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France’s Sarkozy Announces Plans To Jail Repeat Visitors To Extremist Websites
Post Date: 2012-03-22 18:51:58 by Brian S
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PARIS — France’s president proposed a sweeping new law Thursday that would see repeat visitors to extremist web sites put behind bars — one of several tough measures floated in the wake of a murderous shooting spree. The proposed rules, unveiled by Nicolas Sarkozy after the death of an Islamist fanatic wanted for a horrifying series of execution-style murders, have alarmed journalists and legal experts, who say they risk pulling the plug on free expression. Sarkozy, who is only a month away from an election, argued that it was time to treat those who browse extremist websites the same way as those who consume child pornography. “Anyone who regularly consults Internet ...
ADL Poll: Anti-Semitic Sentiments 'Disturbingly High'
Post Date: 2012-03-22 18:04:10 by Brian S
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Anti-Semitic sentiments in European countries are at "disturbingly high levels," says a poll issued by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released Thursday. A great deal of the European population is proscribing to “classical anti-Semitic notions such as Jews having too much power in business, being more loyal to Israel than their own country, or ‘talking too much’ about what happened during the Holocaust,” the ADL Website notes. Compared to a similar poll conducted by the ADL in 2009, this year presents “dangerously high levels” of anti-Semitic attitudes among a wide percentage of the population. The ADL poll examined ten different European ...
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Considers Change In Policy _ Running Candidate For President
Post Date: 2012-03-22 13:06:47 by Brian S
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CAIRO (AP) -- The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's most powerful political group, said Wednesday it is considering running its own candidate in upcoming presidential elections, dropping its previous decision to avoid direct participation in the race. The group appears to be playing one of its last cards in a power struggle against the ruling military council, after it failed to force the military to replace its Cabinet with a new one appointed by the Islamist-dominated parliament. If a Brotherhood fields a candidate and wins the presidency, the group would control the two main branches of power. In parliamentary elections, the first since a popular uprising unseated President Hosni Mubarak ...
Missing Nukes Fuel Terror Concern as Seoul Meeting Draws Obama
Post Date: 2012-03-22 12:05:07 by Brian S
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The second global conference ever on nuclear material that has escaped state control is drawing President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Nuclear violators Iran and North Korea won’t be there. The legacy of the Soviet Union’s breakup, inadequate atomic stockpile controls and the proliferation of nuclear-fuel technology mean the world may be awash with unaccounted-for weapons ingredients, ripe to be picked up by terrorists. “If material is loose, it may already be impossible to contain or account for it,” said Graham Allison, director of Harvard University’s international security program and a former nuclear-security adviser to President ...
Anger In Israel Over EU Comments On School Shooting
Post Date: 2012-03-21 13:50:43 by Brian S
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JERUSALEM | Wed Mar 21, 2012 3:42pm GMT (Reuters) - The European Union foreign policy chief drew criticism in Israel on Tuesday over what Israeli leaders said was her comparison of the killing of four Jews at a school in France with the deaths of children in the Gaza Strip. Speaking at a conference on Palestinian refugees on Monday in Brussels, Catherine Ashton cited the tragedy of "young people who have been killed in all sorts of terrible circumstances". She then mentioned the Toulouse shooting earlier on Monday, along with a massacre last year in a Norway summer camp, a bus crash in Switzerland that killed 22 Belgian school children a week ago, the current violence in Syria ...
Obama Daughter Safe After Mexico Earthquake
Post Date: 2012-03-20 23:52:40 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON — The White House said Tuesday that President Barack Obama’s 13-year-old daughter Malia was safe after an earthquake hit Mexico where she is on spring break vacation with friends. “In light of today’s earthquake, we can confirm that Malia Obama is safe and was never in danger,” said Kristina Schake, spokeswoman for First Lady Michelle Obama. Schake repeated the White House request for journalists and photographers to respect the privacy and security of Malia Obama, and her sister Sasha when they were not appearing in public with their parents. A powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck southwest Mexico Tuesday, causing residents in the capital several ...
Central Banking Was Responsible for 2008 Meltdown – Nothing Else
Post Date: 2012-03-20 16:41:30 by Capitalist Eric
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The meltdown explanation that melts away ... Although our understanding of what instigated the 2008 global financial crisis remains at best incomplete, there are a few widely agreed upon contributing factors. One of them is a 2004 rule change by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that allowed investment banks to load up on leverage. This disastrous decision has been cited by a host of prominent economists, including Princeton professor and former Federal Reserve Vice- Chairman Alan Blinder and Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz. It has even been immortalized in Hollywood, figuring into the dark financial narrative that propelled the Academy Award-winning film Inside Job. Bethany McLean ...
Indian Gold for Iranian Oil
Post Date: 2012-03-20 14:25:29 by Capitalist Eric
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By Peter Kirby March 20, 2012 The revolution will not be televised. This is another story I guarantee you will not see on the evening news. The war of banking systems continues. First, there was a report from a media outlet known as DEBKAfile (debka.com) called ‘India to Pay Gold Instead of Dollars for Iranian Oil. Oil and Gold Markets Stunned.’ I saw it when it first came out in late January of this year, but I didn’t know who these Debka people were; so I didn’t write anything. The DEBKAfile article has since been archived and is available with purchase. Here is a Times of India report about it: A reputed Israeli intelligence website has claimed that India is opting ...
Israel Worried Over Syrian Hezbollah Missiles
Post Date: 2012-03-19 17:02:04 by Brian S
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MOSCOW, March 19 (RIA Novosti) Syria has supplied Lebanon’s Shiite Hezbollah militia with advanced Russian-made anti-aircraft missile systems and is training operators how to use them, Israel’s Haaretz daily reported citing a high-ranking military source. The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) is worried that Syrian deliveries of huge quantities of surface-to-air missiles could change the balance of power in the region and jeopardize Israel’s aerial supremacy. "The potential for escalation in Lebanon is huge, and Hezbollah continues to strengthen with regard to long-range weaponry and potential 'surprises' on the battlefield,” the daily quoted the unnamed IDF ...
Gunman Kills 4 At French Jewish School; Same Handgun Used In Attacks Against Paratroopers
Post Date: 2012-03-19 13:42:37 by Brian S
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A motorcycle assailant opened fire with two handguns Monday in front of a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse, killing a rabbi, his two young sons and a schoolgirl. One of the same guns was fired in other deadly motorcyle attacks in the area in recent days, officials said. Article continues below Authorities ordered increased security at schools and synagogues around the country after an attack that drew high-level uproar in Israel and revolted France, where school shootings and deadly attacks on Jews are extremely rare. France, which has seen a low drumroll of anti-Semitic incidents, is particularly sensitive toward the Jewish community because of its World War II past of ...
Ahmadinejad: Israel A Cancerous Tumor
Post Date: 2012-03-18 19:39:15 by Brian S
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday that Israel is a cancerous tumor that is being paid by the West to "continue the criminal occupation of Palestinian territories. " Meanwhile, head of Iran's parliamentary foreign policy commission said Sunday that the West will suffer if it fails to accept the reality of Iran's nuclear abilities. Ahmadinejad made the statements during a meeting with participants of the Global March to Jerusalem which is scheduled to take place at the end of the month on the occasion of Land Day. "The Zionist regime is like a malignant cancerous cell, and even one or two cells are enough to infect the whole body," Ahmadinejad ...
German Chancellor Hopeful: Israel Is 'Apartheid'
Post Date: 2012-03-18 13:09:34 by Brian S
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BERLIN - Sigmar Gabriel, the head of the German Social Democratic Party and a possible candidate for the Chancellorship of Germany, described on Wednesday Israel as an “Apartheid-Regime” on his Facebook site. After a wave of protest notes on his Facebook page, Gabriel, who is currently visiting Israel and the Palestinian territories, continued to defend his terminology of Israel’s policies as racist. “I was just in Hebron. That is a lawless territory there for Palestinians. This is an apartheid regime, for which there is no justification,” wrote Gabriel. The Social Democratic chairman sought to meet with Hamas in the Gaza Strip and he appears to have abandoned ...
US, Israel Agree Iran Abandoned Nuclear Bomb
Post Date: 2012-03-18 13:03:33 by Brian S
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US and Israeli intelligence agencies mostly agree that Iran has not restarted its development of a nuclear bomb, the New York Times reported on Saturday. According to the report, the assessment among top US officials is that Iran has not yet decided to pursue a nuclear weapon, a conclusion which was established based on intelligence analyses. Israel - while seeing an existential threat in Iran's possible pursuit of a nuclear bomb - mostly agrees with those assessment, a US intelligence official speaking on the condition of anonymity told the Times. “Their people ask very hard questions, but Mossad does not disagree with the US on the weapons program,” the Times quoted the ...
Obama Gives North Korea Free Food So They Can Spend Their Money On Missile And Rocket Technology Instead
Post Date: 2012-03-18 08:13:29 by A K A Stone
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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea on Sunday rejected criticism of its planned long-range missile launch which threatens to upset its only major benefactor, China, and put relations with the United States back in the freezer just as they seemed to be starting to thaw. Political analysts say the launch, which would violate U.N. resolutions on the heavily sanctioned state, is aimed at boosting the legitimacy of its young new ruler Kim Jong-un who inherited power after his father's death in December. "The peaceful development and use of space is a universally recognized legitimate right of a sovereign state," the North's state KCNA news agency said. North Korea says it is using ...
John Demjanjuk, convicted death camp guard, dies
Post Date: 2012-03-17 14:32:37 by A K A Stone
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BERLIN (AP) — John Demjanjuk was convicted of being a low-ranking guard at the Sobibor death camp, but his 35-year fight on three continents to clear his name — a legal battle that had not yet ended when he died Saturday at age 91 — made him one of the best-known faces of Nazi prosecutions. The conviction of the retired Ohio autoworker in a Munich court in May on 28,060 counts of being an accessory to murder, which was still being appealed, broke new legal ground in Germany as the first time someone was convicted solely on the basis of serving as a camp guard, with no evidence of involvement in a specific killing. It has opened the floodgates to hundreds of new ...
Afghanistan’s Karzai At ‘End Of The Rope,' Questions Whether Shooter Acted Alone
Post Date: 2012-03-17 00:48:18 by Brian S
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KABUL — Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Friday accused the United States of stonewalling an investigation into the killings of 16 Afghan civilians and suggested that more than one soldier may have been involved in the massacre.
Karzai’s claims escalated again the tensions between Kabul and Washington at a time of flagging support for the war from the U.S. and Afghan publics — and uncertainties over how to end it.
Although Karzai has often lashed out at his chief military ally over civilian casualties, the Afghan president described himself this time as at “the end of the rope.”
After a somber palace meeting with relatives of the victims of Sunday’s massacre, Karzai seemed to ...
Falling Far From The Family Tree
Post Date: 2012-03-16 13:40:24 by whyofcourse
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Falling Far From The Family TreeDescendants of Trotsky and Begin Share the Passion, but Not the Politics, of Their Famous Forebears Kfar Tapuach, West Bank — If only Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky could see what has become of his great-grandson, David Axelrod. The 49-year-old Russian émigré to Israel has adorned his modest living room with a singular-framed photograph: a bird’s-eye view of Jerusalem with the Dome of the Rock — Islam’s third-holiest shrine — digitally replaced with an image of an imagined Third Jewish Temple. He named his 10-year-old son, Baruch Meir, after two of Israel’s most notorious Jewish figures: Baruch Goldstein, who ...
Global Banking Hub Cuts Ties With Iranian Banks
Post Date: 2012-03-15 13:50:38 by Brian S
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(AP) BRUSSELS - Iran was effectively cut off from global commerce on Thursday, when the company that handles financial transactions said it was severing ties with many Iranian banks — part of an international effort to discourage Tehran from developing nuclear weapons. The action enforces European Union sanctions because global financial transactions are impossible without using SWIFT, and it will go a long way toward isolating Iran financially. The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, or SWIFT, is a banking hub crucial to oil, financial transactions and other trades. "Disconnecting banks is an extraordinary and unprecedented step for SWIFT," said ...
Accused US Soldier Flown Out Of Afghanistan
Post Date: 2012-03-14 20:04:55 by Murron
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Accused US Soldier Flown Out Of Afghanistan KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The American soldier accused of shooting 16 Afghan villagers in a pre-dawn killing spree was flown out of Afghanistan on Wednesday to an undisclosed location, even as many Afghans called for him to face justice in their country. Afghan government officials did not immediately respond to calls for comment on the late-night announcement. The U.S. military said the transfer did not preclude the possibility of trying the case in Afghanistan, and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has said the soldier could receive capital punishment if convicted. Many fear a misstep by the U.S. military in handling the case could ignite a ...
One Year On, Syria's Assad Won't Bow To Uprising
Post Date: 2012-03-14 11:59:39 by Brian S
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BEIRUT | Wed Mar 14, 2012 8:48pm IST (Reuters) - Bashar al-Assad always said Syria would be different. When the Arab uprisings first erupted more than a year ago, the Syrian president confidently said his government was in tune with its people, ready to reform on its own terms, and immune from the turmoil starting to sweep the region. Within weeks he was proved wrong, when a few dozen protesters took to the streets of Damascus on March 15 to call for greater freedoms, setting off one of the most protracted and bloodiest of all the Arab revolts. But while those uprisings toppled four Arab leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen, the 46-year-old Assad has withstood the year-long ...
Israel Would Face Challenge In Bombing Iran Nuclear Sites, Experts Say
Post Date: 2012-03-14 11:58:25 by Brian S
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(CNN) -- It's late in Iran on a dark night, moonless or with heavy clouds. Suddenly the silence is broken by sonic booms, followed by the sound of jets roaring overhead. Flying in tight formation, Israeli fighter planes drop bunker-busting bombs on a nuclear enrichment plant built into the side of a mountain. Iranian pilots race for their own jets to fight back, but by the time they take to the sky, it's too late. The Israeli jets streak away. That, at least, is what Israel would like to happen if it decides to attack Iran in an effort to prevent it from acquiring the ability to make nuclear weapons. But would it be as easy for Israel to destroy Iran's nuclear sites as it ...
There Will Be Euro-zone Debt Crisis Contagion, The Next Greek Tragedy
Post Date: 2012-03-13 14:28:10 by Capitalist Eric
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(December 11, 2009) – Greece's prime minister, George Papandreou, told reporters in Brussels on Friday that European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet and Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker see "no possibility" of a Greek default, Bloomberg News reported. Papandreou also said that there was no possibility of Greece leaving the euro area, according to the report. … (January 29, 2010) – There is no bailout and no "plan B" for the Greek economy because there is no risk it will default on its debt, the European monetary affairs commissioner, Joaquin Almunia, insisted on Friday. … (September 16, 2010) – "Restructuring ...
Western Collapse Slow Motion Suicide Moves To Fast Mode
Post Date: 2012-03-13 14:11:47 by Capitalist Eric
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WESTERN CIVILIZATION DECLINE - OR FALL ? This was a great refreshing read, written by Niall Ferguson, making the point that civilizations tend to decline very fast at their end, like the value of a put/call option as it nears expiry. It is easy to agree with Niall Ferguson but its also easy to disagree, especially as we get down inside his article in MO: MULTIPLE CAUSES - ONE RESULT Niall Ferguson says this about environmental and resource collapse: 'The notion that civilizations do not decline but collapse inspired the anthropologist Jared Diamond's 2005 book, Collapse. But Diamond focused, fashionably, on man-made environmental disasters as the causes of collapse. As a ...
There Is Nothing Rational About Iran’s Regime
Post Date: 2012-03-13 07:28:26 by CZ82
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There Is Nothing Rational About Iran’s Regime By Aaron Goldstein on 3.13.12 @ 6:08AM When Tehran -- which wants to wipe Israel off the map -- is considered "rational," who's left to be irrational? Last month, General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told CNN's Fareed Zakaria that he does not believe the Iranian regime has decided to pursue a nuclear weapons program, and that it would not be "prudent" for Israel to consider a military strike against Iran. General Dempsey went on to state, "We are of the opinion that the Iranian regime is a rational actor." For his part, in a subsequent video to viewers, Zakaria indicated ...
Report From an 'Asymmetrical' War
Post Date: 2012-03-13 07:24:33 by CZ82
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Report From an 'Asymmetrical' War By P. David Hornik on 3.13.12 @ 6:09AM Once again, Iran's proxies in Gaza set off an early sign of something much bigger. The moral asymmetry between Israel and its enemies has been strikingly on display in the latest flare-up between Gaza terror groups and Israeli forces. By Monday afternoon the Israeli air force had reportedly killed 19 terrorists in pinpoint strikes on Gaza targets -- mostly rocket-launching crews -- and two Palestinian civilians as collateral damage, a 15-year-old boy and a 12-year-old boy. According to UN data cited by Richard Kemp, former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, the typical ratio when armies fight ...
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