http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Hills Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:20:43 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Hills Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:30:23 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cf8_1371245179 english-patriot33 http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/anger-lee-rigby-tribute-flag-4312964 Anger as Lee Rigby soldier tribute flag is removed from Eston Nab 14 Jun 2013 11:45 A flag placed on Eston Nab as a tribute to murdered soldier Lee Rigby has been removed by Redcar and Cleveland Council A St George's flag put up and then removed from Eston Nab is causing a flutter. The flag was placed by Eston resident Geoff Ewart as a tribute to murdered soldier, Lee Rigby. But tempers flared when the flag was removed by Redcar and Cleveland Council. The authority has insisted the flag, erected on a scaffolding pole, had been removed as it didn't have the necessary planning permission. Dad-of-three, Geoff said he wasn't trying to make a political statement. "It was to show a bit of respect for the soldier that was killed and that is all it was," he said. "It was a way of saying rest in peace from the people of Eston to show that we care. I don't know why it has been taken down." It's not the first time Geoff, 46, has flown a St George's flag from Eston Hills. He said: "Three years ago when England were in the World Cup I put one up and that flew for months." His sister-in-law, Carole Ewart, 52, and niece, Louise Ewart-Wallington, 33, both of Teesville, were inflamed by the removal of the flag. "I think it's disgusting it has been taken down. I thought it was a fitting tribute," said Carole. Louise added: "We were all horrified by what happened to Lee Rigby. "People were putting flowers on memorials for him. My family decided to do this flag." Grangetown resident Mandy Scott said: "The flag was a mark of respect. It seems to me the only people offended by our flag are our politicians and our Government." But not everyone is against the flag's removal. Eston dad Paul Haggath, 44, said: "I'm sorry but the flag that has been taken down from Eston Hills with the words 'This is England' and 'RIP Lee Rigby' has rightly been taken down." "Call me left wing as much as you want but this is no way to pay respect to him." A Redcar and Council spokeswoman said Eston Nab is classified as an ancient monument and the erection of a flag pole requires planning permission. She said: "The council took the decision to remove the flag to safeguard an area of local interest and natural beauty." "Without obtaining the relevant permissions, it is a criminal offence to disturb a scheduled monument by carrying out works without consent or cause reckless or deliberate damage to a monument." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cf8_1371245179 english-patriot33 Anger as Lee Rigby soldier tribute flag is removed islam, muslims, Fri, 24 May 2013 00:16:10 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0fe_1369368883 nobyte10000 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0fe_1369368883 nobyte10000 Beverly <span class="highlight">Hills</span>, LA: Solution for World Peace los angeles, beverly hills, usa, washington, new york, peace, human rights, freedom of speech, Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:35:49 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a14_1370615390 Freetheman This guy Fernando skates some serious hills at speed in bare feet, lucky he doesn't come off.... not worth thinking about! http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a14_1370615390 Freetheman Insane skateboarding - bombing down roads in bare feet! Fernando Yuppie, skate, skateboarding, bombing hills Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:06:59 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=978_1371077514 Holy Mountains Located in current day Iran , The Saint Thaddeus Monastery (Armenian: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=978_1371077514 Holy Mountains World Oldest Standing Church, The Saint Thaddeus Armenian Monastery Armenia, Armenian, Church, Armenian Church, Monastery, Armenian Monastery, Iran, Christian, Christianity Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:09:16 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=621_1371001974 smyle Alert from Madison County: The following individuals were charged today in Madison County Circuit Court with a felony charge of ROBBERY: RICHARD A. BURCH MALE AGE: 18 437 CALIFORNIA AVENUE EAST ALTON, ILLINOIS REESE L. MEIER MALE AGE: 18 623 S. NEUNABER DRIVE BETHALTO, ILLINOIS KENNETH L. RICE JR. MALE AGE: 19 LAST KNOWN ADDRESS 1425 5TH STREET COTTAGE HILLS, ILLINOIS On Saturday, June 1, 2013, at approximately 8:48 p.m., the Madison County Sheriff's Office responded to the 100 block of Clover Street, Moro, Illinois, in reference to a reported robbery. The victim told deputies that he was just robbed, by at least two subjects, near the intersection of N. Neunaber and Clover Street, Moro, Illinois. The victim told deputies his vehicle ran out of gas on N. Neunaber, near Clover Street. The victim walked to his home and retrieved fuel. Upon returning to his vehicle the victim was approached by a group of subjects in a passing vehicle. The victim told deputies the occupants of the vehicle began cursing at him for being in the middle of the road. The victim said at least one of the occupants exited the vehicle and physically attacked him. The subject reportedly punched the victim three times, knocking him unconscious. As the victim was regaining consciousness an occupant of the vehicle was pulling his wallet out of his pants pocket. The victim struggled with the subject but was overpowered. The suspects fled the area after stealing the victim's wallet. The victim was not seriously injured during the attack, but did suffer swelling, bruising, and cuts to his face from the attack. Investigators developed information and evidence linking Kenneth Rice Jr., Reese Meier, and Richard Burch to the incident. The investigation was presented to the Madison County State's Attorney's Office on today's date. The felony warrants and informations were issued by the Honorable Judge James Hackett, who set Meier and Burch's bond at $80,000.00. Rice's bond was set at $100,000.00. Investigators located Meier and Burch, who are being held in the Madison County Jail in lieu of bond. Kenneth L. Rice Jr. is currently wanted and being sought by investigators. Anyone having information related to this incident, or the whereabouts of Kenneth L. Rice Jr. is asked to contact the Madison County Sheriff's Office at the following numbers: 618-692-4433 (Dispatch Center) 618-296-3000 (Anonymous Tip Line) 618-692-0871 (Investigations) http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=621_1371001974 smyle Teens Knock Man Unconscious and Rob Him After His Car Ran Out Of Gas, Cops Say RICHARD A. BURCH, REESE L. MEIER, KENNETH L. RICE JR., robbery, Madison County Tue, 11 Jun 2013 06:43:52 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8b5_1370947032 CoffeeKvetch ... over the hills and everywhere! Welcome to Sheffield, Tasmania where the murals are plenty and this is the scene you wake up to each morning-- bloomin' brilliant! http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8b5_1370947032 CoffeeKvetch GO TELL IT ON MOUNT ROLAND!!! Tasmania, Australia, landscape, mountains, Mount Roland, Sheffield, Mt. Roland, travel, tourist, nature, outdoors, country, scenic, scenery, outlook, farm school Sun, 09 Jun 2013 22:33:50 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=569_1370830783 Detroit Iron June 7, 2013, 6:57 p.m. ET Democrats revolt against a ban on oil and gas 'fracking.' Few issues divide Democrats more than energy policy, as we've learned as unions and environmentalists fight over the Keystone XL pipeline. More evidence now comes from California, where greens have lost an attempt to ban oil and gas hydraulic fracturing. Democratic leaders brought their fracking moratorium bill to the Assembly floor last week, and their rank and file revolted. The bill lost 37-24, with 12 Democrats joining 25 Republicans to defeat it. Another 18 Democrats abstained, and it's a good bet they were "no" votes who didn't want to publicly cross their leadership. This was a rare rout of the Sierra Club and other greens that denounce "fracking" for polluting water and inducing earthquakes, among other horrors. They blamed the oil and gas lobby, but that hides the real story. The votes for the fracking ban came mainly from the wealthy, mostly white Democratic coastal districts-San Francisco, Santa Monica and Malibu. Opponents were mostly from central California, areas that are poor and minority, with rates of unemployment of 12% or more. Six of the seven black assembly Democrats voted against the ban or abstained. Though the Assembly speaker is Hispanic, most of the rank-and-file Latino Democrats refused to vote for the ban. These Democrats understand that fracking is already happening in California, especially in energy-rich Bakersfield. According to the California Independent Petroleum Association, about one-third of the active wells now use this innovative drilling process that uses chemicals, sand and water to crack shale rock. A moratorium would throw thousands of Californians out of work, and not those in Beverly Hills. Oil and gas jobs typically pay salaries that range from $50,000 to $100,000 a year and many of them are unionized. California sits atop the vast Monterey Shale that contains an estimated 15 billion barrels of oil. That's twice as much as North Dakota has in the Bakken Shale where fracking is common. The oil and gas industry still hasn't found a way to extract the oil from Monterey economically. But it is getting closer, and a fracking ban would send the industry elsewhere. A study by University of Southern California scientists funded by the oil industry estimates fracking would deliver 500,000 jobs over the next several years and $24.6 billion in state and local tax revenue in 2020 alone. If those numbers are even close to accurate, drilling could be a financial salvation for a state that has $167.9 billion in long-term liabilities, not counting pensions and retiree health, according to the state's auditor. A strong case can be made that California can't afford not to frack. The drilling debate isn't over in Sacramento. Some Democrats will try to kill drilling through regulation, and environmentalists through lawsuits, even as they pretend to be pro-jobs. Never mind that the drilling industry has signed on to most of the major regulations: full disclosure of chemicals used, strict clean up measures, and constant monitoring of water quality. But other Democrats, including Governor Jerry Brown, are beginning to see the economic benefits of fracking. That's good news for the state's many unemployed workers and economically depressed areas. A version of this article appeared June 8, 2013, on page A14 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: Fracturing in California. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324767004578488821344316236.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=569_1370830783 Detroit Iron Fracturing in California Democrats, California, Sierra Club, University of Southern California Sun, 09 Jun 2013 01:18:16 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bab_1370754795 plokiju Three aircraft reports seeing 'two flat silver discs' on final approach Objects showed up on air traffic control radar - then vanished UFOs were just 100ft below one of the jets, a Boeing 777 They were above Scientology HQ in East Grinstead, West Sussex Their pilots each saw "two flat, silver discs" as they lined up to land at Gatwick Airport - and some flew within 100ft. Air traffic control staff then spotted a total of SIX UFOs on their radar before they suddenly vanished. The close encounter above the Church of Scientology HQ in East Grinstead, West Sussex, on December 30 last year lasted a full seven minutes. Oddly it emerged a day later that Scientologists - famously followed by Tom Cruise - carved a message to aliens in hills in New Mexico, US. The cult believes aliens inhabit human bodies. Former MoD UFO investigator Nick Pope called the UK sightings "spectacular", adding: "The evidence is first rate. The witnesses are experienced pilots and there is radar evidence to back up their stories." A probe by UK Airprox Board, which examines near misses, failed to find an explanation. Its report yesterday revealed how a Boeing 777 pilot raised the alarm at 8.53am after spotting "two flat silver discs". Minutes later a Boeing 767 and an Airbus 319 saw the same "saucer-like" shapes. The 777 crew said they looked "man-made" and "toy-like". Investigators considered explanations including that they were balloons or kites. But Mr Pope added: "None of the theories hold water." Airprox classified the encounter as level D - meaning it is unexplained. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4960250/flying-saucers-over-british-scientology-hq.html http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bab_1370754795 plokiju Pilots of three passenger planes saw two UFOs above Britain's Scientology base Pilots, of, three, passenger, planes, saw, two, UFOs, above, Britain's, Scientology, base Fri, 07 Jun 2013 22:39:41 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b69_1370658978 Sneemo BEIRUT: The 17-day assault on Qusair marked the first time that Hezbollah has launched a major offensive operation in an urban environment, putting into practice new training techniques taught to the group's fighters since 2006. The fighting in Qusair provides potential insights into how Hezbollah could plan to exploit its relatively new urban warfare skills in a future confrontation with Israel. Full details of the battle have yet to emerge, but Hezbollah apparently spearheaded the assault on the ground, using some 1,200 elite special forces fighters, backed by Syrian army artillery and air power, according to Hajj Abbas, a Hezbollah combatant who spent a week fighting in the town. Hezbollah commanders were given tactical control over the attack on Qusair. The town was split into operational sectors and code numbers were assigned to locations and objectives, in keeping with customary Hezbollah practice. The technique allowed Hezbollah to use open radio communications - some of which was intercepted, recorded and uploaded to the Internet by rebel forces - without the opposition necessarily understanding what was being communicated. Prior to the assault, the rebels constructed extensive defenses, including digging tunnels, erecting barricades, booby-trapping buildings and lacing the terrain with roadside bombs. Hezbollah engineers were employed to help clear some of the booby traps to allow the fighters to advance. "The engineers saved us a lot of headaches and time. They could clear a building then tell us that building No. 3 or building No. 4 was cleared and we could move in," said Hajj Abbas, using his nom de guerre as he was not authorized to speak to the media. The Hezbollah units were no more than five or three men each and progress was slow. They knocked holes in the walls of buildings for access to avoid potentially booby-trapped doors and windows. Hajj Abbas likened the terrain to a Palestinian camp due to the density of the houses and narrow streets, a marked contrast to the rural hills and valleys of south Lebanon where he gained his first combat experience more than a decade ago. "It was a difficult environment for us at first because we don't know the area. The buildings are different, the terrain is different. But we are well-trained soldiers and we are trained to adapt, so we just got on with it," Hajj Abbas said. He admitted that the rebel mortar fire was a "big problem." The Hezbollah units attempted to draw as close as possible to their enemy so that the rebels would halt the mortar fire out of fear of hitting their own side. In the 1990s, when Hezbollah was daily battling Israeli troops occupying south Lebanon, fighting was restricted to rural areas. Hezbollah fighters had to learn the art of stealth, camouflage and reconnaissance in a difficult environment of dense woodland, steep rocky hills and valleys, as well as cope with hazards such as snakes and wild boar. In 2006, Hezbollah fought much of the war inside villages and towns, but in a defensive capacity to thwart Israeli attempts to capture ground. However, since 2006, learning urban warfare skills - both defensive and offensive - has become an important part of Hezbollah's overall training, augmenting the traditional hit-and-run guerrilla tactics. The fighters receive training in mock urban sites in Iran and smaller facilities in Lebanon. In early March, Al-Manar television broadcast an audio recording of the voice of Imad Mughniyeh, Hezbollah's military commander who was assassinated in February 2008. Accompanying his comments on jihad was footage of Hezbollah fighters training at camps in the Bekaa Valley. One brief segment showed Hezbollah men storming an "Israeli home" - a small roofless cinder block building decorated in the colors of the Israeli flag. The building was one of several that comprised a simple urban warfare training site. The segment only lasted a few seconds but it was significant because it strengthened a veiled reference by Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's secretary-general, that in the next war Hezbollah units could be dispatched into northern Israel. Hezbollah fighters have privately hinted at that possibility since the end of the 2006 war. In February 2011, Nasrallah said that in the event that war was imposed on Lebanon, "the resistance leadership might ask you to lead the resistance to liberate Galilee." Hezbollah describes its strategy as one of "defensive resistance," in other words defending Lebanon by using resistance, or guerrilla, techniques, rather than relying on the capabilities of the Lebanese Army. But in the next war, it is possible that there will be a further iteration in Hezbollah's military evolution where the group employs offensive resistance techniques to seize and hold ground inside Israel, very different from the traditional hit-and-run practices of the 1990s. Fresh from victory in Qusair, Hezbollah is expected to press on in Syria to new objectives. Aleppo has been cited as a major target for Hezbollah and the Syrian army. The rebel-held areas around the towns of Yabrud and Nabk lying on the highway midway between Damascus and Homs also are speculated as likely candidates for Hezbollah's attention. Returning that area to regime control would help seal Lebanon's eastern border and neutralize Arsal as a logistical support hub for the Syrian rebels. Regardless, Hezbollah appears prepared for a long commitment in Syria. That will ensure that the post-2006 generation of Hezbollah recruits, who have had no experience fighting Israeli troops unlike their older comrades, will emerge from the Syria war combat-hardened in urban and rural environments. http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2013/Jun-08/219769-hezbollah-applies-new-training-practices-in-syria.ashx#ixzz2VaXf9ztx http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b69_1370658978 Sneemo Hezbollah applies new training practices in Syria Syria, Hezbollah, Qusair, FSA, SAA Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:58:45 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2a3_1370630052 2DLISH2QUIT And what a jaunt it is from downtown (near skid row) through Pico/Union through Westlake past Rampart through Koreatown through Handcock Park through Mid-Wilshire through West LA through Beverly Hills through Riodeo Drive through the WILSHIRE CORRIDOR through Westwood through Santa Monica and to the beach. In the past, I've walked it, driven it, and even taken the bus down it many times. Please excuse and forgive the potatovision, my whimsy and the sounds I made to accompany Angelinos (present, former, native or other) please comment and share your best Wilshire Blvd. stories... http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2a3_1370630052 2DLISH2QUIT take a musical journey down the length of Wilshire Blvd. (Los Angeles) Los Angeles,California Tue, 04 Jun 2013 07:14:51 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=59d_1370344383 Baron_Kaz BEIJING: Chinese police blocked the gate of a cemetery housing victims of the Tiananmen crackdown on its 24th anniversary on Tuesday, part of a sweeping annual effort to bar commemorations of the event. Authorities launch a major push every June 4 to prevent discussion of the violently crushed 1989 pro-democracy protests, China's darkest human rights stain in recent decades, in which at least hundreds of people died. More than a dozen security officials were deployed outside the stone gate at the Wanan graveyard, near the hills of western Beijing, which members of the Tiananmen Mothers, a victims' relatives group, visit each year. In a narrow street close to Beijing's Forbidden City, security personnel patrolled outside the former house of Zhao Ziyang, the former communist party secretary who was purged and held under house arrest following the protests. Several police vehicles were positioned on Tiananmen Square itself, a vast concrete plaza in the centre of the capital, where huge video screens celebrated "Green Beijing" with images of a spinning wind turbine. Hundreds of mostly Chinese tourists strolled, posing with national flags and snapping pictures on smartphones. Some had their identification cards checked by police. The uniformed police numbers did not seem to be higher than usual, said a snack vendor who asked not to be named. But he added: "Most police are plain clothes, you don't know when they might be listening." China's government has never provided an official toll for the repression, which was condemned throughout the world and led to the temporary isolation of Beijing on the international stage. Unofficial estimates of the numbers killed range from around 200 to more than 3,000. The Tiananmen Mothers said in an open letter last week they believed the higher figure was accurate. Authorities have detained or enhanced surveillance of 10 prominent dissidents, according to the Hong Kong-based advocacy group China Human Rights Defenders. Online searches for a wide range of keywords on Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter, were blocked, from "Tiananmen" to "candle", which was used to encourage digital vigils. Activists turned instead to overseas websites to commemorate the event and criticise authorities. "The dispute in this country is basically stuck on whether to light a candle or to extinguish it," dissident artist Ai Weiwei posted on Twitter. Rights lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan said on Twitter that he had been blocked from Sina Weibo for seven days for sharing "sensitive information" - urging others to honour victims by posting an image of a lit candle. A mocked-up picture was circulating online of the 1989 "Tank Man" photograph of a civilian staring down a long row of tanks headed toward Tiananmen Square - with the military vehicles replaced by plastic ducks. The image could not be found on domestic websites within the "Great Firewall of China", as the country's system of Internet controls is known. The high-profile dissident Hu Jia wrote on Twitter that the broad crackdown on discussion of Tiananmen demonstrated the government's weakness. The event underscored the ruling Communist Party's "illegal nature", he wrote. "The unprecedentedly high pressure for the 24th anniversary of June 4 actually reveals the authorities' fear." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=59d_1370344383 Baron_Kaz China blocks Tiananmen anniversary remembrance china Sat, 01 Jun 2013 09:39:04 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bdc_1370093240 Btwix A photo from the Mast Camera on NASA's Curiosity rover reveals the dusty orange, rock-strewn surface of the Red Planet -- and captures a dusty orange rodent hiding among the stones, starry-eyed enthusiasts claim. The photo, taken Sept. 28, 2012, depicts the "Rocknest" site, where NASA's rover took a scoopful of sand, tasted it, and determined it was full of weathered basaltic materials -- not unlike Hawaii, the space agency's scientists said last year. No word on how the rodent tasted, however. The "creature" was identified on the UFO Sightings Daily website, where its finder, ScottCWaring, held tight to his opinion: That's one darn cute rodent on Mars. "Note its lighter color upper and lower eyelids, its nose and cheek areas, its ear, its front leg and stomach. Looks similar to a squirrel camouflaged in the stones and sand by its colors," he wrote. "Hey, who doesn't love squirrels, right?" Others pointed out that the similarity in coloring and position mean it was most likely just a rock, fingering the psychology phenomenon known as pareidolia, a propensity to pick out faces from everyday objects and structures To take advantage of this psychological phenomenon closer to home, designers at Berlin's Onformative studio developed an algorithm that scans the surface of the earth with Google Maps, picking out geographical structures that are likely to be construed as having face-like features, science blog iO9 recently pointed out. Their algorithm found faces in fields, mustaches in mountains, hills with actual eyes. Perhaps the algorithm should be turned loose on Mars? http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/05/29/mars-rat-spied-by-nasa-curiosity-rover/ http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/mars-is-infested-with-pareidolia-rats-130529.htm http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/29/mars-rat-nasa-curiosity-photo_n_3354155.html http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bdc_1370093240 Btwix Rat Found On Mars Spied By NASA's Curiosity Rover mars, rat, nasa, pareidolia