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Japanese Hydrogen Expo Previews the Future
Post Date: 2015-03-08 01:51:36 by Operation 40
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A big week for the greenies in Japan sees renewable energy technology get equal billing The launch this year of the world's first production fuel-cell car, the Toyota Mirai, has driven the accelerated growth of hydrogen refuelling station infrastructure development across Japan. And the introduction of Toyota's fuel-cell passenger vehicle to the Japanese market has also served to focus unprecedented attention on this year's International Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Expo at the Big Site complex on Tokyo Bay.. ...Regarded as the planet's biggest expo of its type, the fuel cell expo drew some 1580 companies from around the world, participating in five days of lectures, ...
2 Nemtsov suspects detained in Russia, prompting skepticism
Post Date: 2015-03-07 15:00:17 by Tooconservative
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's security service head said two suspects in the killing of leading opposition figure Boris Nemtsov have been detained, but the short and vague announcement Saturday prompted only skepticism and weak satisfaction from his comrades.Federal Security Service director Alexander Bortnikov, in comments shown on state television, said the two suspects were from Russia's North Caucasus region, but gave no details other than their names.He said they were "suspected of carrying out this crime," but it wasn't clear if either of the suspects was believed to have fired the shots that killed Nemtsov as he and a companion walked over a bridge near the ...
Rethinking Our Approach to Iran's Search for the Bomb
Post Date: 2015-03-07 08:30:40 by CZ82
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Rethinking Our Approach to Iran's Search for the Bomb By Anthony H. Cordesman May 7, 2012 We badly need to rethink our approach to Iran’s nuclear programs. We are putting far too much emphasis on Iran’s nuclear efforts without considering how these programs fit into Iran’s over military and strategic objectives. At the same time, we are placing too much emphasis on whether Iran has revived its formal nuclear program and the current shape of its nuclear facilities. The ironic result is to put too much emphasis on both the wrong form of arms control negotiations and preventive military strikes. To begin, it is essential to understand that Iran has moved far beyond the ...
'To Valhalla!': Crack Norwegian 'Punisher' troops sent to Iraq to help take on fanatical ISIS army
Post Date: 2015-03-07 08:28:47 by cranky
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Telemark Battalion is an elite mechanised Norwegian Army infantry unitSoldiers known for wearing patches with Marvel character's skull emblemAntihero from comic series is vigilante who slaughters criminalsPatches honour comrade killed by Taliban roadside bomb in Afghanistan Fifty fighters will travel to Irbil in northern Iraq to help Kurdish forces Peshmerga troops are locked in bitter armed struggle with Islamic State Dozens of soldiers from a battalion famous for using the emblem of a vicious comic book avenger to strike fear into the enemy in Afghanistan are heading to Iraq with ISIS in their sights.The Telemark Battalion is an elite mechanised infantry unit of the Norwegian Army ...
Iran carries out operation to free diplomat held in Yemen
Post Date: 2015-03-06 22:30:53 by Gatlin
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TEHRAN, Iran – Iran said Thursday that a team of special operatives has freed an Iranian diplomat abducted more than 19 months ago in Yemen, a rare acknowledgement by Tehran of an intel operation carried out on foreign soil. The official IRNA news agency quoted deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdolahian as saying that intelligence officers undertook a "difficult and complicated operation" to secure Nour Ahmad Nikbakhat's freedom from the "hands of terrorists." Amirabdollahian added that the operation took place "in a very special area in Yemen," without elaborating or providing further details. The diplomat, who was stationed in the Yemeni ...
Cojones: Egypt President el-Sisi closes 27,000 mosques to fight terrorism
Post Date: 2015-03-06 22:19:02 by out damned spot
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I found the response from President Obama and certain Democrat Members of Congress regarding Prime Minister’s Netanyahu speech to be rather, well, disparaging. Talk about “political theater” — especially the antics of House Minority Leader, Nancy Pelosi. However, I was actually less concerned about their response than the response from the Arab world — where some were asking Obama to listen to Netanyahu. On several occasions we’ve highlighted the actions of the brave leader of Egypt, the world’s largest Arab nation, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, former Egyptian Army general. He’s taken on and removed the Muslim Brotherhood government of Mohammad ...
Netanyahu Has Been Talking About Iran's Imminent Nuclear Program For 25 Years
Post Date: 2015-03-06 20:52:32 by GeorgiaConservative
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WASHINGTON -- In July 1996, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress, warning that Iran was "extremely close" to developing nuclear weapons and that if the United States didn't act, "the lives of our children and our grandchildren" would be at risk. "Ladies and gentlemen, time is running out," he warned. "This is not a slogan. This is not over-dramatization." Since then, Netanyahu, now serving a second tenure as prime minister, has been consistently warning that Iran is within two or three or five years of obtaining a bomb. Ahead of Tuesday's speech, CNN commentator Fareed Zakaria noted Netanyahu's ...
National Front Set To Be Biggest Party In France As Polls Put Them On 29 Percent
Post Date: 2015-03-06 12:53:31 by Tooconservative
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Having topped the polls in last year’s European Election, Marine Le Pen’s National Front is set to become the biggest party in France with the French Prime Minister accusing the party of wanting to “kidnap France” at this month’s regional elections. The latest polling data, which comes after it was revealed French Jews are increasingly turning to the right wing party, puts the National Front on 29 per cent, four points clear of the opposition UMP and creating a significant gap between them and the socialists on 21 per cent, The Local reports. The country votes on March 22nd and 29th to elect representatives in each of the country’s 101 counties. Nonna ...
Why I would never work for Global Aerospace Logistics under any circumstances.
Post Date: 2015-03-06 09:55:41 by A K A Stone
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They have had at least one person you arrested for complaining about them.
That is enough reason that I would never work for that company. Not that I could anyway.
NEVER NEVER NEVER!
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/...cebook-posts-job-land-US- contractor-Emirates-jail.html
Libya chaos deepens as Isil strikes threaten to halt oil production and government bombs Tripoli airport
Post Date: 2015-03-06 09:42:42 by Tooconservative
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Libya chaos deepens as Isil strikes threaten to halt oil production and government bombs Tripoli airport Isil militants attack al-Dhahra oil field shortly after capturing facilities in Bahi and Mabruk, while national army bombs airport Tripoli, as peace talks begin in Morocco Libya may be forced to cease all oil production after suspected Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) jihadists attacked three oilfields and the national army bombed an airport in the capital Tripoli. Libya’s National Oil Corporation has declared 11 of its oilfields non-operational, opting for a force majeure clause that exempts the state from contractual obligations. The move came after fighters from the ...
'Made in China' nuclear reactors a tough sell in global market
Post Date: 2015-03-06 09:01:55 by Willie Green
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HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) - As China signs global deals to export its nuclear power technology, it faces a huge obstacle: it still needs to show it can build and safely operate these reactors at home. Aided by foreign technology acquired during three decades of development, China has the highest number of reactors being built and ambitions to export its home-grown models to an overseas market worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Premier Li Keqiang told an annual parliamentary meeting this week that the China aimed to increase its share of global sales in a range of advanced industries, including implementing major projects in nuclear power. And in a sign of progress on exporting its ...
Would a Bigger Police State Win the Drug War?
Post Date: 2015-03-06 05:22:44 by Deckard
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Most everyone would agree that China is not a free society. It is ruled by a brutal communist regime, one that has absolutely no regard for civil liberties and such criminal-justice principles as due process of law, trial by jury, right to counsel, and habeas corpus. When the state wants to go after someone, there are no institutional barriers that stand in its way. China has something else: the war on drugs, the same war that the U.S. government has been waging for decades. According to an article in the New York Times, despite a fierce, unrelenting war waged against drugs, drug use in China remains as big a problem as ever. Why is that important to Americans? Two reasons. One, it shows ...
Knife-wielding attacker slashes face of U.S. ambassador in South Korea (VIDEO)
Post Date: 2015-03-05 16:06:01 by Murron
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Knife-wielding attacker slashes face of U.S. ambassador in South Korea (Reuters) - U.S. ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert underwent two-and-a-half hours of surgery after he was slashed in the face by a Korean nationalist in an attack at a breakfast forum in Seoul on Thursday to discuss Korean reunification. Lippert, 42, was bleeding from deep wounds to his face and wrist but was able to walk after the attack. Doctors said later his condition was stable after "very successful" surgery that required 80 stitches in his face as the White House expressed optimism for his quick return to his duties. The assailant was caught and identified by police as 55-year-old Kim Ki-jong. ...
American contractor faces up to FIVE YEARS in Emirati prison and $50,000 fine because he complained about his job on Facebook
Post Date: 2015-03-05 07:55:28 by cranky
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Ryan Pate was on a break from work, visiting his home in Florida, when he complained on Facebook about spat with UAE employerWhen he flew back to Abu Dhabi to quit, he was arrested for breaking the country's law against slandering an employer He faces up to five years in prison and a $50,000 fine if convictedPate had just proposed to his girlfriend when he was arrested His trial is scheduled for March 17 No free speech: Ryan Pate was arrested in Abu Dhabi last month after complaining about his UAE employer on Facebook - a violation of the country's law against slandering an employerA hallmark of American life - griping about work - has landed a Florida man in a Middle Eastern ...
Republican Congress Rallies Around Patriot Leader. Too Bad He’s Not American.
Post Date: 2015-03-04 10:28:57 by nativist nationalist
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The image making the rounds of the American Right–Young Netanyahu And Young Obama It was politics as parody. With almost as much pomp and posturing as the State of the Union, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a Joint Session of Congress and delivered a speech that would have been called stridently nationalist if uttered by any European. The Republican leadership showed their willingness to openly insult the President of the United States by hosting a foreign head of state and giving him a reception as rapturous as anything ever enjoyed by Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush. And then, just after the speech was over, the House Republicans promptly collapsed and handed ...
Netanyahu and the Crumbling Israeli Lobby
Post Date: 2015-03-04 07:35:56 by Tooconservative
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Netanyahu and the Crumbling Israeli Lobby Support for the Israeli prime minister's hardline policies is fading among American Jews and Christians alike. Jewish resistance to Netanyahu’s invitation by Republicans to address Congress is showing cracks in the Israeli Lobby’s influence over Congress. The leading Jewish newspaper Forward reports, “the biggest casualties may be the normally omnipotent pro-Israel lobby and its allies in the Jewish community, who have seen their credibility and political power severely shaken.” CNN reports that 63 percent of American oppose the invitation. The Israeli Lobby represents less than half of American Jews. The real lobby today is ...
Court Allows Jewish Prayer on Temple Mount
Post Date: 2015-03-03 22:51:01 by A K A Stone
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Temple activists were euphoric Monday after a precedent-setting ruling by Magistrates' Court Judge Malka Aviv in the case of Yehuda Glick vs. the Israeli Police, a day earlier. The judge ruled that the police “must make sure that Jews are able to pray on the Temple Mount” – in a ruling replete with harsh criticism of the police's policies on the Temple Mount. Activists were quoted on a Temple activists blog as saying: “This day will be remembered for generations in the annals of the struggle for the return of Jews to the Temple Mount.” The police are legally bound “to ensure that Jews are able to pray on the Temple Mount, and not to act sweepingly to ...
Israel, Iran and Obama all accuse each other of lying about nuclear deal
Post Date: 2015-03-02 18:39:00 by CZ82
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Obozo accuses Israel of lying about deal www.israeltoday.co.il/New...78/nid/26081/Default.aspx Israel accuses Obozo of lying about deal yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2...srael-about-terms-of.html Iran accuses Obozo of lying about deal pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/1...g-about-the-nuclear-deal/
Poster Comment:ROTFLMAO!!!!
IN MIDST OF WAR, UKRAINE BECOMES GATEWAY FOR JIHAD (ISIS Helps American Backed Ukraine)
Post Date: 2015-03-02 00:05:57 by Pericles
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IN MIDST OF WAR, UKRAINE BECOMES GATEWAY FOR JIHAD BY MARCIN MAMON 02/26/2015 12:37 PM “OUR BROTHERS ARE there,” Khalid said when he heard I was going to Ukraine. “Buy a local SIM card when you get there, send me the number and then wait for someone to call you.” Khalid, who uses a pseudonym, leads the Islamic State’s underground branch in Istanbul. He came from Syria to help control the flood of volunteers arriving in Turkey from all over the world, wanting to join the global jihad. Now, he wanted to put me in touch with Rizvan, a “brother” fighting with Muslims in Ukraine. The “brothers” are members of ISIS and other underground Islamic ...
Obama Threatened to Shoot Down Israeli Jets Attacking Iran [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-03-01 20:24:06 by out damned spot
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President Barack Obama threatened to shoot down Israeli planes in 2014 if they were sent to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities, according to reports attributed to a Kuwaiti newspaper. According to the website Israel National News, the Bethlehem-based news agency Ma'an cites Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida. Al-Jarida reports that the alleged threat from the White House forced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cancel the planned attack. President Barack Obama threatened to shoot down Israeli planes in 2014 if they were sent to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities, according to reports attributed to a Kuwaiti newspaper. According to the website Israel National News, the Bethlehem-based ...
The National-Security State’s ISIS Racket
Post Date: 2015-03-01 12:47:14 by Deckard
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The official enemy de jour that has everyone all riled up and scared is ISIS. If U.S. forces don’t bomb ISIS, the argument goes, ISIS will take over Iraq, and Syria, and Lebanon, and Europe, and Asia, and Latin America, and then the United States. If the bombs don’t fall on ISIS, before long Americans will be speaking Arabic and their children will be studying the Koran in America’s government schools. It’s all just one great big racket — a racket based on “national security,” a term that isn’t even found in the Constitution and that doesn’t even have an objective meaning. The only way that the U.S. national-security state apparatus — i.e., ...
Russia Could Make China King of the South China Sea
Post Date: 2015-03-01 11:03:38 by nativist nationalist
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What Robert Kaplan so smartly dubbed “Asia’s Cauldron”— the South China Sea— might be set to boil once again. But the real kicker is who might be turning the switch to “high” on that virtual stove: none other than Russian President Vladimir Putin. Events thousands of miles away in Ukraine could set off a chain reaction that could see China become the undisputed ruler of this large body of water thanks to a large infusion of Russian weapons and technology— if the West starts arming Ukraine. But before we get to all the juicy details of how China could become “master and commander” of the South China Sea thanks to Russian assistance, lets ...
Why Iran Believes ISIS is a U.S. Creation [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-03-01 08:09:05 by Tooconservative
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"We believe that the West has been influential in the creation of ISIS" Iran has taken a lead role in defending the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad and strengthening the Baghdad government in the war against the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS). But that doesn’t mean Iran views the United States as an ally in that war, even if they share a common enemy in ISIS. Abdullah Ganji, the managing-director of Javan newspaper, which is believed to closely reflect the views of the government and the powerful Iranian Revolutionary Guards, says that U.S. support for ISIS is in fact a way of ensuring Israel’s security and disrupting the Muslim world in the ...
Venezuela to shrink US Embassy staff, require Americans to apply for tourist visas
Post Date: 2015-02-28 23:48:40 by Pridie.Nones
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Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro announced Saturday the country will restrict the activities of U.S. diplomats, shrink the size of the U.S. Embassy staff and require Americans to apply for visas if they want to visit. Maduro said at a protest against imperialism that “gringo” meddling had forced him to adopt the series of limitations that also includes requiring U.S. diplomats to seek approval from the Foreign Ministry before conducting meetings. The new tourist visa requirement was imposed for national security reasons after authorities had detained several Americans, including a U.S. pilot, who allegedly were involved in espionage, Maduro said. About an American ...
Japan Mulls Creating Its Own CIA
Post Date: 2015-02-28 08:23:00 by Willie Green
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After the Islamic State hostage crisis, Japan wants to beef up its intelligence apparatus. As Japan recovers from the shock of the hostage crisis, lawmakers are beginning to consider how they could have responded to the situation better. One of the key issues being discussed is how to overcome Japan’s reliance on foreign intelligence agencies to gather information abroad, because Japan does not currently have an independent intelligence-gathering entity. A Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) project team is looking into changing that. The team, chaired by House of Representatives lawmaker Takeshi Iwaya, will look at the possibility of creating an independent intelligence-gathering agency ...
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