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Sea dispute escalates as China and the Philippines deploy more warships
Post Date: 2012-04-13 00:42:40 by A K A Stone
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The standoff in the South China Sea between the naval forces of the Philippines and China is in danger of escalating, as the U.S. continues to watch anxiously. China has now sent a third ship to support its claim to the area known as Scarborough Shoal off the northwestern Philippines. Philippine warships attempting to arrest the crews of a Chinese fishing fleet that had entered the territory sparked the latest dispute between the two Asian countries. They were stopped from doing so by the arrival of two Chinese surveillance ships, which then ordered the Philippine warships to leave the area. They refused arguing that its Philippine territory and have since sent a second warship to the ...
N. Korea Launches Long-Range Rocket: Official
Post Date: 2012-04-12 19:31:30 by Brian S
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SEOUL, April 13 (Yonhap) -- North Korea defiantly fired off a long-range rocket Friday, officials said, in a move sure to spark strong international condemnations and escalate regional tensions. "We're now tracking the flight path," an official said on condition of anonymity. The Unha-3 rocket took off from the Dongchang-ri launch site at 7:39 a.m., officials said. The North had said it would launch the rocket between April 12-16 to put what it claims is a satellite into orbit to mark the 100th birthday of Kim Il-sung, the country's late founder and grandfather of current leader Kim Jong-un. But South Korea, the United States and other regional powers had urged ...
Miracle Baby Found Alive In Argentine Morgue 12 Hours After Declared Dead
Post Date: 2012-04-12 12:19:40 by Brian S
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A premature baby who had been declared dead was found alive 12 hours later in the morgue, a health official in northeastern Argentina said. The parents of the baby, who was in serious condition, were going to name her Luciana Abigail but have changed their minds and are calling her Luz Milagros instead, her middle name being the Spanish word for “miracles.” The newborn was determined to be alive after her mother insisted on seeing the body of her daughter at the Hospital Perrando, in the city of Resistencia, Rafael Sabatinelli, the health undersecretary of Chaco province, told the local press Tuesday. “At night I went with my husband to where the little box was. A man ...
Obama Faces Latin Anger on U.S. Cuba, Drug Policies at Summit
Post Date: 2012-04-12 12:03:57 by Brian S
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President Barack Obama will be under fire from Latin American leaders frustrated with the U.S.- led war on drugs and attempts to isolate Cuba when he arrives this week in Colombia for a regional summit. Growing criticism of policies that have formed the backbone of U.S. strategy toward the region for decades comes as Washington’s influence in its backyard fades. China has ousted the U.S. as the main trading partner in one South American nation after another, and the State Department has warned of inroads by Iran in nations aligned with Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez. The Summit of the Americas began as a gathering of 34 heads of state in 1994 to promote free trade. That goal has since ...
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Revolution!
Post Date: 2012-04-11 18:23:06 by CZ82
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A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Revolution! Written on April 8, 2012 by Ralph Barker America has been in the midst of a successful, stealthy, Marxist revolution for decades. So far, few people have perceived it for what it is. We don’t see soldiers on the street or check points along the roads so we feel like everything is all right. If things don’t change soon, if people don’t take notice, if God does not intervene, America will join Europe and others in the destructive downward spiral of socialism. If you understand Marxist theory, global socialism is the first step toward the ultimate Communist dream, a global Utopia. America is the biggest obstacle to arriving ...
'US operated deep in Iran, trained assassins'
Post Date: 2012-04-10 23:20:10 by A K A Stone
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Officials tell Washington Post surveillance drones penetrated more than 600 miles inside Iran, making hundreds of passes over suspicious facilities. New Yorker: US trained members of Iranian dissident group behind assassination of nuclear scientists WASHINGTON – While US President Barack Obama is offering a compromise offer that would allow Iran to pursue a civilian nuclear program, more and more reports are being published regarding covert American activity in strategic sites throughout the Islamic Republic. The Washington Post reported Sunday that over the past three years the CIA has been dispatching stealth surveillance drones that have penetrated more than 600 miles inside ...
Günter Grass Poem: Israel's Government Has Reacted Absurdly
Post Date: 2012-04-10 19:26:55 by Brian S
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German politicians across the spectrum are criticizing Israel's travel ban on author Günter Grass after the publication of his controversial poem. Editorialists condemn the decision, and some are alarmed over what the development could mean for traditionally close ties between the two nations. The publication of German Nobel laureate Günter Grass's controversial poem last week may have sparked an international uproar, but the reaction by Israel, the target of his critical verse, has also come under heavy fire. On Sunday Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai banned the 84-year-old author from entering his country. The move came after the Thursday ...
White House Rejects President Peres’ Plea To Release Jonathan Pollard
Post Date: 2012-04-10 13:00:48 by Brian S
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The White House rejected the appeal by Israeli president Shimon Peres to grant clemency to Jonathan Pollard on Monday, saying its position hasn’t changed, and that the president has no intention to release Pollard. President Shimon Peres sent a personal letter to President Obama on Monday, urging Obama to consider granting clemency to Jonathan Pollard, citing the convicted spy's deteriorating health. Peres updated his U.S. counterpart on a conversation he conducted a few days ago with Esther Pollard, the convicted spy's wife, stressing that the Pollard family, as well as the Jewish people, were concerned about Pollard's health. The president sent the missive after ...
Robert Mugabe said to be fighting for life in Singapore hospital
Post Date: 2012-04-09 20:25:26 by A K A Stone
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ZIMBABWEAN dictator Robert Mugabe was yesterday said to be fighting for his life in a Singapore hospital with an undisclosed illness, amid reports he had agreed to hand over power to his feared Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa. The Zimbabwe Mail, quoting a senior official of Mugabe's ZANU-PF party, said the President was undergoing intensive treatment in Singapore and that some members of his family had joined him after boarding a chartered private jet on Saturday. The alarm was raised when the government postponed a cabinet meeting set for today. Mugabe spokesman George Charamba said in a statement: "The Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet, Dr Misheck Sibanda, ...
The Government Allowed the Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Post Date: 2012-04-09 18:47:53 by whyofcourse
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The Government Allowed the Bombing of Pearl Harbor 26 June 2011 No Comment Theory: There a many people that believe that the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 was allowed to happen by the U.S. government, and specifically, President Franklin Roosevelt. But why what the United States government do such a thing? Conspiracy theorists believe that it was just the motive the USA needed to declare war on Japan and enter World War II, which Congress had previously been against. Theorists believe that the US was warned by the governments of Britain, the Netherlands, Australia, Peru, Korea and the Soviet Union that Japan was planning an attack on US soil. Facts: On the evening of December 6, 1941 ...
North Korea Preparing For Nuclear Test, South Korea Says
Post Date: 2012-04-09 11:34:12 by Brian S
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South Korea warned that North Korea may test a nuclear weapon after a planned missile launch this month that is already raising regional tensions the most since Kim Jong Un in December succeeded his father as head of the totalitarian state. North Korean activity at the Punggye-ri atomic testing site is consistent with preparations for previous detonations in 2006 and 2009, a South Korean intelligence report obtained yesterday by Bloomberg News said. South Korean stocks fell to a one-month low while defense shares surged by the daily limit of 15 percent. China, South Korea and Japan expressed concern over North Korea’s plan to put a satellite into orbit with a long-range rocket ...
NASA Scientist Guilty Of Spying For Israel (13-year sentence +2 served)
Post Date: 2012-04-08 23:08:08 by Hondo68
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Stewart Nozette NASA scientist Stewart Nozette has been sentenced to 13 years in prison after he admitted to offering top secret space information to Israeli officials, which turned out to be an FBI sting operation. “I accept full responsibility,” Nozette told U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman on March 21. The disgraced scientist added that he was “paying for a fatal lack of judgment.” As previously reported, Nozette was approached by an FBI agent posing as an Israeli spy who gave him US$11,000 for the classified information, which was then passed at a “dead drop” DC post office. Nozette acted as a technical consultant for an unnamed aerospace firm that the ...
Russia Nuclear subs ready for Israel and US Attack on Iran
Post Date: 2012-04-08 20:07:55 by A K A Stone
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Netanyahu: The Jewish Holiday Of Freedom Should Be Jonathan Pollard's As Well
Post Date: 2012-04-08 13:24:32 by Brian S
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Sunday for the release of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, who was hospitalized over the weekend following deterioration in his medical condition. "The Jewish holiday of freedom should become Pollard's private holiday of freedom, Netanyahu said."I will continue working toward his release." President Shimon Peres met with Pollard's wife, Esther, in Jerusalem on Sunday and promised her that he will urge President Obama to release him due to his medical condition. Esther Pollard told Peres that "time is running out" and said she does not want to turn into "Jonathan's widow." She urged Peres to ask Obama to ...
North Korea Threatens 'Merciless Punishment' As It Readies Rocket Launch
Post Date: 2012-04-08 13:17:25 by Brian S
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Japan and South Korea have put their armed forces on standby in response to North Korea's plans, prepared to shoot down the missile if it passes over their territory. North Korea was this weekend believed to be at the first stage of launching the rocket, expected between April 12 and 16, claiming that it is part of the centenary celebrations for the birth of the state's founder Kim Il Sung. However, the United States, Japan and South Korea believe that in reality it will be a ballistic missile test in violation of UN resolutions. It is against such a backdrop of rising regional tensions surrounding the Korean peninsula that David Cameron, the Prime Minister, will arrive in ...
U.S., Europe To ‘Demand’ Iran Close Nuclear Facility
Post Date: 2012-04-08 13:03:25 by Brian S
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The United States and its European allies plan to demand the immediate closing by Iran and ultimate dismantling of a recently completed underground nuclear facility near the city of Qum, The New York Times reported. Citing unnamed US and European diplomats, the newspaper said the allies will also call at upcoming negotiations for a halt in the production of uranium fuel that is considered just a few steps from bomb grade, and the shipment of existing stockpiles of that fuel out of the country. Iran last held talks with the six powers — Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States — in January 2011 with no results. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had said ...
What Countries That Spend the Most on Health Care Have in Common
Post Date: 2012-04-07 18:17:10 by CZ82
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What Countries That Spend the Most on Health Care Have in Common April 1, 2012 This week, the Supreme Court considered President Obama’s health care reform law. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act expands health coverage to millions of uninsured Americans. If the law is overturned, health care costs covered by the federal government would drop substantially. While government spending on health care could decline, that will not result in lower health care costs. Based on data published by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development on global health issues, 24/7 Wall St. identified the countries where health care costs are the highest per person. Spending a ...
Gaddafi-armed Islamic rebels take over huge swath of Africa...
Post Date: 2012-04-07 12:24:39 by A K A Stone
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As one group of rebels proudly proclaimed the independent state of Azawad in the "liberated" north of Mali last week, their allies were preparing for jihad by cutting off the hand of a "criminal" and forcing women to wear the veil. The rebels, armed with weapons stolen from Muammar Gaddafi’s formidable arsenal, took over an area of the Sahara as big as France in an astonishing 72 hours, taking advantage of the chaotic aftermath of an army coup. Few of the people they promised to free waited to find out what freedom would be like. Instead, an estimated 250,000 people left their homes, terrified families fleeing with their children and possessions. Many told tales ...
Hey! Mullahs! Leave Them Emos Alone
Post Date: 2012-04-07 08:54:23 by CZ82
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Hey! Mullahs! Leave Them Emos Alone By Ralph R. Reiland on 4.5.12 @ 6:07AM Young people in Iraq are being murdered for the kind of music they listen to. No posse of morality cops ever smashed Bob Dylan's skull with concrete blocks when he changed America's music from "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore" to " Yes, I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes, you'd know what a drag it is to see you." In contrast, young people in Iraq are being murdered for the kind of music they listen to, for the way they dress or wear their hair -- and that's after more than 6,300 American troops have been killed and ...
This week before Easter, I chanced upon the following two quotations. The first says: “Not for 2,000 years has it been possible for society to exclude or eliminate Christ from its social or political life without a terrible social or political conseq
Post Date: 2012-04-06 21:52:51 by Mad Dog
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. This week before Easter, I chanced upon the following two quotations. The first says: “Not for 2,000 years has it been possible for society to exclude or eliminate Christ from its social or political life without a terrible social or political consequence.” The second says: “Religion taught by a prophet or by a preacher of the truth is the only foundation on which to build a great and powerful empire.” The first is by Margaret Thatcher, opening her foreword to a book called Christianity and Conservatism, which appeared in 1990. The second appears in Tom Holland’s outstanding new book In the Shadow of the Sword (Little, Brown), which traces the rise of Islam from ...
Russia defunds late-term ‘social abortions’ as country moves to curtail high abortion rate
Post Date: 2012-04-05 21:29:15 by Hondo68
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February 28, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Russian government has cut off funding for most late-term abortions that are done for “social” reasons, in a move that may signal more restrictions to come. Previously, Russians could receive government-funded abortions after the first twelve weeks of pregnancy in cases of rape, when a woman had been deprived of parental rights by a court, imprisonment of the woman, or death or disability of her husband. The only “social” condition that now remains is rape, according to Russian media sources. Women may also still obtain late-term abortions if they suffer from a life-threatening illness during the pregnancy. Although the ...
Italy politician says Monti has suicides on conscience
Post Date: 2012-04-05 12:30:31 by lucysmom
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An Italian man shot himself dead on Wednesday because his company was going bust, following a wave of economy-related suicides in the country which one opposition politician blamed on Prime Minister Mario Monti's reforms. The 59-year-old Rome-based construction firm owner left a note apologising to family members and explaining that his business had failed, police said. A day earlier, a 78-year-old woman in Sicily jumped to her death because her monthly pension payments had been reduced. On Monday, a picture frame maker hanged himself because of economic difficulties. And last week, two men set themselves on fire in northern Italy due to financial woes. Both survived, one with severe ...
CIA Committed ‘War Crimes,’ Bush Official Says
Post Date: 2012-04-05 11:34:00 by Brian S
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A top adviser to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned the Bush administration that its use of “cruel, inhuman or degrading” interrogation techniques like waterboarding were “a felony war crime.” What’s more, newly obtained documents reveal that State Department counselor Philip Zelikow told the Bush team in 2006 that using the controversial interrogation techniques were “prohibited” under U.S. law — “even if there is a compelling state interest asserted to justify them.” Zelikow argued that the Geneva conventions applied to al-Qaida — a position neither the Justice Department nor the White House shared at the time. That ...
Egypt Presidential Candidate 'Will Push For Sharia'
Post Date: 2012-04-05 11:23:30 by Brian S
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The Muslim Brotherhood's candidate for Egypt's presidency, Khairat el-Shater, has pledged to press for the implementation of sharia (Islamic law) if elected, a Muslim think tank said on Wednesday. Shater, whose candidacy for the May election sent political shock waves throughout the post-uprising country, said implementing the sharia was "his first and final goal," said the Legal Authority for Rights and Reform after meeting with him on Tuesday. Shater, who stepped down as the Brotherhood's deputy leader to run, said "he would work to form a group of scholars to support parliament in achieving that goal," according to a statement on the group's website. ...
Israel Asks US For $700 Million In Military Aid
Post Date: 2012-04-05 11:01:05 by Brian S
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Israel has asked the United States for assistance estimated at $700 million in order to produce more Iron Dome and Magic Wand missile and rocket defense batteries, sources told Ynet on Wednesday. The Iron Dome is designed to intercept rockets fired from a relatively short range, while the Magic Wand intercepts missiles fired from a range of at least 70km, including cruise missiles and missiles with ballistic warheads such as the Squd, Shihab and Sejil. According to sources privy to the deal, Jerusalem and Washington are currently discussing the aid package, which if approved will allow Israel to equip its defense apparatus with four additional Iron Dome batteries and accelerate the ...
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