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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 ...
Germany Bars US Pastor Terry Jones, Concerns Over 'Public Order'
Post Date: 2012-09-17 15:16:01 by Brian S
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US hate preacher Terry Jones, one of the supporters of the anti-Islam video "Innocence of Muslims," is to be banned from travelling to Germany. According to information obtained by SPIEGEL ONLINE, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has asked the Interior Ministry to prevent Jones from entering the country. A spokesman for the Interior Ministry said Sunday that a visit by Jones would "run counter to the interest of maintaining public order." The ban came in response to information that German far-right groups such as Pro Deutschland and Pro NRW plan to invite the preacher to Germany in the coming days. Sources close to the German Foreign Ministry said Westerwelle ...
US Diplomats At Beirut Embassy Destroy Classified Documents Amid Anti-American Protest
Post Date: 2012-09-17 12:05:31 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON — Diplomats at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut have started to destroy classified material as a security precaution amid anti-American protests in Lebanon and elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa. A State Department status report obtained Monday by The Associated Press said the Beirut embassy had “reviewed its emergency procedures and is beginning to destroy classified holdings.” It also said that local Lebanese employees were sent home early due to protests by the militant Shiite group Hezbollah over an anti-Muslim film produced in the U.S. In Washington, a State Department official said there was no imminent threat to the heavily fortified Beirut embassy, ...
Panetta Warns of War Between China and Japan Over Disputed Islands
Post Date: 2012-09-17 11:46:08 by Brian S
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(CNSNews.com) – Exchanging warnings but avoiding confrontations thus far, Chinese and Japanese ships have come within less than half a nautical mile of each other in an ongoing dispute over the sovereignty of contested islands. Amid deepening tensions in a long-running saga over the uninhabited islands, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned Sunday about the possibility of war between the two Asian countries. “What we don't want is to have any kind of provocative behavior on the part of China or anybody else result in conflict,” he told reporters accompanying him on a trip that includes stops in Japan, China and New Zealand. ...
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood President Leads, Obama Follows
Post Date: 2012-09-17 06:55:06 by A K A Stone
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Today, UN Ambassador Susan Rice explained to Jake Tapper of ABC News that America wasn’t “impotent” in the Middle East. What was her proof? Let's look at what's happened. It's quite the opposite of being impotent. We have worked with the governments in Egypt. President Obama picked up the phone and talked to President Morsi in Egypt. And as soon as he did that, the security provided to our personnel in our embassies dramatically increased. Tapper rightly pointed out that for two days, Egyptian President Morsi, an anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, anti-American Muslim Brotherhood leader, said nothing. But Rice continued: President Morsi has been out repeatedly and said ...
How Israel’s most daring rescue shaped Bibi Netanyahu.
Post Date: 2012-09-16 21:37:24 by A K A Stone
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Benjamin Netanyahu has been a fixture in public life for so long, it’s hard to imagine Israeli politics without him. But a new documentary about the death of Netanyahu’s older brother underscores the extent to which Bibi’s trajectory was not inevitable. As commander of the Israeli Army’s elite Sayeret Matkal unit in 1976, Yoni Netanyahu died rescuing Israeli hostages hijacked by Palestinian and German terrorists to Entebbe, Uganda. At the time, Bibi had been scaling the corporate knoll at the Boston Consulting Group, having graduated from MIT (he met Mitt Romney at BCG, and the two have kept in touch). He returned to Israel after the tragedy to start an antiterrorism ...
Ex-ambassador to Israel: U.S. will go to war with Iran in 2013
Post Date: 2012-09-16 21:21:25 by A K A Stone
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(CBS News) Former Ambassador to Israel, Martin Indyk, offered a dire prediction of a U.S. confrontation with Iran, saying it could escalate into war as early as next year. "I'm afraid that 2013 is going to be a year in which we're going to have a military confrontation with Iran," he said Sunday on "Face the Nation." Indyk joined a roundtable of foreign policy experts to discuss the latest protests in the Middle East and Israel's public statements pressuring the United States over Iran. The former ambassador said the time has not come, yet, that the U.S. needs to take military action. "Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon," he said. [W]hile ...
Winchester native Glen Doherty, a former Navy SEAL, among victims of Libya attack (working for a private company hired to provide security)
Post Date: 2012-09-16 16:20:22 by Hondo68
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VIDEO 1 Glen A. Doherty, a Winchester native who was a former Navy SEAL, was one of four Americans killed in Libya by a group of suspected Islamic terrorists, his sister said today. VIDEO 2 Doherty was 42 years old and was working as a security contractor when he was killed with US Ambassador John Christopher Stevens in the American consulate in Benghazi late Tuesday during what officials believe may have been a coordinated terrorist attack. “He was on security detail and he was protecting the ambassador and also helping the wounded’’ when he was killed, said his sister, Kate Quigley of Marblehead. Quigley said her family grew up in Winchester and that her brother wanted a ...
Latest Developments On Anti-Islam Film Protests
Post Date: 2012-09-16 14:37:48 by Brian S
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CAIRO (AP) -- Here's a look at protests and reaction across the Middle East and elsewhere Sunday over an anti-Muslim film produced in the U.S. ridiculing the Prophet Muhammad. --- PAKISTAN Hundreds of Pakistanis broke through a barricade near the U.S. Consulate in the southern city of Karachi, sparking clashes with police. One demonstrator was killed and more than a dozen others were injured. All Americans who work at the consulate, located in central Karachi, were safe, a U.S. Embassy official said. Thousands attended protests in other Pakistani cities, including Lahore and Dera Ismail Khan. Protesters in Lahore shouted anti-U.S. slogans and burned an American flag. --- UNITED ...
Armada of British naval power massing in the Gulf as Israel prepares an Iran strike
Post Date: 2012-09-15 21:35:42 by A K A Stone
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Battleships, aircraft carriers, minesweepers and submarines from 25 nations are converging on the strategically important Strait of Hormuz in an unprecedented show of force as Israel and Iran move towards the brink of war. Western leaders are convinced that Iran will retaliate to any attack by attempting to mine or blockade the shipping lane through which passes around 18 million barrels of oil every day, approximately 35 per cent of the world’s petroleum traded by sea. A blockade would have a catastrophic effect on the fragile economies of Britain, Europe the United States and Japan, all of which rely heavily on oil and gas supplies from the Gulf. The Strait of Hormuz is one of ...
Clinton wishes Muslims 'peaceful and joyous' Eid (Ramadan)
Post Date: 2012-09-15 19:34:46 by Hondo68
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WASHINGTON — Top US diplomat Hillary Clinton wished Muslims well for the feast of Eid al-Fitr marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan on Sunday in many countries."As we mark the end of Ramadan, the holy month of fasting and prayer for Muslims around the world, I am delighted to wish all Muslims a peaceful and joyous Eid al-Fitr," Clinton said in a statement."To honor this special time, Muslims in the United States and throughout the world will gather for Eid celebrations according to their rich and diverse traditions, celebrating the shared values of family, charity and community."Clinton, who hosts an iftar dinner marking the end of Ramadan's daily fast ...
The Libyan Scandal Deepens
Post Date: 2012-09-15 13:25:18 by calcon
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The Independent is reporting that the State Department had intelligence that American diplomatic facilities in the Middle East were being targeted, but did nothing to enhance security: According to senior diplomatic sources, the US State Department had credible information 48 hours before mobs charged the consulate in Benghazi, and the embassy in Cairo, that American missions may be targeted, but no warnings were given for diplomats to go on high alert and “lockdown”, under which movement is severely restricted. It is difficult to get a clear understanding of what happened in Benghazi. Chris Stevens had been traveling in other countries and only recently returned to Libya. There ...
Berlin Rejects Israeli Pressure Over Submarine Sales To Egypt
Post Date: 2012-09-15 11:29:06 by Brian S
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German Defence Minister Thomas de Maiziere dismissed Israeli pressure not to sell two submarines to Egypt, while acknowledging the country was “not as stable” as he would like in an interview published Saturday. “No country in the world has the right of veto to decisions taken by the German government,” the minister told the Frankfurter Rundschau when asked to comment on the probable sale of two Type 209 attack submarines. Questioned specifically about Israeli pressure not to go through with the deal, he repeated: “Nobody has the right of veto.” However he admitted that Egypt “is not as stable as I would like”, while stressing this was a ...
Egypt mediators try to remove Salafist Bedouin from MFO base. US force under siege
Post Date: 2012-09-15 10:38:36 by A K A Stone
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DEBKAfile: Contrary to Egyptian claims to be in control of the Multinational Force in northern Sinai base after its invasion by Salafist Bedouin gunmen Friday night, all they had managed to do by Saturday morning was to mediate between the New Zealand general who commands the base and the invaders on terms for their departure. The gunmen linked to al Qaeda still control the exits and entrances to the Al Ghora base, holding hundreds of US officers, soldiers and airmen to siege.
America Attacked: No time for a Metro-Sexual President
Post Date: 2012-09-15 09:42:45 by calcon
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Regarding the Libya attack, Romney said, "It's never too early for the United States government to condemn attacks on Americans and to defend our values." In our Oprah-rized, touchy-feely metro-sexual society, the mainstream media and Democrats are trying to portray Romney as an out-of-control reckless cowboy. This mindset that the slightest forcefulness and decisiveness is deemed to be extreme reflects the mainstream media's and the Democrat's decades long War on Testosterone. The left takes everything to its extreme. For example: If you believe the definition of marriage should remain between one man and one woman, the MSM and Democrats accuse you of hating gays and ...
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