Hundreds Of People Locked In Greece!

Seeing something like this happening anywhere. Just lets you wonder. If this happened in the U.S.? Just goes to show. Governments don't know it all.
Greece seems to be having a lot of problems lately.

clipped from www.travelkat.com Tourists can not get back from Greece because of the general strike in this country, petrol pumps do not work! Smugglers “black” fuel sold at prices of up to 5 euro for a liter of gasoline? At least 300,000 people blocked in Greece due to strike the carrier, which was left without gas pumps, and disabled visitors to fill tanks and return to their homes or travel around the country. Some stores are selling petrol on the black, in the bottle, the astronomical price of five euros per liter (in fact one liter of petrol in Greece costs. from 1.25 to 1, 40 euros). Tank driver, strike takes six days and threatening to paralyze the whole of Greece. They are protesting because the government has proposed the liberalization of licensing for transport, because the IMF and European financial institutions caused by a loan of 110 billion euros. After yesterday’s negotiations, the trucker is reported that the agreement was not reached and the strike continues.

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  Five-meter long crack seen in Malaysian road

  2010-06-30 08:22:42 GMT
  A five-meter long crack is seen in a road of Kota Kinabalu, state of Sabah, Malaysia, June 30, 2010. (Xinhua
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  A five metre wide chasm has mysteriously opened in a busy road.
  The enormous crevice tore through the ground late last night, causing traffic chaos in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.
  Miraculously no one was killed, although one truck was overturned by the force of the collapse.
  Officials have no explanation for why the giant hole has appeared but confirmed they were looking into it.
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Fallen soldier's parents critical of Obama

Fallen soldier's parents critical of Obama

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  LAKE GEORGE - The parents of Army soldier Benjamin Osborn said Thursday that U.S. Bill and Beverly Osborn say that new military rules of engagement are making soldiers on the ground more vulnerable to attack, including they say, in the final battle that took their son's life.
  "They were ambushed they were under attack and they couldn't fire until they were ordered to do so," Ben's father Bill Osborn said.
  Wearing black armbands, a gold star pin, and grief fresh from burying their son, Bill and Beverly Osborn are speaking out about the circumstances of their son's death.
  "Ben said that the tactics were wrong.
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  "We have to win the war first. The only way to do that is to have someone in charge who's a warrior, not a flower child," Beverly Osborn said.

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Jerusalem Is The Eternal Capital of Israel

This has got to be one of the greatest things I have seen in my lifetime. For those that don't get it. I don't expect you to. But to see Israel back home celebrating 3000 years since just King David alone. Celebrating their home. And again fulfilling God's promises once again. Is just an awesome site to see today. Lord knows it's about time.

clipped from wejew.com It has now been over 3,000 years since King David declared Jerusalem as Israel's capital. And it has been 43 years since God returned Jerusalem to the Israeli people for the final time. In this celebratory video, see how Israel marked Jerusalem Day 2010. Zechariah 8:8 - I will bring them back, And they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. They shall be My people And I will be their God, In truth and righteousness.

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Wishing Greece Had Never Joined the Euro

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clipped from www.nytimes.com Now, as Greece’s E.U. partners prepare to bail out the debt-ridden country — the first time that the 16-nation euro zone has needed to rescue one of its members — many critics, inside and outside the country, are wishing that Mr. Papantoniou had lost his bet. Amid growing concern that the contagion could spread to countries along Europe’s southern tier and even infect the Continent’s banking system, Greece’s turbulent recent history suggests that the crisis is, in many ways, a peculiarly Greek tragedy. It is rooted in an ancient country’s epic profligacy and abetted by the hubris of European leaders whose desire for integration at any cost compelled them to allow political considerations to trump economic realities. But those in favor of expansion carried the day, arguing that linking countries like Greece, Spain and Portugal to European structures was the best means to modernize their fragile democracies.

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Firearms now legal in some National Parks

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clipped from paracom.paramountcommunication.com The long-standing prohibition on firearms in National Parks was lifted today. The new law, which went into effect this morning, mirrors state law.  Simply put, you can now possess firearms in a National Park under the same state laws that govern firearms in the rest of that state. (b) Protecting the Right of Individuals To Bear arms in Units of the National Park System and the National Wildlife Refuge System.--The Secretary of the Interior shall not promulgate or enforce any regulation that prohibits an individual from possessing a firearm including an assembled or functional firearm in any unit of the National Park System or the National Wildlife Refuge System if-- (1) the individual is not otherwise prohibited by law from possessing the firearm; and (2) the possession of the firearm is in compliance with the law of the State in which the unit of the National Park System or the National Wildlife Refuge System is located.

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Haiti death toll up to 230,000

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clipped from www.usatoday.com PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti's government has raised the death toll for the Jan. 12 earthquake to 230,000 from 212,000 and says more bodies remain uncounted. The government initially estimated 150,000 dead on Jan. 24, apparently from bodies being recovered in the rubble of collapsed buildings in Port-au-Prince, the capital that was near the epicenter. Communications Minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue said Tuesday the government now counts 230,000 deaths. But she says the new figure is not definitive. She says it does not include bodies buried by private funeral homes in private cemeteries or the dead buried by their own families. PHOTOS: Latest images from Haiti EU SUMMIT: Focuses on Haiti, economy

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The UN says more than 130,000 people have now been relocated out of Port-au-Prince by the authorities, easing the pressure on overcrowded camps in the city. Others have left independently.

With the search-and-rescue phase officially over, international groups are focused on humanitarian efforts, with aid workers still struggling to get food, water and other supplies to all those in need.

"The aid we have available... is being pushed out," Lt Gen Ken Keen, commander of the US military operation in Haiti, told Reuters news agency.

"But the need is tremendous. Every day is a better day than yesterday. Tomorrow will be a better day than the day before."

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk Haiti capital earthquake death toll 'tops 150,000' The confirmed death toll from Haiti's devastating earthquake has risen above 150,000 in the Port-au-Prince area alone, a government minister has said. Many more remain uncounted under rubble in the capital and elsewhere, including the towns of Jacmel and Leogane. The search for survivors has officially ended and the focus has shifted to aid. But a 24-year-old man was pulled alive from the remains of a hotel in the capital on Saturday after 11 days under the rubble, in what rescuers described as "a miracle". He later told reporters that soft drinks and snacks had kept him going. A French medic said he could expect to leave hospital within a day or two. "Nobody knows how many bodies are buried in the rubble - 200,000, 300,000? Who knows the overall death toll?" the Associated Press quotes her as saying on Sunday.

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