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Activist Chen Guangcheng: Let Me Leave China on Hillary Clinton’s Plane
Post Date: 2012-05-02 23:40:11 by A K A Stone
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In an exclusive interview with The Daily Beast’s Melinda Liu, blind dissident Chen Guangcheng says he’s been abandoned by American officials at a Chinese hospital and begs to leave the country on Hillary Clinton’s plane. I’ve known Chen Guangcheng for more than a decade—he’s been through intimidation, beatings, jail, and extralegal house arrest—but through it all I never sensed he was scared. Now he’s scared. Chen, whose case has escalated into a bilateral crisis that threatens to dominate Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Beijing this week, was weeping as he talked to me over the phone from his hospital bed. Chen says he now wants ...
Iron willed ‘1,000 jobs’ at Maiden star’s new flight centre in South Wales
Post Date: 2012-05-02 06:45:04 by A K A Stone
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ROCK star Bruce Dickinson has vowed to create 1,000 jobs at a “centre of excellence” for British aviation. The Iron Maiden frontman, a fully qualified pilot, yesterday bought 132,000sq ft of old RAF hangars in South Wales. He aims to use the site at St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, to service Boeing 737s, train pilots on simulators and, one day, build airships. His firm, CARDIFF AVIATION, hopes to take on the first 50 to 60 staff this July. Hundreds more would follow as contracts come in. Bruce, 53, whose hits include Run To The Hills, is initially putting in £1million with co-investors. He said: “No one could figure out what to do with the hangars. There was nothing ...
EXCLUSIVE: McCain: 'Good thing' president is in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2012-05-01 22:20:46 by buckeroo
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Washington (CNN) – Sen. John McCain, who earlier this week leveled harsh criticism at President Barack Obama for what he said was the politicization of the killing of Osama bin Laden, said Tuesday he did not believe the president's trip to Afghanistan was a political move. "Well I think it's a good thing," McCain said when asked about the president's surprise trip to Afghanistan. "I think it's always good when the president goes to where our young men and women are in harm's way and I think that many of us who have been involved in Afghanistan are very involved in the strategic partnership agreement, which I'm sure he will be talking about, and ...
President Obama in Afghanistan on anniversary of Bin Laden's death: Defeat of Al Qaeda is 'within reach'
Post Date: 2012-05-01 21:55:07 by buckeroo
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President Obama declared in dramatic fashion on the anniversary of Osama Bin Laden’s death that Afghanistan is no longer a safe haven for terrorists — and the defeat of Al Qaeda is “within reach.” Obama flew in secret under the cover of darkness to Afghanistan Tuesday to officially mark the wind down of America’s longest war, which began above the skies of New York more than 10 years ago as Bin Laden’s terrorists slammed planes into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. The President saluted the city for inspiring the U.S. through the costly fight against terrorism — and he extolled the resolve of New Yorkers as he urged a better America. “As we emerge ...
Obama Makes Surprise Afghanistan Trip; To Address The Nation At 7:30p est
Post Date: 2012-05-01 19:09:54 by Brian S
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KABUL — US President Barack Obama arrived in Afghanistan late Tuesday on a surprise visit a year after American elite Navy SEALs killed Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in a raid deep inside Pakistan. Obama was expected to sign a strategic partnership on future US-Afghan ties once American troops have pulled out of Afghanistan in 2014 with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, White House officials told an AFP photographer. The US president, making only his third trip to Afghanistan since taking over as commander-in-chief in 2009, arrived at 10:20 pm (1750GMT) and was also to address the American people from Bagram airbase at 2330 GMT, an official said. Obama’s last trip in December 2010 ...
That's going to hurt in the morning: Brutal knockout blow turns boxer's face to jelly
Post Date: 2012-05-01 01:42:23 by A K A Stone
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This brutal knockout blow turned a boxer's face to mush - making him look more like jelly than a prized jouster. Tony Pietrantonio came crashing to the canvas in the 31st second of the third round following the devastating right-hander from fellow U.S. light heavyweight Lavarn Harvell. Harvell, 23 - dubbed Baby Bowe because of his resemblance to former heavyweight champ Riddick Bowe - said: 'I felt that punch all the way up my shoulder and back, so I knew he wasn’t getting up. 'I was so excited that I did a little dance for the fans, but that was before I saw how badly he was hurt.' Pietrantonio, who only agreed to Saturday's fight three days previously, was ...
Same Titanic But Brand-New, Built From Scratch, Billionaire Says
Post Date: 2012-04-30 14:29:22 by Brian S
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April 30, 2012, 9:51 a.m. What’s more exciting than James Cameron re-releasing “Titanic” in 3-D? When an even richer man – Australia’s Clive Palmer – tries to bring the ill-fated ship to life. By building a modern replica of it. The mining billionaire said Monday that he has commissioned CSC Jinling Shipyard, a Chinese state-owned business, to construct a new Titanic from scratch. “Many people have attempted to do it before but have failed because they didn’t have the buy-in of a shipyard and didn’t have the money to pay for it,” he said. The vessel will be made in its tragic predecessor’s image – “layouts … room ...
Occupy Wall Street Plans May Day Global Disruption of Status Quo
Post Date: 2012-04-30 12:01:15 by Brian S
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Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, whose anti-greed message spread worldwide during an eight-week encampment in Lower Manhattan last year, plan marches across the globe tomorrow calling attention to what they say are abuses of power and wealth. Organizers say they hope the coordinated events will mark a spring resurgence of the movement after a quiet winter. Calls for a general strike with no work, no school, no banking and no shopping have sprung up on websites in Toronto, Barcelona, London, Kuala Lumpur and Sydney, among hundreds of cities in North America, Europe and Asia. In New York, Occupy Wall Street will join scores of labor organizations observing May 1, traditionally recognized ...
Rand Paul Seeks to Block Tax Treaty Change on Swiss Accounts
Post Date: 2012-04-30 11:39:22 by Brian S
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Senator Rand Paul is blocking an amendment to a U.S.-Swiss tax treaty, slowing Switzerland’s handover of data on thousands of Americans with bank accounts hidden from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. The protocol, negotiated in September 2009, would amend a 1996 treaty and make it more difficult for Switzerland to refuse requests from the IRS for tax information about U.S. customers of Swiss banks. The U.S. is cracking down on secret accounts held by its citizens at UBS AG (UBSN), Credit Suisse AG (CSGN), Wegelin & Co. and other financial institutions. Paul, a Kentucky Republican, said the protocol is too “sweeping” and would threaten protections under the Fourth ...
Spy in the sky: Is it only a matter of time before drone technology is used in civil society?
Post Date: 2012-04-29 23:08:30 by Brian S
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The world's first glimpse of a killer drone in action was over the English Channel: a Royal Navy patrol boat reported "a bright horizontal flame" in the sky. The device emitting the flame had stubby wings and was shaped like a rocket, and was travelling from the French coast at more than 200mph. Too small and too fast to be intercepted, it arrived in England's Home Counties without warning; as it plunged earthwards the low drone of the motor cut out and there were three seconds of silence before the massive explosion. Where it exploded, the human beings at the epicentre simply disappeared, vaporised. Of course, for all the similarities, this was not a Reaper or a ...
Former Shin Bet Chief Says He Has ‘No Faith’ In Israel’s Leaders
Post Date: 2012-04-29 19:50:59 by Brian S
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JERUSALEM (JTA) -- The judgment of Israeli leaders has been clouded by "messianic feelings" and they cannot be trusted to decide to launch a military strike on Iran, Israel's former security chief said. Yuval Diskin, the former head of the Shin Bet security agency, said in a speech last Friday that was posted on the Internet the following day that he had "no faith" in the leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak. Barak and Netanyahu's offices released a statement Saturday night saying that Diskin's words were "irresponsible and motivated by personal frustration." “I do not believe in a leadership that ...
U.S. Amasses Stealth-Jet Armada Near Iran
Post Date: 2012-04-29 19:45:11 by Brian S
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The U.S. Air Force is quietly assembling the world’s most powerful air-to-air fighting team at bases near Iran. Stealthy F-22 Raptors on their first front-line deployment have joined a potent mix of active-duty and Air National Guard F-15 Eagles, including some fitted with the latest advanced radars. The Raptor-Eagle team has been honing special tactics for clearing the air of Iranian fighters in the event of war. The fighters join a growing naval armada that includes Navy carriers, submarines, cruisers and destroyers plus patrol boats and minesweepers enhanced with the latest close-in weaponry. It’s been years since the Air Force has maintained a significant dogfighting ...
'The Merkozy Era Is Over'; Hollande's 'Growth Bloc' Spells End Of German Hegemony In Europe
Post Date: 2012-04-29 19:21:13 by Brian S
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The French-led counter-attack and rumblings of revolt through every branch of the EU institutions last week have brought this aberrant phase of the eurozone crisis to an abrupt end. "It’s not for Germany to decide for the rest of Europe," said François Hollande, soon to be French leader, unless he trips horribly next week. Strong words even for the hustings. "If I am elected president, there will be a change in Europe's construction. We’re not just any country: we can change the situation," he said. European allies are flocking to his cause from left and right, he claims. Not even Austria supports Germany’s austerity drive any longer. This ...
Suicides have Greeks on edge before election
Post Date: 2012-04-29 14:00:06 by redleghunter
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ATHENS (Reuters) - On Monday, a 38-year-old geology lecturer hanged himself from a lamp post in Athens and on the same day a 35-year-old priest jumped to his death off his balcony in northern Greece. On Wednesday, a 23-year-old student shot himself in the head. In a country that has had one of the lowest suicide rates in the world, a surge in the number of suicides in the wake of an economic crisis has shocked and gripped the Mediterranean nation - and its media - before a May 6 election. The especially grisly death of pharmacist Dimitris Christoulas, who shot himself in the head on a central Athens square because of poverty brought on by the crisis that has put millions out of work, was ...
Zio-Nazi Group Attacks Academics Critical Of Israel
Post Date: 2012-04-28 18:34:02 by Brian S
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A small supremacist Jewish group is launching a smear campaign against a number of professors and academics on North American campuses for daring to criticize racist Israeli policies against native Palestinians. The group, called Campus Watch and headed by David Horowitz, an extremist Zionist stalwart, has published advertisements inciting to hatred against a number of prominent professors on American campuses. The academics are accused of vilifying Israel and of indulging in hate speech that would endanger the very existence of the apartheid Israeli state. However, it is widely thought that the witch-hunt campaign is aimed first and foremost at silencing legitimate criticisms of ...
Moscow Sees ‘Rough Spots’ in Ties with U.S.
Post Date: 2012-04-27 16:48:12 by Brian S
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There are some problem areas in Russia’s relations with the United States but they should not be dramatized, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday. “Needless to say, [our] relations with America are not devoid of rough patches,” he said in an interview with the Rossia-24 TV channel. “And we have problems in bilateral ties,” he added, citing in particular the missile defense issue. However, Russian-U.S. relations are “probably at their best” in recent years. Problems are caused mainly by “the inertia of American mentality,” “the wish to exert pressure on its partner always and everywhere,” and interference in the internal ...
So Long to the U.S. Dollar [Trend Away From US $ Increasing]
Post Date: 2012-04-27 13:36:44 by Capitalist Eric
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Marin Katusa, Casey Research writes: There's a major shift under way, one the US mainstream media has left largely untouched even though it will send the United States into an economic maelstrom and dramatically reduce the country's importance in the world: the demise of the US dollar as the world's reserve currency. For decades the US dollar has been absolutely dominant in international trade, especially in the oil markets. This role has created immense demand for US dollars, and that international demand constitutes a huge part of the dollar's valuation. Not only did the global-currency role add massive value to the dollar, it also created an almost endless pool of demand ...
Egypt’s women urge MPs not to pass early marriage, sex-after-death laws: report
Post Date: 2012-04-27 07:05:55 by Ferret Mike
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Egypt’s National Council for Women (NCW) has appealed to the Islamist-dominated parliament not to approve two controversial laws on the minimum age of marriage and allowing a husband to have sex with his dead wife within six hours of her death according to a report in an Egyptian newspaper. The appeal came in a message sent by Dr. Mervat al-Talawi, head of the NCW, to the Egyptian People’s Assembly Speaker, Dr. Saad al-Katatni, addressing the woes of Egyptian women, especially after the popular uprising that toppled president Hosni Mubarak in February 2011. She was referring to two laws: one that would legalize the marriage of girls starting from the age of 14 and the other that ...
Trump's Boasts Draw Laughs In Scottish Parliament
Post Date: 2012-04-26 12:41:29 by Ferret Mike
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Donald Trump on Wednesday swept into Scotland's parliament to demand the country end plans for an offshore wind farm he fears will spoil the view at his exclusive new $750-million-pound ($1.2-billion) golf resort. In a typically blunt display, the New York property tycoon told an inquiry into renewable energy to stop the wind power efforts in the country's north. "Scotland, if you pursue this policy of these monstrous turbines, Scotland will go broke," he said. "They are ugly, they are noisy and they are dangerous. If Scotland does this, Scotland will be in serious trouble and will lose tourism to places like Ireland, and they are laughing at us." Members of ...
Marco Rubio: U.S. May Have To Strike Iran
Post Date: 2012-04-25 19:42:52 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON — Potential Republican vice presidential candidate Marco Rubio on Wednesday said a unilateral “military solution,” from the United States may be needed to stop Iran acquiring a nuclear bomb. Rubio, a freshman Senator for Florida, said in a speech in Washington that it was imperative that the United States not “stand on the sidelines” of a simmering Middle East, but instead provide leadership to resolve global crises. “Our preferred option since the US became a global leader has been to work with others to achieve our goals,” Rubio said in an address at the Brookings Institution think tank. But “America has acted unilaterally in the past ...
Israeli PR Machine In Frenzy Over CBS Report On Christians
Post Date: 2012-04-25 19:26:34 by Brian S
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By going to such great lengths to interfere in a report by CBS News simply because it involves Israel, the government and foreign ministry of Israel are proving just how reprehensible the country’s policies are – that they require constant PR surveillance. When the Israeli government and its embassy in Washington discovered that CBS News show 60 Minutes was going to run a segment on the increasing departure of Christians from the West Bank, they felt obligated to step in. With Prime Minister Netanyahu’s advice and blessing, Ambassador Michael Oren decided months ago that before the show even aired, he must speak with the network’s chairman in order to make sure the ...
Iran Considers Halting Nuclear Expansion to Avert EU Oil Ban
Post Date: 2012-04-25 14:57:25 by Brian S
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April 25 (Bloomberg) -- Iran is considering a Russian proposal to halt the expansion of its nuclear program in order to avert new sanctions, the country's envoy in Moscow said. "We need to study this proposal and to establish on what basis it has been made," Ambassador Mahmoud-Reza Sajjadi said in an interview at the Iranian embassy in Moscow today. The Russian plan, announced by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov last week, would allow Iran to avoid a European Union ban on its crude that is scheduled to come into force in July. Iran will ensure it maintains its right to produce nuclear energy, Sajjadi said. The U.S. and European Union allege Iran is seeking to build a ...
Fear returns to the eurozone
Post Date: 2012-04-24 16:44:28 by Capitalist Eric
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Markets take fright at Hollande’s election lead as Dutch government steps down over budget impasse. UK Treasury seeks £16bncuts because of uncertainty Europe’s economy took another dramatic lurch downwards yesterday as investors found fresh reason to doubt whether the Continent’s politicians will be capable of resolving the sovereign debt crisis that continues to plague the single currency bloc. Stock markets reacted badly to a deluge of disappointing economic data, the victory of the Socialist candidate François Hollande in the first round of the French presidential election and the collapse of the Dutch government. Taking fright, Germany’s Dax index ...
Hitler Back in Print; Bavaria Plans New Edition of 'Mein Kampf'
Post Date: 2012-04-24 15:19:08 by Brian S
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The copyright on Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" expires in 2015, after which anyone will be free to republish the infamous tome. Amid fears that neo-Nazis could exploit the text's new availability, the Bavarian government, which holds the copyright, is planning to bring out its own annotated version. An English version and an audio book are also planned. The southern German state of Bavaria, which holds the copyright to Adolf Hitler's polemic "Mein Kampf," hasn't allowed the book to be published in Germany since the end of World War II. But the copyright expires in 2015, and there are concerns that neo-Nazis might immediately begin disseminating the work ...
North Korea issues unusually specific threat
Post Date: 2012-04-24 01:10:40 by A K A Stone
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A North Korean military officer talks speaks at a museum in Panmunjom, North Korea, April 23, 2012. (Vincent Y … North Korea's military vowed a new and unusually specific threat to its neighbors, saying it would reduce South Korea "to ashes" in less than four minutes. The statement, released Monday when programming was interrupted on North Korea's state TV by a special report, comes amid rising tensions on the Korean peninsula. Earlier this month, North Korea was unsuccessful in a long-range missile launch, prompting worries that North Korea may conduct another nuclear test. South Korean officials say new satellite images show that North Korea has been digging a ...
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