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'A new baby, plastic surgery or ill-health? No, Putin disappeared because he's BORED'
Post Date: 2015-03-21 02:00:52 by Pericles
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'A new baby, plastic surgery or ill-health? No, Putin disappeared because he's BORED' RUSSIAN president Vladimir Putin has become "bored" of top office and may have merely been taking a break during his recent mystery disappearance from the public eye, according to a former British ambassador. By LEVI WINCHESTER PUBLISHED: 14:22, Fri, Mar 20, 2015 The autocratic leader was not seen in public for 11 days earlier this month, sparking rumours of ill health, a baby on the way, plastic surgery and even his own death. But President Putin reappeared and broke his silence this week, using a television appearance to brush off rumours of his supposed disappearing act. ...
France’s Front National Gaining in the Polls
Post Date: 2015-03-20 05:20:02 by Tooconservative
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Discontent in France has translated into a drift of power towards the far right in the form of Front National. It no longer requires a very vivid imagination to envision Ms. Le Pen achieving an electoral victory in 2017. Despite her party’s controversial past it has become much more socially acceptable to support the FN, to the extent that Marine Le Pen draws enthusiastic crowds to official events, and Madonna, who once superimposed a swastika on an image of Ms. Le Pen’s face at a concert, wants to “sit down and have a drink” with her. None of this changes the fact that her political agenda remains subversive. She calls for an end to the EU and has adopted policies ...
Russia declares worst of economic crisis over
Post Date: 2015-03-19 14:02:21 by Pericles
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Russia declares worst of economic crisis over By Olga Tanas Bloomberg News First Published 2 hours ago • Updated 2 hours ago Moscow • The worst is over for Russia's economy after a tailspin in oil prices and sanctions over Ukraine choked off access to credit and sparked the biggest currency crisis since 1998, according to Finance Minister Anton Siluanov. "The negative peak is behind us and instead we are seeing certain signs of stabilization," Siluanov said in Moscow Thursday at a conference organized by the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, the nation's big-business lobby. "The situation in the financial sector is also stabilizing. We ...
“Is It Time for the Jews to Leave Europe?” Only Because “Anti-Fascism” Has Resulted In Mass Third World Immigration
Post Date: 2015-03-19 11:32:09 by nativist nationalist
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After September 11, neoconservatives began using the neologism ‘Islamofascism’ to gin up support for American intervention in the Middle East. As fighting the fascists in World War II was the one “good war” in popular imagination, calling Muslims “fascists” was expedient propaganda. Now that Islamic terrorism is an almost regular event in Europe, Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic has taken the tactic a step further. He argues that “Renewed vitriol among right-wing fascists and new threats from radicalized Islamists have created a crisis” for European Jews, who should consider fleeing the Continent to avoid the impending pogroms. [Is It Time for the ...
At Iran talks, Kerry can't get into gear
Post Date: 2015-03-18 17:10:53 by redleghunter
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Lausanne (AFP) - US Secretary of State John Kerry has a history with broken planes but during Iran nuclear talks in Switzerland this week even his bike needed fixing. In what sceptics might call a metaphor for the talks in Lausanne, Kerry's orange racer on Monday couldn't get into gear properly, Lionel Schumann of the Sam's Bike shop in the town of La Tour-le-Peilz said. "The Swiss police came in and told me they needed an urgent repair on a gear-change mechanism," Schumann told AFP on Wednesday. "Swiss and US security people came in and inspected the shop -- the entrances, the exits. Then Mr Kerry arrived. Happily for me he speaks very good French and was able ...
Netanyahu surges to victory in Israeli vote
Post Date: 2015-03-18 15:12:38 by BobCeleste
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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud Party scored a resounding victory in Israel's election, final results showed Wednesday, a stunning turnaround after a tight race that had put his lengthy rule in jeopardy. Netanyahu surged ahead after a last-minute lurch to the right in which he opposed Palestinian statehood and vowed continued settlement construction, setting the stage for fresh confrontations with the White House just weeks after criticizing U.S. talks with Iran in a divisive address to Congress. With nearly all votes counted, Likud appeared to have earned 30 out of parliament's 120 seats and was in a position to build with ...
Netanyahu Defeats Obama
Post Date: 2015-03-18 07:38:11 by no gnu taxes
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The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer was shellacked in the 2010 midterms and his Democrat Party suffered an electoral blowout in 2014 and the drubbing continued on Tuesday when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his ruling Likud Party scored a resounding victory. There will be no celebration in the Oval Office and Secretary of State John Kerry and the dozens of foolish Democrats who boycotted his historic speech before a joint session of Congress will now be forced to tuck their tails between their legs. Despite his protestations to the contrary, The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer has a seething disdain for PM Netanyahu. That disdain motivated ...
Solar Storm Spurs Awesome Auroras, Goofs Up GPS
Post Date: 2015-03-17 22:58:30 by tpaine
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www.forbes.com Solar Storm Spurs Awesome Auroras, Goofs Up GPS A geomagnetic storm is currently lashing the Earth’s atmosphere, creating the potential for brilliant auroras over the top and bottom of the planet, including large sections of Northern Europe, and even dipping as far south into the United States as Tennessee, New Mexico and Oklahoma. The cause of the increase in auroral activity is a pair of coronal mass ejections from the sun that started heading our way on Sunday and arrived early Monday evening, resulting in what the Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) in Boulder, Colorado described as a level G4 geomagnetic storm, the most intense seen in the current solar ...
TV exit polls show Netanyahu set to retain premiership
Post Date: 2015-03-17 16:27:35 by redleghunter
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TV exit polls Tuesday night showed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Likud set to retain the Israeli leadership at the end of a bitter election campaign. Polling stations opened at 7 a.m. on Tuesday as Israeli citizens headed for the ballots to vote for Israel’s 20th Knesset. Polls from the end of last week had left options open for a tight race. The TV exit polls were published at 10 p.m., as polling stations closed, after which official results began to roll in. The official final results won’t be publicized until Thursday. Netanyahu, vying for the role for his fourth time (third consecutively), had made a last-ditch attempt over the past days to win back voters mainly from ...
Netanyahu Expresses Alarm That Arab Voter Turnout Could Help Unseat Him
Post Date: 2015-03-17 15:09:58 by GeorgiaConservative
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JERUSALEM — Increasingly worried that he could lose Tuesday’s elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel lashed out at the country’s Arab voters, expressing alarm that a large turnout by them could determine the outcome. Opponents accused him of baldfaced racism. Mr. Netanyahu’s remarks, in a video posted on social media, were seen by critics as the most strident in a series of assertions he has made in recent days to rally right-wing supporters to his argument that he is the only Israeli leader who will save the country from its enemies. Click for Full Text!
Bin Laden Files Reveal CIA Money Got to Al Qaeda
Post Date: 2015-03-17 07:58:30 by Tooconservative
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Tom Joscelyn breaks down the latest revelation from the Osama bin Laden documents on Fox News:
Poster Comment:I'm a little surprised this story hasn't gotten wider play.
Russia starts nationwide show of force [Northern Fleet drill dwarfs NATO's]
Post Date: 2015-03-17 06:18:47 by Tooconservative
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - More than 45,000 Russian troops as well as war planes and submarines started military exercises across much of the country on Monday in one of the Kremlin's biggest shows of force since its ties with the West plunged to Cold War-lows. President Vladimir Putin called the Navy's Northern Fleet to full combat readiness in exercises in Russia's Arctic North apparently aimed at dwarfing military drills in neighboring Norway, a NATO member. "New challenges and threats to military security require the armed forces to further boost their military capabilities. Special attention must be paid to newly created strategic formations in the north," Defence ...
The Senate appropriately spanks Thomas Woodrow Obama
Post Date: 2015-03-16 22:36:24 by nativist nationalist
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The Senate Republicans’ letter to Iran’s Ayatollah is addressed as much to Barack Obama as to the cleric; neither man has a clue about how the American constitutional system works. In his self-righteousness, intellectual arrogance, and thin skin, Obama resembles no other president so much as Thomas Woodrow Wilson. In fact, one must wonder if Wilson has not returned from the grave, this time as a Black man but still determined to do as much damage as he can to America in the fields of foreign affairs, national security, and fidelity to the Constitution. Wilson, of course, used the U.S. military to intervene in Mexico and other South American nations — using the bayonet to ...
Europeans defy US to join China-led development bank
Post Date: 2015-03-16 21:11:29 by nativist nationalist
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France, Germany and Italy have all agreed to follow Britain’s lead and join a China-led international development bank, according to European officials, delivering a blow to US efforts to keep leading western countries out of the new institution. The decision by the three European governments comes after Britain announced last week that it would join the $50bn Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, a potential rival to the Washington-based World Bank. Australia, a key US ally in the Asia-Pacific region which had come under pressure from Washington to stay out of the new bank, has also said that it will now rethink that position. The European decisions represent a significant setback ...
Netanyahu Declares No Palestinian State if He’s Re-elected [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-03-16 20:15:13 by cranko
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Under pressure on the eve of a surprisingly close election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Monday doubled down on his appeal to right-wing voters, declaring definitively that if he was returned to office he would never establish a Palestinian state
US fails to renew emergency oil supply pact with Israel
Post Date: 2015-03-16 14:22:57 by Willie Green
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The agreement guaranteeing Israel's oil supplies in wartime was first signed in 1975. The US has not renewed a historic agreement under which it guaranteed a supply of oil to Israel in emergencies, that is, instances in which Israel might be cut off from its regular commercial sources of oil because of war or closure of sea lanes. The agreement expired in November 2014, and since then the US administration has done nothing to renew it, Washington sources told "Globes". The sources said that it was not clear whether this was a deliberate step by the administration, stemming perhaps from renewed friction between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the White House, or a matter ...
ISIS fighters dress as women in desperate attempt to flee battlefield
Post Date: 2015-03-16 12:04:35 by Tooconservative
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Underneath the robes and veils, the men put on makeup, wore dresses and some even wore women's bras; Others put on makeup but chose not to shave their facial hair. As Islamic State-driven violence rages on in Iraq, people are using any means possible to escape, and for some that means dressing in drag.On Monday, the Iraqi army arrested 20 male Islamic State members dressed as women in the northern city of Baquba, according to spokesman Ghalib al-Jubouri.The arrested used a number of creative ways to pull off a realistic female disguise, as seen in the pictures originally posted on Instagram. Underneath the robes and veils, the men put on makeup, wore dresses and some even wore ...
Tempers Flare In Israel at Key Debate
Post Date: 2015-03-16 08:38:45 by Tooconservative
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JERUSALEM—Longstanding political divisions came to a head on Saturday evening as key players from across Israel’s fractured political landscape stumped for their respective parties during a contentious English-language debate that highlighted the popular frustration threatening to unravel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition. With elections scheduled to take place on Tuesday, many Israelis are seeking a change in the country’s leadership, which has been headed by Netanyahu and his Likud party for the past six years. But with the country—and its political leaders—divided, it remains unlikely that any one political party in Israel will win ...
Kurds: ISIS is using chemical weapons on us
Post Date: 2015-03-16 07:44:35 by Tooconservative
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This is not the first time that Islamic State fighters have been accused of using the region’s loose chemical weapons on pro-Western forces, but this might be the most disturbing reported use of chemical agents by ISIS. The allegation that ISIS militants used chlorine gas on Kurdish soldiers in Iraq likely represents the ultimate failure of the Obama administration’s policy toward to the Syrian civil war. According to reports, Kurdish authorities have provided evidence to international investigators that indicates ISIS used low-grade chemical weapons, likely chlorine gas canisters, against Peshmerga fighters in an attack near the Syrian border in Iraq. The allegation by the ...
Vladimir Putin has been 'neutralised' by a stealthy coup as rumours about his health and well-being continue to flourish
Post Date: 2015-03-15 21:21:32 by out damned spot
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*Vladimir Putin is supposed to hold public meetings on Monday *The Russian leader has not been seen in public for the past nine days *Putin reportedly met the head of the Supreme Court on Friday for talks *However, the video is now believed to have been taken from file footage Vladimir Putin is 'alive' but 'neutralised' as shadowy security chiefs stage a stealthy coup in Moscow, it was claimed last night. Former FSB chief Nikolai Patrushev was behind the plot, claimed chairman of the pro-Kremlin national Islamic Committee, Geydar Dzhemal. In fact, the lorries close to St Basil's Cathedral were more likely connected to a nationalist celebration of the first ...
Teens Smoke Crushed Ants to Get High
Post Date: 2015-03-15 01:48:30 by Gatlin
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If you see a group of boys huddled behind a building and blowing smoke, chances are they are puffing cigarettes away from the prying eyes of their parents. Not necessarily, though. For all you know, they could be smoking crushed ants to get a high. Shocking as it may appear, the bizarre and dangerous fad has gripped UAE teens and kids, some as young as 10. Energy drinks and medhwak (smoking pipe) in hand, they scour the alleys and sandy parking lots in certain parts of Dubai and Sharjah, looking for the native samsun (Pachycondyla sennaarensis) black ant. Once caught, the insects are crushed, rolled into tobacco leaves or sprinkled over cigarettes and smoked. Adverse effects Inhaling ...
Why is China building artificial islands?
Post Date: 2015-03-14 18:04:15 by Willie Green
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Something astonishing is happening in the South China Sea, and there are satellite photos to prove it. The Chinese government has been sending construction equipment to a string of small islands in disputed waters and quietly making them bigger. The effect is pretty dramatic — drag the slider below to see how things have changed at Fiery Cross Reef in the Spratly Islands, which are claimed by China and several other Asian countries. The first photo shows the reef last August. It’s totally underwater; the only habitable area is a small concrete platform built by the Chinese navy. Now look at the second photo, showing the same reef in January. It’s now an artificial island ...
Most Chinese Say Their Military Can Crush America in Battle [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-03-14 13:37:26 by Willie Green
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The vast majority of Chinese citizens believe the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) could seize islands in the East and South China Seas, even if the U.S. military were to intervene in the conflicts. No less than 87 percent of respondents said that the Chinese military already possessed the capability to take back the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands from Japan, according to a recent public opinion poll. When asked whether they still believed the PLA could achieve this objective if the U.S. intervened in the conflict, 74 percent said yes. The numbers were much the same for the South China Sea. When asked whether they believed the PLA could militarily take back ...
Obama’s Iran Scheme is Laid Bare
Post Date: 2015-03-13 20:19:10 by out damned spot
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We surmised yesterday that the Obama administration had the idea to go to the United Nations to pass by resolution what Congress would never agree to: a lifting of sanctions on Iran in exchange for a nearly worthless deal in which Iran would keep thousands of centrifuges and get a 10-year glide path to nuclear breakout. Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), seeing what was afoot, demanded an explanation from the White House, calling such a scheme an “affront to the American people.” On Thursday evening, after being pressed by irate Republicans, the National Security Council issued a defensive statement insisting that it would do no such thing. The story was handed to BuzzFeed: The U.S. has ...
European Union Fails–Nationalism Surging, Multiculturalism Dying [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-03-13 10:25:44 by nativist nationalist
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As the European Coal and Steel Community of Jean Monnet evolved into the EU, we were told a “United States of Europe” was at hand, modeled on the USA. And other countries and continents will inevitably follow Europe’s example. There will be a North American Union of the U.S., Canada and Mexico, and a Latin America Union of the Mercosur trade partnership. In an essay, “The E.U. Experiment Has Failed,” Bruce Thornton of Hoover Institution makes the case that the verdict is in, the dream is dead, the EU is unraveling, One Europe is finished. Consider, first, economics. In 2013, Europe grew by 1 percent compared to the U.S.’s 2.2 percent. In December, ...
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