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Al Assad vows to fight till death as violence escalates in Syria
Post Date: 2011-11-20 18:37:01 by A K A Stone
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Damascus: Syrian President Bashar Al Assad defiantly vowed to fight and die if needed as an Arab League deadline for his government to stop its lethal crackdown on protesters expired with 20 more people killed. Upping the pressure on Syria, the Arab League on Sunday announced it had rejected amendments proposed by Damascus to its proposal to send a 500-strong delegation to monitor the violence in Syria. And Turkish President Abdullah Gul said there was “no place for authoritarian regimes” in the Mediterranean region. Among the dead on the weekend were four intelligence agents killed as gunmen raked their car with gunfire and two mutinous soldiers who died in clashes with ...
'Time has come' to act on Iran, Israel says
Post Date: 2011-11-20 17:47:07 by A K A Stone
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The "time has come" to deal with Iran, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Sunday, refusing to rule out military action to curb the Islamic republic's nuclear ambitions. Barak, speaking on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS program, indicated that Israel's patience was wearing thin -- and provided an ominous response when asked about the growing speculation of an Israeli military strike. "I don't think that that is a subject for public discussion," he said. "But I can tell you that the IAEA report has a sobering impact on many in the world, leaders as well as the publics, and people understand that the time has come." The International Atomic ...
EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration
Post Date: 2011-11-19 18:39:36 by A K A Stone
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EU officials concluded that, following a three-year investigation, there was no evidence to prove the previously undisputed fact. Producers of bottled water are now forbidden by law from making the claim and will face a two-year jail sentence if they defy the edict, which comes into force in the UK next month. Last night, critics claimed the EU was at odds with both science and common sense. Conservative MEP Roger Helmer said: “This is stupidity writ large. “The euro is burning, the EU is falling apart and yet here they are: highly-paid, highly-pensioned officials worrying about the obvious qualities of water and trying to deny us the right to say what is patently true. ...
World's smallest car fuels nanotech advance
Post Date: 2011-11-19 18:08:36 by A K A Stone
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London (CNN) -- A tiny nano-sized car which can propel itself forward in response to electrical pulses has been created by scientists in the Netherlands. The electric-powered vehicle, which is the size of a single molecule, has a chassis and four paddle-shaped wheels and is roughly one-billionth the size of a traditional hatchback car. Its maiden journey wasn't exactly epic -- six nanometers -- and its fuel-efficiency wasn't world-beating either, needing a jolt of 500 millivolts every half revolution of its wheels. But it's an important milestone in nanotech research (the science of manipulating matter at molecular scale), say scientists, because it demonstrates that single ...
U.S. Arms Persian Gulf Allies For Conflict With Iran
Post Date: 2011-11-18 17:50:53 by A K A Stone
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November 18, 2011 "Stop NATO" -- Rumors and reports of, speculation over and scenarios for attacks against Iran’s civilian nuclear power facilities and military sites by the United States, Israel or both have flared up periodically over the past several years, especially since early 2005. However, recent statements by among others the president and defense minister of Israel and a leading candidate for the American presidency in next year’s election – Shimon Peres, Ehud Barak and Mitt Romney respectively – before and after the latest International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on Iran’s nuclear program manifest a more stark and menacing tone that has ...
Syria Targeted for Imperialist Intrigue after Arab League Suspension
Post Date: 2011-11-18 17:49:21 by A K A Stone
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November 18, 2011 "WSWS" -- Wednesday’s three-day deadline by the Arab League for Syria to meet its terms is a political provocation. It presents terms that the Syrian government cannot possibly accept, to allow other Middle Eastern regimes to continue an imperialist-backed intervention against Damascus. The Arab League plan calls on Syria to withdraw its tanks from restive cities, cease attacks on protesters, release prisoners and engage in dialogue with the opposition. Under present conditions, this would require the Baathist regime of President Bashar al-Assad to commit political suicide. It would mean agreeing to abandon military action, while armed insurgents are ...
How the US should adjust to the Pacific century
Post Date: 2011-11-18 16:02:28 by A K A Stone
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How many ways are there to say you are back? Last year, Hillary Clinton grabbed Beijing's lapels when she declared the South China Sea, claimed in its entirety by China, was also a vital American interest. A few weeks ago, the United States Secretary of State published a lengthy piece in Foreign Policy magazine in which she laid out the terms of what she called America's Pacific Century. And this week, at the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation forum in Honolulu, US President Barack Obama talked about hardly anything else. "The US is a Pacific power and we're here to stay," he said. The message is clear. America is back. And by the way, it never left. In her essay, ...
Piranhas take toes at river beach in west Brazil
Post Date: 2011-11-18 15:59:14 by A K A Stone
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SAO PAULO (AP) — Thousands of flesh-eating piranhas have infested a river beach popular with tourists in western Brazil and have bitten at least 15 unwary swimmers, authorities said Wednesday. Officials in the city of Caceres in Mato Grosso state said this is the first time they have had a problem with piranhas at the Daveron beach on the Paraguay river, where the aggressive fish began schooling about two weeks ago. "People have got to be very careful. If they're bitten, they've got to get out of the water rapidly and not allow the blood to spread," firefighter Raul Castro de Oliveira told Globo TV's G1 website. Elson de Campos Pinto, 22, was bitten Sunday. ...
'Extinct' frog hops back into northern Israel
Post Date: 2011-11-18 15:51:34 by A K A Stone
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JERUSALEM—A frog species believed to be extinct has hopped back into sight in northern Israel. Omri Gal of Israel's Nature and Parks Authority said Thursday the Hula Painted Frog was seen for the first time in 50 years this week. He said it was declared extinct. Gal said, "It's an amazing find, now we have a second chance to preserve the species." The frog is native to the Hula Valley, a swamp drained in the 1950s to stop malaria. Aquatic ecologist Dana Milstein says the frog was rare even before, and little is known about it. In the 1940s, a specimen ate a second frog, leading to speculation the species is cannibalistic. She credited rehydration of the area ...
Nixon adviser Henry Kissinger branded Jewish as self-serving 'b*******', new documents reveal
Post Date: 2011-11-18 15:37:02 by A K A Stone
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American Jewish groups, lobbying the Nixon administration on behalf of their Soviet brethren, got under White House adviser Henry Kissinger's skin so much that he denounced them as self-serving 'bastards', newly released documents reveal. The comments were made in August 1972, when appeals were flooding the White House over the Kremlin's levying of fees for exit permits. One such letter was from the Israeli prime minister, Golda Meir, appealing to the White House to end its strategy of 'quiet diplomacy', and for Mr Nixon to take up the issue with Soviet leaders directly. A White House official, Leonard Garment, himself flooded with letters and phone calls with ...
The Fourth Reich
Post Date: 2011-11-18 08:09:54 by A K A Stone
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Germany has drawn up secret plans to prevent a British referendum on the overhaul of the European Union amid concerns it could derail the eurozone rescue package, leaked documents obtained by The Daily Telegraph disclose. Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, is today expected to tell David Cameron that Britain does not need a referendum on EU treaty changes, despite demands from senior Conservatives for more powers to be repatriated to Britain. The leaked memo, written by the German foreign office, discloses radical plans for an intrusive new European body that will be able to take over the economies of beleaguered eurozone countries. It discloses that the EU’s largest economy is ...
Frankfurt Group, Europe’s hit squad
Post Date: 2011-11-16 18:07:00 by A K A Stone
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Gathered around Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy, a small group of unelected EU officials have been assigned the task of governing the eurozone and removing leaders who fail to toe the line, writes the British conservative weekly The Spectator. The Old Opera House in Frankfurt – once Germany’s most beautiful postwar ruin and now its most stunning recreation – has become a symbol of European rebirth. And it was here, last month, that Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy met the EU’s bureaucratic elite in what would, in another era, be described as a putsch. They had grown tired of eurozone summits, with leaders flying here and there but getting nowhere. A smaller group ...
The new vehicle set to revolutionise the skies
Post Date: 2011-11-16 11:09:04 by A K A Stone
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Imagine a flying machine that can cruise in the air for three weeks without landing - and does not need a runway when it finally comes back to earth. It may sound like science fiction, but the Hybrid Air Vehicle - which looks like a traditional airship - can land anywhere and on any surface.
Glimpse BMW’s Slick, Sexy Electric Future
Post Date: 2011-11-14 23:03:16 by A K A Stone
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NEW YORK — BMW, eager to show off its electric babies, unveiled its i3 and i8 concept cars here ahead of their North American premier at the Los Angeles Auto Show, and all we can say is, Wow. These things are cool. Yes, yes, we know. They’re concept cars. But BMW stressed that these beautiful, efficient and fast (in the case of the i8) cars with cords are just a few years from production. While the technology underpinning these cars is pretty slick — electric drivetrains, carbon fiber-reinforced plastic bodywork and an innovative platform — it’s the design that is truly mesmerizing. BMW is making a push into more sustainable motoring with its new BMW ...
Farmer gouged to death by pet hippo Humphrey who was 'like a son to him'
Post Date: 2011-11-14 22:45:29 by A K A Stone
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A South African farmer has been killed by the pet hippopotamus he raised from the age of five months, and which he once described as being 'like a son' to him. Humphrey the Hippo gouged owner Marius Els, 41, to death by repeatedly biting him in a vicious attack on Saturday night. The farmer's mutilated body was discovered submerged in a river running through his 400-acre farm in rural South Africa. Only earlier this year Mr Els, who was married, was pictured happily riding on his 1,200kg pet bull hippo's back. 'Humphrey's like a son to me, he's just like a human,' he said at the time. 'There's a relationship between me and Humphrey and ...
Economic Collapse? We’re Soaking In It!
Post Date: 2011-11-14 20:02:32 by Capitalist Eric
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This article has been contributed by Brandom Smith of Alt Market, an organization that facilitates networking, local community action, and the exchange of knowledge and ideas and promotes decentralization, localism, and the de-globalization of human economic systems. A rather unobservant or at the very least “unlucky” man strolls across a faulty bridge; weathered, termite ridden, and over-traveled. He hops and skips and jumps about like a brain damaged orangutan without a care in the world. He does this not only because he is oblivious to the fundamental physics behind the workings of the bridge, and the structural signs of a bridge that is on the verge of collapse, but ...
Europe’s Economic Crash Landing
Post Date: 2011-11-14 19:59:39 by Capitalist Eric
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“Italy is now mathematically beyond the point of no return.” –Barclays Capital November 11, 2011 -- The situation in Europe gets more depressing by the day. Policymakers have waited too long and now events are beyond their control. The only way to avert a disorderly breakup and another Great Depression is by deploying the European Central Bank (ECB) to backstop the debt of the individual countries, and even that might not work. New ECB chief Mario Draghi must announce his intention to keep interest rates down regardless of the cost. Blanket guarantees are the only way to stop the bleeding. But acting as lender of last resort will not stop the contagion; it will merely ...
Euro-Zone: Up the Creek without a Helicopter and Paralyzed By Hyper-Inflation Phobia
Post Date: 2011-11-14 19:58:52 by Capitalist Eric
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don’t know why but when I watch the drama of the Euro crisis unfold my mind wanders to a scene in “Nashville” about a “country girl” who got a gig to jump out of a cake at a function, and didn’t quite understand what was supposed to happen next. I can’t help thinking that at some point in this whole sad scenario someone will have to stand naked. Almost everybody agrees that the only way to resolve the Euro-Zone debt crisis in an orderly fashion is for the central bank to print somewhere between One and Two trillion Euros so as to allow Italy and probably France, plus any little piggy’s who promise to be good, to roll over their sovereign debt, plus ...
Europe’s Debt Crisis Spirals out of Control Towards Economic Collapse
Post Date: 2011-11-14 19:55:13 by Capitalist Eric
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As Chancellor Merkel and PM Sarkozy search for a solution that doesn’t exist they continue to lose credibility. Nothing of substance has been agreed upon that is legal and can be implemented. At the IMF Christina LeGarde is frantically waving her arms like a cheerleader telling anyone that will listen that if the six sovereigns in financial trouble are not aided the euro will fail and peace in Europe will disappear. The elitists are frantic because they cannot find a solution. LeGarde says without help there will be ten years of depression. She obviously hasn’t done her homework. Try 30 or more years. Sarkozy, Merkel and Jans Weidmann council member of the ECB has said the ECB ...
#3189 - Hamas Leader Mahmoud Al-Zahhar: Western Civilization "Will Not Be Able to Withstand the Great and Glorious Islam"
Post Date: 2011-11-14 18:59:57 by A K A Stone
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Following are excerpts from a public address delivered by Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Zahhar, which aired on Al-Quds TV on October 28, 2011: Mahmoud Al-Zahhar: America is leaving Iraq and Afghanistan, and Allah willing, it will leave Palestine, along with its allies. It will leave in humiliation and disgrace. Our people and our enterprise, on the other hand, will move forward. Today, we emphasize that our plan is not confined to the liberation of Palestine. The Islamic nation in its entirety will bring a smile to the faces of all the people in the world, and will wipe the tears from the eyes of all human beings. Our plan is the cure for all the maladies of this Western civilization, which ...
Militants in Gaza: Allah's Teachings Are the Fire with Which "We Harvest the Skulls of the Jews"..
Post Date: 2011-11-14 18:56:42 by A K A Stone
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#3190 - Islamic Militants in Gaza: Allah's Teachings Are the Fire with Which "We Harvest the Skulls of the Jews"; "We Move Closer to Allah through Blood, Body Parts, and Martyrs" Following are excerpts from statements made at a rally of the Palestinian Al-Ahrar movement in Gaza, a pro-Hamas group that split from Fatah, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on November 3, 2011: Rally organizer: Praise be to you, our Lord. You have made our killing of the Jews an act of worship, through which we come closer to you. […] Allah's prayers upon you, our beloved Prophet [Muhammad]. You have made your teachings into constitutions for us – the light with which we ...
Iran admits to facing attack by new 'Duqu' computer virus
Post Date: 2011-11-14 17:58:53 by A K A Stone
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Head of Iranian civil defense says organizations, corporations supplied with software to help them defend themselves from new virus; earlier this year Tehran admitted the Stuxnet computer worm targeted its nuclear program.
For the first time, Iran admitted on Sunday that it had been on the receiving end of a new cyber attack by the Duqu computer virus that allegedly targeted computers of firms in the Islamic Republic.
Speaking with the official IRNA news agency, head of Iranian civil defense Brigadier General Gholamreza Jalali said that Tehran had developed a software to thwart attacks by the Duqu virus, adding that the "software to control the [Duqu] virus has been developed and made ...
Israel launches new missile that can reach New York and Tokyo
Post Date: 2011-11-14 17:53:31 by A K A Stone
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Israeli military men conducted a successful launch of Jericho-3 intercontinental ballistic missile on Wednesday. The test was carried out at the Palmahim air base, the Irish Times said. At the same time, officials with Israel Defense Forces said that they had conducted the tests of a new missile engine in the morning of November 2. The launch of the missile could be seen from Ashkelon to Tel Aviv, Newsru Israel said. According to publications in the media, the three-stage missile is capable of delivering a 750-kilo warhead to a distance of more than 10,000 kilometers. If the reports about the range of Jericho-3 are true to fact, then it means that the missile can reach such cities as Tokyo ...
Commemorative Steve Jobs Android Tablet Is Sure To Catch The Attention of Apple!
Post Date: 2011-11-13 21:17:35 by A K A Stone
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Living in China and reporting on gadgets, we get to see our fair share of unofficial merchandise from Chinese manufacturers. These ‘knock-offs’ can range from fake iPad 2 smart covers, to complete replicas of iPhones of even Macbooks! Sometimes though a Chinese made gadget crops up which combines the ancient Chinese art of the knock off with a complete lack of consideration for the law and copyright infringements, and this ‘Commemorative’ Steve Jobs Android tablet is a perfect example! Not only have Shenzhen Lingyun, the company behind this 7-inch Android tablet, made a tablet which resembles the look of the iPhone 4 and 4S, but they have gone the whole hog and place ...
Who's who in the Syrian rebellion
Post Date: 2011-11-13 19:03:55 by A K A Stone
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A couple of recent articles from Reuters and Al Jazeera offer some analysis on the major players in the Syrian rebellion. First, From Reuters: President Bashar al-Assad Assad has played on fears that without him Syria could slide into civil war, Islamic militancy or Iraq-style sectarian carnage, causing what he has called a regional "earthquake." Nadim Shehadi, of London's Chatham House think-tank, said Assad had already lost power, in the sense of legitimacy, but argued that the outside world had effectively propped him up with unheeded calls for reform and dialogue. The opposition "The people who are protesting in Syria seem to have crossed the barrier of fear, ...
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