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Paris Hilton topless in Russisch mannenblad
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  Source: Telegraaf.nl - prive
  Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:44
  FOTO'S - Paris Hilton is uitgebreid gefotografeerd voor de Russische uitgave van mannenblad GQ. De hotelerfgename trok tijdens de fotoshoot ook haar bovenkleding uit..
  quasi-onschuldig naar de camera. Op andere kiekjes is ze onder meer te zien tijdens een intiem onderonsje met een mannelijk model.
Werner Herzog to direct Killers webcast
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  Source: Culture | guardian.co.uk
  Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:40
  Grizzly men '... Killers concert film to be directed by Werner Herzog. Photograph: MJ Kim/Getty Images Europe
  No mere pop promo director is good enough for the Killers' next webcast '' legendary film-maker Werner Herzog is to direct the band's forthcoming concert video, to be broadcast live on 18 September.
  Anyone with an internet connection will be able to tune in to the concert at New York's Paradise Theatre, which will be streamed on YouTube. It's the 11th in the American Express Unstaged series, which previously saw Arcade Fire team up with Terry Gilliam, Duran Duran with David Lynch, and John Legend with Spike Lee.
  "I think there's gonna be an animal involved," bassist Mark Stoermer told Rolling Stone, regarding Herzog's plans. "He has ideas for someone crowd-surfing with a camera on '... [and] he's gonna put cameras on Ronnie [Vannucci Jr] while he's playing drums."
  Herzog is certainly an unconventional pick for a concert film: with epics such as Fitzcarraldo and Aguirre, the Wrath of God, he became known for an obsessive work process. More recently, documentaries such as Grizzly Man and Encounters at the End of the World mixed soul-searching gravitas with screwball flights of fancy. While he has stayed away from music videos, his 1994 documentary The Transformation of the World into Music explored Bayreuth's Wagner festival, and Herzog has helmed numerous operas for the stage. The director also has a long working relationship with theGerman band Popol Vuh.
  "He definitely wanted to make the best version of this live Amex performance of any director so far," Stoermer said. "I'm sure it will be all done the right way."
  The Killers' fourth studio album, Battle Born, is due on 17 September.
Ron Paul Won - The Huffington Post
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  Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:13
  In all fields of human endeavor, winning by cheating is losing.
  In a competition, when someone cheats, he gets disqualified. The disqualification does not make the runner-up the winner. Rather, it reveals that the man who appeared to be the runner-up had in fact been the winner all along.
  In the race for the GOP nomination for president, therefore, Ron Paul won.
  As the New York Timeswrote yesterday,
  Delegates from Nevada tried to nominate Mr. Paul from the floor, submitting petitions from their own state as well as Minnesota, Maine, Iowa, Oregon, Alaska and the Virgin Islands. That should have done the trick: Rules require signatures from just five states. But the party changed the rules on the spot. Henceforth, delegates must gather petitions from eight states.When Mr. Romney and the RNC cheat so blatantly, they make the game no longer about politics: they make themselves ineligible for the vote of anyone who cares about his own morality, his own honesty or his own integrity -- regardless of his politics. And from a purely practical standpoint, they invite Americans to ask if they want to live in a nation governed with the same contempt for those who don't toe the party line as has been displayed both in Tampa and throughout the primary process.
  But as a Ron Paul supporter, I can't remember feeling so invigorated and empowered in my cause.
  Not only did my candidate win: the GOP has given the Liberty movement the greatest gift it could have given us. It has induced a righteous indignation will ensure that there will be no lull in the Liberty movement post-convention or post-election. It has educated us; it has brought us together like only a common hurt can, and it has freed us to do whatever needs to be done for the cause we love, wherever we need to do it.
  To those in the Liberty movement who in the first flush of anger are saying they will never vote GOP again, I would humbly suggest that there is no better revenge than success and that success, therefore, is a dish best served cold.
  Ron Paul has been fighting for the cause of freedom for 30 years. Even if Romney were to win the election in November -- a possibility now massively reduced by the disenfranchisement of a large minority of Republicans who comprise its most energetic activists -- eventually he'll be just another ex-president. But the GOP's behavior has just about ensured that Liberty will never be just another ex-movement. Thanks to GOP, a hardened, indignant and wiser Liberty movement will be as much "here" in four years or eight years as the Constitution will be.
  And each time one of the main parties blatantly chooses power over honesty and fairness, it opens the unconverted to one of the most important messages of the Liberty movement: that the answers to our problems may not be found in the platforms or most of the people of the main parties that created them.
  When I was observing the GOP caucuses in Seattle, I was able to ask a number of caucus goers who they voted for. Everyone I asked who was under 40 was there for Ron Paul. Everyone I asked who was over 65 was there for Mitt Romney. The younger adults would explain why they liked their candidate with passion, conviction, excitement and an unusual understanding of issues -- in other words, the stuff that victories are made of. The senior citizens -- every one of them -- gave as justification for their support of Romney, "He's the man who can beat Obama." (The logic didn't work so well for John Kerry, as I recall.)
  I wanted to help them see the flaw in their answer by asking why they'd want to replace a large bank-funded, Patriot Act-supporting, NDAA-supporting, interventionist who doesn't have a plan to reduce government spending in the foreseeable future with a ...
  You see, of course, why I couldn't ask the question.
  More to the point, the people who "like Romney" are the outgoing seniors. The future of the party will comprise, out of simple biological necessity, those younger, liberty-loving, peace-mongering Constitutionalists, the likes of whom the RNC has worked so hard to put down.
  That's exciting.
  But things are even more exciting if I am wrong.
  Think for a minute what happens to all these excitable young people if the GOP old guard stick around for long-enough to succeed in thwarting every effort the Paul supporters make to take over the party. In that case, the GOP will achieve something that no third party has: it will make third parties credible and their support significant. We may even look back at August 28 as the day when the seed of a brand new party was sown. Stranger things have happened.
  Whichever way it goes, the GOP's failure to integrate its liberty wing will seriously endanger the duopolistic political system on which they have depended for so long because the liberty movement is now simply too large to disappear.
  Whether this liberty movement of critical mass changes the mainstream of U.S. politics by controlling the GOP, or by becoming the philosophically coherent minority that swings elections is, in the long-run, a choice for the Republican party to make. However, for this election cycle, the GOP appears to have made its choice.
  It doesn't really matter: a paradigm shift is already under way. As I wrote in "Ron Paul Can Win," the best piece of evidence that this is so is that the means used to by those with an interest in the old, prevailing paradigm to maintain it become more contorted, and increasingly dependent on ignoring large chunks of reality -- like the social and cultural phenomenon of hundreds of thousands of the nation's youth filling stadiums to hear an old conservative politicians talk about even older philosophers and economists; the brute fact that the number of non-supporters of the main parties is unprecedented, or the simple expectation of fair play in competitive endeavors.
  To my liberty- and peace-loving friends, I urge that our responsibility in November is to put the mainstream on notice that the Independent, post-partisan middle is now liberty-dominated and large enough to turn elections.
  If the mainstream knows this, they will be forced -- out of shear self-interest and love of power -- to give civil rights, peace and real markets more than lip-service. Remember, in a two-party system, the candidate who wins over the median swing voter wins the election. Controlling the "politics of the middle" therefore offers disproportionate political influence.
  To that end, write in Ron Paul if a write-in vote will be counted in your state. If Ron Paul endorses someone, vote for him. Otherwise, vote Gary Johnson (or your favored third party candidate). Just remember that we wield influence by demonstrating to the GOP and DNC that we are the group that swings elections from now on. Therefore, a vote against Obamney is not enough. Even a vote via write-in for Paul is not enough if no one will ever see it. Constitutionalists, libertarians, Blue Republicans, down-the-line pro-peace progressives, protest voters, etc. must vote for Paul's principles and get that vote counted.
  I remain a Ron Paul loyalist. I suspect that the most principled politician of our time would consider a vote cast in good conscience for his values to be a vote for him. In fact, if you've come this far as a supporter of Dr. Paul, however you decide to vote in the November in support of his values, you can probably say without too much of a stretch, "I voted for Ron Paul in 2012."
  But for sure, you can already say that you supported him when he won the GOP nomination, because that, by any honest measure, is just what he did.
  The Republicrats only have their duopoly if we give it to them. And you know what you get if you vote for the lesser of two evils, don't you?
  Hint: the answer is in the question.
  Follow Robin Koerner on Twitter:www.twitter.com/rkoerner
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STATE TERRORISM IN NORWAY?
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  Source: aangirfan
  Thu, 30 Aug 2012 06:08
  When a country suffers from an act of terrorism, its leader becomes more popular?
  Jens Stoltenberg had a 94% approval rating from Norwegians after the Norway Attacks of July 2011.
  "Outside Norway some thought Mr Stoltenberg deserved the Nobel Peace Prize."
  From hero to knaveThe police in Northern Ireland (RUC) have been accused of helping to carry out acts of terrorism
  Stoltenberg's popularity has now nosedived.
  A government appointed inquiry in Norway has reported:
  1. Government buildings in central Oslo were bombed.
  A tip-off identified the car licence-plates of 'the bomber'.
  'The bomber' was able to drive past two police vehicles on his way to Utoya island without being stopped.
  2. The police got into an overloaded boat that broke down.
  The police headed for the wrong island.
  It took 35 minutes for the police to cross the 500-metre (1,640 feet) channel separating Utoya from the mainland.
  10 people were murdered by weapons imported by the British government.
  3. The Oslo bombing could have been prevented if previously approved security measures been put in place.
  Terrorism carried out by government agents.
  In Norway, the spy chief, the police chief and the justice minister have now all resigned.
  Now, it seems to us that elements of the police may have been involved in helping to carry out the attacks in Norway.
  The Norway Attacks look like an inside-job, involving, among others, fascist elements within the Norwegian police, military andsecurity services.
  On 1 August 2011, James Petras writes about Norway (Organized Political Terrorism.):
  According to James Petras:
  1. The car bomb was a highly complex weapon.
  It required expertise and coordination - the kind available to security services, such as Mossad, which specialize in car bombs.
  Amateurs, like Breivik, usually blow themselves up or lack the skill required to connect the electronic timing devices or remote detonators.
  2. A lone zealot could not do all of the following:
  (a) Transport the bomb
  (b) Obtain (steal) a vehicle
  (c) Place the bomb at the strategic site
  (d) Successfully detonate it
  (e) Dress up in a special police uniform
  With an arsenal of hundreds of rounds of ammunition and drive off in another vehicle to Utoeya Island
  (f) Wait patiently, while armed to the teeth, for a ferry boat
  (g) Cross with other passengers in his police uniform
  (h) Round up the Labour youth activists and begin the massacre of scores of youths
  (i) Finish off the wounded and hunt for those trying to hide or swim away.3. According to witness testimony on Utoeya Island, shots from two distinct weapons were heard from different directions during the massacre.
  4. Note 'the complicity' of top police officials.
  The police took 90 minutes to arrive at Utoeya Island, located less than 20 kilometers from Oslo, 12 minutes by helicopter and 25 to 30 minutes by car and boat.
  The police chief, Sveinung Sponheim, made the feeblest excuse, claiming problems with transport.
  A helicopter was available.
  It managed to fly to Utoeya and film the slaughter.
  Over half of Norwegians own or have access to a boat.
  In 2008, the Norwegian Queen (above) honoured the writer Knut Hamsun, a famous Norwegian fascist.5. The obvious question arises as to the degree to which 'neo-fascism' has penetrated the police and security forces.
  It looks a though the neo-fascists 'influence' the government.
  6. The police did not save a single life.
  When they finally arrived, Breivik turned himself over to the police. The police did not have to hunt or capture the assassin. An almost choreographed scenario.
  7. The Norwegian military has no problem sending troops to Afghanistan, half way around the world and providing Norwegian Air Force jets and pilots to bomb and terrorize Libya.
  And yet they can't find a helicopter or a row boat to transport their police to stop a domestic attack.
  8. The neo-fascist right want to 'send a message' to the Labour Party:
  Either it must accept a full neo-fascist pro-Israeli agenda or expect more massacres, more elected fascists, more followers of Anders Behring Breivik.
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  Norway joined NATO in suppressing reports of civilian Afghan deaths
  General Harald Sunde was appointed as Norway's Defence Chief in 2009.
  Prior to this, Sunde was the commander of the NATO's Joint Warfare Center in Norway, and was assigned to Brussels to represent Norway in the NATO's Military Committee.
  He was also the commander of army Special Forces, namely ''H...rens Jegerkommando'' and ''Forsvarets Spesialkommando'', from 1992 to 1996.
  General Sunde graduated from the US Army War College in 1999.
Defining American Heroes: Analyzing the Metamorphosis of the War Hero in Twentieth Century War Films Using Joseph Campbell's, "Hero's Journey."
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  Thu, 30 Aug 2012 06:02
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  Related Items:Show Related Items Click on any of the links below to perform a new search Title:Defining American Heroes: Analyzing the Metamorphosis of the War Hero in Twentieth Century War Films Using Joseph Campbell's, "Hero's Journey."Authors:Frith, Luci A.Descriptors:Characterization; Critical Viewing; Cultural Context; Film Criticism; Films; Higher Education; Mythology; Thematic ApproachSource:N/A More Info:Help Peer Reviewed: Publisher:N/APublication Date:2002-00-00Pages:14Pub Types:Information Analyses; Opinion PapersAbstract:In "The Hero's Journey" Joseph Campbell identifies the patterns that inform the myths of the "hero" throughout recorded history. By using Campbell's template, this paper examines how the American war hero is portrayed and has been portrayed in film. The paper states that Americans not only define their war heroes in films but also use these film heroes to define themselves. It analyzes the shift in the portrayal of the hero in films from World War II to Korea and Vietnam. The paper explains that in Campbell's theory tales of heroes through the ages follow a consistent pattern which can be reduced to four main steps: the call to adventure or action; the hero departs, leaving the familiar; he encounters tests and trials in the new environment; and he leaves his newfound world and reenters his former one. It discusses several World War II films, including "Air Force" (1943), "The Fighting Sullivans" (1942), "So Proudly We Hail" (1943), and "Purple Heart" (1949). It then notes that although the films about Viet Nam and Korea had no call to action, the one constant theme is that each soldier will leave the familiar and enter the unknown where he will be faced with events that test his definition of who he is and what he values. The paper finds that, very much as Campbell described, soldier characters in American war films are pilgrims on the journey of transformation--they journey into the abyss as surrogates for all Americans. (Contains 36 references and 45 film references.) (NKA)Abstractor:N/AReference Count:N/A Note:N/AIdentifiers:HeroesRecord Type:Non-JournalLevel:1 - Available on microficheInstitutions:N/ASponsors:N/AISBN:N/AISSN:N/AAudiences:N/ALanguages:EnglishEducation Level:Higher EducationDirect Link:
Prince Harry's naked pool party just got a little bit illegal - http://t.co/ptPmCFnt hookers & blow! #NoAgenda @adamcurry
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  Thu, 30 Aug 2012 05:23
  Prince Harry's Las Vegas strip-billiards party was apparently more than good, clean, naked fun.
  According to one ''eyewitness'' in the royal's suite at the Wynn during the Bacchanal festivities, the appearance of a white, powdery substance was detected.
  The unnamed source '-- who was probably the kid in high school who blamed his parents' missing wine bottles on his friends '-- told Radar Online: ''Things got pretty crazy in Prince Harry's suite that night. Everyone was drinking and drugs were also being used by some people. Some people were snorting cocaine.''
  Cocaine? At a party? In an expensive Las Vegas hotel suite? Unheard of!
  Last week, photos of Prince Harry and an unidentified female wrapped in a naked embrace popped up online. The prince's handlers confirmed that the photos were of Harry, but would not offer any other comment.
  According to the Radar tattletale who will probably never be extended a royal invitation again, ''Some were already rolling on 'shrooms when they arrived at the party, and some were just high on weed. And that's exactly why no one there has come forward on the record '... they don't want to be implicated for any illegal activities.''
  Several tabloids have reported that a video of the hotel party is being shopped around to media outlets and that the first nude photos were just the beginning of incriminating evidence of the royal debauchery.
  The redheaded royal has a tendency to get into high-profile shenanigans. He was caught smoking marijuana in high school and in 2006 photos surfaced of Harry wearing a Nazi uniform.
  If you ask us, Harry seems like the most fun member of England's royal family.
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Gore Threatens Armageddon if Romney Wins
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  Source: FrontPage Magazine
  Thu, 30 Aug 2012 04:35
  In an interview where Al Gore claimed that, ''Every night on the news now, practically, is like a nature hike through the book of Revelations'', the former Vice President also appeared to suggest that a Romney win might spell doom for the planet.
  Gore had previously claimed that the North Pole would melt this year and his statement that he fears the environmental consequences of a Romney win may be safely placed in that category.
George Zimmerman granted new judge on grounds of bias at bail hearing
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  Source: The Guardian World News
  Thu, 30 Aug 2012 03:47
  George Zimmerman, left, answers a question from attorney Mark O'Mara during a bond hearing in Sanford. Photograph: Gary W. Green/AP
  George Zimmerman scored a significant legal victory on Wednesday night when a Florida appeals court ruled that the judge overseeing his case for the murder of Trayvon Martin must be removed.
  A panel of senior judges ruled two to one to side with Zimmerman's lawyer Mark O'Mara, who argued that circuit court judge Kenneth Lester was biased against his client for scathing comments he made at an earlier bail hearing.
  Lester had accused the neighbourhood watch captain of "manipulating the system to his own benefit" by failing to declare his wealth from donations to a personal website in order to secure a lower bail amount, then refused to disqualify himself when O'Mara protested.
  "While this is admittedly a close call, upon careful review we find that the allegations, taken together, meet the threshold test of legal sufficiency," judges Alan Lawson and Jay Cohen, of the fifth district court of appeals, Daytona Beach, wrote in their majority decision granting O'Mara's motion.
  "We direct the trial judge to enter an order of disqualification which requests the chief circuit judge to appoint a successor judge."
  It is the second time that Zimmerman, accused of second-degree murder for the shooting of unarmed black teenager Martin in a February confrontation in Sanford, has been granted a new judge.
  Soon after his arrest in April, judge Jessica Recksiedler stood aside because her husband's legal partner Mark NeJame, a prominent Orlando attorney, was hired by news channel CNN as an expert analyst on the high-profile case.
  Zimmerman, 28, denies murdering Martin on the grounds of self-defence, and O'Mara has said he will seek a hearing under Florida's stand-your-ground law for the charge to be dismissed.
  Martin, 17, was the aggressor in the encounter, O'Mara maintains, and broke Zimmerman's nose and slammed his head on to concrete before the defendant drew his gun and shot the teenager once in the torso.
  The spat with Lester came in June, when prosecutors alleged that Zimmerman hid more than $135,000 in donations to a website he set up to pay for his defence.
  Zimmerman's wife Shellie, 25, told Lester at a bail hearing that the couple was virtually penniless, convincing the judge to grant bail at $150,000.
  When Lester was informed of the amount of the donations, he revoked Zimmerman's bail then lambasted him in a written decision that raised the bail amount to $1m.
  "Under any definition, the defendant has flaunted the system," Lester wrote.
  "The evidence is clear the defendant and his wife acted in concert, but primarily at the defendant's direction, to conceal their cash holdings."
  State attorney Bernie de la Rionda told Lester that the Zimmermans frequently transferred large amounts of money between their accounts and that George Zimmerman kept a secret second passport hidden in a bank safety deposit box, making him a flight risk.
  Shellie Zimmerman was later charged with perjury, and she and her husband remain free on bond.
  O'Mara, who claims the defence fund is now virtually exhausted, accused Lester of making "gratuitous, disparaging remarks about Mr Zimmerman" in documents to the appeals court seeking a writ of prohibition.
  "The court has created a reasonable fear in Mr Zimmerman that the trial court is biased against him, and as a result of this prejudice cannot receive a fair and impartial trial," he said.
  Special prosecutor Angela Corey, who charged Zimmerman in April after Sanford police originally set him free in February, had no immediate comment on the appeals court decision.
  Judge Kerry Evander was the dissenting member of the appeals court panel, arguing that Lester was within his rights to criticise Zimmerman for his conduct.
  "Although [Lester] clearly manifested an exceedingly strong belief that Zimmerman had flouted and tried to manipulate the system, I do not believe the order crossed the line so as to require the granting of his motion," he wrote.
  Zimmerman's next court appearance is scheduled for October, although no trial is expected before next year. He faces at least 30 years in jail if convicted.