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'Anonymous' backs off their threat against Mexican cartel
Post Date: 2011-11-06 09:30:09 by A K A Stone
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Last month, hacking group 'Anonymous' threatened to attack the Mexican drug cartel "Los Zetas." The Zetas are notoriously violent and considered the most ruthless in the world, specializing in assassinations and beheadings in their native land.
In total, there were over 15,273 drug-related crimes in Mexico in 2010 and over 40,000 people have died in the country since 2006 in drug related violence.
Anonymous had threatened to reveal police and media members allied with the cartel, unless an allegedly kidnapped member of the hacking group was freed in the city of Veracruz.
Apparently, the kidnapped member has now been freed so the group has backed off their threats. Allegedly, the ...
Canada Warns World, It Will Defend Israel To Death
Post Date: 2011-11-06 04:01:51 by Murron
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Canada Warns World, It Will Defend Israel To Death In a strident speech heavy with references to the Second World War and the Cold War, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird launched a full-on defence of Israel at the UN in New York on Monday before criticizing a number of countries for their treatment of religious minorities, including China. Baird said that while fascism and communism were the biggest threats facing previous generations, terrorism is the greatest threat today. "And far too often, the Jewish state is on the front line in our struggle and its people are the victims of terror," he said in reference to Israel. "Canada will not accept or stay silent while ...
Pakistan Carts Its Nukes Around In Delivery Vans
Post Date: 2011-11-05 12:59:13 by Brian S
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Pakistan is taking nuclear paranoia to a horrifying new low. And it’s making the world a vastly more dangerous place in the process. Freaked out about the insecurity of its nuclear arsenal, the Pakistani military’s Strategic Plans Division has begun carting the nukes around in clandestine ways. That might make some sense on the surface: no military wants to let others know exactly where its most powerful weapons are at any given moment. But Pakistan is going to an extreme. The nukes travel “in civilian-style vehicles without noticeable defenses, in the regular flow of traffic,” according to a blockbuster story on the U.S.-Pakistan relationship in The Atlantic. Marc ...
CIA Drones Kill Large Groups Without Knowing Who They Are
Post Date: 2011-11-04 20:49:56 by A K A Stone
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The expansion of the CIA’s undeclared drone war in the tribal areas of Pakistan required a big expansion of who can be marked for death. Once the standard for targeted killing was top-level leadership in al-Qaeda or one of its allies. That’s long gone, especially as the number of people targeted at once has grown. This is the new standard, according to a blockbuster piece in the Wall Street Journal: “men believed to be militants associated with terrorist groups, but whose identities aren’t always known.” The CIA is now killing people without knowing who they are, on suspicion of association with terrorist groups. The article does not define the standards are ...
Iran Celebrates 1979 U.S. Embassy Seizure
Post Date: 2011-11-04 11:47:05 by Brian S
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Thousands of Iranians chanting “Death to America” marked the anniversary on Friday of the 1979 seizure of the US embassy amid references to recent US allegations of an Iranian assassination plot. The annual celebration in front of what Iranians call “the den of spies” was also used this year as a platform to hail the Arab Spring — termed the “Islamic awakening” here — and to denounce Israel. On November 4, 1979, months after the Islamic revolution that overthrew the US-backed shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, students stormed the embassy and took 52 US diplomats hostage in a crisis that lasted 444 days. The hostage-taking resulted in the breaking of ...
Left and gay in Israel
Post Date: 2011-11-04 01:35:22 by Ferret Mike
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Having Lieberman’s followers embrace the gay community is a very positive development, even if their motivations aren’t pure. Have you heard? November is Out in Israel month in Boston.The program was an initiative of Israel’s consul-general to New England, Shai Bazak, and will feature performances by gay heartthrob Assi Azar. Azar, a popular TV host in Israel, will screen his made-for-television coming-out film Mom, Dad, I have something to tell you to audiences around the Boston area, followed by panel discussions about life as an openly gay man in Tel Aviv. The event makes Israel the only country in the world to run a campaign promoting its LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual ...
Syria puts land mines along border with Lebanon
Post Date: 2011-11-03 21:27:33 by A K A Stone
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SERHANIYEH, Lebanon (AP) – Syria is planting landmines along parts of the country's border with Lebanon as refugees stream out of the country to escape the crackdown on anti-government protests, officials and witnesses said Tuesday. A Syrian man who stepped on a mine and had to have his foot amputated was the first known victim, according to a doctor at a hospital in Lebanon that treated him. He was wounded just across from the Lebanese village of Irsal on Sunday. The doctor asked that his name not be published for fear of repercussions by authorities. The Syrian exodus to neighboring Lebanon and Turkey has proven a deep embarrassment for increasingly besieged President Bashar ...
Gold Hits 6-Week High, Papandreou Won't Last til Tonight
Post Date: 2011-11-03 17:14:18 by Capitalist Eric
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U.S. DOLLAR prices to buy gold jumped to a six-week high of $1757 an ounce late on Thursday morning – though only 0.7% above last Friday's close – following reports that Greek prime minister George Papandreou was on the verge of offering his resignation. Stocks and commodities gained, while the Euro dropped sharply following the European Central Bank's decision to cut interest rates. Prices to buy silver also rose, hitting $34.73 per ounce – though still 1.7% down for the week so far. "Silver is going neither here nor there," one Shanghai-based trader tells news agency Reuters, citing a "lack of physical demand from industrial users". ...
Fait Accompli by George Papendrou Regarding the Greek Referendum
Post Date: 2011-11-03 17:08:27 by Capitalist Eric
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Can you just visualize the look on the face of Nicolas Sarkozy when George Papendrou explains his actions as a fait accompli. The Greek Prime Minister can not back down now that he has made an announcement to hold a referendum, as it would look as though he was weak and capitulated under the pressure from his European masters. There is an emergency dinner date being held on the eve of the G20 meeting between the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, the head of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy and the Greek Prime Minister George Papendrou. They should be selling tickets for this dinner date despite the harsh words that may be bandied between them, it could be ...
Iran Says It's Ready for War With Israel
Post Date: 2011-11-03 15:27:35 by Brian S
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Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi on Thursday responded to reports claiming Israel is planning a military attack against his country, stating Tehran is “ready for war” with Israel. “We have been hearing threats from Israel for eight years. Our nation is a united nation…such threats are not new to us,” Salehi told Turkey’s Hürriyet Daily. Salehi further warned that if any country would attempt an attack, Iran would not hesitate to retaliate. “We are very sure of ourselves. We can defend our country,” Salehi claimed. Salehi’s statements come a day after Iran’s chief of staff said Israel would be severely punished for any attack ...
China Sells Advanced Missiles To Iran
Post Date: 2011-11-03 13:45:50 by Brian S
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China is continuing to provide advanced missiles and other conventional arms to Iran and may be doing so in violation of U.N. sanctions against the Tehran regime, according to a draft report by the congressional U.S.-China Commission.“China continues to provide Iran with what could be considered advanced conventional weapons,” the report of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission says.According to the report, which will be made public Nov. 16, China sold $312 million worth of arms to Iran, second only to Russia, after Congress passed the Iran Freedom Support Act in 2006 that allows the U.S. government to sanction foreign companies that provide advanced arms to ...
UK Military Steps Up Plans For Iran Attack Amid Fresh Nuclear Fears
Post Date: 2011-11-03 13:41:33 by Brian S
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Britain's armed forces are stepping up their contingency planning for potential military action against Iran amid mounting concern about Tehran's nuclear enrichment programme, the Guardian has learned. The Ministry of Defence believes the US may decide to fast-forward plans for targeted missile strikes at some key Iranian facilities. British officials say that if Washington presses ahead it will seek, and receive, UK military help for any mission, despite some deep reservations within the coalition government. In anticipation of a potential attack, British military planners are examining where best to deploy Royal Navy ships and submarines equipped with Tomahawk cruise missiles ...
Israel Test-Fires Missile As Iran Debate Rages
Post Date: 2011-11-02 17:47:48 by Murron
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Israel Test-Fires Missile As Iran Debate Rages (Reuters) - Israel test-fired a missile from a military base on Wednesday, two days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned of the "direct and heavy threat" posed by Iran's nuclear program. The noon launch near Tel Aviv, which had not been announced in advance, coincided with a week-long surge of speculation in local media that Netanyahu was working to secure cabinet consensus for an attack on Israel's arch-foe. Netanyahu's office declined comment on the reports, which were unsourced and unconfirmed, and which some commentators suggested might be disinformation designed to jolt war-wary foreign powers into ...
Israel Considers Pre-Emptive Attack On Iran
Post Date: 2011-11-02 17:18:15 by Murron
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Israel Considers Pre-Emptive Attack On Iran Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu (L) is understood to be calling for military action against Iran Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to rally support in his cabinet for an attack on Iran, according to government sources. The country's defence minister Ehud Barak and the foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman are said to be among those backing a pre-emptive strike to neutralise Iran's nuclear ambitions. But a narrow majority of ministers currently oppose the move, which could trigger a wave of regional retaliation. The debate over possible Israeli military action has reached fever pitch in recent days with newspaper ...
The Verboten Story of Argentina’s Post-Default Economic Success
Post Date: 2011-11-02 10:32:18 by lucysmom
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Ever notice nothing is ever said in the mainstream media about Argentina’s economy, save that it had a big default? You’d never know the following about Argentina: From 2002 onward, Argentina has grown nearly twice as fast as Brazil, and has sported one of the highest growth rates in the world. Its success is not dependent on a commodities boom. It has increased social spending from 10.3% of GDP to 14.2% of GDP. Inequality has fallen. Poverty and extreme poverty have fallen by roughly 2/3. What is particularly striking is how quickly Argentina’s economy rebounded after its default. From a paper by Mark Weisbrot, Rebecca Ray, Juan A. Montecino, and Sara Kozameh (hat tip ...
Greece: The Debtor that Roared
Post Date: 2011-11-02 09:46:53 by lucysmom
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Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has managed to put the European crisis game of financial fakery into turmoil. Pretty much no informed commentator expected the latest gimmick-larded rescue package to work; there were simply too many points of failure. And even if this program had miraculously come to fruition, a later train wreck was still inevitable, since Germany was persisting in wanting two contradictory outcomes: running trade surpluses in Europe, and not lending more to its trade parters. But no one anticipated that a long suffering debtor would revolt, which is what Papandreou’s announcement of a referendum on the punitive bailout amounts to. He’s publicly coded it ...
UN Report Offers Smoking Gun Proof of NATO and US Lies about Libya
Post Date: 2011-11-01 19:43:21 by A K A Stone
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Here is a type of “smoking gun” proof that NATO and the U.S. has been operating through a smokescreen of lies, as well as intimidation. Please read the following January 4, 2011 report of the 16th Session of the United Nations General Assembly Human Rights Council, Universal Periodic Review: Report of the Working Group on the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya [Document A/HRC/WG.6/9/L.13] Before NATO and the U.S. started bombing Libya, the United Nations was preparing to bestow an award on Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, and the Libyan Jamahiriya, for its achievements in the area of human rights. That’s right–the same man, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, that NATO and the United States have ...
Government in Greece Nears Collapse Over Referendum
Post Date: 2011-11-01 11:18:59 by Brian S
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ATHENS — The Greek government was plunged into chaos on Tuesday and faced an imminent collapse, as lawmakers rebelled against Prime Minister George Papandreou’s surprise call for a popular referendum on a new debt deal with Greece’s foreign lenders. Such a collapse would not only render the referendum plan moot, it would likely scuttle — or at least delay — the debt deal that was agreed on in Brussels last week, putting Greece on a fast track to default and possible exit from the monetary union of countries sharing the euro currency. Analysts said that Mr. Papandreou’s call for a referendum was a last resort, meant to gain broader political support for the ...
The Hilly and Milly Show (part 2): Now it's a VERY special relationship
Post Date: 2011-11-01 10:52:07 by Happy Quanzaa
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If they were in a classroom, the teacher would have separated them quick smart. Because Hillary Clinton and David Miliband were doing much more flirting than working. The U.S. Secretary of State, who has already admitted having a crush on her young British counterpart, was giggling like a schoolgirl at him. You're such a silly billy, Milly: A grinning Hillary Clinton prepares to squeeze David Miliband's arm at the Nato summit You scratch my back...: The duo give one another a friendly squeeze at the meeting in Brussels What IS he saying?: Hillary Clinton can't hold back the giggles as she listens to David Miliband at the Nato meeting in Brussels And Mr Miliband was equally ...
Russian spy got close to Obama Cabinet member Mrs. Clinton
Post Date: 2011-11-01 07:48:53 by Happy Quanzaa
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FBI says Russian spies got close to CabinetBreaking codes led to roundup The FBI rounded up a network of deep-cover Russian spies last year after the group came close to placing an agent near a Cabinet official in the Obama administration, a senior FBI counterspy said Monday as the bureau released once-secret documents on the case. Frank Figliuzzi, assistant FBI director for counterintelligence, did not identify the Cabinet official, but other U.S. officials said it was Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Mr. Figliuzzi said in an interview that the FBI decided to end its more than 10-year-long counterspy investigation of the network because of concerns that the spies were ...
Germany Threatens To Halt Submarine Sale to Israel [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-10-31 19:13:16 by Brian S
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Germany is threatening to stop the delivery of a "Dolphin" submarine to Israel in protest over the country's settlement policies. Government sources confirmed the development when asked by SPIEGEL following speculation last week in the Israeli media that Germany might halt the sale. The move is in response to the recent decision by the Israeli government to approve the construction of 1,100 homes in Gilo, an Arab part of Jerusalem captured from Jordan in the 1967 Six Day War. The Israeli government considers the area to be a Jewish suburb, but the international community contests that description. The threat by German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been the subject of ...
UNESCO Gives Palestinians Full Membership
Post Date: 2011-10-31 12:38:53 by Brian S
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Unesco is the first UN agency the Palestinians have sought to join as a full member since President Mahmoud Abbas applied for full membership of the United Nations on Sept. 23. The United States, Canada and Germany voted against Palestinian membership. Brazil, Russia, China, India, South Africa and France voted in favour. Britain abstained. Huge cheers went up in Unesco after delegates voted to approve the membership Monday. One shouted "Long Live Palestine!" in French. Israel said that the vote will harm prospects for the resumption of Middle East peace talks. "This is a unilateral Palestinian manoeuver which will bring no change on the ground but further removes the ...
Graeme View the Iranian authorities against Ahwazi
Post Date: 2011-10-30 23:32:34 by A K A Stone
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Muslimland: Guilty Wolf panished by a courageous dog.
Post Date: 2011-10-30 23:30:11 by A K A Stone
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Saudi Royal Offers $900,000 Reward For Capture Of Israeli Soldiers
Post Date: 2011-10-30 12:06:05 by Brian S
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Khaled's offer comes days after the prominent Saudi cleric, Awad al-Qarni, put $100,000 on the head of every Israeli soldier. By DPA RIYADH - A Saudi royal offered a $900,000 reward to anyone who captures an Israeli soldier, on Saturday. Prince Khaled bin Talal, the brother of business tycoon and Fox News co-owner Walid bin Talal, told the Saudi-based broadcaster Al Daleel that the captive would then be released in exchange for Arabs held in Israeli prisons. Khaled's offer comes days after the prominent Saudi cleric, Awad al-Qarni, put $100,000 on the head of every Israeli soldier. Al-Qarni's statement - posted on Facebook - was severely criticized, and messages posted ...
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