Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Osama Bin Laden Dead
Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden has been killed by US forces in Pakistan, President Barack Obama has said.Bin Laden was killed in a ground operation outside Islamabad based on US intelligence, the first lead for which emerged last August.
Mr Obama said after “a firefight”, US forces took possession of his body.
Bin Laden was accused of being behind a number of atrocities, including the attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September 2001.
He was top of the US’ “most wanted” list.
Osama Bin Laden is dead according to media reports in the US.He was killed in Pakistan and confirmation was just received through DNA.
The White House and President Obama is addressing the nation shortly.
Osama Bin Laden Dead or Alive
NOTE: These photos are NOT the real photos of bin Ladens death.The real photos have not yet been released. These photos are circulating now, but Defense Dept. says they are old edited photos that have been around for a while. We are trying to find the real photos for you now
"Osama bin Laden is dead and his body has been recovered by U.S. authorities, U.S. President Barack Obama said Sunday night.Mr. Obama made the dramatic announcement shortly in a hastily called, late-night appearance at the White House.
He said a small U.S. operation he authorized last week killed Mr. bin Laden after a firefight. He said that he was briefed last August about a lead to Mr. bin Laden's whereabouts. He said the team took custody of Mr. bin Laden's remains.."
May 1, 1945: Adolf Hitler declared dead. May 1, 2011: Osama Bin Laden declared dead.
Updates Coming Soon.
Army blows 11,000-foot hole in Missouri levee to save town from flooding (and there is more rain on the way) - 3rd May 2011
At the moment a mighty explosion lit up the night sky, the Mississippi River gushed through the hole in an action which was to save the homes of thousands.The 11,000-foot hole in a Missouri levee was intentionally blown open by the Army Corps of Engineers.
Even as the corps' carried out its bid to protect Cairo, Illinois, floodwaters were rising downriver, including in Memphis, Tennessee. And the breach in the Birds Point levee wasn't expected to ease those flooding concerns.
The Army Corps exploded the Birds Point levee after nightfall Monday, sacrificing 130,000 acres of rich farmland and about 100 homes in Missouri to spare the Illinois town of 2,800 residents that is at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
Farmers and residents of Wyatt, close to the levee, gathered just after dawn Tuesday to survey the several feet of murky brown waters inside.
Travis Williams, 34, a farmer who owns more than 1,000 acres now under water, said his home is safe because it is on 'the good side of the levee'.
He said: 'It's a life changing event. My heart goes out to all the farmers who lost their land and homes.'
Billy and Tammy Suggs, who live in Wyatt, opened up the town's tiny city hall so people would have a place to gather and mourn together as the blast occurred Monday night.
They said it was a lot stronger than expected, knocking out windows in several homes.
'We went around putting boards up to keep the rain out,' Billy Suggs said. Read More
Dorothy Parvaz, of North Vancouver, A journalist Still Missing in Syria - 3rd May 2011
A B.C. journalist working for the Al-Jazeera network is missing in Syria, the news organization says. Dorothy Parvaz, of North Vancouver, has not been heard from since Friday, when she disembarked from a flight in Damascus, Syria, and did not check in at her hotel, the network reported Tuesday.
The country has been wracked by battles between authorities and pro-democracy protesters for several weeks.
Parvaz's family is desperate to hear from her.
"We don't know where she is, we don't know who has her," her sister, Sheila Parvaz told CBC News Tuesday. "We just want to know she's safe and we want her to come home."
Parvaz was born in Iran and is travelling on an Iranian passport, which prompted the foreign minister of Iran to ask for more information on Parvaz's fate.
"We demand … the government of Syria look into this case," Ali Akbar Salehi said in an Al-Jazeera report. Read More
U.S. teenager jailed in India for slitting Mother, Cynthia Iannarelli, 51 throat on holiday - because he was upset at parents' divorce - 4th May 2011
A teenager has been convicted of slitting his mother’s throat while they were on holiday in India after he became upset by his parents’ divorce, a court heard.The 16-year-old boy, of South Fayette, Pennsylvania, killed his business consultant mother Cynthia Iannarelli, 51, while in Rajasthan last August, prosecutors said.
He has been sentenced to three years in an Indian juvenile detention centre after knifing her, wrapping her body in a sheet and leaving it on a sand dune.
The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was arrested after fleeing from the killing scene and trying to fly back to America.
The knife was never found but police say they recovered the boy’s clothes from the scene at the northern desert resort of Reggies Camel Camp in Osian.
Local reports said he had a heated argument with his mother as he wanted her to get back together with his father, but she was not convinced.
There were no eyewitnesses in the case, but 33 witnesses testified during a lengthy trial and the Juvenile Justice Board also found him guilty of destroying evidence.
The teenager has denied the charges, wrote a letter to the court pleading innocence and false implication, and will appeal against the verdict with his laywer R.D. Mehra. Read More
Brian and Shannon Gore arrested after starved six-year-old is found trying to eat herself in cage - with remains of another child buried in garden
The body of a young child has been discovered buried under a home where a six-year-old girl was kept in a cage and almost starved to death.Police made the grisly discovery of the child's remains while they questioned a couple about the alleged abuse of their daughter.
Brian and Shannon Gore are accused of keeping the girl in shocking conditions and virtually starving her to death.
The girl, aged between six and seven, was so hungry that when found her she was eating the flaky skin of her forehead.
She was covered in bed sores and her own faeces and is feared to have been kept in a cage for months.
Brian and Shannon Gore face first degree murder charges stemming from the grisly find.
Police made the startling discovery of the remains of a second child when they dug under a trailer home.
They have already been charged with the attempted murder of their daughter who was found barely alive in a darkened room.
The condition of the girl, who was covered from head to toe in her own waste, was so bad that police in Virginia believe it is the worst ever case of child abuse they have investigated. Read More
Nuclear Event - Nine Mile reactor shutdown investigation, New York - 4th May 2011
OSWEGO COUNTY, N.Y. -- Officials are looking into what caused an Oswego County nuclear power plant to automatically shut down.The owners of the Nine Mile Point Unit 1 say a recently refueled nuclear reactor shut down just before 9 p.m. Monday night. The reactor had been restarted April 19 after being out of service for maintenance.
Owners say the plant is in safe and stable condition, but would not comment on when the reactor is expected to return to service. Source
3 dead, 11 trapped in Mexican coal mine explosion - 4th May 2011
SAN JUAN DE SABINAS, Mexico - A gas explosion in a coal mine in northern Mexico on Tuesday killed three miners, injured one and left 11 others trapped deep underground. Officials said chances were slim that anyone could have survived the massive blast.Labour Secretary Javier Lozano said mine employees found the bodies of three miners at the front of the blast area, and given the size of the explosion and its force, "the outlook is very bad."
"The truth is that it does not allow us to hold out much hope," said Lozano, who was at the mine located in San Juan de Sabinas, Coahuila state, about 85 miles (135 kilometres) southwest of Eagle Pass, Texas.
He noted the blast was so strong that it severely wounded a 15-year-old boy who had been working on a conveyor belt outside the mine pit separating coal from tailings.
The boy was taken to a hospital in serious condition, said Jesus Espinoza, a spokesman for mining company BIMSA. Federal prosecutors later said both the boy's arms had been amputated and that he remained in serious condition.
Lozano said the boy's employment at the mine was an apparent violation of labour laws.
The announcement of the three deaths came just after Mexico said it was calling in mine rescue experts from Chile to help in the effort.
President Felipe Calderon called on Mexicans "to pray that they are still alive."
Lozano said five mine employees who had been lowered into the mine tunnel were able to operate safely, and that the gas appeared to have dissipated.
A wailing cry went up from about 80 relatives and friends of the trapped miners gathered at the site when a truck from the local morgue showed up at the mine. Read More
White House backtracks on how bin Laden died: Admits way Osama bin Laden died at the hands of US forces had been riddled with errors
The White House admitted last night that its initial account of the way Osama bin Laden died at the hands of US forces had been riddled with errors.
Claims that the al-Qaeda leader had died while firing an automatic weapon at commandos were withdrawn, with President Barack Obama’s spokesman admitting “he was unarmed”. A dramatic description of bin Laden using his wife as a “human shield” and forcing her to sacrifice her life also proved to be false. The woman was still alive and was taken into custody with several of the terrorist’s children.
In an embarrassing climb-down, Barack Obama’s press secretary, Jay Carney, admitted that the previous version of events — which came mostly from the chief US counter-terrorism adviser, John Brennan — had been put out “with great haste”.
The about-turn left the US open to accusations of a cover-up and led to calls for video footage of the raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and images of bin Laden’s body to be released to end conspiracy theories.
However, the White House suggested that pictures of bin Laden’s body were too “gruesome” to be made public because they could prove “inflammatory”.
Relations between the US and Pakistan, already strained by the fact that Pakistan was not told in advance about the raid, were put under renewed pressure by contradictory statements from Islamabad. (read more)
Osama Bin Laden photo may not be released by White House: It's "too gruesome" -- are they for real?
David Cameron says al-Qaeda leader "must have had an extensive support network in Pakistan" in Commons statement. The White House is facing calls to release images of the al-Qaeda chief to prove that he is dead. One of Barack Obama's most senior advisers said that a photograph of Osama bin Laden's corpse would be released. Leon Panetta, the outgoing director of the CIA, said he did not believe there was "any question that ultimately a photograph would be presented to the public".
Mr Panetta, who will shortly move jobs to become the US Secretary of Defence, was asked in an interview with NBC if the pictures taken after bin Laden's assassination were too "gruesome" for publication, given the risk of inflaming those sympathetic to the late al Qaeda leader.
"There were concerns and there were questions that had to be debated about just exactly question kind of impact would these photos have," Mr Panetta said, according to a transcript published before the interview was broadcast.
"But the bottom line is that, you know, we got Bin Laden and I think we have to reveal to the rest of the world the fact that we were able to get him and kill him." (read more)
UK will 'utterly destroy' North Sea industry
Oil and gas leaders will on Wednesday make a last-ditch effort to persuade the Government to abandon a £10bn tax grab on North Sea energy companies, amid warnings the levy will "utterly destroy" the industry.Chief executives are expected to tell the energy select committee that the tax will close down fields early and mean the majors find it difficult to sell older fields to new owners.
Meanwhile, Chris Huhne, the Energy Secretary, will have to defend the impact the tax is likely to have on oil and gas production at a time when Britain needs to bolster its energy security.
The hearing comes three days after Centrica warned it may partially shut the UK's biggest gas field as a result of the tax. The move has recently been criticised by John Whiting, head of the Office for Tax Simplification, Ed Balls, the Shadow Chancellor, and numerous industry figures.
On Tuesday, Bill Transier, chief executive of Endeavour International, a major investor in the North Sea, said British governments had made doing business in the UK "more of a political risk than West Africa or the Middle East", after making four major tax changes within seven years.
"The North Sea is the second-largest oil-producing region in the world after Saudi Arabia. It's a national treasure for the UK. The government is utterly destroying that," he told The Daily Telegraph. "I wish people would step up and say you just can't do this. You're killing the industry. Capital is leaving the country and going elsewhere. The politicians seem to be ignorant of the facts and then they do something stupid as a political mechanism to offset a fuel tax. It's a critical time in the future of the North Sea and some of these reserves are going to be lost forever. They need to eat some humble pie and say they made a mistake." (read more)
Israeli jets preparing in Iraq to strike Iran as reported by Iranian news? -- Investigation underway, details forthcoming
Israeli jet fighters have reportedly conducted drills at a military base in Iraq in order to strike targets inside Iran. A considerable number of Israeli warplanes were seen at al-Asad base in Iraq, reported a source close to prominent Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sader's group.
The aircraft reportedly included F-15, F-16, F-18, F-22, and KC-10 jet fighters.
The warplanes carried out their week-long exercises at nights, the same source added.
The drills were reportedly aimed at preparing to strike Iran's air defense systems, disrupt Iran's radars and attack targets deep inside Iran.
Iraqi officials had not been notified of the exercises, which were conducted in collaboration with the US military. (read more)
The coming crisis is currently investigating this breaking news, and will offer more details as to the authenticity of the report as the story unfolds.
NY Times Reports Osama Bin Laden dead in 2002 -- and the inconsistencies just keep on piling up on top an already absurd story...
Osama bin Laden is dead. The news first came from sources in Afghanistan and Pakistan almost six months ago: the fugitive died in December and was buried in the mountains of southeast Afghanistan. Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, echoed the information. The remnants of Osama's gang, however, have mostly stayed silent, either to keep Osama's ghost alive or because they have no means of communication.With an ego the size of Mount Everest, Osama bin Laden would not have, could not have, remained silent for so long if he were still alive. He always liked to take credit even for things he had nothing to do with. Would he remain silent for nine months and not trumpet his own survival?
Even if he is still in the world, bin Ladenism has left for good. Mr. bin Laden was the public face of a brand of politics that committed suicide in New York and Washington on Sept. 11, 2001, killing thousands of innocent people in the process. (read more)
14 signs that the collapse of our modern world has already begun
A lot of people believe the world as we know it is going to end on December 23, 2012. Nonsense, I say. The far more honest answer is that the end of the world as we know it has already begun. And it doesn't mean the end of the world; it means the closing of one era and the birth of a new one. It is a transition between the ages. This particular transition, however, promises to be the most tumultuous and costly transition humankind has ever seen.But don't wait around for December 2012 to look for the signs. Here are 14 signs that the world as we know it is unraveling right now. We are living through the end of one era and the birth of a new one. In the future, they'll look back and call this all one moment in history, but when you're living through it, it seems to move forward at almost a snail's pace. But make no mistake: We are living through the opening chapters of the end of the world as we know it, and on the other side of all this will emerge a new world that's very different from the one we know today.
#1 - Tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis - At first it seemed like a fluke; but now it's a pattern. The weather is becoming increasingly extreme. Over 120 tornadoes recently struck the U.S. Midwest. Texas is on fire and suffering through an extreme drought. And where there aren't fires and droughts, there are floods. This is only the beginning... watch for more freak weather over the next 18 months.
#2 - The silence of the bees - Colony Collapse Disorder continues to accelerate across North America. We already know it's being caused in part by chemical pesticides (and possibly worsened by GMOs), but the chemical industry is engaged in a full-on cover-up to deny this truth while the pollinators of our world suffer a devastating population collapse. (http://www.naturalnews.com/028218_p...)
#3 - The failure of nuclear science - The Fukushima catastrophe proves one thing: Scientists are dangerously arrogant in their planning of large-scale projects, and they fail to account for the awesome power of Mother Nature. Nuclear science promised us clean, green energy -- but now it has delivered a silent, invisible poison that's infecting our planet. (read more)
Silver Forming Another Bullish Flag Formation as US dollar continues stumbling
With silver down just over 4%, the dollar continuing to grind lower and gold consolidating, today King World News interviewed James Turk out of Spain. When asked about gold and silver Turk responded, “Nearly all of Europe is closed today to celebrate May Day, and Asian markets are notoriously thin even in the best of circumstances. So when the news of Bin Laden's death hit the tape, the dollar bounced in an emotional knee-jerk reaction. Silver was pummeled, and gold ended slightly lower. The important point Eric, is that both metals are bouncing back.”
When asked about the violent action in the metals Turk replied, “The volatility scares a lot of people, which is understandable. It can be heart-stopping to see silver drop 10% like it did, but silver is not unique in this regard. Even blue-chip stocks or other high-quality assets drop in price during certain periods. Unfortunately, those big price drops can easily cause you to take your eye-off-the-ball or shake you out of a position. Don't let that happen to you in a bull market such as we are seeing in gold and silver.
What's worse is that these occasional price gyrations play into the hands of the anti-gold crowd, who claim that gold is a volatile commodity. Of course, the real volatility comes from central bank interventions that distort the market process as well as the huge amount of leverage used in the paper-gold market. The point is, Eric, long-term price trends are caused by underlying fundamental factors that determine the true value of an asset, not news items. And the underlying fundamentals for both gold and silver remain very bullish.
Look for example, at the US Dollar Index, which is trading at a new low as we speak. The trading day just ended, and the "Bin Laden bounce" is already history. (read more)
Corporate Kingpins vaccuum up $26,000,000 worth of silver shorts in bizarre commodity rush
I hope precious metals newbies have not been emotionally derailed by last night's obvious ambush of silver by the corrupt Wall Street bullion bank cartel. It's funny because just yesterday I was chatting with my significant other, who happens to be from Las Vegas, about organized crime. She mentioned that Vegas is full of organized crime gangs, not just the casino mafia. I replied that any area that generates tons of cash flow is mired with organized crime and extreme corruption: Vegas, DC and Wall Street most prominently (obviously there are others but those are the biggest). Little did I know that several hours later the action in electronic silver trading would ironically highlight my point about Wall Street!Make no mistake about it, what occurred last night right at the open of electronic futures trading in gold and silver was nothing more than a very aggressive attempt by the big Wall Street banks who are irrationally short paper silver to shake out weak hands in order to reduce the fraudulent short positions in paper silver. Anyone who thinks last night's action - as reported in the mainstream media - was connected to a feared slowdown in China or the Bin Laden thing or the Bolivian mining news is either hopelessly naive or pathetically ignorant of the facts.
So let's look at some facts. First, no other commodities were hammered. If China slowdown fears were the culprit, shouldn't all of the base metals used in industrial production have been hit hard along with silver? Seriously. Even more telling was the fact that the dollar barely moved in either direction last night - and it's below 73 right now. The media loves to explain movements in gold/silver with inverse movements in the dollar. How come the dollar was not doing a moonshot in response to the gold/silver cliff-dive? (read more)
Osama Bin Laden's wife NOT killed in raid, White House now says -- and the lies continue to mount a bizarre smear campaign
A woman killed during the U.S. raid of Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan was not his wife and was not used as a human shield by the al Qaeda leader before his death, a U.S. official said on Monday, correcting an earlier description.John Brennan, President Barack Obama’s top counter- terrorism adviser, told reporters earlier that the slain woman had been one of bin Laden’s wives and may have been used – perhaps voluntarily – as a shield during the firefight.
However, a different White House official said that account had turned out not to be the case. Mr. bin Laden’s wife was injured but not killed in the assault.U.S. officials have said a small U.S. strike team, dropped by helicopter to Mr. bin Laden’s hide-out near the Pakistani capital of Islamabad under cover of night, shot the al-Qaeda leader dead with bullets to the chest and head. He did not return fire. (Source)
White House changes Osama bin Laden story... again: Osama now had no weapon, didn't use a human shield
The White House backed away Monday evening from key details in its narrative about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, including claims by senior U.S. officials that the Al Qaeda leader had a weapon and may have fired it during a gun battle with U.S. forces.Officials also retreated from claims that one of bin Laden’s wives was killed in the raid and that bin Laden was using her as a human shield before she was shot by U.S. forces.
At a televised White House briefing Monday afternoon, Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan said bin Laden joined in the fight that several residents of the Abbottabad, Pakistan, compound put up against the Navy SEALs during the 40-minute operation.
“He [bin Laden] was engaged in a firefight with those that entered the area of the house he was in. And whether or not he got off any rounds, I quite frankly don’t know,” Brennan said.
Sony says 25 million more accounts hacked in new security breach -- is anything safe anymore?
Sony Corp. said Monday that hackers may have taken personal information from an additional 24.6 million user accounts after a review of the recent PlayStation Network breach found an intrusion at a division that makes multiplayer online games.The data breach comes on top of the 77 million PlayStation accounts it has already said were jeopardized by a malicious intrusion.
The latest incident occurred April 16 and 17 -- earlier than the PlayStation break-in, which occurred from April 17 to 19, Sony said.
About 23,400 financial records from an outdated 2007 database involving people outside the U.S. may have been stolen in the newly discovered breach, including 10,700 direct debit records of customers in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain, it said.
The outdated information contained credit card numbers, debit card numbers and expiration dates, but not the 3-digit security code on the back of credit cards. The direct debit records included bank account numbers, customer names, account names and customer addresses. (read more)
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