http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=claw Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:32:45 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=claw Sun, 16 Jun 2013 01:32:54 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=77a_1371360329 AntiPropagaanda Made in Glasgow: Hassan Rouhani, the moderate who has become Iran's next president Saturday 15 June 2013 The man today declared as Iran's next president grew up in Glasgow, completing a degree and doctorate at Glasgow Caledonian University. Hassan Rouhani, an avowed reformer, urged to a wide lead in early vote counting today, and the country's interior minister declared him the victor at 5pm today. He studied at the old Glasgow Polytechnic (now GCU) in the 1970s and returned to undertake a law doctorate in the 1990s. He then went by the name of Hassan Feridon Mr Rouhani, 64, who is married with children, is a cleric who speaks English, German, French, Russian and Arabic. Earlier today, he had more than 51% of the more than eight million votes tallied so far, well ahead of Tehran Mayor Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf with about 16.6%. Hard-line nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili was third with about 13%. The strong margin for Mr Rouhani gave him an outright victory and avoided a two-person run-off next Friday. Iran has more than 50 million eligible voters, and turnout in yesterday's poll was believed to be high. Many reform-minded Iranians who have faced years of crackdowns looked to Mr Rouhani's rising fortunes as a chance to claw back a bit of ground. While Iran's presidential elections offer a window into the political pecking orders and security grip inside the country - particularly since the chaos from a disputed outcome in 2009 - they lack the drama of truly high stakes as the country's ruling clerics and their military guardians remain the ultimate powers. Election officials began the ballot count after voters queued for hours in wilting heat at some polling stations in central Tehran and other cities, while others cast ballots across the vast country from desert outposts to Gulf seaports and nomad pastures. Voting was extended by five hours to meet demand, but also as possible political stagecraft to showcase the participation. The apparent strong turnout - estimated at 75% by the hard-line newspaper Kayhan - suggested that liberals and others abandoned a planned boycott as the election was transformed into a showdown across the Islamic Republic's political divide. On one side were hard-liners looking to cement their control behind candidates such as Mr Jalili, who says he is "100%" against detente with Iran's foes, or Mr Qalibaf. Opposing them were reformists and others rallying behind the "purple wave" campaign of Mr Rouhani, the lone relative moderate left in the race. Officials did not say in which parts of the country the ballots were counted. But even Mr Rouhani's presidency could be more of a limited victory than a deep shake-up. Iran's establishment - a tight alliance of the ruling clerics and the ultra-powerful Revolutionary Guard - still holds all the effective power and sets the agenda on all major decisions such as Iran's nuclear programme and its dealings with the West. Security forces are also in firm control after waves of arrests and relentless pressures since the last presidential election in 2009, which unleashed massive protests over claims that the outcome was rigged to keep the combative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in power for a second and final term. He is barred from seeking a third consecutive run. The greater comfort level by the theocracy and Revolutionary Guard sets a different tone this time. Opposition groups appear too intimidated and fragmented to revive street demonstrations, and even a win by Mr Rouhani - the only cleric in the race - is not likely to be perceived as a threat to the ruling structure. Mr Rouhani led the influential Supreme National Security Council and was given the highly sensitive nuclear envoy role in 2003, a year after Iran's 20-year-old atomic programme was revealed. "Rouhani is not an outsider and any gains by him do not mean the system is weak or that there are serious cracks," said Rasool Nafisi, an Iranian affairs analyst at Strayer University in Virginia. "The ruling system has made sure that no-one on the ballot is going to shake things up." Yet a Rouhani victory would not be entirely without significance either. It would make room for more moderate voices in Iranian political dialogue and display their resilience. It also would bring onto the world stage an Iranian president who has publicly endorsed more outreach rather than bombast toward the West. The last campaign events for Mr Rouhani carried chants that had been bottled up for years. Some supporters called for the release of political prisoners including opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi, both candidates in 2009 and now under house arrest. "Long live reforms," some cried at Mr Rowhani's last rally, which was awash with purple banners and scarves - the campaign's signature hue in a nod to the single-colour identity of Mr Mousavi's now-crushed Green Movement. "My mother and I both voted for Rouhani," said Saeed Joorabchi, a university student in geography, after casting ballots at a mosque in west Tehran. In the Persian Gulf city of Bandar Abbas, local journalist Ali Reza Khorshidzadeh said many polling stations had significant lines and many voters appeared to back Mr Rouhani. Just a week ago, Mr Rowhani was seen as overshadowed by candidates with far deeper ties to the current power structure: Mr Jalili and Mr Qalibaf, who was boosted by a reputation as a steady hand for Iran's sanctions-wracked economy. Then a moderate rival of Mr Rouhani bowed out of the presidential race to consolidate the pro-reform camp. That opened the way for high-profile endorsements including his political mentor, former president Akbar Heshmi Rafsanjani, who won admiration from opposition forces for denouncing the post-election crackdowns in 2009. This, too, may have led to Mr Rafsanjani being blackballed from the ballot this year by Iran's election overseers, which allowed just eight candidates among more than 680 hopefuls. Iran has no credible political polling to serve as harder metrics for the street buzz around candidates, who need more than 50% of the vote to seal victory and avoid a run-off. Journalists face limits on reporting such as requiring permission to travel around the country. Iran does not allow outside election observers. Yet it is clear that fervour remains strong for Mr Rouhani's rivals as well. Mr Qalibaf is riding on his image as a capable fiscal manager who can deal with the deepening problems of Iran's economy and sinking currency. Mr Jalili draws support from hard-line factions such as the Revolutionary Guard's paramilitary corps, the Basij. His reputation is further enhanced by a battlefield injury that cost him the lower part of his right leg during Iran's 1980-88 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, which at the time was backed by the United States. "We should resist the West," said Tehran taxi driver Hasan Ghasemi, who supported Mr Jalili. Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has not publicly endorsed a successor for Mr Ahmadinejad following their falling out over the president's attempts to challenge Ayatollah Khamenei's near-absolute powers. Mr Ahmadinejad leaves office weakened and outcast by his political battles with Ayatollah Khamenei - yet another sign of where real power rests in Iran. The election overseers also rejected Mr Ahmadinejad's protege, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei ,in apparent payback. The usually talkative Mr Ahmadinejad gave only a brief statement to reporters as he voted and refused to discuss the election. Ayatollah Khamenei remained mum on his own choice as he cast his ballot. He added that even his children do not know whom he backs. Instead, he blasted the US for its repeated criticism of Iran's crackdowns on the opposition and the rejection of Mr Rafsanjani and other moderates from the ballot. "Recently I have heard that a US security official has said they do not accept this election," Ayatollah Khamenei was quoted by state TV as saying after casting his vote. "OK, the hell with you." Iran's state media hailed the apparently high turnout as a boost for the Islamic Republic's political system. "A great political epic has shocked the world," read a front-page headline in the hardline daily Kayhan today. Ayatollah Khamenei had called for a "political epic" on June 14, saying a high turnout would protect Iran against its enemies. By many measures, this election is far removed from the backdrop four years ago. Iran's security networks have consolidated near-blanket control, ranging from swift crackdowns on any public dissent to cyberpolice blocking opposition Internet websites and social media. Hackers calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army disrupted at least a half dozen reform-oriented websites, including one run by well-known political cartoonist Nikahang Kosar. Prominent reformist politician Mostafa Tajzadeh, who was jailed after the 2009 disputed election, voted from his cell in Tehran's Evin Prison, the semi-official Isna news agency reported. The economy, too, is under far more pressure than in 2009. Western sanctions over Iran's nuclear programme have shrunk vital oil sales and are leaving the country isolated from international banking systems. New US measures taking effect on July 1 further target Iran's currency, the rial, which has lost half of its foreign exchange value in the past year, driving prices of food and consumer goods sharply higher. Outside Iran, votes were casts by the country's huge diaspora including Dubai, London and points across the United States. "I hope we take a step toward democracy," said Behza Khajavi, a 29-year-old doctoral candidate in physics from Boca Raton, Florida, as he voted in Tampa for Mr Rouhani. In Paris, a 25-year-old Iranian student, Sohrab Labib, voted at his nation's consulate while a small group of protesters gathered across the street. "It's our country. It's our future," he said. "In any case, even a little change could influence our future." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=77a_1371360329 AntiPropagaanda Made in Glasgow: Hassan Rouhani, the moderate who has become Iran's next president Iran, President, America, Israel, Media, MSM, Demon Sat, 01 Jun 2013 11:41:18 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=dd1_1370100814 Detroit Iron Jay Leno has a lot of old cars with a lot of obsolete parts. When he needs to replace these parts, he skips the error-prone machinist and goes to his rapid prototyping 3D printer. Simply scan, print and repeat. By Jay Leno June 8, 2009 12:00 AM One of the hardships of owning an old car is rebuilding rare parts when there are simply no replacements available. My 1907 White Steamer has a feedwater heater, a part that bolts onto the cylinders. It's made of aluminum, and over the 100-plus years it's been in use, the metal has become so porous you can see steam and oil seeping through. I thought we could just weld it up. But it's badly impregnated with oil and can't be repaired. If we tried, the metal would just come apart. So, rather than have a machinist try to copy the heater and then build it, we decided to redesign the original using our NextEngine 3D scanner and Dimension 3D printer . These incredible devices allow you to make the form you need to create almost any part. The scanner can measure about 50,000 points per second at a density of 160,000 dots per inch (dpi) to create a highly detailed digital model. The 3D printer makes an exact copy of a part in plastic, which we then send out to create a mold. Some machines can even make a replacement part in cobalt-chrome with the direct laser sintering process. Just feed a plastic wire--for a steel part you use metal wire--into the appropriate laser cutter. Inside the printer, the print head goes back and forth, back and forth, putting on layer after layer of plastic to form a 3D part. If there are any irregularities in the originals, you can remove them using software. Once the model is finished, any excess support material between moving parts is dissolved in a water-based solution. Complexity doesn't matter, but the size of the object does determine the length of the process. Making a little part might take 5 hours. The White's feedwater heater required 33 hours. Any antique car part can be reproduced with these machines--pieces of trim, elaborately etched and even scrolled door handles. If you have an original, you can copy it. Or you can design a replacement on the computer, and the 3D printer makes it for you. People say, "Why not just give the part to your machinist to make?" Well, if the machinist makes it wrong, you still have to pay for it. The scanner allows you to make an exact copy in plastic, fit it and see that it's correct. Even when you take plans to a machinist, it can be tricky. Say the part must be 3 mm thick here and 5 mm there. You get it back and then, "Oh no, it doesn't fit; it's too thick," or "It's too thin." My setup lets you create the perfect part. And you could press the button again and again--and keep making the part--twice the size, half-size, whatever you need. If you have a part that's worn away, or has lost a big chunk of metal, you can fill in that missing link on the computer. Then you make the part in plastic and have a machinist make a copy based on that example. Or you can do what we do--input that program into a Fadal CNC machine; it reads the dimensions and replicates an exact metal copy. Some guys are so used to working in the traditional ways. They're old-school. So they've never seen this new technology in use--in fact, they're not even aware it exists. When you work on old cars, you tend to work with old machinery like lathes, milling machines or English wheels. When someone tells you that you can take a crescent wrench, for example, scan it, then press a button, copy it, and make a new wrench, these guys say, "Well, that's not possible. You can't make the little wheel that moves the claw in and out. You'd have to make it in two sections." But they're wrong. You can duplicate the whole tool. They stand in front of the machine and watch a wrench being made, and they still don't believe it. It's like The Jetsons. George Jetson would say, "I want a steak dinner." He'd press a button and the meal would come out of the machine, with the roasted potatoes and everything, all on one plate. We may not have the instant steak dinner yet--but my NextEngine system is like the car-guy equivalent. If you had a one-off Ferrari engine, you could scan each part and then re-create the entire motor. Right now, we're scanning a Duesenberg body. It's a classic example of high tech melding with old tech. There are cars sitting in garages around the country, and they haven't moved in years for lack of some unobtainable part. Now they can hit the road once more, thanks to this technology. My 1907 White engine would never have run again because its slide valve (or D-valve) was shot. We built that part, and now the car is back on the street. Let's say you have an older Cadillac or a Packard, and you can't get one of those beautifully ornate door handles. You could go to the big swap meet in Hershey, Pa., every day for the rest of your life and never find it. Or you could take the one on the left side of your car, copy it, use the computer to reverse it, and put that new part on the other side. It's an amazingly versatile technology. My EcoJet supercar needed air-conditioning ducts. We used plastic parts we designed, right out of the 3D copier. We didn't have to make these scoops out of aluminum--plastic is what they use in a real car. And the finished ones look like factory production pieces. When I was in high school, a friend's father bought the new Pulsar LED watch. He paid $2200 for it. It had a red face; you pressed a button, it lit up and gave you the time. The next year I bought a similar watch from Texas Instruments for $19.99. I went over and showed it to my friend's dad, and he was sooo angry. The NextEngine scanner costs $2995. The Dimension uPrint Personal 3D printer is now under $15,000. That's not cheap. But this technology used to cost 10 times that amount. And I think the price will come down even more. These machines are not suited for mass production, but they work well for rapid prototyping. Just as eBay has made many swap meets go away, this machine could eliminate the need to go to eBay for parts. Think about it: What old part do you want to make? Read more: Jay Leno's 3D Printer Makes Old Car Parts - NextEngine 3D scanner and Dimension 3D printer - Popular Mechanics Follow us: @PopMech on Twitter popularmechanics on Facebook Visit us at PopularMechanics.com http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=dd1_1370100814 Detroit Iron Jay Leno's 3D Printer Replaces Rusty Old Parts auto_repair, metal, collector_cars, Jay_Leno, printers, auto_technology Thu, 30 May 2013 20:17:43 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=eb1_1369958396 marc1921 Lee Rigby's murder tells us as much about contemporary society as it does about radical Islam. A witness to the brutal hacking death of a British soldier, Lee Rigby, a few hundred yards from his barracks in London, had the presence of mind to record the explanatory statement of one of the perpetrators, Michael Adebolajo, on his phone immediately after the crime. What Adebolajo said-his hand bloody from the attack and still holding the meat cleaver with which he carried it out-was revealing, as were his manner and body language. Together, they showed him to be the product of the utterly charmless, aggressive, and crude street culture of the less favored parts of London. The intonation of his speech was pure South London, as was the resentful tone of thwarted entitlement and its consequent self-righteousness. His every gesture was pure South London; the predatory lope with which he crossed the road after speaking into the camera was pure South London. Adebolajo was born in London of Nigerian parents who were devout Christians. He did not learn his manners from them, therefore, but from the society around him. At one point in his life, his parents moved away from London in an attempt to separate him from bad-which is to say, criminal-influences. Adebolajo had joined a gang that stole phones from pedestrians. It is not true that the society in which he lived offered him no opportunity for personal betterment. Adebolajo was for a time a student at Greenwich University, graduation from which, whatever the real value of the education it offered him, would have improved his chances in the job market, especially in the public sector. But it was at the university that he encountered radical Islam, that ideology that simultaneously succors people with an existential grudge against the world and flatters their inflated and inflamed self-importance. It also successfully squares the adolescent circle: the need both to conform to a peer group and to rebel against society. In his statement, Adebolajo apologized that women "had to see this." I doubt that feminists will protest too much at Adebolajo's condescending view that women should be spared sights of a man being hacked to death: why should women, but not men, be spared it? (As it happens, women on the scene behaved with conspicuous gallantry, and ironically, it was eventually a policewoman who shot him, not fatally.) The turn of phrase, "had to see," was telling, considering that Adebolajo spoke English perfectly. His wording could not be the result of a faulty command of the language. By saying that women "had to see this," he distanced himself from the obvious fact that they saw it because he did it, and that he did it because he decided to do it. He made it sound as if what they saw were a natural disaster, rather than a voluntary act that he performed. He went on to say, in self-justification, that "our women" have to see these things every day, and that "you people" will never be safe while the government pursues its present policies. "Our women" and "you people": these expressions are both revealing and chilling. By "our" he meant all Muslims, though he was neither born a Muslim nor had ever lived in a Muslim country, and probably believed that no Muslim had ever so much as laid a finger on another. By "you" he meant the inhabitants of the country in which he had grown up and spent his life. If ever there was an adolescent identity crisis turned pathological, this was it: Adebolajo felt that he was more morally responsible to abstract millions than to the people by whom he was actually surrounded. Alienation could go no further. And needless to say, it was accompanied by a grandiosity that would have been absurd but for its ultimate effect. The story of the second suspect, six years younger than Adebolajo, was also instructive, though in a slightly different way. Michael Adebowale was also the son of Christian Nigerian immigrants. At 16, he was smoking crack in a crack house with two friends. A white psychopath and drug addict named Lee James, aged 32, entered, looking for drugs and probably planning to steal them from others. In a state of drug-induced psychosis, James accused Adebowale and his friends of being members of al-Qaida. He shouted, "You fucking Somalis, you want to ruin my country, you want to blow up my country, you want to sell drugs in my country!" He stabbed Adebowale in the hand and shoulder, stabbed one of his friends in the neck so violently that he fractured one of his vertebrae, and killed a third, Faridon Alizada, son of a refugee from Afghanistan who had come to Britain for safety. On recovering from his injuries, Adebowale abandoned the criminal youth gang of which he and his two friends were members, and converted to Islam. James had a long history of criminal violence, the last such offense being an assault of someone with a claw hammer. In any sensible jurisdiction that took such acts seriously, he would almost certainly have been in prison for so long that he would not have had the opportunity to continue to take crack, kill Alizada, and wound Adebowale. It is impossible to know, of course, what the chain of events would have been if James had been properly incapacitated in prison, but they might well have been different, at least for Adebowale. What these cases show is that it is not Islam that makes young converts violent; it is the violence within them that causes them to convert to Islam. The religion, in its most bloodthirsty form, supplies all their psychological needs and channels their anger into a supposedly higher purpose. It gives them moral license to act upon their rage; for, like many in our society, they do not realize that anger is not self-justifying, that one is not necessarily right because one is angry, and that in any case even justified anger does not entail a license to act violently. The hacking to death of Lee Rigby on a street in Woolwich tells us as much about the society that we have created, or allowed to develop, as it does about radical Islam preached by fat, middle-aged clerics. http://www.city-journal.org/2013/eon0529td.html http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=eb1_1369958396 marc1921 Thoughts on Woolwich Woolwich Murder muslims Tue, 28 May 2013 08:13:24 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=02f_1369743058 Detroit Iron by STEVE INSKEEP May 28, 201312:45 AM Many years ago, the president of Syria, Hafez al-Assad, approved the construction of a new presidential residence on a mountainside above Damascus. Assad never occupied the building, saying his successor should take it. When his son Bashar al-Assad became that successor, he didn't move into the house either. He preferred a residence down the slope. But there is still a presidential complex at a crest of the mountain, with a balcony overlooking the city sprawling below. Should Syria's president choose to lounge on that balcony on any given afternoon this week, the younger Assad would see black smoke from artillery strikes as his army fights for control of the suburbs against the rebels who want to oust him. Traveling to Damascus produces a view of Syria's war turned inside out. The international community may view Assad as a pariah, but in the capital he is still president, his face on billboards and posters. What some outsiders may see as bad news is received here as good news, while the good news is bad. Even people who acknowledge Assad's flaws often grimly hope for the rebels to go away: They believe the government's description of the rebels as terrorists and foreigners out to destroy the country. We arrived in Syria during the same weekend that the government agreed "in principle" to peace talks with the rebels, but there is no sign of peace in the capital. The road to Damascus, lined with purple flowers, is also lined with soldiers: We stopped at one military checkpoint after another on the short drive in from Lebanon. One of the guard booths featured a poster of Assad and a label describing him as the maker of surprises and overcomer of crises. Right now the crisis is the survival of his regime. Thousands of armed men patrol a secure zone in the heart of the city. Some are regular army soldiers in uniform; others are neighborhood teenagers with T-shirts and Kalashnikovs. Assad's government has armed many military veterans and others, supplementing the manpower of armed forces he did not entirely trust. Many of these recruits are drawn from religious minorities - Shia Muslims, Christians, Druze and especially Assad's own Alawite sect. Fighters from the Shia group Hezbollah have also come from Lebanon. They oppose a rebellion that includes many of the majority Sunni Muslims. An uprising that began as a drive to remove Assad has led to fears of sectarian war. Fear And Frustration At the center of this ancient city is a centuries-old mosque; it is almost as old as Islam itself, and for centuries before that it was a Christian church and a Roman-era pagan temple. But Damascus is better known for trade than religion. Around the mosque we walked the stone-paved streets of the ancient bazaar. Business is bad, as we learned in the shop of a fabric seller. Syria's currency has plunged in value. That drives up prices of the imported goods he sells. Almost every day the price changes, he says. A customer may order cloth at a certain price. "Half an hour later," the man says, "I call and find out latest shift in the exchange rate," and discovers it will cost him more to import the cloth than he would earn from the sale. Like many people in Damascus, this man declined to give his name and said nothing against the government of Bashar al-Assad. Business groups of all sects have been among Assad's major supporters. Yet the fabric seller is clearly frustrated by the war. "I would like to shout to everybody," he says, "don't go the way of sectarian divisions." Fighting has already driven him out of his suburban home, in a no man's land between the army and rebels. He's one of many people struggling to live normally in a city where life is not normal at all. Suburban War Zone Our first night in Damascus we went out for dinner on a rooftop restaurant. It was in the old walled city. The waiters served a spectacular stream of dishes including kibbeh and kabab. Yet we were down the street from a Christian church whose bishops have been kidnapped. And the restaurant offered us an excellent view of what seemed to be tracer shells streaking across the sky. Our dinner companions told us rebels have been fighting the army for months in the eastern suburbs. We could hear the explosions. Once daylight came, the shelling continued, so we drove toward the blasts. We were soon driving through the area of fighting: mile after mile of rubble; buildings that had been half-destroyed, entirely destroyed; houses with holes punched into them. We passed what used to be a giant strip of suburban auto dealerships, of the kind you might see in America. Now the cars are gone, except for the ones left burned out on the road. I made some audio notes, talking into tape recorder: "Tank treads left on the street ... piles of fruit left on the road as if a fruit truck spilled its load. The Volvo dealership is shut down..." Black smoke rose from the Honda dealership, apparently blasted just before we arrived. Syria's government media say the army is clearing out foreign terrorists in this suburb called Douma. Syrian rebels have been sending out videos of men, women and children they say are civilians killed by government shelling. In another Damascus suburb this week, the rebels contend they were attacked with chemical weapons. 'It's Normal Here' A little beyond the battle zone, we encountered a row of apartment buildings still occupied. Some of the buildings were only partially completed before the war, and their concrete shells have become shelters for refugees from the zone we just passed. We walked up the rough steps of one building with a man we'll call Walid. He lives here now with his sister, her daughter and her 14-month-old grandson. When they fled home in Douma, the family salvaged an ornate wooden wall clock, but no furniture. We sat beneath that clock, talking while sitting on mats on the floor. The family said they felt safe enough - stray artillery shells have landed in the field across the street, but not on this side. Walid's sister said the family stayed in town through months of shelling, but finally fled on a day when the explosions became "unbearable." They loaded the family into somebody else's car and drove until they found this empty building. Many refugees live here with their families. We asked if the many children in the complex are accustomed to the gunfire. The sister answered: "I am old enough and I still get scared, so what do you think about the little ones?" The family serves Turkish coffee in ornate china cups, but has no glass in the windows. Walid, who used to work in construction, has helped to fix up the place a bit. Improvised electric wiring stretches from room to room. "It's normal here," he said. Maybe that's the strangest thing of all, that his life is normal for Damascus. Other bulidings near Walid's are filled with manufacturing employees, who see the smoke of burning buildings out their windows, but still work their shifts at steel plants up the road. Two of those plants melt down scrap metal, and we saw workers use a metal claw to sort through a mountain of scrap. The claw was picking up the remnants of many past lives - car parts, strips of chrome, bits of buildings, rebar, sheet metal, giant steel wheels. Here we can see the only thing that's certain about Syria's future: The war's destruction will in time create more wreckage for the pile. http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2013/05/28/186812716/in-damascus-a-view-of-syrias-war-turned-inside-out http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=02f_1369743058 Detroit Iron In Damascus, A View Of Syria's War Turned Inside Out Syria, Hafez al-Assad Tue, 28 May 2013 01:44:07 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5b3_1369719163 KillerOfTheSun It didn't take long for Bob Larsen to find an old cat lady and tell her to be an actor just for a night. This old devil,err i mean woman claims she is possessed by a spirit from Hell named Dusty. Oh she'll howl at the moon,claw and even make really stupid faces. How does anyone not laugh right in front of Bob's face is beyond me. Really comedy gold this one is. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5b3_1369719163 KillerOfTheSun Old nasty woman possessed by a demon named Dusty Christianity,Devil,Gospel,Bible,Possession Sat, 25 May 2013 10:54:13 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=31e_1369492792 english-patriot33 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-22645372 Rochdale Council leaders 'let down' groomed girls by muslims. Former senior managers at Rochdale Borough Council did not do enough to stop the grooming and sexual abuse of children, a report has found. The review was ordered by the council after nine men were jailed last year for grooming and abusing teenage girls in and around the town. Jim Taylor, chief executive, said the council had let down some children. He said the review painted a poor image of how parts of the council was run but said it had improved its procedures. The 136-page report by independent consultants made 16 recommendations and said the council should have done more to deal with the issue of grooming sooner. 'Deeply sorry' The report said even though the problem was not recognised nationally until 2008, local councils in Lancashire close to Rochdale had already started tackling the issue. Continue reading the main story " Mr Taylor said: "It is clear from this review that some children were let down by Rochdale Council. "On behalf of the council, I am deeply sorry these young people did not get the care and support they deserved. "This review paints a poor picture of the way elements of Rochdale Council has previously been run. "Hard-working, dedicated staff were also let down by some senior managers who appear to have shown no leadership and taken no responsibility. I am absolutely determined to ensure these mistakes are never repeated." The court case last May heard five girls aged between 13 and 15 were given alcohol, food and money in return for sex by men of Pakistani and Afghan origin, in and around Rochdale in 2008 and 2009. It sparked a national debate after Baroness Warsi said a "small minority" of Pakistani men saw white girls as "fair game" and Blackburn MP Jack Straw said some men of Pakistani origin saw white girls as "easy meat". 'Damning indictment' However Rochdale Council leader Colin Lambert has said he "strongly" disagrees the scandal could be described as an "Asian crime" as it happened "across all communities". A previous review by the Rochdale Safeguarding Children Board found staff who failed to act had said the girls were making "lifestyle choices". Rochdale's Labour MP Simon Danczuk said the latest report was a "damning indictment" of the council and it was "wrong" that senior officers who presided over services that failed children had been allowed to escape disciplinary action by taking early retirement. He called for systems to be put in place to claw back their "enormous" pension funds. "This report shows that there were alarm bells going off all over the place and they were ignored," he said. "Senior officers turned a blind eye to child abuse and didn't want to know. "The perpetrators of these terrible crimes and some senior council officers have brought shame on our town. "All they needed to do was listen to the victims." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=31e_1369492792 english-patriot33 Rochdale Council leaders 'let down' groomed girls by muslims islam, muslims, terrorists, pedophiles, outlaw islam in europe, Wed, 22 May 2013 16:17:48 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=aeb_1369253734 VikingRapeSquad 'Lamb sorted. Only Yorkshires needed now': Cruel friends killed sheep with hammer then butchered it in field so they could have a free roast dinner Matthew Davidson, 28, and Kevin Sherratt, 33, admit mutilating the animal They were caught after sending pictures of the killing to a friend Sherratt boasted to the friend that the incident had been 'well funny' By Rob Cooper PUBLISHED: 09:22 GMT, 22 May 2013 UPDATED: 09:46 GMT, 22 May 2013 Comments (482) Share Two friends battered a sheep to death with a hammer and cut off its legs in a field so they could have a free roast dinner, a court heard.Matthew Davidson, 28, and Kevin Sherratt, 33, stole the mutilated remains and paraded the animal's head around. But their drunken prank on a farm in Macclesfield, Cheshire, backfired when they sent photos of what they had done to a friend who alerted police. Mutilation: Matthew Davidson, 28, can be seen attacking the lamb which had two of its legs removed and its head torn off in Macclesfield, Cheshire The pair sent the friend five pictures of themselves slaughtering and mutilating the sheep with a blade. In a reference to their Sunday lunch, Sherratt said in a sick jokey text message: 'Lamb sorted. Only Yorkshires needed now'. He also said the whole incident was 'well funny' and they had been thinking about what they were going to eat the next day. More... The toothless loan shark: Market trader who ran illegal debt racket from his fruit and veg stall is spared jail because interest rates were 100 times LOWER than payday lenders Husband jailed for LOOTING his own wedding venue... and his heavily pregnant bride is standing by him Davidson and Sherratt, both unemployed and from Macclesfield, admitted criminal damage and theft of the sheep before magistrates in the town.Simon Pover, prosecuting, said: 'On April 26, the farmer discovered one of the hoggits (year-old lambs) had been killed and its body mutilated. Its remains were found on a footpath. Both hind legs and the head had been removed. Sick prank: Davidson, 28, shows off the head which was torn off the dead sheep Boasts: Kevin Sherratt, 33, jokes to his friend 'that's Sunday dinner lamb sorted' after sending a friend a picture of what they had done 'On April 25 at 8pm, a friend known to both defendants received a text message from Davidson asking "you up for killing a cow, pal?".'At 11pm that same night he received a text message from Sherratt saying "seriously mate how much fun we had, oh my days". He then received five pictures of the men slaughtering and mutilating the sheep with a knife or blade.'In another picture Davidson was stood in Sherratt's home holding up the lamb's head. Another text said: "Lamb sorted. Only Yorkshires needed now".'Mr Pover said other messages bragged about the brutal killing. One text from Davidson said: 'I hope we didn't scare you with all this. We were a bit (drunk) and thought about Sunday dinner. It was funny when the hammer went through that skull. Think I might have found my new career as a butcher not a builder'.'Another from Sherratt said: 'It was well funny. I held it down and said do not hit my hand with that hammer. What does he do, but on the killer blow hit my hand with the hammer. It hurt my knuckle. He is a lunatic.'The police found bags containing the animal's body parts and bloodied tools in a shed at Sherratt's home. Mr Pover told the court: 'Sherratt told police they were drunk at home and decided they wanted a roast dinner. He said he had hunted smaller animals. Sick pranksters: Davidson, 28, (left) and Sherratt, 33, pleaded guilty to criminal damage and theft of the sheep when they appeared before magistrates 'They decided to kill a sheep and got a claw hammer and serrated knife. They went to a field during the night, caught a sheep by running alongside it, pushing it and pinning it to the floor.'He said the first blow killed it but they took an extra two or three strokes to make sure. They both skinned the animal. 'Davidson told police he had spent three days at Sherratt's house and been drunk throughout. He couldn't remember much but recalled being in a field with a sheep.'Trevor Feehily, defending, said the incident had been triggered by alcohol. He said: 'It doesn't excuse what either of them have done. Both said it was drunken and complete stupidity.' Police wanted to charge Davidson and Sherratt with animal cruelty, but they could not prove the sheep had suffered. They will be sentenced on June 7. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=aeb_1369253734 VikingRapeSquad White Trash Low IQ British Scum Kill Sheep and Post it To the Internet. uk, british, white, trash, kill, sheep, retards, british, low, iq Sun, 19 May 2013 21:13:37 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=017_1369011758 njscott21569 Submarines during WWII discovered they couldn't detect enemy ships. Something was interfering with their sonar. The cause? A 2 inch long shrimp with an oversized claw. Pistol shrimp have one normal claw, and one claw that is about half the size of their bodies. The claw stays open until a muscle causes it to snap closed, ejecting a powerful jet of water traveling at an incredible 60mph. The snapping sound itself reaches 218 decibels - your eardrum ruptures at a mere 150. A bubble forms in the low pressure area behind the stream of water, which is called a cavitation bubble. As the bubble implodes, it produces a flash of light and the interior temperature reaches over 5,000 degrees Kelvin - that's close to the surface temperature of the sun! The resulting shock wave easily stuns and kills small fish, crabs and other shrimp at close proximity, which the pistol shrimp drags into its burrow to feed on. Pistol shrimp also use the powerful snapping claw to communicate with other shrimp and to defend itself. There are over 600 species of snapping shrimp (family Alpheidae) located all over the world. For the most part they are located in tropical to temperate water along sea coasts and shallow oceans. They burrow in coral and oyster reefs, as well as in seagrass meadows. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=017_1369011758 njscott21569 The Pistol Shrimp pistol,shrimp Tue, 14 May 2013 14:11:30 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ce9_1368553949 Tama7866 One of the biggest Mayan pyramids in Belize has been all but destroyed by 'ignorant' builders who ravaged the ancient structure for crushed rock to fill in a new road. The construction workers used bulldozers and diggers to claw at the sloping sides of the 100ft tall pyramid, which is part of the Nohmul complex - the most important Mayan site in northern Belize and one which dates back at least 2,300 years. Horrified archaeologists claim there is no way the builders could have mistaken the Mayan ruins for a hill, as the landscape is naturally flat and the Nohmul complex is well known. 'It's a feeling of Incredible disbelief because of the ignorance and the insensitivity ... they were using this for road fill,' Mr Awe said. 'It's like being punched in the stomach, it's just so horrendous.' Nohmul sat in the middle of a privately owned sugar cane field, and lacked the even stone sides frequently seen in reconstructed or better-preserved pyramids. Nonetheless Mr Awe is certain the builders could not have mistaken the pyramid mound for anything other than Mayan ruins. 'These guys knew that this was an ancient structure. It's just bloody laziness,' he said. The builders used backhoes to claw at the sides of the pyramid, leaving an isolated core of limestone cobbles at the centre, with what appears to be a narrow Mayan chamber dangling above one hollowed-out section. 'Just to realize that the ancient Maya acquired all this building material to erect these buildings, using nothing more than stone tools and quarried the stone, and carried this material on their heads, using tump lines,' said the archaeologist. 'To think that today we have modern equipment, that you can go and excavate in a quarry anywhere, but that this company would completely disregard that and completely destroyed this building. Why can't these people just go and quarry somewhere that has no cultural significance? It's mind-boggling.' Belizean police said they are conducting an investigation and that criminal charges may be brought against the construction company. The Nohmul complex sits on private land, but Belizean law says that any pre-Hispanic ruins are under government protection. The Belize community-action group Citizens Organized for Liberty Through Action called the destruction of the archaeological site 'an obscene example of disrespect for the environment and history'. It is not the first time it's happened in Belize, a country of about 350,000 people that is largely covered in jungle and dotted with hundreds of Mayan ruin sites - though few as large as Nohmul. Norman Hammond, an emeritus professor of archaeology at Boston University who worked in Belizean research projects in the 1980s, said it was far from the first time Mayan mounds had been targeted by construction workers seeking materials. He wrote in an email that 'bulldozing Maya mounds for road fill is an endemic problem in Belize (the whole of the San Estevan center has gone, both of the major pyramids at Louisville, other structures at Nohmul, many smaller sites), but this sounds like the biggest yet'. Arlen Chase, chairman of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Central Florida, said: 'Archaeologists are disturbed when such things occur, but there is only a very limited infrastructure in Belize that can be applied to cultural heritage management. 'Unfortunately, they (destruction of sites) are all too common, but not usually in the center of a large Maya site,' he said. He said there had probably still been much to learn from the site. 'A great deal of archaeology was undertaken at Nohmul in the `70s and `80s, but this only sampled a small part of this large center.' Belize isn't the only place where the handiwork of the far-flung and enormously prolific Maya builders is being destroyed. The ancient Mayas spread across southeastern Mexico and through Guatemala, Honduras and Belize. 'I don't think I am exaggerating if I say that every day a Maya mound is being destroyed for construction in one of the countries where the Maya lived,' wrote Francisco Estrada-Belli, a professor at Tulane University's Anthropology Department. 'Unfortunately, this destruction of our heritage is irreversible but many don't take it seriously,' he added. 'The only way to stop it is by showing that it is a major crime and people can and will go to jail for it.' Robert Rosenswig, an archaeologist at the State University of New York at Albany, described the difficult and heartbreaking work of trying to salvage information at the nearby site of San Estevan following similar destruction around 2005. 'Bulldozing damage at San Estevan is extensive and the site is littered with Classic period potsherds,' he wrote in an academic paper describing the scene. 'We spent a number of days at the beginning of the 2005 season trying to figure out the extent of the damage .... after scratching our heads for many days, a bulldozer showed up and we realized that what appear to be mounds, when overgrown with chest-high vegetation, are actually recently bulldozed garbage piles.' However small the compensation, bulldozing pyramids is one very brutal way of revealing the inner cores of the structures, which were often built up in periodic stages of construction. "The one advantage of this massive destruction, to the core site, is that the remains of early domestic activity are now visible on the surface,' Mr Rosenswig wrote. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ce9_1368553949 Tama7866 Idiot builders destroy 2,300-yr.old Mayan pyramid in Central America idiots,destroy,temple,ruins,belize,mayan,satan,end,of,the,world,prophecy Thu, 09 May 2013 07:33:06 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ee7_1368099072 english-patriot33 http://www.leics.police.uk/news-appeals/news/2013/05/09/eight-sentenced-to-26-years-for-leicester-street-violence?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook#.UYuIdr2qkxZ Eight sentenced to 26 years for Leicester street violence Issued on 9/5/13 at 11:06 a.m. Eight youths and men have been sentenced to a total of 26 years for their part in street violence. The case followed an incident in Leicester in June 2011, where a group assaulted a lone man. They punched and kicked him, attacked him with baseball bats, and in one instance hit him in the head with a brick. They stopped when members of the public began intervening and they heard the sounds of approaching police sirens and the police helicopter. Remarkably, the victim suffered only cuts and bruises and a fractured middle finger. The incident occurred on the afternoon of June 23, 2011, in Pluto Close, on Leicester's St Peter's estate. Police received numerous calls from residents saying either that a fight had broken out, or that a man was being badly beaten up. Officers were on the scene quickly, and large numbers of officers were sent to the area to prevent any further disorder and to obtain and preserve evidence. The arrested youths and men refused to speak to detectives, so the reasons behind the incident are unclear. Detective Constable Rebekah Cortez led the investigation. She said: "I have never been involved in a case where so many people attacked another person. It is very unusual for something like this to happen in Leicester. "We took this case very seriously, investigated it thoroughly, and brought those responsible to justice." She said recorded footage of the incident showed it was very frightening. "You would think the victim is very lucky to have escaped brain damage or worse. At one point one of the attackers is standing by him with a claw hammer, although we haven't got any evidence that the hammer was used. We do know someone hit him on the head with a brick." Inspector Bill Knopp, commander of the Spinney Hills local policing unit, said: "This incident caused a considerable amount of concern for local residents. "We responded with large numbers of officers so that we could be sure there would be no further disorder that evening, and so that we could catch those responsible and begin the criminal investigation. "I would like to thank members of the local community who supported us and helped us complete that investigation. "These convictions will send a message to the community and contribute to making St Peter's a safer area." Those convicted were all from Leicester. They were: Zoheb Din, 20, of Littlemore Close (violent disorder, attempted grievous bodily harm, drugs offences); sentenced to six-and-a-half years; Adam Anwar Mayat, 23, of Halstead Street (violent disorder, attempted grievous bodily harm, drugs offences); sentenced to five-and-a-half years; Ejaz Gul, 21, of Berners Street (violent disorder); sentenced to two years; Mohammed Gul, 19, of Berners Street (violent disorder); sentenced to 12 months, suspended for 18 months; Joshua Oglivie Hawkins, 23, of Apollo Court (violent disorder, drugs offences, aggravated vehicle taking), sentenced to six years; A 19-year-old was jailed for four years for violent disorder and possessing controlled drugs with intent to supply them; An 18-year-old was sentenced to two years after being convicted of violent disorder and attempted GBH; A 17-year-old was put on a three year rehabilitation order, and ordered to carry out 180 hours of community service. He admitted violent disorder. Another 17-year-old failed to appear for sentence, and the case against an 18-year-old will be subject of a hearing on May 25. A court order prevents identification of those who were juveniles at the time of the incident. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ee7_1368099072 english-patriot33 Eight sentenced to 26 years for Leicester street violence islam, muslims, terrorists, pedophiles, outlaw islam, Thu, 18 Apr 2013 03:50:36 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=733_1366271113 Anti-Authoritaria World War III may already be here. The left spent decades warning that our warmongering would bring on a new global war; but it was their peacemongering that did it instead. World War II did not begin when the German army entered Poland, but when Britain and France began to appease Hitler. The war was only a matter of waiting around for the inevitable. And now we are the ones watching and waiting for the inevitable. For half a century, the United States kept the peace through the force of its existence. There were some difficult times, but for the most part it was the sheer bulk of its military budgets and the ranks of nuclear warheads that prevented not only the big war, but also most of the little wars. The left complained incessantly about those budgets and those missiles. It draped itself in peace signs and slapped on bumper stickers like "Cukes Not Nukes". Its entertainers made movies ridiculing generals who believed in the balance of power as maniacs. Its pundits wrote books explaining why every problem in the world was caused by American power being used to aid fascist dictators and keep down progressive rebels like Che and Pol Pot. And then American power finally collapsed. There had been early warning signs under Carter and Clinton, but with Obama it finally happened. The message went out that there was no longer a great power to serve as a stabilizing influence. If anyone wanted to discuss global warming or a fund to empower women in Southeast Asia, they could come down to Washington, but if they wanted to discuss how to use the balance of power keep the world from falling apart, they were out of luck. The message was received. It was received in Cairo where the Muslim Brotherhood got to work overthrowing allied governments and replacing them with theocracies. It was received in Asia where China and North Korea set to work moving in on American allies. The Middle East is burning. Asia looks like it might be next. The experts offer all sorts of proposals from giving more free stuff to North Korea to giving free stuff to the Syrian rebels instead, but stability against aggression can't be achieved with giveaways. Even soft power requires hard power behind it. When there's no hard power then the soft power is helpless. Asia and the Middle East are the Post-American wars of a Post-American administration. They are the conflict of the power vacuum that Obama left in his wake. The Middle East is a grenade. American power was the pin. When Obama pulled the pin, the unstable elements went off and the natural conflicts between Shiite and Sunni broke out again. And those won't be the last conflicts. The region is a tinderbox of ethnic and religious tensions. American power couldn't keep a lid on all of them, but it provided a stabilizing element that is gone now. In his Cairo speech, Obama ceded American influence in the Middle East. And the fight was on to fill the vacuum as leaders allied with the United States lost their support from Washington. The Islamists smashed the left. The Sunni and Shiite Islamists began waging a bloody war over Syria, Bahrain and soon enough, Lebanon and Iraq. And with Iran developing nuclear weapons and Turkey fighting a proxy war with it in Syria, the fighting won't end there. It doesn't matter whether Obama gets tugged by UK's Cameron and France's Hollande into throwing the weight of whatever firepower survived four years of military budget cuts into the game on the side of the Muslim Brotherhood. In 1955 that would have been a power play; now it's just pathetically currying favor with the forces that took down our regional allies. The Middle East is in the middle of a Post-American war. The humanitarian crises, the bombings, murders and rapes that the media splashes across every channel and paper are the wages of Hope and Change. American power was never the problem. American weakness was. Carter couldn't figure out international power politics and gave us Iran. Clinton couldn't figure it out and gave us Al Qaeda. Obama topped them both by taking down almost every allied government in the region. The man who lectured cheering Socialist grandees before the Iraq War on only fighting smart wars failed to understand that sometimes you start wars through aggression and other times you start them through weakness. The Arab Spring was a pipe dream. The future of the region will not be decided by elections. It will be decided by bullets. Everyone in Syria knows that, but Washington D.C. is still slow on the uptake. The future does not belong to Social Democrats, not in the Middle East or even in Europe, it belongs to roving gangs carving out spheres of power and defending them against weak governments. The next Post-American War looks to be breaking out in Asia. American power froze the natural conflicts of the region. Now with American power subtracted from the equation, the postponed conflicts between Japan and China and between South Korea and North Korea have returned. Obama's pivot toward Asia consists of sending Hanoi John to reassure South Korea and Japan that the United States will support them in trying to negotiate with Kim III. Japan and South Korea are willing to take the cheap photo ops, but their governments are not formulating their plans based on American support. Japan and South Korea have shifted more to the right because they know that the days when they could count on American power are gone. Like the Islamists in the Middle East, China and North Korea are moving against countries that had grown dependent on a regional stability built on American power. South Korea and Japan are adapting themselves to a world in which America is good for little more than sending out emissaries to propose more negotiations while its diplomats pay more attention to Global Warming and the Palestinian peace process than to North Korea's threats of war. The withdrawal of American power has implications beyond Asia and the Middle East. How much of its old sphere of influence will Russia try to claw back from NATO? Obama sold out Poland on missile defense and sent the message that Russia can do whatever it pleases and Obama will try to do his flexible best not to notice. The Latin American left is more toxic and dangerous than it has been in a long time. Cuba may be tottering and Chavez may be dead, but the left isn't. There's more south of the border than just cheap labor and cheap votes. Brazil is a powerhouse and Iran is poking its nose into Venezuela. Africa is toppling toward the abyss of a religious war between Christians and Muslims. The Muslims are backed by the wealth and power of the Gulf. The Christians are backed by no one. The Post-American world order is creating a more dangerous world where power is secured through brutal violence and those who emerge victorious will not, in the long run, leave us alone. The Post-American World War has begun. It will either end with the destruction of the United States or its reemergence as a world power. Source: http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/the-post-american-world-war/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=733_1366271113 Anti-Authoritaria The Post-American World War WWIII, Left, RIght, Center Wed, 27 Mar 2013 22:36:15 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=618_1364438031 fdal The autopsy report of 3-year-old Russian boy Maksim, who was adopted by a Texas couple, has concluded that the child had more than 30 bruises on his body and other signs he was routinely injured; his stepmother claimed the boy hurt himself. The report maintains that the medical examiner found abrasions, scrapes and bruises in various stages of healing all over the boy's body, including his genitals, which the boy acquired some time before he was pronounced dead. Max Shatto, born Maksim Kuzmin, died on January 21 after his adoptive mother Laura Shatto found him unresponsive outside their home in Gardendale, Texas. The autopsy report was released to the Odessa American following a Freedom of Information request to the Tarrant County District Attorney. The document suggested that the adoptive family, who also adopted the victim's brother Kirill, were struggling to provide proper care for Max, and the bruises were self-inflicted injuries stemming from psychological problems. Kuzmin's adoptive father Alan said that the boy was constantly hitting his head at home, and had serious behavioral issues. Dr. Bruce Eckel from the Cook Children's Medical Center was the first medic to examine Kuzmin after he arrived in the US, and examined him again sometime later. The doctor, who was interviewed for the autopsy report, said that during the first examination he found several scratches on the boy's body. The second examination saw a worsening of the Kuzmin's condition, with more serious bruises and a hemorrhage on one eye. Dr. Eckel then prescribed Kuzmin a medication used to treat schizophrenia. Laura Shatto told the authorities that Kuzmin used to claw himself, which she tried to prevent by cutting his nails short and having him wear gloves at night. In the autopsy report, Laura Shatto also claimed that back in Russia, when they were in process of adopting Maksim, she witnessed the host mother masturbating the boy's genitals. "She said ever since, he grabs his penis and yanks on it, and seems like he is trying to pull it off and leaves bruises and scratches on it," the autopsy report said. Kuzmin's adoptive father was unsure if he was sexually abused, but his wife vowed that the molestation took place. Alan Shatto maintains, however, that the boy had bruises on his genitals from the very beginning, but his host mother in Russia refused to let him be taken to Moscow for a urological examination. Laura Shatto also claimed that Kuzmin had a history of holding his breath until he passed out. The adoptive mother said that shortly before Kuzmin's death, the boy fell out of chair after choking on a cooked carrot, knock his head against objects and again tried to claw himself. The family states that Kuzmin stopped taking the prescribed anti-psychotic medication Risperidone three days before he died, after they learned about side effects that could have affected the boy's ability to swallow food. Laura Shatto also described the moment when she found Max unconscious and likely already dead. According to the report, she went to the boy, grabbed him and shook vigorously while calling his name. After that, she grabbed Kuzmin by the neck with both hands even harder, until blood bubbles started coming out of his mouth, which she believed was bleeding from a previous lip injury. Last week, US prosecutors said that no charges would be filed against the Shattos due to a lack of evidence, claiming Kuzmin's death was an accident. Russia demanded that US authorities present all available documents concerning the case, including the autopsy report and other forensic papers, as Kuzmin remained a Russian citizen after the adoption. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, US families have adopted an estimated 60,000 Russian children, at least 20 of whom have died. Officials in Moscow have repeatedly complained that the US justice system was issuing disproportionately mild punishments in cases involving abuse of adopted Russian children; Russian diplomats were also often prevented from offering counsel in the prosecution of such cases. Last week, Russian Investigative Committee Chair Aleksandr Bastrykin told reporters that his agency would use the international agency Interpol in order to level criminal charges against US citizens whose adopted Russian children die in suspicious circumstances. Russia has recently banned US citizens from adopting Russian children with the introduction of the 'Dima Yakovlev law,' named after a Russian boy who died after his adoptive American father left him locked in a car in hot weather. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=618_1364438031 fdal Adopted Russian child suffered repeated bruises before death - autopsy Adopted Russian child suffered repeated bruises before death - autopsy