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South Gauteng High Court to decide on explicit painting of RSA President!

Marc Aupiais — Tue, 22 May 2012 03:00:22 PDT

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"The portrait depicts me in a manner that suggests that I am a philanderer, a womaniser and one with no respect. It is an undignified depiction of my personality and seeks to create doubt about my personality in the eyes of my fellow citizens, family and children… The more it stays displayed, the more my right to dignity and that of the ANC are impugned."

- Jacob Zuma

The South Gauteng High Court is to hear whether the painting portraying the president in a sexually indecent manner will be allowed to stay!

c.f. http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/northcliff-melville/northcliff-melville-news-general?oid=5598459&sn=Detail&pid=217660&Court-to-decide-on-Zuma-painting

How I imagine His Excellency The President is feeling right now, due to being portrayed indecently:

#AfricanTuesday

Judge Insists: Obama CANNOT Indefinitely Detain Americans Without Trial!

Marc Aupiais — Tue, 22 May 2012 01:55:01 PDT

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Judge refuses Obama the right to detain without trial: anyone vaguely suspected of aiding USA enemies!

'striking down those sections of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2012 which sought to provide Barack Obama the power to indefinitely detain citizens without benefit of their 5th Amendment rights.'Source: The Western Center for Journalism | 'Judge Strikes Down NDAA, Rules Obama Must Obey Constitution' by DOUG BOOK at MAY 19, 2012

Obama law would have allowed anyone to be detained at Obama's discretion, in America: on suspicion of aiding Al Qaeda or The Taliban.

c.f. http://www.westernjournalism.com/judge-strikes-down-ndaa-rules-obama-must-obey-constitution/

43 Catholic institutions are suing the US government for their right not to fund abortions!

Marc Aupiais — Tue, 22 May 2012 01:53:00 PDT

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43 Catholic institutions are suing the US government for their right not to fund abortions! Sterilization, abortion inducing drugs, contraception: among practices Catholics would be forced to fund under Obama's Obamacare. While Amish were given the right to conscientiously object to doing so, Catholics were excluded!

Another good argument by a favourite Google Plusser!

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Microsoft uses existing speakers, microphone to determine gestures by a Doppler/sonar effect!

Marc Aupiais — Wed, 09 May 2012 01:35:43 PDT

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Microsoft uses existing speakers, microphone to determine gestures by a Doppler/sonar effect! Amazing, watch this video:SoundWave: Using the Doppler Effect to Sense Gestures wow!

more info: Gizmodo | 'Microsoft Can Detect Your Gestures Using Just Your Computer’s Audio' by Jamie Condliffe at MAY 8, 2012 5:34 AM USA

http://gizmodo.com/5908473/microsoft-can-detect-your-gestures-using-just-your-computers-audio

#AmendmentOne North Carolina Voters define marriage as between one man and one woman...

Marc Aupiais — Wed, 09 May 2012 01:33:38 PDT

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#AmendmentOne North Carolina Voters define marriage as between one man and one woman... Vote differences are extensive, as the campaign for traditional marriage is getting boosts, and support for 'gay marriage' is down.

'"It should not go unnoticed that our position that marriage is between a man and a woman is gaining support, not losing support," said Brown. "Earlier this week the Gallup poll showed that support for same-sex marriage is down. Actual vote percentages in favor of traditional marriage are rising. In 2008 in California, the Prop 8 constitutional amendment on traditional marriage passed with 52% of the vote. Then in 2009 in Maine, 53% of voters stood for traditional marriage and rejected same-sex marriage legislation. In 2010, 56% of Iowa voters rejected three Supreme Court judges who had imposed gay marriage in that state. And now more than 60% of North Carolina voters have passed a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman. There is a clear trend line, and it is moving in our direction."
North Carolina is the first of five states expected to vote on the definition of marriage this year. Others include Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington.'

NOM | 'NOM Commends North Carolina Voters for Overwhelming Vote in Favor Of Marriage Protection Amendment' by NOM Staff at MAY 8, 2012 AT 11:15 PM USA Time

http://www.nomblog.com/22702/

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NOMblog: NOM Commends North Carolina Voters for Overwhelming Vote in Favor Of Marriage Protection Amendment »

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 8, 2012 Contact: Anath Hartmann or Elizabeth Ray (703-683-5004) So much for the idea that same-sex marriage is

With overwhelming Vote FOR Amendment One, North Carolina Stands by marriage

Marc Aupiais — Wed, 09 May 2012 01:32:47 PDT

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I was wondering what #AmendmentOne meant,

here is an exclamation of the trend by American Papist on Facebook:

VICTORY FOR MARRIAGE! North Carolina voters OVERWHELMINGLY passed the marriage amendment 61%-38%! Many papists on this very page took time out of their day to go and vote in support of it! BRAVO! Learn more here:http://www.nomblog.com/22702/

NOMblog: NOM Commends North Carolina Voters for Overwhelming Vote in Favor Of Marriage Protection Amendment »

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 8, 2012 Contact: Anath Hartmann or Elizabeth Ray (703-683-5004) So much for the idea that same-sex marriage is

Bugey Nuclear Power Plant Security Breached! #France

Marc Aupiais — Wed, 02 May 2012 02:03:23 PDT

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French Nuclear Crisis: Green Peace manages to drop smoke bombs, from motor powered hang glider, on a Nuclear Facility: Bugey Nuclear Power Plant: in France; The Green Peace Activist was later arrested.

Image source: Wikipedia: File:Centrale-nucleaire-Bugey.jpg

Green Peace France | 'Action : survol de la centrale du Bugey en paramoteur' by Green Peace Staff at 2nd May 2012 French Time

http://energie-climat.greenpeace.fr/action-survol-de-la-centrale-du-bugey-en-paramoteur

Google translate, with a few edits by myself:

'This morning at 7:40, a Greenpeace campaigner, aboard a motor powered hang glider, has flown over the plant of Bugey (35 km east of Lyon), penetrating prohibited airspace .

Illustrating the vulnerability of nuclear facilities to an air based threat, he managed to drop smoke bombs on one nuclear reactor and landed inside the site.'

Action : survol de la centrale du Bugey en paramoteur »

Ce matin, à 7h40, un militant de Greenpeace, à bord d’un paramoteur, a survolé la centrale du Bugey (Ain, 35 km à... - Lire la suite >>

The French Nuclear Power-plant, which Green Peace managed to Smoke Bomb on a paramotor (motorized hang glider!)

Marc Aupiais — Wed, 02 May 2012 01:06:19 PDT

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source: Wikipedia: File:Centrale-nucleaire-Bugey.jpg

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The French Nuclear Power-plant, which Green Peace managed to Smoke Bomb on a paramotor (motorized hang glider!) Proving lax security, and the danger of a terrorist attack on the plant!

http://energie-climat.greenpeace.fr/action-survol-de-la-centrale-du-bugey-en-paramoteur

The Plant:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugey_Nuclear_Power_Plant

Microsoft Enters E-reader Market... Invests in Barnes & Noble Nook's business/college book market; Microsoft is including Nook in Windows 8!

Marc Aupiais — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:32:42 PDT

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Microsoft Enters E-reader Market... Invests in Barnes & Noble Nook's business/college book market; Microsoft is including Nook in Windows 8!

'Microsoft Corp. MSFT +0.08% is making a $300 million investment in Barnes & Noble Inc.'s BKS +62.65% Nook digital-book business and college-texts unit [...].

Microsoft will have a 17.6% stake in a new subsidiary [...]

As part of the move, there will be a Nook application included in the new Windows 8, which is scheduled to have a release preview in early June.'

Source: Wall Street Journal | 'Microsoft to Invest in Barnes & Noble's Nook' by GINA CHON And SHIRA OVIDE at Updated April 30, 2012, 7:13 a.m. ET

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303916904577375502392129654.html?mod=wsj_share_goog

Microsoft to Invest in Barnes & Noble's Nook »

Microsoft is investing $300 million in Barnes & Noble's Nook digital-book business and college-texts unit in a move that helps value the Nook business.

Pirate Bay is to be Blocked in Britain!

Marc Aupiais — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:17:38 PDT

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Pirate Bay is to be Blocked in Britain! The British High Court rules that ISPs (Internet Service Providers) must block the site.

'File-sharing site The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK internet service providers, the High Court has ruled.

The Swedish website hosts links to download mostly-pirated free music and video.

Sky, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, O2 and Virgin Media must all prevent their users from accessing the site.
"Sites like The Pirate Bay destroy jobs in the UK and undermine investment in new British artists," the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) said.'

Source:

BBC World News | 'The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs, court rules' by BBC Staff at 30 April 2012 Last updated at 14:37 GMT

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17894176

UK ISPs must block The Pirate Bay »

Five major UK internet service providers are ordered by the High Court to prevent users from accessing popular file-sharing site The Pirate Bay.

Kathleen Sebelius and the missing memo...

Marc Aupiais — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:19:38 PDT

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Barack Obama's HHS secretary essentially admitting to misrepresenting the USA Constitution in saying they were seeking 'balance' Interesting, and as a law student, I think shocking on the behalf of Kathleen Sebelius, who should have researched law to implement it, it does enlighten a bit, the case law being noted 2012 04-26 Gowdy questions Sebelius about Mandate.wmv

p.s. the man isn't Kathleen, that's a Mr Gowdy interviewing her... ;)!~

ht to +Brian Hanifan

#ToastSA Happy Birthday South Africa | Toast SA / Freedom Day

Marc Aupiais — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 01:37:08 PDT

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Happy Birthday South Africa | Toast SA Today is Freedom Day: April 27th 1994 18 years ago, South Africa celebrated it's first post-Apartheid Election.#ToastSA

Flag Source: Wikipedia

Google Translate boasts 64 languages and 200M users

Marc Aupiais — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 01:16:39 PDT

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'Google Translate boasts 64 languages and 200M users
The Web giant's translation service is deciphering more words in one day than all human translators produce in a year.'

CNET | 'Google Translate boasts 64 languages and 200M users' by Dara Kerr at April 26, 2012 5:49 PM PDT

'Och said he believes that the majority of Google Translate users access the service while traveling. According to the company's stats, mobile traffic has quadrupled during the past couple of years and 92 percent of traffic comes from outside the U.S.

Google Translate is available for texting on mobile phones, in Chrome's browser for any Web page, YouTube video captions, and speech-to-speech "conversation mode" on smartphones.
However, this doesn't mean that translation machines will replace humans. "Of course, for nuanced or mission-critical translations, nothing beats a human translator," Och affirms, "and we believe that as machine translation encourages people to speak their own languages more and carry on more global conversations, translation experts will be more crucial than ever."'

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57422613-93/google-translate-boasts-64-languages-and-200m-users/

Spy Hunter: Vatican Edition

Marc Aupiais — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 02:44:04 PDT

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Spy Hunter: Vatican Edition 'Vatican Leaks' yups;)!~ (that's where both sides are probably aged... and the evil Italian media are the Russians, still cool anyway, and the leaks were kinda lame, so I'm on Pappa Benni's side here;)!~)
Commission of cardinals already working to investigate document leaks

White Hat, Pope Benedict XVI, Appoints three red hats (Retired Cardinals: Julian Herranz, Josef Tomko, Salvatore De Giorgi ) to hunt the Black hat, that is: the spy, who is leaking documents to the press;)!~

romereports.com | 'Commission of cardinals already working to investigate document leaks' by staff at April 26, 2012 CET

http://www.romereports.com/palio/already-working-commission-of-cardinals-to-investigate-the-leaking-of-documents-english-6624.html

Today is Earth Day #EarthDay In honour of that, I shall note how Earth Loving Warming People can convince their governments to End Global Warming

Marc Aupiais — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 23:14:35 PDT

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Today is Earth Day #EarthDay In honour of that, I shall note how Earth Loving Warming People can convince their governments to End Global Warming

Stop these embarrassing truths being unanswered, and build a SCIENTIFIC case... tends to work better than flooding media outlets!

Problems with the science, or rather... the scientists, who didn't take their job seriously enough:

Daily Mail| 'Himalayan scare from melting ice' by DINESH C SHARMA at 01:27 GMT, 22 April 2012

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/article-2133382/Himalayan-scare-melting-ice.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

The Guardian | 'What does the Himalaya glacier study mean for climate change? Live Q&A' by Environment editor at 9 February 2012 12.09 GMT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/09/glaciers-himalayas-climate-change-live-qanda

Fox News | 'Climate Change Scientists Admit Dumping Data' by Sunday Times at November 30, 2009 USA Time

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,577746,00.html?test=latestnews

Daily Mail | 'Forget global warming - it's Cycle 25 we need to worry about (and if NASA scientists are right the Thames will be freezing over again)
Met Office releases new figures which show no warming in 15 years ' by DAVID ROSE at 05:38 GMT, 29 January 2012

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2093264/Forget-global-warming--Cycle-25-need-worry-NASA-scientists-right-Thames-freezing-again.html

The Telegraph | 'John Beddington: chief scientist says climate change sceptics 'should not be dismissed'' by Andrew Hough at 7:30 AM GMT 27 Jan 2010

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7081039/John-Beddington-chief-scientist-says-climate-change-sceptics-should-not-be-dismissed.html

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John Beddington: chief scientist says climate change sceptics 'should not be dismissed' - Telegraph »

Climate change sceptics should not be dismissed, the Government's chief scientific adviser has said, as he called for more openness in the global warming debate.

Pope is Struggling

Marc Aupiais — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 06:15:36 PDT

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Pope is Struggling 85 year old asked prayers for his continued service; first pope to state he would resign if no longer able to serve his duties

Vatican Press office:

"THE POPE ASKS FOR PRAYERS TO HELP HIM CONTINUE TO SERVE THE CHURCH
Vatican City, 18 April 2012 (VIS) - After greeting the pilgrims attending his general audience this morning, who had come from many different countries including South Africa, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, Lithuania and Peru, the Holy Father expressed his thanks for the congratulations he has received over recent days. "I would like to express my gratitude for the good wishes you have been sending me for the seventh anniversary of my election", he said. "I ask you to support me always with your prayers so that, with the help of the Holy Spirit, I may continue my service to Christ and the Church"."

SSPX return rumours addressed by Vatican

Marc Aupiais — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 06:14:44 PDT

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SSPX return rumours addressed by Vatican The group which refused to accept Vatican II, including teachings on acceptance of other religions, may have taken back their previous stance

There have been speculative blogs by many people on this matter. An acquaintance in high school cut himself off from the world to join an SSPX monastery, so I really hope the group have forsaken their previous stance. The SSPX, or many of their members and sympathists believed that the Catholic Church had gone astray, inclusive within this was their general rejecting of the Vatican's stance that humanity and not the Jews were responsible for Jesus' Death. The current leader, has already stood out as seemingly opposed to those in his group who are antisemitic, hopefully he can lead them back from their less than ordinary ideas about the world.

The group has gained some empathy from Catholics who miss the aesthetics of the old Latin Mass, some of whom attend their services for love of the dead language, still the official language of the Church.

The papacy has yet to accept whatever statement the controversial group have made. Benedict XVI is hopefully smart enough to make the right choice, firstly for the mission of the church, and the people and image of the church and for the sake of the world. Secondly, that he makes the right decision, in relation to the group itself. One hopes the Vatican won't make a mistep, whether they accept or else reject the reply of the controversial group. When negotiations saw the excommunication of their leaders set aside, the Vatican had made a mistake, given one of the controversial SSPX group's Bishops /leaders had denied the holocaust had happened in World War II.

Vatican Press Release:

"COMMUNIQUE FROM THE PONTIFICAL COMMISSION "ECCLESIA DEI"

Vatican City, 18 April 2012 (VIS) - The Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Dei", today released the following communique:
"On 17 April, as requested during the 16 March meeting held at the offices of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Commission received the response of Bishop Bernard Fellay, superior general of the Society of St. Pius X. The text of the response will be examined by the dicastery then submitted to the Holy Father for his judgement"."

SSPX return rumours addressed by Vatican

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SSPX return rumours addressed by Vatican

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Sarah Palin does in fact want Americans to get oil and natural gas... from America

Marc Aupiais — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 03:56:50 PDT

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Sarah Palin does in fact want Americans to get oil and natural gas... from America
I don't agree with everything Miss Alaska says, but this might just seem to be that ingenious idea (well by Obama standards... ingenious) Barack Obama missed, and if implemented fast enough... may save Iran... then Saudi Arabia!LOLS! And possibly... America, though the point is now on saving Iran, I think;)!~

Your views, my e-friends?

SARAH PALIN OFFICIAL FACEBOOK ACCOUNT | 'Dear America, Our Orwellian President Fails on Energy' by the one, maybe the only: Sarah Palin ( I think she'd shoot anyone who stole her name ) at Wednesday, 18 April 2012 at 03:23 · SAST

https://www.facebook.com/notes/sarah-palin/dear-america-our-orwellian-president-fails-on-energy/10150685346038435

'Those who are concerned about the environment and our dangerous dependence on foreign oil should encourage the development of natural gas as a clean and plentiful bridge-fuel to a more renewable future. We have enough clean, green natural gas in America to be energy independent for many decades—whether we use it for natural gas cars or natural gas power plants. We also need to look at our oil refining capacity and our regulations there. We must cut the job-killing, anti-domestic energy regulations of Obama’s EPA and IRS which create such burdens and uncertainty. Finally, Eric pointed out that we must do something about the Wall Street speculators. I know this is a touchy issue, but Eric’s points are valid. Obama’s Federal Trade Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission appear to have no teeth in dealing with this because they haven’t cracked down on the president’s friends on Wall Street who are creating unnecessary oil market volatility. Eric suggested that we could reduce the problem of speculation by raising energy margin requirements.

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Because his cap and trade legislation got sidelined, Obama is now using his EPA to accomplish the same destructive goals by imposing draconian regulations aimed at crippling the coal industry. According to the Associated Press, Obama’s EPA will soon “force 32 mostly coal-fired power plants to shut down and threatens to close 36 others” and will eventually remove from our power grid enough electricity to power 11 million households. Just ask Californians how much fun “rolling blackouts” are. I suppose we can look forward to more romantic candle-lit evenings ahead as America moves backward with less energy, which must be more of Obama’s “leading from behind” strategy. I hope the folks up North have a hearty wood supply for their fireplace warmth, and that those in the Southwest don’t mind sweltering in the summer heat. Air conditioning takes up an awful lot of electricity; and in Obama’s America, energy will be scarce. As Mark Levin has pointed out numerous times, Obama’s policies will ultimately de-industrialize America.

But we don’t have to look to the future to feel the pain of Obama’s energy policies. Look at our current gas prices. The Obama administration is locking up federal lands to drilling. The EIA reports that production and sale of fossil fuels on federal lands dropped by 6% last year under Obama. Other studies show a 12% decline. When you hear the president boast of all the “new” drilling going on, he’s talking about production on private and state land that was in the works long ago and is not under his control. He doesn’t tell you how his administration has done everything in its power to strangle resource development with regulatory red tape and foot dragging on the permitting and leasing process. We hear his endless claims that we only have “2% of the world’s oil”—sometimes he adds “reserves” to that—but know that the White House is playing games with semantics. The Obama administration is using a subset of “proved oil reserves” to make it sound like America is energy poor! They’re deliberately distorting the true picture of our massive recoverable oil resources—most of which is on federal land that the government has locked up to responsible development. In short, the president is deceiving the public. As I’ve said before, the energy production “facts” and numbers President Obama repeats are skewed, deceptive and downright Orwellian.

Ironically, President Obama likes to remind us that global factors outside of our control affect the price of oil, but he never seems to make the connection that this is precisely why we should increase our domestic supply of oil by drilling here where environmental and worker safety standards are stricter than any foreign country from which we purchase oil, and that our increased domestic supply would put downward pressure on the price of oil. If Obama doesn’t think increasing the supply on the market affects the price at the pump, then why did he ask the Saudis to increase their production? And Brazil? Why did he open our Strategic Reserves last year to lower prices at the pump? Common sense tells you that, of course, increasing the supply of something has an affect on the price.

President Obama refuses to acknowledge this obvious truth because he doesn’t want to do what needs to be done. He isn’t interested in drilling, fracking or mining for the resources we actually use to power our economy. His idea of an energy plan amounts to dumping more of our tax dollars into the bankrupt green energy companies that his campaign donors invested in. It’s crony capitalism on steroids. He’s also in favor of “investing” your tax dollars into algae because he believes pond scum is the wave of the future. He also tells you to deal with gas prices by merely inflating your tires; getting a tune up; and, despite your work needs or the size of your family, ditch your larger vehicle for one he deems acceptably small. But what about the $4 per gallon gas prices that are devastating the budgets of American families, crippling our small businesses, and increasing the transportation costs of all goods shipped in America and thereby increasing the prices of everything we buy? Barack Obama’s answer to your pain is basically, “give me some flexibility here…” because “change isn’t easy.” Well, actually it is. It starts with getting rid of this energy illiterate administration.

Today, on Tax Day, our big, wasteful, and largely useless centralized government is taking hard-earned money from 85 million Americans.
The Republican Study Committee reports: “According to the non-partisan Tax Foundation, the country will work 107 days this year just to pay for federal, state, and local taxes. By their calculations, a larger share of Americans’ income will go to taxes than food, clothing & housing combined!”'