Alleged kidnappers arrested in Juárez

This kidnapping is more common than people want to believe ! Jaurez is Known for it's "Ladies" as they call them , Nothing but prostitutes is what they are , some of them do it Willingly ( For Big Money ) Others , like this girl do it Against their will ! It is a sleazy place at best , And A lot of the sleaze is over looked for money !
El Paso Times

The Mexican army arrested a group of suspected
kidnappers and rescued an 18-year-old woman who was forced into
prostitution at a clandestine massage parlor in Juárez, a military
spokesman said Sunday.

The woman, who her mother said was
kidnapped about 10 days ago, was found by her brothers who then
contacted the military for help, said Enrique Torres, spokesman for
Joint Operation Chihuahua.

Saturday evening, soldiers arrested
suspected kidnappers Ruben Acosta Aguilera, 29, Adrian Alfonso
Alvarado, 23, and Joel Castillo Diaz, 19. The identity of a fourth man
will be released today, Torres said.

No other women were located. An investigation continues.

The flood of homicides continued during the weekend
with nine killings Saturday and at least two deaths early Sunday,
raising the death toll to nearly 200 people slain this month in the
Juárez area.

Govt offers Rs50 million reward for Baitullah

Poor Baitullah , he just can't get a break ! His own people have turned against Him !
 It is bad enough that the U.S has been Offering 5 million for his lame ass ,  His own people think he is worth only $615,000 ! If you are going to take the big life change and try to be the Biggest Bad guy of a country , You would probably hope to bring in a bigger bounty than that !   Baitullah , Is right now sucking his thumb in full fetal position ,Crying over and over ,  IT'S NOT FAIR , IT'S NOT FAIR !
Dawn.com

Two national Urdu-language newspapers and local papers in Peshawar,
capital of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), carried an advert
offering the Rs50 million ($615,300-dollar)the government has announced a cash reward for anybody providing authentic information leading to the capture of these (11), dead or alive,’ said the
advertisement.

It then goes on to list the 11 men, along with their bounties.

Fayyaz Tooro, home secretary of the North West Frontier Province, confirmed to AFP that the government had taken out the advert.

Mehsud
already has a five-million-dollar bounty on his head offered by the
United States, with the US State Department branding the warlord ‘a key
Al-Qaeda facilitator in the tribal areas of South Waziristan.’

Chavez threatens military action over Honduras coup

More civil unrest in the world , The president of Honduras , Manuel Zelaya , Is pushed out of office by the Military and Exiled somewhere in central America !
 And now Chavez is threatening war again ! Chavez has been very quite lately , He , just like Kim Jong-il ,always looks for confrontation to get his Name in the news again !

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday put
troops on alert after a coup in Honduras and said he would respond
militarily if his envoy to the Central American country was kidnapped
or killed.

Chavez said Honduran
soldiers took away the Cuban ambassador and left the Venezuelan
ambassador on the side of a road after beating him during the army's
coup against his leftist ally, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya.

The
Honduran army ousted Zelaya and exiled him in Central America's first
military coup since the Cold War, after he upset the army by trying to
win re-election.

Chavez said on
state television if his ambassador to Venezuela was killed, or if
troops entered the Venezuelan Embassy, "that military junta would be
entering a de facto state of war. We would have to act militarily ... I
have put the armed forces of Venezuela on alert."

Ecuadorean
President Rafael Correa, part of a coalition of leftist governments
headed by Chavez that includes Honduras, said he would support military
action if Ecuador's diplomats or those of its allies were threatened.

China's top dissident arrested for subversion

If Sentenced Liu Xiaobo, Faces 15 years in prison , most likely in a labor Camp , where his mind will be "Reset" Through hard work , and constant brainwashing !

BEIJING (Reuters) - One of China's best known dissidents, Liu
Xiaobo, has been formally arrested on suspicion of inciting subversion,
following his detention late last year for promoting a petition calling
for an end to one-party rule.

The move brings one of the most prominent critics of the ruling
Communist Party a step closer to trial, and it will be a blow to
supporters and human rights groups who had hoped he would be released
after China passed the politically sensitive 20th anniversary of the
1989 pro-democracy Tiananmen protests.

State news agency Xinhua said on Wednesday prosecutors approved Liu's
arrest by Beijing police on Tuesday for "alleged agitation activities
aimed at subversion of government and overthrowing of the socialist
system."]

Liu has been a thorn in the government's side since 1989 when he
joined a hunger strike in support of student protesters days before the
army crushed the pro-democracy movement centered on Tiananmen Square on
June 4 that year.
Late last year, he was among 303 dissidents and rights activists who
launched "Charter 08," a petition calling for the dismantling of
one-party rule and creation of multi-party democracy. About 9,000
people have signed the petition since.

Al Qaeda says would use Pakistani nuclear weapons

I hate to tell this Douchbag that if Pakistan falls to the Taliban , Before they can even figure out how to arm a nuclear device and aim it at the U.S , they may have a chance to see what one looks like in Action ! Now that you have helped confirm our Beliefs in what you will Do ! Stupid Ass !

DUBAI (Reuters) - If it were in a position to do so, Al Qaeda would use Pakistan's nuclear weapons in its fight against the United States, a top leader of the group said in remarks aired Sunday.

Pakistan has been battling al Qaeda's Taliban allies in the Swat Valley since April after their thrust into a district 100 km (60 miles) northwest of the capital raised fears the nuclear-armed country could slowly slip into militant hands.

"God willing, the nuclear weapons will not fall into the hands of the Americans and the mujahideen would take them and use them against the Americans," Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, the leader of al Qaeda's in Afghanistan, said in an interview with Al Jazeera television.

Abu al-Yazid was responding to a question about U.S. safeguards to seize control over Pakistan's nuclear weapons in case Islamist fighters came close to doing so.

"We expect that the Pakistani army would be defeated (in Swat) ... and that would be its end everywhere, God willing."

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Rwanda minister given 30 years' jail for genocide

30 years ? That's it ? I do Believe that the death sentence would be a better option ! But in many countries where Genocide has occurred , The court's always seem to take pity on many of the these Scumbags , and give them Jail time !

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - A U.N. court trying masterminds of Rwanda's 1994 genocide Monday gave a 30-year jail sentence to a former interior minister accused of tricking thousands of people to hide on a hill before they were killed.

The Tanzania-based International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) said Callixte Kalimanzira, a close ally to the president and prime minister during the killing spree, was guilty of genocide and complicity to commit genocide.

"Yes, it is 30 years," Bocar Sy, ICTR head of public affairs and information, told Reuters by phone from Arusha in north Tanzania where the court sits.

Hutu militias butchered 800,000 minority Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus in the 100-day massacre that shocked Africa and the world.

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Qaeda seeks war, not refuge, in Yemen, Somalia

Reading this You have to wonder if Al Qaida are getting a little nervous over the fact that the Taliban is being smacked around by the Pakistani Military ! If OBL is still Alive , he has surely pooped himself over the last few weeks ,mainly because he realizes , he has no where to go !

the Daily Times
LONDON: Under pressure in his Pakistan enclaves, Osama Bin Laden is facing a familiar quandary: Where to go next? The answer is unlikely to be Yemen or Somalia, despite their new prominence as regional Al Qaeda sanctuaries.

US drone attacks and a looming army offensive against one of Al Qaeda’s main allies in the Tribal Areas have stirred speculation that Bin Laden’s men are seeking a less risky refuge for their anti-Western campaign.

Exposure: But simply leaving FATA could expose the world’s most wanted man and his entourage of planners and bodyguards to satellite detection and the curious gaze of a local population of uncertain loyalty.

“The moment that Al Qaeda has to leave FATA, that is the end of Al Qaeda as an organisation,” said Thomas Hegghammer, a research fellow at Harvard University.

Yemen was “a pretty good safe haven” for lower-level members of Al Qaeda provided the group did not get too strong and did not bring in the leadership. The presence of senior figures would provoke a tough security response from the government and the United States, he said.

The US has fired missiles at militants in Yemen and Somalia before, and would be widely expected to do so again if a substantial Al Qaeda influx were spotted in either country.

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Fighter jets bomb South Waziristan

More Taliban good news ! Even if all this ends up back the way it was , with the Taliban moving in and taking over , it is good news to here that these meatbags are having their ass's kicked damn near everyday ! Dead Taliban = Good Taliban !

Daily Times
PESHAWAR: Fighter jets bombed Taliban hideouts in South Waziristan on Friday, targeting two compounds, three madrassas and a suspected training camp under the command of Baitullah Mehsud, reported the AFP news agency as – according to military sources – security forces clashed with followers of Baitullah in the region.

The military sources also said Friday’s operation “should be read as the formal launch of an offensive against Baitullah”.

“Fighter jets on Friday started bombing suspected Taliban hideouts,” an intelligence official in Wana was quoted as saying.

The AP news agency quoted intelligence officials as saying that several Taliban had been killed or wounded in the bombings. According to the agency, the bombings were launched in response to reports of Taliban’s presence in Zor Sorvakai, Madijan and Katkai areas, said the intelligence officials, adding that troop deployment in several areas was complete, and soldiers were moving towards strategic areas where “large numbers of Taliban were ... entrenched”. One of them said the military was blocking roads the Taliban could use to flee.

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Lookout The Tanks are coming !

Lunchtime Tank Parade ! Right at lunch today these Guys and 13 others rolled down the road that divides the Jobsite I'm on , Firing ranges are typically Very Fun places to be , But when you are working on a Tank range in between Tank ranges , hearing them fire off round after round from big and small arms ( 50 cal. )about a Mile on either side , is just f'ing Awesome !

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Jury in RIAA Trial Slaps $2 Million Fine on Jammie Thomas

She should have settled when she had the chance ! 24 songs ? 2 Million ? that is pretty steep , especially when you see the Stuff she was downloading ! Journey - Don't stop Believing ? not worth 80,000 , sheryl crow , richard Marx , Bryan adams , and some gloria Estefan ? stuff we all should be paid to listen to !

media & advertising
The Universal Music Group, owned by Vivendi, and other record labels were awarded $1.92 million on Thursday in the retrial of a Minnesota woman accused of swapping music over the Kazaa Internet service.

The federal jury in Minneapolis said the woman, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, 32, of Brainerd, should pay $80,000 for each of the 24 songs that were posted on the site so others could download them.

The first time the case went to trial, in 2007, a jury awarded $9,250 a song, or $222,000.

The Recording Industry Association of America brought more than 35,000 legal actions against people it claimed were illegally sharing music before changing its policy in December. This is the only case that has gone to trial.

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First hard evidence found of a lake on Mars

Where there is Water , there is Life !

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A long, deep canyon and the remains of beaches are perhaps the clearest evidence yet of a standing lake on the surface of Mars -- one that apparently contained water when the planet was supposed to have already dried up, scientists said on Wednesday.

Images from a camera called the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter indicate water carved a 30-mile-(50-km-)long canyon, a team at the University of Colorado at Boulder reported.

It would have covered 80 square miles (200 sq km) and been up to 1,500 feet deep, the researchers wrote in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

There is now no dispute that water exists on the surface or Mars -- robot explorers have found ice. There is also evidence that water may still seep to the surface from underground, although it quickly disappears in the cold, thin atmosphere of the red planet.

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North Korea chemical weapons threaten region

Some more doomsday talk about North Korea , Chemical weapons and possibly biological weapons , along with the possibility of a nuclear warhead ! Spooky , isn't it ! And if they have been developing Chemical and Biological weapons , isn't that a violation of the sanctions that have been brought upon them in the Past ?

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has several thousand tonnes of chemical weapons it can mount on missiles that could be used on a rapid strike against the South, said a report released on Thursday by the International Crisis Group (ICG)
The report from the prestigious non-governmental organization said the consensus view is the North's army possess about 2,500-5,000 tonnes of chemical weapons that include mustard gas, sarin and other deadly nerve agents.

"If there is an escalation of conflict and if military hostilities break out, there is a risk that they could be used. In conventional terms, North Korea is weak and they feel they might have to resort to using those," said Daniel Pinkston, the ICG's representative on Seoul.
"The stockpile does not appear to be increasing but is already sufficient to inflict massive civilian casualties on South Korea," the ICG report said.

The report said North Korea has also worked on a biological weapons program but Pinkston does not think Pyongyang has fully developed that weapons program.

In a separate report released simultaneously, the ICG said North Korea has deployed more than 600 Scud-type missiles that can hit all of South Korea and as many as 320 Rodong missiles that can strike Japan.

The ICG said earlier this year intelligence it acquired indicates the North has developed a nuclear warhead it could mount on an Rodong missile, and this latest report repeats the claim.

U.S. drones hit Waziristan targets: Pakistan officials

Surprisingly ,Pakistan has not asked the U.S. to help out in this operation , With as far as Pakistan has gone in this offensive , It would just make sense to have the U.S. step up drone attacks . But then again that would make sense !

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Suspected U.S. drone aircraft fired missiles at militant targets in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal region on the Afghan border on Thursday, killing at least five people, intelligence officials said.
The United States, alarmed by worsening security in Afghanistan, has been using pilotless drone aircraft to attack Taliban and al Qaeda fighters in northwestern Pakistani enclaves, from where the militants mount attacks into Afghanistan.
"Three missiles struck a training camp run by a local militant commander, Malang Wazir," said an intelligence official, who asked not to be identified, referring to an attack in a village west of the region's main town of Wana.

Another security official, citing witnesses, said five people had been killed in the same strike.

The second attack was in a separate village but neither of the officials had any details about casualties there.

N. Korea threatens strike after US-S. Korea summit

North Korea Stepping it up a bit , "a 100- or 1,000-fold retaliation with merciless
military strike", Sounds serious !
But really , who knows if little kimmie is ready to take that next step ?

Christian science Monitor

President Barack Obama appears to have convinced many South Korean
skeptics of the United States' commitment to the defense of South Korea
during his White House meeting Tuesday with South Korean President Lee
Myung Bak.

South Korea's defense ministry was quick to respond
with obvious relief, characterizing the promise of a continued "nuclear
umbrella" in the statement issued by the two presidents as "a warning
to North Korea."

North Korea followed up almost at once, vowing
in an editorial of "a 100- or 1,000-fold retaliation with merciless
military strike" if the US "and its followers infringe upon our
republic's sovereignty."

On that note, the summit – and the
response – opens a new phase of a confrontation that seems to worsen by
the day, at least in terms of rhetoric.

Mideast peace possible only if imposed

Forced peace ? as funny as this sounds it is pretty much the truth !  Palestinians will never accept Israel as a state ,
 Israel will never accept Palestine as a state .
Stubborn attitudes all the way around , is the main problem , you can not get the two sides to agree on anything , they possibly will come to some kind of agreement to sorta make nice , then all hell will break lose again and their will be another war ! they are just plain stubborn and filled with way to much religious Arrogance to come to grips with what they need to do to get peace !

JERUSALEM (AFP) — A Middle East peace deal is possible only if it is
forced on Israelis and Palestinians by US-led efforts, one of Israel's
best-known authors has written as he hit out at a speech by Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Netanyahu's speech on Sunday "tells
us between its contorted lines that there will be no peace here if it
is not forced upon us," David Grossman wrote remarks published on
Wednesday in the liberal Haaretz daily.

"It is not easy to admit it, but it seems increasingly that this is the choice Israelis and Palestinians face."

"A
just and secure peace -- forced on the parties through firm
international involvement, led by the United States -- or war, possibly
more difficult and bitter than those that came before it."

Grossman
virulently criticised Netanyahu's address, in which the premier for the
first time accepted the creation of a Palestinian state, but set a slew
of conditions rejected by the Palestinians.

China to swap bullets for lethal injections

How nice ! China is coming around a little in their human rights issues !   Now you can just be  "put to sleep" instead of facing the firing squad !

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's capital plans to use lethal injections
in executions by the end of the year and firing squads will eventually
be phased out across the country, state media on said on Tuesday,
quoting law officials.

Lethal injections were "cleaner, safer and more convenient," the official
China Daily quoted the director of China's Supreme People's Court, Hu
Yunteng, as saying.

"As lethal injection is the most popular method for execution adopted by countries
with capital punishment, China will follow suit ... it is considered
more humane," Hu added, although a complete nationwide shift was a
long-term goal because of costs.

In the capital, however, a new facility near a prison that houses most of
the capital's death row inmates has rooms for execution, observation
and storage of bodies, the Beijing News reported.

Iranian interior ministry bans opposition protest rally in Tehran

well it is very official now , with the banning of anymore protests , and ahmadinejad , saying that the election results are fair , there will now be four more years of Irans biggest Jackass !

Gaurdian.co.uk
A planned rally by supporters of the defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi in Tehran has been banned by Iran's interior ministry, but protesters still looked set to take to the streets later today.

The news came as reports spread that dozens of leading members of the opposition had been detained.

Mousavi is reported to have appealed to the country's guardian council to challenge the result of the elections, alleging widespread fraud.

However, the president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, claimed the results were fair and compared the protests to the passion shown by football fans after a game.

Earlier, Mousavi's supporters had been handing out leaflets and sending internet messages calling for a rally in Tehran's Enghelab Square at 4pm local time. But it is now unclear whether protesters will take to the streets.

A message broadcast on state radio said: "The interior ministry issued a statement and said no permission had been issued for a rally ... the holding of such a gathering would be illegal."

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Pakistan orders offensive against Taliban chief

Very awesome ! with lots of luck the Pakistani military will find Baitullah mehsud , with a nice airstrike , or maybe with a few dozen bullets ! either way this is one douche I would love to see Martyred !

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan has ordered the military to carry out an offensive against Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud and his fighters, a provincial governor said on Sunday.

The
announcement came hours after a bomb in a market killed eight people in
a northwest Pakistani town, the latest in a wave of attacks since the
army launched an offensive against Taliban militants in the Swat valley northwest of Islamabad.

Mehsud has been blamed for many of the suicide attacks in Pakistan,
including the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, in
December 2007.

Expectations have
been rising that the military will launch an offensive against him as
the army enters the final stages of its campaign in Swat.

"The
military and law enforcement agencies have been ordered to carry out a
full-fledged operation to eliminate these beasts and killers by using
all resources," Awais Ahmed Ghani, governor of North West Frontier
Province, told reporters, referring to Mehsud.

He
did not say when the offensive would be launched but said Mehsud and
his people had provided shelter to "anti-Pakistan forces," including
many foreigners, and had been training suicide bombers.

Ahmadinejad re-elected in Iran, Mousavi cries foul

Of course Ahmadinejad Wins , did you expect anything else ?

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
resoundingly won Iran's election, preliminary official results showed
on Saturday, but his moderate challenger alleged irregularities and
claimed victory for himself.

The level of the incumbent's support, nearly twice as many votes as former
Prime Minister Mirhossein Mousavi with most ballots counted from
Friday's poll, confounded widespread expectations that the race would
at least go to a second round.

N.Korea threatens military action, to enrich uranium

Now that did not take long did it ? North Korea will never stop their nuke program , they will never stop trying to intimidate the world !

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea on Saturday threatened military action
if the United States tried to isolate it after the U.N. Security
Council imposed widened sanctions against the reclusive communist state
for a nuclear test in May.

The
North also vowed to start a programme to enrich uranium and to
weaponise plutonium at its nuclear weapons plant, the North's official
news agency KCNA quoted its foreign ministry spokesman as saying.

The
sanctions resolution approved on Friday banned all weapons exports from
North Korea and most arms imports into the state. It authorized U.N.
member states to inspect North Korean sea, air and land cargo,
requiring them to seize and destroy any goods transported in violation
of the sanctions.

A senior South
Korean official said that North Korea may possibly respond to U.N.
punishment with "another nuclear test and maybe more missiles."

Wings lose , Penguins Stanley Cup Champs !

A very disappointing outcome , But what a Hell of a Game !
Wings shot down with a 2 to 1 loss !

The Wings are still the Best Fucking Team in the NHL !

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Qaeda short of food, arms in Afghanistan

Oh what a shame ! poor Al Qaida , they don't have enough food , they don't even have enough ammo to continue in the Jihad ! That is just horrible ,  What is a good Mujihadeen to do with himself ? Can't fight , can't eat , I bet they don't even have enough energy to Rape those poor little goats !  and That is just to bad , Cause you know how much Mujihadeen love to rape goats ! ... Glad to see them so well supported !

Daily times
ISTANBUL: The leader of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan says militants are
short of food, weapons and other supplies needed to fight foreign
forces there, a website linked to the group has said.
Al Qaeda has been severely weakened in Afghanistan since US-led forces toppled
their Taliban hosts in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks. A
gap may also have opened up between Al Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban,
many of whom blame Osama Bin Laden’s group for causing the US-led
invasion, say analysts.

“In Afghanistan, we have a severe supply
deficit. The main reason for the weakness in operations is insufficient
supplies. Many … sit and wait and cannot fight for lack of supplies,”
said Mustafa Abu al-Yazid on a website used by top Al Qaeda leaders and
other militants to post statements.

“If a mujahid does not have
the money to get weapons, food, drink and the materials for jihad, he
cannot fight jihad,” said Yazid. “Fear Allah and be ambitious in waging
jihad through (donating) goods.”

Yazid called on Turks to
provide money and supplies for Al Qaeda forces in Afghanistan,
appealing to their common Muslim identity, and called for Turks to pray
for the group.

“The first recommendation is that you behave well
towards your Muslim brothers. We see Muslims in Turkey as our
brothers,” said Yazid in a statement titled ‘Advice to the Turkish
People’.

“We give you the good news of victories in Afghanistan
against America and its collaborators. They have tasted great pain in
recent months. Many of them have died thanks to Allah. Vehicles have
been destroyed and many planes shot down,” said the statement. reuters

Russia ready for nuclear-free world, Putin says

Oh Really ! Due to the fact that many countries that have nuclear weapons , also suffer from extreme arrogance (The U.S. included ) there will never be a nuclear free world ! Compare it to the anti gun thingy , Some people believe that if you ban all guns there will never be a gun crime again ! but how are you going to ensure that the Criminals turn in their guns ? How is anyone going to be sure  Israel , North Korea , pakistan , india , China , and Russia (I know I'm Missing a few !) dispose of their Nukes ? We can't even stop rouge countries like Iran and Syria from trying to develop nukes !  It all sounds good " A gun free society "  A "Nuclear weapons free world " But in reality ,It's absolutely Impossible !

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said
Wednesday he was in favor of a world free of nuclear weapons if other
countries were willing to pursue the same goal.

Speaking at a joint news conference with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter
Steinmeier, Putin said: "Why do we need nuclear weapons? If other
nuclear states are ready for (a nuclear-weapons-free world), we are
too."

U.S. President Barack Obama set out his vision for ridding the world of nuclear arms in April,
declaring the United States was ready to lead steps by all states with
atomic weapons to reduce their arsenals.

Obama is due in Russia next month for talks with President Dmitry Medvedev on
a successor to the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which
expires on December 5.

Before his visit, the two sides are trying to narrow their differences. Moscow has
said it wants to link the nuclear talks to U.S. plans, which it
strongly opposes, to deploy an anti-missile shield in central Europe.

Man sues over 55-hour erection

Uh ! What ? This guy is a psychotic idiot , but this is very funny , as far as I have heard you can not get a boner from taking anti psychosis meds ! but either way , this guy says he needs a prothesis ? ( A strap on ? )and the Nurse's name .... Ms LOVELACE !

the Straits times
NEW YORK - FORMER prison inmate, Dawud Yaduallah is suing a nurse in the United States, claiming that he suffered an erection that lasted 55 hours as a side effect of medication he had been given.

Yaduallah, 43, said he had to wait more than two days before being taken from the New York prison to hospital for treatment, reported The New York Post on Monday.

According to media reports, Yaduallah said that his daily dosage of anti-psychotic medication was increased by 25 per cent by nurse Judith Lovelace and as a side effect he had a persistent and painful erection.

This left him "irreparably injured" with "severe damage to his penis, including erectile dysfunction, inability to ejaculate and pain during sexual intercourse", court papers say.

Yaduallah also claimed that he now needs a prosthesis "to possibly restore some sexual function" and says "his medical problems have caused difficulty in his marriage".

He has also accused Ms Lovelace of giving him no medical relief, doing nothing "other than telling Mr Yaduallah to apply ice to his penis", reported news.com.au.

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Barbie Manufacturer Fined Record $2.3 Million for Importing Hazardous Toys From China

For an American company to knowingly import lead tainted toys , A 2.3 million dollar fine is nothing ! It should have been ten times that at least ! And for China Again using lead paint on products that they ship to the U.S. , They should never be able to import another Product Here again !

Epoch Times
California-based Mattel, Inc., and its Fisher-Price subsidiary will pay $2.3 million for knowingly importing and later recalling approximately 2 million lead-tainted toys. The penalty, imposed by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), is the highest ever given for violating import and distribution regulations in the country.

According to CPSC, Mattel imported 900,000 toys with hazardous levels of lead between September 2006 and August 2007. The toys were distributed to retail customers in the United States. Later, the “Sarge” cars identified as non-compliant were withdrawn from the market. The same happened to the “Barbie” toys, recalled in September 2007.

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Arms dealers revel in Somali war business

Surprise ! And what a coincidence that the most screwed up place on earth , Is also home to some of the worlds Sleazy Arms Dealers ! Next Someone is going to tell me that they have a Drug problem  in somalia !

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Sitting on a mat at home between taking orders
for arms on his two mobile phones, Osman Bare gives thanks for the
riches flowing from Somalia's war.

I have only been in the weapon business five years, but I have erected
three villas. I have also opened shops for my two wives," said the
40-year-old, one of about 400 Somali men operating in Mogadishu's main
weapons market.

"Peace means bankruptcy for us."

Despite a U.N. arms embargo on Somalia, the Horn of Africa nation is awash with
weaponry from all over the world that has fueled one of Africa's
longest-running conflicts.

In the latest cycle of civil war, militant Islamists have been fighting the
Somali government for the last two years and 18,000 civilians have been
killed in the crossfire.

According to Geneva-based research body Small Arms Survey, there are at
least 640 million firearms in the world, one for every 10 people on the
planet.

New Counternarcotics Strategy to Derail Drug Cartels

This is the smartest plan I have ever heard ,  Absolutely Amazing ! Obama Is pure Genius !
And the entire plan ... Enforce all the laws we already Have !

El Paso Times
In an effort to stamp out the violent drug cartels that have ravaged
Mexico's border towns for the past several years, the Obama
administration introduced a new national strategy to reduce drug and
arms trafficking on June 5.

In a recent report, the U.S. Department of Justice called the Mexican drug cartels
the largest organized crime threat to the United States.

The new National Soutwest Border Counternarcotics Strategy aims to fill
that demand. It will help bridge the communication gap between federal
agencies and local police in stopping the flow of weapons and bulk
currency across the Mexican Border.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said that the counternarcotics strategy will
“play a critical role in our efforts to stop cross-border drug
trafficking and violence.”

Heres the Plan...

class the objectives will be to ensure the prosecution of individuals
involved in any large drug trafficking, money laundering, bulk
currency, or weapons smuggling. It will also amp up the collection of
intelligence on the cartels and enhance technologies to detect
smugglers along the borders.

What a Novel Idea , These are all laws that should be enforced In the first place !

Report: China to require censorship software

Nice move on the part of China , Censorship is their Main concern , once everyone has "Switched over"  China will have full control of any in formation the People will see !

C NET

China's government plans to require all PCs sold in that country as
of July 1 to be shipped with software that blocks certain Web sites,
according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

The move, which is expected to give government censors heightened control
over how China's citizens use the Internet, is intended to protect
young people from "harmful" content such as pornography, according to
the software's main developer.

The software, called "Green Dam-Youth Escort," would block access to banned Web sites by connecting
to a regularly updated database of banned sites and block access to
those addresses, according to the report. The requirement is aimed at
"constructing a green, healthy, and harmonious Internet environment,
and preventing harmful information on the Internet from influencing and
poisoning young people," according to a May 19 Chinese government
notice the newspaper cited.

The Chinese government has a reputation for restricting its citizens' access to the Internet.

North Korea jails U.S. journalists, warns U.N

This is total B.S . , these two really did nothing wrong , except cross a border , If this is to be considered a "grave Crime" then North Korea has really crossed the line ! And I wonder what their sentences would be if Hillary would have kept her Mouth Shut ?

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea, facing U.N. sanctions for last
month's nuclear test, on Monday raised the stakes in its growing
confrontation with Washington by jailing two U.S. journalists to 12
years hard labor for "grave crime."

The
sentence follows U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's warning on
Sunday the United States was considering putting the reclusive North
back on its list of states that sponsor terrorism, which would further
isolate the impoverished country.

The
journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, of U.S. media outlet Current TV,
were arrested in March working on a story near the border between North
Korea and China. The trial for the two, working for the company
co-founded by former Vice President Al Gore, opened on Thursday.

"The
trial confirmed the grave crime they committed against the Korean
nation and their illegal border crossing as they had already been
indicted and sentenced each of them to 12 years of reform through
labor," the official KCNA news agency said in a brief dispatch.

Violence leaves 16 dead in Juárez

Some good times down in Jaurez this weekend , Last year it was easy to find out what was happening in Mexico , now with their tourism improvement program , it is very hard to find anything out ! typically what makes it to the news , Is the "High" profile murders (Ones that Happen openly in the streets ).


El Paso Times

The violence in Juárez continues with at least 16 killings in the past two days.

Friday, 13 people were killed, Chihuahua state police said.

The first victim was a 30-year-old man who was shot in the face several times outside his home in east Juárez at 3 a.m.

The violence exploded Friday afternoon when more than six men were killed.

About 6:30 p.m., Manuel Xicotencad Esparda Guerrero, 30, was shot 10 times inside the Mirage Bar, at Colonia Partido Romero.

On
Saturday, three men were taken to Juárez hospitals with gunshot wounds.
The men were pronounced dead later, police said. Two of the men were
identified as Salvador Luna, 49, and Abel Banda Muñoz, 33.

About 2,200 people have been killed in the violence since January 2008.

Chinese net-addict teenagers given electric shocks as treatment

Real nice , I know this was done in America and other countries , Decades ago . But done to Kids simply for being addicted to net surfing ? What  Midieval Pricks !
China news
 (ANI)Shanghai,  : In a bid to prevent Internet addiction of their children,
Chinese parents are turning towards electro-shock therapy at a clinic
that claims they will be "reborn" free of the obsession.

However,
the harsh methods used by the clinic have caused an outcry among 3000
teenagers, who have been subjected to this odd treatment, The Sunday
Times reports.

At Dr Yang Yonxin's clinic, there are at least 100 young inmates.

Their
parents have sent them to the treatment centre in Shandong province,
eastern China, because they have become hyperactive and uncontrollable.

Patients
are forbidden to speak about anything except their struggle to escape
the addiction. The boy or girl is made to write a confession and kneel
in front of his or her parents.

The clinic has 86 rules. The
regulations prescribe electric shocks as punishment for "misdeeds" such
as eating chocolate and locking the bathroom door.

Former patients, writing online, claim the shocks, some severe, were administered continuously.

Villagers fight Taliban after Pakistan mosque blast

Hillarious ! The people of Pakistan turning on the Taliban ! Well it is what they get , You just can't go around forcing people to do what you wish , they usually will push back ! now the only people that the Taliban have on their side is ,Themselves !

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Villagers in northwest Pakistan have attacked Taliban
militants killing seven of them in revenge for a bomb attack on a
mosque that killed at least 40 people, a top government official and
residents said on Sunday.

It was the latest in a series of instances of people turning their guns on the Taliban
in recent weeks and trying to force them out of their areas and will
encourage the Pakistani government which needs public support to defeat
the militants.

One resident of Upper Dir said the militia had demolished houses where Taliban were known to stay.

"We
are Muslims, we pray regularly and read the Koran. We don't want them,
they have to go," resident Samiullah Khan said by telephone. "Attacking
a mosque is not Islam. They're not Muslim."

Ethnic Pashtun tribal elder Mohtabar Khan said letting the Taliban stay was asking for trouble.

'Shipriders' to fight pirates

This to me is ridiculous ! You would think with the Pirate problem as it is that the countries involved would make an easy exception ! Let the weapons used to fight the pirates stay on board ! Let the Shipriders shoot to kill any pirate They need to , to defend the vessel the are protecting ! The world needs to get back to the days where the bad guys had less rights than the good guys ! And the protection of the good guys were held to a higher standard than those of the bad guys !

the straits times
NAIROBI (Kenya) - THERE'S not a warship for miles, a small pirate skiff
is speeding toward you and there's no way the creaking tub you're on
can outrun the bandits.

How long do you wait before you shoot? It's
just one of many possible dilemmas facing an increasing number of
private security companies who offer armed escorts - known in the
industry as 'shipriders' - from Somali pirates.

But legal problems abound for ships that carry guns. The first
hurdle is making sure the countries where ships embark and disembark
the weapons will allow them to do so - a legal nightmare in corrupt
Middle Eastern ports with terrorism problems.

Then there's the
issue of which law applies onboard the ship if a weapon is discharged:
the shooter's nationality, the law of the country whose flag the ship
is flying, or the territorial waters of the country the ship is in.

In
at least one case, a private security consultant said, an armed team
had rented weapons from the Djibouti government then was forced to drop
them over the side of the ship to avoid illegally importing them into
the country where they were due to disembark.

The consultant asked for anonymity because he did not wish to compromise his business.

Ghost captured on CCTV?

WTF? amazing looking , it looks real ! It could be real ! But who really Knows?

the Straits times

LONDON - BRITISH media outlets were excited on Friday by supposed footage of a small 'ghost' captured on a CCTV camera.

What has been described by The Sun newspaper as 'the ghost of a small child darting across a busy shopping centre' has set social network website YouTube alight.

The shadowy spirit glides in between oblivious shoppers in the eerily clear video, The Sun reported.

A possible floating phantom figure appears in the bottom right of the screen after a male shopper exits a room to the top left, described news.com.au.

According to news.com.au, the 36-second tape was taken in a shopping mall in Chile, South America, and surfaced on the internet on Friday.

Chilean media claim that the phenomenon is the ghost of a small local boy.

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korn

Korn at one of their best moments ! Best when listened to through Headphones with a lot of volume !

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All Israeli options against Iran on table

Having a Plan and Planning too , Are two different things !

(reuters) - Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak refused on Wednesday
to rule out a military strike on Iran, just hours after Israel's
foreign minister said the Jewish state would not do so.

"I repeat what I have always said, we are not taking any options off the
table," Barak said after meetings with officials from U.S. President Barack Obama's administration in Washington.

Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said earlier at a Moscow news conference that "Israel is not planning to bomb Iran."

Wings lose gmae 3 ---4 to 3

That was a tough one , but nobody could expect the Wings to sweep the finals , pitsburgh is a pretty tough team also ! Bring on game 4 !

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FDA looking abroad to boost food, drug safety

really ! Well it is about Damn time ! 

TOKYO (AP) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has expanded
offices around the world and heightened contacts with counterpart
agencies in order to improve product safety for Americans at home, a
senior agency official said Wednesday.

Globalization has
transformed the food supply as well as the manufacturing process of
drugs and cosmetics, said Dr. Murray Lumpkin, the FDA's deputy
commissioner in charge of international programs.

"What we now
recognize ... is that in order for us to do a better job at home, we
have to do a better job with our counterpart agencies around the
world," he told reporters at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo.

Over the last several months, the FDA has established its first overseas posts in China, India, Latin America and Europe.

"It
shows our agency evolving from a very domestically focused agency
historically to one now that realizes that it does have a place in a
much more complex regulatory world," said Lumpkin, in Tokyo for an
annual meeting with Japanese officials.

Gunmen shoot, kill recovering drug addicts in Juárez

Nice of the drug cartels hitmen , to rampage through a rehab center And shoot people while they are sleeping !
Are their Drug sales dipping so low that they have to result to killing addicts who are trying to get off of drugs !
El Paso Times

Gunmen entered a Juárez drug rehabilitation
center shortly before midnight Sunday and shot five patients to death,
state police said Monday.

The attacks were part of a surge in violence that has claimed 35 lives since Friday.

The
men apparently were asleep when the attack began at 11:37 p.m. inside
the drug rehab center named La Vida Sin Adicciones (Life Without
Addictions) at Ignacio de la Torre and Juan Méndez streets, said Arturo
Sandoval, a spokesman for the Chihuahua state attorney general.

About 50 patients were in the center, and 20 rounds were fired from three different caliber weapons, authorities said.

"The rest (of the center's clients) took off running out a back door and jumping over walls," Sandoval said.

Kim names successor

Great a new Dear leader !  Little , little kimmie ! At about 26 years old little , little Kimmie is very young to be a leader Especially a dear one ! Some of the higher and much older ranking officials are going to have a problem answering to someone so young ! this should be interesting !

the StraitsTimes

SEOUL - NORTH Korean leader Kim Jong Il has asked his country's
overseas missions to pledge loyalty to his youngest son, signalling he
has been anointed as next leader of the communist dynasty, a newspaper
report said on Tuesday.

Mr Kim, 67, is thought to have suffered a stroke in August.

Analysts
have said the North's recent military actions, including a nuclear test
last week, may be aimed at helping him solidify power so that he can
name a successor.

'It has been confirmed through various channels
that North Korea sent emails to legations overseas, asking them to
pledge their loyalty to (youngest son) Kim Jong Un,' the South Korean
daily Dong-A Ilbo reported an 'informed source' as saying.

Analysts
have said succession is one of the most closely guarded secrets in the
highly secretive North, with Mr Kim's plans only known to his small
inner circle.

Space shuttle Atlantis lands at Biggs Army Airfield

I could not get any closer to the shuttle than about 3/4 of a mile ( rough guess ) they keep the thing parked way back from everybody !

click for larger picture !
ElPasoTimes
EL PASO -- U.S. space shuttle Atlantis, riding atop a modified 747 shuttle carrier aircraft, landed at Biggs Army Airfield shortly after 11:15 a.m. Monday.

Atlantis, which landed May 24 at Edwards Air Force Base in California after a 5.3 million mile journey in space, is headed to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

"The pair will fly to Biggs Army Airfield in El Paso, Texas and spend the night there before resuming the cross-country trip tomorrow," according to a NASA news release.

NASA officials said that while in the region, Atlantis will conduct a flyover of the White Sands test facility.

The astronauts aboard the shuttle recently finished a 13-day trip in space to repair the Hubble space telescope.

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Kansas abortion doctor shot to death at church

Tiller the Baby Killer , That is what people called this Guy ! Regardless of what you think of the man he did not deserve to be killed , the man that did this sunk so low in his life to do this , he is no better than tiller was for performing his deeds !  This is extremism at its best !  They will find out that the man who killed Tiller is connected to a right to life group ,  and a religious zealot !  the worst of the worst ! I don't agree with what Tiller did in his practice  , and I don't believe he should have been murdered in cold blood for it !  But people have the right to choose and do what they want in life even if it is wrong !

KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - A Kansas doctor reviled by
anti-abortion groups for his work providing "late-term" abortions was
shot and killed in his Wichita, Kansas church on Sunday, and police
said they captured the man responsible.

Police
said they planned to charge a 51-year-old man on Monday with homicide
and two counts of aggravated assault in the death of 67-year-old George
Tiller, who died from a single gunshot.

Tiller
was shot while serving as an usher for Sunday services in the foyer at
Reformation Lutheran Church. The shooter threatened two other men at
the church who tried to intervene, police said.

"We
feel that this is an act of an isolated individual, however our
investigation continues," said Wichita deputy police chief Tom Stolz.

Stolz said they were investigating whether the shooter had any ties to anti-abortion groups.

North Korea may launch long-range missile in weeks

More of the same crap coming from North Korea , Another Long range missile launch coming soon !

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea may this month test a missile designed to
fly as far as U.S. territory and may also be gearing up for skirmishes
with the South around their disputed sea border, South Korean news
reports said on Monday.

North Korea is preparing to launch an intercontinental ballistic
missile (ICBM) with an estimated range of 2,500-4,000 miles from a west
coast base, the daily JoongAng Ilbo cited South Korean intelligence
sources as saying.

"Preparations for the launch are likely to be completed in mid-June," one intelligence source said.

Government officials would not confirm the reports.

Train cars carrying a missile left about two weeks ago for a missile base on the North's west coast, the sources said.