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Breaking
News Plus
19th June 2010
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QUOTATION OF THE DAY
"Never interrupt your
enemy when he is making a mistake" - Napoleon Bonaparte
US May Unleash
Microwave Weapon in Afghanistan
 TAMPA, Fla. (June 17) -- A
controversial nonlethal weapon that uses microwave energy to create
intense pain is being considered for use in Afghanistan, AOL News has
learned.
An Air Force
military officer and a civilian employee at the Air Force Research
Laboratory told AOL News at an industry conference here that the Active
Denial System, which heats the top layer of skin via millimeter waves,
was in Afghanistan for testing. The sources were not able to offer
details on how or whether the weapon was being used in combat.
The weapon is
designed to shoot an invisible beam of energy at people, creating an
intense burning sensation that forces them to flee. The Air Force has
called it the "goodbye effect." It has not been used before in military
operations
Defense
Department representatives confirmed the weapon was being considered
for use and did not deny it was in Afghanistan, but indicated it had
not yet been used operationally. Full
Story
#Editor's note: This should be
ideal for tracking down peski Afghan goat herders, civilians, and sundry local wild
life in the mountains seen in the
background of the above photograph, ! Please! Is there
anyone left in the US Armed Forces or Government with more than three
functioning brain cells?
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MEDIA CHART OF THE DAY:
The Cold, Hard Numbers Of What's Happening To Newspapers around the
World
It's
no secret that the global newspaper market has taken a nosedive in
recent years.
And as if we
needed yet another reminder of that sad fact, there is a new study out,
this time by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development,
that paints a bleak picture of the state of the industry.
Among the cheery
facts contained in the report: Circulation at North American newspapers
declined 14% in 2008 and 18% in 2009.
Fun
times! And the internet rolls on ...
The
Icelandic parliament has voted unanimously to create what are intended
to be the strongest media freedom laws in the world.
And Iceland intends these measures to have international impact, by
creating a safe haven for publishers worldwide — and their servers.
Full
Story
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American Sourced Business News
Asian
Energy Companies Will Win Big From The BP Crisis
Krugman:
This Austerity Craze Is Just Mind-Boggling--It's As If We WANT The
1930s To Happen Again
This US Unemployment Problem Is Not Going
Away
Can Ireland Roll Over €77 Billion By The
End Of The Year?
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You Tube Editor ... for free!!!
Wow!
YouTube is offering a video editor for users of their site.
Basically, you
can take your uploaded videos and cut them down, combine them together,
and/or add a new audio track from YouTube's 'Audio Swap' library.
This is a VERY
basic video editor from YouTube, but it has a chance to breakthrough
into mainstream use since there are no popular cloud-based video
editors that are free-of-charge.
Not everyone's a
video editing expert so we created a step-by-step guide on how to use
the new YouTube Video Editor. Full
Story
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Into
the jaws of hate:
UK Soldiers' parade marred by Muslim extremists
 Screaming
hate and brandishing vile placards, Muslim extremists and far-Right
groups clashed yesterday in ugly scenes that marred a parade by
soldiers.
Around 40
members of a group called Muslims Against the Crusades (MAC) arrived
with inflammatory banners featuring slogans such as 'Butchers return'
and 'What are you dying for? £18k'.
They were soon
confronted by 100 people, some wearing English Defence League T-shirts,
who shouted 'scum' and 'Muslim bombers off our streets'.
Police, who had
received intelligence warning of trouble at the march in Barking,
Essex, separated the groups behind barriers on opposite sides of the
road.
But violence
flared after 200 soldiers from 1st Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment -
who lost five men in a recent tour of Afghanistan and had been granted
freedom of the borough - marched past thousands of well-wishers.
 MAC supporters shouted slogans
such as 'murderers, murderers' and 'British troops go to hell', while
the mainly white crowd opposite, some of whom are believed to have been
BNP supporters, threw frozen pork sausages and chanted 'scum' and
'Allah, Allah, who the f*** is Allah?' Full
Story
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More...
Two more British soldiers killed in
Afghanistan, taking death toll to 298
BNP leader Nick Griffin invited to attend
the Queen's Buckingham Palace garden party
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Muslims urge UN to push
anti-racist policy
By
Steven Edwards, Canwest News Service June 17, 2010
Muslim governments
on Wednesday pressed the United Nations to step up investigations of
Western countries to root out what they call "Islamophobia" -- defined
by them as discrimination against people of the Muslim faith.
Delegates from
Islamic countries, such as Egypt, Iran and Pakistan, drafted new
guidelines for the UN's freedom-of-religion investigator that say
Western diplomats aim to shield Islam from commentary Muslims might
deem derogatory.
During a debate
in front of the UN Human Rights Council, they also charged that the
UN's anti-racism investigator -- in a report he tabled about his
activities -- had not focused enough on what they called the rising
incidence of discrimination against Muslims in Western countries.
According to the
57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference, the anti-racism
investigator should focus on what it called "contemporary" racism,
"particularly in Western societies."
The group said
Islamophobia was growing "particularly in the countries of the North."
Egypt and Libya
also charged that Muslims were targets of racism and discrimination in
Western countries.
"People of
foreign descent, such as Africans, Arabs, Muslims and Asians, do face
derogatory stereotyping and stigmatization in an environment of
victimization and xenophobia and, at times, violence," said Ahmed Ihab
Gamaleldin, the Egyptian delegate.
From Ottawa,
Canada called for a "constructive approach" to ensuring the right of
freedom of religion.
But the OIC is
likely to see their new guidelines for the freedom-of-religion
investigator approved, since Muslim countries and allies -- such as
Cuba, Russia and China -- form a voting bloc in the Geneva-based body
that overshadows that of the Western democracies.
Once passed, the new
mandate is likely to see Western countries come under increased UN
pressure to prevent criticism of Islam, even if that means overriding
traditional freedom-of-speech protections. Full Story
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Editor's note: Also see - The Shadow of Islam Falls over European
Culture The confession by comedian Rory Bremner
that he and his colleagues are “afraid to joke about Islam” for fear of
being killed has revealed precisely how far the stifling dark shadow of
Islam has already fallen over Britain
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"Five thousand
years of lawmaking have failed to achieve what simple human
RESPECT, TRUST and GOODWILL do
each day to make
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good faith
there would be no
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