Tuesday, February 14, 2012 Tebow Triumphs It required only one play in overtime for the Denver Broncos to defeat the Pittsburgh Steelers at Sunday's Super Bowl 46 in Denver, Colorado. When it was all over, the scoreboard read 29-23 in favor of Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos. It was truly a thriller in the Mile High City so named for its altitude abobe sea level of about 5,280 feet. UPDATE: Down on the football field, holding his helmet and pointing up toward the heavens, a grateful-to-GOD quarterback named Tim Tebow gave a relieved smile. Tebow Time had struck again, with the aid of an 80-yard pass to wide receiver Demaryius Thomas, long-called a "Hail Mary Pass". The win over the Pittsburgh Steelers secured a playoff game against the No. 1 ranked New England Patriots in Massachusetts on Saturday, AND the win avalanche, a flock of Twitter kudos for the Broncos’ quarterback. Tim Tebow was an instant top trending hero after the game’s sudden ending termed "sudden death", because unlike basketball, the other team does not have until the end of five minutes to score, it is all over except the crying, wailing and perhaps gnashing of teeth. THEN: TIM TEBOW'S ANTI-ABORTION AD GETS MESSAGE ACROSS IN JAN 2010... In spite of a long-standing refusal to air "political ads" in midst of the Super Bowl, CBS ran an anti-abortion clip starring Heisman Trophy-winning college quarterback Tim Tebow and his mother. In the spot, made by Focus on the Family, Tebow, an outspoken conservative Christian, states his mother had defied her doctor's advice to abort him despite serious concerns about her health and his viability or chances of being born alive. When celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred accused Tebow's mother of lying about the happening, Allred was about to blow a fuse not to mention what was left of her mind. The ballistic, bouncing-off-the-wall outrage over a harmless "Christian, pro-life" ad, says Cassy Fiano in Hot Air, shows just how "completely out of touch" (or mentally deranged) liberals are. I don't care if Tebow's "commercial has a beautiful, undeniable message," says Gregg Doyel in SEE BS Sports. Just don't show it "during the damn Super Bowl." Looks like Tebow put some nutballs over the edge of reality into liberal-land. Did you know that "XERO POPULATION GROWTH" is a New World Order (or ODOR) priority and we wish they would sacrifice themselves and stop promoting baby-killing. You want babies DEAD? Wht not KILL YOURSELF so you will not reproduce? Countries dropping below 1.3 new babies to replace people who DIE, will cease to be the USA, France, and UK because IMMIGRANT births will eclypse theirs and these countries will GO MUSLIM! Sharia Law will replace RIGHTS, Writ of Habias Corpus, etc. This is about as close to HELL ON Earth as we can get. Posted by Hurricane Barry Sartoro Harrison J Bounel Hussein Obama at 5:31 PM No comments: Labels: Demaryius Thomas, Tim Tebow Sunday, December 26, 2010 January TIM TEBOW'S ANTI-ABORTION AD GETS MESSAGE ACROSS In spite of a long-standing refusal to air "political ads" in midst of the Super Bowl, CBS ran an anti-abortion clip starring Heisman Trophy-winning college quarterback Tim Tebow and his mother. In the spot, made by Focus on the Family, Tebow, an outspoken conservative Christian, states his mother had defied her doctor's advice to abort him despite serious concerns about her health and his viability or chances of being born alive. When celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred accused Tebow's mother of lying about the happening, Allred was about to blow a fuse not to mention what was left of her mind. The ballistic, bouncing-off-the-wall outrage over a harmless "Christian, pro-life" ad, says Cassy Fiano in Hot Air, shows just how "completely out of touch" (or mentally deranged) liberals are. I don't care if Tebow's "commercial has a beautiful, undeniable message," says Gregg Doyel in SEE BS Sports. Just don't show it "during the damn Super Bowl." Looks like Tebow put some nutballs over the edge of reality into liberal-land. Did you know that "XERO POPULATION GROWTH" is a New World Order (or ODOR) priority and we wish they would sacrifice themselves and stop promoting baby-killing. You want babies DEAD? Wht not KILL YOURSELF so you will not reproduce? Countries dropping below 1.3 new babies to replace people who DIE, will cease to be the USA, France, and UK because IMMIGRANT births will eclypse theirs and these countries will GO MUSLIM! Sharia Law will replace RIGHTS, Writ of Habias Corpus, etc. This is about as close to HELL ON Earth as we can get. Woman With Arms Held —Source: Times of India http://www.rd.com/slideshows/5-laughable-memos-from-real-hollywood-honchos/#slide2 Me: Lets eat dad Dad: “Let’s eat Dad” or “Let’s eat, Dad.” Punctuation saves lives. Me: I love you Mom: I tolerate you ****************************** Mom: I think I keep getting messages or missed calls or something. Me: From who? Mom: Some woman called…Betty Low? Me: Um, battery low? Mom: Yeah, that’s it! ************************** Me: What time are you picking me up? Dad: Who is this? Me: Your son. Dad: How did you get this number? Me: I programmed your phone, remember? Dad: How do I delete people? ******************************** Me: Can I borrow 50 bucks? Mom: You don’t call to say hi, you didn’t call on my birthday. All you ever call for is money! Me: 40 bucks? Mom: OK. *************************** Me: Hey! Dad: Aren’t you supposed to be at school? Me: Aren’t you supposed to be at work? Dad: Touché … *********************************** "I Feel Good" by James Brown Corrected: "I Feel Well" When right sounds wrong: I feel well! I knew that I would... When I hold you in my arms I know that I can't do any wrong And when I hold you in my arms My love won't do you any harm BUT... I feel well, Ain't goin' ta hell I feel well, Ain't goin' ta hell So well, so well, aw...hell!! ***************************** Red Cross in Search of Donors With Low Blood Supply —Source: Sandusky Register Sounding Off I was with a friend in a café when a noisy car alarm interrupted our conversation. "What good are car alarms when no one pays any attention to them?" I wondered aloud. "Some are quite effective," my friend corrected me. "Last summer, my teenager spent a lot of time at the neighbors’. Whenever I wanted him home, I’d go out to our driveway and jostle his car." Ugly Remark Rushing to get to the movies, my husband and I told the kids we had to leave "right now"—at which point our teenage daughter headed for the bathroom to apply makeup. Her dad yelled for her to get in the car immediately, and headed for the garage grumbling. On the way to the multiplex my husband glanced in the rearview mirror and caught our teen applying lipstick and blush, which produced the predictable lecture. "Look at your mom," he said. "She didn’t put on any makeup just to go sit in a dark movie theater." From the back I heard, "Yeah, but Mom doesn’t need makeup." My heart swelling with the compliment, I turned back to thank this sweet, wonderful daughter of mine just as she continued, "Nobody looks at her." Volume Control It seemed that all our appliances had broken in the same week, and repairs were straining our budget. So when I picked up the kids from school and our Jeep started making rattling sounds, I decided that rather than burden my husband, I’d deal with it. I hadn’t reckoned on my little tattletales, however. They rushed into the house with the news: "Daddy, the Jeep was breaking down, but Mom made the noise stop!" Impressed, my husband asked, "How did you fix it?" "I turned up the volume on the radio," I confessed. Under the Knife My sister and I were out on the town one night when we ran into a man I knew. "You’re sisters?" he asked incredulously. "You look nothing alike. Pointing to her nose and my chin, my sister said, "Different plastic surgeons." Tattle-Tale My sister felt she was well prepared for her in-depth interview with several members of the police-academy board who would determine her suitability as a candidate. The first situation they presented to her was: "On routine patrol you see a car traveling at excessive speed, with undue care and attention. You pull it over and discover that the driver is your brother. What do you do?" Without hesitation she replied, "Tell Mom!" She was accepted. Dogs Are People Too! The dogs next door get a little noisy, so one day somebody called animal control to complain. When the officers arrived, I heard my neighbor tell them, "Hey, dogs bark. It’s human nature." Liquid Ban Shortly after the FAA announced the ban on fluids, my husband was stopped by airport security because they found a bottle of water in one of his carry-on bags. "Sorry," the TSA officer said, tossing the bottle into a bin of confiscated items, "but water is now considered a liquid." Wrong Kids One night about 10 p.m., I answered the phone and heard, "Dad, we want to stay out late. Is that okay?" "Sure," I answered, "as long as you called." When I hung up, my wife asked who was on the phone. "One of the boys," I replied. "I gave them permission to stay out late." "Not our boys," she said. "They’re both downstairs in the basement." Hidden Spot Dad is from the old school, where you keep your money under the mattress—only he kept his in the underwear drawer. One day I bought my dad an unusual personal safe—a can of spray paint with a false bottom—so he could keep his money in the workshop. Later I asked Mom if he was using it. "Oh, yes," she replied, "he put his money in it the same day." "No burglar would think to look on the work shelf!" I gloated. "They won’t have to," my mom replied. "He keeps the paint can in his underwear drawer." Grandmother Approved Even with a thousand games, dolls and crafts to choose from, my customer at the toy store still couldn’t find a thing for her grandson. "Maybe a video or something educational?" I asked. "No, that’s not it," she said. We wandered the aisles until something caught her eye: a laser gun with flashing lights and 15 different high-pitched sounds. "This is perfect," she said, beaming. "My daughter-in-law will hate it." Feared Meeting I was on my way out of the house to meet with a cantankerous client, and I was dreading it. The look on my face must have given me away because my four-year-old daughter asked what was wrong. "I’m going to meet a woman who always yells at Daddy," I told her. "Oh," she said. "Say hi to Mom." Motorcycle Deaths Drop, But Trend Is Worrisome —Source: Yahoo.com Pasco Man Arrested, says 48 Beers Was Likely 10 Too Many Wisconsin Woman Takes Husband to Police for “Talking Stupidly” —Source: La Crosse (Wisc.) Tribune headline Self-Proclaimed Invisible Man No Show at Court Hearing —Source: The Daily Herald (Provo, Utah) Police Charge One-Armed Man With Unarmed Robbery —Source: Masslive.com Long Tour of Duty I work in a courthouse, so when I served jury duty, I knew most of the staff. As I sat with other prospective jurors listening to a woman drone on about how long the process was taking, a judge and two lawyers passed by, giving me a big hello. A minute later, a few maintenance workers did the same. That set off the malcontent: "Just how long have you been serving jury duty?" What Cats Want Me and the wife [singer Katy Perry] have three cats, and they get whatever they want. We can only know what they want from what we speculate, so it’s a lot of vests, hats, and cat shoes. What You Email Address Says About You Here’s what your e-mail address says about your computer skills: Own domain (e.g., @joesmith.com): You’re skilled and capable. @gmail.com:When the Internet stops working, you actually try rebooting the router before calling a family member for help. @hotmail.com:You still think that Myspace is hip. @yahoo.com:You send e-mail chain letters saying that Bill Gates will eat your hard drive unless you forward this message to everyone you know. @aol.com: You phone friends to tell them about a neat website, then say into the receiver, “OK, go to … h … t … t … p … colon … slash … w … w … w … dot …” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20785638 Do you want to live longer? There is evidence from a study in 2012 suggests that being a "Castrati" or eunich and getting castrated before you're a teenager could gain you a couple of decades. They had no data on complete hysterectomies for the ladies since no social order has ever "euniched" them. Don't know how they arrived at this since Chinese mostly stopped having eunichs and the choirs stopped making Castrati for male high note singing choir gigs. In all fairness what appears to be some of the worst advice you're ever likely to receive MAY have some sensible and likely more promising scientific findings came to be. Concerning cancer - John Wayne's BIG C has at least 10 different varieties of cancerous cells meaning that breast cancer cells especially should be classified into one of 10 different diseases, say British medical researchers. Beginning with cancer, since 2012 may be the year that not only changed our understanding of the disease, but beamed a proverbial light on the pathway where the future of diagnosis and treatment exists. The British groundbreaking study discovered that breast cancer is not one, but 10 separate diseases - each one with a different cause, a different life expectancy and each requiring a different treatment altogether. Medical researchers made the discovery by analysing mutated DNA taken from inside the tumors of around 2,000 patients. We hope they did not spread the tumors by needling out biopsied samples and releasing cells into the bloodstream. The hope for the future is that patients will have DNA from a tumor analysed and receive a tailored treatment specifically devised for their exact subtype of cancer, be it breast or otherwise. Not just breast cancer involved but the British government has announced plans to analyse the DNA of up to 100,000 patients with cancer. The ongoing debate as to whether humans should all be taking aspirin to prevent cancer was brought up several times during 2012. A low dose of aspirin of 81 miligram baby asperin or low-dose enterically-coated asperin daily can prevent and possibly even cancel out cancer according to one report, but was disfavored because it is said to carry too great a risk of causing bleeding in the brain and digestive system, stated another study. To the joy of many expectant, optimistic souls, abiraterone, which extends life for patients with terminal prostate cancer, was approved for use after some rigerous and tough negotiating. Significant advances were made in 2012 favoring the restoring of functional movement to paralyzed patients. Jan Scheuermann, 53, paralyzed from the neck down, was able to deftly control a robotic arm with the aid of two sensors implanted inside her brain. Tiny needles on each electronic IC chip conducted electrical activity from about 200 individual brain cells. This, in turn, was converted into computerized instructions controling the blue robotic arm. Cathy Hutchinson had a similar procedure. She was depicted taking a sip through a straw unaided for the first time since a stroke paralized her 15 years ago. A picture from BrainGate team depicted Cathy Hutchinson using a robot arm to take a sip of coffee. Thus is realized a dream of using electronics to reconnect the brain to paralyzed limbs to assist them to function again and sometimes even to give prosthetics a sense of touch. Paralyzed rats were able to walk again after their spinal cords were bathed in chemicals and zapped with electricity. However, the rats did not seem to notice nor appreciate advances made on their behalf. Ingrates! Neuro scientists also reversed paralysis in canines after injecting them with cells grown from the lining of their nose. There was a blue X-ray picturing Jasper, a 10-year-old dachshund, in walking: A uniquely situational purely biological solution was discovered for a paralyzed American. He was enabled to regain limited use of his hand after pioneering surgery to rewire his nerves and bypass damage to his spinal cord. At the same time, the monitoring of brain activity allowed a Canadian man, who was thought to have been in a vegetative state for over ten years, to tell doctors he was not in any pain, despite his ongoing coma. Medical researchers were very excited because it is the first time an uncommunicative, severely brain-injured patient has been able to respond with answers clinically relevant to their care. John Gurdon, of the Britain, and Shinya Yamanaka, of Japan, two pioneers of stem cell research shared the Nobel prize of over 1,000,000 U.S. Dollars and received individual medals for medicine or physiology. And to think, Professor Gurdon's school report forecast years ago that the Nobel prize winner would be wasting his time pursuing a career in science. Young scientists in school should "stay the course" and not be influenced by naysayers. The potential of modifying body cells was proved time and again in 2012. Baby mice were made from a sample of skin which had been converted into eggs. The mice were healthy and went on to have offspring of their own proving their fertility. Certain countries rely on rodents for food to prevent starvation. This was successful "cloning" that COULD go commercial. By using stem cells in gerbils, deaf gerbils had their hearing restored, which was a scientific first. Stem cells need not be from aborted fetuses but work better from the patient themselves. Although great strides are being made in animal research, a trial of stem cells in blind human patients has also had a promising start. Breakthroughs came in obtaining the raw materials needed to make stem cells after teams managed to make them from blood and urine. Genetics has many potential starts to become positive, successful reality. Unlocking the potential of the human genome had some interesting and important moments this year too. Scientists cracked the entire genetic code of a fetus 18 weeks into the pregnancy. They used fragments of the baby's DNA, which were floating about in the mother's blood. The technique could be used to test for genetic diseases and abnormalities, which is bound to provoke ethical debate for no apparent reason since taking blood from the mother, filtering out fetal cells and replacing it is relatively harmless. The use of genetics was used to stop an outbreak of the hospital superbug MRSA. Researchers tracked down a member of staff who was unwittingly spreading the bacterium to babies in a hospital in Cambridge. A virus was used to rebuild the heart's own pacemaker by adding genes to force heart muscle cells to change into those able to control the heart's beat. The idiotic term junk DNA "must now be junked" according to scientists involved in a massive effort to work out how our genome actually functions. The idea that swathes of our genetic blueprint serves no useful function looks to be wrong - we simply just don't know what it does yet. 2012 was a busy year for vaccination in the UK. The worst outbreak of whooping cough for two decades led to an emergency programme to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of pregnant women in order to protect their children. Thirteen babies have died in the outbreak this year. Baby being vaccinated Pregnant mothers and their babies are now being immunised against whooping cough It was also announced that all school children are to be vaccinated against seasonal flu each year. A study suggested that vaccinating 30% of school children would lead to 11,000 fewer hospitalisations and 2,000 fewer deaths However, there are concerns there are not enough school nurses to make this happen and the programme will not start until 2014 at the earliest. There was also a decision to give babies the shot to protect them from rotavirus which causes tens of thousands of cases of vomiting and diarrhoea each year. It will ensure that the UK will have one of the most comprehensive vaccination programs in the world. A decision on a shingles vaccine will be made in 2013 and there is a bid to get the first meningitis B jab licensed in Britain but the vaccine is available in US as on March, 2013, nationwide. It is not known if this was a hasty approval as scuttlebutt previously declared that there was NO shot versus a VIRUS despite shingles cured by country doctors using penicillin as early as the 1970s prior to superbugs and mutated viral varieties. There have been problems internationally. The killing of polio workers in Pakistan and the subsequent suspension of the vaccination campaign will hinder efforts to eradicate the disease which is now confined to just three countries. Odds and ends... and eunuchs There were also quite a number of more unusual findings this in 2012. Researchers invented electronic sensors which could melt inside the body once their job was accomplished. Water dissolving an electronic device - Courtesy Beckman Institute, University of Illinois and Tufts University Black mamba venom was discovered to contain a painkiller that was even more effective than morphine. Studies revealed that conspirators murdered Egyptian King Ramesses III by slitting his throat. 2011 World News Highlights January 1 – Estonia officially ditches its own money in favor of the euro currency and becomes the seventeenth eurozone country after approval by 27 European countries. (1) January 4 – Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi died after setting himself on fire a month earlier, in his haste to toast marshmallows with Mohammad in extremist Muslim "paradise", making a excuse for anti-government protests in Tunisia and later other Arab nations. These protests become known propaganda-wise as the Arab Spring. January 9–15 – Southern Sudan holds a referendum on independence. The Sudanese electorate votes in favor of independence, paving the way for the creation of the new state Muslim Brotherhood fascism in July. January 11 – Flooding and mudslides in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro killed 903 and destroyed many homes. January 14 – Arab Spring: The Tunisian government falls after a month of increasingly violent protests; President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia after 23 years in power, being friendly with America, leaving US minus one more ally in Middle East. January 24 – 37 people are killed and more than 180 others wounded in a Muslim bombing at Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia.(2) February February 11 – Arab Spring: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigns after widespread protests calling for his departure, leaving control of Egypt in the hands of the military until a general election can be held. February 22 - March 14 – Uncertainty over Libyan oil output causes crude oil prices to rise 20% over a two-week period following the Arab Spring, causing the 2011 energy crisis. March March 11 – A 9.1-magnitude 2011 Tōhoku earthquake hit northeastern coast at Honshu and subsequent tsunami hit the east of Japan, killing 15,840 and leaving another 3,926 missing. Tsunami warnings are issued in 50 countries and territories. Emergencies are declared at four nuclear power plants including Fukushima nuclear plant that was affected by the quake.(3) March 15 – Arab Spring: Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain declares a three-month state of emergency as troops from the Gulf Co-operation Council are sent to quell the civil unrest. March 17 – Arab Spring and the Libyan civil war: The United Nations Security Council votes 10-0 with five abstentions, including Russia and China. to create a no-fly zone over Libya in response to propaganda alleging government aggression against civilians.(4) March 19 – Arab Spring and the Libyan civil war: In light of continuing attacks on Libyan rebels by forces in support of leader Muammar Gaddafi, military intervention authorized under UNSCR 1973 begins as French fighter jets make reconnaissance flights over Libya. Two Gaddafi Mig-21 went down at least one pilot survived. April April 11 – Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo is arrested in his home in Abidjan by supporters of elected President Alassane Ouattara with support from French forces thereby ending the 2010–2011 Ivorian crisis and civil war. Gbagbo, the first ex-president to be brought before The Hague-based court, will face four counts of crimes against humanity, including murder and rape, over violence the UN says left some 3,000 people dead.(5) April 29 – An estimated two billion people watch the wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey in London. May May 1 – U.S. President Barack Obama announces that the founder and leader of the militant group Al-Qaeda, has been killed during an American Navy SEALs’ raid known as "Operation Neptune's Spear," on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, northern Pakistan.As SEALs had tall guy lie next to "SHORTY" bin Laden, they never said he was tall. probable doppleganger had short covered legs when sitting, never stood in photos. A SEAL known as John Doe will testify against Pfc Manning, the WikiLeaks leaker in 2013.(6) May 16 – The European Union agree to €78 billion rescue deal for Portugal. The bailout loan will be equally split between the European Financial Stabilization Mechanism, the European Financial Stability Facility, and the International Monetary Fund. May 26 – Former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladić, wanted for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, is arrested in Serbia. June June 4 – Chile's Puyehue volcano erupts, causing air traffic cancellations across South America, New Zealand, Australia and forcing over 3,000 people to evacuate. June 5 – Arab Spring: Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh travels to Saudi Arabia for treatment of an injury sustained during an attack on the presidential palace. Protesters celebrate his transfer of power to his Vice-President Abd al-Rab Mansur al-Hadi. June 12 – Arab Spring: Thousands of Syrians flee to Turkey as Syrian troops lay siege to Jisr ash-Shugur. July July 7 – The world's first artificial organ transplant is achieved in Sweden, using an artificial windpipe coated with stem cells.(7) July 9 – South Sudan secedes from Sudan, per the result of the independence referendum held in January. July 20 Goran Hadžić is detained in Serbia, becoming the last of 161 people indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The United Nations declares a famine in southern Somalia, the first in over thirty years. July 21 – Space Shuttle Atlantis lands successfully at Kennedy Space Center after completing STS-135, concluding NASA's space shuttle program.[34] July 22 – Anders Behring Breivik kills 77 people in twin terrorist attacks in Norway after a bombing in the Regjeringskvartalet government center in Oslo and a shooting at a political youth camp on the island of Utøya. July 31 In Thailand over 12.8 million people are affected by severe flooding. The World Bank estimates damages at 1,440 billion baht (US$45 billion). Some areas are still six feet under water, and many factory areas remained closed at the end of the year. 815 people are killed, with 58 of the country's 77 provinces affected. Arab Spring: Because of the uncertainties associated with a clamp-down of the free press, there are believed to be at least 121 people killed in a Syrian Army tank raid on the town of Hama and over 150 people are reportedly killed across the country. The total dead throughout Syria may never be known, but an estimate as of September 24 is 3,000. August August 5 NASA announces that its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured photographic evidence of possible liquid water on Mars during warm seasons. Juno, the first solar-powered spacecraft on a mission to Jupiter, is launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. August 20–28 – Arab Spring and the Libyan civil war: In the Battle of Tripoli, Libyan rebels take control of the nation's capital, effectively overthrowing the government of Muammar Gaddafi. September September 5 – India and Bangladesh sign a pact to end their 40-year border demarcation dispute. September 10 – Zanzibar ferry sinking: The MV Spice Islander I, carrying at least 800 people, sinks off the coast of Zanzibar, killing 240 people. September 12 – Approximately 100 people die after a petrol pipeline explodes in Nairobi. September 17 – Occupy Wall Street protests begin in the United States. This develops into the Occupy movement which spreads to 82 countries by October. September 19 – With 434 dead, the United Nations launches a $357 million appeal for victims of the 2011 Sindh floods in Pakistan. October October 4 2011 Mogadishu bombing: 100[62] people are killed in a car bombing in the Somali capital Mogadishu. The death toll from the flooding of Cambodia's Mekong River and attendant flash floods reaches 207. October 18 – Israel and the Palestinian militant organization Hamas begin a major prisoner swap, in which the captured Israeli Army soldier Gilad Shalit is released by Hamas in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian and Israeli-Arab prisoners held in Israel, including 280 prisoners serving life sentences for planning and perpetrating terror attacks. One-sided deal favored terrorists. October 20 Arab Spring and the Libyan civil war: Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is murdered in Sirte, with National Transitional Council forces taking control of the city, and ending the war. Thousands see video of Gaddafi bravely dying like a man without begging for mercy. Basque separatist militant organisation ETA declares an end to its 43-year campaign of political violence, which has killed over 800 people since 1968. October 23 – A magnitude 7.2 Mw earthquake jolted eastern Turkey near the city of Van, killing 604 people, and damaging about 2,200 buildings. October 27 – After an emergency meeting in Brussels, the European Union announced an agreement to tackle the European sovereign debt crisis which includes a writedown of 50% of Greek bonds, a recapitalisation of European banks and an increase of the bailout fund of the European Financial Stability Facility totaling to €1 trillion. October 31 Date selected by the UN as the symbolic date when global population reaches seven billion. UNESCO admitted Palestine as a member, following a vote in which 107 member states supported and 14 opposed. November November 26 – The Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity, the most elaborate Martian exploration vehicle to date, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center. It lands on Mars on August 6, 2012. December December 15 – The United States formally declares an end to the Iraq War. While this ends the insurgency, it begins another. December 16 – Tropical Storm Washi causes 1,268 flash flood fatalities in the Philippines with 85 people officially listed as missing. December 29 – Samoa and Tokelau move from east to west of the International Date Line, thereby skipping December 30, in order to align their time zones better with their main trading partners. 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