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US Navy To Cover Up Its Swastika-Shaped Barracks In San Diego,California

SAN DIEGO, USA - The US Navy is to spend $600,000 to remodel a set of barracks in Southern California that resemble a swastika when viewed from above, officials said.

From ground level the layout of the four L-shaped buildings at the US Navy base outside San Diego is unremarkable.But with the increasing popularity of satellite imagery websites such as Google Earth, the barracks' swastika formation have attracted wide attention, with Anti-Defamation League campaigners requesting alterations be made.

Now the Navy has agreed to remodelling that will "camouflage" the aerial appearance of the barracks, officials said.

"The Navy has budgeted $600,000 for work that will effectively camouflage the appearance of the barracks from above," US Navy spokeswoman Angelic Dolan said.

'It could be landscaping, it could be adding solar panels," US Navy spokeswoman Angelic Dolan said.

Ms Dolan said the controversial design of the building had been drawn up in the 1960s. "It was an oversight," she said. "We certainly did not want to offend anyone, nor be associated with such a symbol."

Morris Casuto, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, welcomed plans to remodel. "We told the Navy this was an incredibly inappropriate shape for a structure on a military installation," Mr Casuto told The New York Times.

CNN did a report on the building and said the Navy has received so many complaints about the building that they are now planning to change the shape of the building so it does not resemble its current shape from the sky.

"You have to realize, back in the '60s we did not have the Internet," explains a spokeswoman for the base - though the Navy knew about the shape as early as 1967 but did nothing because the building was in a no-fly zone,she said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/27/us/27swastika.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Lucky Pilot

Bob Roberts, the pilot of a small plane that crashed onto Interstate 95 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida,USA, sits in the remains of his plane, waiting for emergency officials to take him to the hospital for treatment.



http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22462990-5012748,00.html

http://www.gadling.com/2007/09/22/plane-crashes-onto-i-95-pilot-found-sitting-in-cockpit/

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Belgium put up for sale on eBay

Shown on a computer screen is the Belgian site of ebay which highlights the country of Belgium for sale with a bid of euro10 million (US$ 13.8 million) in Belgium, Tuesday Sept. 18, 2007. Hidden among the porcelain fox hounds and Burberry tablecloths on sale at eBay.be this week was an unusual item: "For Sale: Belgium, a Kingdom in three parts" ... free premium: the king and his court (costs not included).'

The odd ad was posted by one disgruntled Belgian in protest at his country's political crisis, which reached a 100-day landmark on Tuesday with no end in sight to the squabbling between Flemish and Walloon politicians.

Fed up with a three-month political standoff, a Belgian teacher Gerrit Six posted an ad on the online auction site: "For Sale: Belgium, a Kingdom in three parts ... free premium: the king and his court [costs not included]."

"I wanted to attract attention.You almost have to throw a rock through a window to get attention for Belgium," Six said.

Six decided to vent his frustration through the ad.

"My proposal was to make it clear that Belgium was valuable, it's a masterpiece and we have to keep it.It's my country and I'm taking care of it, and with me are millions of Belgians," he told Associated Press Television News.

EBay was happy to take the advertisement.

"It was a really fun listing made by a Belgian.This person, in a very funny way, reminded the Belgians what a great country Belgium actually is and it would be a shame to sell it,"Peter Burin, public relations manager of eBay Belgium said.

However, the company decided to pull the ad Tuesday after receiving a bid of $14 million.

"We decided to take it down, just to avoid confusion," Burin said.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119025234513933379.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

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