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Putin Returns To Kremlin, Nominates Medvedev As PM
Post Date: 2012-05-07 19:19:56 by Brian S
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AFP - Vladimir Putin began a historic third term as Russian president Monday in an opulent Kremlin ceremony shadowed by a second day of arrests of activists protesting his 12-year domination of Russia. Putin, head of state from 2000-2008 and then prime minister, took over from outgoing president Dmitry Medvedev swearing to protect the rights of Russian citizens and also pledging a "new stage" in Russia's development. The Kremlin bells echoed across Moscow and the presidential guard donned Tsarist-era uniforms for the brief but spectacular inauguration whose guests included old friends of Putin including Italian ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi. Placing his right hand on a copy ...
U.S. Drone Strike Kills Senior Al-Qaeda Leader Tied to U.S.S. Cole Bombing
Post Date: 2012-05-06 23:12:42 by Brian S
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ATAQ, YEMEN (BNO NEWS) -- Senior al-Qaeda operative Fahd Mohammed Ahmed al-Quso, who was wanted in connection for his alleged role in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, was killed Sunday in a U.S. drone strike in southeast Yemen, officials said. Several suspected militants were killed on Sunday when a U.S. drone carried out an airstrike on a vehicle in the eastern province of Shabwah, although the exact location was not immediately released. "An airstrike killed Fahd al-Quso in Shabwah," said Mohammed Albasha, a spokesman for the Yemeni Embassy in Washington, D.C. Al-Quso, 37, was previously indicted by the United States over his alleged role in the October 12, 2000, bombing of ...
Pro-Austerity Blow In Greek Vote, Neo-Nazis Gain Seats
Post Date: 2012-05-06 14:18:13 by Brian S
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Updated: Sun, 06 May 2012 17:35:11 GMT | By Agence France-Presse Greece's two main parties suffered big losses in elections Sunday, exit polls showed, rocking the eurozone state's austerity plans after a strong showing by protest groups including the neo-Nazis. Anti-austerity parties could have won up to 58 percent of the vote between them, the exit polls showed. The conservative New Democracy led by Antonis Samaras was the largest party with 17-20 percent of the vote, insufficient to give it an absolute majority and down from 33.5 percent at the last election in 2009, the exit polls showed. Socialist Pasok saw its score slump to 14-17 percent from 43.9 percent. The party even ...
Hollande Defeats Sarkozy in Shift of Power to French Socialists
Post Date: 2012-05-06 14:11:57 by Brian S
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Francois Hollande defeated French President Nicolas Sarkozy as voters handed control of the second-biggest European economy to the Socialists for the first time in 17 years. The 57-year-old Hollande got about 52 percent against about 48 percent for Sarkozy, according to estimates by pollsters CSA and Harris Interactive. The campaign isn’t over; France elects its lower house of parliament in five weeks. The challenger inherits an economy that is barely growing, with jobless claims at their highest in 12 years and a rising debt load that makes France vulnerable to the financial crisis that has rocked the euro region the past two years. Sarkozy became the ninth euro leader to fall in ...
Goliath vs David and Goliath battle brewing over world-first ‘stainless steel’ deposit
Post Date: 2012-05-06 00:15:57 by A K A Stone
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Vancouver’s First Point Minerals is a TSX-V listed explorer worth $52 million with 15 employees and a handful of exploration properties in British Columbia. Cliffs Natural Resources is a $8.3 billion iron ore and met coal giant based in Cleveland Ohio with operations around the world and 6,400 employees. Net income was $1.6 billion last year. BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager – its Q1 2012 results showed assets under management grew 5% from the December quarter to $3.68 trillion. First Point on Saturday “regretfully” served notice of arbitration on Cliffs Natural Resources because the company refuses to hand over crucial information about First ...
Canada Stops Making Cents as Flaherty Lets Penny Drop
Post Date: 2012-05-05 15:33:44 by Mad Dog
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Canada minted its final penny today as Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said the coin was too expensive to produce and no longer needed for business. “The real issue was that people weren’t using them, they were putting them in jars at home, and we were doing the same thing at my house,” Flaherty said. He spoke today at the Royal Canadian Mint in Winnipeg, Manitoba, before pushing a button that stamped the last one-cent coin. Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty. Photographer: Nelson Ching/Bloomberg The longest-serving finance minister in the Group of Seven nations promised in his March 29 budget to save C$11 million annually by eliminating the coin that he says costs 1.6 ...
What the Palestinians Want
Post Date: 2012-05-05 10:25:37 by CZ82
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What the Palestinians Want by Khaled Abu Toameh, May 4, 2012 at 5:00 am The Palestinians want the US to endorse all their demands and force Israel to give them everything. Palestinians are reminded almost every day that the US, which has been providing them with billions of dollars, is a foe rather than a friend, although no one seems to ask how come a foe is so generous. US aid should be conditioned not only on transparency and accountability, but also on an end to the campaign of hatred and incitement, as officially agreed in the Oslo accords, but never implemented. No matter how much the US tries to help the Palestinians, it will always be viewed by many of them as an enemy. Last ...
Wife Saw Husband, A Beaumont Army Medical Center Nurse In Afghanistan, Die While On Skype Chat
Post Date: 2012-05-04 12:20:42 by Brian S
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The wife of a Beaumont Army Medical Center nurse who died Monday in Afghanistan said the incident took place while she was talking with her husband through Skype's video chat. Army officials have not released the cause of death for Capt. Bruce Kevin Clark, 43, of Spencerport, N.Y. A statement from the family said they are waiting for results of a military investigation. "Bruce's wife tragically witnessed her husband's death during one of their regular Skype video chats," the statement said. "At the time of the incident, the family was hoping for a rescue and miracle, but later learned that it was not to be," according to the family's statement. ...
Ancient Seal Found in Jerusalem
Post Date: 2012-05-03 23:22:25 by A K A Stone
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A small stone seal at least 2,600 years old and bearing a Hebrew name has been found near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Tuesday. According to the ancient Hebrew inscription, the seal belonged to a man named Matanyahu, meaning ”gift of God.” It identifies him as the son of a man whose name started with the letters “Ho” — the rest did not survive. The seal belonged to a man named Matanyahu who lived at least 2,600 years ago (Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority) No more than two dozen such seals have been found since excavations began in Jerusalem in the 1800s, according to Antiquities Authority archaeologist Eli ...
EU PLOT TO SCRAP BRITAIN
Post Date: 2012-05-03 23:08:48 by A K A Stone
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European Council President Herman Van Rompuy SENIOR Eurocrats are secretly plotting to create a super-powerful EU president to realise their dream of abolishing Britain and other nation states, the Daily Express can reveal. A covert group of EU foreign ministers has drawn up plans for merging the jobs currently done by Herman Van Rompuy, president of the European Council, and Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission. The new bureaucrat, who would not be directly elected by voters, is set to get sweeping control over the entire EU and force member countries into ever-greater political and economic union. Tellingly, the UK has been excluded from the confidential ...
Survey: Fastest growing racial group offers political opportunity
Post Date: 2012-05-03 07:27:10 by CZ82
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Survey: Fastest growing racial group offers political opportunity Published: 11:08 PM 05/01/2012 By Caroline May Asian-Americans could represent a pivotal voting bloc this election cycle, a new survey conducted by Lake Research Partners reveals. On Tuesday, the nonpartisan Asian-American Justice Center and the Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote (APIAVote) released a survey highlighting voting trends within the community which, the U.S. Census reported, grew 46 percent — “more than any other race group” between 2000 and 2010 — to over 17 million. Lake Research Partners President Celinda Lake explained that the Asian-American population is a vote worth tapping ...
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 ...
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