Glenn Beck Admits Lying: ‘I Thought It Would Be A Little Easier’
September 5, 2010
News worldwide — After being called on a white lie he told during his Restoring Honor rally, Glenn Beck admitted Thursday that he stretched the truth because he “thought it would be a little easier.”
Beck had claimed that he held George Washington’s handwritten first Inaugural Address in his hands at the National Archives, but a spokeswoman at the institution said he did no such thing. Keith Olbermann, Ed Schultz and others called him out for the fabrication.
Thursday on his radio show, Beck copped to the lie. (RELATED: Lies By Prominent Americans.)
“I thought it would be a little easier in the speech,” Beck said, than to go into the following elaborate explanation (via Mediaite):
Yesterday I went to the National Archives, and they opened up the vault, and they put on their gloves and then they put it on a tray. They wheeled it over and it’s all in this hard plastic and you’re sitting down at a table and you can’t, because of Sandy Berger, I had a long conversation with him about this, you can’t actually touch any of the documents, these are very very rare. So what they do, they have it in this plastic thing and they hold them right in front of you, you can’t touch them but then you can say ‘can you turn it over,’ and then they turn it over for you and then you look at it. I thought it was a little clumsy to explain it that way.
Lesson for Yasir Hameed; why back biting is haram in Islam
September 5, 2010
News worldwide — No doubt Islam is a religion that has solution to every problem but it is just we sometimes do not see things in the right way.
The recent incident of Yasir Hameed Video made by the news of the world team is a lesson for many of us.
Islam forbids back biting and for those who do back biting it states that back biting is like eating the meat of your dead brother.
Now take the case of Yasir Hameed who was certainly not giving an interview to the team of the news of the world but was back biting his fellows for whatever reason.
And his this act has made the whole nation suffer once again. The Pakistani cricket team who was already engulfed in a tough situation handling the of the already alleged world class cricketers, is once again stuck in another row.
British tabloid weekly releases video of Yasir Hameed
September 5, 2010
News worldwide — British weekly tabloid newspaper has issued video of Pakistan Test player Yasir Hameed, which exposed many shocking facts in connection with corruption in Pakistan cricket team, News reported.
The video footage, apparently recorded secretly on a hidden camera, showed that Yasir Hameed was gossiping with a reporter of newspaper, Mazhar Mehmood, in a friendly atmosphere.
Yasir Hameed was shot with camera claiming that most agents of players are bookies in reality.
He was further shown claiming that he had been too offered huge amount of money for match-fixing including offer for a Ferrari Car and 1500,000 pounds but he refused proposals every time.
“Many players are involved in fixing matches”, said Yasir on camera, adding that those players who did illegal activities are paying for their misdeeds.”
“Allah has penalized guilty players. Sydney Test earned corrupt players up to 1.8 million pounds for fixing match”, Yasir claimed.
Teammates fixed every game, Pak cricketer tells NOTW
September 5, 2010
News worldwide — Pakistan Test opener Yasir Hameed has confirmed that his teammates fixed “almost every game” and claimed that he was dropped from the national team for two years because he did not go along with his corrupt colleagues. The British tabloid News of the World, which stirred international. It also published several more details of the spot-fixing saga. The tabloid reported that Hameed provided a “devastating insight into the shady world of betting scams” and added that he refused bribes of up to 150,000 pounds from a corrupt bookmaker to throw matches.
Hameed claimed he lost his place in the team because of this refusal, while his corrupt colleagues reportedly splashed money on plush properties and expensive sports cars. He spoke to the tabloid in a Nottingham hotel, it said. “They’ve been caught.
Only the ones that get caught are branded crooks. They were doing it (fixing) in almost every match. God knows what they were up to. Scotland Yard was after them for ages. “It makes me angry because I’m playing my best and they are trying to lose. The guys that have got done have got themselves killed.
They’re gone – forget about them,” Hameed said about the trio of Salman Butt, Mohammad Amer and Mohammad Asif. Hameed reportedly said pacer Mohammad Asif who has played around 50 matches has built four mansions. “Where did they come from? He has just built a house in Italian style in Lahore.
You go there and you will think you are in Italy – that’s how good his house is.” “It’s because of all these wrong things that I was outed, because I wouldn’t get involved,” the Pakistan opener said. “If you sat here and said, ‘I’m a bookie and I want you to fix the match tomorrow’ – I’ve met lots of people like that in the past and I refused. They offered me handsome money.” “I could have come to see you in a Ferrari. They give you so much money that you can live out your dreams, buy a flash car. I’ve been offered huge amounts of money, up to 150,000 pounds,” the cricketer said.
Match fixing proves that Pakistan’s team is unbeatable
September 4, 2010
News worldwide — As soon as the controversy of spot fixing was on scene; many mouths and minds begin talking about the corruption Pakistani players were involved into. No matter the issue is till the corruption a crime which should not be committed at any price yet one cannot ignore that the whole situation creates and ideal situation that makes it sound “Pakistani team is unbeatable”.
As soon as the issue was on almost every news channel and print media, many thought that it can be conspiracy against the rising players in Pakistan’s cricket team. No doubt it has been long since Pakistan has won any long series of matches but yet all teams fear Pakistan. The reason is obvious. It is the perfect body language and natural ability of Pakistani players that make them beatable only under fixed matches or spots.
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Cash found in players’ hotel rooms ‘not much’: Pak envoy
September 4, 2010
News worldwide — Pakistan High Commissioner in the United Kingdom Wajid Shamsul Hasan on Saturday admitted that cash was recovered by the police from hotel rooms of the Pakistan cricketers, whose performance are being probed into in the wake of a spot-fixing scandal. “The cash was not much, around 30,000 pounds and that is not a big amount when you are in a long tour. Salman Butt’s sister is getting married he could be using the money for shopping. But his mother fell ill so she could not come,”
Hasan said.
The envoy accepted that the money was given to the players – Butt and pacer duo of Mohammad Aamir and Mohammad Asif – by the alleged bookie Mazhar Majeed.
“Definitely there was money given to them (players) by Majeed. Majeed was agent of these players and that is the connection between him and the players. I did not know whether he had any links with Indian bookies or Bombay bookies,” Hasan told CNN-IBN.
“But the only question is whether they (players) declared it or not, that should be investigated,” he added. Asked about the police investigation, Hasan said that he did not have much knowledge about the progress of the probe.
“I have not talked to the police. I don’t know what evidence they have got, they have not informed us so far. But
I hope the investigators take a lenient view of the fact that they (players) are from a poor background and not very
educated,” he said.
Pakistan cricket found itself in a crisis after British tabloid ‘The News of the World’ broke the story about an
alleged nexus between three players – captain Salman Butt and pacer duo of Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamir – and Majeed.
“Majeed, I believe, was involved with some of the bookies. He was constantly in touch with some of them and had
telephonic exchanges which was discovered,” Hasan said.
Scotland Yard releases Pakistan’s tainted trio without charge
September 4, 2010
News worldwide — The tainted Pakistani trio of Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamir, which is at the centre of a ’spot-fixing’ scandal’ that has rocked world cricket, were released without charge after being questioned by the Scotland Yard in London. Officers of the Scotland Yard questioned Test captain Butt and pace bowlers Aamir and Asif, who were suspended by the International Cricket Council yesterday and charged with offences under its anti-corruption code for “alleged irregular behavior” during last week’s Lord’s Test.
Elizabeth Robertson, the lawyer for the three players said, “Mohammad Aamir, Mohammad Asif and Salman Butt have been questioned under concern by the Metropolitan Police and released without charge.”
“They voluntarily attended Kilburn police station to answer questions relating to allegations published in the News of the World.
“At no time were they placed under arrest, they were free to leave at any time and they have answered all of the questions that were put to them and have been released without charge or conditions,” she added.
She said the Pakistan Cricket Board and the three players would continue to cooperate fully with the Metropolitan Police and the ICC investigation and they “look forward to a timely and satisfactory outcome.”
Aamir, Asif and Butt were named in a sting operation by tabloid ‘The News of the World’ which showed a bookie Mazhar Majeed boasting about how the three conspired to bowl deliberate no-balls in the Lord’s Test against England after being paid by him.
Emergency declared after massive quake in NZ
September 4, 2010
News worldwide — A state of emergency was declared in New Zealand’s second largest city of Christchurch today after a powerful 7.0 earthquake caused widespread damage.
Christchurch residents said the walls of their homes “wobbled like jelly” when a 7.0 magnitude earthquake rocked New Zealand’s second largest city early Saturday.
The force of the quake, one of the most powerful recorded in the country, tore jagged fissures in the ground and destroyed the facades of buildings, littering the city’s streets with bricks and shards of glass.
Markham McMullen, a school principal at Darfield, near the quake’s epicentre, said it felt like a train had hit his house, creating a jolt that threw him and his wife out of bed.
“It just kept coming, it went and on and on,” he said.
“It was absolutely terrifying. We grabbed our daughter, Sophie, from her room and crouched under a doorway. The TV was flying around the room… it was very scary.”
Old buildings were the worst affected, with entire facades of brick structures collapsing onto the street, crushing cars under tonnes of debris and leaving kitchens and living rooms exposed, many eerily untouched by the surrounding chaos.
At Castle Rock, a rugged outcrop just outside the city, the earthquake sent boulders bigger than cars tumbling down the hillside.
Only two people were seriously injured, but Civil Defence officials said the toll would have been much worse had the quake hit in daylight, when there would have been thousands of people on the streets.
“We’ve been extremely lucky as a nation that there’s been no fatalities … we’re blessed actually,” Civil Defence Minister John Carter said.
Hotelier Richard Hawes said he thought he was going to die as his 130-year-old building shook. “(It) wobbled like a jelly,” he said.
Aftershocks continued to rattle the city of around 340,000 throughout Saturday, as dazed residents assessed the damage.
Police pleas for people to stay away from the city centre were ignored, with thousands of sightseers flocking to the worst-hit areas, many recording the moment on their mobile phones.
“Honestly, the scale of it is quite astonishing,” Frances Adank, who lives in the suburb of St Albans, told Radio New Zealand.
“The city council I think is going to be working for days to get the water mains sorted out… There’s just water pouring out of every front section.”
In the same suburb, Marsha Witehira said she had a narrow escape when a friend pulled her from her bed moments before the wall of her house collapsed on top of it.
“He saved my life, no doubt about it… if I had been there, I would have smashed my head,” she told the Christchurch Press newspaper.
NASA Plans to Visit the Sun
September 3, 2010
News worldwide — If you have watched Danny Boyle’s movie Sunshine, you might be a bit disappointed: NASA’s mission to visit the Earth’s Sun will not comprise sending people there. But it will be sending a spacecraft into the Sun’s atmosphere, just about four million miles from its surface. The project, called Solar Probe Plus, is slated to launch sometime before 2018.
Four million miles does not sound very close, but it is still quite exciting, since this is a region no other spacecraft (created by us) has ever encountered. NASA strategy for the project to “unlock the sun’s prime mysteries.”
Though the spacecraft will be comparatively far from our star’s surface, its carbon-composite heat shield determination have to withstand intense radiation, as well as temperatures exceeding 2550 degrees Fahrenheit.
“The experiments selected for Solar Probe Plus are specifically designed to solve two key questions of solar physics – why is the sun’s outer atmosphere so much hotter than the sun’s visible surface and what propels the solar wind that affects Earth and our solar system?” said Dick Fisher, director of NASA’s Heliophysics Division in Washington.
“We have been struggling with these questions for decades and this mission should finally provide those answers,” said Fisher.
Two-year US boy gets life with artificial lung
September 3, 2010
News worldwide — A two-year-old boy whose heart stopped 10 times has made medical history after becoming the youngest person in the world to be fitted with an artificial lung.
Owen Stark was a seemingly happy, healthy little boy until he collapsed during a family shopping trip near his home in Missouri, U.S.
Paramedics fought to keep the brave toddler alive when his heart stopped almost ten times as he was rushed to hospital by air ambulance.
The youngster was diagnosed with Pulmonary Artery Hypertension, which causes the heart and lungs to rapidly shut down. It is common in pensioners, but extremely rare in children, affecting just one in 100,000.
The fragile toddler needed an urgent lung transplant to save his life and was put on a heart-lung bypass machine as the search for a donor began.
More than two weeks on the machine could cause irreversible damage so doctors at St Louis Children’s Hospital fitted Owen with a German-built artificial lung.
The device – called NovaLungs LA – was placed outside the body and worked by stimulating Owen’s own lungs to take in more oxygen and expel carbon dioxide. It was the first time the procedure had ever been used on someone so young.
Owen’s father Justin, 32, said: ‘Owen kept flat-lining, his heart stopped several times when he was first taken to hospital.
‘It’s without doubt the worst experience I have ever been through and could ever imagine going through.
‘Doctors told us Owen was in the worst condition they had ever seen and to prepare for the worst.
‘We thought we were going to lose him for good.’
Doctors predict the toddler who has now even been taken off the transplant list should live a long and happy life.
Owen’s mother Tonya, 29, said: ‘His life expectancy has gone from a few days to a few weeks and now years. It’s a miracle.’
Proud father Justin added: ‘There is some consolation in knowing Owen’s procedure could help other children in the long run but we would have given anything not to be the first parents to try this.
‘It’s absolutely amazing. We had no choice really, it was horrific, it was either going to work or that would be it.’
Dr Mark Grady, a paediatric cardiologist at the hospital, said Owen had made a miraculous recovery despite being given little chance of survival without a transplant.
He said: ‘I don’t think there is any question about it. This absolutely saved his life. His recovery is nothing short of amazing.
‘Now he could be going home within a month which we never ever thought would be possible.
‘This potentially opens the way for younger patients and even newborns everywhere to be fitted with artificial lungs.’
