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Netanyahu coming to Congress in March
Post Date: 2015-01-22 12:30:07 by Gatlin
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Washington (CNN)Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pushed back his meeting with Congress to March, House Speaker John Boehner announced Thursday on his verified Twitter account. Boehner's tweet stated that the scheduling change was meant to accommodate Netanyahu's request to attend the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference in Washington, D.C. The new date -- March 3 -- is also two weeks before the Israeli election. The meeting with Congress was originally scheduled for Feb. 11. Netanyahu has raised alarm bells about nuclear talks between the Obama administration and Iran. In the U.S., the Iran talks are a topic that has pitted President Barack Obama against ...
Legendary A-10 'Warthog' sends ISIS fleeing even as it faces Pentagon cuts
Post Date: 2015-01-22 03:28:18 by Gatlin
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With a roaring engine, 30-mm. cannon and nose painted like a toothsome, snarling beast, the A-10 Thunderbolt sends ISIS fighters scattering like cockroaches on the Iraqi desert plains, but the legendary fighter plane pilots call the "Warthog" may be fighting for its own life. The venerable plane, first built for destroying Soviet tanks, has been on the chopping block since the sequester of 2011 mandated steep cuts in the Pentagon budget. Although the planes haven't been built in more than 30 years, the Defense Department believes it can save maintenance costs by phasing them out. Air Force brass believes newer, faster aircraft like the F-16, F-15E, and, eventually, Lockheed ...
Palestinian stabs 11 people on Tel Aviv bus, officials say
Post Date: 2015-01-22 03:21:15 by Gatlin
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A Palestinian man stabbed 11 people on a Tel Aviv bus during the morning rush hour Wednesday before he was shot by corrections officers and taken into custody, officials said. Israeli Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld posted a message on Twitter saying that authorities believe the incident is a terror attack. Eleven people were stabbed and three remain in critical condition, according to Lee Gat, a spokeswoman at Tel Hashomer hospital, and a statement from the Ichilov hospital. Rosenfeld said the suspect is a 23-year-old man from Tulkarem, located in the West Bank northeast of Tel Aviv. He said the man was being questioned by police and a heightened security presence was in effect in ...
Paris' lawsuit against Fox News an empty threat
Post Date: 2015-01-22 03:00:39 by Gatlin
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Experts on both sides of the Atlantic say that Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo's threat to take Fox News to court is largely empty. Hidalgo hasn't outlined her legal arguments or said whether she'll go to court in the U.S. or in France, but experts on media law said it is unlikely that a court in either country would agree to hear the case. "I think we'll have to sue," Hidalgo told CNN on Tuesday, saying the U.S.- based network had "insulted" the reputation of her city. The network has been ridiculed for making factually-challenged claims about "no-go zones" that are off-limits to non-Muslims. Fox News has since apologized but said the threat of a ...
Israeli TV shows first images of Iranian missile that can reach 'far beyond Europe'
Post Date: 2015-01-21 17:17:03 by redleghunter
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As Iran allegedly negotiates an agreement with the P 5+1 with respect to its nuclear program, Israel's Channel 2 showed a satellite image (above) in which a new Iranian missile 'that can reach far beyond Europe' is shown. Iran has built a 27-meter-long missile, capable of delivering a warhead “far beyond Europe,” and placed it on a launch pad at a site close to Tehran, an Israeli television report said Wednesday, showing what it said were the first satellite images of the missile ever seen in the West. It stressed that the missile could be used to launch spacecraft or satellites, but also to carry warheads. The Channel 2 news report showed satellite imagery ...
Russia and Iran Sign Military Cooperation Deal
Post Date: 2015-01-21 17:03:25 by redleghunter
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Iran and Russia signed an agreement Tuesday to expand military ties in a visit to Tehran by the Russian defense minister. Sergei Shoigu, in remarks carried by Russian news agencies, said Moscow wants to develop a "long-term and multifaceted" military relationship with Iran. He said that the new agreement includes expanded counter-terrorism cooperation, exchanges of military personnel for training purposes and an understanding for each country's navy to more frequently use the other's ports. Iran's Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan urged greater cooperation as a means of opposing American ambitions in the region. Moscow and Tehran have staunchly supported Syrian ...
'No-go zones' and multiculturalism's failure
Post Date: 2015-01-21 13:38:13 by tpaine
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- WND - www.wnd.com - 'No-go zones' and multiculturalism's failures Posted By Walter Williams On 01/20/2015 @ 7:26 pm In Commentary,Opinion | No Comments Leftists and progressives believe that the U.S. should become more like Europe. They praise Europe’s massive welfare state, socialized medicine and stifling economic regulation and accept its unwillingness to defend itself against barbarism. I wonder whether America’s leftists and progressives want to import some of Europe’s barbaric extremism associated with its Muslim population. Several European countries have what are called “no-go zones.” No-go zones function as microstates governed by ...
Man shoots himself dead while playing Russian Roulette ALONE after his friend refused to join in
Post Date: 2015-01-21 09:27:25 by cranky
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Bryan Javier Aguilera Soto's death came as police held gun amnestyIt has since emerged the firearm used was stolen from a neighbour A 20-year-old blew his head off after apparently trying to play Russian roulette on his own.Bryan Javier Aguilera Soto had taken a Taurus .38 revolver and gone to visit a friend in Coquimbo, a city in the western Chilean province of Elqui, where he proposed playing the lethal game.His friend unsurprisingly turned down the offer before walking out of the house. Moments later he heard a shot ring out as Mr Aguilera shot himself in the head.Reckless: Bryan Javier Aguilera Soto, 20, who blew his own brains out playing Russian roulette on his ownHe was rushed to ...
After the Paris attacks: It’s time for a new Enlightenment
Post Date: 2015-01-20 15:22:29 by Gatlin
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We must move past the tired debate that pits the modern west against its backward other and recover the Enlightenment ideal of rigorous self-criticism. The perpetrators of the unconscionable massacre of Charlie Hebdo’s journalists, and the gratuitous killing of French Jews at a supermarket, were the sort of young men who might have been little more than petty criminals in another era – disaffected drifters who are now susceptible to the pied-pipers of jihad. They preen in the costume of the pious for their propaganda videos, and betray easily their very modern brand of criminality. The Paris murderers claimed to be redeeming the honour of the Prophet Muhammad, but they made the ...
Fox News Becomes the Unwilling Star of a French TV Satire
Post Date: 2015-01-20 12:15:21 by Willie Green
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PARIS — Mockery is a national weapon in France, so when an American cable news channel raised false alarms about rampant lawlessness in some Paris neighborhoods — proclaiming them “no-go zones” for non-Muslims, avoided even by the police — a popular French television show rebutted the claims the way it best knew how: with satire, spoofs and a campaign of exaggeration and sarcasm. The show, “Le Petit Journal,” is a French version of “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” — irreverent and reliant on mock correspondents who showcase the foibles of the high and mighty. Usually “Le Petit Journal” reserves its venom for French politicians ...
Sgt. Bergdahl Report Held Up Due To Obama Politics
Post Date: 2015-01-19 18:44:51 by TEA Party Reveler
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BERGDAHL REPORT HELD UP BY POLITICS HUSSEIN CAN'T AFFORD TO LOOK SOFT ON TERRORISM - WHITE HOUSE PRESSURES BUTT-BOY GEN MARTIN DEMPSEY TO KEEP REPORT UNDER WRAPS - OBAMA WANTS BOWE CLASSIFIED A "PRISONER-OF-WAR" TO JUSTIFY HIS FREEING FIVE TALIBAN KILLERS IN EXCHANGE - EVIDENCE SHOWS BERGDAHL A DESERTER - WHAT ABOUT THE AMERICANS KILLED TRYING TO RESCUE HIM? © 2015 MilitaryCorruption.com It's an old axiom in the world of public affairs to release bad news or information that might result in blowback late on a Friday afternoon. That usually results in minimal "play" in the media and hopefully (in the view of the news managers) it will be marginalized by ...
Ebola units ready just as disease fades
Post Date: 2015-01-19 16:12:06 by redleghunter
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TUBMANBURG, Liberia – Near the hillside shelter where dozens of men and women died of Ebola, a row of green U.S. military tents sit atop a vast expanse of imported gravel. The generators hum; chlorinated water churns in brand-new containers; surveillance cameras send a live feed to a large-screen television. There’s only one thing missing from this state-of-the-art Ebola treatment center: Ebola patients. The U.S. military sent about 3,000 troops to West Africa to build centers like this one in recent months. They were intended as a crucial safeguard against an epidemic that flared in unpredictable, deadly waves. But as the outbreak fades in Liberia, it has become clear that the ...
Profiling Pope Francis as a Jesuit
Post Date: 2015-01-18 23:41:16 by A K A Stone
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Duluth, Minnesota (OpEdNews) January 18, 2015: On January 18, 2015, OpEdNews featured a piece by Daily Kos headlined "It's Finally Official: Pope Francis Demotes Highest-Ranking US Cardinal Over LGBT Issues." Pope Francis did indeed demote Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, as the piece notes. In the parlance of the Roman Catholic Church, cardinals are referred to as princes in the church's hierarchy. Cardinals are also bishops. In the church's hierarchy, the pecking order is bishop, archbishop, cardinal. Like most monarchs throughout history, Pope Francis does not like to have his own views criticized publicly by a courtier at the Vatican, as Cardinal Burke had done. As ...
First It Refused To Bail Out Its Insolvent Banks; Now Iceland Set To Officially Withdraw European Union Application
Post Date: 2015-01-18 19:57:28 by Fibr Dog
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Iceland may be a small country, but when it comes to dealing with big problems it is truly the modern equivalent of David in the battle against the status quo Goliath. First, it was Iceland, and only Iceland, refusing to bail out its banks, when every other western nation was being held hostage by those who stood to lose the most from a financial collapse, and even going so far as throwing some of its banking executives in prison. And now, as MBL reports, Iceland's conservative Independence Party will support a resolution in parliament to formally withdraw Iceland's application to join the ...
Mayor Blasts Fellow Muslims Who Hate Freedom: Pack Your Bags and F*** Off
Post Date: 2015-01-18 18:57:50 by Fibr Dog
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In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Paris, the Moroccan-born mayor of a Dutch city delivered a compelling message on live television to fellow Muslims who don’t appreciate the “freedoms” of living in the west: “Pack your bags and f*** off.” A British newspaper reports the story this week that includes a video of the incredible broadcast unlikely to be covered by the ultra-politically correct mainstream media in the United States. It features the Muslim mayor of Rotterdam, the Netherlands’ second-largest city, blasting Muslims who don’t appreciate all the great perks of living in the west. The delivery is in Dutch but includes English subtitles, ...
Mummy Mask May Reveal Oldest Known Gospel [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-01-18 18:39:21 by Fibr Dog
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A text that may be the oldest copy of a gospel known to exist — a fragment of the Gospel of Mark that was written during the first century, before the year 90 — is set to be published. At present, the oldest surviving copies of the gospel texts date to the second century (the years 101 to 200). This first-century gospel fragment was written on a sheet of papyrus that was later reused to create a mask that was worn by a mummy. Although the mummies of Egyptian pharaohs wore masks made of gold, ordinary people had to settle for masks made out of papyrus (or linen), paint and glue. Given how expensive papyrus was, people often had to reuse sheets that already had writing on them. ...
Ukraine crisis: Booby-trapped honey jar explodes, killing Ukrainian soldier as fighting continues
Post Date: 2015-01-17 19:29:07 by Pericles
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Ukraine crisis: Booby-trapped honey jar explodes, killing Ukrainian soldier as fighting continues Posted earlier today at 7:06am An elderly man pretending to bring Ukrainian troops a jar of honey turned out to be an attacker in disguise, with the gift exploding and killing a soldier, a local official says. The incident occurred at a checkpoint in the country's war-torn east on Friday, with a new wave of fighting between government forces and pro-Russia rebels having wracked the area in recent days. The man identifying himself as a local resident in Stanicya Lugans'ka in the Lugansk region handed the soldiers a three-litre jar of honey and thanked them for their service before ...
Rebels Claim to Have Control of Ukraine Airport
Post Date: 2015-01-16 23:29:54 by Pericles
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Rebels Claim to Have Control of Ukraine Airport By ANDREW ROTH and ANDREW E. KRAMERJAN. 16, 2015 MOSCOW — Leaders of a Russian-backed rebel movement in eastern Ukraine claimed on Friday to have captured the Donetsk city airport, a symbolically important and long-sought prize, although central government officials denied this was the case. A senior leader for the rebels, the pro-Russian Donetsk People’s Republic, described the fight as the start of a new offensive to push Ukraine out of the east. Despite a cease-fire that was signed on Sept. 5, the sides have fought in the rubble of the airport terminals for months. The rebels have repeatedly claimed to have captured the site, ...
Parents' anger after seven Bosnian schoolgirls aged 13 and 14 fall pregnant on class trip
Post Date: 2015-01-16 21:46:05 by Pericles
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Parents' anger after seven Bosnian schoolgirls aged 13 and 14 fall pregnant on class trip The girls had been on a five-day trip to Bosnia's capital city of Sarajevo Furious parents demanding to know why there was a lack of supervision They'd been visiting museums and historical sites but returned expecting Number of sexually active girls between 13 and 15 has increased in area By ALLAN HALL FOR THE DAILY MAIL and GEMMA MULLIN FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 11:49 EST, 21 December 2014 | UPDATED: 13:09 EST, 21 December 2014 I have a feeling most of the claims of rape were Muslim girls looking to excuse away pregnancy during the war.
Dozens held across Europe in Islamist suspect sweeps
Post Date: 2015-01-16 18:00:39 by yukon
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Dozens held across Europe in Islamist suspect sweeps PARIS/VERVIERS, Belgium Fri Jan 16, 2015 11:23am EST (Reuters) - Belgian, French and German police interrogated dozens of Islamist suspects on Friday as much of Europe remained on heightened security alert after last week's killings in Paris and raids in Belgium in which two gunmen were killed. In Paris there was a fresh scare when a gunman took several people hostage at a post office in a northwestern suburb. A siege ended when he gave himself up to police. No one was hurt. Authorities said they could not confirm whether the incident was related to terrorism. Belgian police questioned 13 suspects and France held two people on ...
China Arrests 60,000 in 'Unprecedented' 100-Day Drug Crackdown
Post Date: 2015-01-16 10:28:51 by Willie Green
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BEIJING — Chinese police have arrested more than 60,000 people and seized more than 11 tons of drugs in a three-month nationwide crackdown, according to officials. The "100-day campaign" from September to Decmber was part of intensified crime-fighting operations ahead of next month's Chinese Lunar New Year. China's top anti-drug official said the mass arrests had "sown terror" among drug criminals, according to a report Thursday in China's state-run newspaper Legal Daily. Liu Yuejin told the newspaper that he had called on China's police officers to use "unprecedented strength" and "extraordinary measures" in the operation. ...
"I Am Paul Craig Roberts" (The neocons are flipping out)
Post Date: 2015-01-16 05:52:51 by Deckard
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The neocons are flipping out over a column at the Ron Paul Institute that suggests the Charlie Hebdo Massacre was a false flag operation. Here’s neocon Field Commander Bill Kristol: So what is this? How often does Commander Kristol click over to RPI? There is less than a 60 minute difference between the 2 tweets. I hope the commander is making a donation, though I don’t expect him to come in at the Hero of Peace level. As for the column run by RPI, it was written by Paul Craig Roberts, PCR is a a former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. WSJ is, of course, considered by those in the know, the ...
Russia's financial crisis may bury Putin's Eurasian dream
Post Date: 2015-01-15 23:40:14 by yukon
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Russia's financial crisis may bury Putin's Eurasian dream By Andrei Makhovsky, Dmitry Solovyov and Margarita Antidze MINSK/ALMATY/TBILISI Wed Jan 14, 2015 6:40am EST (Reuters) - Growing damage from Russia's financial crisis on neighboring former Soviet states could bury President Vladimir Putin's dream of creating an economic union to rival the United States and European Union. From Belarus on the European Union's fringe to Kazakhstan on the border with China, some of those once firmly in Moscow's grip are now questioning whether Russia has what it takes to lead. While some, such as Belarus, have been forced by the economic blowback from Russia to devalue their ...
Belgian counterterrorism police kill 2, arrest 1 in Verviers raid
Post Date: 2015-01-15 20:13:45 by yukon
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Belgian counterterrorism police kill 2, arrest 1 in Verviers raid Prosecutor says attack was expected in coming days The Associated Press Posted: Jan 15, 2015 1:00 PM ET Last Updated: Jan 15, 2015 6:00 PM ET Belgian security forces killed two terror suspects with links to Syria in a fierce shootout in the eastern city of Verviers on Thursday and arrested another, foiling a major and imminent attack against police buildings, authorities said. The raid came amid an international hunt for possible accomplices to attackers who killed 17 people in France last week before being shot dead by police. Those attacks, by men claiming allegiance to the Islamic State group in Syria and al-Qaeda ...
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