http://www.liveleak.com/browse?channel_token=a6a_1302936912 Items in channel 'Archimag' Sat, 18 May 2013 16:06:05 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?channel_token=a6a_1302936912 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:47:35 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=182_1265143475 Archimag A US-based human rights group criticized Jordan Monday for stripping the citizenship of nearly 3,000 Jordanians of Palestinian origin in recent years. Nearly half the kingdom's 6 million people are of Palestinian origin and Jordan fears that if Palestinians become the majority, it will disrupt the delicate demographic balance. Concerned about increasing numbers of Palestinians in the country, Jordan in 2004 began revoking citizenship from Palestinians who do not have the Israeli permits that are necessary to reside in the West Bank. Human Rights Watch said Jordan stripped about 2,700 Jordanians of Palestinian origin of their citizenship between 2004 and 2008 and urged them to restore their full rights. The trend continued last year, the group said in a report released in the Jordanian capital, Amman. The Jordanian measure rendered the Palestinians "stateless," depriving them of passports, voting rights, education, travel, health care and jobs, said Christoph Wilcke, HRW researcher on Jordan. "Jordan is playing politics with the basic rights of thousands of its citizens," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. Jordanian officials denied any wrongdoing. Wilcke said there is "no part of Jordan's law that allows the Interior Ministry to withdraw nationality by imposing new conditions," such as having Israeli-issued residency permits for the West Bank. Those permits are extremely difficult to obtain, given Israel's restrictive policies on granting residency rights to Palestinians, Wilcke added. Jordanian Interior Ministry spokesman Karim Naber claimed that his country did not revoke anyone's citizenship but "only suspended" giving social security numbers "pending reunification of families" in the West Bank. Most Palestinians hesitate to take their cases to the courts, fearing legal steps would only finalize their loss of Jordanian citizenship, Wilcke said. A few Palestinian Jordanians have had their citizenship reinstated, often with help from the royal court, Wilcke added, but provide no definitive figure. Defending the measure, Jordanian Interior Minister Nayef al-Qadi recently said the government wants Jordanians of Palestinian origin to clarify their status by renewing permits that recognize them as West Bank citizens in order to preserve their Palestinian identity. Wilcke warned others could be at risk from a similar measure, such as 250,000 Jordanians of Palestinian origin expelled by Kuwait during the 1991 Gulf War. Source : http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=16 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=182_1265143475 Archimag Jordan strips Palestinians' citizenship palestinians, refugees, Jordan Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:07:12 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c13_1264765406 Archimag First test flight of Russian new 5th generation stealth aircraft launched from "Sukhoi" airdrome this Friday (29/01/2010). The aircraft, also known as PAK-FA T-50 or "project 701" was in development since 1990, and designed to be multi-role fighter aircraft with stealth capabilities both in optical and radio frequencies. Expected year entering the service is 2015. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c13_1264765406 Archimag New Russian stelth fighter making its first test flight Stelth, T-50, Sukhoi Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:13:25 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=336_1254039028 Archimag n countless biographies of Adolf Hitler the story of his final hours is recounted in the traditional version: committing suicide with Eva Braun, he took a cyanide pill and then shot himself on 30 April 1945, as the Russians bombarded Berlin. Some historians expressed doubt that the F"uhrer had shot himself, speculating that accounts of Hitler's death had been embellished to present his suicide in a suitably heroic light. But a fragment of skull, complete with bullet hole, which was taken from the bunker by the Russians and displayed in Moscow in 2000, appeared to settle the argument. Until now. In the wake of new revelations, the histories of Hitler's death may need to be rewritten - and left open-ended. American researchers claim to have demonstrated that the skull fragment, secretly preserved for decades by Soviet intelligence, belonged to a woman under 40, whose identity is unknown. DNA analyses performed on the bone, now held by the Russian State Archive in Moscow, have been processed at the genetics lab of the University of Connecticut. The results, broadcast in the US by a History Channel documentary, Hitler's Escape, astonished scientists. According to Connecticut archaeologist and bone specialist Nick Bellantoni, it was clear from the outset that something was amiss. "The bone seemed very thin; male bone tends to be more robust," he said. "And the sutures where the skull plates come together seemed to correspond to someone under 40." In April 1945 Hitler turned 56. Bellantoni had flown to Moscow to inspect the gruesome Hitler trophies at the State Archive, which included the skull fragment as well as bloodstains from the bunker sofa on which Hitler and Braun were believed to have committed suicide. He was allowed only one hour with the Hitler trove, during which time he applied cotton swabs and took DNA samples. "I had the reference photos the Soviets took of the sofa in 1945 and I was seeing the exact same stains on the fragments of wood and fabric in front of me, so I knew I was working with the real thing." The samples were then flown back to Connecticut. At the university's centre for applied genetics, Linda Strausbaugh closed her lab for three days to work exclusively on the Hitler project. "We used the same routines and controls that would have been used in a crime lab," she said. To her surprise, a small amount of viable DNA was extracted. She then replicated this through a process known as molecular copying to provide enough material for analysis. "We were very lucky to get a reading, despite the limited amount of genetic information," she said. The result was extraordinary. According to witnesses, the bodies of Hitler and Braun had been wrapped in blankets and carried to the garden just outside the Berlin bunker, placed in a bomb crater, doused with petrol and set ablaze. But the skull fragment the Russians dug up outside the F"uhrerbunker in 1946 could never have belonged to Hitler. The skull DNA was incontestably female. The only positive physical proof that Hitler had shot himself had suddenly been rendered worthless. The result is a mystery reopened and, for conspiracy theorists the tantalising possibility that Hitler did not die in the bunker. For decades after the war the fate of Hitler's corpse was shrouded in secrecy. No picture or film was made public. As the Soviet Army secured control of Berlin in May 1945, Russian forensic specialists under the command of the counterintelligence unit Smersh (an acronym for "Death to Spies") dug up what was presumed to be the dictator's body outside the bunker and performed a post-mortem examination behind closed doors. A part of the skull was absent, presumably blown away by Hitler's suicide shot, but what remained of his jaw coincided with his dental records, a fact reportedly confirmed when the Russians showed his surviving dental work to the captured assistants of Hitler's dentist. The autopsy also reported that Hitler, as had been rumoured, had only one testicle. But Stalin remained suspicious. In 1946 a second secret mission was dispatched to Berlin. In the same crater from which Hitler's body had been recovered, the new team found what it believed was the missing skull fragment with a bullet exit wound through it. The Russians also took fragments of Hitler's bloodstained sofa. Even this failed to satisfy Stalin, who clamped a secrecy order on all matters related to Hitler's death. Unknown to the world, Hitler's corpse was interred at a Smersh centre in Magdeburg, East Germany. There it remained long after Stalin's death in 1953. Finally, in 1970, the KGB dug up the corpse, cremated it and secretly scattered the ashes in a river. Only the jawbone, the skull fragment and the bloodstained sofa segments were preserved in the deep archives of Soviet intelligence. The bunker was destroyed in 1947 and eventually paved over. Then, in 2000, the Russian State Archive in Moscow staged an exhibition, The Agony of the Third Reich. The skull fragment was displayed, but only photographs of Hitler's jawbone were on view. The head of the archive, Sergei Mironenko, said he had no doubt the skull fragment was authentic. "It is not just some bone we found in the street, but a fragment of a skull that was found in a hole where Hitler's body had been buried," he said. In the wake of Bellantoni and Strausbaugh's findings, Mironenko's confidence was clearly misplaced. But could the fragment of skull belong to Eva Braun, who died at 33 and was laid alongside her beloved F"uhrer in the same crater? "We know the skull corresponds to a woman between the ages of 20 and 40," said Bellantoni, but he is sceptical about the Braun thesis. "There is no report of Eva Braun having shot herself or having been shot afterwards. It could be anyone. Many people were killed around the bunker area." Sixty-four years later, the world is still in the dark about what really happened in Hitler's bunker on 30 April 1945. Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/27/adolf-hitler-suicide-skull-fragment http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=336_1254039028 Archimag Is Hitler really dead? Hitler, Adolf, Adolf Hitler, WW2, Nazi, scull Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:59:15 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4b1_1247824208 Archimag A Malaysian satellite rode a Falcon 1 rocket into orbit Monday night, marking the first time the privately-developed booster has successfully launched an operational spacecraft. The 70-foot-tall rocket was making its fifth flight. Three of its four previous launches failed, dooming two small military satellites. But SpaceX, the California-based company that developed the launcher, scored its second straight success Monday, almost nine months after the Falcon 1 first reached orbit last year. "We nailed the orbit to well within target parameters, pretty much a bullseye," Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX, told Spaceflight Now. Musk confirmed Malaysia's RazakSAT satellite separated from the Falcon 1's upper stage and is communicating with ground controllers. Monday's launch was the first time the company hauled a customer's satellite into orbit. Last year's success carried only a dummy payload. The flight began at 0335 GMT Tuesday (11:35 p.m. EDT Monday) with liftoff from SpaceX's launch pad on Omelek Island, a seven-acre strip of land at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The complex is part of the U.S. Army's Reagan Test Site, a missile range in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Liftoff was delayed more than four hours due to a glitch in the rocket's helium system and passing rain showers. The two-stage rocket pitched east from the launch pad, accelerating through mostly cloudy skies and past the speed of sound less than one minute into flight. The first stage's kerosene-fueled main engine shut down on schedule about two-and-a-half minutes after launch. The first stage separated and the second stage's Kestrel engine ignited a few moments later. The payload fairing was jettisoned just past the three-minute mark in the mission, and the Kestrel engine completed its first burn nine-and-a-half minutes after liftoff. After coasting through space, the Kestrel engine briefly fired again to circularize its orbit. The 400-pound RazakSAT satellite was deployed nearly one hour after the mission began, ending the Falcon 1's second successful flight. RazakSAT carries a medium-sized aperture camera with a black-and-white resolution of 8.2 feet and a color resolution of about 16.4 feet, according to ATSB, the Malaysian company that built the satellite. Flying in an orbit with a low inclination of 9 degrees, RazakSAT will pass over Malaysia up to a dozen times per day, an increase over the coverage of most other satellites. RazakSAT imagery will be used by researchers, commercial customers and government agencies, according to ATSB. Applications for the data include agriculture, environmental monitoring, exploration, forestry, mapping, transportation, utilities management, and urban planning. The six-sided satellite was one of SpaceX's earliest payloads. Standing nearly four feet tall, RazakSAT was originally supposed to launch aboard the Falcon 1's fourth flight. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4b1_1247824208 Archimag First commercial launch into space Space, private launch, satellite, spacecraft, falcon1 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:47:38 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=388_1237408619 Archimag Obama's photographer (Pete Souza) has discovered an old photo of Vladimir Putin dressed as a tourist during president Reigan visit to Moscow in 1989. The photographer recalls "ordinary citizens" asking american president very complicated questions about human rights in US. By official biography of president Putin, he was stationed in Germany during that period. Source : skynews http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=388_1237408619 Archimag Obama's photographer has found an old picture of Vladimir Putin Russia, Vladimir Putin, Putin Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:22:01 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=412_1229447916 Archimag Geert Wilders gives an interview during his visit to Israel where he promotes his movie "Fitna". (Source: http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3638323,00.html) http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=412_1229447916 Archimag Geert Wilders interview in Israel Geert Wilders,Wilders,fitna,islam,terrorism,dutch,netherlands,qur'an