This essay explains why politicians have to lie. It also explains the inevitability of war.
http://thinkinghard.com/politics/WhyPoliticiansHaveToLie.html
I was born pure 3 tens years ago
Enjoying my mum's **** knowing nothing ‘bout this world
Now I'm grown up, and I've gone up to University
And now I feel I'm thrown up
They just raise you like plants willing toget the best brand
For their own needs and they grow mad
If you dare to oppose they just tread you down andthrough
If you follow their words oh, they worship you
No one care if you'll die, no one care if you'll be
No one risks not to lie and you start to believe
In'em promising words and new programs
Peaceful intentions and political slogans
Cry whenever you cry, see whatever you see
If you try to deny, you will never be free
Thinking of what and how and why it should be
But you're just a small pawn in their big deal

I hate being sold
And my state's getting colder
I try to resist and I fall but I hold on

I ate just a part of this **** I belong to
I break with the future I stop and I don't go

Can't stand watchin'children grow into these beasts
Their toys turn into real weapon, serve for their needs
Aimed at million hearts included to their black-lists
‘Cuz they're missed and they're hurt, gotta keep tight fists
They wanna gain power not still knowing how to use it right
Look how they handle it without any insight
Settle the problem right, use bomb fight, adjust the sight,
Demonstratin' their might they'll never see the light
Pressin' their order, cursin' they murder
Vultures they gain their aim spit and go further
Cannot live without things one won't think about
I'm lost and exhausted, Jesus, it brings me out
I don't need any stakes, I just feel what I feel
Wanna belong to the next generation that's real
Just wanna live and love, be loved and be free
I don't need any rules designed to twist me

Manhattan Federal Magistrate Judge Frank Maas orders payments to 110 survivors and estates of 47 victims, including the pilot of United Airlines Flight 175, which hit south tower of World TradeCenter
A judge Monday awarded 9/11 relatives $6 billion in their suit targeting AlQaeda and silent partner Iran for complicity in the heinous plot that killed nearly 3,000 people.
Manhattan Federal Magistrate Judge Frank Maas’ ruling is the first to hit those responsible for the attacks with civil penalties, which would be due to 110 survivors and to the estates of 47 victims that are parties to the suit.
Plaintiff Ellen Saracini’s husband, Victor Saracini, was captain of United Airlines Flight 175, which struck the south tower of the World Trade Center.
“It’s hard being happy, but I am happy about it,” said Saracini, of Yardley, Pa. “But it opens up old wounds. We werenever in it for a lawsuit. I wanted to know what happened to my husband.”
Last year, Federal Judge George Danielsruled that 9/11 was not just the work of Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban regime that gave them safe haven.
Daniels found that Iran, its Grand Ayatollah Ali HosseiniKhamenei and the regime’s Lebanese proxy Hezbollah aided the attacks.
Iran concealed hijackers’ travel through the country and could have prevented them fromentering the U.S., while an Iranian government memo suggested Khamenei knew of the plot in May 2001.
Investigators also believe that Iran helped Al Qaeda members escape Afghanistan after 9/11 and provided some safe haven. The9/11 commission cited the findings and said they merited further investigation.
Whether the plaintiffs will see a penny is unclear.
Bin Laden died cut off from his family’s wealth, while Al Qaeda is on its last legs and the Taliban remains at war with the U.S.
That leaves the families’ legal team to seek seizure of Iranian state assets overseas, which they say fund terror worldwide.
International seizures are common in the business world, said plaintiffs’ lawyer Tom Mellon.
“But in the terror world, this is uncharted territory,” Mellon said.
Saracini doesn’t care.
“I never was in this for the money. I wanted accountability,” she said. “The money willnever bring back my husband, so I don’t care about it.”

A Spanish tourist wasbashed in the head with a hammer by a well-dressed Brooklyn man inside Manhattan’s City Hall Park Monday afternoon, police sources said.
Hugo Alejandre, 31, who is from Barcelona, was sitting on a bench in the downtown park near Murray Street and Broadway when he was targeted him in an unprovoked attack shortly after 3 p.m., the sources said.
Clad in a suit, John Yoos, 43, of Crown Heights, struck Alejandre with the claw part of the hammer on the left side of his head, just above his eye, police said. The blow fractured his skull.
Alejandre also suffered defensive wounds to his arms and hands, police said. He was taken toBellevue Hospital Center and later listed in stable condition, officials said.
Witnesses to the horrifying assault held Yoos until policeofficers arrived to place him under arrest, cops said.
Police recovered the hammer and chargedYoos with first-degree assault, criminal possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment, authorities said.

Man-oh-man! Is Mitt Romney having a terrible week? First he ticks off England, then he makes idiotic statements in Jerusalem, praises socialism unwittingly and getsshamed by Polish citizens. Now his aide is embarrassinghis campaign as wellas he could embarrass himself. Rick Gorka, his traveling press secretary, made a total horse's *** of himself and the presidential hopeful when he shouted at media professionals in Poland. the news came out this morning that he yelled for the reporters to kiss his *** while escorting Mitt toward a car.
Mitt was leaving the Pilsudski Square when reporters began asking questions about his trip. The questions were all rather harmless, but did point out the obvious that Mittens has had a pretty rough week embarrassing the United States while abroad. Gorka lost his cool and shouted obscenities at the people while demanding that they show respect.
Telling people to kissyour *** isn't the best way to get the respect you're demanding, Mr. Gorka!
Gorka also told off a Politico reporter, Jonathon Martin, telling him to "shoveit." Wow, the only thing missing this morning was Ann Romney shouting"you people" at all the little commonerswho so disrespectfully...existed...in their presence, right? Oh wait, that's only reserved for sit-down interviews, isn't it?
The Romneys are a big enough embarrassment to the country, but nowtheir aides are tryingto compete with that embarrassment!

The combination of higher taxes and cuts in federal spending set for the end of the year “would probably knock the economy back into a recessionand cost a lot of jobs,” Mr. Bernanke said.

WASHINGTON — TheFederal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke , said Tuesday that the Fedwas seeking greater clarity about the health of the recovery, suggestingthat officials were not ready to approveanother round of stimulus.
Mr. Bernanke repeated the Fed’s June assessment that economic growth has slowed, and is likely to remain slow. And he renewed his warning that scheduled tax increases and spending cuts wouldtip the economy back into recession .
Rather than committing to new steps, Mr. Bernanke told the Senate Banking Committee that the decision would turn on the judgment of Fed officials about the pace of job growth in the coming months.
The major issue, he said, is “whether or not there is in fact a sustained recovery going on in the labormarket, or are we stuck in the mud?” Mr. Bernanke added a wrinkle, saying thecentral bank “would certainly want to react against any increase in deflation risk.”
With the unemployment rate stalled above 8 percent and some measures of inflation expectations falling, some analysts read Mr. Bernanke’s remarks as indicating action was likely in the coming months. The next meeting of the central bank’s top policy committee is late in July.
Major stock market indexes fell immediately after Mr. Bernanke’s prepared remarks were made public but gradually rose ashe took questions and seemed more open to additional stimulus.
But Mr. Bernanke’s cautious language underscored the Fed’s reluctance to ride again to the aid of a plodding economy. The central bank has intervened repeatedly to prevent backsliding into recession, and Mr. Bernanke repeated his standard promise to maintain that vigilance. But the Fed has not acted with similar urgency to reduce the persistently high rate of unemployment.
Mr. Bernanke also noted the Fed could take other steps, such as indicating that short-term interest rates would remain near zero beyond the end of 2014.
“We are looking for ways to address the weakness in the economy, should more actually be needed,” he told the committee.
Mr. Bernanke appears before the House and Senate twice each year to discuss his management of the nation’s monetary policy. But the senators showed relatively little interest in that subject, focusing their questions instead on revelations that banks had manipulated Libor , abenchmark interest rate that figures in determining the value of a wide range of financial assets.
“I just wanted to touch briefly on monetary policy before moving on to the Libor scandal,” Senator Patrick J. Toomey, Republican of Pennsylvania, said, in an amusinglyfrank acknowledgment of the hearing’s focus.
In response to questions from members of both parties, Mr. Bernanke said that the Fed had responded properly when it learned of problems with Libor by notifying British regulators, and by offering suggestions for improvements. He said he still lacked “full confidence” in the integrity and accuracy of the indexbecause those suggestions had not been followed.
And he spoke favorably of nascent efforts to supplant Libor with benchmarks that arebased on an “observable market rate.”
Mr. Bernanke’s economic outlook was tinged by mentions of new signs of a slowdown.He noted new weakness in manufacturing and business spending, areas of strength earlier this year. He also said that “fiscal strains associated with the crisis in Europe have increased since earlier in the year.”
Inflation has also weakened. The government’s index of consumer prices was unchanged in June and rose 1.7 percent over the previous 12 months, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Tuesday. A narrower measure that offers a clearer view of trends, because it excludes volatile food and energy prices, rose 0.2 percent in June and 2.2 percent over 12 months.
And the so-called fiscal cliff is looming.
He again urged Congress to adopt a plan that would limitany short-term changes in fiscal policy, while agreeing on long-term steps to reduce the “unsustainable” growth of the federal debt.
“The most effective way that Congress could help to support the economy right now,”he said in his prepared testimony ,“would be to work to address the nation’s fiscal challenges in a way that takes into account both the need for long-run sustainability and the fragility of the recovery.”
These problems were sufficient for the Fed to announce a modest expansion in its efforts to stimulate growth after its policy making committee met in June. It said that it would continue to buy long-term Treasury securities until year’send.
Republicans pressed Mr. Bernanke to forswear additional action, warning that new measures would eventually lead to higher inflation and suggesting that the Fed’s policies were allowing Congress todelay a reckoning with the federal debt. Mr. Bernanke rejected both arguments. Of standing still to put pressure on Congress, he said dryly, “I don’t think that’s my responsibility.”
In a shift from earlier hearings, some Democrats put countervailing pressure on Mr. Bernanke to agree that he should do more. “I’m afraid theFed is the only game in town,” said Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York. “And I would urge you to take whatever actions you think would be appropriate.”
But Mr. Bernanke said only that he took seriously the Fed’s dual mandate to maximize employment and control inflation.
He will testify Wednesday before the House Financial Services Committee.

That is why it's particularly worrisome that on Thursday, July 12, Governor Mitt Romney is attending a GOP fundraiser hosted by former Vice President Dick Cheney at his home in Wyoming. It's fitting, really, since Romney has called Cheney a "person of wisdom and judgment."
As Romney considers possible running mates, it's worth remembering that hepointed to Dick Cheney as the "kind of person I'd like to have" working with him. Likewise, the policies that Romney has advocated -- like indefinitely leaving our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, for example -- are continuations of the Bush-Cheney doctrine, version 2.0.
It's no secret that Cheney was the driving force behind the Bush administration's failed foreign policies: starting the war in Iraq with no plan to finish it, bullying our allies around the world, and watching while Iran and North Korea moved forward with their nuclear programs because the Bush White House couldn't bring the international community together to confront these threats.
Out of Romney's 24 special advisors on foreign policy, 17 served in the Bush-Cheney administration. If Romney were to win,it's likely that many of these people would serve in his administration in some capacity -- a frightening prospect given the legacy of this particular group. The last time they were in government, it was disastrous.
For example, one of Romney's top surrogates on the campaign trail is John Bolton, who served as President George W. Bush's ambassador to the United Nations. Bolton embodies the reckless neoconservative thinking that was largely responsible for getting us into Iraq under false pretenses. Today, he openly roots for diplomacy with Iran to fail and is all-too-eager to send our men and women in uniform into war. Last year, for instance, Bolton said that, "It would be in our interest to overthrow this regime in Syria."

A large majority of Americans agree that President Barack Obama has a strong record protecting ournation's security and that he has the right vision for American leadership in the world. Governor Mitt Romney's proposals, in contrast, promise to return us to the discredited doctrines and reckless policies of the George W. Bush administration. We've seen that movie before, and it doesn't end well.

Mitt Romney's a big fan of George W. Bush's vice president.And that's a worryingsign for America's foreign policy.

MOSCOW — Police in Moscow have arrested top opposition figures along with demonstrators after a protest march on the eve of Vladimir Putin's inauguration as president tried to reach the Kremlin.
The march by about 20,000 people to an island adjacent to the Kremlin proceeded peacefullySunday afternoon until a small group tried to break off andcross a bridge across the Moscow River, which was blocked by police.
As more people crowded toward the bridge, police sent reinforcements to the cordon, pushed demonstrators back to the rally site and began seizing demonstrators.
At the rally site, opposition leaders Sergei Udaltsov, Alexei Navalny and Boris Nemtsov were detained.
14:55 GMT: Clashes between police and demonstrators continue in several locations on Bolotnaya Square.
14:53 GMT: Police have shut down the rally on Bolotnaya Square citing violations of rally regulations.
14:30 GMT: Police are taking down prominent opposition figures from the stage as they try to address the crowd. Boris Nemtsov, Sergey Udaltsov and Aleksey Navalny have been detained.
14:23 GMT: Police have detained opposition leader Sergey Udaltsov as headdressed the demonstrators from the stage.
14:18 GMT: Police have accused the rally organizers of staging a provocation, saying some demonstrators refused to proceed tothe sanctioned venue, blocking the movement of other demonstrators.
14:15 GMT: Clashes erupt between policeand demonstrators, RIA Novosti reports. Rally participants are chanting “Shame on you” and “Let us pass”, trying to breakthe cordon.
14:11 GMT: Smoke is rising above the crowd of protesters marching to Bolotnaya Square. The opposition says they have canceled the rally at Bolotnayaand demand TV air time.
14:10 GMT: Demonstrators brokethe police cordon opposite Bolotnaya Square. Someone in the crowd has thrown a Molotov cocktail, Interfax reports.
14:00 GMT: Some demonstrators leave Bolotnaya Square to join the sit-down strike of the oppositionists. The crowd is chanting “We won`t leave”.
13:50 GMT : The opposition leaders including Aleksey Navalny and Sergey Udaltsov have starteda passive action opposite Bolotnaya Square, RIA Novosti reports. “We have begun a sit-down political strike,” Sergey Udaltsov said.
13:40 GMT: Several dozen demonstratorshave broken from the main rally, demanding police give them access to the Kremlin, chanting “Let us pass.”
13:10 GMT: A photographer has died while trying to get a better long shot of the rally. The man climbed to the fifth floor of one of a building, but failed to keep his balance and fell to the ground.
13:00 GMT: The organizers of the rally claim 20,000 to 40,000 participants.
12:40 GMT: First participants of the"March of Millions" rally have arrived in Bolotnaya Square. Some reports set the number of participants as high as 15,000, but police report 8,000 to 10,000.
12:25 GMT: Police have cordoned off Bolotnaya Square. The square is surrounded by metal barricades. The demonstrators will enter the square through metal detectors.
12:10 GMT: The demonstrators have begun marching towards Bolotnaya Square. They are carrying a 5-meter white ribbon, which has become a symbolof the recent protests. Police say about 10,000 are taking part in the rally.
12:00 GMT: Police have erected a metal barricade around Manege Square and reinforced security in front of the State Duma building.
11:25 GMT: Two activists have been arrested by police fortrying to smuggle tents containing fireworks and smoke bombs onto Bolotnaya Square.
11:19 GMT: Police have advised organizers of the rally to observe safety regulations when constructing the stage on Bolotnaya Square.
11:08 GMT: Activists from the “March of Millions” rally have gathered in Kaluga Square.
11:00 GMT : A lorry carrying equipment for the construction of a stage for the"March of Millions" rally has been allowed on to Bolotnaya Square by Moscow police.
10:45 GMT: The exits of a number of central Moscow’s metro stations will be closed as a precaution during the mass rallies.
10:02 GMT: Later in the evening a pro-government rallyis to take place. The expected turnout of that event is 50,000.
10:01 GMT: The event is to start sometime around 12:00 GMT and last for 3.5 hours.
10:01 GMT: The protesters demand snap election of the parliament and president, saying the recent ballots had been rigged.
10:00 GMT: The protest is held a day ahead of the inauguration ceremony of President-elect Vladimir Putin.
10:00 GMT: On Sunday, Russian opposition is holdinga demonstration in Moscow. The so-called “March of Millions” is expected to attract up to 5,000 people to the center of the capital.
http://rt.com/news/inauguration-demos-live-updates-684/
s_udaltsov
http://mobile.twitter.com/s_udaltsov
Alexey Navalny
http://mobile.twitter.com/navalny

In the weird world that is Washington, men and women say things daily, hourly, even minutely, that they know deep down are simply not true. Inside the Beltway, we all call those utterances “rhetoric.”
But across the rest of the country, plain ol’ folk call ‘em lies. Bald-faced (even bold-faced) lies. Those folks have a tried-and-true way ofdetermining a lie: If you know what you’re saying is patently false, then it’s a lie. Simple.
Is Obama a pathological liar?

I don't like to think of my country as doing evil, but it does. The United Nations has sent someone to investigate abuses in the United States. Not in Haiti, Syria or Sudan. James Anaya is examining how theUnited States lives upto the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
The American media are quiet about the investigation. I foundout when a friend showed me a British article. I thought,"This is long overdue." It's time the United States gets called out for its treatment of Native peoples. Just like Guatemala and Brazil.
Twelve years ago I was in Guatemala studying the ancient medical techniques of Chuj Maya. There I encountered the worst racism I've ever seen. Worse than anything I'd known growing up inTexas. In Guatemala,"indio," or Indian, is what you yell at bad drivers. Or at the sex workers passed out drunk on the street. Or at people who make mistakes on a test. Why? Because ever since the Europeans invaded 500 years ago, NativeGuatemalans have been viewed as barriers to progress. Uneducated. Drunk. Stupid. Lazy. They're sitting on land that could be used to make money.
I also spent time in Brazil, and it was much the same there.
It would be nice to think that Americans had none of those tendencies, but we do.
Like Guatemalans, Americans portray Native people through caricature. The noble savage. The alcoholic wife-beater. The spiritual guru. The casino millionaire. Indians are shunned for looking dangerous, worshiped as keepers of the Earth, held up as poster people for oppression. Diane Sawyer recently did apiece on the Pine Ridge Reservation . She portrayed it as a haven for poverty and alcoholism. Teens on the reservation found it offensive. They madetheir own video, aptly titled "More Than That." You can find it on YouTube.
Americans may be tempted to think of Indian oppression as a part of history, like the old textbook paintings of the Trail of Tears and Wounded Knee. Not quite. Oklahoma's Sharia Law Act , now in litigation, bans tribal law. In Minnesota, tribal ID cards are regularly rejected as proof of identification. The Cleveland Indians have a mascot that looks like a drooling idiot.
I write this on stolen Dakota land. It wouldbe foolish to supposethat the United States does not deserve the same scrutiny as Guatemala and Brazil. One hundred fifty years ago, the Dakota Conflict culminated in 38 hangings, the largest mass execution in American history . Minnesota's Native people live with that legacy to this day.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2012/05/03/santos/

American treasure hunter Bill Warren claims to have located Osama ... - Economic Times
http://m.economictimes.com/news/news-by-industry/et-cetera/american-treasure-hunter-bill-warren-claims-to-have-located-osama-bin-ladens-body-bag/articleshow/12994790.cms
Treasure hunter : I know where Bin Laden's body is - New York Daily News
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/treasure-hunter-bill-warren-osama-bin-laden-body-article-1.1071949?localLinksEnabled=false

WASHINGTON, May 4, 2012 (IPS) - A United Nations special envoyon Friday called on the U.S. government to step up efforts to address historical injustices that continue to affect thecountry's indigenous population.
James Anaya, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, warned that historical wrongs, particularly the loss of land, continue to have an overriding impact on the wellbeing of Native American communities.
Anaya has just finished a 12-day research mission probing the current status and experience of the U.S.'s roughly 5.2 million-strong NativeAmerican population.
The trip marked the first time that the U.N. has waded into the contentious issueof U.S. treatment of its indigenous communities, one of the poorest and mostmarginalised populations in the United States.
The unemployment rate for American Indians has typically been double that of the white population. On reservations – self-governed tracts of land given to Native American communities by the U.S. government – Anaya reported a 70 percent unemployment rate.
Native Americans have also long suffered from disproportionately low statistics in health and education, as well.
But Anaya pointed toan underlying sense of disaffection, as well.
"The sense of loss, alienation and indignity is pervasivethroughout (Native American communities)," Anaya stated at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
"It is evident that there have still not been adequate measures of reconciliation to overcome the persistent legacies of the history of oppression, and that there is still much healing that needs tobe done."
Previously, the United States has made clear that it sees such issues as constituting internal affairs. Although Anaya was allowed to complete his research mission, he reported a lingering sense of disconnect with parts of the government.
"I regret that my efforts to meet with members of the U.S. Congress were unsuccessful," he stated, "especially given the prominent role of Congress in defining the status and rights of indigenous peoples within the United States."
Such engagement was only made possible in the first place due to a sudden U-turn in U.S. policy announced by President Barack Obama in 2010. At that time, the U.S. formally backed the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
The U.S. was the last country to sign on to the Declaration, which was passed in 2007. The administration of George W. Bush had twice opposed U.S. involvement, including over worries that it wouldgive rise to new legalclaims for redress.
Anaya's trip was aimed at checking into how U.S. commitments towards the UNDRIP have been carried out thus far. He will now be compiling hisresearch into a full report, which is expected to be presented to the U.N.Human Rights Councilin September.
If his initial observations are anything to go by, however, the report'sultimate recommendations to the U.S. government will be based largely on trying to break the negative cycle started by historical wrongs – wrongs that Anaya suggests are directly responsible for the generally dismal condition of Native American communities today.
"Over the past 12 days, I have heard stories that make evident the profoundhurt that indigenous peoples continue to feel because of the history of oppression they have faced," he said in Washington.
Perhaps most critically, that history – "all grounded in racial discrimination"– includes the significant dispossession of lands, including landsthat were officially and legally given over to Native American tribes.
As such, several of Anaya's most significant recommendations will revolve around self-governance and land issues. This includes "some form of land restoration", the transference of"lost lands" back into Native American hands.
"Securing the rights of indigenous peoples to their landsis of central importance to indigenous peoples' socio-economic development, self-determination and cultural integrity," Anaya noted.
"During my visit, I heard almost universal calls from indigenous nations that the government respect tribal sovereignty, that indigenous peoples' ability to control their own affairs be strengthened, and that the many existing barriers to the effective exercise of self-determinationbe removed."
That contention is backed up by the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), a pan-tribal association founded in 1944. In a policy paper released in lateApril, the NCAI stated that land and sovereignty issues are "underlying the state of Native peoples in America today".
The paper warned that the U.S. government continues to introduce laws "that prohibit tribal communities and tribal members from free use of their land and natural resources". As recently as Apr. 19, 2012, the paper noted, U.S. officials have cited 1930s legislation "as its authority to regulate Indian land as 'publicland' without consideration for the unique status of sovereign land."
For some observers, such a focus on current events – and their future ramifications – makes more sense than dredging up thedistant past.
Sher Malik, president of the Indigenous Peoples Survival Foundation, spoke with IPS while preparing to leave for the upcoming seventh session of the U.N. Permanent Forum on IndigenousIssues, starting May 7in New York.
"We must approach these issues with balance, not focusingon revenge," Malik says. "Unfortunately, we do not seem to learn from our history. So while I'm against what happened 200 years ago, today I'm not going to dig up negativity for a new generation."
Yet for Anaya, the issue of negativity goes to the heart of the ongoing marginalisation of the U.S.'s indigenous communities today. Native Americans feel"a systemic lack of respect" and discrimination from the U.S. public and media, he said.
"The broad view in American society seems to be that Native Americans are either gone or, as a group, have become insignificant – and those are simply flat wrong perceptions."
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=107676
UN inquiry into US treatment of Indians is overdue
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2012/05/03/santos/

'I know where Bin Laden is buried': Treasure hunter claims to have pinpointed spot where Al Qaeda was dumped in ocean (but he needs $200,000 for a mission to find body)
*. Bill Warren claims Al Qaeda mastermind is buried in Arabian Sea 200 miles west of Surat
*. U.S. Forces gave Taliban boss ocean burial to prevent Pakistancompound becoming a shrine
*. Treasure hunter Warren now needs $200,000 to dive and recover body
An American deep sea treasure hunter claims he has found the body of Osama Bin Laden - and plansto visit the spot because he 'doesn't have enough proof' the Al Qaeda leader isreally dead.
Bill Warren, 60, claims to have found the exact spot in the Northern Arabian Seawhere the terrorist leader was dumped into the ocean by U.S.forces after being killed in a raid one year ago.
Mr Warren, who is now trying to raise over $200,000 for a mission to dive for Bin Laden's body bag, says the Al Qaeda leader is buried around 200 miles west of the Indian city of Surat.
Deep sea diver: Mr Warren, who claims to have discovered over 200 shipwrecks, said Bin Laden's bodyis buried 200 miles west of Surat, India
He claims that as the Navy apparently weighed down Bin Laden's body when they gave him an ocean burial hours after his death, his corpse has not moved from its position on the ocean floor.
Mr Warren, who says he has found more than 200 shipwrecks during his treasure hunting career, pinpointed the location after studying satellite images given to him by a source at the Pentagon.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2139172/Osama-bin-Laden-Bill-Warren-claims-know-Al-Qaeda-dumped-ocean.html#ixzz1tsnrFHHa

(AP) PESHAWAR, Pakistan - An American drone fired a volley of missiles into a house close to the Afghan border on Saturday, killing eight suspected militants and indicating U.S. resolve to continue with the attacks despite renewed Pakistani opposition, officials said.

The strike in North Waziristan was the second American drone operation in Pakistan this week.

The attacks come amid American efforts to rebuild its relationship with Pakistan, which in November blocked the passage of U.S. and NATO war supplies to neighboring Afghanistan. The country's parliament has called for an end to the drone strikes, which many here regard as an unacceptable violation of sovereignty.

Up to eight missiles were fired at a house in the Dra Nishtar area of North Waziristan early Saturday, Pakistani intelligence officials said. They didn't give their names because they were not authorized to be named in the media.

America is unwilling to stop the drone attacks because they have weakened al Qaeda and associated groups in Pakistan's tribal regions, large parts of which are not under the control of the Pakistani state. In the past, Pakistan's intelligence agency has cooperated with the attacks, but the government has not publicly acknowledged this.

North Waziristan is a haven for Islamist militants from many parts of the world. It is also believed to be a key command and control center for insurgents fighting American troops in neighboring Afghanistan. The identities and affiliations of those killed Saturday were not immediately known.

Civilians have also been killed in the drone attacks, but the United States doesn't publicly investigate or apologize for any mistakes it makes. The frequency of the strikes has significantly dropped this year.

Pupil with disability in Russia can study at school and communicate with friends with the help of robot RBot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDcfI5xfii0

When you think of the word"immortality" it is hard not to feel a tingling excitement, even if those feelingsare quickly followed by a sense of something more biblical, almost God-like, and then bysomething darker lurking in the shadow of the word.
As Western science still has not found the immortality gene, it is perhaps not surprising that inSilicon Valley and on the outskirts of Moscow the eccentricwealthy (and it always is the eccentric wealthy) are now turning their attention – andtheir money – to projects that are promising to deliver a new version of the age-old fantasy (or folly) of everlasting life: digital immortality. And thistime it may actually work.
For writer Stephen Cave, author of the new book Immortality, digital immortality does notrefer to the "legacy" we have left on our Facebook pages. Cave's book explores the quest to live for ever and how – he believes – it has been the driving force behind civilisations, coming to a climax in modern science."Digital immortality," he says, "is about there being a silicon you for when the physical you dies" as a kind of "Plan B if bioscience fails to deliver an actual biological immortality".
And of course, he adds, biological immortality would not stop you being run over by a bus.
"So your brain is scanned and your essence uploaded into a digital form ofbits and bytes, and this whole brain emulation can be saved in a computer's memory banks ready to be brought back to life as an avatar in a virtual world like Second Life, or even in the body of an artificially intelligentrobot that is a replica of who we were."
For Cave, though, this "is not true immortality" as "you physically die" and this new you, "even though its behaviourcould fool your mum", is then just a copy. A copy that, he admits, could carry on growing, marrying and even having children.
Currently, however, this is still "almost science fiction", as there are "three big challenges" that stand between us and digital immortality – challenges that projects such as Carbon Copies and Russia 2045 already believe they can overcome within 40 years.
"The first is that we have to be able to read all the information that makes up who you are, and this is likely to be achieved destructively by removing the humanbrain from the body and then preserving, slicing and scanning in the data it contains. Then there is the challenge to store an amount of information many millions of orders of magnitude bigger than the current computer systems. And finally we need to find a way to animate it."
In the end, Cave argues, "theoreticallythe problems of digital immortality seem solvable, but whether the solutions are practical is another story... Although when it does happenit is simply inevitablethat the rich will get there as they have the most power among us."
Others are more positive about the prospect of true digital immortality within a generation.
For Dr Stuart Armstrong, the rise of the idea of digital immortality is due tothe realisation that this time – perhaps –we actually have the key to immortality inour hands. Dr Armstrong is research fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford.
"Technology is now advancing faster andfaster and we understand it a lot better because we built it ourselves. So the problems that digital immortality isfacing are merely engineering problems – albeit complicated and difficult ones – that could be solved within the decade if we decided to set upa scheme on the scale of the Manhattan Project."
In particular, he feelsthat "scanning is the critical problem" andthat if you "spent stupid amounts of cash then within a decade many of the limitations of scanning, such as its resolution, could be solved".
If computer power continues to double every two years, as described by"Moore's law", then in the end that will not be an issue either.
"Or it may be that at first we just have to accept a trade-off between what we can do and not do," he suggests. And for Armstrong this represents true immortality, since, rather pragmatically,"if this avatar or robot is to all intentsand purposes you, then it is you."
Dr Randal A. Koene, though, is determined to take digital immortality from the pages of books like Cave's andturn it into reality. Koene is founder of the non-profit Carbon Copies Project in California, which is tasked with creating a networking community of scientists to advance digital immortality –"although I prefer to talk about substrate-independent minds, as digital immortality is too much about how long you live, not what you can do with it".
And for Koene it is very much "you", there being a"continuity of self" inthe same way that"the person you are today is still the same person you were when you wereage five".
"This isn't science fiction, either, this is closer to science fact," he argues. Carbon Copies "is working to create a road map to substrate independence by pulling together all the research that is going on, identify where the gaps are and then what we need to do to plug it.
"A Manhattan Projectcan easily have its funding removed by government, whereas in this network there are usually multiple projects going on in the same area, and only one needs to succeed."
Furthermore, he feels, the tide of science is moving hisway, with India expecting to have built by 2017 a supercomputer big enough to handle the one exaflop of memory required forone brain upload, and such institutionsas the Allen Institute for Brain Science spending $300 million to try to crackproblems he also needs to solve, such as how the brain encodes, stores and processes information."Ultimately we won'teven be aware that we are being scanned, uploaded and replaced," he believes.
In the end, in Stephen Cave's opinion, digital immortality may well turn out to be a curse, as it always does in mythology.
"If my child died and I replaced her with a digital avatar to helpme overcome the grieving, would I let her grow up or even have children of her own? Would I tell her she was a copy? Ican imagine just how easy it would be to tell her in a row."
The complications have more serious and wide-ranging implications if humans cannot resistthe temptation to"tweak their digital avatars", which may – as Stuart Armstrong argues – lead us closer to a world of "super-upgraded copies" and "the real game changer, multiple copies or clones".
"You could copy the best five programmers in the world a million timesor the best call centre worker and these copies would simply replace the humans, who would no longer have any economic value," Armstrong says."Humans would be left to die, face a life on welfare or live under coercive regulation to control the technology."
For Koene, human societies have faced these kinds of problems many times before. What matters more, he believes, is that digital immortality isthe next stage of human evolution as it will "allow us as a species to have the flexibility to survive the process of natural selection that every species has to face", whetheron this planet or another.
This time it won't just be the rich who benefit, either, as the technology will be made "open source" for everyone to have the choice whether to be digitally immortal or not. And that would be a curse.
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Russia's defense establishment rolled out computer-generated images of hypothetical warfare on Thursday to illustrate its fear of a planned Europe-based missile-defense shield and warned of a possible a pre-emptive strike on elements of the system.

By Richard Boudreaux

MOSCOW—Russia's defense establishment rolled out computer-generated images of hypothetical warfare on Thursday to illustrate its fear of a planned Europe-based missile-defense shield and warned of a possible a pre-emptive strike on elements of the system, underscoringthe biggest source of tension in U.S.-Russiarelations.
But the hawkish rhetoric at an international conference masked a tacit agreement to put off serious talks on the issue until next year and an emerging view in theKremlin that President Barack Obama's re-election would clear the way for a deal overcoming its objections to the U.S.-led missile-defense plan.
With Mr. Obama, "I am sure we will reach an agreement that brings no harm to them or to our security," a senior Russian official told the state news agency on Thursday."If it's someone else" in the White House next year, he added,"surely, it will be difficult."
The comments, coupled with those of U.S. and other Western officials at the conference, suggested that both sides were looking for a way out of a stalemate that has slowed the improvement of ties under Mr. Obama's effort to "reset" their strained relationship.
In a message read to the gathering, departing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said he was confident the two sides "are capable of finding a formula that would allow us to avoid anydivision into winners and losers."
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Russland droht mit Erstschlag gegen Raketenschild
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