This Buddha statue which was brought by the Nazis to Europe is from space according to German researchers.
However, it was carved after it arrived on earth!
It has been nicknamed iron man and has been carved out of a meteorite. The statue is likely of a Buddhist god and it appears to be holding something. The chest contains a swastika symbol.
The statue was brought back to Germany following a Nazi expedition to Tibet to locate the origin of the Aryan roots by Ernst Schafer in 1939.
Though not definitive, researchers believe the statue is of the Buddhist god Vaisravana, or Jambhala. Buddhists revere it as a god of wealth or war.
Ke$ha’s new song “Supernatural” comes from her “erotic experiences” with spirits or, a ghost.
“It’s about experiences with the supernatural… but in a sexy way,” Ke$ha tells Ryan Seacrest on the KIIS FM radio show. “I had a couple of experiences with the supernatural. I don’t know his name! He was a ghost! I’m very open to it.”
Ke$ha’s recent spiritual type encounters don’t seem isolated either. She went on a “crazy spirit quest” recently in Africa, where she was “rehabilitating baby lions”. While there she was hypnotized.
The French Socialist government confirmed a 75% tax rate for top earners and a new 45% ‘band’ for revenues over 150,000 euros.
Businesses are targeted as well. Loan interest tax deductions have been reduced and a capital gains tax break has been eliminated. These respective cuts have taken €4 and €2 BILLION out of the hands of business and placed them into government coffers.
“France is sick because of the model it has … but is choosing to preserve it.” says Guillaume Cairou, Head of the Entrepreneurs Club.
On Friday, Congress was notified by the Obama administration that it would be sending $450 million to Egypt. This $450 million is part of a $1 billion package that Obama had pledged to Egypt in 2011 for debt forgiveness to the United States.
The administration however has met resistance.
The direction of Egypt’s course under the Muslim Brotherhood, its policies, local protests against the American Embassy located in Cairo and how the Obama administration has handled crisis in Islamic regions has left some wondering why the US continues to send aid.
Kay Granger, a Texan Republican who is chairwoman of the House appropriations subcommittee that is responsible for managing foreign aid, said that she would block this aid distribution.
The US relationship with Egypt “has never been under more scrutiny” than it is now. Granger goes on to say, “I am not convinced of the urgent need for this assistance and I cannot support it at this time”.
However, Hillary Clinton speaking in New York on Friday, indicated that the world should do more in supporting the regions that have experienced the ‘Arab Spring’ uprisings.
This debate comes at a time when Egypt is in an economic crisis. They are currently facing a $12 billion deficit in their budget.
Jay Leno took some surprising jabs at Obama and his handling of the economy and jobs on Thursday. “I love how the politicians capitalize on this kind of thing, like the minute the replacement refs were fired, President Obama said, See, sometimes losing jobs can be a good thing. Its a good thing…. A new survey out today shows how much time we waste every day in our lives. For example, we waste seven minutes in line every time we go to get coffee, 28 minutes getting through airport security, four years waiting for Obama to do something about the economy. Every year, we waste a lot. We wasted a lot of time.”
Campbell’s Sacramento factory was build in 1947 and is their oldest factory, but it also has the highest production costs. When the plant closes in summer 2013, operations will move to other factories in Texas, North Carolina and Ohio.
California’s unemployment rate is currently around 10%, one of the highest in the country.
YouVersion’s Bible app has been downloaded 65 million times. It is has been ranked third for iPad and ninth for the iPhone by Appsfire in non game categories.
The site/app was created by Bobby Greunewald. He used to run a professional wrestling website! The inspiration came to him while waiting in a security line at the Chicago O’Hare International Airport. Before he arrived at his gate of departure Greunewald had registered the domain name which is YouVersion.
There is approximately 300 versions that can be downloaded and options for people in 144 different languages.
Minneapolis Minnesota. According to police, a man shot and killed four people in a sign-making office and then shot himself on Thursday.
Accent Signage Systems is in a residential neighborhood on the north side of Minneapolis. Per police, four others were also wounded, three of them critically.
The United Nations (UN) attempt to grab money and further power is not new. “Innovative methods of financing” is the latest term they are using to describe their actions.
Examples: A 1% worldwide billionaires tax, a currency trading tax, a tax on all financial dealings (stock, bond and derivative trading), a carbon emissions tax or an airline ticket tax.
These ideas are supported at UN meetings. The idea is that the UN would be in charge of these funds and “redistribute” the funds to poorer countries.
Also supporting these measures is Jeffrey Sachs.
Sachs is a vocal Occupy Wall Street supporter and “climate change” fighter.
Sachs also happens to be the leader of the Earth Institute, from Columbia University and a UN Assistant Secretary General. Part of his (UN) duties are to work with UN agencies and “multilateral financing institutions and other international organizations” to (in large part) fight climate change. To do so he was appointed head of a new lobbying group named the Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
This week Sachs was noted to have been promoting a U.S. carbon tax to fight “climate change” by calling on President Obama. He has also been quoted “I’m happy to have the future pay for a lot of this. It doesn’t have to be current financed.” by Bloomberg News.
The TSA (Transportation Security Administration) is switching security systems. The apparent motivation… privacy and health concerns.
A $245 million program is establishing the second generation of body scanners. American Science and Engineering and L-3 Communications has been chosen to develop the new device.
The new technology now in use is called Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT-2). It is able to find non metal weapons and home made explosive devices. The AIT-2 makes use of two types of technology; x-ray scans and electromagnetic waves.
These new scanners have already been deployed in San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, San Diego and Sacramento earlier this summer. Another 700 have also been placed around the country.
JK Rowling the author of the Harry Potter series as written her first book for adults. The Casual Vacancy was published today, but has failed to live up to the high expectations. Parents who love the Harry Potter books may be shocked by the dark content of the adult novel, critics have slated the book for being dull and banal; although saying it was funnier than they would have imagined. Readers may be shocked by the graphic depictions of pornography and the use of the f-word, and c-word. The book shows the darker, grittier side of life in a small English village. The characters include a prositiute, a drug dealer, and teenage girl raped by her mum’s heroin dealer. The is the deaths of children and a teen suicide. The Telegraph’s literary critic remarks, “As for the ending, dear God, it is so howlingly bleak that it makes Thomas Hardy look like PG Wodehouse.”
When challenged in an interview about the novel, and any responsibility she may have as the world’s most famous children’s author Rowling said, “There is no part of me that feels like I represented myself as your children’s babysitter or their teacher. I’m a writer and I will write what I want to write.”
U.S. intelligence officials knew within 24 hours of the assault on the U.S. Consulate in Libya that it was a terrorist attack and suspected Al Qaeda-tied elements were involved, sources told Fox News — though it took the administration a week to acknowledge it.
The account sharply conflicts with claims on the Sunday after the attack by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice that the administration believed the strike was a “spontaneous” event triggered by protests in Egypt over an anti-Islam film.
Two senior U.S. officials said that the Obama administration internally labeled the attack terrorism from the first day in order to unlock and mobilize certain resources to respond, and that officials were looking for one specific suspect. The officials said the intelligence community knew by Sept. 12 that the militant Ansar al-Shariah and Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb were likely behind the strike.
Further, an official said, “No one … believed that the mortars, indirect and direct fire, and the RPGs were just the work of a mob — no one.
Yet a congressional source told Fox News that CIA Director David Petraeus, during a briefing with members of the House Intelligence Committee three days after the attack, espoused the view that Benghazi was an out-of-control demonstration prompted by the YouTube video. According to the source, this was “shocking” to some members who were present and saw the same intelligence pointing toward a terrorist attack.
In addition, sources confirm that FBI agents have not yet arrived in Benghazi in the aftermath of the attack. Four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, were killed in the assault.
The claims that officials initially classified the attack as terrorism is sure to raise serious questions among lawmakers who from the beginning have challenged the narrative the administration put out in the week following the strike. A few Republican lawmakers have gone so far as to suggest the administration withheld key facts about the assault for political reasons.
I think we should have answers right away. … I think they’re reluctant to tell us what this event really was probably because it’s an election year. But the American people deserve to know answers about what happened at our embassy in Libya,” Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., told Fox News.
One intelligence official clarified to Fox News that there was not a “definitive” lead on who might have been responsible for the Libya attacks in the immediate aftermath, though officials had an idea of the suspects.
It’s inaccurate to suggest that within the first 24 hours there was a definitive calling card and home address for the perpetrators of the Benghazi attack. Potential suspects and data points emerge early on, but it still takes time to be certain who is responsible,” the official said.
Curiously, Obama referred to “acts of terror” in his first public remarks about the attack. But from there, administration officials went on to blame the anti-Islam film.
Rice was the most explicit in that explanation, insisting on a slew of Sunday shows that the attack was not pre-planned and was tied to the film.
On Tuesday, Alec Baldwin took to his foundation’s Twitter account to tweet, “If Obama was white, he’d be up by 17 points.” Of course, the polls show that people are far more likely to vote for an African American for President than they are a Mormon.
To start the segment, Glenn reminded listeners that this was a man who had made some pretty horrible comments to loved ones in the past, showing that he is clearly dealing with some issues and is not a very happy person.
“The biggest spiritual leaders always, they weep because you’re missing who you really are. Don’t you see who you really are? They can see it. Because they see it in themselves. This guy doesn’t see anything but a black hole. He’s got an abyss in him. And I feel bad for Alec Baldwin. I mean, I don’t know him, you know, and I’m sure he doesn’t care about my pity. But he’s not a happy man,” Glenn said.
“And it’s really not that hard, Alec, when you get out of your own way, it’s really not that hard. Believe me, I spent most of my life not being a happy man. It’s not that hard to get out of your own way and be a happy man. You cannot see what America really is if that’s your vantage point,” he added.
Turning his attention to Baldwin’s tweet, Glenn wondered if Romney would be up an additional ten percent if he wasn’t Mormon.
Stu explained, “We have polling to back this up. 18% of people won’t vote for Mitt Romney because he’s Mormon. 4% of people won’t vote for Barack Obama because he’s black. 18 to 4. That’s in polling. That’s not me making it up. That’s been shown over and over again that there’s a large gap between those two groups. People don’t want to vote for a Mormon. At this point in American history, they have no problem voting for an African‑American. In fact, the polling shows that people are less likely to vote for a Catholic than they are to vote for an African‑American. So you could sit here and blame race all you want for the terrible, terrible performance of the guy you elected, but that is why he’s having problems here. He has the most favorable media of any president in American history and he’s still struggling to clear 43% in approval rating.”
