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621 - National Geographic Channel High Definition | Genre: Shows | Year: 2010 Airtime: Sun, Jan 02 07:00 PM Cast & Credits:Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger Description: Journalist Sebastian Junger and photographer Tim Hetherington spend a year in east Afghanistan embedded with the Second Platoon, B Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team.

Islamic protesters sparked fury today after they burned a model of a poppy and deliberately broke the silence at Armistice Day commemorations in central London. As millions of Britons fell silent to remember those who have died in war, members of a group called Muslims Against Crusades clashed with police during an 'emergency demonstration' in Kensington, west London. As the clock struck 11am, the Islamic protesters burned a model of a poppy and chanted 'British soldiers burn in hell'. They held banners which read 'Islam will dominate' and 'Our dead are in paradise, your dead are in hell'. The Muslims...

The great Pat nails it once again. Also on Youtube.

UK speedboat floats into Iran’s arms By Guy Dinmore in Rome Published: April 4 2010 22:02 | Last updated: April 4 2010 22:02 Has a record-breaking British powerboat become the “ultimate toy” for an Iranian playboy or – as US investigators fear – is it now equipped with the world’s fastest torpedoes aimed at sinking an aircraft carrier in the Gulf? In spite of efforts by the Obama administration to stop it falling into the hands of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, the Bradstone Challenger – a high-performance powerboat built with support from a US defence contractor – is believed to be...

Obama Accepts a Nuclear Iran By Greg Sheridan US President Barack Obama has decided to abandon any serious effort to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. He is determined instead to live with a nuclear Iran, by containment and, if possible, negotiation. This is the shifting tectonic plate in the Middle East. This is the giant story of the past few weeks which the world has largely missed, distracted by the theatre of the absurd of Obama's contrived and mock confrontation with Israel over 1600 apartments to be built in three years' time in a Jewish suburb in East Jerusalem....

March 18, 2010 North Korean official Pak Nam-ki executed for disastrous currency reform Anne Barrowclough North Korea has executed a ruling party official blamed for the botched currency reform last November which led to runaway inflation and threatened new food shortages, in what is an attempt to contain civil unrest.

The Nigerian man accused of attempting to bomb a transatlantic airliner was recruited by al Qaeda in London, a top Yemeni government official claimed today. Rashad al-Alimi, Yemen Deputy Prime Minister for defence and security, told a news conference: 'The information provided to us is that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab joined al Qaeda in London.' He said Abdulmutallab met with radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and the alleged gunman who killed 13 soldiers at Fort Hood in November while in Yemen. Al-Awlaki, a cleric popular among al Qaeda sympathisers for his calls for jihad, or holy war, became notorious in the U.S....

Some sea kittens tend well-kept gardens. They encourage the growth of tasty algae and weed out the types that they don't like. It is particularly tragic when people eat these sea kittens, as their precious little gardens become wild and overgrown in their absence. (Sea Kittens = fish LOL)

Barack Obama to send 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan Barack Obama will announce next Tuesday that the US is sending 34,000 extra troops to Afghanistan to "finish the job", in an announcement that will finally bring to an end three months of deliberation. By Toby Harnden in Washington Published: 7:27PM GMT 24 Nov 2009 White House officials said the US president would address Americans in a live prime-time broadcast and outline a new strategy for ending the Afghan war, which began when US forces ousted the Taliban after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Senior figures such as Robert Gates,...

Sweeteners for the South By Dana Milbank Sunday, November 22, 2009 Staffers on Capitol Hill were calling it the Louisiana Purchase. On the eve of Saturday's showdown in the Senate over health-care reform, Democratic leaders still hadn't secured the support of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), one of the 60 votes needed to keep the legislation alive. The wavering lawmaker was offered a sweetener: at least $100 million in extra federal money for her home state. And so it came to pass that Landrieu walked onto the Senate floor midafternoon Saturday to announce her aye vote -- and to trumpet the...

KILLEEN, Texas – The attorney for a man suspected in a deadly shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, says he's heading to San Antonio to meet his client. Retired Col. John P. Galligan says he was retained by Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's family on Monday. He says he has asked investigators not to question Hasan and doesn't know if he's been medically cleared to talk. Hasan is accused of opening fire on the Army post on Thursday, killing 13 people and wounding 29 before civilian police shot him. He remains at a U.S. Army hospital in San Antonio, where a...

Tuesday 4pm It may have been the first, small clue that an apparently ordinary week at the world's largest army base was about to become something horrifically different, when neighbours saw Major Nidal Hasan escorting a visitor into his flat. Other residents at the Casa del Norte apartment complex were surprised to see the mild-mannered army officer accompanied by another man in Islamic dress. Alice Thompson, 53, who manages the two storey block of simple dwellings with her husband John, told The Sunday Telegraph: "It was very unusual because he had never had anyone round before. His visitor had long...

The Audacity to Win The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory David Plouffe - Author The architect of the Obama campaign reveals how it all happened— and how it will revolutionize our politics David Plouffe not only led the effort that put Barack Obama in the White House, but he also changed the face of politics forever and reenergized the idea of democracy itself. The Audacity to Win is his story of that groundbreaking achievement, taking readers inside the remarkable campaign that led to the election of the first African American president. For two years Plouffe worked...

Airlines gang guilty An al-Qaeda cell has been found guilty of planning a series of co-ordinated suicide bomb attacks against trans-Atlantic airliners in the world’s biggest terrorist plot. By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent Published: 4:22PM BST 07 Sep 2009 Prosecutors decided that it was vital to put the three leaders – who were found guilty of conspiracy to murder last year - on trial again in order to prove the threat to air traffic which has resulted in a ban on liquids over 100ml on flights. The proceedings have taken three years and cost an estimated £100m but today the...

July 21, 2009 State Ruled by Crime and Chávez Family By SIMON ROMERO BARINAS, Venezuela — Stretching over vast cattle estates at the foothills of the Andes, Barinas is known for two things: as the bastion of the family of President Hugo Chávez and as the setting for a terrifying surge in abductions, making it a contender for Latin America’s most likely place to get kidnapped. An intensifying nationwide crime wave over the past decade has pushed the kidnapping rate in Venezuela past Colombia’s and Mexico’s, with about 2 abductions per 100,000 inhabitants, according to the Interior Ministry. But nowhere...

Did MI5 kill Dr David Kelly? Just another crazy conspiracy theory? But, amid claims he wrote tell-all book that vanished after his death, it's one that refuses to go away By Sue Reid Last updated at 11:40 AM on 16th July 2009 The day Dr David Kelly took a short walk to his death in the Oxfordshire countryside, an unopened letter lay on the desk of his book-lined study. Sent from the heart of the British Government, the pages were marked 'personal' and threatened the world-renowned microbiologist with the sack if he ever publicly opened his mouth again. The letter...

May 29, 2008 By Andrew Walden (Hawai'i Free Press) Nadhmi Auchi, seen here with the Governor of Illinois, Rob Blagojevich (middle) at a 2004 Chicago dinner in Auchi's honor arranged by Antonin Rezko (potentially, right)[1]. All three men have been convicted of corruption related charges (Auchi 2003, Rezko 2008, Blagojevich 2009).[2] “A British-Iraqi billionaire lent millions of dollars to Barack Obama's fundraiser (dual US-Syrian citizen Tony Rezko) just weeks before an imprudent land deal that has returned to haunt the presidential contender, an investigation by The Times discloses. The money transfer raises the question of whether funds from Nadhmi Auchi,...

First Lady Michelle Obama in surprise private visit to London with daughters By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 4:24 PM on 08th June 2009 American First Lady Michelle Obama is spending the day in London on a private visit with daughters Sasha and Malia. Mrs Obama stayed on in Paris for sightseeing yesterday after President Barack Obama returned to the US at the end of his trip to Europe. She is understood to have flown into the UK with their daughters Malia and Sasha early today.

The Taliban continues its menacing advance on the Pakistani capital. The Iranian president reiterates his hateful anti-Israeli rhetoric, while Israel's newly elected Right-wing prime minister makes veiled threats about launching military action to prevent a second Holocaust. Yet the only subject that appears to concern Barack Obama is whether or not senior officials from the previous administration should face prosecution for the harsh interrogation techniques used against terror suspects in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. (snip) In another age, putting off an inevitable confrontation to keep the peace was called appeasement: a charge that will soon be levelled...

REAL ESTATE APRIL 14, 2009, 4:02 A.M. ET Older Borrowers, Out in the Cold By ELLEN E. SCHULTZ YUBA CITY, Calif. -- In 2006, Carol Couts, a 66-year-old widow in Yuba City, Calif., was living in her home, payment-free, when a mortgage broker persuaded her to refinance her no-cost mortgage for one that exceeded her monthly income by more than $400. She can't afford the payments, and unless her lender modifies the loan to make it affordable, she'll lose her home of 25 years.