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GM wants to sell Hummer. It needs the money. Sichuan Tengzhong, a heavy equipment firm based in China, looked like a ready buyer. GM would like to find an acquirer that would save most of the unit’s jobs. Sichuan Tengzhong seemed to fit that bill. Now it appears that the Chinese government has killed any chance of a transaction. According to the AP, it is because the equipment company “lacks expertise to run Hummer.” The news is a strong indication that China wants to push its companies to expand abroad, particularly if they can buy depressed assets at fire sale...

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"LOS ANGELES – Michael Jackson's family wants a private autopsy of the pop icon because of unanswered questions about how he died and the doctor who was with him, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said Saturday. "It's abnormal. He couldn't be found," he told The Associated Press from Chicago a day after visiting the Jackson family. "We don't know what happened. Was he injected and with what? All reasonable doubt should be addressed.""

FIRE extinguishers will be on the menu at a local restaurant which claims to boast the world's spiciest pizza. Bella Italia has entered the "Volcanica" to the Guinness World Records as the hottest pizza ever made. The dish comes with a free glass of milk to soothe burning taste buds. Red and green chillis, njuda sausage and extra spicy arrabiatta sauce provide the fiery flavour. Vittorio Lettieri, the chef behind the recipe, said: "It's not for the faint-hearted but those who think they can beat the burn won't be disappointed. "Side effects can include a numb tongue and watering eyes...

Sure lobster is delicious, but somehow you’ll savor its flavor more when you catch it yourself. For a memorable family outing reserve a spot on a working lobster boat. This unique experience offers something the whole family can enjoy and is perfect for the entourage of visitors that commonly arrive over the summer. Lucky Catch Cruises at 170 Commercial Street in Portland, Maine offers five 1 ½ hour trips daily in July and August. Venturing off to Portland Headlight, Seal Watch and Lighthead Passage, the Lucky Catch boards 14-20 persons per trip. Choose to be as interactive on this trip...

Christian families have long been complaining of intimidation and land theft by Muslims, especially those working for the Palestinian Authority. Many Christians in Bethlehem and the nearby [Christian] towns of Bet Sahour and Bet Jalla have repeatedly complained that Muslims have been seizing their lands either by force or through forged documents. In recent years, not only has the number of Christians continued to dwindle, but Bethlehem and its surroundings also became hotbeds for Hamas and Islamic Jihad supporters and members. Moreover, several Christian women living in these areas have complained about verbal and sexual assaults by Muslim men. .....

WASHINGTON -- As financial markets tumbled and the government worked to stave off panic by pumping billions of dollars into banks last fall, several members of Congress who oversee the banking industry were grabbing up or dumping bank stocks. Anticipating bargains or profits or just trying to unload before the bottom fell out, these members of the House Financial Services Committee or brokers on their behalf were buying and selling stocks including Bank of America and Citigroup -- some of the very corporations their committee would later rap for greed, a Plain Dealer examination of congressional stock market transactions shows....

After any war, the use of force throughout the world is almost taken for granted. Men involved in the war have been trained to use force and they have discovered that, when you want something, you can take it. The return to peacetime methods governed by law and persuasion is usually difficult. We who have long boasted that, in our political life, freedom in the use of the secret ballot made it possible for us to register the will of the people without the use of force, have had a rude awakening as we read of conditions in McMinn county,...

Christian families have long been complaining of intimidation and land theft by Muslims, especially those working for the Palestinian Authority. Many Christians in Bethlehem and the nearby [Christian] towns of Bet Sahour and Bet Jalla have repeatedly complained that Muslims have been seizing their lands either by force or through forged documents. In recent years, not only has the number of Christians continued to dwindle, but Bethlehem and its surroundings also became hotbeds for Hamas and Islamic Jihad supporters and members. Moreover, several Christian women living in these areas have complained about verbal and sexual assaults by Muslim men. .....

Contacting the U.S. Congress- Go to the site. Select your State - Names and info is posted there. The Fax works very well. Prepare your letter then CUT & Paste into the Subject. Click to SEND! You can alos download the FREE typeitin Tool to facilitate this. Free Congressional Fax Site http://www.congressfax.com/

I posted an ad in Craig's List a few days ago, selling a laptop computer. I received numberous suspicious responses asking for my Paypal account number, such as the one below: I'm interesting in purchasing this item for my inlaw, what is the present condition and get back to me if its available for sale.i will make a good offer. I had already received several of these fractured-English inquiries, and was suspicious right off the bat. Here's my reply: As I am interesting in selling it to you. I expecting hopefully good offer. Here is the reply I got: to...

On June 23, 2009, People Magazine reported that the drummer for the band, My Chemical Romance, is suing a dog trainer after the death and subsequent cremation of the drummer's dog. The drummer, Bob Bryar, paid $7500 to send his dog, Dixie, to the trainer's kennel for intensive training. After the trainer reassured Mr. Bryar that his dog was doing well and "partying all day", it was later reported that the dog had died and the trainer had Dixie's body cremated. The trainer had changed his story of how the dog died multiple times, causing emotional distress to Mr. Bryar....

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed Saturday to make the U.S. regret its criticism of Iran's postelection crackdown and said the "mask has been removed" from the Obama administration's efforts to improve relations. Ahmadinejad — with his internal opponents virtually silenced — all but dared Obama to keep calling for an end to repression of demonstrators who claim the hardline leader stole re-election through massive fraud. "You should know that if you continue the response of the Iranian nation will be strong," Ahmadinejad said in a speech to members of Iran's judiciary, which is directly controlled by the ruling clerics. "The response...

These Politicians constantly speaking to Wall Street, Oil Companies, Insurance Firms greed while they sell out our priceless, irreplaceable liberties and freedoms for a couple of bucks, titles and job security. The way it works morons your supposed to oversee the private sector and if there are violations your supposed to regulate. Now they want to play in everything, drown out the big bad private sector, transfer power to the most corrupt self centered group in the world; the American politician. If a private company does wrong people are prosecuted and go to jail now that Obama has his hands...

SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea threatened Saturday to shoot down any Japanese planes that enter its airspace, accusing Tokyo of spying near one of its missile launch sites. The North has designated a no-sail zone off its eastern coast from June 25 to July 10 for military drills, raising concerns that it might test-fire short- or mid-range missiles in the coming days, in violation of a U.N. resolution. North Korea's air force said Japan's E-767 surveillance aircraft conducted aerial espionage near the Musudan-ri missile site on its northeast coast Wednesday and Thursday. The military "will not tolerate even a...

Editor's note: Since publication of this story, the auction item has been removed for the third time. None of the item identification numbers in this article remain valid. An eBay seller who previously promised to deliver a certified copy of President Obama's actual birth certificate – from a hospital in Mombasa, Kenya – has twice had his listing removed from the popular auction website. In a third listing, however, the seller calling himself "colmado_naranja" has explained why the birth certificate was twice yanked by eBay administration. "The first cancellation was done in what eBay describes as being in the interests...

As U.S. lawmakers work on the details of "cap and trade" carbon dioxide legislation, they need to know what Europeans already know: When trying to slow down global warming, beware of unintended consequences, says Steven Mufson in the Washington Post. Consider Kollo Holding's (a silicon carbide maker) factory in the Netherlands: * Managers at the factory say their plant as an ecological standout: They use waste gases to generate energy and have installed the latest pollution-control equipment. * But Europe's emissions program has driven electricity prices so high that the facility routinely shuts down for part of the day to...

Fission and quarks figure into quirky caseIt's not every day that disputes over particle physics leads to assault charges. But that's what happened when Jason Everett Keller, 40, joined a conversation about quantum physics in South San Francisco in March. Keller was accused of attacking Stephan Fava while Fava and his friend were discussing physics in the Bay Area town. The charges didn't stick, however, as Keller has been acquitted by a San Mateo County jury. The verdict is still out string theory, however, so there's no indication that physics-related violence will abate any time soon. Related Stories Jackson West...

After repeated questioning about links to al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden Saddam Hussein admitted meetings between the two (after initial denials) but said his regime denied al Qaeda's requests for support reportedly due to such vastly differing ideologies. Below is a summary of one of FBI agent George Piro's question and answer sessions. In this June 28, 2004 document Hussein said his country did not support the group because the U.S. was not his enemy. He previously indicated the exact opposite, that the U.S. was his enemy as mentioned in Saddam Hussein's FBI interview and in other private and...

BEIJING -- Ethnic tensions between workers at a toy factory in southern China sparked a brawl that left two dead and 118 injured, state media and a government spokesman said Saturday. The official China News Service said hundreds of workers at the Xuri Toy Factory in Shaoguan City fought for two hours before more than 400 police restored order early Friday morning. A spokesman from the Shaoguan City government said the brawl was due to tensions between Uighurs - Turkic-speaking Muslims - and Han Chinese, who make up most of China's population.