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Islamic State group accepts Boko Haram pledge of allegiance
Post Date: 2015-03-13 07:38:52 by Murron
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Islamic State group accepts Boko Haram pledge of allegiance BEIRUT (AP) -- Islamic State militants have accepted a pledge of allegiance by the Nigerian-grown Boko Haram extremist group, according to a spokesman for the Islamic State movement. The development Thursday came as both groups - among the most ruthless in the world - are under increasing military pressure and have sustained setbacks on the battlefield. Islamic State seized much of northern and western Iraq last summer, gaining control of about a third of both Iraq and Syria. But it is now struggling against Iraqi forces seeking to recapture Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, while coming under fire from U.S.-led coalition ...
Why Russia Is Better Than Europe
Post Date: 2015-03-13 03:29:31 by Pericles
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3/12/2015 @ 1:05PM Why Russia Is Better Than Europe First a disclaimer for the hurried: this is not an opinion piece about how Russian society is better than Europe’s. It is not about how Europe is colluding with the U.S. to destroy innocent Russia, making them angelic by comparison. If that is a belief in which you are seeking validation, or should you believe Russia is the seat of all evil and are looking to pen poetically nasty comments, then you have duly come to the wrong place. Note: it is always wise to read the sub-headline. It describes the article better. However…if you are an investor in the Market Vectors Russia (RSX) exchange traded fund, take heart, my friends! ...
U.S. to Vietnam: Stop letting Russia refuel planes at base
Post Date: 2015-03-13 03:24:23 by Pericles
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BS/APMarch 12, 2015, 2:55 PM U.S. to Vietnam: Stop letting Russia refuel planes at base WASHINGTON --The U.S. has urged Vietnam to stop letting Russia refuel military planes at a key Vietnamese base because of concerns it could raise tensions in the Asia-Pacific, the State Department said Thursday. That could put some strain on growing ties between Hanoi and Washington. U.S. officials have said in recent months that Russia has increased air patrols around Japan and South Korea, and is operating as far as the California coast and U.S. territory of Guam. Last year, a NORAD spokesperson said two F-22 fighter jets were scrambled after a pair of Russian bombers were spotted 50 miles off the ...
Saudi Arabia recalls ambassador from Sweden as rift widens
Post Date: 2015-03-12 20:55:27 by Willie Green
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STOCKHOLM (AP) — Saudi Arabia has recalled its ambassador from Sweden, widening a diplomatic rift between two countries with sharply contrasting views on everything from women's rights to criminal justice. The move comes after Sweden refused to renew a 10-year-old weapons deal with Saudi Arabia and the Saudis blocked the Swedish foreign minister from giving a speech to the Arab League. Swedish Foreign Ministry spokesman Gabriel Wernstedt said Wednesday that the Saudis were recalling their ambassador because of "Sweden's criticism regarding human rights and democracy" in the ultra-conservative kingdom. The official Saudi Press Agency reported that the Saudi Foreign ...
Daily updates on the religion and gang of obama
Post Date: 2015-03-12 17:59:48 by BobCeleste
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an irrational fear of Islam is as inane as it is callous. Islam's Latest Contributions to Peace "Mohammed is God's apostle. Those who follow him are harsh to the unbelievers but merciful to one another" Quran 48:292015.03.11 (Hurriya, Iraq) - A suicide car bomber eliminates nine people along a city street.2015.03.10 (Tirin Kot, Afghanistan) - Two children are disassembled along with two others by Taliban bombers.2015.03.10 (Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan) - Seven civilians are exterminated by a Shahid suicide bomber.2015.03.10 (Maiduguri, Nigeria) - A female suicide bomber slaughters nearly three dozen people at a market.2015.03.10 (al-Arish, Egypt) - A civilian ...
UK's first hydrogen bus refuelling station powered by electrolysis opens in Aberdeen, Scotland
Post Date: 2015-03-12 14:56:10 by Operation 40
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11 March 2015-The depot at Kittybrewster will provide fuel for a fleet of ten green buses which hit the streets this year. The £19m scheme has been backed by both the EU and the UK and Scottish Governments. Aberdeen City Council leader Jenny Laing said: “As a leading energy city determined to anchor the renewables industry in the north east, the success of the Aberdeen Hydrogen Bus Project is a real coup. "We not only have Europe's largest fleet of hydrogen fuel cell buses running on the streets of Aberdeen, but we also have the UK's first and largest hydrogen production and bus refuelling station. "We have a very clear hydrogen strategy for the future and ...
Forget Hillary’s Emails, Here’s Her Real Scandal That Nobody is Talking About
Post Date: 2015-03-12 07:44:40 by Deckard
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OMFG!!! DID YOU HEAR ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON’S EMAILS?!?!?! Yeah I did, but frankly, I don’t give a damn about her email server, and you shouldn’t either. You see, the media won’t talk about the real scandals going on, so they feed us this mindless shit so we can all drone on and argue about it all day on Facebook, even though it won’t affect a fucking thing. (function() { var params = { id: "fa2c7e40-6131-425d-89fa-7a02704b53a7", d: "dGhlYW50aW1lZGlhLm9yZw==", wid: "19104", cb: (new Date()).getTime() }; var qs=""; for(var key in params){qs+=key+"="+params[key]+"&"} qs=qs.substring(0,qs.length-1); var s ...
American Millennials are among the world's least skilled [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-03-11 17:31:34 by Willie Green
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Surprised? So were the researchers who tested and compared workers in 23 countries. We hear about the superior tech savvy of people born after 1980 so often that we tend to assume it must be true. But is it? Researchers at Princeton-based Educational Testing Service (ETS) expected it to be when they administered a test called the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). Sponsored by the OECD, the test was designed to measure the job skills of adults, aged 16 to 65, in 23 countries. When the results were analyzed by age group and nationality, ETS got a shock. It turns out, says a new report, that Millennials in the U.S. fall short when it comes to the skills ...
USA Today: Volunteer Ukrainian unit includes Nazis
Post Date: 2015-03-11 14:35:56 by Pericles
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MARIUPOL, Ukraine — A volunteer brigade with self-proclaimed Nazis fighting alongside government troops against Russian-backed separatists is proving to be a mixed blessing to its cause. Though the 900-member Azov Brigade adds needed manpower to repulse the rebels, members who say they are Nazis are sparking controversy, and complaints of abuses against civilians have turned some residents against them. A drill sergeant who would identify himself only as Alex wore a patch depicting Thor's Hammer, an ancient Norse symbol appropriated by neo-Nazis, according to the Anti-Defamation League. In an interview with USA TODAY, he admitted he is a Nazi and said with a laugh that no more ...
Accepting Al Qaeda (CFR says we're friends with Al Qaeda now )
Post Date: 2015-03-11 09:33:04 by Deckard
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Since 9/11, Washington has considered al Qaeda the greatest threat to the United States, one that must be eliminated regardless of cost or time. After Washington killed Osama bin Laden in 2011, it made Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda’s new leader, its next number one target. But the instability in the Middle East following the Arab revolutions and the meteoric rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) require that Washington rethink its policy toward al Qaeda, particularly its targeting of Zawahiri. Destabilizing al Qaeda at this time may in fact work against U.S. efforts to defeat ISIS. There is no doubt that relentless U.S. strikes in Afghanistan and Pakistan weakened al Qaeda ...
Nothing to see here: Russia says it has right to deploy nukes in Crimea
Post Date: 2015-03-11 09:03:34 by Tooconservative
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This popped up as what was effectively a side note to another story, but it seems to be indicative of the new, swaggering attitude of Russia these days. Their Foreign Ministry official, Mikhail Ulyanov, had a few casual comments about some of the most recent territory seized by Putin, and it certainly sounds familiar to those of us who were around during the 80s. Russia has the right to deploy nuclear arms in the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine last year, a Foreign Ministry official said on Wednesday, adding he knew of no plans to do so. “I don’t know if there are nuclear weapons there now. I don’t know about any plans, but in principle ...
Netanyahu says sees 'real danger' of losing re-election bid
Post Date: 2015-03-11 08:40:09 by Tooconservative
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday he saw "a real danger" he might lose next week's closely contested election and asserted that there was a worldwide effort to ensure such an outcome. In what Israeli media called an unannounced visit to a rally north of Tel Aviv, Netanyahu entreated supporters to make sure he defeats rival Isaac Herzog of the left-of-center Zionist Union party by casting ballots in the March 17 vote. "It's far from being certain, there's a real danger," the said the right-wing premier, who has been in office since 2009. In footage of the event obtained by Reuters Television, Netanyahu said ...
Foes abroad, foes at home — time for Americans to prepare for the fight
Post Date: 2015-03-11 02:23:54 by nativist nationalist
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Since the Islamic State (IS) arose in Syria and then Iraq in 2011 it has killed few Americans. Most of those killed chose to be on or near the battlefield, either reporting the war or working in civilian activities. They were where they wanted to be, knew the chances they were taking, bet they would survive, and lost the bet. In other words, these Americans were killed because they wanted to be in a battle zone dominated by a brutal enemy, knew the danger attendant thereto, and paid the price of going to a war as a non-combatant. Too bad, but hardly surprising. The wild, nearly hysterical political, media, and clerical responses to the deaths — especially the executions by ...
Air Castles in the Kaganate of Nuland
Post Date: 2015-03-10 23:39:19 by Pericles
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Air Castles in the Kaganate of Nuland by David P. Goldman March 8th, 2015 - 9:30 pm There is land of wonder where magic princes and princesses rescue humble folk from the malignant spells of wicked sorcerers. Call it the Kaganate of Nuland: I refer of course to Assistant Secretary of State for Europe Victoria Nuland and her spouse Robert Kagan, respectively the source of the silliest statement on record about U.S. foreign policy (“F— the Europeans”) and the worst book on foreign policy in a generally dismal decade. I reviewed Kagan’s awful tome when it appeared three years ago, with its fairy-tale thesis about the inevitable triumph of liberal democracy. “It is ...
Hiding something, Hillary? Clinton removes Twitter photo of her typing on Blackberry en route to Libya - amid claims she is withholding emails from Benghazi crisis
Post Date: 2015-03-10 23:01:42 by A K A Stone
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Former Secretary of State swapped out phone picture for a blank silhouette Said the switch was to raise awareness of gender equality initiative Came amid huge scrutiny over use of private emails to enact foreign policy Photograph was seized on to complain about emails withheld from Congress Rep. Trey Gowdy said it 'strains credibility' to think picture from 2011 does not show Clinton dealing with Libya situation using private accounts
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Senator who spearheaded letter to Iran got $1 million from Kristol’s ‘Emergency C’tee for Israel’
Post Date: 2015-03-10 18:35:53 by Willie Green
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The U.S. media have been sadly incurious about the origins of yesterday’s unprecedented Open Letter of 47 Republicans to the Iranian leadership seeking to block the president’s likely deal with Iran. The press has portrayed the letter as the work of Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, a 37-year-old freshman senator so new to the limelight that the New York Times got his name wrong on first impression. But as a Times commenter writes, “Does anyone really believe the ‘freshman senator from Arkansas’ wrote the letter? No.” The media are all over the unprecedented nature of the letter — which informs Iranian hardliners that Obama’s likely deal with Iran is ...
Extolling Ukraine’s Extreme-Right
Post Date: 2015-03-10 16:23:19 by Tooconservative
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Writers at the largest national daily newspaper in Canada, the Globe and Mail, have lately joined writers at the Toronto Star in publishing articles extolling the fundraising efforts in Canada of Ukraine’s extreme-right. This comes in the form of two recent news articles in the Globe, including one by its long-standing correspondent in Europe, Mark MacKinnon. MacKinnon reported on Feb. 27 in the Globe and Mail from the warehouse in Kyiv where ‘Army SOS’ gathers the military supplies that it purchases or receives and then provides to the extreme-right battalions fighting Ukraine’s war against its citizens in the east of the country. As an article by me on Feb. 20 ...
Iraq: We’re about to make final push on Tikrit
Post Date: 2015-03-10 15:56:58 by Tooconservative
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When we say “Iraq,” what we mean is Iran. Tikrit, a Sunni stronghold best known as the home town and power base of Saddam Hussein, has been held by ISIS since June of last year, but the town has been under siege for days, and almost 30,000 Sunnis have fled in advance of the encirclement. Today the Iraqi government announced that the final push is about to take place to liberate Tikrit, despite the loss of a strategic bridge: Joint Iraqi forces have started what they believe will be the conclusive push to retake the Iraqi city of Tikrit from ISIS, a paramilitary force participating in the offensive said Tuesday. The forces have started “the decisive operation” to ...
608 days until Obama is out of office
Post Date: 2015-03-10 13:51:48 by A K A Stone
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608 days until Obama is out of office
Why Some Think 47 GOP Senators Broke the Law With Iran Letter
Post Date: 2015-03-10 12:11:23 by Pericles
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Why Some Think 47 GOP Senators Broke the Law With Iran Letter Mar 10, 2015, 11:58 AM ET ANALYSIS by TERRY MORAN Some law professors and liberal commentators say they believe the “open letter” Sen. Tom Cotton and 46 of his Republican colleagues sent this week to the leaders of Iran, warning them that any nuclear deal they sign with President Obama won’t last after Obama leaves office, might be a crime. That letter from the Arkansas Republican to the ayatollahs and other Iranian officials, critics say, is a violation of the 1799 Logan Act, which says starkly: “Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly ...
German Intelligence: NATO Gen. Breedlove is Bonkers!
Post Date: 2015-03-10 08:25:06 by Tooconservative
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What happens when a close friend starts acting so bizarrely that you need to gently extract yourself from his ravings lest you be tarred with the same brush — or worse? That is the position in which Germany is increasingly finding itself, as the US government’s strange pronouncements about Ukraine are getting too much to bear. The German establishment magazine Der Spiegel has just published a very important article, “Breedlove’s Bellicosity: Berlin Alarmed by Aggressive NATO Stance on Ukraine,” that lifts the lid on what official Germany really thinks about the US neocon push to war with Russia over Ukraine. Der Spiegel starts by recalling an event last ...
Report: Iran's Supreme Leader Dead
Post Date: 2015-03-09 09:35:34 by redleghunter
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Posts on social media indicate that Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has died, Breitbart News reports Sunday, although no official announcement has yet been made. Two well-known journalists from Cairo and Israel tweeted that Khamenei had died Saturday after a bout with prostate cancer, noting that the information stems from "reliable sources." Khamenei was urgently brought to a hospital in Tehran after several of his bodily systems had already failed, Arab media reported Thursday; Iranian media outlets confirmed the news Friday. Rumors that he was suffering from prostate cancer that had metastasized to multiple systems have persisted for months. The 76 ...
Jordanian student uses solar power to fuel hydrogen cars
Post Date: 2015-03-08 18:42:18 by Operation 40
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Engineering student Qais Sabra works on a design for his generator. Mohammad Ghazal/Al-Shorfa Mohammad Ghazal in Amman February 2, 2015 The high cost of fuel in Jordan and an interest in renewable energy topics have inspired Jordanian engineering student Qais Sabra to design and invent a home solar-powered generator to fuel hydrogen-powered cars. Jordan currently imports around 97% of its annual energy needs, Sabra said, and an invention like his could help reduce fuel consumption dramatically and generate savings for both the government and citizens. Al-Shorfa met with Sabra, a student at the Jordan University of Science and Technology, to speak about the project and its significance... ...
Create an EU army to keep back the Russians, Jean-Claude Juncker suggests
Post Date: 2015-03-08 18:25:57 by Pridie.Nones
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A European Union army should be created to help defend the continent from Russian aggression, the European Commission president has suggested. Jean-Claude Juncker said pooling the defence resources of the 28 EU nations could help send a message to Vladimir Putin that its borders would be protected. However the move was panned by the UK Independence Party who warned the move would be a "tragedy for the UK". The comments came during an interview Mr Juncker gave with Welt am Sonntag, a German news magazine. "Such an army would help us to build a common foreign and national security policy, and to collectively take on Europe's responsibilities in the world,” Mr ...
Japan rises to challenge of becoming ‘hydrogen society’
Post Date: 2015-03-08 18:13:06 by Operation 40
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Hydrogen viewed as key to energy needs after Fukushima Since the 2011 onset of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan has had to drastically revise an energy policy that had long heralded atomic power as its main source of energy. The new energy policy announced in April outlines plans to decrease Japan’s nuclear dependence as much as possible, while boosting renewable energy sources. At the same time, it also says the government will promote the use of hydrogen to pave the way for a “hydrogen society.” “Hydrogen, which can achieve high energy efficiency, low environmental burden and capability for emergency use, provided appropriate usage, is expected to play a ...
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