Monday, November 28, 2011

US Promises Full Probe Into Pakistan Deaths

The US has offered its "deepest condolences" after up to 26 Pakistani soldiers were killed in cross-border Nato air strikes.

America stressed the "importance" of its ties with Pakistan following the deadly assault on a border checkpoint.
In a joint statement, US Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also backed Nato's intention to launch an immediate investigation.
Pakistan is reportedly set to review all diplomatic, military and intelligence links with the US and Nato following the incident.
A Nato spokesman has admitted it is "highly likely" its aircraft were behind the assault on Pakistani troops while hunting insurgents near the border.
The Pakistani government has responded by blocking the vital supply route for Nato troops fighting in Afghanistan.
It has also ordered the US to vacate a controversial airbase within 15 days, reports say.
The site, a remote desert outpost in southwest Pakistan, is reportedly used as a hub for covert CIA drone strikes. Pakistan previously told the US to leave it in June.
Protesters in Pakistan after a Nato airstrike allegedly killed military personnel at checkpoints
Pakistanis protest after news spread of Nato's alleged attack on its territory
Brigadier General Carsten Jacobson, spokesman for the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf), said earlier: "Close air support was called in, in the development of the tactical situation, and it is what highly likely caused the Pakistan casualties.

Pakistan's prime minister issues a warning to U.S.



STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  • NEW: A top Afghan official warns of possible conflict with Pakistan
  • Pakistan denies firing first at NATO aircraft that killed two dozen Pakistanis
  • The Pakistani Taliban say Pakistan must respond in kind to the attack
  • Pakistan's prime minister warns about violations including the Osama bin Laden raid
Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Tensions among Pakistan, Afghanistan and the United States jumped a notch Monday, with Pakistan's prime minister warning there would be "no more business as usual" with Washington after NATO aircraft killed two dozen Pakistan troops.
The Pakistani Taliban urged Pakistan to respond in kind to the airstrike, which NATO called a "tragic unintended" event.
The Pakistani military insisted Monday it had not fired first in the incident, and it said it had told NATO its aircraft were firing on friendly troops.
Meanwhile, a top adviser to Afghan President Hamid Karzai warned that Afghanistan and Pakistan could be on a path to conflict.
Anger in Islamaba

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Polygamist leader seeks new trial, says rights violated

SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, who is serving a life sentence for sexually assaulting his two child brides, has asked for a new trial, claiming his religious rights were violated.
The 55-year-old spiritual leader of a breakaway Mormon sect made the request in a handwritten note from a Texas hospital where he was being treated after falling ill while fasting in jail, the Texas Attorney General's office said on Wednesday.

DENGUE HEALTH ALERT IN PAKISTAN

Two succumb to dengue in KPK

 

 

PESHAWAR: Dengue fever has killed two people in Khyber Paktunkhwa while eight cases have been confirmed as dengue-virus-positive, Geo News reported Wednesday.

Obama Attempts To Pry Jobs Narrative Out Of GOP Hands (The Note)

Michael Falcone


LOS ANGELES — It was Texas Gov. Rick Perry who said he kind of felt “like a piñata” at last night’s presidential debate as rivals swatted at him repeatedly, but President Obama took a beating too.
“Americans are focused on the right issue, and that is, who on this stage can get America working?” Perry said at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. “Because we know for a fact the resident of the White House cannot.”

Chomsky: 9/11 - was there an alternative?



Suppression of one's own crimes is virtually ubiquitous among powerful states, at least those that are not defeated.
On another 9/11 - September 11, 1973 - the CIA launched a coup that overthrew democratically-elected Chilean president Salvador Allende and replaced him with a military dictatorship [GALLO/GETTY]
We are approaching the 10th anniversary of the horrendous atrocities of September 11, 2001, which, it is commonly held, changed the world. On May 1, the presumed mastermind of the crime, Osama bin Laden, was assassinated in Pakistan by a team of elite US commandos, Navy SEALs, after he was captured, unarmed and undefended, in Operation Geronimo.

Thursday, August 18, 2011

5 things you probably didn’t know could be hacked


Hackers aren't just targeting computers and cell phones anymore
Hackers are making headlines these days like never before. From  it seems like almost every type of electronic device or information storage medium can be hacked to either give up information or perform actions it wasn't initially designed to do. We've gathered a handful of the weirdest hacks out there, and the vulnerability of some of your everyday devices might surprise you.

A New Dating Site for People Who Can't Have Sex


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 Nothing puts the kibosh on a one-night stand like announcing that sex is off-limits. It's also a pretty serious roadblock to the establishment of a loving relationship, believes Laura Brashier, which is why she's launched , a dating website for men and women who want to fall in love but don't want to, or can't have actual intercourse.

The Female Brain and Sex

 The Female Brain

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  The female sexual brain has been charted. For the first time, the brain regions that respond to stimulation of the clitoris, cervix, vagina and nipples have been mapped in a new .

Not surprisingly, the brain region associated with sensation from the clitoris was distinct from those that respond to stimulation of the cervix or vagina. Each area of the genitals showed up in its own spot, clustered in one region of the brain — the same region associated with genital stimulation in men — overlapping but separate.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Polygamist leader gets life in prison for assault

Polygamist leader gets life in prison for assault

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SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) -- Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday for sexually assaulting an underage follower he took as a bride in what his church deemed a "spiritual marriage."
The head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints also received a 20-year sentence for the sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl.
He stood quietly Tuesday as the decision of the Texas jury was read, giving him the maximum sentence on both counts. They are to be served consecutively. Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark said the 55-year-old will be eligible for parole in 35 years.
Prosecutors had asked the jury for the life sentence after presenting their painstaking and sometimes graphic case, and rejected Jeffs' contention that he was being persecuted for his religious beliefs.
"The evidence in this case shows that this isn't a prosecution of a people," prosecutor Eric Nichols said in his closing argument. "This is a prosecution to protect people."
During the trial, prosecutors used DNA evidence to show Jeffs fathered a child with the 15-year-old and played an audio recording of what they said was him sexually assaulting the 12-year-old.
Jeffs, who had insisted on acting as his own attorney during the earlier part of the trial, was convicted Thursday.
He asked to be excused under protest during the sentencing phase, which ended Tuesday with him refusing to answer when the judge asked if he wanted to make a closing statement. A defense attorney told the judge Jeffs had instructed his attorneys not to speak for him.
Jurors deliberated less than half an hour.
During the trial, prosecutors played other tapes in which Jeffs was heard instructing as many as a dozen of his young wives on how to please him sexually - and thus, he told them, please God.
"If the world knew what I was doing, they would hang me from the highest tree," Jeffs wrote in 2005, according to one of thousands of pages of notes seized along with the audio recordings from his Texas ranch.
Nichols referred to that in his closing.
"No, Mr. Jeffs, unlike what you wrote in your priesthood records ... we don't hang convicts anymore from the highest tree. Not even child molesters," Nichols said.
Jeffs claimed his religious rights were being violated. Representing himself after burning through seven high-powered attorneys, he routinely interrupted the proceedings and chose to stand silently in front of jurors for nearly half an hour during his closing arguments. He called just one defense witness, a church elder who read from Mormon scripture.
The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a radical offshoot of mainstream Mormonism that believes polygamy brings exaltation in heaven, has more than 10,000 followers who consider Jeffs to be God's spokesman on Earth.
He spent years evading arrest - crisscrossing the country as a fugitive who eventually made the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list before his capture in 2006, said Nichols.
Several former members of the church testified that Jeffs ruled the group with a heavy and abusive hand. Jeffs also allegedly excommunicated 60 church members he saw as a threat to his leadership, breaking up 300 families while stripping them of property and "reassigning" wives and children.
In an audiotape played during the sentencing phase, Jeffs was heard softly telling five young girls to "set aside all your inhibitions" as he gave them instructions on how to please him sexually. Jeffs is heard telling the girls that what "the five of you are about to do is important."
Prosecutors suggested that the polygamist leader told the girls they needed to have sex with him - in what Jeffs called "heavenly" or "celestial" sessions - in order to atone for sins in his community. Several times in his journals, Jeffs wrote of God telling him to take more and more young girls as brides "who can be worked with and easily taught."
FBI agent John Broadway testified that fathers who gave their young daughters to Jeffs were rewarded with young brides of their own. Girls who proved reluctant to have sex with Jeffs were sent away, according to excerpts from Jeffs' journals that prosecutors showed to the jury.
Police raided the group's remote West Texas ranch in April 2008, finding women dressed in frontier-style dresses and hairdos from the 19th century as well as seeing underage girls who were clearly pregnant. The call to an abuse hotline that spurred the raid turned out to be a hoax, and more than 400 children who had been placed in protective custody were eventually returned to their families.
Jeffs is the eighth FLDS man convicted since the raid on Yearning For Zion, in the town of Eldorado, 45 miles south of San Angelo. Previous sentences ranged from six to 75 years in prison.
The church's traditional headquarters is along the Utah-Arizona border, but it established the Texas compound in 2004. Jeffs once faced criminal charges in Arizona and was convicted of accessory to rape in Utah in 2007. But that was overturned by the state Supreme Court and he was extradited to Texas in December.
Willie Jessop, a former FLDS spokesman, who railed against the raid but has since disavowed Jeffs, said the first priority of the church would be tearing down the guard tower and the gate at the ranch.
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Thursday, July 21, 2011

Unemployment

More than one in three jobless Americans were out of work for at least a year in a handful of U.S. states that appear to be disproportionately caught up in the nation’s long-term unemployment problem.
Lasting spells of unemployment have been problematic in the wake of the most recent downturn and in seven states the situation was particularly dire. In New Jersey, Georgia, Michigan, South Carolina, North Carolina, Illinois and Florida more than a third of unemployed residents had been out of work for at least a year in 2010, according to Labor Department data that is expected to be released later this month.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Hitler And Sex Dolls

America;s Jobs

Where Have America's Jobs Gone?

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Hiring at McDonald's; Wireless Networks' Job-Killing Effect; One Machine Doing The Work of Three
There are many reasons U.S. companies give for their lack of robust hiring—from weak consumer spending to uncertainty over the direction of government policies on debt and spending.
But a closer look at hiring provides a more nuanced picture. Some industries have significantly boosted employment over the past year while others continue to shed workers. To be sure, even those adding jobs are hiring far fewer than would be needed to put America's 14.1 million unemployed back to work.
Manufacturing has been adding jobs since the start of 2010 due in large part to the sharp rebound in automobile production at General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC that has filtered to suppliers. On the flip side, just about anything to do with housing, from furniture makers to hardware stores, remains depressed. Homebuilder Toll Brothers Inc., of Horsham, Pa., plans to bring its total employment to 3,300 by Oct. 31. But that is less than half of its peak of about 7,000 in 2005.

Friday, July 8, 2011

Casey And Her Mother

Casey Anthony Turns Away Jailhouse Visit By Mom

PHOTO: Casey Anthony and her mother, Cindy Anthony, are pictured in these July 2011 file photos from the trial.

Beer And Grill

Beer!


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A hot grill and a cold beer: That simple summer duo is so great, yet so woefully lopsided. The grill has become an ark of diversity—burgers and dogs, sure, but also fish, tofu, fruit, even pizza—but the cooler remains stocked with, well, whatever's cold. It's time to build a better grill-side lineup.
Don't worry about that rare, barrel-aged sour—leave it in the cellar. Grilling is about simplicity, and it's hard to be highbrow while brandishing tongs. You need beers that are versatile but down-to-earth, ready to hit whatever the grill-master throws: smoke, spice, creamy fat, caramelized sugars, sharp char. Good beers, but nothing fancy.

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Casey Anthony And Juror.

Casey Anthony Verdict: Alternate Juror Calls Her 'Good Mother'

PHOTO: Casey Anthony has been found not guilty of murdering her 2-year-old daughter Caylee. The jury declined to convict her of either first degree murder or manslaughter.

French,Sex and Usa Justice

Sex, Lies And American Justice: French Still Try To Understand Strauss-Kahn Case

A man walks past front pages of newspapers featuring former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, at a central kiosk in Paris July 2, 2011.

ISI And Jounalists

Risky Business: When Pakistani Journalists Take On the ISI

Supporters of Pakistan's Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement of Justice) place candles next to portraits of slain journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad during a vigil in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Monday, June 6, 2011
Anjum Naveed

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Pentagon Big Money In Middle East


Welfare for Dictators

A NEWSWEEK investigation reveals how Pentagon billions are flowing to strongmen in the Middle East.


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The tarmac at the Al Dhafra military base in the United Arab Emirates.
Officially, the U.S. does not pay other governments for rights to military bases. The logic is straightforward: funneling money to the treasuries of foreign dictators cannot form the foundation of genuine strategic alliances. Yet, to fight wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while staring down the mullahs in Iran, over the last decade the Pentagon has come to rely in an unprecedented way on a web of bases across the Middle East. And a NEWSWEEK investigation of Pentagon contracting practices in Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, and Bahrain has uncovered more than $14 billion paid mostly in sole-source contracts to companies controlled by ruling families across the Persian Gulf. The revelation raises a fundamental question: are U.S. taxpayer dollars enriching the ruling potentates of friendly regimes just as the youthful protesters and the Arab Spring have brought a new push for democracy across the region?

Greece Debt And USA

Debt Woes: Could America Go the Way of Greece?

As Europe confronts another act in its Greek drama, many are watching and wondering, Is the U.S. next? Could our debt-ceiling debate be the beginning of a crisis that makes the world lose faith in American credit? Anything could happen, but it's worth noting the big differences between Greece and the U.S.
Greece faces three problems. First, it has an uncompetitive economy that cannot generate growth. Its labor is too expensive, it exports few products, and its people are not rich enough to power an expansion. This is not a recent problem. Greece has never been an economic dynamo.

Teeen Employment

Sad summer ahead for teen employment



"It's about as bad as it gets," says Joseph McLaughlin, senior research associate at the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. "Last summer, we reached a postwar employment low for 16- to 19-year-olds."

Monday, June 20, 2011

42nd President Bill Clinton-14 WAYS TO PUT AMERICA BACK TO WORK.


It’s Still the Economy, Stupid

Fourteen million Americans remain out of work, a waste of our greatest resource. The 42nd president has more than a dozen ideas on how to attack the jobs crisis.


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Bill Clinton

1. SPEED THE APPROVALS

Harry Hopkins had nowhere near the rules and regulations we have now. (In 1933, Hopkins’s Civil Works Administration put 4 million to work in a month.) I don’t blame the people in the White House for problems in getting shovel-ready projects off the ground; sometimes it takes three years or more for the approval process. We should try to change this: keep the full review process when there are real environmental concerns, but when there aren’t, the federal government should be able to give a waiver to the states to speed up start times on construction projects. We gave states waivers to do welfare reform, so by the time I signed the bill, 43 of the 50 states had already implemented their own approaches. We need to look at that.

Friday, June 17, 2011

To Kill Zawahiri

 

We will kill Zawahiri just like Osama: US

 
 
WASHINGTON: The United States Thursday dismissed new al Qaeda supremo Ayman al-Zawahiri as a pale imitation of Osama bin Laden and warned the Egyptian to expect a similar fate to his slain predecessor.

US officials painted the 59-year-old long-time number two as an "armchair general" with no combat experience, saying he not only lacked charisma and leadership skills but was also a divisive figure who could fracture al Qaeda.

Daily Rape Of Ten Year Old

Yemeni 10-year-old raped daily by old husband

Girls can be married at just 9 years old in Yemen (File)
Girls can be married at just 9 years old in Yemen
It was every little girl's dream; she was to get a new dress, jewellery, sweets and a party for all her friends.

What 10-year-old Aisha did not know was that after the wedding party she would have to leave school, move to a village far from her parents' home, cook and clean all day, and have sex with her older husband.

Ammonium Nitrate Found Near Pantogone

ARLINGTON, Va. -- Authorities found al Qaeda-related statements, a backpack containing ammonium nitrate, and spent 9mm shells Friday after stopping a suspicious vehicle close to the Pentagon and arresting a man.Pentagon Police arrested one person Friday and closed several roads around the US Department of Defense headquarters after officers stopped a suspicious vehicle and discovered a backpack believed to contain ammonium nitrate.The vehicle was stopped about 6:00am local time Friday. Police were searching for one, or possibly two, other people who fled the vehicle when it was stopped by police.
Law enforcement work near the Pentagon after a suspicious vehicle forced multiple road closures Friday.
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Law enforcement work near the Pentagon after a suspicious vehicle forced multiple road closures Friday.
A source told FOX News Channel that the backpack was found outside of the vehicle, and that the arrested man was a naturalized US citizen who came to the US from Ethiopia.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Arrest Of CIA' Agents In Pakistan And Osama's Body Hunter

 

US diver hopes to find Osama’s body

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LOS ANGELES: A California diver and treasure hunter, Bill Warren hopes to find evidence that Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is dead. He hopes to establish this by scanning the Arabian Sea with sonar.

The diver from San Diego said his main motivation was to try and see if the US government was telling the truth about bin Laden’s death and burial at sea.

Warren plans to begin his expedition soon from India with a camera team. The diver claims that it may take him eight weeks to locate the body of the Al-Qaeda leader and if his body is recovered than he would take photographs and a conduct a DNA test.

According to Warren he has three funders for this expedition.

Pakistan arrests CIA’s bin Laden informants

WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has arrested five CIA informants who fed information to US intelligence before the raid last month which killed Osama bin Laden, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.

Friday, June 10, 2011

Naked Hiking And Pitures

Hike Naked: Germany Opens New Nude-Friendly Nature Trails

 
A group of hikers opens this year's naturist hiking season in Wippra, Germany, May 28, 2011. The Harzer Naturistenstieg is Germany's first official nude hiking trail near Wippra.
When "Germany's first hiking trail for nudists" opened on May 29, 2010 near the town of Dankerode, enthusiasm was running high — and not just among those who enjoy braving nature in the buff. Mayor Monika Rauhut hailed the trail as "the latest attraction here in beautiful Wippertal."

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Qaddafi And Rape Drugs

Qaddafi ordered sex drugs for Libya rapes, ICC prosecutor says

Iman al-Obeidi, who publically accused Libyan soldiers of rape, is now in Romania after being deported from Qatar. (File Photo) 
London Dispatch / Ray Moseley: And what happens when Colonel Qaddafi goes?
Investigators have evidence that Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi ordered mass rapes and bought containers of sex drugs to encourage troops to attack women, the chief ICC prosecutor said.

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Summer Steak On Grill

Fruit-and-Fire Flat Iron Steaks


Fruit-and-Fire Flat Iron Steaks
Prep: 20 minutes Marinate: 12 hours Grill: 20 minutes

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Anthony Weiner news And Bad Pictures

Anthony Weiner Exposed as 1996 Cosmo Bachelor

Anthony Weiner Exposed as 1996 Cosmo Bachelor
Long before there surfaced lewd photos of Anthony Weiner, sans pants, the New York congressman made his pictorial debut in the pages of Cosmopolitan magazine – fully clothed.

Thursday, June 2, 2011

US And Pakistan Joint Venture-Taliban Killed Policemen

US-Pakistan move to rebuilding intelligence cooperation, by forming new anti-terror squad

Pakistani soldiers arrive for an operation against militants at a major Pakistani naval air base following an attack by militants in Karachi. (File photo)
Pakistani soldiers arrive for an operation against militants at a major Pakistani naval air base following an attack by militants in Karachi. (File photo)