scary

NKorea says it will 'weaponize' its plutonium

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea vowed Saturday to step up its atomic bomb-making program and threatened war if its ships are stopped as part of new U.N. sanctions aimed at punishing the nation for its latest nuclear test.

North Korea's Foreign Ministry also acknowledged for the first time that the country has a uranium enrichment program, and insisted it will never abandon its nuclear ambitions. Uranium and plutonium can be used to make atomic bombs.

"An attempted blockade of any kind by the U.S. and its followers will be regarded as an act of war and met with a decisive military response," the North said.

via associated press

boobs?

this girl likes attention

Heidi Montag Headed for Playboy
Friday, June 12, 2009

She is now a married woman, but it seems as though that wasn't enough to stop Heidi Montag from baring her body to the world in the ultimate men’s magazine “Playboy.”

While the men’s mag declined to comment on the busty blonde’s appearance, Hef told FOXNews.com just last month that the self-proclaimed Christian girl —and wife of Spencer Pratt — would most likely be posing.

via fox news

world war III; the prologue

this should end well

China Warns Against Force in Carrying Out North Korea Sanctions

June 13 (Bloomberg) -- China warned about the dangers involved in inspecting North Korean cargo under United Nations Security Council sanctions approved yesterday, saying countries intercepting vessels should avoid armed action.

“Under no circumstance should there be the use of force or the threat of use of force” in implementing the sanctions in Resolution 1874, Chinese Ambassador Zhang Yesui said in New York. Inspecting vessels carrying North Korean cargo is “complicated” and “sensitive,” he said.

The Security Council voted 15 to O to punish North Korea for its May nuclear-bomb test and missile launches. The resolution authorizes stepped-up inspection of air or sea cargoes suspected of being destined for the development of nuclear arms or ballistic missiles.

via bloomberg

xbox's new controller-less technology demo

seems that the technology still has a few glitches, but could be pretty sweet if they get it worked out.

change we can believe in

this is disappointing but not surprising.

Obama taps more big donors for ambassadorships

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama on Thursday tapped four big Democratic Party donors for plum ambassadorships in Europe and Latin America while naming six career diplomats to posts in Africa, the Mideast and the Pacific.

• Washington lawyer Howard Gutman, raised more than $500,000 for Obama, personally contributed the maximum $4,600 to it, U.S. envoy to Belgium.

• Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Donald Beyer, raised more than $500,000 for Obama, personally contributed $4,600, ambassador to Switzerland and Luxembourg.
  

• Vinai Thummalapally, a Colorado business executive, raised between $100,000 and $200,000, personally donated $4,500, U.S. ambassador to Belize.

via my way news

aw c'mon hans, bweakin my bwalls

this dude is just askin for it. it'll be interesting to see how his successor, kim jong-un, handles nukes and the u.n.

North Korea to Match U.N. Resolution With New Nuclear Test

U.S. intelligence officials have warned President Obama and other senior American officials that North Korea intends to respond to the passage of a U.N. Security Council resolution this week -- condemning the communist country for its recent nuclear and ballistic missile tests -- with another nuclear test, FOX News has learned.

What's more, Pyongyang's next nuclear detonation is but one of four planned actions the Central Intelligence Agency has learned, through sources inside North Korea, that the regime of Kim Jong-Il intends to take -- but not announce -- once the Security Council resolution is officially passed, likely on Friday.

via fox news

final destination now a reality show?

this lady must have really pissed off some higher power...

Woman Who Avoided Air France Tragedy Killed in Car Wreck Days Later

An Italian woman was killed in a car crash in Austria just days after she narrowly avoided becoming a victim of the Air France plane crash.

The car swerved into an oncoming truck and Johanna Ganthaler was killed. Her husband was seriously injured.

via fox news

say it aint so(cialism) part 2

wow. this happened in three months.

Americans' net worth shrinks $1.33 trillion in 1Q

WASHINGTON (AP) - American households lost $1.33 trillion of their wealth in the first three months of the year as the recession took a bite out of stock portfolios and dragged down home prices.

The Federal Reserve reported Thursday that household net worth fell to $50.38 trillion in the January-March quarter, the lowest level since the third quarter of 2004. The first-quarter figure marked a decline of 2.6 percent, or $1.33 trillion, from the final quarter of 2008.

via breitbart

say it aint so(cialism)

this is getting a little ridiculous...

Administration: Rein in pay in US private sector

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration says executive compensation must be better managed to prevent the sort of risk-taking that jeopardizes the economy.

Gene Sperling, who advises Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, said Thursday the administration does not want to impose caps on executive pay. But he also laid out for the House Financial Services Committee a list of guidelines calling on publicly-held companies to link compensation to long-term performance, not short-term gains.

Sperling said in prepared testimony that the administration believes compensation practices "must be better aligned with long-term value and prudent risk management at all firms, and not just for the financial services industry."

via yahoo finance

iranian elections, part 2

worst holocaust denier ever...

Ahmadinejad Tears into Rivals on Eve of Election

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's hard-line president took a final shot at his rivals Wednesday during his last public pre-election rally, accusing them of resorting to a smear campaign against him similar to the one used by Adolf Hitler's propaganda minister.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is locked in a neck-and-neck race against reformist Mir Hossein Mousavi. The Iranian president and his main pro-reform opponent have accused each other using Hitler-like propaganda tactics in order to win on Friday.

"They applied the methods of (Josef) Goebbels, propaganda minister of Hitler," Ahmadinejad told thousands of Iranian-flag waving supporters. "They used this method of psychological war against our nation."

via Huffington Post