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Posted on 03/30/2011 7:12:26 AM PDT by MestaMachine
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So, if no one WANTS to know, what the heck do we call that? A death wish? Have we really become that suicidal? I mean do they think that someone else will take care of everything and make it all better? That it will get better all by itself? I don’t get it.
Oh, man, LucyT. Did you see Beck today? He said 35,000 people have died from the drug cartels since 2006. All the mass graves and murders now just for kicks. He was also talking about finding suicide martyr manuals in the desert printed in iran...that the cartels are being trained and assisted by AQ and hizbullah. And they are using i.e.d.s more and more.
He said that people are being taken off of full buses and the murderers are using sledge hammers to kill them one by one to save bullets.
They found an i.e.d. in Brownsville, Texas under a bridge. It’s coming here. What in the world are we waiting for???
Explosion rocks gas terminal near Egypt’s border with Israel; forces shutdown of pipeline - AP http://bit.ly/ftyMyj
Hostage names:
Pierre Legrand
Daniel Larribe
Thierry Dol
Marc Furrer
No problem! My husband works in the oil business. There are a lot of oil related companies around here - Shell, Exxon/Mobil, Halliburton, etc., mostly working in the North Sea.
There are a lot of military around here though - British. They’re starting to pull out, and the people around here are worried about the local economy when they’re all gone. But for the most part, the German economy is doing well.
I would love to be a part of your ping list, BTW! Could you please include me?
At least one of them -Larribe - works for this outfit:
http://www.areva.com/EN/group-57/global-leader-in-nuclear-energy-and-renewable-energy-solutions.html
Sure will. Thanks for the info. Did you get to see that clip on Beck’s show?
Just saw a news report that the EPA is going to add a freaking lizard to the endangered species list to halt oil drilling in Texas.
GAAAGGGGHHHH!!!!!
I don’t usually post videos but this one is going unnoticed, especially by this administration. we need to make some noise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkuVY8VqBsU&NR=1
“Tawahush” in Nigeria - Million Muslims on Rampage - Killing and Burning Christians Alive
Thanks! I just watched it. Amazing.
I don’t know why the House doesn’t use their powers to de-fund these stupid agencies. What’s it gonna take???
Excerpt:
A veteran Afghan military officer gunned down six NATO service members and wounded five Afghan soldiers Wednesday after an argument at the Kabul airport, Afghan and coalition officials said.
It was the seventh incident so far this year in which members of the Afghan security forces, or insurgents impersonating them, have killed coalition soldiers or members of the Afghan security forces.
NATO did not disclose the nationalities of the troops killed pending notification of their families.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, but Defense Ministry spokesman Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi said the gunman was an Afghan military pilot who "opened fire on foreigners after an argument."
The pilot was killed in the morning shooting, which occurred at a facility used by the Afghan Air Force, Azimi said.
Azimi said the shooter was a military pilot of 20 years. "An argument happened between him and the foreigners and we have to investigate that."
An Afghan pilot who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the gunman was Ahmad Gul, a 50-year-old pilot from Tarakhail district of Kabul province.
In a statement, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said, however, that the gunman was impersonating an army officer and that others at the facility helped him gain access. The gunman killed nine foreigners and five Afghan soldiers, he said. The Taliban often exaggerate the number of casualties caused by their attacks.
Taliban insurgents have stepped up their attacks on government and military installations across Afghanistan.
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Security forces have unearthed six more bodies in a northeastern Mexican border state where a drug gang is believed to be kidnapping passengers from buses and hiding their victims in secret graves, authorities said Tuesday. A total of 183 bodies have been discovered in a month in 40 graves.
The horrific discoveries have intensified criticism that lawlessness reigns in Tamaulipas state, where the Zetas drug gang has terrorized migrants trying to make their way north to the United States. It is the same region where authorities say the Zetas killed 72 Central American migrants in August.
Meanwhile, a different search over the last month in the capital of northwestern Durango state has yielded 96 bodies in two mass graves as of Tuesday, said Gerardo Ortiz, spokesman for the state attorney general's office.
State investigators led by federal agents have exhumed 79 bodies in a car repair shop of a working-class neighborhood of Durango city, Ortiz said. Seventeen other decomposed bodies were found in mid-April next to a well-known hacienda in the city, less than a mile away from the car shop.
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Security forces began exhuming the corpses on April 1 after they were led to the site by suspects who confessed to kidnapping and killing bus passengers traveling through the area.
The motive for the bus abductions remains unclear, though prosecutors have suggested the gang may be forcefully recruiting people to work for it. Morales said the Zetas have also been extorting migrants for up to $2,000. Those whose families pay are led across the border to the U.S. by the Zetas themselves, she said.
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Iran's president on Wednesday shunned a Cabinet meeting for the second consecutive time this week, apparently showing his discontent over a recent government appointment by the country's supreme leader.
There is a growing rift between Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has final say in all Iranian state matters.
The confrontation stems from Ahmadinejad's recent dismissal of the intelligence minister, Heidar Moslehi, who was ordered by the president to resign last week. The minister was then promptly reinstated by Khamenei in a public slap to the president.
On Saturday, Khamenei warned in a speech broadcast on state TV that he will intervene in the government's affairs whenever necessary — a rebuke to Ahmadinejad for challenging his all-encompassing authority.
Although Khamenei ordered Moslehi to remain in the Cabinet, the president reportedly didn't give in to the order and failed to officially invite Moslehi to Sunday's session. Surprisingly, Moslehi showed up and Ahmadinejad abstained.
Iranian media reported that Moslehi attended the Cabinet session Wednesday but Ahmadinejad again abstained.
The Ahmadinejad-Khamenei discord could destabilize Iran from within. The country is at odds with the West and under U.N. sanctions over its controversial nuclear program.
It could also cast a shadow on the remaining two years of Ahmadinejad's presidency.
Ahmadinejad's gamble appears to be aimed at setting up a confidant to become the next president, analysts say. He needs to control the Intelligence Ministry in order to influence the next parliament as well as who becomes the next president, they say.
Khamenei is believed to be intent on helping shape a new political team, absent of Ahmadinejad loyalists, to lead the next government.
Trump openly challenges Obama; and he 'punches back'. Our Repubs only cluck their tongues...
Thanks; thanks; thanks; thanks; WELCOME ABOARD & thanks.
TM BUMP!
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Almost 2,000 Detonators Found on Mexico Border
Fox News ^ | 4/17/11 | Unspecified
Police discovered 1,994 detonator cartridges inside a pickup truck in this northern border metropolis, Mexico’s federal Public Safety Office said Tuesday. Officers noticed the abandoned vehicle because its headlights were on and it was missing license plates, according to an official statement.
Read more:
http://www.latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2011/04/27/2000-detonators-mexico-border/#ixzz1KlQJu5Fn
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2711474/posts
VIDEO:String of twisters continues to devastate Southern states,
Biolent storms kill 83 in South
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Fierce storms obliterated large swaths of land from Mississippi to Georgia, wiping out homes and businesses, causing a nuclear power plant to use backup generators and even forcing the evacuation of a National Weather Service office.
The death toll was staggering -- at least 85 people killed in five states, including 61 in Alabama alone, a number that was likely to increase.
One of the hardest-hit areas was Tuscaloosa, a city of more than 83,000 and home to the University of Alabama. The city's police and other emergency services were devastated, the mayor said, and at least 15 people were killed and about 100 were in a single hospital.
A massive tornado, caught on video by a news camera on a tower, barreled through the city late Wednesday afternoon, leveling it.
By nightfall, the city was dark. Roads were impassable. Signs were blown down in front of restaurants, businesses were unrecognizable and sirens wailed off and on. Debris littered the streets and sidewalks.
VIDEO: Severe Storms Strike Mississippi
April 26: A cloud forms over the Arkoma, Okla. area as sirens sound in Fort Smith, Ark.
At Stephanie's Flowers, owner Bronson Englebert used the headlights from two delivery vans to see what valuables he could remove. He had closed early, which was a good thing. The storm blew out the front of his store, pulled down the ceiling and shattered the windows, leaving only the curtains flapping in the breeze.
"It even blew out the back wall, and I've got bricks on top of two delivery vans now," Englebert said.
A group of students stopped to help Englebert, carrying out items like computers and printers and putting them in his van.
"They've been awfully good to me so far," Englebert said.
Elsewhere, 11 people were killed in Mississippi, another 11 people were reported dead in Georgia and one person died each in Tennessee and Virginia.
The storm system spread destruction from Texas to New York, where dozens of roads were flooded or washed out.
President Barack Obama said he had spoken with Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley and approved his request for emergency federal assistance, including search and rescue assets. About 1,400 National Guard soldiers were being deployed around the state.
"Our hearts go out to all those who have been affected by this devastation, and we commend the heroic efforts of those who have been working tirelessly to respond to this disaster," Obama said in a statement.
Around Tuscaloosa, traffic was snarled by downed trees and power lines, and some drivers abandoned their cars in medians.
"What we faced today was massive damage on a scale we have not seen in Tuscaloosa in quite some time," Mayor Walter Maddox said.
University officials said there didn't appear to be significant damage on campus, and dozens of students and locals were staying at a 125-bed shelter in the campus recreation center.
Volunteers and staff were providing food and water to people like 29-year-old civil engineering graduate student Kenyona Pierce.
"I really don't know if I have a home to go to," she said.
Storms also struck Birmingham, felling numerous trees that impeded emergency responders and those trying to leave hard-hit areas. Surrounding Jefferson County reported 11 deaths; another hard-hit area was Walker County in the far northwest part of the state with at least eight deaths. The rest of the deaths were scattered around northern Alabama.
The Browns Ferry nuclear power plant about 30 miles west of Huntsville lost offsite power. The Tennessee Valley Authority-owned plant had to use seven diesel generators to power the plant's three units. The safety systems operated as needed and the emergency event was classified as the lowest of four levels, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said.
In Huntsville, meteorologists found themselves in the path of severe storms and had to take shelter in a reinforced steel room, turning over monitoring duties to a sister office in Jackson, Miss. Meteorologists saw multiple wall clouds, which sometimes spawn tornadoes, and decided to take cover, but the building wasn't damaged.
"We have to take shelter just like the rest of the people," said meteorologist Chelly Amin, who wasn't at the office at the time but spoke with colleagues about the situation.
She said the extent of the damage statewide is still unknown.
"I really think with the rising of the sun, we'll see the full extent of this," she said.
In Kemper County, Miss., in the east-central part of the state, sisters Florrie Green and Maxine McDonald, and their sister-in-law Johnnie Green, all died in a mobile home that was destroyed by a storm.
Johnnie Green's daughter-in-law said Florrie Green and McDonald owned mobile homes side-by-side, and Johnnie Green lived nearby. Johnnie Green was at one of the woman's homes at the time the storm hit.
"It's hard. It's been very difficult," Mary Green said. "They were thrown into those pines over there," she said, pointing to a wooded area. "They had to go look for their bodies."
In Choctaw County, Miss., a Louisiana police officer was killed Wednesday morning when a towering sweetgum tree fell onto his tent as he shielded his young daughter with his body, said Kim Korthuis, a supervisory ranger with the National Park Service. The girl wasn't hurt.
The 9-year-old girl was brought to a motorhome about 100 feet away where campsite volunteer Greg Maier was staying with his wife, Maier said. He went back to check on the father and found him dead.
"She wasn't hurt, just scared and soaking wet," Maier said.
Her father, Lt. Wade Sharp, had been with the Covington Police Department for 19 years.
"He was a hell of an investigator," said Capt. Jack West, his colleague in Louisiana.
In a neighborhood south of Birmingham, Austin Ransdell and a friend had to hike out after the house where he was living was crushed by four trees. No one was hurt.
As he walked away from the wreckage, trees and power lines crisscrossed residential streets, and police cars and utility trucks blocked a main highway.
"The house was destroyed. We couldn't stay in it. Water pipes broke; it was flooding the basement," he said. "We had people coming in telling us another storm was coming in about four or five hours, so we just packed up."
Not far away, Craig Branch was stunned by the damage.
"Every street to get into our general subdivision was blocked off. Power lines are down; trees are all over the road. I've never seen anything like that before," he said.
In eastern Tennessee, a woman was killed by falling trees in her trailer in Chattanooga. Just outside the city in Tiftonia, what appeared to be a tornado also struck at the base of the tourist peak Lookout Mountain.
Tops were snapped off trees and insulation and metal roof panels littered the ground. Police officers walked down the street, spray-painting symbols on houses they had checked for people who might be inside.
Mary Ann Bowman, 42, stood watching from her driveway as huge tractors moved downed trees in the street. She had rushed home from work to find windows shattered at her house, and her grandmother's house next door shredded. The 91-year-old woman wasn't home at the time.
"When I pulled up I just started crying," Bowman said.
UPDATE:
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- The death toll from severe storms that roared across the South has risen to 173 across five states with Alabama and Mississippi each reporting increases in the number of deaths in their states.
Alabama's emergency management agency says their death toll has gone up to 128, while Mississippi officials are reporting 32 dead in that state.
Another 11 have been killed in Georgia and one each in Tennessee and Virginia.
Dear FRiends,
I am going in for a little bit of surgery this morning, but I did not want to leave today without offering my sincerest condolences and heartfelt prayers for all the families and the victims of these deadly, deadly tornadoes.
May G-d ease their pain and lessen their suffering as much as possible, and allow them to rebuild their lives while remembering those they lost with love. May they know in their hearts that their loved ones are with YOU and at peace this day. And in so knowing, bring them peace as well.
Amen
Please add your prayers to mine and that will end this thread. A new one will be up ASAP.
Thank you everyone.
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May the force be with you! I know we will all offer prayers for your successful surgery. Stay well.
A bit of new stuff up on the tail end here:
http://www.junipersec.com/cyber.htm
Running off to get milk. And got a bumblebee in the house. Summer! Hummer!!
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