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U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News to Americans
Post Date: 2015-03-23 19:53:58 by VxH
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For decades, a so-called anti-propaganda law prevented the U.S. government’s mammoth broadcasting arm from delivering programming to American audiences. But on July 2, that came silently to an end with the implementation of a new reform passed in January. The result: an unleashing of thousands of hours per week of government-funded radio and TV programs for domestic U.S. consumption in a reform initially criticized as a green light for U.S. domestic propaganda efforts. So what just happened? Until this month, a vast ocean of U.S. programming produced by the Broadcasting Board of Governors such as Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and the Middle East Broadcasting ...
White House chief of staff: 50 years of Israeli occupation must end
Post Date: 2015-03-23 18:45:03 by Willie Green
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White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough made it clear on Monday that the crisis in U.S.-Israel relations over the issue of a Palestinian state remains, despite efforts by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to clarify remarks he made late in the election campaign that no such state would be established on his watch. “We cannot simply pretend that those comments were never made,” McDonough told the J Street conference in Washington, whose left-leaning audience received his remarks enthusiastically. “Israel cannot maintain military control of another people indefinitely,” he said. “An occupation that has lasted for almost 50 years must end.” He denied ...
Sarkozy denies far-right Le Pen victory in French polls
Post Date: 2015-03-23 06:33:03 by Tooconservative
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PARIS (Reuters) - Former President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative UMP party and their allies won the first round of French local elections on Sunday, denying Marine Le Pen's far-right National Front (FN) first place. The result is an unaccustomed setback for Le Pen, who hoped her resurgent anti-immigrant, anti-euro party would emerge in the first round, boosting her goal of being a serious contender in the 2017 presidential election. According to official partial results that tallied with exit polls, the UMP and its allies together secured around 30 percent of the national vote, ahead of the anti-immigrant, anti-euro FN on around 26, about 0.5 percentage points above its European ...
China Presents the World's First Hydrogen-Fueled Tram
Post Date: 2015-03-22 20:24:31 by Operation 40
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The world's first tram powered by hydrogen energy rolls off the production line at a CSR Qingdao Sifang Co plant in Qingdao, Shandong province. This is the first time that hydrogen energy has been applied in the tram manufacturing. China has also become the first country worldwide to possess the technology to make hydrogen-fueled streetcars. (Photo/Xinhua) Mar 21, 2015: China has successfully developed the technology that enables the use of hydrogen to fuel rail vehicles, as it presented on March 19, Thursday, the world's first hydrogen-powered tramcar at an assembly facility in Qingdao. Liang Jianying, chief engineer of Sifang Co., a subsidiary of China South Rail Corporation ...
Russia delivers nuclear warning to Denmark
Post Date: 2015-03-22 10:30:20 by buckeroo
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Russia has threatened Denmark with a nuclear strike if it takes part in Nato’s missile shield, in some of the most incendiary comments yet directed at a member of the military alliance. Russia’s ambassador to Denmark wrote in a newspaper opinion piece that the Nordic country had not fully understood the consequences of signing up to the Nato missile defence programme. “If it happens, then Danish warships will be targets for Russia’s nuclear weapons. Denmark will be part of the threat to Russia,” Mikhail Vanin wrote in Jyllands-Posten. The dramatic threat cranks up further Russian pressure on countries in the Baltic region. Russian aircraft have violated the ...
Ted Cruz to announce presidential bid Monday (ready for Hillary) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-03-22 06:06:29 by Hondo68
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Senator will be first declared GOP candidate Sen. Ted Cruz plans to announce Monday that he will run for president of the United States, accelerating his already rapid three-year rise from a tea party insurgent in Texas into a divisive political force in Washington. Cruz will launch a presidential bid outright rather than form an exploratory committee, said senior advisers with direct knowledge of his plans, who spoke on condition of anonymity because an official announcement had not been made yet. They say he is done exploring and is now ready to become the first Republican presidential candidate. The senator is scheduled to speak Monday at a convocation ceremony at Liberty University in ...
FERRERO-ROCHER LOVING JIHADI TWEETS ABOUT HIS LONELY LIFE
Post Date: 2015-03-21 23:56:29 by out damned spot
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He may have managed to find a few of his favourite Ferrero-Rocher chocolates, but from his twitter account it seems that former Morrisons security guard turned jihadi is not being spoiled. Omar Hussein, who left home where he lived with his mother, his having real difficulty living the life of a jihadi fighter – struggling even to take care of his personal admin let alone join front line fighters in trying to bring about a repressive, violent Islamic caliphate, the Daily Mail reports. His social media timeline demonstrates that while others are engaged in a fight to the death in the terrorist occupied lands, Hussain is struggling to even wash his own clothes and admits in one tweet ...
Le Pen is Mightier Than the Sword?
Post Date: 2015-03-21 12:23:52 by cranky
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A few notes on this first weekend of spring: ~France goes to the polls tomorrow. Marine Le Pen was excluded by the French Government from the #JeSuisCharlie rally in favor of less controversial figures like, er, Mahmoud Abbas and President Erdo an. But, when all the unlikely free-speech opportunists bleating that "the pen is mightier than the sword" have faded away, it may be that the biggest beneficiary of the post-Charlie Hebdo environment will be Mme Le Pen's Front National: "She's my queen!" gushes Patricia, waiting for the arrival of Marine Le Pen, leader of France's far-right National Front. "Marine represents everything the people of France ...
Bosnia, Kosovo, and Now Libya: The Human Costs of Washington’s On-Going Collusion with Terrorists
Post Date: 2015-03-21 03:49:49 by Pericles
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Bosnia, Kosovo, and Now Libya: The Human Costs of Washington’s On-Going Collusion with Terrorists Peter Dale Scott Twice in the last two decades, significant cuts in U.S. and western military spending were foreseen: first after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and then in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. But both times military spending soon increased, and among the factors contributing to the increase were America’s interventions in new areas: the Balkans in the 1990s, and Libya today.1 Hidden from public view in both cases was the extent to which al-Qaeda was a covert U.S. ally in both interventions, rather than its foe. U.S. interventions in the Balkans and then Libya were ...
THE FINAL DAYS OF A CHECHEN COMMANDER FIGHTING IN UKRAINE. Killed by Russians in Debaltseve.
Post Date: 2015-03-21 03:43:54 by Pericles
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....snip... Even before he arrived in Ukraine, Munayev was well-known. He fought against Russian forces in both Chechen wars; in the second, he was the commander of the war in Grozny. After the Chechen capital was captured by Russian forces between 1999 and 2000, Munayev and his men took refuge in the mountains. He fought from there until 2005, when he was seriously injured and went to Europe for treatment. Munayev lived in Denmark until 2014. Then war broke out in Ukraine, and he decided it was time to fight the Russians again. As Russian-backed separatist forces began battling Ukrainian forces, Munayev came to Ukraine and established one of what would become several dozen private ...
Russia Rebounds, Despite Sanctions
Post Date: 2015-03-21 02:02:35 by Pericles
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Russia Rebounds, Despite Sanctions 94 MAR 20, 2015 11:39 AM EDT By Matthew A. Winkler Sanctions meant to punish Russia for snatching Crimea from Ukraine one year ago were supposed to hurt Russian business. And they did. Russian stocks, bonds and commodities had the worst performance in 2014 of those in any emerging market. That was then. Now the picture is changing, with investors starting to favor Russia in 2015. The ruble, which became the world's most volatile currency last year after President Vladimir Putin's land grab, is stabilizing. The swings in its value narrowed this year more than any of the other 30 most- traded currencies. Investors in Russian government ...
'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 ...
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