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BRITAIN’s runaway foreign aid budget sparked fresh anger yesterday after a damning report found a £1billion education programme in Africa has failed to teach basic skills to poor children. Lib-Lab-Con giving British Taxes away to third world parasites while forcing austerity measures at home The study warned that “inadequate” attention is being paid . . . → Read More: FOREIGN AID OUTRAGE AS ANOTHER £1BN IS WASTED  Leave a comment  News, Politics  africa, Aid Impact, austerity measures, Budget, economies, Ethiopia, Foreign Aid, ICAI, inadequate, International Development, learning, Rwanda, schemes, school, study, substantially, Tanzania, taxpayer-funded, teach basic skills, third world parasites, £1billion education programme Where is it? Belchite, Spain What’s the story? Again, this is a ghost village with a disturbing war-torn past. In the province of Zaragoza in Spain, it was the site of fierce fighting in the summer of 1937 between General Franco’s troops and the Spanish Republican Army. A new village was built a . . . → Read More: The abandoned towns of the world Leave a comment strange/offbeat 65 saloons, abandoned, abandoned town, alluvial gold, atagonia, Chernobyl in Ukraine, Chile, deserted mines, ghost town, ghost village, Greco-Turkish, mining museum on site, population exchange agreement, preserved as a museum, prospectors showing, school house, Second World War, Spain, Spanish Republican Army, Turkish government, village, war-torn past, world, Zaragoza They usually hit the headlines for swallowing cars, houses and occasionally whole streets. But this particular sinkhole in Oman is so stunning it has been turned into a tourist attraction. The beautiful limestone hollow, in Bimmah, boasts the kind of clear waters normally only seen on holiday postcards. While similar holes engulf residential streets . . . → Read More: Cavernous limestone bowl is so beautiful it’s become a tourist attraction MEDDLING Euro MPs have provoked fury by heralding a £4million scheme to publicise Britain’s lucrative benefits and health care system to people from across the Continent. Euro MPs have provoked fury by heralding a £4m scheme to publicise Britain’s benefits system The money will be squandered on a campaign highlighting every citizen’s right . . . → Read More: EU Spends £4 Million Telling Parasites To Go To Britain For Benefits One comment Politics allowance, benefit tourists, Bulgaria, carer’s payments, Child benefits, country to country, Eastern Europeans, eu, Euro MPs, Greek MEP, health care, isability living, lucrative benefits, MEDDLING eu, migration to the UK, parasites, publicity programme, Romania, tax credits, £4 Million New pictures have emerged showing candid and relaxed behind-the-scenes footage taken during the filming of the sequel to Star Wars – The Empire Strikes Back. Considered by fans and critics alike to be the best film in the series, the second movie in George Lucas’ Star Wars trilogy was released in 1980, and went . . . → Read More: Intimate pictures of cast and crew during filming of second Star Wars movie Leave a comment strange/offbeat arch-villain, behind-the-scenes footage, best film, Carrie Fisher, Darth Vader, Elstree Studios, evil dark lord, filming, filming of the sequel, filming process, Florida., George Lucas, Han Solo, Harrison Ford, highest grossing films of all-time, Hollywood, Irvin Kershner, J.W Rinzler, Lucasfilm, Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill, moviemakers, New pictures, Orlando, photographs, Princess Leia, snowy landscape, star wars, Star Wars Celebration VI, Star Wars fans, Tauntaun creature, The Empire Strikes Back, Tunisia A four-year-old girl has miraculously survived after falling out of a moving car right before the wheels of another one. The incident took place at a busy crossroads in Wenzhou city in China’s southeastern Zhejiang province. A traffic camera video shows the little girl slipping out of the front door of the . . . → Read More: Video: Toddler survives fall onto busy road from moving car Wall covered in calculations relating to Mayan calendar Line-up of men in black uniforms Astrological calculations not fully understood Dates seem to stretch 7,000 years into FUTURE Contradicts ‘doomsday’ predictions about 2012 First paintings found on walls in Mayan dwellings Huge city in Guatemala finally reveals its secrets A vast city built by . . . → Read More: The Mayan mysteries: New excavation reveals secrets of their calendar – including black-clad figures and symbols never seen before Leave a comment strange/offbeat 365-day solar calendar, 7000 years into the future, ancient, ancient Mayan, Archaeologists, Astronomical records, astronomy driven by religion, Big Bang Theory, Boston University, calendrical cycles, Colgate University, computations and calculations, doomsday warnings, Excavating, first Maya art, Guatemala's Peten region, Mayan, Mayan astronomy, Mayan Calendar, Mayan Calendar may be wrong, Mayan civilisation, Mayan ruins, Mayan sites, modern day Guatemala, National Geographic, overseeing the moon, Scientists, Sylvanus Morley, unique paintings, William Saturno, yield its secrets The epic efforts of UK Arctic heroes who braved icy waters during World War II to maintain vital supply lines to the Soviet Union may finally be recognized at home. The British PM has ordered a medals review after years of campaigning from veterans. Around 66,500 British sailors are estimated to have . . . → Read More: UK to finally recognize WWII Arctic heroes? – ‘Path through hell’ Leave a comment News Archangelsk and Murmansk, Arctic heroes, Atlantic Star, British PM, British sailors, epic efforts, History, icy waters, Ivor Bennet, John Seares, maintain vital supply lines, Marina Dzhashi, Medal of Ushakov, Pacific Defense, russia, soviet union, the Admiralty, UK, UK Arctic heroes, Vessels, Winston Churchill, World War II, WWII Five girls aged between 13 and 15 were shared by men in the Rochdale area. Attackers range in age from 22 to 59. All are from Pakistan, apart from one from Afghanistan. Sentencing at Liverpool Crown Court has been adjourned until tomorrow. Establishment ignore the fact their Muslims (Calls them “Asian” instead), refuse . . . → Read More: Nine Muslim men found guilty of grooming five girls aged 13 to 15 for sex after plying them with vodka and drugs Leave a comment News 'honeypot locations, Abdul Aziz, Abdul Qayyum, Abdul Rauf, activity with children, Adil Khan, Afghanistan, became pregnant, being raped, child sexual exploitation, f conspiracy and trafficking, Gerald Clifton, groomed the teenage girl, Hamid Saf, Islam, Kabeer Hassan, Liverpool Crown Court, Mohammed Amin, Mohammed Sajid, muslim, muslims, Paedophiles, pakistan, Rochdale, sexual activity, sexual exploitation, taxi driver Police arrested protesters as they headed towards the Kremlin Russian police have arrested top opposition figures during a protest march in Moscow on the eve of Vladimir Putin’s inauguration as president. The march by about 20,000 people to an island adjacent to the Kremlin proceeded peacefully on Sunday afternoon until a small group . . . → Read More: Opposition Leaders Held In Anti-Putin Protest Leave a comment News adjacent to the Kremlin, Alexei Navalny, Andrey Asianov, blocked by police, Boris Nemtsov, bounds of the constitution, chanting, demonstrators, detained, Dmitry) Medvedev, Egor Piskunov, inauguration as president, Karen Tararache, KGB spy, Kremlin, March 4 presidential election, Moscow protest, Mr Putin, opposition, opposition figures, police sent reinforcements, politics, proceeded peacefully, Protest, pushed demonstrators back, russia, Russia without Putin, Russian police, seizing demonstrators, Sergei Udaltsov, Sunday afternoon, trusted Putin, Vladimir Putin, widespread fraud An army Captain who led a doomed reconnaissance patrol at the start of the 2003 Iraq War claims his unit was ‘abandoned and betrayed’ by military chiefs after the mission went disastrously wrong. David Blakeley, 33, has broken almost a decade of silence to reveal how his nine-man patrol became surrounded by hundreds of . . . → Read More: ‘Betrayed and abandoned behind enemy lines’: Special forces captain breaks silence over disastrous mission in iraq war Leave a comment strange/offbeat abandoned and betrayed, army Captain, Behind Enemy Lines, David Blakeley, disastrous mission, his unit, hostile troops, Independent newspaper, Iraq War, Iraqi troops, lightly-armoured Land Rovers, military chiefs, paratroopers., Pathfinder, Qalat Sikar, reconnaissance patrol, Republican Guard, riddled with bullet holes, start of the 2003, they were trapped The founder of Russian communism Vladamir Lenin died after being poisoned by his political successor Joseph Stalin, according to a sensational new theory. Russian historian Lev Lurie, believes that while Lenin was already in poor health having suffered several strokes, Stalin may have finished him off after a bitter feud. Lenin, who had . . . → Read More: Was Lenin poisoned by Stalin? Leave a comment strange/offbeat 1921, ambitious nature, bitter feud, Harry Vinters, Joseph Stalin, left him paralyzed, Lenin's death, Leon Trotsky, Lev Lurie, Philip Mackowiak, political successor, Russian communism, Russian historian, School of Medicine, sensational new theory, Soviet leaders, Stalin, UCLA neurologist, University of Maryland, Vladamir Lenin
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