What's in the News

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Re: What's in the News
« Reply #645 on: August 16, 2008, 02:33:13 AM »
Oh dear, war, pestilence, famine, false degrees and other horrible things...

Here is some lighter news...

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/08/14/bigfoot.body/index.html


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Re: What's in the News
« Reply #646 on: August 16, 2008, 05:19:46 AM »
:-( It is so sad. I hope this whole war nonsense stops soon. We really really don't need this show off of powers and allies involvements.

Re: What's in the News
« Reply #647 on: August 16, 2008, 06:16:50 AM »
I like how Bush has accused Russia of bullying Georgia. Right then, becaue illegal wars, sanctioning the use torture, dispensing with habeas corpus and other irritating judicial mumbo-jumbo is something nice, civilized and intelligent people do...If ever there was an instance of the pot calling the kettle black this is it.
You would think that we, as a race, had evolved enough by now to start solving conflicts with words and not bullets.
"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination." Oscar Wilde.

"It's all oojah cum spiffy". Bertie Wooster.
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Re: What's in the News
« Reply #648 on: August 16, 2008, 06:18:38 AM »
B.C. teacher sentenced to more than 3 years for sexual abuse of Thai boy
Last Updated: Friday, August 15, 2008 | 1:08 AM ET CBC News

A British Columbia teacher who admitted he sexually abused a 13-year-old boy in Thailand and photographed the offence was sentenced Friday to three years and three months in a Thai prison.

Christopher Paul Neil sits in a cell at a criminal court in Bangkok in June. (Apichart Weerawong/Associated Press)
Christopher Paul Neil, 33, of Maple Ridge, B.C., who worked as a teacher in different parts of Asia before his arrest last October, avoided a possible six-year, six-month sentence by pleading guilty in May. He was also sentenced to pay a fine of 60,000 baht, or about $1,700 US.

"OK," was Neil's only comment to reporters after the verdict was read. His interpreter said Neil, dressed in a prison uniform and wearing ankle chains, would not appeal.

During the trial, Neil admitted that he took the photos, but said he did not post the pictures online.

He pleaded not guilty in early June to similar charges involving the teen's brother, who was nine years old at the time of the alleged offence. He faces up to 20 years in that case, which goes to trial on Oct. 7.

Neil was the subject of an international police search last year after Interpol released censored photos of him allegedly engaging in sexual acts with young boys from different parts of southeast Asia, including Cambodia and Vietnam.

The photos were found online in 2004, but the face of the perpetrator was digitally obscured by a swirl shape. Interpol unscrambled the images with the help of German police computer experts three years later, and circulated the pictures publicly.

Hundreds of tips were received and Neil was arrested 11 days after the Interpol appeal was launched.

Neil taught at various schools in Thailand, South Korea and Vietnam since at least 2000.

Sad, very sad. Will he be prosecuted in Canada as well, when he gets back?

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Re: What's in the News
« Reply #649 on: August 16, 2008, 02:41:13 PM »
Good sabre rattling:  What will Washington do?


Moscow warns it could strike Poland over US missile shield
· US condemns 'bullying' of Georgia
· Russian general threatens nuclear attack

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/15/russia.poland.nuclear.missiles.threat

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Re: What's in the News
« Reply #650 on: August 16, 2008, 04:02:19 PM »
Who says the Courts are always on the woman's side?

Man wins court order to stop girlfriend cutting off his penis
Article from: Northern Territory News
August 15, 2008 09:55am

A MAN has been granted a court injunction to stop a woman trying to cut off his penis.
Tony Goodchild, of Darwin, was granted the domestic violence order against his former girlfriend.

He told Darwin Magistrates Court the woman was trying to hunt him down and threatening to "cut his penis off''. The unusual application caused laughter in the courtroom, reports The NT News.

But Mr Goodchild -- who was shaking and carrying two backpacks during the hearing -- said he had been in hiding in a city park from his ex since she had "bashed'' him up.

Read the full report here.

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Re: What's in the News
« Reply #651 on: August 18, 2008, 10:20:28 PM »

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Texas school district letting teachers carry guns

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A tiny Texas school district will allow teachers and staff members to carry concealed firearms to protect against school shootings when classes begin this month, provided the gun-toting employees follow certain requirements.
http://www.theage.com.au/world/texas-school-district-letting-teachers-carry-guns-20080818-3xf7.html
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Re: What's in the News
« Reply #652 on: August 18, 2008, 10:26:46 PM »
That's just wonderfully insane. Instead of taking drastic measures to keep student's with guns out of schools, they just ensure that teacher's can shoot back. Amazingly stupid. "Hello, I'm Mr. Johnson, your new English teacher and this is my high-powered sniper rifle loaded with armour-piercing bullets. Now, let's discuss Hamlet"....
"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination." Oscar Wilde.

"It's all oojah cum spiffy". Bertie Wooster.
"The stars are God's daisy chain" Madeleine Bassett.

Re: What's in the News
« Reply #653 on: August 18, 2008, 11:53:02 PM »
I'll bet they'll check the stats on school shootings in a while, and discover the vast majority were done by students who swiped the teacher's gun.

More guns= more shooting.  I can't figure out how Yanks can't see this.
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Re: What's in the News
« Reply #654 on: August 18, 2008, 11:58:31 PM »
Con, you're talking about a country who seems unable to realize that certain rules written down following a rather bloody and unpleasant conflict in the Eighteenth Century might be ready for a revision. I have always thought that America would be much more peaceful country if the founding fathers' had been dyslexic and written the amendment so it gave everyone "the right to arm bears".
"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination." Oscar Wilde.

"It's all oojah cum spiffy". Bertie Wooster.
"The stars are God's daisy chain" Madeleine Bassett.

Re: What's in the News
« Reply #655 on: August 19, 2008, 01:24:55 AM »
It is very funny how apparently the media got the whole Russia-Georgia conflict wrong. I have talked to my mom and she said there wasn't anything like Georgia announcing war to Russia. And no one bombed Gori. Blah. Apparently Georgian president has turned the whole thing around. They had a press-conference in South Ossetia for foreign reporters and showed what exactly happened there so that no one says it was just a CLAIM.  bibibibibi Anyway, I am glad this whole mess is over.

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Re: What's in the News
« Reply #656 on: August 19, 2008, 01:34:52 AM »
Musharraf Announces His Resignation

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Re: What's in the News
« Reply #657 on: August 19, 2008, 05:49:43 PM »
It is very funny how apparently the media got the whole Russia-Georgia conflict wrong. I have talked to my mom and she said there wasn't anything like Georgia announcing war to Russia. And no one bombed Gori. Blah. Apparently Georgian president has turned the whole thing around. They had a press-conference in South Ossetia for foreign reporters and showed what exactly happened there so that no one says it was just a CLAIM.  bibibibibi Anyway, I am glad this whole mess is over.

Really difficult to find out the truth.

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GORI, Georgia (Reuters) - Russian aircraft dropped bombs on the Georgian town of Gori on Tuesday, injuring several civilians in all but deserted streets, a Reuters witness said.

"The bombs hit in front of us and beside us," a Reuters reporter driving through Gori in a vehicle said. "Several people were wounded and lying in the street. We got straight out of there."
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A Dutch television journalist was killed overnight when Russian warplanes bombed the central Georgian city of Gori.

The television news station RTL reported on its Web site that its cameraman Stan Storimans, 39, was killed and correspondent Jeroen Akkermans was wounded in the leg in the attack. RTL said at least five people died in the Gori bombing.

At least two other journalists have been reported killed previously in the fighting between Georgian and Russian troops, now in its fifth day.

Gori was bombed overnight by Russian forces who have occupied the nearby Georgian separatist region of South Ossetia and on Monday advanced into Georgia proper. Gori was all but deserted late Monday after most remaining residents and Georgian soldiers fled.

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Georgia announces full military mobilization

Originally published 03:28 a.m., August 8, 2008, updated 03:30 a.m., August 8, 2008

TBILISI, GEORGIA (AP) - Georgia's president is announcing a full military mobilization as Georgian troops have moved to regain control over the separatist province of South Ossetia.

Mikhail Saakasvhili says in a televized statement that his government will be calling up reservists as fighting is continuing to rage in South Ossetia's capital.

The move comes as the United Nations Security Council failed to agree early Friday morning on a statement drafted by Russia that would have called on Georgia and its separatist region in South Ossetia to immediately put down their arms.

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Georgia's parliament approved a state of war across the country for the next 15 days, while Russia accused the West of contributing to the violence by supplying Georgia with arms.

And if only it were over.

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Georgia sees little sign of Russian withdrawal
The Associated Press
Published: August 19, 2008
 
GORI, Georgia: Russia's military held onto crucial positions across Georgia despite announcing the start of a promised pullout after a brief war with the ex-Soviet republic at the heart of growing tension between Moscow and the West.

Around the strategic central city of Gori, the only movement seen by Associated Press reporters Monday was in the opposite direction — toward the Georgian capital. In the west, Russian forces continued to occupy a military base in Senaki and Georgian authorities said the Russians set off resounding explosions that blew up the runway there.

With Western leaders anxiously watching for a withdrawal and puzzling over how to punish Moscow for what they called a disproportionate reaction to a Georgian offensive targeting separatist South Ossetia province, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev defended Russia's actions and warned against any aggression.

"Anyone who tries anything like that will face a crushing response," he said.

The movements of Russian tanks and troops also seemed to taunt Georgia and its Western backers.


Re: What's in the News
« Reply #658 on: August 20, 2008, 01:23:11 AM »
Actually, Gori wasn't really bombed...  bibibibibi Oh well. They have signed now 6-step cease-fire pact. And the forces are being withdrawn from Ossetia now.

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Re: What's in the News
« Reply #659 on: August 21, 2008, 04:49:58 AM »
something with upside down question marks, accents under "c" and prolific punctuation will do