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Posted by Unknown on 11:54 PM
Insurgents prowling the steep mountains and narrow valleys of this remote land have a name for the U.S. Special Forces: "Bearded Bastards."
Growing facial hair is one way U.S. Green Berets blend in among the locals here along the Pakistan border. Their specialty is what the military calls the "self-sustaining element," a force able to fight for long periods in extreme conditions.
"We operate in the seams and gaps where conventional forces can't go," says Maj. Eric Wright, a Special Forces advance operational base commander in nearby Khost Province.
Since the Sept. 11 attacks more than a decade ago, U.S. Special Forces have been embedded here — and in conflict areas such as the Philippines, Yemen and Somalia — in an attempt to quash insurgent Islamists and train locals to take up the fight...
Posted by Unknown on 11:51 PM
In a massive shakeup, Penn State football coach Joe Paterno and school president Graham Spanier were fired Wednesday night by the board of trustees amid the growing furor over how the school handled child sex abuse allegations against an assistant coach.
The longtime coach, the winningest in major college football, was ousted at the end of day that began with his announcement to retire at end of the season, his 46th.
It was not to be.
"The university is much larger than its athletic teams," board vice chair John Surma said during a packed press conference.
After hearing news of the firing, Paterno released a statement, saying: "I am disappointed with the Board of Trustees' decision, but I have to accept it. A tragedy occurred, and we all have to have patience to let the legal process proceed....
Posted by Unknown on 6:18 PM
By the nuclear ambitions of their evidence of a United Nations report released anger, Iran's leaders sought (Wednesday) to the USA. They condemned Washington's stooge, the main author, and vowed that their countries would not give up its nuclear program to bully.
The tone of their response suggested that Iran's leaders worried that the report, the International Atomic Energy Agency announced (Tuesday), you can sway world opinion and deepen Iran's isolation, its repeated claim is for civilian nuclear energy program aims to complex, not weapons.
France, Britain and Germany quickly issued a signal, they will participate in the United States seeks new ways to pressure Iran, although Russia said it opposed any new sanctions, China said it was noncommittal.
Buttressed by evidence not previously...
Posted by Unknown on 6:14 PM
European efforts to curb the spread of financial crisis stranded (Wednesday), investors dumped their holdings of government bonds of Italy, to promote the global stock market sell-off.
Investors pushed up the cost of borrowing more than 7%, to a critical level in Italy, many economists believe is not sustainable, and last year's precipitation for the rescue of financially troubled countries, Greece, Ireland and Portugal.
Wednesday in the Italian government bond yields surge has catapulted into a dangerous new phase of the crisis in the euro area, said: "John - Higgins, a senior market economist with Capital Economics in a research report.
Italy's questions, only a few weeks, European leaders that they have agreed to Greece's debt restructuring, and strengthening the relief fund, the trend...
Posted by Unknown on 9:38 AM
Radio and television programs will be interrupted 30 seconds today, the United States conducted the first national disaster warning system test.
Emergency Alert System test will be at 2:00 pm New York radio and satellite television, radio and cable television time, according to the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency. Testing will be conducted in a similar previous local appearance and sound.
50 years, the U.S. has been using the area has been provided according to the bad weather and other emergency information, a variety of names alarm system.
The test is in the national identification system failures, so that they can be fixed "first step", the administrator Craig Fugate FEMA and the Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski, wrote in a letter: last week governor...
Posted by Unknown on 9:34 AM
At first glance, crashed mid-term congressional elections in 2010, the tea party movement, the elbow to the nose of the 2011 elections. Tea Party to support two candidates - in one of Michigan and Arizona - was dethroned rare memories. In Ohio, voters rejected a law pushed by the small government conservatives - "limited trade union collective bargaining, and smashed in Maine voters on election day voter registration in the Republican-led ban.
These and other developments that voters back a little from their position in the 2010 election, when conservative tea party support to win power at the national level, and control of the U.S. House of Representatives. Restrictions on the national debt and rising tensions in Washington over the political direction of subsequent deterioration of the...
Posted by Unknown on 9:26 AM
Joe Paterno, Pennsylvania State University football coach who preached for half a century of success and honor, but the legend is shattered child sexual abuse scandal said Wednesday he will retire at the end of the season.
Joe Paterno said he "absolutely destroyed" in the case, in his one-time successor, Jerry Sandusky, has eight men over 15 years of harassment, including the Pennsylvania State University football complex.
He said he hopes the team can complete its season with "dignity and determination."
Trustee can force him to leave immediately. It can also act University.
He said the school's board of directors, which has been considered his fate, the board should "not take a minute to discuss my condition," and there are more important things to resolve.
84-year-old Pate Nuo has...
Posted by Unknown on 9:20 AM
I am absolutely devastated, in this case development. My children and their families grief, I pray that their comfort and relief.
I came to work in the past 61 years, a clear goal in mind every day: for the best interests of the university, and has been entrusted to my care a young man. Today I have the same goal.
This is why I decided to announce my retirement at the end of the season effective. At this time, the Board should not spend a minute to discuss my condition. They have more important things to resolve. I think it is easy for them, because I can. This is a tragedy. It is a lot of pain in my life one. In hindsight, I think I do more.
Now my goal is to keep me on my players and staff commitment and the dignity and determination to complete the season. , Then I will use my life to...
Posted by Unknown on 2:08 AM
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said he would not stand, holding an early election if the Italian commitment to resign as soon as possible, Parliament passed the day after the emergency budget reform.
"I will resign as soon as the law is passed, and, because I believe this is most likely no other, I see the election held in early February, I will not be their candidate," he said.
Although Berlusconi's political party want new elections, opposition parties want a national unity government.
Expected by the end, the Italian Parliament approved the reform, to support the economy, which is seriously affected by the euro zone debt crisis package.
But it will only be after the passage of the Budget measures, the Italian president will forward the political groups on the road to begin...
Posted by Unknown on 1:51 AM
Alaska residents braced with an unusual western Bering Sea, to the coast, packing winds of hurricanes and storm waves churn.
Neil said Murakami in Anchorage, the National Weather Service forecast storm lashing parts of the wind speed over 80 mph Tuesday night's coastline. Small coastal communities, especially wind and flood damage caused by the expected risk.
Sharp rise in sea level caused by the storm, more than 3 feet of high tide, the National Weather Service meteorologist in Fairbanks Sidifenke Tierney said. Officials said, is expected to rise 7 feet of water overnight. Reports of serious flooding is expected on Wednesday morning, Kearney said.
Kearney said late Tuesday night, the storm had reached Nome, brought 60 miles of wind and snow, visibility dropped to just a quarter mile. Noam...
Posted by Unknown on 1:14 AM
Brody Jenner and Avril children Sometimes a date night in Hollywood can be bloody.
After Jenner and children involved in a bar fight Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, the famous couple left two and a half injured, the police is involved in the scuffle.
Although no specific location has been given, the two said parties premises, some confusion when people began to Avril. AFI's star, Roosevelt had to see a list of traffic all week long, and joint host spare room, including the popular lounge.
Brody in strengthening, apparently, broke the scuffle, a broken beer bottle in the head. Called the police and emergency response to the scene, but the...
Posted by Unknown on 1:08 AM
Duggars have 20 children on the road!
"19 kids and counting" star Michelle and Jim Bob will welcome their next child in the spring, masses.
How to play it now so that they do Duggars large family work?
"We are very pleased," Duggar mother, 45-year-old, three and a half months along, told MAG. "I feel good, I am now past the stage of the disease."
Recently the couple's children, Josie Ho, December 10, 2009, was born, is ready, born only 25 weeks premature. "This is a miracle. Josie is the most dynamic, busy little almost 2 years old," Michelle told the MAG. "She is short, but she can keep up with the big girl, she thinks she is as big as they are we surprised that she can do."
According to the father, Jim Bob, his wife is better than ever.
"Michelle may be more good health, she is now...
Posted by Unknown on 1:04 AM
A woman, to solve for the Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain complained about sexual harassment complaints in 1999, three years after the unfair treatment of her next work, he said she should be allowed to work at home, a serious car accident after the manager accused of circulating an e-mail received, the Associated Press learned.
Karen Kraushaar, 55, complaints, and in late 2002 or early 2003, the Ministry of Justice Immigration and Naturalization Service, a spokesman, Joel Bennett, assisted by her lawyer, who is also her Cain Early handling sexual harassment complaints in 1999. Three familiar Kraushaar complaint, which does not include sexual harassment claims, under the condition of anonymity for the AP, because the matter was handled internally by the institution and not made...
Posted by Unknown on 12:56 AM
The Pentagon is launching a drive to ensure that military members and their families in dealing with human remains in the military mortuary at Dover defects - including the loss of body parts of two instances - has been fixed.
This effort faces obstacles, including the investigation by an independent federal agency to run the morgue, the Air Force, not the face of Dover's business all the fault assertion.
The day after (Tuesday) to disclose its findings to the Air Force, in Dover, Delaware, the remains of improper handling facilities, Defense Secretary 利昂帕内塔 directed at the morgue a special review to be completed within 60 days.
"Let me very clear about our fallen heroes every step of the measures to be taken to protect their loved ones, deserve the honor and dignity of the family," Panetta...
Posted by Unknown on 12:55 AM
This Sunday, a lackluster prime-time special GPS - "restore" American dream ": a fixed education." Broadcast 8P and 11P ET / PT.
Although the United States once the Education T-shirt, we are now ranked 15th in reading, 23 in science, mathematics 31.
How is this going? How can we dig themselves out of this deep hole?
We are looking for inspiration, Korea and Finland - the two countries, has always ranked high on education. Interestingly, two very different ways. South Korea has a strong focus on standardized tests year long school days. Finland is depressed - in addition to teachers and teaching methods. In Finland, teachers are revered tough to enter the Master's teaching, rather than it is to enter higher education in medicine and law.
Therefore, we can learn? We talked with Microsoft...
Posted by Unknown on 12:46 AM
China Wednesday warned against the unrest in the Middle East against Iran's nuclear plans to take action, but declined to comment on the possibility of new sanctions measures, a United Nations report, Iran seems to have an atomic bomb design.Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said China is "learning" the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report, and has repeatedly called for a peaceful solution through negotiations."I would like to point out that China opposes proliferation of nuclear weapons against any Middle East countries develop nuclear weapons, Iran as the" Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, "a signatory to assume responsibility for nuclear non-proliferation," he told a daily press conference.Hong said, "Iran should also show flexibility and sincerity, and to engage in serious...
Posted by Unknown on 12:36 AM
Said on Wednesday, Afghan and NATO-led forces have killed 50 to 60 Taliban militants attacked a base for insurgents in Afghanistan and Pakistan on Tuesday night near the volatile eastern border provinces, provincial, provincial government spokesman. NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) confirmed that, in the eastern Paktika province, region Barmal base attack.
Paktika governor spokesman, Mukhlis Afghanistan, the Taliban militants killed in the number between 50 and 60. International Security Assistance Force spokesman said a large group of insurgents using small arms and rocket-propelled grenade attack on the International Security Assistance Force base. International Security Assistance Force troops fought back, resulting in "significant" casualties among the insurgents.
He...
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