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Would George Washington Mourn NATO?
Post Date: 2014-12-10 12:01:53 by nativist nationalist
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Celebrating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as the cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy was an obligatory ritual for two generations of American statesmen. As the decades passed however, mention of it and of “our European allies” has come with decreasing conviction and increasing embarrassment. Few dispute that, today, the alliance’s formalities are a pretense likelier to get its members into trouble than to pull anyone out of it. Civilizational changes have emptied it of substance. Readjusting American strategy to take account of those changes makes far more sense than talking about “revitalizing” or “rebuilding” an alliance on bases that no longer ...
China’s Rise, America’s Fall: Which superpower is more threatened by its “extractive elites”?
Post Date: 2014-12-07 23:47:05 by nativist nationalist
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The rise of China surely ranks among the most important world developments of the last 100 years. With America still trapped in its fifth year of economic hardship, and the Chinese economy poised to surpass our own before the end of this decade, China looms very large on the horizon. We are living in the early years of what journalists once dubbed “The Pacific Century,” yet there are worrisome signs it may instead become known as “The Chinese Century.” But does the Chinese giant have feet of clay? In a recently published book, Why Nations Fail, economists Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson characterize China’s ruling elites as ...
(UN) Court tells France to pay damages to Somali pirates
Post Date: 2014-12-06 07:51:46 by out damned spot
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The European Court of Human Rights says France violated the rights of Somali pirates who had attacked French ships and has ordered compensation for them over judicial delays. The nine Somali pirates should get thousands of euros because they were not immediately brought before a French judge, the court ruled. One is to get 9,000 euros (£7,000) and the others sums of up to 7,000 euros. The judges faulted France for keeping them in custody for an extra 48 hours. The pirates had held French citizens hostage after seizing a French-flagged cruise ship and a French yacht in 2008. The French military captured the pirates on the Somali coast in two operations, after the hostages had been ...
Reports: Obama Mulling Sanctions on Israel
Post Date: 2014-12-05 23:33:36 by redleghunter
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The Obama administration is refusing to discuss reports that emerged early Thursday claiming that the White House is considering imposing sanctions on Israel for continuing construction on Jewish homes in Jerusalem. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf dodged several questions on Thursday when confronted with reports that the administration had held secret internal meetings to discuss taking action against Israel for its ongoing building in East Jerusalem. The classified meetings were reportedly held several weeks ago and included officials from both the State Department and White House, according to the Israeli daily Ha’aretz, which first reported on the meetings. The ...
EXCLUSIVE: Al Qaeda plot to blow up 5 passenger planes in Christmas 'spectacular'
Post Date: 2014-11-30 21:43:16 by out damned spot
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TERRORISTS are plotting to blow up five European passenger jets in a Christmas "spectacular", security experts say. The threat has been taken so seriously it came close to leading to an outright ban on all hand luggage, a senior insider has revealed. Mobile phones and electronic devices could still be banned from plane cabins, with the threat of a 9/11-style coordinated attack on London and other major cities feared imminent. The warning comes as Whitehall officials admit that a terror strike on the UK is now "almost inevitable" particularly with British jihadis returning from fighting alongside the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. An airport security source told the ...
BRITISH PM CAMERON: NO MORE WELFARE FOR IMMIGRANTS
Post Date: 2014-11-28 18:58:11 by out damned spot
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Friday Prime Minister David Cameron got tough on welfare for immigrants, demanding lower EU immigration rates and a four-year residency requirement before receiving welfare or he threatened if the EU dose not adapt his proposal the UK will potentially end it's membership. Cameron said, "Those who want to claim tax credits and child benefits must live here and contribute to our country for a minimum of four years."
Libya, Isis, Rioting In Kiev: Hagel Didn’t Start the Fire
Post Date: 2014-11-25 02:02:20 by nativist nationalist
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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, a Vietnam war veteran and the lone Republican on Obama’s national security team, has been fired. And John McCain’s assessment is dead on. Hagel, he said, “was never really brought into that real tight circle inside the White House that makes all the decisions which has put us into the incredible debacle that we’re in today throughout the world.” Undeniably, U.S. foreign policy is in a shambles. But what were the “decisions” that produced the “incredible debacle”? Who made them? Who supported them? The first would be George W. Bush’s decision to invade Iraq, a war for which Sens. John McCain, Joe Biden, ...
Impeach President Obama—Why When Where and How
Post Date: 2014-11-22 20:19:45 by A K A Stone
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In America today, just like in Lake Woebegone, every child is above average and every child gets a trophy. We may score low in international grade comparisons but we rank number one in self-esteem. In other words, American students may not be doing well but they think they are. Those of us old enough to remember how Dad could control the situation with a look and when you got in trouble in school your parents didn’t sue or contact the School Board you got in trouble at home too are also old enough to remember Watergate. This scandal that the general public still does not understand brought down a president and led to the Watergate Congress which threw away the victory in Vietnam and ...
Bandits in Guinea steal blood samples believed to be infected with Ebola
Post Date: 2014-11-21 17:56:20 by nolu chan
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Bandits in Guinea steal blood samples believed to be infected with Ebola The Guardian Associated Press in Conakry Friday 21 November 2014 13.05 EST Heist occurred from a taxi van on a road known for banditry ‘There’s no way we can secure transport in all of this area’ Officials appealed on radio for the return of the samples Bandits in Guinea got more than they bargained for when they stopped a taxi van and made off with blood samples which are believed to be infected with the deadly Ebola virus. Authorities made a radio appeal on Friday, calling on the unidentified robbers to hand over the samples, which were stolen from the minibus taxi during its 265km ...
Diplomat dumps burqa-clad fiancée due to crossed-eyes, beard
Post Date: 2014-11-21 09:19:23 by IbJensen
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The burka is a gift for ugly obese women — that’s why uber-left feminist Naomi Wolf is such a militant supporter for burkas :) Think of it as the revenge of the repellant feminazis. “UAE: Diplomat dumps burqa-clad fiancée due to crossed-eyes, beard,” The Wilmington Examiner, November 19, 2014 The bride had a nice personality, but…” An unnamed Arab nation’s ambassador to the United Arab Emirates has successfully annulled his marriage contract to an unidentified woman on the grounds that her parents deceived him into believing she was a much more attractive woman, as reported by The Daily Mail (of London). As soon as the marriage contract was ...
Muslims Chant to Remove Jesus at WashingtonÂ’s National Cathedral
Post Date: 2014-11-20 12:23:32 by A K A Stone
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It looked like a chilling scene from a Last Days, anti-Christ-takes-over- the-world disaster movie. Hundreds of Muslims take over America’s most notable church, prostrate on their prayer rugs as their unified chant echoes out in full volume: “There is only one god, he begets not and I bear witness that Muhammad is His only servant and Apostle." Only this was not a movie. This was the scene, last Friday, for the first time in history, at the iconic National Cathedral in Washington, where orthodox Muslim clerics were invited to lead an Islamic prayer service. A congregation of hundreds were lead by an Imam in declaring that “god has no son, that Jesus Christ cannot be his ...
Jordanian Parliament Prays for “Spirits of Heroes” Who Murdered 4 Rabbis
Post Date: 2014-11-20 12:09:09 by A K A Stone
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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. He is completing a book on the international challenges America faces in the 21st century.Jordan is a moderate Muslim country. But it’s not exactly surprising. This would be the Jordanian parliament which fought any effort to criminalize honor killings and which called for the release of a Jordanian soldier who murdered seven Israeli teenage girls. With good reason. Jordan was the original “Palestine”. After the brutal murder of four Rabbis, this story via Elder of Ziyon comes as no surprise at all. On Wednesday, Jordan’s parliament offered a prayer ...
Open the Floodgates – Chinese Inquiries on U.S. Real Estate Soar 35% After Easing of Visa Rules
Post Date: 2014-11-19 15:45:25 by A K A Stone
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In a nation in which 1 out of every 3 homes is unaffordable, you’d think the primary goal of public policy wouldn’t be to ensure real estate becomes even more out of reach for the average citizen. However, we live in a country in which policy isn’t being driven by logic and what’s in the best interest of “the people,” rather, we live in an neo-feudalistic society in which policy is being driven by what is best for a handful of white-collar criminals. It’s bad enough that American financial oligarchs have leveraged free money polices of the Federal Reserve to purchase tens of billions of dollars in real estate only to rent it back to people who were kicked ...
I Just Spent 7 Days Watching Only Russian News And Reading Pravda — Here's What I Learned
Post Date: 2014-11-19 07:38:43 by A K A Stone
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I grew up hating America. I lived in the Soviet Union and was a child of the Cold War. That hate went away in 1989, though, when the Berlin Wall fell and the Cold War ended. By the time I left Russia in 1991, the year the Soviet Union collapsed, America was a country that Russians looked up to and wanted to emulate. Twenty-three years later, a new version of cold war is back, though we Americans haven't realized it yet. But I am getting ahead of myself. After Russia invaded Crimea and staged its referendum, I thought Vladimir Putin's foreign excursions were over. Taking back Crimea violated plenty of international laws, but let's be honest. Though major powers like the US and ...
Did We Vote for War?
Post Date: 2014-11-18 03:29:35 by nativist nationalist
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“How do you like the Journal‘s war?” So boasted the headline of William Randolph Hearst’s New York flagship that week in 1898 that the United States declared war on Spain. While Hearst’s Journal, in a circulation battle with Joe Pulitzer’s World, was a warmongering sheet, it did not start the war. Yet the headline comes to mind reading the Wall Street Journal, whose editorial pages seem to have concluded that on Nov. 4 America voted for new wars in the Middle East, and beyond. On Nov. 13, the Journal‘s op-ed page was given over to Mark Dubowitz and Reuel Marc Gerecht of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Assuming nuclear talks with Iran ...
China's Asian Bank may herald a new world order
Post Date: 2014-11-17 23:59:55 by A K A Stone
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Beijing has drawn in 21 countries so far in an ambitious plan to meet the $8-trillion budget for Asia's development Since the 2008 economic meltdown, Europeans and the Americans have been asking the Chinese to contribute more to the Bretton Wood institutions. But, in turn, the Chinese have been demanding reforms to the hegemonic system of management and voting rights in these institutions that favour the Americans and the Europeans. Both appeals have mainly landed on deaf ears. Now the Chinese have decided rather than using their enormous financial reserves to prop up a world economic order that does not give them a say in its governance procedures, they will set up their own ...
A Recent pro-ISIS Mutiny in Saudi Royal Air Force
Post Date: 2014-11-17 21:08:23 by out damned spot
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Riyadh (KSA), November 17, 2014 - According to our confidential sources within the Saudi army, an increasing number of disgruntled Saudi pilots refuse to carry out missions against the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The Saudi rebel officers argued that it is against their set of ethics and religious views to target their fellow Sunni brothers in Iraq and neighboring Syria. The Saudi military Intelligence reportedly had arrested two senior F-16 pilots whom turned down their missions in late October, expressing their utmost resentment toward their country’s alliance with the United States against to what they see as “innocent and defenseless Iraqi ...
AC/DC's New Song. Title Track Off Of Upcoming Album
Post Date: 2014-11-17 08:40:23 by A K A Stone
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Russian warplanes risking safety of European airliners, says Nato chief
Post Date: 2014-11-16 10:29:49 by nativist nationalist
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Jens Stoltenberg, the new secretary general of Nato, tells the Telegraph that more Russian military jets are flying over Europe without contacting air traffic control, raising the risk of mid-air collisions. Russia is placing civilian flights at risk by dispatching jet fighters and bombers into European airspace without following safety procedures, according to Nato’s secretary general. Jens Stoltenberg told the Telegraph that Nato fighters had intercepted Russian military aircraft over 100 times so far this year, compared with 30 such incidents in 2013. Russia’s long-range bombers and spy planes usually stay in international airspace, but they deliberately ignore safeguards ...
EXCLUSIVE: Got him! Jihadi John is 'wounded in US airstrike that killed 10 top ISIS commanders at secret bunker meeting in Iraq'
Post Date: 2014-11-16 08:39:50 by out damned spot
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*Jihadi John was in a bunker in northern Iraq with the leader of ISIS *A US airstrike destroyed the bunker, killing an estimated 10 ISIS leaders *Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was believed to have been injured in the airstrike *The Foreign Office confirmed they are investigating reports the injuries *A nurse claimed one of the men was the man who 'slaughtered journalists' Jihadi John, the Briton who beheaded two British and two American hostages held by Islamic State terrorists, has been injured in a US-led air strike, according to reports received by the Foreign Office. T he masked ‘executioner’ with a London accent is believed to have narrowly escaped death when he attended ...
The Sino-American comedy of errors
Post Date: 2014-11-15 22:11:36 by nativist nationalist
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Everything in tragedy happens for a reason, and the result always is sad; most things in comedy happen by accident and the outcome typically is happy. Sino-American relations are not destined for conflict, although that is possible. The misunderstandings that bedevil relations between the world's two most powerful countries remain comedic rather than tragic. That probably is as good as it gets, for no amount of explanation will enable Chinese and Americans to make sense of each other. Where the Chinese are defensive and cautious, the Americans tend to perceive them as aggressive; where the Chinese are expansive ambitious, the Americans ignore them altogether. The United States is a ...
America’s New Oil Weapon
Post Date: 2014-11-14 19:19:18 by nativist nationalist
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On July 30, in Galveston, Texas, history was made, although few Americans noticed.
The oil tanker BW Zambesi docked at a terminal there and took on a load of 400,000 barrels of a kind of ultra-light crude oil known as condensate, then proceeded to the South Korean oil refiner Caltex.
The event marked the first time in nearly 40 years that the United States had sold its own crude oil. A ban on crude sales has been in place since 1975 (the Obama administration made a rare exception in this case, for this ultra-light oil). It’s a lasting legacy of what has become an outdated energy policy, and of the outdated foreign policy that went with it.
Clausewitz famously defined war as ...
China takes new stealth jet for test flight during Obama visit
Post Date: 2014-11-14 13:12:02 by nativist nationalist
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China's military upstaged the Asian economic summit in Beijing this week by conducting test flights of a new stealth jet prototype, as the White House called on Beijing to halt its cyber attacks. Demonstration flights by the new J-31 fighter jet -- China's second new radar-evading warplane -- were a key feature at a major arms show in Zhuhai, located near Macau, on Monday. The J-31 flights coincided with President Obama's visit to Beijing for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting. In a speech and meetings with Chinese leaders, Obama called on China to curtail cyber theft of trade secrets. China obtained secrets from the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter through cyber ...
The Oil Weapon in America’s Hands
Post Date: 2014-11-14 03:16:01 by nativist nationalist
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In July of 1941, after Japan occupied French Indochina, the Roosevelt administration froze Japan’s assets in the United States. Denied hard cash, Japan could not buy the U.S. oil upon which the empire depended for survival. Seeing the Dutch East Indies as her only other source, Japan prepared to invade. But first she had to eliminate the sole strategic threat to her occupation of the East Indies–the U.S. battle fleet at Pearl Harbor. FDR’s cutoff of oil to Japan was thus a primary cause of WWII in the Pacific, which led to hundreds of thousands of U.S. war dead, the destruction of Japan, Mao’s triumph in China and a U.S. war in Korea. A second stunning use of the oil ...
Detroit: Middle Eastern Jihadist Bomber Found Guilty of Immigration Fraud
Post Date: 2014-11-11 11:38:52 by nativist nationalist
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The recent guilty verdict in the trial of a convicted terrorist bomber for immigration fraud is another reminder of how inept the feds are at barring the entrance of dangerous people into America. Numerous war criminals have been admitted to this country because of plain sloppy investigation of immigrants’ backgrounds by an unconcerned bureaucracy. The case is hardly a confidence builder for the idea that the government could responsibly handle an amnesty for millions of lawbreaking foreigners that would still protect public safety. In addition, the Obama administration has ordered eased immigration standards so that Syrians with limited terror ties could be admitted. The White House ...
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