Unreported News Stories

[Squirrel]

I keep coming across lots of weird little stories that seem like they should have been all over the news, but that end up just being dumped for whatever reason and are not widely known about. So this is a thread for people to post unreported or little-reported news stories on. I'll kick it off with one that I only found out about today, someone came close to assassinating George Bush in May 2005. (http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/12/05/georgia.bush.ap/index.html)

[revgoozen]

Originally posted by Squirrel
I keep coming across lots of weird little stories that seem like they should have been all over the news, but that end up just being dumped for whatever reason and are not widely known about. So this is a thread for people to post unreported or little-reported news stories on. I'll kick it off with one that I only found out about today, someone came close to assassinating George Bush in May 2005. (http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/12/05/georgia.bush.ap/index.html)

it was reported on, but it didn't make much of a ripple. i believe at the time, people were saying that it wasn't really a death threat, that it was a fake grenade - or something.

[DrHibbert]

Funny, I remember reading about that quite a lot. But I'm a bit of a news junkie.

[Squirrel]

I must admit I am at a bit of a disadvantage 'cause I don't have much first-hand access to American domestic news. But it just seemed to me like the sort of thing that would have been a major news story all over the world and I was surprised that I didn't find out about it until today.

[ramblingrose]

Did you know that on September 11th, 2001, somebody crashed a big aeroplane into the Pentagon? That wasn't particularly given the attention I felt it deserved, and now it appears to have been relegated to a footnote en histoire.

[revgoozen]

Originally posted by ramblingrose
Did you know that on September 11th, 2001, somebody crashed a big aeroplane into the Pentagon? That wasn't particularly given the attention I felt it deserved, and now it appears to have been relegated to a footnote en histoire.

we should go kill 100,000 a-rabs over that.:eek:

[Squirrel]

My God, I had no idea. I call for the immediate bombing of all buildings with less than five sides. This is obviously where the terrorists come from.

[Spaced]

I think it's almost expected that people are out to assassinate US presidents, especially someone as belligerent as Bush, so I wouldn't expect it to make a major story unless there was an obvious attempt (bombing etc).

[Squirrel]

Well the guy did chuck a grenade at him.

[Spaced]

Originally posted by Squirrel
Well the guy did chuck a grenade at him.

Yes, but it didn't go off, and it happened in Georgia. I'm guessing they didn't have enough pretty pictures to put on the news.

[Narcissistic Nihilist]

this thread = :yes:

[revgoozen]

Originally posted by Narcissistic Nihilist
this thread = :yes:

it's gone right off the rails and were probably all being monitored under the patriot act by now.:-o i just want to take a moment to say god bless america, and god bless george w bush. :eek: :rolleyes: ;)

[Herr Lipp]

nobody's made that joke before.

and this thread is a bit much. news stories are unreported when the TV or newspaper people think people aren;t gonna care about it! and of course you're going to miss trivial news from another country if you don;t live there.

[Narcissistic Nihilist]

Originally posted by revgoozen
it's gone right off the rails and were probably all being monitored under the patriot act by now.:-o i just want to take a moment to say god bless america, and god bless george w bush. :eek: :rolleyes: ;)
The CIA know where you live.

[Squirrel]

Originally posted by Walter Sopchak
nobody's made that joke before.

and this thread is a bit much. news stories are unreported when the TV or newspaper people think people aren;t gonna care about it! and of course you're going to miss trivial news from another country if you don;t live there.

The idea was to get other people to post weird stuff that they found too, but whatever. I think I like it better like this anyway.

[ramblingrose]

Originally posted by Narcissistic Nihilist
The CIA know where you live.

I once got called in by my head of year at school because I'd taken the communist party manifesto out of the library. She told me that she would not tolerate subversives in her school!

[Narcissistic Nihilist]

Ive heard of the FBI having reports on people taking out MeinKampf, but thats ridiculous. A lot of people get Marx for their studies.

[ramblingrose]

I wasn't studying it - not for school anyway, I was only 13 or so - maybe that's why she objected.

[revgoozen]

While Canadian "global warming" protesters express alarm at the dwindling outdoor hockey season (fewer months with ice, fewer days cold enough for hard ice), a growing number of "hockey" players are taking the game underwater, according to a November Associated Press story. With six breath-holding players per team, passing a puck with sticks at the bottom of a pool, and players surfacing for air as seldom as possible, dozens of club teams worldwide play (nearly 50 in the U.S.), with a championship tournament scheduled next year for Sheffield, England. Said a Cincinnati high school player of the respiratory challenge, "(W)hen you're close to the goal, you're like, 'Do I want to score a goal or breathe?' Most of the time I say, 'Score.'" [Toronto Star, 11-28-05] [Boston Globe-AP, 11-27-05]

[revgoozen]

Are We Safe? In October, the federal Department of Homeland Security announced a $36,300 grant to the state of Kentucky, earmarked to prevent terrorists from using charity bingo and other games of chance to raise money. (One astonished bingo worker in Frankfort told the Associated Press that the need to protect bingo parlors from terrorists "would never even enter my mind.") Also in October, the Tampa Tribune reported that two lower-tier Florida tourist attractions (the Weeki Wachee Springs mermaid show and Dinosaur World in Plant City) were on Homeland Security's list of sites that the state had to "harden" against terrorist attacks, even though officials complained that major sports venues and more popular entertainment sites were not on the list. [Lexington Herald- Leader, 10-24-05] [Tampa Tribune, 10-25-05]

[Spaced]

Originally posted by Narcissistic Nihilist
Ive heard of the FBI having reports on people taking out MeinKampf, but thats ridiculous. A lot of people get Marx for their studies.

Surely anyone reading the Koran is under constant surveillance!

[Narcissistic Nihilist]

Originally posted by revgoozen
While Canadian "global warming" protesters express alarm at the dwindling outdoor hockey season (fewer months with ice, fewer days cold enough for hard ice), a growing number of "hockey" players are taking the game underwater, according to a November Associated Press story. With six breath-holding players per team, passing a puck with sticks at the bottom of a pool, and players surfacing for air as seldom as possible, dozens of club teams worldwide play (nearly 50 in the U.S.), with a championship tournament scheduled next year for Sheffield, England. Said a Cincinnati high school player of the respiratory challenge, "(W)hen you're close to the goal, you're like, 'Do I want to score a goal or breathe?' Most of the time I say, 'Score.'" [Toronto Star, 11-28-05] [Boston Globe-AP, 11-27-05]
..and they say jocks are dumb!

[Narcissistic Nihilist]

Originally posted by Spaced
Surely anyone reading the Koran is under constant surveillance!
That wouldnt be surprising, would it?

[Noshus Klam]

Japan says China "considerable threat", in new flare-up

Japan's foreign minister has said China is becoming a "considerable threat" because of its increased military spending and nuclear weapons, in comments that have sparked a fresh row between the neighbors. China is "a neighboring country with one billion people and nuclear bombs whose military spending has been growing by two digits every year for 17 consecutive years," Foreign Minister Taro Aso told reporters.


"And the content of that is extremely unclear. If I say what this means, I recognize that it is becoming a considerable threat," he said.

Aso, an outspoken hawk appointed in late October, made the comment when asked about the recent remark by Seiji Maehara, the conservative head of the main opposition Democratic Party, that China is a "realistic threat".

"As Mr Maehara put it, it is true that (China) is stirring up a threat and worries," he said.

China reacted angrily, saying its economic might was benefiting Japan.

"As a foreign minister, to so irresponsibly incite such groundless rhetoric about a China threat, what is the purpose?" foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang said at a regular briefing.

"China's development has made commonly acknowledged contributions towards the world's peace and stability, bringing East Asian countries, including Japan, great development opportunities," he said in Beijing.

Aso's remarks came just after the release of a new Chinese government paper reiterating that Beijing intends to become a peaceful world power.

Relations have been badly strained of late, with Beijing angry over Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visits to a Tokyo shrine that commemorates war criminals among the war dead.


China, which was invaded and bloodily occupied by Japan before and during World War II, says the pilgrimage shows Tokyo does not fully regret its militarist past.

Japan and China are also bitterly divided over gas reserves in the East China Sea, with Tokyo planning a major increase in patrols in the disputed area.

But China, with its vast labor pool and rising middle class, remains Japan's top trading partner. Data released Thursday showed Japan's trade surplus rising in November for the first time in eight months, with demand from China fuelling Japan's economic recovery.

Prominent ruling party lawmaker Taku Yamasaki said Thursday he would visit China next month in hopes of holding talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao, who declined to meet Koizumi at two recent regional summits.

Addressing business leaders later Thursday, Aso said Japan wanted to be the leader in Asia, where China's influence is steadily growing.

"Japan is the first country in Asia to complete a number of achievements: modernization, democratization, realizing a market economy, suppressing rising nationalism and closing the gap between rich and poor," Aso said.

"As a democracy and market economy, Japan together with the United States has the power to be a stabilizing force," he said.

Koizumi's government has taken an increasingly hard line with China this year as Beijing moved to scupper Japan's hopes of getting a permanent seat on the UN Security Council.

Beijing argued that Japan must show more regret for the past before it is admitted to the council, where China is the only Asian country with permanent membership and veto power.

China saw some of its biggest rallies in years in April to protest Japan's Security Council bid and its approval of a history textbook that makes only passing reference to Japanese atrocities in the 20th century.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/12/22/051222110346.gtq29z12.html

[Noshus Klam]

Haven't heard about this.

http://www.intelligencesummit.org/news/JDHayworth/JH122205.php

Mexico got owned though.

[Noshus Klam]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051223/ts_nm/security_usa_surveillance_dc

[Herr Lipp]

Kris, I think there will be a war with China in the next 20 years. Thought it before I read your story.

They're just gonna get greedier and greedier once they get used to a West-style life (I have no beef with them modernising I would hate to be eating rice in mud huts for ever), and eventually their need for oil, steel, coal etc is gonna overcome them and all those weapons theyve bought are gonna get used.

They still wouldnt defeat the white nations though. Too powerful and intelligent re: upstarts.