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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Online Gulag museum launched - Documents communist 1939-1953 brutality
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/08/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Thanks, Besoeker. I'm sure this won't get much airtime in the MSM. It doesn't fit their meme for the 'happy socialist society' that was the USSR.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 05/08/2011 10:34 Comments || Top||

#2  ...or Berkley.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/08/2011 11:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Any of my stuff in there? Figured maybe they had a Whitewash Wing.
Hey, Bin Laden! Bring me and Joe a couple of Stolys. And be quick about it, new boy!
Deal the cards, Adolph...
Posted by: The Ghost of Walter Duranty || 05/08/2011 12:45 Comments || Top||


He 'cast his magic spell then molested me'
[Emirates 24/7] A Kuwaiti woman who went with her younger boy friend to his house later rushed to the police and told them he molested her after casting a magic spell on her, a newspaper reported on Saturday.
Heeyyy, baby. C'mon over here and...let daddy cast a spell on you.
The unnamed woman, in her 40s, said she had met the man two months ago and that he promised to marry her.
You can trust me, baby. I'm not like the others...
"She told the police that they have known each other for two months and that she had waited for him to honour his promise and marry her," the Arabic language daily 'Al Anba' said.
Hope you didn't give him that "my biological clock is ticking" rant. Guys hate that.
"Instead, two days ago he seduced her to go to his house, where he cast a magic spell on her and molested her...police are looking for the man to investigate him."
Sounds like cops don't have much to do over there.
Posted by: Fred || 05/08/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Uh, uh, MUSLIM/ISLAMIC VERSION OF AN ATTEMPTED ENFORCEABLE? PRE-NUP = CONTRACT TO MARRY???

Gotta get Harry Potter + Demons involved in the terms???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 05/08/2011 0:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Ever tried to carry on a conversation with a poodle or a sheep?

Especially with a Moslem poodle or a Moslem sheep?

Naturally I dont want to offend any poodles or any sheep.
Posted by: de Medici3489 || 05/08/2011 8:41 Comments || Top||

#3  molested her after casting a magic spell on her

I think it's called a 'roofie'
Posted by: Beavis || 05/08/2011 8:54 Comments || Top||

#4  I expect he told he wasn't ready for a commitment
Posted by: Frank G || 05/08/2011 9:00 Comments || Top||

#5  Dusty Springfield version.

The somewhat steamier Joss Stone version.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 05/08/2011 9:25 Comments || Top||

#6  No, no, no - Screamin' Jay Hawkins I Put A Spell On You
Posted by: CincinnatusChili || 05/08/2011 19:44 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Dupe entry: Is Iran looking to Africa to secure uranium ore?
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/08/2011 02:38 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Tunisian police clash with protesters
[Iran Press TV] [Iran Press TV] Tunisian security forces have used tear gas to disperse dozens of protesters demanding the resignation of the transitional government.

The protest in Tunis was organized by youths who were angry at the government's handling of demonstrations this week. They have called for a new revolution.

On Friday, police battled hundreds of protesters demanding the government's resignation in the most violent confrontations in weeks.

Sources say several photographers working for both local and foreign media were subjected to insults and beatings on Thursday and Friday.

Tension has risen in the North African country, after a former minister warned of a possible coup by loyalists of the ousted government.

Former President-for-Life Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
...who departed by popular demand in January, 2011, precipitating the Arab Spring...
was ousted by street protests in January after 23 years in power.

Ben Ali decamped to Soddy Arabia as the Tunisian Revolution was gaining momentum.

The demonstrators are opposed to the new government as it still includes figures from the ousted regime.

The interim government has promised elections in July.
Posted by: Fred || 05/08/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Five dead, 54 wounded in Egyptian sectarian clashes
[Arab News] Five people were killed and more than 54 were maimed in a sectarian clash in Egypt on Saturday over a Christian woman who had allegedly converted to Islam, health officials said.
Possibly even willingly. The problem is the history of Egypt's Muslims of kidnapping Christians and forcing them to convert, then marrying the female converts off to one of their number under the same duress.
The strife represents another challenge to Egypt's military rulers who are trying to restore law and order after President Hosni Mubarak
...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
was forced to step down in a popular uprising in February.

Details of how the confrontation began were sketchy. But witnesses said some 500 conservative Islamists known as salafists gathered at the Saint Mina Church in the Cairo suburb of Imbaba demanding to take custody of a woman they said had converted to Islam.
Much more likely Muslim perfidy is involved, given the party involved for that side.
A shouting match ensued between church guards and neighbors and the Islamists. The verbal clash soon developed into a full fledged confrontation where the two sides exchanged gun fire, Molotov cocktails and stones.

"I just left one young man dead inside the church," one Christian witness told journalists at the scene.

Authorities deployed large numbers of soldiers and police, backed by armored vehicles, to the area. The army fired shots in the air and used tear gas to separate both sides, witnesses said.

The governor of Giza province told journalists at least one person died and 23 were maimed in the festivities.

But the director of the health department in Giza province, Abdel-Halim Al-Behairi put the corpse count at 5 and 54 maimed. He told Egypt's state news agency MENA that three of the maimed were at death's door.

Interfaith relationships often cause tension in Egypt, where Christians make up about 10 percent of its 80 million people.

Christians complain about unfair treatment, including rules they say make it easier to build a mosque than a church.

Last year Egypt saw more than its usual share of sectarian strife, and a rights groups has said such festivities have been on the rise. Mohammedans and Christians had been brought together during the protests that ousted Mubarak.
Posted by: Fred || 05/08/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Syrian tanks roll into Banais
Tunisian police clash with protesters
Five dead, 54 wounded in Egyptian sectarian clashes
Yemenis against immunity for Saleh

Ode To Spring

SWEET daughter of a rough and stormy fire,
Hoar Winter's blooming child ; delightful Spring !
Whose unshorn locks with leaves
And swelling buds are crowned ;

From the green islands of eternal youth,
(Crown'd with fresh blooms, and ever springing shade,)
Turn, hither turn thy step,
O thou, whose powerful voice

More sweet than softest touch of Doric reed,
Or Lydian flute, can sooth the madding winds,
And thro' the stormy deep
Breathe thy own tender calm.

Thee, best belov'd ! the virgin train await
With songs and festal rites, and joy to rove
Thy blooming wilds among,
And vales and dewy lawns,

With untir'd feet ; and cull thy earliest sweets
To weave fresh garlands for the glowing brow
Of him, the favour'd youth
That prompts their whisper'd sigh.

Unlock thy copious stores ; those tender showers
That drop their sweetness on the infant buds,
And silent dews that swell
The milky ear's green stem.

And feed the slowering osier's early shoots ;
And call those winds which thro' the whispering boughs
With warm and pleasant breath
Salute the blowing flowers.

Now let me sit beneath the whitening thorn,
And mark thy spreading tints steal o'er the dale ;
And watch with patient eye
Thy fair unfolding charms.

O nymph approach ! while yet the temperate sun
With bashful forehead, thro' the cool moist air
Throws his young maiden beams,
And with chaste kisses woes

The earth's fair bosom ; while the streaming veil
Of lucid clouds with kind and frequent shade
Protect thy modest blooms
From his severer blaze.

Sweet is thy reign, but short ; The red dog-star
Shall scorch thy tresses, and the mower's scythe
Thy greens, thy flow'rets all,
Remorseless shall destroy.

Reluctant shall I bid thee then farewel ;
For O, not all the Autumn's lap contains,
Nor Summer's ruddiest fruits,
Can aught for thee atone

Fair Spring ! whose simplest promise more delights
Than all their largest wealth, and thro' the heart
Each joy and new-born hope
With softest influence breathes.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/08/2011 1:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Poetic high sarcasm suits you, g(r)omgoru. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/08/2011 7:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Preens.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/08/2011 14:03 Comments || Top||

#4  AP has different perspective, fingers Salafis.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 05/08/2011 18:27 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Red Cross finds mass grave in Abidjan
[Al Jazeera] A mass grave has been found at a field where children once played football in the Yopougon neighbourhood of Ivory Coast's commercial capital Abidjan, Red Thingy officials say.

Franck Kodjo, one of the officials, said on Wednesday residents in Yopougon had told the aid group that about 30 bodies were buried in the field.

"This land will never be used by youth, will never again be suitable for children's games," he said.

"It is a cemetery in the middle of the neighbourhood."

The grisly find is a reminder of lingering fighting between forces loyal to Alassane Ouattara
...the current president-for-life of Ivory Coast. He actually beat his predecessor in an election before having to eject him from the presidential palazzo....
, the incumbent president, and those of Laurent Gbagbo
... Former President-for-Life of Ivory Coast from 2000 to 2011. Laurent lost to Alassane Ouattara in 2010 but his representtive tore up the results on the teevee and he refused to vacate the presidential palace. French troops assisted the Oattara forces in extricating him from his Fuhrerbunker...
, the deposed president whose refusal to hand over power after losing last year's election nearly plunged the country in a civil war.

The bodies were found as Yopougon, still held by forces loyal to Gbagbo, fell to government troops, according to authorities.

'Still in shock'
Yopougon was "the only area that remained [to be taken] and the entire district is now definitively occupied by us [FRCI troops]," Cherif Ousmane, who was in charge of the operation, told local television on Wednesday.

Militias close to Gbagbo had held the district even after he was nabbed on April 11 with his wife and roughly 100 loyalists following a raid on his home in Abidjan.

Guillaume Soro, the prime minister who doubles as defence minister, said he had seen "streets littered with bodies" when he visited the sprawling district.

"At the militia headquarters we saw an improvised cemetery. I can imagine the slaughter that took place. I'm still under shock after seeing all these dead, all these bodies."

Quattara has promised to try to heal the nation's deep divisions by setting up a South Africa-style truth and reconciliation commission.

He has also launched an investigation into Gbagbo and his inner circle for alleged abuses during the post-election power struggle.

The mass grave was found a day after Gbagbo urged supporters to drop political quarrels and help the country revive its economy.

Nightmare continues
At least 70 bodies have been collected by Red Thingy workers since Tuesday from the nearby streets of Yopougon.

The district was the scene of the last pocket of heavy resistance since Gbagbo, president since 2000, was ousted last month by Ouattara's troops.

While the west African nation, the world's top cocoa grower, is showing early signs of returning to normal since Gbagbo's ouster - with banks reopening and street traffic working again - the nightmare of war continues for some.

"The situation was terrible. There were beturbanned goons who terrorised us," said Stephane Bedjra, who lives with his wife and two children in a part of Yopougon, recently secured by Ivorian FRCI troops.

"They were armed and they did whatever they wanted. We lived like this until the arrival of the FRCI, who chased them from the area."

Automatic gunfire could be heard from the direction of the lagoon, where army commanders said pro-Gbagbo fighters - many of them mercenaries from neighbouring Liberia - had been driven by a days-long sweep to disarm or kill them.

In short supply
Residents said food and water were in short supply after pillaging and heavy fighting
... as opposed to the more usual light or sporadic fighting...
left shops and infrastructure in disarray. In Yopougon, a young girl attempted to drink water from a pipe near homes destroyed by recent kabooms.

"I am crying because my five-year-old daughter who has never left my side has gone to Bangolo [village] to be with my mother, because the situation here is hard," Christelle Gbelli, a Yopougon resident, said.

"I have stayed because we don't have money for transport."

Ouattara has said he expects to restore calm across the country by June, though FRCI commanders said it would be a matter of days before they defeated the remaining pro-Gbagbo fighters in Yopougon.

"The fighting is happening now toward Locodjro," said Sargent Mory Hassan, standing near 13 prisoners, all stripped from the waist up. "But this will be all sorted out within a few days," he said.

Security also remains a concern inland from the Atlantic coast, especially in the west where hundreds have been killed in ethnically driven violence and where gunnies still operate.

This has prevented many of the region's cocoa farmers from returning to their land in the world's top cocoa producer, making up about a third of global supply.
Posted by: Fred || 05/08/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Britain
UK voters reject electoral reform
[Al Jazeera] Voters in the United Kingdom have overwhelmingly rejected a proposed reform to the voting system in an embarrassing blow to the country's Liberal Democrats (Lib Dems).

Results released on Saturday showed nearly 68 per cent of voters had spurned the new system championed by deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, leader of the Lib Dems.

British voters casted their votes two days earlier for an array of polls including a referendum on election voting reform, local council elections and elections to the Scottish parliament and the Welsh and Northern Ireland Assemblies.

But the results indicated a stinging defeat for the Lib Dems in an apparent punishment for their role in a deficit-cutting coalition government.
It sounds more like punishment for pushing this stupid "alternate vote" idea. If it were punishment for being in the government, the Conservatives would have received a stinging defeat as well.
The campaign for Thursday's referendum on voting reform strained the year-old ruling coalition, prompting angry exchanges between Lib Dems, who backed change, and Conservative defenders of the current system.

Heavy losses
Lib Dems have fallen sharply out of favour with voters because of an array of policy reversals since the party formed the coalition in May 2010.

They suffered heavy losses across the country. Leader Clegg said the rejection of voting reform was a serious setback for advocates of reform.

"This is a bitter blow for all those people like me who believe in the need for political reform, but the answer is
clear and the wider job of the government and the Liberal Democrats in government will continue: to repair the economy; to restore a sense of prosperity and jobs and optimism to the country and that's the job we've started and we will continue," Clegg said.

The referendum loss and poor local vote results may spur challenges to Clegg, but no contenders have emerged.

However,
The jounalistic equivalent of the teenager's whatever However...
the outcome points to a rockier future for the government, with analysts predicting a more combative stance from the Lib Dems.

'Clear and resounding answer'
David Cameron
... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ...
, the prime minister, whose Conservative party saw its vote hold up in regional elections across the country, said he believed the coalition administration would survive until 2015 and complete its austerity programme.

"It was always going to be a difficult moment for a coalition when you have two parties in a coalition
campaigning on different sides in referendum, but we've had that debate and in the end the British public are the boss and they have given a clear and resounding answer that settles the question, so now Conservatives and Liberal Democrats must come together in this government and provide strong, decisive long term government," Cameron said.

Meanwhile,
...back at the scene of the crime, Lieutenant Queeg had an idea...
in the Scottish parliamentary elections, the Scottish National Party scored a bumper haul, winning an outright majority in Scotland's assembly - which has limited powers devolved from London - and opening the door for a referendum on secession from the rest of Perfidious Albion.

A fully independent Scotland could change the handling of profits from North Sea oil fields, a crucial tax income
for cash-strapped Perfidious Albion, and may also have implications for the state-owned Royal Bank of Scotland.
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Cameron not to back Lords reform
[Iran Press TV] British Conservatives may backtrack on their pledge to support Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg's plans for creating an elected House of Lords.

Following Lib Dems slump in local council elections across Perfidious Albion and their failure to gain public approval to their key alternative vote (AV) reforms, top Conservative sources revealed Prime Minister David Cameron
... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ...
will not back Clegg's bid to reform the House of Lords despite promising otherwise in the coalition agreement.

The sources said Cameron has "no intention" of rallying Tories' support for Lords reform, The Independent reported.

Clegg's favored changes in the House of Lords could cushion the impact of the AV defeat for Liberal Democrats.

Lib Dems deputy leader Simon Hughes described the Lords reform as a "done deal" on Friday saying, "That was part of the coalition agreement."

But Tories said they are just obliged to "establish a committee" on the reform based on the coalition agreement rather than using government powers to give it a push.

Tory sources said the draft House of Lords Reform Bill, which Clegg is expected to introduce within weeks, will not be given the force of a "Parliament Act" by the prime minister and he will only express his support for a "consensus on reform."

One of the sources said Conservatives are indeed "hoping that Clegg's draft bill is so good that it doesn't need to become an act" while others said Cameron will in "no circumstance" use that power to shore up the reforms.

The government can present the reforms as an act that overrides any decision by the Lords from Labour, Conservative and independent ranks that are most likely to vote down any proposal on an elected House of Lords.

Liberal Democrats also admit that achieving what they seek "may simply not be possible."

"Liberals have been trying to reform the House of Lords since the beginning of the last century and it has huge symbolic importance to our party. But there are very difficult issues still to resolve and it may simply not be possible," a source said.

Clegg is reportedly seeking to push for an upper chamber with 300 members that are 80 percent elected and 20 percent appointed with the former allowed a single 15-year term.

The plans should be examined by a committee of both Houses of parliament before being presented as a bill at the chambers for approval.
Posted by: Fred || 05/08/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Labour, of course, hates the Lords, because many has been the time they were the only thing even slowing down the radical Labour agenda. They are also to a great extent, "high born", something the gutter Labourites bitterly hate.

Though I hope that when William becomes king, one reform that would do all of England good would be to limit Knighthoods to combat military personnel, with a second tier for combat support personnel.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 05/08/2011 9:29 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
UN anti-drugs staff die as plane hits trees in Bolivia
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/08/2011 03:37 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yet another reason to end the war on personal chemical choices.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 05/08/2011 21:42 Comments || Top||


Economy
Dupe entry: US Dept Labor sez Economy adds 13244K jobs; unemployment still at 9%
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/08/2011 02:47 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


US Dept Labor sez Economy adds 13244K jobs; unemployment still at 9%
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/08/2011 02:47 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Who are you gonna believe -- the DOL or your lyin' eyes? Maybe they don't count certain unemployed just like they don't count energy and food inflation as inflation...
Posted by: regular joe || 05/08/2011 13:44 Comments || Top||

#2  With 150 million employed and 1%/year population growth, 125,000 new jobs must be created just to tread water.
Posted by: Zebulon Thranter9685 || 05/08/2011 13:59 Comments || Top||

#3  125,000 new jobs/month
Posted by: Zebulon Thranter9685 || 05/08/2011 14:01 Comments || Top||

#4  The stimulus alone created twelve gazillion jobs - ask anyone (in the Obama administration).
Posted by: CincinnatusChili || 05/08/2011 18:05 Comments || Top||

#5  From what I understand 60,000 were created by MacDonald's... one of the chains exempt from Obamacare.
Posted by: Secret Master || 05/08/2011 23:22 Comments || Top||


Florida bank shut down by regulators
[Iran Press TV] Regulators have shut down Coastal Bank of Coca Beach in Florida, raising the number of US bank closures to 40 in 2011 amid rising concerns over the economic crisis.

The Premier American Bank, National Association in Miami has struck a deal with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to acquire Coastal Bank's two branches, The Miami Herald reported.

The FDIC, appointed by the Office of Thrift Supervision as receiver, has estimated the amount for the acquisition will cost USD 13.4 million.

Coastal Bank held approximately USD 129.4 million in total assets and USD 123.9 million in total deposits before its failure. The two branches will reopen on Monday as branches of Florida Community Bank, a division of Premier American Bank.

This is the fifth bank in Florida to fail this year. Last week, the Cortez Community Bank of Brooksville and First National Bank of Central Florida in Winter Park were closed by regulators and bought by Premier American Bank.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio had his hands full of angry bleached blonde...
The National Credit Union Administration has taken two federal credit unions -- the Hmong American Federal Credit Union of Saint Paul, Minnesota and Valued Members Federal Credit Union of Jackson, Mississippi -- into conservatorship on May 4.

So far in 2011, 40 banks and 11 credit unions have either been closed, acquired or placed into conservatorship.

In 2010,157 banks and 24 credit unions failed, whereas the number was as low as 140 in 2009. The failures come despite the Federal Reserve's two rounds of asset purchases totaling USD 2.3 trillion.

Some reports say more than 10 percent of the United State's 7,760 banks are in financial trouble.
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Europe
EU to halve fossil fuel imports by 2050
[Iran Press TV] The European Union is trying to reduce its overall fossil fuel imports by a half by 2050 under a new strategy presented in Moscow on Tuesday.
Ummm... That's 39 years. That's the length of time from the turn of the century to the invasion of Poland and the start of the Second World War. 39 years ago platform shoes were just coming in among the trendy set. Gas cost 23.9 cents a gallon unless you ran into a price war, when you might get it for 17.9 cents a gallon or less. I tanked up at 13.9 once...
The strategy for the EU to decrease its greenhouse gas emissions to "a mere 20 percent of 1990 levels" by 2050 is set out by the Road Map to a Carbon Neutral Economy, The Moscow Times reported on Friday.
And keep in mind that they're gonna shut down their nuke plants because Europa is so earthquake-prone...
The halving of oil and gas imports would save some 400 billion euros -- about 3 percent of today's GDP -- on its bill for foreign oil and gas, the report claims.

The policy calls for saving 175 billion to 320 billion euros in fuel costs and slashing energy consumption to 70 percent of 2005 levels.

"The EU plans to replace fossil fuel with electricity for transportation and heating," said Alexander Yeremin, an oil and gas analyst.

In a worst-case scenario, Russia could switch from European to Asian oil markets, but fully retain the European market for natural gas thanks to the role it plays in electricity generation, he said.

The presentation comes ahead of a visit to Moscow by Timo Makela, the director of international affairs at the EU environment commission, on May 18-20.

Europe consumes the vast majority of Russia's gas exports and more than half of its oil. Russia supplied 29.7 percent of Europe's crude oil imports (5.86 billion barrels worth some $87 billion) in 2010, according to the EU Energy Commission. It supplied about 30 percent of Europe's gas in 2008.
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#1  Somehow, to me, EU and 2050 don't go together.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/08/2011 1:49 Comments || Top||

#2  "The EU plans to replace fossil fuel with electricity for transportation and heating,
And where will the electricity come from if they shut down the nuke plants? Unicorn farts maybe?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 05/08/2011 2:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Googling this roadmap, I came across this wild exageration, which is quite something give that the warmists deal exclusively in exaggerations.

a rescue roadmap outlining methods and preventative policies to reverse the expedited demise of earths atmosphere

It's true a warmer Earth will lose its atmosphere faster, but we are talking about 100s of millions of years in the future.
Posted by: phil_b || 05/08/2011 4:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Looking at European birth rates, I'd say that's a certainty.
Posted by: Zebulon Thranter9685 || 05/08/2011 14:45 Comments || Top||

#5  # Yea, Ditto. In Norway they want to do away with private vehicles. Tax you whenever you park to shop anywhere. The Biggest Baddest Mistake is the thought that oil is a fossil fuel only;

"Hydrocarbons and nitriles constantly fall from Titan's skies," said Carl Sagan. Titan (the big moon of Saturn) is socked in as a haze of organic solids formed high in its skies slowly fall and accumulate on its surface. Oceans of water are impossible on Titan (it's too cold), but "vast oceans of liquid hydrocarbons are expected."

It's enough to make a Texas oil man drool," exclaimed an article in the "Seattle Times". New images from the Hubble space telescope show that Titan may have lakes of oil as big as all five Great Lakes put together".

In my opinion that is why oil is being found all over the world at this time. In Brazil they have planned to build an underwater city to tap the estimated trillions of barrels of oil to be found there. They think a mass extinction could have occurred in our gulf due to a gigantic methane blowout. We secure methane now from the gulf. Duke energy being one company operating there.
So if methane can be generated then with pressure and heat- oil will be generated. Hence a renewable resource.

Posted by: Dale || 05/08/2011 16:39 Comments || Top||

#6  And where will the electricity come from if they shut down the nuke plants? Unicorn farts maybe?

That. Power plants fueled by rainbows. Positive thoughts. Fluffy bunnies on treadmills. Soylent Green.
Posted by: tu3031 || 05/08/2011 19:55 Comments || Top||

#7  Can we have a power plant fueled by Environmentalists and Greens? We'll scoop them up at protests like they do in Soylent Green and tap into this vast resource for power.


I'd even pay extra if I knew my power came from burning Greens.
Posted by: Silentbrick - Lost Drill Bit Division - Halliburton || 05/08/2011 21:24 Comments || Top||

#8  EU to halve fossil fuel imports economy and freedom by 2050
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Australian 'holy man' sentenced to 15 years for rape during 'prayer sessions'
A self-styled Greek Orthodox "holy man" has been jailed in Australia for 15 years after he was found guilty of tricking two women into having sex with him by claiming it would lift black magic curses placed on their families.

Tony Golossian, 63, was considered to have special spiritual powers, including the ability to talk to angels, by some members of Sydney's Greek community.

But in his trial last year a court heard that he used his respected position in the community to "brainwash" two women, repeatedly raping them during "prayer sessions" over the course of seven years and telling them that if they resisted one of their family members would fall ill or die.

During the rapes, which his co-accused Arthur Psichogios also took part, he would blindfold the women and tell them that they were dreaming.

Despite maintaining his innocence throughout the trial, Golossian, 63, was found guilty of 24 charges relating to rape of the two women in December and was on Friday sentenced to a minimum of 15 years. Psichogios, 41, was jailed for at least 12 years and his wife Frances Psichogios, 38, who was convicted over the drugging and assault of one victim, was sent to prison for five years.

After a highly-charged trial, during which the officer in charge of the case was allegedly attacked by a relative of one of the defendants, riot police were stationed outside the court for the sentencing.
Exploitation and idiocy both are, alas, widespread.
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