said they were being questioned ...
Famous weather scientist: Climategate 'tip of iceberg'
Post Date: 2009-12-09 07:33:26 by borntoweardiamonds
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'Conspiracy would become manifest' if all climate research e-mails unveiled The Colorado scientist described by the Washington Post as "the World's Most Famous Hurricane Expert" says the "ClimateGate" e-mails from the United Kingdom that revealed possible data manipulation are evidence of a conspiracy among "warmists," those who believe man's actions are triggering possibly catastrophic climate change. "The recent 'ClimateGate' revelations coming out of the UK University of East Anglia are but the tip of a giant iceberg of a well organized international climate warming conspiracy that has been gathering momentum for the last 25 ...
President Obama told me to stop ‘demeaning’ him, says Rep. Conyers
Post Date: 2009-12-08 16:29:30 by Happy Quanzaa
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President Barack Obama recently called Rep. John Conyers Jr. to express his frustrations with the Judiciary Committee chairman’s criticism. In an interview with The Hill, Conyers said his opinions of Obama’s policies on healthcare reform and the war in Afghanistan have not sat well with the president. According to the lawmaker, the president picked up the phone several weeks ago to find out why Conyers was “demeaning” him. Obama’s decision to challenge Conyers highlights a sensitivity to criticism the president has taken on the left. Conyers’s critical remarks, many of which have been reported on the liberal-leaning Huffington Post, appear to have irritated ...
Russian General: China Is a Potential Enemy
Post Date: 2009-12-08 16:19:14 by A K A Stone
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Newly appointed Chief of Staff of the Russian Land Forces, Lieutenant-General Sergey Skokov, recently made a statement that caused a major sensation across the Russian Federation. Speaking about possible conflicts that Russia may face in the future, he outlined three distinct scenarios: fighting in the "western, southern" and eastern" directions. In the west, Russia may face an innovative, high-tech enemy with "contact-less" modes of fighting - read, the NATO alliance. In the south, Russia faces "irregular formations that conduct guerrilla-style warfare." And in the east, "it could be a millions-strong army that fights along traditional, conventional ...
Art contest winner is just pants
Post Date: 2009-12-08 14:08:02 by Bickus Dickus
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Art contest winner is just pants Winner of 2009 Turnip Prize The winning Y-fronts are proudly displayed above the pub's bar A pair of baggy old underpants took the top prize in Somerset's rejoinder to the world of modern art. The Turnip Prize for bad art is presented by the New Inn in Wedmore and timed to coincide with the slightly better-known Turner Prize award. The winning work, cheekily entitled Manhole Cover, was proudly displayed above the bar. Landlord Trevor Prideaux presented the "artist" - who called herself Frank Van Bough - with a turnip. In a ceremony broadcast live on BBC Points West, Frank said she was "completely underwhelmed" at winning ...
South African Actors Up in Arms Over Jennifer Hudson's Casting as Winnie Mandela
Post Date: 2009-12-08 08:47:09 by sneakypete
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Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson, recently cast to play Winnie Madikizela- Mandela in 'Winnie' -- a new film about the wife of Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first black president -- has come in for some flack for being cast in the role. According to AFP and other sources, the Creative Workers Union of South Africa, a group representing that country's actors, said "using foreign actors to tell the country's stories undermined efforts to develop the national film industry ... It can't happen that we want to develop our own Hollywood and yet bring in imports," the union's president Mabutho Sithole said in the Citizen newspaper. In addition, the ...
Switzerland halves non-EU work permits
Post Date: 2009-12-07 20:59:21 by Thor
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Switzerland announced Friday it would halve from 2010 its quotas of permits for workers from outside Europe. Geneva -- Switzerland announced Friday it would halve from 2010 its quotas of permits for workers from outside Europe, with unemployment and immigration at high levels. The Swiss government also announced a drop in immigration from EU countries and so held back on invoking a clause that would allow it to temporarily bar European workers to protect its job market. For workers outside of Europe, "A maximum of 2,000 residency permits and 3,500 short-term residency permits can be issued next year, half for the year underway," it said in a statement. These quotas could be ...
Rift flares after US Episcopal Church elects gay bishop
Post Date: 2009-12-07 10:38:50 by A K A Stone
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A diocese in Los Angeles has elected only the second openly gay bishop in the global Anglican Church, reigniting an issue that has caused deep division. Canon Mary Glasspool was elected assistant bishop, although she needs a majority of national Episcopal Church heads to back her consecration. The election of the first openly gay bishop, Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, six years ago created a massive rift. Traditionalists have already expressed opposition to the latest election. Conservatives insist the Bible unequivocally outlaws homosexuality whereas liberals believe the Bible should be reinterpreted in the light of contemporary wisdom. The row led to the formation of a conservative ...
Tens of Thousands Protest Chávez in Venezuela
Post Date: 2009-09-07 19:51:02 by A K A Stone
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- Tens of thousands marched through Venezuela's capital on Saturday to protest what they call growing authoritarianism by President Hugo Chávez. A few thousand of the president's backers held a separate counter-rally to express support for the government's policies. Anti-Chávez protesters, many of them wearing white, filled the streets of Caracas, denouncing recent arrests of opposition members for alleged violence during protests and a new education law that critics fear could lead to indoctrination in schools. "It's very concerning because education is Venezuela's future," said 23-year-old engineering student Carlos ...
'Massive' ancient wall uncovered in Jerusalem
Post Date: 2009-09-07 08:51:43 by A K A Stone
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JERUSALEM (CNN) -- An archaeological dig in Jerusalem has turned up a 3,700-year-old wall that is the largest and oldest of its kind found in the region, experts say. Standing 8 meters (26 feet) high, the wall of huge cut stones is a marvel to archaeologists. "To build straight walls up 8 meters ... I don't know how to do it today without mechanical equipment," said the excavation's director, Ronny Reich. "I don't think that any engineer today without electrical power [could] do it." Archaeologist Eli Shukron of the Israel Antiquities Authority added, "You see all the big boulders -- all the boulders are 4 to 5 tons." The discovered section is ...
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