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Oh, and STOP SENDING YOUR NEW AGE/OLD LIE PEDDLING SPIES INTO MY HOUSE
true lilly Thu Oct 06, 2011 8:51 am
Oh, and STOP SENDING YOUR
NEW AGE/OLD LIE PEDDLING
SPIES INTO MY HOUSE...
because they don't know
what I know about YOU...YET...BUT OTHERS DO...
'Ciggy' SCREAMS!!! 'Billy' SCREAMS!!! 'They' ALL SCREAM!!!true lilly wrote:The 3 Lead Stories now -
Steve Jobs, the geek who inherited the earth,
made plenty of mistakes in business and at home,
for reasons that defy analysis or common sense.
Picture: Getty
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Schoolboy in Bali prison hell
Cindy Wockner, Komang Suriadi
A 14-YEAR-OLD Australian boy faces years in jail
after being arrested for possessing marijuana
while on holidays with his parents.
Name of child rapist hidden by courts
Elissa Hunt
ONE of the nation's worst paedophiles
is being allowed to go shopping and socialising,
despite being a danger to the public.
LIES!
...And...KEEPS SENDING PEOPLE BROKE with
HIS FINANCIAL/REAL Estate 'advice'...
...but I don't play at being an economist...
I simply study God's Word, and...NO SURPRISE,
WHAT GOD SAYS, HAPPENS
Re: Aboriginal Stonehenge: Stargazing in ancient Australia
WHO SHOVES WHAT RELIGION DOWN THE WORLD'S THROAT,
LIKE A DEADLY POISON APPLE?
ALL "YOU" WEB of LYING NET HEADS WHO PROMOTE
CHILD PORN, 'as' 'art', and WHO ATTACK "YOUR"
SURVIVING VICTIMS FOR TELLING "YOU" IT WILL KILL "YOU"
IF "YOU" DON'T SERIOUSLY, GENUINELY REPENT.
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Re: BEARS!!! BEARS IN THE NEWS!!!
Ciggy Thu Oct 06, 2011 11:52 am
I don't even have new age friends, lying auld shitbag.
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Re: BEARS!!! BEARS IN THE NEWS!!!
true lilly Sun Oct 09, 2011 5:05 am
Oh "cute"...
but 'somehow', 'got edited' to that one image...that btw, was re-copied
and re-posted, in the 'edited away' quoted post, that went with the totally
'edited away' post...
DOGS in "GOD'S KITCHEN"
Sniffer dogs: 15 nabbed at Godskitchen festival
...and...
Dog attack: Probe into death of little Ayen
"BEAR" IN THE NEWS...
A Melbourne
student went head-to-head with Bear Grylls
over the title of the
youngest Briton to conquer Mount Everest.
Guess who won?
Picture:
Supplied
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...and now for the rest of the post, that I wrote and posted,true lilly wrote:
but 'somehow', 'got edited' to that one image...that btw, was re-copied
and re-posted, in the 'edited away' quoted post, that went with the totally
'edited away' post...
DOGS in "GOD'S KITCHEN"
Sniffer dogs: 15 nabbed at Godskitchen festival
...and...
Dog attack: Probe into death of little Ayen
...and on a day we also havetrue lilly wrote:News for dog news
Weather continues to dog Bathurst 1000
Sydney Morning Herald - 2 hours ago
Changeable weather conditions which turned the
Bathurst 1000 top 10 shootout into a lottery
are poised to do the same to Sunday's race. ...
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news&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ncl=dXmyquX1lZWvs2M&hl=en&ei=PM-QTprNIKuhiAeulaCYDg&sa=X&oi=news_result&ct=more-results&resnum=10&ved=0CHkQqgIwCQ]463
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Alma Dogs is a community club formed in 1995
by the owners of dogs in the City of Port Phillip;
and largely centred on Alma Park.
What we're about is protecting the rights of dogs and their owners
in the municipality;
and helping to maintain the traditional mutually beneficial relationship
that has existed between humans and dogs since the dawn of history.
We emphasize the importance of responsible dog ownership
among our members and encourage the proper training and socialising of
our canine companions through free access to public outdoor spaces.
Alma Dogs has successfully lobbied our local Council for
off-leash recreation areas for dogs. This includes an extended
off lead beach area, for dogs to be allowed on all beaches during winter,
the upgrading of public parks, including (in Alma Park) the provision of
pooper-scooper stations, the Doggerwel drinking and wallowing facility
and the installation of a public notice board. We are recognized by Council
as a popular voice which cannot be ignored.
We are rapidly gaining members in Stonnington, Boroondara and other
surrounding areas where we shall campaign for recognition by these Councils
on
the benefits of responsible dog ownership and the importance of
socialisation. We are also working on reduction of cruelty to dogs by liaising with Councils to rectify any situations reported to us.
Alma Dogs Aims
- registration of all dogs
- owners supporting and conducting obedience training by positive reinforcement
- all dogs being effectively controlled
- forming liaisons with other Melbourne dog groups
- being a voice in the community
- encouraging positive attitudes and striving to end negativity in the community
- encouraging club members to participate in increasing membership
"BEAR" IN THE NEWS...
A Melbourne
student went head-to-head with Bear Grylls
over the title of the
youngest Briton to conquer Mount Everest.
Guess who won?
Picture:
Supplied
Read More
true lilly wrote:true lilly wrote:News for dog news
A dog named Boo - global superstar
Adelaide Now - 2 related articles
President Obama's Family Gets Their Dog!
Malia and Sasha Obama now have the dog
their dad promised them on
election night.
Their new puppy is a 6-month-old
Portuguese water dog.
The girls have named their new pal Bo.
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Re: BEARS!!! BEARS IN THE NEWS!!!
Ciggy Sun Oct 09, 2011 7:10 am
What the fook is up yer arse with dogs and bears?
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true lilly Mon Oct 10, 2011 8:18 pm
Bear spray forces hotel evacuation
From:NewsCore
October 11, 2011
12:38PM
A HOTEL housekeeper was injured and the building evacuated
when a can of bear spray was discharged in a bizarre accident.
The woman's cart of equipment apparently bumped the can -
which had been left on the floor in a hallway at the Marriott Hotel in
Salt Lake City yesterday - causing it to squirt out its powerful contents,
the Salt Lake Tribune reported.
Firefighters described the bear repellent as
"like pepper spray, only 10 times stronger".
The woman was sent to a hospital, unable to open her eyes,
while guests were evacuated as the fumes were dispersed.
Read more here...
The woman was pushing her housekeeping cart
onthe 6th floor of the hotel,
near 100 South and West Temple,
when the cart bumped a can of bear spray
that had been left on the floor of the hall.
The can sprayed when it was struck,
shooting out a substance that
"is like pepper spray, only 10 times stronger,"
said Salt Lake City battallion fire chief Clair Baldwin.
Investigators were trying to determine
why the can was left in the hallway.
(yeah well The Salt Lake Tribune actually reported,
the bear repellant "shooting" out, not "squirting" out;
and surely something so toxic, wouldn't be released
by "a bump", unless already 'primed to go off'.)
From:NewsCore
October 11, 2011
12:38PM
A HOTEL housekeeper was injured and the building evacuated
when a can of bear spray was discharged in a bizarre accident.
The woman's cart of equipment apparently bumped the can -
which had been left on the floor in a hallway at the Marriott Hotel in
Salt Lake City yesterday - causing it to squirt out its powerful contents,
the Salt Lake Tribune reported.
Firefighters described the bear repellent as
"like pepper spray, only 10 times stronger".
The woman was sent to a hospital, unable to open her eyes,
while guests were evacuated as the fumes were dispersed.
Read more here...
The woman was pushing her housekeeping cart
onthe 6th floor of the hotel,
near 100 South and West Temple,
when the cart bumped a can of bear spray
that had been left on the floor of the hall.
The can sprayed when it was struck,
shooting out a substance that
"is like pepper spray, only 10 times stronger,"
said Salt Lake City battallion fire chief Clair Baldwin.
Investigators were trying to determine
why the can was left in the hallway.
(yeah well The Salt Lake Tribune actually reported,
the bear repellant "shooting" out, not "squirting" out;
and surely something so toxic, wouldn't be released
by "a bump", unless already 'primed to go off'.)
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Bear witness
true lilly Sat Oct 15, 2011 11:30 am
Bear witness
Close calls with huge halibut
and hungry bears on Alaska's frontier.
Bear witness
October 15, 2011
The bear took Lance Richardson's lifejacket.
Photo: Lance Richardson
Lance Richardson encounters huge halibut and hungry bears on Kodiak Island, on the frontier of Alaska.
Like much of Alaska, it looks uninhabited, a lonely
outpost off the Katmai Coast. Thick forests of spruce climb to snowy
peaks. There are dozens of shingle beaches, water crashing on shores
framed by high cliffs and the white branches of skeletal driftwood.
Though Hawaii's "Big Island" claims the title of America's largest,
Kodiak Island, coming in second, feels particularly vast and untamed.
In 9293 square kilometres there are fewer than 12,000
people, clustered in seven remote communities. All but one of these
require a boat or float plane for access. The rest of the island is a
vast blind spot of wilderness, unoccupied except for several thousand of
one of the world's largest bears.
I am sitting on the deck of the Alaska Marine Highway
Ferry, having taken the overnight passage from Homer, on the Alaskan
coast. As people lean over railings, searching for signs of life on the
island through binoculars, I prepare myself by scrolling through the
saved web pages of "Be Bear Aware," a useful digest of survival
strategies.
"If contact is made," it explains, "drop to the ground
and play dead. Lie on your stomach, clasp your hands behind your neck,
and use your elbows and toes to avoid being rolled over. If the bear
does roll you over, keep rolling until you land back on your stomach.
Remain still and try not to struggle or scream."
Despite the horrifying subtext of these instructions, I
find it difficult to be alarmed by the prospect of a bear encounter
here. Years of Pavlovian conditioning mean, as with many children, I was
taught to associate the figure of the bear with security and comfort.
In 1902, the US President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt went
hunting in Mississippi. Wanting to ensure their leader was successful,
Roosevelt's aides used hounds to track a black bear, which they then
clubbed and tied to a tree. Roosevelt, to his credit, would have no part
of it. Though expected to shoot the bear, he waved away the act as
"unsportsmanlike" - a pardon that electrified the nation, particularly
because of a political cartoon that depicted the bear as tiny and
doe-eyed. A toy-maker saw this cartoon and crafted "Teddy's bear" in
response; the rest is history.
Less well known is that Roosevelt, with his fateful wave,
essentially destroyed human-bear relations forever. Instead of wise
caution when facing a wild animal, many people now see the bear as a
cuddly forest friend. As the ferry docks in Kodiak Town my head is
filled, against all better judgment, with images of a giant teddy bear
turning me over and over like a tootsie roll.
Partly established to combat such woeful
misunderstanding, a visitors' centre by the dock explains the reasoning
behind the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge. In a marked difference from
national parks, which are intended for the enjoyment and education of
the public, a wildlife refuge seeks to maintain the habitat of an
animal; visitors are a secondary concern.
This means, for example, no comprehensive road network
with lookouts and interpretative rangers. While Kodiak Town offers a
modest scribble of highways on the island's eastern side, they terminate
before approaching the refuge in the west.
Established in 1941, the refuge protects bears and salmon
in a reserve that covers more than two-thirds of the island. Male
kodiak bears can grow to three metres and 600 kilograms. So profuse is
their supply of protein-rich salmon that in Kodiak's Karluk Bay the
density is 220 bears per 2.6 square kilometres. A walk around the
visitor's centre makes the situation very clear: there may be a stuffed
bear in the town bank comically dressed as Santa every Christmas, but on
this island bears are no laughing matter. There are a great many of
them, they are extremely big and approaching one in the wild is a
high-risk activity.
So, of course, I head into the wild to see the bears.
Under most circumstances this would be an act of outrageous stupidity,
but I'm joining Steele Davis on a Spirit of Alaska Wilderness Adventure.
In other words: I'm placing my life in the hands of a man who carries a
.44 Magnum handgun when kayaking.
After a short tour of Kodiak Town - the island's largest
settlement, though little more than a fishing village - I board a mail
cargo plane and fly to meet him in Larsen Bay. From that bay we float
down Uyak Bay, a dramatic fiord that almost bisects Kodiak completely.
Davis lives partway along the coast in a dilapidated cannery abandoned
since 1983. He also owns cabins on nearby Amook Island, built next to
the remnants of an ancient indigenous village. These facts he throws out
casually: there is an otter; there is a deer; there is my ancient
indigenous village. For Davis there is nothing unusual about having a
market on your property still stocked with olives and jockey shorts from
the late 1970s.
"Is my coffee table made from an anti-tank missile case?" I ask.
"I found it out back," Davis says.
Remarkably, Davis has turned this surreal tableau into an
exhilarating guest experience involving hiking, kayaking, wildlife
viewing and world-class fishing. After dinner I wander through old
factories on the edge of the forest. In the midnight sun bald eagles
skirt the bay. Davis has taken a unique corner of the Alaskan wilderness
and made it accessible; the result is a strange melange of relaxation
and hallucination.
I haven't fished for 10 years: on my first attempt,
casting a test line, I hook a halibut so big (28 kilograms) it snaps the
gaff in half as Davis attempts to secure it to the side of his boat.
After this, I'm intoxicated. Kodiak is the sort of place where the
impossible is not just possible, but highly likely.
Though one could fish indefinitely if desired, Davis is
up for anything you could imagine. At my first mention of tracking bears
we're loaded into kayaks and floating down the fiord. I have been
researching for days, reading every warning pamphlet and guide to
interacting with the local fauna but, in the heat of pursuit, all advice
drains away and everything comes to rest on my expert leader.
"Everyone scoffs at it, but I carry armour-piercing
bullets," Davis says. "I ain't never shot one and I don't plan on it,
but they have a hard head."
After pulling up on a shingle beach we enter the forest
along a well-trod path which, I quickly realise, is not well-trod
because of human traffic. Thick vegetation impedes our feet. Davis leads
the way, crushing branches, crouching occasionally to scan the grassy
fields down the bank with his binoculars.
Though there is a bear in the distance, it appears to be
resting, a small brown face in a sea of green. We wait for some sign of
activity but after a while it becomes clear the bear is content to
remain where it is. Rain has started to fall and Davis calls off the
search, directing me back to the kayaks. After that - perhaps while I'm
lost in thought, revising fantasies of heroic close encounters -
everything goes slightly awry: a bear is sitting at the kayaks,
lifejacket in its jaws.
Davis directs me to halt immediately. The bear looks up,
surprised by strange new intruders, then stands and stares us down as he
continues to devour the very things that are supposed to protect us
against the harsh environment.
In retrospect I wonder: would I have dropped to the
ground and played dead if it decided to charge? Would I have had the
strength of mind to clasp my hands behind my neck, digging elbows into
the dirt to stop the bear from rolling me over? Could I have remained
silent or would I have screamed? Davis starts a slow waltz, talking down
the bear with friendly words and gentle discouragement. Though
beautiful, the bear is terrifyingly large. My heart is pumping
furiously. And all I know is that, contrary to my musings on the ferry,
there is nothing teddy bear-ish about the teeth marks or the creature
that made them, now retreating slowly into the shadows of the Kodiak
forest.
Lance Richardson travelled courtesy of the Alaska Travel Industry Association.
FAST FACTS
Getting there V Australia has a fare to Anchorage from
Sydney and Melbourne from $1820 low-season return, including tax. You
fly to Los Angeles (14hr), then on Alaska Airlines via Portland (7hr).
In high season, flights are LA-Anchorage non-stop; vaustralia.com.au.
Australians must apply for travel authorisation before
departure at esta.cbp.dhs.gov. Alaska Air flies from Anchorage to Kodiak
Island (1hr); alaskaair.com.
Alternatively, Kodiak Town is connected to the Alaska
Marine Highway, a ferry route that runs the length of the Aleutian
Island chain; dot.state.ak.us.
Touring there Spirit of Alaska
Wilderness Adventures, near Larsen Bay, has trips customised to suit
individual interests, run bu Steele Davis, a US Coast Guard-licensed
captain and certified kayak instructor. Three-day tours cost from
$US1550 ($1585) a person, including float-plane round trip. See
spiritofalaska.com.
Staying there Kodiak's A Captain's
Quarters B&B, nearly five kilometres from town, has suites from
$US179 a night for two people. See acaptainsquarters.com.
Information on Kodiak's remote public-use cabins in the refuge is available at the visitor's centre; phone 1 (888) 408 3514.
While there There are dozens of fishing charters available from Kodiak Town, including Kodiak Island Charters. See kodiakislandcharters.com.
Kodiak Town has several museums, including the Alutiiq
Museum, charting the history of the island's indigenous people. See
alutiiqmuseum.org.
More information travelalaska.com; kodiak.org; bebearaware.org.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/travel/activity/great-outdoors/bear-witness-20111012-1lkhl.html#ixzz1asANF897
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Re: BEARS!!! BEARS IN THE NEWS!!!
true lilly Wed Oct 19, 2011 5:02 am
Dozen of animals -
including lions, tigers, bears
and wolves - are roaming wild
after reportedly being released
from an exotic farm in Ohio.
Their owner was found dead
near several open cages.
Picture: AP
Read MoreLions, tigers, bears
on the loose in rural Ohio
October 19, 2011
Lions, bears and other wild creatures are among dozens of animals
to escape an exotic farm in the US. Supplied
DOZENS of animals, including lions, tigers, bears and wolves, were
on the loose in the US state of Ohio today after apparently being
released from an exotic farm, local media reported.
Police and wildlife officials scrambled to hunt down the animals,
shooting 25 of them, ordering local residents to stay indoors
and cordoning off the area around the farm,
where the owner was found dead near several open cages.
"Our first responsibility is to protect the public,"
Muskingum County Sheriff Matt Lutz was quoted as saying
by the Columbus Dispatch newspaper, adding that area schools
had canceled classes on Wednesday.
The incident began around 5:30 pm on Tuesday
when police started receiving emergency calls about wild animal sightings.
Police
said some 48 animals -
including grizzly and black bears, wolves,
and several species of large cats,
including lions, tigers and cheetahs -
were kept in cages outside the house,
while dozens more animals - mainly primates -
lived indoors and had not escaped, the newspaper said.
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had been released from federal prison three weeks earlier
after serving a one-year term on firearms charges, it said.
The newspaper added that federal agents
raided the farm in June 2008,
seizing more than 100 guns, and that
Thompson had previously been fined
for letting his animals wander.
Kate Riley, 20, whose family owns a nearby cattle farm,
said Thompson would come and take their dead cows to feed his lions.
"He'd have claw marks all over him," she told the Columbus Dispatch.
She added that she believed Thompson's wife had recently left him and moved out.
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Re: BEARS!!! BEARS IN THE NEWS!!!
true lilly Sat Oct 29, 2011 7:52 am
Flights were cancelled immediately after the announcement
by Qantas CEO Alan Joyce.
Picture: Mitch Bear
by Qantas CEO Alan Joyce.
Picture: Mitch Bear
true lilly wrote:...so, flying?
Now that The Only Fatality Free (since 1951) Airline is Grounded,
and 13 13 13 is the number to call?
...and then we also have WIKI LINKING ABB...
Short S.23 Empire flying boat VH-ABB,
which crashed in 1944.
While Qantas has never had a fatal jet airliner accident, the Australian
national airline suffered several losses in its early days before the
widespread adoption of the jet engine in civilian aviation.[1] These were mainly biplanes or flying boats servicing routes in Queensland and New Guinea.[2] The incidents between 1942 and 1944 were during World War II, when Qantas Empire Airways operated on behalf of the military.[3] While strictly speaking not an accident, the shooting-down of G-AEUH is included for completeness.List of Qantas fatal accidents
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Qantas_fatal_accidents
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Re: BEARS!!! BEARS IN THE NEWS!!!
true lilly Sat Nov 26, 2011 1:00 pm
Twenty police injured in nuke protest
AP
GERMAN police say
20 policemen were injured
during clashes with protesters
ahead of the arrival of
a shipment of nuclear waste.
gives birth to gigantic baby,
names him 'Jihad'
Mother Elfi holds her son Jihad at Charit Campus hospital in Berlin.
Picture: AP Sunday Herald Sun
AN obese German mother gave birth to a gigantic baby boy
without the help of a C-section, and named him
"Jihad."
The newborn -- the mother's 14th -- weighed in at 5.9kg
__________________________________________________________________
25 November 2011
Last updated at 21:08 GMT
Belgium credit rating downgraded by S&P
S&P says it considers Belgian government debt
to be at "high levels"
Belgium has had its credit rating downgraded by ratings agency Standard & Poor's.
The country's downgrade could make it more expensive for Belgium to borrow in future.
Belgium's rating was cut by one notch, to AA from AA+, with S&P expressing concerns about funding and market pressures.
The move comes as the eurozone crisis threatens to keep growing, and with continued concerns over Italian debt.
"We think the Belgian government's capacity to prevent an
increase in general government debt, which we consider to be already at
high levels, is being constrained by rapid private sector deleveraging
both in Belgium and among many of Belgium's key trading partners,"
S&P said in a statement.
It also said the outlook was "negative",
meaning Belgium's rating could possibly be cut further in future.
"We need a reply that is clear and credible
if we are to avoid the worst,"
Belgium's caretaker prime minister, Yves Leterme, told
Belgian television after S&P's announcement.
_____________________________________________________________
Prince Philippe, Duke of Brabant,
Prince of Belgium
(French: Philippe Léopold Louis Marie,
Dutch: Filip(s) Leopold Lodewijk Maria;
born 15 April 1960),
is the eldest son and heir apparent of
Albert II, King of the Belgians and Queen Paola.
House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
The Duke of Brabant
at World Economic Forum in 2010
His godparents were his paternal grandfather,
King Leopold III of the Belgians,
and his maternal grandmother
Donna Luisa, Princess Ruffo di Calabria.
Spouse
Countess Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz
daughter of a Walloon Belgian noble family
and female line descendant of Polish noble families
such as the Princes Sapieha,
on 4 December 1999 in Brussels,
civilly at the Brussels Town Hall and
religiously at the Cathedral of Saint Michel in Brussels.
They have four children:
Prince Philippe was educated at the Belgian Royal Military School.
From 1978 to 1981 he continued his education
at Oxford University's Trinity College.
He attended Graduate School at Stanford University, California,
where he graduated in 1985 with an MA degree in Political Science.
Greater Coat of Arms of Belgium
Personal Standard of King Albert II.
Albert II
King Albert II and Queen Paola with
US President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush
at the Royal Palace in Brussels in 2005.
King Albert II with Queen Paola,
and other royals and Heads of state,
at the funeral of Pope John Paul II.
________________________________________________________
Yves Leterme
Prime Minister of Belgium
Private life and hobbies
Yves Leterme is known to be very fond of goats.
He breeds goats in his private time
in the small farm where he lives.
In November 2010 the Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad
had some more news about Yves' favorite animals:
two of his favorite goats, named Trudy and Vicky,
were to appear in a play by the local theatre society of Ypres.
The play is called 'Island of the goats'.
In an interview Yves called goats "The poor man's cow."
_________________________________________________________________________
Ray:
Ken, I grew up in Dublin. I love Dublin.
If I grew up on a farm, and was retarded, Bruges might impress me
but I didn't, so it doesn't.
Ray:
Don't know any Belgium jokes,
and if I did I think I'd have the good
sense not to... hang on.
Is Belgium with all those child abuse murders
lately?
I do know a Belgium joke.
What's Belgium famous for?
Chocolates and child abuse,
and they only invented the chocolates
to get to the kids.
Harry:
Not only have you refused to kill the boy,
you even stopped the boy from
killing himself,
which would've solved my problem,
which would've
solved your problem,
which sounds like it would've solved the boy's problem.
Ken:
It wouldn't have solved his problem.
Harry:
Ken, if I had killed a little kid, accidentally or otherwise,
I wouldn't have thought twice.
I'd killed myself on the fucking spot.
On the fucking spot.
I would've stuck the gun in me mouth.
On the fucking spot!
Ray:
Maybe that's what hell is,
the entire rest of eternity spent in fucking Bruges.
Belgian parties reach 2012 budget deal
by:By Roddy Thomson
From:AAP
November 27, 2011 1:00AM
BELGIAN politicians reached a deal on the 2012 budget today,
ending a 19-month deadlock that had prevented the formation
of a stable government and led to a debt downgrade,
a negotiator said.
"There is an agreement," said a spokesman for the French-speaking socialists,
one of six parties in the linguistically-divided country that had been struggling
to reconcile spending cuts with tax rises.
The accord, reached after 17 hours of negotiations, opens the way to
forming a new government after 19 months in caretaker management.
Friday night's downgrade by ratings giant Standard and Poor's, which saw
Belgium drop by one notch to AA, piled pressure on the parties to
reconcile spending cuts with tax rises to avoid EU penalties next month.
Internal pressure, though, was at least matched by external strains among wider
eurozone leaders, two weeks from a crunch summit dogged by mounting doubts
over their ability to resolve the debt crisis.
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threatens to crush the country with the onset of recession, outgoing
Prime Minister Yves Leterme had made it clear he feared a rout
when markets reopen on Monday if a way forward was not agreed.
"It is blindingly obvious, we have to send a very clear signal... preferably
before the markets open," Mr Leterme had said in a live national
television interview before a shocked Belgian people.
The parties had to work out how to trim 11.3 billion euros ($15.58 billion)
off the deficit next year and about 20 billion euros ($27.58 billion) in all
by 2015.
The ultimatum came days after Mr Leterme's expected successor,
Elio Di Rupo, offered his resignation to Belgium's king,
frustrated at the failure of six-party talks to agree on a
deficit-cutting 2012 budget to avoid EU sanctions.
Albert II rejected the offer and sent Di Rupo back to work.
The ratings blow underlined a sharp escalation of the debt crisis
in a week in which even Germany struggled to raise finance.
Concern is growing that the euro currency, in the absence of
radical pan-eurozone action, is close to breaking point.
"The ability of authorities to respond to potential economic pressures from
inside and outside of Belgium... in our opinion is constrained by the
repeated failure of attempts to form a new government," the S&P
statement said.
After Greek, Portuguese and Irish bailouts, and
with Italy, Spain and France now under pressure,
it was more bad news for leaders struggling
in the absence of a European Central Bank
decision to mount a gigantic financial rescue.
The European Commission has repeatedly urged Belgium
to bring its public deficit below 3.0 per cent of GDP by 2012 -
or face a fine of about half a billion euros.
Finance Minister Didier Reynders blamed the downgrade on a
"global loss of confidence" in eurozone public finances,
while insisting that Belgium's creditworthiness remained
"one of the strongest in Europe".
Analysts said the news had wider significance.
"Belgium is the symbolic buffer
between the eurozone periphery and its core,
so this is a sign that the crisis -
slowly, but surely -
is striking at the heart of Europe,"
Sony Kapoor, head of the Re-Define think tank, told AFP.
___________________________________________________
Tourist killed, 3 kidnapped in Mali
by:By Baba Ahmed in Bamako
From:AP
November 26, 2011 6:58AM
GUNMEN burst into a restaurant
in Mali's most famous city of Timbuktu overnight,
grabbed four tourists dining there and executed one
when he refused to climb into their truck,
said a witness and an official who inspected the body.
The armed men entered the Amanar restaurant around 2.30pm on Friday
local time and pointed their guns at four tourists dining inside, said
Moussa Boubacar, a client at the restaurant.
The four followed the gunmen outside, but when the gunmen tried to
make them enter a vehicle, one of the tourists refused, Boubacar said.
The kidnappers opened fire, killing him on the spot, Boubacar said.
Their nationalities could not immediately be confirmed,
but witnesses describe them as European.
Dramane Diallo, the regional director of Timbuktu's civil protection division,
said that he rushed to the scene and found the corpse of an elderly white man,
who locals said was the tourist that had refused to enter the car.
Related Coverage
destinations in Africa, but it is now one of the many former tourist
hotspots in Mali that have been deemed too dangerous to visit by foreign
embassies because of kidnappings by the local chapter of al-Qaeda.
The incident overnight comes after two French citizens were grabbed
in the middle of the night from their hotel in the Malian town of Hombori
on Thursday.
Neither kidnapping has yet been claimed by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb,
or AQIM, whose members have kidnapped and ransomed over 50 Europeans and
Canadians since 2003.
If Friday's kidnapping is by AQIM, it will mark the first time they have taken
a hostage inside of Timbuktu's city limits. Thursday's kidnapping would be
another first - the first time they have grabbed their victim south of the Niger River.
The group's footprint has grown dramatically since 2006, when the Algerian-led cell
first joined al-Qaeda. Security experts estimate the group has been able to raise around $US130 million ($134.04 million) from ransom payments alone.
The extent of the Mali Empire's peak
"One people, one goal, one faith"
An estimated 90% of Malians are Muslim
(mostly Sunni and Sufi),
approximately 5% are Christian
(about two-thirds Roman Catholic and one-third Protestant)
and the remaining 5% adhere to
indigenous or traditional animist beliefs.
Atheism and agnosticism are believed to be rare among Malians,
most of whom practice their religion on a daily basis.
TWITTERING IDIOTS!!!
'China down'
Jon Huntsman said to "take China down"
Jon Huntsman : Take China down.
Huntsman, former US Ambassador to China,
made following comments in candidate debate :
......
So what should we be doing?
We should be reaching out to OUR ALLIES and
CONSTITUENCIES WITHIN CHINA.
They're called the young people.
They're called the internet generation.
There are 500 million internet users in China.
And 80 million bloggers.
And they are bringing about change,
the likes of which is gonna TAKE CHINA DOWN.
While we have an opportunity
to go up and win back
our economic manufacturing muscles.
Huntsman, China
____________________________________________
Paul Twomey
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paul Twomey 2007
Paul Twomey
was the Chief Executive Officer and President of the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN) from March 2003 to June 2009.
ICANN is the chief rule-making body
for internet policy worldwide.
Following a private-sector role as
a consultant for McKinsey & Company,
Dr Twomey held executive positions
within the Australian Government's
foreign trade organisation Austrade.
His role there included working on
strategic development and European markets.
He was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the
National Office for the Information Economy
(NOIE) in 1997,
a Commonwealth Government unit
responsible for developing Internet policy.
His involvement with ICANN began at this time.
Subsequently he chaired the ICANN
Government Advisory Committee,[1]
which served as the organisation's
liaison with world governments.
Following his departure from NOIE,
Dr Twomey created a consultancy
with Ira Magaziner
(Domestic Policy Adviser
to former US President Bill Clinton)
called Argo P@cific.[2]
He continued to serve on the ICANN GAC until November 2002,
through an ongoing posting as external advisor to
Australia's Commonwealth Government.
Dr Twomey is a member of the
British-North American Committee.
He also serves on the board of directors of the
Atlantic Council of the United States
and chairs the World Economic Forum's
Global Agenda Council on the Future of the Internet.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from University of Queensland,
a Master of Arts from Pennsylvania State University
and a PhD from Cambridge University.
On 27 March 2003 he was elected to his current position at ICANN.
On 2 March 2009, during the opening ceremony of
ICANN's 34th international meeting in Mexico City,
Dr Twomey mentioned that he would be leaving ICANN in June
while remaining as Senior President until the end of the year.[3]
His name has recently been mentioned in relation to
the Commonwealth Government's proposed
National Broadband Network.
From:AFP
November 27, 2011 3:19AM
Vatican probe:
The Vatican has been assessed to determine if it has tightened its regulations
to prevent money laundering.
Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied
COUNCIL of Europe inspectors have visited the Vatican to monitor its plans to tighten money laundering regulations.
The group from the Moneyval committee "met with representatives of
Vatican authorities dealing with the issue of prevention and fight
against money laundering and terrorist financing," a statement from the
Vatican said.
The group, composed of legal, financial and law enforcement experts
from five countries, arrived on Monday and left overnight, the statement said.
They are expected to present a report with their findings at a plenary session
of Moneyval "presumably in the middle of 2012," the Vatican said.
Pope Benedict XVI last December created a new financial authority
following an embarrassing investigation of Vatican bank officials by Italy.
The Vatican also approved a law from April
imposing sentences of up to
12 years in prison for money laundering
and 15 years for terrorist financing.
Related Coverage
Italian authorities launched an investigation into
and seized assets linked to
the Institute for Religious Works (IOR) -
the official name of the Vatican bank -
for alleged violation of money-laundering rules.
The Vatican has also been excluded from an international "white list"
of countries compliant with strict financial controls.
The new financial authority is aimed at
bringing the Holy See in line with new global standards.More related coverage
Related Searches
AP
GERMAN police say
20 policemen were injured
during clashes with protesters
ahead of the arrival of
a shipment of nuclear waste.
German mothertrue lilly wrote:Nuclear waste train heads into Germany
From:AFP
November 25, 2011 9:45PM
Last Updated: November 26, 2011
THE last train carrying reprocessed nuclear waste back from France
to Germany crossed the border today after being delayed by
demonstrations and steamed towards more trouble.
The train, carrying 11 wagonloads of vitrified radioactive material,
left a siding in the station of Remilly, just outside the town of Metz
and around 30km from the German border, at 7pm (AEDT).
Several hundred French riot police had protected the train overnight, and
around 60 German officers and a French "RAID" team - a SWAT-style
special weapons squad - were on board as it resumed its journey.
The train had left a yard operated by the French nuclear giant Areva in
Valognes, in Normandy, on Wednesday, due to travel more than 1100km
across France and through Germany to the waste dump in Gorleben.
But violent anti-nuclear protests delayed its journey, and authorities
halted it overnight while trying to keep demonstrators guessing about
its eventual route across the border and back into Germany.
Related Coverage
- Nuclear train on track for protest Herald Sun, 1 hour ago
- French nuclear firm hit by Japan disaster Herald Sun, 16 Sep 2011
- One dead in nuclear power plant blast Perth Now, 13 Sep 2011
- Explosion rocks French nuclear plant The Daily Telegraph, 13 Sep 2011
- Misled into a cold and dark future The Daily Telegraph, 15 Jul 2011
Today, it finally crossed the frontier in the border town of Forbach, just south of Saarbrucken, and entered Germany.
Last November a similar controversial shipment took 91 hours to arrive at
its final destination - a day longer than planned - and it was dogged
the length of the route by French and then German protesters.
Around 50,000 activists turned out in Germany to try to disrupt the train
during that transfer, and protest organisers expect 20,000 to demonstrate
against the convoy as it nears the central town of Gorlebenlater on Friday.
Some 19,000 German officers have been deployed, and tear gas and water canon
were fired when clashes erupted overnight when a few hundred protesters tried
to block the line around 20km outside Gorleben.
Spooked by Japan's Fukushima disaster, Germany has decided to phase out its
use
of nuclear power, and thus bring to an end the controversial practice
of sending radioactive waste overland to France for reprocessing.
Anti-nuclear activists want France to follow suit and shut its reactors, an idea
firmly dismissed by President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose government believes
French industry is reliant on cheap nuclear-generated electricity.
There has long been widespread public opposition in Germany to nuclear power,
which environmentalists believe presents an unacceptable radioactive threat
to public health and the environment.
In March, the Japanese nuclear plant at Fukushima Daiichi was hit by an earthquake
and a tsunami, triggering a meltdown and massive radiation leak - and increasing
worldwide concerns over nuclear power.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's government agreed to halt German reactors by 2022,
forcing energy suppliers to close plants and levying a tax on fuel.
In the meantime, Germany will no longer send nuclear waste for
reprocessing in France, but will instead stockpile it until a way is
found to make it safe.
France produces 75 per cent of its electricity needs in nuclear plants - a
higher proportion than any other country - and its electricity bills are around
25 per cent cheaper than in its neighbours, a boon to industry.
German protesters are angry that Merkel's announced nuclear phase-out will
take another decade, and that there is still no permanent storage site for the waste generated in the country's reactors.
gives birth to gigantic baby,
names him 'Jihad'
Mother Elfi holds her son Jihad at Charit Campus hospital in Berlin.
Picture: AP Sunday Herald Sun
AN obese German mother gave birth to a gigantic baby boy
without the help of a C-section, and named him
"Jihad."
The newborn -- the mother's 14th -- weighed in at 5.9kg
__________________________________________________________________
25 November 2011
Last updated at 21:08 GMT
Belgium credit rating downgraded by S&P
S&P says it considers Belgian government debt
to be at "high levels"
Belgium has had its credit rating downgraded by ratings agency Standard & Poor's.
The country's downgrade could make it more expensive for Belgium to borrow in future.
Belgium's rating was cut by one notch, to AA from AA+, with S&P expressing concerns about funding and market pressures.
The move comes as the eurozone crisis threatens to keep growing, and with continued concerns over Italian debt.
"We think the Belgian government's capacity to prevent an
increase in general government debt, which we consider to be already at
high levels, is being constrained by rapid private sector deleveraging
both in Belgium and among many of Belgium's key trading partners,"
S&P said in a statement.
It also said the outlook was "negative",
meaning Belgium's rating could possibly be cut further in future.
"We need a reply that is clear and credible
if we are to avoid the worst,"
Belgium's caretaker prime minister, Yves Leterme, told
Belgian television after S&P's announcement.
_____________________________________________________________
Prince Philippe, Duke of Brabant,
Prince of Belgium
(French: Philippe Léopold Louis Marie,
Dutch: Filip(s) Leopold Lodewijk Maria;
born 15 April 1960),
is the eldest son and heir apparent of
Albert II, King of the Belgians and Queen Paola.
House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
The Duke of Brabant
at World Economic Forum in 2010
His godparents were his paternal grandfather,
King Leopold III of the Belgians,
and his maternal grandmother
Donna Luisa, Princess Ruffo di Calabria.
Spouse
Countess Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz
daughter of a Walloon Belgian noble family
and female line descendant of Polish noble families
such as the Princes Sapieha,
on 4 December 1999 in Brussels,
civilly at the Brussels Town Hall and
religiously at the Cathedral of Saint Michel in Brussels.
They have four children:
- Princess Elisabeth Thérèse Marie Hélène, born 25 October 2001
- Prince Gabriel Baudouin Charles Marie, born 20 August 2003
- Prince Emmanuel Léopold Guillaume François Marie, born 4 October 2005
- Princess Eléonore Fabiola Victoria Anne Marie, born 16 April 2008
 | |
From 1978 to 1981 he continued his education
at Oxford University's Trinity College.
He attended Graduate School at Stanford University, California,
where he graduated in 1985 with an MA degree in Political Science.
Greater Coat of Arms of Belgium
Personal Standard of King Albert II.
Albert II
 | |
| King of the Belgians |
King Albert II and Queen Paola with
US President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush
at the Royal Palace in Brussels in 2005.
King Albert II with Queen Paola,
and other royals and Heads of state,
at the funeral of Pope John Paul II.
________________________________________________________
Yves Leterme
Prime Minister of Belgium
 | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 25 November 2009 | |
| Monarch: Albert II | |
Yves Leterme is known to be very fond of goats.
He breeds goats in his private time
in the small farm where he lives.
In November 2010 the Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad
had some more news about Yves' favorite animals:
two of his favorite goats, named Trudy and Vicky,
were to appear in a play by the local theatre society of Ypres.
The play is called 'Island of the goats'.
In an interview Yves called goats "The poor man's cow."
_________________________________________________________________________
Ray:
Ken, I grew up in Dublin. I love Dublin.
If I grew up on a farm, and was retarded, Bruges might impress me
but I didn't, so it doesn't.
Ray:
Don't know any Belgium jokes,
and if I did I think I'd have the good
sense not to... hang on.
Is Belgium with all those child abuse murders
lately?
I do know a Belgium joke.
What's Belgium famous for?
Chocolates and child abuse,
and they only invented the chocolates
to get to the kids.
Harry:
Not only have you refused to kill the boy,
you even stopped the boy from
killing himself,
which would've solved my problem,
which would've
solved your problem,
which sounds like it would've solved the boy's problem.
Ken:
It wouldn't have solved his problem.
Harry:
Ken, if I had killed a little kid, accidentally or otherwise,
I wouldn't have thought twice.
I'd killed myself on the fucking spot.
On the fucking spot.
I would've stuck the gun in me mouth.
On the fucking spot!
Ray:
Maybe that's what hell is,
the entire rest of eternity spent in fucking Bruges.
Belgian parties reach 2012 budget deal
by:By Roddy Thomson
From:AAP
November 27, 2011 1:00AM
BELGIAN politicians reached a deal on the 2012 budget today,
ending a 19-month deadlock that had prevented the formation
of a stable government and led to a debt downgrade,
a negotiator said.
"There is an agreement," said a spokesman for the French-speaking socialists,
one of six parties in the linguistically-divided country that had been struggling
to reconcile spending cuts with tax rises.
The accord, reached after 17 hours of negotiations, opens the way to
forming a new government after 19 months in caretaker management.
Friday night's downgrade by ratings giant Standard and Poor's, which saw
Belgium drop by one notch to AA, piled pressure on the parties to
reconcile spending cuts with tax rises to avoid EU penalties next month.
Internal pressure, though, was at least matched by external strains among wider
eurozone leaders, two weeks from a crunch summit dogged by mounting doubts
over their ability to resolve the debt crisis.
Related Coverage
- Belgium brokers budget deal Herald Sun, 1 hour ago
- Belgium dragged into crisis The Australian, 1 hour ago
- Belgian parties fail again to form government Herald Sun, 4 days ago
- Help us help you, Greece told Herald Sun, 7 Nov 2011
- Powers struggle to contain their rage Foundation, 3 Nov 2011
threatens to crush the country with the onset of recession, outgoing
Prime Minister Yves Leterme had made it clear he feared a rout
when markets reopen on Monday if a way forward was not agreed.
"It is blindingly obvious, we have to send a very clear signal... preferably
before the markets open," Mr Leterme had said in a live national
television interview before a shocked Belgian people.
The parties had to work out how to trim 11.3 billion euros ($15.58 billion)
off the deficit next year and about 20 billion euros ($27.58 billion) in all
by 2015.
The ultimatum came days after Mr Leterme's expected successor,
Elio Di Rupo, offered his resignation to Belgium's king,
frustrated at the failure of six-party talks to agree on a
deficit-cutting 2012 budget to avoid EU sanctions.
Albert II rejected the offer and sent Di Rupo back to work.
The ratings blow underlined a sharp escalation of the debt crisis
in a week in which even Germany struggled to raise finance.
Concern is growing that the euro currency, in the absence of
radical pan-eurozone action, is close to breaking point.
"The ability of authorities to respond to potential economic pressures from
inside and outside of Belgium... in our opinion is constrained by the
repeated failure of attempts to form a new government," the S&P
statement said.
After Greek, Portuguese and Irish bailouts, and
with Italy, Spain and France now under pressure,
it was more bad news for leaders struggling
in the absence of a European Central Bank
decision to mount a gigantic financial rescue.
The European Commission has repeatedly urged Belgium
to bring its public deficit below 3.0 per cent of GDP by 2012 -
or face a fine of about half a billion euros.
Finance Minister Didier Reynders blamed the downgrade on a
"global loss of confidence" in eurozone public finances,
while insisting that Belgium's creditworthiness remained
"one of the strongest in Europe".
Analysts said the news had wider significance.
"Belgium is the symbolic buffer
between the eurozone periphery and its core,
so this is a sign that the crisis -
slowly, but surely -
is striking at the heart of Europe,"
Sony Kapoor, head of the Re-Define think tank, told AFP.
___________________________________________________
Tourist killed, 3 kidnapped in Mali
by:By Baba Ahmed in Bamako
From:AP
November 26, 2011 6:58AM
GUNMEN burst into a restaurant
in Mali's most famous city of Timbuktu overnight,
grabbed four tourists dining there and executed one
when he refused to climb into their truck,
said a witness and an official who inspected the body.
The armed men entered the Amanar restaurant around 2.30pm on Friday
local time and pointed their guns at four tourists dining inside, said
Moussa Boubacar, a client at the restaurant.
The four followed the gunmen outside, but when the gunmen tried to
make them enter a vehicle, one of the tourists refused, Boubacar said.
The kidnappers opened fire, killing him on the spot, Boubacar said.
Their nationalities could not immediately be confirmed,
but witnesses describe them as European.
Dramane Diallo, the regional director of Timbuktu's civil protection division,
said that he rushed to the scene and found the corpse of an elderly white man,
who locals said was the tourist that had refused to enter the car.
Related Coverage
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- 32 of Gaddafi's inner circle in Niger The Australian, 13 Sep 2011
- Today's history on this day Herald Sun, 18 Aug 2011
- Twenty killed in al-Qaeda raid Herald Sun, 6 Jul 2011
- African al-Qaeda camp destroyed Herald Sun, 25 Jun 2011
destinations in Africa, but it is now one of the many former tourist
hotspots in Mali that have been deemed too dangerous to visit by foreign
embassies because of kidnappings by the local chapter of al-Qaeda.
The incident overnight comes after two French citizens were grabbed
in the middle of the night from their hotel in the Malian town of Hombori
on Thursday.
Neither kidnapping has yet been claimed by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb,
or AQIM, whose members have kidnapped and ransomed over 50 Europeans and
Canadians since 2003.
If Friday's kidnapping is by AQIM, it will mark the first time they have taken
a hostage inside of Timbuktu's city limits. Thursday's kidnapping would be
another first - the first time they have grabbed their victim south of the Niger River.
The group's footprint has grown dramatically since 2006, when the Algerian-led cell
first joined al-Qaeda. Security experts estimate the group has been able to raise around $US130 million ($134.04 million) from ransom payments alone.
The extent of the Mali Empire's peak
"One people, one goal, one faith"
An estimated 90% of Malians are Muslim
(mostly Sunni and Sufi),
approximately 5% are Christian
(about two-thirds Roman Catholic and one-third Protestant)
and the remaining 5% adhere to
indigenous or traditional animist beliefs.
Atheism and agnosticism are believed to be rare among Malians,
most of whom practice their religion on a daily basis.
TWITTERING IDIOTS!!!
'China down'
Jon Huntsman said to "take China down"
Jon Huntsman : Take China down.
Huntsman, former US Ambassador to China,
made following comments in candidate debate :
......
So what should we be doing?
We should be reaching out to OUR ALLIES and
CONSTITUENCIES WITHIN CHINA.
They're called the young people.
They're called the internet generation.
There are 500 million internet users in China.
And 80 million bloggers.
And they are bringing about change,
the likes of which is gonna TAKE CHINA DOWN.
While we have an opportunity
to go up and win back
our economic manufacturing muscles.
Huntsman, China
____________________________________________
Paul Twomey
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paul Twomey 2007
Paul Twomey
was the Chief Executive Officer and President of the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN) from March 2003 to June 2009.
ICANN is the chief rule-making body
for internet policy worldwide.
Following a private-sector role as
a consultant for McKinsey & Company,
Dr Twomey held executive positions
within the Australian Government's
foreign trade organisation Austrade.
His role there included working on
strategic development and European markets.
He was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the
National Office for the Information Economy
(NOIE) in 1997,
a Commonwealth Government unit
responsible for developing Internet policy.
His involvement with ICANN began at this time.
Subsequently he chaired the ICANN
Government Advisory Committee,[1]
which served as the organisation's
liaison with world governments.
Following his departure from NOIE,
Dr Twomey created a consultancy
with Ira Magaziner
(Domestic Policy Adviser
to former US President Bill Clinton)
called Argo P@cific.[2]
He continued to serve on the ICANN GAC until November 2002,
through an ongoing posting as external advisor to
Australia's Commonwealth Government.
Dr Twomey is a member of the
British-North American Committee.
He also serves on the board of directors of the
Atlantic Council of the United States
and chairs the World Economic Forum's
Global Agenda Council on the Future of the Internet.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from University of Queensland,
a Master of Arts from Pennsylvania State University
and a PhD from Cambridge University.
On 27 March 2003 he was elected to his current position at ICANN.
On 2 March 2009, during the opening ceremony of
ICANN's 34th international meeting in Mexico City,
Dr Twomey mentioned that he would be leaving ICANN in June
while remaining as Senior President until the end of the year.[3]
His name has recently been mentioned in relation to
the Commonwealth Government's proposed
National Broadband Network.
Vatican checked in laundering probetrue lilly wrote:'Not a matter of if, but when we find you'
HUNDREDS of tax dodgers caught and convicted
as the ATO warns:
"if you do the crime, you will face the consequences".
From:AFP
November 27, 2011 3:19AM
Vatican probe: The Vatican has been assessed to determine if it has tightened its regulations
to prevent money laundering.
Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied
COUNCIL of Europe inspectors have visited the Vatican to monitor its plans to tighten money laundering regulations.
The group from the Moneyval committee "met with representatives of
Vatican authorities dealing with the issue of prevention and fight
against money laundering and terrorist financing," a statement from the
Vatican said.
The group, composed of legal, financial and law enforcement experts
from five countries, arrived on Monday and left overnight, the statement said.
They are expected to present a report with their findings at a plenary session
of Moneyval "presumably in the middle of 2012," the Vatican said.
Pope Benedict XVI last December created a new financial authority
following an embarrassing investigation of Vatican bank officials by Italy.
The Vatican also approved a law from April
imposing sentences of up to
12 years in prison for money laundering
and 15 years for terrorist financing.
Related Coverage
- National threat from money launderers Courier Mail, 7 Nov 2011
- Ireland closes Vatican embassy Foundation, 4 Nov 2011
- Pope follows tricky interfaith path The Daily Telegraph, 26 Oct 2011
- Vaticans urges major economic reform Courier Mail, 24 Oct 2011
- Irish PM blasts Vatican over child abuse The Australian, 21 Jul 2011
Italian authorities launched an investigation into
and seized assets linked to
the Institute for Religious Works (IOR) -
the official name of the Vatican bank -
for alleged violation of money-laundering rules.
The Vatican has also been excluded from an international "white list"
of countries compliant with strict financial controls.
The new financial authority is aimed at
bringing the Holy See in line with new global standards.More related coverage
- Ireland blasts 'disgraceful' Vatican Courier Mail, 15 Jul 2011
- China detains Vatican-backed priest Courier Mail, 30 Jun 2011
- Vatican cash released by Italian court The Australian, 2 Jun 2011
- Vatican prepares new finance rules Courier Mail, 1 Apr 2011
- Pope aims to stamp out dirty money Courier Mail, 15 Jul 2011
- Vatican strikes out at WikiLeaks Courier Mail, 30 Jun 2011
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- Catholic Church,
- Vatican City,
- North America,
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- Federico Lombardi,
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- Vatican Secretary,
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- Holy See,
- Religious Works
true lilly wrote:true lilly wrote:Interesting, that
The GLOBAL CONSPIRACY Industry,
is always telling people to "WAKE UP"...Sleeper agent:dixie dean wrote: #32101
There is a guy by the name of Ben who drinks
at the Village Shop and Spies reminds me of
Espionage...
...
By the way, I am only making links to people
the same as Tintin makes links using people.
A sleeper agent is a person who is
recruited to an intelligence service
to wake up
and perform a specific set of tasks or functions
while living under cover in an area of interest.
This type of agent
is not the same as a deep cover operative
who is continually in contact with
their case officer in order to file intelligence reports.
A sleeper agent
will not be in contact with anyone
until activated.
Interesting because
the more 'they' scream at the world to wake up,
the more those, starting to SEE,
God's Saving Revelations,
are beaten, cowed and BOUGHT into SELLING
DENIAL of The Light of Truth,
so feared and hated by The Willingly Evil.
Interesting to, that GOD WARNED US to
NOT to try to save ourselves by running
to Follow Popular Mass Movements...
but, that MOST STILL WOULD, and,
DIE REGRETTING IT!
...and where did I open at, on praying
about whether to send this...oh, and do
read the full meanings of each word
at the link provided.
Psalms 127:
http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Psa&c=127&v=1&t=KJV&sstr=1
A Song of the Ascents. Of Solomon.
1
Unless Jehovah himself builds the house,
It is to no avail that its builders have worked hard on it.
Unless Jehovah himself guards the city,
It is to no avail that the guard has kept awake.
2
To no avail it is for YOU men that YOU are rising up early,
That YOU are sitting down late,
That YOU are eating food with pains.
Just like this he gives sleep even to his beloved one.
3
Look! Sons are an inheritance from Jehovah;
The fruitage of the belly is a reward.
4
Like arrows in the hand of a mighty man,
So are the sons of youth.
5
Happy is the able-bodied man that has filled his quiver with them.
They will not be ashamed,
For they will speak with enemies in the gate.
Psalms 126:
http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Psa&c=126&v=1&t=KJVtrue lilly wrote:"Long and Uncomfortable"=BRAINWASHING as used by CULT LEADERS.
http://hpanwoforum.freeforums.org/post24742.html#p24742
Ickeism=
Culture jamming
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_jamming
Guerrilla marketing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_marketing
Spaßguerilla
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spa%C3%9Fguerilla
...and when ISN'T 'satire' satirical?
When it's all the above HIDING behind the filthy lie,
that those who DO GET WHAT 'THEY' ARE DOING,
"don't get satire".
Front Deutscher Äpfel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_Deutscher_%C3%84pfel
Apple Front activists in typical uniform with satirized right extremist symbols and bearing
(The FRONT is 'satire' WHILE THEY FISH FOR THOSE WHO
DO SUPPORT WHAT THEY 'satirize')
Yep, anyone believing that 'alternative media' isn't
what's pushing The Beastly Agenda,
is either a deluded fool, or Knowingly, Willingly, Beastly.
Oh, and how many of The Most Vulnerable and Powerless,
is that, DEAD AROUND THE WORLD, now, DUE TO BEING
SUCKED INTO BLOODY, NATION DESTROYING "revolutions",
VIA The Twittering TWITS of WORLD WIDE (Global) WEB of
LIES?Hee hee,le sabrage wrote:DESPERATELY LYING:true lilly wrote:
is that the sanest of my younger, old (and current), ungrateful,
backstabbing 'associates', today?
And is this the most 'youthful'?
Because you almost laugh as hard as those with an eye and brain did,
when she "got" a Licence to "Judge"
Funny to, because she was embarrassed of her wog hubby's surname...
and advertised Only As "Sue & Steve" because of all the people who
rang the club asking for a puppy bred by "Sioux & Steve"...
but then her hubby's,
"REBEL"
bro, got himself an O.A.M., and suddenly,
she was no longer embarrassed by her wog surname...
...but kept the Cameron and hyphen
...interesting though, that when reading other's opinions:
http://www.motorcyclekb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/au-motorcycle/6756/MRAA-ie-MRAV-bashing
of Bro-in-law, "Uncle DamienO.A.M.":
http://www.bikenut.com.au/uncledamien.php
http://damiencodognottooam.blogspot.com/
Thailand Motorbike Tours and Motorcycle Adventure Tours. - experience 16 unforgettable days on a fully guided motorcycling adventure through fascinating Northern Thailand.
it's like reading the experiences folk have with
DICTATORIAL David Icke and his NET HACKING,
PRIVATE Message Reading, INDEPENDENT OPINION BANNING,
FALSE 'consensus' Pushing, Forum Moderators...and,
what a stupidly suicidal Global Religion it is,
that "they" keep shoving down the world's throat,
by trying to silence all warning voices:
Oh, and lets NOT forget the CONnections here:
http://www.dogzonline.com.au/breeds/profile.asp?dog=10733
MRS. Trish STEBBINGS
Secretary AND PUBLICITY OFFICER RRCV
Jeremiah - Chapter 50
Declare 5046 ye among the nations 1471,
and publish 8085 , and set up 5375 a standard 5251;
publish 8085 , [and] conceal 3582 not: say 559 ...
http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Jer&c=50&v=1&t=KJV#1
2 Samuel - Chapter 7, 8 & 9
http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=2Sa&c=7&v=1&t=KJV#1
http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=2Sa&c=8&v=1&t=KJV
http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=2Sa&c=9&v=1&t=KJV#
And David 1732 said 559 ,
Is there yet 3426 any that is left 3498 of the house 1004 of Saul 7586,
that I may shew 6213 him kindness 2617 for Jonathan's 3083 sake?
Jonathan 3083 hath yet a son 1121,
[which is] lame 5223 on [his] feet 7272.
So Mephibosheth 4648 dwelt 3427 in Jerusalem 3389:
for he did eat 398 continually 8548 at the king's 4428 table 7979;
and was lame 6455 on both 8147 his feet 7272.
NOTE:
lame 5223
lame 6455 on both 8147
DIFFERENT/ADDITIONAL numbers=ROOT (DESCRIPTIVE) MEANINGS.
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Re: BEARS!!! BEARS IN THE NEWS!!!
sharky Sat Nov 26, 2011 1:01 pm
Great Post el kabong.el kabong wrote:Save your breath Barney.....lilly is very delusional...warped...deformed.........look at the Facts in this Thread:
Australia is mostly Desert Wasteland
This Thread is about the Runt Continent Australia that is mostly Desert wasteland and what isn't desert wasteland is often flooded and about to be Volcanized!!!. Capiche?
For instance suzi wuzi/suze aka 'tru lilly/vera susa'; did you know:
Deserts comprise 1.3 million square miles or about 44% of the land area of Australia.
http://www.australiafacts.org/
Australia’s Desert Country
One third of Australia’s land is desert. Australia has 10 deserts of which the largest is the Great Victoria Desert, covering just under 5 percent of the country. Ironically, the Great Victoria Desert is not located in Victoria but is in Western Australia and South Australia. The Great Victoria Desert covers 348,750 square kilometres which makes it around one and a half times bigger than the UK or slightly smaller than Montana.
How Big is Australia?
Australia is the word’s smallest continent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deserts_of_Australia
And if it isn't Desert Wasteland and flooded it's quaking, yes Suze, Australia is amongst the most unstable of Landmasses being part of the Ring of Fire.
Do you know any truths/facts? It doesn't seem so....hmmmmmmmmmmmm........
Australia’s first recorded earthquake after white settlement occurred at Port Jackson, New South Wales in June, 1788 and lasted for about 3 seconds.
Other earthquakes recorded in early Australian history were:
■Hobart in 1827
■South Australia 1837
■Melbourne in 1841
■Perth in 1849.
The first recorded deaths in Australia caused by earthquakes occurred in 1902, at Warooka, South Australia. Two people died of shock after a Richter magnitude 6.0 earthquake.
A train line damaged by an earthquake
In 1917, one miner died and 5 were injured in an underground rock fall triggered by an earthquake in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia.
In the last 80 years, there have been 17 earthquakes in Australia registering 6.0 or more on the Richter Scale. This is a rate of about one earthquake every five years, compared to the world average of about 140 per year.
Although the larger Australian earthquakes have caused significant damage, they are much smaller in strength than the world's most-damaging earthquakes. Until Newcastle's December 1989 earthquake, the damage caused by earthquakes in Australia had been comparatively low.
Quakes that Shook the Nation
Here is a list of some of the major earthquakes to have occured in Australia in recent times:
1 March 1954, Adelaide, South Australia
Adelaide was awakened by a loud rumbling sound. This was followed by shaking, severe enough to crack walls and loosen plaster and chimneys from many houses. Although minor compared to many overseas quakes, the Adelaide earthquake was (at magnitude 5.4) severe enough to cause damage estimated at $350 million (1997 values). No serious injuries were reported.
October 1968, Meckering, Western Australia
One of the more serious Australian earthquakes in fairly recent years occurred at the small town of Meckering. Residents reported seeing ground waves as well as experiencing difficulty when driving as the 6.9 Richter magnitude earthquake struck. Old buildings collapsed, railway lines were buckled and pipelines fractured, and a 37 kilometres long fault scarp (up to 2.5 metres high) was caused. Sixteen injuries were reported and the total cost of damage estimated $50 million.
22 January 1988, Tennant Creek, Northern Territory
Significant earthquakes of magnitudes 6.3, 6.4 and 6.8 occurred near Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory. These resulted in large, long ground ruptures and a 35 kilometre fault (up to 2 metre displacement) which warped underground gas pipelines, but caused only minor damage to the hospital and some homes in the town.
28 December 1989, Newcastle, New South Wales
At 10.27am, Newcastle, Australia's sixth largest city, was partially devastated by a moderate earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter Scale. The Newcastle earthquake, the first lethal one in Australia, claimed 13 lives.
The devastation to buildings and other structures was extensive, which was unusual for a relatively-small magnitude earthquake. This was due mainly to an underlying, thin layer of alluvium, which appeared to magnify ground motion (shaking). The epicentre was located 15km West Southwest of the city centre, near Boolaroo.
August 1994, Ellalong, New South Wales
A damaging earthquake again affected the Hunter region of NSW, this time in the Ellalong-Cessnock area. Measuring 5.4 on the Richter Scale, it became our third most-damaging. Several homes, hotels and other buildings suffered seriously and up to 1,000 homes were partly damaged. Infrastructure, commercial and industrial losses also occurred. Insurance payouts were $38 million and total damage costs exceeded $150 million (1997 values).
The End of a Myth
A map showing the Earth's tectonic plates and
earthquake zones.
(see the text on the left for more information)
Despite Australia's seemingly low-risk situation in the middle of one of Earth's larger tectonic plates, we have had many earthquakes larger than that of Newcastle. The map to the right shows that Australia is in the middle of the Australian-Indian Plate.
The Australian Geological Survey Organisation in Canberra estimates that on average, the Australian region experiences an earthquake of at least this size, or larger, every 13-15 months.
Most of these earthquakes have been in low populated areas, so for many years people thought Australia could not be affected by this natural disaster. The Newcastle experience dispelled this myth!
Australian Geology
Due to Australia's geological position, we are prone to what seismologists call 'intra-plate' earthquakes.
These are different to the more familiar plate-margin earthquakes, common in areas like California in the USA and in Japan.
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Soooo............if Australia isn't a Desert Wasteland,flooded or being jarred and quaked it is likely that the inhabitants are going to be Bar-B-Qued by Volcanoes, yes Suze-aka 'tru lilly/vera susa' Australia has many Volcanoes and Fault Lines which shatters your deception that Australia is a fertile and stable environment.
got anymore falsehoods you want to share?
Why are you trying to lure innocent humans to that Desert hellhole?
Volcanoes and Earthquakes.
Daily Earthquake activity Reports latest news feed
Earthquake and Fault Line Maps for Australia.
Is there a risk of a volcanic eruption in Australia ?
http://home.iprimus.com.au/foo7/volcmap.html
Mount Gambier ( Eastern South Australia ) Australia's youngest volcano.
A volcano filled with water. Erupted 4,500 years ago
"...volcanic activity must be considered a serious environmental hazard and risk for the Australian mainland. " Source: The risk of volcanic eruption in mainland Australia - E. B. Joyce.............................The Western Victorian Volcanic Plains are the third largest in the world and exceeded only by the Deccan in western India, and the Snake River Plateau in the United States ( Idaho-Nebraska ).
The Victorian Volcanic Plains are located in Western Victoria and covers over 2.3 million ha (10.36% of the State).
It stretches from Portland in the west to Craigieburn in the east and from Clunes in the north to Colac in the south.........................................“ There are around 400 volcanoes stretching from the Western District of Victoria into the Western Uplands around Ballarat
A volcanic eruption in the Western Uplands could potentially see lava flows and ash falls impacting on Melbourne.
There is also similar volcano risk present in various provinces in Far North Queensland, stretching from south-west of Townsville to near Cairns and up to Cooktown in the Far North. There are more than 380 volcanoes in total across this part of Queensland.
A future eruption in any of these regions would be unlikely to come from an existing volcano (as the volcanoes there are generally considered to be 'once only’ erupters).
Rather, future eruptions would occur at new sites nearby.
The geological record shows that new volcanoes in these areas have erupted perhaps every 2000 years in the past 40,000 years—and given there has not been a major eruption there for the past 5000 years, a significant eruption seems well overdue. " (3)
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Re: BEARS!!! BEARS IN THE NEWS!!!
true lilly Fri Dec 30, 2011 4:01 am
"Arise, devour much flesh."
Camera spies wild panda eating meat
From:AP
December 30, 2011
9:40PM
A CAMERA at a Chinese nature reserve has spied a wild panda eating meat.
Pandas spend most of their days eating bamboo.
Staff at the Wanglong Nature Reserve in southwest Sichuan province
set up the camera after noticing dead animals with chew marks.
It was not known if the panda had killed the animals.
The Pingwu County forestry bureau says the panda appears to be healthy and strong.
Conservation group WWF says only about 1 per cent of a panda's diet is meat or plants that aren't bamboo.
So then, WHY is it "NEWS"?
Daniel 7:
http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Dan&c=7&v=1&t=KJV#1
5,
And behold 718 another 317 beast 2423, a second 8578,
like 1821 to a bear 1678, and it raised up 6966 itself on one 2298 side 7859,
and [it had] three 8532 ribs 5967 in the mouth 6433 of it
between 997 the teeth 8128 of it: and they said 560 thus 3652 unto it,
Arise 6966 , devour 399 much 7690 flesh 1321.
Camera spies wild panda eating meat
From:AP
December 30, 2011
9:40PM
A CAMERA at a Chinese nature reserve has spied a wild panda eating meat.
Pandas spend most of their days eating bamboo.
Staff at the Wanglong Nature Reserve in southwest Sichuan province
set up the camera after noticing dead animals with chew marks.
It was not known if the panda had killed the animals.
The Pingwu County forestry bureau says the panda appears to be healthy and strong.
Conservation group WWF says only about 1 per cent of a panda's diet is meat or plants that aren't bamboo.
So then, WHY is it "NEWS"?
Daniel 7:
http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Dan&c=7&v=1&t=KJV#1
5,
And behold 718 another 317 beast 2423, a second 8578,
like 1821 to a bear 1678, and it raised up 6966 itself on one 2298 side 7859,
and [it had] three 8532 ribs 5967 in the mouth 6433 of it
between 997 the teeth 8128 of it: and they said 560 thus 3652 unto it,
Arise 6966 , devour 399 much 7690 flesh 1321.
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