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Ex-President of Georgia to Lead Ukraine Region
Post Date: 2015-05-30 22:25:08 by Pericles
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Ex-President of Georgia to Lead Ukraine Region By DAVID M. HERSZENHORNMAY 30, 2015 MOSCOW — President Petro O. Poroshenko of Ukraine on Saturday appointed the former president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, as governor of the Odessa region, turning to a longtime nemesis of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia for help governing an area coveted by pro-Russian separatists. Mr. Poroshenko announced the appointment of Mr. Saakashvili during a visit to Odessa, a port city on the Black Sea, calling him a “great friend of Ukraine.” He has also granted Mr. Saakashvili Ukrainian citizenship. Mr. Saakashvili replaces Ihor Palytsia, who was appointed governor in May 2014 after ...
Russian aircraft head off US warship in Black Sea, news agency says
Post Date: 2015-05-30 17:04:08 by Pericles
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Russian aircraft head off US warship in Black Sea, news agency says According to Russia’s state news agency a US destroyer was moving along the edge of territorial waters in yet another encounter with western militaries Russian military aircraft were scrambled to head off a US warship that was acting “aggressively” in the Black Sea, the state news agency RIA reported on Saturday, citing an anonymous source in Russia’s armed forces in Crimea. The source was quoted as saying that the US destroyer Ross was moving along the edge of Russia’s territorial waters and heading in their direction. “The crew of the ship acted provocatively and aggressively, which ...
Christie: Rand Paul stands with 'criminal' Snowden
Post Date: 2015-05-30 16:13:47 by GeorgiaConservative
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (N.J.) is taking aim at likely 2016 rival Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) for opposing renewal of the Patriot Act, accusing him of siding with “criminal” leaker Edward Snowden. Christie, a possible 2016 GOP presidential candidate, slammed Paul and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) for their vocal push to end the surveillance practices of the National Security Administration (NSA) that Snowden exposed to the world by releasing classified documents. “He’s a criminal, he’s a criminal and he’s hiding in Russia, and he’s lecturing to us about the evils of authoritarian government while he lives under the protective umbrella of Vladimir Putin?” ...
ISIS fighter was trained by State Department
Post Date: 2015-05-29 23:59:52 by Pericles
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ISIS fighter was trained by State Department By Dugald McConnell and Brian Todd, CNN Updated 8:30 PM ET, Fri May 29, 2015 Washington (CNN) An ISIS fighter who calls for jihad in a new online video was trained in counterterrorism tactics on American soil, in a program run by the United States, officials tell CNN. The video features a former police commander from Tajikistan named Col. Gulmurod Khalimov. He appears in black ISIS garb with a sniper rifle and a bandolier of ammunition. He says in the video that he participated in programs on U.S. soil three times, at least one of which was in Louisiana. The State Department has confirmed this claim. "From 2003-2014 Colonel Khalimov ...
'We were awful': Pink Floyd's Waters on band's early days
Post Date: 2015-05-29 11:10:04 by Orwellian Nightmare
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. Former Pink Floyd co-founder and bass guitarist Roger Waters performs with a Romanian children choir … By Edward Baran LONDON (Reuters) - Pink Floyd founding members Roger Waters and Nick Mason joked while unveiling a memorial plaque on Thursday that they were so bad at first that they wouldn't have passed an audition on a talent show. The pair, together with the late Richard Wright, formed the group while studying architecture at the former Regent Street Polytechnic in central London between 1962 and 1965. The psychedelic and progressive rock band went on to become one of the most commercially successful groups in popular music. Returning to the ...
Secularists vs. Suicide Bombers
Post Date: 2015-05-29 02:39:29 by Pericles
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Secularists vs. Suicide Bombers by Patrick J. Buchanan, May 29, 2015 Print This | Share This "What apparently happened was that the Iraqi forces just showed no will to fight. … We can give them training, we can give them equipment; we obviously can’t give them the will to fight." Thus did Defense Secretary Ash Carter identify the root cause of the rout of the Iraqi army in Ramadi. Disgusted U.S. military officers say the 1,000 ISIS fighters who overran Ramadi were outnumbered by the defenders 10 to 1. Why did the Iraqi army run? And what motivated the fighters of ISIS to attack a city whose defenders so vastly outnumbered them? According to battle reports, the ...
Netanyahu demands ‘up to $45 bn’ in US military aid
Post Date: 2015-05-28 18:45:17 by GeorgiaConservative
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Israel is hoping to receive $4.2-$4.5 billion a year in military aid from the United States for ten years, to counter the threat from Iran and oil-rich Middle East states that have been re-arming rapidly, a senior Israeli source has told Defense News Under a 10-year deal signed in 2007, Israel receives just over $3 billion a year in American aid, with stipulations that over 70 percent of that aid has to be spent buying US military hardware. An extension of that agreement, running to 2028, was principally agreed on by Barack Obama during a visit to Israel in 2013, but according to Haaretz, talks on its terms have been “preliminary and unofficial.” Among the purchases to be ...
White South Africans sign controversial petition for the “right to return” to Europe
Post Date: 2015-05-27 23:51:52 by A K A Stone
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An online petition on the website change.org is calling for the European Union to give white South Africans, Namibians and Zimbabweans automatic European citizenship. “The white South African population currently faces ethnic cleansing and persecutions at the hands of the ANC government, the EFF, and various individual anti-white aggressors. Over 4000 white farmers have been brutally murdered, often including torture, rape and mutilation,” the petition reads. “Many white South Africans today live in poverty and squalor as a consequence of the ANC government’s Black Economic Empowerment policy which shuts whites out of the labour pool.” The petition has ...
Christians Hacked To Death In Nigeria (Update)
Post Date: 2015-05-27 23:48:40 by A K A Stone
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ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Islamic militants have hacked to death at least 10 Christians in a remote village in northeast Nigeria, bringing the death toll to some 200 Christians killed within two months, officials say. Suspected fighters of Boko Haram, or 'Western education is sinful', reportedly entered Pambula-Kwamda village in Adamawa state early Friday, May 22. "The attackers went into the village around 4:00 am [local time] while residents were still asleep and used machetes to attack their victims," said Maina Ularamu, local government chairman of Madagali, in the north of Adamawa state. News of the attack was monitored by BosNewsLife Tuesday, May 26, amid ...
Just how stupid are Americans and Europeans?
Post Date: 2015-05-23 19:11:15 by BobCeleste
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Subject: Just how stupid are Americans and Europeans? The Shoe Bomber was a Muslim The Beltway Snipers were Muslims The Fort Hood Shooter was a Muslim The underwear Bomber was a Muslim The U-S.S. Cole Bombers were Muslims The Madrid Train Bombers were Muslims The Bali Nightclub Bombers were Muslims The London Subway Bombers were Muslims The Moscow Theater Attackers were Muslims The Boston Marathon Bombers were Muslims The Pan-Am flight #93 Bombers were Muslims The Air France Entebbe Hijackers were Muslims The Iranian Embassy Takeover, was by Muslims The Beirut U.S. Embassy bombers were Muslims The Libyan U.S. Embassy Attack was by Muslims The Buenos Aires Suicide Bombers were Muslims ...
What the Fall of Ramadi Means
Post Date: 2015-05-23 14:58:17 by nativist nationalist
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The fall of Ramadi, capital of Anbar, largest province in Iraq, after a rout of the Iraqi army by a few hundred ISIS fighters using bomb-laden trucks, represents a stunning setback for U.S. policy. When President Obama declared that we shall “degrade and defeat” the Islamic State, he willed the ends, but not the means. The retreat from Ramadi makes clear that the Iraqi army, even backed by 3,000 U.S. troops, cannot drive ISIS out of Anbar and Mosul and back into Syria. Baghdad cannot alone reunite Iraq. Republicans are almost gleeful in charging that Obama’s withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq created the vacuum the Islamic State has now filled. Blaming Obama for ISIS in ...
The Middle East Scrambles for Nukes
Post Date: 2015-05-23 08:23:34 by CZ82
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The Middle East Scrambles for Nukes March 21, 2014 • From theTrumpet.com, By Callum Wood Related articles ◾A Mysterious Alliance Related subjects ◾WMD ◾Egypt ◾Iran ◾Saudi Arabia When one goes nuclear, they all go nuclear. That is the message from the director of the political-military affairs bureau at Israel’s Defense Ministry. The statement is resonating as the Middle East prepares itself for nuclear proliferation. Speaking at a March 12 conference for policy and strategy, Maj. Gen. (Res.) Amos Gilad said, “The Arabs will not tolerate the Persians having the bomb.” He went on to point out two nations that would likely acquire ...
Mexico weighs U.S. meat product sanctions after WTO ruling
Post Date: 2015-05-22 10:47:11 by nativist nationalist
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Mexico said on Thursday it would decide within about 15 days what sanctions to impose on U.S. meat products if the U.S. Congress does not comply with a World Trade Organization ruling on labeling. On Monday, the WTO ruled that U.S. country-of-origin labeling (COOL) laws discriminated against imported meat from Mexico and Canada. "We have our teams prepared and working, specialists in international law...in case the U.S. Congress doesn't comply," Enrique Martinez, Mexico's agriculture minister, said at a news conference. "I think in some 15 days we will have a clearer idea," Martinez added, of "what the sanctions would be." On Wednesday, U.S ...
Edward Snowden talks ethics of whistleblowing
Post Date: 2015-05-22 10:28:57 by Deckard
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Edward Snowden, former NSA infrastructure analyst turned whistleblower, spoke on May 15 to Cubberley Auditorium to discuss the philosophical tensions of whistleblowing and government surveillance. The 2015 Symbolic Systems Distinguished Speaker, Snowden spoke via video conference from Moscow. Professors of philosophy John Perry and Kenneth Taylor moderated the discussion, part of which also served as a recording of “Philosophy Talk,” a nationally-syndicated radio program which grapples with problems in philosophy and how philosophy relates to our everyday lives. After brief introductions by Perry and Taylor, Snowden addressed the dilemmas in whistleblowing and his thoughts on his ...
Marco Rubio's Foreign Policy: Reckless, Reactionary Big-Gov Love
Post Date: 2015-05-21 10:57:03 by Deckard
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Hey Rubio: If government can't manage health care, how can it manage regime changes in foreign societies? Republican presidential aspirant and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio gave a major foreign-policy speech recently, and the best that can be said is that he did not claim to favor small government and free markets. What he wants in a foreign policy couldn’t possibly be reconciled with any desire to limit government power. Rubio is for big government no matter what he might say on the campaign trail.He acknowledged this when he said, correctly, "Foreign policy is domestic policy." Rubio set out a doctrine with three pillars, none of which which should comfort anyone who ...
Islamic State seizes ancient Palmyra city from Syrian forces
Post Date: 2015-05-21 03:36:44 by out damned spot
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Islamic State insurgents stormed the historic Syrian city of Palmyra on Wednesday, fighting off pro-government forces who withdrew after evacuating most of the civilian population, state television said. The capture of Palmyra is the first time the al Qaeda offshoot has taken control of a city directly from the Syrian army and allied forces, which have already lost ground in the northwest and south to other insurgent groups in recent weeks. The central city, also known as Tadmur, is built alongside the remains of a oasis civilization whose colonnaded streets, temple and theater have stood for 2,000 years. Islamic State has destroyed antiquities and ancient monuments in neighboring Iraq ...
Buchanan To WSJ: It Wasn’t Patriots Who Led GOP, America To Disaster–It Was You! [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-05-19 10:55:54 by nativist nationalist
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As Middle America rises in rage against “fast track” and the mammoth Obamatrade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Wall Street Journal has located the source of the malady. Last Monday’s lead editorial began: “Here we go again. In the 1990s Pat Buchanan launched a civil war within the Republican Party on a platform targeting immigration and trade. Some claimed Pitchfork Pat was the future of the GOP, though in the end he mainly contributed to its presidential defeats.” But, woe is us, “the GOP’s Buchanan wing is making a comeback.” Now it is true that, while Nixon and Reagan won 49-state landslides and gave the GOP five victories in ...
What are these strange unexplained noises from the sky?
Post Date: 2015-05-19 10:05:53 by Deckard
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This could be annoying if it happens too often. Video clips from across the world have captured a sinister-sounding noise coming from the sky. But no one can explain what it is.The footage, from Germany, Canada, the USA, Ukraine and Belarus reveals similar sounding trumpet-like noises. See a video here: The first came from Belarus in 2008, while in the same year ‘ear-defeaning’ sounds were posted to YouTube by an anonymous user. And in June 2013, Kimberly Wookey. from British Columbia in Canada, recorded several noises coming from the sky. A child apparently frozen to the spot after hearing the noise Since then she has captured several more examples, with the most ...
Fossil fuels subsidised by $10 million a minute, says IMF
Post Date: 2015-05-19 08:43:35 by Willie Green
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‘Shocking’ revelation finds $5.3tn subsidy estimate for 2015 is greater than the total health spending of all the world’s governments Fossil fuel companies are benefitting from global subsidies of $5.3tn (£3.4tn) a year, equivalent to $10m a minute every day, according to a startling new estimate by the International Monetary Fund. The IMF calls the revelation “shocking” and says the figure is an “extremely robust” estimate of the true cost of fossil fuels. The $5.3tn subsidy estimated for 2015 is greater than the total health spending of all the world’s governments. The vast sum is largely due to polluters not paying the costs imposed on ...
Armenian Church Leader Speaks on Suit to Reclaim Seized Property from filthy Turks
Post Date: 2015-05-19 00:55:08 by Pericles
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Armenian Church Leader Speaks on Suit to Reclaim Seized Property By RICK GLADSTONEMAY 18, 2015 A lawsuit in Turkey filed by the Armenian Church to recover its ancient headquarters, seized a century ago during the Armenian genocide, is the “first legal step” of a goal to reclaim all Armenian property seized by the Turks, a worldwide leader of the church said Monday. The leader, Aram I, Catholicos of the Holy See of Cilicia, also said that if the Turkish legal authorities rejected the lawsuit, it would “deepen the divide” between Turkey and the 10-million-member Armenian diaspora. Aram I spoke in an interview at The New York Times while on a visit to diaspora ...
Trevor Loudon: Only Ted Cruz Can Save America From The Marxists In Government
Post Date: 2015-05-18 12:14:13 by A K A Stone
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Trevor Loudon, the New Zealand conservative activist who has devoted himself in recent years to exposing President Obama as an “enemy within,” joined Gun Owners of America’s Larry Pratt on his radio program last month to discuss his upcoming movie, which he hopes will help get Ted Cruz elected president next year, thus saving America and the world. Loudon promised Pratt that his movie “will go way further” than Dinesh D’Souza’s anti-Obama polemics “in exposing the Marxist” Obama. “America stands in the balance, and if America goes down, every Western country will fall, including my own,” he said. Claiming that the president and dozens ...
Terrorist and Ethnic Ripples in the Balkans: Republika Srpska, Kosovo, Macedonia and distant Syria
Post Date: 2015-05-18 03:15:03 by Pericles
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Terrorist and Ethnic Ripples in the Balkans: Republika Srpska, Kosovo, Macedonia and distant Syria Ramazan Khalidov and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The Balkans in the last few days is showing further signs of a growing Salafi Islamist menace and the usual traits of Albanian nationalism. Ironically, the “old battleground in Kosovo,” whereby the Orthodox Christian Jerusalem was taken away from Serbia, is now showing a hidden danger to both Muslim Albanian dominated Kosovo and Republika Srpska in Bosnia. Therefore, terrorist sweeps took place in Albanian ruled Kosovo and the Republika Srpska. In Macedonia the current crisis is hitting the headlines because of the numbers of ...
The Noose is Tightening – Israel Will Go it Alone….
Post Date: 2015-05-17 14:47:14 by Orwellian Nightmare
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Israel hawks to Pope Francis: Stay out of politics Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/israel-hawks-to-pop-francis-stay-out-of-politics-117929.html#ixzz3aDT0uUwq “I’m surprised that the pope would recognize Palestine when they’re still haters who want to eliminate Israel off the map and don’t recognize Israel,” said Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), a member of the Israel Allies Caucus. “The Pope is the head of his religion, and he makes those calls for himself, but I represent 700,000 people from East Texas and a vast majority agree with me.” First off, why would the Pope choose to do this now? Why the urgency of it. ...
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