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Britons caught in al-Qaeda
Algeria oil plant siege
Telegraph [UK], by Damien McElroy*
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Posted By:Attercliffe, 1/16/2013 8:11:01 PM
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| Several British workers are at the centre of a terrorist hostage crisis at a BP gas plant in Algeria after al-Qaeda fighters attacked the complex in apparent retaliation for the French intervention in Mali. At least one British worker was said to have been killed in the early morning assault at the Saharan facility. Several others were taken captive along with dozens of Norwegian, American, Japanese and French workers. The Islamists claimed to be holding 41 foreigners hostage, with reports suggesting that another 150 Algerian workers had been prevented from leaving the plant, which is about 60 miles from the
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Comments:
*with Alex Spillius and Henry Samuel
This can´t be true. Didn´t Obama do away with the risk from al-Qaeda? Anyway, it´s too much of a coincidence to have happened on the day Obama announces his plans to start taking guns from Americans. /s
But seriously, folks, the T has live reports on the situation (updated every 90 seconds) at
http://tinyurl.com/a6nn56a
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Mike PHX, 1/16/2013 8:26:00 PM (No. 9121155)
It must suck...being British...obviously weak...that´s what we are, you know...
Yes, construct that chain...please do so....also know that it will be broken in Britain.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
noddy, 1/16/2013 8:36:44 PM (No. 9121168)
I don´t know why these Middle Eastern countries send their young people to universities in the United States. They learn a hell of a lot faster over there than we do here. Benghazi showed the terrorists that our leaders are all bark and no bite. Zip, zero, nada, bite. America, Britain, France expect more of the same. I feel so ashamed, especially when I look back and see how Reagan and George W responded to our people being attacked. If Obama were a true American he would hang his head in shame.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bighambone, 1/16/2013 10:31:11 PM (No. 9121310)
Since the terrorists have now murdered a British person it is time for the British to send a commando unit like the old time Long Range Desert Group to that region and take out the terrorists, 800 miles of desert was nothing to the Long Range Desert Group when they operated in North Africa from 1940 to 1943 while using the technology of that age.
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Daily Mail [UK], by Jill Reilly
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/12/2013 6:16:46 AM
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His birth was famously announced when the Prime Minster proudly stood on the steps of 10 Downing Street holding him in her arms and declared ´We have become a grandmother.´ And with politics running in the family blood, Michael Thatcher, 24, once hailed a rising American football star, now looks set to follow his grandmother´s career path. The news of Baroness Thatcher´s death this week is said to have been devastating for Michael and his sister Amanda, 19. Although they now live in America following the divorce of their father Sir Mark Thatcher and his first wife Diane Beckett
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Play Margaret Thatcher death song,
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Telegraph [UK], by Hayley Dixon
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/12/2013 5:58:59 AM
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The anti-Thatcher anthem Ding Dong the Witch is Dead has seen a surge in popularity since Baroness Thatcher’s death and looks set to retain a top slot when the Official Chart Show airs on Sunday.[Snip] But the move has found support in some unlikely corners as UKIP leader Nigel Farage and Tory MP Philip Davies, who have both paid glowing tribute to the former leader, said broadcasting the song was the right thing to do. Mr Farage said: “If you suppress things then you make them popular, so play the bloody thing. If you ban it it will be number
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Daily Mail [UK], by Sam Webb
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/11/2013 4:31:37 PM
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These adorable pictures show Julian Becker and his 165 pound pet Max, the shaggy Newfoundland that never leaves his best friend´s side. Five-year-old Julian´s mother Stasha started taking pictures of the odd couple every day before they got in the family car in Whidbey Island, Washington state, U.S., although both Julian and Max were born in England. With her husband away regularly in his role as a U.S. naval officer, the pictures began as a way of keeping in touch. They have evolved into a charming document of a boy´s love for a four-legged friend he began walking
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Daily Mail [UK], by Reuters Staff, Daily Mail Staff
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/11/2013 4:18:10 PM
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Jay-Z blasted back today at critics of his and wife´s Beyoncé´s recent trip to Cuba in a new song. The scathing song, ´Open Letter´ calls out the politicians who questioned the legality of the fifth anniversary vacation, which was approved by the Treasury Department, when the rapper says, ´Politicians never did s**t for me, except lie to me, distort history. They wanna give me jail time and a fine. Fine, let me commit a real crime.´ The song also includes lyrics boasting of his friendship with President Obama, adding: ´Obama said, ´Chill you´re going to get me impeached
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EMU plot curdles as creditors
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Telegraph [UK], by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
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First they purloin the savings and bank deposits in Laiki and the Bank of Cyprus, including the working funds of the University of Cyprus, and thousands of small firms hanging on by their fingertips. Then they seize three-quarters of the country’s gold reserves, making it ever harder for Cyprus to extricate itself from EMU at a later date. [Snip] Cypriots are learning what it means to be a member of monetary union when things go badly wrong. The crisis costs have suddenly jumped from €17bn to €23bn, and the burden of finding an extra €6bn will fall on Cyprus alone.
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BBC News [UK], by Staff
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Harath Andrade tells the BBC´s Ben Wright: "If there was a system in place for immigration my dad wouldn´t have to be facing this struggle right now." Tens of thousands of demonstrators have rallied across the US in a mass call for citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants. The co-ordinated protests were designed to press Congress to act as senators negotiate an immigration reform bill. In Washington DC cheering crowds gathered outside the Capitol, and more than 1,000 demonstrated in Atlanta.[Snip] The push for immigration reform follows an election in which Hispanic voters overwhelmingly supported President Barack Obama and
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BBC News [UK], by Jason Palmer
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/11/2013 6:55:29 AM
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Analysis of commercially available rice imported into the US has revealed it contains levels of lead far higher than regulations suggest are safe. Some samples exceeded the "provisional total tolerable intake" (PTTI) set by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by a factor of 120. The report at the American Chemical Society Meeting adds to the already well-known issue of arsenic in rice. The FDA told the BBC it would review the research. Lead is known to be harmful to many organs and the central nervous system.[Snip] Because rice is grown in heavily irrigated conditions, it is more susceptible
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Daily Mail [UK], by Arthur Martin*
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Two teachers are today unmasked as key architects of the vile Thatcher ‘death parties’. One is employed at Labour leader Ed Miliband’s old school and has worked with the youngest and most impressionable pupils there, while the other teaches troubled and vulnerable children.[Snip] Craig Parr, a teacher at Haverstock School in north London--nicknamed ‘Labour’s Eton’--was pictured parading with a sick placard which read: ‘Rejoice. Thatcher is dead.’ The 27-year-old special needs teacher and union activist led chants of ‘Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, dead, dead, dead’ at a death party he organised in Brixton, south London, on Monday night which ended in
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Daily Mail [UK], by Katie Davies
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Disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner, whose career was destroyed after embarrassing sexts he sent to young women leaked online, is rumored to be planning a bid to run as New York mayor this year, according to reports today. Numerous sources claim Weiner, the Brooklyn congressman forced to step-down amid the embarrassing scandal in 2011, is about to make his entry into the race and put himself in contention for the Democratic Party primary. The New York Post today claims that Weiner is laying the foundations for a comeback after agreeing to a lengthy interview in the New York Times with
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Telegraph [UK], by Richard Spencer
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In the message he issued along with his budget proposal on Wednesday morning, President Barack Obama said he wants to see 4-year-old children in the United States enrolled in public schools. Obama said America needs to start enrolling 4-year-olds to make sure the children are “better prepared for the demands of the global economy” and to help parents save on "child-care costs." After saying the United States needs to “equip our citizens with the skills and training” to fill jobs in manufacturing, energy and infrastructure, Obama said, “And that has to start at the earliest possible age.”
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Posted By: FlyRight- 4/10/2013 7:18:37 AM
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Although the first votes on gun -control legislation have yet to be cast, by some measures the National Rifle Association has already won. Obama’s ambitious plans to ban assault weapons and limit magazine capacities are off the table, while the NRA suggested it could support the most likely outcome -- expanded background checks -- as recently as 1999. The NRA claims that the president’s efforts have triggered a fundraising surge and boosted its membership from 4 million to nearly 5 million.
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Is Anthony Weiner completely delusional? Or is he out of his flipping, sex-crazed gourd? Whatever big-busted fantasies crawl around the ex-congressman’s delirious noggin, la Weiner made his next goal as clear as the skin of the wholesome college students he craved: He relishes being Mayor Weiner. Please, shut up this clown. These days, the genitally obsessed Weiner has nothing much to do, except sit in his lavish Manhattan apartment and — the inhumanity! — change the poopy diapers of his 16-month-old son, Jordan. Worse, Weiner is living under a kind of house arrest, sentenced to take extreme grief
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American Spectator, by Jeffrey Lord
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/11/2013 6:13:54 AM
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Seven hundred Military Special Operations professionals. And one insistent and very angry Mom. This is becoming a deadly combination for the political game players in the Obama Administration. Sean Smith, the young State Department computer wizard who was brutally murdered that September night in Benghazi, was Pat Smith’s only child. Let’s say that again. Sean Smith was Mrs. Smith’s only child. To listen to her recent radio interview with another Sean… Sean Hannity… is to have the heart break.
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Within the next few decades, carbon emissions could cause global temperatures to rise between 4 and 11 degrees Fahrenheit, melting ice caps and causing sea levels to rise. The price of crops like coffee and chocolate will skyrocket, and countless cuddly animals around the globe could be wiped out. And yet, a lot of people find it hard to really care about climate change. But don´t be fooled: Climate change will affect you. Here´s a brief sampling of ways that warmer temperatures will suck the fun out of your life: 1. Your flights will be more turbulent
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Tony Lee
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Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius conceded Monday that implementing the Affordable Care Act has been more complicated and frustrating than the Obama administration expected, largely due to Republicans who have opposed the law´s state-based exchanges and Medicaid expansion. "The politics has been relentless and that continues," Sebelius said. "There was some hope that once the Supreme Court ruled in July, and then once an election occurred there would be a sense that, ´This is the law of the land, let´s get on board, let´s make this work.´"
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Student to Rand Paul: I don´t
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Washington Examiner, by Charlie Spiering
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Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 4/10/2013 12:45:12 PM
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During the Q and A session after Sen. Rand Paul’s speech at Howard University, one student explained that he was not a fan of his view of government. “You say you want to provide a government that leaves us alone, quite frankly, I don’t want that,” the student said. “I want a government that is going to help me.” The student insisted that he wanted assistance for his college education and asked if Rand Paul supported a culture change within the nation. “Do you Sen. Rand Paul have a formulated solution to come up with new American values
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