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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 ...
Rocket fired from Egypt hits Israeli city of Eilat
Post Date: 2012-04-05 08:23:46 by A K A Stone
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A Grad rocket has landed in the southern Israeli city of Eilat, but has caused no damage or injuries, Israeli security officials said. District police chief Ron Gertner told Israeli radio the rocket had been fired from Egypt's Sinai peninsula. He said it struck a construction site close to a residential area shortly after midnight (21:00 GMT). The blast took place as thousands congregated in the resort town for the Jewish holiday of Passover. Rocket attacks from Egyptian soil are uncommon. Attacks on Eilat and the nearby Jordanian town of Aqaba in 2010 killed one person and injured another four. Sinai unrest Eilat Mayor Meir Yitzhak-Halevy told the Jerusalem Post that the city ...
In Candid Study, Chinese Scholar Sees U.S. Decline
Post Date: 2012-04-03 20:26:13 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON — Convinced that the United States is in decline, China’s distrust is growing of the longtime superpower which it sees as bent on holding back the Asian power’s rise, an influential scholar says. In a candid new study, well-known experts from China and the United States with wide experience in the other country describe the Pacific powers as seeking a partnership but hampered by distrust of their rival’s intentions. The scholars proposed steps to build confidence between the world’s two largest economies including deeper discussions on defense and three-way dialogues with Japan and India. Wang Jisi, dean of the School of International Studies at Peking ...
Gov. Christie Arrives In Israel Monday New Jersey's Governor Will Spend A Week In The Middle East. This Is His First Official Trip Overseas
Post Date: 2012-04-02 19:02:43 by Brian S
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is due to touch down in Israel on Monday morning for a week long trip. Christie's first day in the Middle East will be busy. He plans to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and visit Jerusalem's Western Wall Christie is traveling with his family and a delegation of 13 business and religious leaders on what is primarily a trade mission. While in Israel, he plans to tour a pharmaceutical facility, participate in a business roundtable and visit a school. Toward the end of the week, the Christie family will head to Jordan before flying home Sunday. Several New Jersey governors have traveled to Israel since Gov. Tom Kean established ties with ...
Wallet Wars: Amex and Visa join Amazon, PayPal and Google at The Open Mobile Summit
Post Date: 2012-04-02 14:52:46 by jwpegler
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The battle for control of the mobile wallet is high on the agenda at this year’s annual mobile industry gathering. Keynotes at The Open Mobile Summit, 29-30 May London this year include Dan Schulman, Group President American Express, and Peter Ayliffe, CEO of Visa Europe. They’re joined by heavy hitters from PayPal, Amazon, Google and all of Europe’s leading operator groups as the industry races to define the future mobile payments ecosystem. Brands and retailers are also getting on the act -- with Unilever, Starbucks, EAT, Gondola Group and others joining this year’s line-up -- a clear indication of the rising tide of mobile commerce activity. “After a slow ...
Ahead Of Nuclear Talks, Iran Says Not To Yield To U.S. Pressures
Post Date: 2012-04-02 12:38:17 by Brian S
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TEHRAN, April 2 (Xinhua) -- Just a few days ahead of nuclear talks between Iran and the world's major powers, Iran's Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi said Monday that his country will not yield to U.S. pressures over its nuclear program. "The West thinks that like many countries, Iran will also succumb to the U.S. pressures, but the assumption is basically wrong," Salehi was quoted as saying by local satellite Press TV. Salehi's remarks came just ahead of Iran's nuclear talks with the five permanent members of UN Security Council (the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China) plus Germany, known as G5+1, which is slated for April 13 in Turkey's ...
Pakistan's Muslim League Voices Support for Iran against US
Post Date: 2012-04-01 18:10:52 by Brian S
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Secretary-General of Pakistan's Muslim League Party Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed underlined that his country would oppose any attack on Iran and would never allow its territory to be used against Iran. The secretary-general of the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid-i-Azam (PML-Q), a coalition partner, said Islamabad stands against a US attack on Iran and would not allow anyone to use its soil for attacking Iran. Speaking to reporters at the Parliament House after attending a meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS), Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed observed that his party had also flouted proposal before the committee to oppose any American ...
Iran Says Russia Relations to See ‘Leap’ With Putin at Kremlin
Post Date: 2012-04-01 18:08:47 by Brian S
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Iran’s relations with Russia will witness a “leap” with Vladimir Putin’s return to the Kremlin, the Fars reported, citing Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast. Russia and Iran have “multiple grounds for cooperation,” Mehmanparast said in an interview with state-run news agency. The “horizon of relations with Russia will be bright” and the level of relations will rise considerably, he said.
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Man whose WMD lies led to 100,000 deaths confesses all ("Curveball" Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi)
Post Date: 2012-04-01 15:33:30 by Hondo68
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Defector tells how US officials 'sexed up' his fictions to make the case for 2003 invasion A man whose lies helped to make the case for invading Iraq – starting a nine-year war costing more than 100,000 lives and hundreds of billions of pounds – will come clean in his first British television interview tomorrow. "Curveball", the Iraqi defector who fabricated claims about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, smiles as he confirms how he made the whole thing up. It was a confidence trick that changed the course of history, with Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi's lies used to justify the Iraq war.He tries to defend his actions: "My main purpose was to ...
Clinton: Iran Agrees To New Nuke Talks
Post Date: 2012-03-31 19:43:57 by Brian S
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(CBS/AP) RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says Iran and six world powers have agreed to meet in Istanbul on April 13 for the latest round of talks about Iran's nuclear program. Clinton made the announcement at a news conference Saturday following a security conference in Saudi Arabia. That conference focused on the nuclear program, which the U.S. and other believe is intended to develop nuclear weapons, and on military threats from Iran in the Persian Gulf region. Iran and the six nations — the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China — met in Istanbul 14 months ago. But the talks ended after two days with the sides agree ...
Syria Declares It Has Defeated Revolt
Post Date: 2012-03-31 12:18:29 by Brian S
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Syria’s regime declared on Saturday it has defeated those seeking to bring it down while reiterating support for a UN-Arab peace plan, as its troops reportedly shelled rebels in the city of Homs. Foreign ministry spokesman Jihad Makdisi, cited by the official SANA news agency, also said Syrian troops would only draw back from urban areas once the security situation is stable. The United Nations says more than 9,000 people have been killed in the crackdown by forces of President Bashar al-Assad on an Arab Spring-inspired uprising that began a year ago with pro-democracy protests. “The battle to topple the state is over, and the battle to solidify stability… and move on ...
Inside the Ring: Beijing coup rumors
Post Date: 2012-03-31 00:59:20 by A K A Stone
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U.S. intelligence agencies monitoring China’s Internet say that from March 14 to Wednesday bloggers circulated alarming reports of tanks entering Beijing and shots being fired in the city as part of what is said to have been a high-level political battle among party leaders - and even a possible military coup. The Internet discussions included photos posted online of tanks and other military vehicles moving around Beijing. The reports followed the ouster last week of senior Politburo member and Chongqing Party Secretary Bo Xilai, who was linked to corruption, but who is said to remain close to China’s increasingly nationalistic military. Chinese microblogging sites Sina Weibo, ...
Attacking Iran: Did US Just Torpedo Israeli Deal For A Base In Azerbaijan?
Post Date: 2012-03-30 14:44:21 by Brian S
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Israel is developing a 'secret staging ground' in Azerbaijan for a possible attack on Iran, reports Foreign Policy magazine. US officials aren't happy with that, and may have leaked the story. An Israeli F-16I fighter plane takes off from Ramon Air Base in southern Israel in 2008. Foreign Policy magazine reports that Israel is developing a 'secret staging ground' in Azerbaijan for a possible air attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.(Gil Cohen/Reuters/File) By Brad Knickerbockerposted March 29, 2012 at 7:41 pm EDT The three-way tension between the United States, Israel, and Iran became tenser this week with a widely cited report that Israel is developing a ...
Child Witnesses To Afghan Massacre Say Robert Bales Was Not Alone
Post Date: 2012-03-30 12:38:46 by Brian S
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Here are two versions of what happened the night of March 11, when 17 Afghan villagers were shot to death.First, the Army version: Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, troubled by marriage woes, drunkenly left Camp Belambai, 12 miles from Kandahar, with a pistol and an automatic rifle and killed six people as they slept. Bales then returned to the base and left again for another village, this time killing 11. He acted alone and he admitted to the killings, according to the Army.Then there is the account that child witnesses provided Yalda Hakim, a journalist for SBS Dateline in Australia. Hakim, who was born in Afghanistan and immigrated to Australia as a child, is the first international journalist to ...
Satellite Image Shows Activity At Nkorea Launch Site
Post Date: 2012-03-29 20:30:20 by Brian S
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New satellite imagery appears to show preparations beginning for a long-range rocket launch in North Korea despite international objections. The image from a privately operated satellite was taken Wednesday at the Tongchang-ri site where North Korea says it plans to launch the rocket between April 12 and 16. An analysis conducted for the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies says the image shows trucks and fuel tanks outside two large buildings that would be used to store propellant for the rocket. It also shows work under way at a gantry tower next to a mobile launch pad, with a crane being used to load equipment. The rocket itself is not yet ...
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