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16 top Gingrich staff members resign


Azstarnet.com
Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:11 UTC
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, accompanied by his wife, Callista, suffered a severe blow to his presidential campaign when his top staffers quit.
Washington - The entire top echelon of Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign resigned on Thursday, a stunning mass exodus that left his bid for the Republican nomination in tatters.

But the former House speaker vowed defiantly to remain a candidate.

"I am committed to running the substantive, solutions-oriented campaign I set out to run earlier this spring," the Gingrich said in a posting to his Facebook page shortly after the 16 aides resigned. "The campaign begins anew Sunday in Los Angeles."

Rick Tyler, Gingrich's spokesman, said that he, campaign manager Rob Johnson and senior strategists had all quit, along with aides in the early primary and caucus states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.

Other officials said Gingrich was informed that his entire high command was quitting in a meeting at his headquarters in Washington. They cited differences over the direction of the campaign.
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Che Guevara

Jordan's king unhurt in attack on motorcade

Mark Tran
The Guardian
Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:44 UTC
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Jordan's King Abdullah II pictured during a visit to Beijing. Stones and bottles were allegedly aimed at his car during a visit to Tafila, 125 miles south of Amman.
Attack by stone and bottle throwing youths hours after King Abdullah II announced political reforms is denied by government

The motorcade of King Abdullah II of Jordan has reportedly come under attack from protesters throwing bottles and stones during a visit to a town in the country's south.

Abdullah was unhurt in the attack, which came hours after he bowed to popular demands for political reform, agreeing to have an elected prime minister from a parliamentary majority replace the current method of appointing the cabinet.

An unnamed security official said young people attacked the motorcade in two different areas in Tafila, 125 miles south of the capital Amman.

A government spokesman, Taher Edwan, later rejected the account.
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Pistol

US: Man Charged in 99-Cent Robbery Attempt

Brian Slodysko
Chicago Tribune
Sat, 11 Jun 2011 04:34 UTC
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Christopher Tisley
Cook County judge set bail at $50,000 today for a man charged with displaying a handgun to a convenience store clerk who refused to give him 99 cents.

According to court records, Christopher Tisley, 34, walked into a convenience store in the 2800 block of West Lawrence Avenue in the Ravenswood neighborhood around 3 a.m. Saturday and demanded the money. When the clerk refused, he displayed a gun.

Tisley, of the 5800 block of South Morgan Street, exited the store after a customer walked in, allowing the clerk to lock the door. Tisley then returned and repeatedly pounded on the windows of the store, court records state.
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Smoking

Rebellious Greeks defeat smoking ban... by ignoring it en masse!

Malcolm Brabant
BBC
Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:41 UTC
Much trumpeted legislation aimed at stamping out smoking in Greece, Europe's most tobacco addicted nation, has been declared a failure by health campaigners.

A lack of enforcement and widespread public defiance is being blamed for the Greeks' inability to conform to European standards.

As the BBC's Malcolm Brabant reports, Greek rebelliousness is one of the biggest obstacles.



Comment: Very interesting choice of words from this BBC reporter:
"This story tells you that there is a rich and dynamic scene of resistance running through the Greek national psyche. Many Greeks take an almost willful delight in defying authority. As it is this invisible, yet enormously powerful, rebellious force that the Greek government has to contend with as it tries to convince the population to accept its austerity programme."
Whether he realised it or not, this is exactly what it all boils down to with smoking. You have to wonder to what extent the Powers That Be are aware that economic austerity, shock doctrines and false-flag terrorist attacks are far more difficult to foist on populations that smoke!

For the control example, witness Ireland, whose population just rolled over when it was told that it would be piloting the fascist anti-smoking ban shortly after 9/11. When it came time for its economic shock therapy in late 2010, barely a whimper was raised in defiance.

The Greeks are right - smoking IS a HUMAN RIGHT!
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Bizarro Earth

Fury of Kelly widow over inquest

Michael Seamark and Peter Allen
Dailymail.co.uk
Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:25 UTC
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Dr Kelly's widow, Janice.
David Kelly's family have dramatically intensified the row over his death by accusing Lord Hutton of letting the Government off the hook.

Dr Kelly's widow Janice and their three daughters said the former judge had not fully examined how much the actions and failings of the Defence Ministry affected the scientist's state of mind.

Their attack came as a coroner ruled that there was no need to reconvene an inquest into Dr Kelly's death, which Lord Hutton concluded was suicide.

Jeremy Gompertz, QC, representing the family, told Oxford coroner Nicholas Gardiner yesterday that the family accepted Lord Hutton's findings "as to the mode and approximate cause of Dr Kelly's death".

But he said they were disappointed he did not "consider more fully the extent to which the state of mind in which Dr Kelly took his own life was induced by the failings of the Ministry of Defence in the exercise of the duty of care owed as his employer". Mrs Kelly, 58, may now sue the MoD for compensation.

Crucial questions left unanswered

The decision not to resume the inquest also came under fire last night, with experts warning that crucial questions about the death of the weapons inspector will be left unanswered. Dr Michael Powers, himself a coroner, said: 'I am concerned that the due process has not been followed.

"There evidently are contradictory views that were never put to the experts who gave evidence before Lord Hutton.

"In consequence the rigours that are normally undertaken at a coroner's inquest simply were not fulfilled."

The Kelly family's statement was their first detailed public response to the much-criticised Hutton report.

Comment: For more information regarding the David Kelly case, see this Sott link:

WMD Scientist, Dr. David Kelly, Suicide Coverup

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Brick Wall

WMD Scientist, Dr. David Kelly, Suicide Coverup


Veteranstoday.com
Thu, 09 Jun 2011 10:31 UTC
Attorney general rules against Dr David Kelly inquest

BBC REPORT

The attorney general has rejected calls for an inquest into the death in 2003 of government scientist Dr David Kelly.

Dominic Grieve said the evidence Dr Kelly killed himself was "overwhelming" and rejected claims of a "cover-up".

Dr Kelly was found dead after he was exposed as the source of a BBC story which led to a row with the then Labour government over Iraq intelligence.


Comment: For more information on the David Kelly case, see these Sott links:

Coverup and Complicity: The Mysterious Death of David Kelly: Doctors Challenge Cameron Government

Ethnic specific weapons: The real story behind the murder of Dr David Kelly

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Handcuffs

Mass Brawl at 30,000 Feet Sees 76-Year-Old Passenger Arrested Over 30-Minute Fight on Virgin Flight to Barbados


The Daily Mail, UK
Sat, 11 Jun 2011 09:49 UTC
  • 'It was vicious. It was frightening. There were punches going off in all directions'


A man aged 76 and two members of his family were arrested after a 'vicious' punch-up on a plane that took cabin crew 30 minutes to break up.

Derek Edmond, his daughter Zoe King and her husband Martin were on a Virgin Atlantic flight from Gatwick to Barbados when a Danish family sitting nearby accused them of being too noisy.

Police said Mrs King, 46, was celebrating her birthday and she and her family had been drinking for much of the eight-hour flight.
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Rowdy: British passengers who were allegedly involved in a mid-air brawl on a flight to Barbados being questioned by police on the island

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Fracas at 30,000ft: Up to 12 people are being questioned by police in Barbados after a fight broke out mid-air on a flight from Gatwick to Barbados
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Attention

US: Dope-Smoking, Menstruating Monkey Study Got $3.6 Million in Tax Dollars

Christopher Neefus
CNS News
Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:00 UTC
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a division of the federal government's National Institutes of Health (NIH), has spent $3,634,807 over the past decade funding research that involves getting monkeys to smoke and drink drugs such as PCP, methamphetamine (METH), heroin, and cocaine and then studying their behavior, including during different phases of the female monkeys' menstrual cycles.

The study also uses "interventions" as "treatment models" for monkeys who have been taught to use drugs.

NIDA wins CNSNews.com's "What Were They Smoking Award" - symbolized by The Golden Hookah (see video) - for sponsoring an outrageous government spending program that sends taxpayer dollars up in smoke.

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Dollar

US: Chicago Man Finds $17,000--and Turns It In


Chicago Tribune
Thu, 09 Jun 2011 10:52 UTC
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Bob Adams stands outside the Chase Bank at 2641 Kirchoff Rd in Rolling Meadows on Thursday, June 9, 2011 where he found a bag of money this week containing more than $17,000 in cash.
Robert Adams at first thought someone was playing a trick when he saw the plastic bag filled with money lying next to a news box in a suburban strip mall.

Adams told WGN-AM's Greg Jarrett this morning that the bag sitting outside the Chase Bank branch in Rolling Meadow where he was headed late Monday afternoon to get some cash to buy a lunchtime burrito was filled with lots of bills--a little more than $17,000, as police later determined.

At the ATM, "I glanced down and I saw a clear plastic bag, with what looked like money in it, but I thought, you know, maybe someone's horsing around and put napkins in it or something or other," Adams said. "So I picked it up, but it was money."

The bag contained an ATM-style Chase receipt, so Adams brought it into the bank branch at 2641 Kirschoff Road, thinking an employee had dropped it.

"My thought was - it's from that Chase ATM," said Adams, 54.

He said he never thought of keeping the money for himself.
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Ambulance

Canada: British Columbia Man Dies While 'Car-Surfing'


CBC News
Sat, 11 Jun 2011 04:56 UTC
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A 25-year-old Kelowna, B.C., resident is dead in what police are calling a "car-surfing" accident.

RCMP Staff Sgt. Terry McLachlan said the accident happened just after 1 a.m. PT Saturday on a forest service road in West Kelowna.

McLachlan said the man had been "car-surfing" on top of a vehicle being driven by a 27-year-old male friend.

The driver lost control of the car, McLachlan said, and the vehicle tumbled down a 17-metre embankment.

The 25-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene.
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