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Iran's nuclear plant connects to electric grid, the country says
Post Date: 2012-01-01 20:04:34 by We The People
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Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- Iran says its Bushehr nuclear power plant is now online, making it the first Middle Eastern country to produce commercial electricity from atomic reactors. The Bushehr plant joined the grid Saturday night with a capacity of 60 megawatts, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran announced. On its website, the agency said Bushehr "joined the national grid" Saturday night at 11:29 p.m. (2:59 p.m. ET) The plant is expected to produce 1,000 megawatts of electricity when fully operational, about 2.5 percent of Iran's current electricity consumption, acording to the International Atomic Energy Agency. The state-run news agency IRNA said a ceremony to inaugurate ...
First sign of an apocalyptic year to come? Thousands of blackbirds fall to their death in Arkansas town for second New Year's Eve in a row
Post Date: 2012-01-01 13:41:58 by A K A Stone
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Ancient Mayan legend says that 2012 will bring the end of the world.
A small Arkansas town might have shown the first example of that as approximately 5,000 blackbirds dropped dead from the sky last night in the early hours of the new year.
As if the incident was not strange enough, it is the second time in two years that the birds have fallen as the calendar year changes.
On the streets: Estimates put the dead bird count well into the thousands
Clean up crew: Town workers were not expecting this job when they went to bed last night, but were awoken early in the morning with the task
'I thought the Mayor was messing with me when he called me,' said Milton McCullar, ...
Occupy Beijing
Post Date: 2011-12-31 11:18:43 by lucysmom
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Rapid economic growth hasn’t been able to stem the rising tide of discontent in China. Even as the economy has soared, the number of protests has jumped. So what’s really wrong? The outbreak of spontaneous mass protest against corruption and abuse of power in China is showing no signs of abating. In the latest instance, which received sustained Western press coverage, thousands of villagers in Wukan, a farming community in Guangdong Province, “occupied” their village for nearly two weeks before successfully extracting important concessions from the provincial government, which had to dispatch a deputy party secretary to negotiate with the villagers. The specific trigger ...
Hungry Monkey Eats Babies Balls The Video
Post Date: 2011-12-31 00:02:32 by A K A Stone
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DRIVING IN CHINA : Tragic! Monitoring the probe came to light 108 lives lost in the moment of Heze accident! (HD version)
Post Date: 2011-12-30 23:43:29 by A K A Stone
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China's most wanted man admits crimes: report
Post Date: 2011-12-30 23:28:25 by A K A Stone
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BEIJING -- China's most wanted man, who was deported from Canada in July after a decades-long legal battle, has admitted to his crimes and will now be handed over to prosecutors, state media reported on Friday. Beijing had sought the deportation of Lai Changxing for years, accusing him of running a multibillion-dollar smuggling ring in the southeastern city of Xiamen in the 1990s in one of China's biggest political scandals in decades. Nothing has been heard of him since he was returned to China over the summer. A brief report on state radio's website said the probe into his crimes had finished and that Lai would now be handed over to Xiamen prosecutors. “Lai Changxing ...
China auto rules could ward off new firms: analysts
Post Date: 2011-12-30 23:24:27 by A K A Stone
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BEIJING -- China's decision to “withdraw support” for foreign investment in its auto sector is unlikely to see global firms leave the country but will make it harder for new carmakers to enter, analysts say. The guidelines — released by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the top economic planner, late Thursday — signal an end to incentives for foreigners and discourage fresh projects in China. The move comes as sales in the world's biggest market slump and Beijing tries to shore up the economy by helping domestic companies and opening up other industries to foreigners such as environmental technology. “The government is signaling that ...
How North Korea created an 8ft giant soldier... or did they?
Post Date: 2011-12-30 10:30:36 by We The People
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Eagle-eyed observers of how North Korea's media covered Kim Jong Il's funeral believe they have been up to their old tricks - with a spot of Photoshopping. A seemingly doctored photograph has emerged of a soldier, who appears to be well over 8ft tall, in the back row of one block of mourners. The image was captured as the funeral procession passed near the Kumsusan Memorial Palace in the capital Pyongyang. Official news agency KCNA took the photo, and the giant soldier appears to be shown from several different angles. This has led some to say that the photo has not be manipulated. Others believe it could be 7ft 8in tall North Korean basketball star Ri Myung Hun, dubbed Michael ...
1,100-year-old Mayan ruins found in North Georgia
Post Date: 2011-12-29 22:09:38 by A K A Stone
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Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of an ancient Mayan city in the mountains of North Georgia believed to be at least 1,100 years old. According to Richard Thornton at Examiner.com, the ruins are reportedly what remains of a city built by Mayans fleeing wars, volcanic eruptions, droughts and famine. In 1999, University of Georgia archeologist Mark Williams led an expedition to investigate the Kenimer Mound, a large, five-sided pyramid built in approximately 900 A.D. in the foothills of Georgia’s tallest mountain, Brasstown Bald. Many local residents has assumed for years that the pyramid was just another wooded hill, but in fact it was a structure built on an existing hill in ...
Doe attacked by golden eagle
Post Date: 2011-12-29 00:15:47 by A K A Stone
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This plucky fawn had an incredible escape when it dived under a fence to get away from a huge golden eagle. The young doe had to run for its life after the golden eagle swooped in for the kill. Photographer Milan Krasula snapped away as the chase played out in front of him. The 30-year-old spent four days trying to get a great picture of the annual eagle hunt, where owners release their birds to hunt prey. But instead of diving for a smaller animal, the eagle amazed watchers by dive-bombing the deer and trying to fly off with it. He said: "You have to be very lucky to get a good shot, as you cannot predict where the prey will be hiding "I found an area that I thought it ...
Britain’s borders close if euro goes
Post Date: 2011-12-28 23:59:26 by A K A Stone
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The emergency measure would block hordes of French, German and Dutch nationals who would be desperate to withdraw cash here with credit cards if banks in their own countries dry up. It is feared a run on British banks could also result in them being unable to service UK businesses. Emergency measure ... George Osborne Emergency measure ... George Osborne Chancellor George Osborne has confirmed extensive contingency plans are being drawn up to safeguard Britain. The Treasury will not reveal specifics. But there will be limits on how much money can be deposited in British banks in any European stampede to "safe havens" like the City of London. Such a rush would send the Pound ...
Ron Paul Interview with the Israeli Press: Honest and Open
Post Date: 2011-12-28 17:33:27 by jwpegler
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Texas Congressman Ron Paul, who is leading the polls in advance of next Tuesday’s Republican caucuses in Iowa, denies allegations that he has promoted anti-Semitism, saying that this would be “a betrayal of my own intellectual heritage.” “Any kind of racism or anti-Semitism is incompatible with my philosophy,” Paul said in an interview with Haaretz, conducted by email. “Ludwig von Mises, the great economist whose writing helped inspire my political career, was a Jew who was forced to leave his native Austria to escape the Nazis. Mises wrote about the folly of seeing people as part of groups rather than as individuals,” Paul said. Paul said that he has ...
U.S. Fifth Fleet says won't allow Hormuz disruption
Post Date: 2011-12-28 12:45:07 by We The People
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The U.S. Fifth Fleet said on Wednesday it would not allow any disruption of traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, after Iran threatened to stop ships moving through the world's most important oil route. "Anyone who threatens to disrupt freedom of navigation in an international strait is clearly outside the community of nations; any disruption will not be tolerated," the Bahrain-based fleet said in an e-mail. Iran, at loggerheads with the West over its nuclear program, said on Tuesday it would stop the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf if sanctions were imposed on its crude exports. "Closing the Strait of Hormuz for Iran's armed forces is really easy ...
Israeli girl jeered on daily walk highlights rift
Post Date: 2011-12-28 12:09:23 by We The People
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(AP) BEIT SHEMESH, Israel - A shy 8-year-old schoolgirl has unwittingly found herself on the front line of Israel's latest religious war. Naama Margolese is a ponytailed, bespectacled second-grader who is afraid of walking to her religious Jewish girls school for fear of ultra-Orthodox extremists who have spat on her and called her a whore for dressing "immodestly." Her plight has drawn new attention to the simmering issue of religious coercion in Israel, and the increasing brazenness of extremists in the insular ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. "When I walk to school in the morning I used to get a tummy ache because I was so scared ... that they were going to stand ...
Troubled Sears closing U.S. stores
Post Date: 2011-12-28 00:44:57 by A K A Stone
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Shares of Sears Holdings Corp. plunged more than 27 per cent to their lowest levels in three years Tuesday after the department store announced it was closing as many as 120 stores after a miserable holiday shopping season capped several years of strategic blunders amid intensifying competition. Sears shares fell $12.47 U.S., or 27.20 per cent, to close at $33.38 U.S. on the Nasdaq in New York, the lowest the shares have been since the financial crisis and the biggest one-day decline since 2003. Canadian markets were closed for the Boxing Day holiday. Shares of Sears Canada Inc. closed at $11.56 C on Friday, down 40 per cent so far this year. A spokesperson for Sears Canada, which ...
Iran Threatens to Block Oil Shipments, as U.S. Prepares Sanctions
Post Date: 2011-12-27 21:24:52 by We The People
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WASHINGTON — A senior Iranian official on Tuesday delivered a sharp threat in response to economic sanctions being readied by the United States, saying his country would retaliate against any crackdown by blocking all oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, a vital artery for transporting about one-fifth of the world’s oil supply. The declaration by Iran’s first vice president, Mohammad-Reza Rahimi, came as President Obama prepares to sign legislation that, if fully implemented, could substantially reduce Iran’s oil revenue in a bid to deter it from pursuing a nuclear weapons program. Prior to the latest move, the administration had been laying the groundwork to ...
Ancient Seal Found in Jerusalem Linked to Ritual
Post Date: 2011-12-26 18:07:51 by A K A Stone
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JERUSALEM – A rare clay seal found under Jerusalem's Old City appears to be linked to religious rituals practiced at the Jewish Temple 2,000 years ago, Israeli archaeologists said Sunday. The coin-sized seal found near the Jewish holy site at the Western Wall bears two Aramaic words meaning "pure for God." Archaeologist Ronny Reich of Haifa University said it dates from between the 1st century B.C. to 70 A.D. -- the year Roman forces put down a Jewish revolt and destroyed the second of the two biblical temples in Jerusalem. The find marks the first discovery of a written seal from that period of Jerusalem's history, and appeared to be a unique physical artifact ...
The European Central Bank Loses Its Virginity [And it means more than is apparent]
Post Date: 2011-12-23 15:00:27 by Capitalist Eric
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This post is adapted from analysis which appeared in The Strategic Planning Group. Mario, relax . . . So yesterday, the European Central Bank (ECB) doled out €489 ($639) billion in loans to the European banking sector. Why’d they do it? ‘Cause Europe’s banks are broke: That is, if all the crap they collectively hold on their books were marked to market, their liabilities would be greater than their assets. American banks shouldn’t smirk: The only reason they aren’t declared bankrupt for the same reason is because of the suspension of FASB 157 back in March 2009. The ECB lent out the €489 billion against any and all collateral the European banks ...
Arab League Delegates Arrive in Syria
Post Date: 2011-12-22 22:12:44 by A K A Stone
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — As violence continued around Syria, delegates from the Arab League traveled to Damascus on Thursday to start monitoring the government’s promise to end its violent suppression of the nine-month-old uprising. The visit is intended to set the ground rules for a mission that is supposed to bring hundreds of observers to Syria in the coming weeks. Human rights activists said the government was continuing its assault on the Jebel al-Zawiyah area of northwestern Syria, near Turkey’s border, where at least 160 people have reportedly been killed over the past four days. The assault, using helicopters and tanks, appeared aimed at army defectors trying to create a ...
Time to Attack Iran - Why a Strike Is the Least Bad Option
Post Date: 2011-12-22 22:11:10 by A K A Stone
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Global Arab Network - In early October, U.S. officials accused Iranian operatives of planning to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States on American soil. Iran denied the charges, but the episode has already managed to increase tensions between Washington and Tehran. Although the Obama administration has not publicly threatened to retaliate with military force, the allegations have underscored the real and growing risk that the two sides could go to war sometime soon -- particularly over Iran’s advancing nuclear program. For several years now, starting long before this episode, American pundits and policymakers have been debating whether the United States ...
Iran’s war games could force U.S. into aggression
Post Date: 2011-12-22 21:53:49 by A K A Stone
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Iran’s nuclear push is rapidly turning into a game of chicken with the world’s economy. Faced with the threat of growing international sanctions and unprecedented economic uncertainty that has seen the value of its currency halved in recent weeks, Iran announced Thursday its navy will stage a 10-day exercise in the Strait of Hormuz, starting Saturday. The move, which increases the risk of military confrontation with the United States, has the potential to temporarily choke off oil exports from the Middle East, drive up international energy prices and damage the global economy. Admiral Habibollah Sayyari, head of Iran’s navy, said submarines, destroyers, missile-launching ...
US missiles 'hit Iranian village'
Post Date: 2011-12-22 19:03:43 by A K A Stone
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Two American missiles struck a village in south-west Iran early today. The news was given in a report by the country's Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA). IRNA had said yesterday that three people were injured when an earlier US missile struck an oil depot in Abadan. The state-run news agency also said British and American jets had entered Iranian airspace several times. The two rockets hit Manyuhi village near the border with Iraq's Al-Faw Peninsula, an Iranian military commander told IRNA. He gave no details of casualties or damage. "In the border city of Arvand-Kenar, the invading American and British airplanes violated the airspace of the Islamic Republic of Iran ...
Meet the Republican Chickenhawks
Post Date: 2011-12-22 13:36:49 by Capitalist Eric
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by Philip Giraldi via theuglytruth.wordpress.com Nearly all the Republican presidential candidates are showing their muscles, supporting the war on terror and a robust military while also vowing to do whatever it takes to disarm Iran. They know that it is essential to play the jingoistic“American exceptionalism” card, and they understand that being president also means becoming commander in chief of America’s armed forces with the responsibility for committing U.S. soldiers to die for their country. But how are they qualified to do that? Of the sorry lot on display, only Ron Paul and Rick Perry have ever served in the military in any capacity, Paul as a U.S. Air Force ...
The Chicken Theory of Islamist Parties
Post Date: 2011-12-21 22:53:41 by CZ82
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The Chicken Theory of Islamist Parties By Shoshana Bryen The "pothole theory" is time-honored in the U.S.; if a party doesn't meet local needs, it will be ousted in the next election. It is a hopeful theory, because it is self-correcting. With Islamic conservatism sweeping the Middle East and North Africa, the administration has been portraying the Muslim Brotherhood as a service provider responsive to "the people" and thus to the pothole theory. The underlying assumptions are: a) The Brotherhood will submit itself to "the people" periodically for reelection. b) Other parties will be able to criticize the Brotherhood and offer an alternative. c) The ...
Arrested Indonesian youths defiant: ‘Punk will never die!’
Post Date: 2011-12-20 22:27:28 by A K A Stone
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SEULAWAH, Indonesia — Mohawks buzzed and noses free of piercings, dozens of youths march in military-style for hours beneath Indonesia’s tropical sun — part of efforts by authorities to restore moral values and bring the “deviants” back into the mainstream. But the young men and women have shown no signs of bending. When commanders turn their backs, the shouts ring out: “Punk will never die!” Fists are thrown in the air and peace signs flashed. A few have managed briefly to escape, heads held high as they are dragged back. Sixty-five young punk rockers arrived at this police detention center last week after baton-weiling police crashed a concert in Aceh ...
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