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Officials: Iran nuke talks to continue in new phase
Post Date: 2015-03-31 09:04:54 by redleghunter
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Wrapping up six days of marathon nuclear talks with mixed results, Iran and six world powers prepared Tuesday to issue a general statement agreeing to continue talks in a new phase aimed at reaching a final agreement to control Iran's nuclear ambitions by the end of June, officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Officials had set a deadline of March 31 for a framework agreement, and later softened that wording to a framework understanding, between Iran and the so-called P5+1 nations — the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China. And after intense negotiations, obstacles remained on uranium enrichment, where stockpiles of ...
'Unrepentant Nazi Murderer' Dies a Free Man at 93
Post Date: 2015-03-31 07:58:56 by GeorgiaConservative
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In what Denmark's chief Nazi hunter calls a "terrible failure of the Bavarian judicial authorities," the country's most-wanted Nazi has died a free man at the age of 93. Soren Kam, one of the highest-profile Danish Nazis during World War II, was wanted in his homeland for the 1943 kidnap and murder of anti-Nazi newspaper editor Carl Henrik Clemmensen, the Copenhagen Post reports. He fled to Germany after the war and the country refused to extradite him back to Denmark after he was granted citizenship in 1956. Kam—who died on March 23, around two weeks after his wife, according to a death notice—also fought on the Eastern Front with the Waffen SS and was granted ...
Russian Orthodox Church suspends priest for openly backing pro Rusian rebels in Ukrainian conflict
Post Date: 2015-03-30 21:22:54 by Pericles
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Orthodox Church suspends priest for openly backing Ukrainian conflict Miko Morelos|Monday, March 30 2015 The Russian Orthodox Church has placed a priest under suspension for blessing a group of fighters to be deployed to eastern Ukraine by telling them to fight off government troops who he described as "fascist scum." The priest, identified as Vladimir Zaytsev, had been videotaped on March 12 giving a blessing to about 50 fighters during a send-off ceremony as some of the troops waved flags of the two pro-Russian regions who wanted to break away from Ukraine. "Fight against the fascist scum if needed, and I think it will be necessary," Zaytsev was heard as saying in ...
Germanwings Alps disaster: Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz trawled suicide and gay websites before crash
Post Date: 2015-03-30 20:20:54 by cranky
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Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz is believed to have deliberately crashed a plane in the French Alps killing 150 people. The 27-year-old co-pilot Andreas Lubitz believed to have deliberately crashed Germanwings Flight 4U 9525 plane, killing 149 passengers, trawled gay porn websites and sites relating to suicide, investigators have revealed. He also feared losing his eyesight and was suffering from depression. A police source in Dusseldorf revealed: "We have a team disassembling his computer, and that of his girlfriend, because the information that we received was that he trawled the dark side of the web visiting, among other things, sites containing gay porn, suicide themes and sexual ...
The War Nerd: A Brief History Of The Yemen Clusterf*ck
Post Date: 2015-03-30 11:25:23 by nativist nationalist
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I ought to be familiar with the Houthi, the Shia militia that’s now conquering most of what’s worth taking in Yemen. After all, the Houthis started in Saada Province, just a few miles due south of Najran, Saudi Arabia, where I was living a few years ago. But the truth is Yemen was totally closed off to everyone in Najran, and no one except a few networks of smugglers and spies who, from what I heard, had a very high attrition rate, dared to cross that border. None of us expat goofs even knew the name of the Yemeni Province across from us. Yemen was that country from whose bournes no traveler returns, unless he’s hoping to get rich from an SUV full of weed—and what with ...
American-Israeli Rabbi compares Obama to Haman
Post Date: 2015-03-30 09:47:44 by redleghunter
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Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, chief rabbi of Efrat, on Saturday night compared US President Barack Obama to Haman and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Mordechai. Speaking at the Jerusalem Great Synagogue, the American-born Riskin said that he could not understand what was going through Obama’s mind. “The president of the United States is lashing out at Israel just like Haman lashed out at the Jews,” he said. “I’m not making a political statement,” he clarified, “I’m making a Jewish statement.” When a woman in the audience shouted out that he was being disrespectful to the US president, she was booed by the crowd. Riskin said he didn’t need ...
'Open the goddamn door!': Desperate final pleas of Germanwings captain emerge as black box transcript reveals Lubitz's repeated attempts to get pilot to go to toilet
Post Date: 2015-03-29 08:54:43 by out damned spot
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*Lubitz tells captain Patrick Sondheimer he can go to the toilet at any time *Tells the captain he will take over controls and later says 'you can go now' *Shortly afterwards there is loud bang, like someone trying to enter cockpit *Sondheimer yells: ‘For God’s sake, open the door!’ and passengers scream Dramatic recordings from the Germanwings flight’s black box have revealed the captain’s desperate attempts to break into the cockpit to regain control of the plane. According to transcripts published today, captain Patrick Sondheimer screamed ‘Open the goddamn door!’ as his killer co-pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately flew the aircraft into an ...
Arab Nations Announce 'Historic' Unified Military Force To Counter Iran, ISIS
Post Date: 2015-03-28 23:11:50 by out damned spot
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Foreign ministers from 22 Arab countries agreed to form a unified military force on Thursday, approving a draft resolution designed to counter growing security threats in the region. "The Arab ... ministers agreed on adopting an important principle, which is forming the unified Arab military force. The task of the force will be rapid military intervention to deal with security threats to Arab nations," Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby told reporters after the meeting, Reuters reported. The agreement, which Elaraby described as “historic,” came shortly after airstrikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen, led by Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies, in an effort to check ...
Putin Pushes Into Africa
Post Date: 2015-03-28 09:56:24 by Pericles
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Putin Pushes Into Africa BY J. PETER PHAM 3/26/15 AT 2:54 PM One year after the disputed referendum on Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula joining Russia, the Kremlin is increasingly finding in Africa a welcome break from what has otherwise been its continued international diplomatic and economic isolation as a result of its aggression against its Eastern European neighbor. In an Atlantic Council essay last year, drawing on earlier studies, I noted that “Ukraine, Georgia and the Middle East are not the only places Vladimir Putin’s Russia has put a muscular foreign policy on display” and that “quietly, but with equal determination, President Putin has directed a robust ...
Grounded? Russia's answer to US next-gen fighter hits the skids.
Post Date: 2015-03-28 08:54:38 by Tooconservative
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Grounded? Russia's answer to US next-gen fighter hits the skids. The Kremlin is cutting its initial production of the Sukhoi T-50 fighter by 75 percent amid cost overruns and rumored technical concerns – the same kind of issues that have plagued US development of the F-35.Russia's ambitious T-50 fighter plane project was meant to develop a rival to two futuristic US jetfighters, the F-22 Raptor and the planned F-35 Lightning-II.But now, the T-50 appears to be rivaling the F-35 another way: in development troubles. The Kremlin is slamming the brakes on its "fifth generation" fighter program and cutting its initial rollout to a quarter of those originally planned.The ...
Britain's first same-sex wedding behind bars: 'Gay-bashing' murderer and paedophile get married in prison
Post Date: 2015-03-28 08:54:17 by cranky
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Mikhail Ivan Gallatinov, 40, married fellow prisoner Marc Goodwin, 31Goodwin found guilty of murdering Malcolm Benfold and jailed for lifeGallatinov jailed for minimum of 20 years for murdering Adrian KaminskyCeremony took place at HMP Full Sutton, Yorkshire, it's been reportedA 'gay-bashing' murderer and a paedophile serving life sentences have tied the knot in Britain's first homosexual wedding in prison.Mikhail Ivan Gallatinov, 40, who was jailed in 1997 for what a judge labelled a ‘callous, chilling killing’, married fellow prisoner Marc Goodwin, 31, yesterday, it has been reported.Goodwin was the leader of a gang that roamed the streets of Blackpool looking ...
US launches airstrikes to support Iraqi forces trying to push ISIS militants from city of Tikrit
Post Date: 2015-03-27 13:42:39 by redleghunter
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US launches airstrikes to support Iraqi forces trying to push ISIS militants from city of Tikrit •Iraq requested the airstrikes to support an offensive begun in early March •At the outset of the offensive, the Iraqi forces declined US-led coalition support though it looked to Iran for weapons and artillery •A Pentagon spokesman said the offensive has 'stalled' The US has launched airstrikes against targets in Tikrit to support Iraqi ground forces trying to push ISIS militants out of the city, a senior official said. Iraq requested the strikes, which began Wednesday and are 'ongoing,' according to the unnamed US official. An Associated Press ...
Leave the Houthis Alone!
Post Date: 2015-03-27 11:34:08 by nativist nationalist
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Why are we on the same side as the Saudis – and al Qaeda – in Yemen? Saudi Arabia‘s US-backed aggression against the sovereignty of Yemen is a textbook example of how local conflicts are internationalized – and become tripwires for regional wars and even global conflagrations. Like Libya, Yemen is yet another Middle Eastern country that doesn’t really exist: it is actually at least two separate countries, perhaps three – the southern provinces, which are primarily Sunni, the northern tribes, who adhere mostly to the Zaydi form of Shi’ite Islam, and the area around Sa’na, the capital, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities on earth, where ...
One Professional Russian Troll Tells All
Post Date: 2015-03-27 11:29:31 by Tooconservative
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More and more, posts and commentaries on the Internet in Russia and even abroad are generated by professional trolls, many of whom receive a higher-than-average salary for perpetuating a pro-Kremlin dialogue online. There are thousands of fake accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, and vKontakte, all increasingly focused on the war in Ukraine. Many emanate from Russia's most famous "troll factory," the Internet Research center, an unassuming building on St. Petersburg's Savushkina Street, which runs on a 24-hour cycle. In recent weeks, former employees have come forward to talk to RFE/RL about life inside the factory, where hundreds of people work grinding, 12-hour ...
U.S. Caves to Key Iranian Demands as Nuke Deal Comes Together
Post Date: 2015-03-27 11:01:34 by redleghunter
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LAUSSANE, Switzerland—The Obama administration is giving in to Iranian demands about the scope of its nuclear program as negotiators work to finalize a framework agreement in the coming days, according to sources familiar with the administration’s position in the negotiations. U.S. negotiators are said to have given up ground on demands that Iran be forced to disclose the full range of its nuclear activities at the outset of a nuclear deal, a concession experts say would gut the verification the Obama administration has vowed would stand as the crux of a deal with Iran. Until recently, the Obama administration had maintained that it would guarantee oversight on Tehran’s ...
The Central Banker Who Saved the Russian Economy From the Abyss
Post Date: 2015-03-27 03:24:45 by Pericles
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(Bloomberg) -- Panic reached the inner sanctum of the Russian central bank. It was Dec. 16 -- the day Russian traders would later christen Black Tuesday -- and the ruble was in a freefall. “Intervene! Intervene!” a central bank official shouted. Governor Elvira Nabiullina watched the currency on her tablet screen react to her emergency rate increase. No, she said, not this time: Russia would no longer fight the market. Speculators needed a cold shower, she said. That daring decision, related by two people with knowledge of the meeting, has begun to pay off for Nabiullina, 51, and her patron, President Vladimir Putin. Despite sanctions meant to punish Russia for its foray into ...
GERMAN NEWS: Co-Pilot of Germanwings Airbus Was MUSLIM CONVERT…’Hero of Islamic State’?
Post Date: 2015-03-26 23:41:18 by out damned spot
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GERMAN REPORT —HE WAS RADICALIZED! GERMAN CO-PILOT WAS MUSLIM CONVERT– — STAYED AT Bremen Mosque Police have reportedly found something of “significance” at the apartment of the co-pilot who crashed the Germanwing passenger plane into the Alps this week. 28-year-old German Andreas Lubitz trained in the Phoenix, Arizona and is pictured here in San Francisco. A German news website claims Andreas Lubitz was a Muslim convert. Speisa.com reported: According to Michael Mannheimer, a writer for German PI-News, Germany now has its own 9/11, thanks to the convert to Islam, Andreas Lubitz. Translation from German: All evidence indicates that the copilot of Airbus ...
Corporate Sovereignty Provisions Of TPP Agreement Leaked Via Wikileaks: Would Massively Undermine Government Sovereignty
Post Date: 2015-03-26 12:35:59 by Willie Green
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For years now, we've been warning about the problematic "ISDS" -- "investor state dispute settlement" mechanisms that are a large part of the big trade agreements that countries have been negotiating. As we've noted, the ISDS name is designed to be boring, in an effort to hide the true impact -- but the reality is that these provisions provide corporate sovereignty, elevating the power of corporations to put them above the power of local governments. If you thought "corporate personhood" was a problem, corporate sovereignty takes things to a whole new level -- letting companies take foreign governments to special private "tribunals" if they ...
Germanwings co-pilot DELIBERATELY crashed Flight 4U9525 into mountain to 'destroy the plane' after locking his captain out of cockpit, reveals French prosecutor
Post Date: 2015-03-26 09:24:21 by Tooconservative
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BREAKING NEWS: Germanwings co-pilot DELIBERATELY crashed Flight 4U9525 into mountain to 'destroy the plane' after locking his captain out of cockpit, reveals French prosecutor Black box voice recorder reveals final chilling moments of Airbus A320Prosecutor: 'Death was instant. You only hear screams in final seconds' Co-pilot was named today as 28-year-old German Andreas Günter LubitzProsecutor says he does not believe disaster was terrorism or suicideThe co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings Airbus A320 locked his captain out of the cockpit before deliberately crashing into a mountain to 'destroy the plane', it was sensationally revealed today.French prosecutor ...
Stunning! Obama Administration Declassifies Document on Israel’s Nuclear Power [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-03-25 22:04:54 by A K A Stone
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Dimona nuclear plant in the southern Negev desert of Israel. (Alphabetics) In a stunning move the Obama administration released 1987 report on Israel’s top secret nuclear program. Israel National News reported: Obama revenge for Netanyahu’s Congress talk? 1987 report on Israel’s top secret nuclear program released in unprecedented move. In a development that has largely been missed by mainstream media, the Pentagon early last month quietly declassified a Department of Defense top- secret document detailing Israel’s nuclear program, a highly covert topic that Israel has never formally announced to avoid a regional nuclear arms race, and which the US until now has ...
Germanwings Pilot Was Locked Out of Cockpit Before Crash in France (Terrorism?) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-03-25 19:53:14 by Pericles
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Pilot Was Locked Out of Cockpit Before France Crash By NICOLA CLARK and DAN BILEFSKY 21 minutes ago As officials struggled to explain why a jet with 150 people on board crashed, an investigator said evidence indicated that one pilot left the cockpit before the plane’s descent and was unable to get back in. Click for Full Text!
Yemen crisis: President Hadi flees as Houthi rebels advance
Post Date: 2015-03-25 18:38:48 by out damned spot
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Yemen's President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi has fled his palace in Aden as Houthi rebels advance towards the city. Gunfire could be heard around the city centre, and security forces allied to the Houthis have taken over the international airport. The rebels have made rapid gains since seizing a key airbase only 60km (37 miles) from Aden on Wednesday morning. Government officials deny reports that the president has fled the country, and say he remains in Aden. The US State Department says it was in touch with President Hadi earlier in the day. It said he is no longer at the compound but could not confirm any "additional details" about his location. State television, which is ...
Turkish cartoonists fined for suggesting Erdogan is gay
Post Date: 2015-03-25 14:26:31 by redleghunter
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Two Turkish caricaturists have been fined for insulting President Tayyip Erdogan after a court ruled that one of their cartoons implied he was gay, local media said on Wednesday. Bahadir Baruter and Ozer Aydogan were prosecuted for an illustration on the front page of satirical magazine Penguen last August in which an official greeted Erdogan while apparently making a circle with his thumb and forefinger. Prosecutors launched the indictment after a citizen complained that the hand signal, commonly used in Turkey to insult homosexuals, was against the country's moral values. Lawyers representing Erdogan then got involved in the case, demanding that the court punish ...
Russia questions Britain's claim to the Falklands as garrison reinforced
Post Date: 2015-03-25 12:28:02 by Pericles
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Russia questions Britain's claim to the Falklands as garrison reinforced Extra Chinook helicopters and new missile system to be sent to be deployed, as Russia likens Islands to Crimea By Matthew Holehouse, Political Correspondent 7:18PM GMT 24 Mar 2015 Britain will send two troop-carrying Chinook helicopters and new surface-to-air missile system to the Falkland Islands, amid fears Russia could be arming the Argentine government. Michael Fallon, the Defence Secretary, said the Islands will be ready to repel “any potential threat” following reports that the Kremlin is preparing to lease 12 Su-24 long range bombers to Buenos Aires in exchange for beef and wheat. It ...
Britain sends an extra £180million to defend the Falklands amid fears Putin is plotting to help arm Argentina
Post Date: 2015-03-25 12:20:37 by Pericles
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Britain sends an extra £180million to defend the Falklands amid fears Putin is plotting to help arm Argentina Defence Secretary Michael Fallon promises to 'beef up' military presence MPs say defence capabilities abandoned after Cold War must be rebuilt Soldiers also need training to respond to nuclear and biological attacks Defence spending is set to fall below Nato target for the first time next year ByLarisa Brown, Defence Reporter for the Daily Mail Published: 19:02 EST, 23 March 2015 | Updated: 20:56 EST, 24 March 2015 Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/...ay-MPs.html#ixzz3VPnVzRH8 Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook Click for Full Text!
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