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The Julian Assange Show: Rafael Correa (E6)
Post Date: 2012-06-22 01:42:54 by A K A Stone
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When Wikileaks founder Julian Assange met Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa
Post Date: 2012-06-22 01:39:42 by A K A Stone
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Julian Assange, who has taken refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, recently interviewed the country's president Rafael Correa for his television show on Russia Today, it has emerged. Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks website, is currently staying at the Ecuadorean embassy in London in a bid to avoid extradition to Sweden on sex crime allegations. Mr Assange appeared to find a kindred spirit in the President of Ecuador when he interviewed him for his talk show on Russia Today, an English language channel bankrolled by the Russian government. During the 75-minute television interview recorded in April, President Correa praised Wikileaks, the anti-secrecy website set up by ...
Peter Beinart, Author Of Crisis Of Zionism, Rattles Jewish Leaders On Question Of Israel And Democracy
Post Date: 2012-06-21 19:08:17 by Brian S
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JERUSALEM -- Peter Beinart considers himself a supporter of Israel. He attends synagogue and sends his children to a private Jewish school in New York City. But when it comes to Israel, the pundit and former journalist has emerged as an unconventional bad boy of sorts, rattling the American Jewish community with charges that its leadership's blind support for Israel is helping the Jewish state self-destruct through misguided policies. "The American Jewish leadership ... is most comfortable with a narrative that says Israel is embattled from without, from external threats, and that we need to focus on those threats and that brings us together," Beinart said Thursday in an ...
Egypt Delays Results of Vote Adding to Air of Uncertainty
Post Date: 2012-06-21 11:32:51 by Brian S
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Egypt delayed the release of official results in a polarizing presidential election claimed by both candidates, injecting new uncertainty into an already troubled political transition process. The decision to postpone the release, slated for today, was because more time was needed to review voting fraud allegations submitted by Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Mursi and Ahmed Shafik, Hosni Mubarak’s last premier, the election commission said on its website. Commission Secretary-General Hatem Bagato was cited as saying by the state-run Al-Ahram Gate website that results may be announced on June 23 or 24. The delay complicates the race between the two most divisive candidates who ...
Russian Unemployment Rate Plunges to Lowest in at Least 13 Years
Post Date: 2012-06-20 12:16:19 by Brian S
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Russia’s unemployment rate fell to the lowest level in at least 13 years last month and retail- sales growth unexpectedly accelerated, supporting the central bank’s decision to leave borrowing costs unchanged. The jobless rate dropped 0.4 percentage point to 5.4 percent, a level last seen four years ago and the lowest since at least 1999, the Moscow-based Federal Statistics Service said today in an e-mailed report. Retail sales grew 6.8 percent from 6.4 percent in April. Economists forecast unemployment at 5.7 percent and retail-sales expansion at 6.1 percent, according to two Bloomberg surveys. The central bank left its refinancing rate at 8 percent for a sixth month June 15, ...
Ecuador Says Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Is Seeking Asylum At Its Embassy In London
Post Date: 2012-06-19 16:26:41 by Brian S
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QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuador’s foreign minister said Tuesday that WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange has taken refuge in the South American nation’s embassy in London and is seeking political asylum. Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said Ecuador is weighing the request. The move comes less than a week after Britain’s Supreme Court rejected Assange’s bid to reopen his attempts to block extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning after two women accused him of sexual misconduct during a visit to the country in mid-2010. He denies the allegations. His legal struggle to stay in Britain has dragged on for the better part of two years, clouding his website’s ...
Pro-Bailout Party Declares Victory In Greek Election
Post Date: 2012-06-17 16:56:53 by Brian S
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Greece's centre-right New Democracy party has declared victory after Sunday's parliamentary elections, easing fears of a chaotic exit from the eurozone. Early results had New Democracy winning nearly 30 per cent of the vote, which would give it 128 seats in the 300-seat parliament because of a 50-seat boost given to the victor under the Greek electoral system. Coalition talks are now expected to start later today, with the most likely ally being the socialist Pasok party, which seems to have won 33 seats. The anti-austerity radical leftist Syriza party came second with about 26 per cent of the vote after galvanising widespread anger against the cuts imposed by an unpopular ...
GREECE: Exit Polls: Top Parties Run Neck-and-Neck...
Post Date: 2012-06-17 13:25:44 by Brian S
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Greece's election, which has captured the eyes of the world, is too close to call with the conservative New Democracy party barely ahead of radical leftist SYRIZA in a vote that could decide whether the country stays in the euro zone. A joint exit poll by five pollsters, published as voting closed on Sunday, showed New Democracy taking between 27.5 percent and 30.5 percent of the vote. SYRIZA was essentially level with 27-30 percent, followed by the PASOK Socialists taking 10-12 percent of the vote. SYRIZA has vowed to tear up the terms of a European Union-International Monetary Fund bailout package keeping Greece from bankruptcy, potentially sending the country crashing out of ...
Trump: Obama Cut Deal with Saudis to Keep Oil Prices Low Until Election
Post Date: 2012-06-16 18:46:59 by whyofcourse
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Trump: Obama Cut Deal with Saudis to Keep Oil Prices Low Until Election
Central Banks Warn Greek-Led Euro Stress Threatens World
Post Date: 2012-06-15 11:19:19 by Brian S
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Central banks intensified warnings that Europe’s failure to tame its debt crisis threatens to roil the world’s financial markets and economy as Greece’s election in two days looms as the next flashpoint for investors. Monetary policy makers from the U.K. to Japan and Canada sounded the alert about potential fallout from the single currency bloc’s troubles. They spoke as Group of 20 leaders prepare to meet in Mexico next week amid the weakest international economy since the 2009 recession, with a video call for European heads of government scheduled for today. A victory by Syriza, the party that promises to renege on Greece’s end of the bailout deal, could speed ...
Egypt Court Dissolves Parliament, Clears Shafik for Runoff
Post Date: 2012-06-14 12:24:02 by Brian S
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By Tarek El-Tablawy, Abdel Latif Wahba and Mariam Fam - 2012-06-14T15:32:12Z Egypt’s highest court ordered that parliament be dissolved and cleared Ahmed Shafik, a former aide to Hosni Mubarak, to run for the presidency. The twin rulings threaten to inflame tensions two days before the runoff pitting Shafik against the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Mursi. Shafik, a former air force general, briefly served as the last premier under Mubarak, who was ousted by a popular uprising last year. The activists that led those protests and the Brotherhood accuse him of seeking to revive the old regime and abort the transition to democracy. “Egypt just witnessed a soft ...
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 ...
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