Denmark KFC web site hacked; hackers complain of offense against Islam

April 30, 2010 · Posted in News · Comments Off 

By Daily Mail Foreign Service

Denmark’s KFC website has been targeted by Islamic hackers.

The hackers decided to gain access to the fast food site and post an educational video about their religion on the page.

They also left instructions to the Danish government to introduce a new law to punish people who publicly insult religion. The hackers implied in their demands that if the law is not introduced, the hacking of Danish websites will continue.

The hackers left a slightly cryptic message on the site, which read: ‘If your Gov. don’t make rules for Punishing anyone Insult Religions in the name of (Freedom of Speech ! ) or ( Freedom to Insult ) :)

‘So, take this rule of Hacking ! in the name of

‘[ Hacking is a Knowledge and the Knowledge is Free ! ] It means [ Hacking Anyone I want !!!!]

‘If your People can behave and Learn how to Respect , act rationally and stop to Insult Other Religions

‘under the name of ( Freedom to Insult ) or ( Freedom of Speech ) ‘Then the Rule of Hacking will be stopped.

‘Finally , I would like to remind also with the decree which the Human Rights Agency in the United Nations adopted on the 12th of April 2005. This decree insisted on the ban of distortions and vicious attack against religions and especially Islam; which had been strongly attacked in the last few years !

‘Don’t worry .. No files deleted .. Just my Index* has been added to your lame bOx ;)

‘Greets Go To: All My Friends in MSN :)

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1269991/Denmarks-KFC-website-hacked-Islamists.html

Ukraine has an uphill battle for energy

April 30, 2010 · Posted in News · Comments Off 

By Jiri Kominek

Fisticuffs, smoke bombs and flying eggs in the Verkhovna Rada on April 27 might make good headlines, however, Ukraine’s politicians fail to see that the real battle ahead in securing national sovereignty will only be won through very difficult sacrifices.

By surrendering national territory to Russia through last week’s 25-year lease extension of a naval base in Sevastopol in exchange for cheaper gas, Ukraine’s leaders have demonstrated once again their pre-occupation with their own well-being instead of placing the country first.

The Financial Times published an op-ed by Tomas Valasek, director for foreign policy and defense at the Center for European Reform in which he criticizes Ukrainian politicians over the years for failing to seize the moment and wean the country off of being one of the biggest gas consumers on the planet.

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http://www.jamestown.org/blog

Obama: No offshore drilling until Gulf rig accident cause discovered

April 30, 2010 · Posted in News · Comments Off 

By Fox News

WASHINGTON — President Obama expressed support for new offshore drilling despite suspending all plans for drilling expansion until authorities learn what caused the explosion of the rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico.

“I continue to believe that domestic oil production is an important part of our overall strategy for energy security,” Obama said Friday at the White House Rose Garden. “But I’ve always said it must be done responsibly for the safety of our workers and our environment.”

Obama said he has ordered Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to review what happened and report within 30 days. That review will examine what safeguards there should be to prevent future spills.Obama said any new oil drilling leases must have safeguards against accidents.

Earlier, the White House announced its suspension of new drilling, the morning after oil started washing up on the Mississippi shoreline.

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http://www.foxnews.com//politics/2010/04/30/axelrod-new-drilling-answers-accident/

Brown lays it all on the table in final TV Prime Minister’s debate

April 30, 2010 · Posted in News · Comments Off 

By USA Today

BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) — Britain‘s Prime Minister Gordon Brown scrapped for his political future in the country’s final TV election debate on the economy the most combative showdown yet where he traded gibes with rivals a day after an embarrassing campaign gaffe.

He tried to smooth over the gaffe at the start of the debate Thursday. After forgetting to remove a microphone on a campaign stop Wednesday, Brown was heard calling a retired Labour voter a “bigoted woman” after she questioned him on immigration.

Thursday’s debate offered Brown a chance to shine the 59-year-old former Treasury chief is most comfortable talking about numbers. But his delivery fell flat. He looked tired from what some columnists have dubbed “Duffygate,” referring to 66-year-old retiree Gillian Duffy.

“There is a lot to this job, and as you saw yesterday I don’t get all of it right,” Brown said. “But I do know how to run the economy in good times and in bad.”

The first U.S.-styled debates have spurred an unexpected transformation in Britain’s politics and shaped the election, one of the closest in decades.

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-04-29-brown-gaffe_N.htm

Belgian Parliament’s lower house passes burqa ban

April 30, 2010 · Posted in News · Comments Off 

By BBC

Belgium’s lower house of parliament has voted for a law that would ban women from wearing the full Islamic face veil in public.

The law would ban any clothing that obscures the identity of the wearer in places like parks and on the street. No-one voted against it.

The law now goes to the Senate, where it may face challenges over its wording, which may delay it.

If passed, the ban would be the first move of its kind in Europe.

Only around 30 women wear this kind of veil in Belgium, out of a Muslim population of around half a million.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8652861.stm

UK Christian therapist loses his two-year termination appeal

April 30, 2010 · Posted in News · Comments Off 

By Stefano Ambrogi

Devout Christian Gary McFarlane, 48, from Bristol, wanted permission to appeal against an employment tribunal ruling which supported his 2008 sacking.

The father of two, who had worked for the national counselling service since 2003, claimed unfair dismissal on the grounds of religious discrimination.

The high-profile case led to an intervention by former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey, concerned about a perceived bias against Christians in the courts.

Carey called for a specially constituted panel of judges with a “proven sensitivity and understanding of religious issues” to hear the case.

Carey said recent decisions involving Christians by the British courts had used “dangerous” reasoning which could ultimately even lead to civil unrest.

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http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE63S2Y620100429

Moscow going for regime change in Georgia

April 29, 2010 · Posted in News · Comments Off 

By Giorgi Kvelashvili

A peaceful transfer of power in Ukraine from Viktor Yushchenko to Viktor Yanukovych was widely hailed as the ultimate triumph of democracy in the post-Soviet country. But the speed at which the highly significant treaty on the extension of the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s stay on Ukrainian soil was negotiated, signed and ratified casts doubt on the democratic nature of the new leadership in Kiev. It also shows the Kremlin’s unquenchable desire to push forward its sphere of influence agenda amid Washington’s preoccupation with Afghanistan and Iran and the window of opportunity President Obama’s Russia “reset” policy, Europe’s enlargement ‘fatigue’ and the world financial crisis so fortuitously present to Moscow.

The promptness with which Yanukovych acquiesced to Russia’s demands is a response that would likely be encouraged in other post-Soviet countries as well. For those who fail to cooperate, apparently, there is a “Kyrgyz scenario” pending as a sword of Damocles. Russia’s propaganda machine has already started to contemplate on “theoretical” feasibility and “practical” utility of the Ukraine and Kyrgyz scenarios across the region that the Kremlin calls “near abroad.” To show how those two “options” could interact in Moscow’s strategic designs, Regnum, a Russian news agency on the Internet, has dedicated a special article, entitled “Bishkek Night as the Turning Point for the Post-Soviet Space.”

Ex-prime minister Zurab Noghaideli, who now champions the pro-Kremlin cause in Georgia, was quick to discern the ‘reality’ with which a reemerging Russia leaves the post-Soviet space. He has already threatened that the “Bishkek scenario” will be repeated in Tbilisi if the upcoming local elections in Georgia “are rigged,” which is a euphemism for a loss by his political party.

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http://www.jamestown.org/blog

Justice Department: Border Patrol agents assaulted daily; kidnappings 1 every 36 hours in Phoenix

April 29, 2010 · Posted in News · Comments Off 

By CNS

(CNSNews.com) - Three Border Patrol agents are assaulted on the average day at or near the U.S. border. Someone is kidnapped every 35 hours in Phoenix, Ariz., often by agents of alien smuggling organizations. And one-in-five American teenagers last year used some type of illegal drug, many of which were imported across the unsecured U.S.-Mexico border.

These facts are reported in the recently released National Drug Threat Assessment for 2010, published by the National Drug Intelligence Center, a division of the U.S. Justice Department. They ought to add some perspective to the national debate raging over Arizona’s new law that requires local law enforcement officers to make a “reasonable attempt” to determine the immigration status of persons they legally come into contact with and whom they reasonably suspect of being in the country illegally

Assaults on Border Patrol agents have massively escalated in recent years, according to the Justice Department threat assessment, which was released on March 25. “Assaults against U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) agents increased 46 percent from 752 incidents in FY2006 to 1,097 incidents in FY 2008,” says the assessment. Given that there are 365 days in the year, 1,097 assaults equals 3 per day.

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http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=64910

Army prepares to battle ‘Tea Party terrorists’

April 29, 2010 · Posted in News · Comments Off 

By Mark Alexander

“The duty imposed upon [the president] to take care, that the laws be faithfully executed, follows out the strong injunctions of his oath of office, that he will ‘preserve, protect, and defend the constitution.’ The great object of the executive department is to accomplish this purpose; and without it, be the form of government whatever it may, it will be utterly worthless for offence, or defence; for the redress of grievances, or the protection of rights; for the happiness, or good order, or safety of the people.” –Justice Joseph Story

A few months back, the commander in chief of our Armed Forces, that erstwhile community organizer Barack Hussein Obama, denigrated a large cross section of Americans who identify with the Tea Party movement — those who advocate for Essential Liberty and Rule of Law.

Obama identified them as malcontents, “waving their little tea bags.”

Since then, the Obama administration and their Leftmedia sycophants have endeavored to characterize Tea Party attendees as rude, radical, racist, redneck, enemies of the state.

In fact, Americans who attend Tea Party rallies are from all walks of life, as noted in the Patriot Declaration, Patriots who are peacefully and constitutionally petitioning their government for redress.

As I noted in my tax-day essay, Tea Parties are “not a call for revolution but for restoration — a call to undertake whatever measures are dictated by prudence and necessity to restore constitutional Rule of Law.”

However, Obama’s words do have consequences.

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http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2010/04/29/army-preps-for-tea-party-terrorists/

Already in evidence: Illegals found to be leaving Arizona

April 29, 2010 · Posted in News · Comments Off 

By Amanda Lee Myers, MyWay/AP

PHOENIX (AP) – Many of the cars that once stopped in the Home Depot parking lot to pick up day laborers to hang drywall or do landscaping now just drive on by.

Arizona’s sweeping immigration bill allows police to arrest illegal immigrant day laborers seeking work on the street or anyone trying to hire them. It won’t take effect until summer but it is already having an effect on the state’s underground economy.

“Nobody wants to pick us up,” Julio Loyola Diaz says in Spanish as he and dozens of other men wait under the shade of palo verde trees and lean against a low brick wall outside the east Phoenix home improvement store.

Many day laborers like Diaz say they will leave Arizona because of the law, which also makes it a state crime to be in the U.S. illegally and directs police to question people about their immigration status if there is reason to suspect they are illegal immigrants.

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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100429/D9FCDCN00.html

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