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Oil Prices On The Move After Saudi King’s Death
Post Date: 2015-01-23 11:53:21 by SOSO
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Oil Prices On The Move After Saudi King’s DeathEmail Print Tweet smaller Larger By Dimitra DeFotis The price of crude is higher this morning on news that a new member of the royal family will lead the country following the death of King Abdullah. Prices for oil have been volatile this morning. The international Brent price for crude oil was up 0.4% to $48.73 per barrel in recent trading, while the U.S. price was down 0.5% to $45.77. New Saudi King Salman pledged on Friday to maintain existing energy and foreign policies. The 90-year-old monarch had been in ill health, and successor King Salman, near age 80, is expected to maintain Saudi policies. Chief among them: keeping oil ...
Against Terrorism–But FOR What?
Post Date: 2015-01-23 11:51:20 by nativist nationalist
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Following the Charlie Hebdo massacre, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said that France “is at war with terrorism, jihadism and radical Islamism.” This tells us what France is fighting against. But what is France fighting for in this war on terror? For terrorism is simply a tactic, and arguably the most effective tactic of the national liberation movements of the 20th century. Terrorism was used by the Irgun to drive the British out of Palestine and by the Mau Mau to run them out of Kenya. Terrorism, blowing up movie theaters and cafes, was the tactic the FLN used to drive the French out of Algeria. The FALN tried to assassinate Harry Truman in 1950 at Blair House, shot up the House ...
How Dare Ron Paul Talk About Blowback? Neocons try to slime and silence the Ron Paul Institute.
Post Date: 2015-01-23 05:50:55 by Deckard
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Poor Daniel McAdams of the Ron Paul Institute (RPI). What did he do? He posted a naughty article in which were written some Bad, Bad Things that even consenting adults apparently shouldn’t be allowed to read or discuss. The column, written by Paul Craig Roberts, asserted that the Charlie Hebdo shootings had the earmarks of a professional hit job and that the suspects Cherif and Said Kouachi could have been patsies. McAdams titled the article, “Charlie Hebdo Shootings: False Flag?” This made it clear that no implied assertion was being made by McAdams or Ron Paul that the shootings were a false-flag operation. LRC ran the column with a similar question ...
Obama won't meet with Netanyahu during controversial U.S. visit
Post Date: 2015-01-23 04:10:47 by Gatlin
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President Barack Obama will not meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the latter's controversial March 3 visit to Washington, the White House announced Thursday, saying a meeting could be perceived as an attempt by the administration to influence Israel's March 17 elections. "The president will not be meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu because of the proximity to the Israeli election, which is just two weeks after his planned address to the U.S. Congress," National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan said in a emailed statement. “As a matter of long-standing practice and principle, we do not see heads of state or candidates in close ...
Chaotic Retreat Follows Ukrainians’ Withdrawal From Donetsk Airport
Post Date: 2015-01-22 21:15:38 by Pericles
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Chaotic Retreat Follows Ukrainians’ Withdrawal From Donetsk Airport By ANDREW E. KRAMER and RICK LYMANJAN. 22, 2015 DONETSK, Ukraine — The ruins of the once gleaming and modern Donetsk airport, site of near relentless fighting in recent days, finally fell on Thursday to pro-Russian rebel forces who then paraded captured Ukrainian soldiers through the streets of the embattled city. The airport, which had been claimed by both sides, is nonfunctional, the terminal and runways having been destroyed months ago. Nonetheless, it has retained high symbolic value in the continuing hostilities as the government’s last toehold in the city, the largest in the contested territory of ...
In Davos, European leaders offers to make Putin's Eurasian dreams come true — but only if the conflict in Ukraine ends
Post Date: 2015-01-22 21:06:34 by Pericles
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Europe Appeals to Putin’s Ego As it Seeks Peace in Ukraine Simon Shuster @shustry 6:26 PM ET In Davos, European leaders offers to make Putin's Eurasian dreams come true — but only if the conflict in Ukraine ends.............
Cuba, US on the Mend, But at What Price?
Post Date: 2015-01-22 20:54:14 by Gatlin
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Now that Cuba and the United States have unexpectedly decided to renew diplomatic relations, many are asking - what's next? After five decades of cold war isolation, will the Cuban people experience new opportunities, including new religious freedoms? The questions began after President Barack Obama's surprise announcement last December. "Today the United States of America is changing its relationship with the people of Cuba," the president said. "In the most significant changes in our policy in more than 50 years we will end an outdated approach that for decades has failed to advance our interests, and instead, we will begin to normalize relations between our two ...
White House Miffed at Netanyahu Invite by Congress
Post Date: 2015-01-22 20:39:26 by Gatlin
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JERUSALEM, Israel -- The White House voiced its displeasure at the invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address to a joint session of Congress on February 11, focusing on Iran and radical Islam. White House press secretary Josh Earnest called the invitation by House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, "a departure from diplomatic protocol." "The typical protocol would suggest that the leader of a country would contact the leader of another country when he's traveling here," Earnest told reporters aboard Air Force One en route to an event in Idaho. Boehner, in turn, told reporters it's well within congressional protocol to invite a speaker without ...
Saudi Arabia's 'reformer' King Abdullah dies
Post Date: 2015-01-22 19:35:30 by out damned spot
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The next king will be Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz, state television reports (CNN) —Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud has died, according to an announcement on Saudi state TV. He was 90. The next king will be Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz, state television reported early Friday. The announcement of his death comes several weeks after the state-run Saudi Press Agency said Abdullah was suffering from pneumonia and had been admitted to the hospital. State television showed throngs of mourners gathered in Mecca. King Abdullah became king of the oil-rich nation, a key U.S. ally in the Middle East, in August 2005. But he'd been running Saudi Arabia since 1996, ...
Saudis on Twitter deny rumors King Abdullah dead
Post Date: 2015-01-22 18:24:10 by Willie Green
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(Reuters) - A Saudi journalist and a member of the royal family denied rumors on Thursday that King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, in hospital since December suffering from pneumonia, had died, according to messages on social media. Markets keep a close eye on the health of the king of the world's top oil producer, a country that also has influence over Muslims through its guardianship of Islam's holiest sites. King Abdullah, who took power in 2005 after the death of his half-brother King Fahd, is thought to be 91, although official accounts are unclear. He has undergone surgery in the past few years related to a herniated disc. "All that is being reported about King Abdullah's ...
High-speed rail line to link Moscow and Beijing
Post Date: 2015-01-22 14:16:23 by Willie Green
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China will build a 7,000-kilometer high-speed rail link from Beijing to Moscow, at a cost of 1.5 trillion yuan ($300 billion CAD), Beijing’s city government said on the social networking site Weibo. The rail line seeks to facilitate travel across Europe and Asia, Beijing’s municipal government said Jan. 21 in a post on Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter. The journey from Beijing to Moscow would take “two days” on a route passing through Kazakhstan, the post said. The proposed rail line comes as Russia’s economy struggles to recover from the fall in the price of crude oil and as relations with the U.S. and Europe deteriorate over the Ukraine conflict, and as ...
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 ...
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