S W I N E

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A Danish art group that pokes fun at world leaders targeted Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday by placing an advertisement in a Tehran newspaper with an insulting hidden message.
Beneath a picture of the president, a series of apparently sympathetic statements were arranged such as "Support his fight against Bush" and " Iran has the right to produce nuclear energy". The advert was attributed to "Danes for World Peace".
However, the first letters of each phrase, when read from top to bottom, spell out "S-W-I-N-E".

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Eight Marines charged in Haditha killings

By Dan Whitcomb
CAMP PENDLETON, California (Reuters) - The U.S. military charged four Marines on Thursday with murder and four others on related charges in the November 2005 deaths of 24 unarmed civilians in Haditha, Iraq.

Ahmadinejad: Iran now nuclear power

Iranian president: Our scienists have reached zenith, accessed nuclear fuel cycle
Yaakov Lappin Published: 12.20.06, Iran is now a "nuclear power," its President, Mahmoud Ahamdinejad, declared Wednesday, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency .
In recent days, the US military has begun to build up forces around the Gulf, in what is being seen as as a warning to Iran.

"Today, it is the United States, Britain and the Zionist regime which are doomed to disappear as they have moved far away from the teachings of God," he said in a speech in the western town of Javanroud. "It is a divine promise."

Pakistan Bans Spencer's Book

Robert Spencer's latest book, "The Truth About Muhammad," has been banned in Pakistan.

"The Truth About Muhammad: Founder of the World’s Most Intolerant Religion," published by Regnery (a HUMAN EVENTS sister company), was pulled off shelves after it was found to contain "objectionable material" about Islam's founder, according to a notification obtained by the Kuwait National News Agency.
The Pakistani government has confiscated all copies and translations of the book.

Worry About OPEC

The dollars they are getting for their oil now buy fewer pounds to spend in Harrods, and fewer euros to spend on the necessities of life in the south of France. Worse still, the dollars they have already accumulated are declining in value

To protect against further declines, the oil producers are diversifying out of dollars and into other currencies, most prominently euros and Japanese yen. The central banks of the members of the OPEC cartel cut their dollar-holdings from 75 percent of total reserves in 2001, to 67 percent at the end of the first quarter of this year, and again to 65 percent at the end of the second quarter.
Weekly Standard by Irwin Stelzer

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Reading Shakespeare has dramatic effect on human brain

Research at the University of Liverpool has found that Shakespearean language excites positive brain activity.

Shakespeare uses a linguistic technique known as functional shift that involves, for example using a noun to serve as a verb. Researchers found that this technique allows the brain to understand what a word means before it understands the function of the word within a sentence. This process causes a sudden peak in brain activity and forces the brain to work backwards in order to fully understand what Shakespeare is trying to say.
By throwing odd words into seemingly normal sentences, Shakespeare surprises the brain and catches it off guard in a manner that produces a sudden burst of activity - a sense of drama created out of the simplest of things." read all here ......

The End of Dollar Supremacy

Iran announced yesterday ordering the central bank to direct foreign transactions and transform the state's dollar-denominated assets held abroad to the single European currency instead of the U.S. currency. "The government has ordered the central bank to replace the dollar with the Euro to limit the problems of the executive organs in commercial transactions," government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham told reporters.

"Some banks abroad are also willing to go Euro in dealing with us and there is no problem if some others want to do business in other exchanges based on their preference," said governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), adding that the country's FRF stands at $ 10 billion, indicating a 35 percent growth over last year.

It has been said that he who holds the gold makes the rules.

Will other oil producing countries in the Middle East, members of The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), follow the suit?

A switch by OPEC members from the U.S. currency to the Euro could enhance the value of the Euro, the new official currency of the European Union (EU) which first came into existence on Jan. 1, 1999, further, ending the U.D. Dollar supremacy.

Kavkaz Center

Haniyeh Urges Factions to Stop Fighting

blames US for gov't failure; six killed, dozens wounded in clashes Tuesday.
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

TOONOPHOBIA: Irrational Fear Of Blasphemous Drawings

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From the Funny to the Obnoxious

Y.A.A.F.M. 12: MUSLIMS
Reginold takes on the Muslim Cartoon Controversy... this one is gonna hurt!

Looking for controversial and outrageous stuff this one got top the list
Do not watch if you are easily offended.....

Dirty Blues

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Blues being a part of our Un-deniable culture which affects everything from Rock and Roll to the Rap that is heard today. I decided to post this piece of history because most of you have not ever heard a piece of the real funky blues . Give it time to load , it's worth it*

Miami's Home Grown Terrorism on the Rise

A 17-year-old girl was shot to death Sunday when gunmen in a passing car sprayed the front of a home with bullets, North Miami Beach police said. Detectives said at least 25 bullets were fired from an assault rifle. The teen becomes the latest victim in a bloody year, which has claimed the lives of almost 30 people in Miami-Dade who are 18 or younger.
BY ALDO NAHED

Hey Iraqi wife and you thought this only happens in Bahgdad?

Iraqis Victims of Violence...

Barbaric Savages...Iraq has become the victim of violence, Domestic Violence. Punched, hit, beaten up and raped Raped by Iraqis, Americans, Brits, Arabs, Africans, Iranians, Afghanis. Raped by the WORLD. The whole world. Iraq has fallen victim to psychotic personas. Psychotic personas pretending to cry for Iraq. Psychotic personas pretending to kill for Iraq. Yet the victim, the victim is non other, but Iraq... Iraq and Iraqis...Iraq and Iraqis Victims of Violence...

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Mass abductions Aid workers seized in Baghdad

Up to 25 people have been abducted from an Iraqi Red Crescent office in Baghdad as Tony Blair, Police said up the group was abducted by men wearing Iraqi army uniforms in the Karrada area of the capitalhe British prime minister, made a surprise visit to the country.

by Al-jazeera

Iraqi Red Crescent Spoke Too Soon?

During a United Nations meeting in Geneva on Friday, Dr. Jamal Al-Karbouli, the vice president of the Iraqi Red Crescent Society, had told a gathering of reporters that “the main problem we are facing is the American forces more than the other forces.

The American military, he said, had been consisitently using overly aggressive tactics — what he even referred to as “attacks” — in searching the agency’s headquarters for insurgents. But the insurgents themselves had never given the Red Crescent any trouble.

“The insurgents, they are Iraqis, a lot of them are Iraqis, and they respect the Iraqis,” he told reporters. “And they respect our (the Red Crescent’s) identity, which is neutrality.”

By Tom Zeller Jr.

Return of The Taliban

France has said it will withdraw

The announcement comes three weeks after Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, the Nato Secretary-General, called for reinforcements from member states for operations against Taliban strongholds in Afghanistan.

Michele Alliot-Marie, the French defence minister, said on Sunday during a visit to the Afghan capital of Kabul: "We'll pull our special forces out of Afghanistan in the coming weeks."

US politicians meet Cuban officials

by Al-jazeera
Raul Castro, the interim leader of Cuba, has signalled a possible change in his communist country’s foreign policy by suggesting talks with the US to end years of tensions between the two countries.