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Economic Damage to US Economy from Offshoring Jobs May Be Exaggerated
Post Date: 2012-04-19 15:24:02 by jwpegler
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Sending jobs overseas may not be as damaging to the U.S. economy as commonly believed, according to a study by a University at Buffalo economist. Offshoring, the practice of moving specific operational tasks originally performed in one country to a new location abroad, is just another form of trade in goods and services, says UB economics professor Winston Chang, an expert in international economics. U.S. firms, in fact, become more efficient and competitive when offshoring savings are redirected to new areas of operation, new products and services, or invested in further research and development, Chang noted. Chang's paper, which appears online in the Social Science Research Network ...
In Another Embarrassment To The Pentagon, Photos Revealed Of US Troops Posing With Corpses
Post Date: 2012-04-18 11:49:24 by Brian S
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(04-18) 08:43 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) -- In another embarrassment to the Pentagon, newly published photographs purport to show U.S. troops posing with the bodies of dead insurgents in Afghanistan. Top U.S. military and civilian officials rushed to condemn the soldiers' actions Wednesday, calling them repugnant and a dishonor to others who have served in the conflict. The Army said an investigation is under way. The photos were published in Wednesday's Los Angeles Times. The photos show members of the 82nd Airborne Division posing in 2010 with Afghan police and the severed legs of a suicide bomber. The same platoon a few months later was sent to investigate the remains of three ...
U.S. Nominee Jim Yong Kim Chosen To Lead World Bank
Post Date: 2012-04-16 19:35:33 by Brian S
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The World Bank chose Korean-American physician Jim Yong Kim as its next chief Monday in a decision that surprised few despite the first-ever challenge to the US lock on the Bank’s presidency. The Bank’s directors chose Kim, a 52 year old US health expert and educator, over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who had argued that the huge lender needs reorientation under someone from the developing world. Kim, 52 and currently president of the Ivy League University Dartmouth, will replace outgoing President Robert Zoellick, the former US diplomat who is departing in June at the end of his five-year term. The Bank’s directors expressed “deep appreciation” ...
Anders Behring Breivik, Norway Mass Killer, Claims 'Self Defense' As Trial Begins
Post Date: 2012-04-16 10:39:30 by sneakypete
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OSLO, Norway — With a defiant closed-fist salute, a right-wing fanatic admitted Monday to a bomb-and-shooting massacre that killed 77 people in Norway but pleaded not guilty to criminal charges, saying he was acting in self-defense. On the first day of his long-awaited trial, Anders Behring Breivik rejected the authority of the court as it sought to assign responsibility for the July 22 attacks that shocked Norway and jolted the image of terrorism in Europe. Dressed in a dark suit and sporting a thin beard, Breivik smiled as a guard removed his handcuffs in the crowded court room. The 33-year-old then flashed his salute before shaking hands with prosecutors and court officials. ...
'Got a quickie aborsh': Comedienne Sarah Silverman supports pro-choice debate, tweeting 'before-and-after abortion' photos
Post Date: 2012-04-15 01:15:49 by A K A Stone
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The first image shows Silverman extremely bloated after having eaten a burrito, and the second shows her wearing the same outfit with a wash-board flat stomach after the bloating had subsided. At the expense of the Republican party who want to take away women’s autonomy over their bodies, the comedienne paired potty humour with political commentary, using the montage to make a strong and simple point about the ongoing War on Women. And many people are applauding the high profile personality for using her trademark sarcasm to directly comment on the possibility the Roe vs Wade decision may be overturned in the U.S. Roe vs Wade was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on ...
George Washington named Britain's greatest ever foe
Post Date: 2012-04-15 00:14:02 by A K A Stone
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The American was voted the winner in a contest run by the National Army Museum to identify the country's most outstanding military opponent. He was one of a shortlist of five leaders who topped a public poll and on Saturday was selected as the ultimate winner by an audience of around 70 guests at a special event at the museum, in Chelsea, west London. In second place was Michael Collins, the Irish leader, ahead of Napoleon Bonaparte, Erwin Rommel and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. At the event, each contender had their case made by a historian giving a 40 minute presentation. The audience, who had paid to attend the day, then voted in a secret ballot after all five presentations had ...
Ron Paul Shocks Campaign Staff With New Position On Israel (would move US embassy to Jerusalem if requested) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2012-04-14 17:41:20 by Hondo68
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Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul revealed this week that he would support moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, a surprising position that contradicts conventional wisdom about Paul's stance toward the Jewish state. Paul first made this position known Wednesday night, during a private meeting with evangelical leaders interested in helping the Texas Congressman reach out to the conservative Christian community. According to a transcript of the meeting obtained by Business Insider, the leaders started off the meeting by asking Paul whether he would sign an Executive Order to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a major policy objective for Israeli ...
HELP!
Post Date: 2012-04-13 22:23:57 by buckeroo
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Apparently, I am required to pay the Federal and State governments a wee bit over 20K bucks this year after already paying a whopping 30K. I suppose there are solutions to my problem, such as joining the Tea Party and having another monthly expense being written off as, "donation to save Israel" yet I am more interested in how to stop bleeding to death with the cash outlay that my professional auditor has claimed, whom has already verified EVERY DIME I can write off for 2011. And besides joining the Tea Party doing nothing for me, I suppose I could run out and join the 99 per centers but they kinda stink in the first place which disqualifies them. So, for the dilemma that I am ...
Kim Missile Setback Raises Questions of N. Korean Leader’s Grip
Post Date: 2012-04-13 11:32:07 by Brian S
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By Sangwon Yoon - Fri Apr 13 15:00:01 GMT 2012 Kim Jong Un suffered a public humiliation as North Korea’s third-generation leader unlike any his father or grandfather faced after the totalitarian state admitted a long-range rocket failed shortly after liftoff. The launch was meant to mark the April 15 centennial of grandfather and state founder Kim Il Sung and further cement the younger Kim’s assumption of the family mantle, which the government has been burnishing since he took over in December. Its failure may raise questions of his hereditary hold on power as he deals with the country’s impoverished economy and international condemnation of its nuclear program. ...
Barack And Michelle Obama Are Clones From Ancient Egypt Brought Back To Destroy Us
Post Date: 2012-04-13 01:09:37 by A K A Stone
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War Games Begin Amid China-Philippines Tension
Post Date: 2012-04-13 00:44:56 by A K A Stone
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Protesters clash with riot police and U.S. Embassy guards as the former rush towards the embassy gates to protest the joint U.S.-Philippines military exercises dubbed "Balikatan 2011," which opened in Manila, Philippines, April 5, 2011. U.S. troops are in the Philippines this month for the 28th annual exercises that will include war games in the South China Sea. Close to 8,000 troops from both countries are scheduled to participate. This year's drills are scheduled to take place in three locations including Palawan, a nearly 600-kilometer-long island bordering the Sea and come amid heightened tensions between the Philippines and China over a disputed island chain. ...
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 ...
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