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The movie Cancer - The forbidden cures
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When facing the most pressing contemporary medical problem, cancer, the first thing to do is to admit that we still do not know its real cause. However treated in different ways by both official and alternative medicine, an aural of mystery still exists around its real generative process.
The attempt to overcome the present impasse must therefore and necessarily go through two separate phases: a critical one that exposes the present limitations of oncology, and a constructive one capable of proposing a therapeutic system based on a new theoretical point of departure.
In agreement with the most recent formulation of scientific philosophy, which suggests a counter-inductive approach where it is impossible to find a solution with the conceptual tools that are commonly accepted, only one logical formulation emerges; that is, to refuse the oncological principle which assumes cancer is generated by a cellular reproductive anomaly.
However, if the fundamental hypothesis of cellular reproductive anomaly is questioned, it becomes clear that all the theories based on this hypothesis are inevitably flawed. It follows that both an auto-immunological process, in which the body’s defence mechanisms against external agents turn their destructive capacity against internal constituents of the body, and an anomaly of the genetic structure implicated in the development of auto-destruction, are inevitably disqualified.
O'Reilly ...your comeback just makes you look a bigger fool, quit now...
ya big douchebag.
The Constitution is NOT a list of what the federal government cannot do. It is NOT a list of prohibitions on the federal government.
The Constitution IS a list of what the federal government is authorized to do, with ALL ELSE being DENIED to it by default. The absense of specific constitutional authorization for anything means that the federal government is denied/prohibited by default.
Amendments 9 & 10 are probably the clearest and most simple explanation of that point:
AMENDMENT IX RIGHTS RETAINED BY THE PEOPLE The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
AMENDMENT X POWERS RETAINED BY THE STATES AND THE PEOPLE The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
About the money issue, take the following from the Constitution:
Article I, Section 8, Clause 5: The Congress shall have Power…To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures.
Article I, Section 10, Clause 1: No State shall…coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debt.
So, from that we have:
1. The federal government can coin money.
2. States cannot coin money.
3. States have the authority of determining what can be used as a tender in payment of debts by default, because the federal government does not have that specific constitutional authorization.
4. States are then prohibited by the Constitution from making any Thing but gold or silver coin a tender in payment of debts. (Which also additionally proves that #3 is correct.)
A beleaguered land which has been usurped and populated by the Zionist Jews for decades is now on the brink of being evacuated of its occupants.
The 'land of milk and honey' has turned into that of bitter gall for the Israelis who no longer seek solace and security in a country which is inching towards instability and insecurity on a daily basis. The Israeli people live in constant fear; they no longer believe in their authorities if they ever did; their hopes are broken; their dreams are shattered. It is now time for them to give back the dreams they have long stolen from the Palestinian people.
A recent report carried by AP reveals that increasing fear and angst among the Israelis has pushed them to scramble for their European passports so they can have an immediate escape path once Israel is engulfed by insurmountable crisis. Despite enjoying a world-class technology and a mighty army and the support of the US government as its staunch ally, Israel suffers from an internal crisis which is incapacitating it to a degree beyond measure.
In recent months, many Israeli citizens have requested and obtained European passports from Germany and Poland, ironically the two countries which the Jews say to have been home to the Nazi extermination camps where millions of Jews are fallaciously believed to have been killed. Pundits in favor of the Israeli policies have taken recourse to an oversimplification of the issue and argued that an EU passport gives the holder the chance to travel and work in the entire union of 27 nations but the fear for a stable future is the main concern.
Moti Alberstein, a 36-year-old doctoral student in biochemistry who just received Polish citizenship tells AP that “it's good to have an escape path. Life in this country entails so much uncertainty that there is this need to have some security. That's why people are drawn to this.”
There are more than 1 million immigrants who arrived in Israel from Russia, Ukraine, and other countries of the former Soviet Union since the collapse of communist rule some decades ago. According to the governmental Jewish Agency in charge of immigration, a large majority of them still retain their original passports. A report by the immigration office in Poland suggests that it has issued 12,800 passports to Israelis from the Warsaw district since 2004, namely when Poland joined the European Union. Poland says it issues 2,000 passports for Israelis every year. These reports clearly portend what the future has in store for Israel.
The crisis manifested itself in the recent rallies held across the country in the form of tent protest in which the Israeli protesters set up tents in the streets and voiced their opposition to the corrupt Israeli policies and inefficiency. However, the protesters began dismantling tent camps on Sunday, leaving only some tents to be used as the movement's meeting places for strategy sessions.
Yuval Bedolach, a representative of Israel's student union, says, “The tents were in some way a symbol, and we had to choose a very particular date to take them down. The tents were merely sheets and pegs; the people inside are what is important -- the people who were at the rally yesterday and will be there next week as well."
An estimated 500,000 thousand Israelis swept to the streets on Saturday in what some observers believe was the biggest protest ever in the country to bargain for their basic rights and better living conditions. Social justice was the main demand of the protesters. The massive protests which hit most of the cities in Israel particular Tel Aviv and Jerusalem can be but seen as a sign of a gradual deterioration of the social system and an intellectual wakening in those who have started to taste the bitterness of injustice. The protest which was initially meant to keep politicians and political parties aloof attracted many of them; inter alia, Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni of the centrist Kadima Party who on her Facebook page urged Israelis to attend the protests.
Crisis is crippling Israel both at home and abroad. The Zionist regime faces yet another challenge to cope with. The Palestinian Authority is planning to apply for statehood at the UN. The request, which has not yet been officially handed in, has garnered great support from many countries around the world.
During a ministerial meeting in the Serbian capital city, Belgrade, on Tuesday, the 120 Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) member states unanimously voiced their full support for a bid to be offered at the United Nations seeking the recognition of a Palestinian statehood in September on the basis of the borders of the June 4, 1967 with East al-Quds (Jerusalem) as its capital.
Egypt's Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr who chaired the meeting said during a press conference, "We will continue to support the Palestinian endeavors during the 66th session of the General Assembly for the recognition of the State of Palestine on the basis of the borders of the 4th of June 1967 with East Jerusalem as its capital, and to seek its admission as a full member in the United Nations."
This is certainly no good news to the Israeli regime which is more than ever before sustaining internal and external crisis. Considering the effect the recognition of Palestine (even if the decision of the UN's General Assembly is vetoed by the US) can exercise on the foreign policies of Israel and the crisis which is now eating away at the heart of the regime, it seems that the political days of Israel are numbered and that the future of the Zionist regime is hanging by a thin thread.
With these two backbreaking crises, there is no doubt Israel is going through one of its worst periods in the entire history of its occupation and colonization and there does not seem to be a way out of this predicament.
Getting your Dose of unneeded potentially deadly poison has never been easier.
And there’s more: A tiny, so-called “painless” needle will take most of the sting out of flu protection this year.
Drug makers avoided production complications and have brought the 2011-12 vaccine to market earlier than usual, as seen by “Flu Shots Given Today” signs that in recent weeks have sprouted at South Florida’s chain pharmacies and big-box discount stores.
“That caught everybody by surprise,” said Tim O’Connor, a spokesman for the Palm Beach County Health Department. “I guess if you got vaccine and it’s good, go. Might as well start giving it.”
The new choice for those who freak at the thought of a needle-stick is a tiny syringe — like a diabetes injector — that delivers the vaccine just under the skin instead of deep into the muscle.
The “intradermal” needle is only about one-eighth of an inch long, causes less pain and needs only 40 percent of the normal dosage to work as well as a regular flu shot, according to manufacturer Sanofi Pasteur.
The intradermal shot can be given to adults 18 to 64 years old, and is expected to cost the same as other vaccines, or about $25 to $30 at physician offices and retailers. Still available is the needle-less nasal spray vaccine, which is approved for healthy people ages 2 to 49.
“Intradermal provides another option. If it means more people get flu vaccine, great,” said Tom Skinner, a spokesman for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Flu shots can save lives.”
A special, high-dose vaccine for people older than 65 also is available for a second year, delivering four times the normal amount of vaccine. Studies show it gives more protection for seniors, whose immune systems often respond weakly. However, the over-65 formula causes more minor side effects, such as arm soreness and headaches.
The CDC again urges everyone older than 6 months to get a flu vaccination. Officials said they hope last year’s uneventful flu season — in contrast with the H1N1 strain that swept the nation in 2009 — will not lull people into skipping their flu shots.
“Flu season can begin as early as October and last as late as May,” said Dr. Paula Thaqi, director of the Broward County Health Department.
Drug firms have made a record batch of more than 160 million doses. That’s up slightly from last year, when an estimated 30 million doses went unused.
Unlike past years when factory problems delayed production, companies have shipped much of their doses already, and expect to ship the rest this month, said O’Connor, who was briefed last week at a planning meeting.
The vaccine protects against three strains of flu expected to circulate heaviest during flu season: A-type strains California H1N1 and Perth H3N2, and a B-type strain called Brisbane.
The formula is identical to last year’s, but officials urge people to get vaccinated again anyway. Doctors say some people may be protected for a second season, but many will not. Getting a shot early will still protect them through the entire flu season.
Health officials recommend that people first seek flu shots from their doctors. Otherwise, they can turn to stores, employers and neighborhood associations. Health departments plan to start their flu vaccine campaigns in October, as usual.
“The buzz, it’s pretty quiet right now,” said Ken George, Florida manager for the vaccination-giving firm Maxim Health Systems. “In September, the word of mouth will spread a little more. Nobody’s used to getting their flu shots this early.”
America is presently involved in three wars - Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, with a fourth war on the horizon, which will be Iran.
The three wars have already cost America the lives of over 5,000 American soldiers and another over 40,000 who are seriously wounded. The three wars have bankrupted America to the extent that it can no longer afford to pay for any more wars in the Middle East or anywhere else for that matter. America has absolutely nothing to show for its three wars so far!
I can see an extremely dangerous pattern here and that is the warmongers are once again beating the war drums for another enormous war against Iran. America would need a draft to wage war against Iran which has a formidable army and will have nuclear weapons very soon, which Iran will not hesitate to use against us! Meanwhile, America's so-called ally, Israel, has been just sitting on the sidelines as American soldiers get killed and maimed. America gives Israel more than $10 billion in military and economic aid annually so Israel has a duty and an obligation to help America in its useless wars. America will attack Iran soon on Israel's behalf and then America will be involved in World War III, which it has neither the manpower nor the money to fight. America would be forced to use its nuclear weapons because the Zionists would demand it.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee has hijacked American foreign policy and has conspired with its Zionist brethren in Israel to start World War III and achieve a Zionist empire that will control the entire world. SCOTT WOLFE, Worcester
Al-Qaida militants take over town in southeast Yemen: official
Al-Qaida militants Tuesday seized Rowda town in Yemen's southeast province of Shabwa, a few miles away from the location of TOTAL-led Yemeni Liquefied Natural Gas ( LNG) Company, a provincial security official told Xinhua.
"The militants of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) took over Rowda town following fierce battles with government forces backed by the Yemeni air force," the official said on condition of anonymity.
"They (militants) are now advancing to the port city of Balhaf, to besiege the government troops guarding the LNG headquarters of the French oil giant TOTAL," said the official.
Shabwa, some 458 km southeast of the capital Sanaa, is considered to be another stronghold of hundreds of al-Qaida militants, including the wanted U.S.-born Yemeni cleric, Anwar al- Awlaki.
In Shabwa's neighboring province of Abyan, the government forces backed by U.S. Marine troops and air power have been fighting al-Qaida militants for more than three months after the terrorists took over Abyan's provincial capital city of Zinjibar in late May.
The militants also seized Abyan's cities of Shaqra and Jaar and large parts of the coastal area of Dovis.
An intelligence official told Xinhua on condition of anonymity that the AQAP insurgents are launching "sporadic attacks on the government forces stationed in the southern province of Lahj to hinder the country's largest military base of Al-Anad from reinforcing troops in Abyan and Shabwa."
The events of 9/11 comprise the “biggest cover-up in history - with institutionalised and governmental lying,” says British professor Rodney Shakespeare.
“The purpose of which was, and is, to commit the West to war against Islam; to the upholding of the Zionist entity; and to an economic system which puts the world into ever-increasing, and now un-repayable debt,” Shakespeare said.
Speaking in an interview with IRNA ahead of the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in the US, he said it was clear that it was a conspiracy.
“The USA and Israel had learnt that a major aeroplane attack on the World Trade Center was intended and they realised that, if the attack happened, within a few hours, the West could be stampeded into war,” said the professor, who is a lawyer as well as a lecturer.
“They therefore decided to let the attack go ahead and, furthermore, to make sure that, once the attack had started, it would not fail.”
Shakespeare suggested that of the many pieces of evidence for this, the most extraordinary providing absolute proof and which is supported by numerous American architects, was the collapse, of Tower Number Seven.
“It is incredible that most people are simply not aware that three skyscrapers collapsed that day, not two hit by aeroplanes. The third – Tower Number Seven – went into sudden, vertical, free-fall powdered collapse,” he said.
Buildings, the professor told IRNA, never go into sudden, vertical, free-fall powdered collapse as opposed to falling over to one side and cracking into many pieces.
“Skyscrapers cannot do a sudden free fall into powdered collapse unless explosive demolition charges have been laid in the days before,” he said.
“So the Americans and Israelis knew the attack was going to happen and they made sure it would happen in a big way. Moreover, the other two towers, hit by aeroplanes, were also aided in their collapse by explosive charges,” Shakespeare argued.
Capitalizing on public interest in the death of Osama Bin Laden and the tenth anniversary of 9/11, a series of books and articles have been published assessing the ability of the U.S. military and intelligence community to find and kill terrorists. Stocked with cool-sounding acronyms, anonymous tough-guy quotes, and impressive body counts, the reports purport to describe top secret operations that are usually only referenced in press briefings or in open congressional testimony, and would lead one to believe that the Pentagon’s core organizing principle is lethality.
All of these reports feature a similar pattern: a vivid vignette describing a mission to capture or kill a suspected militant or terrorist operative; selectively released operational details, such as the number of night raids conducted or of senior terrorist leaders killed; an emphasis on the effectiveness of the U.S. government’s “hunter-killer” architecture and how it has improved markedly since 9/11; and, more often than not, an omission of the key fact that very few such operations actually end in someone being killed.
As compared to the monitoring, arresting, interrogating, or detaining of suspects, however, most worrisome is the expanding policy of killing them. Until recently, targeted killings by the United States have received relatively little media or public attention.
However, the stark reality of the post-9/11 era is that the threshold for who and where the U.S. military and intelligence community can kill has been increasingly lowered, with no end in sight.
In the wake of the African Embassy Bombings in 1998, President Clinton issued three top secret “Memoranda of Understanding,” which authorized the CIA to kill Bin Laden and his key lieutenants—fewer than ten people overall—only if they resisted arrest.
The CIA interpreted the memoranda as insufficient by limiting the use of lethal force. As George Tenet noted in his memoir, “Almost every authority granted to CIA prior to 9/11 made it clear that just going out and assassinating [Bin Laden] would not have been permissible or acceptable.”
After 9/11, President George W. Bush made the policy of targeted killing more explicit. Just six days after the attacks, Bush signed a Memorandum of Notification that authorized the CIA to kill, without further presidential approval, some two dozen al-Qaeda leaders who appeared on an inital “high-value target list.”
Included on this list was Abu Ali al-Harithi, an operational planner in the al-Qaeda cell that attacked the U.S.S. Cole. On November 3, 2002, a Predator drone killed al-Hariti, four Yemenis, and Ahmed Hijazi, a naturalized U.S. citizen and the ringleader of an alleged terrorist sleeper cell in Lackawanna, New York.
This was the first targeted killing outside of Iraq and Afghanistan, and the first such killing of a naturalized U.S. citizen.
In Pakistan, the U.S. counterterrorism approach after 9/11 focused primarily on law enforcement and intelligence exploitation through arrest and interrogation (including torture) followed by either release or imprisonment. As the State Department’s Patterns of Global Terrorism: 2002 report stated: “The Government of Pakistan arrested and transferred to US custody nearly 500 suspected al-Qaida and Taliban terrorists.”
By 2004, however, the United States largely stopped detaining suspected operatives from Pakistan, and instead began killing them with armed Predator drones.
Initially, the intended targets were a limited number of well-known senior al-Qaeda and Taliban officials. Between 2004 and the end of 2007, there were only ten drone strikes in Pakistan. However, in mid-2008, President Bush authorized a vast expansion in the scope and intensity of the use of drones in Pakistan. Since then, there have been an additional 250 strikes. As David Sanger reported, Bush lowered the threshold for an attack to what one anonymous U.S. official described as the “reasonable man” standard: “If it seemed reasonable, you could hit it.”
Now, nameless militants whose behavior—as determined by “pattern of life” surveillance—bears the “signature characteristics” of providing “operational support” to terrorist organizations can be targeted by drone strikes.
In Somalia, the United States backed the Ethiopian invasion and regime change effort that began in December 2006. On January 7, 2007, a U.S. Air Force Special Operations AC-130 gunship flying out of an airport in eastern Ethiopia fired on a convoy of escaping Islamic militants in southern Somalia. Since then, there have been an estimated six more attempted targeted killings there, including by AC-130s, U.S. Navy cruise missiles, special operations raids, and, as of this past June, armed drones.
In early 2010, President Obama authorized the killing of a U.S. citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, a Yemeni cleric born in New Mexico. U.S. intelligence officials claimed that al-Awlaki played an operational role in al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which has plotted to attack the American homeland. A former senior legal official in the Bush administration was unaware of Americans being approved for killing under the former president.
“The president has given JSOC [Joint Special Operations Command] the rare authority to select individuals for its kill list—and then to kill, rather than capture, them. Critics charge that this individual man-hunting mission amounts to assassination, a practice prohibited by U.S. law. JSOC’s list is not usually coordinated with the CIA, which maintains a similar but shorter roster of names.”
The main objectives of U.S. targeted killings are to disrupt potential attacks on U.S. soil, to protect deployed troops, and to minimize threats to allies or partner states. The U.S. government employees who plan and conduct these operations are careful and highly-deliberate in the decision and application of lethal force.
However, significant questions for policymakers remain: In what the Pentagon calls a “period of persistent conflict,” when will this policy of targeted killing end?
A senior Egyptian intellectual noted Israel's different internal and international problems, and said the Zionist regime will collapse within the next ten years.
"The Zionist regime is falling apart from inside and will be annihilated within the next ten years," Dr. Mohammad Moro told FNA on Tuesday, stressing that the recent protests and rallies staged by the Jews in the occupied territories indicate the very same fact. He called on the Arab nations to start millions-strong rallies towards the occupied Palestinian territories to free the Palestinian people from the occupation of the usurper Zionist regime. Moro also hailed the Turkish government for expelling Israeli ambassador to Ankara, and urged the Egyptian and Jordanian governments to follow suit as demanded by the world Arab nations. In relevant remarks, a senior official of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) had also earlier reiterated that the waves of Islamic awakening sweeping the region will accelerate the collapse of the Zionist regime which is now entangled with numerous internal problems as well. "The recent events in the region and the wave of Islamic Awakening in the countries which had earlier been the strategic allies of Israel are the factors accelerating the collapse of the Israeli usurper regime," IRGC Politburo Chief General Yadollah Javani said in August. Also, a senior Iranian diplomat had also earlier underlined that Hosni Mubarak's downfall entailed dire consequences for the Zionist regime of Israel. "The Zionist regime is on the verge of collapse after Hosni Mubarak's overthrow," Tehran's Ambassador to Beirut Qazanfar Roknabadi stated in June. He added that the developments in Egypt have resulted in Israel's further inability to wage a new war on Lebanon.
Loners radicalised on internet harder to track than cells of trained jihadists.
After September 11, it was the men who went to radicalised mosques or terror boot camps who were seen as the biggest terror threat.
Today, that picture has changed: Authorities are increasingly focusing on the lone wolf living next door, radicalised on the internet and plotting strikes in a vacuum.
The March fatal shooting of two American airmen in Frankfurt by a Kosovo Albanian; the bomb plot on Fort Hood, Texas, soldiers possibly inspired by the 2009 shooting rampage on the Texas Army post; the foiled attack on Fort Dix, New Jersey, by a tiny cell of homegrown terrorists.
These Islamic terror plots have something in common with Anders Behring Breivik, the Norway killer who hated Muslims. They are the work of extremists who are confoundingly difficult to track because they hardly leave a trace.
In today's transformed security landscape, authorities and experts say, the 9/11 plotters would surely have been caught.
It is widely believed that these days there's no way a cell involving 19 hijackers and an extensive support network could have plotted attacks in a Hamburg mosque, trained in terrorist camps in Afghanistan, and taken flight lessons in the United States without being picked up by counterterror operations.
And United States President Barack Obama said in a CNN interview last month that a "lone wolf" terror attack in the US is more likely than a major co-ordinated effort like the September 11 attacks.
Western authorities have infiltrated major jihadist groups, planting moles, eavesdropping on chatter, keeping tabs on radical mosques, and carrying out regular terror sweeps. Some say the tough measures have eroded civil liberties.
But lone wolves or small homegrown cells that blend into the general population present a more slippery challenge.
"The biggest threats are people working alone or in very small groups," a senior German intelligence official said.
"So it's not important whether we have 40 or 50 or 60 followers of the jihad [under observation] ... that doesn't really make a difference. The question is are there some that we don't know but who are planning it?"
Modern technology is also making things harder for authorities. As extremists adapt to the anti-terror crackdown, they have taken greater advantage of the internet to cloak their communications and recruit new attackers. "Before, people were recruited in mosques where you'd hear speeches [such as] Finsbury Park or Baker St" in London, French anti-terrorism judge Marc Trevidic said. "Then that totally stopped. Today, there is not a single case where group members weren't recruited on the internet.
"The ability to self-indoctrinate online is a big concern, because not being in a group complicates our task of surveillance."
A terrorist group, he said, "is easier to monitor, moves around and has meetings".
That's what led to the first successful attack on German soil by an Islamic extremist, in which a 21-year-old Kosovo Albanian allegedly gunned down two American airmen outside Frankfurt Airport in March.
Arid Uka, a 21-year-old Kosovo Albanian who grew up in Frankfurt, is accused of opening fire at the city's airport on a busload of US airmen on their way to Afghanistan, killing two and injuring two others.
According to the indictment, Uka was radicalised over time by jihadist propaganda he saw on the internet, and the night before the act had watched a video that purported to show American atrocities in Afghanistan; it was actually a clip from a film. The investigation turned up no connections with any terrorist organisation.
"He was a single person acting alone radicalised through jihadi internet propaganda," prosecutors' spokesman Marcus Koehler said at the time of the indictment. "That shows ... how dangerous jihadist propaganda on the internet is."
In recent years, al-Qaeda and other terrorist organisations have been increasingly targeting people like Uka using radicals who grew up in Western countries to make videos in their native languages urging people in their home or adoptive countries to take up jihad.
A series of German-language videos were posted on the internet before the 2009 elections in Germany, promising attacks which never happened. And US-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki's sermons have turned up on the computers of nearly every homegrown terror suspect in the US.
Al-Awlaki allegedly exchanged emails with the US Army psychiatrist accused of carrying out the 2009 shootings at the Fort Hood military post in Texas. Prosecutors also say an al-Awlaki sermon on jihad was among the materials including videos of beheadings found on the computers of five men convicted in December of plotting attacks on the Fort Dix military base in New Jersey.
"It was from 2003 to 2008 that we saw this rise in power of the tool of the internet: first as propaganda, then to send messages and do recruiting," said Trevidic.
Now, he said, "everything is done on the internet, with more and more sophisticated methods, and we've had the [added difficulty of] dealing with a young generation that understands the internet by heart".
Now Compare the above with this Jan 2011 ABC report about the same subject..."Lone Wolves".
Which sounds more likely to be the cause to you?
That there are 100's of secret Muslim,Christian or otherwise "extremists" running around killing innocent people for a place in the Holy land next to an all seeing god?.... Or That our Media, that has the ability to actually brainwash people into thinking that notoriety, fameor having your face in a newspaper alone is worth more than life?
I know who's door I lay the blame at....and he isn't sitting on a cloud.
Plans to staff schools with ex-soldiers as teachers are mooted as a way of disciplining Britain's unruly youth.
The Phoenix free school in Manchester plans to offer students ambitious academic goals, outdoor activities and a demonstration of “martial values” such as “self-discipline, respect and an ability to listen”.
A secondary school for pupils aged 11-18, it is being proposed by the Centre for Policy Studies and backed by Lord Guthrie.
The school has yet to find a location but may be housed on surplus army land, such as a disused drill hall. Its intended head teacher is an army captain, Affan Burki.
Tom Burkard, a research fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies, said it would not be “a glasshouse or sin-bin”.
“I want to ensure that kids are there because they want to be there. You need a stick somewhere – but if you have to use it very often, you’ve lost the battle.”
And just to make things a little more strange, if you go to "Google Sky" then go to "Constellations" and click on LEO then turn up the Infra-red you will be faced with the following image of a very strange (and as far as I know) "unexplained" object Click image to enbiggen
This Channel 4 documentary is the most complete story yet of the operation to find and kill Osama Bin Laden. A stellar cast of White House insiders speak on camera, including the first documentary interview with President Barack Obama on the subject. From the anxiety-drenched minutes in the White House Situation Room to the deadly stairwells of Bin Laden's secret labyrinth, cinematic dramatisations take viewers deep inside one of the most important moments of our era, showing the US Navy Seals coming face to face with the most wanted man in history.
The film reveals an extraordinary last-minute debate inside the White House that almost stopped the 1 May 2011 US Navy Seals raid that killed Osama Bin Laden, just days before it took place. A final ‘double check' of the available intelligence shocked the President's top cabinet colleagues by radically reducing the probability that Bin Laden was in the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
Speaking in his first documentary interview since the attack, President Barack Obama describes the mission as both ‘a gamble' and ‘a shot' he felt he had to take.
According to witnesses speaking about this for the first time, America's leading policy makers were left ‘deflated' by this downbeat intelligence assessment. So many present then went ‘soft' on the mission that when President Obama asked for their final advice before he said ‘yes' or ‘no', only half of the people in the room recommended that he send the US Navy Seals into Pakistan. Just a day later, Obama gave the command that led to Bin Laden's death, a decision described as ‘bold' and ‘gutsy' by Counter-Terrorism Advisor John Brennan.
Bin Laden: Shoot to Kill reveals in detail how the Abbottabad operation ran into internal opposition when the CIA failed to get any direct evidence that Bin Laden was living in the compound, despite exhaustive efforts. Describing the case as ‘circumstantial' President Obama asked for a second opinion in late April from a fresh team of analysts from the National Counterterrorism Centre who, in the words of National Security Advisor Tom Donilon ‘had not been involved at all in the process, who had not taken positions on anything, who were not at all invested in the operation-- to come in and take a ‘fresh eyes' look at it all.'
In an intense review lasting under a week this so-called ‘red team' re-assessed all of the evidence gathered by the CIA. Up to that point the agency had given a 60/70% certainty that Bin Laden was in the compound. However, the ‘red team' came back with a figure as low as 40%, and revealed its findings at a critical 28 April meeting in the White House that was intended to be a ‘go or no go' session.
One reason for the red team's scepticism was the number of visitors to the compound, some with al Qaeda links. After tracking Bin Laden for so many years, some US counter-terror experts could not believe that he would take such a risk. This made them speculate that a more junior al Qaeda figure may be living there.
According to John Brennan, when ‘some of the principals heard [the red team report] it was like, ‘whoa, wait a minute, we thought the prospects were higher of his being there.' I think that caused some folks to think my goodness, we have people now looking at this independently and raising questions about whether or not Bin Laden's at that compound. The President recognised that when people were saying, ‘well, it's only 40% of a chance,' that some people were going to get a little bit soft on this.'
Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes recalls that ‘when the red team had come back with a less than 50% that Bin Laden was there, it complicated a lot of the confidence that people had in the intelligence.'
‘So we're starting to discuss what if helicopters crash? What if we encounter resistance? What if there's a hostage situation? At the same time you have a separate analysis come back and say, you know what? We're not as confident as the CIA are that Bin Laden is there. In fact we may even have a less than 50% confidence that he's there. And there's no direct evidence that he's there, it's a circumstantial case.'
‘And I think there was a deflation in the room. Because what you're looking for as you're getting closer to the call, is greater certainty, not less. So essentially it played into all of the fears that people had about what could go wrong, is this worth the risk? ‘
‘And I think it's fair to say, without getting into where everybody stood, that it was roughly 50-50 between those who wanted to go forward with the operation, recommended going forward with the operation, versus people who thought we should either go with the strike, or wait a little bit longer and try to collect a little bit more intelligence. So it wasn't as if you walked out of that meeting with the sense that there was a 100% you know consensus and unanimity that we should go forward. It was a far more uncertain feeling.'
Speaking of the President, National Security Advisor Tom Donilon says, ‘He received divided counsel. There were some of his most senior advisors who advocated against doing this. Thought it was too risky. Though the case too circumstantial.'
President Obama remarks that ‘some of our intelligence officers thought that it was only a 40 or 30% chance that Bin Laden was in the compound. Others thought that it was as high as 80 or 90%. At the conclusion of a fairly lengthy discussion where everybody gave their assessments I said: ‘this is basically 50-50'. It was circumstantial- we couldn't know for certain....At the end of that meeting, which was fairly tense, I told folks I would sleep on it. And I would give an order in the morning'.
On his decision the next day, he concludes that ‘even though I thought it was only 50-50 that Bin Laden was there, I thought it was worth us taking the shot.'
Bin Laden: Shoot to Kill is a Nutopia production for C4.
The possibility of a major resurgence of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 - also known as bird flu - has prompted the United Nation's FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) to advise health authorities around the world to step up surveillance and readiness. There are signs that a mutant strain of Bird Flu is making inroads in Asia and other parts of the world. The FAO describes current the risks to human health as "unpredictable".
Out of 565 individuals who have been officially infected with the H5N1 virus since 2003, at least 331 died, says the World Health Organization (WHO). Cambodia has had 8 deaths so far this year, one in August 2011; every infected person died.
Over 400 million domestic poultry have had to be destroyed since 2003 because of H5N1. Experts say the economic damage exceeded $20 billion worldwide, before bird flu was supposedly eradicated from the majority of the 63 nations infected in 2006 (bird flu peak).
Even so, H5N1 continued to be endemic in six countries - Viet Nam, Indonesia, India, Egypt, China and Bangladesh.
The number of domestic and wild birds infected fell from 4000 in 2006 to 302 in 2008. However, over the last twenty-four months, numbers have been steadily rising. 800 cases were reported in 2010-2011.
H5N1 spreading in both poultry and wild birds
H5N1 has been spreading in both domestic poultry and wild bird populations since 2008, the FAO reports. The spread seems to be linked to the movement of migratory birds, says Juan Lubroth, Chief Veterinary Officer of FAO.
Lubroth explained that over the last two years H5N1 infections have been reported in poultry and wild birds in countries that have not seen an infection for many years.
Lubroth said:"Wild birds may introduce the virus, but peoples' actions in poultry production and marketing spread it."
Mongolia, Romania, Nepal, Bulgaria, Palestinian Territories and Israel have had reports of poultry and wild birds infected with H5N1.
A mutant virus strain which is resistant to existing vaccines is appearing in China and Viet Nam, Lubroth added.
Viet Nam suspended its vaccination campaign this spring. H5N1 is endemic in northern and central parts of Viet Nam - it is in these parts of the country that a new strain has been spreading. The new strain is known as H5N1 - 2.3.2.1.
Viet Nam on high alert
Viet Nam authorities say their veterinary services are on high alert and may initiate a new, targeted vaccination campaign later on this year.
Malaysia, Thailand and Cambodia may be threatened by this circulating virus - there is a possibility that Korea and Japan could eventually become affected too.
Lubroth said:"The general departure from the progressive decline observed in 2004-2008 could mean that there will be a flareup of H5N1 this fall and winter, with people unexpectedly finding the virus in their backyard."
Viet Nam, Indonesia, India, Egypt, China and Bangladesh, where H5N1 is firmly established, face the biggest problems. However, Lubroth warns that no country is safe.
Lubroth added:"Preparedness and surveillance remain essential. This is no time for complacency. No one can let their guard down with H5N1."
Muammar Gaddafi will try to sell part of Libya's gold reserves to pay for his protection and sow chaos among tribes in the north African country, said his former central bank governor Farhat Bengdara.
Bengdara, who has allied himself with the Libyan rebels, told the Italian daily, Corriere della Sera, that an ally of Gaddafi had offered 25 tonnes of gold to his friend "a little time ago". "My friend referred it to me and I suggested that he refuse and my friend immediately rejected the approach. But it is a clear indication," Bengdara said in the interview published on Thursday. He said his friend was not Libyan but gave no further details. There are gold reserves worth $10 billion in Tripoli and Gaddafi could have taken some of that amount, he said. Bengdara said he believed that Gaddafi had fled Tripoli and could be heading towards the Algerian border.
"Now he is looking to pay and corrupt some tribes and some militia to have protection and to create further chaos," he said.
The former central bank governor, who is a director of Italian bank UniCredit , said Libya needed $5-$7 billion as a bridging loan to get the banking system restarted and to pay for imports.
"We don't need donors. Libya is a rich country. The state activities from the Libyan Investment Authority, the central bank and gold reserves are worth $168 billion. But it is all frozen," Bengdara said.
It will take months and a U.N. Security Council resolution before these sums are freed up, he said.
If you read between the lines....Gaddafi has never been the "Real" target of the UN's Tripoli Invasion...the real target is square...shiney...and yellow.
The Weather Channel--August 24, 2011 A warning for my friends in the Northeast. Severe Weather Expert, Dr. Greg Forbes, says Irene's Sunday arrival in the Northeast could bring the worst weather that many have ever seen. Unfortunately, this comes after Thursday's severe threat from North Carolina to western Maine.
"As a member jurisdiction of the Hampton roads Metropolitan Medical Response System (HRMMRS), the York County Department of Fire and Life Safety is working in cooperation with the York County School Division and the Hampton Roads Planning District Commission, and other localities in Hampton Roads to develop a much needed capacity to transport large numbers of mild to moderately ill or injured patients. Known as a Mass Casualty/Evacuation Transport Unit, these vehicles are converted, donated school/transit buses designed to transport patients during mass casualty incidents or during situations where large numbers of non-ambulatory patients need to be evacuated due to severe weather, terrorist incidents, or other such catastrophic events."
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terrorist acts using WMD/CBRNE
epidemic disease outbreaks
natural disasters
hazardous materials incidents
Hundreds of British nationals, including Muslims, civil and anti-war activists, and anti-Zionist Jews have taken part in the annual Al-Quds Day demonstration in London.
The demonstrators gathered at Portland Place, outside BBC Radio theatre, to protest against the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Afterwards, demonstrators marched through central London to Trafalgar Square where they listened to speeches addressing the Palestinian issue.
Demonstrators carried Palestinian and Hezbollah flags and various anti-Zionist placards reading “Zionism is racism”, “freedom for Palestine”, “end occupation”, “end the killing”, “end the Israeli Apartheid”, “stop funding genocide”, “right vs. might”, “63 years of occupation must end”, “silence is complicity” and “boycott Israel”.
Moreover, the Pro-Palestinian demonstrators chanted: “we are all Hezbollah”, “end the occupation now”, “Zionism terrorism”, “we are all Palestinians”.
Al-Quds Day demonstrations are usually held on Saturday or Sunday in Britain because Friday is not the official weekend holiday in Britain.
Chairman of the Islamic Human Rights Commission in London, Masoud Shajareh, who organizes Al-Quds Day demonstrations in London, said that Al-Quds Day is the international day of protesting against oppression.
Shajareh stated that Al-Quds Day is an appropriate opportunity for all human rights and pro-Palestinian activists to protest against the brutality of the Israeli regime calling for an end to 63 years of occupation which has inflicted irreparable damage upon the Palestinian nation.
Furthermore, he said that organizing these demonstrations in Britain during the past decades has raised public awareness with regard to the realities of the Palestinian issue.
Shajareh asserted that numerous organizations and institutes have expressed their support for the Al-Quds demonstration this year including anti-war and civil organizations, and anti-Zionist Jews.
Stop the War Coalition, the Muslim Council of Britain, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, anti-Zionist Jews, the Islamic Society of Britain, Friends of Al Aqsa, the Palestinian Return Centre, and Islamic Assembly of Ahl-e Beit supported the Al-Quds Day demonstration in London.
Meanwhile, there was a small counter demonstration by the members of the anti-Islam group, English Defence League, who were angry at being disallowed to display their St. Georges cross flags.
