http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=tour Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:59:41 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=tour Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:56:08 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=51d_1371653530 Grace37 Rihanna might be unapologetic about most of her actions, but the pop star might want to reconsider saying sorry for clocking a fan with her microphone. During the Birmingham stop of her Diamonds world tour, one overzealous fan in the front row grabbed Rihanna, 25, as she sauntered by during a song, refusing to let go of her. The singer tried to keep walking, but when she couldn't shake the fan's grip Rihanna turned around and hit the person with her microphone. It's unclear if the fan was injured or exactly where the person was hit, but according to reports the singer may have smacked the fan's face or head. Several viewers said the "Diamonds" singer should have let her security guards handle the situation - especially since the person can now take legal action if badly injured. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=51d_1371653530 Grace37 Rihanna clocks fan with microphone rihanna, hit, fan, microphone, bitch, diamonds, tour Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:28:37 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3d0_1371587177 Ruptly President Barack Obama flew in to Berlin's Tegel Airport ahead of a two-day state visit to Berlin - his first visit to the German capital as US head of state. The US president will give a speech at the iconic Brandenburg gate to 4,000 people on Wednesday while his wife, Michelle Obama, will tour some historically significant sites around the city. A motorcade is heading into central Berlin, taking the president to the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Potsdamer Platz where he will stay with his family. Obama, who flew directly from the G8 summit in Northern Ireland, is due to meet with Germany's political leaders on Wednesday. German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived a little earlier in the day, also direct from the G8 meeting. Obama will dine with German President Joachim Gauck at Schloss Bellevue on Wednesday morning before receiving military honours. He will later meet with Merkel, with the two due to hold a press conferences at 12:30 before convening for a private lunch. Revelations that US intelligence sercvices monitor people's internet activity across the globe are expected to be high on the agenda. Discussions over the Syria are also expected to dominate, with leaders having agreed at the G8 summit to convene a peace summit at some point in the future. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3d0_1371587177 Ruptly Germany: Obama swoops in to Berlin Germany, Berlin, Obama, Merkel, Gauck, president, politics, Brandenburg Gate, Potsdamer Platz, Ritz Carlton, G8, police, security Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:05:48 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=68a_1371430077 Omar-knows A poet in Colombia wants to go to Europe so much that he's willing to fund the trip in a very ballsy way: selling his testicles. Rafael Medina Brochero,52, is selling the matching set of semen-producing genitalia for the lump sum of $20,000 to fund a European tour in which he'll participate in "Poetry for Peace in Colombia," according to ColombiaReports.com. Brochero did not say whether the surgery would be covered in the $20,000, but he said the presumedly used testes might be able to be transplanted into a sterile person or used to make soup, Yahoo! Australia reported. It might be a desperate way to raise money, but Brochero sees it as addition by subtraction. The poet simply doesn't want to repeat an experience he had while touring Bolivia last year when he ran out of cash and had to pawn his wedding ring,TheNewAge.co.za reported. Journalist Scott Carney , author of "The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers" (Harper Collins), said Brochero's ballsy sale must be considered an art project because there is no real market for testicles. "There is no real value for any body part," Carney told The Huffington Post. "It's what gets negotiated, like a used car." -------------------- Read The Rest On HuffingtonPost.. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=68a_1371430077 Omar-knows Colombian Poet Selling His Testicles To Raise Money For His European <span class="highlight">Tour</span>.. testicle, selling, Colombian, man, raise, fund, tour, Europe, body, part, poet, poetry Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:47:20 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e80_1371152650 white tigers france is being over taken by muslims http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e80_1371152650 white tigers <span class="highlight">Tour</span> de france muslim, france, cowards, surrender monkies , cheese , snails, garlic Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:05:35 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0dd_1371394255 JohnnyZap This is an older video but I searched and have not found it ever on LL. Was filmed by EU and USA manufacturers on a tour of factories best practices in China. The press the workers are sitting in is about 600 - 1,000 tons of pressure. Normally, there are metal guards/screens all around the press that would prevent you from getting close enough to get hurt and the parts are removed either by machine or by hand only after the press has stopped and is locked in the up location. This answers the question of why the Chinese can make parts so much cheaper than the rest of the world. And if a worker gets hurt or killed, there's a line of 50 waiting to take his place. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0dd_1371394255 JohnnyZap Chinese Stamping Press Load/Unload System.. On the cheap Dangerous, Stamping Press, Chinese, China, manufacturing, worker safety Sat, 15 Jun 2013 22:33:16 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=14a_1371349793 USMC_SRT Military dog tags serve a grim purpose, to identify the war dead. They are at once the most generic and personal artifacts of any veteran's service. Lanny Martinson lost his during the Vietnam War. On June 4, 1968, he was a 23-year-old Marine at Khe Sanh when his right leg was blown up by an enemy land mine. He came home after the amputation in a wheelchair, without his dog tags. "I just figured they'd gotten rid of them when they ripped off my clothes to operate on me," he said. Martinson loved the Marines, wanted a career out of it. So even as that dream died, even as he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and survivor's guilt - others died in the same minefield that took his leg - he didn't regret his time in the military. In fact, he'd finally decided he should order new dog tags when the phone rang recently at his house in Sugar Land, Texas, near Houston. The caller asked for his name and said, "I think I have something that belongs to you." It was one of his dog tags, found amid the overgrown remnants of the airstrip at Khe Sanh. Now, thanks in part to the efforts of a Chula Vista woman, the tag will soon be back in the hands of its owner, 45 years after it disappeared. "Overwhelming," Martinson said. "It's like I left a part of me over there and somehow it's made its way back to me from a dark place." The welcome home that Vietnam vets never got after the war - he feels like he's getting it now, Martinson said. It makes him cry. It makes Tanna Toney-Ferris cry, too. She's the Chula Vista woman, a Harley-riding wife of a Navy vet. She has a soft spot for the military and a knack for reuniting veterans with their lost dog tags. She's done it two other times in the past seven years. This time she had a lot of help, from a Vietnam War buff in Australia to a motorcycle mechanic in Glendora to legions of Marines on the Internet. Sometimes it really is a small world. "A dog tag," she said, "is the closest thing to any soldier's heart." Spreading the wordFor the past seven years, John Naismith has traveled from Australia with his wife to teach English to children in Vietnam for a nonprofit called Project Indochina. When he's not in the classroom, his "keen interest" in the war takes him to battlefields and monuments. About two years ago, he was at Khe Sanh, site of a famous, months-long siege in 1968. He visited a museum there and then walked over to what used to be the airstrip, now mostly covered with brush and trees. "As I was walking through the undergrowth," he said in an email, "I saw something bright shining in the sunlight." He brought the tag home. It had the last name "Martinson" on it and the initials L.P. It listed the service branch as USMC and the religious affiliation as Lutheran. Naismith checked the names on the Vietnam Wall of those killed in the war, available through the Internet, and none matched what was on the tag. He figured the Marine had survived the war, and tried without success to find him. Eventually he gave the tag to a friend, Charlie Fagan, who runs Good Time Charlie's, a motorcycle repair shop in Glendora. "It touched my heart," Fagan said. He contacted a Vietnam vet he knows, and word eventually got to Toney-Ferris in Chula Vista. "Everybody's put on this Earth for a reason," the 54-year-old self-described housewife said. "I guess this is mine." Back in 2006, she returned dog tags she found encrusted in a fist-sized rock in Imperial Beach to their owner, a Wisconsin tour-bus driver who lost them in the surf during Navy training off Coronado in 1969. She also returned dog tags from World War II, found in a San Diego dump, to a deceased Marine's son living in South Carolina. "It was amazing that someone would go to the effort to find me," said Don Aycock. "It wasn't just a piece of metal to her." He put the tag on a chain and wore it for several years until he got worried he'd lose it. Now he keeps it in a box. With Martinson's tag, Toney-Ferris flooded the Internet with postings on various veterans websites. She sent a friend request to a Vietnam vet Facebook page, where the administrator, Bob "Sparky" Sparks, who lives in Florida, saw it. "We gotta do this," Sparks said. Last Wednesday, he sent the post through a Marine network that has some 550,000 members. The hunt was on. Eventually a Marine sleuth found Martinson in Texas and called him. Another sent a message to Martinson's Facebook page. "I can't tell you how much this means to me," Martinson wrote in an email to Sparks. "It brings it all back again, the men I lost, whose names are on the Wall, and the wounded that are now like me. I am trying to write this with tears running down my cheeks." Changing his mindLike a lot of Marines in Vietnam, Martinson wore one dog tag around his neck and the other laced into a boot because the awful truth is that sometimes the killing didn't leave bodies intact. Tags in different places improved the odds for a successful identification. He doesn't know which tag is the one Naismith found. He doesn't know how it got on the airstrip. He doesn't much care. It's precious regardless. "I have to tell you, I've gotten a little cynical about whether people care anymore," he said. "Memorial Day for most people is just a day off, a good excuse for a picnic or a barbecue. They don't remember what it's supposed to be about." But this business with the dog tag "may be making me change my mind about all that. All the efforts to find me are just incredible." People have been sending him friend requests on Facebook, calling him a hero. He doesn't like that. "The ones who came back are survivors," he said. "The ones who are on the Wall, those are the heroes." Other people have sent him a different message, one that suits him just fine. "Welcome home," they say. http://bcove.me/7a67wgfw http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=14a_1371349793 USMC_SRT Long way home for Marine's dog tag USMC, Marine, Vet, Dog, Tags Sat, 15 Jun 2013 08:49:55 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e12_1371299969 dfaugust ~......for the children. You may not be able to tour the White House because of the spending increase slowdown from sequestration, but the Obama family can tour Africa for the small sum of $60 or $100 million. President Barack Obama will hold bilateral meetings with leaders in Senegal, South Africa, and Tanzania between June 26 and July 3, and the wife and kids are going along for the ride. The Obama family vacation will include air transportation for 56 vehicles, among them 14 parade limousines, trucks carrying bulletproof glass to install at hotels, and two ambulances: one for dealing with biological and chemical contaminants, one with x-ray equipment. Adding to the costs are 100 Secret Service Agents for the first three cities on the itinerary, 65 agents at the fourth, and 80 to 100 more to guard the Obama family 24/7. Further, a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier functioning as a hospital comes with the package, and fighter jets will patrol the area 24/7. The White House had planned a safari with 35 more security agents. Why so many? The Washington Post , which saw those plans nixed once it asked questions about the cost of the Africa trip, said the 35 agents were "the president's special counter-assault team to carry sniper rifles with high-caliber rounds that could neutralize cheetahs, lions or other animals if they became a threat, according to the planning document." Obama's deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes explained the trip's cost are so high because it is the first substantial presidential delegation to sub-Saharan Africa. He added, "The infrastructure that accompanies the president's travels is beyond our control. The security requirements are not White House-driven, they are Secret Service-driven... Part of this is the nature of making sure we travel to emerging areas in Southeast Asia, Latin America and Africa. They are not as designed to facilitate the footprint of the United States president." http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/06/13/Report-Obama-Family-s-Africa-trip-Will-Cost-60-To-100-million http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e12_1371299969 dfaugust Report: Obama Family's Africa Trip Will Cost $60 to $100 Million obama, clinton, kerry, joe biden, pelosi, reid, bohener, liars, thieves Thu, 13 Jun 2013 21:57:12 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=460_1371174926 USMC_SRT The drive to become a Marine and gain acceptance into the tight-knit family is what drove SSgt Monica Paz to enlist during July 2000. A veteran of two previous combat deployments to Iraq, Paz is currently serving as the accounting division chief and squadron support division chief for Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 16, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (Forward), in Helmand province, Afghanistan. "I originally wanted to go to college, but I really wasn't set on what I wanted to study and didn't want to waste my parents' money," said Paz, from Miami. "The Marine Corps was the hardest. It seemed like it was the most challenging branch of the military. I didn't want to regret something that I didn't do, and my mother always encouraged me to go ahead and accomplish something no matter how hard it was." When Paz left for recruit training , she had no idea what her job would be in the Marine Corps. "My main focus was, 'I'm going to be a Marine.' I didn't care what job they gave me," Paz said. Although Paz came in with an open contract, she has worked to become a proficient leader along with being skilled at her job. "As a Marine, she's top notch," said MGySgt Robert Mena, aviation supply chief with MALS-16, 3rd MAW (Fwd). "She's well rounded and embodies the whole Marine concept. She definitely has a very positive staff noncommissioned officer future ahead of her. She's a mentor to a lot of Marines. She's fantastic at her job, and I couldn't ask for anything better. She's motivated and is constantly seeking improvement and trying to make processes better. I always admire SNCOs who try to streamline processes for their Marines." During her 12 years in the Marine Corps, Paz's most difficult tour was her time as a drill instructor at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island , S.C. Paz reported to the drill field during July 2007. Paz noted both the mental and physical challenges associated with becoming a drill instructor. "It was the toughest thing I have ever done," Paz said "In my mind, it's harder than deploying. Physically it hurt. It was one of the biggest sacrifices I've ever had to make both to my time and my body, and mentally, it was hard." Paz credits her desire to be a drill instructor to her former drill instructors. "My drill instructors are what motivated me to follow in their footsteps," Paz said. "I saw them, and they were extremely tough. They didn't allow us to be mediocre, and they pushed us to the limit. I know that they changed my life." Since leaving the drill field, Paz has run into several of her former recruits both in garrison and while deployed to Afghanistan. "It's really good when you get to see former recruits be successful," Paz said. "Even if they don't re-enlist and decide to get out, they're on the right path to having successful futures . They've gained a lot of knowledge being in the Marine Corps." Sgt Brenna Aspera, a radio chief with Marine Wing Support Squadron 373, 3rd MAW (Fwd), is a former recruit of Paz's and was able to see her former drill instructor while deployed to Afghanistan. "It's pretty cool because the Marine Corps is pretty small, so being able to run into someone you knew from so long ago out here in Afghanistan is crazy," Aspera said. Aspera has plans of becoming a drill instructor herself and said she will try to mirror Paz's dedication. "I was actually thinking about becoming a drill instructor because I need to do a (secondary billet) soon," Aspera said. "I will definitely try to emulate Sgt Paz and what she was as a drill instructor. She was a good drill instructor. She was definitely somebody to look up to." After completing her tour on the drill field, Paz found out she had an issue with her spine. "For a moment I thought I was done with the Marine Corps," Paz said. "I thought that I wouldn't be able to stay in. I had spinal cord surgery after completing my time in the drill field and finding out I had a serious spinal cord problem. They had to go in there and take out bits of my spine and everything. So it's been very hard to get back physically to where I am now." Despite her spinal cord injury, Paz will continue to push forward in the Marine Corps and hopes to serve 20 years before pursuing a job as a pharmacist. "It crosses every Marine's mind whether they want to stay in for the full 20 years or get out," Paz said. "It crossed my mind once or twice. But just the thought of waking up in the morning and not putting on my uniform or never being able to go to a Marine Corps Ball again just didn't feel right." During this deployment, Paz was working near the flight line when Camp Bastion was attacked, Sept. 14. "I was on the flight line when the Bastion attack was happening," Paz said. "It was very real. Being in the air wing, it's not very common for us to go through something like that. It was definitely an eye opener, but once everything was said and done and you saw how the Marines reacted, you witnessed that they did good things and what you taught them in boot camp still sticks with them to this day. They weren't afraid and they just did what they had to do." While deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Paz will continue to look after the funding and ensure MALS-16 has enough equipment to accomplish their mission. * Motivated to become a Marine and defend her country, Staff Sgt. Monica Paz, a Miami native, enlisted in the Marine Corps during July 2000. A veteran of two previous combat deployments to Iraq, Paz is currently serving as the accounting division chief and squadron support division chief for Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 16, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (Forward), in Helmand province, Afghanistan. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=460_1371174926 USMC_SRT Despite spinal cord surgery, Marine continues to push forward on third combat deployment USMC, Marine, Spinal, Cord, Injury Sat, 08 Jun 2013 14:05:26 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9c7_1370714215 RECEP T ERDOGAN 5-6-13 Syria Rebel Commanders Tour Liberated Areas of Bosra Al Sham http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9c7_1370714215 RECEP T ERDOGAN Syria Rebel Commanders <span class="highlight">Tour</span> Liberated Areas of Bosra Al Sham Syria Rebel Commanders Tour Liberated Areas of Bosra Al Sham Thu, 06 Jun 2013 10:48:42 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e80_1370530378 cajunmojo Philip Klein of the Washington Examiner observes that although the administration mocked Mitt Romney less than a year ago for suggesting that President Barack Obama undertook an "apology tour" to the Middle East in 2009, Obama's nominee to replace Susan Rice as UN Ambassador, Samantha Power, advocated just that.In a 2003 op-ed attacking the Bush administration in the liberal New Republic, Power proposed a "doctrine of the mea culpa" that would supposedly raise America's stature in the eyes of the world, likening it to the historic example of German Chancellor Willy Brandt kneeling at a Warsaw ghetto memorial: We need: a historical reckoning with crimes committed, sponsored, or permitted by the United States. This would entail restoring FOIA to its pre- Bush stature, opening the files, and acknowledging the force of a mantra we have spent the last decade promoting in Guatemala, South Africa, and Yugoslavia: A country has to look back before it can move forward. Instituting a doctrine of the mea culpa would enhance our credibility by showing that American decision-makers do not endorse the sins of their predecessors. When Willie Brandt went down on one knee in the Warsaw ghetto, his gesture was gratifying to World War II survivors, but it was also ennobling and cathartic for Germany. Would such an approach be futile for the United States? Contrary to Democrat accusations that Romney made up the apology tour scenario out of thin air, Power is on record pushing for U.S. foreign policy to be completely re-worked so as to tell the world we are sorry. Power even implied that the kinds of horrors Nazis committed toward Jews have been carried out by the U.S. against other people around the world. In that context, Obama's puzzling 2009 visit to Allied-bombed Dresden, on a tour that included the Buchenwald concentration camp, may seem to make sense after all. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/06/05/Samantha-Power-Pushed-For-Apology-Tour http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e80_1370530378 cajunmojo SAMANTHA POWER PUSHED FOR APOLOGY <span class="highlight">TOUR</span>; 'MEA CULPA' FOR U.S. 'CRIMES' obama, democrats, liberals, apology tour Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:55:28 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5c5_1370378905 vril New surveys conducted by NASA's Swift provide the most detailed overviews ever captured in ultraviolet light of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, the two closest major galaxies to our own. Swift team member Stefan Immler, who proposed the imaging project, narrates this quick tour. All visible light imagery provided by Axel Mellinger, Central Michigan University. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center > Related story > Download video in HD formats http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5c5_1370378905 vril A 'Swift' <span class="highlight">Tour</span> of the Nearest Galaxies in UV Light A Swift Tour of the Nearest Galaxies in UV Light,nasa Wed, 05 Jun 2013 20:50:04 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=383_1370478919 DonOgg Well, I went to the dam today in my quest to find anything resembling a memorial plaque or statue or anything about the air-raid when it was blown open 70 years ago. So this is me walking over the dam talking shit mostly.... Thanks go to Oneirishman, who rather gave me the idea . PS. : Sorry for murdering your native language... PSS.: Hammerogod has supplied a link to a nice short video compiled from original footage and clips from the movie &quot;Dambusters&quot; it would be remiss of me not putting it up here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqx6wwhKazw http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=383_1370478919 DonOgg My rather boring <span class="highlight">tour</span> of the Moehne-dam... M"ohnesee, Dam, Tour, By me, Boring