News Around the World: December 2012

Friday, December 28, 2012

Britain should leave the EU

Union, says former head of the European Commission, Jacques Delors.

Britain has since the 1980s been a discount in membership dues to the EU and has opposed closer political integration.

- The British are solely concerned with their economic interests and nothing else. They may be offered another form of partnership, says Delors to the Dutch newspaper Handelsblatt.

A majority of residents in the UK have the polls said that they will leave the EU.

Prime Minister David Cameron says athan still supports membership, but want the option to withdraw from important appointments.

- If the British would not support closer integration in Europe, we can still be friends, but on a different basis, says Delors, who envisages a free trade agreement between the UK and the EU as a possible solution.

Delors was president of the European Commission for three periods between 1985 and 1994.

Monday, December 24, 2012

Audio Firefighters Being Shot and Killed NY

fighters is shot and killed by an unknown assailant while trying to extinguish a fire in Webster in the state of New York, USA.

Saturday, December 22, 2012

NRA has blood on his hands Shame on the NRA

Just a good man with a gun can stop an evil man with a gun

NRAs press conference disrupted by protesters

"NRA has blood on his hands. Shame on the NRA. NRA killing our children. "

The crying woman, the last of two protesters who were kicked out of the press conference, Vice-President of the National Rifle Association (NRA) Wayne La Pierre spoke.

A few minutes earlier, a male representative evicted.

- We must put an end to the killings. We need to ban assault weapons, he shouted as he was dragged out of the room.

Then he had held a placard with the words "NRA KILLING OUR KIDS" before the pulpit for over half a minute (see video at the top of the case).

Journalists in the audience shouted for a response from the Vice President of the NRA, but La Pierre just shook his head and continued on the written speech.

Request more armament

A week after the shooting massacre in Connecticut , was the powerful weapons organization get his reaction.

A hundred protesters had prior to the press conference lined up outside the hotel, a block away from the White House.

The message from protesters was clear: Now NRA turning in view of stricter firearms.

But Vice President Wayne La Pierre talked about anything but stricter gun laws.

- NRA requesting armed police at all schools in the U.S., said La Pierre.

He laid much of the blame for the massacre on violent video games and movies.

NRA also expressed a desire for stricter control of mentally unstable people, but reiterated the message that more armament is the answer to the school massacre.

- Just a good man with a gun can stop an evil man with a gun, said La Pierre from the pulpit.

School Massacre in Newtown shows that lack of armament in schools puts children at risk, said La Pierre.

Vice President Wayne La Pierre in weapons organization NRA.

Photo: ALEX WONG / AFP

He pointed out that he already after the school massacre at Virginia Tech in 2007, where 32 people were killed, suggested that all schools should have armed guards.

- The time stamped media me like crazy. But what if Adam Lanza had been greeted by trained, armed security guards when he began shooting into the Sandy Hook Elementary School last Friday? Can not we at least admit that it is possible that 26 innocent lives could have been spared that day? Lapierre said.

The alternative, to continue without armed guards, is too risky, he argued.

The conference hall was packed by journalists from around the world. All the major U.S. TV channels sent directly.

Change for Newtown tragedy

NRA is America's largest lobby group for guns rights, and has always clung to Americans' right to own firearms, and resisted almost any form of regulation of firearms sales.

Now the guns debate flared up again in the U.S., after the massacre to Newtown in Connecticut where 20 children were shot and killed.

he National Rifle Association has four million mothers, fathers, sons and daughters. We are shocked, sad and grief-stricken over the senseless killings in Newtown, said in the first official statement from the NRA.

Weapons Debate

Until La Pierre's press conference on Friday it has otherwise been quiet from the NRA, which has been shown to "normal decency."

The organization has in the past week planned how to deal with the demands for stricter laws and what appears to be a change of mood after the killings in Newtown.

In an announcement earlier this week said the organization that it "is prepared to provide meaningful contribution" in efforts to prevent further tragedies like the one at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Such contributions, elaborated La Pierre Friday, may be contributing to the training of school guards.

- NRA will help with all their knowledge, all their dedication and all their resources to develop a contingency program for all schools in the U.S. that wants it, said La Pierre.

Close ties

The organization says it speaks on behalf of its 4 million members, but National Public Radio writes in an online article that the NRA also going to speak for the weapons industry, the organization has close ties to.

The radio station refers to how Sturm Ruger a period gave a dollar to NRA for every gun sold. And how Beretta assisted with $ 1 million in defense of the Constitution's point about the right to own guns.

Conversely way NRA supports a number of politicians, and are careful to remind them who they get money from each gun laws are discussed.

Obama will tighten

President Barack Obama has had enough and want a more restrictive firearms.

- Violence epidemic must be stopped, the president said the same day that NRA sent out his statement.

Obama has picked Vice President Joe Biden to lead a bipartisan commission to prevent new school murders in the future.

Thursday Biden met the rest of the government and representatives from the police, the national sherifforeningen and the National Association of Police Organizations.

Obama would include a limit on how much ammo each person can buy, and stricter control and background checks on those who get gun license.

He Burned the Koran so Was Burned Alive

Friday, December 21, 2012

Child dies of heat stroke in car of Stranger

Child dies of heat stroke in car

A three year old boy who had been reported missing by his grandfather after the two had bought together on a Bangkok street market, was found hours later in a locked car of a stranger. At this time, the boy had already suffered a severe heat stroke. Shortly thereafter, he died of complications from severe exhaustion. The investigations have so far give no indication yet as to how the boy was able to get into the vehicle. After the disappearance of his grandson, the grandfather had searched the entire area of the market with local residents, the hour-long efforts were unsuccessful. The car owner told police that the door lock had been previously damaged, he can have it but only recently repaired. Before he had distanced himself from his vehicle, were all the doors have been closed by him, he assured the investigators. To establish the exact circumstances of the child's death, an autopsy was ordered.

Four killed in shooting incident in Pennsylvania

The police have come out after an emergency in 09 o'clock local time, 15 Norwegian time. Callers reported shooting several places.

CBS Pittsburgh reports that parts of the shooting to have occurred at a church in the Juniata Valley.

Altoona Mirror writes that a woman was killed here.

District Attorney Richard Consiglio in Blair County confirmed later this towards said.

He would not say if it was some kind of ceremony that took place when the shooting started.

Two men and a woman were shot before police arrived Frankson Township area east of the city of Pittsburgh.

Three policemen injured

Police have not said much about the details surrounding the shooting, but the local government has provided a brief statement.

- There are four fatalities, including the perpetrator, said District Attorney Richard Consiglio in Blair County at a news conference.

Three police officers are corrupt.

- One was shot, but was wearing a bulletproof vest, one was injured in a collision with the suspect and one was injured by glass from the accident, said Consiglio at the press conference.

None of the injuries to the policemen are life threatening.

- The offender was shot

CBS Pittsburgh reports that the perpetrator was shot by police.

Police are asking people to stay away from the area while the investigation is ongoing.

There is still no danger to the public, according to WTAJ-TV.

It is reported that the suspect should have been "mobile", and run up and down a road while he shot, but this is not confirmed by police.

Adam Reed from police in Pennsylvania was asked about the shooting could have some relationship to the school massacre in Connecticut a week ago.

- I think not, but all of this is being studied now, Reed said, according to Reuters

Confirming the shooting

Blair County Emergency Management Agency reported on Facebook that the shooter "has been nutrilized by the Pennsylvania State Police," and thus the risk is over.

They announce that a center for the reception and media information is established in Franktown after the shooting.

They do not come with any information about the incident, but ask those concerned to contact.

The messages about the shooting comes right after the National Rifle Association (NRA) ended the press conference in conjunction with the school massacre in Newtown .