By Rob Quinn 
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Norway cheese fire shuts down road tunnel
UFO Sighting Live during President Obama inaugural TV Speech 2013 News Caught On Tape this week, Jan 2013.
By ScottCWaring
Date of sighting: January 22, 2013
Location of sighting: Washington, D.C., USA
During President Obama‘s 2013 Inaugural speech yesterday…an alien ship appeared near the top of the Washington Monument. The bluish-green craft was caught when Fox News was panning in and out at the end of a broadcast.
Why would aliens be interested in Obama‘s speech and the inauguration? Wow, there are so many reasons, but the main one is that they get an opportunity to see many celebrities of America all in one place at one time. The celebrities influence the American people in many ways…shaping the personalities and politics the USA has today. Stars such as Alicia Keys, Brad Paisley and the Mexican rock group Mana, the first couple danced as Jennifer Hudson sang the classic song, “Let’s Stay Together,” by Al Green. Also James Taylor, Kelly Clarkson and Beyonce were there. Not to mention Joe Biden, congressmen and senators all watched as Obama was sworn in.
This is not the first time UFOs appeared around President Obama but actually the 4th time. The first time was November 1, 2008 at Pueblo, Colorado when he was on the campaign stage being recorded by MSNBC when a grey disk flew past. The second time was January 20, 2009 at Washington, DC (in front of the Washington Monument) when Obama was giving his first inaugural speech, recorded by CNN when a grey disk shot past the Washington Monument at incredible speeds but even the CNN news reporters noticed it and mentioned it. The third sighting was Dec 9, 2009 in Norway when Obama was receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, a giant blue spiral appeared and was so massive that millions of people saw it that night from several countries.
So clearly President Obama has at least one species of aliens that support his ideas and goals for America and the world. We sit and wonder…is the interest aliens have with Obama just because they want to see history in the making, or are they alien paparazzi that spread the news across the universe. Perhaps the answer is more sinister and closer to home…he may be one of them. SCW
Polish PGNiG's Hinc to Run Norway Operations, Resigns As CFO
Polish state-controlled gas monopoly PGNiG SA (PGN.WA) said Wednesday that Chief Financial Officer Slawomir Hinc has resigned from his job to run the company’s upstream operations in Norway.
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Swine Flu Shot May Have Caused Kids' Narcolepsy
By Matt Cantor 
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‘Numerous’ Other Bodies Found At Algeria Plant
Algerian bomb squads scouring a gas plant where Islamist militants took dozens of foreign workers hostage found “numerous” new bodies on Sunday as they searched for explosive traps left behind by the attackers, a security official said, a day after a bloody raid ended the four-day siege of the remote desert refinery.
The official, who spoke condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation, said the bodies were badly disfigured and difficult to identify.
“The bodies could be either Algerian or foreign hostages,” he said.
Algerian special forces stormed the natural gas complex in the Sahara desert on Saturday to end the standoff, and the government said all 32 militants were killed. Earlier Sunday, Algeria’s chief government spokesman said he feared the toll of hostages — which stood at 23 on Saturday — would rise as the special forces teams finished their search.
He said the militants came from six countries and were armed to cause maximum destruction. Sonatrach, the Algerian state oil company running the Ain Amenas site along with BP and Norway’s Statoil, said the entire refinery had been mined.
Today in History for 20th January 2013
Historical Events
1523 – Christian II is forced to abdicate as King of Denmark and Norway.
1934 – Japan sends Henry Pu Yi as regent to emperor of Manchuria
1946 – F Gouin follows De Gaulle as temporary leader of French government
1953 – 1st live coast-to-coast inauguration address (Eisenhower)
1974 – 4th NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 15-13
1996 – US female Figure Skating championship won by Michelle Kwan
Famous Birthdays
1622 – Susanna van Baerle, Dutch poet/wife of Geeraert Burns
1761 – Giovanni Domenico Perotti, composer
1847 – W R Pettiford, Founder (Alabama Penny Savings Bank)
1877 – Ruth St Denis, Newark NJ, ballerina (Dances of the 5 Senses)
1973 – Princess Mathilde, Duchess of Brabant
1977 – Melody, Belgian singer
Famous Deaths
1850 – Adam Oehlenschläger, Danish poet (b. 1779)
1993 – Audrey Hepburn, actress (Roman Holiday), dies of colon cancer at 63
1995 – Robert Shaw, town Planner, dies at 81
1996 – Ellis Hillman, politician, dies at 68
1997 – Curt Flood, centerfielder (Cards), dies of throat cancer at 59
2008 – Ali Sadikin, former Jakarta famous governor (b. 1927)
Source: FULL ARTICLE at HistoryOrb.Com – This Day in History
Copyright suit pits Fair Use against unlicensed distribution
Digital civil rights groups asked a federal court in New York Friday to reject what they call an attempt by the Associated Press (AP) to restrict Fair Use of content on the Internet.
“If adopted by this or any other court, this view would sharply curtail the essential role fair use plays in facilitating online innovation and expression, restricting the use and development of services that allow users to find, organize, and share public information, services that depend on making intermediate copies, and even personal consumer uses such as time-shifting,” argued a “friend of the court” brief filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Public Knowledge and the Stanford Law School Center for Internet & Society.
The brief was submitted in a lawsuit between the AP wire service and news clipping service Meltwater of Norway.
Service called ‘parasite’
When the AP filed the lawsuit against Meltwater in February 2012, the wire news service’s president and CEO Tom Curley called Meltwater “a parasitic distribution service that competes directly with traditional news sources without paying license fees to cover the costs of creating those stories.”
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Canadian $20 bears Norwegian leaf
OTTAWA, Jan. 18 (UPI) — Some Canadian botanists say the maple leaf appearing on the country’s new $20 bills is a species from Norway, not Canada.
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Canadian Botanists Say Currency Has Wrong Leaf
By John Johnson 
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The National Concealed Carry And Mass Murder Prevention Act Of 2013
By Avg Joe
In response to Senator Dianne Feinstein’s soon to be introduced horribly restrictive, unconstitutional assault weapons ban that assaults the Second Amendment and the private property rights of law abiding citizens, this legislation is designed to provide the framework for a National Concealed Carry Permit to be issued to qualifying adults and allow the unrestricted carry of concealed arms that may otherwise be prohibited by federal, state and local laws. Such places include schools, universities, court houses, federal buildings, and airlines.
States, counties, and local governments regulate the concealed and open carry of firearms. The Federal Government has protected some places as firearms-restricted areas. This has restricted the ability of law abiding citizens to protect themselves and others. It has created gun-free zones that have become targets for terrorists, murderers, rapists, and robbers.
This act will supersede the local or state government’s authority to restrict the carrying of firearms and enhance the security of citizens within these areas and establish standards that go beyond the average citizens’ ability to carry concealed firearms. This act would create an armed citizen militia designed for the sole purpose of protecting the citizenry from heinous acts of violence.
Not everyone will be qualified or make the commitment to the process of obtaining a permit. The selection process should seek out the individual who has the mental ability and sound judgment to intercede in a situation where they may be called upon to take a human life in the defense of another. This is a significant point as most citizens carry firearms or seek concealed carry permits for their own protection and may be hesitant to intercede on behalf of another.
National organizations that have a demonstrated record of providing firearms training could be utilized to train or assist in the training of these citizens.
This legislation is intended to elicit thousands of volunteers who are trained and willing to use a firearm in defense of themselves and innocent victims on a national level.
This act encourages the states to pass “right to carry” legislation and continue to issue concealed carry permits for their citizens. Expansion of legal concealed carry rights and citizen militias within each state will further prevent crime and establish a safer society.
During natural disasters, emergency personnel and law enforcement can be quickly overwhelmed as efforts are maximized towards the disaster relief effort, leaving citizens to fend off looters, robbers, and rapists. An armed citizenry is usually the first and sometimes only line of defense.
The Federal Concealed Carry and Mass Murder Prevention Act of 2013
Purpose: Establish a means by which selected citizens could apply and receive federal authorization to carry a loaded concealed firearm on their person, for the explicit purposes of self protection and preventing terrorist activities and mass murder, allowing permit holders to carry concealed in places and institutions where firearms are generally prohibited, and promote the legal use of firearms and the safety of citizens.
Here is the framework of this legislation:
• The “Federal Agency” shall provide an application process and screening of citizens to include
o Background check
o Psychological testing
o Substance abuse
• The “Federal Agency” shall oversee a training program that includes
o Basic Firearm instruction
o Standard LE accuracy/evolution qualification with the firearm of choice
o Shoot-no-shoot qualification
o Re-certification of existing permit holders
• The “federal agency” shall appoint an office within each jurisdiction for the processing and administration of this program.
• The “Federal Agency” shall oversee the use of force and assemble shooting boards to examine and make determination whether use of force was justified.
• Minimum qualifications
o 25 years of age
o Psychological test
o Substance abuse test
o LE firearms use of force training
o LE shoot no shoot training
o Firearms qualification
• Permit holders will be required to submit data detailing when, where, and how often they carried concealed so as to direct recruitment efforts in geographic areas of the country with insufficient numbers of persons carrying concealed.
• Permit holders will immediately report any use of force.
• Permit holders will be held harmless from civil liability and criminal prosecution if the shooting review board determines that said permit holder acted in good faith and in accordance with use of force training and standards.
• Permit holders shall carry their permit on their person at all times when carrying a concealed firearm.
• Permit holders will bypass TSA screening at all airports and be recognized as sky marshal status aboard commercial aircraft.
• Each member of the military shall carry a side arm or long gun while in uniform.
• Each state shall develop a plan to train citizens in firearms responsibility and encourage the appropriate use of firearms for the purpose of self-defense.
• Permit holders can have their permits revoked at anytime.
Today in History for 16th January 2013
Historical Events
1909 – British explorer Ernest Shackleton finds magnetic south pole
1943 – German 2nd SS-Pantzer division evacuates Charkow
1951 – Viet Minh offensive against Hanoi
1965 – “Oh What a Lovely War” closes at Broadhurst NYC after 125 performances
1967 – 1st black government installed in Bahamas
1973 – NBC presents 440th and final showing of “Bonanza”
Famous Birthdays
1914 – Roger Aubert, Belgium, church historian (Le Pontificat de Pie IX)
1923 – Martin Stokken, Norway, nordic relay (Olympic-silver-1952)
1931 – Johannes Rau, German politician (d. 2006)
1938 – Jô Soares, Brazilian author, musician and TV personality
1964 – Trevor Barsby, cricketer (Queensland opening batsman since 1984-85)
1967 – Maxine Waters Jones, rocker (En Vogue)
Famous Deaths
1748 – Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1684)
1934 – Annie Patterson, composer, dies at 65
1963 – Gilardo Gilardi, composer, dies at 73
1987 – Bertram Wainer, Australian pro-abortion campaigner (b. 1928)
1996 – Kaye Webb, publisher, dies at 81
2001 – Laurent-Désiré Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1939)
Source: FULL ARTICLE at HistoryOrb.Com – This Day in History
Colombian peace talks resume in Havana
Colombia‘s main rebel group says it will end its unilateral cease-fire this weekend despite ongoing peace talks.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia is also calling on the government to show that it is serious about making progress in the negotiations by moving ahead more quickly. Talks restarted Monday in the Cuban capital after a month-long Christmas break.
The rebels’ chief negotiator, Ivan Marquez, says it is time for “clear proposals” from the government side. He also has outlined specific measures for agrarian reform, one of the main points of contention between the sides.
Talks began in October in Oslo, Norway and continued the following month in Havana. The rebels have been fighting the Colombian government since the 1960s. The rebels’ cease-fire ends Sunday.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Fox World News
Memorial or demolition? Newtown weighs fate of Sandy Hook Elementary after massacre
Talk about Sandy Hook Elementary School is turning from last month’s massacre to the future, with differing opinions on whether students and staff should ever return to the building where a gunman killed 20 first-graders and six educators.
Some Newtown residents say the school should be demolished and a memorial built on the property in honor of the victims killed Dec. 14. Others believe the school should be renovated and the areas where the killings occurred removed, like Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., after the 1999 mass shooting.
Those appear to be the two prevailing proposals as the community prepares for public hearings on the school’s fate Sunday afternoon and Jan. 18 at Newtown High School. Town officials also are planning private meetings with the victims’ families to get their input.
One of Newtown’s selectmen, Jim Gaston, said the building’s future has become a popular topic of discussion around town.
“It’s pretty raw, but people are talking about it,” he said. “We’d like to hear from as many people as we can.”
It’s a bittersweet discussion for parents and former students who have many good memories of Sandy Hook Elementary School, the site where Adam Lanza shot his way into the building and carried out the massacre before committing suicide as police arrived.
“I’m very torn,” said Laurie Badick, of Newtown, whose children attended the school several years ago. “Sandy Hook school meant the world to us before this happened. … I have my memories in my brain and in my heart, so the actual building, I think the victims need to decide what to do with that.”
Susan Gibney, who lives in Sandy Hook, said she purposely doesn’t drive by the school because it’s too disturbing. She has three children in high school, but they didn’t attend Sandy Hook Elementary School. She believes the building should be torn down.
“I wouldn’t want to have to send my kids back to that school,” said Gibney, 50. “I just don’t see how the kids could get over what happened there.”
Fran Bresson, a retired police officer who attended Sandy Hook Elementary School in the 1950s, wants the school to reopen, but he thinks the hallways and classrooms where staff and students were killed should be demolished.
“To tear it down completely would be like saying to evil, ‘You’ve won,'” the 63-year-old Southbury resident said.
Residents of towns where mass shootings occurred have grappled with the same dilemma. Some have renovated, some have demolished.
Columbine High School, where two student gunmen killed 12 schoolmates and a teacher, reopened several months afterward. Crews removed the library, where most of the victims died, and replaced it with an atrium.
On an island in Norway where 69 people — more than half of them teenagers attending summer camp — were killed by a gunman in 2011, extensive remodeling is planned. The main building, a cafeteria where 13 of the victims died, will be torn down.
Virginia Tech converted a classroom building where a student gunman killed 30 people in 2007 into a peace studies and violence prevention center.
An Amish community in Pennsylvania tore down the West Nickel Mines Amish School and built a new school a few hundred yards away after a gunman killed five girls there in 2006.
Until Newtown decides what to do, Sandy Hook students will continue attending a school renovated specially for them about 7 miles away in a neighboring town.
Newtown First Selectwoman E. Patricia Llodra said that in addition to the community meetings, the town is planning private gatherings with the victims’ families to talk about the school’s future. She said the aim is to finalize a plan by March.
“I think we have to start that conversation now,” Llodra said. “It will take many, many months to do any kind of school project. We have very big decisions ahead of us. The goal is to bring our students home as soon as we can.”
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3D Imaging Increases Breast Cancer Detection
Three-dimensional mammography combined with conventional breast imaging can increase breast cancer detection by 27%. The finding came from a team of experts at the University of Olso in Norway and was published in the journal Radiology. The researchers found that the detection rate for invasive and in situ cancers combined was 6…
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Norway Oil Fund Excludes Nuclear Weapon Producers, Reverses Exclusions
Babcock & Wilcox Co. (BWC) and Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (JEC) have been excluded from the portfolio of Norway‘s $698 billion sovereign wealth fund, or oil fund, because the companies were involved in the production of nuclear weapons, the Ministry of Finance said Friday.
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British men suspected in garlic smuggling ring
Swedish prosecutors say they have issued international arrest warrants for two Britons suspected of masterminding a smuggling ring involving over a ton of Chinese garlic.
Prosecutor Thomas Ahlstrand says the men first shipped the garlic to Norway by boat, where it entered the country duty-free since it was considered to be in transit. They then drove the approximately 1.2 tons of garlic across the Swedish border, avoiding customs checks and Swedish import duties.
Ahlstrand said Wednesday the men avoided some euro10 million ($13.1 million) in Swedish taxes through the scheme.
The prosecutor says a lengthy police investigation led to the identification of the two British allegedly behind the operation, which took place in 2009-2010.
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Suspect in NYC subway terror plot pleads not guilty
A man who initially beat terror charges in the United Kingdom pleaded not guilty on Monday in a U.S. case linking him to a failed Al Qaeda plot against the city’s subway system.
Abid Naseer was extradited from Britain late last week. He entered the plea in federal court in Brooklyn through his attorney, Steven Brounstein. The lawyer declined to comment outside court.
The judge ordered Naseer held without bail until his next court date, on March 7.
Prosecutors aim to prove that Naseer collected bomb ingredients, conducted reconnaissance and was in frequent contact with other Al Qaeda operatives. If convicted, Naseer, 26, could face up to life in prison.
Naseer was one of 12 people arrested in a counterterrorism operation in Britain in April 2009, but all were subsequently released without charges. They were ordered to leave the country, but Naseer avoided being deported to Pakistan after a judge ruled it was likely he would be mistreated if he were sent home.
Authorities rearrested Naseer in July 2010 at the request of prosecutors in Brooklyn, where a federal indictment named him as a co-defendant with Adis Medunjanin, a U.S. citizen from Bosnia. The prosecutors also alleged he was part of a broader terror campaign that would have targeted Britain and Norway.
Lawyers for Nasser fought his extradition, arguing that the American government would have fewer inhibitions about returning him to Pakistan. But in January 2011, a British judge approved the request, saying he believed the U.S. justice system would take into account the “very real risk” Naseer could be tortured by Pakistani authorities if deported.
U.S. authorities allege Medunjanin and two friends from Flushing High School in Queens — Najibullah Zazi and Zarein Ahmedzay — traveled to Pakistan in 2008 to seek terror training from Al Qaeda.
Zazi, an airport van driver from Colorado, admitted in a guilty plea that once back from Pakistan he tested peroxide-based explosive materials in a makeshift lab in Denver in the fall of 2009 before traveling by car to New York to carry out the scheme. The men abandoned the plot after they learned they were being watched by investigators.
Zazi and Ahmedzay, who also pleaded guilty, are awaiting sentencing.
Medunjanin was sentenced to life in prison after a guilty verdict at a trial last year. At his sentencing, he recited verses from the Quran and said he had “nothing to do with any subway plot or bombing plot whatsoever.”
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Fox US News
NYC terror suspect pleads not guilty to alleged plots in Britain, Norway
A suspect in an alleged Al Qaeda plot against the New York City subways also was part of a terror campaign that would have targeted Britain and Norway, U.S. prosecutors said.
Abid Naseer pleaded not guilty Monday through his attorney, Steven Brounstein. The lawyer declined to comment outside court.
The judge ordered Naseer, who was extradited last week from Britain, held without bail until his next court date, on March 7.
Prosecutors aim to prove that Naseer collected bomb ingredients, conducted reconnaissance and was in frequent contact with other alleged Al Qaeda operatives. If convicted, he could face up to life in prison.
Naseer was one of 12 people arrested in a counterterrorism operation in April 2009, but all were subsequently released without charge. They were ordered to leave Britain, but Naseer avoided being deported to Pakistan after a judge ruled it was likely he would be mistreated if he were sent home.
Naseer was rearrested in July 2010 at the request of prosecutors in Brooklyn, where a federal indictment named him as a co-defendant with Adis Medunjanin.
In January 2011, a British judge approved Naseer’s extradition. The judge acknowledged there was a “very real risk” Naseer would be tortured if the U.S. ultimately returned him to Pakistan but said he believed the U.S. justice system would not ignore that concern.
Naseer’s lawyer had argued that the U.S. would have fewer inhibitions about returning him to Pakistan.
U.S. authorities allege Medunjanin and two friends from Flushing High School in Queens — Najibullah Zazi and Zarein Ahmedzay — traveled to Pakistan in 2008 to seek terror training from Al Qaeda.
Zazi, an airport van driver from Colorado, admitted in a guilty plea that once back from Pakistan he tested peroxide-based explosive materials in a makeshift lab in Denver in the fall of 2009 before traveling by car to New York to carry out the scheme.
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NYC terror suspect pleads not guilty
U.S. prosecutors say a suspect in an alleged al-Qaida plot against the New York City subways also was part of a terror campaign that would have targeted Britain and Norway.
Abid Naseer pleaded not guilty Monday in a New York federal court. He was extradited last week from Britain.
Prosecutors in Brooklyn aim to prove that Naseer collected bomb ingredients, conducted reconnaissance and was in frequent contact with other alleged al-Qaida operatives.
If convicted, he could face up to life in prison.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Fox US News