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West Edges Closer To Confrontation With Iran
Post Date: 2012-01-10 12:10:27 by Brian S
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Iran’s showdown with the West slid closer to dangerous confrontation on Tuesday as international alarm over a new uranium enrichment plant and Tehran’s death sentence for a “CIA spy” raised the stakes. Both sides were digging in deeper and brandishing military muscle, with Iran’s defiance hardening and the United States and European Union actively taking steps to fracture the Iranian economy through further sanctions. The IAEA’s confirmation on Monday that Iran had begun enriching uranium in a new, underground bunker southwest of Tehran was seized upon by the United States, Britain, France and Germany as an unacceptable “violation” of UN Security ...
Iranian, Venezuelan Leaders Rebuff U.S., Joke About Bomb
Post Date: 2012-01-09 19:36:05 by Brian S
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CARACAS | Mon Jan 9, 2012 6:56pm EST (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez lavished each other with praise on Monday, mocked U.S. disapproval and joked about having an atomic bomb at their disposal. "Despite those arrogant people who do not wish us to be together, we will unite forever," the Iranian president told Venezuela's socialist leader Chavez at the start of a visit to four left-leaning Latin American nations. Despite their geographical distance, the fiery anti-U.S. ideologues have forged increasingly close ties between their fellow OPEC nations in recent years, although concrete projects have often lagged behind the ...
Heya Boyz&Girlz: US expels Venezuelan diplomat as Ahmadinejad makes Latin America tour
Post Date: 2012-01-09 18:29:30 by buckeroo
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The Obama administration asked a Venezuelan diplomat based in Miami to leave the United States by Jan. 10, potentially straining US-Venezuelan relations further as Iran and Venezuela grow closer. The expulsion corresponds with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Venezuela yesterday, the first stop on his four-country Latin America tour. Some fear Iran is using the region as a staging ground to attack US interests, an issue that’s especially salient given recent Western anxiety about Iran’s nuclear goals. In December, a Univision documentary called “The Iranian Threat” linked Livia Acosta Noguera, the Venezuelan Consul General to Miami since March 20 ...
U.S. Army to Deploy to Israel for Huge Missile Exercise
Post Date: 2012-01-09 06:54:51 by CZ82
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U.S. Army to Deploy to Israel for Huge Missile Exercise Kerry Patton On January 19, 1991, during the first Gulf War, the United States sent Patriot Missiles and a contingent of U.S. service members into Israel on temporary assignment. This was the least we could do for Israel, which vowed not to respond to Saddam's Scud attacks that reached deep inside Tel Aviv. Yet U.S. forces never found a permanent home inside the Holy Land -- until today. Twenty years later, the United States has committed to a permanent presence in Israel. According to Defense News, as of September 21, 2011, the United States deployed a high-powered, high-frequency, transportable X-band radar system to Israel ...
Iran sentences American man to death in CIA case
Post Date: 2012-01-09 05:03:59 by We The People
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An Iranian court has convicted an American man of working for the CIA and sentenced him to death, state radio reported Monday. Iran charges that as a former U.S. Marine, Amir Mirzaei Hekmati received special training and served at U.S. military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan before heading to Iran for his alleged intelligence mission. The radio report did not say when the verdict was issued. Under Iranian law, he has 20 days to appeal. Hekmati, 28, was born in Arizona. His family is of Iranian origin. His father, who lives in Michigan, said his son is not a CIA spy and was visiting his grandmothers in Iran when he was arrested. The U.S. State Department has demanded his release. The ...
Afghan Commission Accuses U.S. of Detainee Abuse
Post Date: 2012-01-08 14:08:59 by Brian S
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KABUL, Afghanistan—An Afghan investigative commission accused the American military Saturday of abuse at its main prison in the country, repeating President Hamid Karzai's demand that the U.S. turn over all detainees to Afghan custody and saying anyone held without evidence should be freed. The demands put the U.S. and the Afghan governments on a collision course in an issue that will decide the fate of hundreds of suspected Taliban and al-Qaida operators captured by American forces. The head of the Afghan investigation said U.S. officials told him many of those militant suspects were taken based on intelligence that can't be used in Afghan courts. The dispute that has ...
Iran Reportedly Begins Uranium Enrichment At Underground Site Amid Threats, Military Maneuvers
Post Date: 2012-01-08 13:40:10 by Brian S
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran has begun uranium enrichment at a new underground site built to withstand possible airstrikes, a leading hard-line newspaper reported Sunday in another show of defiance against Western pressure to rein in Tehran's nuclear program. The operations at the bunker-like facility south of Tehran, reported by the Kayhan daily newspaper, are small in comparison to Iran's main enrichment site. But the centrifuges at the underground labs are considered more efficient and are shielded from aerial surveillance and protected against airstrikes by up to 300 feet (90 meters) of mountain rock. Uranium enrichment is at the core of the international standoff over ...
Iran, Russia Replace Dollar With Rial, Ruble in Trade, Fars Says
Post Date: 2012-01-07 13:03:48 by Brian S
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Iran and Russia replaced the U.S. dollar with their national currencies in bilateral trade, Iran’s state-run Fars news agency reported, citing Seyed Reza Sajjadi, the Iranian ambassador in Moscow. The proposal to switch to the ruble and the rial was raised by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at a meeting with his Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in Astana, Kazakhstan, of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the ambassador said. Iran has replaced the dollar in its oil trade with India, China and Japan, Fars reported. The European Union, the U.S. and the United Nations are applying sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program. Iran says its nuclear efforts are for ...
Ron Paul Vindicated on Iran (Unfortunately)
Post Date: 2012-01-07 10:53:26 by We The People
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A week ago Ron Paul tried to convey how the ever-tightening sanctions on Iran--which may soon include an embargo on its oil--look from an Iranian point of view: It's as if China were to blockade the Gulf of Mexico, he said--"an act of war".This is sheer conjecture; Ron Paul is no expert on Iran. But now someone who does have relevant credentials has weighed in, and the picture he paints is disturbingly reminiscent of the one Paul painted. It suggests we may be closer to war than most people realize. Vali Nasr, in addition to being a highly respected expert on the Middle East, belongs to a family that, according to Lobelog's sources, has "a direct line into Iranian ...
Musharraf Will Be Arrested on Arrival in Pakistan, PTI Reports
Post Date: 2012-01-07 10:32:45 by A K A Stone
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Pervez Musharraf, who resigned as Pakistan’s president in 2008, will be arrested on arrival in the country later this month, the Press Trust of India reported, citing a prosecutor. Musharraf is a “proclaimed offender” and there’s no need for a warrant for this arrest, PTI reported today, citing Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali, prosecutor at the Federal Investigation Agency. Musharraf lives in Dubai and London and plans to return to Pakistan on Jan. 25 or Jan. 27, according to the report. A Pakistani court issued an arrest warrant for Musharraf in February over allegations he played a role in the 2007 assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, the AP reported at the ...
True Spy Story behind Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Post Date: 2012-01-07 01:30:56 by CZ82
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True Spy Story behind Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy By Bernie Reeves Most movie-goers do not know the story behind the acclaimed new film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, opening nationally this weekend. Adapted from the 1974 John Le Carré book, and the 1982 sequel Smiley's People, both were dramatized on BBC TV and PBS and can be found on Netflix and other sites. Le Carré, the pen name for David Cornwell -- who served in MI6, Britain's secret intelligence service -- penned the two books (and the Honorable School Boy, the third installment in this trilogy), drawing on the real-life drama that tore apart the British spy demi-monde in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s: the ...
Russian Warships To Visit Syria, Itar-Tass Says
Post Date: 2012-01-06 16:47:28 by Brian S
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By Steve Gutterman MOSCOW Jan 6 (Reuters) - Two Russian warships are expected to arrive in Syria on Saturday, the state-run Itar-Tass news agency reported, a visit that will likely be seen as a show of force and a display of support for President Bashar al-Assad's government. The destroyer Admiral Chabanenko and the frigate Yaroslav Mudry are scheduled to put in at Russia's naval maintenance and supply facility in the Syrian port of Tartus, Itar-Tass cited an unnamed representative of the navy's general staff as saying. The official said the vessels, part of a group of Russian ships currently in the Mediterranean, were expected to spend several days at the Tartus facility, ...
Iran To Hold New Wargames Soon In Key Oil Waterway
Post Date: 2012-01-06 12:06:17 by Brian S
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Iran is to hold fresh military exercises in and around the strategic Strait of Hormuz within weeks, the naval commander of its powerful Revolutionary Guards was quoted as saying on Friday. The manoeuvres are to be held in the Iranian calendar month that runs from January 21 to February 19, the Fars news agency quoted Ali Fadavi as saying. They will underline Iran’s assertion that it has “full control over the Strait of Hormuz area and controls all movements in it,” Fadavi added. The announcement — which narrowed down a timeframe for the exercises the Guards had previously only given as “soon” — risked aggravating tensions with the West over the strait. ...
Rockets Hit Green Zone As Iraq Marks Army Day
Post Date: 2012-01-06 11:55:11 by Brian S
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Rockets were fired against Baghdad’s Green Zone as Iraq’s military marked its anniversary with a parade Friday, a day after the country suffered its worst attacks since August and weeks after US troops left. Further violence against Shiite pilgrims, who were the targets of Thursday’s bombings, killed two people, the latest in a spike in attacks against the majority community amid a political crisis that has stoked sectarian tensions. Meanwhile, top officials in Nasiriyah, worst hit by Thursday’s bloodshed, held a funeral for two Sunni soldiers who, officers said, tried to prevent a suicide attack that killed 47 people in the southern city. In Baghdad, insurgents fired ...
Gerald Celente: EU Collapses in 90 Days, Bank Holiday and War
Post Date: 2012-01-05 14:39:54 by Capitalist Eric
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Twenty-two months of hysteria of an impending European financial collapse, starting with Greece in March of 2010, will finally come to an end in 2012, according to the founder of Trends Research Institute, Gerald Celente. Hysteria of the horrid possibility of a European meltdown and the dire implications for the world economy a collapse implies will end, as the event finally turns into unequivocal reality by April 1, with accusations of ‘fear mongering’ by a significant portion of the mob quickly dropped in favor of the next predictable reaction to the crisis: outrage against those who allowed the collapse. “I would say, since I’ve been doing this work, over 30 years ...
Europe cannot save the euro, nor save itself from the euro
Post Date: 2012-01-05 13:24:38 by Capitalist Eric
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It is customary at this time to act like two-faced Janus, looking back at the year that has passed while predicting what may happen in the one ahead. However, from what we have seen of the two great political fantasies of our age, it is now much easier to say what is likely not to happen. Each of these acts of make-believe has got so out of hand that a violent collision with reality is inevitable. But those who are in their grip are so locked in denial that it is only safe to predict that nothing will bring them back to earth until that nemesis intervenes. A first prediction is that it is no longer conceivable that the sad little nonentities who preside over the affairs of the EU will be ...
Iran Shrugs At Looming EU Ban On Its Oil
Post Date: 2012-01-05 12:40:40 by Brian S
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Iran on Thursday played down the impact of new Western sanctions targeting its vital oil sector, after European diplomats said they have reached preliminary agreement on an EU oil ban from the Islamic republic. The National Iranian Oil Company said demand was so high for Iranian oil that it would have no trouble selling it elsewhere. “We hope that Iran’s oil is not sanctioned officially but if so we have taken the needed arrangements,” the company’s director of international affairs, Mohsen Qamsari, was quoted as saying in a report on Iran’s oil ministry website. The 27-nation European Union has struck “an agreement in principle” to ban Iranian oil ...
Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer: Ron Paul’s Iran Policy Most Accurate
Post Date: 2012-01-05 09:25:53 by Capitalist Eric
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Paul receives more support from U.S. military than all Republican candidates combined Despite numerous Republican candidates attacking Ron Paul over his “dangerous” foreign policy, Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer praised Paul for being the “most accurate” out of all the GOP contenders when it came to his perspective on Iran. “I think Ron Paul’s perspective or policy on Iran is probably the most accurate of the current GOP candidates,” said Shaffer during an appearance on Fox News, adding that Iran probably already has a nuclear weapon. As Shaffer points out in the clip, Iran would be committing suicide if it decided to create any kind of pretext for a ...
Israeli spy chief downplays Iranian nuke threat
Post Date: 2012-01-04 20:19:18 by jwpegler
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The head of Israel’s intelligence agency says that a nuclear-armed Iran does not necessarily pose an existential threat to the Jewish state, according to Israeli ambassadors. Mossad chief Tamir Pardo addressed a conclave of Israeli ambassadors in Jerusalem on Thursday, saying that Israel’s existence is not inevitably endangered by Iran acquiring an atomic weapon, even as Israel has tried to disrupt Iran’s nuclear program. “What is the significance of the term ‘existential?’” Mr. Pardo was quoted as saying by several ambassadors. “If you said a nuclear bomb in Iranian hands was an ‘existential’ threat, that would mean that we would have to ...
In Jerusalem, the Holocaust Is Trivialized
Post Date: 2012-01-04 15:03:14 by Brian S
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An Israeli protest over the weekend by ultra-Orthodox Jews who dressed their children to look like inmates at a Nazi concentration camp highlights the sometimes peculiar role the Holocaust plays there in political discourse and even in everyday exchanges. The spectacle at a Jerusalem square Saturday night, staged by the most extreme of the ultra-Orthodox community’s myriad factions, featured mostly adults but also several dozen kids in striped uniforms and yellow stars, evoking the Holocaust’s most iconic images. The demonstrators were protesting an effort by secular Israelis to roll back gender segregation on some bus lines and in certain neighborhoods—a ...
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Says It Won’t Recognize Israel
Post Date: 2012-01-03 12:12:35 by Brian S
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MB says 'will not recognize Israel under any circumstances'; move to cancel peace treaty could represent strategic chance too great for MB as it seeks international legitimacy. By Jack Khoury The Muslim Brotherhood, the overwhelming victor in the first round of elections for the Egyptian Parliament, has announced it will not recognize Israel and intends to bring the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty to a referendum. "We will not recognize Israel under any circumstances; we are talking about an occupation entity and a criminal enemy," said Dr. Rashad Bayoumi, the deputy head of the Brotherhood. "There is no condition that obligates the movement to recognize ...
Pope: Other Christian Denominations Not True Churches
Post Date: 2012-01-02 21:10:53 by A K A Stone
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LORENZAGO DI CADORE, Italy — For the second time in a week, Pope Benedict XVI has corrected what he says are erroneous interpretations of the Second Vatican Council, reasserting the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church and saying other Christian communities were either defective or not true churches. Benedict approved a document released Tuesday from his old office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which repeated church teaching on Catholic relations with other Christians. While there was nothing doctrinally new in the document, it nevertheless prompted swift criticism from Protestants, Lutherans and other Christian denominations spawned by the 16th century ...
British Darth Vader fighter dies aged 89
Post Date: 2012-01-02 21:08:09 by A K A Stone
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Former Olympic fencer Bob Anderson, who staged fights in Star Wars films and From Russia With Love, has died at the age of 89. Anderson fought light sabre battles as Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, two of the original Star Wars films. In the non-fight scenes, Vader was played by David Prowse and voiced by James Earl Jones. The British Academy of Fencing confirmed Anderson died on 1 January. It was Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars trilogy, who revealed Anderson was behind the fight scenes in a 1983 interview with Starlog magazine. "It was always supposed to be a secret, but I finally told George (Lucas) - the director - I ...
Iran Test-Fires More Missiles During Navy Drill
Post Date: 2012-01-02 16:01:27 by Brian S
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TEHRAN, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- Iran successfully test-fired long- and short-range missiles during its military drill in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, state media reported. The launch of the missiles came one day after the Islamic republic test-fired an anti-radar, mid-range missile during the naval drills in its southern waters. The home-made, coast-to-sea Qader (Mighty) missile fired on Monday could hit the target "successfully" and could destroy it, said the official IRNA news agency. Deputy commander of Iran's Navy Rear Admiral Seyyed Mahmoud Mousavi was quoted as saying by IRNA on Monday that the ultra- advanced Qader missile has been upgraded in terms of its radar and ...
Brother Says Missing China Rights Lawyer Held in Remote Prison (Coming to America under Democrat/Republican junta's)
Post Date: 2012-01-02 15:59:41 by Fibr Dog
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The brother of a prominent Chinese dissident lawyer who has been missing for 20 months says Gao Zhisheng is being held in a remote prison in far western China. Gao Zhiyi said that he had finally received an official notice of a Beijing court's decision on Sunday. He said his brother is being held in the Shaya County Prison in Xinjiang. Gao Zhisheng, who earlier said he had been kidnapped and tortured by Chinese authorities, had been missing for more than a year and a half, until state media reported last month that he had been sent back to prison for three years for violating his probation. Gao was sentenced to three years in prison in 2006 for inciting subversion of state power. He ...
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