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Please can some one help me correct my letter of motivation

Showboy — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:14:43 GMT

I am Malaysia and applying for a masters degree in diplomacy Please can some check on the structure as well as content of my letter. It's urgent pls because the last date is monday 7 2008 . Thanks all in advance

Letter of Motivation

I wish to apply for admission to pursue a Masterâs Degree in Diplomacy at Yale University in September 2008.

Prior to my university study, diplomacy has always influenced my choice of study stemming from the fact that diplomacy is an important factor in the development of any society. Why? Society needs decisive leaders on the international scene, to protect its interests.

My university academic background is based on two major disciplines, Public Administration and history, which are some of the core subjects in diplomacy. There the curriculum for Political Science and History was based on Administrative Responsibility and Accountability and International Relations.

I studied in two areas related to diplomacy because I believed that I would be preparing myself to pursue a career in diplomacy or working in an international organization and to become a leader whose decision would have a positive effect on society. During my studies at the university, I was involved in various presentations, brainstorming, and discussion groups in which I had the opportunity to start training my leadership skills. By the time I successfully completed my studies, I had acquired excellent leadership, administrative, and organizational skills. I was inspired to think critically, reflect and put forward my ideas, and go beyond surfaces. I have learned to apply critical thought to real life situations. I believe the sum of all this makes me suitable to pursue a Masters in diplomacy.

After three years of study, I was employed to head the developement program of an international non governmental organization. Why a fresh graduate to head the program? This was a result of the development programs I submitted to the organization prior to my interview. I clearly exhibited my leadership skills through the various programs I initiated such as the youth leadership program aimed at youths. We thought them to carry out responsibilities bestowed on them. As well our aim was to reduce juvenile delinquency, and to improve the life of the under privileged by introducing several ways of generating income.

In 2001, I decided to go abroad to expand my work experience in an international arena, experience a foreign culture, and broaden my scope on life. England is my prime destination due to its growing economy and its role in international politics. I was employed to head the international department of a foreign company, specializing in labor import, exportation and developmental project analysis and implementation. Here, I have the chance to work on an international level and improve my intercultural skills. Within an international team, I work on competitive development programs for foreign companies looking for suitable developmental projects. I write reports about their strategy and implementation.

While working in England, I always ponder why Africa and other parts of the world are plagued with civil and tribal wars, political crises, and slow economic growth. Most of the peace talks always turn out to be futile thus paving the way for more fighting and political problems in our society. After a careful analysis of the whole situation, I realize that Africa and other parts of the world needs leaders with strong technical and analytical skills to solve these problems. As a result, I am motivated to pursue a master degree in in diplomacy. This is going to lead me to my career ambition of being a diplomat.

After a careful research and analysis of more than thirty universities in terms of their programs and course structures, I chose Yale Universitybecause of its well defined Masters of diplmacy program, I believe I will go a long way to enhance my leadership skills. Its mobility program with other outstanding universities will give me the opportunity to interact with fellow students from different cultural backgrounds, views and opinions. Its creative and analytical seminars are also an impetus in my decision to study at the institute. Taking part in such seminars, I will be building a strong foundation for my future career.

I am excited about my decision to pursue a master degree in diplomacy at Yale University. In conclusion I ask for the opportunity to pursue my goal.

B Idioms

Hayatoukrama — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 22:32:50 GMT

bad-mouth: say unkind, unflattering, embarrassing (and probably untrue) things about someone.

A: "I don't believe what Bob said. Why is he bad-mouthing me?"
B: "He's probably jealous of your success."

be a piece of cake: be very easy.

A: "Bob said the test was difficult, but I thought it was a piece of cake.""

be all ears: be eager to hear what someone has to say.

A: "I just got an e-mail message from our old friend Sally."
B: "Tell me what she said. I'm all ears!"

be broke: be without money.

"No, I can't lend you ten dollars. I'm completely broke until payday."

be fed up with (with someone or something): be out of patience (with someone or something);
be very tired of someone or something.

"Bill, you're too careless with your work. I'm fed up with
apologizing for your mistakes!"

be in and out: be at and away from a place during a particular time.

"Could we postpone our meeting until tomorrow? I expect to
be in and out of the office most of the day today."

be on the go: be very busy (going from one thing or project to another).

"I'm really tired. I've been on the go all week long."

be on the road: be traveling.

"You won't be able to contact me tomorrow because I'll be on the road."

be over: be finished; end.

"I can't see you until around 4 o'clock. My meetings won't be over until then."

be up and running: (for a technological process) be operational; be ready to use .

"Dave's ESL Cafe on the Web has been up and running since December 1995."

be used to (+Ving/noun): be accustomed to; not uncomfortable with.

"It won't be hard to get up at 5:00 AM. I'm used to getting up early."

beat: exhausted; very tired (adj.).

"This has been a long day. I'm beat!"

beat around the bush: evade an issue; avoid giving a direct answer.

"Quit beating around the bush! If you don't want to go with me, just tell me!"

beat one's brains out: try very hard to understand or do something.

"Can you help me with this problem? I've been beating my brains out with it,
but I just can't solve it."

Beats me: I have no idea.

A: "What time's the party?"
B: "Beats me!"

before long: soon.

A: "I'm really tired of working."
B: "Just be patient. The weekend will be here before long."

bent out of shape: needlessly worried about something.

"I know you're worried about your job interview, but don't get bent out of shape.
You'll do just fine."

bite off more than one can chew: take responsibility for more than one can manage.

"I'm really behind with my project. Can you help me? I'm afraid I
bit off more than I could chew!"

blabbermouth: a very talkative person--especially one who says things that should be kept secret.

"Don't say anything to Bob unless you want the whole office to know.
Bob's quite a blabbermouth."

blow one's top: become extremely angry.

A: "Was your father upset when you came home at 3 AM?"
B: "He was more than upset. He blew his top!"

boom box: portable cassette/CD player.

"Don't forget to bring your boom box to the picnic!"

the bottom line: the most essential information.

"The discussion lasted many hours. The bottom line was that
the XYZ Company isn't for sale."

Break a leg!: Good luck!

"I understand you have a job interview tomorrow. Break a leg!"

break someone's heart: make someone feel very disappointed/discouraged/sad.

"Joe broke his mother's heart when he dropped out of school."

broke: without money.

A: "Can you lend me 10 dollars?"
B: "I'm afraid not. I'm broke."

buck(s): dollar(s).

"The cheapest tickets for the concert cost 25 bucks. Do you still want to go?"

bug: annoy; bother.

"I'm trying to concentrate! Don't bug me!"

bull-headed: stubborn; inflexible.

"Don't be so bull-headed. Why can't you admit that others' opinions are just as good as yours?"

a bundle: a lot of money.

A: "Your new car is really nice."
B: "It should be. It cost me a bundle!"

burn the midnight oil: study/work all night or until very, very late at night.

"I'm not ready for the test tomorrow. I guess I'll have to
burn the the midnight oil."

bushed: very tired; exhausted.

"I'm going to lie down for a while. I'm really bushed."

by oneself: alone and without help.

"I can't do this by myself. Can you help me?"

by the skin of one's teeth: barely succeed in doing something.

"I'll have to start earlier the next time. This time I only finished by the skin of my teeth."

Re: Subjects, Verbs, Complements

Philip — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 23:39:22 GMT

SheenaGee wrote:

Am I doing these correctly. If I am not please explain and tell me what I am doing wrong.

Identifying Subjects, Verbs and Complements
On the line before each sentence below, identify each of the italicized words by writing s for subject, v for verb, pa for predicate adjective, pn for predicate nominative, do for direct object, or io for indirect object.

io 1. The coach showed us a videotape of Michael Jordan.
s 2. The merchants visiting there traded silk, jade, and porcelain for precious metals.
v 3. Before answering, Isabel thought about her personal goals.
s 4. There are some actors from my school in that film.
pn 5. The person in charge of seating will be Marcos.
pa 6. During fall, a chrysanthemum pattern would be more typical.
do 7. Our new hosts offered Lars and me a tour of the palace grounds. io - receives the direct object 'tour'
s 8. After proper treatment, the acorns become nutritious food. p.n. referring to 'acorns' after verb 'became'
pa 9. Although not as well trained as todayâs doctors, many early doctors must have been extremely knowledgeable.
s 10. I can teach you the routineafter school.
pa 11. Without question, Tiwa is the mechanic in our family!
io 12. I was allowed to remain in the room, and I listened intently during the interview. 'was allowed' is a passive voice verb
pa 13. In this city, a car is not only unnecessary but also somewhat of a nuisance.
pn 14. Certainly, Charles Edensaw was one of the better-known Haida artists.
s 15. Will a good computer programsimplify this task?

I hope this helps

Subjects, Verbs, Complements

SheenaGee — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:59:12 GMT

Am I doing these correctly. If I am not please explain and tell me what I am doing wrong.

Identifying Subjects, Verbs and Complements
On the line before each sentence below, identify each of the italicized words by writing s for subject, v for verb, pa for predicate adjective, pn for predicate nominative, do for direct object, or io for indirect object.

io 1. The coach showed us a videotape of Michael Jordan.
s 2. The merchants visiting there traded silk, jade, and porcelain for precious metals.
v 3. Before answering, Isabel thought about her personal goals.
s 4. There are some actors from my school in that film.
pn 5. The person in charge of seating will be Marcos.
pa 6. During fall, a chrysanthemum pattern would be more typical.
do 7. Our new hosts offered Lars and me a tour of the palace grounds.
s 8. After proper treatment, the acorns become nutritious food.
pa 9. Although not as well trained as todayâs doctors, many early doctors must have been extremely knowledgeable.
s 10. I can teach you the routineafter school.
pa 11. Without question, Tiwa is the mechanic in our family!
io 12. I was allowed to remain in the room, and I listened intently during the interview.
pa 13. In this city, a car is not only unnecessary but also somewhat of a nuisance.
pn 14. Certainly, Charles Edensaw was one of the better-known Haida artists.
s 15. Will a good computer programsimplify this task?

Re: On This Day ...

Anonymous — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 10:12:18 GMT

In a March 31, 1977 interview with the Amsterdam-based newspaper Dagblad de Verdieping Trouw, PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhseâin said:

The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct âPalestinian peopleâ to oppose Zionism. For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan

http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/hamas.htm

Re: The Best English Accent

Tam Sadek — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:53:02 GMT

What exactly is a British accent?

Geordie? Glaswegian? Scouse? Cockney? Brummie? Northern? Southern? RP? Estuary? Welsh? Irish?

According to an online BBC article from 2005:

"Sean Connery's Scottish lilt is the nation's favourite accent, a survey of people for a BBC project suggests. Sir Sean (Scottish) and the broadcasters Sir Trevor McDonald (English, but with a tinge of Caribbean) and Terry Wogan (Irish) have the most pleasant voices, according to 5,000 people questioned. It is part of a project to create an online "accent map" of the UK.

The least popular accents were those from Birmingham, Liverpool and Glasgow and the most unpopular voice was that of DUP leader Ian Paisley.

The Queen and Scottish comedian Billy Connolly appeared in both the 10 most and 10 least pleasant lists.

The BBC Voices project is recording interviews with 1,000 people from around the UK and is inviting others to participate through its website. The project's director Mick Ord said there had not been a "mapping" project for at least 30 years, so information about regional accents and dialects was out of date."

Here's a link to the BBC Voices project so you can decide what a British accent is yourselves, as it's fairly clear that we (from the UK) don't know (or is that care?)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/

Personally I'm from the North West of England and I like my accent, even though it's definitely not RP! Then again, I wouldn't want it any other way

Re: 911 fraud and lies?

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 02:11:36 GMT

âCall me insane but did it sort of look like those buildings came down in a controlled demolition?â

Charlie Sheen claims the investigation into 911 was a huge cover up.
83% of respondents to a CNN poll agree with him.

CNN Poll Ends At 83% In Support Of Charlie Sheen

Prison Planet.com | March 27 2006

After talking with CNN we were able to confirm that Showbiz Tonight's poll asking whether viewers supported Charlie Sheen's comments on 9/11 finished 83% for and 17% against Sheen. Total votes ran to 53426, with 44519 for and 8907 against.

This result comes despite the fact that the Neo-Con website Free Republic had a campaign running to skew the poll in the against favor on their messageboards.

Alex Jones' two appearances on Showbiz Tonight, in which he went all out and said the government ran the attacks, suggest that he majority of the 83% were supporting not just Charlie Sheen but Alex's comments as well.

Below is a screenshot from Saturday night with the poll at 84% in support.

So, just what did Charlie Sheen say, that so many people agree with?

Here is a transcript of his interview on CNN;

Mr. Sheen, you have some questions about the official 9/11 story, and we got hooked up because we both mutually have been looking into that. I want to start by what happened on 9/11 and what your instincts told you and really just go from there.

Well, it was interesting. Let me say that I've been a fan of yours for a long time. I've been a fan of your documentaries. Your research is tireless and it's interesting because a lot of these guys you sort of look behind their notes and you start to discover their inconsistencies in a lot of the claims they are making which torpedoes the credibility of most of their substance, but with you that is not the case. I was always amazed to see that you had the hard data to back up your claims. [â¦]

We were talking yesterday and you said over the phone that the biggest conspiracy theory is the story at every point it's a fabrication, it's a lie.

It's like they want to pigeonhole all of us into conspiracy nutbags when we're not debating things that are related to UFO's bringing down the towers or building 7 or the pentagon and so its feels like there's things in there that weâre not the conspiracy theorists on this particular issue. It seems to me like 19 amateurs with box cutters taking over four commercial airliners and hitting 75% of their targets: that feels like a conspiracy theory.

Back in 2001 everyone admits that cell phones didnât work at 3,000 feet, how were they working at 33,000, 32,000 feet? How did al Quaeda make Norad stand down? Did they call Mayor Lee Brown in San Francisco as the Chronicle reported and say don't fly to New York? No, the White House did. Did al Quaeda call S. Rushey and say don't fly to New York on Sept. 11? No, the Times of London reported the White House did. Did al Quaeda run drills, CIA and Pentagon drills in the morning of 9/11 of hijacked jets hitting the exact same targets at the exact same times?

The answers to that would be probably not. Itâs just the more you look at stuff, specific incidents, specific events in around that fateful day; it just raises a lot of questions. I know a couple of years ago it was severely unpopular to discuss this. But it sort of feels like, just in my research and through people Iâve talked to in and around my circlesâ¦even talking about this with conservative republicans, they canât debate away some of the most obvious facts of that day.

Let me roll this 30 second clip of Dan Rather. This is what Dan Rather though.

[Clip played.]

So that's Dan Rather, and thatâs what I thought that morning. That's what engineers, the heads of engineer colleges -- thatâs what a lot of people said. What did you think on that morning?

Where do we start? I was up early and we were going to do a pre-shoot of "Spin City," and I was up watching the news and the north tower was burning, and the world was focusing on some pilot error or some tragedy no one could explain and I saw the south tower hit live -- that famous wide shot where it disappears behind the building -- and I saw the tremendous fireball and it was a feeling that it didn't look, how do I say this, like any commercial jetliner that Iâve flown on anytime in my life. And then the buildings came down.

Later on that day I was with my brothers at my parent's house. We were out on the deck and I said, âCall me insane but did it sort of look like those buildings came down in a controlled demolition?â And he said, "Well, kind of but gosh thatâs impossible if you think what it would take for them to orchestrate that." And so as the days and the weeks went on, I was sort of told what to believe, and I was told through the mainstream media and the talking heads about what really happened.

Now Charlie, when the press hears your interview if they think it's radical that you thought it looked like explosives well then they better go talk to Dan Rather, then the host of CBS nightly news and we also have a clip of Peter Jennings saying the exact same thing twice. So he says it looks like bombs, so I guess theyâll have to dig up poor Peter Jennings and gripe at him because he's saying the same thing you and I thought.

Of course, but what bothers me even more about all this stuff is it exists from day 1. If you look at all of the news reporting after day 1 the official story starts to find its way into our consciousness.

They start telling us their conspiracy; those in the government tell their wild eyed conspiracy theory.

Exactly, and so we all go away from what we all felt in our gut initially.

After 9/11 a lot of people disagreed with me and now not just on my own broadcast, but on other networks really no one calls in and disagreesâ¦and people know that something is wrong and 9/11 is just a part of that. What about WTC7? It wasnât even hit by a building. A 47-story structure has two small fires in it, modern steel building that never collapsed from fireâ¦What happened with building 7 in your opinion?

Well, itâs curious isnât it? Itâs a little bit curious. It just seems odd that an event that we all witnessedâ¦and what was the great Hoover quote, âThe bigger the lie, the easier it is to pass over to people.â Let me just throw this outâ¦because Iâm sure Iâm being demonized all over the nation for this.

People see through the propaganda organs now like they never did before.

Well good, finallyâ¦ hereâs some quotes: âItâs unpatriotic not to tell the truth whether about the president or anyone else the second is that we are to stand by the president right or wrong is not only unpatrioticâ¦but is morally treasonable to the American public.â Theodore Roosevelt.

Yes, well, that's what the founding fathers said.

Absolutely, and we've been coerced away from these founding principalsâ¦ and weâve been told never believe these outstanding conspiracies concerning 9/11

Back to building 7, you pointed out in one of your documentaries a classic controlled demolition; they cause a crease, wrinkle.

And many control-demolition experts say theyâve never seen a prettier job than building 7.

There was a guy who scientifically actually broke down and said the building actually fell faster than the speed of gravity, because of the explosive vacuum that was createdâ¦

And then you've got [Larry] Silverstein, the lease holder, the owner of 7 as well as the rest of the complex on tape, on the record saying weâve had such a terrible loss of life that day and I made the decision that they should go ahead and pull it.

And we gave the order and we watched the building come down.

Yeah, pull, thatâs as common to the demo world as action and cut to the movie world.

In fact in the same PBS documentary narrated by Kevin Spacey, not him some other guy, he comes right out and says they cut to one of the other engineers "demoing" the building and he says weâre getting ready to blow it and then they pull it.

[Larry Silverstein clip]

Let me just play devils advocate for a second. I don't claim to be an expert about structuresâ¦ or demolition. Could they have rigged that building during the day when they decided that the fire was out of hand even though it was just in a couple of floors?

No way could they have blown that to bits when it was just a massive explosion down low but they couldn't engage in precision demolition it would take weeks. [â¦] People are saying what you're saying. But the problem is they hired Henry Kissinger and all Bush business partners on the 9/11 whitewash commission. What did you think of the commission?

Not much because the commission didn't answer hard questions, how long did it take to launch an investigation for Pearl Harbor, Titanic, JFKâ¦?

About a day. About a day. About a day.

Yes and 9/11?

About a year later.

Yes, and that bothers me because Giuliani as a former prosecutor and knows the value of evidence preservation and crime scene preservation. I understand that they were on the clock and still looking for victims and they were still looking for bodies, and they were still hoping beyond hope that there will still survivors.

But not a week into it, not a month into it.

No, I know. The thing I can't get out of my mind is that if there is a problem with building 7 then there is a problem with the whole thingâ¦just the fact that the entire event is so shrouded in secrecyâ¦Everybody is now familiar with the famous Andrew Card/Bush ear whisper at the elementary school, that whole incident is problematic to me. It was broadcast three days in advance -- his schedule. So conservatively, if that event was broadcast live, how many people in the state of Florida knew where he was at that specific point in time? If he was being informed -- the second plane hit, America was being attacked -- isn't he then putting everyone in his immediate circle at a great risk? It seems to me upon the revelation of that news that the secret service would grab the president and remove him as of he were on fire from that room.

It's funny Jeb Bush declared Marshall Law three days before that and that was kept just a little bit quietâ¦he wouldn't say why and Bush wouldn't say whyâ¦carrier attack groups were ready to attackâ¦that was incredibly convenient to have your whole military stacked up and ready to goâ¦

Because strategies don't go together overnight for a major invasion, they are very well calculated and very well planned, at least in this governmentâ¦in a statement that Bush made following, "What did you think when the first plane hit?" and he said he was watching it like everyone else.

I guess thatâs one of the perks of being president, you get access to TV channels that donât exist in the known universe. It might led me to believe that heâd seen similar images in some type of rehearsal as it wereâ¦It's inconvenient that firearms were taken from pilotsâ¦It's right in there with June or July '01 when after 46 years Cheney changed the authorization for the shoot-down orders. Again, I'm not on your show to say who did it or why, because I don't have those answers.

[But] it would seem to me based on what we've all seen -- those images that are emblazoned on our minds forever -- I donât have experience in avionics or high-rise mechanics -- but it looked like the majority of jet fuel upon impact exploded. So I have a hard time believing that a fireball traveled down the elevator over 1,100 feet and still had the explosive energy to destroy the lobby like it was described.

And this one guy talks about his bombombom controlled detonation -- this is not just you or I speculating -- this is people inside the buildings at the time of collapse

[another clip]

What do you think we should do? What would be a real investigation? What would satisfy you? Ninety percent of Americans want an investigation.

I want the same thing. It's got to be headed by some, if its possible, some mutual investigative committee. I don't know how to establish that. You would know better than me. What if we used retired political foreign national? No one with a connection with this administration -- as far as people with no interest, no stakeâ¦

They would come to the same opinion: people aren't buying this.

We talked about building 7 -- that whole episode smells like a rat. We have to shift a focus to the Pentagon -- very suspicious. I think itâs emblematic of the arrogance of this administration.

What aboutâ¦Iraq?

Yeah, I'm not sure theyâre talking about the same Iraq you and me are talking about.

There's a young guy at work from Nigeria. He overheard me talk about 9.11 and at the time he was attending GWU. The day after 9.11, federal teams of trauma counselors came into the classroom and basically told them they were all in shock -- that [they should] "understand the memory [because] your eyes will play tricks on you in the future. If anyone is questioning what we're telling you, do not believe what you think you know." Basically telling them, "Here is the story, follow it."

[The Pentagon]: show us the maneuvering, how this plane pulled off these maneuvers. If that happened, what about the Sheraton, the gas station, the freeway cam? All these shots had this perfectly document. Instead they put our five photos they claim to not have authorized. It's really suspicious and then if you look at the date stamp in the bottom left-hand corner, its September 12.

The whole thing about the plane disintegratingâ¦if you take the one statement about the wings folding up, it seems like at that impact velocity, everything is still going the same speed.

Last comment?

It is up to us to reveal the truth. It is up to us because we owe it to the families; we owe it to the victims; we owe it to everyone whose life was drastically altered horrifically that day and forever. We owe it to them to uncover what happened.

Re: Bush and all those terrorists

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 07:41:49 GMT

'Bribes' Story Covers-up True Nature Of Bin Laden's Elusiveness

Prison Planet | April 14 2005

BBC SNIP: Osama Bin Laden gave US forces the slip by bribing the Afghan militias tasked with tracking him down, according to Germany's spy chief, August Hanning.

Mr Hanning told German newspaper Handelsblatt that using Afghans was the key mistake in the hunt for Bin Laden.

He said Bin Laden paid "a lot of money" to buy a safe passage from the Tora Bora caves, which he had retreated to during the US assault in 2001.

---------------------

THE TRUTH

This is just another smokescreen to hide the true nature of Bin Laden's elusiveness. At the highest levels he is being protected by his Globalist masters.

Remember, these are the same people telling us that the escape of 8,000 Taliban and Al-Qaeda members on Pakistani cargo planes, with US intelligence authorization was an accident.

They have known where bin Laden was all along. We have featured numerous articles on the website where the troops on the ground has his location pinpointed, were about to swoop in, but the raid was suddenly called off because bin Laden had mysteriously disappeared.

In the spring of 1999, A British couple called Alan and Cindy Thompson were driving through Pakistan, in the very area that they're now talking about as being bin Laden's location. After driving for 11 hours on dirt roads they came to a checkpoint and were detained by armed Pakistani guards.

The next day the Dawn newspaper, one of the biggest newspapers in Pakistan, reported that this couple had found the secret lair of Osama bin Laden.

More interesting is that they reported that this location had been visited by US consulate officers, British, Australian, and Swiss ambassadors, and that it was guarded by a team of US commandoes.

After the couple were picked up by the British embassy they were invited to a garden party where all the British ambassadors and aid workers were bragging that they were stationed in the same area as bin Laden's secret hideout.

After the couple got back home to England they saw a newspaper article calling for the capture of bin Laden. This was a few months before Clinton signed an executive order mandating bin Laden to be killed on sight.

The couple immediately contacted Scotland Yard in London; they contacted the FBI and the Pentagon and in every case got nothing. No response, no request for an interview. Nothing.

Let us recap. We have British ambassadors visiting Osama bin Laden, whose location is guarded by elite US commandoes, and when the couple that witnessed all this try to report it, they are blackballed.

They know where bin Laden is and they have known for at least 5 years.

Written by Paul Joseph Watson http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives/articles/watson/261105.htm

Dawn vista

Rex — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 15:25:07 GMT

Could you please look at the following and tell me the meaning of the words 'dawn vista'?

European citizens

When Hungary, and nine other, mostly east European countries joined the European Union in 2004, the EU Roma population increased by more than 1.5 million.

The dawn vista which greets them, as they step down from their metaphorical wagons, is probably the brightest they have seen since they began their long trek westwards from India, in the 11th Century, thanks to the human rights agenda of the union.

Back in their national wagons though, significant problems remain.

Around 10 to 12 million Roma live in Europe, many in the Balkans

They live in slum-like ghettos on the edge of towns, in almost purely Roma villages in the east, and in the poorer pockets of the capitals.

They are proud of the remnants of their musical and craft traditions, and the little pools of words they have preserved like pearls, but live for the most part in abject poverty.

People say that more than half the prison population in Hungary is Roma, though there are no statistics.

Under the 1993 Data Protection Act, the little "c" for cigany - gypsy - which appeared beside their names in public records, was banned.

One of the first interviews I did in Hungary, in the mid-1980s, was with the Roma novelist Menyhert Lakatos.

"There were times in this country when we were killed or maimed on sight," he told me.

And one of his books begins with a pathetic troop of gypsies on a country road, their ears cut off.

"Can you be surprised," Lakatos continued, "if we sometimes see the chickens and wallets of Hungarians as fair game?"

Re: the best horror film/movie

Dj Bueno — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:15:52 GMT

Greatest Early Classic Horror Films: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919, German) Nosferatu, A Symphony of Terror (1922, German) (aka Nosferatu, The Vampire) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) The Phantom of the Opera (1925) Dracula (1931) Frankenstein (1931) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932) Freaks (1932) Island of Lost Souls (1932) The Mummy (1932) The Old Dark House (1932) White Zombie (1932) The Ghoul (1933) The Invisible Man (1933) King Kong (1933) The Black Cat (1934) Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Mad Love (1935) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) The Wolf Man (1941) Cat People (1942) I Walked With a Zombie (1943) Phantom of the Opera (1943) The Seventh Victim (1943) The Lodger (1944) The Uninvited (1944) The Body Snatcher (1945) Dead of Night (1945, UK) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) The Thing (From Another World) (1951) House of Wax (1953) Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954) Gojira (1954, Jp.) (aka Godzilla) The Night of the Hunter (1955) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) Curse of the Demon (aka Night of the Demon) (1957) The Fly (1958, remade 1986) The Horror of Dracula (1958, UK) The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)

Other Greatest Horror Films: Les Yeux Sans Visage (1960, Fr./It.) (aka The Eyes Without a Face, or The Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus) Little Shop of Horrors (1960) Peeping Tom (1960) Psycho (1960) Village of the Damned (1960) The Innocents (1961) The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) Burn Witch, Burn! (1962) Carnival of Souls (1962) What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) The Birds (1963) The Haunting (1963) Dead Ringer (1964) Kwaidan (1964), (aka Ghost Stories (1965) The Masque of the Red Death (1964) The Tomb of Ligeia (1964, UK) Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1965) Repulsion (1965) Frankenstein Created Woman (1966) Seconds (1966) The Devil Rides Out (1968, UK), (aka The Devil's Bride) Night of the Living Dead (1968) Rosemary's Baby (1968) Witchfinder General (1968) The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) A Clockwork Orange (1971) Blacula (1972) Deliverance (1972) Last House on the Left (1972) Don't Look Now (1973) The Exorcist (1973) The Legend of Hell House (1973) Sisters (1973) The Wicker Man (1973) It's Alive! (1974) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) Jaws (1975) Race with the Devil (1975) Burnt Offerings (1976) Carrie (1976) The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976) The Omen (1976) The Hills Have Eyes (1977) Suspiria (1977, It.) Dawn of the Dead (1978) Halloween (1978) Alien (1979) The Changeling (1979) Dracula (1979) The Fog (1979) Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) Phantasm (1979) Dressed to Kill (1980) Friday the 13th (1980) The Shining (1980) An American Werewolf in London (1981) The Howling (1981) Scanners (1981) Poltergeist (1982) The Thing (1982) Videodrome (1982) The Dead Zone (1983) The Evil Dead (1983) The Hunger (1983) The Keep (1983) The Company of Wolves (1984) Ghostbusters (1984) Gremlins (1984) A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Day of the Dead (1985) Fright Night (1985) Re-Animator (1985) The Fly (1986) Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) The Hitcher (1986) Manhunter (1986) Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987) Dead of Winter (1987) Fatal Attraction (1987) Hellraiser (1987) The Lost Boys (1987) Near Dark (1987) The Stepfather (1987) The Witches of Eastwick (1987) Beetlejuice (1988) Dead Ringers (1988) The Vanishing (1988) Arachnophobia (1990) Darkman (1990) Edward Scissorhands (1990) Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1990) Jacob's Ladder (1990) Misery (1990) The Witches (1990) Cape Fear (1991) The People Under the Stairs (1991) The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Army of Darkness (1992) Basic Instinct (1992) Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) Candyman (1992) The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) Body Snatchers (1994) Ed Wood (1994) Interview with the Vampire (1994) Wolf (1994) Crash (1995) Se7en (1995) The Craft (1996) From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) Lost Highway (1996) Mars Attacks! (1996) Scream (1996) The Devil's Advocate (1997) I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) Scream 2 (1997) Apt Pupil (1998) Ringu (1998, Jp.) The Blair Witch Project (1999) The Mummy (1999) The Sixth Sense (1999) Sleepy Hollow (1999) Final Destination (2000) The Others (2001) The Ring (2002) Dawn of the Dead (2004) Van Helsing (2004)

MY VOTE GOES TO ....."Hannibal the Cannibal"..