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U.S.: Iraqi forces repel attack on al-Asad air base
Post Date: 2015-02-13 22:01:39 by redleghunter
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PENTAGON U.S.: Iraqi forces repel attack on al-Asad air base By Robert Burns and Lolita C. Baldor Sabah Arar/AFP The Pentagon says a small number of Islamic State fighters who attacked an Iraqi air base that hosts about 400 U.S. forces were killed in a counterattack by Iraqi troops. WASHINGTON — Eight Islamic State fighters were killed when they attacked an air base where U.S. and coalition forces are training Iraqi forces. Army Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, said that initial reports Friday showed that all of the IS attackers were killed by Iraqi troops at or inside a gate to al-Asad air base in the western province of Anbar. There are about 400 U.S. troops at the ...
Obama's Force Authorization is a Blank Check for War Worldwide
Post Date: 2015-02-13 09:03:12 by Deckard
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The president is requesting Congress to pass an authorization for the use of military force (AUMF) resolution against ISIS. Congress has not issued a similar resolution since 2002, when President Bush was given the authority to wage war against Iraq. The purpose of this resolution is to give official authority to the president to do the things that he has already been doing for the past six years. Seems strange but this is typical for Washington. President Obama’s claim is that he does not need this authority. He claims, as have all other recent presidents, that the authority to wage war in the Middle East has been granted by the resolutions passed in 2001, 2002, and by article II of ...
The Ultimate Enemy of ISIS
Post Date: 2015-02-13 00:18:31 by nativist nationalist
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The president’s request for the authorization to use military force against the Islamic State has landed in a Congress as divided as the country. That division was mirrored in the disparate receptions Obama’s resolution received from The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. To the Times, Obama’s AUMF is “alarmingly broad. It does not limit the battlefield to Syria and Iraq.” Moreover, Obama “seeks permission to attack ‘associated persons or forces.'” This would give the White House “virtually unrestricted power to engage in attacks around the globe as long as it can justify a connection, however tenuous, to the Islamic State.” ...
Yemen rebels seize US weapons, vehicles after embassy staff leave – reports
Post Date: 2015-02-11 20:45:30 by Hondo68
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Houthi fighters. (Reuters/Khaled Abdullah) Houthi rebels have reportedly seized all the US embassy’s vehicles in Sanaa and the weapons of the Marines, who were guarding it, after the American ambassador and diplomats left Yemen’s capital earlier Wednesday. Over 20 vehicles were taken by the militants after the Americans left for the airport, Yemeni members of the US embassy staff told Reuters. A top Sanaa airport official told CNN that the Houthis also prevented the departing US Marines from taking their weapons on the plane with them. Some of the weapons were seized by the rebels, while the rest was handed over to random airport employees by US troops, he added. The night ...
WEST: NORAD Head Says Russia Increasing Arctic Long Range Air Patrols
Post Date: 2015-02-11 17:23:13 by redleghunter
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SAN DIEGO, CALIF. – While Russian military aircraft have stepped up their activity everywhere from the North Sea to the Baltic to the Black Sea in the last year they have also been spotted more frequently closer to the U.S. territory in the Arctic, the head of U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) told USNI News on Tuesday. In particular – flights of Tupolev Tu-95 Bear ‘H’ Bombers have increased recently NORTHCOM’s Adm. Bill Gortney said. “They’ve been very aggressive – under my NORAD hat – for us in the Arctic,” he said to USNI News following a keynote address at the WEST 2015 conference. ...
The Mindset of Top Government Officials
Post Date: 2015-02-11 05:55:46 by Deckard
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Even Hayek, who famously argued that top government positions tend to attract those of dubious moral character, might have been surprised by former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn. DSK admits to participating in numerous orgies — “only a dozen or two” — during his stint with the Fund, and insists that these did not distract him from his important work. “These afternoons took place between 2009 and 2011, a time when Strauss-Kahn told the court he was ‘saving the world’ as head of the IMF at the height of the global financial crisis.” DSK maintains he could not possibly have known the young women attending the orgies were paid for their ...
Dead Kayla Mueller Was a Left Wing Cult Member of International Solidarity Movement
Post Date: 2015-02-11 01:40:12 by Pericles
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Ever watch those 70s Palestinians hijack a plane movies? There was always some left wing liberation movement nuts as part of the terrorist team. Kayla Mueller seems to belong to such a left wing cult. I never understood the naive bleeding heart westerners and learned to hate them during the Bosnia wars when they were used to justify the murder of Serbs at the hands of NATO because of the war lies NATo put out of Serbs raping Muslim women in rape camps. These leftist cult members do serve a purpose for the Democrat led American govt under Clinton and then under Obama. You get cute white women into war zones (sometimes Angelina Jolie and it used to be Bianca Jagger till she got to old to ...
Egypt to join Russia-led Eurasian free trade zone
Post Date: 2015-02-11 01:05:21 by Pericles
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Update: 17:14, 10 February 2015 Tuesday Egypt to join Russia-led Eurasian free trade zone World Bulletin / News Desk Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said Tuesday that his country had signed several agreements with Russia for stepped-up cooperation in the fields of energy, trade and security. Russia and Egypt have agreed to create a free trade zone and a Russian industrial zone near the Suez Canal. President Sisi of Egypt announced the plan at a joint news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The new canal is part of the Suez Canal Development mega project, which includes the development of several seaports in the three governorates bordering the canal – Suez, ...
‘Tactical Nuke’ Explodes In Ukraine? Video Footage Shows Giant Explosion, Mushroom Cloud [Video]
Post Date: 2015-02-10 23:30:40 by A K A Stone
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The Ukrainian city of Donetsk experienced a giant explosion last night that left many fearing that Russia was using “tactical nukes” against them. The explosion shattered windows and even caused a brief mushroom cloud to form in the sky. The night’s sky was glowing with orange as the explosion occurred. The entire ordeal was captured on video. In the video above, you can watch as the explosion occurs late last night. The pitch black sky suddenly is illuminated in an orange glow. The blast was so loud that windows in the area shattered. The Daily Mail notes that some in the area feared that Russian had attacked the area with tactical nuclear weapons as a mushroom cloud ...
White House struggles with Obama comment on Paris attack
Post Date: 2015-02-10 19:56:54 by out damned spot
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House and State Department struggled Tuesday to clarify President Barack Obama's suggestion that last month's deadly shooting at a kosher deli in Paris was random, despite the administration's earlier assertions that the attack was anti-Semitic. Obama, in describing terror threats during a lengthy interview with the online news site Vox, said the American people were right to be concerned "when you've got a bunch of violent, vicious zealots who behead people or randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris." Administration officials at first defended Obama's comments, with White House spokesman Josh Earnest saying that ...
Marine who vanished from his post in Iraq 10 years ago and ended up in Lebanon to stand trial for desertion
Post Date: 2015-02-10 09:21:11 by cranky
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Prosecutors allege Corporal Wassef Hassoun deserted because he was unhappy with deployment and with the treatment of Iraqi prisoners But Lebanon-born soldier claims he was kidnapped by insurgents in 2004 Reappeared at U.S. embassy in Beirut shortly afterwards, only to disappear again after he was told he would have to stand trial for desertion Handed himself to NCIS investigators last year, saying he feared for his life If found guilty, the 35-year-old could spend up to 27 years behind bars A U.S. Marine who is accused of faking his own kidnapping after vanished from his post in Iraq more than a decade ago is set to finally stand trial - 10 years after he disappeared for the ...
If the Sheep Won’t Rise Up, Maybe Cattle Will (Czech Cow Charges Cop, Isn't Shot)
Post Date: 2015-02-10 05:18:56 by Deckard
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When a Czech cop tries to intimidate a cow instead of his usual human victims, the cow teaches him to stick with two-legged cattle. Fortunately, the dash-cam in the cop’s cruiser, which our valiant Daisy also attacks, captures the hilarious lesson. Sic semper tyrannis! Thanks to Bill Martin for today’s laugh. Update: The Bionic Mosquito thinks I “have this one all wrong.” He “give[s] the Czech cops a lot of credit – in the US, forty cops would have just shot the cow from the safety of a military-grade vehicle and bar-b-qued it for lunch – or, more precisely, made hamburgers and sausage with whatever bits and pieces were found after four-thousand ...
HSBC 'tax dodge' revelations are just tip of iceberg, says leaker
Post Date: 2015-02-10 03:06:12 by Tooconservative
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The former HSBC employee who leaked sensational secret documents alleging the bank helped wealthy customers dodge millions of dollars in taxes warned Tuesday that the revelations are just the "tip of the iceberg".The files created global shockwaves on Monday, spotlighting the financial dealings of the world's ultra-rich and prompting British lawmakers to launch an inquiry into the London-based bank.The cache of files made public in the so-called SwissLeaks case includes the names of celebrities, alleged arms dealers and politicians -- though inclusion on the list does not necessarily imply wrongdoing.Published at the weekend, the files claim HSBC's Swiss division helped ...
Libertarians and Putin’s catastrophic corruption
Post Date: 2015-02-09 13:32:15 by Gatlin
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Over 100,000 entrepreneurs and small business owners are in prison in Russia for not paying bribes to assorted inspectors or because parties to business disputes bribe police to arrest them on trumped-up charges. Russia’s private sector has very little security in law for its property rights. Almost everybody dragged before any court is found guilty. The consequences are minimal re-investment, low productivity growth, and owners who seek security by taking out maximum cash and, if able, stashing it abroad. Consequently, Russia depends upon imports for 90 percent of its consumer goods. Its agriculture is still a shambles, with no secure property rights, lousy roads to get products to ...
The United Nations of Eccentricity: Fascinating portraits of the world's 'Micronations' which have declared independence from the rest of the world
Post Date: 2015-02-09 09:50:09 by cranky
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They're the smallest countries in the world - and they're proud of it.A micronation is a piece of land that claims to be an independent or sovereign nation, but is not officially recognized by the governments of the world. In 2012, fascinated photographer Leó Delafontaine began documenting them, visiting six countries and three continents to capture life inside the unique mini-states. The people he met were eccentrics determined to carve out their own place in the world - and so they did exactly that.There are many reasons for the founding of the micronations, ranging from symbols of defiance, to boost tourism or solely for fun. Current reports put the number of micronations ...
Israeli leader faces pressure to cancel US Congress speech
Post Date: 2015-02-08 22:08:02 by Murron
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Israeli leader faces pressure to cancel US Congress speech JERUSALEM (AP) — A national leader's appearance before the U.S. Congress is usually a source of pride and unity. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's planned trip to Washington — opposed by the White House and many Democrats — has Israel in uproar. The Israeli leader faces growing calls to cancel the visit as rivals accuse him of risking Israel's relations with the United States in hopes of winning extra votes in next month's Israeli parliamentary election. But Netanyahu has shown no signs of backing down, saying Sunday he would "do everything" to prevent U.S.-led international ...
Jordan Says It Conducted 56 Air Raids In Three Days Against ISIS
Post Date: 2015-02-08 19:15:00 by rlk
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Jordan Says It Conducted 56 Air Raids In Three Days Against ISIS Reuters Posted: 02/08/2015 8:04 am EST A Jordanian Air Force fighter jet flies over the village of Ai as Jordanian King Abdullah II visits to offer his condolences to the tribe of the slain Jordanian pilot, Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh at their home village near Karak, Jordan, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015. Jordan's king vowed to wage a "harsh" war against the Islamic State group after the militants burned a captive Jordanian pilot in a cage and released a video of the killing. * Jordan says raids on Islamist State to continue * Aims to hit IS leader, key logistics centers * Jordan to conduct joint missions with UAE ...
Is Putin Bent on Reshaping the World Order?
Post Date: 2015-02-08 18:57:25 by Pericles
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Is Putin Bent on Reshaping the World Order? by James G Neuger 4:05 PM EST February 8, 2015 (Bloomberg) -- As Russian President Vladimir Putin tightens his hold on eastern Ukraine, speculation has shifted to the next front in his confrontation with the U.S. and its European allies. Intimidation of the Baltic states, pressure on the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, warmer ties with Greece as a way of dividing the European Union -- all are potential options for the former KGB agent bent on recasting the world order. “We see the emergence of dividing lines” in a “very polarized environment,” Lamberto Zannier, an Italian diplomat who runs the Organization for ...
China’s Monumental Debt Trap—-Why It Will Rock The Global Economy
Post Date: 2015-02-08 12:09:11 by nativist nationalist
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Bloomberg News finally did something useful this morning by publishing some startling graphs from McKinsey’s latest update on the worldwide debt tsunami. If you don’t mind a tad of rounding, the planetary debt total now stands at $200 trillion compared to world GDP of just $70 trillion. Source: McKinsey The implied 2.9X global leverage ratio is daunting in itself. But now would be an excellent time to recall the lessons of Greece because the true implications are far more ominous. Today’s raging crisis in Greece was hidden from view for many years in the run-up to its first EU bailout in 2010 because the denominator of its reported leverage ratio—national income or ...
Leaders aim to hold Ukraine summit in Minsk Wednesday
Post Date: 2015-02-08 09:48:44 by Murron
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Leaders aim to hold Ukraine summit in Minsk Wednesday MUNICH (AP) -- The leaders of Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine aim to hold a summit in Minsk this week as they try to stem fighting in eastern Ukraine, officials said Sunday. The plan for a meeting Wednesday in the Belarusian capital emerged from a phone call between German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. Merkel's spokesman, Steffen Seibert, described the call as "intensive." The aim is to draw up a package of measures that breathes new life into a much-violated September peace plan. Seibert and the French ...
OBAMA to Subsidize Iranian Nuke Program, Sacrifice Israel, In Exchange for Less Jihad
Post Date: 2015-02-07 21:13:32 by out damned spot
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The Obama administration is going to offer the Iranian regime technical aid for its nuclear program in exchange for less jihad in the region. The move will put Israel in great danger. The Jerusalem Post reported: At a security conference in Munich, the two leaders met to discuss ongoing negotiations over the nuclear program— and that program only, according to American officials. But the warning from Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif underscored core motivations driving Western diplomats in the talks: The realignment of Tehran towards cooperation with Washington elsewhere in the region, from Syria and Iraq to Yemen and Lebanon. That is a departure from their original ...
Snowden : "Extraterrestrial Intelligence Agenda" Driving US Gov Since 1945
Post Date: 2015-02-07 12:52:58 by Deckard
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Former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden revealed documents providing incontrovertible proof that an alien/extraterrestrial intelligence agenda is driving US domestic and international policy, and has been doing so since at least 1945, some media reports said. A stunning Federal Security Services (FSB) report on the nearly two million highly classified top-secret documents obtained from the United States Department of Defense (DOD) run National Security Agency-Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) by the American ex-patriot Edward Snowden states that this information is providing “incontrovertible proof” that an “alien/extraterrestrial intelligence ...
Jordan Launches New Airstrikes After Vowing Harsh War On ISIS
Post Date: 2015-02-05 18:12:11 by rlk
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Jordan Launches New Airstrikes After Vowing Harsh War On ISIS AP | By KARIN LAUB and MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH Posted: 02/05/2015 8:27 am JORDAN Jordanian Air Force fighter jets fly during the funeral of slain Jordanian pilot, Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh, at his home village of Ai, near Karak, Jordan, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015. AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Dozens of Jordanian fighter jets bombed Islamic State training centers and weapons storage sites Thursday, intensifying attacks after the militants burned to death a captured Jordanian pilot. As part of the new campaign, Jordan is also attacking targets in Iraq, said Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh. Up to now, Jordan had struck IS targets in Syria, ...
State Department Discusses Banning Alternative Media Outlet
Post Date: 2015-02-05 09:09:37 by Deckard
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Activist Post The US State Department has openly discussed shutting down RT, the Russian news network. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland was asked about the idea of shutting the company down at a meeting at the Brookings Institution. She said no, paying lip service to Freedom of Speech, but citing RT’s limited reach as the real reason. The incident goes to demonstrate exactly how much censorship exists in the United States. RT broadcasts a narrative that is undoubtedly pro-Russian. Now that the pro-Russian narrative is at odds with the Pro-US narrative, the government is willing to openly discuss simply shutting off American access to the network. This isn’t the first ...
Report: U.S. Prepared To Rely Upon Iran For Regional Stability In Afghanistan, Iraq & Syria
Post Date: 2015-02-05 08:51:13 by cranky
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European officials have reportedly relayed a message to Israeli officials about the Obama administration’s plans concerning the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran. The U.S. and Iran are reportedly closing in on a deal that would allow the Ayatollah’s regime to keep the vast majority of its centrifuges running, while also allowing for Iran to be in charge of stabilizing its surrounding region. Israeli Army Radio reports that the deal is being brokered between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. The Iranians would purportedly have to make sure that there are no flare-ups in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria. It remains unclear how ...
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