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This June the Fourth, vote BNP

published by You on 18 May, 2009 - 22:23

Got a manifesto through the door for them. Who else offers such a convincing set of proposals:

  • No to EU Rule
  • No to the Euro
  • No to Unemployment
  • No to high Taxes
  • No to Rip Off Britain

Sounds god to me...

Oh yeah, their key pledge is:

Oppose the dangerous drive - backed by the other main parties - to give 80 million low-wage, Muslim Turks the right to swamp Britain

Nice people.

Turkish president 'facing trial'

published by You on 18 May, 2009 - 21:48

A Turkish court has ruled President Abdullah Gul should stand trial for alleged embezzlement in the late 1990s.

The Welfare Party, a precursor of the governing AK Party, was accused of misappropriating funds from the state treasury after being banned in 1998.

Mr Gul, a founder of the AKP, was elected president in 2007.

The case will now be considered by an appeal court. But it is unclear whether Mr Gul will end up going on trial, as he could have immunity as president.

Correspondents say Turkey's secular establishment has often used the courts to oppose the activities of the Islamist-rooted AKP.

Last July, the Constitutional Court came close to banning the party for allegedly trying to undermine the country's secular system...

Somali militants capture key town

published by You on 18 May, 2009 - 00:29

Hardline Islamist militants have captured a strategically important town north of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, eyewitnesses say.

Members of al-Shabab, a group fighting government forces in Somalia, seized the town of Jowhar on Sunday morning.

One resident told Reuters that there had been "serious fighting" in which at least seven people had been killed.

Jowhar was in 2005 chosen as the temporary location for the country's transitional government.

The Somali government has been losing ground in recent weeks and now controls little more than the centre of the capital, with the support of African Union troops.

On 15 May, Somalia's president appealed to Islamist insurgents to negotiate as intermittent fighting continued in Mogadishu...

Wolfram Alpha

published by You on 16 May, 2009 - 12:28

Crap name, and probably a crap site too - but it might be useful to students who need an answer instead of loads of pages - if it works that is.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

They bill it as a knowledge engine - ask it normal questions and it will find answers (as opposed to google - give it search terms and it will find web pages), and it launched today/yesterday.

As it questions, put the replies here if they are amusing enough.

Introduction video:

">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riQ5tpHc_b8]

Skynet, I salute you!

Swine flu fears could delay Hajj

published by You on 15 May, 2009 - 22:27

The Muslim religious authorities in Egypt have suggested delaying the annual pilgrimage to Mecca because of the spread of swine flu.

Egypt's Grand Mufti, Sheikh Ali Jumua, has called for a religious edict to decide how long the pilgrimage rites of the Hajj could be postponed.

At least two million people took part in the last Hajj, which falls this year in November.

More than 7,500 cases of swine flu have been reported worldwide.

In an interview with BBC Arabic radio, Dr Ibrahim Negm, an advisor to the Grand Mufti, said Sheikh Ali Jumua supported a view already outlined by Mohammed Tantawi, the Grand Imam of the al-Azhar Mosque.

Pandemic alert

Obama 'to revive military trials'

published by You on 15 May, 2009 - 09:31

US President Barack Obama is expected to announce on Friday that he is reviving military trials for some of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

But legal rights for defendants facing the military commissions will be significantly improved, officials said.

President Obama halted the trials as one of his first acts on taking office in January, saying the US was entering a new era of respecting human rights.

The decision to revive the military trials has angered civil rights groups.

There are currently 241 detainees still at the US base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

President Obama has pledged to close the camp by January 2010...

Read more @ BBC News

Dumping toxic waste on Africa

published by You on 14 May, 2009 - 03:06

Its been alleged loads of times that the rich western world dumps much toxic waste in/off the coast of Africa, and how after the asian tsunami many people in Somalia were struck by illnesses due to the toxic waste that got swept ashore.

It is the same case on the other side of Africa, but there is a twist - there may actually be proof of such detestable actions.

Papers prove Trafigura ship dumped toxic waste in Ivory Coast

Documents have emerged which detail for the first time the potentially lethal nature of toxic waste dumped by British-based oil traders in one of west Africa's poorest countries.

Afghans probe girls' 'poisoning'

published by You on 13 May, 2009 - 23:32

Authorities in Afghanistan are investigating whether about 90 schoolgirls who fell ill were the victims of deliberate poisoning.

The girls experienced headaches, vomiting and dizziness after strong fumes engulfed the school in Kapisa province, north of Kabul.

The incident is the third of its kind at an Afghan girls' school recently.

Strong fumes were reported on Monday and on 26 April at schools in the nearby town of Charikar.

The police say none of the girls is in danger.

Blood samples have been sent to the American airbase at Bagram.

As yet, officials say there is no clue as to what the fumes may have been, or where they came from.

There has been an increase in reported attacks on schoolgirls in Afghanistan in the past year.

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