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Turkish party fights for survival after foiled coup attempt

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:57:42 GMT

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Turkish party fights for survival after foiled coup attempt

Turkey's governing party mounted a desperate legal fight for its survival today as documents allegedly showed it had been the target of a foiled coup attempt planned to begin next week.

Facing prosecution demands that it be closed and its leaders banished from politics, the Justice and Development party (AKP) denied accusations that it was seeking to impose sharia law.

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1960: Military coup in Turkey.

1963: Failed military coup attempt in Turkey.

1971: Military coup in Turkey (Coup by Memorandum).

1980: Military coup in Turkey.

1997: Military coup in Turkey, called 'post-modern coup' (February 28), overthrows the coalition government.

2007: Military coup in Turkey, called 'e-coup' (April 27),

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The deputy prime minister, Cemil Cicek, a former lawyer, told the constitutional court that the charges were a politically motivated drive by the country's secular establishment to unseat a twice-elected popular government.

July 3, 2008

Tags: turkey, eu, coup

Political Power At Work

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:24:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Man, that is some kind of machine!

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On this Day: July 5

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:09:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A bit of history

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1981: Police attacked in Liverpool riots

Up to 30 police officers are injured by bricks and other missiles as rioting and looting breaks out in Toxteth, Liverpool.

1991: International bank closed in fraud scandal
The Bank of Credit and Commerce International closes UK branches over fraud allegations.

1989: Irangate colonel avoids prison
Former White House aide Oliver North escapes jail for his part in the Iran-Contra affair.

1975: Ashe's Wimbledon win makes history
American tennis player Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles' championship.

2000: Record-breaking penguin rescue
Conservationists in South Africa are carrying out the biggest ever airlift of wild birds.

1979: Queen oversees Manx millennium
The Queen presides over the 1000th annual open-air sitting of the Isle of Man's Parliament, Tynwald.

1954: BBC launches daily TV news
The BBC broadcasts its first daily television news programme.

Tags: history, bbc, news

Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Presidency

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:10:39 GMT

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When Using Gestures, Rules Of Grammar Remain The Same

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:52:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Hard to clip, more at the source

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ScienceDaily (July 7, 2008) — The mind apparently has a consistent way of ordering an event that defies the order in which subjects, verbs, and objects typically appear in languages, according to research at the University of Chicago.

"Not surprisingly, speakers of different languages describe events using the word orders prescribed by their language. The surprise is that when the same speakers are asked to 'speak' with their hands and not their mouths, they ignore these orders -- they all use exactly the same order when they gesture," said Susan Goldin-Meadow, lead author of a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Tags: we, all, use, two, fingers, the, same, way

The men's sperm were examined for quantity, their ability to move and swim and their size and shape.

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:40:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It blows me out the way over 40's risk major problems for a newborns so that "we can have a family, now we have paid off the house". Of course there are the people going into their first real relationship at that age who deserve help too.

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Scientists say they have found more evidence that men as well as women have biological clocks and that they start to tick in their mid-30s.

A French study of over 12,200 couples having fertility treatment suggests the chance of a successful pregnancy falls when the man is aged over 35.

It adds that the chance is significantly lower if he is over 40.

Previous studies have shown that both natural and assisted conception is more difficult if the man is over 40.

The researchers told a European reproductive health conference that it was likely the problems were caused by DNA damage in sperm.

Miscarriage risk

The researchers studied couples who had sought treatment for infertility at the Eylau Centre for Assisted Reproduction in Paris between January 2002 and December 2006.

All were given intrauterine inseminations (IUI), also known as artificial insemination, where sperm is inserted into the womb when the woman is ovulating.

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Japan waits on US for CO2 targets

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:42:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: And George is stalling them beautifully for his masters, the corporations.

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Japan says that it will not negotiate new targets on CO2 emissions until it sees what the new US President has to offer on climate change.

A senior Japanese official also told the BBC his country would continue to try to re-negotiate the baseline date against which CO2 targets are measured.

Japan’s emissions are more than 6% above the 1990 Kyoto Protocol baseline.

World leaders are starting the three-day G8 summit in Toyako, on Japan's northern Hokkaido island.

Mr Jun Arima, chief negotiator for the powerful industry ministry METI, promised that Japan would meet its promised 6% CO2 cut by purchasing pollution credits from developing countries.

He also said Japan was hopeful of gathering support at the G8 for its plan for sectoral efficiency targets for industry.

He said the UK had been supportive of the idea, which would oblige the major industrial sectors which account for 40% of global emissions to adopt the best possible technologies.

Tags: fiddle, while, the, world, dies

Aborigine skulls to be taken home

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:47:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Strange, this lack of respect for human remains. Guess it shows the attitudes of the time. Also shows us that we have improved in some ways. (Though tell that to kid who has just found a half rotten sheeps skull!)

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A delegation of Aboriginal people from Australia has arrived in Edinburgh to take home human remains.

The six skulls and a human ear bone are in collections belonging to the National Museums of Scotland and Edinburgh University.

Four members of the Ngarrindjeri people made the trip to take home their ancestor's remains.

Aboriginal people and the Australian Government have fought to repatriate remains from museum collections.

On Monday morning, the Ngarrindjeri people burned eucalyptus leaves in front of the university's McEwan Hall in a "smoking ceremony".

The ritual marked the completion of a decade-long process during which remains held in the university's collection have been returned.

'Times change'

The delegation is in Edinburgh for the handover of the last piece of human remains still held at the university - a fragment of bone from a woman's ear.

The remains were acquired by the university more than 100 years ago, when Australia was a British colony.

Tags: kids, collect, boogies; adults, skulls

U.S. issues "insulting" Berlusconi biography

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:13:01 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Hypocrisy is alive and well in the White House and on the planes, in fact, anywhere that Bush goes, he takes his justifier, Hypocrisy.

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TOYAKO, Japan (Reuters) - The United States formally apologized to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Tuesday for distributing to reporters an "insulting" biography of him that said he was "hated by many".

The description was included in a thick press kit distributed to reporters traveling with U.S. President George W. Bush from Washington to the Group of Eight summit in Japan that Berlusconi was also attending.

The four-page biography, pulled from the Encyclopedia of World Biography Supplement, refers to Berlusconi as "hated by many but respected by all at least for his bella figura (personal style) and the sheer force of his will".

Berlusconi was said to be "regarded by many as a political dilettante who gained his high office only through use of his considerable influence on the national media..."

It also said Berlusconi was "one of the most controversial leaders in the history of a country known for governmental corruption and vice".

Tags: hypocrits, drown, in, their, own, crap, eventually

Frozen Waves

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:47:53 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Awesome

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Antarctica Frozen Wave Pixs - Nature is amazing! The water froze the instant the wave broke through the ice. That's what it is like in Anmtarctica where it is the coldest weather in decades. Water freezes the instant it comes in contact with the air. The temperature of the
water is already some degrees below freezing.
Just look at how the wave froze in mid-air!!!

Finally some political outrage!!

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:53:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The RNC Welcoming Committee is an anarchist / anti-authoritarian organizing body preparing for the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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The RNC Welcoming Committee is an anarchist / anti-authoritarian organizing body preparing for the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota.

On September 1-4 of 2008, the Republican Party is coming to Minnesota to celebrate their latest conquests in global domination and exploitation. We of the RNC Welcoming Committee want to make sure that this time the fear-mongers will be met with their own biggest fear: people mobilized, organized, and taking the future back into their own hands.

For those of you who abhor the rapid growth of racist militarized borders across stolen lands, the raids and deportations, destruction and commodification of our shared and living earth, police brutality and prison industry, fear propaganda and subjugation, exploitation and robbery of peoples worldwide, and all forms of injustice and oppression - we ask you to be prepared for 2008. This will require new alliances,

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Bikini Surfer Girl on Algarve Beach Bliss

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:49:52 GMT

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Bikini Surfer Girl on Algarve Beach Bliss

A Guide to Algarve Beach Bliss
By Daniel Eyre

The 60 miles of coastline along the west of Portugal’s Algarve region offer some of the continent’s best bathing spots, with an amazing variety of beaches for all kinds of holiday. Algarve’s extensive coastline brings other attractions for the Portugal holiday maker - with all the amazing seafood on offer, it’s no surprise the Portuguese eat more fish than anyone else in Europe.

Head to the west and the coast begins to get wilder. The beach at Algarve’s Martinhal resort, near the town of Sagres, rises to a mountainous sand dune that is exposed to powerful winds, and this makes it a challenging favourite for windsurfers.

North of Sagres, the coast has some of Europe’s best spots for surfing. The rugged, wind-swept landscape here seems a world away from the gentle waters and almond and citrus groves that can be found in the centre of the Algarve.

The beaches here are remote and

Tags: bikini, surfer, girl, algarve, beach

Vintage Ad Promoting Cig Sexiness

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:13:03 GMT

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Tags: society

President Bush Edits Thomas Jefferson

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:14:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814

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Bush Edits Out Jefferson's Religious Views

President Bush was at Monticello for a 4th of July celebration and he delivered an address. But it's quite telling that his speechwriters, in quoting Jefferson, cut out an anti-religious statement from a long and famous quote. Here's the way Bush put it:

"May it be to the world, what I believe it will be -- to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all -- the Signal of arousing men to burst the chains, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government."

Now let's look at the full quote

May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government.

Tags: bush, jefferson, independence day, religion

Woody Guthrie

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:59:35 GMT

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Tags: this machine kills fascists