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      <description>On the 15th of May, protesters showed up in front of the Children's 
Place in Colombia Heights. Their merchandise was found in the ruins of 
one of the factories in the collapsed Rana Plaza builidng in Bangladesh.

Midnight of the 15th of May is the deadline for retailers to sign the 
factory safety agreement that could have prevented this collapse, had it
 been in effect at that time. As of 6PM on May 15th, Children's Place 
has not signed that agreement. Protesters were on hand to demand they do
 so, and were able to deliver a letter to the store manager. 
Unfortunately the response was a poorply-writtenm pre-printed form 
letter in reply. This did list a phone number, which everyone with a 
cell phone promptly called!



Just over 1,100 bodies were recovered from Rana Plaza by the time the Bangladeshi military gave up on recovery efforts.



Cops knew about the protest in advance, and formed a defense line in 
front of the door. This probably turned away many more customers than 
the picket line did, given how many people cross picket lines these 
days. The picket turned away more, so I suspect sure the Children's 
Place lost money as a result of this protest.



Speaking of cops, the cops who usually show up at every protest were 
absent, perhaps in recognition of MPD's role in starting the fighting at
 the GAP protest on Mayday. Speaking of the GAP, there was another 
protest there about the same collapsed factory building on Saturday, the
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      <description>Rapping Real Estate Broker Is Trying To Sell His Merchandise.

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      <title>Why Corey And Trevor Left</title>
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      <description>Like many people, I was sad to see Corey and Trevor missing from the 
seventh season of the Trailer Park Boys. They were my favorite 
characters on the show! Finally, thanks to Andrew for sending me the 
link, I have found out why they are missing and what caused them to 
leave! Trevor, played by Michael Jackson, has written to explain the 
changes to the show since the first season and what lead to their 
departure 

BELOW IS THE ORIGINAL MESSAGE

it has been brought to my attention that some of what i originally wrote
 was insulting to my fellow cast mates and that was never my intention 
when i wrote this bog. i agree with this and i have decided to edit my 
blog and take out the offensive material. i'm sorry to those people that
 i offended. i love you guys. i'm leaving in the part about the 
sandwiches because i think it's funny.



most people know 
that i don't really like to talk about TPB and i really don't. in my 
mind it's in the past and it isn't worth talking about. recently, i've 
had a lot of TPB fans message me and ask what happened and why i'm not 
on the show anymore and that it isn't the same without cory and trevor. 
this is flattering but it wasn't my intention when i decided to leave 
the show. i can't answer all the questions that i get and TPB isn't 
something i like to talk about but i will give a summary of what 
happened and why i left the show. this is going to be the truth and 
probably not what a lot of people want to hear and i don't mean to sling
 shit at certain people but sometimes it has to be done. if you enjoy 
the show i hope you continue to enjoy it.

Season 1

the 
first  season of TPB was really fun and i felt we were doing something 
really creative and it felt like a group effort. a lot of the scenes 
were improv'd and i don't remember even seeing a script during the first
 season. during this time we were getting paid scale which is the lowest
 the producer's were allowed to pay us and still have it be a union show
 (ACTRA). this was fair as we really didn't have any acting experience 
and i don't think anybody thought the show would be successful. season 1
 bombed and the ratings were low and i don't think anybody really 
understood what we were trying to do with the show. i remember a 
superfan from ottawa organized a party at a bar here in halifax and the 
only people that showed up to it was the entire cast of the show and 
this one superfan and his girlfriend. it was humiliating but really 
funny at the same time. luckily for us Showcase didn't have a lot of 
shows and they played the episodes over and over and over. eventually 
people took notice and the fans spread the show by word of mouth. this 
didn't have anything to do with marketing or business plans or focus 
groups. we all owe everything we have from this first group of TPB fans.
 i think we were all amazed when we were informed that we would be 
shooting a second season. it was weird because a lot of the production 
staff and an awesome lady named judy seemed to get let go before season 
2. i'm not really sure why this happened but it seemed kind of shitty. i
 bet mike volpe and barrie dunn would know something about this.

Season 2

clattenburg
 wanted me to have a mullet for season 2 and i'm not sure why i let him 
talk me into this but i did. i also somehow signed on to be a grip for 
this season. the show had a new woman named karen wentzell who might 
have worked with barrie dunn at CBC. i had to go in and meet her and do 
my deal memo for the grip gig and she made me an insanely low offer and 
pretended not to know what kit rental was. for those that don't know kit
 rental is what you get paid to rent your own equipment to a production.
 normally a show would have a gaffer and a key grip and anywhere from 3 
to 5 grips and 3 to 5 electricians. i understood that TPB was low budget
 and didn't need a huge crew but they didn't have any electrics and i 
was the only grip. i don't know a lot about electricity and they had me 
running extension cords all over the trailer park and eventually the 
breaker would blow and it would somehow be my job to figure it out. the 
camera dept. had 1 guy who held the camera when it wasn't being used, a 
guy who operated the camera and a guy who held the slate. the lighting 
department had me running around like a nut. eventually they let me 
bring in raddie dave to help me but this was no way to work. eventually i
 told barrie dunn that it isn't my fault they don't know the difference 
between a grip and an electric and that what they were doing was 
dangerous and i took my tools and went home. i had worked on a lot of 
movies and this thing was a fucking joke. working as an actor on season 2
 was ok and we were still getting paid scale and i think that is fair as
 the show still wasn't very popular. bubbles played a much larger role 
in season 2 but he was still a great character. i'm so proud of the 
first 2 seasons of the show. i really think we were doing something 
special and for the most part it was a lot of fun. i wish the show would
 have ended here. what a legacy we would have had. oh well.

Season 3

i'll
 be honest, i didn't want to do season 3. the show had grown a lot in 
popularity from season 2 to season 3 and mike volpe and barrie dunn 
refused to pay more than scale. barrie dunn told me that i have to think
 long term and to think about when they sell the show to the US or make a
 movie. karen wentzell was back and she made a lot of really bad 
decisions. she had rev bob basically working 24 hours a day trying to 
dress/build the sets and refused to let him have enough people to help 
him do it properly. he worked his ass off and did an incredible job. he 
had to deal with a schedule that constantly changed and really bad 
communication. he didn't come back for season 4 and in my mind the man 
should be sainted. season 3 was actually pretty fun to shoot. 

Season 4

when
 i read the season 4 scripts i couldn't even believe what had happened 
to the show...talking puppets, mountain lions and bubbles dressed as a 
wrestler. i was disappointed with this direction change as well as the 
fact that the show seemed to focus more on bubbles and less on julian or
 ricky/julian as it had in the past. i didn't want to do season 4 and 
during negotiations this time around we got what i think was a 25% raise
 but we were still getting paid per day and not per episode. finally we 
were making a bit more than scale but this raise came with a price and 
that was a 3 year contract or what i think might be called an option in 
the entertainment industry. with this option the producers only had to 
pay 15% more each year. i tried to negotiate a better contract and 
barrie dunn told me that everyone was getting paid the same and if he 
paid me more he would have to pay everyone else more. for some reason i 
believed him and the idea of us all making the same somehow seemed fair.
 later on i found out that almost every actor on the show was making a 
different amount of money...some a lot more than me and some even less 
than me. andy miller came on as the art director and he did an amazing 
job but faced all the same problems that rev bob faced. i think at this 
time the show finally gave in and signed one page agreements with both 
the technical union IATSE and the DGC. this is important because with a 
union contract the producers contribute to the retirement and medical 
coverage for the crew. i could be wrong and maybe this happened later 
on. it's funny because karen wentzell wasn't in the DGC so her job of 
production manager was changed to production supervisor. it's pretty sad
 when the person in charge of organizing the show isn't actually in the 
union. shooting season 4 was painful. 

Season 5

 we got 
our 15% raise and were still getting paid by the day. at this point we 
were making about scale and half. i have friends who work on commercials
 and they would get twice scale for a tim horton's commercial. here we 
were on what was probably the most successful canadian tv show making 
just a bit more than scale. we put 4 years into the show, we created our
 own characters and this was our reward. karen wentzell was still doing 
her organizing and the crew was working harder than ever. i couldn't 
believe how poorly the crew was treated and the crew turnover was 
ridiculous. it's normal to not always use the same crew but TPB was 
lying and pretending this thing was a huge family and everyone was 
friends. the people who worked for low rates and didn't complain stayed 
on and anyone who complained about the sickening bathrooms, the lack of 
organization or mouldy trailers were blacklisted. obviously i didn't 
want to do season 5 but i always really liked clattenburg and he always 
was able to talk me into it. clattenburg is a great guy and i'll always 
think that, i think. i think we won a gemini award the fall after we 
shot the xmas thing and nobody even told me that we won or offered to 
pay for the award. my mom paid for my award because she is proud of me. 
each award is about $400 so i guess it would have cost the show about 
$5000 to pay for the awards. i worked as a production assistant on this 
hour has 22 minutes in 1998 and they always paid for any awards the show
 won. shame on you volpe and dunn. i can't even begin to guess at how 
much mike volpe and barrie dunn were making at this point from dvd 
sales, merchandise and from the show. millions of dollars easily. 
anyway, let's continue on.

the xmas thing

the xmas thing 
was more of the same from a writing standpoint and was disorganized and 
rushed. i remember we were shooting in downtown dartmouth in a parking 
garage and i was hungry and the craft service girl came around with some
 sandwiches and i tried to take 2 and she told me i couldn't. then i 
watched the boys all grab 3 or 4 each. it was as though a memo had been 
sent around and to treat the rest of us like shit or something. i don't 
think there was such a memo but fuck it was gross.

the big dirty

in
 the late spring mike volpe phoned me and he was really excited that 
they were going to be making a movie. i was like cool...whatever...i 
don't really care and then he was like...we didn't get as much money as 
we wanted so everyone is going to have to work for scale. this was the 
payoff...this was the movie...this was the US and because it was no 
longer the TV contract they dropped us back  down to the minimum they 
had to pay us. i was so upset that i sold my season 4 scripts on ebay as
 one of my performance art pieces. this was really low. the other thing 
they tried to do was to get us all to sign 3 movie contracts with the 
rate of pay already being determined in advance. so say the big dirty 
made a billion dollars well we'd be acting in the big dirty 2 for twice 
scale. that was craziness and i refused to sign my contract. volpe said i
 was the only one with a problem but i learned later on that almost 
everyone had a problem with this. i was given the big dirty script and 
because of my ebay stunt our names were now on the scripts and we had to
 sign some sort of non-disclosure agreement. again, i was disappointed 
with the script and i didn't finish reading it. conditions on the movie 
were bad. karen wentzell was in way over her head and instead of hiring a
 security guard to watch the unit over night on the street where it was 
parked, she hired extra drivers to bring everything back to the park and
 lock it up over night. this was so expensive and was really hard on the
 transport guys who were working an extra 3 or 4 hours a day now. there 
was a lot of other communication and organizational problems and i hate 
to blame one person but if you are the production supervisor on a film 
then this is your job. several times the schedule was fucked up and they
 would send a transport guy to my house to wake me up and say they 
needed me on set in 30 mins. in my mind this isn't very respectful and i
 always went in but i knew it wasn't right.  i didn't want to make the 
movie but because i love clattenburg so much i did it. i knew the deal 
they offered my was unfair and i still did it. i really tried to do a 
good job in the movie...for clattenburg. i knew that whoever was 
involved in this movie from Hollywood was ruining it but i tried to do 
my best. halfway through the movie i decided that i had had 
enough....all the bullshit, all the inequality had taken it's toll and 
mostly i wasn't having fun. it wasn't the same show anymore, the people 
weren't the same. when i looked around i just saw a bunch of people that
 were fat and tired. i told volpe in an email that season 6 would be the
 end for me. i told him that i would finish the movie and do as little 
or as much as they wanted from me for season 6 because i didn't want to 
fuck clattenburg. volpe just kind of ignored me and didn't seem to take 
it seriously. i've never watched the big dirty. actually, i haven't 
watch any episodes since season 3. i remember telling clattenburg that 
the only thing that could make me feel worse about  my life would be to 
play bass for nickelback. TPB had become a sitcom and was the same jokes
 over and over. 

Season 6

around the same time i decided 
to leave the show i took on a job recording a band and i emailed karen 
wentzell and told her that i wouldn't be available for 2 days during the
 shooting of season 6. i also asked for the list of dates that i would 
be working and for my contract and she replied saying she would give me 
the dates and my contract the next week. well of course i didn't get 
them and of course the day before the day i was to record the band the 
2nd AD called to tell me i was working the next day and i was like...i 
can't...i'm booked and i told karen this about 2 months ago. volpe 
called and we talked and i told him about karen and the email and he 
took her side and told me that i had given up on the show and was trying
 to do a bad job on purpose. this was easily the most hurtful thing the 
show ever did to me. i'm not a good actor but i always tried to do the 
best job i could. even when the writing wasn't great i tried to create 
something special and to have a greedy lawyer without a creative bone in
 his fucking body tell me this really hurt. i will never forget this. 
hey volpe...eat a dick. the scripts and production was rushed for season
 6 and everyone was exhausted from the movie. it was weird because i 
told them i wasn't coming back and i kind of thought they would shoot a 
scene of us leaving or give us a good ending and they never dealt with 
it. when season 6 wrapped up i knew it was over and i knew that they 
would just say cory and trevor moved or died or whatever and i knew that
 it would suck and that the fans of the show deserved more.  i met with 
barrie dunn before season 7 and we had a nice talk and i really like 
barrie dunn the guy, barrie dunn the actor but barrie dunn the lawyer/tv
 producer isn't someone i can trust. after this meeting i knew it was 
over and nobody ever thanked me or said i did a good job. it just ended.
 they said they wouldn't do it without me but i knew they would and they
 should and i'm glad they did. i had one year left on my contract and 
i'm thankful that mike volpe and barrie dunn didn't threaten me or sue 
me. as much as they fucked me they let me off easy on that one...thanks 
guys. 

i spent 6 years working on TPB and the only person who was
 ever promoted during all of this was karen wentzell. i can't remember 
at what point but sometime around season 6 she became an associate 
producer. all of the crew who worked their asses off because of her 
incompetence never got a producer credit and what i'd imagine would be a
 significant raise and maybe even a share of the back end. what an 
insult, what an outrage. i also remember ann marie was hired to make a 
behind the scenes documentary and it somehow was changed to be about the
 crew and this family bullshit that really was never there. never once 
did this special mention rev bob and how poorly he was treated or andy 
miller and how poorly he was treated or todd murchie and how much he 
gave to the show to later not be brought back. what about richard colpe?
 it seems as though this family they talk about doesn't include a lot of
 people that worked their asses off. 

i was disrespected as an 
actor and as a person and i know that me standing up and saying fuck you
 i've had enough hasn't changed anything. i was ripped off financially 
and that kind of sucks but mostly i just wasn't having fun anymore. the 
show isn't the same show that it was in the beginning and life is too 
short to not have fun. i'm not a greedy person and i never tried to hold
 out for more money but we all should have been paid a lot more than 
what they were paying us. this includes the crew and the cast. 

thanks
 for everyone who watched me for 6 years and to everyone who has shown 
support in my decision.  sorry about the long rant, you haven't seen the
 last of me. 

ps dudes

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      <title>Moronika- Make It Ash (Parody); Backstage Access Ep. 1</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:00:52 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>























Make it Ash - World premiere video of pop megastar Moronika.
With so much money---she doesn't make it rain, she makes it ash!

 



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      <title>False Flag Attack Talk! How Conspiracy Theories Have Ruined People's Lives</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:34:36 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Here are a few examples of people whose lifes were ruined by conspiracy theorists, or who became subject to conspiracy and were attacked by crazy lunatics who thought they were doing good. I also added examples of conspiracy marketers who are literally making millions of $$$ off of these guys.
Let's begin with the first screenshot, taken from a blog whose author became the subject of a conspiracy theorist who accused him of being the Zodiac Killer.

 

Another person whose grandfather became so obsessed with conspiracy theories that he could no longer talk to him 

 

A conspiracy theorist who has lost all his friends and states he would take any chance to get back to normal if only it were possible:

 


A skeptic's forum member who tells a story of another forum member who took his kids out of public school, stockpiled weapons and basically went all out 'David Koresh' because he was convinced of the NWO conspiracy
The forum member further details how another clever kid he knew dropped out of university because he became caught up in alien conspiracies that promised a utopia would soon be installed on planet earth...

 

Check out the following for a detailed description of 5 reasons why Conspiracy Theories can ruin your life: http://infiniteextasy.org/2013/04/22/the-neverending-false-flag-attack-talk-911-sandy-hook-boston-or-why-conspiracy-theories-can-be-very-detrimental-to-your-health/ 


You know, these people do not own shops that sell Conspiracy merchandise such as DVD's or Radio Shows, Seeds, Fluoride Filters or Gold and Silver. These people lose a lot of money because greedy conspiracy marketers are taking their money in exchange for useless information, paranoia and products nobody needs.


Meet Kevin Trudeau, founder of the Global Information Network scam. Costs 1000$ to join, then ~100$ monthly fees. Members can upgrade for between 1.000$-75.000$ depending on what degree they would like to purchase. You read that right, degrees can be bought, not earned. (Except for the 5th degree which costs approximately 20.000$ to complete and then requires people to take a long test). The promise? Break free from the New World Order.

 


Meet conspiracy theorist and self proclaimed &quot;Immortal&quot; Mony Vital.
He claimed to be an immortal who did not have to eat in order to survive. He declared food to be poison. He recently died in January 2013, while on Kevin Trudeau's Global Information Network's cruise. The day before he had given a speech on Immortality, the New World Order and how to escape it. To sign up to his &quot;Immortality&quot; school members had to pay between 400$-2500$ depending on their level of association with him. Many members of his 'Vital Energetic Balancing' School are now left without hope and money.
 


Conspiracy sells. Why do you think Alex Jones is a multimillionaire? Well consider that if 10.000 of his gullible followers purchase his DVD Set worth 99$ each, he has already sold very close to 1$ worth of worthless DVD's. But he does not only sell DVD's, and he has way more than 10.000 gullible followers. So think about what Lenin said when stated: to find who are the perpetrators of a conspiracy, find out who benefits!


 


One good thing has to be said for Jones, he no longer hosts known scam artists such as Kevin Trudeau on his show, but still, he is making huge profits from the niche he is targetting.

As you can see in the following screenshot, professional marketeers are targeting the 'conspiracy niche' and have been doing so for years. They know that a lot of money is to be made from people who are fearful and believe in almost everything their 'guru' will tell them. Once locked into this reality tunnel, these people become the best customers on earth.


 



To find out how conspiracy can ruin your life and how to get out of its tight grip, check out some of the following resources that were used in the making of this article:

 http://other.skepticproject.com/forum/1746/do-conspriacy-theories-ruin-peoples-lives/ 

 http://www.wilderness-survival.net/forums/showthread.php?15994-The-Conspiracy-Theory-Disease! 

 http://www.alternet.org/story/140351/how_a_conspiracy_theorist_who_thought_i_was_the_zodiac_killer_almost_ruined_my_life</description>
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      <title>People Looting &lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;Merchandise&lt;/span&gt; Stand </title>
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      <description>After Boston Marathon Explosion.. Capitalism at work. Wow.. kind of disturbing to see. 
Embedded to show the disgusting comments! (use translate from arab lol)</description>
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      <title>Mother of Boston bombing suspects arrested last year for 'stealing $1,600 worth of clothes from Lord &amp;amp; Taylor  </title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:48:37 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>By 
 Daily Mail Reporter 


 PUBLISHED: 

07:51 EST, 19 April 2013



 

 UPDATED: 

10:55 EST, 19 April 2013



The mother of the two Chechnyan
 brothers suspected of setting off two bombs at the Boston Marathon was 
arrested last year for allegedly stealing $1,600 worth of clothes from 
an upscale department store.Zubeidat
 K. Tsarnaeva, 45, was charged with two counts of malicious/wanton 
damage and defacement to property after allegedly swiping the 
merchandise from a Lord &amp;amp; Taylor in Natick, Mass. in June 2012.She stole $1,624 in women's clothes, according to a Patch.com story.

 Her
 sons allegedly left two bombs, packed with ball bearings and other 
materials, near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday.The terror attack left three dead and 183 injured.

They were captured on CCTV by a different Lord &amp;amp; Taylor store on Boylston Street.


The FBI released those CCTV images of the two brothers Thursday evening and later that night 
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed in a shootout with law enforcement in Watertown, Mass.


A police officer was shot dead near the campus for Massachusetts Institute of Technology.


Her other son, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, is still on the run and considered by authorities to be armed and extremely dangerous

Tamerlan reportedly had a bomb 
strapped to his chest when he was killed while he and his brother robbed
 a 7-Eleven, tried to steal an SUV and threw explosives at police 
officers. 
They used the carjacking victim's debit car to withdraw $800 from an ATM.


The
 entire city of Boston is on lock down with residents warned to stay 
indoors, public transport shut down and a no-fly zone around the city.A transit police officer was critically wounded in the exchange of gunfire with the suspects.

Dzhokhar A Tsarnaev is believed to be
 a legal immigrant to the U.S., who arrived in the country one year ago 
from the Russian region of Chechnya which has been plagued by an Islamic
 insurgency stemming from separatist wars.The 19-year-old, who attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, is an amateur wrestling champion. 


The
 older brother attended Bunkerhill Community College and was studying to
 become an engineer but took a year off to pursue boxing.
They reportedly entered the United States with family in 2002 or 2003 and Tamerlan became a legal permanent resident in 2007. 


The
 older brother Tamerlan attended Bunker Hill Community College and was 
studying to become an engineer but took a year off to pursue boxing. He 
is a two-time Golden Glove champion.
 Dzhokhar was born in Kyrgyzstan. The
 family, which also included two daughters, Bella and Amina, had the 
status of refugees at the time they moved to Russia.Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev went to a school in Makhachkala, the capital city of the Republic of Dagestan, between 1999-2001.

His former teachers at his first school described him as a 'normal child' today. 

'He
 arrived at our school in the first form and departed in the second,' 
Irina Bandurina, the secretary at Makhachkala's School No.1, told RT.They arrived from Kyrgyzstan and 
departed to the US. I'm telling you they lived here for a year. Not the 
whole year. They arrived at the school in 2001 and departed in March 
2002 ... There were four of them - two sisters and two brothers... It's 
written here that they are from Kyrgyzstan.'A friend of Dzokhar, Eric Machado told CNN the 19-year-old was just a 'normal American kid.'

'There was no evidence that would lead us to believe he was capable of any of this,' he said.


 An uncle of the Boston bombing suspects said who died early Friday morning said Tamerlan was a 'loser.'

Ruslan Tsarni said that Tamerlan 'deserved it.'

'I wish they never existed,' Mr Tsarni, who lives in Maryland, told local Boston station WBZ.

He
 had not spoken to the boys since 2009 and said that he did not 
recognize them when he saw the photos released by the FBI on Thursday 
evening.'I'm wordless... shocked,' Mr Tsarni said.

'They do not deserve to exist on this earth.'

Ruslan called Tamerlan a 'loser', he described his younger nephew Dzhokhar as a quiet kid. 

 One of their sisters, who lives in New Jersey, said, 'They were great people. I never would have expected it. 


'They are smart - I don't know what's gotten into them,' adding that her younger brother is 'an amazing child.'


The sister, who declined to give her name to the Newark Star-Ledger, said she sympathized with her brothers' victims.

'I'm
 not okay - no one is okay right now. I'm hurt for everyone who has been
 hurt. I'm sorry for all the people who are hurt and for all the people 
who lost their lives.'
Several
 former classmates described Dzhokhar as a friendly, smart kid, and they
 said they were shocked that he was part of the pair who killed three 
and injured more than 180 in the marathon bombings on Monday. 
An unidentified friend told CNN that he 'hung out, went to parties, smoked some weed... its not like he's some foreign dude.'

A different uncle, Alvi Tsarni, who lives closeby in Boston was visibly upset when he spoke about his nephews.

'I don't believe any of my nephews are involved in this horrible incident,' Alvi Tsarni told the Boston CBS affiliate WBZ.

'If he did this I'm sorry too. It's crazy, it's not possible. I can't believe it. Who can do this stuff?'

The
 family tree is unclear, though the Associated Press spoke with the 
boys' father Anzor Tsamaev who lives in an area of Russia called 
Makhachkala.'My son is a true angel,' Anzor said.

'Dzhokhar is a second-year medical student in the U.S. He is such an intelligent boy. We expected him to come on holidays here.'

The
 boys' aunt, Maret, is a surgeon who lives in Canada. She used to be in 
Chechnya and her acts as a battlefield surgeon are described in a book.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2311653/Boston-bombings-Mother-Boston-bombing-suspects-arrested-year-stealing-1-600-worth-clothes-Lord--Taylor.html#ixzz2QvqgiRZt

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      <title>PROOF OF ERDOGHAN'S COMPLICITY: </title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 18:21:56 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>ANKARA, TURKEY.

 Erdoghan just got hit with a scandal that might change people's views of him completely.  

Yedioth Aharonoth, the Zionist rag, revealed that Erdoghan's son, Ahmad Buraaq Erdoghan, had been contracting with Zionist firms for merchandise and shipping them by 2 Turk-registered frigates:  the Sifraan 1 and Sakaria.  

This was going on while Erdoghan played the role of Islamic Leader of the Century. 

There is also the suggestion that Erdoghan may have profited economically from the deals his son made.  All of this now comes on the heels of several earthquakes:  

1.  The trials of the military officers 

2. the rise of the Republican Party as an alternative to Erdoghan's Islamist one and 

3. demonstrations in the south over his policies toward Syria.  

Let's see how this plays out.</description>
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      <title>ALEPPO:  HUGE GAINS AND PROOF OF ERDOGHAN'S COMPLICITY: </title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:49:52 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Dateline Syria Fighting Stats 9/4/2013 

   

 Al-Shuqaif  and  Castillo  in the area of the  Yaghanis  Factory, the scavengers were caught with their guard down when militia backed by SAA attacked them from one side with another on higher ground and killed every stinking pest.  After the affray, these were seized:

 2 82mm mortars
 3 vans carrying various weapons
 1 flatbed truck with a heavy machine cannon
 1 flatbed truck with a 23mm machine cannon
 4 motorcycles

 At the  Jisr Al-Haaj  Road, SAA took down a flatbed truck equipped with a mortar.

 These are the hyenas with identification:

 Qahtaan Al-'Ali 
 Haani Muhammad Al-Abrash 
 Mahmoud Bulaylaani 
 Ali Al-Muqaddam 
 Midhaat Adnaan Al-Shatla 
 Hameed Ma'moon 
 Abdul-Rahmaan Salqeeni 
 Abdullah Harbaawi 
 'Aassef Al-Ghannooj 
 Zaafer 'Ieedaani 
 Ali Hussayn Kibabji 
 Hassaan Musulmaani 
 Taaleb Sayfuddeen 
 Ahmad Al-Qirsh 

 Another 18 had no papers on them and are presumed foreign.  Suspected Tunisians in this group.

 Shaykh Sa'eed,  at the residencies and clinic: this unit of thugs took the dumbwaiter to the Westinghouse radar range in Hell:

 Muneeb Abdul-Saater 
 Noor Baahoom (?) 
 Muhammad Al-'Atri (poss. Al-'Utari) 

  Al-Saakhour,  near the hospital and at  Al-Saaliheen  Road, 2 more rats killed but they had no id.

 Baab Road,  near  Khaan Al-Baqar  - close to the Research Center Residencies, police took down these slimy snakes:

 Adeeb Ali Al-Anwaar 
 Saleem Uzubraan (?) 
 Kamaal Muhammad Hubaysh 

 Shaykh Maqsood:   Heavy fighting still going on as of this writing with no details.  

 Mannagh , near the airbase, a nest of vipers met the Pullman Train to Hades:

 Idrees Qallaabaati 
 Mustafa Al-Boom  (He went &amp;quot;Boom&amp;quot;!! It means the &amp;quot;owl&amp;quot;)

 Another 4 had no papers and presumed foreign.

 Kafr Hamra  at the farm area, an entire nest of roaches met the Orkin Man.  No detailed list of specimens. Wael writes there were 12 carcasses.

 Bawwaabiyya,  at the farms, 5 dung beetles found their favorite pile in Erebus:

 Mu'een Daawoodi 
 Sabaah Ali Mazloom 
 Ghassaan Al-Dhaqin 
 'Alaa' Abdul-Hafeezh (unclear) 
 Muhammad Halabi 

 Al-'Uwayja,  at the carpet factory, 8 rats went down; 4 surrendered and are warbling; 3 wounded and should be shot, in our opinion.  No details. 

 Al-Beera  (no Hans, that's not for Bier!), 11 confirmed hits with no details.

 Handaraat:   2 flatbeds with 23mm machine cannons on board were destroyed.  Wael says there were fatalities but no details yet.

 Khaan Toumaan:  fighting going on now, but no details.

 ALEPPO CITY:  At the  Ba'eedeen  Roundabout, 2 flatbeds with big machine cannons, 4 motorcycles, 2 vans with weapons, 2 anti-aircraft machine cannons were destroyed in a spectacular operation involving stealth.  I have not received the list of 28 rats killed, yet.    

 DAMASCUS:

 Buqqeen  in the  Zabadaani  area near the Lebanese border, SAA and militia pursued a pack of rats to the border and dispatched the following:

 Salaah Milali (rat leader) 

 2 others could not be identified and appear Libyan or Tunisian.

 Al-Husayniyya:   a nest of vipers was eliminated along with these vermin:

 'Abboud Al-Kafari (var. Al-Kufari) 
 Habeeb Al-Imaam (Tunisian filth ape. Monzer says he was identified by a warbler accomplice. He was carrying no papers.) 

 Al-Dhiyaabiyya  saw these rodents get on the red-eye flight to Fire Island:

 Abdul-Salaam Al-Na'saan (the sleepy one will now have Hell's flames to keep him awake) 
 Bilaal Al-Ghazaal 

 Both these pieces of rodent excrement belonged to the  Abaabeel of Hawraan  Brigage (yawn).  Those of you who are interested might look at the Chapter of the Elephant in the Qur'aan to know what  &amp;quot;Abaabeel&amp;quot;  is.

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      <title>First-of-its-kind cooperation: Iraqi goods travel to Turkey via Israel due to the Syrian civil war</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:31:03 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Dozens of trucks carrying goods from Iraq, Jordan and Turkey have been travelling on Israel's roads on a daily basis recently, following secret talks between Israeli and Turkish officials and senior officials from neighboring Arab countries.

Yedioth Ahronoth has learned that following the intensification of battles in Syria and the near collapse of the country's regime, and after merchandise transported by convoys from Turkey to Iraq and Jordan, and vice versa, was robbed - the Jordan River Crossing (near Beit She'an) and the Haifa and Ashdod Ports have become an alternative for the transport of goods.

 
Every day, trucks arrive from Jordan and Iraq at the Jordan River Crossing, where the goods they are carrying are loaded onto Israeli trucks, which usually take them to the Haifa Port. From the port they are transported by sea to Turkey and other countries, where trucks from Iraq and Jordan used to travel via Syria.

A similar way is made by goods imported from Turkey and neighboring countries to Jordan and Iraq, which arrive at the port on ships. The vessels unload their cargo there, and the merchandise is taken by trucks to the Jordan River Crossing on its way to Jordan and Iraq.


 According to estimates, the goods transported through Israel are worth tens of millions of dollars a month. 

&quot;Israel's roads have turned into a transport pipe for exports and imports of goods and commodities from and to Jordan and Iraq,&quot; confirmed a source at the Tax Authority, which is in charge of transporting the goods and inspecting them on the land border.

&quot;These goods and products are not usually flown, but transferred in containers through trucks by land - and now by sea as well,&quot; the source added.


Yedioth Ahronoth has learned that the transport operation is part of a first-its-kind cooperation between the customs authorities and transportation officials in Jordan Iraq and Turkey, and Tax Authority and other government officials in Israel.

The goods and deliveries undergo a strict security check in order to prevent the option of taking advantage of the Israeli gesture, which does not involve a very high profit for Israel, in order to carry out terror attacks or transfer weapons.



http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4364003,00.html



  Photo: Haifa port- Due to the civil war in Syria   the Jordan River Crossing and the Haifa and Ashdod Ports have become an alternative for the transport of goods</description>
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      <title>Plainfield man charged in $200,000 cheese heist.</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:52:40 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>
                                             
                                            By Geoff Ziezulewicz
                                            Tribune reporter
                                            12:56 p.m. CDT, March 28, 2013
                                        
                                        In what could be one of 
Chicagoland's stinkiest crimes, a Plainfield man was charged this week 
in connection with the theft of a semi trailer containing 42,000 pounds 
of Muenster cheese with a street value of $200,000.
Veniamin Balika, 34, of Plainfield, was arrested at about 3:30 p.m. 
Tuesday by New Jersey State Police as he loitered at a New Jersey 
turnpike rest stop, according to police spokesman Lt. Stephen Jones.
The Muenster cheese, packed into six-pound loaves and into 1,135 
cases, had originated at K &amp;amp; K Cheese in Cashton, Wis., Jones said.
                                        
                                        Its final destination was 
Texas, he said, but somewhere along the line, Balika &quot;cheesed&quot; some 
paperwork and took off with the precious cargo.
&quot;He was believed to have used false information to go to the distributor's warehouse and pick up the load,&quot; Jones said.

It was unclear Thursday morning where Balika picked up the cheese.

Romeoville police reported the theft of a truck containing cheese on 
March 18, but that was listed as having been worth about $1,300.
An informant initially tipped of New Jersey police that Balika was looking to offload the hot cheese, Jones said.

Plainclothes detectives trailed him and arrested him at the Vince Lombardi Service Area, not far from New York City, Jones said.

Balika was charged with receiving stolen property and fencing, Jones said.

The suspect was trying to offload the Muenster post-haste after an earlier deal fell through, Jones said.

&quot;He did have a couple potential buyers, one in Pennsylvania, but that
 didn't work out for him,&quot; he said. &quot;No legitimate business person is 
going to buy a load knowing it's stolen.&quot;
Still, Jones said, in the world of illicit commodities, Balika may have been able to find a shady middleman to move the cheese.

&quot;Brokers of stolen merchandise like that will try to reach interested
 parties,&quot; Jones said. &quot;He was trying to make a deal, hopefully for cash
 at a discounted rate.&quot;
Jones would not comment on Balika's criminal history. Plainfield police did not respond to requests for comment.

The cheese was turned over to a towing company and impounded, Jones said.

A food inspector gave it the thumbs up and now K &amp;amp; K's insurance companies will deal with it.

&quot;It seems like the cheese was kept at an appropriate temperature, and is now being re-brokered,&quot; Jones said.

Jones said the state's cargo theft unit usually deals with stolen goods like designer jeans, perfume and computer parts.

&quot;We've seen organized activity with rings of people who know some of 
the inside of the transportation business,&quot; he said of such heists. 
&quot;We've also seen just people who see a target of opportunity.&quot;</description>
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      <title>China Doesn't Belong in the BRICS</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:45:23 -0400</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Pakistani</dc:creator>
      <description>China's new president, Xi Jinping, arrives in Durban, South Africa today for a summit of the BRICS: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. A geo-economic acronym invented in 2001 by a Goldman Sachs analyst to forecast a convergence among fast-growing emerging economies has spawned a geopolitical association. The leaders who gather, and commentators on this event, will search for what these nations have in common. The larger question, however, is whether this acronym has become an anachronism. Assessing the performance of the BRICS over the past five years and prospects for the next, does lumping these nations under a single label confuse more than it clarifies?

When Jim O'Neill of Goldman Sachs coined the term 12 years ago, many expected that economic growth rates in India and Brazil would soon rival China's. That remains O'Neill's bet, his most recent blast foreseeing that &quot;India definitely has the biggest potential for growth among BRIC countries this decade.&quot; But the brute fact is that China has continued growing more than twice as fast as other members of this club. Indeed, in every year since 2001, the gap between China's GDP and that of each of the others has widened. In the decade ahead, the gap is likely to become even more pronounced. Given this divergence, it is more appropriate to consider China separately from Russia, India, Brazil and South Africa, which, if an acronym is called for, can be called: &quot;RIBS.&quot;

In 2001, China's GDP was equal to the GDP of all the RIBS combined. In the five years since the global financial crisis, just the increment of growth in China's economy is larger than the entire economies of Russia and India combined. Indeed, in the half decade since the financial crisis, 40 percent of all growth in the global economy has occurred in China.

Last year, the economy of China expanded by $1 trillion; Russia and India grew by $100 billion; Brazil and South Africa shrank. In 2001, China ranked sixth among the world's economies. Today it stands at number two, on track to overtake the U.S. and become the world's largest economy in the next decade.

In trade, China accounts for 11 percent of global merchandise exports, roughly double that of the RIBS combined. Moreover, the markets to whom China and the RIBS export and from whom they buy are the U.S., the EU, and Japan. Merchandise trade among China and the RIBS barely registers in world trade statistics.

In foreign reserves, China held twice as much as the RIBS combined in 2001 (with $220 billion), and now holds three times as much as the others (with $3.3 trillion). In greenhouse gas emissions, China accounts for 30 percent of the global total, more than twice the amount of the RIBS combined.

Goldman Sachs continues trumpeting the rise of the BRICS (though it refuses to include South Africa, which was pulled into group by China in 2010). Its latest &quot;BRIC Fund&quot; prospectus forecasts that by 2030, the BRIC nations will have a combined economy larger than that of the G7. If this happens, the most important part of the story will be that China added $17 trillion to the global economy, effectively creating another United States in less than 20 years.

Concepts that jumble together elements with more differences than similarities sow confusion. While it may have played a useful purpose at the beginning of the century to highlight faster-growing emerging economies, BRICS has become an analytic liability. Like generalizations about per-capita growth in countries where wealth disparities are widening (as the rich get richer while the income of the poor declines), submerging China in this acronym misses more than it captures. If a banner is required for a meeting of these five nations, or for a forecast about their economic and political weight in the world ahead, RIBS is much closer to the reality. Even if governments, investment banks, and newspapers keep using BRICS, thoughtful readers will think China and the rest.

Source:  http://www.defence.pk/forums/world-affairs/242271-china-doesnt-belong-brics.html#ixzz2Ogzzox1L 

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