"Obamacare" Is a Big, Fat Lie

Single-payer coverage offers us the best chance of providing the best health care to the most people at the least expense. No. The last thing we need is government mucking up the best health-care system in the world. All we really need to do is put a cap on court awards for medical malpractice. Absurd. That'll address only part of the problem. What about the high "overhead" costs of the private health insurers? Don't be a twit. Those health insurers and their high premiums are the only thing keeping Medicare affordable. Private payers are subsidizing the below-market rates that Medicare pays for everybody else! Well, maybe. But come that's only because the private insurers pick and choose which clients they take on. Medicare gets stuck with all the high-cost old folk, and their pricey end-of-life expenses. Aha! Death panels ... ! Settle down, folks. You're both right. Each side (every side?) of the health-care debate contains its own kernel of truth. Everyone's "right" to a degree. But here's the dirty little secret behind the health-care debate: It doesn't matter who's right and who's wrong. "Obamacare" is not going to happen. Or, at least, not in the form that anyone hopes it will. Universal health coverage for everybody, with the government picking up the tab in its role as "single payer?" D.O.A. Congress nixed this idea from the get-go. The closest we're going to get to that is some sort of "public option," and you can see the president backpedaling furiously away from even that half-measure as we speak. Why kill a good idea? Ask 'most any of your Canadian and British friends what they think of single-payer, and chances are good they'll tell you it's a decent system. Not perfect. There are waiting lines involved, and "rationing." But you get your basic medical needs covered, and you never have to worry about the bill. Just like democracy, single-payer coverage is probably the worst way to run a health-care system ... except for all the others. So why won't it happen? President Obama sums it up best: For us to completely change [the current health-care system] would be too disruptive. That's where suddenly people would lose what they have and they'd have to adjust to an entirely new system. The big "lie" Ostensibly, the president was arguing against taking away employer-provided health care and shifting the responsibility of bill payment to the government. But let's be honest, folks: When you get down to the nitty-gritty of doctor-patient interaction, it makes no difference who signs the check and mails it to the doc ... so long as it ain't us. So where's the "disruption?" You're soaking in it. The real disruption would happen to the system of private health insurance, and in particular, to the insurance companies that provide it. Switch to single-payer, and presto-changeo, UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), Aetna (NYSE: AET), and WellPoint (NYSE: WLP) lose their raison d' etre. Now, single-payer proponents will argue that these companies aren't adding value to the health-care system anyway. They're toll collectors, paying the bills and taking their cut anytime a sick person visits a doc. Allow someone else (Obamacare) to pay the bills, and there's no reason for the insurers to exist. So what's wrong with letting them follow the horse-whip tanners and buggy manufacturers into the dustbin of history? Simply this: Love 'em or hate 'em, the insurers are just doing what we told 'em to do. They're collecting premiums, paying bills, and earning profits for their shareholders under the agreed "rules of the game." They didn't spend decades building lousy products, and drive themselves out of business like GM did and Ford (NYSE: F) nearly did. They didn't voluntarily hand out loans to acknowledged liars, racking up tens of billions in losses like Citigroup (NYSE: C) or Bank of America (NYSE: BAC). In short, they didn't do anything to deserve a date with a death panel. Nor do you Plus, there's the pocketbook issue. UnitedHealth, Aetna, and WellPoint currently carry $70 billion in combined market capitalization. Extrapolate to the rest of the industry, and we're probably talking well over $100 billion in investments that will be vaporized if we wipe out this industry. It's not fair to them. It's not fair to us. Companies won't stand for it. Investors won't stand for it. We won't stand for it. Who you callin' "we," buster? I'm calling you "we." And before you disagree, pull that mutual find statement out of the trash, shake off the coffee grinds, and give it a good read-through. You may be surprised to learn just how big a stake you already have in the health-care insurance industry. Same deal with your 401(k). Same thing for your pension plan. Simply put, we all have a lot to lose if the government nationalizes health care. Now for the good news: And that's why it won't happen. But the best news here for investors is: No one seems to realize this yet. Oh, Congress may nibble around the edges of the problem, limiting policy exclusions here (and letting insurers charge rates to accommodate), or expanding coverage there (more customers for the insurers -- boo hoo). But they know darn well that this isn't the kind of wholesale "change" voters were believing in last November. Yet investors are still sitting on their hands, and the P/E ratios on primo health-care stocks like Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) are sitting near multi-year lows. But not us. Here at Motley Fool Hidden Gems, we know an opportunity when we see one. We're watching the health-care sector like a hawk and pointing out the best bets to our members,-WAKE UP PEOPLE- before Congress DOES

Australia 'uranium' dust concerns

Environmentalists have raised concerns that another giant dust storm blowing its way across eastern Australia may contain radioactive particles. It is argued that sediment whipped up from Australia's centre may be laced with material from a uranium mine. Scientists have played down concerns, saying there is little to worry about. Last Wednesday Sydney and Brisbane bore witness to their biggest dust storm in 70 years. Both were shrouded in red dust blown in from the desert outback. The massive clouds of dust that choked heavily populated parts of Australia have caused problems for people with asthma, as well as those with heart and lung conditions. "I thought the whole city was on fire, it was just so red" But some environmental campaigners believe that the dry, metallic-tasting sediment could threaten the health of millions of other Australians. David Bradbury, a renowned filmmaker and activist, claims the haze that engulfed some of the country's biggest cities in the past week contains radioactive grains - or tailings - carried on gale force winds from a mine in the South Australian desert. "Given the dust storms... which [the] news said originated from Woomera, and which is right next door to the Olympic Dam mine at Roxby Downs, these [storms] could blow those tailings across the face of Australia," Mr Bradbury asserted. Mining companies have stressed that dust levels are carefully monitored, while the health concerns have been dismissed by a senior environmental toxicologist. Barry Noller from the University of Queensland says that many of the particles from mines in the outback are simply too heavy to be carried by the wind over long distances. "In a big dust storm, the dust is not going to come from one isolated site, it is going to be mixed in with dust from a [wide] area and diluted considerably," Mr Noller said. The latest murky haze that spread over parts of Queensland at the weekend is dissipating and weather forecasters say it should soon start to move out to sea. A storm which blew in from the Australian outback blanketed Sydney in a layer of orange dust. Here, residents describe the bizarre and frightening scene. Tanya Ferguson said the dust was the weirdest thing she had seen in her life, turning the city into a scene from another planet. "It was like being on Mars," she told the BBC News website. "I haven't been there, obviously, but I imagine that's what the sky would look like." She said she woke to a massive gust of wind blowing through her windows early in the morning. "The whole room was completely orange. I couldn't believe my eyes," she said. Ms Ferguson said she initially thought there was a bush fire. When she finally decided to venture outside, she said the entire city was covered in a film of orange dust. "All the cars are just orange - and the orange was so intense," she said by phone from Sydney, where she has lived for the past six years. "It was like being in the outback, but it was right here in the city." Ms Ferguson said the sky was overcast and it was very dusty, making her sneeze a lot. Public transport was disrupted and the roads were clogged as drivers struggled in the difficult conditions, but she said some people went to their jobs, and she saw a few residents wearing face masks. By evening, Ms Ferguson said there were blue skies over Sydney and that it was returning to a normal day. 'Pink until noon' Fellow Sydneysider Nick Beaugeard said his four young children were really frightened when they woke up on Wednesday morning. "There was a really red glow inside the house, really crimson" he said. "It looked like the end of the world." After the initial shock, he said the children got really excited and went off to school where they said it was "pink until noon". Mr Beaugeard - who moved to Australia from the UK in 1998 - had to drive to work from the Northern Beaches area because the ferries were closed. "It was like driving through a pea soup of fog," he said, "except it was bright red". He said the lights looked blue because it was so red outside. Mr Beaugeard said his wife - who is an asthmatic - was fine despite the blanket of dust and fog. "She went out with a scarf over her mouth and she came back without it," he said. He said the dust left everyone with a dry mouth, and a really gritty taste, but caused no breathing problems for his wife. 'Armageddon' Andrew Hawkins, who lives in Northmead, about 20km from the centre of Sydney, says he was scared at first because it looked like the end of the world. "This morning's dust storm was unbelievable… It was like waking up to see that Armageddon is upon us," he wrote in. Mr Hawkins said he thought his eyes were playing up, or that there had been a nuclear explosion or a bush fire. He described an ethereal scene of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Opera House as he rode the train to work. "To see a city of such beauty shrouded in red, was a sight which cannot be described - even pictures fail to capture the eerie nature of the scene which surrounded us this morning," Mr Hawkins added. Another Sydney resident, Kirsty Ainsworth, said it was like being in a film. "It was really, really bizarre. It was actually like being in a movie - the Day After Tomorrow or Armageddon," she said. Ms Ainsworth said there had been storm warnings on Monday and Tuesday, but the dust storm took everybody by surprise. "It came out of nowhere," she said, adding that visibility had improved enough for her to make it to work by around 0830 local time. "Everybody's cars were caked in orange dust, and there's still sand everywhere," she said.-(personal message)-untill the news website deletes them you can see the pictures that made the headlines here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/8270107.stm

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Six-year-old Dali girl beaten up by Indian police

New Delhi - Two policemen were suspended from their jobs Tuesday for beating up a 6-year-old Dalit girl for allegedly stealing 280 rupees (less than 6 dollars) in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state, news reports said-The incident, which was caught on camera, showed the station officer of Jaswantpur area in Etawah town grabbing and lifting the tiny low-caste girl by her hair and threatening her while another officer and at least six policemen looked on. Brij Lal, Uttar Pradesh's additional director general of police, said the department was taking a serious view of the incident and a criminal case had been lodged against two policemen, who were suspended, NDTV television channel reported. Several national and regional channels showed the images as top news in their morning bulletins. While local police claimed the girl had confessed and the money had been returned to the owner, her mother lodged a complaint against the policemen. Uttar Pradesh is currently governed by the Bahujan Samaj Party which was formed in 1984 to represent the rights of Dalits, and other castes and tribes that are at the bottom of India's ancient caste system. Dalits were traditionally regarded as outcasts in Indian society. (dpa)

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Woman bailed as car hits children

A 40-year-old woman arrested after a car ploughed into a group of schoolchildren has been released on bail, police said. Nine youngsters were taken to hospital following the incident near a church in Worlingham, Suffolk, at about 2pm on Friday. Four of the children have since been discharged - but emergency services said one was thought to have suffered broken legs and another a broken pelvis. The children were all aged nine and pupils at Worlingham Middle School - about half a mile from the scene of the accident. They were on a supervised walk around the village when the incident happened. The funeral service of a 21-year-old man killed in a road accident was temporarily halted as mourners went to help. Police said the car involved was a blue Nissan. A 40-year-old woman from Lowestoft, Suffolk, was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving. She was later released on bail. Headteacher Mike Croft said the youngsters were Year 5 pupils on a supervised walk aimed at introducing them to the local area. He said about 20 pupils, accompanied by a woman teacher and female teaching assistant, were walking past the village's All Saints Church on a pavement when the accident happened. Mr Croft said both members of staff were "badly shocked". (my view) WHY!..o'why do assholes employ stupidity?

The Photograph that Allowed Geniuses to Have a Sense of Humor

“Einstein with his Tongue Out” Arthur Sasse, 1951--You may appreciate this memorable portrait as much as the next fellow, but it’s still fair to wonder: “Did it really change history?” Rest assured, we think it did. While Einstein certainly changed history with his contributions to nuclear physics and quantum mechanics, this photo changed the way history looked at Einstein. By humanizing a man known chiefly for his brilliance, this image is the reason Einstein’s name has become synonymous not only with “genius,” but also with “wacky genius.” So why the history-making tongue? It seems Professor Einstein, hoping to enjoy his 72nd birthday in peace, was stuck on the Princeton campus enduring incessant hounding by the press. Upon being prodded to smile for the camera for what seemed like the millionth time, he gave photographer Arthur Sasse a good look at his uvula instead. This being no ordinary tongue, the resulting photo became an instant classic, thus ensuring that the distinguished Novel Prize-winner would be remembered as much for his personality as for his brain.

The Photograph That Isn’t as Romantic as You Might Think

“V-J Day, Times Square, 1945″, a.k.a. “The Kiss”Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1945--(kinda sick really and forcefully intrusive if you ask me of the sailor),On August 14, 1945, the news of Japan’s surrender was announced in the United States, signaling the end of World War II. Riotous celebrations erupted in the streets, but perhaps none were more relieved than those in uniform. Although many of them had recently returned from victory in Europe, they faced the prospect of having to ship out yet again, this time to the bloody Pacific. Among the overjoyed masses gathered in Times Square that day was one of the most talented photojournalists of the 20th century, a German immigrant named Alfred Eisenstaedt. While snapping pictures of the celebration, he spotted a sailor “running along the street grabbing any and every girl in sight.” He later explained that, “whether she was a grandmother, stout, thin, old, didn’t make any difference.” Of course, a photo of the sailor planting a wet one on a senior citizen wouldn’t have made the cover of Life, but when he locked lips with an attractive nurse, the image was circulated in newspapers across the country. Needless to say, “V-J Day” didn’t capture a highly anticipated embrace by long-lost lovers, but it also wasn’t staged, as many critics have claimed. In any case, the image remains an enduring symbol of America’s exuberance at the end of a long struggle.

My Blog And Its Followers

Greetings Sweethearts-I know what your going to think when i propose this..but it is the truth and is what it is,to date i have 145 entries-which i work very hard on to keep you kids informed,educated,ect..plus it takes a few days or weeks of research one blog entry to get the right information on and some time to put it all together,but it seems most.....well 98% of my followers are NOT visiting and commenting on my entries....which i think is SELFISH and IGNORANT,all i ask is that you act with kindness and do the right thing by letting me know what you think of my entries.....or at least that YOU have read them,i have no choice but to delete all of my followers except Barbara,Max And Ziggy.....i am sorry but you made me do this,i can't have IGNORANCE.....and it will NOT be tolerated!.....i work on my blog NOT to be insulted by you....starting Monday these actions will be taken-THANKYOU!HIM xxxx

Woman Falls Pregnant While Already Pregnant

A US woman has stunned doctors by achieving a rare medical marvel - falling pregnant while pregnant.- Julia Grovenburg and her husband Todd were shocked to learn she would be giving birth to two babies, but not twins. The couple attended an ultrasound appointment believing Mrs Grovenburg was just over eight weeks pregnant. But the scan showed two babies, separated by two-and-a-half weeks - with one clearly more developed than the other. "[When] she said, 'and baby number two has got a healthy little heartbeat,' - I just started gagging," Mrs Grovenburg told broadcaster KFSM-TV in Arkansas. "[We were] both in shock," her husband added. He went on: "We were trying to put the timelines together and everything. "We had known she had had a migraine and been at the hospital and actually had a pregnancy test at the time that one would've been conceived..." His wife continued: "We feel blessed to have something so rare and as of this point they're perfectly healthy." Doctors suspect an extraordinarily uncommon situation called superfetation, which means conceiving when already pregnant. Patrick O'Brien, consulting obstetrician and spokesman for Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), told Sky News Online only one case a year is reported worldwide. "It's a rare thing because when you conceive, your hormones change dramatically," he said. "Those changes stop you ovulating and they stop you conceiving." Tests will be performed when the babies are born to ascertain what happened. But Dr O'Brien added that the Grovenburg's may not ever know for sure, because in their case the tests could not rule out twins. "It's hard to be certain sometimes because a woman could be having non-identical twins that are markedly different in size from early in a pregnancy," he said. "If there's a big size difference between the twins, the first suspicion is that one is not developing as well." Superfetation became a more accurate suspicion when the babies appeared to be more than two weeks apart, he added. If the family's situation was not astonishing enough, the babies are officially due in different years - at the end of 2009 and start of 2010. However, the pair - already named as Jillian and Hudson - were expected to be born together, either naturally or by caesarean section, in December.

An Indonesian woman has given birth to an 8.7-kilogramme(19.2-pound)baby

An Indonesian woman has given birth to an 8.7-kilogramme (19.2-pound) baby boy, the heaviest newborn ever recorded in the country, a doctor said. The baby boy is pictured here next to a baby of average size at a hospital in Medan, North Sumatra(my view)I bet the woman screamed the place down and has a saggy cunt now!-Thankyou max for this post :)

Papas star 'slept with daughter'

The daughter of John Phillips, leader of 1960s group the Mamas and the Papas, has claimed she had a 10-year sexual relationship with her late father. Phillips sets out her claims in a memoir entitled High on Arrival-- Mackenzie Phillips, a former child TV star, alleges the consensual incest - disclosed in her recently published memoir - began in 1979 when she was 19. Speaking on The Oprah Winfrey Show, she said the relationship was a "betrayal". Phillips' claims have been disputed by Genevieve Waite, her father's wife at the time of the alleged abuse. In a statement read out by Winfrey, she said John Phillips was "incapable, no matter how drunk or drugged he was, of having such a relationship with his own child." Mackenzie Phillips starred in 1970s sitcom One Day at a Time and appeared in George Lucas's 1973 film American Graffiti. The 49-year-old has a long history of drug abuse and was arrested for possession of cocaine and heroin last year. 'Abuse of power' In her book, entitled High on Arrival, she alleges she first had sexual intercourse with her father on the night before she was to be married to a member of the Rolling Stones' entourage. "I woke up that night from a blackout to find myself having sex with my own father," she writes. Phillips claims the sexual relationship lasted a decade and ended when she became pregnant. John Phillips (left) died of heart failure in 2001 at the age of 65- She was unsure who had fathered the child and claims to have had an abortion paid for by her father. "I never let him touch me again," she told Winfrey, calling the alleged incest "an abuse of power". But she said she forgave her father on his deathbed in 2001, describing him as "very tortured man". John Phillips married four times, having Mackenzie - his oldest daughter - with his first wife Susan Adams. He formed the Mamas and the Papas with his second wife Michelle, whom he divorced in 1970. In a statement, Michelle Phillips said her stepdaughter's public disclosure was "an unfortunate circumstance" and "very hurtful for our entire family". One of the most popular bands of the 1960s, the Mamas and the Papas are best known for their hits California Dreamin' and Monday, Monday. Mackenzie Phillips' half-sister Chynna had pop success with 1990s group Wilson Phillips.

Police fined £40,000 for shooting

Keith Tilbury suffered serious damage to his lungs, kidneys and bowel- Thames Valley Police has been fined £40,000 for breaching health and safety laws when a civilian worker was accidentally shot. Pc David Micklethwaite, 52, shot control room employee Keith Tilbury, 57, during a firearms awareness course in Oxfordshire on 30 May 2007. The police force and Pc Micklethwaite pleaded guilty to offences under the 1974 Health and Safety Act. Pc Micklethwaite was fined £8,000 and ordered to pay £8,000 in costs. Thames Valley Police was ordered to pay £25,000 in costs. It was revealed at Southwark Crown Court that Pc Micklethewaite had failed a gun training course, but was allowed to continue working. He mistakenly loaded a Magnum revolver with live ammunition which was kept in an old Quality Street tin. Mr Tilbury was shot with this Magnum revolver- The judge said this practice was a "disaster waiting to happen". Pc Micklethwaite was accused of "engaging in the pointing of weapons and the pulling of a trigger during role-play in the classroom", "failing to examine or check the round of ammunition" and discharging the gun "while inadvertently pointing the weapon at Keith Tilbury". Mr Tilbury, a control room employee for Thames Valley Police Authority, was shot in the stomach at point-blank range while he was listening to a lecture alongside 10 colleagues at the force's Police Headquarters North in Kidlington. He suffered serious damage to his lungs, kidneys and bowel and spent two weeks in intensive care. Mr Tilbury has told the BBC he is unlikely to return to work. Deputy Chief Constable Francis Habgood, Thames Valley Police, said: "We accept the sentence passed down by the court today. "A decision will now be taken as to whether PC Micklethwaite will face internal disciplinary proceedings into his conduct on the day of the shooting. "I can reassure everybody that we have changed our procedures and were recently described as a model force on firearms training issues by an independent review."

Obama to push nuclear disarmament

The Shit On A Stick US President Barack Obama is to call for an end to nuclear arms and the spread of the technology behind them, at an historic UN session. In the first security council meeting chaired by the US, Mr Obama will present a resolution seeking "a world without nuclear weapons". The meeting comes a day after Mr Obama's debut UN speech, in which he warned of a nuclear arms race. It also comes amid growing concerns over Iran's nuclear ambitions. The draft resolution reaffirms the council's commitment "to seek a safer world for all and to create the conditions for a world without nuclear weapons," the Associated Press reported. It does not specifically mention countries by name, such as North Korea and Iran, but reaffirms previous Security Council resolutions relating to their nuclear plans. Iran's nuclear programme has been criticised by the US and five nations who are set to hold talks next week. Iran says its nuclear ambitions are for peaceful energy purposes, but others fear it is developing weapons. Also on Thursday, a UN conference on a 1996 treaty banning nuclear bomb tests will begin with a speech by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Her appearance is the first US participation at the biannual conference since 1999 when the US Senate refused to ratify the treaty. On Wednesday, the first day of the United Nations General Assembly, Iran's plans came under fire. French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Iranian leaders were "making a tragic mistake" if they thought the international community would not respond. UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned Iran - and North Korea - that the world would be even tougher on proliferation. In his speech on Wednesday, President Obama said: "For decades, we averted disaster, even under the shadow of a super-power stand-off. But today, the threat of proliferation is growing in scope and complexity. "If we fail to act, we will invite nuclear arms races in every region, and the prospect of wars and acts of terror on a scale that we can hardly imagine." Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signalled that Moscow might be prepared to soften its opposition to sanctions against Iran over its nuclear plans. But the Chinese foreign ministry has said that increasing pressure on Iran would not be effective. In his speech, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke of countries which undermined the development of other nations under the pretext of preventing arms proliferation. Mr Obama said he and Mr Medvedev shared the goal of allowing Iran to pursue peaceful nuclear energy, but not nuclear weapons.(my view)- Yo!shit stick?...you'd like that wouldn't you.....the rest of the world disarms and demolish our/their weapons so then we're defenceless...then you surprise us with an attack that you DEEM necessary......but is NOT-fuck you shit on a stick hitler!

Nude Germans want right to roam

Germany is traditionally tolerant of nudity, but a plan to give naked ramblers their own wilderness path is still some way from the sunny uplands. A campsite manager, Heinz Ludwig, aims to establish Germany's first official naked ramblers' footpath - an 18km (11-mile) route in the Harz Mountains. "But some people are against - it is not directly supported by the community," he told BBC News. "I want people to calm down, then we'll try again next year." But he says fans of Freikoerperkultur - Free Body Culture, or FKK for short - have expressed support for the scheme. It would attract naturists to the Wippra and Dankerode areas, in the central German mountain range. Fully-clothed walkers would be free to use the path, too. "It's a secluded area, away from traffic," Mr Ludwig said. "In the GDR [former communist East Germany] people used to bathe there, too." He says some keen naturists have already tested the trail. The plan is to open it officially next May. A sign has been put up warning those averse to naturism that they might prefer to go elsewhere. "If you don't want to see people with nothing on then you should refrain from moving on," it reads. The path is overgrown in places, so some funding would be needed to tidy it up and maintain it, Mr Ludwig said.(my view)-We all should(by choice) "Run free" be naked if we want,we are all born naked...even when we first walked on this planet-we were naked then,people today are fussy perverts who sees nakedness as a crime,the government MAKES us buy clothing to please these fussy perverts and to make money....now that is sick

Broadband Tax-Taxing The Net

A controversial broadband tax should be law before the next election, according to Minister for Digital Britain Stephen Timms. The 50 pence a month tax will apply to everyone with a fixed line telephone. Speaking at a debate in London, Mr Timms said the tax will be presented to parliament as part of the Finance Bill. But the Tory MP John Whittingdale said the tax, which could raise up to £175m a year to fund high speed networks, would be opposed by the Conservatives. "I'm confident the Conservative party will oppose it. I object to it on the basis that it is another tax and is aimed at people who are using old technology," said Mr Whittingdale, who is also chair of the DCMS (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) select committee. Speaking at a debate organised by The BCS Chartered Institute for IT (formerly the British Computer Society), Mr Timms reiterated the government's commitment to the levy and the other recommendations of Lord Carter's Digital Britain report. "We want to make high speed networks nationally available. The next-generation fund will help that and we will legislate for it this side of a general election," he said.-No derailment-He told BBC News that the other recommendations of the Digital Britain report would "be built on" in the Digital Economy Bill, which will be presented to parliament in November. There have been concerns in recent months that the Digital Britain report, which was unveiled in June, has been derailed. Business Secretary, Lord Mandelson, has intervened to beef up the government policy on illegal file-sharing, which could include removing persistent offenders from the net. Mr Timms denied the report had been sidelined. "Nothing has been derailed. It is full steam ahead," he told BBC News "There had been speculation that it would be shelved because of a convention that any tax introduced shortly before an election should have cross-party support"- Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC Technology correspondent. (my view)-the net is a FREE medium,the net was made as a free information provider and educational tool for the world,not to mention free communication,THIS IS BREAKING THE LAW,THEY ARE BREAKING THE LAW AND WE HAVE TO PAY FOR FREEDOM OF SPEECH, ECT!

District 9

Fucking awesome movie,but humans are so specist,the aliens didn't want to fight,they were and are starving and needed a home,but they were/are treated like scum....and the age old truthism thats the government experimenting on them,ripping them open,using them for target practise,stealing the aliens weapons to use for their own use off,...makes me sick that the government has NO SOUL and can do as they wish....makes me so ill,but all in all....a good movie.me and barbara watched the DVD last night:) a must see!

The Unfurnished Cabin

Twilight Soundtrack- Blue Foundation- Eyes On Fire

Want To Know Where YOUR Social Security Money Goes!

Social Security Administration spends 700K on Phoenix conference - PARTY

Megan Fox Speaks Out About Peer Pressure

Megan Fox Is A Home Wreaker,Banned,Stuck Up,An Idiot,A Prostitute,A Selfish Bisexual And Yes Most Like Me..Hate The Cunting Whore

I always thought Zac Efron was gay. Then he met Megan Fox. I can see how that could change his mind. Showbiz Spy reports: Hudgens, 20, was recently reported to have barred Efron from speaking with Fox after the pair had a dinner date in July. “Vanessa feels humiliated by what she perceives to be Zac cheating on her,” a source told the National Enquirer. “It stings so much more because Megan is one of the hottest women on the planet. “Vanessa demanded Zac cut all ties with Megan and swore if he didn’t, they were finished.” While sources close to Vanessa admit she’s not happy about Zac’s relationship with Megan, they insist she isn’t trying to keep the pair apart. “The stories that she’s banned Zac from seeing Megan are nonsense,” a source said. “She’s expressed concerns to Zac and I think she feels Megan is only flirting with Zac to annoy her. “We’ve told her there’s nothing to worry about. We think Megan fancies Zac but isn’t going to steal him.” My dad is a sniper and my mom is the Vice President of a bank, so who the hell knows what kind of person love will lead into your heart. And if love happens to lead your dick into Megan Fox's ass, then hey man, go for it. Don't get me wrong, Vanessa Hudgens is a hot little piece, but let's be honest here, Megan Fox could be fused to airplane wreckage and I'd still have to use those condoms that numb your penis.-AND IN ANOTHER REPORT-I'm totally self-important and think everything revolves around me, so this is probably my fault. You're welcome. The New York Daily News reports: It may seem unlikely, but the men of America are sick of Megan Fox. A dozen male-focused Web sites including AOL's men's lifestyle/humor site Asylum.com — as well as Ask Men, Just a Guy Thing and Double Viking — have sanctioned Aug. 4 as a Megan Fox media blackout day. Why the diss? All the editors feel the starlet has become a bit too overexposed — and they're not just talking about her fashion sense. Fox has appeared on the covers of Esquire, Empire, Maxim, GQ UK, Entertainment Weekly and Elle this year alone, plus she did heavy press for her role as Mikaela Banes in "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen." "You can have too much of a good thing," says AskMen.com's Editor-in-Chief James Bassil, who tells us, "We're joining in the media blackout and giving our readers a one-day reprieve from the woman we've been drowning in all summer." My totally normal, not weird at all obsession with Megan Fox is fully documented on this site, so I won't tell you how the very mention of a one day ban on Megan Fox shakes me to my very core. Some may call it a phase (some of you may remember my Jessica Biel, Keira Knightley, and Keeley Hazell deals), but the fact that she's dating the wigger from 90210 gives me hope. I mean, he's Brian Austin Green. At best, he should be on television in a gorilla costume, standing next to a giant inflatable Uncle Sam telling me how I could get 0% financing on this new Ford F-150. He'll even take my trade no matter how much I owe! -AND ANOTHER- I don't have a homemade Bobba Fett costume, so I didn't attend Comic Con this year, but Megan Fox did. And Megan Fox in a room full of guys who jack off to anime can't be good. News.com.au reports: This year, Johansson was the headliner, promoting Iron Man 2, but it was an appearance by Megan Fox which had the geeks talking after one fan approached the star during a Q&A to promote her new supernatural western Jonah Hex. "My question is for Megan," the man said. "I have a Sony HVR (video camera). It's not a true HD, but it gives a pretty good image. Anyway, my question is: I just graduated film school and I'm trying to help my career. I was wondering if you'd be interested in some kind of, like, celebrity sex tape?" With that, a couple of security guards grabbed the fella and took him to an undisclosed location. "Dude, I can't wait to see what you look like in 30 minutes," Fox's co-star, Josh Brolin, quipped as the man was dragged away. Maybe it was because she was surrounded by dudes with phaser gun keychains and their names written in their underwear or whatever, but she wasn't like this when we made our sex tape. Of course she was a little timid at first because I had to use a shoehorn to get my penis in her ass, but after a few minutes she started to relax. Her lawyer claims that's when the alleged ether kicked in. But what does he know of love? -AND ANOTHER-Although Transformers launched her into superstardom, Megan Fox is channeling her inner Katherine Heigl and is taking every opportunity to piss all over it. Us Magazine reports: Fox told Entertainment Weekly: "I mean, I can't shit on this movie because it did give me a career and open all these doors for me. But I don't want to blow smoke up people's ass. People are well aware that this is not a movie about acting." And although it's not as big as mine, director Michael Bay pulled his dick out and slapped her with it: "Well, that's Megan Fox for you," Bay tell the Wall Street Journal. "She says some very ridiculous things because she's 23 years old and she still has a lot of growing to do. "You roll your eyes when you see statements like that and think, 'Okay Megan, you can do whatever you want. I got it,'" he goes on..."Nobody in the world knew about Megan Fox until I found her and put her in Transformers," he says. "I like to think that I've had some luck in building actors' careers with my films." As much as I like to explore her anus like Ponce de León, I've slowly come to the realization that this chick says a lot of dumb shit and she's never gonna leave Brian Austin Green no matter what she tells me. The imaginary sex is great, but quite frankly, so is a delmonico steak. The only difference is, I've actually tasted a delmonico steak. So, Megan, you know that number you had blocked and reported to the police? Yeah, it's never calling you again! Haha, suck on that Megan! -AND ANOTHER- At this point, other than trying to get her half naked on their cover, I'm not sure why magazines want to interview Megan Fox. Because, well, chances are good that she wont make it five minutes without saying something really stupid. Congrats, British GQ! Showbiz Spy reports: “When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes,” Fox tells the July issue of British GQ. “We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who’s not their partner. It’s really kind of gross. “I have this sort of promiscuous image. People assume I’m really overtly sexually aggressive and that I’m this wild child. And I’m not like that at all. “I would rather have an image that is wild and promiscuous than to go out of my way to be proper all the time.“There are some guys who think I’m going to be this little cupcake who’s going to bat my eyes and be like a receptacle for them. I shut them down immediately.” Ugh. Megan, I love you, I do, but baby, pretty please, shut the hell up. You want to know why people think you're "overtly sexually aggressive"? Let's see, hmm, maybe this? Or this? No wait, maybe this. Look, you can't throw me an idea then say I have the wrong idea. Magazines aren't claiming you're Andrei Chikatilo or Jack The Ripper, you're saying this stuff. I think you just need to take a long look in the mirror and think about what image you want to portray. Now turn around. Then squeeze your nipples for me. Oooh yeah, baby. You like that?-AND ANOTHER- In the new issue of Esquire, Megan Fox says that she likes to have sex with girls. When asked for comment, I said, "Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh God, oh God, oh, ooohhhhh.....ah, ah, aaaaaahhhh, ah, mmmmm, ah, uuhhmm...whew. Who's hungry?" The Sun UK says: The Transformers actress says she’s a bisexual woman who won’t sleep with other bisexual women. She told Esquire: “I think people are born bisexual and they make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. "I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite. I would never date a girl who was bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never want to sleep with a girl who had slept with a man." There's only two women in the world that can make my penis shoot like a sprinkler, and yes, Megan Fox is one of them. And this does nothing but help her case. Dear God. I'm not even halfway joking when I say I'd fuck this bitch in the ass so fast California could use me to start a controlled burn. -AND FINALLY- In an open letter to Michael Bay's official website, three anonymous crew members who worked on both Transformer movies rip Megan Fox a new ass. Not the one I want to rip. It has been removed from Bay's official site, but the always fantastic ONTD has a copy of it here. In case that gets pulled, I pasted the whole thing. Yay, me!! Nelson, This is an open letter to all Michael Bay fans. We are three crew members that have worked with Michael for the past ten years. Last week we read the terrible article with inflammatory, truly trashing quotes by the Ms. Fox about Michael Bay. This letter is to set a few things straight. Yes, Megan has great eyes, a tight stomach we spray with glycerin, and an awful silly Marilyn Monroe tattoo plastered on her arm that we cover up to keep the moms happy. Michael found this shy, inexperienced girl, plucked her out of total obscurity thus giving her the biggest shot of any young actresses' life. He told everyone around to just trust him on his choice. He granted her the starring role in Transformers, a franchise that forever changed her life; she became one of the most googled and oogled women on earth. She was famous! She was the next Angelina Jolie, hooray! Wait a minute, two of us worked with Angelina – second thought – she’s no Angelina. You see, Angelia is a professional. We know this quite intimately because we’ve had the tedious experience of working with the dumb-as-a-rock Megan Fox on both Transformers movies. We've spent a total of 12 months on set making these two movies. We are in different departments; we can’t give our names because sadly doing so in Hollywood could lead to being banished from future Paramount work. One of us touches Megan’s panties, the other has the often shitty job of pulling Ms. Sour pants out of her trailer, while another is near the Panaflex camera that helps to memorialize the valley girl on film. Megan has the press fooled. When we read those magazines we wish we worked with that woman. Megan knows how to work her smile for the press. Those writers should try being on set for two movies, sadly she never smiles. The cast, crew and director make Transformers a really fun and energetic set. We’ve traveled around the world together, so we have never understood why Megan was always such – the grump of the set? When facing the press, Megan is the queen of talking trailer trash and posing like a porn star. And yes we’ve had the unbearable time of watching her try to act on set, and yes, it's very cringe-able. So maybe, being a porn star in the future might be a good career option. But make-up beware, she has a paragraph tattooed to her backside (probably due her rotten childhood) easily another 45 minutes in the chair! So when the three of us caught wind of Ms Fox, pontificating yet again in some publication (like she actually has something interesting to say) blabbing her trash mouth about a director whom we three have grown to really like. She compared working with Michael, to “working with Hitler”. We actually don’t think she knows who Hitler is by the way. But we wondered how she doesn’t realize what a disgusting, fully uneducated comment this was? Well, here let’s get some facts straight. Say what you want about Michael – yes at times he can be hard, but he's also fun, and he challenges everyone for a reason – he simply wants people to bring their ‘A’ game. He comes very prepared, knows exactly what he wants, involves the crew and expects everyone to follow through with his or her best, and that includes the actors. He’s one of the hardest working directors out there. He gets the best from his crews, many of whom have worked with him for 15 years. And yes, he’s loyal, one of the few directors we’ve encountered who lowered his fee by millions to keep Transformers in the United States and California, so he could work with his own crew. Megan says that Transformers was an unsafe set? Come on Megan, we know it is a bit more strenuous then the playground at the trailer park, but you don’t insult one of the very best stunt and physical effects teams in the business! Not one person got hurt! And who is the real Megan Fox? She is very different than the academy nominee and winning actors we’ve all worked around. She’s as about ungracious a person as you can ever fathom. She shows little interest in the crew members around her. We work to make her look good in every way, but she's absolutely never appreciative of anyone’s hard work. Never a thank you. All the crewmembers have stopped saying hi to Ms. Princess because she never says hello back. It gets tiring. Many think she just really hates the process of being an actress. Megan has been late to the sets many times. She goes through the motions that make her exude this sense of misery. We’ve heard the A.D’s piped over the radio that Megan won’t walk from her trailer until John Turturro walks first! John’s done seventy-five movies and she’s made two! Never expect Megan to attend any of the 15 or so crew parties like all the other actors have. And then there's the classless night she blew off The Royal Prince of Jordan who made a special dinner for all the actors. She doesn’t know that one of the grips daughters wanted to visit their daddy’s work to meet Megan, but he wouldn’t let them come because he told them “she is not nice." The press certainly doesn’t know her most famous line. On our first day in Egypt, the Egyptian government wouldn’t let us shoot because of a permit problem as the actors got ready in make up at the Four Seasons Hotel. Michael tried to make the best of it; he wanted to take the cast and crew on a private tour of the famous Giza pyramids. God hold us witness, Megan said, "I can’t believe Michael is fucking forcing us to go to the fucking pyramids!" I guess this is the “Hitler guy” she is referring to. So this is the Megan Fox you don’t get to see. Maybe she will learn, but we figure if she can sling insults, then she can take them too. Megan really is a thankless, classless, graceless, and shall we say unfriendly bitch. It's sad how fame can twist people, and even sadder that young girls look up to her. If only they knew who they're really looking up to. But ‘Fame’ is fleeting. We, being behind the scenes, seen em’ come and go. Hopefully Michael will have Megatron squish her character in the first ten minutes of Transformers 3. We can tell you that will make the crew happy! -Loyal Transformers Crew It's hard to believe that Michael Bay has fans, but of course I believe every word of this letter. Why? Because Megan Fox is hot and insane. But here's the thing: Todd = don't give a fuck. So what if she's a hot Katherine Heigl? I'm not trying to give her a Good Citizenship badge. I just want people to see the mark of Zorro I made when they run a blacklight over her face. Megan Fox at a Jennifer's Body press conference:

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Larger models 'spark fashion row'

A stylist and casting director have left a London Fashion Week show over a decision to use average-sized models, a fashion boss says. Amanda May, managing director for Canadian designer Mark Fast, said there were "creative differences with regards to the casting of those girls". Fast broke fashion convention by putting three size 12 to 14 models on the catwalk on Saturday. "There was a team change and we're glad we stuck to our vision," said Ms May. Ms May said stylist Daniela Agnelli and casting director Natalie Hubbard stepped in at the last minute to help out. 'Beautiful bits' She said the decision to feature three models from the agency 12 + UK was neither politically motivated nor a publicity stunt. "The decision to use the fuller girls is something we have been talking about," she said. ""There's this idea that only thin and slender women are able to wear Mark's dresses and he wanted to combat that. "We wanted women to know they don't have to be a size zero to wear a Mark Fast dress - curvier women can look even better in one." She would not divulge exactly what was said on Thursday night before the freelance pair left the team, saying "we don't want to talk about the ugly bits, we want to talk about the beautiful bits". Fast is a 28-year-old knitwear designer known for his figure-hugging mini-dresses. His clothes used to be one size fits all but his spring/summer 2010 collection features garments in different size groups. However, they are not categorised numerically to "challenge traditional notions of fit and idealized body shape". He has also been involved in All Walks Beyond the Catwalk, a photography exhibition featuring models aged 18 to 65, from sizes eight to 16. This is where he met Hayley Morley - one of the models he used in his show. The exhibition opened at Somerset House on Friday, the new central London home of London Fashion Week, which runs until Tuesday 22 September.(my view)-to me.a woman with meat on her are sexy,that means shes healthy and happy....i am glad someone finally did it:) bravo girls.....bravo! show how sexy you are:)today these skinny girls think men think their sexy but o'no plus...your all teaching young girls not to eat properly and portray thin as beauty.........your all sick!

Revolutionary discovery means world may not run out of crude

A team of scientists based at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden have made a "revolutionary" discovery about how hydrocarbon is formed, learning that animal and plant fossils are not necessary to form crude oil. The discovery, the scientists say, means that the world will never run out of crude oil. Currently, theory states that crude oil is formed very slowly - over millions of years - from the remains of dead plants and animals. Buried under rock, over time the pressure and temperature of natural earth processes results in the creation of crude oil. But that theory is now old news, as the scientists, led by Vladimir Kutcherov, say they have proven that fossilized plants and animals are not needed to create hydrocarbons. “Using our research we can even say where oil could be found in Sweden,” Kutcherov told Science Daily. The article, titled Methane-derived hydrocarbons produced under upper mantle conditions, and published in Nature Geoscience, states that "Whether hydrocarbons can also be produced from abiogenic precursor molecules under the high-pressure, high-temperature conditions characteristic of the upper mantle remains an open question. It has been proposed that hydrocarbons generated in the upper mantle could be transported through deep faults to shallower regions in the Earth’s crust, and contribute to petroleum reserves." Kutcherov has said that his next step is to conduct experiments that will help him refine his new method for finding drilling points. The idea of endless oil might be a bane to environmentalists and high-stakes oil production fields, such as Canada's oil sands, but most of the world's population will thrill to the idea that they will not have to give up their beloved automobiles. Not only will it be a much simpler matter to find and extract petroleum fuels, but, as Kutcherov's theories become reality, prices for natural gas and gasoline products should decrease. Kutcherov said the world is reliant on crude oil and natural gas, which makes up 61% of fuels currently used. Kutcherov had recently proven that hydrocarbons can be created out of water, calcium carbonate and iron, and this means that crude oil is a sustainable, renewable resource, according to reports. However, this discovery does not mean that emissions from the combustion of hydrocarbons do not create climate change. Kutcherov is a professor at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. Last year Science Magazine published an article that said crude oil is created by an abiotic process and not from fossil fuels. These recent discoveries were found by building on a German process referred to as the Fischer-Tropsch type (FTT) genesis. Germany had plenty of coal but very little petroleum, which prompted a serious push by German scientists to find a way to create a substitute fuel. The FTT process was developed and patented in the 1920s, and was subsequently used throughout World War II by Germany and Japan. The process has been the basis for the creation of jet fuel made from water in the United States, as reported by Wired magazine. While Kucherov's experiments have been proven in the laboratory, they have yet to be translated into reality, and there is no word on how long the world might have to wait to take advantage of the new discoveries.

Another African virus crosses oceans with humans and mosquitoes

An African virus, carried by mosquitoes, is spreading to the west. The virus, called Chikungunya, does not have a vaccine and there is no treatment for it. A health expert expressed fears over the recent spread of the disease to France, Italy, India and a French Island called Reunion, saying that the U.S. and Europe are threatened by the bug. Carried by mosquitoes, the virus began to spread outside of Africa about four years ago. Speaking at a meeting about airplanes and air travel, Dr. James Diaz said "We're very worried." Diaz is from the Louisiana University Health Sciences Center. "Unlike West Nile virus, where nine out of 10 people are going to be totally asymptomatic, or may have a mild headache or a stiff neck, if you get Chikungunya you're going to be sick. The disease can be fatal. It's a serious disease. There is no vaccine." According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), the virus was found in a Tanzanian victim in 1952 and has been identified as the source of "numerous human epidemics in many areas of Africa, Asia and most recently in limited areas of Europe." The CDC states that the virus is rarely fatal. The disease, if contracted, is not a pleasant experience. Victims often experience severe joint pain, and other symptoms include fever, headache, fatigue, nausea, and a rash. The symptoms are reported to last for weeks, but some people say the joint pain can persist for months, even years, after recovery. Carried by the Asian Tiger mosquito, which lives all around the world, scientists fear the virus will now make its way to the West. The disease is spread by human-mosquito-human contact. Air travel is seen as the means for dissemination of the disease around the world. The World Health Organization says that in an 11-month period between 2005-2006, 1,722 cases were diagnosed on Reunion Island by doctors. A model created to show how the virus might spread showed that 110,000 people might have been infected by the virus during that one year period. The disease can spread rapidly, and the CDC report on Reunion Island cases said that in a one week period, 326 cases were reported. The WHO also says that the disease is rarely fatal. Research by Sandro Cinti, Chikungunya Fever An Emerging Infection, published in January 2009 demonstrates that the virus is a source of concern because of its quick spread and because it is a cause of death. According to Diaz, malaria is still the most common cause of infectious death

The Douche Bag Known As Obama chose wrong day to abandon missile defence shield in Europe

President Obama's announcement on September 17 that the US is shelving its plans to build a ballistic missile defense (BMD) system in Central Europe is likely to raise painful historical memories in Poland. The Obama White House cancelled ballistic missile defense plans for Europe on a date with important historical significance for the people of Poland. Under the terms of the Hitler-Stalin Pact, the Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland 70 years ago, on Sept. 17, 1939, while western and central parts of Poland were being overrun by German armies. Russia fought hard to keep American missiles away from its borders, and President Obama's decision is seen as a concession to Moscow in return for Russian support in curbing Iran's nuclear program. The Poles, always fearful of the Kremlin's imperial reach, are more likely to see it as a betrayal of their country, a faithful NATO ally of the U.S., just as Poland, whose soldiers fought alongside Americans against Nazi Germany, was betrayed by America at the end of World War II. The Stratfor global intelligence website reported that a U.S. concession to Moscow on BMD would be one of the first major steps in a Russian-U.S. deal — one which could see Iran’s greatest foreign backer flip sides. But President Obama's "flip" on the Bush Administration's BMD deal with Poland reminds the Poles of another popular and progressive US president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who made a deal with Stalin in Yalta to get Moscow's military support against Japan. Poland and the rest of Central and Eastern Europe paid for FDR's deal at Yalta with decades of Soviet domination. These may be completely different times and different political stakes, but the Obama Administration has already demonstrated its lack of historical sensitivity and public diplomacy strategy when it refused Poland's invitation to send a high level representative to the official observances in Gdansk of the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II. Prime Minister Putin was there and even made sort of an apology for the Hitler-Stalin Pact while trying to deny Stalin's responsibility for helping Hitler to start World War II. The Poles are proud and they think in historical terms. While listening to Putin's dubious historical analysis delivered in Gdansk, they were reminded of being snubbed by their American ally. The latest decision on missile defense may turn out to be a new public diplomacy disaster for President Obama. Poland, one of America's staunchest allies in the war on terror, saw the presence of US missiles as a protection of its security and sovereignty against a possible threat from Russia. Former Polish President and Solidarity leader Lech Walesa along with former Czech President Vaclav Havel and dozens of other prominent Central European political leaders and intellectuals sent an open letter to President Obama warning him of Russia's continued threat to the region. The letter was not well received by the Obama Administration. As for historical lessons, FDR's deal with Stalin did not get much for the US. It allowed the Soviet Union to occupy Central and Eastern Europe and brought about the Cold War. America paid for Yalta with wars in Korea and Vietnam and in billions of dollars in defense spending. President Obama, Vice President Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other top administration officials have been silent in recent months as Russian leaders and the Kremlin controlled media launched a campaign to rehabilitate Stalin's aggressive and genocidal policies. The Poles, on the other hand, reacted to Moscow's rewriting of Soviet history with great alarm. People in the Obama White House may think there are no historical lessons to be drawn from their decision to scrap the missile defense system in Poland and Czech Republic, but any experienced public diplomacy expert would have told them that Central Europeans still remember World War II, Yalta, and the Cold War. At the very least, President Obama could have waited a day or two so that his missile defense announcement would not have been made on the 70th anniversary of the Soviet attack on Poland.

McCann lawyers in website demand

Lawyers representing Kate and Gerry McCann have demanded a website claiming their daughter was not abducted be taken down. The Madeleine Foundation claims Madeleine is dead and her parents bear some responsibility for her death. In a statement on its website, the foundation says libel specialists Carter-Ruck have also demanded they hand over all remaining copies of leaflets and booklets they published to support their claims. The spokesman for the McCann family, Clarence Mitchell said: "Kate and Gerry have consistently made it clear they will not dignify the actions of the so-called Madeleine Foundation with any comment whatsoever. "However Carter-Ruck's position is now clear and it is in the hands of Kate and Gerry's defamation lawyers." The statement on the foundation's website states they were given until Friday to reply to Carter-Ruck's letters and were now taking legal advice. Madeleine was nearly four when she vanished from her family's rented holiday apartment in Praia da Luz on May 3 2007 while her parents dined with friends nearby. Mr and Mrs McCann, both doctors from Rothley, Leicestershire, tapped into the huge public interest into their daughter's disappearance and made repeated appeals for information. They feared their daughter had been abducted and taken abroad and set up an official findmadeleine.com website as part of their campaign to be re-united with their daughter.(my view)barbara knows my view on this topic

Father gunned down in street named

A father of two who was shot dead at his front door in what is believed to be a gang-related attack has been named by police. Amran Khan, 29, from Oldham, Greater Manchester was gunned down on Friday night when he opened his door on hearing a disturbance. Three shots were fired at the victim, who lived on Nugget Street, and one of the bullets hit him in the chest, police said. He died at the Royal Oldham Hospital in the early hours of Saturday, leaving behind a wife and two young daughters, aged one and four years old. Officers are trying to establish a motive, but according to sources, the attack may have been gang-related. Chief Superintendent Caroline Ball, from Oldham Police, urged anyone with information to come forward. She said: "Tragically, a young man has lost his life as a result of this shooting and our thoughts are with his wife and two young daughters during this traumatic time. "We understand the community will be very shocked and deeply upset by what has happened, so I would ask that they work with us to help find whomever is responsible for Amran's murder. "If the answers are in the community, then that positive dialogue will help us find Amran's killers." Ms Ball said there would be an increased police presence in the area over the coming days to reassure residents

Five ways banks rip you off

Whether it's uncompetitive interest rates, penalty fees or hefty transaction charges, there are many ways banks are profiting at our expense. We look at the top five ways your bank makes money from you and show you how to get your own back. 1. Sky-high overdraft rates While the base rate stands at just 0.5%, the majority of high street banks charge between 18% and 20% interest on overdrafts (not to mention the host of charges when you exceed your overdraft). Though a recent regulatory crackdown has forced banks to reduce these rates, it still represents a huge waste of your money - especially when it's so easy to avoid. If you're often in the red, then you should consider switching to an account that offers a more competitive overdraft. The Alliance & Leicester Premier Direct account charges no interest for the first 12 months, thereafter charging a usage fee of 50p a day (up to a maximum of £5 a month). Note that A&L applies a maximum overdraft limit of £2,000 2. Miserly credit rates Most high street banks pay a miserly 0.1% credit interest on their current accounts, while some pay you nothing at all. So why not take the time to switch to a bank that rewards you for your custom? Some accounts out there pay as much as 6% on credit interest. All you have to do is shop around. 3. Foreign transaction fees Every time you use your card while abroad, banks charge you a fee of up to 3% of the transaction. It's called a foreign transaction fee and it's a profitable business: data shows that banks rake in almost £60 million a month during the peak summer period. Banks charge different amounts for this and some don't charge for European transactions, so checking the small print on your deal or switching current accounts can save you money. Alternatively, you could consider taking a pre-paid travel card with you overseas. It works just like your bank card except that you can load it up with foreign currency, allowing you to avoid the foreign transaction fee altogether. Just make sure you do your research, as some pre-paid cards come with hefty fees themselves. 4. Inverse order of payments It's not just current accounts that can offer a bad deal. Credit cards come with a host of sneaky fees too. Did you know that your bank manipulates your credit card repayments in order to maximise the cost to you? Almost all cards impose an inverse allocation of payments, which basically means that any repayments you make go towards the cheapest debt, leaving the highest interest-earning portion earning interest for the bank until everything else is paid off. This trick can prove particularly costly in the age of short-term interest-free credit cards. For example, imagine you take out a card that comes with a 12-month 0% balance transfer deal and a three-month offer on new purchases. Now let's assume you switch £3,000 debt to your new credit card, which offers 12 months interest free on transfers and three months on new purchases. You then have an unexpected £1,000 expense which you can't immediately cover, so you put it on the card and plan to repay it before the 0% new purchase offer expires in three months time. But when you do repay that debt, you'll find those funds went towards the balance transfer instead. So after three months you still owe the £1,000 from that new purchase, and it is now earning interest at a rate of anywhere between 16% and 19%. Before you can even begin to repay it, you have to clear the £2,000 remaining on your balance transfer. There are three ways to avoid this trick: choose a card that offers identical new purchase and balance transfer deals, find a card that pays things off in an order that suits you and not them (the Nationwide Gold Card for example) or simply use a separate credit card for each. 5. Cash advance According to data from debt charity Credit Action, the average credit card APR is currently 17.95%, or 17.45% above base rate. But even that pales into insignificance compared to the almost 30% interest rate charged on cash withdrawals. And of course, because of the inverse order of payments mentioned earlier, you will have to clear all other debt before you can begin paying it off. Not to mention the fact that your traditional "grace period" - the amount of time between buying something on a card and being charged interest on it - does not apply to cash withdrawals. As a final kick in the teeth, such withdrawals also tend to attract a fee of up to 3%.

Tortoise Survives Motorway

LONDON, England (CNN) -- No one knows where he started his slow, lonely journey, but it ended this week when a quick-thinking driver scooped him up and rescued him from a busy motorway south of London. Freeway the tortoise, as he has since come to be known, is now living comfortably at an animal rescue center in Worthing, along England's south coast, while staff try to find his owner. Whoever owned Freeway fitted him with a microchip, but unfortunately the chip is blank, with no information about where he came from, said Billy Elliott, an animal rescue officer at Worthing and District Animal Rescue Service. The microchip is a type usually used in America, but it is made in Belgium, so it's likely the reptile came from one of the two countries, Elliott said. "They feel he was definitely from abroad, but we still don't know," Elliott told CNN. "It's still up in the air where he came from." It was Worthing resident John Formby who spotted the tortoise Wednesday as it crawled across five lanes of traffic on the M25, a major motorway that circles London. At the junction with the M23, a motorway that goes south toward Worthing, Formby said he spotted what he thought was a rock or piece of debris on the road. "As I get closer to it, it's moving," Formby told CNN. "As I get closer, I recognize it as a tortoise." Formby said he pulled over onto the hard shoulder of the road and went back to grab the animal. "As I'm running back, there's a few cars coming up," he said. "About seven or eight cars had gone past it, but two cars had actually gone straight over the top of it. A white van drove over the top of it." The tortoise had by that point made it from the middle lane to the slow lane, so Formby said he "jumped out (and) grabbed it." The animal didn't seem upset, he said -- "it seemed very determined just to get where it was going." Formby put the tortoise in his car, fed it, and took it home to Worthing, where he brought it to a vet to see whether it had been microchipped. The vet found the chip, but it had no information on it. "The microchip is an extremely useful system in helping reunite lost pets and their owners, but the microchip is only as good as the information on the database," Elliott said. He said they hope the chip manufacturer may at least be able to trace it to the veterinarian who inserted the chip. Freeway is a Hermann's tortoise, a type of small to medium tortoise originally from southern Europe, according to the California Turtle and Tortoise Club. Freeway himself is no bigger than a dessert bowl, Formby said -- about eight inches across and only three or four inches high. Elliott estimates he's about 10 years old. "He's very friendly," he said. "He's obviously a much loved pet." The animal rescue service will keep Freeway for the weekend before placing him in a foster home, Elliott said. If the owner can't be traced within 28 days, they will then try to find a new owner. Freeway's past and future may be a mystery, but one thing is for sure, Elliott said. "He's one lucky tortoise."

Michael Jackson Movie Trailer

Michael Jackson 'This Is It'. Movie will be in theaters everywhere October 28 (my view)-he's been"died"from 5 fucking minutes WTF

Sex-change boy of 12

A 12-year-old boy reported to have changed sex faces "a critical moment" in his life, a transgender campaign group has said. Bernard Reed, a trustee of the Gender Identity Research and Education Society (GIRES), said teachers and pupils at the child's secondary school in southern England were key to his future. The child's parents gave him a girl's name by deed poll and allowed him to wear a dress to school, according to The Sun. The paper said teachers at the school, which has not been identified, called an emergency assembly to explain to pupils the boy would now be treated as a girl. Mr Reed said it was likely the child had been confused about their gender for years. He said: "As many as 500,000 people in the UK experience this, but very few of them seek treatment or change gender. Very young children can realise there is something wrong that perhaps they can not understand and as they get older they can face more repressive forces. Their family may struggle with the issue and they may be bullied at school. "There is a small number that get the right support from their family and school so they can live as themselves. The start of puberty is a critical moment in their lives. What happens in other countries is the child is given treatment for the suspension of the pubertal process but this is refused in the UK." Children in this country can have hormone treatment to aid their physical development but this does not usually happen until they are at least 16 and surgery is not allowed until the age of 18 apart from in exceptional cases. Mr Reed said: "The key people in this are the teachers. They need coaching so they are confident about talking to the other children and their parents. The other key people are the peer group, the children who will be around the child." It was reported the child's parents hoped his transformation from male to female would not be noticed as he was starting secondary school this year, but pupils from his old primary school noticed the change.

Carter says Obama row is 'racist'

Former US President Jimmy Carter says much of the vitriol against President Barack Obama's health reforms and spending plans is "based on racism". Mr Carter told a public meeting there was "an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president". Republican lawmaker Joe Wilson was rebuked on Tuesday in a House vote. He shouted "You lie!" while Mr Obama was delivering an address on healthcare to Congress last Wednesday. The House resolution of disapproval described it as "a breach of decorum". But Mr Wilson's eldest son, Alan, has denied racism was a factor in his father's outburst. Some conservatives have accused the president's supporters of playing the race card. 'Abominable' Angry town hall meetings and a recent taxpayers' demonstration in Washington have been vitriolic towards the president, reports the BBC's North America editor Mark Mardell. Many have not just protested against the president's policies but have accused him of tyranny, and have promised to "reclaim America". "Those kind of things are not just casual outcomes of a sincere debate on whether we should have a national programme on healthcare," Mr Carter said at a public meeting at his Carter Center in Atlanta held prior to the Congress vote on Tuesday. "It's deeper than that." Responding to a question specifically on Mr Wilson's outburst, he said Mr Obama was the head of state as well as the head of government and - like heads of state elsewhere, such as the Queen of England - he should be "treated with respect". It was a "dastardly thing to do", he said. His comments were rejected by Joe Wilson's son, Alan, an Iraq veteran who is running for state attorney general in Georgia. "There is not a racist bone in my dad's body," he said. Apology In Tuesday's vote, lawmakers voted 240-179 in favour of the resolution to censure Mr Wilson The move was backed by most Democrats, but dismissed by many Republicans as a distraction from more serious issues. "My goodness, we could be doing this every day of the week," said Republican Minority Leader John Boehner. But Democratic Majority Leader Steny Hoyer insisted that Mr Wilson's outburst could not be ignored. "At issue is whether we are able to proceed with a degree of civility and decorum that our rules and our democracy contemplate and require," he said. Mr Wilson himself maintained that his personal apology to Mr Obama should have been enough to resolve the matter. Mr Obama "graciously accepted my apology and the issue is over", he said. Mr Wilson's remark came in response to a passage of Mr Obama's speech in which he asserted that illegal immigrants would not be eligible for federal subsidies to buy health coverage. Experts concur that under the terms of Mr Obama's reform package undocumented immigrants would not be able to claim healthcare subsidies.

Jordan: A celeb raped me........LOL BULLSHIT

JORDAN stunned fans yesterday with a claim that she was raped by a famous man before she married her ex Peter Andre. And she insisted Peter KNEW the attacker's identity. Jordan, 31, real name Katie Price, revealed recently that she was raped when she was younger but refused to name the attacker. Now she has gone further, claiming: "A famous celebrity raped me and Peter knows who it was. "It was years ago, before I was with Pete, and my friends and family knew about it at the time." She refused to give any further details. But last night the star's friends and colleagues were trying to work out who she is accusing. One pal said: "We were stunned as it makes everyone feel really paranoid. Katie has always been a party animal and enjoyed wild nights out with loads of blokes. "It's horrifying to think that someone attacked her in this way." Jordan's claims echo the who-dunnit speculation seven years ago after TV girl Ulrika Jonsson, 42, revealed she was raped by a unnamed celeb - later said to be former Blue Peter host John Leslie. He was never charged. Jordan refused to say why she did not report her attack. The mystery deepened as Peter, 36, said he was confused by Jordan's claims in OK mag. He told a pal: "Once again, Katie is saying things that don't make sense to me. "First she says she was raped, now she's upping the ante by claiming it was a celebrity. If she had been raped, why didn't she report it to the police? It's a very serious matter." Jordan - pictured wrapped up in a hoodie as she braved the rain in Brighton yesterday - responded: "He's being really cruel. He knows exactly who did it." She first spoke out last month to defend her new lover Alex Reid, who appears to simulate rape in a film. She said: "Rape is a subject close to my heart. I was raped when I was younger, more than once." Meanwhile, Peter claimed Jordan had left him voice messages, pleading for a reunion. The Sun revealed yesterday she sent drunken texts four days before their divorce last week. Peter - who wowed fans as he signed copies of his new album Revelations at a Birmingham store yesterday - also dismissed Jordan's claims that he has a new woman. And Jordan revealed she will have cancer tests due to the stress of her marriage break-up. She had surgery on a growth on a finger in 2002. (my view)-Shes a lier,always was and always will be,this was another ploy to get some money since her split(cheating crazy bitch)