Jun 01, 2009 -
SAO PAULO, Brazil - A missing Air France jet carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris ran into lightning and strong thunderstorms over the Atlantic Ocean, officials said Monday. Brazil began a search mission off its northeastern coast.
Chief Air France spokesman Francois Brousse said it is possible the plane was hit by lightning.
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Jun 01, 2009 -
i know this is not celebrity news,but this is a story that really touches me,maybe is because i'm a french born american and that anything affecting France somehow affects me too.an Air France jet with 228 passengers on a flight to Paris vanished over the Atlantic Ocean after flying into towering thunderstorms and sending an automated message that the electrical system had failed.a vast searched began monday,but all aboard were feared killed.the 216 passengers include 126 men,82 women,7 children and a baby AIR FRANCE said.61 french,58 brazilians,30 other countries were represented including 2 americans.
at the Charles de Gaulles airport family members declined to talk as they should.the french president Nicolas Sarkozy said the causes remain unclear and that ''no hypothesis is being excluded''.he also told the family members of passengers of AIR France flight 447 that prospect of finding survivor are really ''small''.
Brazil president Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva expressed hope that ''the worst hasn't happened'' and said that ''we have to ask GOD'' to help find survivors.
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Jun 11, 2009 -
Sad and freaky, but apparently it was her time.
After narrow escape, fate catches up with Italian traveler.
A woman who dodged death when she and her husband narrowly missed Air France Flight 447 before it plunged into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 aboard, was killed in a car accident just over a week later.
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Aug 17, 2009 -
Yacht - Summer Song
You might recognize sounds from Portishead's Silence.
jj - Things Will Never be the Same Again
M83 - We Own the Sky
Air France - Collapsing at your doorstep (One of my favorite outfits right now. :D )
Doves - Kingdom or Rust
Mellowdrone - Orange Marmalade (Not an official video)
The Kills - Tape Song
John Mayer is always in rotation.
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Nov 14, 2009 -
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/area_man_passionate_defender_of?utm_source=onion_rss_daily
ESCONDIDO, CA—Spurred by an administration he believes to be guilty of numerous transgressions, self-described American patriot Kyle Mortensen, 47, is a vehement defender of ideas he seems to think are enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and principles that brave men have fought and died for solely in his head.
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Kyle Mortensen would gladly give his life to protect what he says is the Constitution's very clear stance against birth control.
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Oct 29, 2009 -
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Apr 25, 2008 -
Another great song. The title means "Sea of Japan" by the way if I have translated well :ponder:. I know, I know the song has not really a lot of lyrics.
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Oct 09, 2009 -
Decline Is a Choice
The New Liberalism and the end of American ascendancy.
by Charles Krauthammer
The weathervanes of conventional wisdom are registering another round of angst about America in decline. New theories, old slogans: Imperial overstretch.
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Jul 20, 2009 -
World’s oldest man, WWI vet, dies at 113
By Danica Kirka - The Associated Press
Posted : Saturday Jul 18, 2009 15:02:00 EDT
LONDON — Only death could silence Henry Allingham.
He went to war as a teenager, helped keep flimsy aircraft flying, survived his wounds and came home from World War I to a long — very long — and fruitful life.
But only in his last years did he discover his true mission: to remind new generations of the sacrifices of the millions slaughtered in the trenches, killed in the air or lost at sea in what Britons call the Great War.
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Apr 17, 2009 -
The Times
April 17, 2009
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6106250.ece
Charles Bremner in Paris
The US President is weak, the Spanish leader is dim, the German Chancellor is clinging on to France’s coat-tails and the head of the European Commission is irrelevant.
That, at any rate, is the world according to President Sarkozy, who has spent the week airing his unvarnished opinions of Barack Obama and an array of international politicians — abruptly ending France’s honeymoon with the US and needling Washington on several strategic issues.
In the latest in a stream of accounts from the Élysée Palace, Mr Sarkozy was quoted yesterday as telling an all-party group of MPs that Mr Obama was inexperienced and indecisive.
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