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Gunmen attack U.S. diplomatic vehicle in Mexico
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Europe's quixotic plan to "clean" the Internet of terrorists
CleanIT developing takedown guidelines for "illegal" speech on EU sites
According to the article, this will cost a great deal of European money and do not much good.

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#1  According to the article, this will cost a great deal of European money and do not much good

It's the thought than counts....
Posted by: Pappy || 08/24/2012 8:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Once you start monitoring for one thing, you might as well monitor everything...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/24/2012 9:45 Comments || Top||

#3  According to the article, this will cost a great deal of European money and do not much good

Welcome to the European Commission
Posted by: European Conservative || 08/24/2012 14:57 Comments || Top||

#4  They can't even hold the EU together with money from across the globe what makes them think they can shut down the internet people would wake up then and all the robots would be jobless even in America!
Posted by: Slolugum Gray3209 || 08/24/2012 18:07 Comments || Top||

#5  ION NOT NECESSARILY UNRELATED ...

* DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > [Sidney Morning Herald]LEADERS UNVEIL PLAN TO GIVE EU BUDGET CONTROL, i.e. "FINAL SAY" oer the national budgets of any each + all EU Member-States. DITTO SUPERVISION [EU-wide?] OVER THE ENTIRE BANKING INDUSTRY.

"Banking industry" > read, TO START WITH.

OTHER INDUSTRIES TO FOLLOW???

and

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > NORWAY: MUSLIM CLERIC CALLS FOR BEHEADING THOSE WHO FAIL TO FAST IN RAMADAN.

ARTIC = would also like to set up an Islamic School for pupils in Norway's capital city of OSLO, i.e. the same OSLO that the Radical Group Ansar-al-Sunna demands be given to Muslims as part of a breakway Muslim Nation.

* SAME > [Professor-Historian Norman Davies] UK HAS LOST ITS IDENTITY. UK = Great Britain at risk of "DISSOLVING/BREAKING UP" due to weak Govt. policies on immigration + immigration-led Nanny-Welfare State which may induce Scots + Welsh to leave the Britannic union.

Among other, IIUC WASHINGTON DC = LONDON = BIG GOVTS WID NO $$$ OR NOT ENUFF FOR ITS OBLIGATIONS.

* DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > UK BLOCKS CHINESE [tourism] VISA PLAN AMID FEAR OF RISE OF ORGANIZED CRIME IN COUNTRY, as well as fear of new flood of Chinese-Asian +Illegal Migrants.

OTOH ARTIC = denotes that Britain may be losing out on significant revenues from the tourist trade as only 147,000 Chinese visited the country last year, compared wid 1.2Milyuhn whom visited France for the same period.

GRAFT-VS-PUBLIC/ECON-REVENUES.

The US has similar fears as per a Chinese tourist waiver program for GUAM + CNMI, at least until after the US MISSLE SHIELD IN EAST ASIA IS WELL-ESTABLISHED???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 08/24/2012 22:55 Comments || Top||


Poison probe: Swiss lab awaits Suha Arafat’s OK
GENEVA: A Swiss radiation lab is awaiting a decision from Yasser Arafat’s widow on whether it should conduct tests on the remains of the former Palestinian president to see if he was poisoned, its spokesman said.
Still won't help with finding the Krugerrands, Suha...
The possible probe, which has already been requested by the Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas, comes after a media investigation found elevated levels of the radioactive substance polonium on some of Arafat’s belongings, suggesting he could have been poisoned.

“We have shown our interest as long as the independence, credibility and transparency in our involvement is guaranteed,” said Darcy Christen, a spokesman for Lausanne University Hospital’s radiology lab, was quoted as saying in AFP report.
Independence, credibility and transparency aren't the three words I'd use around any member of the Arafat clan...
Arafat’s widow, Suha Arafat, and their daughter, on July 31 filed a lawsuit suit in France over the radioactive poisoning claims. They lodged the complaint for murder against persons unknown in France because Arafat died at a military hospital near Paris in 2004.

Because a criminal complaint had been filed, Christen said the lab was waiting for Suha Arafat’s approval before it decided on its involvement. The lab is one of several specialists consulted by the Al-Jazeera news channel, which commissioned an analysis of Arafat’s personal effects, including clothing he wore in the days before he died age 75.

Suha Arafat has already said she would seek an exhumation to allow specialists to take additional samples for testing, and the Palestinian leadership has said it would be willing to allow exhumation if Arafat’s family agreed.
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#1  Will the tests show if he was 'poisoned' with the AIDS virus? What are the chances someone 'salted' the corpse with polonium? Would the planter of poponium get a Pulitzer Prize for his/her work?
Posted by: Bobby || 08/24/2012 5:55 Comments || Top||

#2  +1 for the Miss Piggy photo.
Posted by: American Delight || 08/24/2012 6:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Miss piggy, eh? For a minute, I was thinking Sura was looking pretty good as a blond.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/24/2012 19:15 Comments || Top||


Moldova: Suspect held in Merkel motorcade attack
A lone wolf chucking a bomb at a Austrian archduke German chancellor is not yet WoT related...
CHISINAU, Moldova: Police in Moldova have detained a 23-year-old man suspected of lobbing an incendiary device toward the motorcade of visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The Interior Ministry said Thursday the object flew over the car of Prime Minister Vlad Filat, who was returning to Chisinau after a trip with Merkel to the country’s famous Cricova wine cellars. No one was injured in Wednesday’s incident. Authorities have not specified what the device was, but said it did not explode despite being on fire.

Merkel was in a bullet-proof limousine and security was tight during the trip.

Merkel, the first German chancellor to visit the country of 4.1 million, expressed support for reforms there.

Moldova’s government is increasingly aligning itself with the European Union, but Russia still retains influence in the ex-Soviet republic.
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  Gunmen attack U.S. diplomatic vehicle in Mexico
Thu 2012-08-23
  115 Dead in Syria as Troops Unleash Deadly Damascus Assault
Wed 2012-08-22
  Deputy PM Says Syria 'Ready to Discuss' Assad Departure
Tue 2012-08-21
  US drones kill 10 militants in Pakistan
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  Suicide bomber kills six policemen at funeral in Ingushetia
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  Algeria’s Brahimi agrees to be Syria mediator
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