JFK's speechwriter Sorensen dies

Hostages die in Iraq church siege

Hostages die in Iraq church siege

More than 30 people are killed after Iraqi troops storm a Catholic church in Baghdad to free dozens of hostages being held by gunmen, sources say.

Hostage situation ends lethally-Police storms church

37 killed in Iraq church hostage drama
37 Christians killed, 56 wounded as security forces storm Catholic church.

Brazil

Dilma Rousseff, who was elected as Brazil's first female president on Sunday, once told reporters that as a typical Brazilian girl in the 1950s she dreamed of becoming a ballerina. FULL STORY | THE ELECTION

Dilma Rousseff said her main goal is to eradicate poverty in Brazil while maintaining a lid on spending after being elected the country’s first female president.

Rousseff, who had never before run for political office, won 56 percent of the vote yesterday compared with 44 percent for Jose Serra, the former governor of Sao Paulo state. The former cabinet chief dedicated her victory to Brazil’s women, and choked with tears as she remembered the legacy left by her mentor, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

“We’ll care for our economy with complete responsibility,” Rousseff, 62, told supporters in Brasilia. “The Brazilian people don’t accept governments that spend at unsustainable levels and for that reason we will make every effort to improve public spending.”

Rousseff won by promising continuity with Lula, whose policies lifted 21 million Brazilians out of poverty since 2003 and created a record 15 million jobs. While lacking the charisma of her former boss, who leaves office Jan. 1 with a record 85 percent approval rating, she’ll be helped by the fastest economic growth in more than two decades.

Some night view outta my room

At least 15 injured after bomb explodes at Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, according to state media.
The article mentions the PKK, but I dont think they do suicide bombings. Sounds more like Bin Laden

Suicide bomber wounds 15 in central Istanbul - police

STANBUL, Turkey - A suicide bomber blew himself up in the centre of Istanbul on Sunday, wounding 15 people, the city's police chief said.

"We think it was a suicide attack," said police chief Huseyin Capkin, adding that two of the wounded were in a serious condition.

Six of the injured were civilians and nine were police, he said.

Turkish television said the attack targetted anti-riot police.

The blast happened in Taksim Square, a major shopping and leisure district on the European side of the city.

Bill Maher alarmed at spread of Islam

Bill Maher alarmed at spread of Islam

Those who accuse the once libertarian Bill Maher of becoming too much of a liberal apologist might want to clean their ears. Maher made a Juan Williams-esque confession on his program when he apprehensively noted that Mohammed has just become the most popular baby name in Britain. “Am I a racist to feel alarmed by that?” Maher asked his panel. “Because I am. And it’s not because of the race, it’s because of the religion. I don’t have to apologize, do I, for not wanting the Western world to be taken over by Islam in 300 years?”

Hot advices for election day

a) Napolitano (dept of hoodlum defense) HORROR. Just saw her commenting on the Yemen airplane bombs. Worse than a Texas cop
b) Angle Nevada HORROR banned 2 las vegas TV stations
c) Whitman CA HORROR invested more than 100 mio $
d) Dems Florida HORROR Clinton asked candidate to pull his candidacy back to support Charlie Christ
e) Hillary Clinton HORROR just saw bbc pictures of her at a raw earth conference in Vietnam. She looked like a total wreck.

So, what will work for the dems? Curretnly, Id say Mr Corzine.

Operation Alaska Chaos

Operation Alaska Chaos

Sharron Angle has banned two Las Vegas television stations

Politico

Sharron Angle has banned two Las Vegas television stations from attending her election night party as retribution for reporters who tracked her down Friday and asked her questions without prior campaign approval.

Reporters from local NBC and CBS affiliates surprised Angle at McCarran International Airport, asking her questions about unemployment and national security.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/44401.html#ixzz13s2z8JwR

Federal Republic of Germany and the Schaeuble factor

For the recent death of my mother I received some singular "Sterbegeld." The Sterbegeld is two monthly incomes. it adds up to 6900 Euros. Now, some asshole at (German IRS) "corrected" the received sum from 6900 to 69000. Nothin can be better than having some ridiculous asshole like Schaeuble as minister of finance.

47% OF DEMS: SOMEONE ELSE IN 2012

North Korea fires on South Korea

It happened obviously after the South stopped some kind of negotiations. A family reunification took place though.

rstes Wiedersehen seit 60 Jahren

Familientreffen in Nordkorea

German Police warns against usage of new German ID

Well, I always thought of it as too risky. As far as I got it one password is provided with your ID. Now, how can you change it? I dont think there is an option. Now, assuming that you will enter some fraud site one day and you enter your pass, it is detected and used for criminal purposes. It is simply your own ID that buys goods for some culprit.
An ID with an internet able password and no option to change the pass is a crime versus the human identity.
Seriously, I have my doubts about Schaeuble, the inventor of the new ID. I think hes Mafia.
Again, if somebody steals your ID and has the password as well, there is no big problem in ordering the next mail order down and up. You need at least the chance to change your password every two days.
I think u need at least 3 security features. 2 are totally insufficient. Only the passport and a pin(!) (exactly, not a 27 character pass but a 4 digit numerical pin) is a hallucinating joke. U need at least a third sheet that u store at home. if sth happens to your ID, u need the possibility to access the ID server and change (your fukking four digit pin) with this 3rd sheet.
But seriously, how long does it take you to hack four numbers with my Yorkdale for example? Now very long I would assume. In fact, you only need to steal some ID and hack the pin. In fact again, the time it'll take is below 1 sec.
So in fact again, u need to frequently change your pass (with this non-existing 3rd sheet).

German Police warns against usage of new German ID

Bavaria:Christ Socials veer to the right concerning immigrants

CSU heizt Migranten-Debatte an

Did Berlusconi pimp a 17-year old?

Berlusconi saved a 17-year old from prison. She is from Marocco. Now that alone would probably raise some eyebrows at Lega Nord. but thats not the point. The point is that berlusconi invited her to some of his parties beforehand. A) How old was she when the parties happened B) What did berlusconi did eventually do with her there

17-Jährige muss nicht hinter Gitter
Berlusconi rettet Partygirl

Deputies shot in hostage standoff

• Deputies shot in hostage standoff WALA

3 deputies shot in hostage situation

Suspect in custody, deputies being treated

Updated: Friday, 29 Oct 2010, 3:14 PM CDT
Published : Friday, 29 Oct 2010, 11:43 AM CDT

PENSACOLA, Florida (WALA) - UPDATE: 3:13 p.m. Deputies Chad Brown and Sam Parker have both been treated for non-life threatening injuries.

Deputy Jeremy Cassidy is still at Sacred Heart Hospital, in critical condition.

The Pensacola Police Department, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms all responded to the scene.

hostage situation

• 3 shot at Reno Wal-Mart KOLO

Updated 1:53 p.m.

Reno Police have confirmed that the alleged shooter of three Friday morning at the Kietzke Ln. Wal-mart is employee John Dennis Gillane.

According to authorities Gillane was still a worker at the shopping center when the shootings happened. Discussions were to take place this morning about his possible termination.

Gillane continues to remain inside the establishment since the shooting began around 8:30a.m.

According to police, negotiations are ongoing while they attempt to put on end to this standoff.

The store has been evacuated. The Wal-Mart parking lot is closed-off to all traffic.

The victims were all taken to Renown Medical Center. We’re told their injuries are non-life-threatening.

Stay with KOLO 8 News Now for details as they become available. We’ll bring you updates here on our web channel, as well as in our 5p.m. newscast.

Terrorism

Obama: U.S.-bound packages contained explosive material

2 packages out of Yemen cause a terror alert in the US. I mean that is in the close sense no big deal because it was clearly NOT executed on US soil. Despite, it only proves how hideous Islamic terror has become meanwhile. The probability of gettin caught is high in the sense that the packages will be detected. I'd put the probability at 1/100. Thats lousy. So, I guess it means no actual real threat (because these guys need to send packages at the moment)but the will should be immense, so be prepared in 3 or 6 months I guess.

President Obama on The Daily Show: ‘Yes, we can, but…’

msn

Iraq & "Decision points"

Shocker: GOP rep. says Bush lied about Iraq



Republican US Senate candidate Mark Kirk said Wednesday the Bush administration "lied" to the public on intelligence leading up to the Iraq war.

"I think that we were lied to in the end, by the deputy director of national intelligence, absolutely," Kirk said in a nationally televised debate against his opponent, Democrat Alexi Giannoulias.

BUSH 'THOUGHT UNITED FLIGHT 93 SHOT DOWN ON 9/11'

Germany-EU: Merkels additional stability means arent very popular in other countries

"Europapolitische Novizin"

Merkel isoliert sich in EU

Anarchy in Mexico

I think the Chicago verdict of Mr.Roberts is a joke. Guns have to be confiscated, quickly. I think there is hardly a year left before mexico will fall to anarchy if the US doesnt change gun laws
Entire Mexico police force quits

Argentine president is deceased thru Cardiac Arrest

n-tv

Argentina ex-president Kirchner dies

Christian Aziz 2 b hung

BBC LINK:Loyal courtier

John Simpson on Saddam's right-hand man, Tariq Aziz

(...)

There was a clear determination in parts of the dysfunctional administration headed by Paul Bremer to see that Tariq Aziz was charged with serious crimes, with the intention of hanging him

(...)

Shoes Thrown At Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard

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sent by Sparrows since 3 hours 21 minutes

Those boots were made for throwing, and that's just what he did. Keeping his head down under, Australia's former Prime Minister, John Howard, dodged two flying shoes sent his way by a frustrated audience member on a television talk show. The shoe slinger was apparently protesting Howard's involvement in the Iraq war.

Nude Charlie Sheen vandalizes Luxus hotel

As an apology, he didnt do so because it was plain opposition. He was also under the influence of drugs

'Intoxicated,' 'Disturbed' Sheen Hospitalized

Though the star was allegedly drunk
& nude in a trashed hotel room, police
say Charlie voluntarily went with them.
What the actor's camp is claiming

Political problems in belgium worsen

lalibre (NV-B?ou C?)(NVA=Nationale VolksArmee)

Herman Van Rompuy: "l'Europe ne peut remplacer la Belgique"

Germany:The total ineptitude of conformity

First up, I like conformity. Why not like conformity? It's somehow like equality, and equality is a good thing.

Now, there are certain demons within German politics who like to torment you with bullshit while going with the flow and being a good cat.

My number 1 is for a long time Mr. Wolfgang Schaeuble.

The man has neither ethos nor logic, this man has only some miserable form of pathos. Pathetically as always, he declared that the smoking tax has to be lifted, because smokers kill their own health and are thus unconform.

As of sure, the environmental tax is being reduced for big enterprises. So the big smokers with their big plants are getting spared and the small smokers, you and me, we are getting ripped off. 3€50 per pack in taxes alone.

You know, when I was on Cuba I paid 2€ 20 for a pack including taxes.
Because communists like conformity too, at least somehow, I dont think anymore meanwhile, that its about conformity. I think Mr Schaeuble is an asshole who cannot fulfill the tax cut promises he made ahead of the elections in 2009. As well as his gay partner Mr Westerwelle.
I think Mr Schaeuble is an inane and injust asshole. Crap-fuck. Flat out.

German big companies 2 pay 500 mio euros less in eco taxes next year

After confiscation of 135 tons of dope in Tijuana by Mexico, the Mafia massacred - a drug discontinuation clinic

yahoo.de


A Killer commando executed renewdly 13 people during the Mexican drug war. Armed man stormed a drug clinic in the border town of Tijuana and murdered 13 patients according to police. Afterwards they threatened via hijacked frequencies of police waves further killings. In between Mexico city and Acapulco six further corpses were found besides the road.

Karzai: Bush knew of cash from Iran

Afghan President Hamid Karzai admitted to CNN on Monday that he has received cash payments from Iran after a New York Times report fingered his chief of staff as carrying bags of money back from trips to Iran.

Little noticed in his interview, however, is that he said that President George W. Bush knew Afghanistan was getting cash from their western neighbor.

Mikkael Burns Ö'Steele

GOP congressional candidate says violent overthrow of
Democrats 'on the table' if Republicans lose in 2010...

Three GOP candidates spend astounding $243M. Better spent on healthcare?

Iraqi PM personally ran secret army squad

Iraqi PM personally ran secret army squad

So Bush has a faible for war lords. So... there might be a chance he is somehow stricken into the "war" in Mexico
(as far as there is of course the faint chance that Bush supported his new prime coming into office)

Supporters of Nouri al-Maliki say Wikileaks documents are fraudulent

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has been running a "detention squad" that exists outside the military command structure and may be cracking down on Sunni Muslims who oppose the Shia Muslim leader, according to an analysis of documents in the WikiLeaks release.

Aide of karzai bribed by Iran

yahoo

German secret service paid trip of Haider to Saddam Hussein

yahoo

YEONGAM, South Korea – Ferrari's Fernando Alonso has won the Korean Grand Prix and taken over the Formula One championship lead on a terrible day for rival Red Bull.

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton was second, followed by Ferrari's Felipe Massa.

Red Bull's Mark Webber led the championship going into the race, but spun out, and teammate Sebastian Vettel had a late engine failure while leading.

The race was suspended after two laps due to rain and standing water on the track, and finished in gloomy conditions at 6 p.m.

With two races to go, Alonso has an 11-point lead over Webber. Hamilton is third, 21 points back.

Iraq headlines the worst Ive seen in my life

Iraq war death map

Wikileaks uncovers extension of violence

msn.de: torture, rape and murder

Torture, killing, children shot – and how the US tried to keep it all quiet

independent

Leaked Docs: War "Even Uglier Than We Thought"

Campaigners seek Iraq abuses probe

perth now:MILITARY documents laid bare in the biggest leak of secret information in US history have suggested that far more Iraqis died than previously acknowledged during the years of violence unleashed by the invasion of 2003.

The accounts of civilian deaths among nearly 400,000 purported Iraq war logs released by the WikiLeaks website include deaths unknown or unreported before now - as many as 15,000 by the count of one independent research group.

yahoo Canada:Iraq war files document more deaths than US count

KDVR 31 Denver:Huge Iraq war leak shows US ignored prisoner abuse

HERALD SUN AU:NEWLY released Wikileak documents on Iraq give a blow-by-blow account of the "bloodbath" in the country over six years, the whisteblower's founder Julian Assange said.

Speaking to CNN after the documents' publication, he said they presented a much more straightforward picture than material on the conflict in Afghanistan previously published by Wikileaks.

"These documents reveal six years of the Iraq war at a ground level detail - the troops on the ground, their reports, what they were seeing, what they were saying and what they were doing," he told the broadcaster.

The Iraq documents cover the deaths of some 104,000 people over six years - compared the deaths of 20,000 people in Afghanistan detailed in previously released papers.

ASSANGE:---===VIDEO===---www.ctvbc.ctv.ca

CTV:Freshly leaked documents suggest that the civilian death toll during the Iraqi war has been underestimated, with sectarian violence being the major culprit in the widespread devastation.
mercury news:A massive cache of secret U.S. field reports from the Iraq war provides grim new details about the toll of that conflict, indicating that more than 100,000 Iraqis were killed during a six-year stretch and that American forces often failed to intervene as the U.S.-backed government brutalized detainees, according to news organizations given access to the documents by the WikiLeaks website.

The nearly 400,000 records are described as offering a chilling view of the war's peak years, documenting thousands of civilian deaths -- including hundreds killed at checkpoints staffed by U.S. soldiers.

But the logs are perhaps most disturbing in their portrayal of the Iraqi government that has taken control of security in the country as U.S. forces withdraw.

The documents, including some dated as recently as 2009, report the deaths of at least six detainees in Iraqi custody because of abuse, and cite hundreds of other cases in which prisoners were subjected to electric shock, sodomized, burned, whipped or beaten by Iraqi authorities, according to an account in The Guardian, a British newspaper that was among several news organizations given advance access to the logs.

The others included the New York Times, the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera satellite TV network, Germany's Der Spiegel magazine, the French newspaper Le Monde and the Channel 4 news program in Britain. WikiLeaks, an anti-secrecy group that uses servers in several countries, published the records on its website WikiLeaks.org Friday evening.

TVNZ:WikiLeaks released nearly 400,000 classified US files on the Iraq war yesterday, some detailing gruesome cases of prisoner abuse by Iraqi forces that the US military knew about but failed to investigate.

SUSSEX EXPRESS:

UK troops in leaked Iraq documents

derbyshire-heart of darkness-Published on Sun Oct 24 01:03:20 BST 2010

First Minister Alex Salmond said the publication of secret US military documents show "the full extent of the heart of darkness" unleashed by the Iraq war.

Iraq WikiLeaks posted nearly 400,000 leaked classified reports on the internet which contain accounts of abuse and misconduct by Iraqi authorities and US forces. There are also some allegations of abuse by UK soldiers, the website said.

The reports relate to 109,000 deaths - including 66,000 civilians, of which 15,000 were previously undocumented, it claimed.

Mr Salmond said the conflict provoked "total carnage" in Iraq.

KOLD 13 TUCSON:LONDON (AP) - U.S. forces often failed to follow up on credible evidence that Iraqi forces mistreated, tortured and killed their captives in the battle against a violent insurgency, according to accounts contained in what was purportedly the largest leak of secret information in U.S. history.

The documents are among nearly 400,000 released Friday by the WikiLeaks website in defiance of Pentagon insistence that the action puts the lives of U.S. troops and their coalition partners at risk.

startribune:BAGHDAD - Reports of brutality and torture of fellow Iraqis at the hands of government forces threw the country's political scene into turmoil Saturday with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki attacking the leak as an attempt to malign him, and his rivals citing the documents as proof he is unfit to lead.

Canada East

NPR

Did British troops kill 8-year-old Iraqi girl? WikiLeaks release of 400,000 reports leads to accusations of human rights abuse

KSWO Wichita Falls:LONDON (AP) - U.S. forces often failed to follow up on credible evidence that Iraqi forces mistreated, tortured and killed their captives in the battle against a violent insurgency, according to accounts contained in what was purportedly the largest leak of secret information in U.S. history.

German foreign services were massively involved in Holocaust

Now for me, I always thought they ' re are involved. This Ribbentrop story is too hideous. He travels to Russia and pacts with Stalin and what happens next? Germany declares war in sep 41. Now, this alone is no real point. But they attacked by then Poland AND France AND Russia. The point is, if u do all this, u can attack the US as well. Hitler knew the war was lost if the US got involved, but ever since the invasion of Russia he couldnt protest the Japanese anymore.Ok, Himmler was probably maaaad to demand the invasion of Russia. But, it proves one point correct: the German foreign services were as well involved in the holocaust.

Vergangenheit des Auswärtigen Amtes

Diplomaten massiv in Holocaust verstrickt

*note: Himmler probably had a "social day" when demanding the invasion of Russia? I guess so. It still works diffrent and I dont get this puzzle solved, but refreshing is always: Das Reich

Obama approval rating jumps
Obama hits 54% approval in new poll; Dems also favored over Republicans.

& There goes California

Report: Rape accusation against Whitman's son 'hushed up'

cuf cuf. So there r rape accusations?

WikiLeaks Iraq Docs Shed Light on Civilian Deaths, Prisoner Abuse

The private Web site WikiLeaks, acting through several news organizations it selected, released a massive batch of classified Iraq war-related documents, which contain no dramatic new revelations but provide critical "context'' to the war and the U.S. role from 2003 through 2009, the New York Times reported.

The Pentagon protested the release of the documents, saying that publication of the material would harm national security.

An examination of the 392,000 documents by the Times revealed that:

-- The number of Iraqi civilian deaths is still unclear, but is probably greater than previously believed. Most Iraqi civilian deaths came at the hands of Iraqis, but there are tragic instances of the killing of Iraqis by Americans as well.

-- The grisly abuse of Iraqi prisoners by Iraqis may have been even worse than the shocking mistreatment of detainees by Americans at Abu Ghraib prison.

-- The Iraqi military, which has provided the United States with an exit strategy as it took over security duties from U.S. troops, intervened aggressively on the side of Shiite militias during the height of the Shiite-Sunni civil war -- and in some instances directly engaged U.S. forces.

In addition to the Times, the documents were made available to the Guardian newspaper in London, the French newspaper Le Monde, Al Jazeera and the German magazine Der Spiegel, on an embargoed basis.

Mice with human brains

Mice with human brains

We were not getting the job done in the 80s and 90s in Afghanistan fighting the Soviets.

Martial law part 2:Wikileaks reveals that the US killed hundreds of civilians at checkpoints

Secret documents about Iraq war

Several Hundred civilians killed at checkpoints

Papers published by Wikileaks reveal obviously the killing of "several hundred Iraqi civilians at US checkpoints." This was reported by Arabic Al-Jasira. It promises additional revelations about the operations of US troops. NATO and US utter concern about possible revelations.......»

Al Jasira reveled new informations about the Iraq war relating to information in posession of the internet platform wikileaks. The documents proof " numerous cases of torture and abuse of Iraqi prisoners by Iraqi policemn and soldiers" the TV station reported. The US has hidden the state supported torture-forms.

The US army had obtained orders not to impose against the torture forms, AL Jasira continued relating to Wikileaks. It furthermore reported that hundreds of civilians were killed at US checkpoints during the Iraq war. Contrasting US denials, the US kept file about the number killed throughout the entire war. The number killed during the invasion in 2003 was much higher than originally reported, Jasira continued.

"No indictment " against BlackwaterUSA

Wikileaks possesses documents relating to the Iraq war totalling 400000 and dating from 1st of jan 2004 till 31st dec 2009.

It results out of these papers that there were further cases where BlackwaterUSA killed further civilians. "An indictment was never put up" Jasira declared.

The English channel of Qatari Jasira announced a series of reports starting friday 23 h cet (14h pst) with "mind-blowing new informations about the operations of US troops during the IRaq war." Wikileaks announced b4hand the publication of numerous new military documents about the Iraq war.

"These are all news from yesterday"

The publication expected for days will bring nothin new 2 light according to the Pentagon. "Therell be hardly any surprises" said the Pentagon speaker Chris Perrine. "These are all news from yesterday." Most of it was already covered "very very extensively."

After day long media reports about a possible publication wikileak founder Assange said on tuesday the reports r wrong. Via Twitter wikileaks announced on thursday thought "a big press conference in Europe."

The Pentagon prepared with a 120 men strong taskforce for the publication. It triggers to investigate certain ramifications of the report if Wikileaks publishes certain files via the internet the Pentagon declared.

Rasmussen concerned

NATO general sec Rasmussen and the Pentagon uttered concern about the upcoming publication. The revelation of new files could endanger "soldiers and also civilians" Rasmussen said in Berlin.

News from the French front line

French police break key blockade

Clashes break out outside a major oil refinery in France after riot police move in to clear strikers who blockaded the terminal for 10 days.

Amazing that Sarkozys attempts to impose martial law are working this unopposed. I had the impression anyway that Sarkozys definition of public order is more or less that the winner is automatically the one who got the bigger gun.

Blogger info on visitors (Ccoaler.blogspot.com)

Formula1:The racing circuit next to a big city

n-tv.de

Yet, the city hasn't been built. Thus there are no hotels. There is only some gambler paradise nearby. There are hotels. Yet again, these hotels mainly serve... prostitution.

Now, where is this circuit? Schwarzenegger city close to Nevada border and the workers evade to Las Vegas? No, its South Korea.

Well, the asphalt is pretty new and its obviously ok so far, yet, there wasn't enough time left to clean it, so the remaining rubbish was simply painted green (?).
The South Korean army is currently installing chairs, so there will be even vivid viewers next to the circuit.

The Grand prix will take place on oct24th. First test is today.

Germany: Schmidts wife deceased

yahoo.de
Express.de had the following joke on todays issue: A woman visits a pharmacy. " I want to buy 100 g of Zyankali. " "Why?" She takes out a photo of her husband.

I mean if I look at Kohl's obesity I think about being flattened by 250 kilos in bed. I don't know why they picked exactly Schmidt for this joke.

Furthermore, Schmidt had hardly an affair. If I look at this mental masterpiece Berlusconi (Hes by the way too fat also, I think about infidelity and adultery. But Schmidt didnt do so. He knew his wife for 80 years.

This entire crap put up the right at the start of the 80s "geistig-moralische wende" and gay Westerwelles recent rerun of it is jut cheap means to make dispicable jokes on front pages.

Berlin: social dems ready up for ecos

yahoo.de

Just for completion - didnt put it up 3 weeks ago

rawstory

Holocaust museum shooter had senior White House adviser in sights: report

UK government to cut 490,000 jobs

Britain will cut 490,000 public sector jobs over four years under austerity measures designed to reduce the country's record deficit.

George Osborne, the finance minister, told parliament on Wednesday that the job losses were "unavoidable when the country has run out of money".

"Today is the day that Britain steps back from the brink. It is a hard road but it leads to a better future," he said.

He said he had ordered $130bn in spending cuts by 2015, aiming to reduce Britain's deficit of 11 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) to around two per cent within five years.

The measures will also hit the welfare state, cutting child benefits and pushing the state pension to 66 by 2020.

The cuts come as figures reveal British public sector spending in September reached $25.5bn - a record high level for the month.

Analysts had initially forecast a slight rise from September 2009's public net borrowing of $24.4bn.

Rheinarmee will leave Lower Saxony immediately

Germany: retirement age: Bavaria's Seehofer does not want retirement with 67

Frau Merkel's pseudo-socialsim presented once in a while got another new low: She killed Seehofer call to suspend the new law for retirement with 67. Germany's social dems meanwhile "made another venomous offer (text article)." It means I guess they offer retirement with 66 years and 6 months but want deductions concerning the retirement pay (just joking).

Conservatives correct Seehofer - "BASTA" from Merkel

• leftparty : only 1/10 of people aged 64 was working 2008

  
  

Germany:Integration-obstructionists

Integration-obstructionists

Christ dems want no tolerance

Limbaugh lying (again)

(...)I hesitate to point this out, since Rush Limbaugh is typically so careful with his facts, but George Soros is a U.S. citizen. He can vote and everything.

media matters

summit of French-speaking countries

GENEVA - Switzerland has mobilized its army, air force and navy to provide security for more than 70 heads of state and government taking part in a three-day summit of French-speaking countries this week. Full Story »

Karl Rove blasts Tea Party
'Bush's Brain' tells German paper that movement isn't 'sophisticated.'

Revealed: Tea Party tied racist groups, anti-Semitic pastor

Pakistan

Ethnic bloodshed paralyzes Karachi

Death toll rises to 51 in 4 days of violence in Pakistan's largest city.

Parts of Pakistan's largest city shut down Wednesday after an attack on a scrapyard pushed to 51 the number of people killed in four days — a spasm of violence illustrating the government's inability to stop the crime that has risen alongside Islamist militancy.

French protests continue to escalate

French protesters block airports, clash with cops as tensions rise over hiking retirement age

Workers opposed to a higher retirement age blocked access to airports in Paris and around the country on Wednesday as hooded youths smashed store windows amid clouds of tear gas outside the capital.

Riot police in black body armor forced striking workers away from blocked fuel depots in western France, restoring gasoline to areas where pumps were dry after weeks of protests over the government proposal raising the age from 60 to 62.

Germany: leftparty

yahoo.de

Gysi criticized the current condition of the party. In turned into some right wing fire on the party top. The other great do nothing besides Mr Ernst, Mr.Bartsch, heavily criticized Mr Ernst.

Now, in fact, also for me, Mr.Ernst is some idle person . But it wasnt the left wing who put him at the party top. I think ewverybody knew before that Mr Ernst rides a Porsche Targa, earns at least 10000 euros a month and is from Bavaria. So, the FUKK WHO PUT him there? Sarah Wagenknecht? He wasnt from PDS, he was from WASG. And all those who suddenly oppose the "oh so left" party top know exactly that it was the "reformers" who got this undiligent crapshit up there.

And, again, who put Loetsch up there? Why not Petra Pau, Sarah Wagenknecht, or Kipping? Because Gysi didnt like the competition. And now hes wheeny because the fukk happens. The blub happens. And palavers all day long something about Gesinnung. These weren't our backroom deals Mr Gysi. And Mr bartsch, we didnt fire Mr Lafontaine. You did so. Perhaps such people think about their LOUSY ATTITUDE and get some REAL PARTY TOP in contrast to Porsche TARGA DRIVERS what is really really very communist (?!).

Even More Funner

Awesome.

Pacific Investment Management Co., BlackRock Inc. and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York are seeking to force Bank of America Corp. to repurchase soured mortgages packaged into $47 billion of bonds by its Countrywide Financial Corp. unit, people familiar with the matter said.

This is the same as what I linked earlier, with added info of who the players are. Pimco, BlackRock, and the NY Fed are BFDs.
-Atrios 14:26

French retirement protests take violent turn

I mean the ineptitude with what Sarkozy handled the protest from day one is astonishing. He never ever made the faintest effort to discuss his proposals. Thus the echo is somehow "expectable." He then tried to use soldiers as strikebreakers (id est he wanted to use the army to produce gasoline for example). Despicable and it was a "good headline."

Islamic militants raid Chechen parliament, 6 dead

Unknown force fires bullets into unmanned part of Pentagon

Stranger than fiction. Was this some kind of warning?
Police Investigating Report of Shooting at the Pentagon
(Oct. 19) -- Gunshots struck the Pentagon before dawn today, and authorities briefly shut down the massive complex and a nearby interstate as they searched for a possible source.

An officer with the Pentagon Force Protection Agency heard what he believed were gunshots coming from the south parking area of the Pentagon just before 5 a.m., according to Agence France-Presse. The Pentagon's entrances were shut down, as well as part of I-395, for about 45 minutes while Pentagon and local law enforcement officers searched the area, according to reports.

At a briefing hours later, Steve Calvery, the head of the Pentagon's police force, said fragments from two bullets were still lodged in two windows, which had been shattered but not penetrated, radio station WTOP in Washington reported. The windows were on adjacent floors of the building in an area that was under renovation and unoccupied.

Boehner still in some strange position for me

I didnt like Boehner ever since he threw the file drawer on the senate floor. I think he is a hooligan. This last story doesnt make a diffrence, exactly.Another strange coincidence is that at the same time records emerge from nazi art thefts.

GOP leader backs 'Nazi costume' pol.

Nazi records of looted art posted online

And some Repug who is obviously lying (well, I dont know how to comment on this... shit happens perhaps? It's clear that immigrants aren't automatically nazis.)

GOP lawmaker: Immigrants are like 'Hitler', should be shot

GOP lawmaker: Immigrants are like 'Hitler', should be shot

Georgia's Republican State Rep. John Yates has a position on immigration that almost nobody would agree with: he wants US border agents empowered to "shoot to kill."

Asked to justify his position, Yates recently told a reporter in Atlanta that illegal immigrants are enemies of America who must be dealt with severely.

"Stopping Hitler was worth the price," the 89-year-old lawmaker said.

Alaska GOP scandal

netscape aol

HULLABALOO DIGBY


A reporter for the Alaska Dispatch, an online news site, was handcuffed and arrested by private security guards at a middle school in Anchorage Sunday after trying to question Republican Senate hopeful Joe Miller following a town hall meeting. The guards who arrested the reporter worked for Miller through Drop Zone Security, a private security firm in Anchorage.

According to accounts in the Anchorage Daily News and the Dispatch, the problems started when the reporter, Tony Hopfinger, followed Miller down a hallway in an effort to ask questions about Miller's time as a government lawyer for the Fairbanks North Star Borough in 2009. Miller did not respond to the questions, having announced last week that he will no longer speak about his past work experience or personal life.

Hopfinger told the Dispatch that as he followed Miller, he was wrapped up in a crowd of Miller supporters and security guards and pushed someone away from him. That's when a Drop Zone guard grabbed him. "He throws me up against the wall," Hopfinger said. "He handcuffs me." Hopfinger also said the guards took his video camera, the contents of which had been erased when it was later returned to him.

Germany:Nils Schmid will lead Social Dems in Baden Wuerttemberg during election there (27 march 11)

Nils Schmid führt Südwest-SPD in den Landtagswahlkampf

Italian mafia paid Serbian Hooligans to obstruct match Italy-Serbia

yahoo


2 drug lords are supposed to have financed the Serbian hooligans during the European cup qualification game in Genua. 2 drug lords paid more than 200000 euros to more than 60 hooligans to have them travel to Italy the paper "Politka" reported.

Deceased: Mandelbrot and Billingsley

wikipedia: Mandelbrot

yahoo:billingsley

Fractals

A fractal is "a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole,"[1] a property called self-similarity. Roots of mathematically rigorous treatment of fractals can be traced back to functions studied by Karl Weierstrass, Georg Cantor and Felix Hausdorff in studying functions that were continuous but not differentiable; however, the term fractal was coined by Benoît Mandelbrot in 1975 and was derived from the Latin fractus meaning "broken" or "fractured." A mathematical fractal is based on an equation that undergoes iteration, a form of feedback based on recursion.[2]

(...)

The mathematics behind fractals began to take shape in the 17th century when mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz considered recursive self-similarity (although he made the mistake of thinking that only the straight line was self-similar in this sense).

It was not until 1872 that a function appeared whose graph would today be considered fractal, when Karl Weierstrass gave an example of a function with the non-intuitive property of being everywhere continuous but nowhere differentiable. In 1904, Helge von Koch, dissatisfied with Weierstrass's abstract and analytic definition, gave a more geometric definition of a similar function, which is now called the Koch curve. (The image at right is three Koch curves put together to form what is commonly called the Koch snowflake.) Waclaw Sierpinski constructed his triangle in 1915 and, one year later, his carpet. Originally these geometric fractals were described as curves rather than the 2D shapes that they are known as in their modern constructions. The idea of self-similar curves was taken further by Paul Pierre Lévy, who, in his 1938 paper Plane or Space Curves and Surfaces Consisting of Parts Similar to the Whole described a new fractal curve, the Lévy C curve. Georg Cantor also gave examples of subsets of the real line with unusual properties—these Cantor sets are also now recognized as fractals.





Chaotic dynamical systems are sometimes associated with fractals. Objects in the phase space of a dynamical system can be fractals (see attractor).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_space

In mathematics and physics, a phase space, introduced by Willard Gibbs in 1901[1], is a space in which all possible states of a system are represented, with each possible state of the system corresponding to one unique point in the phase space. For mechanical systems, the phase space usually consists of all possible values of position and momentum variables. A plot of position and momentum variables as a function of time is sometimes called a phase plot or a phase diagram. Phase diagram, however, is more usually reserved in the physical sciences for a diagram showing the various regions of stability of the thermodynamic phases of a chemical system, which consists of pressure, temperature, and composition.

In a phase space, every degree of freedom or parameter of the system is represented as an axis of a multidimensional space.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degrees_of_freedom_(physics_and_chemistry)
Degrees of freedom is a general term used to express dependence on parameters, and implies the possibility of counting the number of those parameters. In mathematical terms, the degrees of freedom are the dimensions of a phase space.

France

German NTV

For fuel shortage, strike threatens air traffic

The strike against Sarkozy's retirement age reform could soon disable European air traffic because French refineries lack in production for the strike.

BACKGROUND:

SARKO, TA RETRAITE AU PLUS TOT
Sarko, you are finished

The conflict about the retirement age reform in France escalates. Unions fuel the fear for an immobile nation with ever new blockades of refineries and fuel depots. Pupils get ever more violent during protests.

CNN:French rally over pension reforms

Berlusconi: Im used to investigations (for tax evasion)

The man who is obviously routinely betraying his populace according to his own statements is behind the point where he feels any guilt for it. OK, this may be an over interpretation. Berlusconi is coincidentally AGAIN investigated and the only ones who can still laugh about it is the Camorra, Cosa nostra and ndringhetta. OK, this may be over conclusive.
I got it:
Berlusconi is traditionally open to investigations. Yeah, because he's the prime of Italy. (?what? an insinuation? So u don't care about investigations huh? You do THOUGH. OK. Now, thats reminds me of "but." Normally u dont care, but u care about investigations. How about waste management? They roll barrels into thrash cars.)

Pentagon fears biggest leak yet

Pentagon fears biggest leak yet
WikiLeaks preparing to release 400,000 Iraq war documents.

Merkel is convinced Islam is part of Germany.

n-tv

Contrasting Seehofer, Merkel is convinced Islam is part of Germany. As she says. I mean she lived for long in communist GDR. She added furthermore, that it was her own party that brought Turks to Germany. That is again correct. I think its even more important to add that most Turks got right sentiments.
SpiegelTV was lately hillarious. They reported about the soccer match Turkey Germany. They showed young Turks in Berlin. Asked about Ozil who scored a goal for Germany, one young Turk shouted that Ozil "fucks German women."

Germany no immigration country

"Germany no immigration country"

Seehofer fuels the fire

Christ Social head Seehofer isnt tired to broaden his thesis about integration policy. In a seven point plan he is even turning against triggered immigration of skilled workers. The committee of jews in Germany is warning against right tilt (tide) in Germany facing such statements....»

"Multikulti is dead"

Conservatives demand will to integr8

Could WikiLeaks have foiled 9/11?
Whistleblowers wonder if they could have gotten word out of warning signs.

I mean, I guess it could have stopped 911 - but I mean still think of this memo: Bin Laden determined to strike in the US - what Bush did not read (by CIA) - its totally clear that the preface to 911 is so totally absurd that there are a number of stories worth telling.

Lawyer: Iranian women 'in slavery'
Former lawyer of woman facing stoning condemns human rights abuses.

Plot to kill Pakistan PM uncovered

cnn

Akmaydjinedjad provokes Israel

Freudenrufe in Bint Dschbeil

Ahmadinedschad provoziert Israel

Holland works again - 1st minority govt since ww2 with Islam opponent Wilders

• Politik

  Regierung von Wilders Gnaden

  Niederlande wieder arbeitsfähig

50 states now probing foreclosures

Dobrindt supports his party head

• "Geschlossene Gesellschaft"

  CSU springt Seehofer bei

Easy Cash some important info source for trade

Nur Bares bleibt Wahres

UK

Britain faces major welfare shake-up

US trade deficit hits $46.3 billion
Critics call for crackdown on 'unfair' trading practices of China.

New jobless claims rise to 462K

Nearly $1B spent to settle NYPD suits

NY paper wins $8 million lawsuit against 'strip club' mayor

Cheney never said sorry to man he shot

Germany:Sharp criticism directed against lib dem minister of economy Bruederle

• Scharfe Kritik an Brüderle

  Hochtiefler fürchten Zerschlagung

us2010

Female Candidate Finds a Tough Audience: Women

By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ

A gender gap in Linda E. McMahon’s support has been the biggest problem in her Senate campaign against Richard Blumenthal in Connecticut.

Whistleblower reveals ‘systematic’ humiliation of Iraq detainees

Ex-top soldier: Iraq ‘fiasco’ due to Rumsfeld’s ‘lies’

French pension protests escalate

More than 3 million demonstrators – one in 20 of all French people – marched yesterday against the President's plans to raise the standard retirement age from 60 to 62. Tens of thousands of students joined the marches for the first time, threatening to radicalise the protests and broaden them into a rebellion against a deeply unpopular presidency.

Live video of the Chilean mine rescue ‎
Obama hails ‘inspirational’ rescue of miners

Update: 2:40pm EST, 19 miners free; Chile rescue past halfway mark

Germany:Injured retiree will remain blind for the absurd strong police measures during Stuttgart 21 demo

Stuttgart21: Verletzter Rentner bleibt dauerhaft blind

'Turkey will not attend OECD conference in Israel'-Clinton attacks attempts to "destabilze Lebanon" - Akmaydinedjad in Lebanon

Well, I looked up the bbc and I found the Akmaydjinedjad news. Only then I tried to recheck and used jpost. In fact, they had pretty diffrent news. BBC is a bit of - righty slow-mo.Besides, The jpost headline isnt very useful for Turkey in EU terms, again.
'Turkey will not attend OECD conference in Israel'

Move described as first official boycott following Gaza flotilla affair; Culture and Tourism Minister Ertuğrul Günay says "We want tourism to take place, not politics."

Clinton: We oppose efforts to destabilize Lebanon
"We discussed int'l terrorism and how to differentiate it from the resistance," Suleiman says after meeting Iranian president.

bbc-Akmaydjinedjad in Lebanon

Germany:polls

n-tv

Conservatives take another dive.Leftparty gains as well as ecos. Social dems stay stable. Lib dems loose. The current conservative lib dem govt would only receive 33% of the vote.
Ecos-Social dems would gain 48% of the vote and they would have a proper majority.

THE NUMBERS:
German Christ Dems at 29%
lib Dems 4% (They would miss the 5 % threshold so 33% r an illusion)

left bloc:
ecos 25
sd 23
lp 12

Obama's descent

Doesnt make him more trustworthy, somehow

Obama related to Palin, Limbaugh
President is 10th cousin of Sarah Palin, according to genealogy website.

Paladino on Attorney General Eric Holder: ‘F*ck him’

Well, recently I didn't like Holder for example because he didn't spend enuf pressure on Roberts to keep up the assault weapons ban in Chicago. Now, I guess Paladino's standpoint is diffrent

Paladino on Attorney General Eric Holder: 'F*ck him'

A New York Republican angling for the state's governorship appears to have uttered an expletive when asked his opinion on the attorney general of the United States.

Carl Paladino, who recently attracted controversy for claiming that he doesn't want children "brainwashed" into thinking homosexuality is okay, was under fire again on Tuesday after The National Journal published a video of the candidate speaking at a Q&A in March. A man asks Paladino, who at that point had yet to win the GOP nomination, what his response would be if Attorney General Eric Holder decided to hold civilian terrorism trials in Manhattan.

Google system glitch at 13h12 CET

4h12 pst

For some moments, I couldnt link to youtube and blogger though the rest worked. Praps it was just my provider (Vodafone) that failed, but I dont think so.

Protests in France against raising retirement age are being extended thrughout the week

de.yahoo.com

German lib dems suggest necessity to speak German at German schools

Auch in den Unterrichtspausen

FDP regt Deutschpflicht an

Germany for 2 years member of security council

Deutschland zieht für zwei Jahre in UN-Sicherheitsrat ein

German reporters jailed in Iran

n-tv

Iranian security forces incarcerated two foreigners who presumptously acted without proper "media permission (werent acredited)." According to Tehran they are supposed to be two reporters of

BILD.

They are reported to have attempted to interview a son of a woman threatened 2 b stoned.

Chevy Volt pretty much a joke in terms of "electricity only use"

British media scrambles to prevent Murdoch takeover of Sky Broadcasting

rawstory

British media scrambles to prevent Murdoch takeover of Sky Broadcasting

Allegations Prove Foreigners Buying Elections Just As Obama Warned, Expert Says

onthehillblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/allegations-prove-foreign...
sent by SNance since 1 day 5 hours 50 minutes, published about 1 day 2 hours 31 minutes

Revelations that one of the most powerful lobbying groups is using foreign funds to influence U.S. elections proves President Obama was right in January when he warned of just such consequences to the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision.

tags: chamber, scotus, election, attacks

7 commentscategory: Elections karma: 130

Revelations that one of the most powerful lobbying groups is using foreign funds to influence U.S. elections proves President Obama was right in January when he warned of just such consequences to the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, according to an analyst at a Washington watchdog organization.

The Think Progress blog last week reported that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is using foreign money to fund millions of dollars in attack ads against Democrats in the weeks leading up to the 2010 midterm elections.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a highly pro-business organization in Washington, collects hundreds of thousands of dollars from foreign owned businesses, including companies owned by foreign governments.

The Chamber has already run more than 8,000 attack ads and according to the Washington Post, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce “vows to spend $75 million or more on November's midterm election cycle.”

More Private Sector Jobs Created In 2010 Than During Entire Bush Years

newsjunkiepost.com/2010/10/08/its-official-more-private-sect...
sent by protect_democracy since 1 day 4 hours 33 minutes, published about 23 hours 16 minutes

The September jobs report was just released and demonstrates that America is on a far slower path to recovery than anyone originally predicted. Despite this, the shedding of government jobs cloaks a glimmer of hope: more private sector jobs have been created this year than during the entire Bush administration. Read that again: 2010 has had more private job creation than during the entire 8 year tenure of George W. Bush.

Germany: Immigration debate

Seehofer wont apologize-Merkel supportive of Seehofers stance

Twitter sees change at top

Gründer tritt ab

Chefwechsel bei Twitter

Twitter hat zwar rund 160 Millionen Nutzer. Dennoch gelingt es dem Unternehmen nicht, ausreichend Geld zu verdienen. Das soll sich ändern. ...»

Rove is sour about a dem ad that is portaying him as a democracy killer

Rove to Obama: How dare you

Yah, these are balls guys. GUTS! If I think about the Roberts Supreme court video when he strawls thru polling station in Florida in 2000. Wonder who sent him there. Karl Rove?????? I think Obama is a total truther to me. Verite. Wahrheit. BTW, it still sucks that Robert has permitted guns on Chicago's streets again. They can kill people. Children. Also if you are homosexual as Mr.Rove. Yep, you can die.

Nazis get second spot in Vienna, Social dems gain 44,2%

n-tv

They can form a coalition with the ecos then. It's no big deal. Ecos at 12,28%.
Conservatives stall.

Tape stabilizes thrash-bus

Klebeband hält Bus zusammen

Chavez confiscates potassium production

Chavez verstaatlicht Kalikonzern

Die Kalibranche gilt als milliardenschwerer Zukunftsmarkt. Kein Wunder, dass Venezuelas Präsident Chavez einen Düngemittelhersteller verstaatlicht. Gleichzeitig sorgt der Übernahmekampf um den Branchenführer Potash für Aufruhr in der Politik. In Deutschland profitieren K+S. ...»

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_hydroxide

Potassium hydroxide is an inorganic compound with the formula KOH. Its common name is caustic potash. Along with sodium hydroxide (NaOH), this colourless solid is a prototypical strong base. It has many industrial and niche applications. Most applications exploit its reactivity toward acids and its corrosive nature. In 2005, an estimated 700,000 to 800,000 tons were produced. Approximately 100 times more NaOH than KOH is produced annually.^[1][2][3] KOH is noteworthy as the precursor to most soft and liquid soaps as well as numerous potassium-containing chemicals.

Ohio Republican played Nazi dress-up to 'bond' with son

Ohio Republican played Nazi dress-up to 'bond' with son

An Ohio Republican and tea party favorite running for congress in the state's 9th district used to spend weekends dressing up as a Nazi soldier, running around in the woods simulating combat with other SS-impersonators ... And he says he did it to get closer to his son.

The story was broken by Atlantic editor Joshua Green, who appeared on a Friday broadcast of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher with revealing photos showing millionaire businessman Rich Iott in full Nazi regalia.

Hanoi celebrates 1,000th birthday

btw, Cuba is becoming 500 next year (1511)
Hanoi celebrates 1,000th birthday

Sign-o-times

new yorker

gfx link

Exposed: How climate bill failed
White House played politics with GOP senator, killing bill.