No Agenda Episode 385
CIA vs DIA
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CIA vs DIA
Executive Producers: Shawn Potts, Frank DiZoglio
Associate Executive Producers: Sir Dirk, Joseph Lake, Sir Dean Bertram, Sir Bean, James vo Achen, Matt Harley, Frank Ajzensztat, John Naegele, John Harrison, Sir Greg Birch, Patrick Brennan, Sid Icognito, James Cherf, Kevin Liang
Knighthood: Frank DiZoglio
Art By: Pay
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The former senator from Pennsylvania warned in 2008 how politics and government are falling to Satan.
"This is a spiritual war. And the Father of Lies has his sights on what you would think the Father of Lies would have his sights on: a good, decent, powerful, influential country - the United States of America. If you were Satan, who would you attack in this day and age?"
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On March 25, 1821 the bishop Germanos of Patras raised the Greek flag at the Monastery of Agia Lavra in Peloponnese and one more revolution started against the Turks. The people of Greece shouted "Freedom or Death" and they fought the War of Independence for 9 years (1821-1829) until a small part of modern Greece was finally liberated and it was declared an independent nation.
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One wonders where Sarkozy's moral fortitude was when in January, while covering a pro-Assad rally in Homs, French journalist Gilles Jacquier was killed in a rebel attack. Unbelievably, not only does this contradict the news we've been told all along of Assad persecuting a brutal campaign against peaceful protesters, but while the attack was condemned by France, it was the Syrian government who was blamed for not protecting their journalists from armed thugs. Where were the calls for the rebels to lay down their arms? Where was the cessation of political support for the "Free Syrian Army?" Where was the decision by NATO to discontinue their support for rebels who had now murdered a Western journalist?
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Iran has stopped selling crude to British and French companies, the oil ministry said on Sunday, in a retaliatory measure against fresh EU sanctions on the Islamic state's lifeblood, oil.
"Exporting crude to British and French companies has been stopped ... we will sell our oil to new customers," spokesman Alireza Nikzad was quoted as saying by the Ministry of Petroleum website.
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Who says Israel hasn't improved its relations with its neighbors? Netanyahu is the first Israeli prime minister to visit Cyprus, and he did so after the historic visit to Israel of the president of Cyprus, Dimitris Christofias, and after the Cypriot defense minister signed cooperation and mutual-assistance agreements with Defense Minister Ehud Barak. This romance between the communist from Cyprus and the neo-liberal from Caesarea, is part of a surprising alliance − a military-economic axis between Israel and Cyprus.
The reason for this sudden love is tens of million of shekels, in the form of natural gas waiting in the depths of the sea between Israel, Cyprus and Lebanon. This fat dowry is the reason for the honeymoon between Israel and Cyprus, which for years supported the Palestinians, but whose sluggish economy needs the gas money.
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Moscow and Paris may launch a project to build new gas pipelines from Russia to Europe to meet the growing demand by EU states, Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom said on Monday.
"The parties have come to agreement that it is necessary to build new direct gas transport capacities from Russia to Europe to meet the growing demand of European consumers in Russian natural gas," Gazprom said in a statement.
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The agreement is the first of its kind signed by the U.S., establishing a legal framework and creating incentives for U.S. energy companies to develop oil and gas resources jointly with Petroleos Mexicanos, the Mexican state oil company known as Pemex. When it comes into force, the agreement will end the current moratorium on oil exploration and production in the Western Gap portion of the Gulf of Mexico.
"With this, we are setting aside the old fear that honestly exists among many Mexicans that Mexico's oil could be extracted from the other side," said Mexican President Felipe Calderon. "Any joint reservoir will be jointly exploited," and we will all gain the benefits.
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Waste After 10 Years the Size of a FootballOn how to dispose of fuel:
We're going to take it back to the factory and we're going to reuse most of it.
The waste that comes out of our reactor after powering 20,000 homes for 8-10 years is about the size of a football. Using coal and gas over the same time frame, the waste stream for just you, after factoring in CO2 emissions, would overflow Mile High Stadium in Denver. So our waste stream is very concentrated, and yes, we have to do something with it, but there are known ways of dealing with it.
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Shortages of both drugs developed when Ben Venue Laboratories temporarily closed its manufacturing facility in Bedford, Ohio, because it could not guarantee product safety.
In the case of Doxil, which is used to treat ovarian cancer, multiple myeloma and AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma, the F.D.A. has decided to allow temporary shipments from India of Lipodox, which is similar to Doxil and is made by Sun Pharma Global.
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Disulfiram is a drug discovered in the 1920s[1] and used to support the treatment of chronic alcoholism by producing an acute sensitivity to alcohol. Trade names for disulfiram in different countries are Antabuse and Antabus manufactured by Odyssey Pharmaceuticals. Disulfiram is also being studied as a treatment for cocaine dependence, as it prevents the breakdown of dopamine (a neurotransmitter whose release is stimulated by cocaine); the excess dopamine results in increased anxiety, higher blood pressure, restlessness and other unpleasant symptoms. Several studies have reported that it has anti-protozoal activity as well.[2][3] Research for possible disulfiram use in cancer therapy has been announced.
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Passengers said the unruly man was a problem from the beginning. After boarding Flight 1113, the man became upset because he was not seated next to his friend.
Then after the flight took off, he ignored the "No Smoking" sign and tried to light an electronic cigarette.
A flight attendant asked the passenger to turn off the cigarette, but he refused. The Middle Eastern man started screaming at the smaller woman.
"He was screaming, 'Allah is great, Allah is great,'" said Nancy Haywood, passenger. "And it kind of worries you when that happens, but believe me, there were enough men to hold him down."
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The simple truth is that I cannot continue to serve as Foreign Minister if I do not have Prime Minister Gillard's support.
I therefore believe the only honourable thing and the only honourable course of action is for me to resign, and I do so with a genuinely heavy heart and after much personal reflection.
There are other factors, too, that I have had to take into consideration today. The truth is that the Australian people regard this whole affair as little better than a soap opera, and they are right. And under current circumstances, I won't be part of it.
It is also, I believe, a distraction from the real business of government.
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It is the fear of every party guest, turning up in an outfit not suited to the dress code.
And unfortunately for Hillary Clinton, her slip up was witnessed by top government officials from across the globe.
Wearing a lime green shirt, the Secretary of State was placed in the middle of the foreign ministers - all dressed in crisp white shirts - for a G20 'family photo' in Los Cabos, Mexico.
But rather than adding a red face to the fashion faux pas, Clinton appeared to be tickled by her choice of outfit, laughing with her fellow leaders as the photographer snapped away.
And perhaps Clinton's colourful choice was intended to make an impact on the special occasion - she is in Mexico for the first G20 Ministers of Foreign Affairs informal meeting.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103967/Didnt-memo-Hillary-Clinton-wears-green-G20-family-photo-wears-white.html#ixzz1nDpa6CJg
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Giffords, an Arizona Democrat who resigned from Congress last month more than a year after being shot in the head, is joining the National Institute for Civil Discourse, a center formed in wake of the Jan. 8, 2011, Tucson-area shooting where six people died and 13 others were wounded including Giffords. The shooting prompted a national debate over whether heated political rhetoric played any role in the tragedy.
The institute seeks to research and promote civil debate.
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Kevin Rudd, the Australian foreign minister, has resigned ahead of an expected challenge to the prime ministership of Julia Gillard. Rudd made the dramatic announcement while on state business in Washington. Gillard responded by calling a leadership ballot in their governing Labor party, hoping Rudd does not have enough votes to replace her as party leader and therefore almost certainly as prime minister
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The term of European Council President Herman Van Rompuy is due to be extended for two and a half years at the summit of EU leaders on 1 and 2 March as no alternative candidates have come to the fore and no blocking minority has been formed, Europolitics reported citing diplomatic sources.
Herman Van Rompuy born 31 October 1947) is the first long-term and full-time President of the European Council under the EU Treaty of Lisbon, which is an unelected position.
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EU finance ministers on Tuesday (21 February) rubberstamped the bloc's accounts for 2010, but Britain, Sweden and the Netherlands opposed the move, noting that auditors found too many errors for the seventeenth year in a row.
"In these challenging times, member states should uphold the same high standards for the EU budget as they would for national budgets. We should remember that national taxpayers stand behind the EU budget, and that's why we are calling for important and urgent improvements to the quality of EU financial management," the British, Dutch and Swedish finance ministers said in a joint statement.
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Anonymous, as part of what it now calls Operation Greece, took down the Greek Ministry of Justice (http://www.ministryofjustice.gr/). While the pretext for the hacking appears to have been an arrest of the wrong people, is seems to have angered Anonymous to the point where they have left an extended message of demands on the Greek website, warning that unless the IMF withdraws from the country and the government resigns, all debts of Greek citizens will be wiped clean.
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Last week, the Justice Department filed papers asking the Supreme Court to overturn an appeals court ruling that allowed the continuation of an ACLU lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a 2008 law giving the government unprecedented authority to monitor Americans' international emails and phone calls.
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The French courts have found in favor of the Le Corbusier rights-holders who initiated these claims. While we disagree with the decision and we are appealing it, we are very mindful that for now, it is a valid decision. It is critical that you understand that any claim like this one is extremely serious and requires action on your part in order to protect your interests, not just ours. We will continue to fight this decision, but in the meantime we must continue to actively pull content from our site that may be deemed infringing. We simply cannot identify all problematic images as quickly without your active participation. And quick action is vital.
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"This agreement with China will make it easier than ever before for U.S. studios and independent filmmakers to reach the fast-growing Chinese audience, supporting thousands of American jobs in and around the film industry," said Vice President Biden, who spent the day in the Los Angeles area with Vice President Xi Jinping of China. "At the same time, Chinese audiences will have access to more of the finest films made anywhere in the world."
"U.S. studios and independent filmmakers cite China as one of their most important world markets, but barriers imposed by China and challenged by the United States in the WTO have artificially reduced the revenue U.S. film producers received from their movies in the Chinese market," said United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk. "This agreement will help to change that, boosting one of America's strongest export sectors in one of our largest export markets."
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A senior U.S. regulator was "optimistic" on Monday about finding a framework for the world's top economy to use global book keeping rules for investors to compare cross-border companies.
"We are hopeful we can put forward a model," James Kroeker, chief accountant at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), told Reuters.
More than 100 countries, including Europe, use accounting rules from the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and are waiting to see if the world's biggest capital market, with up to 12,000 listed companies, adopts them too.
Other heavyweights like Japan would likely follow suit.
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"I have a letter from Mr Riyadi himself, who tells me .... that he has been robbed of all his money...
"Each of the $5 trillion payments that came in has been acknowledged and receipted by senior executives at HSBC and again receipted by senior executives at the Royal Bank of Scotland...
"The money was first said to have come from the Riyadi account to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and from there it was passed to JP Morgan Chase in New York for onward transit to London..."
According to Lord Sassoon, only 1,507 tonnes of gold has been mined in the history of the world, so you cannot have 750,000 tonnes.
"Today, I have this quite frightening piece of paper ... from the general audit office of the Federal Reserve in Washington - the real Federal Reserve-and its audit...
"It has on it some 20 banks listed to which $16.115 trillion is outstanding in loans...
"Barclays Bank has $868 billion of loan, and the Royal Bank of Scotland has $541 billion..."
(This money could earn huge amounts of interest)
"One has to ask a question, because they could have earned back in three weeks their entire indebtedness and could pay off the taxpayers of Britain. Why have they not done so...
"Most extraordinarily, not a penny of interest does the Federal Bank of New York want paid on that vast amount, $16 trillion...
"The compound interest on that sum is huge. If it is genuine, a vast profit is being made on this money somewhere...
"Either we have a huge amount of tax uncollected on profits made or we have a vast amount of money festering away in the European banking system which is not real money, in which case we need to take it back. I ask for an investigation and for noble Lords to support my plea."
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Als u deze zomer naar het zonnige zuiden, naar Parijs of zelfs maar naar Rijsel rijdt, moet u minstens twee ademtesters in uw auto hebben. Dat geldt voor bestuurders van personenwagens, maar ook voor vrachtwagen- en buschauffeurs. Hebt u de testers --die u overigens maar één keer kunt gebruiken-- niet bij u, dan krijgt u een boete van 11 euro.
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The problem, known as the "spectrum crunch," threatens to increase the number of dropped calls, slow down data speeds and raise customers' prices. It will also whittle down the nation's number of wireless carriers and create a deeper financial divide between those companies that have capacity and those that don't.
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'It's only a matter of time before someone spoofs the time and makes an awful lot of money.'
Other weaknesses in GPS technology could also be exploited to disrupt air and ship navigation systems, researchers are claiming.
The warnings come ahead of a London conference on the growing threat from gangs interfering with satellite systems. Mr Cockshott said stock markets used unencrypted GPS to record trades.
Even if the thefts were detected, they would have to suspend trading, causing widespread disruption.
Another speaker at the conference, Prof David Last, will warn of the growing dangers from powerful GPS jammers, already used by gangs to block signals from hijacked lorries.
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We could leave it there, having made the seemingly mean point that Miss Rosa Parks just happened to be chosen as the cat's-paw or dupe of a boycott campaign well planned beforehand. Well, it's not so. She did the choosing. She was not just another bus rider. She was the secretary of a city chapter of the NAACP 12 years before she stood, or sat, her ground in 1955. The first time she was thrown off a bus was for using the white entrance - at the front.
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Twitter never had to tell Harris that the long arm of the law was interested in the little log of tweets sent from his account. The District Attorney's office had actually included a gag request which, because it was non-binding, the social networking site overlooked. They came clean with Harris who in turn acquired an attorney. Harris remains not all that perturbed over the incident and, given his statement to Reuters, eerily unconcerned over the events thus far. What does cause concern, it would seem, is how the United States is allowing law enforcement to question not just how its citizens engage in legitimate democratic and constitutionally-allowed demonstrations, but how authorities appear angry at how the World Wide Web is encouraging such activity.
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'It's only a matter of time before someone spoofs the time and makes an awful lot of money.'
Other weaknesses in GPS technology could also be exploited to disrupt air and ship navigation systems, researchers are claiming.
The warnings come ahead of a London conference on the growing threat from gangs interfering with satellite systems. Mr Cockshott said stock markets used unencrypted GPS to record trades.
Even if the thefts were detected, they would have to suspend trading, causing widespread disruption.
Another speaker at the conference, Prof David Last, will warn of the growing dangers from powerful GPS jammers, already used by gangs to block signals from hijacked lorries.
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But walking the line between keeping Facebook clean and excessively censoring its content is tricky, and Facebook's zealousness in scrubbing users' content has led to a series of uproars. Last April, they deleted an innocent gay kiss and were accused of homophobia; a few months before that, the removal of a nude drawing sparked the art world's ire. Most recently, angry "lactivists" have been staging protests over Facebook's deletion of breast-feeding photos.
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DENVER -- A spokesman for the Colorado U.S. Attorney's Office says an assistant U.S. Attorney died while snowshoeing in Rocky Mountain National Park.
U.S. Attorney John Walsh says 64-year-old Bob Mydans collapsed just after 3 p.m. Saturday and couldn't be revived. Walsh tells The Denver Post Mydans "was a rock, a true mainstay of this office, and never hesitated to take on difficult work, and to do it extraordinarily well."
Mydans joined the Department of Justice in 1980 and handled criminal cases at the Washington D.C. headquarters. He later moved to the Western District of Oklahoma City and served as an assistant U.S. Attorney before transferring to the Colorado office in 1991.
Colorado U.S. Attorney's spokesman Jeff Dorschner says Mydans' talent for handling complex cases led to an assignment in the economic crimes section.
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Earlier today, we shared a letter from U.S. Attorney John Walsh attacking elements of HB 1043, a bill intended to clean up aspects of last year's medical marijuana legislation. Senator Pat Steadman, who's co-sponsoring the measure with Representative Tom Massey, confesses to being somewhat mystified by Walsh's take, which struck him as more confusing than clarifying. Still, he says, "If I were in the business, I would be worried."
He adds, "We seem to have a federal law enforcement agency with its policy adrift."
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"These letters indicate that while the Department of Justice will not focus its limited resources on seriously ill individuals who use marijuana as part of a medically recommended treatment regimen in compliance with state law, it does maintain its full authority to vigorously enforce federal law against individuals and organizations that participate in unlawful manufacturing and distribution activity involving marijuana, even if such activities are permitted under state law."
By the way, these italics are in the original letter. And as a zinger, Suthers added that "U.S. Attorneys do not consider state employees who conduct activities under state medical marijuana laws to be immune from liability under federal law," raising the specter that Department of Revenue officials, or possibly even legislators, could be charged with marijuana crimes.
To put it mildly, these developments raise enormous question marks in regard to the interaction of state and federal marijuana laws. And although Walsh's objection to the investment fund isn't all that surprising, since banking laws are under federal control, his gripe about the lack of plant limits for infused-product manufacturers seems like an attempt to curb cultivation, which state law has already approved in a variety of different ways.
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Hosted by the Irish Heart Foundation and the Irish Cancer Society, the European Smoke Free Partnership is pushing for tobacco taxes to be used as the "chief weapon" in reducing smoking rates.
The TobTaxy workshop aims to gather a "powerful group of NGOs and senior public servants" to advocate for such taxes which its proponents believe will reduce the huge death toll and chronic illness caused by smoking.
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Nevertheless, Institute of Public Health (FHI) director Geir Stene-Larsen told NRK, "With this, we are preparing ourselves for a possible new pandemic."
The move comes amongst criticism and reports of 93 compensation applications so far following the state-run Pandemrix vaccination programme.
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Image: Gluten free baked goods
AP file
Gluten-free diet may be a waste of money for some
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Teens need less sleep? 7 hours may be enough
Hospitals scramble for scarce kids' cancer drug
Arsenic found in organic cereal bars
Amid shortages, hospitals trash scarce drugs
The panel voted Wednesday to expand its recommendation to include all those 65 and older who haven't gotten a whooping cough shot as an adult.
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Two new drugs - Vertex Pharmaceuticals' telaprevir and Merck & Co.'s boceprevir - are starting to change that pessimism. Research suggests adding one of them to standard therapy can boost cure rates as high as 75 percent. While still full of side effects, they can allow some people to finish treatment in just six months. They add to the price, however, another $1,000 to $4,000 a week. Drugs that promise to work even better are also being tested.
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"UAV flight plans are set pre-flight, and if something goes wrong and they need to land, they have no way to determine where the safest landing spot is," he said. He expects that the system the team is developing will fit UAVs with a higher level of intelligence so that they can both sense and avoid other traffic and determine appropriate landing spots should the need arise.
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According to an article in German in the Ithaka Journal, a German university study has found significant concentrations of glyphosate in the urine samples of city dwellers. The analysis of the urine samples apparently found that all had concentrations of glyphosate at 5 to 20-fold the limit for drinking water. As well as being used increasingly widely in food production, glyphosate-based weedkillers often also get sprayed onto railway lines, urban pavements and roadsides (www.ithaka-journal.net).
Disturbingly, the Ithaka Journal reports (in our translation), "The address of the university labs, which did the research, the data and the evaluation of the research method is known to the editors. Because of significant pressure by agrochemical representatives and the fear that the work of the lab could be influenced, the complete analytical data will only be published in the course of this year." (www.ithaka-journal.net)
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Tesla Motors' lineup of all-electric vehicles — its existing Roadster, almost certainly its impending Model S, and possibly its future Model X — apparently suffer from a severe limitation that can largely destroy the value of the vehicle. If the battery is ever totally discharged, the owner is left with what Tesla describes as a "brick": a completely immobile vehicle that cannot be started or even pushed down the street. The only known remedy is for the owner to pay Tesla approximately $40,000 to replace the entire battery. Unlike practically every other modern car problem, neither Tesla's warranty nor typical car insurance policies provide any protection from this major financial loss.
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"We KNOW That Iran Has NOT Decided To Embark On Effort To Weapon Their Nuclear Program" pt.1 - [VIDEO]
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The problem, known as the "spectrum crunch," threatens to increase the number of dropped calls, slow down data speeds and raise customers' prices. It will also whittle down the nation's number of wireless carriers and create a deeper financial divide between those companies that have capacity and those that don't.
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Passengers said the unruly man was a problem from the beginning. After boarding Flight 1113, the man became upset because he was not seated next to his friend.
Then after the flight took off, he ignored the "No Smoking" sign and tried to light an electronic cigarette.
A flight attendant asked the passenger to turn off the cigarette, but he refused. The Middle Eastern man started screaming at the smaller woman.
"He was screaming, 'Allah is great, Allah is great,'" said Nancy Haywood, passenger. "And it kind of worries you when that happens, but believe me, there were enough men to hold him down."
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Kevin Rudd, the Australian foreign minister, has resigned ahead of an expected challenge to the prime ministership of Julia Gillard. Rudd made the dramatic announcement while on state business in Washington. Gillard responded by calling a leadership ballot in their governing Labor party, hoping Rudd does not have enough votes to replace her as party leader and therefore almost certainly as prime minister
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