Who knew bin Laden watched Obama on TV? His journal and other shocking discoveries.

Read the link below for the crackdown on the latest news on bin Laden.

bin Laden's secret journal uncovered. Apparently the now dead terrorist was suggesting Al-Qaeda to target smaller cities such as Los Angeles as well, and was even looking to target trains, rather than just airplanes.

"It may be the most valuable find of all - a written record that takes readers inside the mind of America's greatest enemy." 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1385871/Osama-Bin-Laden-terrorism-plans-revealed-secret-journal.html#ixzz1M8SBOXCw

    Video footage found in tapes taken by US government of the Al Qaeda chief watching Obama on TV 

Victory Day Celebration for Russia

Showing the western world that its military demonstration are just as festive as royal weddings, Russia steps up to the plate and shows the world what its got. The Russian troops march on to celebrate its day of victory over the Nazi's in WWII on this very day.

The Russian President has even Tweeted about it, here: http://twitter.com/#!/medvedevrussiae

All images via: http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1086901-Moscow-Victory-Day-Parade-Watch-Now!

These pictures are? FAKE

     http://wacawogef.blogspot.com/2011/05/osama-bin-laden-fake-picture.html

Having seen a huge header on Daily Mail UK's website homepage on May 1st with Bin Laden's real blood stained decapitated face on it, I came to believe that this was his real dead face. A mere minutes later, I once again logged on to the same homepage to find the picture gone. It was a fast updated, and I was somewhat confused why the most important picture had disappeared from the site so fast. Today I cam across a link that explained it all, it turns out the photo was made by Pakistani's and was a fake.

Read more about it here: http://www.euronews.net/2011/05/02/dead-bin-laden-photo-is-a-fake/

Where he lived, and where he died.

We all know that Bin Laden has been hunted and killed in a compound in which he lived since 2005, for six years no one had found him and bothered to look for him, because we all thought he was living in a cave? The past still remains a mystery.

The compound in Abbottaband was definitely no cave, but rather like a mansion when compared to neighboring houses around it.

Here the neighbors talk: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13257338

With Bin Laden dead many people came out to celebrate on May, 1. But some still speculate that the real Bin Laden is not dead. Until the US Government releases the official pictures of Bin Laden we can only wait.

Royal Memories-A look back at the wedding of the year.

On the beautiful Friday of April 29th, under Halo gray skies that remained dry, Catherine Middleton married Prince William in Alexander McQueen by Sarah Burton. 

The Queen, Elton John, the late Princess Diana's Brother and Nieces, and family were present. Interestingly enough William looked quite bored at the altar while Catherine stood calm and diligently. The woman is remarkably classy and well mannered, quite soft spoken as well. After all the choir singing and celebration, the couple retired back to Buckingham Palace in a carriage befit for only Cinderella herself, but don't be fooled Kate is not your regular Cinderella, but a modern day Princess, which a touch of Reiss, a modern classic. Then after the couple emerged with William behind the wheel in his father's sports car, and off went the happy couple. The partying for the wedding held out until the wee hours of the evening. A perfect ending to the perfect relationship, or perhaps it is only the beginning?

Are you stalking your iphone, or is your iphone stalking you?

     http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/tracking-device-leads-police-suspected-iphone-thieves

     http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/04/your-iphone-is-secretly-tracking-everywhere-you-go/

Apple's iphone seems to have a tracking device file available that can be expanded with research technology using a tracking software to see where you have been with your iphone since you bought it. Using signal towers instead of GPS signal, it's almost impossible to turn off the tracking. Continue reading at:
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/04/20/iphone.tracking/index.html?hpt=T1

Obama on top

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Having just taken a look at a Gaddafi slideshow, it is interesting to see how tall Obama is compared to Sarkozy and Gaddafi. If there was a war between who was taller, Obama would definitely be winning!

INTO THE FIGHT: LATEST PICTURE UPDATES ON LIBYA

    Satellite image of Sirte

    Gadhafi tank near Ajdabiya

    Rebels in Ras Lanuf

    Open fire near Bin Jawad

Gandhi; a defining moment of shock

http://highdefinitionphotosandwallpapers.blogspot.com/2011/02/mahatma-gandhi-imgemahatma-gandhi.html

Mahatma Gandhi fans across the world, brace yourselves. Because the man who cared for his country and family may not look so straight anymore. According to new sources by British writer Joseph Lelyveld 'Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi And His Struggle With India' in his new book; Gandhi left his wife he had married when he was 14 and lived in South African with German body builder and architect Hermann Kallenbach for two years in the same house. Gandhi also cited before that whenever he thought of vaseline and cotton wool he would think of Kallenbach. This new biography also exposes other peeves of Gandhi, and his activities with his niece that bring new insight into the life of Gandhi. This very likely will bring uproar and horrendous shock to Gandhi fans around the world who worship him at a god like status.

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1370554/Gandhi-left-wife-live-male-lover-new-book-claims.html

And we remember...

Perhaps now at a time of mourning for Liz, we can recount the words she once said, in mourning for her best friend, and know that she is in a better place now with Michael and the people she loves.

“My heart … my mind … are broken. I loved Michael with all my soul and I can’t imagine life without him. We had so much in common and we had such loving fun together. I was packing up my clothes to go to London for his opening when I heard the news. I still can’t believe it. I don’t want to believe it. It can’t be so. He will live in my heart forever but it’s not enough. My life feels so empty. I don’t think anyone knew how much we loved each other. The purest most giving love I’ve ever known. Oh God! I’m going to miss him. I can’t yet imagine life without him. But I guess with God’s help … I’ll learn. I keep looking at the photo he gave me of himself, which says, ‘To my true love Elizabeth, I love you forever.’ And, I will love HIM forever.”


Source of quote: http://www.fadedyouthblog.com/115011/elizabeth-taylor-issues-a-statement-about-the-death-of-michael-jackson33

May you rest in peace-living a life of glamour, Elizabeth Taylor

As of recent reports, Elizabeth Taylor aged 79 has died of congestive heart failure. Famous for her role as Cleopatra and other memorable roles, the beauty and talent of Liz lives on in our hearts.

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Kate Middleton vs. Princess Diana; why compare?

http://guestofaguest.com/why-dont-you/why-dont-you-channel-princess-diana/

http://dailymaxam.com/2010/11/23/prince-william-engaged-but-who-is-kate-middleton/

http://www.stylelist.com/2011/01/26/kate-middleton-vs-princess-diana-who-is-more-stylish/

With the royal wedding almost under way, many media outlets have been comparing Kate and Diana. Monica Ali sums up the lives of these different "Princesses" and why the general public loves comparing them so much. 

"And we want to feel that we've "learned the lessons" from Diana's life, and the way it turned into a tragedy. We want to know that Kate has learned them too, and commentators have approvingly noted that she keeps her mouth shut and her lawyer in the wings, apparently acting on the hindsight of Diana's legacy.

But, for all that we wouldn't wish Diana's difficulties on Kate, there is a part of us that longs for another Diana, and that is why her daughter-in-law to be faces the unending comparisons.

Diana was a fascinating, warm-hearted individual, who reached out to the public as no other royal before her. She was a gorgeous bundle of trouble who broke the mold, and in so doing, captured many millions of hearts around the globe. We'd never seen her like before and I doubt we ever will again. Comparisons, in the end, are futile. Kate is her own person, but Diana was one of a kind."

-Monica Ali comparing Kate Middleton to the late Princess Diana

Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/03/14/uk.monica.ali.comment/index.html

The True Story of Lech Walesa

An inspirational film about the Solidarity leader and President of Poland, Lech Walesa. A man who can be defined as "living history".

http://www.buymrbongo.com

THE HOLY LAND; the place with the purest oil in the world, and what they're going to do with it

http://www.spaceandmotion.com

Libya, now known as a holy land, as the democratic powers form in another imperialist like league in their hunt for oil. Primarily involved is the French President Mr. Sarkozy.

Libyan oil is actually the purest in the world because it does not require, a second process to enhance it as oil from other countries needs. Thus, the power holders of the world are now very keen to get their hands on this god foresaken place called Libya.

In this bid for more oil, and now added onto that slogan "better oil", Obama (the beloved president that he is), may not be holding his hand out for Libya at all but could in turn be seen as an oil mongorer type personality, like that of George W. Bush.

It can be understood why Mr. Sarkozy wants all this oil, sure France has had its downward moments in history. But now they want to step above the US trenches and gain some oil for themselves; for France, the "gold" of the 21st century I suppose. So in turn these presidents fighting for their countries will power and "gold", can also be seen as "gold diggers" or in this case perhaps "oil diggers".

In America's bid for democracy worldwide, once again, bringing up the Truman Doctrine "we have a duty to protect the free nations of the world (aiding small nations under violent, corrupt, and unjust rule)"-it is not difficult to understand Obama's motive for moving into Libya, but the truth is Libya could turn out to be another Iran or Afghanistan, in worse circumstances maybe even like Iraq. The point is once a country or a few countries decide to mobilize; bring their troops into the place, they can't just get the freakin' hell out of there, they need to help build the government ground up after defeating the Gadhafi forces. Thus, the future of the Libyan nation is now in the hands of capitalist France, USA, and Britain. All these countries were once well known colonizers as well, would it be surprising to say that the new diminishing of terrorist states, like Libya, or Iraq; is just a new way of colonizing, may the term "terronizing be suggested"?

Well leave it to the big three here to decide who is terrorizing who, personally there is lots of irony in the current situation in Libya, and not just from one perspective either.

Where they're based, what they're landing, where they're landing

Read the article at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1368043/Libya-US-Tomahawk-missiles-herald-beginning-end-Gaddafi.html

I’m a Chinese resident, get me outta here!

 http://www.ausbt.com.au/china-blocking-gmail-and-secure-vpns

A RECOUNT FROM FRIDAY NIGHT:

Today at exactly 7:30pm or so my Express VPN failed on me. Checking all the servers I was not able to cross the Great Fire Wall Of China, and struggled to link two more VPN’s to no avail.

VPN number one: something called GoTrusted (always telling me to click “secure connection”) is actually quite insecure with itself and tried to disconnect and tether off as soon as I was connected. Loading Blogspot from GoTrust was like eating shit out of a horses’ mouth. In conclusion: it did not work. So then I decided to move on to my next VPN.

This time something called Surf VPN with a Tunnelback installation, all this is sounding very Australian somehow. This VPN required me to pay via a Google email account, which I did so, as soon as I paid, I could not get into Gmail to retrieve my password. Remembering a friend had said she couldn’t get on Gmail a few days ago, I decided that that must have been blocked by the firewall too.

Somewhere along the Googling VPN’s I found a link to an Australian business site with a post about the firewall of China blocking different sources of online media and websites. Apparently, a recent uprising of protestors on the web in China were using VPN’s to access their communication site. Thus, the Chinese government has shut them down. This site told me that Gmail is being monitored too, and that SSL VPN’s work better because it is hard for the Chinese government to monitor. Then having said this the article advised a SSL VPN Witopia at the end of the article, which upon one click on its link, quickly revealed that the VPN download site from Witopia was no longer working. Really, it is quite dumb how the site has decided to suggest and give kind and direct advice to our China resident viewers by sabotaging Witopia use in China form the start by giving it out blatantly. I think from now on we should think with our heads on this one.

Apparently the Chinese government is also blocking Skype, a product I have not had trouble accessing, apart from the somewhat irregular pauses in the system when I my status shows offline when my computer is actually connected to the internet. The site also states that the government has been joining paid VPN’s in order to figure out if the proxies actually work; to bring them down. This I personally find ironic and hilarious, binding to the phrase “if you can’t beat em’ join em’ ”. Despite the blocking of Chinese VPN’s a Chinese official in charge of the Information Office Internet Affairs Bureau of China’s ruling State Council states that there has never been a problem with corporate company VPN’s, suggesting that the government, being the “socialist” country with the capitalist characteristics it entails, does not want their censoring of protestors to influence their fair trade policy or economy and trade with foreign investors.

Later, after some more web surfing a Mr. Nyguyen’s web service blog yielded some quotes that can typically describe the fury most people like myself feel because of the censoring China is doing to its users on the world wide web. Mr. Nyguyen says “At first I thought binh.name is blocked, and I was thinking ‘Why? Did I do anything against China?’. Then when I changed the DNS to 203.12.160.35 I realized it's just China ISP has really poor DNS server that doesn't even know half of the World Wide Web. Notice the lines ‘why did I do anything against china’ and "doesn't even know half the www" really are humorous highlights to Mr. Nyguyen’s argument. His statements and quote is more like an outcry for help that many of us living here in the PRC are willing to extend and make obvious.

The Chinese government strongly censors its people and everyone living in it, I guess I would not blame the government, because every time there is a political uprising about to take place they turn it down and shut it off. How do they do it? They find how these pre-protestors are communicating on the internet, what social networking site are they using, what VPN are they using to access which site that bears a main portal of communication for them;  helping them to communicate. This communication could ultimately lead to a successful revolution, which could take place at a scale even greater than the May 4^th movements that took place a few decades ago. So for now, China is uber sensitive and watching out for every little flame that lights up in its rice fields. Seeing the North African and Arab world, with authoritarian governments and their countries at stake, in reference to the events in Egypt and Libya, it is not surprising that China may be doing this for the right reasons, to protect its government system from any reversal of fortune. Just like Syria and the like, China is blocking sites for a reason, to preserve not only the legacy of Chairman Mao, Deng, and their successors, but in a way more than others; the legacy of the Chinese people. 

Point of Interest

via: http://westernexperience.wordpress.com/

This week in pictures

MONDAY: cross country skiing in Switzerland, during the Engadin Ski Marathon near Sils

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TUESDAY: life in ruins, a woman cries as she sits in devastated in Natori, Miyagi prefecture, three days after a massive earthquake hit the area

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WEDNESDAY: Chinese people in Gansu province scramble for salt, since alkaline salts have shown to help humans resist radiation (regarding Japanese radiation having an effect on Chinese provinces)

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ji2dpyPxiaTCybcTZajHpeQJWSmg?docId=CNG.1411cd01df64d8f14a45e3962493fb9a.671

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ji2dpyPxiaTCybcTZajHpeQJWSmg?docId=CNG.1411cd01df64d8f14a45e3962493fb9a.671

THURSDAY: old elegance was remembered at Paris Fashion week Christian Dior Fall 2011 runway this week, in Galliano's presumably last collection for Dior

http://luxury-mode.blogspot.com/

FRIDAY: below a boardwalk in California in the photo, a snow storm hits California, as the arctic weather brushes down on the United States