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South Sudan claims death of rebel leader
Post Date: 2011-12-20 22:07:33 by A K A Stone
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(CNN) -- The newly independent Republic of South Sudan has announced the death of a prominent renegade rebel leader. Lt. Gen. George Athor and one of his soldiers were killed in a clash with the country's military, Vice President Riek Machar told reporters Tuesday. He said they had infiltrated South Sudan on their way out of Rwanda via the eastern border area of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. The claim has not been verified by an independent body. A dissident commander of the Sudan People's Liberation Army, or SPLA, Athor rebelled after losing a gubernatorial election in the spring of 2010. He called for numerous orchestrated clashes after the announcement of his ...
Top general says Iran shouldn't 'miscalculate our resolve'
Post Date: 2011-12-20 22:05:57 by A K A Stone
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KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- As Gen. Martin Dempsey toured around the globe over the last eight days, one issue was prominent -- Iran's nuclear intentions. Dempsey, in an exclusive interview with CNN, warned that Iran is playing a dangerous game that could ensnare the Middle East, the United States and others into conflict and a renewed nuclear arms race. From Iraq to Afghanistan, Kuwait to Saudi Arabia, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff heard about growing concerns about Iran's ambitions. "My biggest worry is they will miscalculate our resolve," Dempsey said in an interview conducted during a stop in Afghanistan. "Any miscalculation could mean that we are ...
IRAQ Vice-President denies he ran Sunni hit squad
Post Date: 2011-12-20 21:52:30 by A K A Stone
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Iraq's Sunni Vice-President yesterday denied accusations he ran a hit squad that killed government officials during the nation's wave of sectarian bloodletting, accusing the Shia-led government of waging a campaign of persecution. Acting just a day after American forces completed their withdrawal, the government issued an arrest warrant on Monday for Tariq al-Hashemi. The step risks exacerbating the same sectarian divisions that pushed Iraq to the edge of civil war just a few years ago. Mr Hashemi described the charges as "fabricated". He accused the Shia Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, of being behind a plot to smear him and declared that efforts at national ...
Syria brings in death penalty for opposition State TV announces punishment on day that 100 die in clashes with regime troops
Post Date: 2011-12-20 21:49:28 by A K A Stone
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In a new development in Syria's uprising, the Assad regime has introduced a law recommending the death penalty for anyone found arming "terrorists". State-run television announced the edict as human rights agencies said more than 100 people, mostly defecting soldiers, were killed on Monday in the bloodiest day so far in nine months of protest. President Bashar al-Assad, facing international condemnation for his brutal crackdown on opposition to his rule, has accused demonstrators of being foreign-backed "armed terrorists", and not the peaceful protesters that the West and human rights organisations say they are. The uprising has become increasingly violent in ...
Fierce fighting in northern Syria before Arab mission
Post Date: 2011-12-20 21:46:29 by A K A Stone
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(Reuters) - Fierce fighting has continued in the northern Syrian province of Idlib, with activists saying 50 people were killed there and elsewhere on Tuesday, shortly before officials arrive to prepare for an Arab League effort to end nine months of bloodshed. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 23 people were killed in fighting with President Bashar al-Assad's forces in the northern province of Idlib and 14 members of his security forces died in a rebel ambush in the south. The overall death toll on Tuesday was at least 47, it said. Idlib, on Syria's northern border with Turkey, has seen fierce fighting recently. The Observatory reported that security ...
U.S. Officials Consider Release Of Taliban Members As Part Of Peace Talks
Post Date: 2011-12-20 19:41:44 by CZ82
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U.S. Officials Consider Release Of Taliban Members As Part Of Peace Talks December 20, 2011 by Sam Rolley A diplomatic plan is emerging which involves measures like the release of many Taliban prisoners. After 10 months of largely secretive talks between U.S. officials and the Taliban, officials say a diplomatic plan is emerging which involves measures like the release of many Taliban prisoners into Afghan government custody. According to Reuters, the United States is considering the transfer of an unknown number of Taliban prisoners from Guantanamo Bay into the custody of the Afghan government. U.S. officials have asked the Taliban to meet the release with confidence-building measures ...
Residents of another south China town protest development plans
Post Date: 2011-12-20 19:38:23 by A K A Stone
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Residents block a highway in Haimen, China, to protest a proposal to build a second coal-fired power plant in the seaside town. (AFP/Getty Images / December 20, 2011) Reporting from Shenzhen, China— Residents revolted Tuesday against development plans in yet another town in Guangdong province, redoubling the challenge to the Communist Party in China's most affluent and open-minded region. The newest uprising involved as many as 30,000 people protesting plans for a coal-fired power plant in the southern seaside town of Haimen. Residents stormed local government offices and blocked a busy highway that runs from the manufacturing hub of Shenzhen to the city of Shantou. Although ...
Secrecy defines serial killer Obama’s drone war
Post Date: 2011-12-20 15:32:28 by A K A Stone
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Since September, at least 60 people have died in 14 reported CIA drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal regions. The Obama administration has named only one of the dead, hailing the elimination of Janbaz Zadran, a top official in the Haqqani insurgent network, as a counterterrorism victory. The identities of the rest remain classified, as does the existence of the drone program itself. Because the names of the dead and the threat they were believed to pose are secret, it is impossible for anyone without access to U.S. intelligence to assess whether the deaths were justified. The administration has said that its covert, targeted killings with remote-controlled aircraft in Pakistan, Yemen, ...
Guess who isn't afraid to wish you a merry Christmas?
Post Date: 2011-12-20 12:42:35 by A K A Stone
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Václav Havel obituary Czech playwright and former dissident who led his nation after the collapse of communism
Post Date: 2011-12-19 23:23:47 by Mad Dog
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When, to the surprise of western chancelleries, central Europe changed utterly in the autumn and winter of 1989, it was a stocky Czech dramatist lately released from prison who produced the abiding metaphor for what had happened. In 1947, after Yalta and Potsdam, said Václav Havel, who has died aged 75 after a long illness, the clock of history had been stopped in his half of Europe – and now it had started again. Havel's own career might resemble the very incarnation of that metaphor – of the notion it encapsulates of communism as no more than a bracket in history, a long deviation from the onward march of capitalism's permanent revolution. The son and grandson of ...
Vaclav Havel, former Czech president, dies aged 75 Dissident playwright who led velvet revolution and became first post-communist Czechoslovakian president dies
Post Date: 2011-12-19 23:17:32 by Mad Dog
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Václav Havel, the dissident playwright who led the Czechoslovakian "velvet revolution" and was one of the fathers of the east European pro-democracy movement that led to the fall of the Berlin wall, has died aged 75. Reports quoted his assistant, Sabina Tan evová, as saying Havel died at his weekend house on Sunday morning, and the news was announced on Czech television during an interview with the current prime minister, Petr Necas. Necas called Havel "the symbol of 1989" and said he did "a tremendous job for this country". Havel's state funeral is likely to draw a crowd of leaders, artists and intellectuals from around the world. Havel ...
North Koreans weeping hysterically over the death of Kim Jong-il
Post Date: 2011-12-19 19:35:38 by A K A Stone
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Poster Comment:They look really really sad.
Thousands of rare documents burned in Egypt clash
Post Date: 2011-12-19 18:56:40 by A K A Stone
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CAIRO (AP) -- Volunteers in white lab coats, surgical gloves and masks stood on the back of a pickup truck Monday along the banks of the Nile River in Cairo, rummaging through stacks of rare 200-year-old manuscripts that were little more than charcoal debris. The volunteers, ranging from academic experts to appalled citizens, have spent the past two days trying to salvage what's left of some 192,000 books, journals and writings, casualties of Egypt's latest bout of violence. Institute d'Egypte, a research center set up by Napoleon Bonaparte during France's invasion in the late 18th century, caught fire during clashes between protesters and Egypt's military over the ...
Revealed: Kim Jong-un the schoolboy
Post Date: 2011-12-18 23:56:28 by A K A Stone
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Poster Comment:So the heir apparent spent some time in the West. Maybe he can change his country for the better. Time will tell.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, 69, has died
Post Date: 2011-12-18 22:17:04 by A K A Stone
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Kim Jong Il, North Korea's mercurial and enigmatic leader, has died. He was 69. Kim's death was announced Monday by state television from the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. Kim is believed to have suffered a stroke in 2008 but appeared relatively vigorous in photos and video from recent trips to China and Russia and in numerous trips around the country carefully documented by state media. The leader, reputed to have had a taste for cigars, cognac and gourmet cuisine, was believed to have had diabetes and heart disease. The news came as North Korea prepared for a hereditary succession. Kim Jong Il inherited power after his father, revered North Korean ...
The brave women of the Middle East: Female protesters brutally beaten with metal poles as vicious soldiers drag girls through streets by their hair in day of shame
Post Date: 2011-12-18 14:10:22 by A K A Stone
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After being viciously beaten by a 10-strong mob of Egyptian male soldiers, this woman lies helplessly on the ground as her shirt is ripped from her body and a man kicks her with full force in her exposed chest. Moments earlier she had been struck countless times in the head and body with metal batons, not content with the brutal beating delivered by his fellow soldier, one man stamped on her head repeatedly. She feebly tried to shield her head from the relentless blows with her hands. Brutal: This shocking image shows Egyptian army soldiers dragging this helpless woman on the ground and kicking her hard in the chest after ripping her clothes from her body Outnumbered: This woman ...
Full-Speed Ahead for Obama-Sanctioned ‘Taliban Embassy’ in Qatar
Post Date: 2011-12-18 10:08:27 by Happy Quanzaa
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Qatar: host to the US military, al-Jazeera, the Muslim Brotherhood– and now, the world’s first Taliban embassy– at the behest of the Obama administration. On his Facebook page, Big Peace contributor Walid Phares brought my attention to a report in the Pakistani website The Nation that Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani, the premier of US ally Qatar, is prepared to open an embassy for the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan”– otherwise known as the Taliban. He said, “A solution in Afghanistan requires the participation of the Taliban in a way that must be decided by the Afghans.” An office of the self-styled Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan would be the first ...
U.S. defense experts believe that the Iranian UAV crash caused substantial losses
Post Date: 2011-12-17 23:59:47 by A K A Stone
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RQ-4A "Global Hawk" unmanned aerial vehicles X-47B UAV "Falcon" hypersonic aircraft British "Thunder God" UAV French "neurons" stealth unmanned attack aircraft "Predator 2" UAV RQ-7 "Shadow" unmanned reconnaissance aircraft Israel's "Harpy" drone Israeli "Heron" UAV "Fire Scout" UAV Unmanned aircraft, a nuclear aircraft carrier fleet outside the U.S. except the most powerful high-tech weapons. Delineation of the next major Japanese F-35 fighter December 8, form avant-garde sci-fi, high-tech surveillance equipment containing U.S. RQ-170 "sentinel" stealth UAV ...
Black Sabbath announce new album, world tour
Post Date: 2011-12-17 22:37:14 by A K A Stone
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Veteran British rock band Black Sabbath announced on Friday they are reuniting in their original four man line-up for their first new album in 33 years and a 2012 world tour. Singer Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi, bass player Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward told a news conference at legendary Sunset Strip club Whisky a Go Go they would perform at the Download Festival in England in June 2012, and then embark on a world tour. The band, which first got together under the Black Sabbath name in 1969, said they were working on new material for the album for release in the fall of 2012. There is no title as yet but it will be produced by Rick Rubin. ...
China's rebel villagers in Wukan threaten to march on government offices
Post Date: 2011-12-17 20:21:30 by A K A Stone
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Rebel villagers in China say they will march on the main administrative town if government officials and police refuse to hand over the body of their community chief. During another day of protests and marches, Wukan village representative Lin Zulian addressed a crowd of more than 6,000, pledging to fight with their lives against the corrupt system which has robbed them of their coastal land and of their village leader, Xue Jinbo. "We give the local government and police five days to hand back Xue's body. If not, we shall climb over our barricades and march on the [Lufeng] town hall to try and get his remains," said Mr Lin. Last week protest in the village saw the local ...
European Economic Crisis Highlights an Increasingly Important Reason to Oppose Gun Control
Post Date: 2011-12-17 07:35:03 by CZ82
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European Economic Crisis Highlights an Increasingly Important Reason to Oppose Gun Control About a year ago, I spoke at a conference in Europe that attracted a lot of very rich people from all over the continent, as well as a lot of people who manage money for high-net-worth individuals. What made this conference remarkable was not the presentations, though they were generally quite interesting. The stunning part of the conference was learning – as part of casual conversation during breaks, meals, and other socializing time – how many rich people are planning for the eventual collapse of European society. Not stagnation. Not gradual decline. Collapse. As in riots, social ...
Russian UN envoy comments on Syria
Post Date: 2011-12-16 21:46:41 by A K A Stone
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Russia has put forward a new beefed-up resolution at the United Nations, calling for an end to the rising violence in Syria.
South Africa: 300 dead seals wash ashore in Cape Town
Post Date: 2011-12-16 21:40:18 by A K A Stone
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Disaster management officials say they have removed about 300 dead seals from Kommetjie Beach in Cape Town. A high tide or extreme wind conditions probably caused the animals to be washed off Seal Island on Thursday night and officials say it is not a particularly unusual phenomenon. Hundreds of dead seals are scattered around the peninsula from Strandfontein as far as Kommetjie. Those passing by say the mammals have been laying there for hours. An onlooker who drives past Muizenberg Beach everyday says he spotted the seals on the shore at 7am. According to disaster management's Johannes Solomons-Johannes, there are more 100 dead seals which must still be removed between ...
129 New Victims of Gun Control in Belgium
Post Date: 2011-12-16 18:57:30 by CZ82
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129 New Victims of Gun Control in Belgium Gun laws work. Once a law is made to establish control over private guns, criminals obey it. When guns are banned, criminals refrain from getting guns. When there is a process for getting a license, criminals go through the process of getting that license in order to legally own guns, in order to use them in their crimes. When a criminal legally has guns, and when he uses them in a crime, the government finds out about it because a criminal will always obey the law and will keep a good record of his guns and how he has used them. Ahem. May be not. Belgium has one of the toughest laws in Europe for owning guns. So tough, actually, that only 4 out ...
Iran hijacked US drone, says Iranian engineer
Post Date: 2011-12-15 12:53:17 by A K A Stone
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Istanbul, Turkey
Iran guided the CIA's "lost" stealth drone to an intact landing inside hostile territory by exploiting a navigational weakness long-known to the US military, according to an Iranian engineer now working on the captured drone's systems inside Iran.
Iranian electronic warfare specialists were able to cut off communications links of the American bat-wing RQ-170 Sentinel, says the engineer, who works for one of many Iranian military and civilian teams currently trying to unravel the drone’s stealth and intelligence secrets, and who could not be named for his safety.
Using knowledge gleaned from previous downed American drones and a technique proudly claimed by ...
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