There are a lot of these video sites, all of them losing money like crazy in hopes of becoming the next Broadcast.com, which was bought years ago by Yahoo in a $5 billion state of suspended disbelief. The leader in this space is certainly YouTube, but there are many, many others. This video sharing business fascinates me because right now it is a shell game built on a shell game. The video sharing sites are for the most part losing money — throwing, HURLING it away in huge wheelbarrows full, rather like the hyperinflation that plagued Germany right after World War I.
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A call about a possible weapon at a middle school prompted police to put armed officers on rooftops, close nearby streets and lock down the school … Someone called authorities Thursday after seeing a boy carrying something long and wrapped into Marshall Junior High … the suspicious item was identified as a 30-inch burrito filled with steak, guacamole, lettuce, salsa and jalapeños and wrapped inside tin foil.
Five senior British officials said the suspects were not prepared to strike immediately. Instead, the reactions of Britain and the United States in the wake of the arrests of 21 people on Aug. 10 were driven [by] fear that other, unknown terrorists might strike … officials said they were still unsure of a critical question: whether any of the suspects was technically capable of assembling and detonating liquid explosives … “In retrospect … there may have been too much hyperventilating going on.”
In the heart of Tehran stands one of Iran’s most important nuclear facilities, a dome-shaped building where scientists have conducted secret experiments that could help the country build atomic bombs. It was provided to the Iranians by the United States … Not only did the U.S. provide the reactor in the 1960s as part of a Cold War strategy, America also supplied the weapons-grade uranium needed to power the facility.
The current [Israeli] air force chief, Maj. Gen. Elyezer Shkedy, said in an interview that collateral damage had been decreasing from one civilian death per assassination in 2002 to one civilian death for every 25 terrorists killed in 2005. One reason was technology, Yaalon said. At first, Apache helicopters fired Hellfire antitank missiles, he said. Yaalon asked Rafael Armament Development Authority, a Defense Ministry affiliate, to manufacture smaller warheads. “A person isn’t a tank,” said Avi Galor of Rafael, who supervises a team that is miniaturizing missiles. Rafael is developing “the Firefly,” a warhead the size of a soda bottle. Galor said, “We want to kill terrorists — and not little girls, and it’s on CNN, and you can’t explain it.”
Parker Ward had no answers for why he had sex with the corpse of a woman he found dead inside a camper home … saying he was “pretty much drunk” that night … Ward found the woman lying in bed unresponsive. Several empty prescription pill bottles were nearby. “I checked her pulse, then tried to give her mouth to mouth … knew it was kind of wrong,” Ward said before admitting … he had sex with the corpse, then called 911 … Ward had previously made advances on the woman and had been spurned.
Sadr “clearly is the most potent political figure, and the most popular one … Unless directly provoked, Sadrists will lay low, because they know the Americans’ time in Iraq is coming to an end … Why would they risk another major loss of fighters if it’s not necessary? Americans in their eyes are already defeated — they’re going to leave.”
Abu Diri, or Father of the Shield, is the nom de guerre of a Shiite Muslim man. Sunni Arabs of Baghdad also know him as “the Butcher” … Abu Diri and his followers dump their victims in the streets bearing bullet wounds and sometimes the smaller holes made by electric drills … At least until July, Abu Diri and the dozens of men believed to be under him operated out of Sadr City and Shula, two Baghdad neighborhoods … heavily loyal to Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr … Abu Diri’s victims typically were found blindfolded, with hands bound, in the streets lining Sadr City … “He’s the enforcer … He goes after specific targets” of Sadr and the Mahdi Army”.
Thousands of bodies turned up on the [Sadr] streets … the victims had been brought from all over Baghdad … Victims typically had their shoes removed and their hands bound … and were executed in public … the women they found dead, like the men found with their genitals mutilated, were judged guilty of extramarital sex … a female worker [worked] at a Sadr City clinic that Mahdi Army members believed was a brothel. The militiamen warned the women there to shut the place down, pistol-whipped them in public and then shot the worker dead on the street.
Elijah [Blue] proceeded to call Paris [Hilton] “a sweet girl” while also claiming he wasn’t that interested in her, especially after they had sex. Elijah next said, because he and Paris didn’t use protection when they were together, he ended up using Tilex to clean himself off when they were done in order to avoid contracting any possible diseases from her.
Employment in Europe appears to be on the up with new jobs being created at a faster pace than in America. “The eurozone is now creating jobs at a faster rate than the US,” said Holger Schmieding, a European economist at Bank of America … Figures published by the EU’s statistical agency in mid-August showed that the eurozone had registered its biggest economic growth in six years.
Israel signed a contract with Germany last month to buy two Dolphin-class submarines that will … provide superior second-strike nuclear capabilities.
Israel’s submarine force is viewed as critical to national security. It is intended to exercise sea control over the Eastern Mediterranean and secure sea lines of communication; Israel is dependent on imports of grain, crude oil, and raw materials … In November 2005, outgoing German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder approved the sale of two Dolphin-class submarines to Israel for a total of €1 billion ($1.17 billion USD) [with] up to €333 million in funding from the German federal budget.
The Dolphin-class submarines [Germany] built were equipped with weapon systems similar to those installed on other diesel-electric submarines … upon arrival at Haifa, Israel, the submarines were modified, and fitted with cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads.
Israel has tested a nuclear-capable verson of its medium-range “Popeye Turbo” cruise missile design for deployability from the 650mm torpedo tubes in its Dolphin Class submarines. The 2002 Popeye Turbo launch test location off Sri Lanka suggested that the tests may have been performed in cooperation with India.
