World's most cursed places

Auswitch

Camp of Auschwitz was the largest of the Nazi German extermination camps, along with a number of concentration camps, comprising three main camps and 40 to 50 sub-camps.

The exact number of people killed in the camps is not known, but most modern estimates are around 1.1-1.6 million. Nazi Rudolf Höß said that between 2.5 and 3 million had been killed, while Adolf Eichmann gave a figure of 2 million.
This is the world's cursed place nr.1.When came there you just can't feel normal,death you can feel in the air.Its so freaky place cant describe it better.


Mooney's Mansion

The legend of Mooney's mansion is that of a Dr. Mooney who lived with his wife and children in one of the homes high atop Walhalla sometime in the 1920s or 1950s(depending on the story teller). He allegedly killed his family with an axe. The murderous act is reenacted nightly and can be seen through the windows of Mooney's Mansion.
After going to Walhalla Road we know that the legend is laid to rest. The house is no more haunted than any other house. We did agree that all the trees around it and being on the road at night would be erie, but that's it. The house is very well maintained as are all the other houses along the road.







Carnegie Library

Back in the 1980s the library outsourced the building cleaning to an independent company. Workers were in the building one night when they looked up and saw a person hovering in the north wing. The frightened workers refused to return to the library.
When the library was under construction, a tragic accident took the life of one carpenter. Those who follow the "spirit world" might say there is reason for a presence.

There have been the usual books on the floor and other unexplained happenings that served as fodder for the stories. Local merchants have held "ghost specials" and the library ghost at one time seemed to be a temporary boom for the Village of Paulding economy.

While the library was undergoing excavation for foundation water-proofing in the late 1990s, the director found a rusty old mule shoe. So maybe even now that mule is wandering around the library, looking for his missing shoe...

As of today, if there is a paranormal event or being among us, he or she has kept rather quiet. Well... almost. There was that one time when the director and the president of the Board of Trustees were walking towards the elevator. A large plant just suddenly and violently tipped to the ground. Fade to "Twilight Zone" music...


Rudolph Stepro House

After being shot in the head in battle, Rudolph Stepro could no longer deal with the agony of his life and thus committed suicide on the front porch of his farm house. Since then, the house has been plagued by strange occurrences. Among other things, water comes on by itself, the radio changes stations, and dishes fly through the air. The paranormal activity became so bad that the old house was torn down and replaced; the new house is plagued by the same spirits.

The Bush House

Many people have claimed to see the apparition of Alice, a young woman who hanged herself at the turn of the century when she heard that her lover was killed in a mining accident. As it turned out, her lover had not died; he came home and found her dead. A group of psychic investigators went through the place in about 2000 or there abouts and announced that it was the most haunted place they had investigated. In addition many former employees have stories to tell. In the past the owner seemed open to paranormal inquery of the hotel.

Quote of the day: "I thought my high school picture was cute."

— Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY)
After her long-shot opponent, Republican John Spencer, suggested that Clinton had undergone "millions of dollars" worth of plastic surgery, and pointed out that she used to be much less attractive

Gilchrist: Don't fall for media's spin about the Minutemen

By Jim Gilchrist
Special to CNN

Editor's note: Jim Gilchrist founded The Minuteman Project in 2004. He is a former newspaper reporter, a retired accountant and a Marine veteran.

ORANGE COUNTY, California (CNN) -- On October 12, Ruben Navarrette Jr. penned a pompous commentary for CNN.com ("Minutemen have a right to be idiotic"). His litany of name-calling and bogus accusations against The Minuteman Project membership places him solidly in the category of propagandist journalists who "spin" their stories to suit their bias -- valid facts and objectivity be damned.

Navarrette is a clever wordsmith. Under the penumbra of supporting free speech, he creates a wholly fictitious connection between The Minuteman Project and the Nazis who wanted to march in Skokie, Illinois, in the late 1970s, leading his uncritical readers to false assumptions and conclusions. Navarrette calls The Minuteman Project viewpoint "offensive speech" and says the project promotes inaccuracy, intolerance and idiocy.

Navarrette insults Minuteman Project volunteers by calling them a posse who "prowl the U.S.-Mexico border chasing Mexicans -- admittedly not an easy thing to do when you're carrying a lawn-chair and a cooler of beer." He claims minutemen and women are "hooligans," "yahoos" and "wannabes who play cop."

In fact, Minuteman volunteers only observe and report; they do not chase or confront and they do not drink on duty. There has never been a violent incident initiated by volunteers. By contrast, in the past 18 months, nonviolent Minuteman volunteers nationwide have been victims of more than 50 acts of violence against their property and persons by deviants opposed to freedom of speech. Much of this violence is encouraged by propagandist journalists like Navarrette, whose words inflame readers and foster hostility.

Navarrette implies racism, but never says exactly which of The Minuteman Project volunteers is racist. Could it be the African-American members? Or the Asians or Hispanics? Perhaps he refers to the Native American Indian members? Maybe Navarrette means the Jewish members of The Minuteman Project?

Of course, there are European-Caucasian members. Ah-hah! In the twisted perception of the propagandist journalist, any organization with at least one white person must be, ipso facto, a racist organization.

In fact, The Minuteman Project is a multiethnic, pro-legal immigration, law enforcement advocacy group. Minuteman volunteers are teachers, college professors, taxi drivers, truckers, construction laborers, lawyers, college students, CPAs, surgeons and physicians, retired police officers, veterans, homemakers, authors, PhDs, politicians, grandparents, and naturalized citizens -- Americans who simply want to help protect their country from the problems of illegal immigration.

One would be hard pressed to find another national fraternity with a more diverse membership of race, color, creed, age, or vocation. Membership is about 25 percent non-whites and 55 percent women. The board of directors includes women and a black American with a master's degree from the University of Southern California.

If Navarrette truly wants to expose obstructionist groups, he should focus on some of what I consider real threats to civility, like Columbia University's Chicano Caucus and the International Socialist Organization, the two extremist elements that conspired in an effort to stamp out freedom of speech at Columbia University during a speech The Minuteman Project was invited to give on October 4, 2006.

The hope and belief of Navarrette and his fellow propagandist journalists, along with anti-American groups like those that disrupted my speech, is that readers are so simple-minded they cannot distinguish between truth and fiction. One can only hope that CNN.com readers are not so easily fooled.

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Sources: Kidnapped AP journalist released

GAZA CITY (CNN) -- An Associated Press photographer abducted in Gaza earlier Tuesday has been freed, Palestinian security and political sources told CNN Tuesday night.

The AP and a Spanish Foreign Ministry spokeswoman identified the photographer as 37-year-old Emilio Morenatti.

The AP reported that Morenatti was kidnapped as he was leaving his temporary apartment in Gaza and heading toward a car where an AP driver and translator was waiting.

The translator, Majed Hamdan, told the AP that four gunmen grabbed Morenatti's keys and cell phone and told him to turn away, pressing a gun to his head and threatening "to harm him if he moved."

They shoved Morenatti into a white Volkswagen and drove off, the AP said.

After his release, Morenatti was taken by Fatah officials to the office of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, the AP reported. It said Morenatti reported he was tired but unharmed.

The AP said Morenatti is from Jerez, Spain, and has been working for the news agency in Jerusalem since April 2005. He periodically makes trips to the Palestinian territories.

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U.S. Sees Iraqis Taking Over Security in 12 to 18 Months

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi forces should be able to take full control of security in the country within the next 12 to 18 months with minimal American support, Gen. George Casey, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said on Tuesday.

Casey also said he felt the United States should continue to focus on drawing down the number of American forces in the country, adding that he would not hesitate to ask for more troops if he felt they were necessary.

"We are about 75 percent of the way through as three-step process in building those (Iraqi) forces. It is going to take another 12 to 18 months or so till I believe the Iraqi security forces are completely capable of taking over responsiblity for their own security that's still coupled with some level of support from us," Casey said.

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U.N. envoy: Nations follow U.S. example on detainees

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Several governments around the world have tried to rebut criticism of how they handle detainees by claiming they are only following the U.S. example in the war on terror, the U.N. anti-torture chief said Monday.

Manfred Nowak, the U.N. special investigator on torture, said that when he criticizes governments for their questionable treatment of detainees, they respond by telling him that that if the United States does something, it must be all right. He would not name any countries except for Jordan.

"The United States has been the pioneer, if you wish, of human rights and is a country that has a high reputation in the world," Nowak told a news conference.

"Today, many other governments are kind of saying, 'But why are you criticizing us, we are not doing something different than what the United States is doing."'

Nowak said that because of its prominence, the United States has a greater responsibility to uphold international standards for its prisoners so other nations do not use it as an excuse to justify their own behavior.

The remarks were the latest in a tense back-and-forth between Nowak and the United States. He has been an outspoken critic of U.S. detainee policy, chastising the United States for maintaining secret prisons. He has also been skeptical about new legislation that would protect detainees from blatant abuse -- such as rape and torture -- but does not require automatic legal counsel and specifically bars detainees from protesting their detentions in federal courts.

Nowak reiterated his opposition to that prohibition, saying "we should have enough trust in them that they should be the ones to deal with" the detainees.

He has said the United States must close its Guantanamo Bay detention facility and refused an invitation to visit because he would not be allowed to interview detainees. Nowak has reported that reliable accounts indicate suspected terror detainees being held there have been tortured.

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That guy has a haircut like an Umpa-Loompa.

$800 Million in Funds for Iraqi Army Stolen by Former Iraqi Government Officials

NEW YORK — Iraq's former finance minister alleged in a U.S. television report aired Sunday that up to $800 million meant to equip the Iraqi army had been stolen from the government by former officials through fraudulent arms deals.

The former minister Ali Allawi told CBS' "60 Minutes" that $1.2 billion had been allocated to the defense ministry to buy new weapons. About $400 million was spent on outdated equipment, while the rest of the money was simply stolen, he said.

Allawi said the arms fraud is "one of the biggest thefts in history" and that corrupt former Iraqi officials are now "running around the world hiding and scurrying around."

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Egyptian President Says Muslims Share Responsibility for Negative Image of Islam

CAIRO, Egypt — Muslims are facing cruel and false accusations about their faith but must bear some responsibility for the wrong impressions, President Hosni Mubarak said.

The Egyptian leader's comments came in a speech Thursday to senior officials and Muslim clerics marking the holy month of Ramadan.

"Shouldn't we Muslims shoulder part of the responsibility of these wrong ideas about Islam? Have we fulfilled our duty in correcting the image of Islam and the Muslims? What did we do to face a terrorism that wears Islam's cloak and targets the lives of the people," Mubarak said in the remarks that were televised live.

Many Muslims are angry about drawings in the West mocking the prophet and about accusations that Islam encourages terrorism.

"We don't accept insulting our sanctities in the name of freedom of opinion or press, because disrespecting our beliefs inflames angry emotions, extremism and takes us toward grave paths," Mubarak said.

He cautioned against mixing religion and politics in international relations and tying Islam to "blind terrorism that knows no home or religion."

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Jordan Sentences Eight Militants for Plot to Kill U.S. Soldiers, Israelis

AMMAN, Jordan — A Jordanian military court convicted eight militants Wednesday of plotting to kill U.S. troops in Iraq and Americans and Israelis in Jordan.

The court handed down sentences of between two and 10 years' imprisonment.

The alleged mastermind of the plot, Ahmad Shabaneh, 37, a Jordanian of Palestinian origin, was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment. Two other defendants, who were convicted in absentia as they are at large, received the same sentence.

The remaining five defendants received prison terms from two years to 7 and 1/2 years.

The court found that in 2003 Shabaneh had formed a militant group called "Al-Taa'efa al-Mansourah," or the Victorious Sect, which plotted to send militants to Iraq to attack U.S. forces. It also planned to attack U.S. soldiers engaged in training Iraqi police recruits at a desert camp in Jordan.


The prosecution did not say if the group was linked to Al Qaeda, but the indictment said Shabaneh was influenced by the ideology of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi — the Jordanian-born leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq who was killed by a U.S. airstrike in Iraq in June.


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26 dead in Iraq 'revenge killings'

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The bodies of 26 Iraqis, apparently killed in retaliation for the slaying of 14 Shiite construction workers, have been found scattered in and around the city of Balad, according to an official with Salaheddin Joint Coordination Center.

The 14 Shiite construction workers, kidnapped Thursday in the mainly Sunni town of Dhuluiya in Salaheddin province, were found Friday morning with their throats slit and hands and legs bound, the official said.

The workers were from the Shiite town of Balad, near Dhuluiya, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Baghdad.

The official said it appeared the 26 deaths around Balad since the discovery of the slain construction workers was due to Shiite retaliation. The bodies were discovered on Friday and Saturday.

He said a curfew has been imposed in Balad and Dhuluiya and a team of Iraqi police was sent to Balad to investigate.

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American Al Qaeda Member to Be Indicted for Treason

WASHINGTON — The American Al Qaeda spokesman known as "Azzam the American" will be indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles, FOX News has confirmed.

Adam Yahiye Gadahn, whose exact whereabouts is unknown but is believed to be in Pakistan, is expected to be charged with material support and treason, sources told FOX News. It will be the first time an American has been charged with treason since 1952.

The treason charge, according to sources in Los Angeles and Washington, is based primarily on the statements Gadahn has made in his video presentations.

The Justice Department is expected to make the formal announcement later in the day.

A 48-minute video posted on an Islamic militant Web site last month included footage of Al Qaeda's No. 2 man, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Gadahn, who the FBI believes attended Al Qaeda training camps in Pakistan and served as an Al Qaeda translator.

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Hussein's men 'buried inmates alive'

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Prison guards under Saddam Hussein used to bury detainees alive and watch women as they bathed, occasionally shooting over their heads, a former female prisoner testified Monday in the genocide trial of the ex-president.

Speaking in Kurdish through an Arabic interpreter, the 31-year-old witness recalled what she saw as a 13-year-old girl who was detained during Saddam's offensive against the Kurds in the late 1980s.

Saddam and his co-defendants are charged with genocide against Iraq's Kurdish population in a campaign branded Operation Anfal, in which an estimated 180,000 people were killed. If convicted, the accused could be condemned to death by hanging.

The woman, who testified behind a curtain and whose name was withheld apparently for fear of reprisal, said Iraqi government forces destroyed her Kurdish village in northern Iraq in 1988 and she and some family members were imprisoned in the south.

A prison warden she identified as Hajaj -- whose name has been given by earlier witnesses in the trial -- "used to drag women, their hands and feet shackled, and leave them in a scorching sun for several hours."

"Soldiers used to watch us bathe," said the woman. The guards also fired over the women's heads as they washed.

The woman said several relatives disappeared during the offensive against the Kurds. "I know the fate of my family (members). They were buried alive," she testified.

The prosecution presented the court with documents showing that remains of the women's relatives turned up in a mass grave.

"I'd like to ask Saddam: 'What crime did women and children commit'?" the woman said in court.

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Big six: Iran sanctions possible

LONDON, England (AP) -- Six world powers agreed Friday to pursue possible U.N. sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, but left crucial questions about the scope and timing of any measures unresolved.

Top diplomats from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia said in a joint statement after talks in London that they were "deeply disappointed" by Tehran's refusal to suspend uranium enrichment, a key step toward making nuclear weapons.

Apparently divided about how quickly to move, the envoys stopped short of explicitly declaring European negotiations with Iran a failure, as some had expected them to do.

Their statement also shied away from demanding Tehran be punished by the U.N. Security Council, but said they would discuss sanctions in talks at the U.N.

U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns went further.

"The decision has been made that we'll go for sanctions, the question is what the sanctions will be," he said after the meeting. "In the view of the United States, we have to move for sanctions to raise the stakes for Iran."

Reading the diplomats' joint statement, British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said Iran had two choices when the United Nations demanded it halt enrichment activities.

"We regret that Iran has not yet taken the positive one," she said.

Beckett said the six powers "will now consult on measures under Article 41 of Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter." Article 41 authorizes the Security Council to impose nonmilitary sanctions such as completely or partially severing diplomatic and economic relations, transportation and communications links.

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Iraqi Officials Perform DNA Tests to Determine If Slain Terrorist is Al Qaeda in Iraq Leader

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Several Al Qaeda in Iraq terrorists were killed in a recent raid in western Anbar province but it is "highly unlikely" the group's leader, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, was among the dead, a U.S. military spokesman said Thursday.

U.S. forces initially "thought there was a possibility al-Masri was among them," Lt. Col. Barry Johnson said. But he and an Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman said it did not appear the terror chief — one of Iraq's most wanted men — was killed.

"We have no reason to believe that we've killed al-Masri," Johnson told the Associated Press.

"We are doing DNA testing to completely eliminate the possibility that this would be al-Masri, but we do not believe it is."

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Rice meets Abbas, pledges help for Palestinians

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday the United States is "very concerned" about the plight of the Palestinians and pledged to improve living conditions in the West Bank and Gaza.

Rice, in the region in hopes of reviving long-stalled peace efforts, said the U.S. will "redouble efforts" to help the Palestinians. She spoke after meeting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

The meeting coincided with the surfacing of a 5-minute Web video by a group calling itself al Qaeda in Palestine, which denounced those who "work in the service of the Jews."

Earlier, Rice called on Islamic militants to cooperate with Abbas, saying the Hamas government cannot govern in the region. She has been seeking to boost Abbas in his standoff with Islamic Hamas radicals who control part of the Palestinian government.

Reacting, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas accused the U.S. of trying to "rearrange" the Middle East for its own purposes. Rice "cares only to rearrange this region and to rearrange the Palestinian scene in a way that serves the American and Israeli agenda," Haniyeh said.

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Bill's Talking Points about voting and photo IDs

If you want to buy cigarettes in America — you got to show an ID. If you want to get on an airplane — photo ID required. If you want to enter buildings here in Los Angeles — you got it — photo ID. But if you want to go to vote, no ID required.

Over a week ago, the House passed the Federal Election Integrity Act of 2006, which would change the ID situation so that all Americans would have to have a photo ID if they wanted to vote in the 2008 presidential election.

According to a Wall Street Journal poll, 81 percent of Americans favor a photo ID at the polls. Eighty-one percent. That's because Americans don't want voter fraud. It's as simple as that.

But there is bitter opposition to the photo IDs from the far left. Even though the bill would require states to provide free ID cards to the poor, the far left still doesn't want the law.

Why?

Well, some believe the far left wants illegal aliens to be able to vote. Other say election chaos favors the Democrats.

"Talking Points" simply doesn't understand the opposition. If the government's going to give you the free ID card, what's the problem?

This week, the usual suspects editorialize against the photo ID. The Washington Post, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Denver Post, Baltimore Sun, Louisville Courier Journal, Oregonian, Kansas City Star, San Francisco Chronicle, and of course the L.A. and New York Times — all of those papers are committed to far-left enterprises and they all say the same thing: That a photo ID law discriminates against the poor because the poor can't afford the ID. All the editorials say that. But the ID is free.

So once again, ladies and gentlemen, we have far left group think misleading you about an important issue.

Right now in America, there are an estimated 12 million illegal aliens. Some of these people have voted in the past. That's been proven here in southern California in the Robert Dornan-Loretta Sanchez race, where Ms. Sanchez won and hundreds of illegals voted for her in violation of the law, according to an investigation.

So maybe that's it. Maybe the far left wants to court illegal aliens. But once again, I don't know. All I know is the opposition to photo IDs for voters is beyond ridiculous.