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Iceland to be fast-tracked into European Union to stop economic meltdown
Post Date: 2009-02-01 20:15:07 by A K A Stone
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Iceland is to be fast-tracked into the European Union in an attempt to stop the country going into complete financial meltdown, it emerged last night. The small Arctic nation is expected to apply for membership within months and become the 29th member state of the EU within just two years. Olli Rehn, the European commissioner in charge of enlargement, said: 'The EU prefers two countries joining at the same time rather than individually. If Iceland applies shortly and the negotiations are rapid, Croatia and Iceland could join the EU in parallel. 'On Iceland, I hope I will be busier. It is one of the oldest democracies in the world and its strategic and economic positions would be ...
Alliance Reborn: An Atlantic Compact for the 21st Century
Post Date: 2009-02-01 20:08:30 by A K A Stone
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A new report by four Washington think tanks calls for a reinvigorated Atlantic partnership to tackle global challenges and urgent shifts in NATO strategy in Afghanistan and relations with Russia. It proposes that NATO rebalance its “home and away missions;” restructure its military capabilities and command arrangements; adjust decision-making, spending and management practices; and develop a fuller partnership with the European Union and other institutions. As the Obama administration reviews its plans for Afghanistan and prepares for NATO’s 60th Anniversary Summit in April, this report advances concrete policy and defense planning recommendations concerning the ...
Netanyahu: Iran nukes trump global economy
Post Date: 2009-01-29 08:25:57 by A K A Stone
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DAVOS, Switzerland – Israeli election front-runner Benjamin Netanyahu told a session of the World Economic Forum on Thursday that preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons ranks far above the global economy among the challenges facing leaders of the 21st century. Discussing leadership in crisis on a panel that also included British Conservative leader David Cameron, the hawkish Israeli Likud Party leader discussed the need for Israel to lower taxes and increase competitiveness if he emerges as prime minister after Feb. 10 elections. Netanyahu, a former finance minister, said he believes the global financial meltdown is reversible if governments, businesses and people make the ...
Nuke From Iran Within This Year
Post Date: 2009-01-27 09:27:30 by A K A Stone
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ran Within This Year' Breaking News 2:14pm UK, Tuesday January 27, 2009 Geoff Meade, defence correspondent Iran will have enough enriched uranium to make a single nuclear weapon later this year, the prestigious International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) predicts. 2:14pm UK, Tuesday January 27, 2009 Geoff Meade, defence correspondent Iran will have enough enriched uranium to make a single nuclear weapon later this year, the prestigious International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) predicts. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits a uranium enrichment facility The think tank's ...
Whore Wannabee Natalie Dylan, 22 wants to auction off her Virginity.
Post Date: 2009-01-13 07:15:07 by A K A Stone
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Natalie Dylan, 22, claims her offer of a one-night stand has persuaded 10,000 men to bid for sex with her. Last September, when her auction came to light, she had received bids up to £162,000 ($243,000) but since then interest in her has rocketed. The student who has a degree in Women's Studies insisted she was not demeaning herself. Miss Dylan, from San Diego, California, USA, said she was persuaded to offer herself to the highest bidder after her sister Avia, 23, paid for her own degree after working as a prostitute for three weeks. She said she had had a lot of attention from a wide range of men, including "weirdos", "those who get really graphically sexual ...
Pictured: The moment a $3million ransom was parachuted to Somali pirates
Post Date: 2009-01-09 22:35:26 by A K A Stone
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This is the dramatic moment a ransom of $3million was paid to Somali pirates to end the world's biggest ship hijacking. The canister full of cash was parachuted onto the Sirius Star - observed by the U.S. Navy who provided these images - and the two-month ordeal of the 25 crew, including two Britons, was finally over. However things went badly wrong for the pirates soon after the drop - they squabbled over how to split the money and then a wave washed off their getaway boat and drowned five of them. Enlarge Dramatic: The apparent ransom payment is delivered via a parachuted container to pirates holding the Sirius Star Dramatic: The apparent ransom payment is delivered via a ...
Israel and Hamas both ignore U.N. call for cease-fire
Post Date: 2009-01-09 22:25:50 by A K A Stone
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Reporting from The Gaza Strip and Jerusalem -- Israel and Hamas ignored a United Nations cease-fire resolution Friday as the Israeli army attacked 70 targets in the Gaza Strip and Palestinian militants fired a barrage of rockets at southern Israel from the beleaguered seaside enclave.
Fighting in Gaza continued for a 14th day with little indication that the international community or an Egyptian-backed peace initiative would bring a quick end to hostilities. Hamas officials said they would not heed a resolution they were not consulted about. Israel, complaining that the U.N. action was unworkable, kept thousands of army reservists on alert and vowed to continue the offensive.
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This Site Isn't Dead. Its Resting
Post Date: 2009-01-03 23:29:11 by A K A Stone
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Its Just resting. Trust Me.
PAPER: GAZA ROCKETS PUT ISRAEL NUKE PLANT IN BATTLE ZONE
Post Date: 2009-01-01 19:39:45 by A K A Stone
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There were growing fears in Israel last night that Hamas missiles could threaten its top-secret nuclear facility at Dimona. Rocket attacks from Gaza have forced Israelis to flee in ever greater numbers and military chiefs have been shaken by the size and sophistication of the militant group’s arsenal. In Beersheba, until a few days ago a sleepy desert town in southern Israel, there is little sign of the 186,000 inhabitants. Schools are closed and the streets of shuttered shops echo with the howl of sirens warning of incoming rockets. Israeli planes, meanwhile, began a new stage yesterday in their offensive on Gaza, killing Nizar Rayyan, a senior Hamas official. The one-tonne bomb in ...
Federal Reserve sets stage for Weimar-style Hyperinflation
Post Date: 2008-12-21 01:30:45 by A K A Stone
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The Federal Reserve has bluntly refused a request by a major US financial news service to disclose the recipients of more than $2 trillion of emergency loans from US taxpayers and to reveal the assets the central bank is accepting as collateral. Their lawyers resorted to the bizarre argument that they did so to protect 'trade secrets.' Is the secret that the US financial system is de facto bankrupt? The latest Fed move is further indication of the degree of panic and lack of clear strategy within the highest ranks of the US financial institutions. Unprecedented Federal Reserve expansion of the Monetary Base in recent weeks sets the stage for a future Weimar-style hyperinflation ...
Minority Report-style CCTV that spots crimes BEFORE they happen
Post Date: 2008-11-27 19:18:07 by A K A Stone
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A Minority Report style CCTV system which helps predict crimes before they actually happen has been installed for the first time in a UK city. Portsmouth City Council has set up the network of 'intelligent' cameras which can alert an operator to suspicious behaviour. The Perceptrak system, produced by Smart CCTV Ltd, is able to spot 'unusual' incidents such as somebody loitering or a vehicle travelling too fast. It then alerts the CCTV operator who can assess the situation and take appropriate action if they believe a crime has been committed or is about to be. The system is being set up to watch quiet areas such as car parks, stairwells or corridors in buildings and ...
Venezuela, Iran to create university to teach "21st century socialism"
Post Date: 2008-11-19 07:58:01 by A K A Stone
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Iran and Venezuela have signed some thirty cooperation agreements in the last few months Politics The governments of Venezuela and Iran signed an agreement in Caracas to create the "University of Civilizations," an education center to train students in the "principles of the Bolivarian Revolution and the 21st century Socialism,", Venezuelan state-run news agency ABN reported on Monday. "The new university will be built in Caracas (...) and at the next Joint Commission to be held in Iran in 2009 (...) (Participants) will see the scale model of the project and will exchange ideas and programs with the faculty", said Tibisay Hung, the Venezuelan Vice Minister ...
Indian Navy sinks pirate mothership during bold stand-off in Gulf of Aden
Post Date: 2008-11-19 07:50:06 by A K A Stone
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An Indian navy warship has sunk a Somali pirate "mother ship" in the Gulf of Aden, the world's most treacherous waterway, after the renegades threatened to attack the frigate. The clash happened as pirates claimed to begin negotiations over a ransom for the Saudi super-tanker that was seized nearby on Saturday with two Britons aboard. The Sirius Star, which is carrying at least $100 million worth of oil, is the biggest ship ever to be hijacked. INS Tabar, an Indian frigate dispatched last month to the area to protect the country's merchant fleet, sighted the pirate vessel late on Tuesday. Indian officers said they spotted pirates moving on the deck with rocket propelled ...
US treasury secretary announces government will not buy toxic assets (PAULSON IS A LIAR!)
Post Date: 2008-11-13 17:55:15 by A K A Stone
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US treasury secretary Henry Paulson said today that the US government had reversed course on its $700bn economic rescue package and will not relieve troubled banks and financial institutions of assets. Paulson said the government will spend $250bn to purchase shares in banks in order to supply them with capital to make new loans, thereby righting US credit markets and getting the economy moving again. At a press conference in Washington, Paulson said the Bush administration remains committed to reducing home foreclosure rates, and said the consumer credit market, including the roughly 40% provided by securities backed by pooled auto loans and credit card debt also needs government ...
Ex-Hitler youth's warning to America'Every day brings this nation closer to Nazi-style totalitarian
Post Date: 2008-11-13 07:28:34 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON – Because it has abandoned moral absolutes and its historic Christian faith, the U.S. is moving closer to a Nazi-style totalitarianism, warns a former German member of the Hitler Youth in a new book. "Every day brings this nation closer to a Nazi-style totalitarian abyss," writes Hilmar von Campe, now a U.S. citizen, and author of "Defeating the Totalitarian Lie: A Former Hitler Youth Warns America." Von Campe has founded the national Institute for Truth and Freedom to fight for a return to constitutional government in the U.S. – a key, he believes, to keeping America free. "I lived the Nazi nightmare, and, as the old saying goes, 'A man ...
Official fined for leaving al-Qaida papers on train
Post Date: 2008-10-29 19:01:05 by A K A Stone
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A senior Whitehall official who left highly classified intelligence documents about al-Qaida and the capabilities of the Iraqi security forces on a train was fined £2,500 yesterday by Westminster magistrates court after admitting negligence. Richard Jackson, 37, of Yateley, Hampshire, who had been seconded from the Ministry of Defence to the Cabinet Office, was charged under a section of the Official Secrets Act covering the safeguarding of information. It is the first prosecution of its kind and it had been assumed in Whitehall he would be disciplined by internal procedures rather than charged under the criminal law. The court heard he had already taken a "drastic" pay ...
Prominent Scientist Warns of HPV Vaccine Dangers
Post Date: 2008-10-26 19:56:06 by A K A Stone
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Independent health researcher Grace Filby, who won a Churchill Fellowship for her research into phage therapy, is calling on the government for more research into the possible side-effects of the HPV vaccine that is currently being given to teenage girls. Filby believes that not enough is known about the effects of the vaccine on children with pre-existing medical conditions and weakened immune systems. She says, "We simply do not know whether the vaccine interacts with other medication or medical conditions, and the manufacturers have not studied it yet. This could be a very valid reason why some families and schools might hesitate or opt out." She has this week written to ...
Follow the Box
Post Date: 2008-10-26 19:50:55 by A K A Stone
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BBC News is following a container around world for a year to tell stories of globalisation and the world economy - track the BBC box on a live updating map as it travels the globe.
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Toilet stench clears out London airport
Post Date: 2008-10-24 19:26:27 by A K A Stone
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London City Airport was briefly evacuated and flights grounded Friday due to fumes emanating from the toilets, police said. The fifth-biggest airport serving the British capital, London City was closed from about 3:00 pm (1400 GMT) to 5:15pm (1615 GMT) after a "suspect substance" was discovered in the toilets, said an airport spokeswoman. The airport was evacuated as a precautionary measure. Police believe that an item left by a passenger in a bin was wrongly poured away down a toilet. "Some people had suffered coughing and skin irritation," a spokesman for London' Metropolitan Police told AFP. "It would appear that a liquid or substance was disposed of ...
Hope for common cold treatment
Post Date: 2008-10-24 14:29:43 by A K A Stone
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The characteristic effects of a cold are not brought about directly by the virus but by its ability to turn the body's own defences against itself, scientists have found. Up to half of common colds are caused by various strains of the human rhinovirus and new research has shown the bug triggers a domino effect where the body's own defences over-react causing the familiar symptoms. The findings could result in treatments for common colds caused by rhinovirus which strike hundreds of thousands of people each year in the UK. Current treatments only work on allievating the symptoms rather than tackling the cause of the cold. A team at the University of Calgary, in Canada, took ...
Russia’s Resentment of the West Began With a Broken Promise
Post Date: 2008-10-23 21:14:03 by A K A Stone
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It did not take the clash between Russia and Georgia to reveal that relations between Russia and the West have taken a bad turn. They have been deteriorating since the mid-1990s, when the decision was taken to expand NATO to include the former Warsaw Pact states. At the time of that decision, George F. Kennan, the most eminent American diplomat of his time, said this could be the most disastrous mistake made in American foreign policy in decades. He erred only in underestimating the comparative scale of the blunders that would follow, in the George W. Bush administration. In a recent column I quoted the final U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, Jack Matlock, on the promise made personally ...
Supersonic Rocket Car Aims For 1,000 MPH
Post Date: 2008-10-23 21:09:49 by A K A Stone
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The Britons who built the first car to break the sound barrier are back with plans to shatter their own record in a jet-powered land-rocket they're betting will be the first car to top 1,000 mph. Royal Air Force pilot Andy Green will make his run for the record strapped into the Bloodhound SSC, a 42-foot-long missile powered by a rocket bolted to a jet engine. With 45,000 pounds of thrust available at full throttle, Bloodhound will hit 1,050 mph in just 41 seconds and cross the salt faster than a speeding bullet. "There has never been anything like Bloodhound SSC before," says team leader Richard Noble, who set a land speed record of his own in 1983. "It is ...
Mideast leader: Obama a Muslim who studied in Islamic schools
Post Date: 2008-10-19 08:49:32 by A K A Stone
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JERUSALEM – Sen. Barack Obama is a Muslim of Kenyan origins who studied in Islamic schools and whose campaign may have been financed by people in the Islamic and African worlds, Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi said during a recent televised national rally. "There are elections in America now. Along came a black citizen of Kenyan African origins, a Muslim, who had studied in an Islamic school in Indonesia. His name is Obama," said Gadhafi in little-noticed remarks he made at a rally marking the anniversary of the 1986 U.S. air raid on his country. The remarks, translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute, MEMRI, were aired on Al Jazeera in June. "All the ...
Half of mammals 'in decline', says extinction 'Red List'
Post Date: 2008-10-06 23:16:26 by A K A Stone
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Half the world's mammals are declining in population and more than a third probably face extinction, said an update Monday of the "Red List," the most respected inventory of biodiversity. A comprehensive survey of mammals included in the annual report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which covers more than 44,000 animal and plant species, shows that a quarter of the planet's 5,487 known mammals are clearly at risk of disappearing forever. But the actual situation may be even grimmer because researchers have been unable to classify the threat level for another 836 mammals due to lack of data. "In reality, the number of threatened mammals ...
Busy at work
Post Date: 2008-10-06 08:14:42 by A K A Stone
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Busy at work. Someone post some shit.
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