http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=braces Wed, 22 May 2013 19:40:45 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=braces Wed, 01 May 2013 20:18:50 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=051_1367453378 smyle Former Green Bay Packers safety Leroy Butler played all 12 of his NFL seasons in the Frozen Tundra from 1990 through 2001. He was a key cog in the Pack's Super Bowl XXXI-winning team, is credited with inventing the Lambeau Leap, and grabbed 38 interceptions in 181 games and 165 starts despite childhood disabilities that forced him to wear leg braces. Since Butler's NFL career ended, he's been pretty tireless with his philanthropic work, heading up the Leroy Butler Foundation . Butler works with churches in the Wisconsin area, but there's one local church that decided to cancel his scheduled appearance. Why? Apparently, because Butler dared to congratulate basketball player Jason Collins for coming out last week. leroy butler http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=051_1367453378 smyle Leroy Butler's church appearance canceled after former Packers star tweets to congratulate Jason Collins Leroy Butler , dared to congratulate basketball player Jason Collins, pastor wants to cancel Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:12:41 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=dd3_1365653463 grimghost By Kim Eun-jung SEOUL, April 11 (Yonhap) -- As South Korea and the United States brace for a possible missile launch by North Korea, the communist nation appears to be moving several missiles repeatedly on its east coast in an apparent attempt to interfere with intelligence monitoring, sources familiar with the matter said Thursday. According to intelligence analysis, the North has moved two Musudan intermediate missiles, which had been concealed in a shed in the eastern port city of Wonsan, in and out of the facility. Four or five wheeled vehicles, suspected to be so-called transporter erector launchers (TEL), were also spotted being moved around in South Hamgyeong Province. "There are signs the North could fire off Musudan missiles any time soon," an intelligence source said, asking for anonymity. "But the North has been repeatedly moving its missiles in and out of a shed, which needs close monitoring." South Korean and U.S. intelligence officials have been closely monitoring the North Korean facility believed to contain the Musudan missiles mounted on the TELs. The missile can fly 3,000-4,000 kilometers, making it capable of hitting the U.S. base in Guam in the Pacific Ocean. Another source said the North's latest move is aimed at adding extra "fatigue" to South Korean and U.S. officials so as to thwart their efforts to immediately capture the moment of the missile launch. The South Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Command on Wednesday declared "Watchcon 2" status, up one level from normal conditions, to step up monitoring and increase the number of staff on emergency standby around the clock. Seoul officials say there are high chances that Pyongyang could fire off a missile around April 15 to mark the birthday of late founding leader Kim Il-sung, the current ruler Kim Jong-un's grandfather. Last year, the North unsuccessfully conducted a rocket launch days before the 100th anniversary of Kim's birth. On Wednesday, Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se told lawmakers that there is a very high probability North Korea would test launch medium-range missiles at any time, with the timing depending on a political decision. While some media reported that the North is believed to have finished fueling its missiles, the last step for a liftoff, the shift of missile locations raised questions about the information because moving fuel-injected missiles could destabilize them. Experts say the single-warhead, liquid-fuel missile can be on standby up to one week after it is filled with fuel, which reportedly takes about 30 minutes. Officials in Seoul say there are possibilities that the North may fire off several missiles from different sites, in case of an unsuccessful launch of the Musudan missile, which has never been tested in the nation before. According to military officials, the TELs in South Hamgyeong Province were believed to be launch platforms for short-range Scud missiles, which have a range of 300-500 kilometers, and medium-range Nodong missiles, which can travel 1,300-1,500 km. Ahead of the late founding leader's birthday, the North has been mobilizing military personnel and equipment to practice for a massive military parade at Mirim airport near Pyongyang, a senior military official said. As the world braces for a potential missile launch by the unpredictable nation, its front-line troops seemed to be less focused on preparing for a war and instead concentrating on spring farming, a senior military official said. "Front-line North Korean troops near the military demarcation line have started farming," the defense ministry official said, noting the number of military training exercises dropped sharply compared to last month. The latest move was seen as less tense compared to when the North in late March put its strategic rocket force on its top level of combat readiness. After weeks of near-daily war threats, the North's state media on Wednesday toned down its inflammatory language and largely focused on upcoming events. Despite repeated war threats from Pyongyang, an increasing number of North Korean soldiers have gone AWOL from their front-line combat units in recent months, prompting senior officials to conduct tougher inspections of troops. In the first three months of this year, more than 40 soldiers have fled from their front-line barracks, which is much more than in previous years. Seoul officials suspect the uptick reflects rising discontent in the rank and file suffering from grueling winter training and food shortages. The North has relied on international handouts since the late 1990s when it suffered a massive famine that was estimated to have killed 2 million people. ejkim@yna.co.kr http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/ music http://sonnyboo.com/music/music.htm http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=dd3_1365653463 grimghost North Korea shifts missile locations ahead of imminent launch: sources North Korea,War,South Korea,Japan,Guam,Missile test,Missile sites Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:28:24 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=37a_1361903149 plokiju The Air Force has some bad news for the pilots of its F-22 Raptor stealth fighters: Your planes are going to make you feel crappy and there's not much anyone can do about it. And the message to the maintainers of the radar-evading jet is even more depressing. Any illness they feel from working around the Raptor is apparently all in their heads, according to the Air Force. Those admissions, buried in newly released Congressional records , represent the latest twist in the years-long saga of the F-22's faulty oxygen system, which since at least 2008 has been choking pilots , leading to confusion, memory loss and blackouts - combined known as hypoxia - that may have contributed to at least one fatal crash. Ground crews have also reported growing sick while working around F-22s whose engines are running. The Air Force claims its has a handle on the in-flight blackouts. All 180 or so F-22s are having faulty filters removed and new backup oxygen generators installed. There have also been changes to the G-suits pilots wear. But the Air Force says the alterations won't do anything to fix the so-called "Raptor cough," a chronic condition afflicting almost all F-22 pilots. The coughing - which, to be clear, is a totally separate issue from hypoxia - is due to a condition known as "acceleration atelectasis," Maj. Gen. Charles Lyon, who headed the Air Force's Raptor investigation, wrote in response to questions submitted following a September testimony before a House subcommittee. "Acceleration atelectasis results from pilots breathing high concentrations of oxygen (above 60 percent) while wearing anti-G trousers, and exposure to G-forces," Lyon explained. Maj. Jeremy Gordon, a Virginia Raptor flier who blew the whistle on the Air Force last year, described a typical room full of F-22 pilots where "the vast majority will be coughing a lot of the time." One Air Force widow claimed her F-22 pilot husband's coughing contributed to his suicide . The coughing, Lyon continued, results from the closure of the lungs' alveoli as oxygen-rich air is absorbed, leaving insufficient gas such as nitrogen behind to keep the alveoli open. "The normal physiologic response to re-open the alveoli is to cough," Lyon wrote adding that an F-22 feeds its pilot higher concentrations of oxygen compared to other jets. Air Force spokesman Lt. Col. Tadd Sholtis told ABC News that the Raptor's extreme performance - flying higher and faster than most planes - could also exacerbate the cough. "The Air Force will continue to explore further potential causes through long term breathing air analysis and human systems integration efforts," Lyon wrote. But he offered no solution to the condition. Apparently, from the Air Force's point of view, coughing is the cost of sitting the world's most high-tech fighter cockpit. With regard to the maintainers who reported symptoms alongside the oxygen-deprived F-22 pilots, Lyon wrote that the Air Force conducted extensive testing and found no evidence that the ground crews were actually sick. "None of the ground incident aircraft cockpit testing revealed anything approaching a remarkable health guidance value," Lyon explained. "None of the maintainer blood, breath or urine samples indicated anything remarkable." Lyon wrote that the Air Force has ruled out any adverse health effects from toxic fluid leaks, hazardous particles from the Raptor's stealth coating and the possible impact of breathing the F-22's engine exhaust. If the maintainers really were sick, as they claimed, the Air Force is "confident that factors other than the life support system or the aircraft caused the ground incidents," Lyon wrote. The F-22, arguably the most capable jet fighting in the world, is the mainstay of the Air Force's frontline fleet and has even gotten more money , even while the rest of the military braces for impending budget cuts. Raptor pilots and ground crews shoulder a large part of the burden of deploying American power in the sky. The flying branch's brass seem to believe coughing, and possibly imaginary illness on the ground, are just part of the job. http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/02/stealth-pilots-coughing/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=37a_1361903149 plokiju Air Force to Stealth Fighter Pilots: Get Used to Coughing Fits F-22, stealth, coughing, hypoxia, health, update Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:46:59 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5ca_1278571380 siyabend Dental Braces Timelapse: 18 months. Medical Videos http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5ca_1278571380 siyabend Dental <span class="highlight">Braces</span> Timelapse: 18 months Dental Braces Timelapse, health Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:47:27 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0a4_1266353925 HydrogenEconomy http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/84368492.html Daniel Rubin: Another case of TSA overkill By Daniel Rubin Inquirer Columnist Just when I thought I was out of the Transportation Security Administration business for a few columns, they pull me back in. Did you hear about the Camden cop whose disabled son wasn't allowed to pass through airport security unless he took off his leg braces? Unfortunately, it's no joke. This happened to Bob Thomas, a 53-year-old officer in Camden's emergency crime suppression team, who was flying to Orlando in March with his wife, Leona, and their son, Ryan. Ryan was taking his first flight, to Walt Disney World, for his fourth birthday. The boy is developmentally delayed, one of the effects of being born 16 weeks prematurely. His ankles are malformed and his legs have low muscle tone. In March he was just starting to walk. Mid-morning on March 19, his parents wheeled his stroller to the TSA security point, a couple of hours before their Southwest Airlines flight was to depart. The boy's father broke down the stroller and put it on the conveyor belt as Leona Thomas walked Ryan through the metal detector. The alarm went off. The screener told them to take off the boy's braces. The Thomases were dumbfounded. "I told them he can't walk without them on his own," Bob Thomas said. "He said, 'He'll need to take them off.' " Ryan's mother offered to walk him through the detector after they removed the braces, which are custom-made of metal and hardened plastic. No, the screener replied. The boy had to walk on his own. Leona Thomas said she was calm. Bob Thomas said he was starting to burn. They complied, and Leona went first, followed by Ryan, followed by Bob, so the boy wouldn't be hurt if he fell. Ryan made it through. By then, Bob Thomas was furious. He demanded to see a supervisor. The supervisor asked what was wrong. "I told him, 'This is overkill. He's 4 years old. I don't think he's a terrorist.' " The supervisor replied, "You know why we're doing this," Thomas said. Thomas said he told the supervisor he was going to file a report, and at that point the man turned and walked away. A Philadelphia police officer approached and asked what the problem was. Thomas said he identified himself and said he was a Camden officer. The Philadelphia officer suggested he calm down and enjoy his vacation. Back home in Glassboro a week later, Bob Thomas called the airport manager and left her what he calls a terse message. He was still angry enough last week to call me after I'd written a couple of columns about travelers' complaints of mistreatment by screeners at the airport. "This was just stupid," he told me. At the very least, it was not standard procedure. On Friday, TSA spokeswoman Ann Davis said the boy never should have been told to remove his braces. TSA policy should have allowed the parents to help the boy to a private screening area where he could have been swabbed for traces of explosive materials. She said she wished Thomas had reported the matter to TSA immediately. "If screening is not properly done, we need to go back to that officer and offer retraining so it's corrected." Davis also said TSA's security director at the airport, Bob Ellis, called Thomas last week to apologize. He gave Thomas the name of the agency's customer service representative, in case he has a problem at the airport in the future. Afterward, Thomas said he appreciated Ellis' call. He said he had no interest in pursuing the matter further or in filing a lawsuit. "I'm just looking for things to be done right," he said. "And I just want to make sure this isn't done to anyone else. Just abide by your standard operating procedures." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0a4_1266353925 HydrogenEconomy TSA forces 4 year old to remove leg <span class="highlight">braces</span> tsa,4,year,old,leg,braces Thu, 10 May 2007 13:10:31 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=21a_1178817031 smartt Braces? http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=21a_1178817031 smartt Gracyanne, the girl with the <span class="highlight">braces</span> Gracyanne, the girl with the braces Tue, 06 Feb 2007 05:14:14 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=41e5ce3f9d 1978jamesb Lunch kindly jumped into this stationary car with limited english japanese girl in the passenger seat. He needed to move it of some double yellow lines and the confused girl in braces obligied. Lunch saved the day http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=41e5ce3f9d 1978jamesb Driving miss sexy oriental with <span class="highlight">braces</span> driving,little,miss,sexy,oriental,braces,cum,lunch,girl,teen,party,sex,naughty,asian,hehe Wed, 19 Sep 2012 21:03:18 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f33_1348102700 biggles9 THE White House has questioned the judgment of a French weekly that published cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammed, but said the decision was no justification for violence. "We have questions about the judgment of publishing something like this," White House spokesman Jay Carney said, while adding "it is not in any way justification for violence." "We don't question the right of something like this to be published, we just question the judgment behind the decision to publish it," Carney said. The decision by the French weekly Charlie Hebdo to print obscene cartoons depicting the prophet, came as fresh protests erupted in the Muslim world over an anti-Islam film made by extremist Coptic Christians in the United States. Security was reinforced at French missions and other institutions in countries feared most at risk of a hostile reaction to the French cartoons. French Embassies, consulates, cultural centres and international French schools in around 20 countries will be closed on Friday in case they are targeted in demonstrations following weekly Muslim prayers. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said that as yet no decisions had been made regarding US embassies on Friday, as the situation was being evaluated "on a day-to-day basis." "Obviously we're in very close touch with our French allies as they evaluate their security posture," she said. US embassies in Tunis, Tripoli, and Sanaa were closed on Wednesday, she confirmed, and while consulates in the Pakistani cities of Lahore, Peshawar and Karachi were closed the embassy in Islamabad was open. "We're talking to the French. I'm obviously not going to get into our security assessment other than to say this is one of the things we're factoring into our look at security going forward." The cartoons drama erupted a week after violent reactions to the film Innocence of Muslims which targeted US missions throughout the Muslim world, including an attack on the US consulate in Benghazi which killed the US ambassador to Libya, and three other diplomatic staff. More than 30 people have been killed in attacks or violent protests linked to the controversial US-made film Innocence of Muslims , including 12 people who died in an attack by a female suicide bomber in Afghanistan on Tuesday. In Pakistan, around 1000 students from the the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami party took to the streets in the eastern city Lahore, chanting anti-US slogans and burning the American flag. A similar number demonstrated in Karachi, burning an effigy of US President Barack Obama, while in Islamabad, around 500 lawyers burst into the capital's diplomatic enclave, chanting anti-US slogans and castigating the government for not taking strong action against the film. The Pakistan government declared Friday - the Muslim holy day - a national holiday in honour of Mohammed, in a sudden announcement made after religious parties called for a day of protest. In neighbouring Afghanistan, about 1000 protesters took to the streets in the east of the country, blocking a key road to Kabul and chanting "Death to America" and "Death to the enemies of Islam." Indonesia saw hundreds of protesters tear up the American flag and throw eggs at the US embassy in the capital Jakarta. In Lebanon, gunmen opened fire on a KFC fast-food restaurant, just days after another outlet of the US chain was torched and a demonstrator killed in a protest over the film. No one was hurt in the most recent attack. The Shiite movement Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, has called for a string of protests all week in Lebanon to denounce what he described as the "worst attack ever on Islam". Muslim men and women in Buddhist-majority Sri Lanka also staged their first demonstration, with several hundred gathering in the capital Colombo near the US embassy to denounce the film. Innocence of Muslims , a crudely made film produced by extremist Christians in the United States that depicts the Prophet as a thuggish womaniser, has triggered protests in at least 20 countries since excerpts were posted on the Internet. In reaction to the uproar, the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published cartoons mocking the film and caricaturing the Muslim prophet, including two showing him naked. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f33_1348102700 biggles9 France <span class="highlight">braces</span> for 'Naked Mohammed' cartoon backlash from Charlie Hebdo magazine France, braces for, 'Naked, Mohammed' ,cartoon, backlash, ,magazine Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:37:35 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6d1_1270593175 jumpingforJoy Commentary: The head of the Hungarian right-wing Fidesz party will likely win April's elections and become prime minister. Having to all intents and purposes already won the April parliamentary elections, Fidesz, the Hungarian right-wing party, and its leader, Viktor Orban, can look forward to a daunting set of political dilemmas once in office. Having run on a platform of mushy, all-things-to-all-people populism (while lambasting the previous government for nearly ruining the country's finances on the same basis), they will quickly find themselves bound by the budgetary straitjacket that was imposed by the International Monetary Fund and the European Union after last year's financial crisis. Anticipating that much, Orban, prime minister-in-waiting, has already started somewhat toning down his earlier message. Many commentators will tell you that voters, once they discover they've been duped, will turn away en masse. That is unlikely: Fidesz will win in a landslide not so much because its support has increased so much (it hasn't) but because people have turned away from the Socialists and the Free Democrats, the erstwhile coalition partners, after their recent, messy, four years in office. I suspect most of his supporters will continue to like Orban, even with his hilarious promises unfulfilled, for the first year or so at least, provided he doesn't make a total mess of things. Many will be happy just to see the government of Gordon Bajnai go. And yet, and yet. Hard choices may no longer only come with financial crises in this country. The crash is past but the economy is still expected to shrink this year. Strong growth (around 3 percent) will not return until 2011 or 2012. More cuts are programmed into the budget, cleverly timed by the Socialists to take effect after the election. In fact, the fiscal situation is still so dire that further cuts of 200-240 billion forints ($1 billion to $1.2 billion) are needed to keep the IMF-EU-imposed targets, according to the nonpartisan Budgetary Council. But how will Orban explain this to people, after repeating mindlessly for years that all cuts are evil, market reform is but a fig leaf for theft, and all would be well if only he were back in charge? The economy, struggling under increasing debt and hobbled by ineffective, communist-style government services, will soon be his problem. And he'll find that the way out - spending cuts and at least modest market reforms - has been blocked by his own intransigence. THE THIRD FORCE Promising ideas, previously shared by both large parties, such as health-care privatization, have been dropped from the Fidesz manifesto simply because the Socialists have also tried them: their memory rubbed out, their exponents forced from Fidesz. Corruption is likely to haunt him, too. It is a largely accepted fact of Hungarian politics that kickbacks from state-financed projects and monies from state-run companies tend to find their way to most parties. This is mainly because the needlessly limiting campaign-finance system leaves politicians with little choice but to steal. (Or, rather - there always being the option to just say no, unfashionable it may be to point out - the problem is "systemic.") Fidesz has resolutely refused all forms of campaign finance reform. The Socialist-Free Democrat coalition was partly brought down by the perception of corruption. But Fidesz didn't escape those allegations when it was in power. Nor will it this time. Out of power for eight years and two Socialist-led mandates, Orban's people are very hungry. The expected size of their win makes them overconfident. One Fidesz leader promised the other day to "chop off the hands" of people who steal from the state. They seem to have little idea how sudden their fall could be when they are found with their hands in the till. What will Orban say then? (Or, God forbid, do?) All this may not matter so much with a weak Socialist opposition licking its wounds for the next few years. With a stable two-party system, Hungary might just trudge along. But with a rising, self-confident far-right force, Jobbik, possibly beating the Socialists to second place, all bets are off in Hungarian politics. Orban will face a determined and possibly very dangerous enemy, one that cares little for the rules of gentlemanly parliamentary politics - for it doesn't believe in them. Worse for the next prime minister, there is little daylight between Fidesz and Jobbik ideologically. They are both inheritors of a right-wing tradition that, lacking the possibility of open debate for decades, has improved precious little since the 1930s. They are both characterized by strong anti-liberal and anti-capitalist impulses, stuck in an old-fashioned, blood-based nationalism that is suspicious of most things foreign, and with a strong ethos of authoritarianism. How will Orban battle this beast that, while much louder, is but a darker shade of himself? Jobbik is honest in its distasteful views. He is merely a master tactician. Already they are at his heels. Does Orban understand any of this? Probably. But, surrounded by adoring yes-men, indulged by a right-wing press mostly unable to a cast a critical eye on him and his project for years, shorn of real debate and real opposition in the one-man party he has built, his hold on reality is bound to have slipped some. In a month's time, when the votes are counted, his triumph will be complete. But on the morning after, he will be very alone. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6d1_1270593175 jumpingforJoy Hungary <span class="highlight">Braces</span> Itself For a Hard Right Turn - Socialists and the Free Democrats OUT Hungary Braces Itself For a Hard Right Turn Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:03:46 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3f1_1230577284 PiRaTeCoPy JERUSALEM -- Following the deaths of at least 300 Palestinians and the wounding of more than 1,000 during Israel's air blitz over Gaza over the weekend, in response to barrages of rockets fired at Israeli towns and cities bordering the coastal territory, the country is bracing for revenge attacks. A state of emergency has been declared. Seven thousand reservists have been called up as tanks and hundreds of troops from the armored corps amass on Gaza's border in preparation for a possible ground operation into Gaza. Israelis within a 10-kilometer radius of Gaza were ordered to enter bomb shelters within 15 seconds of a siren warning. Residents within a 20-30-kilometer radius were ordered to enter shelters within 45 seconds of siren warnings. However, over half the factories surrounding Gaza were still operating on Sunday despite instruction from the Home Front Command to close down some 80 plants within five kilometers of Gaza. Only about 15 percent of employees failed to attend work. Furthermore, the Israeli Defense Forces says it is expecting a possible increased daily rocket barrage of up to 100 missiles, some of which are expected to reach cities and towns located further away as Hamas uses upgraded projectiles with a 40-kilometer range as opposed to the current range of only 20 kilometers. Israeli intelligence has just cleared for publication a report that an upgraded missile from Gaza struck Gan Yavne, the northernmost Israeli community to be targeted by rocket fire from Gaza. The military censors had ordered a blackout on the report to prevent Hamas from acquiring information as to how deeply into Israel one of its missiles had managed to penetrate. The attack stirred panic among the residents of the city. An Israeli-Arab construction worker was killed Monday morning after a Grad rocket fired from Gaza hit a construction site inside the city where he was working. Nine other people were injured four of them sustaining moderate wounds and the rest light injuries. Israeli police are also preparing for further revenge attacks from Palestinian resistance groups or individuals. Although no specific information has been received, security sources expect simple attacks, which do not require complex organization, such as shootings, stabbings, and assaults with vehicles to be carried out. Four Israeli settlers residing in Kiryat Sefer, near the illegal Israeli settlement of Modi'in in the Palestinian West Bank were stabbed on Monday morning by two Palestinian handymen hired to carry out repairs for a family living in the settlement. In an apparent revenge attack for the carnage in Gaza, the handymen ran amok and started stabbing people randomly with sharp tools. One settler was seriously injured and the other three lightly wounded. One of the attackers was shot and captured while the other managed to escape with Israeli security forces in hot pursuit. On Saturday an Israeli policeman was lightly injured when a Palestinian from East Jerusalem deliberately ran him over, also allegedly in revenge for the Gaza attacks. Earlier in the year several Palestinians from East Jerusalem used bulldozers and a motor vehicle to ram and run over Israeli pedestrians, soldiers and vehicles, killing several Israelis in the process. Security sources have also warned that suicide bombings might resume following statements made by Hamas. As soon as Israeli intelligence has specific information about possible attacks being carried out, Palestinian cities in the West Bank will be closed off. Meanwhile, in the war of words and the continuing psychological games being played between Hamas and Israel, a Hamas spokesman said that captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit had been injured during Israel's aerial assault over Gaza during the weekend. Noam Shalit, the father of the captured soldier, expressed concern for the wellbeing of his son. However, some analysts have postulated that Shalit junior may not have in fact been hurt during the bombardment but that this was merely a trick to undermine Israeli morale. In the interim as international criticism condemns Israel for the excessive force used during the Gaza operation, Israel has been hitting back on the diplomatic front. During a press conference hours after the assault on Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said no country in the world would put up with the rocket and missile strikes Israel had suffered and that the time had come to react. "Israel has done all it could to preserve the ceasefire with Hamas, but our desire for quiet was met with terror. Israel is not itching for a fight, but we will not back down from one either," Olmert said. The Israeli premier further promised to restore peace and quiet to the lives of residents in the southern cities and towns that border the Gaza strip and added that although the Gaza operation might take time, they had not been forgotten. However, although more rockets hit Israel, including a Qassem and a mortar fired Monday morning, causing no injuries or damage, Israeli security officials expressed surprise at the relatively restrained response from Hamas. But they are not ruling out that the Islamic resistance organization is still planning revenge on a large scale and that only the timing and the opportunity is the issue. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3f1_1230577284 PiRaTeCoPy Israel <span class="highlight">Braces</span> for Revenge Attacks Israel, Braces, Revenge, Attacks, Fri, 21 Sep 2012 06:42:13 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=533_1348224004 Muslim_Soldier http://presstv.com/detail/2012/09/20/262654/west-braces-for-clash-of-cultures/ With the publication of the profane pictures of the holy Prophet of Islam in Charlie Hebdo magazine, the West seems to be consciously moving in a direction where chaos will dominate the international arena and a clash of cultures will inevitably run deeper for an indefinite period of time. Magazine director Stephane Charbonnier said his staff is "not really fueling the fire," but rather using its freedom of expression "to comment (on) the news in a satirical way." The French magazine has a history of attacking Islam. On February 9, 2006, it also published some cartoons denigrating the holy Prophet. The Grand Mosque, the Muslim World League and the Union of French Islamic Organizations (UOIF) in France filed a suit saying that the cartoons contained elements of racism. In 2007, executive editor Philippe Val was, however, acquitted by the French court. Surprisingly, Francois Fillon, the prime minister, and Claude Gu'eant, the interior minister voiced support for Charlie Hebdo. According to reports, France is closing its embassies and schools in 20 countries, fearing a violent backlash from protestors over the blasphemous cartoons. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has said, "Is it relevant and intelligent in this environment to add fuel to the fire?" The publication of the cartoons, which came immediately after the release of the anti-Islam film 'Innocence of Muslims', has provoked widespread protests in most parts of the Muslim world. It is painful to say that the French government has not only authorized such an anti-Islam move but it has also rejected a request by Muslims to hold demonstration in front of the Paris Grand Mosque on Saturday. According to the police ban, organizers of a possible demonstration will face six months in jail and a fine of 700 euros ($900). In a similar move, French Interior Minister Manuel Valls ordered a ban on any further demonstrations against the anti-Islam film made in the United States. "I have issued instructions so that this does not happen again. These protests are forbidden," Valls said in an interview with France 2 television network. Protest is a form of freedom of expression which is denied Muslims in France but is given lasciviously free rein in the anti-Islam moves in the country. There are abortive attempts by western analysts to interpret the two baneful incidents in the light of freedom of expression and thereby explain away the emotional hurt of the Muslim world. However, to an intellectually trained mind, this seems more than just an insult to Islam and the Muslims. The calculated move of the French magazine in publishing the insulting cartoons immediately after the blasphemous film indicates a united front forming against Islam in the West. On the one hand, the move can be seen as an attempt to help escalate the crisis in the Middle East region and on the other hand to plunge the world into a vortex where a clash of civilizations is imminent. Should we naively believe that the anti-Islam film which has caused much uproar and intellectual chagrin in the Muslim world is the work of a Coptic Christian Egyptian fraudster, a small-time porn director and a bunch of extremists who harbor deep hatred against Islam? This is a good question and it deserves an answer. Still, the answer seems to be found in the incident which followed the film i.e. the publication of the blasphemous cartoons. Seen from an analytical point of view, the entire scenario apparently tilts the scale in favor of the Zionists who capitalize on a large-scale fracas between the Muslim countries and the rest of the world. In fact, they are the ones who will catch the bigger fish in these trouble waters. Amidst this craftily authored plan, Israel has commenced a series of war games in Golan Heights, the biggest the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) has conducted in the six years since the second Lebanon war on Hezbollah in 2006. Military sources say the war game looks like a real war with tens of thousands of soldiers and senior officers, including the artillery and the air force taking part. Israeli officials have announced that the situation in Syria is precariously volatile and that the country is in possession of a huge arsenal of chemical weapons which they fear might fall into the hands of wrong people stockpile if President Bashar Assad is ousted. This is the excuse which they use to justify their military show-off. In point of fact, Israel is readying itself to wage a military encounter in the region by using the anti-Islam scenario. With the Muslim world in turmoil over the anti-Islam video and cartoons, Israel will be in a position to turn the situation to its own benefit, depict the Islamic world in a negative light with the help of western media and exploit the rift deepening between the Muslims and the West. These facts suggest that there are certain Zionist elements in the West which are fomenting Islamophobia in the world in order to bring about a lethal encounter between the East and the West and serve the interests of Israel in the long run. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=533_1348224004 Muslim_Soldier West <span class="highlight">braces</span> for clash of cultures syria islam muslim the west america europe assad israel palestine iran Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:27:33 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9bb_1348068065 fookalah France braces for Mohammed cartoon backlash from Charlie Hedbo magazine AFP September 19, 2012 11:15PM The publisher of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo 's publisher, known only as Charb, displays the latest issue of the magazine, which contains cartoons mocking Mohammed. Source: AFP FRANCE stepped up security and appealed for calm after a weekly magazine published cartoons of a naked Prophet Mohammed that risked fanning outrage in the Islamic world. Security was reinforced at French missions and other institutions in countries feared most at risk of a hostile reaction. Embassies, consulates, cultural centres and international French schools in around 20 countries will be closed on Friday in case they are targeted in demonstrations following weekly Muslim prayers.Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius admitted he feared a backlash in the Muslim world, where tempers are already running high over an anti-Islam film made in California and posted on the Internet.Police were deployed outside the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo , the satirical magazine which published the cartoons. The magazine said its Internet site had been hacked and was not accessible.The left-wing, libertarian publication's offices were firebombed last year after it published an edition "guest-edited by Mohammed" that it called Sharia Hebdo.Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault urged "responsibility" and said anyone offended by the caricatures could sue. But he and Interior Minister Manuel Valls said freedom of speech, including caricature, was a "fundamental right" backed by the law.Leaders of the large Muslim community in France said an appeal for calm would be read out in mosques across the country on Friday but also condemned the magazine for publishing "insulting" images.The weekly carried a total of four cartoons which include images definitely intended to represent Mohammed, as opposed to any other Muslim.In two of them, the Prophet is shown naked. One is inspired by Jean-Luc Godard's 1963 film Contempt and features the Mohammed asking the director "You like my buttocks?" - parroting a line delivered by Brigitte Bardot in the film.Another shows the founder of Islam crouched on all fours with a star coming out of his behind with the inscription "A Star Is Born."The film references were supposedly an attempt to satirise the crudely-made short movie Innocence of Muslims which has triggered the worldwide protests since it was released on the Internet. But the explicit, arguably vulgar, nature of the drawings made it inevitable they would cause offence. Another cartoon depicts a cover of Closer , the magazine which last week created a furore by publishing photographs of Prince William's wife Catherine, topless promising exclusive snaps of "Mrs Mohammed".The figure shows a man's gap-toothed, bearded head on top of a woman's body with bared breasts. Mr Ayrault said anyone offended by cartoons could take the matter to the courts but made it clear there would be no action against the weekly."We are in a country where freedom of expression is guaranteed, including the freedom to caricature," he said. "If people really feel offended in their beliefs and think there has been an infringement of the law - and we are in a state where laws must be totally respected - they can go to court," Mr Ayrault said.He also said a request to hold a demonstration in Paris would be refused. France's interior ministry has already banned all protests over the controversial film following a violent demonstration last weekend near the US embassy. Charlie Hebdo 's editor, Stephane Charbonnier, defended the cartoons, slamming critics as "ridiculous clowns." Mr Charbonnier, a cartoonist, said Mr Ayrault should be "supporting press freedom and the republic rather than allowing himself to be influenced by these ridiculous clowns who are protesting".Meanwhile the magazine's Facebook page was inundated with messages defending or attacking its action, while news sellers reported that customers were buying up their stocks of the weekly specifically to destroy them.more at http://www.news.com.au/world/france-braces-for-mohammed-cartoon-backlash-from-charlie-hedbo-magazine/story-fndir2ev-1226477644083 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9bb_1348068065 fookalah France <span class="highlight">braces</span> for cartoon backlash islam,muslim,stupidity,satire,violence