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  • British MP Has Secret Meeting with Haniyeh in Gaza

    03/11/2009 5:42:40 PM PDT · by Nachum · 1 replies · 197+ views
    Arutz Sheva ^ | 3/11/09 | Avraham Zuroff
    (IsraelNN.com) British MP George Galloway met on Wednesday with Ismail Haniyeh, chief of the Hamas-led PA of Gaza, the Associated Press reports. The location of the meeting was undisclosed. In addition, Haniyeh’s office claims that the meeting actually took place on Tuesday. Haniyeh has tried to conceal his movement ever since the IDF began Operation ‘Cast Lead’ against Hamas terrorists in Gaza.
  • Sarah Palin gives MP the brush-off

    03/10/2009 6:53:36 AM PDT · by redk · 60 replies · 3,408+ views
    Sarah Palin, the Alaskan governor and one-time Republican vice-presidential candidate (pictured), has delivered a humiliating snub to Tory MP Edward Leigh. Like a number of other misguided souls, the former Tory minister appears to have developed something of a crush on Palin, or the ‘pitbull in lipstick’ as she dubbed herself. Such was his ardour that he took the extraordinary step of asking her to have dinner with him and some chums at the House of Commons.
  • Military Police Company Shifts Efforts From Rustamiyah

    02/26/2009 3:56:20 PM PST · by SandRat · 2 replies · 353+ views
    Multi-National Force - Iraq ^ | Spc. Howard Alperin, USA
    CAMP LIBERTY, Iraq – Not every Soldier gets an opportunity to close down a military forward operating base. Soldiers from the 340th Army Reserve Unit, Military Police Company, 91st MP Battalion, 8th MP Brigade, recently did just that by leaving Forward Operating Base Rustamiyah to relocate to Camp Liberty thanks to a security agreement that hands over the FOB to Iraqis in March. The MPs are expected to stay the remainder of their deployment at Camp Liberty before returning stateside in the spring of 2009, while continuing their daily missions of overseeing checkpoints and police transition team training with...
  • How Democracies Perish British Edition (A conservative MP arrested criticizes the government)

    12/02/2008 7:05:07 PM PST · by Sammy67 · 6 replies · 684+ views
    http://pajamasmedia.com/ ^ | 12/2/08 | Roger Kimball
    The horrific story of the latest adventure conducted by the religion of peace in Bombay riveted the public’s attention to such an extent that one of the most egregious violations of political freedom in a Western democracy has, at least on this side of the Atlantic, gone almost without comment. I mean the sudden arrest in London last week of of Damian Green, a conservative MP and Shadow Minister for Immigration, who was seized by anti-terrorist personnel from the Metropolitan police, held for questioning for 9 hours, and whose private papers and computer files in his home and office in...
  • Hanging out with a buddy: Military Police use rappelling with their dogs to build trust

    10/18/2008 9:10:06 PM PDT · by SandRat · 6 replies · 1,133+ views
    FORT HUACHUCA — Knuppel and Dag were inquisitive. They tilted their heads and looked up as soldiers of the 18th Military Police Detachment rappelled down a 40-foot-tall tower on Fort Huachuca on Friday. Sniffing the air, their eyes tracked the downward movement of the MPs as their ears were alert to noise from the soldiers. They would occasionally wag their tails in anticipation of doing something, why else would they be on a lead with their handlers standing by them. But it wasn’t going to be their normal exercise of searching for explosives, Knuppel’s specialty, or drugs, Dag’s specialty, or...
  • MP Soldiers Build Rapport With Iraqi Citizens

    06/05/2008 5:27:24 PM PDT · by SandRat · 2 replies · 67+ views
    Multi-National Force - Iraq ^ | Spc. Grant T. Okubo, USA
    Sgt. Joseph Quirarte, a non-commissioned officer from Pacifica, Calif., takes a moment to hold an Iraqi child while on patrol in a neighborhood near the forward operating base, May 31. Quirarte serves with Military Police Platoon, Brigade Special Troop Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Multi-National Division-Baghdad. Photo by Spc. Grant Okubo. FORWARD OPERATING BASE LOYALTY — Patriot Brigade Soldiers of 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Multi-National Division – Baghdad, exuded a genuine, vested interest for the community as they patrolled neighborhoods surrounding Forward Operating Base Loyalty, May 31. Soldiers assigned to Military Police Platoon, Headquarters...
  • Metropolitan Laurus deceased

    03/16/2008 3:00:26 PM PDT · by kawaii · 12 replies · 754+ views
    interfax ^ | March 16 | intefax
    Metropolitan Laurus deceased http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=dujour&div=163 New York, March 16, Interfax – First hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia Metropolitan Laurus of Eastern America and New York Diocese deceased on Sunday at the age of 80, the ROCOR website has reported. Metropolitan Laurus passed away on the Feast of Orthodoxy. He was born Vassily Mikhailovich Skurla on January 1, 1928, in the village of Ladomirova, present day Slovakia. He was ordained to the diaconate in 1950, and became a hieromonk in 1954. Fr. Laurus graduated from the Holy Trinity Theological Seminary in 1954 and was appointed its inspector in...
  • The extraordinary £22,000 shopping list of luxury goods every MP can buy at YOUR expense

    03/14/2008 6:04:54 AM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 9 replies · 416+ views
    Daily Mail ^ | 03/14/08 | DANIEL MARTIN
    Revealed: The extraordinary £22,000 shopping list of luxury goods every MP can buy at YOUR expense Last updated at 07:50am on 14th March 2008 John Lewis: The store is the benchmark against which MPs can claim expenses An extraordinary portrait of how MPs are kitting out their homes with luxury goods at the taxpayer's expense has been revealed. They are allowed to claim a total of £22,000 for a range of items ranging from a £200 food processor and a £750 high-definition TV to £10,000 for a new kitchen and £6,000 for a bathroom. The secret list of 38 items...
  • Female MPs Train Female IPs on Search Techniques

    02/19/2008 3:20:31 PM PST · by SandRat · 1 replies · 48+ views
    Yassmin Khudair, a policewoman in Diyala Iraqi Police force, searches Spc. Stephanie Beachley of the 202nd Military Police Company during female search training Feb. 16 at the Iraqi police headquarters in Baqubah. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Russell Bassett, 4/2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team Public Affairs. < BAQUBAH — Terrorist networks in Iraq have demonstrated their willingness to use women to conduct attacks against Coalition and Iraqi security forces, as well as innocent Iraqi citizens. In Diyala province alone, there have been four female suicide bomb attacks since late November. To help combat this threat, military policewomen with the...
  • Inquiry Launched Into 'Bugging" Muslim MP

    02/03/2008 9:56:30 PM PST · by blam · 3 replies · 161+ views
    The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 2-4-2008 | Robert Winnett
    Inquiry launched into 'bugging' of Muslim MP By Robert Winnett, Deputy Political Editor Last Updated: 1:52am GMT 04/02/2008 Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, has launched a formal inquiry into claims a senior Labour Muslim MP had been bugged during private meetings with a constituent. David Davis' bugging warning letter in full Leader: Reasoning to listen with Sadiq Khan MP Scotland Yard is alleged to have eavesdropped on meetings between Sadiq Khan, a Government whip, and a terrorist suspect currently being held in prison. The police and security services have been barred from bugging MPs for more than 40 years. Watch:...
  • Kenya Peace Talks Called Off As Second MP Shot

    01/31/2008 6:45:55 PM PST · by blam · 3 replies · 153+ views
    The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 2-1-2008 | David Blair
    Kenya peace talks called off as second MP shot By David Blair, Diplomatic Editor Last Updated: 1:55am GMT 01/02/2008 Talks designed to end the political crisis in Kenya were called off yesterday after police shot dead an opposition MP. Telegraph TV: Crisis hits Kenya's vital flower market David Kimutai Too, who died in the Rift Valley town of Eldoret, was the second MP from the opposition Orange Democratic Movement to have been murdered this week. Mugabe Were, another backbencher, was killed on Tuesday in Nairobi. His death provoked more unrest, with police tear-gassing mourners outside his home. Mr Too's murder...
  • Vitamin D Deficiency Study Raises New Questions About Disease And Supplements

    01/26/2008 10:56:49 PM PST · by blam · 78 replies · 1,902+ views
    Science Daily ^ | 1-27-2008 | Autoimmunity Research Foundation
    Vitamin D Deficiency Study Raises New Questions About Disease And Supplements ScienceDaily (Jan. 27, 2008) — Low blood levels of vitamin D have long been associated with disease, and the assumption has been that vitamin D supplements may protect against disease. However, this new research demonstrates that ingested vitamin D is immunosuppressive and that low blood levels of vitamin D may be actually a result of the disease process. Supplementation may make the disease worse. In a new report Trevor Marshall, Ph.D., professor at Australia’s Murdoch University School of Biological Medicine and Biotechnology, explains how increased vitamin D intake affects...
  • Rochester-based soldiers return home

    11/14/2007 3:42:21 PM PST · by mdittmar · 6 replies · 196+ views
    Post-Bulletin ^ | 11/14/2007 | Post-Bulletin
    Flags, applause, hugs and tears greeted 27 soldiers from the Rochester-based 79th Military Police Co. of the Army Reserve as they rolled into the city this morning for a homecoming celebration. Flags and motorcycles from the Minnesota Patriot Guard as well as nearly 200 family and friends were waiting for the soldiers as they returned to their unit's home after 14 months on active duty, mostly in Iraq. Fire trucks were parked on U.S. 52 overpasses as another greeting, and firefighters at the Army Reserve Center pulled out the ladder on their truck to hang the American flag from it....
  • Two N.Y.-based Alaskans killed in Iraq

    11/12/2007 10:37:25 AM PST · by RDTF · 6 replies · 173+ views
    Anchorage Daily News ^ | Nov 7, 2007 | not specified
    Two soldiers from Alaska were among four killed in Iraq on Monday when a roadside bomb exploded near their Humvee, the U.S. Department of Defense said today. Staff Sgt. Carletta S. Davis, 34, of Anchorage and Sgt. Derek T. Stenroos, 24, of North Pole were serving with a unit from Fort Drum, N.Y., post spokesmen said in a written statement. They died during combat operations in Tal Al-Dahab, Iraq. Davis was assigned to the 10th Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry). Stenroos was assigned to the 1st Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat...
  • Vatican's honest position furthers dialogue - Metropolitan Kirill

    07/13/2007 5:05:08 AM PDT · by kawaii · 2 replies · 413+ views
    interfax ^ | 11 July 2007, 10:00 | interfax
    11 July 2007, 10:00 Vatican's honest position furthers dialogue - Metropolitan Kirill Moscow, July 11, Interfax - The Russian Orthodox Church has called "honest" the position of the Vatican published in a document of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith stating that the Catholic Church is the only Church approved by Christ. "It is an honest statement. It is much better than the so-called 'church diplomacy'." It shows how close or, on the contrary, how divided we are," Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, who heads the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations, told journalists in Moscow....
  • Anti-Syrian MP mourned in Lebanon

    06/14/2007 7:35:46 AM PDT · by Ancient Drive · 1 replies · 189+ views
    BBC ^ | Thursday, 14 June 2007, 14:23 GMT 15:23 UK | BBC News
    The funeral has taken place in Lebanon of an anti-Syrian MP killed in a bomb attack in Beirut. A day of national mourning was declared after Walid Eido and nine other people were killed on Wednesday in the city's mainly Muslim Manara district. Thousands of supporters of the Western-backed government lined the streets for the funeral procession. Shops, banks and schools were closed. He is the sixth leading anti-Syrian figure to be killed since 2005. Syria has condemned the killing and denied any involvement. The foreign ministry said the allegations that it was responsible were part of a campaign of...
  • Act of Canonical Communion signed in Moscow

    05/17/2007 8:34:10 AM PDT · by kawaii · 29 replies · 628+ views
    interfax ^ | 17 May 2007, 10:33 | interfax
    17 May 2007, 10:33 Act of Canonical Communion signed in Moscow (updated) Moscow, May 17, Interfax - The Act of Canonical Communion between the Russian Orthodox Church in Russia and abroad was signed at Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral on Thursday morning. The historic document was signed by Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia and by First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia Metropolitan Laurus. The ceremony is being attended by President Vladimir Putin, several thousands Orthodox believers, including believers who have arrived from abroad, and about 500 journalists. The Christ the Savior Cathedral is...
  • MP puts his 'big foot' in it [so rare 'Big foot' risks extinction and should be protected]

    05/04/2007 10:07:18 AM PDT · by bedolido · 2 replies · 250+ views
    news.com.au ^ | 05-04-2007 | staff writer
    BIGFOOT, the legendary hairy man-beast said to roam the wildernesses of North America, is so rare it risks extinction and should be protected, according to a slightly confused Canadian MP. "The debate over their existence is moot in the circumstance of their tenuous hold on merely existing," reads a petition presented by Mike Lake to Parliament. "Therefore, the petitioners request the House of Commons to establish . . . legislation to affect immediate protection of Bigfoot."
  • Bombing Backfires By Uniting Iraq's MPs

    04/14/2007 6:34:04 PM PDT · by blam · 17 replies · 796+ views
    The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 4-14-2007 | Robert Watson - Aqeel Hussein
    Bombing backfires by uniting Iraq's MPs By Robert Watson and Aqeel Hussein in Baghdad, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 11:54pm BST 14/04/2007 The bombing of Iraq's parliament by suspected al-Qaeda militants appears to have backfired by uniting Sunni and Shia politicians against a common enemy. The Iraqi parliament holds a special session one day after the blast An alliance of Sunni insurgent groups that includes al-Qaeda in Iraq claimed responsibility for Thursday's attack, in which an MP died and more than 20 other people were injured. Shia parliamentarians had previously voiced disquiet at the security threat posed by their Sunni colleagues,...
  • Diocese of Korsun suspends its participation in Assembly of Orthodox Bishops of France

    03/27/2007 7:27:19 AM PDT · by kawaii · 2 replies · 357+ views
    interfax ^ | 27 March 2007, 16:20 | interfax
    27 March 2007, 16:20 Moscow Patriarchate's diocese of Korsun suspends its participation in Assembly of Orthodox Bishops of France Paris, February 27, Interfax - The Russian Orthodox Church's diocese of Korsun has sustained its participation in the Assembly of Orthodox Bishops of France (AOBF) because of 'crisis developments' in its work. The AOBF is an advisory body of bishops belonging to various Orthodox jurisdictions existing in France. It is led by a representative of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. The clergy and laity of the French deanery of the Korsun diocesan at their meeting chaired by the ruling bishop, Innokenty (Vasilyev)...