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No. It's not compromised.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1206348/Sex-offender-caught--thieves-steal-laptop-awash-child-pornography.html

Not unchecked powers - only in May an English court told the police off for acting illegally by keeping someone under arrest for more than 4 days (the legal limit) without charging them.

Of course, the police complained about the "bizarre" ruling, claiming it would lead to the release of 80,000 criminals (or rather, suspects) including "murderers, rapists and paedophiles" (interestingly, only two of those are criminal) and asked the government to change the law, completely overriding established constitutional principles. Oh, and it has taken 25 years for someone to spot that what they've been doing was illegal.

It took a week for the bill to get through the UK Parliament.

Sources:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13970159
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2009917/Emergency-bail-law-needed-says-Policing-Minister-Nick-Herbert.html
http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2010-11/policedetentionandbail.html

I think that applies only to evidence obtained by the court. Not criminals turning evidence in against other criminals. e.g. Paedophile jailed after burglars with a conscience tip off police about child abuse pictures on stolen laptop ( new window )

The right to travel unmolested by car should, inded, be a civil right.

Driving licenses exist because most people want to travel unmolested by a car ;). And so it is a privilege.

You can still travel unmolested by car without a driving license, as long as someone else does the driving.

FWIW it's still a very easy privilege to get. if you want to kill somebody, you do it with a car: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ex6dHzcgOE
From what I gather the driver was "given a 12 month sentence suspended for two years, 200 hours community service, ordered to pay £500 compensation and banned from driving for three years."
BUT do it sober or else: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1314227/Drink-driving-nurse-sentenced-8-years-killing-grandmother.html

"British consumers will have to pay far more than their U.S. counterparts for Apple's latest must-have gadget, the iPad.
Apple has announced that the starting price in the UK will be £429 for the 16GB model with a wi-fi link to the internet - around 25 per cent more than in America. The equivalent price for the same device there is around £340 .. In an effort to explain the price difference between America and Britain, Apple pointed to the fact that there are different, and higher, taxes in Europe, as well as higher transport and other costs" .. link

It probably wouldn't work for one simple reason: the Monkey's didn't take the picture. This is the Daily Mail, a periodical known for making false statements about their pictures if it wins them circulation. What reason is there to believe that the monkey accidentally took such a nicely framed picture of himself?

I know, I know it's hard to RTFA.
But this time the article features a big image containing all important details:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/07/11/article-2013318-0CF5AE3B00000578-835_468x332.jpg

He really flew 10M miles and currently has left 50M "frequent flyer" reward miles.

Tell that to to her.

You Daily Fail.

Tell that to to her.

The hands-free issue is moot:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2008/10/17/cellphone-handsfree.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2012393/Distracting-hands-free-devices-dangerous-mobile.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
http://www.tgdaily.com/mobility-features/57097-hands-free-calls-could-be-just-as-dangerous-on-the-roads
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2006/jun/30/mobilephones.uknews
http://socialtimes.com/distracted-driving-dangerous-but-no-evidence-hands-free-laws-help_b69790
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/hands-free-cell-phone-usage-equally-dangerous-while-driving/
http://news.yahoo.com/hands-free-cell-phone-usage-equally-dangerous-while-170124007.html
http://www.infoniac.com/offbeat-news/hands-free-phones-more-dangerous-for-drivers-than-alcoholic-drinks.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2012393/Distracting-hands-free-devices-dangerous-mobile.html
http://www.iol.co.za/motoring/industry-news/hands-free-phoning-just-as-dangerous-1.1096622

Seems it was published everywhere except mainstream US media, which strongly indicates that it's true but contrary to corporate interests. I guess more accidents translates to more car sales. Ideally cars should be as safe as possible for the driver and passengers, but difficult to drive (i.e. small windows, confusing/distracting features, controls, and meters), and most importantly more likely to be written off from even minor collisions. Sounds about right. Too bad about the bad wrecks that kill people, but hey, business is business.

The hands-free issue is moot:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2008/10/17/cellphone-handsfree.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2012393/Distracting-hands-free-devices-dangerous-mobile.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
http://www.tgdaily.com/mobility-features/57097-hands-free-calls-could-be-just-as-dangerous-on-the-roads
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2006/jun/30/mobilephones.uknews
http://socialtimes.com/distracted-driving-dangerous-but-no-evidence-hands-free-laws-help_b69790
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/hands-free-cell-phone-usage-equally-dangerous-while-driving/
http://news.yahoo.com/hands-free-cell-phone-usage-equally-dangerous-while-170124007.html
http://www.infoniac.com/offbeat-news/hands-free-phones-more-dangerous-for-drivers-than-alcoholic-drinks.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2012393/Distracting-hands-free-devices-dangerous-mobile.html
http://www.iol.co.za/motoring/industry-news/hands-free-phoning-just-as-dangerous-1.1096622

Seems it was published everywhere except mainstream US media, which strongly indicates that it's true but contrary to corporate interests. I guess more accidents translates to more car sales. Ideally cars should be as safe as possible for the driver and passengers, but difficult to drive (i.e. small windows, confusing/distracting features, controls, and meters), and most importantly more likely to be written off from even minor collisions. Sounds about right. Too bad about the bad wrecks that kill people, but hey, business is business.

And here is some detail on the non-nuclear, coal-fired Israeli power plant mentioned in TFA.

So I guess "Millions of Jellyfish Invade Nuclear Reactor." Not "Reactors."

Amateurs. North Korea is not only phasing our nuclear-generated electricity; they're phasing out electricity altogether! This is great for astronomers in the country, and leaves a much smaller environmental footprint.

I read a story about solar panels only this morning. Apparently the cost saving on your energy bills for the thousands of pounds of outlay is around £70 per year (in the UK). People like him are fraudsters and should be ashamed to show their faces here or anywhere else.

Internships are like poison to a meritocracy based society. Unpaid internships doubly so.

They allow richer parents to use both their money and connections to manoeuvre their children into jobs that have wealth, power or both. This comes at the expense of poorer and middle class children who can not bankroll their children in adulthood or do not move in the right social circles.

A classic example in my country (UK) was a fund raising event for the Conservative party. Internships at top flight financial and legal firms were auctioned off the party donors to raise funds for the party. No, I did not make this up : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1356469/Cash-internships-Tory-backers-pay-2k-time-buy-children-work-experience.html (apologies for linking to the Daily Mail, but credit where it is due, they did break this story).

These sort of actions entrench wealth and power with those who already have them. An internship via connections or unpaid work is a boot in the face of those who can not ride out life on Daddy's coat-tails.

If Google bid Tau they'd own it!

Geeze!

The longest bridge on Earth opens and the lawyers of the West hardly notice. They claim it cost a billion GPB. I doubt our lawyers could have completed the 'environmental impact statement' for under two billion.

Ah, the "dying in the streets" canard. That didn't take long. Yes, we in the US have to step right over the dead bodies. Like this. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2000824/NHS-indignity-Peter-Thompsons-body-ignored-hours-corridor-Edale-House-unit.html/. Oh wait. That was a NHS hospital too. Never mind.

Should he be extradited? Yes. Will he? Probably not. Here's why: -He attempted suicide previously. -His mother is diagnosed with bipolar disorder, which is often hereditary. -He shows signs of multiple illnesses, many of which psychologists are unable to diagnose. -He is 19. -He has severe agoraphobia. And most of all: The defense is that he won't be able to adjust to being extradited, his mother saying, "sending him to America is a death sentence", and seeing as how McKinnon still hasn't been extradited after four years, I see no reason why this will be any different. It's a damn shame. Read this article, and you'll see why this shit won't get what he deserves: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2007094/Ryan-Clearys-mother-reveals-hacker-issued-suicide-threat.html

Some people are selective about the "truths" they report.

You hear every sordid detail about everything nuclear, but not so much about, say, heavy metal contamination from the annual production of hundreds of thousands of tons of coal ash.

Or for example, you hear glowing reports of how green wind energy is, but nothing about the enormous amount of highly toxic waste produced by refining neodymium used in the magnets for the generators.

I dunno. Then we start charging people for saying "hey, the police are trying to bust you" or "hey, there's a speed trap up ahead."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1343959/Driver-flashed-headlights-warn-motorists-speed-trap-fined.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/4569124.stm

see their "socialist health care plans"? I ask because I have and I quite liked it.

I guess you haven't had anything serious yet, or you might have ended up in the news as yet another socialist health care horror story as you can't get drugs due to rationing or just die while you wait months for treatment. Heck, even the NHS director herself could not get treatment and died in her own hospital. In the US you won't get treated if you can't afford it, but when you can afford it, you will get treated. I'll take that over your lousy universal health care any day.

Oh, and once you let the government "take care of you", it immediately decides it has the right to tell you how to live, and if you have some unhealthy habit you will become a criminal. You can keep your socialist health care and I'll keep my freedom to do whatever the heck I want with my body and die when I choose, not you.

First off #7 is just #5. Free health care for all sounds great to me but who is going to pay for it? Obama just put the US in debt by $800,000,000,000. If Obama stopped all the wars that he promised that he would pull out of, including his new one, the resulting savings would take 15 years to pay off that debt. And that is only if we were not paying interest on the bonds. So far the only thing that Obama has made to successfully pull out is Congressman Weiner. So again, where is this money going to come from? You list "Medicaid - which sucks" and "Medicare--which isn't the best by a longshot". What makes you think that Obamacare will be any better? It will be run by the same government that brings you this wonder. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2002793/Alabama-tornado-hit-family-denied-FEMA-grant-repair-home.html What will save this country is a mindset of personal responsibility rather than a mindset of entitlement and victim-hood. And since we are quoting Churchill: The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Sir Winston Churchill

If you think there's no difference between a regulated market and central planning, I invite you live in a Chinese ghost city for a little while.

Assuming arguendo that drone-fired weapons don't constitute "hostilities," what about F-15's? Helicopters and ship-launched Tomahawk cruise missiles? F-16's and EA-18's? (Note: that's the DOD's press release, so it's probably reliable.)

Here's a great graphic breaking down just who is sending what. Breakdown for the US: 12 ships, 153 airplanes, 228 cruise missiles. It doesn't break down by aircraft type, but it's a fair bet they're not all UAVs.

The street you are walking down is privately owned, and the private police at either end make escape for you impossible. You are caught, I get my property back, then the street owner sends you to the private court, where you are severely punished.

Would you really like to enter another jurisdiction who could have its own absurd laws every time you enter a store?

Millions of people do it all the time:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1388279/British-tourist-faces-year-Dubai-jail-calling-prophet-Muhammad-terrorist-heated-row.html

On the private roads which I drive, there is no speed limit, just like the Autobahn in Germany. Speed limits dont make road use safer; yet another old wives take propagated by the State.

At least those paintings of women are women, unlike the Mona Lisa.

Terrorists and foreign intelligence services will also be doing this to use against the United States and its allies, not just journalists. Wikileaks has provided the raw material for data mining to find things the US doesn't even realize about itself, or its allies. There is no surprise that Bradley Manning has been charged with aiding the enemy.

The fallout continues, hopefully it won't be literally.

Al-Qaeda Already Using Wikileaks Material Against Us
Taliban Study WikiLeaks to Hunt Informants
Wikileaks: US will have to reshuffle diplomats following revelations
'They're informants... if they get killed, they deserve it': New book reveals shocking disregard of Julian Assange towards Afghans named in WikiLeaks cables

Since I can anticipate the follow ups:
No, Wikileaks didn't do an adequate job of scrubbing the documents of names at various points which is why they are useful to the Taliban and other groups building death lists.
Yes, I have seen reports of people being killed due to Wikileaks publishing their name, you just have to dig a lot to find them. For some reason it doesn't seem to be a popular news item. Go figure.
Oversight of US diplomacy, military, and intelligence activity is the role of the Congress elected by voters.

Even if nobody was killed, Wikileaks has resulted in a significant disruption to US diplomacy and antiterrorism efforts. (You pull out informants due to their cover being blown and you lose valuable intelligence.)

Poll finds that more Americans oppose WikiLeaks

WASHINGTON — Americans overwhelmingly think that WikiLeaks is doing more harm than good by releasing classified U.S. diplomatic cables, and they want to see the people behind it prosecuted, according to a new McClatchy-Marist Poll.

"Clearly people are very unhappy with it," said Lee Miringoff, the director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., which conducted the national poll.

The survey found that 70 percent of Americans think the leaks are doing more harm than good and want those who publish the secrets to be prosecuted.

Terrorists and foreign intelligence services will also be doing this to use against the United States and its allies, not just journalists. Wikileaks has provided the raw material for data mining to find things the US doesn't even realize about itself, or its allies. There is no surprise that Bradley Manning has been charged with aiding the enemy.

The fallout continues, hopefully it won't be literally.

Al-Qaeda Already Using Wikileaks Material Against Us
Taliban Study WikiLeaks to Hunt Informants
Wikileaks: US will have to reshuffle diplomats following revelations
'They're informants... if they get killed, they deserve it': New book reveals shocking disregard of Julian Assange towards Afghans named in WikiLeaks cables

Since I can anticipate the follow ups:
No, Wikileaks didn't do an adequate job of scrubbing the documents of names at various points which is why they are useful to the Taliban and other groups building death lists.
Yes, I have seen reports of people being killed due to Wikileaks publishing their name, you just have to dig a lot to find them. For some reason it doesn't seem to be a popular news item. Go figure.
Oversight of US diplomacy, military, and intelligence activity is the role of the Congress elected by voters.

Even if nobody was killed, Wikileaks has resulted in a significant disruption to US diplomacy and antiterrorism efforts. (You pull out informants due to their cover being blown and you lose valuable intelligence.)

Poll finds that more Americans oppose WikiLeaks

WASHINGTON — Americans overwhelmingly think that WikiLeaks is doing more harm than good by releasing classified U.S. diplomatic cables, and they want to see the people behind it prosecuted, according to a new McClatchy-Marist Poll.

"Clearly people are very unhappy with it," said Lee Miringoff, the director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., which conducted the national poll.

The survey found that 70 percent of Americans think the leaks are doing more harm than good and want those who publish the secrets to be prosecuted.

I think making the cockpit doors lock in-flight, and having pilots carry sidearms (though are they trained in their use? Probably, but I'm not sure...) makes for rather good defense against most of the damage, even if it's not from the PATRIOT Act. That, and the checkpoints make for too much hassle to blow up a plane, but have shifted the prime target down to the ground, to the checkpoints themselves, where a lot of people queue up.

The SNR could probably be fixed if the "Enhanced Intelligence" really meant enhanced intelligence instead of springing to keywords, disregarding the context. I mean really, how much danger does a 13-year-old kid pose, who's not even making a threat, just posting some thoughts I wouldn't expect from a 13-year-old?

I dunno about Google per se, but Eric "I'm a total douchebag" Schmidt appears besides the word "tool" in every major English dictionary.

He's not actually the CEO anymore, you know.

I think you need recalibration.

Inquiry launched as Dutch euthanasia cases surge by 13% in ONE year

Anti-euthanasia groups say, however, that the sharp increase is probably linked to the collapse of the palliative care system in the Netherlands. Euthanasia is usually carried out by administering a strong sedative to put the patient in a coma, followed by a drug to stop breathing and cause death. . . .
Many Dutch people are growing uneasy about the way in which the law has been applied.
Among them is Dr Els Borst, the former health minister and deputy prime minister who guided the law through the Dutch parliament.
Last December said she regretted that euthanasia was effectively destroying palliative care. Amsterdam, a city with a population of 1.2 million people, is now served by two tiny hospices.
The British campaign group Dignity in Dying - formerly the Voluntary Euthanasia Society - has acknowledged that euthanasia is open to abuse but insists that assisted suicide could still work in practice.

Continent Death - Euthanasia in Europe

Euthanasia has also entered the pediatric wards, where eugenic infanticide has become common even though babies cannot ask to be killed. According to a 1997 study published in the British medical journal The Lancet, approximately 8 percent of all Dutch infant deaths result from lethal injections. The babies deemed killable are often disabled and thus are thought not to have a "livable life." The practice has become so common that 45 percent of neonatologists and 31 percent of pediatricians who responded to Lancet surveys had killed babies.

It gets worse: Repeated studies sponsored by the Dutch government have found that doctors kill approximately 1,000 patients each year who have not asked for euthanasia. This is not only a violation of every guideline, but an act that Dutch law considers murder. Nonvoluntary euthanasia has become so common that it even has a name: "Termination without request or consent."

Despite this carnage, Dutch doctors are very rarely prosecuted for such crimes, and the few that are brought to court are usually exonerated. Moreover, even if a doctor is found guilty, he or she is almost never punished in any meaningful way, nor does the murderer face discipline by the Dutch Medical Society. For example, in 2001, a doctor was convicted of murdering an 84-year-old patient who had not asked to be killed. Prosecutors demanded a nine-month suspended probation (!), yet even this brush — it can’t even be called a slap — on the wrist was rejected by the trial judge who refused to impose any punishment. Not to worry. The appellate court decided to get tough: It imposed a one-week suspended sentence on the doctor for murder.

Even such praising with faint damnation isn’t enough for the Dutch Medical Association. As a result of this and the handful of other non-punished murder convictions of doctors who engaged in termination without request or consent, the organization is lobbying to legalize non-voluntary euthanasia. Along these same lines — and demonstrating that the culture of death recognizes no limits — the day after the Dutch formally legalized euthanasia, the country’s minister of health advocated the provision of suicide pills to the elderly who do not qualify for killing under Dutch law.

Lest we think the Dutch experience is a fluke, let us now turn our attention to Belgium. Only one year ago the Belgians legalized Dutch-style euthanasia under "strict" guidelines. As with the Netherlands, once unfettered, the euthanasia culture quickly began to swallow Belgium whole. Moreover, the slide down the slope has occurred at a greatly accelerated pace. It took decades for the Dutch euthanasia to reach the current mo

Make sure that country is not Canada lest you run a greater risk of mortality from your heart problems. You might as well cross the UK off your list as well.

It's likely that they're trying to protect the genetic purity of their own crops.

When a GM crop is created, it's patented. Natural pollination will contaminate the genetic purity of the natural crop. Eventually, the local farmers won't be able to keep seed for their own crops because they'll all be contaminated by the GM grown nearby. This has happened time and time again. Local farmers are raided and shut down because their crops have been contaminated and they're now infringing on the IP of some bio-tech firm.

Additionally, GMO toxins have been detected in the blood of fetuses, potentially effecting development. The jury is still out on the safety of GMO foods. God has had millions of years to work on this stuff, but we've been at it for only a few years and already a significant amount of commercially available food is GMO. What are the long term consequences? The bio-tech firms don't care what the consequences are...because they're making a buck.

So, for all those calling this "terrorism", you need to take your weenie hat off and man-up. I would liken a GM crop grown nearby to an uncontrolled wildfire. The local farmers who are protesting this are trying to protect their own crops.

This is probably a closer approximation to the Thai arrest in the article. Eg someone conducting otherwise lawful activity on the internet who got nabbed when setting foot in an unenlightened country.

Glorious Revolution?

Yours In Beijing,
Kilgore Trout

P.S.: Newt Gingrich For .............. Town Fool !

I find the idea of Iranian centrifuges spinning out of control and destroying themselves comforting rather than scary. Its a shame teh same hasn't happened to Pakistan.

They've been told in 2009.... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1235310/Men-wake-drink-coffee.html

Yes, it is a fact well known to those of us with tinfoil hats on top of our tinfoil hats that there is no longer a single white male CEO at any US company. It's true! And it's now illegal to vote unless you're a foreigner!! And Obama's 'birth certificat' is a blatant forgery!!! And I'm hoarding gold and guns against the coming Apocalypse as prophesied in the Turner Diaries!!!!

You seem to share a vice common among some Europeans of having difficulty telling friend from foe.

WikiLeaks: fear of offending Muslims allowed extremists into Britain ahead of 7/7 London bombings
University campuses are 'hotbeds of Islamic extremism'
Being too PC led us to shelter terrorists, says ex-minister
Muslim group claims royal wedding is legitimate terror target
Does the BBC view Israel's existence as a legitimate 'grievance'?
Sadly, I've been proved right. Britain IS a centre of terror. Tragically, our rulers can't see the truth

Well, at least someone is being deported:
Afghan Christians to be deported despite death fears

You should probably get out more. Mmm... quite

Well,... do let us know how that whole thing works out. I'm sure you'll be happier with that lot than any Americans. Cheers! (You might want to take that literally ... I understand they aren't too keen on alcohol.)

The essentials of the story didn't change:

Navy SEALs flew to Pakistan in helicopters to Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad where they shot him dead, and one of his wives in the leg after she came between the SEALs and Bin Laden. The SEALs took Bin Laden's body and the US buried it at sea in accordance with Muslim custom. The rest is relatively minor detail.

Then they don't even keep the body around long enough for anyone else to verify it. They just go dump it in the sea? Seriously?

They didn't just dump his body in the sea, they buried it at sea in accordance with Muslim tradtion (though there are disputes among Muslim scholars about when and how it is permitted). Muslim custom requires quick burial. Besides, DNA tests provide all the certainty needed. (How many other 6'4" Muslims that look exactly like Bin Laden are there in Pakistan living in million dollar compounds with vast quantities of communications with Al Qadea and Bin Laden's wives present? That many?)

Why is it so important for a Muslim to buried their dead in a day?

Muslims strive to bury the deceased as soon as possible after death, avoiding the need for embalming or otherwise disturbing the body of the deceased.

Islamic Scholars Split Over Sea Burial for Bin Laden

... Mr. Brennan said that appealing to other countries would have exceeded the time frame that Islamic custom requires, of burial within 24 hours of death.

I don't think there is any serious reason to doubt a quick burial at sea, especially since the US is trying to account for Muslim sensitivities.

They are all pathological liars in my book.

President Obama announced Bin Laden was killed by American forces:
Obama Announces Death of Osama bin Laden

Al Qaeda has announced he is dead:
Text: Al Qaeda statement confirming bin Laden's death

Iran says he is dead:
Iran's intelligence chief says bin Laden died long before the 'alleged raid'

Family members denounce his death:
My father's death was criminal and I may sue the U.S.

Locals protest his death:
Pakistani tribesmen protest

So tell me, are all of these people with multiple and conflicting interests lying about Bin Laden being dead? Is it just to fool you? If so, why?

I do not trust the government to tell the truth on matters this large. While I doubt bin Laden is alive, I doubt the official version of his death even more.

Let's see..... the US Government announces he is dead:

Obama Announces Death of Osama bin Laden

The terrorist organization he headed announces he is dead:

Text: Al Qaeda statement confirming bin Laden's death

The regional troublemaker with a strong intelligence agency and an avowed enemy of the US announces he was dead before the operation:

Iran's intelligence chief says bin Laden died long before the 'alleged raid'

Family members denounce his death:

My father's death was criminal and I may sue the U.S.: Bin Laden's son slams Al Qaeda leader's killing

The locals are protesting his death:

Pakistani tribesmen protest

At this point, I think anyone doubting Bin Laden's death is about ready to star in their own personal Truman Show, and doesn't really need more news or photographs.... maybe a shrink or philosopher. Cogito ergo Bin Laden moritur.

The looney bin is getting crowded. Sanity: step 1, step 2....

i'm not sure personally but i have a feeling that if they focus their interest in providing fresh water rather than other crap

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1094797/Worlds-refrigerated-BEACH-built-luxury-hotel-Dubai.html

just an example.... i'm sure if they refocused their efforts they could solve the problem.. but again its all about priorities.

Environmentalists have a bad name because the industries that are doing all the damage find character assassination easier than actually cleaning up their mess.

Rigggght.... It's all a big conspiracy against environmentalists perpetrated by the big bad corporations. Environmentalists have never done anything to damage their own character

Here's some links for you:
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/osama_dead.php
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1212851/Has-Osama-Bin-Laden-dead-seven-years--U-S-Britain-covering-continue-war-terror.html
http://stevebeckow.com/2011/05/he-shall-not-be-hurt-of-the-second-death-fox-reports-osama-dead-2001/

Here's some links from many years ago:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/1366508/US-casts-doubt-on-bin-Ladens-latest-message.html

According to this one, the US thinks he's already dead. Note the date.
http://edition.cnn.com/2002/US/02/01/gen.bergen.cnna/index.html

As for official sources, do you believe the Saddam had WMD, and that he was in league with Al Qaeda as the government claimed in 2001? If not, then you're a hypocrite.

A friend linked me to this article last night.

The article is 2 years old, but seems to fit with some of the strange nuances of the events we've seen over the last few days. It claims Osama Bin Laden died in 2001 due to liver failure. An interesting read, and a lot more believable than a lot of the other conspiracy theories going around regarding 9/11 and related events.

Some of the points they bring up are:
- Osama Bin Laden while applauding the 9/11 attacks, claimed he was not involved in them at all. Until 'after' this article claimed he died, then the USA received the 'video tapes' claiming responsibility.
- Experts have claimed there's differences in the Osama's talking in the tapes, and the real one. Such as wearing a ring (which apparently goes against Wahhabi tradition), facial structure differences, language, writing with his non-preferred hand, etc.

Additionally in the cockpit there is/ used to be a button labeled CVR Erase which after pulling up to the gate pilots would press because they didn't want chats about their g/f's getting out to their wives.

Or in some cases chatting TO their girlfriends...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1180864/Chilling-recordings-reveal-moments-doomed-Buffalo-flight-killed-50.html

Forget about Detroit, the Chinese built entire cities that nobody uses:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1339536/Ghost-towns-China-Satellite-images-cities-lying-completely-deserted.html

How convenient to ignore the dark underbelly of geothermal.. apocalyptic indeed.. you'll never see a coal plant do that.. This is what happens when you hand it over to BP.

Frankly, the idea of companies being "friends" is a bit weird

It's very weird indeed

hummm: I read too much summeries... you might say that number is not entirely correct. However I can not edit my previous post.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1372787/Japan-Fukushima-nuclear-plant-months-control-2-deaths-confirmed.html

But after closer reading their death may have been originated in the tjunami. I thought those 2 with radion burns died.

On the other hand: it is almost sure some of the daily staff at plant 1 2 and 3 got too high levels of radiation:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3504160/Fukushima-50-deaths-imminent.html