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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 ...
Greek deal doesn’t dispel growth worries
Post Date: 2012-03-13 00:09:52 by lucysmom
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FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) — Fears that added layers of austerity will undercut Greek growth and undermine efforts by Athens to slash its debt pile to a sustainable level threatened to overshadow relief sparked by a long-sought agreement Tuesday to extend the country a second bailout, economists said. The Financial Times reported Tuesday that a 10-page analysis of Greece’s debt sustainability prepared for the euro-zone ministers last week found that additional austerity measures being forced on Greece risk creating a recession so deep that Greece won’t manage to whittle down its debt load over the course of the new bailout. Click for Full Text!
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Post Date: 2012-03-12 20:15:46 by whyofcourse
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Israel Medical Association Opposes Late Abortion Amendment
Post Date: 2012-03-12 17:48:19 by Brian S
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By Reuters/Nir Elias The Israel Medical Association expressed opposition Sunday to the passage of a Knesset proposal to amend the section of the Abortion Law that deals with late abortions. MK Nissim Ze’ev (Shas) proposed the amendment on Sunday and demanded that the law prohibit all abortions during the last 18 weeks of gestation. The IMA said that the present law should be left in place because “the amendment will cause more abortions in early stages of pregnancy of fetuses, some of which are healthy.” Prof. Moshe Ben-Ami, chairman of the Israel Gynecology and Obstetrics Society, sent a letter to the Ministerial Committee for Legislation calling on members not to okay ...
Kissinger: We Should Ignore Intelligence And Assume Iran Wants Nukes
Post Date: 2012-03-12 13:16:23 by Brian S
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Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger said in an interview Sunday that the United States should assume that Iran is actively preparing to build nuclear weapons. Kissinger, 88, was asked on the CNN show “GPS” if the threat of an Iranian nuclear weapon was so dire that Israel would need to launch a military strike in the near future. “I am very uneasy with the so-called intelligence report that say we don’t know whether they are actually working on nuclear weapons,” Kissinger told CNN. “I think we should start from the premise that they are undergoing all this in order to achieve a military capability. I don’t think that is a disputable ...
Pope Denounces 'Gay Lobby' To U.S. Bishops
Post Date: 2012-03-12 07:04:00 by CZ82
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Pope Denounces 'Gay Lobby' To U.S. Bishops Benedict XVI Urges Prelates To Beef Up Teaching VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI waded deep into U.S. campaign politics Friday, urging visiting U.S. bishops to beef up their teaching about the evils of premarital sex and cohabitation, and denouncing what he called the "powerful" gay marriage lobby in America. As debate over health care coverage for birth control rages in the United States, Benedict said there was an urgent need for Catholics in America to discover the value of chastity -- an essential element of Christian teaching that he said had been subject to unjust "ridicule." Benedict has long championed ...
Death Toll Jumps To "At Least 16" In Us Soldier's Mass Murder Of Afghan Civilians
Post Date: 2012-03-11 13:07:40 by Brian S
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KABUL — An American soldier wandered outside his base in a remote southern Afghan village shortly before dawn Sunday and opened fire on civilians inside homes, killing at least 16, Afghan and U.S. officials said. The attack marked perhaps the grisliest act by a U.S. soldier in the decade-long Afghan war and seemed all but certain to stoke anti-American anger in a crucial battleground as foreign troops start to thin out in the south. Afghan officials said women and children were among those killed in Panjwai district of Kandahar province, the birthplace of the Taliban movement. Coming as Afghan rage over last month’s burning of Korans by U.S. soldiers was beginning to taper off, ...
Iron Dome Foils 90 Percent of Missiles
Post Date: 2012-03-11 09:59:22 by A K A Stone
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The Iron Dome system has intercepted 90 percent of missile attacks on urban centers during the latest rocket bombardment from Gaza. The expensive systems were inaugurated last year amid controversy over its worth. A primitive Kassam rocket costs terrorists only a few hundred dollars while each Iron Dome anti-missile missile costs $50,000. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu stated Saturday night, “We will continue to improve home front defense including by means of additional Iron Dome systems, the effectiveness of which was shown again over the weekend." The Iron Dome system intercepted about 90 percent of the rockets fired at Be’er Sheva, Ashdod and Ashkelon, including ...
Former Mossad Chief: Iranian Regime is 'Rational'
Post Date: 2012-03-10 18:26:32 by Brian S
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Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan, who has more than once expressed his position that an Israeli attack in Iran would be a mistake, is reiterating his position, this time on an American network. In an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” which will air on Sunday and of which portions were released Thursday, Dagan said, “An attack on Iran before you are exploring all other approaches is not the right way how to do it.” According to Dagan, who spoke with Lesley Stahl, “The regime in Iran is a very rational regime.” When asked whether he thinks Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is rational, he answered, “The answer is yes. Not exactly our rational, but I ...
Pope: Condoms OK -- for male prostitutes
Post Date: 2012-03-10 16:22:40 by A K A Stone
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VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI says in a new book that condoms can be justified for male prostitutes seeking to stop HIV, a stunning turnaround for a church that has long opposed condoms and a pontiff who has blamed them for making the AIDS crisis worse. The pontiff made the comments in a book-length interview with a German journalist, "Light of the World: The Pope, the Church and the Signs of the Times," which is being released Tuesday. The Vatican newspaper ran excerpts on Saturday. Church teaching has opposed condoms because they're a form of artificial contraception although it has never released an explicit policy about condoms and HIV. The Vatican has been ...
America is Israel
Post Date: 2012-03-10 15:52:36 by whyofcourse
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America is Israel In order to correctly understand the Bible, it is imperative to know that America and the Christian Nations of the World were founded by God’s People, the literal descendants of the ten lost tribes of Israel. And though there is mountains of historical, Biblical, and prophetic proofs of this, most Christians do not know this. They think they are Gentiles and that the modern day Jews are Israel. There couldn’t be anything further from the truth! Please do your own research on this to learn about your heritage and destiny. And when you finally come to the conclusion of who you are and where you came from, you will be humbled by the awesome responsibilities you ...
Honeybees May Have Personality
Post Date: 2012-03-09 15:42:03 by A K A Stone
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Bees have different “personalities”, with some showing a stronger willingness or desire to seek adventure than others, according to a study by entomologists at the University of Illinois. Wired U.K. The researchers found that thrill-seeking is not limited to humans and other vertebrates. The brains of honeybees that were more likely than others to seek adventure exhibited distinct patterns of gene activity in molecular pathways known to be associated with thrill-seeking in humans. The findings present a new perspective on honeybee communities, which were thought to be highly regimented and comprised of a colony of interchangeable workers taking on a few specific roles to serve ...
Australian children to be sterilized without parental consent under new eugenics law
Post Date: 2012-03-08 14:14:32 by redleghunter
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Australian children to be sterilized without parental consent under new eugenics law by Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) If you have ever seen the famous 1975 movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, you likely recall several disturbing scenes in which mental health patients are given frontal-lobe lobotomies, or the iconic scene where actor Jack Nicholson's character undergoes electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Today, these horrific forms of so-called mental health treatment are considered to be cruel relics of the past, but a new bill in Australia proposes that young children be given these treatments without parental consent, and even be permitted to undergo sterilization ...
1933 Judea Declares War On Germany
Post Date: 2012-03-08 12:56:33 by whyofcourse
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Below is a facsimile[1] of the front page of Britain's Daily Express, March 24, 1933. (Full text of article follows.) Bear in mind that this was some six years before the start of WWII (1939-1945)!
Full text of news story:
Daily Express. London, March 24, 1933, pp. 1-2.
J U D E A D E C L A R E S W A R O N G E R M A N Y
[A composite photo with Hitler before a presumably Jewish court]
JEWS OF ALL THE WORLD UNITE
BOYCOTT OF GERMAN GOODS
MASS DEMONSTRATIONS
"Daily Express" Special Political Correspondent.
A strange and unforeseen sequel has emerged from the stories of German Jew-baiting.
The whole of Israel throughout the world is uniting to declare an ...
Iran May Be Covering Up Nuke Test
Post Date: 2012-03-07 19:07:22 by Brian S
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Satellite images of an Iranian military facility appear to show trucks and earth-moving vehicles at the site, indicating an attempted cleanup of radioactive traces possibly left by tests of a nuclear-weapon trigger, diplomats told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The assertions from the diplomats, all nuclear experts accredited to the International Atomic Energy Agency, could add to the growing international pressure on Iran over its nuclear program, which Tehran insists is for peaceful purposes. While the US and the EU are backing a sanctions-heavy approach, Israel has warned that it may resort to a pre-emptive strike against Iran's nuclear facilities to prevent it from obtaining ...
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