Because British Petroleum is currently deep-water-horizoning the coast of Louisiana and Florida and Mr.Cameron can discern a mistreatment of cancer patients thru Gordon Brown, I like 2 remind of an island Spaniards founded a colony on in 1511. This will be 500 years ago in 1 year. After all, our new world strategist Dick Cheney and his company Halliburton reviewed the rig recently. Now, is everything NWO in the new world?
Commandante Castro has ruled Cuba for 50 years and today I heard a speech on Cuban radio on the ineffectiveness of cars. There's really a point to it because cars use oil. Regardless whether you expect Mr.Cameron to free oil-ridden pigeons from bone or lung cancer it undoubtfully protects the environment to use cars which are at least not oil-driven.

After recent news the Maliki tortures Sunis, there seems 2 have occured a certain revenge

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Shiite mosques attacked

Whitman, Brown have ties to Goldman Sachs

LATimes
Whitman, Brown have ties to Goldman Sachs
By Michael Rothfeld
The Republican was on the Wall Street bank's board, and the Democrat was mayor of Oakland when the city was involved in a complex financing deal with the firm.

Brown to 'up tempo' of campaign

Gordon Brown is to meet more ordinary voters as Labour seek to step up campaigning in response to some members' concerns.

Anglo Irish Bank reports record 12.7bn euros loss

bbc
Nationalised lender Anglo Irish Bank has announced what is reported to be the largest corporate loss in the history of the Republic of Ireland.

The struggling bank made a loss of 12.7bn euros ($17.2bn; £11.4bn) in the 15 months to December.

The announcement comes a day after the Irish government said it would inject a further 8.3bn euros into the bank.

Irish Finance Minister Brian Lenihan said pumping in more money was "the least worst option".

Goldman Sachs

bbc
Goldman Sachs' chief executive, Lloyd Blankfein, is being sued by shareholders.

He and other company officials have been named in two new lawsuits filed on Thursday.

The cases are related to fraud allegations brought last week by the US federal government.

These latest complaints were filed in the New York State Supreme Court. Two shareholders accuse them of breaching their fiduciary duties.

Germany/economy:Bruederle's looks are antique

Germany got a minister of economy who is bad almost in midst of one of the worst economical crisis since decades. Bruederles visions sound as if he was a minister of Kohl ahead of the millenium break. Though there are alternatives, even within Merkels administration.

Economy

Obama: US 'doomed' without bank reform

Jobless claims drop sharply

Rockets fired at Israel fall in Jordan

reuters

Steve Simels
And speaking of sociopaths, one of my favorite 60s comedy teams, Burns and Schreiber, used to do a take-off on Henry Kissinger/Herman Kahn, in which he was introduced as the author of a best-selling book called "The Role of the Sociopath in Thermonuclear Warfare."

atrios

New world record: bishop kicked & fired in 1 hour

German ntv

Bishop of Belgish town of Brugge Roger Vangheluwe admitted to abuse and sent for the pope to dismiss him. Normally it takes 3 months to get fired. This time its been 1 h.

Chicken causes you 2 b gay

Bolivias prime Morales criticized mass-foddering of chicken and shocked potential customers with the hint that the fodder is served with the female hormon ostrogen. He thus opposes artificial chicken batteries and he loves to eat chicken raised in nature.

Samaranch

In the Spanish civil war, Samaranch fought first for the Republic, then for Franko. He became someone on the ministry for sports for his wife Carmen. After the Cnadian Olympics were an utter failure and Moscow accelerated the split of the olympic movement, Samaranch was elected head of the IOC in 80. He acceelrated the commercial character of the olympics. 84 in LA was the new core of the movement. Amateurs were exchanged for professionals.
USA today
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The coffin holding former IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch, draped with the Olympic flag, was wheeled into the Catalonia state headquarters Thursday to the sound of the Olympic hymn.

Samaranch was remembered in a private ceremony watched by the Spaniard's family and a host of international figures and dignitaries. The building was then opened to the public before the funeral later in the day.

APPRECIATION: Samaranch's impact remembered

Current International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said Samaranch made the Olympics "the premier sporting event in the world."

"We've come from the four corners of the world to say farewell to an old friend and great man," Rogge said. "Juan Antonio Samaranch was the most influential president after our founder Pierre de Coubertin."

The 89-year-old Samaranch, who was president of the IOC from 1980 to 2001, died on Wednesday from heart failure.

With the Barcelona native's son Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr., daughter Maria Teresa, partner Luisa Sallent and other family members — including all seven grandchildren — watching with about 100 others, Rogge paid tribute to a "generous, compassionate man."

"Behind a great man there is a rich personality. He was a man of few words but each of these words would resonate loudly and were always meaningful," said the Belgian, who succeeded Samaranch. "He has left a great legacy. And I pledge in the name of the International Olympic Committee that we shall preserve and perpetuate his legacy and his heritage.

Germany: After Gysi demanded more psychatrists for post-traumatic stress disorder, some lib dem shouted "u need 1 2" at him

Lammert erteilt Rüge

Roman Catholic Church: After abuses,Mixa surrenders 2 pressure

Mixa beugt sich dem Druck

Bistum bestätigt Rücktritt

Hard To Know What To Say Anymore

Ten year old rape victim denied an abortion. It's in Mexico where rape victims are allowed an abortion up to 90 days. The girl is 17 1/2 weeks along, so is being forced to carry the baby to term.

That's some fucked up shit.

-ql 06:26
Russia celebr8es anniversary with Stalin bus

German Social Dems trigger Ramsauer concerning airspace interdiction

Flugverbote: SPD schießt sich auf Ramsauer ein

SEC probing all 19 largest US banks

Argentina's last dictator, Reynaldo Bignone, 82, was Tuesday sentenced to 25 years in prison

I think the Falkland war is still something to be cherished. Not only that the 7th fleet was hardly 100 kms off when the war was declared, u could see all these great amphibious vehicles out of the Normandy landing from 44 again. You know, when I was small, I lived in Germany. Back then, it was only the left and the right. This war really made a diffrence. Suddenly, all the old stories were back in focus. Spaniards against Englishmen and so on. Good, that this war was a total sddisaster, is another funny side story. I finally laughed my ass off when Castro got to the the summit of the Latin Americans in Buenos Aires and he got poisened. Since then, Castro is really sympathetic to me
Argentina's dictator gets 25 years

Argentina's last dictator, Reynaldo Bignone, 82, was Tuesday sentenced to 25 years in prison after being found guilty of ordering torture and illegal detentions during his 1982-1983 rule.

Six other officials from that era were also given prison terms at the end of a trial during which relatives of those killed or disappeared brandished photos of their loved ones.

Bignone took power after Argentina's disastrous 1982 war against Britain over the Falkland Islands, and handed the reins over to his elected successor Raul Alfonsin at the end of 1983.

Poland to hold June 20 vote to elect successor to President Lech Kaczynski, killed in plane crash this month.

German Lib Dems insist on tax cuts

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Son of Michael Douglas behind bars 4 five years

German msn

Sex charges in Gambino case

14 reputed Gambino family members charged in NYC

• Why Goldman should overhaul its boardFortune
• Goldman's 'fabulous' fall guy?

Munich's Muslim Ribery accused of having sex with non-adult prostitutes in Paris

Sex-accusations against Ribery

Bavarians react nerved

Crist kills television ads

politico

Eroglu Wins Cyprus Election in Blow to Peace Talks

time-YAHOO

By LEO CENDROWICZ Leo Cendrowicz – Mon Apr 19, 6:05 pm ET

Two decades after the Berlin Wall and Iron Curtain were torn down, the so-called Green Line running across Cyprus stands as an affront to Europe's claims of modern-day unity. Guarded by the United Nations, the buffer zone was set up in 1974 when the island saw a Greek-backed coup followed by a Turkish invasion of the north that still has much of the island under Turkish control. A Cold War relic, the partition effectively creates two separate states: a Turkish Cypriot minority in the island's north and a Greek Cypriot majority in the south.

Many attempts have been made to reconcile Cyprus' two parts. Indeed, the leaders of the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities have held about 70 meetings over the past 18 months, and appeared to be inching closer to a settlement to reunify the island. But the peace process stuttered on Sunday after the Turkish Cypriot community elected a hard-liner as their new leader. (See the top 10 news stories of 2009.)

Dervis Eroglu, 72, leader of the conservative National Unity Party, won 50.3% of the vote, compared with just under 43% for the incumbent Turkish Cypriot President, Mehmet Ali Talat. While Talat was a strong supporter of the renewed peace process and ultimately of the reunification of Cyprus, the hawkish Eroglu wants to see separate Greek and Turkish Cypriot states. During the campaign, Eroglu talked of "equal, sovereign peoples," and rejected a solution that would permit Greek Cypriots to reclaim their property in the north.

His staunch language worries the European Union and Turkey, which sees Cyprus as the key to their entire relationship. Turkey has been told categorically that it cannot hope to fulfill its dream of joining the E.U. while it is mired in a territorial dispute involving a military standoff. "Without a solution to Cyprus, Turkey cannot realistically expect to join," says Amanda Paul, an analyst at the European Policy Center, a Brussels-based think tank. "This election is not the end of the road yet, but the hopes for a settlement have met an obstacle." (See pictures of Istanbul.)

Paul says the Turkish government will maintain pressure on Eroglu to remain at the negotiating table. Ankara is keen to extract itself from the island, where it still maintains about 35,000 troops, provides an annual subsidy of some $600 million and is the only country in the world to officially recognize the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. As for Turkish Cypriots, they are already squeezed by migrants from Turkey, and today account for just over half the population of the north. And without a settlement, the north will remain an international pariah: unrecognized and isolated, dependent on the Turkish army and Turkish aid.

Speaking on Sunday night, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan insisted that Ankara remains heavily behind the Cyprus peace process. "Turkish Cypriots must continue the talks," he said. "It is our aim to find a solution by the end of the year." The European Commission was equally supportive of talks. "The status quo is in no one's interest," it said in a statement. (Rank Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the 2010 TIME 100 poll.)

Nominally, the entire island of Cyprus is in the E.U., though effective membership is confined to the internationally recognized south's Greek Cypriots, who represent about 80% of the island's population of 1.1 million. But since joining the E.U. in 2004, Cyprus has blocked parts of Turkey's E.U. membership negotiation bid. At the same time, Ankara hasn't helped its case by refusing to open its ports and airports to Greek Cypriot traffic.

Yet Greek Cypriots would likely suffer too if Turkish troops remain indefinitely in the occupied north: they could forfeit chances for restitution of occupied property and find themselves living in a partial ghetto on the far eastern margin of Europe. As Eroglu's election victory was confirmed, the Greek Cypriot government, headed by President Dimitris Christofias, warned that prospects for a settlement had narrowed. "This could cause very serious problems to the negotiations," a government spokesman said.

Hugh Pope, the Turkey-Cyprus project director for the International Crisis Group, says it will be hard to keep the peace process on track if one side is a reluctant negotiator. "All sides say they want to keep talking, but there is a huge trust issue between them," he says. (See a TIME Postcard from Cyprus.)

Indeed, Pope says, Eroglu's fiery rhetoric proved a vote winner in part because of the legacies of distrust, inertia and complacency that have bred cynicism among Turkish Cypriots about the peace process. "As time goes by, the chances get less and less that we can end this frozen conflict," he says. "If I was to make a bet, I would say Cyprus is likely to remain as it is for the next five years - in fact, as it has remained since 1974." It's a grim prospect, but until the island's two communities have faith in their common future, the Green Line will continue to divide them.

See "Missing Corpse Clouds Cyprus Peace Process."

US Has Military Options Against Iran, Top Aide Says

Ash cloud over Europe

The problem with turbines is that they suck air. I mean they could have created 50 years ago some rocket propulsion for commercial airliners but nobody really liked the idea because they said u couldnt adjust throttle properly when landing. Now if u got turbines u stall if theres a vacuum while landing, so I dont really think turbines are this fucking safe. And, todays airliners all got only two turbines despite the 747. So if 1 fails, u can only pray. If we had some extensive hydrogen production meanwhile, things would be cheaper than oil and better for the environment. I mean, the aircraft industry is mainly done by ignorants. Look at Virgin Galactic. its not this fucking difficult.

Scientist fly into ash cloud

The UK is sending the Royal Navy to bring home travelers stranded by the ash cloud disruption, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday. FULL STORY

drunken lunatics dancing next to Iranian nukes

Joint Chiefs Chair: No, No, No. Don’t Attack Iran.

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“Iran getting a nuclear weapon would be incredibly destabilizing. Attacking them would also create the same kind of outcome,” Mullen said. “In an area that’s so unstable right now, we just don’t need more of that.”

'Hizbullah a division of Syrian army'

By JPOST.COM STAFF
18/04/2010 11:12

Israel reportedly sends missive to Damascus warning against attack.

Danny at McDonalds : 'I Got Tired of Killing Farmers'

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Leslie Cunningham tells of a remarkable encounter with an Iraq vet at an Austin neighborhood McDonald's -- as her granddaughter and his little girl climb on the outdoor play structure. "I was in the Army for 15 years until I quit," he told her, because he was fed up with driving tanks through farmers' houses.

"Dehumanizing, Part of U.S. Military Training"

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A former US Army specialist, who was part of the same unit that killed Iraqi civilians from a helicopter in 2007, says dehumanizing is part of basic US army training. In an interview with Press TV, Josh Steiber explained the three years he spent in the US Army before he asked to be released as a conscientious objector. Steiber said "the dehumanizing of people from other countries" was the main reason that he quit the Army. "As far back as basic training, we were singing songs as we were marching around, joking about killing women and children," he told the Press TV correspondent in Washington.

Toyota set to agree on record fine, AP source says

Lower Saxony:Wulff restructures his administration: Wanka & Özkan in new administration

Landtag Niedersachsen: Wanka und Özkan im neuen Wulff-Kabinett

Seventy-six senators including 38 Democrats criticized Obama's stance on Israel

Ideologically, Obama is as valuable as a mole. I just suffered thru a German talent show, where the 2 final candidates embattled themselves in newspaper headlines ranging from drug abuse to harassment. I cant see which youth stream Obama is oraganizing. For me, it has the quality of a ghetto standoff. Well, that doesnt mean that I oppose a ghetto uprise. Hes just the president of the US. I think hes mainly doing the right thing, but the why gets an F from me.
76 senators criticize 'treatment' of Israel

WASHINGTON, April 17 (Xinhua) -- Members of U.S. President Barack Obama's own party are criticizing him for his treatment of Israel, a longtime ally in the Middle East, underscoring the seriousness of the crisis in relations between the two countries.

Seventy-six senators including 38 Democrats criticized Obama's stance on Israel in a letter to Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, warning the administration not to allow the current tiff to harm relations between the two countries, reported Politico, a publication that covers Capitol Hill.

Sunnis tortured in secret prison, Iraqi officials say

By Ned Parker

Forces under the office of Prime Minister Maliki held hundreds of men at the facility. The U.S. fears that the news will stoke instability

Economic collapse was really 'a con'

Econ. collapse was really 'a con'
With regulators accusing global institutions of fraud, patterns emerge.

The global financial crisis, it is now clear, was caused not just by the bankers' colossal mismanagement. No, it was due also to the new financial complexity offering up the opportunity for widespread, systemic fraud. Friday's announcement that the world's most famous investment bank, Goldman Sachs, is to face civil charges for fraud brought by the American regulator is but the latest of a series of investigations that have been launched, arrests made and charges made against financial institutions around the world. Big Finance in the 21st century turns out to have been Big Fraud. Yet Britain, centre of the world financial system, has not yet levelled charges against any bank; all that we've seen is the allegation of a high-level insider dealing ring which, embarrassingly, involves a banker advising the government. We have to live with the fiction that our banks and bankers are whiter than white, and any attempt to investigate them and their institutions will lead to a mass exodus to the mountains of Switzerland. The politicians of the Labour and Tory party alike are Bambis amid the wolves.

Top Goldman Leaders Said to Have Overseen Mortgage Unit

By LOUISE STORY

As the bank deals with a fraud suit from the S.E.C., former workers say that in 2006, executives sided with traders who thought home prices would decline.

Democrats Seize on Financial Oversight After Goldman Suit

By JACKIE CALMES

Democrats are emboldened to ratchet up pressure on Republicans who oppose the financial overhaul bill.

• A Glare on Goldman, From U.S. and Beyond
• S.E.C. Puts Wall St. on Notice

Bill Clinton was obviously in imperial Canada

Clinton calls for non-judge SCOTUS pick

Harry Weinfurt or Marilyn Manson perhaps. Maybe Ratzinger after he failed his papacy. Or Calderon after 23000 Mafia deaths.Win a fridge! Just tell me the price...ah prize. The neverending story of the wheel of fortune.
SNL sketch: Tea Party mocked by crazy James Carville
The crazy crazy Carville. Yah, I think in this frame Carville should then support Oprah Winfrey

Gates offers stark warning on Iran

Im really thankful for this one. The Reuters journo killing is still a minus!
nytimes

Whereas the entire US is in an upswing, Schwarzenegger economics continue 2 worsen the state

Calif. jobless rate hits 12.6 percent

German minister of defense zuGuttenberg is returning from Istanbul/Afghanistan by car

n-tv
He will visit Bulgaria then.

You might call these 2 links contradictive or paradox or ambiguos

McCain Denies That He Is ‘Running Away From The Maverick Title’: ‘I Prefer Great American Myself’

McCain: I Was a 'Maverick,' Now I'm a 'Partisan'

Pope: Scandals call for ‘new evangelization’
Make it a Robin Hood instead of Ratzinger.Or Drake.Bruhahaha.

Cameron is gay

Well, personally, I never expected him 2 b anything diffrent, but its great he could clearly inform the public about his innnermost desires ahead of the election (hehe).
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Ash Strands Millions of Travelers
(April 17) -- Nearly all of Europe's major airports are closed for a third straight day as a huge cloud of volcanic ash billows out of Iceland and across the continent, stranding millions of travelers and creating an eerie silence in European skies.

The eruption and flight cancellations have vacationers, businesses and governments alike all wondering how much longer disruptions will continue, and how they can cope without air transport. Helpless travelers are missing relatives' weddings and funerals, musicians have canceled concert dates and perishable food sits rotting in cargo warehouses. World leaders are governing by phone from airport lounges.

SEC files suit against Goldman Sachs

Betrugsverdacht: SEC klagt Goldman Sachs an
Das Image der Bank ist angekratzt. Dagegen helfen die erwarteten Milliardengewinne nicht - und schon gar nicht die Klage der Börsenaufsicht: Goldman Sachs soll Kunden bei hypothekenbesicherten Wertpapieren getäuscht haben.
The image of the bank is scratched. News of new billion-profits cant avoid this image anymore - another dash: SEC files suit. Goldman Sachs is supposed 2 have deceived customers thru stocks that were ensured thru mortages.

• Goldman Sachs is accused of fraud

Merkel trips it: San Francisco-Gran Forks-Lisboa-Rome

FOCUS.de
Shes probably making a special appearance at the tomb of emperor Augustus. Bruhahaha. Ah no. Her flight got derouted for that volcano exploding.

Roman Catholic Church abuse: admittance of bishop Mixa to have slapped: Social Dems and Ecos demand him 2 step back

STERN.de

What got queen Margarete and Margrete Thatcher in common?

They speak somehow the same English. In former days, it always astonished me how less Elizabeth the 2nd and Margarete Thatcher got in common. But today then, I heard Margarete speak English again. She exactly sounded like M.Thatcher.

Anyway again, coincidentally by now, the lib dems won the TV debate in the UK. Praps, Denmark is not as important anymore as it seemed beforehand, so Margaret of Denmark supported the lib Dems this time.

Massive fireball reported across Midwestern sky

cnn

• China’s G.D.P. Jumps in First Quarter 2:55 AM ET

BEIJING — China’s gross domestic product jumped 11.9 percent in the first quarter of this year over the same period in 2009, the government said on Thursday, pointing to an accelerating recovery from the global economic crisis.

Schwarzenegger justice: Tran declined to discuss the case with AOL News

Man Has Spent Half His Life in Prison

Courtesy Sharon Tissue

Joel Alcox has been there 23 years
for a crime he says he didn't commit.
He has one last chance for justice.
How he thinks system failed him

(CBS/ AP) Senator John McCain said the United States has been backing away from a brewing fight with Iran, while that country moves ever closer to having nuclear weapons.

McCain opened a Senate hearing Wednesday by saying that Iran will get the bomb unless the United States acts more boldly.

Speaking figuratively, the Arizona Republican says the U.S. keeps pointing a loaded gun at Iran but failing to "pull the trigger."

Military and intelligence officials testifying before Congress said Iran's accelerated nuclear program could produce one weapon in roughly a year, if the country decided to go that route.

But Gen. James Cartwright predicts it would still take longer than that to make the bomb usable.

Cartwright said that, historically, it takes a country three to five years to make such a leap. Cartwright is the second highest-ranking U.S. military officer.

The timeline he cited Wednesday could be shortened if Iran pursued ways to deliver a weapon at the same time as it worked to build a bomb.

RCC: Mixa has 8th testimony accusing him of slapping women&children-Bertone declares homosexuality is the prob, not celibacy

• "I had to kiss his hand"

  New accusations of slapping against Mixa

rawstory

Historical TV contest in the UK

According to this article, the result of the vote is still open according to polls, so this contest will be especially important

• Historisches TV-Duell

  Brown vs. Cameron vs. Clegg

Small commentary on the Iran standoff

I loaded this image. Its 4 years old. --Currently, several politicians realize what danger Iran is.
For example, Mr Liebermann is now absolutely sure that Iran must be stopped at any costs.
Anyway, as you can see, this discussion is not new. Its at least 4 years old. But back then, US strategist were still busy knocking down the Iraqi population. The clip weve seen recently dates from mid2007 when an Apache heli attacks unarmed Reuters journos. So dear Mr Liebermann, Dick Morris and the others: where were you when we needed any ally down there we could get? The Iraqis will support us? no. The Kurds? no. The others, Turkmenistan and Kyrgysystan? no? The best thing we get there is another Afghanistan. SO, who did defuse the situation in 2006 and 2007 and prepared for an attack against Iran? Virtually noone. And how capable are we now to strike? The fuark we are.

Well, If I remember correctly, Bush was already busy in 2006 to fight certain bubbles

Obama: China joining UN talks on Iran sanctions

Spring time

Dick Morris predicts that millions will be dying in the streets in the US because they are gased because Obama doesnt retaliate with nukes

Former Bill Clinton adviser says Obama is 'anti-American'

Kyrgyzstan & western China

Russian PM fears Kyrgyz 'civil war'

Medvedev: Kyrgyzstan's turmoil threatens to create a 'second Afghanistan.'

CHINA QUAKE: 300 DEAD, 8,000 INJURED

Germany: BAP: Niedecken also abused by Catholic priests

Tom Petters gets 50 years for Ponzi scheme

ST. PAUL, Minn. (CNNMoney.com) -- Twin Cities businessman Tom Petters will likely spend the rest of his life in prison for orchestrating a $3.65 billion Ponzi scheme -- one of the largest in U.S. history second only to Bernie Madoff.

Judge Richard Kyle sentenced Petters to 50 years in prison on Thursday, noting that he wasn't convinced that if given a more lenient sentence, Petters wouldn't commit further crimes. For Petters, who is 52-years-old, the sentence likely means he will live out the rest of his life behind bars.

The sentence is the longest term of imprisonment ever ordered in a financial fraud case in Minnesota history.

Petters and his business partners at Petters Company, Inc. defrauded billions of dollars and property by convincing investors to give the company money to purchase electronics to be sold to big-box retailers, such as Costco and Sam's Club. Instead, Petters diverted the funds to make payments to other investors, fund his other businesses and finance his extravagant lifestyle.

Many of Petter's co-conspirators have pleaded guilty for their roles in the scheme, but have yet to be sentenced.

The FBI and IRS began investigating Petters in December 2008 after co-conspirator Deanna Coleman reported that she had been aiding Petters in a multi-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme for ten years.

In December 2009, a federal jury convicted Petters of orchestrating a $3.65 billion Ponzi scheme. The judge found him guilty on 20 counts including wire fraud, mail fraud, money laundering and conspiracies to commit further fraud.

• Democrat wins Fla. US House special election AP – 20 mins ago

BOCA RATON, Fla. – Republican backlash over President Barack Obama's health care overhaul had little effect in the nation's first U.S. House race of 2010.

Florida Democratic state Sen. Ted Deutch handily won Tuesday's special election to replace retiring Democratic U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler after his underdog GOP opponent attempted to make the contest a referendum on the massive health care bill.

"We've heard for months that tonight ... is a referendum on health care, it's a referendum on the (Obama) administration, it's a referendum on what direction this country is going," Deutch told supporters. "Let me tell you something, what we learned today is that in Broward County and Palm Beach County, Florida, the Democratic Party is alive and well."

Funny Westerwolle clip

Currently, Guido Westerwelle is the foreign minister of the federal republic of Germany (FRG). Now, I watched a cartoon clip on PRO7 (German TV station). In it, Bully Herbig plays a doctor. A patient visits who is called Westerolle who suffers from stomach ache. The doctor asks where the pain exactly is and touches the patient's kidney. Then, all of a sudden, the patient uses his elbow and pushes the doctor out of the window.

Now, in 2000 happened a similiar story to me. I returned from Los Angeles. I lived in Hamburg. So I returned to Hamburg all in a while. I lived at a certain Mrs.Arp in Hamburg near Rotherbaum on Hallestr. When I walked up to the 4th floor, nothin was suspicious. Mrs Arp opened. Then, all of a sudden, she locked the door behind me, meaning she shut it with a key. Then, she strawled away and locked herself inside her bedroom. I was suddenly left on an empty floor with nobody around. I sneaked to her door and and knocked whether she could leave me out again because I was not up to any real business there. Anyway, she didnt get it. I just heard her calling the cops. So I thought- wtf - how to get out of there. So I got on the balcony and swung myself on the 3rd floor. Anyway, my miserable efforts to escape failed then and I plummeted out of the 3rd floor 2 some concrete cellar level. 10 m or whatsoever. But when my CNS started working again, I realized nothing was really gone, especially my spine. Just my left arm and leg were aching. So i got up and got to the sidewalk. Being there, sirens could be heard in the distance. So I thought wtf again. So I made it to the neighbors house and I hid in thrashcan house after I rolled out the thrashcan barrel.
Dogs swept the neighborhood while I sat there. After an hour and 200 policemen the whole hokuspokus was over. I got out of the thrashcan house again. I called an ambulance and I got to university hospital. My left sacrum was broken. Jesus.

Austria's nazi Strache's in reporter-supposed-2

A reporter is supposed to have demanded 2 skinheads to shout "Sieg Heil" 2 discredit Strache while present.As credible as flipshit.
Österreich: Haider-Nachfolger zettelt Medienskandal an

Österreich hat einen Medienskandal. Eine Reportage des öffentlich-rechtlichen ORF über einen Skinhead beschäftigt mittlerweile die Politik. Dabei geht es nicht um den eigentlichen Inhalt des Films, sondern um politische Ränkespiele. Ganz vorne mit dabei: der streitlustige Rechtspopulist Heinz Christian Strache (FPÖ).

Ukraine to give up uranium stockpile

After Irans more or less despicable attempts to provoke the international community, the Ukraine made a great present for Obamas nuke summit.
Ukraine to give up uranium stockpile
I mean, Im not sure whether Bush treated the Iran problem thru the Iraq war in Republican terms. One thing is sure: he didnt treat it in general terms.

Troops abandoning Republican party
New survey shows dramatic flight of soldiers from GOP toward independence.

Bishop 'blames Jews' for criticism of Catholic church record on abuse

Yesterday I heard a story on TV that the nazis exchanged during ww2 jews out of concentrations camps for Germans imprisoned in British internation camps in Judaa. They were templers.

guardian

wiki

Templers are members of the Temple Society (German: Tempelgesellschaft), a German Protestant sect with roots in the Pietist movement of the Lutheran Church. The Templers were expelled from the church in 1858 because of their millennial beliefs. Their aim was to realize the apocalyptic visions of the prophets of Israel in the Holy Land. ^[1] Membership in the Temple Society today is about 1000 members.^{[citation needed]}

Polish crash pilots 'had been warned'

The pilots of a plane that crashed and killed Poland's president had received explicit weather warnings before they attempted to land at a fog-bound Russian airport, Russian investigators said on Monday.

But there was no indication that the pilots were under pressure to land at the airport, Polish prosecutors said.

As crews still battled to retrieve all the bodies from the wreckage of a crash that killed 96 people, including much of Poland's elite, experts also struggled to identify the remains of mutilated remains.

Germany

"We aren't blind"

Lib Dems present 5 step tax-model

The lib dems present their tax concept months after the German vote. According to it only lower and mid income groups will be relieved, the rich tax stays as it is. Additional costs: 16bio€. Where they get it from remains vague. Wo die genau hergeholt werden sollen, bleibt allerdings im Vagen....»

GOP Arizona runup

Wikileaks to post video of US-Afghan massacre
Russian leader gently snubs Bush: 'Obama is a thinker'

Obama Warns of 'Single Biggest Threat to US Security'
(April 12) -- On the eve of a major nuclear summit, President Barack Obama has warned that al-Qaida's continuing attempts to acquire atomic weapons pose a grave threat to international security, and he called on world leaders to combat the danger.

"The central focus of this nuclear summit is the fact that the single biggest threat to U.S. security, both short term, medium term and long term, would be the possibility of a terrorist organization obtaining a nuclear weapon," Obama said Sunday, speaking between meetings with world leaders and national representatives -- 47 of whom are in Washington for the two-day gathering. "This is something that could change the security landscape in this country and around the world for years to come. If there was ever a detonation in New York City, or London, or Johannesburg, the ramifications economically, politically and from a security perspective would be devastating."

'There Were No Problems With the Plane'

Technical failure has been ruled out
as the cause of the crash that killed
the Polish president and 95 others.
What might have been to blame

2 Britons intend 2 have pope incarcer8ed 4 crimes against humanity

Zwei Briten wollen den Papst verhaften lassen

Bishops fight sex abuse bill

Pope's signature on damning letter
Letter showing hesitance to defrock pedophile bears Ratzinger's name.

Germany-Iran:When Geissler disinvited Wellajati

Heiner Geissler is a conservative German poitician who is on the left wing of his party. I've watched coincidentally an interview with him on Phoenix. He narrated how he once disinvited Ali_Akbar_Velayati with the help of Lambsdorff, who recently died. Geissler complained that the current liberuls are only economical liberuls whereas the only opposition he faced back then were some stupid Bavarians from the CSU.

Now, Iran announced 2 days ago that it will start out on a new program 2 produce medium-range missiles to hit Israel (or maybe Greece).

Furthermore , Iran intends 2 mass produce speedier centrifuges.
TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran said it will soon begin mass production of centrifuges capable of enriching uranium, the most controversial part of its nuclear programme, three times faster than existing systems.

Atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi said the Islamic republic also now possessed the technical know-how to manufacture the fuel pellets required to power atomic reactors.

"The mass production of second generation centrifuges will begin in the coming months," Salehi said on state television late Saturday.

On Friday Iran unveiled a third generation centrifuge it said can enrich uranium six times faster than the IR-1 system at its plant in the central city of Natanz.

The Natanz facility has a capacity of 60,000 centrifuges, and Iran has been steadily enriching uranium there for years in defiance of three sets of UN sanctions and threat of a fourth.

Now, its a question of taste whether you think or not that the recent tape of an Apache helicopter disrupted renewdly the faith in international institutions because the Iraq mission was partly UN approved. Anyway, its an utter provocation towards Obama that Iran publicizes its intentions to fast-enrich uranium and build long range missiles during Obamas nuke summit.
Obama hosts nuclear security summit
Iran plays the rouge card and its obviously willing 2 play it big time.
Car bomb explodes near NI MI5 HQ

Center-right crushes ruling Socialists in Hungary vote

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conservatives 52,3%
socialists 19,3%
nazis 16,3%
ecos 7,4%

Ex-Arcandor-head Middelhoff

Dubios deals

Ex Arcandor-head Middelhoff is more and more triggered by the state attorney. Main point were recently dubios property deals, but meanwhile investigators also check overproportional private costs while doin' business. Middelhoff spent 800.000€ alone on air travel....»

Polish President Killed in Plane Crash

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Lech Kaczynski, his wife and top
government officials are among 96
dead after jet went down in Russia.
'It sends shivers down my spine'

Poland's president, his wife and some of the country's most prominent military and civilian leaders died this morning when their plane crashed while coming in for a landing in thick fog in western Russia.

Far right party unnerves Hungarians

Ratzinger 'stalled pedophile case'
AP obtains letter signed by future Pope discouraging action against priest.

FL GOP ran wild on credit cards
$1.3 mil charged to one card for hotels, travel, jewelry; fundraisers furious.

GOP Congressional Committee holds its own racy fundraisers

Elena Kagan Emerging As Supreme Court Front-Runner

Elena Kagan, President Obama's solicitor general, is rapidly emerging as a frontrunner to replace retiring Chief Associate Justice John Paul Stevens. Kagan is widely praised as an accomplished and intelligent attorney, but is far more conservative than Stevens and could shift the political dynamic of the high court.

Conservatives are responding favorably to the potential of a Justice Elena Kagan while liberals worry that, by choosing her, the administration would miss the opportunity to elevate a genuine progressive.

John Paul Stevens' 10 Most Important Supreme Court Decisions

Whom will Obama pick to replace Stevens on court?

Seventh asylum child accuses Mixa of abuse

• "I had to tear down my trousers"

  Siebtes Heimkind belastet Mixa

Citigroup: predictable disaster

Senate committee digs for uncomman things around Citigroup and it finds a lot: Bowen, a manager, warned multiple times ahead of risky investments and he was completly ignored, for example by Rubin.

Ex-Citi execs 'sorry' for failing to see crisis

Same for Greenspan: he lingered as well with some pseudo-liberul "laissez faire laissez aller." Greenspan as well didnt have any guarantees. It all happened for GWB doing 180 days vacancies a year if u ask me. It was simply forbidden 2 do anythin reasonable.

• Blowout sale at the state bank of Baden Wuerttemberg: shares godda go

  Ausverkauf bei LBBW

Really funny, from reddit

Guaranteed sex. Worth the read. Also: debate. (i.imgur.com)

submitted 13 hours ago by Krishna987 to funny

British Airways, Iberia sign merger worth around $8 billion

MADRID/LONDON (Reuters) – British Airways (BAY.L) and Spanish carrier Iberia (IBLA.MC) signed a merger agreement on Thursday, sealing a long-awaited deal to create the world's third largest airline by revenue.

The deal, which creates a group with a combined market value of around $8 billion, majority owned by BA shareholders, ends the British company's long pursuit of Iberia, and will allow it to emulate rivals Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) and Air France (AIRF.PA) who have successfully acquired smaller peers.

Opposition in Kyrgysystan calls out "peoples govt"

Kirgistans selbst ernannte Präsidentin kündigt Neuwahlen an…
And the new president who is a she calls out elections.

Steele’s RNC fundraising may have violated federal limits

RAWSTORY
Stories of financial malfeasance at the Republican National Committee spread from a scandal involving $2,000 spent at a bondage-themed strip club to a possible quid-pro-quo fundraising agreement to circumvent federal restrictions on campaign finance.

Near the end of 2009, leaders at the RNC — including Chairman Michael Steele — "struck a deal with the Michigan Republican Party that if the state party could raise what turned out to be a half a million dollars for the RNC from its donors, the committee would immediately give the money back, in a scheme apparently devised to increase the RNC's 2009 fundraising numbers," according to a report from the Daily Caller.

A former official with the RNC said the motivation for such a deal was probably to allow individuals to donate more than the $10,000 federal limit. Michigan state law allows unlimited campaign contributions for individuals.

The US was behind the Rwandan Genocide: Installing a US Protectorate in Central Africa by by Michel Chossudovsky

www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18540
sent by Sparrows since 1 time 4 minutes

The civil war in Rwanda and the ethnic massacres were an integral part of US foreign policy, carefully staged in accordance with precise strategic and economic objectives. From the outset of the Rwandan civil war in 1990, Washington's hidden agenda consisted in establishing an American sphere of influence in a region historically dominated by France and Belgium. America's design was to displace France by supporting the Rwandan Patriotic Front and by arming and equipping its military arm, the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA). [Note: So now we can understand when factions are warring one against the other, how they could be financed by different countries. In this case France and America. Both countries used these people to fight a war between themselves in which these people were mere pawns.]

Sri Lanka votes

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U.S.-born cleric wanted -- dead or alive

U.S.-born cleric wanted -- dead or alive

White House won't deny it approved
killing American without trial

Kyrgyzstan government ousted in violent revolt

RAWSTORY

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Kyrgyzstan government ousted in violent revolt
AFP
Published: Wednesday April 7, 2010





Opponents of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev took control Wednesday of Kyrgyzstan after a day of spectacular violence that ended with Bakiyev fleeing the capital of the strategic Central Asian state.

Opposition protesters seized the presidential administration Wednesday night and announced on state radio that they had formed a provisional government with former foreign minister Roza Otunbayeva at its head.

A worker at Bishkek's international airport told AFP that the 60-year-old Bakiyev had fled the capital aboard a small plane as his opponents consolidated their grip on key national institutions.

Opposition leader Temir Sariyev said on Kyrgyz radio that Prime Minister Daniyar Usenov had signed a letter of resignation and Otunbayeva vowed that the new leadership in the country would move quickly to normalize the situation.

"Power is now in the hands of the people's government," Otunbayeva said in an address on state radio.

"Responsible people have been appointed and are already working to normalize the situation."

The fast-moving events in Kyrgyzstan capped a day of ferocious clashes in Bishkek and other cities that quickly turned into a nationwide revolt against Bakiyev that was believed to have left scores dead.

As unrest swept the Central Asian republic, the opposition took control of the national television, the prosecutors' office was set alight and state media reported that a deputy prime minister was held hostage in the remote northwest.

The riots were the culmination of spiralling protests in the Central Asian nation with the opposition demanding Bakiyev's resignation and accusing his government of rights violations, authoritarianism and economic mismanagement. Profile: Kyrgyz President Bakiyev

Despite briefly arresting three leading opposition figures and declaring a state of emergency, the authorities failed to prevent the rebels from rapidly taking control of some of the main levers of power.

A health ministry official said 47 people had died, many from gunshot wounds, and more than 400 were injured. Officials said that the toll could be expected to rise.

Opposition leader Omurbek Tekebayev said separately that more than 100 people had been killed in the violence.

The United States, which maintains an air base in Kyrgyzstan used in the NATO campaign in nearby Afghanistan, voiced "deep concern", while Russia also appealed for calm in the former Soviet republic.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Moscow had no involvement in unrest in ex-Soviet Kyrgyzstan.

"Neither Russia nor your humble servant (Putin) have any links" to the events in Kyrgyzstan, Putin told reporters during a joint press conference with his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk in Smolensk, western Russia.

"At the same time, when (Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek) Bakiyev came to power a few years ago, he severely criticised (former president Askar) Akayev for nepotism, that only his family held power. I have the impression that Mr. Bakiyev is now stepping on the same rake," Putin said.

Prior to seizing the presidential offices, opposition protesters laid siege to both the national parliament and the offices of the government, demanding that Bakiyev quit.

An AFP journalist meanwhile saw flames coming from the ground floor of the four-storey prosecutors' office.

Riot police fired tear gas and stun grenades in repeated bids to disperse the demonstrators and Usenov declared a state of emergency, but all to little effect.

A police source and a witness said Interior Minister Moldomus Kongantiyev had been killed in the northwest hub of Talas where the first protests erupted.

Kongantiyev was attacked by protestors who had also taken deputy prime minister Akylbek Zhaparov captive, the Kabar Kyrgyz state news agency reported.

An interior ministry spokesman, Rakhmatullo Akhmedov, later said Kongantiyev was alive but admitted the government had little information on the situation in Talas, saying it was "checking" reports the minister was taken hostage.

In Bishkek, explosions from stun grenades reverberated across the city and the crackle of automatic weapons fire filled the air as protesters in the main square gasped for breath in a fog of tear gas. Scene: Blood, explosions in violent Bishkek tableau

Witnesses said security forces had fired live bullets into the air as between 3,000 and 5,000 protestors overturned cars and set them on fire in Bishkek.

Protestors appeared to have seized several heavily armoured police vehicles and were standing on them waving red Kyrgyz flags and the blue flag of the opposition movement.

Looters also ransacked the home of Bakiyev's family, Russia's Interfax news agency reported.

The violence came a day after more than 1,000 opposition protesters burst through police lines and took control of government offices in Talas.

And in the central city of Naryn, hundreds of opposition protesters on Wednesday stormed the regional government headquarters after the local governor refused to negotiate.

Kyrgyzstan, a mountainous country perched at the strategic junction between China, Russia and southwest Asia, is among the poorest countries to have emerged from the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union.

It has been plagued by corruption and chronic instability and the troubles resemble widespread unrest that washed over the country in March 2005 and resulted in the ouster of president Askar Akayev. Timeline: Kyrgyzstan since independence

'Red shirts' break into Thai parliament

Raped with a banana - the teacher kept watrching

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I mean, come on, shouldn't Obama fire Gates?

As if it isnt already embarassing enough that stunt pilots declare a camera 2 b an RPG, Gates cant find the military copy of the incidents. Its not only the case that hes the head of a bunch of mass murderers, he cant even keep track of it.

Military lost copy of Wikileaks video
SHOCKER: Pentagon cannot find its own copy of video leaked Monday.

Marriage of non-adult girls in Turkey

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Well, first up christianity is clearly older than Islam. Secondly this kind of marriage is totally archaic. Thirdly again, Christianity is older than Islam. So, fourthly, its barbaric.

Brown calls UK general election for May 6

Cable News Network
London, England (CNN) -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has confirmed May 6 as the date of the UK's long-awaited general election, triggering a fierce political battle for control of the country.

Speaking outside 10 Downing Street, Brown said he had met Queen Elizabeth earlier Tuesday to ask for parliament to be dissolved next week.

Brown's announcement sounds the starting gun on a month of frenetic campaigning that is likely to be dominated by arguments over the state of the economy, public spending cuts and the size of the UK's national deficit.

Brown said he was seeking a "clear and straightforward mandate" to carry on with the job of stabilizing and rebuilding an economy still reeling from the global financial crisis.


"Over the next few weeks I will go round the country -- the length and breadth of our land -- and I will take to the people a very straightforward and clear message: Britain is on the road to recovery and nothing we do should put that recovery at risk," he said.

Commentary on journo killing video

Spiritless and totally uninspired - mission spirit "completly out the window"

Well, because I'm German, let me at first point out that Schroders "no" to Iraq becomes more and more valuable each. The German left came never in this obfustication crisis like the English did due to Blair. At the same time Bavarias Stoiber was the pro war candidate. Let me point out: I dont want to have some fukking Bavarian at the top of leftparty.

At the same time, the effect of this video seems to b that the Russians won't ratify START2.It's another crippling blow to US reputation after 8 years of Bush.

btw, because the US was always pretty proud of its Stinger use in Afghanistan, when I saw the (full) Rawstory clip, I was pretty astonished one of the pilots insinuated one of the Iraqis was wearing a Stinger (RPG) and thus became a sheer delinquent.

Video: US forces kill reporters

Spiritless and totally uninspired - mission spirit "completly out the window"

It's become a shoot'em up.

Is The U.S. Military Covering Up A 2007 Killing Of Reporters And Civilians In Baghdad?

In 2007, two Reuters employees — photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen and driver Saeed Chmagh — were killed by a U.S. helicopter strike in Baghdad. The U.S. military’s official response to the killings argued that the attack occurred after security forces came under fire from men accompanying the reporters, and that the rules of engagement were followed in returning fire. Skeptical of the military’s claim, Reuters filed a Freedom of Information Act request for video of the killings, but was unable to get the videos from the military, despite warnings from the Pentagon’s inspector general that future shootings were “likely to reoccur” if the event was not closely examined.

Red Shirt protesters flood streets of Thai capital

Red Shirt protesters flood streets of Thai capital AP – 4 mins ago

BANGKOK – Thousands of red-shirted protesters took over sections of Thailand's capital Tuesday, pelting police with eggs and dancing in the streets as they pushed through barricades to press the prime minister to call new elections.

Faux News latest

FOX NEWS punked by Howard Stern fan.
There is a rivalry between Foxx and Stern on Sirius.

RNC loses top fundraiser amid Steele scandals

RNC chief of staff resigns
RNC chief of staff Ken McKay resigns after night-club flap.

Under fire, RNC's Steele cries racism

Video of Slain Journalists Released by 'Leak' Group

Video of Slain Journalists Released by 'Leak' Group

"The edited video, released by the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks, shows the Apache firing on a group of men in Baghdad believed to be insurgents; then striking a vehicle that stops to help one of the wounded; and then, later, firing Hellfire missiles into a building."


whow.
VIDEO SHOWS TROOPS KILLING REPORTERS Ret. Intel officer: US broke Rules of Engagement in leaked vid
WikiLeaks co-founder: Soldiers 'playing video games with people's lives'

Germany is in a slang war

Not yet a Rap contest? I mean fire rhymes on hire and on desire - in German for example Geier or Leier

Dead soldiers in Germany

Guttenberg speaks of a "war"

Minister of defense Guttenberg likes 2 call it as what it is: You could call what happens in parts of Afghanistan in slang "a war." At the same time Guttenberg defends himself against criticism of the German strategy....»

Sarkozy got choleric

"irateness" of president

Dati strewed rumours about Sarkozy-marriage

Dali was formerly the star of Sarkozy's administration. Now, a secret service memo accused her of spreading rumours about Sarkozy's marriage to Bruni. Thus Sarkozy crossed out her use of a state paid car and her bodyguards. Pretty inane reaction from Sarkozy, I mean its obviously obvious that hes nerved. No cards left, Mr.Sarkozy?

U.S. Special Forces staying in Iraq

U.S. Special Forces staying in Iraq

Actor John Forsythe dies at 92

Anglican leader: Irish Catholic Church has lost 'all credibility'

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(CNN) -- The Irish Catholic Church has lost "all credibility" following the abuse scandal, the head of the Anglican Church says in an interview to be broadcast Monday.

Archbishop Rowan Williams called the issue "a colossal corporate trauma" for the Catholic Church, especially in Ireland.

"An institution so deeply bound in to the life of society suddenly becoming -- suddenly losing all credibility," said Williams, the head of the Church of England. "That's not just a problem for the church, it's a problem for everybody in Ireland, I think."

Williams was speaking on the BBC radio program "Start the Week," airing Monday, as part of a general discussion about religion.

Pope's preacher compares abuse fury to anti-Semitism

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yah, life liberty n the pursuit of happiness. Strange how certain things go wrong. Sometimes the others also.
Erykah Badu Charged Over Nude Video Shoot

Gerald Ford OK’d Warrantless Wiretaps in US

Gerald Ford OK’d Warrantless Wiretaps in US
Politics Daily explains the meaning of a newly declassified government document detailing the president’s directive.