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Best of the Web: Dramatic rescue of 1,000 people trapped on ferries as 50 ships get stuck in Baltic Sea ice after worst winter in 50 years


UK Daily Mail
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:51 UTC
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© Agence France-PresseNo way through: A passenger ferry attempts to power its way through pack ice off Sweden's east coast. The Baltic Sea is experiencing its coldest winter in 50 years
Nearly 1,000 people trapped on a ferry were dramatically rescued today after 50 ships got stuck in heavy pack ice in the Baltic Sea, officials said.

The passenger ferry Amorella was returned safely to Stockholm harbour after ice breakers helped release it from large masses of ice off Sweden's east coast.

A total of 50 ships and boats had been stuck for hours as gale-force winds built up the ice along the coastline north of Stockholm.

Rescue helicopters and military hovercraft had been placed on standby to evacuate passengers if needed. No one was injured.

'It arrived in the port during the morning,' sea rescue spokeswoman Christel Englund said.

The Swedish Maritime Administration said the Amorella had 753 passengers and 190 crew on board.

The 10-deck ship belongs to Viking Line, which operates Baltic Sea cruises between Sweden and Finland.
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Meteor

Best of the Web: Enormous fireball explodes over the sky of Hungary, Slovakia and Czech Republic


CentralEastEurope.com
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:54 UTC
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Eye 2

Best of the Web: America's Darkest Secret: The Nine Stages of American Autogenocide

Martha Rose Crow M.S.
hiddenmurder.blogspot.com
Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:00 UTC

Comment: Martha Rose Crow died on March 1st, 2010, from a probable brain aneurysm. She was a close associate and contributor to SOTT.net, and her passing saddens us deeply. To commemorate her life, we revive this excellent editorial she wrote in 2006, in recognition of her dedication to truth and as a promise that her efforts and her life's work will live on and continue to help awaken others to the dark reality that surrounds us all.


Martha Rose Crow
Martha Rose Crow
Auto comes from the Greek reflexive pronoun while genocide comes from the Latin words gens meaning "race, tribe" and -cidere meaning "kill." (source)

American Autogenocide is the deliberate, systematic and legal murder of American citizens by socially-engineering the die-off of populations that are "problematic" for the interests of wealth and power. Most victims prematurely die from social forces targeted at them to cause them to wear out by stress. This process is called "Weathering Away" or "Attrition By Stress."

Although it has to be "legal," autogenocide is always committed under the radar so the media won't be compelled to report it and so the people won't see it or understand it. More, the genocide is blamed on the victims and their deaths are hidden-attributed-to other causes rather than the primary one of autogenocide.

What is different between this genocide and other genocides is that this unique genocide doesn't produce mass graves. Instead, the victims are spread over a large geographic area and buried singly, thereby hiding the body count. This keeps the deaths sanitized and homogenized. It also keeps the autogenocide surreal; thus enabling the village to deny It's existence when clues to It's existence are abundant and abundantly transparent.

Comment: Other articles by Martha Rose Crow can be found here:

Imaginary Gold Bullion: How Deep Does the Plunder of the World's Resources Go?
Behind Israel's Siege of Gaza: Palestinians Have Oil and Gas
The "Bin Laden Option" and the Missing Minot Nuke
The Orwell Peace Prize

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Eye 1

Best of the Web: Is Your Favorite Politician a Psychopath?

Tony Schwartz
Huffington Post
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:10 UTC
Psychopaths rule our world
© Sott
What do John Edwards, Bob Barr, Rod Blagjevich, John Ensign, Eliot Spitzer, Mark Sanford, William Jefferson, William Jefferson Clinton, David Vitter, James McGreevy, Tom DeLay, Charles Rangel, Newt Gingrich, and David Paterson have in common?

Obviously, they're all politicians who've been caught doing something illegal, unethical, mind-bogglingly self-destructive, or all of the above.

But what also binds them is that none of them seem to believe they really did anything wrong, in spite of vast evidence to the contrary. When they finally have no option but to appear contrite, their apologies feel stilted, scripted and anything but heartfelt.

The latest offender, New York Governor David Paterson, hasn't even gotten around to apologizing yet. In the meantime, he's apparently managed to convince himself that it's okay to phone up and intimidate a woman his top aide just viciously beat up. Then there's John Edwards. I've just finished reading The Politician by his aide, Andrew Young -- an irresistibly salacious takedown, but one that never gets near understanding Edward's breathtaking brazenness and utter obliviousness. Or how about the much-indicted Rod Blagjevich joining the cast of "The Apprentice?" while he awaits his own criminal trial -- and continues to profess his utter innocence despite dozens of tape recordings that make it clear exactly what he did.

Comment: The unsavory personal lives of politicians undoubtedly brings much destruction to individuals directly involved. However, it's important to recognize that their toxic influence extends far beyond their personal life to involve whole nations. The results of having a pathological leadership, a pathocracy, is nothing short of devastating for humanity.

See Lobaczewski and the origins of Political Ponerology for more information.

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Vader

Best of the Web: US sponsors terrorism: Was Richard Holbrooke waiting to meet Jundullah terrorist at Manas Air Base in Kyrgyzstan?


AhlulBayt News Agency
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:55 UTC
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© UnknownObama's "Special Representative" to Afghanistan and Pakistan
Tehran - Independent news sources reported on Saturday that Abdolmalek Rigi, the terrorist who has been arrested by Iranian security forces, had planned to meet with Richard Holbrooke in the Manas Air Base in Kyrgyzstan.

According to Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA), the captured ringleader of the Jundallah terrorist group, Abdolmalek Rigi, was scheduled to meet US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke at the Manas Air Base for talks on waging an insurgency against the Islamic Republic of Iran, a journalist says.

Rigi had planned to meet a high-profile US official at the Manas Air Base near Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek.

This senior US official must have been Holbrooke, who was in Kyrgyzstan to visit the only US air base in Central Asia, the IRNA news agency quoted journalist Wayne Madsen as saying on Saturday.
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Best of the Web: Hamas to EU: Put Israel on terrorism list


Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:01 UTC
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© Unknown
Hamas asked the European Union to include Israel on a list of countries that support terrorism.

"We urge the EU to include the Zionist entity on the list of countries that support terrorism, as it represents a threat to international peace," Hamas said in a statement released Monday.

Hamas has accused Israel of being responsible for last month's assassination of a Hamas commander, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, in a Dubai hotel.

The United States and the European Union consider Hamas a terrorist organization.

European Union ministers met Monday in Brussels.
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Passport

Best of the Web: Israel Mossad 'factory' churned out fake Australian passports

Anne Barker
ABC News
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:31 UTC
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© AFPForged: The Australian passport in the name of Adam Korman allegedly used in the Dubai hit
A former Mossad officer has alleged the Israeli spy agency has its own "passport factory" to create or doctor passports for use in intelligence operations.

Relations between Australia and Israel are under strain after three Australian passports were apparently used by suspects in the killing of top Hamas leader Mahmoud Al Mabhouh in Dubai last month. Dubai police say they are 99 per cent sure Mossad was behind the operation to smother Mabhouh with a pillow in his hotel room.

Victor Ostrovsky, a case officer at Mossad for several years in the 1980s, says he has no doubt Australian passports have been forged or fraudulently used for similar operations in the past.
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MIB

Best of the Web: Iran Captures a 'Good' Terrorist

Ray McGovern
OpEdNews
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:06 UTC
Abdolmalek Rigi
© UnknownAbdolmalek Rigi
The Iranian government is celebrating the capture of Abdolmalek Rigi, the leader of a violent group called Jundullah (Arabic for Soldiers of God), which Tehran says is a terrorist organization supported by the United States, Great Britain and Israel.

Jundullah is one of several groups that have been conducting bombings and other violent attacks against Iran's Islamic regime with the aim of knocking it off balance.

In a July 7, 2008, article for The New Yorker magazine, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh quoted Robert Baer, a former CIA clandestine officer who worked in South Asia and the Middle East for nearly two decades, as saying that Jundullah was one of the militant groups in Iran benefiting from U.S. support.

Comment: Just imagine how many of all those terrorizing groups that spread havoc across the Middle East are acting on behalf of US and Israeli interests while the rest of the world is led to believe that they are just crazy Arabs who are killing each other. We wouldn't be at all surprised if the answer is: all of them. SOTT editor, Joe Quinn, has been writing about it since 2007.

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Better Earth

Best of the Web: BBC Horizon - How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth?

David Attenborough
YouTube
Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:22 UTC
"In a Horizon special, naturalist Sir David Attenborough investigates whether the world is heading for a population crisis.

Comment: The other parts are here:
BBC Horizon - How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth ? Part 2
BBC Horizon - How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth ? Part 3
BBC Horizon - How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth ? Part 4
BBC Horizon - How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth ? Part 5
BBC Horizon - How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth ? Part 6

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Eye 1

Best of the Web: The Love Police - Undercover Anti-Terror Squad

JohnNada80
YouTube
Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:03 UTC
A compilation of clips by the 'Love Police' (Also known as the 'Everything is OK guys').
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