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"... while several people rushed over from the table and took him from the room. Shortly after, Gen. Petraeus regained consciousness and walked from the hearing room under his own power."

This sentence reads that the several people took him from the room before he left the room under his own power. While he was assisted (tended to by his aides) he left the room under his own power and was not "taken" from the room Turtlestack (talk) 21:14, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

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Nope. They goin' down. Celtics are a road team then more of a home team. The Lakers are somewhat injured. On top of that, they beat Cavs and the Magic, two of the best ranked teams with All-Star players. So I do believe it'll be close but in the end Boston will come out on top. --Patrick M (TUFKAAP) (talk) 23:25, 15 June 2010 (UTC)


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Australian rules football: Traralgon to play Moe in Gippsland Football League clash Saturday

June 17, 2010 will host on Saturday at the Traralgon Recreation Reserve and Showground instead of the originally scheduled Sunday. The contest wil be part of the Gippsland Football League's tenth round.

In an email sent out to media, General Manager Chris Soumilas said, "The round 10 Fixture [sic] of Traralgon Vs Moe has been changed to Saturday. By mutual agreement Traralgon will host Moe on Saturday 19/06/10." Soumilas followed up with an email to media and the league's clubs confirming the move.

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Today on Wikinews : The Red Cross condemns the Gaza blockade as Israel announces it will carry out an investigation into the death of the flotilla activists; women reveal accounts of forced abortion in Scientology; World Cup security officials walk off the job and, in history, the first human blood transfusion is administered.

Today is Tuesday, June 15th, 2010. I'm Dan Harlow and this is Wikinews.

International Committee of the Red Cross condemns Gaza blockade (0:39)
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) issued a statement today calling for an end to Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip which it called a "...collective punishment imposed in clear violation of Israel's obligations under international humanitarian law."

The statement gave an overview of what the Red Cross viewed as a humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The ICRC described how the blockade has seriously impoverished the people of Gaza, as well as denying them basic access to housing, food and health care. The ICRC claimed the blockade has almost totally destroyed Gaza's economy which is kept on life support by an elaborate tunnel system used to smuggle in goods. Even though Israel stated it no longer occupies the Gaza Strip, the ICRC said that the country still denies access of Gazans to their fishing grounds, causing economic hardships.

The ICRC also outlined the condition of the health care system in Gaza stating that electricity blackouts are on average seven hours a day, meaning that hospitals must run on generators. Generators can take two to three minutes to start, a luxury many patients cannot afford. To make matters worse fuel reserves for the generators are running out, and the ICRC reported that already three times in 2010 Gaza's hospitals have run out of fuel.

Highlighting a potential risk to Gaza's water supply, according to the statement, only "60% of Gaza's 1.4 million inhabitants are connected to a sewage collection system." Raw sewage is dumped into the Wadi Gaza river and as many families live along side the river, the sewage poses a great health risk. Because of overused aquifers, Gaza's drinking water has "high levels of nitrate, chloride and salt" leaving the drinking water unfit for consumption.

The ICRC also urged for the rights of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who is held prisoner by Hamas, to be respected, however, they recognized that, "Over 800 Gazan detainees in Israeli prisons have been prevented from meeting face-to-face with their loved ones since June 2007."

Israel announces inquiry into Gaza aid ship deaths (2:51)
The Red Cross statement comes after the May 31st incident on a flotilla of Gaza-bound aid ships when nine Turkish citizens were killed as Israeli naval commandos boarded a vessel in the flotilla, the MV Mavi Marmara.

Following a rejected UN call for an international inquiry, Israel will carry out an inquiry into last month's raid consisting of two non-voting foreign observers.

The three-man inquest into the boarding action, which took place in international waters, will be headed by ex-Supreme Court judge Yaakov Tirkel. A retired military officer and a professor of international law are the other members. The two foreign observers will be Nobel Peace Prize winner David Trimble and a former jurist in the Canadian military, Brigadier General Kenneth Watkin. They are to watch the panel consider how the Turks died, as well as judge whether the naval blockade of Gaza is allowable under international law.

Middle East peace envoy for the Madrid Quartet, Tony Blair, said that he hoped that the Israeli blockade on Gaza would be softened within days, whilst the White House backed a Security Council statement calling for a "prompt, impartial [and] credible" review. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that the inquest did "not correspond to what the Security Council asked for".

The Turkish government, however, is not satisfied with Israel's inquiry. Ahmet Davutoglu, the Turkish Foreign Minister, said in a news conference that Israel's "one-sided inquiry" is insufficient, and his country wishes for a commission to be set up under the control of the United Nations. Turkey has withdrawn their ambassador to Israel and canceled joint military exercises. It is calling for the blockade, which the Red Cross says violates the Geneva Convention, to be lifted.

In another part of the world where war and religious tensions have caused serious economic hardships,

US report says Afghanistan has significant mineral wealth (4:38)
A report released by the United States noted that Afghanistan has nearly a trillion dollars worth of mineral reserves.

The report, authored by the US military, the US Geological Service, and the US Agency for International Development, stated that the total wealth in mineral reserves is upwards of US$900 billion, although Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said the value of mineral reserves in the country could be as much as US$3 trillion.

Resources claimed by the report include 421 billion dollars worth of iron, 274 billion dollars worth of copper and an undetermined amount of lithium, a mineral used in the batteries for many personal electronic devices.

According to an Afghan official, the potential income from mining the reserves would be enough for the country to become self-sustaining, without the need for international financial aid.

US military official General David Petraeus said that there was "stunning potential" for Afghanistan, going on to say that "[t]here are a lot of ifs, of course, but I think potentially it is hugely significant."

A spokesperson for Karzai stated that "it's very, very big news for the people of Afghanistan and that we hope will bring the Afghan people together for a cause that will benefit everyone."

Analysts were less optimistic about the potential for a mining industry, however. Janan Mosazai, one such analyst, said that "I highly doubt it will be able to either properly manage these resources or use the riches to build a more peaceful and prosperous Afghanistan for all Afghans." Mosazai cited Nigeria as an example of a country that has seen increased violence as a result of abundant natural resources; in that case, oil.

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Women reveal accounts of forced abortion in Scientology (7:16)
Scientology is facing renewed criticism, due to an extensive exposé in the Florida newspaper the St. Petersburg Times which contains revealing accounts of women involved in the organization who say they were forced to have abortions. Multiple different female members of the Scientology group called the Sea Org said they were pressured to have abortions, and were threatened with separation from their families, hard labor, interrogations, and shunning, if they did not comply.

Women that came forward to the St. Petersburg Times said that those who did not wish to undergo an abortion were shunned by others within the Sea Org group, and were labeled as "out ethics" and "degraded beings". The Sea Org consists of 6,000 members of Scientology, who sign billion-year contracts to work for the organization for multiple lifetimes. Joining the Sea Org is considered a high calling within Scientology.

L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, stated his appreciation for families within the Sea Org. Scientology's subsequent leader, David Miscavige, issued an order that children were to be banned in the Sea Org. The mandate by Miscavige asserted that children hampered the productivity of the Scientology order.

Scientology representative, Tommy Davis denied all of the assertions made by the women. "There is no church policy to convince anyone to have an abortion, and the church has never engaged in such activity." stated Davis to the St. Petersburg Times.

Another woman is suing the Scientology organization in United States federal court, and stated she was threatened with severe repercussions if she did not have an abortion. Claire Headley, 35, a member of the Sea Org when she was in Scientology, told the St. Petersburg Times, "The policy was if a staff member became pregnant, that they were to have an abortion."

In 1991, Headley became a member of the Sea Org at age sixteen, and began work with the division in Los Angeles, California. She then married at age seventeen, while a member of the organization. Headley said that officials within Scientology leadership pressured her to have two abortions: one at age nineteen, and another at age 21. Headley believed she had "no choice", as she had witnessed other women that refused to have abortions instructed to perform manual labor, with one pregnant woman ordered to dig ditches. Headley said that during pressure to have her second abortion she was forbidden to phone her husband to discuss the decision. Headley spent a total of thirteen years in the Sea Org.

Laura Dieckman, 31, said that she was enthusiastic about beginning a family when she became pregnant within Scientology at age seventeen, but was instructed to have an abortion. In a federal lawsuit against Scientology, Dieckman stated she joined with the Sea Org at the age of twelve, and at age sixteen she married another member of the group, Jesse DeCrescenzo. She said she was pressured to have an abortion in 1996.

Dieckman said to the St. Petersburg Times: "I was pounded for two days by the top person in my organization ... about how the baby wasn't a baby yet, it was just tissue and it wouldn't matter if I aborted the baby." Dieckman left Scientology in 2004. In a video posted to the website of the St. Petersburg Times, Dieckman emotionally recounted how she had immediately regretted going through with the procedure, "They will do an ultrasound before the procedure so you see the heartbeat. ... I'm lying there ... and I was like, 'No.' But it's too late. I'd already done it."

Another woman, Natalie Hagemo, said that 20 years ago at age nineteen, she too was pressured by Scientology officials to have an abortion, but she resisted. Hagemo gave birth to a daughter, Shelby, on August 20, 1990 who was recruited into the Sea Org at age 14. Shelby contacted her mother a week later wanting to leave the Sea Org but Hagemo had a difficult time getting her out of the group. It was not until this year that Hagemo told her daughter about experiencing pressure from Scientology officials to have an abortion.

The St. Petersburg Times received sworn depositions from additional women including Sunny Pereira, who said they were intimidated into having abortions they did not wish to undergo. "They put you in this position where you're weighing the lives of all these people you're supposed to be saving against this one little tiny speck of nuisance that's growing inside of you," said Pereira. Spokesman Tommy Davis stated the women were accusing Scientology of forced abortions because of choices they now "appear to regret".

In Nevada, Republican party candidate for the United States Senate, Sharron Angle, was the focus of criticism for her support of a Scientology-associated program. Angle's opponent, incumbent Senator and Senate Majority Leader Democrat Harry Reid, took out a 30-second negative political ad critical of Angle for supporting "a Scientology plan to give massages to prisoners". The prison program Angle had supported was based on techniques developed by Scientology founder, L. Ron Hubbard.

Angle had previously been the subject of a similar ad in the Republican primary, generated by the campaign of her opponent Sue Lowden. Sharron Angle is pro-life, and The New York Times columnist Ramesh Ponnuru noted her position against abortion helped her win the Republican primary. "Angle would not have been able to unite populist conservatives and beat the party establishment’s candidate had she been pro-choice,".

World Cup workers walk off the job (12:46)

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Following a labour dispute involving soccer match stewards, South African police have taken over security duties for World Cup games in Cape Town and Durban. Security personnel staged a sit-down protest in the Durban stadium on Sunday, and walked off the job before yesterday's match in Cape Town.

The security workers are in a contract dispute with their employer, Stallion Security Consortium Pty (Ltd). Workers claim they were promised as much as seven times as much pay for a shift than what they are currently receiving.

Following the match between Germany and Australia on Sunday, workers staged a sit-in on the grounds of the Durban stadium and were attacked by police with tear gas and rubber bullets.

The 2010 organizing committee claims they are working on resolving this dispute.

Some South African unions have threatened to severely disrupt the country during the World Cup if labor demands are not met. South Africa currently has one of the largest income disparities in the world.

And finally, for fans of a sport without the annoying drone of the Vuvuzela,

Los Angeles Lakers need to win game six to tie NBA championship (13:46)
the Los Angeles Lakers need to win tonight's home game to stay in the NBA Finals after the Boston Celtics beat the Lakers 92–86 on Sunday in game five of the seven-game series. After the Celtic's win in game five, and a three-thousand mile journey back home, the Lakers find themselves needing to win tonight to tie the series and deny the Celtics the win they need to wrap up the 2010 championship.

Though Kobe Bryant had scored 38 points on Sunday, there were no other other major point contributors from the Lakers. Pau Gasol scored twelve points, and Derek Fisher added nine points. The Celtics' Paul Pierce scored 27 points, and their other two "big three" players (Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen) scored 30 points between them.

The Celtics may have underperformed over the season, but in these 2010 playoffs, they have been playing like the championship team they were three two ago.

For the final two scheduled games (should a game 7 be necessary), the Lakers will have home field advantage at the Los Angeles' Staples Center.

On this day in history (14:55)

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In 1667, Jean-Baptiste Denys administered the first fully documented human blood transfusion using about twelve ounces of sheep blood into a 15-year old boy, who had been bled with leeches 20 times. The boy, along with a second patient, a labourer, both survived though it was likely due to the small amount of blood that was actually transfused into them, allowing them to withstand the allergic reaction.

Then, in the winter of 1667, Denys performed several transfusions on Antoine Mauroy with calf's blood, who on the third account died. Much controversy surrounded his death as Mauroy's wife asserted Denys was responsible for her husband's death. Denys was charged with murder but was acquitted, and in an unusual twist, Mauroy's wife was accused of causing his death which was later determined to be from arsenic poisoning.

After the trial, Denys quit the practice of medicine and his experiments with animal blood provoked a heated controversy in France, which banned the procedure in 1670. It wasn't until after Karl Landsteiner's discovery of the four blood groups in 1902 that blood transfusions became safe and reliable.

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then it's only a matter of time before people turn their back on all religion and we can all move on.

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Thank you, there will probably be more articles on this topic coming soon. ;)


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Former Australian police media director Stephen Linnell's perjury conviction quashed

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County Court Judge Barbera Cottrell overturned earlier convictions against Stephen Linnell, former media director of.

A Melbourne magistrate accepted Linnell's guilty plea to three charges of perjury to the state of Victoria's (OPI) in 2008. Linnell was sentenced to eight months in a corrective facility, suspension from the police department, and fined 5,000.

The Victorian Supreme Court eventually ruled the OPI hearings were invalid, leading to the dismissal of similar cases against superior members of the police department, including former Assistant Police Commissioner Noel Ashby and former union chief Paul Mullett. Linnell then appealed the judgment against him, heard very briefly before Judge Cottrell.

"I'm obviously pleased with today's decision," Linnell said in a statement. "As you can imagine, it has been a difficult time for me."

The investigation into Linnell, led by the OPI, came about over allegations of information leaks compromising critical operation of murder investigations. Legal technicalities — such as the former head of the OPI investigation being unable to administer legal oaths — resulted in the gathered evidence being inadmissible.


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The construction of multi - million pound media centre has got the go - ahead. The centre when built provide media facillities for high schools in Hexham, Prudhoe and Ponteland. It is going to built on the same site as the current Prudhoe Community High School.

Facilities will include a 100 seat cinema, a radio studio and a telvision studio.

It is also going to benifit the gerneral public. There are plans for cinema to be opened to the puplic in the evenings. The cinema is to seat 100 people and if the cinema is full, people will be able to watch the movies online. When built, this cinema will be the only cinema in Prudhoe.

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This is the height of government B/S in action, 24 Billion budget, 16,000 employees doing nothing but collecting a paycheck, the country is worse off now than when this pitiful excuse of government was founded. This should be the first agency disbanded. I know 24 billion isnt much money by obama's standards, but it would be a great start. --13:16, 16 June 2010 (UTC)


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Talk:Warren Buffett to host world's most expensive lunch

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The title is not clear, when I read it I thought he was going to have a the most expensive food in the world for over 1,000 people or something similar. How about "Warren Buffett auctions lunch with himself" or something within the lines of that (sorry, bad with titles) Irunongames  •  play  00:40, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
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The fact the auction was for charity is only mentioned three paragraphs or fifty words in. I felt a bit disgusted before I found that out. Could it be moved further up? --92.27.28.81 (talk) 18:24, 18 June 2010 (UTC)


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"Some people have speculated that Petraeus passed out because of McCain's questions, as the General slumped over while answering McCain."

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I've a pretty good idea who you are. But I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt. Once. Any more vandalism and you will be hit with a block. Blood Red Sandman (Talk)   (Contribs) 17:35, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

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So...ten innocent Israelis don't matter? At least when IDF forces kill civilians it is collateral damage, they are fairly precise, and try to target actual threats to Israel, as opposed to Israel's enemies, which want them to just die, men, women, children, all civilians, just because they are Israeli. They launch rockets aimlessly into Israel, with the sole intent of killing civilians. See the difference? One is a response to aggression with the intent of ending it, whereas the other is an act of aggression committed solely for ideological reasons with the intent of killing civilians. There haven't been very many rockets since we invaded Gaza, so I guess it worked, didn't it. Maybe the only reason for that is because of the blockade, which prevents weapons and their components from being smuggled in.

The whole concept of "civilians" and "combatants" becomes very clouded when a militant can throw down his weapons and claim to be a civilian the next day, they are not wearing uniforms, and every estimate of civilian casualties assumes a lot of things when there is simply no basis for making that claim. The Battle of Mogadishu was a similar instance of confusion between civilians and combatants. A civilian becomes a combatant as soon as he picks up a weapon, but long before that he was willing to kill. At least IDF forces have enough dignity to wear their country's colors and fight to protect their country. Can terrorists and non-aligned combatants say the same?

For comparison, consider what would happen if the US had a blockade under similar circumstances. We would 1) make a command for the vessel to turn back 2) fire a warning shot 3) sink the ship. Israel attempted to commandeer the vessels, and they were stabbed, beaten, and kidnapped before they use lethal force. Furthermore, the stories were blown out of proportion, trying to make Israel seem like the bad guys. Weapons were cropped out of pictures to make the flotilla seem peaceful, but we all know what was really happening, and it only further emphasizes the importance of the blockade in preventing the smuggling of weapons and weapon components. Israel is continually criticized for their heavy-handed tactics, and in my opinion, they have every right to use them. I can say that anyone would do the same. Try being as peaceful, calm, and reluctant to use lethal force when every bordering country wants you dead because you are Jewish. Israel should never have to defend the action of defending itself, and I hope that anyone who seeks to bring violence upon them learns the hard way not to mess with the IDF. If you don't know what i'm talking about, read up on the Six-day war.


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No not anyone would have done the same. If there is the possibility of a confrontation with violent people armed with bats, wrenches and similar you send people who can overcome them without resorting to lethal forces. By your reasoning every time there is a riot the answer is to shot the people involved. Lucky in the US, Europe and the rest of the civilised world this doesn't happen. On the other hand the police or the army shooting protestors is quite common in a lot of regimes i'm sure you despise. Just a question for you: if something similar was done by Iran or North Korea would you defend them saying they have a right to kill rioters?


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Of course ten Israeli deaths matter just as ten Palestinian deaths matter. The problem with brutal sanctioning is that you don't only punish the specific people/groups that are responsible - in fact you primarily punish innocent people. The people who have established this sanctioning are well aware more that many innocent people will be killed directly and many indirectly because of this sanctioning. It would not take much knowledge and experience to know fairly surely that your policies will bring death to innocent people in numbers that are far from proportional - numbers which do not seem well justified even in the name of protection of innocent Israeli citizens from terrorist violence.

It would be convenient to just stand on principle and hold evil enemy governments responsible for their own citizens and blame them for the fate of their innocent populations when they become "collateral damage" - but standing on philosophical abstraction is not a position that justifies so much death. The same situation applied to Iraq BEFORE the second Iraq war - we can blame Saddam all we like but U.S. sanctions killed thousands of innocent Iraqis long before any occupational force returned - do we have the right to put the lives of all those innocent people in the hands of someone like Saddam just so we can prove to him our own strength? What good will holding him responsible do for them? These kinds of tactics show weakness - not strength. No innocent deaths should be taken lightly and potential for future hazard to innocent life is not an automatic justification for going on the offensive and killing more Palestinian citizens - especially in completely unproportional numbers.


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Why do the richest people on the planet get so much credit for giving to charity? Especially when it requires taking from others to get so rich in the first place, the money they give will just come back to them as they live at the top of the economic food chain, and this guy isn't even giving his own money, he's holding auctions so he can give other people's money to charity and get credit for it! When a few million would just be pocket change to this multi-billionaire anyway. Over the course of 10 years? Not impressed.

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Wikinews:Briefs/June 16, 2010

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Today on Wikinews : General David Petraeus passes out while testifying before the US Senate; famed investor Warren Buffett auctions himself off on eBay and, today I learned about UVB-76, one of the mysterious numbers stations.

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Today is Wednesday, June 16th, 2010. I'm Dan Harlow and this is Wikinews.

US General David Petraeus passes out during Senate testimony (0:44)
While testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, General David Petraeus, head of the U.S. Central Command, passed out briefly while answering a question from Arizona Senator John McCain.

Petraeus was testifying on the Afghanistan War when he slumped over in mid-sentence and the hearing was immediately suspended while several people rushed over to assist him. Shortly after, Gen. Petraeus regained consciousness and walked from the hearing room under his own power.

The chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Michigan Senator Carl Levin shortly after said the general "appears to be doing very much better." The senator also said that Petraeus was eating and may have been dehydrated, and that the hearing might resume.

After a short time, Petraeus returned, smiling and sipping from a cup. Though the hearing was resumed briefly, given the circumstances, Levin postponed the hearing until Wednesday. As the hearing closed, McCain called the general one of the "nation's heroes" and also said "we're glad you have recovered and look forward to seeing you again tomorrow." As Levin sounded the gavel that closed the hearing for the day, applause broke out.

Some people have speculated that Petraeus passed out because of McCain's questions, however, Petraeus later said "It wasn't Sen. McCain's questions. I just got dehydrated."

Senator McCain is also in no way responsible for an incident where

Dozens killed in Mexican prison riots (2:04)
dozens of people were been killed in Mexico after two separate prison riots broke out in the city of Mazatlan.

According to the Public Safety Secretary, in the first attack, which occurred Monday, twenty inmates of the jail were shot to death after members of a gang started shooting at a rival group. Jail security staff managed to regain control of the prison, and found two assault rifles inside.

Another inmate was hospitalized and later died; three policemen were also wounded, and one is in serious condition.

Eight hours afterwords, another clash erupted, this time when inmates were stabbed by fellow prisoners, according to Public Safety Department spokesman Angeles Moreno. He added that police are investigating the cause of the attacks.

Moving onto a story featuring a meal one would not find in a Mexican prison,

Warren Buffett to host world's most expensive lunch (2:52)
Billionaire Warren Buffett, Chief Executive of Berkshire Hathaway, auctioned lunch with himself on eBay for US$2.63 million.

Bidding, which started on eBay a few weeks ago, attracted nine bidders, offering huge sums for the opportunity to have a steak lunch with the man said to be a "legendary investor".

The winning bidder, an anonymous individual, also has the opportunity to bring along seven friends for the meal.

This, the latest of Buffett's charity auctions, is providing funds to the Glide Foundation, a charity that provides food, health care, housing and job training for San Francisco's homeless.

Over the last ten years, Buffett has netted $5.9 million in donations through such auctions.

As wealthy and influential as Mr. Buffett is, even he would have had to wait when

Apple swamped by iPhone pre-orders (3:44)
pre-orders of the recently announced iPhone 4 began Tuesday, overwhelming Apple and AT&T.

Many buyers experienced issues connecting to Apple's website and customer service line. Some had difficulty finishing their orders online, while others endured long waits at Apple's retail stores due to the online issues. Some customers reported that Apple had set a recording on their phone lines telling people to call back at a later time, and others tweeted about their experience.

Since the original iPhone was released in 2007, web servers for both Apple and AT&T have experienced issues at every new device launch. Today's glitches were apparently in the transaction authorization process, the point when Apple transfers information over to AT&T servers. Other retailers, including Best Buy and Radio Shack, did not appear to be having the same problems.

Representatives at several Apple Stores in the United States said that buyers should try again tomorrow. Neither company made any official statement about the technical issues.

The newest iPhone, iPhone 4 was introduced by Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the company's 2010 Worldwide Developer's Conference less than two weeks ago. It is slated for a U.S. release on June 24, starting at US$199. Ben Reitzes, with Barclays Capital, estimated that over eight million iPhones will have been sold by the end of the current financial quarter, which ends on June 26. Shares of Apple Inc. rose US$5.41 yesterday in regular trading, continuing their trend of having risen 23 percent this year.

Today I Learned (5:38)

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25 miles northwest of Moscow, near the village of Lozhki, sits the shortwave radio station UVB-76, better known as the Buzzer. Typically broadcasting on the frequency of 4625 kHz, the buzzer features a short, monotonous buzz tone, repeating at a rate of approximately 25 tones per minute, 24 hours a day.

Despite much speculation, the actual purpose of this station remains unknown, yet because of the nature of the broadcast and the fact that its transmitter location is rumored to be a communications hub of the General Staff of the army, UVB-76 is widely believed to be used to transmit encoded messages to spies.

Commonly, this type of transmitter is known as a numbers station which generally broadcast artificially generated voices reading streams of numbers, words, letters (sometimes using a spelling alphabet), tunes or Morse code. They are in a wide variety of languages and the voices are usually female, though sometimes male or children's voices are used.

The Buzzer has been observed since around 1982 and on rare occasions, the buzzer signal is interrupted and a voice transmission in Russian takes place, however only three to four such events have been noted.

Frequently, distant conversations and other background noises can be heard behind the buzzer: this suggests that the buzzing device is behind a live and constantly open microphone or that a microphone may have been turned on accidentally. One such occasion was on November 3, 2001, when a conversation in Russian was heard saying "[This is] 143. Not receiving the generator (oscillator)." "There's some work on the hardware."

Since the start of June 2010 the normal buzzing sound from UVB-76 has been replaced by a continuous high pitched noise, similar to that of a modem, with intermittent deeper tones like that of a foghorn.

While no government confirms the existence or use of these stations, in 2001, the United States tried the Cuban Five, five Cuban intelligence officers convicted of espionage for Cuba as well as conspiracy to commit murder and other crimes. Evidence showed that the group had received and decoded messages that had been broadcast from a Cuban numbers station.

It has also been reported that the United States uses numbers stations to communicate encoded information to persons in other countries.

Numbers stations appear and disappear over time (although some follow regular schedules), and their overall activity has increased slightly since the early 1990s. This increase suggests that, as spy-related phenomena, they were not unique to the Cold War. According to the notes of The Conet Project, a recording of many transmissions from these transmitters, numbers stations have been reported since World War I. If that is accurate, this would make numbers stations among the earliest radio broadcasts.

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Israel sent their very best special forces, not their worst, because they knew these experienced soldiers would only resort to lethal force in order to protect their own lives. It was not a riot, it was an organized attempt to evade an established blockade and bring supplies, including weapons, into Gaza. The occupants of the ship had prepared weapons beforehand specifically for this violent purpose. Furthermore, they refused to allow Israel to inspect the supplies before they were transferred by established land routes into Gaza. Why? I can't think of any good reasons, only bad ones, which further justify their commandeering of the vessels. There was a peaceful solution to that confrontation, but they chose the violent route.


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And if you ignore the facts its easy to side with the protesters, such as omitting knives from your list of weapons that they had to make them seem less threatening, just an obvious deception on your part. What about the fact that a few soldiers were kidnapped, and one thrown to a lower deck? The people on board those ships, at least a portion of them, were planning to kill the Israeli soldiers from the start. They attempted to overwhelm the IDF, and the IDF responded by using lethal force, if that's not how you see that one scenario you have your facts wrong.


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and here's a disproportionate number for you: SIX MILLION, that's how many Jews were killed last time they were persecuted and nobody gave a shit. If you are going to blame Israel for defending themselves against those same anti-semitic ideologies of the past being used Israel's enemies now, then you clearly have some sort of deep-seated anti-semitism yourself. The worst part is, you are thinking to yourself "Yeah anyone can pull the holocaust card." That's right, I am. We made a promise, never again will the Jewish people be persecuted and murdered for being Jewish. If we are willing to fight tooth and nail with these degenerates, and if the local populations support them and refuse to help us weed them out, then yes, innocent people are going to get killed in the crossfire. Everyone in the world, including the UN, is blaming Israel for the action of defending themselves. I see this all as an excuse for people to just express their own latent anti-semitism, and I won't stand for it.


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Catholic schools continue to ignore the bullying in there school so children get hurt or this worse case case killed.Families need to start to stand up and tell catholic schools you want your children safe the only difference now between Catholic and State is the Price tag. The bullying is still an issue in all schools and cause so much Damage low self esteem which also leads to self harm and possibly Suicide. Im talking from experience. I know my child is safer at home now being educated through Home school he is no longer at risk of being hurt by children that feel they have the right to attack other children ,teenagers. How safe is your Child. I feel so sad for this family losing there son my heart goes out to them and I hope and Pray that St Patricks College is putting there hand up and supporting this family through the greif and  finicial support for counceling. I thinks its time we as a nation bring in metal detectors to check our children so they are safe in school grounds. Bullying needs to be taken seriously its not a silly thing its horrible act of trying to destroy a young person self worth.


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Hi is mobile network cisulation in Armenia?is mobile phone not common or just expensive to own one?


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Unfortunately, your insane hatred of the rich will prevent you from seeing the good that this money will do.


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Comments from feedback form - "Too much writing."
Too much writing. —86.21.84.184 (talk) 13:09, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

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Hello,

Your recent contributions are considered to be spam and have been reverted or deleted. Should you believe that your contributions are not spam, please argue your case on your talk page, or in WN:ALERT.

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Hey, just look at how those evil Japanese people killed our civilised, innocent Chinese people in Nanjing. We have to get our own back!


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International title ...
The title of this article doesn't indicate what country or even region this is taking place in, and neither does the main article body from what I could tell. *Please* make sure that things are as comprehensible as possible for a global audience. I'll be renaming this shortly. Tempodivalse [talk]  21:04, 18 June 2010 (UTC)


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Thread:Comments:Warren Buffett to host world's most expensive lunch/Blah/reply (3)

In the end, if the current system does not change, money will continue to be funneled from the poor to the rich. All charity will only alleviate short-term problems but be ineffective in providing any significant changes on a global scale ultimately.


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Your vandalism on Category:Barack Obama is not appreciated. Continue and you will be blocked. Blood Red Sandman (Talk)   (Contribs) 18:13, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

 * Tempo! I wanted to block this guy! More seriously, bugger off troll. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 18:17, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

 * Sorry Sanmdan. :DD Blocked for 24 hours for disruption. Enjoy! Tempodivalse [talk]  18:18, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

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Tempodivalse [talk]  18:22, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

please help
Добрый день, можно попросить Вас помочь опубликовать важную статью в wikinews http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/First_ever_manifestation_for_radical_life_extension_took_place

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Welcome
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Wikinews interviews Chiaki Hayashi, Asian Projects Coordinator at Creative Commons
Indeed I shall. Can you please give the corrected university names? Blood Red Sandman (Talk)   (Contribs) 19:06, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

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Could you help out?
Judging from the BART, this should happen in your area. Can you help out a bit? Thanks Kayau (talk · contribs) 12:41, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 19:52, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Android App
How's the app coming? Sorry I wasn't much of a help when the project began but I got swamped by school projects. Anyway how's the project looking and is their anything I can do. Also have you checked out this Irunongames  •  play  00:37, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Autosig only happens on pages using Liquid Threads (LQT). On Wikinews LQT is only used on the comments pages of articles. Gopher65talk 02:14, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
 * LOL * 2. The app got put on the backburner because of.... complications.  Basically I was supposed to get access to a mobile company to publish it, but that never happened.  Now I need to re-eval.  Anyways, we've found out that the API isn't terribly reliable for some unknown reason - so I need to fix that.  Just happens that the last... month was super busy for me.  I've got a little time now (hopefully not for long) so I'll see what I can do.   As for C2DM, I saw that when they announced it, very cool.  Right now the Wikinews app is running under the 1.5 SDK for maximum spread.  If we get a lot of requests for something like this, then we'll re-eval moving up to 2.2 (which would severely limit the audience) and implementing it. -- Shakata Ga Nai  ^_^ 19:46, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Does android allow you to make 2 versions of the same app for different android versions. IE - make a app that supports all devices and greys out what 1.5-2.1 can't support? Or could we do that manually? Irunongames  •  play  23:25, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
 * We could do it manually. I think it will work like this: A) We get the app out B) We see how widely it gets used C) We see what platform versions people are running on D) See if the people actually care about the new functionality.   -- If no one will want/use push notification (Sans like 1%), it doesn't make much sense.  If they do, we'll just release a Wikinews & Wikinews+Push verisons -- Shakata Ga Nai  ^_^ 22:55, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I love it when a plan comes together Irunongames  •  play  23:25, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
 * <- Just for reference, If you were to put out a 2.2 app, someone on 2.1 or before simply wouldn't see it on the market. So it isn't "Disabled" or "greyed out" in anyway, it simply isn't there.  -- Shakata Ga Nai  ^_^ 23:32, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Jesus Christ, I love android more and more by the minute, all I need is to buy it now Irunongames  •  play  01:25, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Closure of oversight requests
Hi Shaka, could you tell me why you closed Skenmy and Craig's oversight requests as not successful? They had almost reached the 25 mark, and there doesn't appear to be any time limit on such requests AFAIK. IMHO, it would have been better to leave them open until 25 votes were mustered and/or there was enough opposition to tank it below 80%. Cheers, Tempodivalse [talk]  17:20, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree with Tempo. In fact, the rules say that OS requests must stay open for at least two weeks, so it really wouldn't have hurt to keep them open for a few extra days. Furthermore, I am quite bothered by the fact that you closed your own oversight request; couldn't you have asked someone else to close it for you? Benny the mascot (talk) 17:26, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

 * Shaka didn't, he got Bawolff to do it. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 17:27, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Ah, my mistake. I didn't look through the history carefully enough. But I do think that the other requests should have been given more time. Benny the mascot (talk) 17:32, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Would anyone object to my reverting and reopening them? Tempodivalse [talk]  17:37, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't object. On a related note, did anyone even notice that voted on Shakata's RfOS, even though that user has made only three non-mainspace edits? I find that closure to be quite premature, since we usually don't allow contributors to vote if they hadn't done much elsewhere in Wikinews. Benny the mascot (talk) 17:42, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

 * I don't care. But we got basically everyone who is even remotely reasonably active (and then some) to vote.  We've had the elections open for 2 weeks... and Skenmy was what? 10 short?  If you guys want to, leave them open for another 2 weeks... honestly I don't think that'll make any difference.  I canvas'd the mailing list (twice), tweeted about it, set site notices (twice) and generally harassed people.  So... yea.  As for ABF... /me shrugs - maybe he saw the site notice or read twitter (I know at least a few votes came in that way).  I've worked with him on commons. -- Shakata Ga Nai  ^_^ 20:48, 21 June 2010 (UTC)


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I'm not sure if this media file is PD. I just want to get yourr thoughts on it --RockerballAustralia c 05:48, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
 * It is, that's why I tagged it as such. PD Geometry.  If I can recreate it in mspaint fairly accurately in 1mn or less, it's PD. -- Shakata Ga Nai  ^_^ 04:16, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

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"Hey remember that nasty bout 38 years ago when we killed some people? Yeah, sorry about that.  Our bad.  There there, victims."

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Can you explain to me the good that it will do? I see basically nothing. The core problem of economic inequality is the rich hoard wealth far beyond their needs, denying others access and thus creating poverty. Buffett is donating roughly .0001% of his net worth, and he's not even donating from his own hoard of wealth. Furthermore, all the poor can do with charity money is give it right back to the rich to buy necessities. He's doing nothing to alleviate anything, and getting tons of credit for it.

Technically, I could give a penny to charity, and it would be more meaningful.

And don't imply that my criticism is like some irrational prejudice. Being rich isn't a genetic trait, it's the act of hoarding wealth and actions are subject to criticism.


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Yeah sure, anyone who say that even Israel can do wrongs at times is a nazi in disguise. I can't believe that people that on one hand rightly condemn Hamas and similar organization of hate for their actions and their ideology on the other write that "their side" has the right to kill innocents and bystanders. You wonder why "Everyone in the world, including the UN, is blaming Israel"? That's because some parts of the Israel society reason like you, and it's tragically similar to how terrorists think.


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