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US Supreme Court rejects law to allow 'Jerusalem, Israel' on passports
Post Date: 2015-06-08 12:19:25 by Willie Green
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Vote seen as a victory for US President Obama who claims that law would set a precedent harming his ability to set foreign policy. The US Supreme Court has struck down a disputed law that would have allowed Americans born in Jerusalem to list their birthplace as Israel on their US passports. It's an important ruling that underscores the president's authority in foreign affairs. The court ruled 6-3 Monday that Congress overstepped its bounds when it approved the law in 2002. It would have forced the State Department to alter its long-standing policy of not listing Israel as the birthplace for Jerusalem-born Americans. An American passport can only express 'Jerusalem' as a ...
Teenage girl soldier hailed as Ukraine's 'Joan of Arc' by Elle magazine is revealed as neo-Nazi and is arrested over cop killing
Post Date: 2015-06-07 04:32:15 by Pericles
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Teenage girl soldier hailed as Ukraine's 'Joan of Arc' by Elle magazine is revealed as neo-Nazi and is arrested over cop killing Vita Zaverukha, 19, arrested after a failed attempt to rob a petrol station Two police officers killed and three injured after ensuing chase in Kiev Vita is a known to be a neo-Nazi, spreading her views through social media But she featured in French magazine Elle praising female Ukrainian fighters By WILL STEWART IN MOSCOW AND FLORA DRURY FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 07:35 EST, 8 May 2015 | UPDATED: 09:16 EST, 8 May 2015 A neo-Nazi portrayed as Ukraine's version of Joan of Arc by French fashion magazine Elle for her 'brave' fight ...
Want to see why the Japanese are afraid of China?
Post Date: 2015-06-06 20:19:42 by BobCeleste
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Want to see why the Japanese are afraid of China? Watch this movie.
New Look At Pot-Smoking Pygmies Suggests Marijuana Helps Deter Parasites
Post Date: 2015-06-06 17:46:05 by Gatlin
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"The Aka pygmies of Africa's Congo basin are known to smoke a lot of pot, and a new study suggests there may be a big benefit to all that toking, at least for the men: those who smoked the most marijuana were significantly less likely to be heavily infected with parasitic worms. Taste for drugs. The researchers behind the study believe the finding helps explain why humans have a taste for all sorts of drugs. Previous research conducted by the team found that Aka who smoked more tobacco also had fewer parasites. "The gist is that most popular drugs, including nicotine, THC [tetrahydrocannabinol, pot's main psychoactive component], cocaine, caffeine, and opium, are plant ...
Is ISIS Coming to Damascus?
Post Date: 2015-06-06 11:27:57 by nativist nationalist
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Who rises if Assad falls? That question, which has bedeviled U.S. experts on the Middle East, may need updating to read: Who rises when Assad falls? For the war is going badly for Bashar Assad, whose family has ruled Syria since Richard Nixon was president. Assad’s situation seems more imperiled than at any time in this four-year civil-sectarian war that has cost the lives of some 220,000 soldiers, rebels and civilians, and made refugees of millions more. Last month, ISIS captured Palmyra in central Syria, as it was taking Ramadi in Iraq. A coalition, at the heart of which is the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front, seized Idlib province in northern Syria and is moving toward the coast and ...
Vietnam Seeks Western Warplanes to Counter Potential Chinese Threat
Post Date: 2015-06-05 13:19:05 by BobCeleste
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SINGAPORE: Vietnam is in talks with European and US contractors to buy fighter jets, maritime patrol planes and unarmed drones, sources said, as it looks to beef up its aerial defences in the face of China's growing assertiveness in disputed waters. The battle-hardened country has already taken possession of three Russian-built Kilo-attack submarines and has three more on order as part of a $2.6 billion deal agreed in 2009. Upgrading its air force would give Vietnam one of the most potent militaries in Southeast Asia. The previously unreported aircraft discussions have involved Swedish defence contractor Saab , European consortium Eurofighter, the defence wing of Airbus Group and US ...
Syria the last chance saloon
Post Date: 2015-06-05 09:06:38 by Pericles
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Syria the last chance saloon Publish Date: Jun 02, 2015 By Gwynne Dyer The fall of Ramadi to Islamic State troops recently was not a big deal. The city was deep inside IS-held territory, IS fighters had controlled 80% of it since March and we already knew that the Iraqi army can’t fight. Even so, Islamic State is not going to take much more of Iraq. What it doesn’t already hold is either Shia or just not Arab at all (Kurdistan) and that is not fertile ground for Sunni Arab fanatics. The fall of Palmyra on Friday was a very big deal, because it was clear evidence that the Syrian army’s morale is starting to crumble. It was doing quite well until last summer and even ...
Turkey's Erdogan vows to punish journalist behind Syria trucks video
Post Date: 2015-06-01 09:38:58 by nativist nationalist
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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to punish the editor of a newspaper which published video footage it said showed the MIT state intelligence agency helping send weapons to Syria. Related Stories Turkey's Erdogan threatens daily over Syria arms video AFP Exclusive: Turkish intelligence helped ship arms to Syrian Islamist rebel areas Reuters Turkish daily accuses government of sending arms to Syrian rebels AFP Turkey probes alleged links in army with U.S.-based cleric, defense minister says Reuters The Cumhuriyet newspaper published footage on its website on Friday which it said showed gendarmerie and police officers opening crates of what it described as weapons and ...
Global Study: Atheists in Decline, Only 1.8% of World Population by 2020
Post Date: 2015-05-31 21:37:54 by GeorgiaConservative
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(CNSNews.com) – Atheism is in decline worldwide, with the number of atheists falling from 4.5% of the world’s population in 1970 to 2.0% in 2010 and projected to drop to 1.8% by 2020, according to a new report by the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Mass. Click for Full Text!
The only thing missing is the sign saying "Come and Get it Five dollars." [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-05-31 15:42:25 by BobCeleste
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Taylor Swift Turns Up the Heat In Sky High Heels In NYC Taylor Swift leaves her NYC apartment in sky high heels. Photo: Getty Images When leaving your apartment is akin to stepping onto a high fashion runway, you know you’ve got to put your best foot forward. So on Saturday afternoon, amid a crowd of paparazzi and superfans, that’s just what Taylor Swift did. En route to Detroit for the fifth stop on her 1989 World Tour, the singer took to the streets in a seriously racy ensemble that consisted of a striped crop top, hot pants, sky high heels, cat eye sunglasses, and a yellow handbag slung ever-so-daintily over her left wrist. We all know that Swift has a penchant for crop ...
Kerry breaks leg in Geneva bike crash, flying back to US
Post Date: 2015-05-31 08:03:15 by out damned spot
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Secretary of State John Kerry broke his leg in a bike crash outside Geneva Sunday, where he had been holding nuclear talks with Iran’s foreign minister. Kerry called off the rest of his four-nation trip and will fly back to Boston. State Department Spokesman John Kirby said Kerry is stable and never lost consciousness. Kerry should make a full recovery and is in good spirits, he said. The accident occurred near Scionzier, France, outside the Swiss border. Paramedics and a physician were on the scene with his motorcade at the time. Kerry was transported to Geneva’s main hospital HUG, where he was being evaluated, Kirby said. A paramedic traveling with his motorcade ...
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 ...
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