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Greek Schools ‘Fertile Ground For Neo-Nazis’
Post Date: 2012-12-06 10:48:05 by Brian S
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Schools in crisis-hit Greece are proving fertile ground for Golden Dawn, the neo-Nazi group suspected of orchestrating attacks on migrants whose popularity is on the rise, anti-racism activists warn. Once a secretive group on the fringe of Greek politics, Golden Dawn picked up over 400,000 votes in a June election dominated by anti-austerity anger. Capitalising on popular anger with the perceived decades-old corruption of mainstream parties, the group elected 18 lawmakers in the 300-seat Greek parliament and is now the party of choice for one in 10 Greeks, polls show. Still thin on numbers, Golden Dawn now seeks to spread the word to the next generation. In November, a brawl broke out ...
China To Continue To Make Ties With Russia A Priority: Wen
Post Date: 2012-12-05 23:54:58 by Brian S
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MOSCOW, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- Premier Wen Jiabao said Wednesday on his arrival in Moscow that China will continue to make relations with Russia one of its priorities. Wen made the remarks in a written speech delivered at the airport Wednesday evening after a visit to Kyrgyzstan, where the Chinese premier attended the prime ministers' meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). With international and regional situations becoming more and more complicated, Wen said, China and Russia should continue to deepen their comprehensive strategic coordination partnership and push their cooperation to a higher level. China is willing to double its efforts to implement the consensus ...
Israel Asking to Bomb Syria's Chemical Weapons
Post Date: 2012-12-05 22:41:26 by A K A Stone
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Syria has loaded chemical weapons into bombs; awaiting attack order from Assad
Post Date: 2012-12-05 22:37:03 by A K A Stone
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U.S. officials say the Syrian military has loaded active chemical weapons into bombs and is awaiting a final order from embattled President Bashar Assad to use the deadly weapons against its own people. NBC News reports that on Wednesday the Syrian military loaded sarin gas into aerial bombs that could be deployed from dozens of aircraft. The last large-scale use of sarin was in 1988, when former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's forces killed 5,000 Kurds in a single attack. However, U.S. officials told NBC that the sarin bombs had not yet been loaded onto planes but added if Assad gives the final order, "there's little the outside world can do to stop it." The Syrian ...
Blood Is Shed as Egyptian President’s Backers and Rivals Battle in Cairo
Post Date: 2012-12-05 22:28:20 by A K A Stone
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CAIRO — Angry mobs of Islamists battled secular protesters with fists, rocks and firebombs in the streets around the presidential palace for hours Wednesday night in the first major outbreak of violence between political factions here since the revolt against then-President Hosni Mubarak began nearly two years ago. Three senior advisers to Mr. Mubarak’s successor, Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first freely elected president, resigned during the clashes, blaming him for the bloodshed, and his prime minister implored both sides to pull back in order to make room for “dialogue.” The scale of the clashes, in an affluent neighborhood just outside Mr. Morsi’s office in ...
Hamas to create first Palestinian Defense Ministry
Post Date: 2012-12-05 22:24:34 by A K A Stone
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Move comes in response to Operation Pillar of Defense, Hamas Interior Minister says, “following the [Israeli] aggression, Hamas has drawn all the conclusions to avoid any negative developments and activate innovations.” Hamas is about to establish its own “Defense Ministry” in the Gaza Strip as part of lessons drawn from Operation Pillar of Defense, Hamas Interior Minister Fathi Hammad announced on Wednesday. Hammad, who is in charge of the Hamas security apparatus in the Gaza Strip, made the announcement during a ceremony to honor policemen and security officers for their role during last month’s IDF air offensive. Hammad did not say when the new ministry ...
Wal-Mart Nixed Paying Bangladesh Suppliers to Fight Fire
Post Date: 2012-12-05 15:33:40 by Brian S
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At a meeting convened in 2011 to boost safety at Bangladesh garment factories, Wal- Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) made a call: paying suppliers more to help them upgrade their manufacturing facilities was too costly. The comments from a Wal-Mart sourcing director appear in minutes of the meeting, which was attended by more than a dozen retailers including Gap Inc. (GPS), Target Corp. and JC Penney Co. Details of the meeting have emerged after a fire at a Bangladesh factory that made clothes for Wal-Mart and Sears Holdings Corp. killed more than 100 people last month. The blaze has renewed pressure on companies to improve working conditions in Bangladesh, where more than 700 garment workers have ...
Iran Tells US To ‘Recount’ Drones
Post Date: 2012-12-05 10:16:01 by Brian S
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards are telling the United States to “recount” the drones in its fleet as they insist that — despite US denials — they captured a small US unmanned spy plane over Gulf waters, Iranian media said Wednesday. “Its capture is not an issue the Americans can easily refute,” Guards spokesman Brigadier General Ramezan Sharif was quoted as saying. “I advise the American commanders to recount their drones accurately,” he said. The Guards on Tuesday claimed to have recently captured a ScanEagle drone, a low- cost, short-range unmanned aircraft made by Boeing that measures 1.4 metres (4.5 feet) long and with a wingspan of three ...
East Germany's secret police sold citizens to western pharmaceutical companies to use as human guinea pigs in drug trials
Post Date: 2012-12-05 09:46:09 by A K A Stone
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Former Communist East Germany secretly sold its citizens to western pharmaceutical companies to use as human guinea pigs in drug trials. Tens of thousands of sick people in the former German Democratic Republic were treated with medicines not approved in the West to see how effective they were. Details of the top secret project have been unearthed in the files of the Stasi secret police in Berlin. The communist regime profited with millions in hard currency. But the human cost was high with dozens killed through side effects of drugs which had bypassed the normally stringent testing procedures demanded by western democracies. Even worse, some patients received placebos - pills that did ...
Two men suspected of killing friend and resorting to cannibalism after getting lost for three months on fishing trip to Siberia
Post Date: 2012-12-05 09:36:58 by A K A Stone
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Two fishermen lost in Siberia are suspected of killing and eating their friend in order to survive, it was claimed last night.
A fourth man is also missing, leading to fears that he, too, was murdered and cannibalised.
Alexander Abdullaev, 37, and Alexei Gradulenko, 35, were plucked to safety by a rescue helicopter having survived temperatures lower than minus 30C three months after embarking on their fishing trip.
But police also found the remains of one of their friends, his body so hacked to pieces that he has not been identified.
A wooden stake was found nearby close to a bloodstained jacket, reported the Siberian Times.
'We suspect, the two survivors could have ...
Mission Qatar: Sequestration of Exhalation
Post Date: 2012-12-05 00:13:42 by A K A Stone
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UN Calls on Israel to Open Nuclear Program to Inspections
Post Date: 2012-12-04 22:19:14 by Hondo68
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General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling on Israel to join the NPT and allow IAEA inspectors The UN General Assembly has overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling on Israel to open its nuclear program for inspection “without further delay.” Israel’s advanced nuclear arsenal has long been understood to exist, although it hasn’t been officially admitted by the Israeli government. Many have argued Israel’s possession of nuclear weapons is what drives the accelerated Iranian program and causes other regional instability. The resolution was approved on Monday by a vote of 174-6 with 6 abstentions and calls on Israel to join the Nuclear ...
Iran Claims It Captured U.S. Drone
Post Date: 2012-12-04 10:09:15 by Brian S
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TEHRAN, IRAN Iran claimed Tuesday it had captured a U.S. drone after it entered Iranian airspace over the Persian Gulf -- even showing an image of a purportedly downed craft on state TV -- but the U.S. Navy said all its unmanned aircraft in the region were "fully accounted for." The conflicting accounts still leave the possibility that the drone claimed by Iran, a Boeing-designed ScanEagle, could have been plucked from the sea in the past and unveiled for maximum effect following escalating tensions over U.S. surveillance missions in the Gulf. Other countries in the region, such as the United Arab Emirates, also have ScanEagle drones in their fleets. Cmdr. Jason Salata, a ...
Israel’s List of Friends Keeps Getting Shorter
Post Date: 2012-12-04 10:01:25 by Brian S
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When I made an appointment to see Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard last week, I hoped we would spend most of our time discussing her new effort to better integrate her country into Asia. Gillard’s pivot toward Asia, much like U.S. President Barack Obama’s, reflects the self- evident truth that China and its neighbors are her country’s biggest markets and the source of many of its new immigrants. Now the pivot has been paralyzed midrotation by events from that most unpromising corner of the world, the Middle East. I saw Gillard in Canberra after one of her rougher weeks as prime minister. She was already being shellacked by the opposition, and by much of the news ...
UN Control Of The Internet Would Mean UN Control Of Free Speech
Post Date: 2012-12-04 00:42:15 by A K A Stone
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If the UN is given control of the Internet, that would be a massive step toward making the UN a true global government. The Internet is the number one venue for free speech and freedom of expression on the planet today, and if the UN is given authority over the Internet it would only be a matter of time before free speech is severely cracked down on. Of course it would not happen immediately. At first, UN officials would likely mostly keep their promises of maintaining a "free and open Internet". But inevitably you would see them act to remove "terrorists" from the Internet, to crack down on "hate speech" and to repress any "politically incorrect" speech that is likely to insult anyone ...
Global Governance Begins on December 14
Post Date: 2012-12-04 00:37:40 by A K A Stone
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The International Telecommunications Union (ITU), an imprint of the UN, is holding its World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) from December 3-14, 2012. The stated purpose of the WCIT is to update the UN's "global treaty" on telecommunications to deal more directly and comprehensively with the internet. Knowing who controls the UN, it is not hard to see that a primary aim of the updated "treaty" will be to give credence to the regulation and monitoring of online activity in ways that are desirable to the (authoritarian) majority of member states. Here is a portion of the ITU's official explanation of the need for a new regulatory regime, in ...
Protesters Reportedly Chant ‘Kill The Jews’ In Central Vienna
Post Date: 2012-12-03 16:11:07 by Brian S
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(JTA) -- Protesters in Vienna reportedly called out “death to the Jews” at a demonstration near the Austrian chancellor’s office. About 400 people participated in the demonstration on Nov. 30, according to reports by the Coordination Forum for Countering Anti-Semitism, an international organization, and Judische.at, an Austrian-Jewish news site. The demonstrators chanted “Ithbakh al yahud” (“Kill the Jews” in Arabic) and “Free Palestine,” as well as “Freedom for Syria” and “Destroy Israel.” The report said Viennese police did not intervene in the procession, which took place in the center of the Austrian capital. The ...
U.S. Extradites Alleged Jewish Day School Sex Abuser To Australia
Post Date: 2012-12-03 16:06:35 by Brian S
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SYDNEY (JTA) -- A former teacher at a Jewish boys' school in Melbourne was returned to Australia to face sexual abuse charges. David Kramer, 52, was surrendered by U.S. authorities on Nov. 29 and extradited to Australia. He is accused of sexually abusing children at Yeshivah College, a Chabad- run school where he worked as a teacher from 1989 to 1992. Kramer is scheduled to appear in court on Monday to face 10 counts of indecent assault on minors and two counts of indecent acts with a child under 16, a Victoria Police statement said. Manny Waks, a spokesman for the alleged Jewish victims of child abuse in Australia, said he was "delighted" that Kramer was extradited to ...
Flow of Arms to Syria Through Iraq Persists, to U.S. Dismay
Post Date: 2012-12-02 12:53:41 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON — The American effort to stem the flow of Iranian arms to Syria has faltered because of Iraq’s reluctance to inspect aircraft carrying the weapons through its airspace, American officials say. The shipments have persisted at a critical time for President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, who has come under increasing military pressure from rebel fighters. The air corridor over Iraq has emerged as a main supply route for weapons, including rockets, antitank missiles, rocket-propelled grenade and mortars. Iran has an enormous stake in Syria, which is its staunchest Arab ally and has also provided a channel for Iran’s support to the Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah. To ...
Convicted Israeli Spy Jonathan Pollard Hospitalized After Collapsing In Prison
Post Date: 2012-12-02 12:38:46 by Brian S
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The convicted Israeli spy, 58, has reportedly suffered from severe pains in recent weeks • In August 2011 Pollard underwent emergency kidney surgery and last April he was rushed to the hospital after his health deteriorated significantly. Convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, who is serving a life sentence in the U.S. has been hospitalized after collapsing in prison over the weekend, according to the Knesset control committee charged with trying to secure his release. In recent weeks Pollard, 58, has suffered from severe pains, although it was still unclear whether his latest medical emergency was related to his existing ailments. Pollard's wife Esther, who was notified of his ...
Iranian Jewish woman cut in half, media silent
Post Date: 2012-12-01 09:03:24 by A K A Stone
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On Thursday, Israel Radio reported that a Jewish woman in Isfahan, Iran, was murdered and cut in half by Muslim extremists who wanted to take over her home.
Israel Radio said that according to relatives, the woman lived next to a newly built mosque, and worshippers "had demanded that she and her family leave their home so the mosque could be expanded."
The woman complained to authorities, and in response, a group of thugs came to her house, murdered her and allegedly cut her in two.
"The event left the Jewish community in Iran, estimated to be around 25,000 people, worried and fearing escalating violence against it," Israel Radio said.
Daniel Greenfield reminded readers at ...
Could A New Palestinian State Bring Israel To The ICC?
Post Date: 2012-11-30 10:34:55 by Brian S
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AFP - If Palestine achieves UN "non-member observer status" on Thursday, it could open the door for the International Criminal Court to investigate crimes committed during the decades-long Israel-Palestinian conflict. While the possibility of swift prosecutions of Israelis is slim, the spectre of such cases being brought before the ICC has overshadowed the Palestinians' bid. Britain notably said it would abstain from the vote unless the Palestinians pledged not to seek an ICC case against Israelis. Based in The Hague, the ICC can prosecute those guilty of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, committed since July 1, 2002, when its founding treaty, the Rome ...
Hungary Far-Right MP Slams Israeli Presence In Parliament
Post Date: 2012-11-30 10:30:24 by Brian S
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A storm over apparent anti-Semitic remarks in Hungary's parliament continued unabated Thursday, as a far-right Jobbik deputy called publicly for the resignation of a fellow MP who claimed to have Israeli citizenship. At a press conference, Jobbik deputy Elod Novak said it was unacceptable that Katalin Ertsey, a deputy of the small opposition party LMP, had kept her dual Hungarian-Israeli citizenship secret and called for her resignation. He later told news portal Index, "Israel has more deputies in the Hungarian parliament than they have in the Israeli Knesset." This was why the Hungarian parliament made so many decisions that were favorable to the Israel, he added, without ...
Benghazi explained: Interview with an “Intelligence Insider” [Parts 1 & 2]
Post Date: 2012-11-29 17:29:54 by Capitalist Eric
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Part 1 It’s been a while since we’ve discussed Benghazi. What have you heard lately? II: Before I answer that, I want to get a few things off my chest. Every politician, whether it’s a congressman senator, diplomat, or their spokespeople and the media are lying to the American public every time they call the location of the attack a consulate. It was not. There was absolutely no diplomatic consulate in Benghazi. None. Words are important here. They can create a wrong image, an incorrect picture of what was really going on. The property where our Ambassador and other Americans were murdered was a rented villa consisting of a primary residence with a couple of outbuildings ...
Palestinians Win Implicit U.N. Recognition Of Sovereign State
Post Date: 2012-11-29 17:16:21 by Brian S
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(Reuters) - The 193-nation U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution on Thursday to upgrade the Palestinian Authority's observer status at the United Nations from "entity" to "non-member state," implicitly recognizing a Palestinian state. There were 138 votes in favor, nine against and 41 abstentions.
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