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Germans Court Martialed After Making Sausages With Human Blood

2008-03-11T04:28:00.003-07:00

Germany: Two air force sergeants based at Fürstenfeldbruck with an "interest in cookery" are to be court martialed after making Blotwurst sausages using breadcrumbs, onions, spices, bacon - and their own blood.

The pair were reportedly trying to increase the scale of their productions and had asked for blood donations from other servicemen and their families. Pictures of the cooking process were posted online by one of the two.

The pair were only caught when another soldier approached military officials and said, "I have been asked to give blood for sausage-making and I want to know if this is against regulations."

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

"Saturate-Desaturate" Process Darkens Obama in Clinton Attack Ad

2008-03-11T04:28:00.001-07:00

Internet Clinton critics are accusing them of deliberately darkening an image of Barack Obama in their latest attack ad. Shown on the popular website DailyKos are identical images of the same picture with one having an obviously darker tone.

According to Jay Carson, a Clinton spokesman, the darkening was a result of a common production technique known as "saturation-desaturation". Mr. Carson said both campaigns use this technique and no hidden agenda was behind the Clintons doing so.

Bloggers have compared the Clinton's darkening of Obama's picture to Time Magazine doing the same thing with an image of OJ Simpson after his murder arrest in 1994. There have been no statements pertaining to the allegations from the Obama camp.

Source: elections.foxnews.com

Rape posted on YouTube

2008-03-11T04:27:00.004-07:00

A 25 year old mother was raped in her London home last November in front of her two children. The event was recorded on one of the offending parties cell phone.

The video has since been removed, but some have called for better screening from YouTube in response. This would be difficult as the site reports 10 hours of video uploaded every minute.

Three teenagers have been questioned by police about the attack.

Source: www.news.com.au

15-Month-Old Beheaded in Supermarket by His Uncle

2008-03-11T04:27:00.003-07:00

Saudia Arabia: According to the Arab News a 25-year-old Syrian man has beheaded his baby nephew in a supermarket over a dispute with his sister and her husband, the parents of the child.

The 15-month-old boy was killed in front of his mother and other shoppers. The mother required hospital treatment after fainting. According to a police spokesperson "he chopped off the boy's head in front of the mother to get back at her."

Punishment may not fall far from the crime in this case as murder is a capital offence in Saudi Arabia. The preferred method of execution for criminals in the conservative Muslim nation is beheading.

Source: www.news.com.au

Hot Wheels Model Car Expected to Sell for £70,000

2008-03-11T04:27:00.001-07:00

The most expensive Hot Wheels model has been shown to the public for the first time at the American Toy Fair in New York.

The 1:5 scale model has been cast in white gold and adorned with more than 2,700 diamonds while the under side of the model is lined with both white and black diamonds.

The model was crafter by Jason Arasheben of Beverly Hills and will be auctioned for charity. It has been valued at in or around £70,000.

Source: www.topgear.com

Snowflakes Full of Bacteria

2008-03-11T04:26:00.004-07:00

Researchers with LSU along with Montana and France, have recently found that the snowflakes your catching on your tounge are filled with bacteria. Their results were published Feb 29th in the Journal of Science.

After examining several global locations, the team has found that the snow filled bacteria is most prevelant in France, although it's been located all over the world. The research can potentially reduce the droughts from Montana to Africa.

The bacteria, however, is not only helpful , but has been found to sicken and kill plants by freezing injury in plants, which can result in horrible economic effects.

Source: www.boston.com

Google Gives Homeless Free Voicemail

2008-03-11T04:26:00.003-07:00

Google has donated every single homeless person in the city of San Francisco, a Free Voicemail number. The number is a permanent number that sounds like any other voicemail which will help with job interviews and family contact.

Google did this so the homeless people of San Francisco can get back on their feet. Mayor Gavin Newsom says Google wants to "empower the people". There's no catch, it's just a local number owned by the user says google.

"How do you communicate as a homeless individual? " Newsom asked. "How do you expect your life to turn around if you can't even get information or if someone can't even get in touch with you?"

Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

Chavez Calls Colombia “The Israel of Latin America”

2008-03-11T04:26:00.001-07:00

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has called Colombia the “Israel of South America” due to its US backed attacks on militants.

Venezuela's embassy in Bogota has been closed and tanks moved onto the Colombian –Venezuelan border while Chavez has warned Uribe "We aren't going to permit Colombia to become the Israel of these lands. ... Uribe, we aren't going to permit you."

Tensions in South America have been heightened since a recent Colombian attack on FARC forces inside Ecuador which killed a top FARC leader.

source: www.haaretz.com

Kenyan Court Could Call for Clinton to Cough Up Some Cattle

2008-03-11T04:23:00.000-07:00

Kenyan elders are expected to hold a traditional court hearing in order to judge whether Hillary Clinton should be fined for her alleged use of pictures of Barack Obama in traditional Somali attire in the U.S. presidential campaign.

A large number of Kenyans believe Mrs. Clinton did so in order to portray Obama as a terrorist and in the process portrays all Muslims as a threat.

The court could decide to impose a fine on Mrs. Clinton of goats, camels, or cattle.

Source: www.ibnlive.com

Youtube Removes “Bus Surfers” For Fear of Copycats

2008-03-11T04:19:00.000-07:00

Videos of Welsh teenagers have been removed from popular video sharing site youtube for fear others will try to perform the stunts known as “bus surfing”.

The video was recorded by passers-by who filmed the teens clinging on to the back of a moving bus and the stunts have been denounced before in 2000 by bus operator Reading Buses who said the practice was widespread.

Source: www.breitbart.com

Colombia announces death of a leader of the Farc

2008-03-11T04:18:00.000-07:00

The death of Ríos occurs less of one week after the military incursion of Colombia in Ecuadorian territory where 25 guerrillas of the Farc had been deceased, including the spokesman of the guerrilla Raúl Reyes.

The invasion in the Equator unchained a crisis without precedents in the Andean region also involving Venezuela. In accordance with military sources, Ríos died in combat with troops of the Army in the agricultural zone of Watery, in the State of Caldas, the central region of Colombia.

Ríos was member of the team of negotiation of the Farc in the carried through dialogues of peace during the government of Andres Pastrana, has six years. The guerrila one was considered one of the leaders of bigger projection in the group due its military knowledge and politicians. According to periodical El Tiempo, Ivan Ríos was economist, graduated the University of Antioquia.

The Vatican creates course ' to bring up to date ' priests in confessions

2008-03-11T04:10:00.000-07:00

The Vatican is making with that priests pass for a course of update in confessions to restore the confidence of the Italian fidiciary offices. The course of update of the Vatican has the objective to fortify the training of the priests to improve the relations with the fidiciary offices. The Italian Church faces a great fall in the number of fidiciary offices that pass for the confession and some blame the performance of the priests who hear the sins of the catholics.

According to critics, the priests are not prepared to deal with the sorry fidiciary offices. The Church Catholic is cliente of the insatisfação of some of the penitentes with the priests who hear the confessions. According to last data, about 30% of the Italian catholics affirm that it is not necessary to have a priest for the confession. Others 10% say that the presence of the priest "hinders the direct dialogue with God". E 20% admits that it is difficult to speak on its sins with another person.

The bishop Gianfranco Girotti, that leads the Apostolic court of Confessions and Penances, affirmed that the sacrament of the confession is in "a serious state of difficulty". The new training was organized by the court led for Girotti and includes some representations of examples taken off of the real life, as people divorced and the calls "irregular couples", beyond couples the same sex.

For divorced couples of that they live together and for couples of homosexuals, the Church Catholic affirms that the absolution can be given if the involved ones only to transform the relationship into "friendship and solidarity".

Divorced that they are married again they will not be able to receive the communion because its condition is seen by the Church Catholic as been permanent of sin. The bishop affirms mainly that the priests need to give special attention to these people, "if they will be sick or with the life in risk". With catholics homosexuals, the Girotti bishop affirms that the priests need to be "right" and "good doctors spirituals". When the priests if to come across with "possessed pecadores for the demon", the bishop advise that they have caution and they ask for the intervention of a exorcista.

Brazil receives refugee Palestinian

2008-03-10T05:30:00.000-07:00

Brazil received in this friday 35 Palestinian refugee that were in encampments in the desert of Jordan, the border with the Syrian and Iraq, since the fall of the regimen of Saddam Hussein, in 2003 middle. They had left the country because victims of arrests had become would decide and suffered tortures on the part from armed military services. Four families with aged children had arrived at Brazil and: 25 people had been for São Paulo and 10 for the Great River of the South Others two groups will be brought in the next month and November, totalizing 117 people, who if had submitted the questionnaire formulated for the High Commissariat of the Nations Joined for Refugee.

The secretary-generality of the Ministry of Justice, Luiz Pablo Barreto, said that the Palestinians will have the same rights of citizenship of the Brazilians. They will receive document from identity, passport - for the case to desire to leave Brazil - and will have access to the public services of health and education.

"Brazil very receives well the foreigner who arrives here and if it feels in house. even though as for the language, therefore the Brazilian always obtains to communicate itself with the immigrant, even for mimic. Everything this makes with that they, if feeling to the will, obtain to combine themselves more easily. Here they can also exert its religious freedom and to use traditional vestments without being discriminated ", affirmed.

The representative in Brazil of the High Commissariat of the Nations Joined for Refugee, Luis Varese, in accordance with informed that she goes to be given total assistance to the Palestinians, its aptitudes. He has between them engineers, professors, and traders. The family heads go to receive a minimum wage for month, the second person of family 75% of the minimum wage and excessively 50% of the minimum wage for up to two years, depending on the adaptation on them in the work market.

The Ministry of Justice has annual budget of R$ 680 (about US$ 370) a thousand destined to the assistance the refugee. The cities for where they had been directed had been disclosed, in order to prevent public exposition. Brazil received the refugee as part from the Program of Solidary, of the Ministry of the Justice, that already took care of victims of conflicts in Colombia that they were not to adapt itself to other countries of the continent. They exist currently in the country about 3.400 refugee of 69 nationalities, the great majority of the African continent.

A New Project Starts Now!

2008-03-10T05:28:00.000-07:00

This is my first post in the Xtreme Ever. This blog has the proposal of speak of many subjects. Internet, sports, culture, and other interesting things. The main objective is to bring a new to look at the reality. Well, for the moment it is this that I have to say. Welcome to the Xtreme Ever!