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James O’Keefe aka Vanilla Pimp pleads guilty in Mary Landrieu office caper

The four defendants who were arrested in January in Sen. Mary Landrieu's office in the Hale Boggs federal complex in New Orleans pleaded guilty Wednesday morning in federal court to entering real property belonging to the United States under false pretenses. Magistrate Judge Daniel Knowles III sentenced Stan Dai, Joseph Basel and Robert Flanagan each to two years probation, a fine of $1,500 and 75 hours of community service during their first year of probation. James O'Keefe, as leader of the group and famous for posing as a pimp in ACORN office videos, received three years of probation, a fine of $1,500 and 100 hours of community service. Each of the defendants made a statement to the court. They said they did not intend to commit a crime They also apologized for the inconvenience they caused security workers at the federal building. O'Keefe said “I take full responsibility for our decision to visit Sen. Landrieu's office.” Referring to their decision to pose as telephone workers in order to investigate complaints that office staff members allegedly ignored constituents' phone calls, he said “I should have used other means.” The judge repeatedly told the defendants that, as journalists, they needed to learn “where to draw a line” in their investigative methods. added by: Stoneyroad

Donkey detonated on Gaza border

Animal dead, no human casualties; 200 kg of dynamite heaped on cart. A small Syrian-backed terrorist group in Gaza said its activists blew up a donkey cart laden with explosives close to the border with Israel on Tuesday, killing the animal but causing no human casualties. Abu Ghassan, spokesman for the terrorist group, said more than 200 kilograms of dynamite were heaped on the animal-drawn cart. He added that the explosives were detonated 60 meters from the concrete security barrier that separates the territory from Israel. The donkey was killed in the blast, but there were no reports of human casualties. Israeli troops routinely patrol the border, and impoverished Gazans often gather rubble in the area. The Israeli military confirmed the blast, but had no further comment. The IDF said Gaza terrorists also fired two mortar shells into Israel on Tuesday, which fell in the Netiv Ha'asara area without causing damage or casualties. Earlier this week, masked gunmen from an Islamist group torched a UN-run summer camp for children and teens in Gaza. The head of UNRWA in Gaza, John Ging, said the assailants tied up the guard, burned tents and vandalized bathrooms at the campgrounds. UN officials said the attackers left behind three bullets and a note threatening to kill Ging and others unless the UN cancels its activities for some 250,000 Gaza children. Two days before the incident, the previously unknown “The Free of the Homeland” group issued a statement criticizing the camp's organizer, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), for “teaching schoolgirls fitness, dancing and immorality.” added by: crystalman

Walmart Brings Down iPhone 3Gs 16GB To $97

Walmart, an American public corporation that runs a chain of large, discount department stores, announced last Tuesday about iPhone’s biggest price drop off. The price of the iPhone 3G 16GB is that it had dropped the price to $97. This is the lowest price on the handset ever in the United States. Priced from $197, it had a $100 price cut for the 16GB 3GS which is now at par with iPhone’s 8GB 3GS. It has been speculated that there is a new upgraded prototype to be released this summer for they had been doing it for the past three years already. The 32GB variant of the iPhone 3GS still remains at the price of $297 on Walmart. If a new model of the iPhone is announced on June 7, it’s also probable that the price of the iPhone 3GS 16GB will officially be lowered by Apple, as they did in 2009 with the iPhone 3G 8GB—probably to $99. Unless you have impatiently been waiting for the iPhone 3GS’s price to be lowered and just can’t bear to wait any more, I would recommend holding out for just a little while longer and hear what Apple has to say. Walmart Brings Down iPhone 3Gs 16GB To $97 is a post from: Daily World Buzz Continue reading

‘Survivor’ Producer Can’t Run from U.S.

Filed under: Bruce Beresford-Redman , Monica Burgos Beresford-Redman , Celebrity Justice Bruce Beresford-Redman cannot leave the United States … with or without his children, government officials tell TMZ. The family of Monica Burgos Beresford-Redman expressed deep concern last night that Bruce might flee with his two kids.

‘Survivor’ Producer — Passport Still in Mexico

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Lindsay Lohan: Scared of Court!

Did the light bulb finally go on? Sources say Lindsay Lohan is “freaked out” over her court date today. For good reason, obviously. Girl is in deep $h!t. But is she actually cognizant of this fact?! The train wreck has a pretty serious problem in the alcohol education department, having been required to complete 13 classes by last Thursday’s court date. She did not. Then she got stuck in Cannes, claimed her passport was stolen, and missed the hearing. A warrant was issued for her arrest (and later rescinded). Lohan posted bail, avoiding a hectic arrest upon her return to the U.S. yesterday, and a new hearing is set for today. Passport issues aside, she’s still in deep . She has only completed 10 of the 13 classes, violating a court order to attend at least one a week on numerous occasions. She’s also a drunk, coked-up mess . Lindsay Lohan will face the music later this morning. Technically, that doesn’t play a role in her compliance, but it’s unlikely she’ll be seen as a sympathetic figure when she’s blowing off alcohol education to party. This all stems from a DUI case in which Lindsay avoided jail time by agreeing to undergo alcohol education classes. If she violates the probation terms, though? Judge Marsha Revel has already made it clear she was expecting full compliance. Lindsay Lohan has already made it clear that she could give a rat’s a$$. So … People in the know say that today, the judge will probably prohibit Lindsay from drinking or doing drugs. That’ll be tough, as she likes to satisfy cravings fast . For once, Lindsay seems to actually comprehend the mess she’s in, rather than living in denial , and is reportedly scared $h!tless about what’s gonna go down. Her hearing is set for 11 a.m. EST, so expect an update afterward.

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Bruce Beresford-Redman Returns to Los Angeles, Begins Custody Battle

A month after his late wife’s body was flown to the United States, Bruce Beresford-Redman was permitted to leave Mexico and return to Los Angeles. Now, the former TV producer suspected of murdering Monica Beresford-Redman and stuffing her body in a Cancun sewer on April 8, is taking the necessary steps to regain custody of his children. Speaking to TMZ, attorney Richard Hirsch says that his client has not been accused of a crime. Therefore, he possesses this legal right and “that is probably what is going to happen next.” While Bruce was detained and questioned in Mexico, his parents were looking after his two kids. They filed for custody a few weeks ago.

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Draw Mohammed day 2010: Mo’s A-Plenty

I like how the song starts out all folksy and ends big band rockin style. A lot of talent out there expressed in many ways. One thought occurred to me during the compilation: What if Mohammad were Jesus coming back with a modified message from God? Then you have the enigma of Mo really being Jesus who is really God who is really all of us… i think i ate too many percocet. added by: onemalefla

Straw (and Hemp) House Survives the Test of Hurricane-force Winds

Prefab wood panels filled with the straw bales formed the frame of the house. Called Modcell, it's a wall and roof cladding system that uses straw bale and hemp. The walls are about a foot and a half thick. The team discovered that the heating bills were 80% lower than for houses made of bricks due to the high insulating properties of the panels. Construction had a much lower carbon footprint because of the ease of transport. http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/05/straw-house-built.php added by: JackHerer

Toxic Oil Spill Rains Warned Could Destroy North America

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers A dire report prepared for President Medvedev by Russia’s Ministry of Natural Resources is warning today that the British Petroleum (BP) oil and gas leak in the Gulf of Mexico is about to become the worst environmental catastrophe in all of human history threatening the entire eastern half of the North American continent with “total destruction”. Russian scientists are basing their apocalyptic destruction assessment due to BP’s use of millions of gallons of the chemical dispersal agent known as Corexit 9500 which is being pumped directly into the leak of this wellhead over a mile under the Gulf of Mexico waters and designed, this report says, to keep hidden from the American public the full, and tragic, extent of this leak that is now estimated to be over 2.9 million gallons a day. The dispersal agent Corexit 9500 is a solvent originally developed by Exxon and now manufactured by the Nalco Holding Company of Naperville, Illinois that is four times more toxic than oil (oil is toxic at 11 ppm (parts per million), Corexit 9500 at only 2.61ppm). In a report written by Anita George-Ares and James R. Clark for Exxon Biomedical Sciences, Inc. titled “Acute Aquatic Toxicity of Three Corexit Products: An Overview” Corexit 9500 was found to be one of the most toxic dispersal agents ever developed. Even worse, according to this report, with higher water temperatures, like those now occurring in the Gulf of Mexico, its toxicity grows. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in discovering BP’s use of this dangerous dispersal agent ordered BP to stop using it, but BP refused stating that their only alternative to Corexit 9500 was an even more dangerous dispersal agent known as Sea Brat 4. The main differences between Corexit 9500 and Sea Brat 4 lie in how long these dangerous chemicals take to degrade into their constituent organic compounds, which for Corexit 9500 is 28 days. Sea Brat 4, on the other hand, degrades into an organic chemical called Nonylphenol that is toxic to aquatic life and can persist in the environment for years. A greater danger involving Corexit 9500, and as outlined by Russian scientists in this report, is that with its 2.61ppm toxicity level, and when combined with the heating Gulf of Mexico waters, its molecules will be able to “phase transition” from their present liquid to a gaseous state allowing them to be absorbed into clouds and allowing their release as “toxic rain” upon all of Eastern North America. Even worse, should a Katrina like tropical hurricane form in the Gulf of Mexico while tens of millions of gallons of Corexit 9500 are sitting on, or near, its surface the resulting “toxic rain” falling upon the North American continent could “theoretically” destroy all microbial life to any depth it reaches resulting in an “unimaginable environmental catastrophe” destroying all life forms from the “bottom of the evolutionary chart to the top”. Note: For molecules of a liquid to evaporate, they must be located near the surface, be moving in the proper direction, and have sufficient kinetic energy to overcome liquid-phase intermolecular forces. Only a small proportion of the molecules meet these criteria, so the rate of evaporation is limited. Since the kinetic energy of a molecule is proportional to its temperature, evaporation proceeds more quickly at higher temperatures. As over 50 miles of the US State of Louisiana’s coastline has already been destroyed by this spill, American scientists are warning that the damage may be impossible to repair, and as we can read as reported by the Associated Press News Service: “The gooey oil washing into the maze of marshes along the Gulf Coast could prove impossible to remove, leaving a toxic stew lethal to fish and wildlife, government officials and independent scientists said. Officials are considering some drastic and risky solutions: They could set the wetlands on fire or flood areas in hopes of floating out the oil. They warn an aggressive cleanup could ruin the marshes and do more harm than good.” And to understand the full import of this catastrophe it must be remembered that this disaster is occurring in what is described as the “biologically richest waters in America” with the greatest amount of oil and toxic Corexit 9500 set to come ashore in the coming days and weeks to destroy it completely for decades to come. Reports are also coming from the United States that their government is secretly preparing to evacuate tens-of-millions of their citizens from their Gulf of Mexico States should the most dire of these scientific warnings start to come true. To the greatest lesson to be learned by these Americans is that their government-oil industry cabal has been just as destructive to them as their government-banking one, both of which have done more to destroy the United States these past couple of years than any foreign enemy could dare dream was possible. But to their greatest enemy the Americans need look no further than their nearest mirror as they are the ones who allowed these monsters to rule over them in the first place. www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1374.htm