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Morrissey reignites racism row by calling Chinese a 'subspecies'Anonymous 09/03/10(Fri)13:53 No.251149     File: 128354718494.jpg-(32.25KB, 460x276, Morrissey-006.jpg) Morrissey, a vegetarian and animal rights advocate who last year abandoned the stage at the Coachella festival in California because of the smell of cooking meat, described the treatment of animals in China as "absolutely horrific", referring to recent news stories about animals in Chinese circuses and zoos. He told interviewer Simon Armitage: "Did you see the thing on the news about their treatment of animals and animal welfare? Absolutely horrific. You can't help but feel that the Chinese are a subspecies." A spokesman for Love Music Hate Racism, which received a donation of £28,000 from the singer in 2008 after his apparently anti-immigration comments made in music magazine NME convulsed the media, said it would be unable to accept support from Morrissey again if he did not rescind or dispute today's comments. "It really is just crude racism," said Martin Smith. "When you start using language like 'subspecies', you are entering into dark and murky water. I don't think we would, or could, ask him to come back after that." Armitage said Morrissey was typically and deliberately provocative throughout the interview. "I thought at the time it was a dangerous thing to say into a tape recorder. He must have known it would make waves, he's not daft," he said. "But he's provocative and theatrical, and it was one of dozens of dramatic pronouncements. I'm not an apologist for that kind of remark, and couldn't ignore it. But clearly, when it comes to animal rights and animal welfare, he's absolutely unshakable in his beliefs. In his view, if you treat an animal badly, you are less than human. I think that was his point." Morrissey said in a statement tonight: "If anyone has seen the horrific and unwatchable footage of the Chinese cat and dog trade – animals skinned alive – then they could not possibly argue in favour of China as a caring nation. There are no animal protection laws in China and this results in the worst animal abuse and cruelty on the planet. It is indefensible." His latest comments are not the first time the singer has provoked accusati Message too long. Click here to view the full text.

The White House has been forced to state that President Barack Obama is a 'committed, mainstream Christian' after claims to the contrary by Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck.
Mr Beck recently said that Mr Obama practiced a version of Christianity that was not recognised by most people, adding the president's 'liberation theology' was all about 'oppressors' and 'victims'.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs was asked about Mr Beck's assertions at a press briefing today. Mr Gibbs said: 'I can only imagine where Mr Beck conjured that from.'


Sparring partners: Barrack Obama has been branded a 'racist' by Fox host Glenn Beck, an accusation for which Mr Beck has been forced to publicly apologise
Right-wing talk show host Mr Beck has landed himself in hot water in the past for branding Mr Obama a racist
He has been twice forced to apologise for comments where he said the president had 'race issues'.
Last year he said: 'I don't know if [Mr Obama] hates whites but there is something going on with the president... I deem him a racist, really, by his own standard of racism.'

Defence: White House press secretary Robert Gibbs fended off questions about Barack Obama's religion during the daily press conference
Pundits dismissed Mr Beck's outburst as attention seeking, saying he makes more than £20million a year from stirring up controversy.

It comes after a recent poll found the majority of Republican voters believed their president sympathised with Islamic fundamentalists.

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►	Anonymous 09/03/10(Fri)13:35 No.251147     >>251141 I still want to see Jintao's certificate proving he was born in Jiangyan.

►	Anonymous 09/03/10(Fri)14:01 No.251151     >>251147 What if he wasn't? What could you do?

►	Anonymous 09/03/10(Fri)14:30 No.251152     >>251151 What if Obama wasn't born in Hawaii? What could you do?

Is the tea party the new Republican Party? The grass-roots network of fed-up conservative-libertarian voters displayed its power in its biggest triumph of the election year: the toppling of Sen. Lisa Murkowski in Alaska's GOP primary. Political novice Joe Miller is the fifth tea party insurgent to win a GOP Senate nominating contest, an upset that few, if any, saw coming.
With the stunning outcome, the fledgling tea party coalition and voters who identify with its anti-tax, anti-spending sentiments proved that democracy is alive and well — within the Republican Party. Don't like who is representing you? Rise up, fire them and choose someone new.
The tea party has taken hold in the Grand Old Party, unseating lawmakers, capturing nominations for open seats and forcing Republicans to recalibrate both their campaign strategy and issues agenda. Out is talk of delivering federal dollars back home; in is talk of fiscal discipline.
Within minutes of Murkowski conceding late Tuesday night, Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., was among the conservative Republicans cheering Miller.
"He pulled off the upset victory of the year because he ran on principles and because Alaskans, like all Americans, want to stop the massive spending, bailouts and debt that are bankrupting our country," said DeMint.
Taking a shot at Murkowski if not the entire Republican establishment, he added: "Joe Miller's victory should be a wake-up call to politicians who go to Washington to bring home the bacon. Voters are saying 'We're not willing to bankrupt the country to benefit ourselves.'"
Murkowski, who was seeking her second full term, was the first GOP incumbent to lose her renomination bid to a tea party-backed challenger in a Republican primary.
But Utah Sen. Bob Bennett lost his job, too, fired at the state convention in May when tea party activists and other GOP voters rallied behind Mike Lee. And tea party favorites Rand Paul in Kentucky, Sharron Angle in Nevada and Ken Buck in Colorado won their primaries over establishment-supported candidates in open races.
Now, the country's latest political phenomenon is turning its sights on the Sept. 14 Delaware Senate prim

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►	Anonymous 09/03/10(Fri)13:17 No.251134     >Separating paragraphs from an article for reader convenience is too hard for me.

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Anonymous 09/03/10(Fri)13:33 No.251145     >>251134 Is the tea party the new Republican Party? The grass-roots network of fed-up conservative-libertarian voters displayed its power in its biggest triumph of the election year: the toppling of Sen. Lisa Murkowski in Alaska's GOP primary. Political novice Joe Miller is the fifth tea party insurgent to win a GOP Senate nominating contest, an upset that few, if any, saw coming. With the stunning outcome, the fledgling tea party coalition and voters who identify with its anti-tax, anti-spending sentiments proved that democracy is alive and well — within the Republican Party. Don't like who is representing you? Rise up, fire them and choose someone new. The tea party has taken hold in the Grand Old Party, unseating lawmakers, capturing nominations for open seats and forcing Republicans to recalibrate both their campaign strategy and issues agenda. Out is talk of delivering federal dollars back home; in is talk of fiscal discipline. Within minutes of Murkowski conceding late Tuesday night, Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., was among the conservative Republicans cheering Miller. "He pulled off the upset victory of the year because he ran on principles and because Alaskans, like all Americans, want to stop the massive spending, bailouts and debt that are bankrupting our country," said DeMint. Taking a shot at Murkowski if not the entire Republican establishment, he added: "Joe Miller's victory should be a wake-up call to politicians who go to Washington to bring home the bacon. Voters are saying 'We're not willing to bankrupt the country to benefit ourselves.'" Murkowski, who was seeking her second full term, was the first GOP incumbent to lose her renomination bid to a tea party-backed challenger in a Republican primary. But Utah Sen. Bob Bennett lost his job, too, fired at the state convention in May when tea party activists and other GOP voters rallied behind Mike Lee. And tea party favorites Rand Paul in Kentucky, Sharron Angle in Nevada and Ken Buck in Colorado won their primaries over establishment-supported candidates in open races. Now, the country's latest political phenomenon is turning its sights Message too long. Click here to view the full text.

►	Anonymous 09/03/10(Fri)13:38 No.251148     File: 128354629170.png-(268.47KB, 476x281, Capture.png) >>251145 Ahhhh, now we're cooking.

A 26-year-old Amish man has been charged with sexually abusing five children, including his own cousin.
Chester Mast, who is a member of Missouri's Pike County Amish Association, was arrested after his own community turned on him
It has emerged that elders had tried to deal with the matter internally and only turned to the authorities for help after fresh allegations emerged.
Mast has now been charged with a number of sexual assaults, including rape and incest and will go on trial in December.
The married father-of-two is a member of a highly conservative Amish community which shuns modern amenities including electricity, phones and cars.
It is alleged he committed his first offence - against his own cousin - when he went to stay with family in Wisconsin in the summer of 2004.
According to the New York Times, the 20-year-old was meant to be apprenticed to his uncle, a carpenter.
But instead he allegedly raped his young relative, claiming it would cure her of stomach ache.
Mast, whose wife is expecting their third child, then returned to his home community in Missouri and was excommunicated for the assault.
He admitted his actions and was allowed to continue living with them. But fresh allegations surfacead in 2009, and he was once again thrown out for sexual misconduct.
Once again he recanted. But when new alleged assaults came to light this year, the community called in police.
He was arrested in May and now faces a trial in Missouri, where he is charged with two counts of of statutory rape, two of sodomy and one of sexual misconduct involving a child.
Mast will also go before a judge in Wisconsin charged with incest and repeated sexual assault of a minor.
The alleged victims are aged from five to 15. Three, including his cousin, are Amish.
The group very rarely seek help from the authorities. Instead, crimes and disputes are settled within the strict, remote communities.

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Trunk belonged to Janet M. Barrie who went to U.S. in 1920s
Police rule out link with Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie
Police in the U.S. have linked a British woman with a trunk in which the mummified remains of a baby and a foetus were found.
Investigators said yesterday the trunk belonged to Janet M Barrie, who emigrated to the U.S. from Scotland in the mid-1920s.
She was the home nurse for a Los Angeles dentist and died in 1992, leaving behind a trunk filled with her belongings and the bodies of two infants wrapped in newspapers.

Link: The remains were found in the trunk of Janet Barrie, who emigrated from Scotland to the U.S. in the 1920s
The trunk was found on August 17 by two women clearing out the basement of an apartment building.
One of them, a girl, was about the age of a newborn and extremely well preserved.
She had thick brown hair and her arms lay by her sides while her legs were folded up to her chest.
The other baby was much smaller and in worse condition, and could have been a foetus or born prematurely. There were no signs of trauma to the babies.
Authorities have not determined a cause of death of the babies.
Investigators tracked down relatives of Miss Barrie in Canada and are awaiting DNA tests.
Miss Barrie was born in 1897 and had worked in LA before moving to Vancouver.
The coroner's office has been unable to determine how the babies died, and it may never be known why they were placed in the trunk or who put them there. DNA tests are currently under way to see if the babies were related to each other.

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►	Anonymous 09/03/10(Fri)13:13 No.251128     Wow, I bet she had some good times with that car and her fashion taste in her young adulthood looks to have been impeccable.

►	Anonymous 09/03/10(Fri)13:26 No.251142     File: 128354561289.jpg-(17.26KB, 250x194, 250px-Fish_and_Chips_in_Newspaper.jpg) >leaving behind a trunk filled with her belongings and the bodies of two infants wrapped in newspapers. She most likely was planning to eat the babies but forgot about them due to her inferior white intellect. You know what is also wrapped in newspaper? Fish

►	Anonymous 09/03/10(Fri)13:33 No.251144     >>251142 Keepsakes are too above a chinaman's head, or maybe it's his meager means instincts kicking in, that everything stored must be for food in the cold wintertime.

Police in Bosnia say they have located a young woman shown in a video throwing puppies into a river.

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Police in the central Bosnian town of Bugojno say they have identified the person seen throwing six newborn puppies into the river one by one.
The disturbing video provoked worldwide outrage after being posted online earlier this week.

Police say they have located the girl, who is apparently a juvenile, from leads given by animal protection groups in the country.
The girl's parents will soon be questioned, police say. Under recently adopted animal protection law, people can be fined up to 5,000 euro for cruel treatment of animals.
The head of the Sarajevo-based animals group SOS, Velimir Ivanisevic, said his organisation also had information according to which the girl was from Bugojno and the video was made by her brother.
"It is a mirror of society and the fact that young people are doing such things shows how they have been raised," Mr Ivanisevic said.
He warned that only sporadic cases of cruelty against animals get public attention in Bosnia while numerous brutalities go unreported.
Under Bosnian law a person who kills or tortures animals is punishable only with fines ranging from 15 to 5,000 euros.
The 44-second video shows a blonde girl in a red sweatshirt casually taking the squealing black-and-white puppies out of a white bucket and tossing them into the fast-moving river one by one.
The video was removed from YouTube but has been embedded on a number of other sites.
Several Facebook pages have been created dedicated to exposing the girl, who appears to be a teenager.

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Detectives given 12 hours more to question parents of Shafilea Ahmed, 17-year-old who disappeared in 2003

Iftikhar and Faranza Ahmed: the decomposed remains of their daughter Shafilea were discoved in a river in 2004. Photograph: Martin Rickett/PA
Police have been given more time to question the parents of a Muslim teenager who was the suspected victim of a so-called honour killing after they were arrested on suspicion of murder.

Cheshire police were granted a further 12 hours to question the parents of Shafilea Ahmed, 17, from Warrington, Cheshire, whose badly decomposed remains were found by the River Kent near Sedgwick, Cumbria, in February 2004.

She disappeared from her home in Great Sankey in September 2003, and there had been no sightings of her until her body was found five months later.

Following her disappearance, it emerged she had refused an arranged marriage and, during a visit to Pakistan to meet a prospective suitor, had swallowed bleach after which she required regular hospital treatment. She had intended to go to university to become a lawyer. Her father later claimed she had swallowed the bleach during a power cut, mistaking it for a bottle of fruit juice.

Cheshire police arrested Shafilea's father, Iftikhar Ahmed, 50, a taxi driver, and her mother, Farzana, 47, early yesterday at their home. They are being questioned at a police station in Runcorn, and their house is under police guard. The couple were arrested and bailed by police on suspicion of kidnapping in December 2004 but were never charged with any offence after the Crown Prosecution Service said there was insufficient evidence. They have strenuously protested their innocence and claimed police were racist, a claim denied by investigators. Six other members of Shafilea's extended family were also arrested and freed on bail in connection with her disappearance.

A spokeswoman for Cheshire police said today: "The man and woman arrested yesterday morning in Warrington on suspicion of the murder of Shafilea Ahmed have had their custody period extended beyond 24 hours, and continue to be interviewed by detectives."

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Bedbugs continued their summer-long invasion of New York businesses by taking over a small portion of Google’s posh Manhattan office.

A spokeswoman for Google confirmed Friday that bedbugs had found their way into the search-engine giant’s sprawling space in Chelsea. “Like several other businesses in New York City, we’ve discovered bedbugs in a small area of our office,” the spokeswoman said. “We have notified employees and are taking steps to treat the affected area.”

The offices on Ninth Avenue are famous for their free gourmet cafeteria, snack stations, scooters and readily available Lego sets for employees.

News of Google’s bedbug outbreak first spread Thursday when a person who claims to work for the company posted a message on a Twitter account saying, “jeepers i am not immune from the bedbug epidemic. bedbugs have been found at work.” The message was sent by a person using the Twitter user name pammy5 and their bio stated: “I do marketing things at Google.” The account has since been deleted.

The bedbug outbreak at Google makes it the latest business in New York City to suffer an an infestation this summer. Other bedbug victims have included Time Warner Inc., the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office, the Empire State Building, a triage room at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, a Times Square movie theater and several retail stores in Manhattan.

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ESA's Herschel infrared space observatory has discovered that ultraviolet starlight is the key ingredient for making water in space. It is the only explanation for why a dying star is surrounded by a gigantic cloud of hot water vapour.

Every recipe needs a secret ingredient. When astronomers discovered an unexpected cloud of water vapour around the old star IRC+10216 in 2001, they immediately began searching for the source. Stars like IRC+10216 are known as carbon stars and are thought not to make much water. Initially they suspected the star's heat must be evaporating comets or even dwarf planets to produce the water.

Now, Herschel's PACS and SPIRE instruments have revealed that the secret ingredient is ultraviolet light, because the water is too hot to have come from the destruction of icy celestial bodies.

"This is a good example of how better instruments can change our picture completely," says Leen Decin, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, the lead author of the paper about this work. The superb sensitivity of Herschel's instruments has revealed that the water around IRC+10216 varies in temperature from about -200°C to 800°C, which indicates that it is being formed much closer to the star than comets can stably exist.





IRC+10216 is a red giant star, hundreds of times the Sun's size, although only a few times its mass. If it replaced the Sun in our Solar System, it would extend beyond the orbit of Mars.

It is 500 light years away and while it is barely detectable at visible wavelengths, even in the largest telescopes, it is the brightest star in the sky at some infrared wavelengths. This is because it is surrounded by a huge envelope of dust that absorbs almost all its visible radiation and re-emits it as infrared light. It is in the envelope that the water vapour has been found. But how did the water get there?

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A South African pastor has caused outrage by preaching a sermon entitled "Jesus was HIV positive".


Some Christians accuse the reverend of portraying Jesus as sexually promiscuous
Reverend Xola Skosana said his sermon was designed to combat the stigma surrounding HIV and Aids.
"My responsibility as a pastor is to paint a picture of a God who cares for people and wants the best for them, not who judges them and is ashamed of them," he told the Mail And Guardian newspaper.
The reverend preaches at the non-denominational Way of Life church in Khayelitsha, near Cape Town, a township with one of the highest rates of HIV in South Africa.
Last month Skosana, who has lost two of his sisters to Aids, underwent an HIV test in front of his congregation, along with more than 100 young people from the township.
His approach has been praised by Aids campaigners in South Africa.
But some Christians have accused him of portraying Jesus as sexually promiscuous.

Former president Thabo Mbeki fought the claims of Aids campaigners
"They're saying you can't reconcile Jesus and Aids," he said.
"But in many parts of the Bible God put himself in the position of the sick and the marginalised," the reverend said.
He has called for more churches to address the issue of HIV in their sermons to try to end the stigma surrounding the virus.

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A well-known Australian Muslim cleric has called for the beheading of Dutch anti-Islamic politician Geert Wilders, a newspaper said on Friday.
Wilders' Freedom Party scored the biggest gains in June 9 polls and is currently negotiating to form a new minority government with the Liberals and Christian Democrats. Polls show Wilders would win a new election if one were called now.
Wilders demanded to know why he had learnt about the threat from the newspaper and not from Dutch authorities who are guarding him after a film and remarks he made angered Muslims around the world.
De Telegraaf, the Netherlands' largest newspaper, led its front page on Friday with a story on the speech by Feiz Muhammad.
The Sydney-born Muhammad has gained notoriety for, among other things, calling on young children to be radicalized and blaming rape victims for their own attacks.
The paper posted an English-language audio clip in which he refers to Wilders as "this Satan, this devil, this politician in Holland" and explains that anyone who talks about Islam like Wilders does should be executed by beheading.
De Telegraaf did not say when the speech was given but said it and the Dutch secret service both had copies. According to his website, Muhammad is based in Malaysia.
Wilders told Reuters it was "really terrible news" and that he was taking it seriously.
"I will ask for clarification from the Dutch minister of interior/justice why the secret service and anti-terrorism unit NCTb have not informed me before and what the consequences will be for me," he said in an email.
A spokesman for the Dutch secret service referred inquiries on the threat to the NCTb. A spokeswoman for the NCTb was not available to comment.
Wilders is currently on trial in the Netherlands for inciting hatred and discrimination against Muslims.
The Freedom Party leader made a film in 2008 which accused the Koran of inciting violence and mixed images of terrorist attacks with quotations from the Islamic holy book.
Wilders was also charged because of outspoken remarks in the media, such as an opinion piece in a Dutch daily in which he compared Islam to fascism and the Koran to Adolf

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In May 2002 the Queen paid a visit to Devon where she met a leader of the farmers’ union. He complained to her that Tony Blair and his government didn’t seem to understand the countryside – a familiar charge in the wake of the foot-and-mouth crisis. The monarch could have muttered something non-committal in reply but on this occasion she broke with protocol. “I know,” she reportedly replied. “I tell him that every week when I see him.”
Unlike Tony Blair the Queen is never going to publish her memoirs. We will never be offered her justification of her role in national or world affairs and she will never deliberately reveal to the book-buying public the private details of her conversations with her 12 prime ministers to date. If she thought one of her two visits to Downing Street under the Blair premiership was “utterly freaky” (as he described a weekend at Balmoral), or if she needed a stiff drink to get through the ordeal (ditto), we will never know.

Nevertheless she must have opinions and even without rare indiscretions such as the one in Devon, it’s possible to read the royal runes. Looks, leaks and third-party reports can be pieced together to reveal something of the royal point of view.
We know she revered Winston Churchill, worried about Anthony Eden’s sanity and felt comfortable with aristocratic Alec Douglas-Home, who was a neighbour of her mother’s Scottish family. She formed a surprise friendship with Harold Wilson, was famously stiff with Margaret Thatcher and enjoyed relaxed barbecues with John Major and wife Norma.
So what of the Blairs – the fresh-faced, public-school educated Labour leader who publicly declared he was “as proud as proud can be to be your prime minister” and his reportedly republican wife who could just about manage a curtsy in public but refused to do it in private?
The problem from the outset was a clash of attitudes. Blair, as we know, had an obsessive belief in modernity. For him change was a hallmark of success and reform was a constant imperative, even if he did not always seem to care about the specifics. For the Queen, on the other hand, continuity and stability were the supreme values and protocol was a way of life. Message too long. Click here to view the full text.