A 21-year-old man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Clarkston, Washington, for writing that he intended to rob a bank, ordering bomb-making materials under the name "Timothy McVeigh", and one count of making a destructive device.
The charge was leveled after he seriously injured himself while setting off a bomb on April 18th. There was no mention of who provided bomb making materials to a person named "Timothy McVeigh".
"federal investigators probed Brice further after learning he posted videos of suicide bomb explosions on YouTube under the name StrengthofAllah.
In February, Brice wrote on YouTube that he found an FBI or ATF tracking device on his vehicle and that the FBI had singled him out in their investigation into the explosive device left along the planned route of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Unity march in Spokane on Jan. 17, according to the warrants.
The only suspect in that case, Kevin W. Harpham, was arrested near Addy, Wash., on March 9 and remains in jail.
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Investigators believe Joseph Jeffrey Brice, 21, posted comments advocating suicide bombings on YouTube and discussed through email plans to rob a bank in Lewiston, Idaho after planting bombs near a school to district police.
[Emirates 24/7] When a Bangladeshi man involved in sorcery told an ageing Saudi about the presence of a large gold treasure at his house and that he can find it for him in return for some money, the Saudi agreed. But the old man just wanted an evidence.
The Bangladeshi then went to the Saudi house, told the man to sit on his chair and close his eyes. With a little incense and some fake psalms, the Bangladeshi then pulled a gold coin from under the bed, where he had skillfully concealed it.
He told the Saudi man his guess is that the treasure is about SRone million($270,000) and that he can dig it out for him if he gives him SR190,000($51,000). The Saudi man instantly accepted the deal.
"The old man's nephew learned about the scam and phoned the police...they tossed in the slammer the Bangladeshi sorcerer and are searching for one accomplice," Sabq newspaper said on Thursday.
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[Straits Times] A US-BASED Christian group erupted into the streets of Manila earlier this week to preach that the end of the world is fast approaching - on May 21 at sunset, to be precise. That does it! I'm leaving!
Volunteers from the religious group Family Radio, a Christian radio network in the United States, donned neon-coloured t-shirts and walked along Manila's main thoroughfares, handing out pamphlets to passers-by with warnings of the impending Judgement Day.
The designation of May 21 came from Family Radio president Harold Camping, who predicted that date through a series of mathematical calculations and the unravelling of codes behind the Bible story of the great flood.
But few people in this majority Catholic country appeared to be paying much attention to the warnings. 'It might really happen since there's a lot of sin in the world. It will happen, but not in the way they were predicting,'said bus inspector Rico Almasan. 'Judgement Day can't happen on May 21.' "I'm playing pinochle that evening!"
Gerardo Lanuza, a professor at the University of the Philippines specialising in the Sociology of Religion, said that Judgement Day groups had increased in recent years due to the unstable political and economic climate around the world.
'They want to offer people some kind of security, a type of security amidst an insecure world. It's like okay, the end of the world is coming, what do we do?' he said.
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Whatever happened to the 2012 prophecy? Can't these loony groups get together and make up their minds?
I want a refund!
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"donned neon-coloured t-shirts and walked along Manila's main thoroughfares, handing out pamphlets to passers-by with warnings of the impending Judgement Day."
That strategy might backfire. Tomorrow all the bars will send out girls in skimpy clothes to entice passers-by: "Spend your money before May 21!"
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Good one, EC. ;-p
I'm reminded of an incident that actually happened in the late 1960's, when I was still in college. It was during the stupid fad of "California's going to break off and fall into the ocean."
A small church group in southern California sold their houses and businesses and moved to the lower midwest (maybe Arkansas?) to escape the impending California-destroying earthquake. No sooner were they settled than there was a earthquake - in the place where they'd moved to.
I have a very low opinion of doomsday predictions, especially from religious groups. They should read their Bibles more - particularly the part that says, "Nobody knows the day nor the hour."
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Predictions are notoriously difficult, especially those concerning the future...
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M'Lady and I say, "Fooey!" to their predictions. We are playing at and Open Mic in Victoria, BC that Saturday night.
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The end of the world and I'll be dressed as a smurf at an 80s weekend.
[Al Jazeera] Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye has returned home a day after he was barred from boarding a flight from Kenya, and hours before president Yoweri Museveni was sworn into his fourth term.
Massive crowds welcomed Besigye, lining the road from the airport to Kampala, until police dispersed thousands.
Reporting from Kampala, Al Jizz's Malcolm Webb said, "the crowd was dispersed by police and soldiers. they fired tear gas and water canons and chased people away with sticks".
Soon after, however, Besigye's supporters regrouped and continued a march toward the capital.
Already in Kampala, leaders of Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya, Zim-bob-we, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia and South Sudan showed up for Museveni's inauguration.
This is Museveni fourth swearing in as Uganda's president, after promising in 2001 to retire from politics.
Barred from entry
Besigye was barred from boarding his flight from Kenya on Wednesday.
His party said Kenya Airways was told by Ugandan state security "that if Besigye was on board they would not be given landing rights".
Kenya Airways confirmed that version of events, and agencies reported that journalists at the Ugandan airport were forcibly ejected by airport security and police.
But Ugandan minister of information Kabakumba Matsiko told parliament later on Wednesday that the government did not block Besigye's return. He said former Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi was on the plane and did not want Besigye on it.
The former president was travelling to Uganda for Thursday's presidential inauguration of Yoweri Museveni.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Esquimeau village our hero was receiving a quick lesson in aeronautics:... Kenyan parliament member Charles Kilonzo accused his own government of colluding with Museveni to frustrate Besigye, saying that Kenya was working with Museveni to fight the opposition in Uganda.
But Kenyan government front man Alfred Mutua denied the government's involvement, saying that Besigye had missed his flight and that he had been booked on a later flight.
"Besigye is free to travel within Kenya or travel from Kenya at any time or day of his choice,'' Mutua said. "He is free to take any flight of his choice. The government of Kenya is not involved in his travel plans.''
Elections challenged
Besigye pointed out the hypocrisy of his being barred from his own country, saying that it is unconstitutional.
"Every Ugandan has the right all the time to return to Uganda. So it's a contradiction that he [Museveni] wants to swear by that constitution tomorrow which he is violating today,'' Besigye said on Wednesday.
According to official results of last February's election, Besigye, 55, won 26 per cent of the vote, while Museveni, 62, took 68 per cent, but Besigye's Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) says the results were falsified, and that both candidates received just under 50 percent of the vote, an outcome that
would have required a run-off.
Museveni has accused the opposition of trying to spread chaos in response to its loss in the election, saying on Tuesday that he planned to introduce constitutional amendments that would see bail prohibited for
certain charges, including rioting and economic sabotage.
Besigye and other opposition politicians have been released on bail after recent protest-related arrests.
He had been in Kenya seeking treatment for injuries he suffered from a series of demonstrations against rising food and fuel prices, which left at least five people dead.
He was first taken to hospital in Kampala at the end of April after Ugandan police smashed the windows of his car and sprayed him with tear gas in an incident caught on camera. He was then transferred to a Nairobi hospital.
Besigye told Al Jizz at the time that he remained committed to non-violent protest.
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[The Nation (Nairobi)] Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni was sworn in for a fourth term Thursday as his rival Kizza Besigye returned home to a tumultuous welcome following treatment in Kenya after a police beating.
The 66-year-old Museveni, who has been in power since 1986, took the oath of office before a crowd of thousands of supporters and the leaders of a host of African countries including Kenya, Tanzania and Zim-bob-we.
"I, Yoweri Museveni, swear in the name of all-mighty God that I will be faithful, swear allegiance to the people and to the Republic of Uganda and that I will preserve and protect the Constitution, so help me God," he said.
His oath, taken at a ceremony at an airstrip in central Kampala, was followed by a gun salute.
Thousands also turned out to welcome home opposition leader Besigye, Museveni's strongest challenger in the February 18 elections which the incumbent won comfortably but opposition groups said was fraudulent.
Besigye, who has lost elections to Museveni three times in a row, flew in from neighbouring Kenya where he spent several days for treatment after being hurt by police during an anti-government protest last month.
"I am happy that even when I was not around the defiance campaign continued," he told a handful of journalists on his arrival at the airport, which he left in a convoy under police escort.
The convoy advanced at walking pace followed by supporters on cycle of violences, while others lined the road in their thousands, cheering and waving greenery.
The Forum for Democratic Change party leader, wearing a blue shirt and with his arm in a sling following a gunshot wound to the finger, waved at the crowd who danced to loud music as his convoy crawled forward.
One supporter carried a placard reading: "Besigye must be sworn in as president today."
At one point, military police forced all cycle of violence taxis heading towards the airport to turn around and fired tear gas at a crowd of supporters.
Party officials said Besigye would stop off to address supporters along the way into the capital. He has vowed to continue anti-government protests despite a police crackdown which has seen at least nine people rubbed out by security forces.
The veteran opposition leader last month embarked on a series of "walk to work" protests against soaring food and fuel prices which the opposition blames on the government.
Besigye, 55, was attacked by police in one such demonstration on April 28. Police smashed the windows of his car, sprayed him with tear gas and incarcerated him for the fourth time in a month for participating in demonstrations.
He went to neighbouring Kenya the following day.
Besigye won 26 percent of the vote in February's election, the biggest challenge yet to Museveni, who has ruled the east African country since 1986.
Besigye's party challenged the official results, which gave 68 percent of the vote to Museveni, alleging widespread fraud.
Opposition leaders, including Besigye himself, have been released on bail after they were incarcerated in recent protests.
But Museveni, a former guerrilla leader, told news hounds Tuesday that he planned to introduce constitutional amendments that would see bail prohibited for certain charges, including rioting and economic sabotage.
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KUWAIT CITY, the concerned authorities in the Ministry of Interior have reportedly rejected a request by the friends/relatives of a Pakistani man to take the remains of the man to Pakistan for burial, reports Al- Watan Arabic daily.
According to reliable sources the man was being treated at the Mubarak Al-Kabir Hospital and after his death some people went to the concerned authorities seeking permission to take the body 'home' for burial. Their request was denied because there was a travel ban on the person and he was wanted by law in many cases.
Consequences. Next time don't be wanted by the law when dying.
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Ship him to one of the places where "he was wanted by law." Maybe they'll send him on to Pak (especially if his family pays for it) once they're sure he's dead.
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Exhume him.
Then hang him.
Then ship the body home.
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in appropriate-sized packages: I'm thinking 5 lbs at a time.
Remember: "If it it fits, it ships". Wouldn't want to incur those "oversized" or "odd shaped" surcharges, right?
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Workers will erect a steel framework and place a giant polyester tent-like cover around the reactor building. Similar covers will be placed around units No. 3 and 4. The work is expected to be completed by the end of the year. Why don't you invite Gadaffy over for a week-long visit when you those things into place. I hear he loves tents.
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Looks like TEPCO FUKUSHIMA #1's partial meltdown is more serious than thought, wid high prob it will be a major or decisive "game-changer" as per pre-calculated = current Fukushima recovery schemas.
* TOPIX > RAD REPORT:[A Person is] DEAD IN 4-5 HOURS DUE TO RADIATION LEVELS AT FUKUSHIMA SITE WHERE CONTAINMENT VESSEL STILL LEAK.
* SAME > RAD REPORT: FUKUSHIMA GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION WORST IN NUCLEAR HISTORY.
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RENSE > [Guardian.UK] TSUNAMI FLIPPED JAPAN FROM [being a] BIG AID DONOR TO RECIPIENT.
Yeeeep, + wid RISING CHINA still wanting its desired "SOLE" CHIN-CONTROLLED/DOMINATED "WARM-WATER PORTS" VEE THE FIRST-ISLAND CHAIN FOR THE PLA, INTERNAT TRADE [North, East China Seas from Philippines north to Taiwan + Okinawa-Japan].
Starving North Korea, Chinese-desired Regional Ports, Radiation-led major Environ Destruction?, + Global Warming-induced LAND-SEA CHANGES.
[Asia One] The Greek unemployment rate rose to 15.9 percent in February, official data showed on Thursday the day after a strike and demonstrations against tough measures to reduce the national debt.
Unemployment has been rising since Greece was rescued by the European Union and International Monetary Fund a year ago.
In December 2010, the unemployment rate was 14.8 percent and in January this year 15.1 percent.
In February last year the rate was 12.1 percent.
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To put it another way...
The government was disguising the REAL rate of unemployment by borrowing money to "employ" Greeks in non-jobs.
[Iran Press TV] A group of prominent Catholic scholars and theologians is criticizing U.S. House Speaker John A. Boehner for being "anti-life" because they say his policies hurt the poor and, therefore, violate the basic teachings of the Catholic Church.
The usual idiots who firmly believe that hewing to Progressive politics is the only proper basis for being a good Catholic. Similar idiots loudly proclaim the same about being a good Jew or being a good Christian. I haven't noticed the same in Muslim circles, but perhaps I haven't looked in the right places.
Three days before House Speaker John A. Boehner is scheduled to deliver the commencement address at Catholic University, dozens of faculty at Catholic colleges - including many from the university - have written to the Catholic speaker, criticizing him for having a record "among the worst in Congress'' on protecting the poor.
The letter accuses Boehner of being the "shepherd" of the Republican House 2012 budget proposal which "guts long-established protections for the most vulnerable members of society."
The scholars said the House Republicans' fiscal 2012 budget, which passed with no Democratic support in April, was "particularly cruel" to pregnant women and kiddies by slashing funds for maternal and child-health programs.
The professors went on to criticize Boehner for his support of cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and the Women Infants and Children nutrition program specifically, while backing $3 trillion worth of tax cuts for the wealthy.
House Republicans earlier this year approved a budget for the 2012 federal spending year that begins Oct. 1. It not only includes deep cuts in social programs, but also would transform Medicaid, a federal-state program that covers health costs for the poor, into a block grant for the states, giving them broad authority to design their own programs.
Boehner was raised a Catholic in Ohio; the signers of the letter did not ask him to forgo giving the address or demand that Catholic University withdraw its invitation.
The sharply worded letter is one of the most-intense attacks on Boehner for his effort to slash federal budgets to reduce the deficit.
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Yes, Father Berrigan Catholics, who never met a Commie they didn't like.
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Any guess what the group of prominent Catholic scholars and theologians think about this position that effects 'the poor'? /rhet question
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There's nothing to prevent these left leaning Catholic theologians and scholars from doing something for the poor. Quit b!tching about Boehner and do something about the poor yourselves; in other words put your money where your pie hole is.
Tom Edwards, the county attorney in rural Motley County east of Lubbock, said on Friday that the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives was responsible on Tuesday for sparking a fire that consumed 150 acres.
"You can quote me on it: That bunch has a real corner on stupid," Edwards told Reuters.
Tom Crowley, a spokesman with the federal agency, said bureau officials were assisting four local bomb squads -- at their request -- to destroy some explosives. Firefighters were on hand, he said. The wind picked up, but the explosives were too dangerous to move, so the officials went ahead and destroyed the explosives.
"Unfortunately, a fragment ignited some grass," Crowley said. "As far as the community, we're working with them to let them know how to go about making a claim with the government."
Texas Governor Rick Perry has publicly criticized the Federal Emergency Management Agency for declining the state's request for a major disaster declaration for wildfires that have scorched some 2.5 million acres since November.
FEMA has said it has awarded fire management grants to Texas but that the agency determined there was not a need for additional support.
"We've got the federal government that has refused to provide assistance to the state on the request of Governor Perry because of all our statewide fires, and then in waltzes federal agents and they start a fire," Edwards said.
"We had high winds, we're under a burn ban because of extensive prairie fires, brush fires, and in they rolled with the idea of blowing up things."
The family of Frankie Girard is claiming that their son's civil rights were violated after a teacher allegedly told him that hanging his picture of the American flag would offend another student.
"He was denied hanging the flag up. And, he asked if he could just even hang it on his desk, and he was told no. He could take the picture that he drew and take it home and be proud of it there, Girard said. I guess it's not OK to offend "one of his muslim classmates", but it is OK to offend Americans.
So where do Americans fit in here in America? Where should Americans go so they can do simple things like publicly display a flag, sing their national anthem, etc.?
Why should I be pressured in this way? My children? I don't give a flying fuc& about anybody who is offended by an American flag when flown on American soil. If the sight is so bad, they should just go back to the Utopia from which they came.
This teacher doesn't have the common sense that God gave a leech. And anyone who feels they even have to add to the controversy by slowing down to think about this is part of the problem.
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Maybe this teacher should teach in some other country of his/her choice. We will see how well he/she appreciates that country where some dictator's picture is required on the wall as well as the flag of the country.
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Besoeker---Pretty good link! Reminds me of a story. A company of the 1st MarDiv found an opening and became the first to enter Shuri Castle in the battle for Okinawa. Buckner of the 10th army wanted someone in the Army to plant the American flag, but a Marine had a Confederate battle flag in his helmet, so the stars and bars was the first non-Japanese flag to fly from Shuri Castle (at least for a while).
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A new Marist College poll shows that 36% of New Yorkers under the age of 30 are planning to leave New York within the next five years - and more than a quarter of all adults are planning to bolt the Empire State.
The New York City suburbs, with their high property values and taxes, are leading the exodus, the poll found.
Of those preparing to leave, 62% cite economic reasons like cost of living, taxes - and a lack of jobs.
"A lot of people are questioning the affordability of the state," said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion. Oy ve. Just wait until New York revokes the Schengen plan and closes their border with Joisey...
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Yeah, right. People have been bailing out of New York for as long as I can remember and that's a long, long time. Yet somehow it remains one of the most populous states in the union with one of the biggest cities in the world. You can hear those New York accents all over the country but especially in southern California. High taxes, high property values, discouraging business climate. Blah, blah, blah. Speaking of California, I keep hearing about how everybody is leaving this state. And yet to me it seems just as crowded as ever. So go away already. Who needs you?
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Regarding California EU6305, you might want to look a bit closer at the demographics of who is leaving and who is arriving, especially their economic, educational and cultural orientation. Those who are being counted upon to carry the freight for the other half are at the fed-up stage as they think about leaving.
In todays' Sacramento Bee the new legislation banning the seizure of autos when the driver has no license or insurance (illegals), authorizing in state tuition for undocumented students (illegals), proposing yet again state licenses for undocumented drivers (illegals), making city elected officals virtually unable to declare bankruptcy because of unionized public-sector worker contracts, and now card check unionization for agricultural workers. The US Chamber study of CEOs found CA 50th of the states for its business/ta/regulatory climate
Anyone who cannot see the end-state this leads to is not paying attention. So yes, the state remains crowded, but the future looms crowded, broke and very diminished quality of life. At some point, even the perfect climate can't balance that out anymore.
KOLKATA: The Trinamool Congress on Friday headed for a historic win in West Bengal, bringing down the curtain on the 34-year uninterrupted rule of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) led Left Front.
Hurrah!
The Left Front - the longest serving Communist-led government in a democratic set-up headed for a rout.
West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee tendered his resignation to Government MK Narayanan at 1.15pm on Friday. He lost his seat and is only the second chief minister in Bengal's history to lose the assembly seat. Prafulla Sen, the third chief minister of Bengal, was the first to lose.
As the state was poised to get its first woman chief minister in Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee after about 64 years after independence, the defeat of the Left Front spanned almost the entire geographical map of West Bengal.
Its candidates were losing even in erstwhile red citadels like Burdwan, Bankura and Purulia districts and in seats where the coalition had never been defeated since coming to power in 1977.
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ION WAFF > {StategyPage] THE AIR WAR OVER PACIFIC ISLANDS. Air-to-Air interceptions
Japan-vs-Russia oer South Kuriles, Japan-vs-China oer Senkakus.
* CHINESE MIL FORUM > ONCE AGAIN THE US IRRITATES CHINA TO NO END | CHINA, US TO GRAPPLE WID MILITARY DISTRUST ON PLA VISIT. US-China Relationship still out of balance.
* SAME > TAIWAN'S LEADER MA PRESSES FOR US JETS, SUBS. Older F-16 upgrades + new advanced C, D-models, + diesel-electric Submarines.
Lest we fergit, INDIAN PERTS = China has a long history whereby, once it finally formally gets what it specifically wants e.g. NEW TERRITORY(S), IT "POLITELY" ASKS FOR MORE [+ more again after] TO SECURE THOSE WHICH IT NEWLY ACQUIRED, ALA CREEPING = "SOFT POWER/IMPERIALISM"???
[Straits Times] MALAYSIAN premier Najib Razak on Thursday met with church leaders in a bid to ease religious tensions stirred by a report that minority Christians wanted to replace Islam as the official religion.
Church leaders have angrily denounced the report which ran in the government-linked newspaper Utusan Malaysia on Saturday, describing it as 'baseless and highly irresponsible'.
Council of Churches of Malaysia president, Bishop Thomas Tsen, said the meeting with Najib helped defuse tensions. 'We had a very good session and good exchange,' Bishop Tsen told AFP. 'It was a very good start.'
Utusan Malaysia's front-page story headlined 'Christianity, official religion?' reported allegations by bloggers that church leaders had prayed during a meeting attended by opposition leaders for a Christian prime minister and for Christianity to become the official religion.
Mr Najib also said he was pleased with the meeting and that church leaders had reassured him they will work towards harmony and respect the position of Islam.
'I am glad to inform that Christian leaders have given two very important and meaningful undertakings,' he was quoted as saying by the official Bernama news agency.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Emirates 24/7] When a Bangladeshi man involved in sorcery told an ageing Saudi about the presence of a large gold treasure at his house and that he can find it for him in return for some money, the Saudi agreed. But the old man just wanted an evidence.
cycle of violence
The family of Frankie Girard is claiming that their son's civil rights were violated after a teacher allegedly told him that hanging his picture of the American flag would offend another student.
