Saudi Arabia Is Pushing The U.S. For Regime Change In Syria

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU-tPso0ASn4mZCdfei3FqPgnBPpsw5qxboqssHTCy-TI-If3PI8pza0bEUniFhAkjL2LecZ6XKgOypYDSkZOPYNsW-wAE_dx6mNZBpocZ_O0prDChphqy-JL2Q3oicVVVPP0fw6HX9hI5/s1600/2013-09-12-BZSSR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU-tPso0ASn4mZCdfei3FqPgnBPpsw5qxboqssHTCy-TI-If3PI8pza0bEUniFhAkjL2LecZ6XKgOypYDSkZOPYNsW-wAE_dx6mNZBpocZ_O0prDChphqy-JL2Q3oicVVVPP0fw6HX9hI5/s1600/2013-09-12-BZSSR.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and President Barack Obama of the United States at the White House in Washington DC, June 29, 2010 (<a href="http://atlanticsentinel.com/2011/03/saudi-resolve-defies-american-rhetoric/abdullah-of-saudi-arabia-barack-obama/">White House/Pete Souza</a>)</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Saudi Arabia Plans To Pitch Obama For Regime Change In Syria -- Al Monitor</b></span></div><br /><i>Saudi Arabia is belatedly taking steps to discourage Saudi citizens from traveling to Syria to join al-Qaeda in the war against Bashar al-Assad’s regime. King Abdullah this month issued a royal decree banning travel abroad to join jihadist movements, and imposing jail terms of up to 20 years for violating the decree.</i><br /><br />Estimates of the number of Saudis fighting in Syria range as high as 2,500. Some are hardened veterans of earlier jihads in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Iraq. A few are compatriots of Osama bin Laden. Others traveled to Syria from the kingdom, despite individual travel bans imposed for dissident activities at home. Some traveled directly through major Saudi airports, leading many observers to conclude they were encouraged by the authorities to leave the kingdom and go fight Assad. For over two years, the Saudi government seemed to turn a blind eye to travel by its citizens — even political dissidents — to Syria.<br /><br />The royal decree has now been endorsed by Crown Prince Salman, the Council of Ministers and some senior Wahhabi clerics. Similar legislation is under review in Kuwait, which has also sent several hundred fighters to Syria and is a major source of private funding for Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda’s official arm in Syria. Some Saudi sources claim that up to 20% of the Saudis who went to Syria have now come home, and the Saudi press has lauded the government for assisting their return.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/02/saudi-arabia-barack-obama-syria-fighters.html">Read more</a></b> ....<br /><br /><b>My Comment:</b> The Americans are not going to comply .... both countries are just too far apart on what needs to be done in Syria.

Saudi Arabia Is Pushing The U.S. For Regime Change In Syria

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and President Barack Obama of the United States at the White House in Washington DC, June 29, 2010 (White House/Pete Souza)Saudi Arabia Plans To Pitch Obama For Regime Change In Syria -- Al MonitorSaudi Arabia is belated…

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Syrian Peace Talks Are Going Nowhere

<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/yoXhCr6uFtE" width="560"></iframe><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>After Second Round of Syria Talks, No Agreement Even on How to Negotiate -- New York Times</b></span></div><br />GENEVA — The United Nations mediator for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, wrapped up the second round of peace talks here on Saturday without breaking a longstanding deadlock or setting a date for a third round, and urged the parties to think seriously about their commitment to the negotiations.<br /><br />Mr. Brahimi said the talks had broken down primarily because the Syrian government balked at his suggestion that the negotiators discuss both sides’ top demands in the first two days of negotiations, rather than spending days on the government’s priorities.<br /><br />“I am very, very sorry, and I apologize to the Syrian people,” Mr. Brahimi, an Algerian diplomat who has spent decades negotiating thorny conflicts, said after a last-ditch, 45-minute meeting with the two sides ended in disagreement. “I apologize to them that on these two rounds we haven’t helped them very much.”<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/world/middleeast/after-second-round-of-syria-talks-no-agreement-even-on-how-to-negotiate.html?_r=0">Read more</a></b> ....<br /><br /><b>My Comment:</b> 140,000 dead and counting. Hundreds of thousands wounded. Millions displaced and homeless. It is hard to see how common ground can be found for a peaceful resolution when there is so much anger and hate.

Syrian Peace Talks Are Going Nowhere

After Second Round of Syria Talks, No Agreement Even on How to Negotiate -- New York TimesGENEVA — The United Nations mediator for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, wrapped up the second round of peace talks here on Saturday without breaking a longstanding dea…

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Stalingrad

<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/l5q8yiXK69I" width="560"></iframe><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/7QlK-l-vpZQ" width="420"></iframe><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>A Tale of Two ‘Stalingrads’ -- David Axe, War Is Boring</b></span></div><br />Two movies about one battle—one a masterpiece, the other an embarrassment<br /><br /><div name="66f8">In 1993 the Germans <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108211/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">made a movie</a> about the <a href="https://medium.com/war-is-boring/b4a3d1627e44">1942 Battle of Stalingrad</a>—a bloody turning point in the vast, apocalyptic German invasion of the Soviet Union. The film is called, simply, <i>Stalingrad</i>.</div><div name="66f8"><br /></div><div name="f616">In 2013 the Russians <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1966566/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">also made a movie</a> about Stalingrad and also called it, well, <i>Stalingrad</i>.</div><div name="f616"><br /></div><div name="7354">One of the two flicks is an anti-war masterpiece that boldly inverts the tropes of war movies and, in doing so, captures the chilly, Hellish reality of one of history’s most awful armed clashes.</div><div name="7354"><br /></div><div name="dd10">The other is a silly, melodramatic <i>celebration</i> of war—and shot in shitty 3D, no less.</div><div name="dd10"><br /></div><div name="1ac9">The German <i>Stalingrad </i>is the good one. The Russian version is awful—and by all accounts way more successful at the box office.</div><br /><b><a href="https://medium.com/war-is-boring/7efb396a7faf">Read more</a></b> ....<br /><br /><b>My Comment:</b> I concur .... the 1993 German version of Stalingrad is the better one .... while the 2013 version is a product for this age .... slow motion, bloody, and in 3D. My father ... who was in the Soviet Army group north of the city in 1942 .... found the 1993 version realistic to the point that he could not watch it. He passed away in 2005 .... but if he was to see the 2013 version .... I know that even though plot lines are weak, the visual images of people burning and dying would have been very difficult for him to see also. Another Stalingrad film that I like (and recommend) is <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJbDEXQD0gE">"Enemy at the Gates".</a></b>

Stalingrad

A Tale of Two ‘Stalingrads’ -- David Axe, War Is BoringTwo movies about one battle—one a masterpiece, the other an embarrassmentIn 1993 the Germans made a movie about the 1942 Battle of Stalingrad—a bloody turning point in the vast, apocalyptic Germa…

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Is Cheating In The U.S. Air Force's Exam To Be A Nuclear Launch Officer The Norm?

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit1gVECQzUUzFHoVZWZVvjynfTYeG_KctYTpAcntrMSrSmcZ-koYjNSnqYeGb4TZ3BGg849BfD9GlV4URJ4TO9E0c8BLW1gDXOdep156J_IhKZlSQdw085LWxMjvy1XcM7lvHcGq9iSrYq/s1600/2013-09-12-BZSSR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit1gVECQzUUzFHoVZWZVvjynfTYeG_KctYTpAcntrMSrSmcZ-koYjNSnqYeGb4TZ3BGg849BfD9GlV4URJ4TO9E0c8BLW1gDXOdep156J_IhKZlSQdw085LWxMjvy1XcM7lvHcGq9iSrYq/s1600/2013-09-12-BZSSR.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A pair of Air Force missile launch control officers, having passed their monthly proficiency tests, pull alert at a Minuteman III missile site. Air Force / SrA Javier Cruz Jr.</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Are You Smarter Than a Nuclear Launch Officer? -- Mark Thompson, Time</b></span></div><br />Here’s the type of questions Air Force missileers are cheating on…and why<br /><br />Remember when you took your driver’s test and had to answer all those questions about who had the right-of-way at an intersection? If you’ve been paying attention in recent weeks, you know that the Air Force is investigating nearly half of the 200-airman force that commands the 150 nuclear-tipped Minuteman III missiles at Montana’s Malmstrom Air Force Base for allegedly cheating, or tolerating those who did, on their monthly proficiency tests.<br /><br />These tests, no surprise, are tougher than driver’s ed.<br /><br />A launch officer and instructor who left the Air Force in 2011 has provided questions representative of those he says he asked his airmen about the missiles they were monitoring. To help you understand their language, you need to know that each launch-control crew is in a numbered Launch Control Center. So Foxtrot LCC is F-01. And all of the missiles the Foxtrot crew controls are numbered, 2 through 11 (F-02, F-03, etc).<br /><br />Enough test prep.<br /><br />Number 2 pencil at the ready? Start!<br /><br /><b><a href="http://swampland.time.com/2014/02/13/are-you-smarter-than-a-nuclear-launch-officer/#ixzz2tFgbdKtV">Read more</a></b> ....<br /><br /><b>My Comment:</b>  It looks like they need to re-evaluate what it takes to be a nuclear launch officer .... starting with better pay and better promotion prospects .... and maybe a better exam.

Is Cheating In The U.S. Air Force's Exam To Be A Nuclear Launch Officer The Norm?

A pair of Air Force missile launch control officers, having passed their monthly proficiency tests, pull alert at a Minuteman III missile site. Air Force / SrA Javier Cruz Jr.Are You Smarter Than a Nuclear Launch Officer? -- Mark Thompson, TimeHere’s…

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Did The CIA Number Two Man Alter The Benghazi Talking Points?

<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/fBbFWIYnqSc" width="560"></iframe><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Did CIA Official Suppress Benghazi Narrative? Accounts Raise New Questions -- FOX News</b></span></div><br />New information about the intelligence available in the immediate aftermath of the Benghazi attack raises questions about whether the former No. 2 at the CIA downplayed or dismissed reporting from his own people in Libya that it was a coordinated attack and not an out-of-control protest over an anti-Islam video.<br /><br />Then-Deputy Director Mike Morell, whose own agency lost two employees at Benghazi, former Navy Seals Ty Woods and Glen Doherty, was heavily involved in editing the administration’s internal narrative on what happened – known as the “talking points” – which served as the basis for then-U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice’s controversial claims about a protest on the Sunday talk shows after the attack.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/14/did-cia-official-hide-benghazi-narrative-accounts-raise-new-questions/">Read more</a></b> ....<br /><b><br />My Comment:</b> This is just one more reason on why an independent counsel/special prosecutor will need to be appointed to investigate the Benghazi attack and the government's response to it. But in the hyper-political world of Washington today .... coupled with former Sec. of State Clinton's Presidential ambitions .... I doubt that the White House is going to appoint one nor (for their own reasons that I do not understand) the U.S. Congress.<br /><br /><b>Update:</b> <a href="http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2014/02/14/what-the-news-media-missed-in-the-senate-intelligence-committees-benghazi-report/">What the News Media Missed in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Benghazi Report</a> -- Center For Security Politcy

Did The CIA Number Two Man Alter The Benghazi Talking Points?

Did CIA Official Suppress Benghazi Narrative? Accounts Raise New Questions -- FOX NewsNew information about the intelligence available in the immediate aftermath of the Benghazi attack raises questions about whether the former No. 2 at the CIA downpl…

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The Top Brass Never Suffer From Budget Cuts

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs7bAeMlyjggmFo1qmikrKvSIfkw6DZ9ZC91kJrX5H2eUKBP0ZQL0fHS-UoleZjOY0DlNkzQx5hBMJzdBugryRn4NtqafoOxf87VPyUG22NyQ4ynyXcT8-meRIuFfH5XhGafb16fxRrhZJ/s1600/2013-09-12-BZSSR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs7bAeMlyjggmFo1qmikrKvSIfkw6DZ9ZC91kJrX5H2eUKBP0ZQL0fHS-UoleZjOY0DlNkzQx5hBMJzdBugryRn4NtqafoOxf87VPyUG22NyQ4ynyXcT8-meRIuFfH5XhGafb16fxRrhZJ/s1600/2013-09-12-BZSSR.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Photo</b>: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MOD_Sign_MOD_45154855.jpg">Wikipedia</a></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Thousands Of Troops Axed While Top Brass Run Up £157,000 Expenses Bill On Plush Hotels And Business-Class Travel -- Daily Mail</b></span></div><br />* Thousands of troops have been made redundant during army cuts<br />* Officers spent £157,000 on travel and hotels mostly to US and Canada<br /><br />Top brass in the Ministry of Defence have enjoyed plush hotels and business-class travel as thousands of troops are axed to save money.<br /><br />Military personnel spent £157,000 of taxpayers’ cash in three months on jaunts around the globe. The two-star officers lived the high life and charged the bill to the public.<br /><br />The extraordinary details were slipped out late yesterday by the MoD, prompting claims it was trying to bury bad news.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2559937/Thousands-troops-axed-brass-run-157-000-expenses-bill-plush-hotels-business-class-travel.html">Read more</a></b> ....<br /><br /><b>My Comment:</b> Britain is not the only one who has a problem of Generals spending public money .... this retired Canadian general <b><a href="http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/ctv-exclusive-retired-general-claimed-72k-in-expenses-for-move-within-ottawa-1.1688678">just claimed $72K in moving expenses</a></b> when he moved from his old home to a new one a few blocks away.

The Top Brass Never Suffer From Budget Cuts

Photo: WikipediaThousands Of Troops Axed While Top Brass Run Up £157,000 Expenses Bill On Plush Hotels And Business-Class Travel -- Daily Mail* Thousands of troops have been made redundant during army cuts* Officers spent £157,000 on travel and hotel…

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One In Four Americans Do Not Know The Earth Circles The Sun

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXoc9Gi6qmmoFfEagglmjgFCeUMOMZRHMfm21PGsfPR4A5av_zqSShrOzwSZ3_BzoFH6W9AnA4uQO58nerU1y1CsE1ide2usGdHL8nhUDBNjHtKWnT7kByTV0Y0DQIyHcDwYN1KyQ9rcjq/s1600/us_postal_service_logo-325.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXoc9Gi6qmmoFfEagglmjgFCeUMOMZRHMfm21PGsfPR4A5av_zqSShrOzwSZ3_BzoFH6W9AnA4uQO58nerU1y1CsE1ide2usGdHL8nhUDBNjHtKWnT7kByTV0Y0DQIyHcDwYN1KyQ9rcjq/s1600/us_postal_service_logo-325.gif" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>One In Four Americans Do Not Know the Earth Circles The Sun And Fewer Than Half Know Humans Evolved From Earlier Species -- Daily Mail</b></span></div><br />* Half of all Americans also said astrology is either 'very scientific' or 'sort of scientific.'<br />* Fewer than half (48 percent) knew that human beings evolved from earlier species of animals.<br />* National Science Foundation warns public perceptions of 'pseudoscience' are getting worse<br />* Percentage of Americans who think astrology is 'not at all scientific' declined from 62 percent in 2010 to just 55 percent in 2012<br /><br />Just 74 percent of respondents knew that the Earth revolved around the Sun, a shocking new study into the scientific knowledge of American has found.<br /><br />The survey included more than 2,200 people in the United States and was conducted by the National Science Foundation.<br /><br />Ten questions about physical and biological science were on the quiz, and the average score - 6.5 correct - was barely a passing grade.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2558737/Do-YOU-believe-astrology-Record-number-Americans-believe-real-science-new-report-claims.html">Read more</a></b> ....<br /><br /><b>My Comment:</b> I am not shocked by this number .... and my suggestion to the Americans is that they should not beat themselves over the head on this one. If the same poll was taken around the world .... that number will probably approach 50% (if not higher).

One In Four Americans Do Not Know The Earth Circles The Sun

One In Four Americans Do Not Know the Earth Circles The Sun And Fewer Than Half Know Humans Evolved From Earlier Species -- Daily Mail* Half of all Americans also said astrology is either 'very scientific' or 'sort of scientific.'* Fewer than half (4…

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Afghanistan's Taliban Are Saying That The U.S. Will Meet The Same Fate As The Soviets

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgmlORlKNPKODAORUSXTyUzIRwC9AH7jlXPMIFb1qxKRodeE8f5EVA5a6uvDhDCraxmsuUewu7KnfFHkI5zX1FHLMOPkZgOFRdh-83Trs2U0kJhRmO3SuAA6Tylun2d-0o8apeVMjTzgY-/s1600/2013-09-12-BZSSR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgmlORlKNPKODAORUSXTyUzIRwC9AH7jlXPMIFb1qxKRodeE8f5EVA5a6uvDhDCraxmsuUewu7KnfFHkI5zX1FHLMOPkZgOFRdh-83Trs2U0kJhRmO3SuAA6Tylun2d-0o8apeVMjTzgY-/s1600/2013-09-12-BZSSR.jpg" width="234" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Photo: </b> Last Soviet troop column crosses Soviet border after leaving Afghanistan. RIA Novosti/Wikipedia</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Twenty-Five Years After Soviet Exit, Taliban Says U.S. Will Meet Same Fate -- Reuters</b></span></div><br />KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban called on Afghans to expel the United States from Afghanistan on Saturday just as they said Afghan mujahideen fighters had done to Soviet forces 25 years ago to the day.<br />Related Stories<br /><br />In a statement issued on the 25th anniversary of the final Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, a national holiday for Afghans, the Taliban sought to connect the steady departure of U.S. and NATO troops ahead of a year-end deadline to the end of the decade-long Soviet occupation.<br /><br />"Today America is facing the same fate as the former Soviets and trying to escape from our country," the Taliban said in a statement emailed to reporters by Qari Yousef Ahmadi, a spokesman for the group.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/twenty-five-years-soviet-exit-taliban-says-u-085958628.html">Read more</a></b> ....<br /><br /><b>My Comment: </b>The Afghan Taliban sound very confident .... but Afghanistan is not the same country after 25 years. There are many Afghans who do not like the Taliban,and they will resist.

Afghanistan's Taliban Are Saying That The U.S. Will Meet The Same Fate As The Soviets

Photo: Last Soviet troop column crosses Soviet border after leaving Afghanistan. RIA Novosti/WikipediaTwenty-Five Years After Soviet Exit, Taliban Says U.S. Will Meet Same Fate -- ReutersKABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban called on Afghans to expel the U…

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The U.S. Navy Wants An Unmanned Air To Air Fighter

<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/dyfjCgTUpq0" width="560"></iframe><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Navy’s UCLASS Could Be Air to Air Fighter -- USNI</b></span></div><br />Could the U.S. Navy’s future Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike (UCLASS) aircraft have an air-to-air role? The service’s director of air warfare Rear Adm. Mike Manazir posed that it could during a Dec. 20 interview with USNI News.<br /><br />Manazir contemplated the possibility that that the UCLASS, which is primarily being designed for the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and strike roles, could be used as a flying missile magazine which could supplement the firepower of the F/A-18E/F and F-35C Joint Strike Fighter in air-to-air combat as a robotic wingman of sorts.<br /><br />“Maybe we put a whole bunch of AMRAAMs (Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile) on it and that thing is the truck,” Manazir said. “So this unmanned truck goes downtown with—as far as it can go—with a decision-maker.”<br /><br /><b><a href="http://news.usni.org/2014/02/13/navys-uclass-air-air-fighter">Read more</a></b> ....<br /><br /><b>My Comment:</b> This is probably still a few years away from becoming a reality .... but it is the natural progression of where this technology is going.

The U.S. Navy Wants An Unmanned Air To Air Fighter

Navy’s UCLASS Could Be Air to Air Fighter -- USNICould the U.S. Navy’s future Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike (UCLASS) aircraft have an air-to-air role? The service’s director of air warfare Rear Adm. Mike Manazir posed tha…

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The Chinese Are Coming! The Chinese Are Coming!

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP8ZFhUdhQuhUpTTkKfCSh6OaWLQt2RYoeUnG58pQEm13EGCSuUxFYcM_vL6sc3TE83l5tubFdBAShnT4ytJChRCIF8w2CiYpmd1ILeLBL9TveEnwg0EqryfXZ3NDc2JNMD0xCp0DKIW_0/s1600/200px-US-DefenseIntelligenceAgency-Seal.svg.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP8ZFhUdhQuhUpTTkKfCSh6OaWLQt2RYoeUnG58pQEm13EGCSuUxFYcM_vL6sc3TE83l5tubFdBAShnT4ytJChRCIF8w2CiYpmd1ILeLBL9TveEnwg0EqryfXZ3NDc2JNMD0xCp0DKIW_0/s1600/200px-US-DefenseIntelligenceAgency-Seal.svg.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Australia Startled By Chinese Naval Excursion -- Henry Lawton, The Diplomat</b></span></div><br /><i>Time to consider how best to respond to muscle flexing by the Chinese navy in Australia’s backyard.</i><br /><br />The Australian public is being reminded of Indonesia’s importance to the country’s foreign and defence policy—past, present and future.<br /><br />Last Thursday, many Australian viewers switched their televisions over to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in an attempt to escape from the media frenzy surrounding the release of Australian citizen Schapelle Corby from prison in Indonesia. They found the national broadcaster’s Lateline program reporting on another, far more significant story emanating from their near north.<br /><br />On February 1, the Chinese navy (PLAN) sent a taskforce of three warships from Hainan in southern China through the Sunda Strait in Indonesia, along the south coast of Java and past Christmas Island into the Indian Ocean. Two Chinese destroyers accompanied an advanced 20,000-ton amphibious ship, capable of carrying hundreds of marines, and conducted a series of combat simulations before heading north through the Lombok and Makassar Straits and into the Pacific.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://thediplomat.com/2014/02/australia-startled-by-chinese-naval-excursion/">Read more</a></b> ....<br /><br /><b>My Comment: </b>The Chinese are making their military presence felt throughout the region .... Australia included.

The Chinese Are Coming! The Chinese Are Coming!

Australia Startled By Chinese Naval Excursion -- Henry Lawton, The DiplomatTime to consider how best to respond to muscle flexing by the Chinese navy in Australia’s backyard.The Australian public is being reminded of Indonesia’s importance to the cou…

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The U.S. Military's 'Iron Man' Suits Will Soon Be Ready For Testing

<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/6TY--KxDSQ8" width="420"></iframe><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Military's 'Iron Man' Suit May Be Ready to Test This Summer -- Yahoo News/Live Science</b></span></div><br />The first prototypes of a high-tech suit of armor to give soldiers superhuman abilities could be ready to test this summer, according to top military officials. The suits, which have drawn comparisons to the one worn by Marvel Comics superhero "Iron Man," could be delivered to special operations forces as early as June.<br /><br />The Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit, or TALOS, is being developed by engineers at MIT; the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM); and researchers at other businesses and academic institutions. Prototypes of the suit, which is designed to provide protection from bullets and is equipped with a variety of sensors and cameras, are being assembled and could be ready for the military to test in June, reported Military.com.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/military-39-39-iron-man-39-suit-may-141715486.html">Read more</a></b> ....<br /><br /><b>My Comment:</b> This technology is way overdue. Expect even more developments in the next few years.

TALOS The U.S. Military's 'Iron Man' Suits Will Soon Be Ready For Testing

Military's 'Iron Man' Suit May Be Ready to Test This Summer -- Yahoo News/Live ScienceThe first prototypes of a high-tech suit of armor to give soldiers superhuman abilities could be ready to test this summer, according to top military officials. The…

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11,000 U.S. Army Soldiers Discharged Last Year Because Of Crimes And Misconduct

<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Kh1ac6fSLL8" width="560"></iframe><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Army Sees Steep Increase In Soldiers Forced Out For Misconduct -- PBS News Hour</b></span></div><br />The number of U.S. soldiers forced to leave the army for crimes and misconduct has risen sharply in recent years, according to an Associated Press report released on Saturday.<br /><br />According to data obtained by the AP, the number of soldiers who left the Army because of drugs, alcohol, crimes and other misconduct rose from 5,600 in 2007 to more than 11,000 last year.<br /><br />Additionally, the number of officers forced out for crimes and misconduct has tripled in the last three years.<br /><br />This increase parallels the army’s growth during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as reduced standards in order to recruit and maintain troops.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/soldiers-forced-army-misconduct-rise/">Read more</a></b> ....<br /><br /><b>Update:</b> <a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20140215/DABVP5R00.html">AP Exclusive: Misconduct forces more soldiers out</a> -- AP<br /><br /><b>My Comment:</b> 11,000 discharged last year because of crimes and misconduct .... wow .... that's a lot of soldiers.

U.S. Army 11,000 U.S. Army Soldiers Discharged Last Year Because Of Crimes And Misconduct

Army Sees Steep Increase In Soldiers Forced Out For Misconduct -- PBS News HourThe number of U.S. soldiers forced to leave the army for crimes and misconduct has risen sharply in recent years, according to an Associated Press report released on Satur…

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Hazing Death of Baruch Fraternity Pledge Declared a Homicide (BLOG, PHOTO)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOs8i8WYOBrvCVWG-B4ZjA2yvgsIp8pTT8MGpXNYdbUV5tqNjcqRolwlSlDRbe6_ivqgRB8c83czo7yKPyOVDSPVCGyngs1OuwBCqdEdDrdnN7bmxyh5-PmTbzpuKYgwt_T1psK72Om2Y/s1600/frat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOs8i8WYOBrvCVWG-B4ZjA2yvgsIp8pTT8MGpXNYdbUV5tqNjcqRolwlSlDRbe6_ivqgRB8c83czo7yKPyOVDSPVCGyngs1OuwBCqdEdDrdnN7bmxyh5-PmTbzpuKYgwt_T1psK72Om2Y/s1600/frat.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">The death of a New York college freshman who suffered fatal head trauma during a hazing ritual has been declared a homicide, according to the coroner's office.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">The Luzerne County, Pa., Coroner's office said Chun "Michael" Deng, 19, died from head injuries due to blunt force trauma and declared his death as a homicide on Friday.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">A Pennsylvania District Attorney's office has announced it expects to file criminal charges in the Baruch College freshman's death.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Monroe County District Attorney David Christine told ABC station <a href="http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?id=9356925" style="color: #2e538f; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="external">WABC-TV</a> in New York that the exact charges will not be determined until a police investigation into Deng's death is concluded. It is not clear how many students allegedly involved in the hazing death will be charged.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Deng sustained fatal head trauma during a fraternity hazing ritual last December at a Pi Delta Psi weekend retreat in Tunkhannock Township, Pa., according to authorities.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">The teen was allegedly blindfolded and forced to carry a 20-pound bag of sand while being tackled by other members of the Asian-American fraternity. At one point he was shoved and fell over, hitting his head, police said.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Police told ABC News that after Deng lost consciousness, other fraternity members brought him into the house, but they never called 911 for help. Instead they put him near the fire, changed his clothes and searched the Internet for information about his symptoms.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">After two hours, Deng was finally taken to a local hospital by three of the fraternity members where he died two days later, said police.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">"I am not a doctor, all I am saying is quicker medical intervention would have been beneficial," Pocono Mountain Regional Police Chief Harry Lewis said.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Police also said around 20 of the 30 fraternity brothers in the house had left between the time Deng was injured and before police arrived to interview the remaining members.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Those interrogated had tried to hide any items or memorabilia that would link them to their fraternity after one of the members at the hospital with Deng called and warned them in advance, Lewis said. They also initially denied but later admitted they had been carrying out a hazing ritual called a "glass ceiling" when Deng was injured.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">The fraternity members were later suspended from the college.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Pi Delta Psi and Baruch College did not immediately respond to calls from ABC News to comment on Saturday.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Associated Press contibuted to this report.</em></div>

Hazing Death of Baruch Fraternity Pledge Declared a Homicide (BLOG, PHOTO)

The death of a New York college freshman who suffered fatal head trauma during a hazing ritual has been declared a homicide, according to the coroner's office.The Luzerne County, Pa., Coroner's office said Chun "Michael" Deng, 19, died from head inju…

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MARTIAL LAW ALERT--U.S. ARMY PLANS URBAN ASSAULTS

<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"> *****MARTIAL LAW ALERT*****  </span></span></b></div><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">THE END of America begins:</span> </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">TERROR IS COMING upon We the People </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjISFbZB_j8FPoeb20gBbiDsFWM3UJdnyW_iehXlLCAAeTeJ_K0Px_dJOGGOMdLD4ATIm8Es-EiSyA2BWMj_VwvsNH80J0WxMA_btqtzibb_O0tcCLkTDdsaC45h8XTbn9GAp7mLM9AqHQ/s1600/UrbanWarfareVehicle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjISFbZB_j8FPoeb20gBbiDsFWM3UJdnyW_iehXlLCAAeTeJ_K0Px_dJOGGOMdLD4ATIm8Es-EiSyA2BWMj_VwvsNH80J0WxMA_btqtzibb_O0tcCLkTDdsaC45h8XTbn9GAp7mLM9AqHQ/s1600/UrbanWarfareVehicle.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>COMBAT TEAMS making preparations</b></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Will you stand up against these adversaries?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>The U.S. Government is making it clear that gun owners, veterans, those who want a small limited government, and Christians are the enemy target.  The U.S. Military and Law Enforcement are making preparations.</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Watch the INFOWARS reports below: </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Are you ready? </b></div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ypd08yao-Is?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>U.S. Army builds fake $96 MILLION city to practice urban military occupation:</b></span><br /><b><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/02/us-army-builds-96-million-dollar-city.html" style="color: red;">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/02/us-army-builds-96-million-dollar-city.html</a></b><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/IsQg-z0tZNQ?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>IMPORTANT WARNINGS from Alex Jones:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>FULL REPORT BELOW</b></span>:</div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/BFMHqw2CjCU?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Very few Americans know what's coming...</span></b></div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/bMzPiu6wcSg?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe>

MARTIAL LAW ALERT--U.S. ARMY PLANS URBAN ASSAULTS

 *****MARTIAL LAW ALERT*****  THE END of America begins: TERROR IS COMING upon We the People COMBAT TEAMS making preparationsWill you stand up against these adversaries?The U.S. Government is making it clear that gun owners, veterans, those who want …

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Free hog hunting in Texas?

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Nothing is free</b></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>There's always some HIDDEN COSTS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b>And by the way if you want some real sharp shooters to come and take care of your hog problem we'll skip paying for the butcher and take care of the meat ourselves.  Thank you very much:</b></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/wecGjvKxM98?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe></div>

Free hog hunting in Texas?

Nothing is freeThere's always some HIDDEN COSTSAnd by the way if you want some real sharp shooters to come and take care of your hog problem we'll skip paying for the butcher and take care of the meat ourselves.  Thank you very much:…

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Kerry Lutz and Andy Hoffman on THE END GAME

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*****HYPERINFLATION ALERT*****</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">COUNTDOWN TO COLLAPSE!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The 2008 scenario and worse... </span></b><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">Force Majeure</span></b><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">GOT GOLD?  GOT SILVER?</span></b><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">The end game has started... </span></b><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">Lindsey Williams was right </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Elh0sm7ug5Y?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><b>...developing...</b></div>

Kerry Lutz and Andy Hoffman on THE END GAME

*****HYPERINFLATION ALERT*****COUNTDOWN TO COLLAPSE!The 2008 scenario and worse... Force MajeureGOT GOLD?  GOT SILVER?The end game has started... Lindsey Williams was right ...developing...…

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11 arrested for serving human meat at Nigerian hotel restaurant (BLOG)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifS63Rd3A8noxJd7UPbKgEJCv1l92uJm4gWxVWRVjMlFwqkk9p32nStd6WG6bTSsI8KkvkOganByZL-VdZvCeoXjeVNNSTPFrCddNipGXNMJrDBodLmidUL9caIC1JVcCmECtpEq358h0/s1600/wtf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifS63Rd3A8noxJd7UPbKgEJCv1l92uJm4gWxVWRVjMlFwqkk9p32nStd6WG6bTSsI8KkvkOganByZL-VdZvCeoXjeVNNSTPFrCddNipGXNMJrDBodLmidUL9caIC1JVcCmECtpEq358h0/s1600/wtf.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ever wondered what's really in that burger?</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In one Nigerian restaurant, cops have discovered that it was humans on the menu.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div class="ym-inline" style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ym" id="ym_662210526407498782" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The grim discovery was made after police officers in Nigeria found two human heads wrapped in cellophane at a hotel restaurant. They had raided the hotel in Anambra in southeastern Nigeria after receiving a tip-off.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The hotel owner and 10 others have been arrested, <a href="http://www.osundefender.org/?p=119765" style="border: 0px; color: #015fb6; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported the Osun Defender</a>.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Police also recovered two AK-47 rifles, 40 rounds of live ammunition and cellphones from the unnamed hotel.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I went to the hotel early this year, after eating, I was told that a lump of meat was being sold at N700 ($4)," one local pastor, who was one of those who tipped off police, <a href="http://www.osundefender.org/?p=119765" style="border: 0px; color: #015fb6; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">told the Osun Defender website</a>. "I was surprised. So, I did not know it was human meat that I ate at such an expensive price."</div><br />

11 arrested for serving human meat at Nigerian hotel restaurant (BLOG)

Ever wondered what's really in that burger?In one Nigerian restaurant, cops have discovered that it was humans on the menu.The grim discovery was made after police officers in Nigeria found two human heads wrapped in cellophane at a hotel restaurant.…

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Rick Rule expects volatile GOLD and SILVER price action

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>GOLD and SILVER</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE0C26N_7WpTCOrX2o7nmBuoMKWEZaHwli1C0veEhnnQGWXtecntK1IosyPBT5RhRJDDJ1tmRrwFV_4BX_NRUosnkt4Xv6ntOG41wdFXBLcL1RpPbka1CtKxAc1p-1LfmFJmplzNYaQMU/s1600/GoldSilverBARS.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE0C26N_7WpTCOrX2o7nmBuoMKWEZaHwli1C0veEhnnQGWXtecntK1IosyPBT5RhRJDDJ1tmRrwFV_4BX_NRUosnkt4Xv6ntOG41wdFXBLcL1RpPbka1CtKxAc1p-1LfmFJmplzNYaQMU/s1600/GoldSilverBARS.jpeg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>EXTREMELY BULLISH and EXTREMELY VOLATILE </b></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaiiOFXSO5Cptn4ZM_FUlyfJOlTtc-g_FTArLtUzdODCTHpmBM7KKV9yMU6nlX1byHn8yHbFNslbzypnlJ1ecN5FK4U8qXogQVbH49fa3byJ8w_JP9qTbELrVL_U51AUp_Rx1cyFc7vXs/s1600/rick-rule.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaiiOFXSO5Cptn4ZM_FUlyfJOlTtc-g_FTArLtUzdODCTHpmBM7KKV9yMU6nlX1byHn8yHbFNslbzypnlJ1ecN5FK4U8qXogQVbH49fa3byJ8w_JP9qTbELrVL_U51AUp_Rx1cyFc7vXs/s1600/rick-rule.jpg" width="136" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Here's the latest update from Rick Rule on King World News as Rick Rule of Sprott Asset Management says to fasten your seat belts.  Rick is expecting the GOLD and SILVER sector to become extremely bullish and with that extremely volatile:</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span id="goog_722489047"></span><span id="goog_722489048"></span><a href="http://www.kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/Broadcast/Entries/2014/2/16_Rick_Rule_files/Rick%20Rule%202%3A16%3A2014.mp3" style="color: red;">CLICK HERE TO LISTEN</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><b>WATCH THE CHARTS:</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><img height="199" src="http://www.finviz.com/fut_chart.ashx?t=GC&cot=088691&p=m5" width="400" /><br /> </b></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><img height="199" src="http://www.finviz.com/fut_chart.ashx?t=SI&cot=084691&p=m5" width="400" /><br /> </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The News UNIT's GOLD and SILVER analysis</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-news-units-gold-and-silver-analysis.html" style="color: red;">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-news-units-gold-and-silver-analysis.html</a></b></div><br /><b>...developing...</b></div>

Rick Rule expects volatile GOLD and SILVER price action

GOLD and SILVEREXTREMELY BULLISH and EXTREMELY VOLATILE Here's the latest update from Rick Rule on King World News as Rick Rule of Sprott Asset Management says to fasten your seat belts.  Rick is expecting the GOLD and SILVER sector to become extreme…

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Atty. Gen. Eric Holder reinvigorated to pursue his goals(BLOG)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6OxSZ2ur20sycGv8jLHLldnUDfaaY3kWrK445_Zq9-p-RI1Q544dn4-Yc-gOQWxuHIODq8zQGiFyW3bI4dsNIXZg91q5g2MjEISMx334rdZO-77YbqfKiVdUzIMGFxYxXAJVcSmOMgMc/s1600/ol.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6OxSZ2ur20sycGv8jLHLldnUDfaaY3kWrK445_Zq9-p-RI1Q544dn4-Yc-gOQWxuHIODq8zQGiFyW3bI4dsNIXZg91q5g2MjEISMx334rdZO-77YbqfKiVdUzIMGFxYxXAJVcSmOMgMc/s1600/ol.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 0px;">WASHINGTON — <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics/government/eric-holder-PEPLT000001873.topic" id="PEPLT000001873" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;" title="Eric Holder">Eric H. Holder Jr.</a> sounds like a man who suddenly found a second wind.</div><div class="p402_premium" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="padding: 0px;">During his first four years as America's top law enforcement officer, Holder's tenure at the <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/crime-law-justice/u.s.-department-of-justice-ORGOV0000160.topic" id="ORGOV0000160" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;" title="U.S. Department of Justice">Justice Department</a> seemed so unfocused and controversy-prone that even Democrats began to question what the nation's first African American attorney general had accomplished, and whether he had the passion to stick it out.</div><div style="padding: 0px;">But since President Obama's reelection, the 63-year-old Holder has tackled his responsibilities with newfound energy and determination, surprising critics and supporters alike by striking out on a broad, ambitious and unapologetically liberal agenda.</div><div style="padding: 0px;">He moved to shorten prison sentences of nonviolent criminals, went after some of the nation's largest banks for fraud, sued two states to block laws he said would make voting more difficult for minorities, and signaled plans to bar federal agents from considering religion, national origin, gender or sexual orientation in investigations.</div><div style="padding: 0px;">Just this month, he called upon states to scrap laws preventing ex-convicts from voting, and issued a directive expanding government recognition of same-sex marriages to federal courtrooms and prisons, giving gay and lesbian spouses the same rights as married couples even in states that don't recognize such unions.</div><div style="padding: 0px;">"I am focusing on issues — really focusing on issues — in these last few weeks that have been near and dear to me for as long as I've been a lawyer," Holder said in an interview. "This whole notion of criminal justice reform, civil rights enforcement — all these are the kinds of things that animated me and that made me want to become a lawyer in the first place."</div><div style="padding: 0px;">The attorney general bristled slightly at the suggestion that his record might be a disappointment to some. He pointed to his efforts to revitalize the department's demoralized civil rights division and to keep the nation safe from terrorism, among other accomplishments.</div><div style="padding: 0px;">But even colleagues acknowledge that those early years were hardly the ambitious "new day" that Holder promised when taking over the high-profile post. Instead, his time was consumed by politically sensitive national security debates, such as the administration's unsuccessful effort to try Sept. 11 conspirators in the United States and the botched Fast and Furious anti-gun-trafficking operation along the U.S.-Mexico border.</div><div style="padding: 0px;">Only last year Holder hinted he might be growing tired of the job amid mounting criticism. He has faced near-constant calls for his resignation, not just from conservative lawmakers — who most recently accused him of dragging his feet in investigating allegations that the Internal Revenue Service targeted tea party groups. Progressives, who feel let down by what they see as Holder's failure to more actively pursue civil rights policies, have also called for his resignation.</div><div style="padding: 0px;">Had he stepped down at the end of last year as many predicted, Holder might only be remembered as the first sitting Cabinet member to be held in contempt of Congress, for refusing to hand over documents to House Republicans in their investigation into Fast and Furious.</div><div style="padding: 0px;">He even joked that his legacy at the Justice Department was destined to be his "deadly" jump shot. But now it appears Holder wants to leave a mark at the department beyond his skills on the basketball court.</div><div style="padding: 0px;">"He wants to put some points on the board before he leaves," one confidant said.</div><div style="padding: 0px;">White House pressure also played a role. Obama, a longtime friend, made a personal appeal for him to stay on the job. Holder revealed in the interview that he wrote Obama a lengthy memo outlining "a second-term agenda for the Justice Department" that included many of the very issues he has been tackling in recent weeks.</div><div style="padding: 0px;">"There's no question that he has become more active," said Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University who writes a civil liberties blog. Turley has criticized Holder's defense of controversial surveillance programs to combat terrorism and the Justice Department's use of subpoenas to search journalists' phone and email records to uncover leaks.</div><div style="padding: 0px;">"One of the greatest complaints against Holder has been that he has been relatively passive in addressing [civil liberties and national security] problems created by this and the former administration," Turley said. "It's clear Holder has been given marching orders to ramp up these policies, if nothing else to change the subject from [National Security Agency leaker Edward] Snowden and civil liberties."</div><div style="padding: 0px;">These days Holder's friends and colleagues no longer know whether to believe him when he tells them — as he has several times before — that he's ready to quit.</div><div style="padding: 0px;">In the interview, Holder said he had no fixed departure date in mind and that he would base a decision on his progress in fulfilling his goals, rather than the calendar. Former colleagues say he is most likely to go by the end of the year.</div><div style="padding: 0px;">In the meantime, Holder shows no signs of backing down from what some see as a deeply personal agenda.</div><div style="padding: 0px;">After growing up in a lower-middle-class, largely black neighborhood in New York, he has made clear he feels a special responsibility to African Americans and other minorities.</div><div style="padding: 0px;">Speaking to a group of 17 ex-convicts in Philadelphia last year, Holder told the men, "I grew up in a neighborhood in Queens where guys like you would have been my boys, you know?" Under different circumstances, he added, they all might have "partied" and played ball together.</div></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /><br />-LATimes</span>

Atty. Gen. Eric Holder reinvigorated to pursue his goals(BLOG)

WASHINGTON — Eric H. Holder Jr. sounds like a man who suddenly found a second wind.During his first four years as America's top law enforcement officer, Holder's tenure at the Justice Department seemed so unfocused and controversy-prone that even Dem…

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Obama proposes $1 billion climate protection fund (BLOG)

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Right now, almost 99 percent of California is drier than normal," Obama said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">It is unclear whether the fund has much prospect of advancing past Republicans on Capitol Hill, where skepticism of the science of global warming and Obama's wider political agenda runs deep.</div><div class="body-related" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; position: relative;"><a class="body-related-link body-related-image go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp landscape onesize get-lbdata-from-dom" data-rapid_p="9" data-uuid="c5e2f7d7-0a08-325f-bd5e-4641918be757" href="http://news.yahoo.com/photos/us-president-barack-obama-2ndl-talks-rep-jim-photo-174841558.html" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="US President Barack Obama (2nd L) talks to Rep. 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Jim Costa while walking to Air Force One, at Andrews …</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">White House spokesman Jay Carney argued earlier that climate change was already having a demonstrable impact on the American climate.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"We've always had heatwaves, but now the worst ones are longer, and they're hotter," Carney said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">"We've always had droughts, but the worst ones are getting longer and drier.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; 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visibility: visible !important;" width="300" /></div></a><div class="body-related-title photo-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: grey; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16.5px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px 5px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;">California Governor Jerry Brown (L), farmer Joe Del Bosque (2nd L) and Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA)  …</div></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">It is also designed to help vulnerable communities plan and prepare for the impacts of climate change and to encourage local measures to reduce future risk and to fund new resilient technologies and infrastructure to combat a warming climate.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The drought emergency has sparked wildfires and prompted Governor Jerry Brown to ask Californians to cut their water use by 20 percent.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Obama pledged to implement $100 million in livestock disaster assistance for California producers contained in a recently passed agriculture bill.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">He highlighted $15 million in conservation funding for extreme drought areas in California, Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392529577478_20965" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">A further $5 million will be provided for emergency watershed protection for California, among other measures that also include a mandate for federal facilities to use less water.</div>

Obama proposes $1 billion climate protection fund (BLOG)

Fresno (United States) (AFP) - President Barack Obama proposed a $1 billion fund to mitigate the impact of climate change in the United States, and unveiled financing to combat drought parching swathes of California."The budget that I send to Congres…

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Beyonce hits the dance floor at sister Solange's New York Fashion week bash (BLOG)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIgB0HdgzUSBRPh8hsvci2IxB2-pW2btiaf03yGfuwTPGVYOVDY0Fyv5xC1Ess-WcimNS-YFP1Szq2s1avvKIgx7cgi9aTxy3jMPQhVjEuIsYM4chixxXZFEc3vPPuNz31Xb1ehcFnTbA/s1600/beybey.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIgB0HdgzUSBRPh8hsvci2IxB2-pW2btiaf03yGfuwTPGVYOVDY0Fyv5xC1Ess-WcimNS-YFP1Szq2s1avvKIgx7cgi9aTxy3jMPQhVjEuIsYM4chixxXZFEc3vPPuNz31Xb1ehcFnTbA/s1600/beybey.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">And <strong>Beyoncé </strong>proved that she can still hit it hard as she stole the limelight at her sister Solange's party on Thursday, posting the snaps to her Tumblr.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">The superstar clearly didn't want to blend into the background even though it wasn't her party - wearing a shiny copper mini-dress with a panel cut-out of the middle.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">And she certainly wasn't standing on the sidelines during the bash, taking centre stage on the dancefloor surrounded by pals.</div><span class="yui-editorial-embed" id="yui_3_0_0-2-1392406968961" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"><span id="schemaorg"><span class="yom-figure yom-fig-left" style="clear: both; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 6px; width: 630px;"><img alt="" class="editorial " src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/IJKh_ou2mITiVxFa5tvEpg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/omg/2014-02-14/bcb164f0-95ad-11e3-9080-a33eb4fcd2f5_bey-skirt.jpeg" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block;" title="Beyonce stole the limelight in her tiny copper-coloured dress. Copyright [Tumblr]" width="630" /><span class="legend" style="color: #414141; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">Beyonce stole the limelight in her tiny copper-coloured dress. Copyright [Tumblr]</span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"></span><br /><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Queen Bey proved that her moves aren't just reserved for her sell-out tour as she gyrated with a bottle of champers in her hands at the MSQFT x SaintHeron New York Fashion Week party.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">While everyone else looked relatively low-key, the pop star had really gone to town - pairing her thigh-high skirt with towering pink stilettos and a white fluffy coat.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">And she wasn't shy about posting a ton of snaps of herself - clearly VERY pleased with her scene-stealing outfit.</div><span class="yui-editorial-embed" id="yui_3_0_0-2-1392406968962" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"><span id="schemaorg"><span class="yom-figure yom-fig-left" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392589625002_1350" style="clear: both; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 6px; width: 630px;"><img alt="" class="editorial " src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/5ZM8Wja76ZH0rMcH71eBHg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/omg/2014-02-14/1d43e0d0-95af-11e3-9080-a33eb4fcd2f5_bey-champs.jpeg" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block;" title="Beyonce certainly seemed to be having fun on the dancefloor. Copyright [Tumblr]" width="630" /><span class="legend" style="color: #414141; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">Beyonce certainly seemed to be having fun on the dancefloor. Copyright [Tumblr]</span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"></span><br /><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Bey had a pretty nice surprise from hubbie Jay-Z the next day as he reportedly splashed out on a major Valentine's Day pressie.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">The rapper is thought to have spent $2.5k on promise bracelet for his wife, as well as a pile of others pricey gifts.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">A source told People Magazine: "Jay was waiting for Valentine’s Day to gift her along with a few other presents, but Beyonce is always too eager and you can’t hold any secret from her, so he decided to give it to her earlier."</div>

Beyonce hits the dance floor at sister Solange's New York Fashion week bash (BLOG)

And Beyoncé proved that she can still hit it hard as she stole the limelight at her sister Solange's party on Thursday, posting the snaps to her Tumblr.The superstar clearly didn't want to blend into the background even though it wasn't her party - w…

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Pennsylvania 'Craigslist killer' says she slayed dozens more across U.S. as part of satanic cult (BLOG)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjraLg3e_-4_6daFC7eB3Pk0678hQD6s8Lw2oYw6MtTRJjwMLa60X9s_KRrfIWDDBql3iXJ56r_PmLJqQSx9c1jy6POYI2XYncCDEXUg11dR1hfrUPsLPMQmBbc6k64taprp9G6ew_mW9w/s1600/crazy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="163" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjraLg3e_-4_6daFC7eB3Pk0678hQD6s8Lw2oYw6MtTRJjwMLa60X9s_KRrfIWDDBql3iXJ56r_PmLJqQSx9c1jy6POYI2XYncCDEXUg11dR1hfrUPsLPMQmBbc6k64taprp9G6ew_mW9w/s1600/crazy.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Pennsylvania newlywed accused of meeting a man on Craigslist and then stabbing him to death with her husband's help said she killed more than 20 more people as part of her involvement in a bloodthirsty satanic cult.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"When I hit 22, I stopped counting," 19-year-old Miranda Barbour told the Sunbury, Pa., Daily Item newspaper in a chilling jailhouse interview Friday.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I can pinpoint on a map where you can find them," <a href="http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/x1708329322/BODY-COUNT-AT-22/?state=taberU" style="border: 0px; color: #015fb6; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">she boasted</a>. "I remember everything. It is like watching a movie."</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Barbour's claims of serial killer infamy came as she and her husband, Elytte, 22, are facing the death penalty for stabbing Troy LaFerrara to death on Nov. 11 in what investigators called a "thrill kill" to mark the couple's three-week wedding anniversary.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Miranda lured the lonely 42-year-old with a Craigslist ad offering "companionship," and the two met in the parking lot of a shopping mall before driving to a spot in Sunbury, authorities said.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Elytte Barbour hid beneath a blanket in the Honda CRV's backseat and, after receiving a signal from his wife, jumped up and wrapped a cord around the LaFerrara's neck, prosecutors said.</div><div class="story-img" style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px;"><img alt="Miranda's husband, Elytte Barbour, 22. The pair is charged with killing Troy LaFerrara, 42, a man who answered Miranda's Craigslist ad offering companionship in the form of 'delightful conversation.'" src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1616293.1392567061!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/craigslist17n-4-web.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px;" /><h4 class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">WNEP</h4><h4 class="caption" itemprop="description" style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Miranda's husband, Elytte Barbour, 22. The pair is charged with killing Troy LaFerrara, 42, a man who answered Miranda's Craigslist ad offering companionship in the form of 'delightful conversation.'</h4></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Miranda then stabbed him 20 times. LeFerrara's body was found in an alley the next day.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Initially, Barbour told police she stabbed the passenger because he groped her and tried to choke her.</div><div class="ym-inline" style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ym" id="ym_662210526407498782" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But on Friday, she admitted to the killing, claiming that LaFerrara "said the wrong things and then things got out of control."</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I can tell you he was not supposed to be stabbed," <a href="http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/x1708329322/BODY-COUNT-AT-22/?state=taberU" style="border: 0px; color: #015fb6; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Barbour told the Daily Item</a>. "My husband was just supposed to strangle him."</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Speaking through a jailhouse phone, Barbour told the newspaper LaFerrara was just the latest victim in a multistate killing spree that began at 13 when she joined a satanic cult in Alaska.</div><div class="story-img" style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px;"><img alt="Barbour told the Daily Item newspaper she killed at least 22 others as part of her involvement in a satanic cult she joined as a teenager in Alaska. So far, police have not been able to back up her claims." src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1616295.1392567063!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/newlyweds-craigslist-killing.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px;" /><h4 class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">CHRISTINE BAKER/PENNLIVE.COM/AP</h4><h4 class="caption" itemprop="description" style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Barbour told the Daily Item newspaper she killed at least 22 others as part of her involvement in a satanic cult she joined as a teenager in Alaska. So far, police have not been able to back up her claims.</h4></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The cult's leader let her tag along on a hit on someone who owed him money, she said.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The unnamed leader shot the man and then handed her the gun to finish him off, she claimed.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I couldn't do it, so he came behind me and he took his hands and put them on top of mine and we pulled the trigger," <a href="http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/x1708329322/BODY-COUNT-AT-22/?state=taberU" style="border: 0px; color: #015fb6; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Barbour said</a>.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"And then from there I just continued to kill."</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The deranged young mom, who has a daughter from a past lover, claimed to have bodies stashed in California, North Carolina and Texas, as well as Alaska, where most of the murders took place.</div><div class="story-img" style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px;"><img alt="Cops say Elytte hid the backseat of his wife's Honda and waited for a signal before jumping up and wrapping a cord around LaFerrara's neck. He hung on while Miranda stabbed the man 20 times." src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1616296.1392567064!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/newlyweds-craigslist-killing.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px;" /><h4 class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">CHRISTINE BAKER/PENNLIVE.COM/AP</h4><h4 class="caption" itemprop="description" style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cops say Elytte hid the backseat of his wife's Honda and waited for a signal before jumping up and wrapping a cord around LaFerrara's neck. He hung on while Miranda stabbed the man 20 times.</h4></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Her victims, she told the Daily Item, "did bad things and didn't deserve to be here anymore."</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I would lure these people in. I studied them. I learned them and even became their friend," she said.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On Saturday, Sunbury police said they were aware of Barbour's claims and were looking into them with help from investigators in other states and the FBI.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So far, there were no reports of any evidence linking Barbour or her husband to any other killings.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Barbour said she had no regrets about killing LaFerrara — or any of the other alleged victims.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"If I were to be released, I would do this again," she told the newspaper.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">With News Wire Services</span></div><span style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><br /></span>

Pennsylvania 'Craigslist killer' says she slayed dozens more across U.S. as part of satanic cult (BLOG)

A Pennsylvania newlywed accused of meeting a man on Craigslist and then stabbing him to death with her husband's help said she killed more than 20 more people as part of her involvement in a bloodthirsty satanic cult."When I hit 22, I stopped countin…

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Charlie Sheen engaged to adult film star Brett Rossi (BLOG)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf2oeG2WsklL3iRPXWJ1EHsTi9RManDb-AJClcRGR-4BkgIoE9x5WpfIbXBYE-wOh13yXQpiaZw-E6izTUAwNPH7865TyHQGe9civgHIMX9EJKM0db9kvR4ZWV2FUriy_EgLLINg1mN54/s1600/cha.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf2oeG2WsklL3iRPXWJ1EHsTi9RManDb-AJClcRGR-4BkgIoE9x5WpfIbXBYE-wOh13yXQpiaZw-E6izTUAwNPH7865TyHQGe9civgHIMX9EJKM0db9kvR4ZWV2FUriy_EgLLINg1mN54/s1600/cha.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There will soon be a Mrs. Winning.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Actor Charlie Sheen announced Saturday he is engaged to adult film star Brett Rossi. Later, his publicist Jeff Ballard confirmed the news with People.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"With all due respect to Donna -- that maiden Klay-Vinn was annulled," Sheen wrote in a statement to the mag referring to his first marriage to Donna Peele, which ended in annulment.</div><div class="story-img" style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px;"><img alt="Adult film star Brett Rossi arrives for the 2013 XBIZ Awards held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza on Jan. 11, 2013 in Century City, Calif." class="" src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1615933.1392517398!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/72905052.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px;" /><h4 class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">ALBERT L. ORTEGA/WIREIMAGE</h4><h4 class="caption" itemprop="description" style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Adult film star Brett Rossi arrives for the 2013 XBIZ Awards held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza on Jan. 11, 2013 in Century City, Calif.</h4></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The actor was also previously married to Denise Richards and Brooke Mueller.</div><div class="ym-inline" style="border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ym" id="ym_662888673935301733" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Therefore, if 'three' truly is a charm; The mashup/acronym of the real CS, (Charlie & Scottie) HAS to be; 'Char-M-stee...'" he added about his new love Rossi, whose nickname is Scottie.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">First <a href="http://www.tmz.com/2014/02/15/charlie-sheen-brett-rossi-engaged/#ixzz2tRkFzEKD" style="border: 0px; color: #015fb6; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reported by TMZ</a>, the 48-year-old "Anger Management" actor proposed Saturday morning after they flew to Hawaii on a private jet.</div><div class="story-img" style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px;"><img alt="The couple said they got engaged in Iceland last month but later admitted it was a joke." src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1615939.1392517404!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/sheen16n-3-web.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px;" /><h4 class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">BRETT ROSSI VIA TWITTER</h4><h4 class="caption" itemprop="description" style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The couple said they got engaged in Iceland last month but later admitted it was a joke.</h4></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The former "Two and a Half Men" star joked last month he married Rossi, 24, in Iceland.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sheen's new bride-to-be <a href="https://twitter.com/thebrettrossi/status/434869121830768640/photo/1" style="border: 0px; color: #015fb6; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">tweeted a picture of the couple with the ocean in the background</a> Saturday that she captioned with a heart. That followed a <a href="https://twitter.com/thebrettrossi/status/434437533372387328/photo/1" style="border: 0px; color: #015fb6; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">picture of roses and a box of chocolates</a> she tweeted Friday.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">She did not announce any proposal though she said Friday was the “start of an epic day."</div><br /><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="mailto:jlandau@nydailynews.com" style="border: 0px; color: #015fb6; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;">jlandau@nydailynews.com</a> Follow on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/joelzlandau" style="border: 0px; color: #015fb6; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">@joelzlandau</a></span></div><span style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><br /></span>

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There will soon be a Mrs. Winning.Actor Charlie Sheen announced Saturday he is engaged to adult film star Brett Rossi. Later, his publicist Jeff Ballard confirmed the news with People."With all due respect to Donna -- that maiden Klay-Vinn was annull…

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Chiwetel Ejiofor nabs Best Actor award for ‘12 Years a Slave’ at BAFTA (BLOG)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZp_ixd-Y1jmvp4bmIOVdubOSXEr9FLCsKlD6yvWTrnUdR8I0hB0mASvKyLw6a1qzRGBQvPC2wpvXwrnNnOi31-ojfRw4rWl5meTS5RXw_SGTKPYa5b0XZnKNPG7Wv7Tw3Fxh3CmNg3yk/s1600/chi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZp_ixd-Y1jmvp4bmIOVdubOSXEr9FLCsKlD6yvWTrnUdR8I0hB0mASvKyLw6a1qzRGBQvPC2wpvXwrnNnOi31-ojfRw4rWl5meTS5RXw_SGTKPYa5b0XZnKNPG7Wv7Tw3Fxh3CmNg3yk/s1600/chi.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chiwetel Ejiofor has won the best-actor prize at the British Academy Film awards for unflinching slavery drama "12 Years a Slave."</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The British actor thanked director Steve McQueen for bringing to the screen the true story of a free black man kidnapped into servitude in the 19th-century American South.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He told McQueen: "This is yours. I'm going to keep it - that's the kind of guy I am - but it's yours."</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The best-actress prize went to Cate Blanchett for her turn as a socialite on the slide in "Blue Jasmine." She dedicated the award to actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died this month.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Alfonso Cuaron was named best director for "Gravity" - one of a clutch of prizes for the sci-fi thriller.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Space thriller "Gravity" was named best British movie at the British Academy Film Awards Sunday, taking the first trophy of the night.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The special-effects extravaganza also scooped up early prizes for sound and music.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Made in the U.K. by Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron and starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, "Gravity" has 11 nominations in all for Britain's equivalent of the Oscars, and is a favorite to take the overall best-picture prize.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">David O. Russell's con-artist caper "American Hustle" and Steve McQueen's unflinching "12 Years a Slave" are the other front-runners, with 10 nominations apiece.</div><div class="ym-inline" style="border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ym" id="ym_662888673935301733" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></div><div class="story-img" style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px;"><img alt="Chiwetel Ejiofor won Best Actor for his role in ‘12 Years a Slave.’" class="" src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1581606.1389880305!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/oscars17n-10-web.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px;" /><h4 class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">JAAP BUITENDIJK/ FOX SEARCHLIGHT</h4><h4 class="caption" itemprop="description" style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chiwetel Ejiofor won Best Actor for his role in ‘12 Years a Slave.’</h4></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The supporting actor prize went to Barkhad Abdi, who made an explosive screen debut as a Somali pirate in "Captain Phillips," while Jennifer Lawrence was named best supporting actress for "American Hustle."</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"American Hustle" also won the hair and makeup prize for its spectacular 70s stylings, while the "The Great Gatsby" - little-rewarded so far this awards season - took trophies for costumes and production design.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The temperature in London was hardly Hollywood, but Britain's fickle weather relented ahead of Sunday's ceremony. The sun shone as nominees including "Wolf of Wall Street" star Leonardo DiCaprio and "12 Years a Slave" performer Lupita Nyong'o- striking in a green Dior gown - walked the red carpet outside London's Royal Opera House.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Best-actress nominee Amy Adams wore a black dress by Victoria Beckham, and revealed the inspirations for her "American Hustle" character's faux-British accent: "Marianne Faithfull and Julie Christie."</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There was royalty of the Hollywood kind - Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, wearing matching tuxedos. And there was British royalty, too, in the form of Prince William, honorary president of the film academy.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the past few years, the prizes, known as BAFTAs, have helped underdog films, including "Slumdog Millionaire," "The King's Speech" and "The Artist," gain Oscars momentum. This year, bookmakers have made "12 Years a Slave," which has a British director and a British star, Chiwetel Ejiofor, favorite to take home the best picture and best actor trophies.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Director McQueen said he was "so proud" to be nominated for awards in his home town, London. And he paid tribute to Pitt, a producer on "12 Years," for helping to get the film's uncompromising vision of slavery onscreen.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"If you're trying to make a movie like this, you need some heavy backers," McQueen said. He said slavery "happened because of mental violence and physical violence. One has to be honest and truthful."</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The BAFTAs have become an essential stop for many Hollywood stars ahead of the Academy Awards, held this year on March 2.</div><div class="story-img" style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px;"><img alt="‘12 Years a Slave’ garnered 10 BAFTA nominations including Chiwetel Ejiofor's Best Actor win." class="" src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1582959.1389976001!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/odds18f-1-web.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 635px;" /><h4 class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 11px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">JAAP BUITENDIJK/FOX SEARCHLIGHT</h4><h4 class="caption" itemprop="description" style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘12 Years a Slave’ garnered 10 BAFTA nominations including Chiwetel Ejiofor's Best Actor win.</h4></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nominees Bradley Cooper, Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench and Sandra Bullock were among those attending Sunday's black-tie ceremony.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This year's best-picture nominees are: "12 Years a Slave"; "Gravity"; "American Hustle"; "Captain Phillips"; and "Philomena," the story of an Irishwoman in search of the son she lost decades earlier.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The separate category of best British film pits "Gravity," "Philomena" and Mary Poppins story "Saving Mr. Banks" against motor-racing drama "Rush," biopic "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom" and gritty parable "The Selfish Giant."</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The documentary prize went to "The Act of Killing," a powerful look at hundreds of thousands of killings carried out in 1960s Indonesia in the name of fighting communism by death squads that went unpunished. Director Joshua Oppenheimer dedicated the award to his Indonesian co-director and crew, all of whom had to work anonymously because of the threat to their lives in tackling the taboo topic.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Helen Mirren is to receive the British Academy Fellowship in honor of a career that has ranged from a hard-nosed detective in TV series "Prime Suspect" to Queen Elizabeth II in "The Queen."</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mirren, who won a best-actress Oscar for "The Queen," said she had never expected to get the honor, whose previous recipients include Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Elizabeth Taylor and Judi Dench.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I always imagined myself as a bit of an outsider, really, sort of the naughty girl," Mirren said.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mirren, 68, is no stranger to awards, but she said the prospect of making Sunday's acceptance speech was daunting.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"You think, `My God, I've got to talk about my whole life,'" she said. "Not only my whole life - what movies mean, what movies mean to me, what they mean to all of us. And do it all in two minutes."</div><span style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span>

Chiwetel Ejiofor nabs Best Actor award for ‘12 Years a Slave’ at BAFTA (BLOG)

Chiwetel Ejiofor has won the best-actor prize at the British Academy Film awards for unflinching slavery drama "12 Years a Slave."The British actor thanked director Steve McQueen for bringing to the screen the true story of a free black man kidnapped…

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