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Iran’S Ahmadinejad Pushes New World Order, End To American ‘Bullying’
Post Date: 2012-09-25 23:20:05 by Brian S
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NEW YORK — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (ah-muh-DEE’-neh-zhahd) says that a new world order needs to emerge, away from American “bullying” and domination. Ahmadinejad spoke to The Associated Press Tuesday in a wide-ranging interview on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly — his last as president of Iran. He also discussed solutions for Syria, dismissed the question of Iran’s nuclear ambition and claimed that despite Western sanctions his country is better off than it was when he took office in 2005. Ahmadinejad tells the AP, “God willing, a new order will come together and we’ll do away with everything that distances us.” He ...
China's Launched Its First Aircraft Carrier To Coincide With Japanese Conflict In The East China Sea
Post Date: 2012-09-25 16:06:29 by Brian S
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After months of development, China officially launched its much anticipated aircraft carrier, the Associated Press reports today. Named the Liaoning, the ship has yet to carry any aircraft however. Building the planes and teaching pilots to launch them is a high priority, but it's a complex process that will take some time to create and then to master. The former Soviet flattop Varyag was languishing in a Ukraine shipyard when picked up for a song by the Chinese in 1998. Since then, the Chinese have been hard at work coming up with the missing elements required to turn the ship into a fortress of the sea. The Varyag was missing the propulsion, navigation, and communication systems ...
GOP backer Adelson accused of commandeering Israel's media market
Post Date: 2012-09-24 23:11:42 by Brian S
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Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, who has poured millions into GOP coffers, also bankrolls a pro-Netanyahu Israeli newspaper that could transform the media market. Casino owner Sheldon Adelson attends a campaign fundrasing event with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney at Red Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Friday, Sept. 21.(Charles Dharapak/AP) By Joshua Mitnickposted September 24, 2012 at 3:21 pm EDT Tel Aviv Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson grabbed the spotlight in the US earlier this year for making multi-million dollar campaign contributions to Republican presidential candidates on the bet that their policies would better jibe with those of Israeli Prime Minister ...
Panic cash withdrawals in Spain drain banks; Greece-style economic implosion now imminent
Post Date: 2012-09-24 17:22:03 by Capitalist Eric
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(NaturalNews) Spain appears poised to become the next Greece in the ongoing European Union (EU) implosion, as Spaniards are withdrawing record amounts of funds from Spanish banks to avoid a potential insolvency situation. According to the New York Times (NYT), the equivalent of $94 billion was withdrawn from Spanish banks in July, an amount that equals seven percent of the country's overall economic output. Though stronger overall compared to Greece in terms of economic diversity and debt levels, Spain is undeniably on a downward economic spiral that is sending many of its people and their money to other countries like England, Germany, and Singapore, where economic conditions are ...
Obama Disses Benjamin Netanyahu, Dismisses Israel Criticism As 'Noise'
Post Date: 2012-09-24 10:48:06 by Brian S
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President Barack Obama is already facing criticism over remarks he made in an interview with CBS' Sixty Minutes Sunday night, in which he appeared to dismiss criticism of his administration's policies toward Israel as mere "noise." Asked whether he feels pressured by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take action on Iran, Obama said that he agrees with Israel's insistence that Iran not be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon. But, he continued, "when it comes to our national security decisions — any pressure that I feel is simply to do what's right for the American people. And I am going to block out — any noise that's out ...
Republican Defense Hawks Pushes Romney To Break From Obama's Afghan Strategy
Post Date: 2012-09-23 15:58:49 by Brian S
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Republican defense hawks are urging Mitt Romney to separate himself from President Obama on Afghanistan and back an extended presence for U.S. troops in the country. The advice comes as the White House hits the halfway point in its timeline to withdraw all U.S. troops and after Romney faced criticism for not mentioning the Afghan conflict in his acceptance speech for the Republican nomination. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told The Hill on Wednesday the Romney camp needed to distance itself from the Obama administration's goal of pulling all American forces from Afghanistan by 2014. They should, instead, pursue a war plan focused on "what we leave behind" in the country, not ...
Libya: Islamist militia bases stormed in Benghazi
Post Date: 2012-09-22 19:24:42 by Fibr Dog
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The militia suspected of killing the US ambassador to Libya nearly two weeks ago has been driven out of its base in the eastern city of Benghazi. Police and protesters stormed the HQ of the Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia. The HQ of the Sahaty Brigade, said to have official backing, was also stormed. At least nine people were killed there, another died elsewhere. The attack on the US consulate was triggered by an amateur video made in the US which mocks Islam. Protests against the film have been held across the Muslim world. At least 19 people died in Pakistan on Friday alone, in clashes with police trying to stop protesters attacking US diplomatic buildings. US citizens have been urged ...
Obama's Tragic Foreign Policy Failure in the Middle East
Post Date: 2012-09-22 18:12:42 by jwpegler
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Over the last couple of weeks, the Muslim world has exploded in anti-America protests that have left more than a dozen people dead, including the American Ambassador to Libya and three other Americans. The violence started on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America that killed 3,000 Americans. Initially, the Obama administration insisted that the violence was a random response to some obscure film, made by an Egyptian Coptic Christian who had immigrated to America. The film had depicted the Muslim "Profit" Muhammad in a less than flattering light. As we later learned, the attack on the American Consulate in Benghazi, Libya was part of a planned, ...
Iran Unveils New Anti-Aircraft System
Post Date: 2012-09-21 17:55:05 by Brian S
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Iranian military leaders unveiled a new missile defense system Friday that is built to destroy “aggressive” U.S. aircraft, according to reports. The system, dubbed Ra’d, “has been built in a bid to confront U.S. aircraft and can hit targets 50km in distance and 75,000 feet in altitude,” Iranian General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the nation’s Aerospace Force Brigadier, told Iran’s Fars News Agency Friday. The new system is evidence that Iran’s military capabilities are becoming more sophisticated as it gets closer to building nuclear weapons capabilities, foreign policy experts told the Free Beacon. “This means the clock is ticking ...
French Politician Pushes Ban On Muslim Veils And Jewish Skullcaps In Public...
Post Date: 2012-09-21 17:53:55 by Brian S
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French right-wing politician Marine Le Pen on Friday suggested Jews should be banned from wearing the kippa, or ritual head-covering for Jewish males, in public places. “Obviously, if the veil is banned, the kipah [should be] banned in public as well,” the French daily Le Monde quoted Le Pen, leader of the National Front, as saying in an interview published on Friday. Le Pen’s anti-immigrant, anti-Islamist party long has supported a ban on Muslim headscarves, niqabs and burkas. France’s minister of education, Vincent Peillon, said Le Pen “was fanning the flames of fundamentalism” with her statements. “She is the main fundamentalist,” he said. In ...
Last U.S. ‘Surge’ Troops Leave Afghanistan
Post Date: 2012-09-21 11:06:17 by Brian S
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The last of the 33,000 US soldiers that President Barack Obama sent to Afghanistan nearly three years ago as part of a military surge have left the country, US defense officials said. The withdrawal, which began in July, follows an unprecedented number of NATO soldiers being shot dead by their Afghan colleagues — 51 so far this year — and comes as anti-Western protests sweep Muslim countries. There are still some 68,000 US military forces in Afghanistan, as well as some 40,000 from NATO’s ISAF coalition. The US-led effort to contain the Taliban insurgency involves a phased withdrawal of troops as newly trained Afghan forces take their place. The plan is for Afghans to take ...
Republican Party ‘Cranks’ Threatening Growth, Swan Says
Post Date: 2012-09-21 10:53:09 by Brian S
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Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan said “cranks and crazies” in the U.S. Republican Party are threatening economic growth as Congress remains deadlocked on tax increases and spending cuts set to take effect in January. “Let’s be blunt and acknowledge the biggest threat to the world’s biggest economy are the cranks and crazies that have taken over the Republican Party,” Swan said in a speech in Sydney today. “Global markets are nervously watching the positioning of hardline elements of the Republican Party for signs that they will dangerously block reasonable attempts at compromise.” U.S. lawmakers are deadlocked over how to resolve the so- called ...
Govt declares national holiday in response to anti-Islam film
Post Date: 2012-09-20 21:26:22 by A K A Stone
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* Cabinet decides to observe Youm-e-Ishq-e-Rasool (PBUH) tomorrow * PTA asked to enter into an agreement with YouTube for blocking any sacrilegious material By Tanveer Ahmed ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet on Wednesday declared Friday (tomorrow) a national holiday and decided to observe it as Yaum-e-Ishq-e-Rasool (PBUH) against the blasphemous film, which has hurt the sentiments of Muslims worldwide. An Ishq-e-Rasool Conference would be held tomorrow morning to convey a message that sentiments of Pakistani people were hurt by the anti-Islam film, Information and Broadcasting Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira told the reporters after the cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Raja Pervez ...
Girls beat up Iran cleric over dress code
Post Date: 2012-09-20 21:13:55 by A K A Stone
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Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- They may be a far cry from their Western counterparts fighting for the acceptance to breast-feed -- or go topless -- in public, but two girls clobbered a cleric recently in a small town in Iran when he admonished one of them to cover herself more completely. The cleric said he asked "politely," but the girl's angry reaction and some pugilistic double-teaming with her friend landed the holy man in the hospital, according to an account Monday in the semiofficial Mehr News Agency. Hojatoleslam Ali Beheshti said he encountered the girls on his way to the mosque in the village of Shahmirzad for noon prayers in late August. Women's bodies: The public ...
Obama pressed on failures at Univision forum
Post Date: 2012-09-20 20:56:57 by calcon
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CORAL GABLES, Fla. – President Barack Obama on Thursday faced some of the toughest questioning of his reelection campaign to date, pressed repeatedly on his failure to achieve comprehensive immigration reform and other unmet promises from his 2008 run. The Univision presidential forum at the University of Miami here kicked off with grilling on another topic which brought mounting criticism from Republicans Thursday: The government’s decision to label as a terrorist attack the violence at the consulate in Benghazi which killed American Christopher Stevens. (Also on POLITICO: Obama: Romney needs to get out more) Asked why the United States was not better prepared, with better ...
Picture of Ted Stevens over dead Muammar Khadaffi's body
Post Date: 2012-09-20 19:06:35 by A K A Stone
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Dead Christopher Stevens: Just a Pawn in the Game by KENNY'S SIDE SHOW Dead Christopher Stevens: Just a Pawn in the Game (September 15, 2012) This is a very rare image of the former US ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens who died alongside three other embassy staff following an attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi last Wednesday. The image shows Christopher Stevens leaning over {alleged} Muammar Ghaddafi's body after the heinous murder of the former Libyan strongman by a gang of rebels. Reportedly, Christopher Stevens was deeply involved with anti-Ghaddafi rebels. Ambassador Stevens, had directed illegal arms supply to various groups of rebels including Al-Qaeda members ...
Exclusive: Western Report - Iran Ships Arms, Personnel To Syria Via Iraq
Post Date: 2012-09-20 12:13:58 by Brian S
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UNITED NATIONS | Wed Sep 19, 2012 6:40pm EDT (Reuters) - Iran has been using civilian aircraft to fly military personnel and large quantities of weapons across Iraqi airspace to Syria to aid President Bashar al-Assad in his attempt to crush an 18-month uprising against his government, according to a Western intelligence report seen by Reuters. Earlier this month, U.S. officials said they were questioning Iraq about Iranian flights in Iraqi airspace suspected of ferrying arms to Assad, a staunch Iranian ally. On Wednesday, U.S. Senator John Kerry threatened to review U.S. aid to Baghdad if it does not halt such overflights. Iraq says it does not allow the passage of any weapons through ...
Lookie Lookie Mohammad is Naked.
Post Date: 2012-09-19 18:46:06 by A K A Stone
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Beijing Hints At Bond Attack On Japan
Post Date: 2012-09-19 13:43:36 by Brian S
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A senior advisor to the Chinese government has called for an attack on the Japanese bond market to precipitate a funding crisis and bring the country to its knees, unless Tokyo reverses its decision to nationalise the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu islands in the East China Sea. Jin Baisong from the Chinese Academy of International Trade – a branch of the commerce ministry – said China should use its power as Japan’s biggest creditor with $230bn (£141bn) of bonds to “impose sanctions on Japan in the most effective manner” and bring Tokyo’s festering fiscal crisis to a head. Writing in the Communist Party newspaper China Daily, Mr Jin called on China to invoke ...
France To Close Embassies In Fear Of Prophet Mohammed Cartoon Backlash
Post Date: 2012-09-19 11:26:15 by Brian S
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France announced Wednesday it will close 20 embassies across the Muslim world on Friday after French weekly Charlie Hebdo published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed naked, amid growing unrest over an anti-Islamic film that has left dozens dead. The French foreign ministry announced Wednesday that France will close 20 of its embassies in Muslim countries this Friday following the publication of controversial Prophet Mohammed cartoons by satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. Major protests in the Muslim world generally take place after Friday prayers. The illustrations, which show the Prophet Mohammed naked and refer to the incendiary US-made film which has been fueling deadly unrest among Muslim ...
ACLU Takes CIA To Court Over Drone Strikes
Post Date: 2012-09-19 11:19:21 by Brian S
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The American Civil Liberties Union will go to court on Thursday in an attempt to get the CIA to hand over documents related to President Barack Obama‘s controversial “targeted killing” programme that uses unmanned drones to strike suspected Islamic militants. The programme has been repeatedly referenced in public by numerous senior officials, including by Obama himself and defence secretary Leon Panetta, but the spy agency has refused to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request from the civil liberties group because it says it will not confirm the secretive use of drones. As a result the ACLU has gone to court to argue that the CIA cannot deny the existence of a ...
New Hampshire: Romney 48%, Obama 45%
Post Date: 2012-09-19 10:56:20 by calcon
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Mitt Romney has now taken the lead in the swing state of New Hampshire. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in New Hampshire shows Romney with 48% support to President Obama’s 45%. Four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate, and three percent (3%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.) (Want a free daily e-mail update? If it's in the news, it's in our polls). Rasmussen Reports updates are also available on Twitter or Facebook. This New Hampshire survey of 500 Likely Voters was conducted on September 18, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field ...
Oops! Turns out Romney 47% tape was 'doctored'
Post Date: 2012-09-19 10:43:05 by calcon
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We can take it from the mainstream media themselves that when embarrassing tapes turn out to be missing any portion, they are "doctored" and therefore discredited. By this standard, the tape released of Mitt Romney discussing the 47% -- considered a fatal gaffe by the progs -- must be discarded. It turns out that despite claims by Mother Jones that the tapes were presented in full, there is an obvious gap in the recordings. Benny Johnson writes in The Blaze: about the videos posted on the MJ site: [Romney]"We do all these polls - I find it amazing. We poll all these people to see where you stand in the polls but 45 percent of the people vote for the Republicans and 48 or ...
US-Made Anti-Islam Film, Zionist False Flag Operation: Analyst
Post Date: 2012-09-18 21:06:31 by Brian S
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Press TV has conducted an interview with author and Islamic Studies expert Kevin Barrett to discuss a recent movie made in the US denigrating Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Outrage has spread across much of the Muslim world following the release of the trailer of the anti-Islam film made in the US. Protests condemning the blasphemous film have been held in many different countries including Iran, Sudan, Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia, Australia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Malaysia. Press TV: Your take on the many different perspectives on the discussions out there, in looking at the reasons behind this. How likely is one of the causes to try to cause division between the religions, which actually there ...
The Data Behind Romney’s 47% Comments
Post Date: 2012-09-18 13:51:52 by calcon
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In his comments to fundraisers captured on video, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said 47% of Americans would almost automatically vote for President Barack Obama because they were “dependent” on the government, in part because they received government benefits and paid no federal income taxes. In a press conference late Monday, Mr. Romney said his comments were “not elegantly stated” while at the same time reiterating the main point. Our translation: If you don’t pay federal income taxes, you may not be swayed by a candidate that wants to cut them. Here’s a rundown of the data behind Mr. Romney’s argument, some of which he correctly stated ...
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