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Nepal Suffers Another Earthquake On Saturday, Four Days After A Major Aftershock (3rd one)
Post Date: 2015-05-16 22:24:09 by out damned spot
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Four days after Nepal was shaken by its second deadly significant earthquake in less than three weeks, nerves were rattled there by another quake Saturday afternoon. The U.S. Geological Survey indicated the magnitude-5.7 tremor was strong enough to inflict significant damage on poorly constructed buildings. It was felt in northern India. Neither injuries nor deaths have been reported, possibly because so many structures were already toppled by the April 25 magnitude-7.8 earthquake that killed more than 8,000 people and injured more than 19,000. The region was hit Tuesday by a quake that killed over 125 people and injured over 2,500. “An aftershock of 5.7-intensity after three days of ...
Our Next Mideast War—Syria
Post Date: 2015-05-16 13:11:45 by nativist nationalist
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Jeb Bush has spent the week debating with himself over whether he would have started the war his brother launched on Iraq. When he figures it out, hopefully, our would-be president will focus in on the campaign to drag us into yet another Mideast war—this time to bring down Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria. While few would mourn the passing of the Assad dynasty, there is a problem: If Assad falls, a slaughter of Christians will follow and the battle for control of Damascus will be between the Syrian branch of al-Qaida, the Nusra Front, and the crazed terrorists of the Islamic State. Victory for either would be a disaster for America. Where is the evidence of an unholy alliance ...
Egypt's ousted President Morsi sentenced to death
Post Date: 2015-05-16 09:10:22 by A K A Stone
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A Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced ousted President Mohammed Morsi to death over his part in a mass prison break that took place during the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak. lRelated Egypt's Morsi gets 20-year term in fresh sign of movement's demise MIDDLE EAST Egypt's Morsi gets 20-year term in fresh sign of movement's demise SEE ALL RELATED 8 As is customary in passing capital punishment, Judge Shaaban Shami referred his death sentence on Morsi and others to the nation's top Muslim theologian, or mufti, for his nonbinding opinion. He set June 2 for the next hearing. Egypt's judiciary: a willing participant in repression Egypt's judiciary: a ...
ISIS leader declares ‘Islam was never a religion of peace. Islam is the religion of fighting’ as he calls on Muslims to ‘fight for the Caliphate’ in new audio message
Post Date: 2015-05-15 16:41:22 by cranky
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Message purportedly from Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, not heard from in monthsSays: 'Islam was never a religion of peace. Islam is the religion of fighting' Ancient city of Palmyra, a world heritage site, under threat of destruction given ISIS vandalised treasures of Nimrud and Hatra in IraqExtremists now barely a mile from gates of ancient world cultural centre The leader of Islamic State has declared 'Islam is the religion of fighting' in a rare audio message which called on all Muslims to 'fight for the caliphate'.Islamic State released the message yesterday claiming it was from its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as the extremist group executed 26 civilians before ...
Sen. Rand Paul Visits Secret Room To Read Obamatrade, Calls For Public Release Of Deal Text
Post Date: 2015-05-13 21:30:55 by Tooconservative
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)—an opponent of the secretive Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) that would fast-track the Pacific Rim trade deal Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)—went inside the secret room inside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday morning to read the TPP text and told Breitbart News exclusively afterwards that he believes President Barack Obama should make it public now. The deal’s text is kept in a room behind double doors that each have signs: “No Public Or Media Beyond This Point.” “It’s done like you’re going in to read a classified briefing though it’s not actually ‘classified.’ It’s called ‘confidential,’” Paul ...
N Korea Defence Chief 'Shot For Falling Asleep'
Post Date: 2015-05-13 08:57:33 by Willie Green
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Hyon Yong Chol was executed after falling asleep at an event attended by Kim Jong-Un, according to South Korean intelligence. North Korea's defence chief has reportedly been executed by anti-aircraft gun as punishment for falling asleep at an event attended by Kim Jong-Un. Defence minister Hyon Yong Chol, 66, was charged with treason after having shown "disrespect" to Mr Kim at the military event and allegedly talking back to him. The claims were made by South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS) to politicians in a closed-door parliamentary briefing. It said hundreds of officials watched the execution in late April at a shooting range at the Kanggon Military ...
Is a UK Crackup Ahead?
Post Date: 2015-05-11 22:03:31 by nativist nationalist
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David Cameron is the most successful Tory Party leader since Margaret Thatcher. Yet history may also record that his success led to the crackup of his country, and Great Britain’s secession from the European Union. How did Cameron’s Tories capture their majority? First, they compiled a strong record to run on. More critically, they attacked the Labour Party of Ed Miliband as too far left to govern, and warned that a Labour government would be hostage to a secessionist Scottish National Party, without whose votes Miliband could never reach a majority in Parliament. Labour could not shake off the charge, because it was true. The attack on the SNP as a subversive party secretly ...
White House In Crisis Mode As Gulf States Blow Off Obama’s Camp David Summit
Post Date: 2015-05-11 21:18:03 by out damned spot
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Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states hit the Obama White House with a stunning vote of no confidence on Monday, as Saudi King Salman and three other regional leaders announced they would skip President Obama’s Camp David summit, scheduled for later this week. The snub began with the Saudis, and spread to Bahrain, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates. These nations say they will still send lower-ranked representatives to Obama’s summit meeting. The Saudi snub is particularly pointed because King Salman was supposed to have a one-on-one meeting with President Obama before the summit began. A modicum of face-saving was provided by the Saudis, who cited the beginning of a humanitarian ...
The Killing of Osama bin Laden: Seymour M. Hersh’s Most Important Article
Post Date: 2015-05-11 19:44:05 by Tooconservative
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Seymour M. Hersh has published a blockbuster article on events surrounding bin Laden’s life and death in Pakistan. You need to know that ISI is Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence. Here are a few of the revelations. 1. Bin Laden hid in the Hindu Kush mountains between 2001-2006. Payoffs by the ISI to informants led to his discovery. After 2006, the ISI seized him and placed him in the compound at Abbottabad where he was murdered by the American team. They supplied him with a doctor, Amir Aziz, and kept tabs on him. Bin Laden was under constant ISI observation. The ISI has a covert base 15 minutes away by helicopter. In addition, a Pakistan army battalion headquarters is about a mile ...
Medals and Memories for WW2 Jewish Veterans From Russia
Post Date: 2015-05-10 21:53:29 by Pericles
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Medals and Memories for Jewish Veterans From Russia By BENJAMIN MUELLERMAY 9, 2015 Leonid Rozenberg sat on his walker, his wrists draped over its aluminum arms and his suit lapels dripping with war medals, as a crush of Russians of all ages jostled to get closer. Some offered red carnations, which he slipped into spaces in the frame of the walker. Others carried cameras, or pointed at his gold-and-silver chest, trying to elicit a story. He indulged each visitor and, then, with a viselike handshake or a kiss on the cheek, sent them off, leaning back into his rolling throne as another tier of people pushed closer. In Brooklyn on Saturday, the 70th anniversary of the Allied victory over ...
Megascale Desalination The world’s largest and cheapest reverse-osmosis desalination plant is up and running in Israel.
Post Date: 2015-05-10 19:47:03 by A K A Stone
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On a Mediterranean beach 10 miles south of Tel Aviv, Israel, a vast new industrial facility hums around the clock. It is the world’s largest modern seawater desalination plant, providing 20 percent of the water consumed by the country’s households. Built for the Israeli government by Israel Desalination Enterprises, or IDE Technologies, at a cost of around $500 million, it uses a conventional desalination technology called reverse osmosis (RO). Thanks to a series of engineering and materials advances, however, it produces clean water from the sea cheaply and at a scale never before achieved. Worldwide, some 700 million people don’t have access to enough clean water. In 10 ...
Egypt Approves Plan to Rebuild Ancient World Wonder Lighthouse of Alexandria
Post Date: 2015-05-10 08:49:16 by cranky
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This story originally appeared in the Cairo Post: CAIRO: The Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World that was badly damaged by three earthquakes, will be rebuilt nearby its original location. In its meeting last week, “members of the Permanent Committee of the Egyptian Antiquities have approved an old project, submitted previously by the Alexandria governorate, aiming to revive the lighthouse,” Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities SCA Dr. Mostafa Amin told Youm7. He explained that members of the committee agreed on reconstructing the Lighthouse on an area of land located a few meters to the southwest of the landmark’s ...
The sickest theme park ever? Tourists flock to experience real-life CREMATION in ‘death simulator’ at Chinese amusement park
Post Date: 2015-05-09 15:13:24 by cranky
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The ride uses hot air and light projections to create the sensation of flamesVisitors begin their journey through a 'morgue' before being put in a coffinThe park also boasts Buckingham Palace and the Eiffel Tower in miniatureTourists around the world are being drawn to a bizarre 'death simulator' at a Chinese amusement park, that offers you the chance to experience cremation.The ride, called 'The Cremator', offers the morbidly curious to opportunity to find out what it might feel like to be cremated using a system of hot air and light projections.But punters at the 'Window of the World' amusement park must first be settled into their temporary coffins, ...
Unshackled from Coalition partners, Tories get ready to push radical agenda
Post Date: 2015-05-09 07:50:52 by Tooconservative
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David Cameron will use the Conservative Party’s first majority in the House of Commons for nearly 20 years to “deliver” on a radical agenda to cut welfare, shrink the size of the state and re-define Britain’s relationship with Europe. Conservative insiders said Mr Cameron would move to the right to consolidate support among his backbench MPs after five years of compromise with the Liberal Democrats. Among Mr Cameron’s first legislative priorities will be to enshrine an EU referendum into law, bring in the so-called ‘snoopers charter’ to give police greater powers to monitor internet communications and give English MPs a veto over legislation only ...
U.S. Urges Greece to Reject Russian Energy Project
Post Date: 2015-05-09 04:06:26 by A Pole
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The United States, wading into the international efforts to shape Greece’s economic and geopolitical orientation, is pushing the leftist government in Athens to resist Russia’s energy overtures. A State Department envoy in Athens urged Greece on Friday to embrace a Western-backed project that would link Europe to natural gas supplies in Azerbaijan, rather than agree to a gas pipeline project pushed by Moscow. The dueling sales pitches, reminiscent of a Cold War struggle, come as debt-burdened Greece is desperate for new sources of revenue of the sort that a gas pipeline could bring. In an interview in Athens on Friday, before meeting with Greek officials, the State Department ...
Celebrating surrender
Post Date: 2015-05-08 15:38:32 by tpaine
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www.svherald.com Celebrating surrender War ravaged Europe sees end of conflict 70 years ago today Bill Hess | Herald/Review bill.hess@svherald.com Thu, 05/07/2015 - 4:52pm SIERRA VISTA — It was 70 years ago today — May 8, 1945 — when World War II ended in Europe. That day, Army buck private Sam Rumore was heading south in battle-ravaged Germany heading for a “repo depot,” after landing at Bremerhaven. “I didn’t see any combat,” Rumore told the Herald/Review. But what he saw was what Hitler and his Nazi henchmen ended up doing to Germany, causing the allied powers to lay waste to the Third Reich, which Hitler had once boasted would last a ...
The GOP And The Trans-Pacific Partnership: On a Fast Track to National Ruin
Post Date: 2015-05-07 20:33:06 by nativist nationalist
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In the first quarter of 2015, in the sixth year of the historic Obama recovery, the U.S. economy grew by two-tenths of 1 percent. And that probably sugarcoats it. For trade deficits subtract from the growth of GDP, and the U.S. trade deficit that just came in was a monster. As the AP’s Martin Crutsinger writes, “The U.S. trade deficit in March swelled to the highest level in more than six years, propelled by a flood of imports that may have sapped the U.S. economy of any growth in the first quarter.” The March deficit was $51.2 billion, largest of any month since 2008. In goods alone, the trade deficit hit $64 billion. As Crutsinger writes, a surge in imports to $239 ...
Senate Sails Through Iran Nuclear Bill
Post Date: 2015-05-07 20:17:02 by rlk
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The Associated Press DEB RIECHMANN May 7th 2015 2:55PM Senate Sails Through Iran Nuclear Bill WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate muscled its way into President Barack Obama's talks to curb Iran's nuclear program, overwhelmingly backing legislation Thursday that would let Congress review and possibly reject any final deal with Tehran. The vote was 98-1 for the bipartisan bill that would give Congress a say on what could be a historic accord that the United States and five other nations are trying to finalize with Iran, which would get relief from crippling economy penalties. The lone no vote came from freshman Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., who wants the administration to submit any ...
Germany's first hydrogen filling station on the autobahn opens
Post Date: 2015-05-06 15:53:39 by Operation 40
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Autobahn Wasserstoff-Tankstelle eröffnet As part of the Clean Energy Partnership (CEP), Daimler, Linde and Total have jointly taken an important step forward in the expansion of Germany’s hydrogen (H2) infrastructure. Earlier today, Germany's first motorway hydrogen filling station was officially inaugurated. The new H2 filling pump at the Total motorway service area in Geiselwind on the A3 between Würzburg and Nuremberg links the existing filling facilities in the metropolitan regions of Frankfurt/Main, Stuttgart and Munich with each other, forming a hub for electric fuel cell vehicles in southern Germany. In her opening speech, Dorothee Bär, Parliamentary State ...
New Democrats win Alberta election as Canada's oil sands dump conservatives
Post Date: 2015-05-06 08:40:19 by Willie Green
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Progressive Conservative party kicked out after 44 years as leftwingers take charge of province that is single biggest exporter of oil to the US The leftwing New Democrats have won election in the Canadian province of Alberta, ending a 44-year run by the Progressive Conservatives amid promises to review oversight of the oil and gas sector in the heart of Canada’s oil sands. At the end of a month-long campaign the NDP, which has never held more than 16 seats in the 87-seat provincial legislature, will lead a majority government. It held a commanding lead in early results, leading or elected in 54 seats at 9pm local time while the Conservatives were ahead in just 13, according to CBC ...
Sanctions, Wars And Falling Oil Prices No Match For Vladimir Putin
Post Date: 2015-05-04 12:45:12 by Pericles
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5/03/2015 @ 8:26AM Kenneth Rapoza Sanctions, Wars And Falling Oil Prices No Match For Vladimir Putin Russia has gone postal. Not in the crazy sense, as the street term suggests. But in the sense that neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night can whither the Russian economy. At least that is Vladimir Putin’s view. Speaking at a Labor Day ceremony on May 1 in Moscow, Putin said Russia has proven it can weather the storm of sanctions, civil war in Ukraine and falling oil prices. “The country’s movement forward has always rested on the shoulders of those who take responsibility onto themselves, who understand that their personal efforts and the fruits of their labor ...
Former Castro Bodyguard: Cuba Ran Drug Operation in US, Killed Aide to Cover It Up
Post Date: 2015-05-03 14:10:01 by Willie Green
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Former Cuban President Fidel Castro directed a cocaine operation inside the United States and killed the general who helped aid its operation so he could cover his own fingerprints, says Castro's former bodyguard.The New York Post printed an excerpt Sunday from the book "The Double Life of Fidel Castro" in which Juan Reinaldo Sanchez describes the day in 1988 when he realized his hero was not everything he thought. Sanchez, who often recorded meetings with Castro from a nearby office, was told not to do so on a day when the president met with Interior Minister Gen. José Abrantes. Bored after watching the lengthy meeting on a video screen, Sanchez turned on the sound and ...
Business Insider Apologizes for Labeling Russia WWII Memorial 'Absurd'
Post Date: 2015-04-30 10:13:22 by A Pole
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In a comment to Sputnik Business Insider apologized for including Russia's WWII monument The Motherland Calls in a list of the "most absurd Soviet-era buildings that are still standing." [...] Business Insider UK founding editor Jim Edwards remarked to Sputnik on Thursday that the slide depicting The Motherland Calls "was changed after we included it by mistake." It has since been deleted from their list after being featured for what they describe as "a brief period." [...] The article was edited after receiving many angry comments from readers for ridiculing a statue that memorialized a particularly bloody page in the history of the Soviet Union's ...
CERN and the Nepal Earthquake…
Post Date: 2015-04-30 08:39:25 by Deckard
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Here’s a conspiracy theory up for your consideration… This video is titled “7.8 Quake Strikes as CERN Powers Up Beams.” By “as,” the narrator means at the exact moments a huge beam spike happened in CERN which caused a multiple system protection beam dump at the facility, Nepal’s deadly earthquake and aftershocks hit. Not around the same time; at the same time. This and other data presented on this YT channel has caused some to question whether or not CERN has the insane power to effect the boundary between Earth’s magnetic field and the solar wind, otherwise known as the magnetopause.
Will Iran Attempt To Seize Control Of Saudi Oilfields?
Post Date: 2015-04-28 09:45:02 by Tooconservative
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IN 1976 an investment banker turned adventure novelist, Paul Erdman, penned a best-selling thriller, The Crash of ’79. Center to the plot was the Shah of Iran making a grab for the oilfields of the Arab Middle East, with a well-armed military, thanks to rising oil prices. Of course, barely 24 months later the Shah was ousted by radical Islamists, who subsequently bled the country white in a bloody and futile eight-year war with Iraq. Oil prices crashed after Ronald Reagan took office, and all thoughts of an Iranian version of a Nazi blitzkrieg disappeared. Well, if Erdman were still alive (he died in 2007), he could write a very plausible updated version of his novel, with—very ...
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