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China manufacturing dips to a nine-month low in August
Post Date: 2012-09-02 22:35:01 by A K A Stone
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China's manufacturing activity fell to a nine-month low in August, adding to fears that its economy is slowing faster than estimated. The official Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) fell to 49.2, the lowest reading since November 2011, data released over the weekend showed. PMI is a key gauge of manufacturing activity and a reading below 50 shows contraction. Analysts said China was being hurt by a slowdown in global and domestic demand. "China's manufacturing sector continues to struggle, weighed down by a significant domestic slowdown, a wholly unsupportive external climate and a completely insufficient policy response," Alistair Thornton of IHS Global Insight said ...
Desmond Tutu Says Bush And Blair Should Face Trial At International Criminal Court Over Iraq
Post Date: 2012-09-02 13:04:13 by Brian S
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LONDON — Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu called Sunday for Tony Blair and George Bush to face prosecution at the International Criminal Court for their role in the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq Tutu, the retired Anglican Church’s archbishop of South Africa, wrote in an op-ed piece for The Observer newspaper that the ex-leaders of Britain and the United States should be made to “answer for their actions.” The Iraq war “has destabilized and polarized the world to a greater extent than any other conflict in history,” wrote Tutu, who was awarded the Nobel prize in 1984. “Those responsible for this suffering and loss of life should be treading the ...
Israel About to Go Nuclear, Iran to Re-enter Stone Age
Post Date: 2012-09-01 21:50:59 by A K A Stone
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Dateline: Tel Aviv From this moment the State of Israel declares a state of war exists between the State of Israel and the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Because Israel views the threats by the government of the IRI in conjunction with its efforts to develop nuclear weapons and means of delivery as existential threats, Israel will take all actions necessary, specifically including unilateral and preemptive military action, to protect its citizens from the threats posed by representatives of the government of the IRI and to assure Israel's continued survival. To minimize civilian casualties, the population of Iran should immediately and permanently evacuate populated areas ...
Iran: Bushehr Reactor Reaches Full Capacity
Post Date: 2012-09-01 12:27:48 by Brian S
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A senior Iranian nuclear official says the sole reactor at the country’s Bushehr nuclear power plant has reached full capacity. Iranian deputy nuclear chief Mohammad Ahmadian said Saturday the reactor was brought to its “full capacity of 1,000 megawatts” Friday evening. The reactor went into operation for the first time last year at minimum capacity. The Islamic Republic built the nuclear power plant in the southern Iranian port of Bushehr with Russian help. The facility is a cornerstone of Iran’s drive to become a technological leader among Muslim nations, with efforts such as a space program and long-range missile development. The United ...
U.S. Scales-Back Military Exercise with Israel, Affecting Potential Iran Strike
Post Date: 2012-09-01 12:24:20 by Brian S
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Seven months ago, Israel and the United States postponed a massive joint military exercise that was originally set to go forward just as concerns were brimming that Israel would launch a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. The exercise was rescheduled for late October, and appears likely to go forward on the cusp of the U.S. presidential election. But it won’t be nearly the same exercise. Well-placed sources in both countries have told TIME that Washington has greatly reduced the scale of U.S. participation, slashing by more than two-thirds the number of American troops going to Israel and reducing both the number and potency of missile interception systems at the core of the ...
Ya'alon: US Is Undermining Military Threat Against Iran
Post Date: 2012-08-31 16:35:44 by Brian S
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Vice premier says mixed messages from foreign powers help discredit the military option against Iranian nuclear facilities. Vice Premier Moshe Ya'alon said on Friday he feared Iran did not believe it faced a real military threat from the outside world because of mixed messages from foreign powers, including the United States. "We have an exchange of views, including with our friends in the United States, who in our opinion, are in part responsible for this feeling in Iran," he told Israel's 100FM radio station. "There are many cracks in the ring closing tighter on Iran. We criticize this," he said, also singling out UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for ...
Romney’sPre-Election Rhetoric On Russia Unacceptable – Putin’s Spokesman
Post Date: 2012-08-31 11:46:15 by Brian S
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Vladimir Putin’s press secretary has blasted Mitt Romney’s anti-Russian statements and said relations between the countries must not become hostage to the politician’s election battle. Dmitry Peskov was asked to comment on Romney saying he was not going to be as flexible in relations with Russia as his opponent President Barak Obama. “As the head of the state [Vladimir Putin] has repeatedly stressed, Russia always has been and in future always will be interested in the further development of bilateral Russian-American relations,” Peskov told reporters. He added that senior officials from both countries have stressed that bilateral relations shouldn’t be ...
Iran Increases Underground Nuclear Capacity Sharply-Diplomats
Post Date: 2012-08-30 15:23:21 by Brian S
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* Fordow site is buried deep underground for protection * Israel sees Iran's nuclear ambitions as existential threat * Iran denies nuclear weapons aims, says programme peaceful VIENNA, Aug 30 (Reuters) - A U.N. watchdog report is expected to show that Iran has expanded its potential capacity to refine uranium in an underground site by at least 30 percent since May, diplomats say, adding to Western worries over Tehran's nuclear aims. The U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is due this week to issue its latest quarterly report on Iran's disputed nuclear programme, which the West and Israel suspect is aimed at developing bombs. Tehran denies this. Language used by ...
Republican Senators Plan To Introduce Resolution Pledging Military, Economic And Diplomatic Backing For Israel Should It Strike Iran
Post Date: 2012-08-29 13:46:15 by Brian S
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TAMPA, Fla. (JTA) -- Republican senators plan to introduce a non-binding resolution pledging military, economic and diplomatic backing for Israel should it strike Iran. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told JTA on Tuesday that he and Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.) were drafting the resolution for introduction next month in the Senate. Graham, attending the Republican National Convention in Tampa this week, said he was seeking Democratic co-sponsors. The resolution would underscore the Senate's hopes for peace and for sanctions to force Iran to make its nuclear program more transparent, he said. "But in the event Israel had to take preventive action, we would have their back," ...
The RNC shouldn’t honor Ron Paul at the convention [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2012-08-29 10:05:09 by calcon
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With the cancellation of the first night of the Republican convention in Tampa, organizers scrambled to adjust the schedule and find space across the remaining three nights for events originally slated for Monday. Unfortunately, it appears that convention planners missed an opportunity to reverse the ridiculous and regrettable decision made by the Romney campaign to feature a video tribute to retiring congressman Ron Paul, who has not even endorsed Governor Romney. Paul did win as many as 175 delegates, and his acolytes are already trumpeting their supposed success in influencing the platform that will be unveiled in Tampa. Romney’s political advisers are of course more concerned with ...
Doug Casey on the 'Worsening Storm,' QE3 and the Hard Assets Alliance
Post Date: 2012-08-26 10:13:58 by Capitalist Eric
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Introduction: Doug Casey has appeared on hundreds of radio and TV shows and has been the subject of articles in People, US, Time, Forbes, The Washington Post and numerous other publications. For nearly three decades, Doug Casey: and his team have been correctly predicting major budding trends in the overall economy and commodity markets. Daily Bell: Welcome, Doug. Give us an update on what you call the "Greater Depression." Doug Casey:: A depression is a period of time when most people's standard of living drops significantly. I think we can argue that this one really started in 2008. For the last couple of years, by printing up trillions of currency units, governments have ...
U.S. Funds Israeli Missile Defense But Can’t Get the Technology
Post Date: 2012-08-24 21:07:30 by We The People
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The United States has spent over $200 million on a highly effective missile defense system and plans to spend nearly $700 million more on it — yet U.S. troops in the field, including the highest-ranking military officer in the land, are still largely at the mercy of insurgents’ rockets. Why?The answer is that U.S. taxpayers have been shelling out big bucks for the defense of a foreign country; and that country, in turn, has been unwilling to disclose to Washington the details of the missile defense system it is funding. All the while, a company owned by that same country’s government is raking in profits manufacturing and selling the system.The country in question is Israel, ...
Presstitute Media Cover-up Culture
Post Date: 2012-08-21 10:51:12 by Capitalist Eric
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Conspiracy theories have now blossomed into what the smug presstitute media calls a“conspiracy culture.” According to the presstitutes, Americans have to find some explanation for their frustrations and failings, so Americans shift the blame to the Bilderbergers, the Rothschilds, the New World Order and so forth and so on. Readers will not be surprised that I disagree with the presstitutes. Indeed, the conspiracy culture is the product of the presstitute media’s failure to investigate and to report truthfully. I am certain that the Western media is worse than the Soviet media was. The Soviet media devised ways for helping the public to read between the lines, whereas the ...
Obama 'cancelled missions to kill bin Laden THREE TIMES after getting cold feet - until Hillary Clinton stepped in
Post Date: 2012-08-20 18:21:28 by jwpegler
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Barack Obama cancelled three operations to kill Osama bin Laden before finally going ahead with the mission at the insistence of Hillary Clinton, according to a new book. The explosive allegation is contained in an expose by journalist Rich Miniter, who argues that the White House’s carefully-crafted narrative of Obama as a decisive leader who dispatched the al-Qaeda leader despite the doubts of advisers is a myth. Bin Laden was eventually killed by US Navy SEALs inside his compound in Abbotobad, Pakistan in May 2011. The killing of bin Laden is at the centre of Obama’s re-election campaign and is likely to be highlighted yet again by his aides on the eleventh anniversary of ...
BBC News HD - Julian Assange appears on Ecuadorian embassy balcony
Post Date: 2012-08-19 18:58:24 by Hondo68
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BREAKING NEWS: The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, has made his first public since entering the Ecuadorian embassy in London two months ago. He was granted asylum by Ecuador on Wednesday. Britain has said he should be extradited to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning about alleged sex offences, which he denies. Speaking from the balcony of the embassy, Mr Assange called on US President Barack Obama to "do the right thing" and for his government to "renounce its witch hunt against Wikileaks". Mr Assange called for the US government to "renounce its witch hunt against Wikileaks" Continue reading the main story Related Stories Julian Assange has ...
Megadeth Singer Obama 'Staged' Aurora Shooting Massacre
Post Date: 2012-08-15 18:36:38 by A K A Stone
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Dave Mustaine -- the lead singer of Megadeth -- believes Barack Obama "staged" the massacre in Aurora, CO in a sick, twisted plot to pass a gun ban. Mustaine made the comments on stage at an August 7 performance in Singapore ... when he told the crowd, "Back in my country, my president ... he's trying to pass a gun ban, so he's staging all of these murders, like the 'Fast And Furious' thing down at the border ... Aurora, Colorado, all the people that were killed there ... and now the beautiful people at the Sikh temple." He continued, "I don't know where I'm gonna live if America keeps going the way it's going because it looks like ...
Muslim Scumbags Hate This VIdeo
Post Date: 2012-08-15 08:37:28 by A K A Stone
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The Marketing of Paul Ryan [Romney's 'libertarian' running mate is anything but]
Post Date: 2012-08-14 12:44:36 by Capitalist Eric
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The Romney campaign is making a major effort to reach out to the Tea Party, grassroots conservative activists, and Ron Paul’s libertarian supporters. They’ve not only invited Rand Paul to speak at the Tampa convention, they’ve also scheduled a “Tribute to Ron Paul” video to be shown to the delegates. However, these are mere crumbs: the video is not likely to highlight Paul’s more interesting positions, such as his vociferous opposition to the American empire and its endless wars. No, the real cake, complete with quasi-“libertarian” frosting, is Paul Ryan, whose addition to the ticket opens up the prospect of having Ayn Rand, the late novelist and ...
The Facebook camera that can recognise you every time you walk into a shop
Post Date: 2012-08-14 00:42:42 by A K A Stone
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Shoppers could soon be automatically recognised when they walk into a shop using a controversial new camera. Called Facedeals, the camera uses photos uploaded to Facebook to recognise people as they walk in. Shoppers who agree to use the system, which has not been developed with Facebook, will be offered special deals. A promotional video created to promote the concept shows drinkers entering a bar, and then being offerend cheap drinks as they are recognised. 'Facebook check-ins are a powerful mechanism for businesses to deliver discounts to loyal customers, yet few businesses—and fewer customers—have realized it,' said Nashville-based advertising agency Redpepper. ...
Lebanese protest anal exams on suspected homosexuals
Post Date: 2012-08-14 00:31:40 by A K A Stone
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Dozens of people demonstrated outside the law courts in the Lebanese capital on Saturday to protest the use of anal "tests" on men suspected of homosexuality, which is a criminal offence in the Arab country. The rally followed a July 28 police raid on a gay venue in a working class district of Beirut when 36 men were taken into custody and forced to undergo the examinations, reportedly to determine their sexual orientation. Lebanon-based HELEM, considered the Arab world's leading lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights group, called for the rally under the slogan: "Stand up against the tests of shame, vaginal or anal." It also voiced solidarity with ...
Obama married a Pakistani man [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2012-08-11 23:12:59 by Hondo68
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Barack Obama, the president of the United States of America, was previously married to a gay Pakistani man. That, at least, is according to a noted Tea Party activist and prominent 'birther' who swears that he has a case that is simply impermeable. Barely a year after US President Barack Obama buried the birther argument by providing the country with documentation verifying his American citizenship, an all-new conspiracy theory is being propagated after Jerome Corsi, an author and well-known member of the conservative Tea Party movement, says he has uncovered proof that links the commander-in-chief to a hush-hush marriage agreement with a Pakistani man.“The evidence, I think, ...
Proof of Evolution?
Post Date: 2012-08-10 23:12:11 by A K A Stone
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Is this proof of evolution? Look the whale is trying to fly. Look at his wings. No stupid there is no such thing as evolution. This is a picture of a baby humpback whale jumping out of the water. It was taken by Matt Thornton while guiding a fishing expedition.
Egypt Buries Soldiers as Brotherhood Questions Israel Ties
Post Date: 2012-08-07 12:35:05 by Brian S
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Thousands of Egyptians gathered for the funeral of 16 soldiers killed by militants in Sinai, in an attack that gave President Mohamed Mursi his most serious test since assuming office and led the Muslim Brotherhood to call for reviewing Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel. Mursi’s newly appointed Prime Minister Hisham Qandil was pelted by shoes during the ceremony, aired live on state television, as the flag-draped coffins of the soldiers killed on Aug. 5 were carried on a parade route where former President Anwar Sadat was assassinated more than 30 years ago. As troops held back the crowd, some mourners chanted that the military and people were “one hand,” while others ...
Israel Is Losing The Battle For Public Opinion In America
Post Date: 2012-08-06 17:03:40 by Brian S
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The government of Israel wants to talk about Iran, but a lot of people did not get the memo. For an important group of public intellectuals, the occupation of the West Bank is becoming more rather than less important. And we are not talking here about the usual cast of anti-Israel characters, but of mainstream journalists, scholars, and opinion makers – those who write in middle-of-the-road, general publications with a broad readership. Something is happening—a turning point, I suspect. No matter how much Israel’s leaders want to change the subject, it’s not working. Exhibit A, of course, is New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, whose already-famous column of ...
Romney Persona Non Grata in Italy for Bain’s Deal Skirting Taxes
Post Date: 2012-08-06 11:38:18 by Brian S
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Mitt Romney skipped Italy on his swing through Europe. That was probably prudent. That’s because Bain Capital, under Romney as chief executive officer, made about $1 billion in a leveraged buyout 12 years ago that remains controversial in Italy to this day. Bain was part of a group that bought a telephone-directory company from the Italian government and then sold it about two years later, at the peak of the technology bubble, for about 25 times what it paid. Bain funneled profits through subsidiaries in Luxembourg, a common corporate strategy for avoiding income taxes in other European countries, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg News. The buyer, Italy’s ...
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