Rescuers picked their way yesterday through the smouldering ruins of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, looking for more bodies after a huge bomb devastated the building in one of Pakistan’s worst terrorist attacks.The death toll last night stood at 53, with 266 wounded, after a bomber blew up a lorry containing 600kg of explosive on Saturday evening. The body of Ivo Zdarek, the Czech Ambassador,
According to a recent article posted by the online edition of The Boston Globe newspaper, a former Intel employee has been accused of stealing important information from the Santa Clara-based leading chip maker. In addition, information has emerged after he took a new job at Intel's long time rival Advanced Micro Devices.Biswahoman Pani of Worcester has been accused in a criminal complaint filed b
UAL Corporation (NasdaqGS: UAUA), the parent company of United Airlines saw it’s stock plummet to low of $2 per share in trading on Monday, due in part to a mis-dated article concerning UAL’s 2002 filing for bankruptcy which appeared on Google News on Monday. The six year old article was made to appear current to [...]
Bono blamed for U2 song leak U2 frontman Bono has been blamed for the band's latest recordings leaking online - after he played the tracks to his friends on holiday.Four unreleased tracks from the Irish band's upcoming No Line On The Horizon album leaked on the internet after a fan recorded the music from the record that Bono was playing in his French villa.The holidaymaker is believed to have rec
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A treasure-hunting game is being blamed for a bomb scare that resulted in the four-hour closure of a major Ottawa road and an operation involving two dozen police officers, a hazmat team and the police explosives unit last week.
The scare was prompted by the discovery of a suspicious package under the Transitway [...]
With food prices continuing to rise, the OECD launched a report to examine why prices are rising.One of their key findings was the increased use of crops for biofuels pushing up prices. This growth in biofuels is often promoted by government subsidies, especially in the US.The report discounted:the importance of rising demand from China and India and the role of speculationReport by Stefan Tangerm
I have been complaining for almost 2 weeks already on why the air-conditioning units in our faculty room has not ever been opened. Do you know why?A month ago, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda announced that they are aiming to lessen carbon dioxide emissions in Japan by 2020. The result? He ordered all government facilities to keep the air-conditioning units to not lower than 25 degrees Celsius or to n
A month after 13 year old Jenny Tetlock was vaccinated against the HPV virus, she missed the lowest hurdle in gym class. It was the first sign of a degenerative muscle disease that 15 months later left her nearly completely paralyzed.
Her father, Philip Tetlock, a professor at UC-Berkeley, has embarked on an odyssey to find out whether the vaccine, Gardasil, is to blame.
Tetlock is not the only o
Recent surveys suggest that having President George W. Bush as an example of a Yale alum has damaged the prestige of a Yale degree almost to that of a rural community college.
The results of this survey — conducted in a joint effort by graduate students from Princeton, Colgate, Northwestern, Stanford, Cornell, Brown, Rice, Harvard, Columbia, the University of Chica
Acting on an anonymous tip, police discovered that a woman had been held in her family home in Santa Maria Capua Vetere, near Naples, for the last eighteen years of her liife due to the stigma associated with her psychiatric...
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WIKIPEDIA and other online research sources were yesterday blamed for Scotland’s falling exam pass rates.
The Scottish Parent Teacher Council (SPTC) said pupils are turning to...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A paparazzo who pressed charges against Britney Spears after her car allegedly ran over his foot was himself to blame for any injury it may have caused, prosecutors said in refusing to pursue the case.
After reviewing police records and a videotape of the incident last year, Deputy District Attorney Joseph D. [...]
As many consumers tried to get debt consolidation loans tacked on top of their mortgage, the result was the popular 125% loan. However, as property values fell, these debt consolidation loans that were tacked on by banks were considered to be liabilities. Now, negative equity is a very real problem for thousands of home owners [...]
Las Vegas, Nevada (ThaLunatic Daily) -- Jason Rimer may just prove that it's possible for a parent to abandon a mentally disabled 4 year old in a scorching hot vehicle for 17 hours - and still avoid child neglect charges.The body of little Jason Rimer was found by his 14 year old brother on Monday morning at 8:30 a.m. after the 4 year old was abandoned inside the family SUV for 17 hours, follow
Charlie Plinker, who lives up on 36th Ave. North in Slope Oak, thought he was burying a good luck charm in the yard of his late mother's home in Porkton. Now, the survivors of the devastating tornado that leveled the small northeastern Iowa hamlet are blaming Plinker for bringing the wrath of God -- or "the gods" -- down on their community."Indra"-- Hindu God of Weather and War"I thought it was so
"The best aphrodisiac is loving your partner".--Stefan Anitei, Science Editor, SoftpediaOne man's search for the enhanced sexual performance and desire that only an aphrodisiac can give, ended with death instead of desire. Now New York health officials are warning residents to refrain from an illegal aphrodisiac made from--toad venom?What won't humans do for love and sex?The alert went out Friday
According to NJ.com, AEROSMITH reps aren't talking about frontman Steven Tyler's reported relapse and current rehab attempt, but his hometown paper says some are pointing fingers at the rocker's hard-partying, much-younger girlfriend, Erin Brady. Tyler, who has been frank about his early rock'n'roll excesses, checked into La Encinas Hospital in Pasadena Wednesday, the hospital where celebrity addi
This news piece in the Mail on Sunday (1 May 2008) marks the publication of a study in the British Journal of Psychiatry that found that men are most likely to suffer depression between the ages of 30 and 50, and panic attacks most frequently occur between the ages of 40 and 50. Males in the UK were more likely to experience depression and panic attacks than in the five other countries included in
Sony Entertainment Television is strongly denying the rumours going around that there is some rigging going in Indian Idol voting process. An offical source said, "We have a reputed third party organization which audits the voting process, which is very fair. People are wrongly blaming us for Emon's and Chang's Ouster, You don't vote for the right singer, and then cry about a lesser person coming ahead. Prashant has a sizable number of people in his home area and the police force who are voting en block , so he is winning." The source went on, "Don't the judges (Alisha wanted to walk out ) also complain about audiences voting pattern? Although Emon was a good singer, we alway knew that he will be out, because he did not have required public support."On the question of making the vote figur
From Moonbattery
How’s this for a double bind: Moonbat-imposed indoor smoking bans are said to exacerbate moonbats’ beloved global warming farce.
Fewer cigarettes get lit indoors in bars and restaurants because of smoking bans from California to Ireland but something else is going up in smoke from a sidewalk in central Oslo — about $100,000 a year [...]
Are the pressures of modern society so great that it is forcing people both young and old to take up drugs or is it more to do with peer group pressure that is encouraging the participation in drug abuse, or maybe it can be blamed on genetic makeup??
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Kids Out of Touch With Nature, Games BlamedWired News - 56 minutes ago… house and into a natural setting, but to say kids haven't seen the Pacific Ocean because they're holed up playing World of Warcraft is pretty stupid. …
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The current flu season is shaping up to be the worst in four years, partly because the vaccine didn't work well against the viruses that made most people sick.
The 2007-2008 season started slowly, peaked in mid-February, and now seems to be declining. Based on adult deaths from flu and pneumonia, this season is the worst since 2003-2004.
This year, the vaccine was only 44 percent effective, according to a study.
Each year, the flu results in 200,000 hospitalizations and 36,000 deaths.
The average sale price for residential housing in Moscow is currently 161,784 rubles ($6,900) per square meter, while the average building cost is just 34,692 rubles ($1,480), according to a survey by the Federal Construction and Housing Maintenance Agency, published on its web site.Since 2005, sale prices for a square meter of residential housing have climbed 140 percent while construction cost went up only by 64 percent, the report said.Developers generally concurred with the survey's findings, but many said the huge disparity was the result of a combination of official fees and unofficial payments, a euphemism for bribes, to officials and government structures.
I don’t know about you, but I get blamed for some ODD things. Here are a few examples from this week:
1.) Not watching the YouTube videos my husband sends me via Instant Messenger. He sends like 5 of them a day, and then checks up on me to see if I’ve watched them. If I didn’t, [...]
Not quite, but… This is from Moonbattery
There isn’t much that moonbats won’t try to blame on the nonexistent global warming crisis — including their own well-documented and apparently worsening mental problems:
“Psychosocial illnesses are a part of the various health issues associated with climate change,” Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Deputy Regional Director, WHO, said.
WHO, the World Health [...]
A loan company official with Old National has been labeled a “rogue” and many believe that his actions led directly to a loss of more than $17 million for the company. Although the loan company official was not named, the company did state that they were currently investigating the matter. They did not mention what [...]
The Urban Institute, a think tank based in Washington, has come to the conclusion that the rises in violent crime in the U.S. can be solely attributed to more iPods on the streets.Because violent crimes should be blamed on those people who own certain products, but not the scum who would rather steal from someone else rather than, you know, get a job and rock out to tunes on their own iPod. One does wonder when someone from the projects steals an iPod filled with Bob Dylan songs. Do they erase and put their own songs in or just listen to what's on it?One imagines the thinkers at this "think tank" sitting together in a circle with their eyes closed, fingers pressed against their temples until they will a thought into existence.I think the researchers at the Urban Institute may need to be se
The worlds biggest curry has been blamed for excessive winds hitting Britain. The largest Balti, which was produced yesterday afternoon in India has caused tremendous winds, causing millions of pounds worth of damage. Insurance companies across the country are bracing themselves for huge claims as the true cost of the damage is calculated.
I believe that all ethnic peoples should have a voice - I didn't say a country - a voice. But the Basque Separatist group ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna) has talked from both sides of their mouth for so long that I no longer want to hear anything from them. Just when things are getting quiet from the Pais Vasque, they either blow something up or kill someone.I'm no stranger to ETA; I visited their homeland, talked to their Basque countrymen and was in Madrid during attempted ETA bombings on two separate occasions. However I also recall their sporadic cease-fires and "permanent" truces that they so conveniently revoke when they don't get enough attention. I think the Basque people have to decide if ETA is still a necessary vehicle for their collective voice, now that their unique culture is no
In the aftermath of the tragic events in Jerusalem, President Abbas of the Palestinian Authority urged continuation of peace talks while a seniior Egyptian official told the Jerusalem Post, “Syria may be interested in focusing international attention on the situation in Gaza and the West Bank instead of the situation in Lebanon.” He insisted the [...]
Recent surveys suggest that having President George W. Bush as an example of a Yale alum has damaged the prestige of a Yale degree almost to that of a rural community college.
The results of this survey — conducted in a joint effort by graduate students from Princeton, Colgate, Northwestern, Stanford, Cornell, Brown, Rice, Harvard, Columbia, the University of Chicago, [...]
From BBC Health:
“Men who consume two or more sugary soft drinks a day have an 85% higher risk of gout compared with those who drink less than one a month, a study suggests.
Cases in the US have doubled in recent decades and it seems fructose, a type of sugar, may be to blame, the British [...]
Fall Out Boy has blamed everything short of Halley's Comet for their failure to secure even a single Grammy Award nomination last week. Bassist Pete Wentz even bitterly blogged on the snub following the nominations announcement. source:popcrunch.com
Guess What?School DID end up getting canceled yesterday. You know, right after I got home from getting them there, and then getting snowed in at home. The snow plows don't come down our road until everything else in the entire county has been plowed twice. So, I got to maneuver my way down the driveway, and then down the road to get to my children. When I got to the school Isaiah saw me and said " oh man. I was hoping you hadn't heard school was canceled... I wanted to stay and play [in the snow fort he and his friends had made]" Gee. I love you too buddy. And RISKED MY LIFE GETTING HERE!!!! Ahem. Moving right along...I kept thinking it was strange the timing of the dishwasher breaking, and flooding our house secretly. Just days after our appraisal. Can you imagine if all this would have happened right BEFORE the appraisal??? Yikes.I made a phone call to our insurance company and found out that the damage the dishwasher caused is covered. Praise The Lord for Homeowners I
Yeah, umm…not really. While I am no Bush apologist, he is far from an arsonist. The “Bush to blame for everything” crowd and many democrats are blaming the Bush Administration for the dreadful wildfires rampaging throughout southern California. The reasoning is quite hilarious; but what else can you expect from such people.
The claim is that “because the National Guard is serving in Iraq, there are no resources to help combat the fires”.
Wrong!!! The Pentagon has stated that 17,000 Guardsmen are available and are just waiting to be called to help out.
And then, California’s Lieutenant Governor – can’t even remember his name — told Chris Mathews that President Bush’s upcoming visit to the region would be a “distraction” and that it was only for “public relations” and that he (meaning Bush) should “send the National Guard back from Iraq” to help with the fires. Umm…see above.
This schmuck seems to forget that when the President didn&rsquo
Model was not included in last month's recall of 1 million cribsAuthorities in Pineville, Missouri, say a 4-month-old girl has died in a Simplicity Inc. 4-in-1 bassinet that was not part of last month's recall of 1 million Simplicity and Graco cribs.B.J. Goodwin, McDonald County coroner, said Katelynn Marie Simon died Sept. 29 of “accidental positional asphyxiation” after she was caught between the rail of the bassinet and the mattress, The Joplin Globe reported.Local officials said they contacted the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) immediately.“We filed a report with them the first day,” deputy sheriff Jeff Sutherland said, the Globe reported. “We wanted to get them involved as quickly as possible to get this thing (bassinet) off the market.”Link to complete story: http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2007/10/simplicity_death.html ~Sandy G.
Hardbeatnews, CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Sat. Aug. 18, 2007: Hurricane Dean was late yesterday blamed for four deaths in three separate Caribbean islands, hours after the storm finally ended in St Lucia, Martinique and Dominica and authorities began counting the damage.
On June 30, 2007 the rapper Michael “Trick” George, just 25 years old, was shot in the head and chest as he got out of his car. His funeral was held last week. His finance was the first to find him. There has been a lot of violence in his east Toronto neighbourhood and George wasn’t the first to die as a result. So far, the killer hasn’t been found.
George performed hip hop music with the band LowLife. 13 white doves were released after the funeral that was held at Westney Heights Baptist Church. Jason “Omega” Daley, also a part of the band Lowlife, says he’ll write a song to reflect his anger and feelings about his friend’s death.
His fiance Chanel Chambers told how George proposed to her last Christmas. She woke up one morning to find a beautiful wedding ring on her finger. How romantic and how tragic.
2000 people, many who lost their homes in Sierra Nevada gathered at a meeting to voice their displeasure. Who were they mad at? Environmentalists. You see, the environmentalists made it too hard for them to cut down DEAD trees to serve as a fire break that could have possibly saved their homes. It seems trees are more important to them than people’s lives. (more…)
Read about it here.
I’m not sure what the fuss is about here, Planned Parenthood was responsible for 264,943 deaths in it’s last fiscal year. Sounds like they got two birds with one stone to me.
The suit, filed on behalf of Meloncon by her lawyer, Jack Schuler, alleges that Goode’s death was “a direct result of medical treatment she received from Planned Parenthood and a follow-up treatment she received from Riverside County health-care providers.”
So were the 264,943 deaths I mentioned above.
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that the slaughter in Darfur was triggered by global climate change and that more such conflicts may be on the horizon, in an article published Saturday. “The Darfur conflict began as an ecological crisis, arising at least in part from climate change,” Ban said in a Washington Post opinion column.UN statistics showed that rainfall declined some 40 percent over the past two decades, he said, as a rise in Indian Ocean temperatures disrupted monsoons.
“This suggests that the drying of sub-Saharan Africa derives, to some degree, from man-made global warming,” the South Korean diplomat wrote.
“It is no accident that the violence in Darfur erupted during the drought,” Ban said in the Washington daily.
When Darfur’s land was rich, he said, black farmers welcomed Arab herders and shared their water, he said.
With the drought, however, farmers fenced in their land to prevent overgrazing.
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DUBLIN - A controversial religious cult has been blamed for the death of a man who threw himself in front of a train.
An inquest heard yesterday that Niall MacMahon, 40, a member of the International Church of Christ, left a suicide note full of references to the Bible and his own damnation.
Niall, from Watling Street [...]
There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to men. - Mohandas K. Gandhi
A distressing yet necessary trip down memory lane, highlighting the harsh reality of the abuse Iranian women suffered after the revolution. Sadly enough it is in the not so distant past. My concern is that history may be on the path to repeating itself.
Women, Islam & Equality
Excerpts:
Chapter Two - Prime Victims
The revolution of 1979 marked the end of an era for Iran. After 2,500 years, the monarchy had been abolished. A new era of freedom, the people believed, had dawned, and they would at last live under a system which reflected both their aspirations for modern democracy and their national heritage. But all too soon, the dream became a nightmare, with the return of dictatorship, this time under the guise of religion.
This medieval theocracy’s first and foremost victims have been women. Khomeini and his heirs view women as sub-human, and deny their fundamental rig
Inzamam rowed with umpire Darrell Hair at the Oval
Former Pakistan skipper Inzamam-ul-Haq has been cited as one of the main causes of Pakistan's poor showing in the recent World Cup.
A committee set up by the Pakistan Cricket Board to review the side's performance claimed that ul-Haq's poor leadership was at the root of their first-round exit.
"Inzamam's attitude was haughty and that of a dictator and more than one incident proved that. Inzamam should have been removed from the captaincy. As a player he was world-class but his attitude was haughty during and before the tournament," head of the committee Ijaz Butt said.
"Inzamam became an autocratic and introverted captain after the Oval fiasco last year and his refusal to go on the field was overlooked by then PCB chairman Shaharyar Khan."
Pakistan missed out on the Super Eight stage after group defeats to the West Indies and Ireland, but the committee found no evidence that match-fixing may have been behind
We see so many people with weight problems, and the usual attitude is that they are at fault for their weight. But how can someone be at fault for not knowing that carbs make you hungry, that protein satiates hunger, and that they must be eaten in equal quantities?After all, the entire food industry is based on profit from fat and carbs, with very little protein. Doctors are quick to tell people to eat less and exercise more, which only produces muscle loss and slows metabolism further. And everywhere you look, diets are based on removing a needed nutrient, either fat or carbs, with no understanding at all of how that effects muscle loss.I call the condition of obese people BEING BLAMED BUT NOT TRAINED. Not fair at all.The solution is to cut calories, for most women down to about 1000 calories per day, and to make sure every food nutrient is available within that 1000 calories. So, for most women, just get your 25gm fat, 100gm protein, and 100 carb grams, take a great multivitamin, and
We see so many people with weight problems, and the usual attitude is that they are at fault for their weight. But how can someone be at fault for not knowing that carbs make you hungry, that protein satiates hunger, and that they must be eaten in equal quantities?After all, the entire food industry is based on profit from fat and carbs, with very little protein. Doctors are quick to tell people t
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Negligence was to blame for the explosion of a natural gas pipeline that supplies Russian gas to Europe, Ukraine's top prosecutor said Tuesday.Monday's blast destroyed about 100 feet of the Urenhoi-Pomary-Uzhhorod line south of Kiev. Nobody was injured.Prosecutor General Svyatoslav Piskun said that shifting soil led to a break in the pipeline. He said officials should
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Negligence was to blame for the explosion of a natural gas pipeline that supplies Russian gas to Europe, Ukraine's top prosecutor said Tuesday.Monday's blast destroyed about 100 feet of the Urenhoi-Pomary-Uzhhorod line south of Kiev. Nobody was injured.Prosecutor General Svyatoslav Piskun said that shifting soil led to a break in the pipeline. He said officials should
A new study that was carried on 5,000 kids shows that fathers could be actually blamed for their kid’s obesity that do not pot a limit on what and how much their kids have to eat (from ecanadanow.com).
The study looks at different levels of approaches being used by the fathers as to what and how much their kids to eat. It was found that the fathers who do not have no force on the kind of and
"It's probably one of the games I felt my best in my career," Luongo said. "I felt [I deserved better], but what are you going to do? Obviously I made a mistake there and it cost us the game. Right now, everything is surreal. Obviously, I'm disappointed because our season is over. I didn't feel like I deserved the season to be over. I wanted to keep going. I think it's going to hit harder when I wake up in the next day or two and I have nothing to do."The mistake he is referring to is his theatrics towards the referee at the beginning of the 2nd OT, raising his arm to call a penalty like a ref would because he thought the hit on Hansen by Rob Niedermayer should have been a penalty. While he was airing out his armpit, Scott Niedermayer took a shot from the point and it went in. What a terrible way for a series to end. It really is surreal. But I like how he says that he himself did not deserve for the season to be over. He didn't say 'our'. And that really was the bottom line in
As compelling as the evidence is against PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid), the key ingredient used in manufacturing Teflon, and the fact the EPA has called for a ban on it -- albeit a voluntary one -- hasn't stopped folks from defending it anyway.The case in point is yesterday's ridiculous attack by the Statistical Assessment Service at George Mason University (STATS) who claimed a piece in the most recent issue of Mother Jones on Teflon was more of a "scientifically illterate" Chicken Little tale than anything else.Among their "stronger" claims: PFOA may be a persistent chemical, but it has a half-life of four years in humans and is highly unreactive. If that's the case, why has the presence of PFOA been linked as of late to lower birth weights among newborn babies, who've probably never had contact with coated frying pans or popcorn bags?At the heart of this attack, in their minds, is the lack of evidence -- for now -- regarding Teflon toxicity, no doubt a product of the might a hug
NEW DELHI, April 25 (Compass Direct News) – Hindu extremists in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh have brought the incidence of Christian persecution to an unprecedented high, including a slander campaign against the state’s chief minister, Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, a Christian.
Sam Paul, public affairs secretary of the All India Christian Council, said at least one anti-Christian incident
Previous studies have cited a fungus as the reason for population declines, but this study found declines of populations free of the fungus. Global warming seems to be the next fall guy in line, though the synopsis of the evidence doesn’t sound at all conclusive.
One statistic I hadn’t seen yet: 100 frog and reptile species have gone extinct in Central & South America since 1980.
Sad news, kids: Apple is pushing back its Mac OS X Leopard release date from WWDC in June (now they tell us!) to October. Apple is blaming it all on the iPhone, saying that “iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price Read on…
Via: Engadget.com
Indonesia’s small, plastic identity cards may seem innocuous enough but campaigners who are trying to have the compulsory religion category dropped say they are behind many sectarian killings. “People have been killed in sectarian conflicts because religion is mentioned on the cards,” said activist Maya Safira, who heads a non-profit group that seeks [...]
Climate change blamed for cockroach migration Climate change is being blamed for a changing of the guard among Sydney's cockroach population. Researchers say the most common sub-species in city households was the german cockroach, until it disappeared about seven years...
Six arrested for Lebanon bus bombings
Members of al Qaeda-linked group accused of bombings, planning attacks against UN force.
BEIRUT - Members of an Al-Qaeda-linked group have admitted carrying out last month's deadly Lebanon bus bombings, a government official said Tuesday.
Six members of the group are in custody, some of them nationals of once-dominant neighbour Syria, and all have confessed to their part in the February 13 bombings which killed three people and wounded 18 in a mountainous area northeast of Beirut, the official said.
Another two members of the cell of the Fatah-Islam group are still at large, the official added, asking not to be identified.
It was the first time a Lebanese official had spoken of the arrest of suspects in the bombings.
The detained suspects confessed to carrying out the bombings from a rented flat in the Ashrafiyeh area of east Beirut. The rental was made in the name of Syrian Mustafa Shiyo, the official said.
The suspects said they h
It is reported that the video insulting Ataturk was uploaded to YouTube by a British citizen using the online account of an 18-year-old Greek student Kostas Papafloratos. Dogan News Agency has reached the real identity behind the nickname Stavraetos212007, who uploaded the notorious video to YouTube, and talked to the 18-year-old’s mother Elizabeth [...]
A LEADING Muslim cleric has blamed the devastating drought, climate change and pollution on Australians’ lack of faith in Allah.
Radical sheik Mohammed Omran told followers at his Brunswick mosque that out-of-control secular scientific values had caused environmental disaster.
“The fear of Allah is not there. So we have now a polluted earth, a polluted water, a wasteland,” he told a meeting this year.
“What are the people now crying for? The prophet told you hundreds of years ago, ‘Look after the water’.”
A Sunday Herald Sun investigation also found clerics railing against “evil” democracy, vilifying Jews and Christians and encouraging jihad and polygamy.
And in a popular DVD selling locally, a foreign sheik exhorts Muslims to take control of Australia by out-breeding non-believers.
British-based Sheik Abdul Raheem Green forbade Muslims from having fewer than four children so Australia would become an Islamic state.
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George Soros blamed yen carry trades as one very important factor in the current turbulence in global financial markets. As the YEN is basically interest-free, a lot of money is coming from borrowing and lots of Japanese money are going abroad. As the YEN weakened, a lot of people got into yen carry trades, thus causing a shake-out in financial markets. Soros also attributed the turbulence partly to a slowdown in the US economy and the housing situation. A slowdown will lead the US economy to more balanced growth while faster growth elsewhere will help correct the US trade deficit but that will lead to less liquidity in the market, Soros said in an interview with the Financial Times.Soros predicted that the Chinese govt will try to prevent a collapse of mainland bourses in the run up to th
Its been a long, cold winter in Chicago. Temperatures plummeted to well below freezing...and stayed there. Although Midwesterners are used to cold winters, the past few months have taken cold and ice to Narnia proportions, some say.In fact, a growing number of citizens are beginning to wonder if something more sinister than "El nino" is behind the freezing temperatures. Ideas that the White Witch may have taken over state and local governments, a theory scorned when it first surfaced, are gaining support."There's just so much ice everywhere" says one young mother. "We have about four inches of solid ice that covers our steps, sidewalk, and association roads. I don't feel that I can safely leave the house with my baby even to walk to the car, much less get out and about." The climate has taken a toll on children too, this woman tells us. "I don't know that my 7 month old has seen the sun since we were in San Diego for Christmas" she reports.Typically by March, Chicago will have seen
Asian-based pollution is contributing to stronger storms over the North Pacific, according to new research published Tuesday. Satellite measurements have revealed an increase in particles generated by coal burning plants in China and India. The research team, led by Renyi Zhang of Texas A&M University, studied pollution and clouds between 1984 and 2005.Pollution from Asia is helping generate stronger storms over the North Pacific, according to new research. Changes in the North Pacific storm track could have an impact on weather across the Northern Hemisphere.Satellite measurements have shown an increase in tiny particles generated from coal burning in China and India in recent decades, researchers report in Tuesday's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Pacific Storm Track The team, led by Renyi Zhang of Texas A&M University, studied pollution and clouds between 1984 and 2005, concluding that increasing particles enhanced the cloud updraft to generate more
Asian-based pollution is contributing to stronger storms over the North Pacific, according to new research published Tuesday. Satellite measurements have revealed an increase in particles generated by coal burning plants in China and India. The research team, led by Renyi Zhang of Texas A&M University, studied pollution and clouds between 1984 and 2005.Pollution from Asia is helping generate stronger storms over the North Pacific, according to new research. Changes in the North Pacific storm track could have an impact on weather across the Northern Hemisphere.Satellite measurements have shown an increase in tiny particles generated from coal burning in China and India in recent decades, researchers report in Tuesday's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Pacific Storm Track The team, led by Renyi Zhang of Texas A&M University, studied pollution and clouds between 1984 and 2005, concluding that increasing particles enhanced the cloud updraft to generate more
Asian-based pollution is contributing to stronger storms over the North Pacific, according to new research published Tuesday. Satellite measurements have revealed an increase in particles generated by coal burning plants in China and India. The research team, led by Renyi Zhang of Texas A&M University, studied pollution and clouds between 1984 and 2005.Pollution from Asia is helping generate stronger storms over the North Pacific, according to new research. Changes in the North Pacific storm track could have an impact on weather across the Northern Hemisphere.Satellite measurements have shown an increase in tiny particles generated from coal burning in China and India in recent decades, researchers report in Tuesday's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Pacific Storm Track The team, led by Renyi Zhang of Texas A&M University, studied pollution and clouds between 1984 and 2005, concluding that increasing particles enhanced the cloud updraft to generate more
An article in USA Today states that the Atlanta real estate market is saturated and has an 11 month supply of properties for sale. This is compared to a 7 month supply in December 2006. The article blames the high number of foreclosure sales which in turn were caused by Atlanta being the number 1 area for mortgage fraud in the United States.It also reports that property sales are down by 14% but in some good news property values rose over the last year by over 5%.Click here to read the article on the USA Today website. The article carries more statistics and graphics.
Source: Atlanta: Saturated market, mortgage fraud fallout has flattened home prices (http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/housing/2007-02-12-close-atlanta_x.htm)
I think this is a very common issue among us students. We fail and we blame the teachers.Question is, is it really the teacher's fault?From my personal view, i would say it's not entirely the teacher's fault, but 80% , the blame is on the teacher.I was in the government school for 13 years. (Primary one until upper six) and i honestly havent met more than five dedicated teachers. I don't know about you guys, or maybe i was unlucky. Most of the teachers teach because they are paid to, and couldn't be bothered to mix around with the students.I do believe there's a few types of teachers that we should put the blame on. 1st they are teachers who teach because they "just want to do their duty". They do not care whether you are paying attention or not , or whether we get good grades. All they care is "they did their duty". this are the type of teachers who basically do not even know we progressed or not. I used to have this teacher who write a whole board of notes but do not bother whe
Parents blamed for fat kidsThe Australian, Australia - 2 hours agoPARENTS packing the school lunch box - not fast-food outlets or tuckshops - are most to blame for allowing their children to get fat. ... Source: www.theaustralian.news.com.auHome: Webster GrovesSt. Louis Post-Dispatch, United States - 11 hours ago... Lunch: Fast food with co-workers. ... She still nibbles on fast food from time t
{mosgoogle right}An investigation into a spate of accidents in which foam resin sandals have got caught in escalators, injuring people's feet, has found problems with the soft material used in the sandals.The survey, carried out by the National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE), an independent administrative institution, also singled out escalator maintenance issues, including the failure to use lubricants.Based on the results of the investigation, the Minist [...]
Dallas, Texas (CaymanMama.com) - It was reported that business associates accused a Manhattan-based diamond dealer of stealing precious stones worth $3.4 million.
Alfred Avi Taub made a police complaint that a robber, by the use of pepper spray, stole about $1 million of diamonds from him in June. But according to ...
{mosgoogle right}Trouble with a signal system at a western Tokyo railway station after it was apparently hit by lightning disrupted services on the JR Chuo Line on Monday evening, the railway operator said.At around 6:45 p.m., the signal system at JR Mitaka Station developed trouble, preventing a railway switch on the eastbound track of the Chuo Line from being changed, East Japan Railway Co. (JR
