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Hungary Lauds Hitler Ally Horthy as Orban Fails to Stop Hatred
Post Date: 2012-06-14 12:16:53 by Brian S
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Hungary has a new hero. Towns and villages are putting up statues and naming streets after Miklos Horthy, a former head of state who led the country into World War II on Adolf Hitler’s side. The base for a Horthy statue is already standing in Csokako, population 1,383, a village dotted with small vineyards an hour’s drive west of Budapest. The sculpture will be unveiled on June 16 in a park below the ruins of a 13th-century fort. From such hamlets to the halls of the neo-Gothic Parliament in Budapest, where the nationalist Jobbik is the second-largest opposition party, radicalism and its symbols are spreading as Hungary heads into its second recession in four years. Prime ...
Farage – The Euro Titanic Has Now Hit The Iceberg
Post Date: 2012-06-13 18:48:44 by Capitalist Eric
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Nigel Farage calls out European politicians advocating a celebration of the Spain bank in epic rant warning the Euro is now sinking. In an epic rant, trumping Biderman, UKIP’s Nigel Farage appears to have reached the limit of his frustration with his ‘peers’ in the European Parliament after the Spanish bailout. Rajoy’s proclamation that this bailout shows what a success the euro-zone has been, sends Farage over the edge as he sees the Spaniard as just about the most incompetent leader in the whole of Europe (up there with favorites like Van Rompuy and Barroso). The erudite Englishman notes that by any objective criteria “The Euro Has Failed” expanding on the ...
For The First Time In More Than A Decade, Bipartisan House Letter Seeks Pollard’s Release
Post Date: 2012-06-13 13:24:00 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Congressional Democrats and Republicans are joining forces for the first time in more than a decade in an effort to secure Jonathan Pollard's release. A bipartisan letter is circulating in the U.S. House of Representatives soliciting signatures on a letter to President Obama asking him to commute Pollard's sentence to time served. The "Dear Colleague" letter is signed by veteran House members Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Christopher Smith (R-N.J.). "What Mr. Pollard did was wrong. He broke the law and deserved to be punished for his crime," the letter to Obama reads. "Mr. Pollard has now served more than 25 years in prison, many ...
Us Suspects Israel Hid Extent Of Spying: Ex-Envoy
Post Date: 2012-06-13 12:27:14 by Brian S
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JERUSALEM — The United States refuses to release an American who spied for Israel because it suspects the Jewish state concealed the existence of other spies, a former Israeli envoy to Washington said on Monday. Speaking to Israeli public radio, former ambassador Itamar Rabinovich said Washington never believed that Jonathan Pollard -- an American who is serving time for passing secret US documents to the Jewish state -- acted alone. "The Americans suspect that Jonathan Pollard was not alone, that there were other Pollards and that Israel, despite all its promises, did not reveal all its cards," he said. "They (punished) Israel on the back of Pollard and expressed ...
Spanish Woes Continue To Deepen; Turmoil Spreads To Italy
Post Date: 2012-06-12 13:07:30 by Brian S
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The euro-zone debt crisis deepened Tuesday as a sharp rise in Spanish government bond yields to their highest levels since the inception of the euro fanned speculation that the country might need a bailout of its own, just days after Spain sought a support package for its beleaguered banking system. The market turmoil also spread to Italy, the euro-zone's third largest economy, where bond yields leapt higher ahead of a crucial bond sale later this week and weekend elections in Greece that could decide the country's fate in the common-currency region. The deepening gloom surrounding Spain's credit-worthiness could have grave implications. A sovereign bailout for Spain will ...
Armed Russian police raid homes of anti-Putin activists in huge crackdown which critics describe as a 'return to the days of Stalin'
Post Date: 2012-06-12 07:39:10 by A K A Stone
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Armed Russian police today raided the homes of anti-Putin activists today ahead of a mass demonstration in a major new crackdown on dissent. The fresh wave of arrests was today compared with the days of Stalin by opponents on Russian language Twitter. Hello1937 was trending on the social networking site - referring to the year 1937 which was seen as the worst for Stalin purges. Scroll down for video Raiders: A man wearing a balaclava walks past two policemen holding submachine guns outside opposition blogger Alexei Navalny's house in Moscow today The coordinated early-morning raids targeted the young politicians who were thought to represent the biggest threat to Putin's ...
Flame and Stuxnet makers 'co-operated' on code
Post Date: 2012-06-11 20:15:43 by We The People
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Teams responsible for the Flame and Stuxnet cyber-attacks worked together in the early stages of each threat's development, researchers have said. Flame, revealed last month, attacked targets in Iran, as did Stuxnet which was discovered in 2010. Kaspersky Lab said they co-operated "at least once" to share source code. "What we have found is very strong evidence that Stuxnet/Duqu and Flame cyber-weapons are connected," Kaspersky said. Alexander Gostev, chief security expert at the Russian-based security company added: "The new findings that reveal how the teams shared source code of at least one module in the early stages of development prove that the groups ...
Websites to be forced to identify trolls under new measures
Post Date: 2012-06-11 20:09:35 by We The People
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Websites to be forced to identify trolls under new measures Sites such as Facebook have been used to abuse people under the mask of anonymityContinue reading the main storyRelated Stories Facebook to release ID of trolls 'Facebook troll ruined memories' Web abuse woman tackles 'trolls' Websites will soon to be forced to identify people who have posted defamatory messages online. New government proposals say victims have a right to know who is behind malicious messages without the need for costly legal battles. The powers will be balanced by measures to prevent false claims in order to get material removed. Last ...
It Only Took A Global Depression To Reduce Gas Prices By 40 Cents
Post Date: 2012-06-11 14:22:33 by Capitalist Eric
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You can’t watch the mainstream media propaganda channels for more than ten minutes without a talking head breathlessly announcing that gas prices have dropped for the 24th day in a row and are now back to $3.55 a gallon. Wall Street oil analysts, who are paid hundreds of thousands of dollars per year to tell us why prices rose or fell after the fact, are paraded on CNBC to proclaim the huge consumer windfall from the drop in price. This is just another episode of a never ending reality show, designed to keep the average American sedated so they’ll continue to spend money they don’t have buying crap they don’t need. The brainless twits that pass for journalists in the ...
SDSU Student Back Home After Detour Over ‘No-Fly’ List Status
Post Date: 2012-06-10 09:57:48 by A K A Stone
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SAN DIEGO (CBS) — A Southern California-born Muslim man was back home on Friday after he discovered he was on the U.S. government’s “no-fly” list and had to walk back over the border on foot. KNX 1070′s Tom Reopelle reports Kevin Iraniha had just received his masters’ degree from a college in Costa Rica. San Diego State University graduate Iraniha, 27, was preparing to return to his home in Point Loma when TSA officials informed him of his “no-fly” status. His brother Johan said the family was not provided any details on Kevin’s flight status. “Basically, he was told he could not fly,” he said. “They didn’t give him any ...
Finder of Flame Virus Tells Israel to Stop Before It’s Too Late
Post Date: 2012-06-08 10:58:47 by Brian S
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Eugene Kaspersky, the Russian cybersleuth who last week revealed the most sophisticated virus yet targeting Iran, was greeted as a hero at the Tel Aviv University conference on digital security on Wednesday. He didn’t pretend not to know why, any more than the Israeli audience that played along with the coy remarks its officials have made about the country’s role in the digital espionage bedeviling the Iranian program. “Maybe there are some people here who are not happy with work I was doing with Stuxnet and Flame,” he told an audience of more than 1,000 at the university’s annual International Conference on Cyber Security. (Stuxnet was the previous virus that hit ...
Why the death of Gaddafi caused a plague of (Obama-NATO) locusts in Africa as despot's pest control system disintegrates
Post Date: 2012-06-07 12:07:47 by Hondo68
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The Arab Spring and the fall of Colonel Gaddafi have continued to have long-lasting effects across the entire African continent, after agricultural experts warned of swarms of locusts about to move from Libya into neighbouring countries.The Food and Agricultural Organisation of the UN has warned that following the death of Libya's despot leader, thousands of the pests have been allowed to breed and move across the nation's poorly-monitored borders.Experts believe that croplands in neighbouring Niger and Mali are now at imminent risk after locust swarms moved south from Libya and Algeria.Plague: Swarms of locusts are said to be descending on Mali and Niger following the ...
France Honors 'Band Of Brothers' Leader On Anniversary Of D-Day Invasion In World War II
Post Date: 2012-06-06 12:16:37 by Brian S
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With World War II-era military planes darting overhead and Normandy's Utah Beach visible in the distance, a bronze statue emerged from beneath a camouflage parachute, in tribute to a man whose quiet leadership was chronicled in the book and television series "Band of Brothers." The unveiling of the Colorado-made statue of Pennsylvania native Maj. Dick Winters was one of many events marking Wednesday's 68th anniversary of D-Day, the Allied operation that paved the way for the end of the war. The 12-foot (3.6-meter) tall bronze statue in the Normandy village of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont shows Winters with his weapon at the ready. But Winters _ a native of Ephrata, Pennsylvania ...
Putin Vows to Deepen China Trade Ties After Skipping G-8 Summit
Post Date: 2012-06-06 11:36:30 by Brian S
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Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to boost trade and cooperation with China after meeting Chinese leaders as the sides push against Western calls for stronger action in Syria and Iran. Putin and President Hu Jintao agreed yesterday in Beijing to increase trade to $200 billion by 2020 from $83.5 billion in 2011. The two leaders also discussed North Africa, the Korean Peninsula and Iran’s nuclear program, said Putin, who will meet Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad while in Beijing. Putin is moving to strengthen Russia’s economic and political ties with China after skipping a Group of Eight summit in the U.S. last month. As veto-wielding members of the United Nations ...
US Official: Al-Qaida's No. 2 Was At House Hit By US Drone And Was Killed
Post Date: 2012-06-05 14:51:32 by Brian S
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A U.S. official says a drone strike in Pakistan's northwest tribal region has killed al-Qaida's second-in-command. The death of Abu Yahya al-Libi is a significant blow to the terror network, which has lost a string of top leaders at the hands of the American drone program. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters, says that no one left in al-Qaida comes close to replacing the expertise al-Qaida has just lost. Al-Libi would be the latest in the dozen-plus senior commanders removed in the clandestine U.S. war against al-Qaida since Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden just over a year ago. Al-Libi, a hero in militant circles for his 2005 escape ...
'Israel’s Creation Worst Catastrophe To Hit World'
Post Date: 2012-06-05 12:58:29 by Brian S
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The head of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has called on Arab forces to confront Israel and for the international community to pressure the “Zionist government to withdraw from the land of Palestine.” The comments by Brotherhood General Guide Mohammed Badie came in a written statement issued May 17 to commemorate Nakba Day, when Palestinians and other Arabs mourn Israel’s creation in 1948. The statement – the existence of which was revealed Wednesday by the Investigative Project on Terrorism blog – reminds Brotherhood followers of the movement’s decades-long “sacrifices” in efforts to destroy the Jewish state. “On this day, like every year, ...
The Hoarding Continues: China Purchases A Record 100 Tons Of Gold In April From Hong Kong
Post Date: 2012-06-04 17:04:44 by Capitalist Eric
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A month ago we were delighted to counterpoint Charlie Munger's prior remarks about the level of "civilization" of a given consumer based on their sentiment vis-a-vis gold, by demonstrating that Chinese purchases of gold from Hong Kong rose to a record. To wit: "Imports from Hong Kong were 135,529 kilograms (135.53 metric tons) between January and March, from 19,729 kilograms in the year-earlier period, according to data from the Census and Statistics Department of the Hong Kong government. Shipments in March rose 59 percent from February, yesterday's data showed." We have just gotten the April update, and, lo and behold, the country which is now the biggest ...
Iceland Continues Economic Rejuvenation by Purging Financial Parasites
Post Date: 2012-06-04 16:23:19 by Capitalist Eric
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Iceland is showing the world what real independence from the bankers means. The Nordic island has become the first country to criminally charge a world leader as a result of the 2008 economic crisis. Former Prime Minister Geir Haarde, 73, was found guilty of “failing to adequately inform other Icelandic officials of events that led up to the 2008 financial crisis” according to an April 23 New York Times article. As part of Haarde’s final verdict, two of the original six charges were dropped and the other three were cleared. These included “gross neglect of duty” and “ failure to reduce the size of the banking system,” charges that were more serious and ...
The week that Europe stopped pretending
Post Date: 2012-06-04 14:26:06 by Capitalist Eric
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The euro has essentially broken down as a viable economic and political undertaking. The latest rush of events reeks of impending denouement. The debt markets are pricing in for a global deflationary bust. Europe will have to restore shattered trust in the worst possible circumstances. Photo: Reuters Switzerland is threatening capital controls to repel bank flight from Euroland. The Swiss two-year note has fallen to -0.32pc, not that it seems to make any difference. Denmark’s central bank said it was battening down the hatches for a "splintering" of EMU. It has cut interest rates twice in a matter or days and pledged to do whatever it takes to stop euros flooding into the ...
10 Things That We Can Learn About Shortages And Preparation From The Economic Collapse In Greece
Post Date: 2012-06-04 14:00:57 by Capitalist Eric
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Another month, another bad jobs report. For the month of May, the U.S. economy only added 69,000 jobs and the unemployment rate rose to 8.2%. Many are calling this a total "disaster" and are worried that the U.S. economy could be headed back into another recession. Economists had been expecting 150,000 payroll jobs would be added, so the 69,000 number really shocked a lot of people. The truth is that the economy needs to add approximately 125,000 new jobs every single month just to keep the unemployment rate steady. So yes, this bad jobs report is not welcome news at all - especially for the Obama administration. When Barack Obama first took office the unemployment rate was ...
Putin Visits China To Tighten Key Alliance, Meet With Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Post Date: 2012-06-03 12:56:19 by Brian S
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President Vladimir Putin visits China Tuesday on the first Asia trip of his new Kremlin mandate aiming to tighten an increasingly close alliance that is key for Russia's diplomatic and economic strategy. Putin, who began a third term as president less than a month ago, has already made a lightning trip to Germany and France but will symbolically be visiting Beijing before the United States. The sometimes troubled Moscow-Beijing relationship has warmed during Putin's 12 years of domination over Russia and the two governments are notably in lockstep in opposing outside intervention to solve the Syrian crisis. "One can understand where the vector of Russian policy is ...
Germany Produces 50% Of Energy From Solar During Mid-Day Hours — ‘Equivalent To 20 Nuclear Power Stations...'
Post Date: 2012-05-31 19:12:12 by Brian S
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Germany’s economy is viewed as the most successful major economy in the world today and the key bedrock for European recovery. While many conservative leaders in the United States are calling on the tearing up of environmental protections to help our economy, Germany has shown the fallacy of that claim. The Germans continue to set new records on environmental protection. This week the German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of electricity per hour — literally half of the energy used through the key midday hours in the country. That is the equivalent to 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity without any radioactive waste left over. The Germans are ...
Money flies out of Spain, regions pressured [Financial Collapse Accelerating]
Post Date: 2012-05-31 13:58:28 by Capitalist Eric
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(Reuters) - Spaniards alarmed by the dire state of their banks are squirreling money abroad at the fastest rate since records began, figures showed on Thursday, and the credit ratings of eight regions were cut. Spain is the next country in the firing line of the euro zone's debt crisis, with spendthrift regions and shaky banks threatening to blow a hole in state finances and pushing funding costs towards levels that signal the need for a bailout. The European Commission gave new help on Wednesday, offering direct aid from a euro zone rescue fund to recapitalize Spanish banks and more time for Madrid to reduce its budget deficit. That helped lower the risk premium investors demand ...
Syria Military Intervention Would Engulf Israel, Says Iranian Official
Post Date: 2012-05-31 12:53:09 by Brian S
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Any crisis caused by a military intervention in Syria would engulf Israel, Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani warned Wednesday, the Tehran Times reported on Thursday. Larijani made the remarks in reference to calls by certain U.S. officials for a military campaign against Syria to put an end to Syrian regime’s 14-month assault on its opposition. “U.S. military officials probably have a poor understanding of themselves and regional issues because Syria is in no way similar to Libya, and (the effects of) creating another Benghazi in Syria would spread to Palestine, and ash rising from the flames would definitely envelop the Zionist regime,” Larijani said, according to ...
(Useful Idiot of the Day) Farrakhan Audio Praising Sharia Law and Threatening ‘Death’ Unless ‘America Submits’
Post Date: 2012-05-31 07:56:25 by CZ82
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Allah Will ‘Bring Down’ America’s Skyscrapers: Horrific New Farrakhan Audio Praising Sharia Law and Threatening ‘Death’ Unless ‘America Submits’ Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:48pm by Billy Hallowell The Minister Louis Farrakhan isn’t one to avoid controversial language. In his Sunday address in San Diego, the Nation of Islam leader slammed Israel, lamented Mexico’s loss of land at the hands of American “trickery” and derided President Barack Obama for his endorsement of same-sex marriage. But that’s only a portion of what was uttered in his nearly three-hour address. During the last 10 minutes, the fiery Farrakhan erupted with ...
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