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Iran Looks To Moscow And Beijing To Buffer Pressures
Post Date: 2011-11-08 15:10:03 by Brian S
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – For Iranian envoys at an Asian affairs summit this week in Russia, it was the ultimate dream team: The Russian prime minister and China's premier standing shoulder to shoulder and promising to keep Western influence at bay. Iran's leaders are now counting on the country's two most powerful friends to remain by their side after the release of an upcoming U.N. report that's expected to suggest Tehran could be on the brink of having the capability to develop an atomic weapon. Russia and China — both permanent members of the U.N. Security Council— are once again in the position of veto-carrying gatekeepers for any Western bids ...
IAEA Warns Of Improved Iran Nuclear Program Capability; Israel Strike Speculation Builds
Post Date: 2011-11-08 15:01:24 by Brian S
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The IAEA has warned that Iran’s government has the necessary expertise and materials needed to build a nuclear weapon after receiving critical support from foreign scientists over recent years. As Joby Warrick reported : Intelligence provided to U.N. nuclear officials shows that Iran’s government has mastered the critical steps needed to build a nuclear weapon, receiving assistance from foreign scientists to overcome key technical hurdles, according to Western diplomats and nuclear experts briefed on the findings.Documents and other records provide new details on the role played by a former Soviet weapons scientist who allegedly tutored Iranians over several years on building ...
Chinese Build Predatory Blue-Water Navy While Obama Attempts to Scuttle Our Fleet
Post Date: 2011-11-08 09:05:58 by A K A Stone
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China has the world's second-largest naval service, after only the United States. Rather than purchase warships across the board, it is developing niche capacities in sub-surface warfare and missile technology designed to hit moving targets at sea. At some point, the U.S. Navy is likely to be denied unimpeded access to the waters off East Asia... China's 66 submarines constitute roughly twice as many warships as the entire British Royal Navy. If China expands its submarine fleet to 78 by 2020 as planned, it would be on par with the U.S. Navy's undersea fleet in quantity, if not in quality. If our economy remains wobbly while China's continues to rise -China's ...
Report: Sarkozy calls Netanyahu 'liar'
Post Date: 2011-11-07 21:02:11 by A K A Stone
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Microphones accidently left on after G20 meeting pick up private conversation between US, French presidents. Sarkozy admits he 'can't stand' Israeli premier. Obama: You're fed up with him? I have to deal with him every day! French President Nicolas Sarkozy reportedly told US President Barack Obama that he could not "stand" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and that he thinks the Israeli premier "is a liar." According to a Monday report in the French website "Arret sur Images," after facing reporters for a G20 press conference on Thursday, the two presidents retired to a private room, to further discuss the matters of the day. The ...
Who Will Be The Next Leader Of The Free World?
Post Date: 2011-11-07 19:43:46 by Capitalist Eric
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It is customary in America at Republican and Democratic conventions to introduce their new nominee as ‘The next President of the United States’. And the man who wins the presidency automatically becomes the Leader of the Free World. That was the old days. Let’s get real. America is no longer a free nation. It has become a Criminal Enterprise as I said just recently. The American government can now legally disappear you, try you with out a lawyer, deny you a jury trial, torture you and kill you. And any nation following America is in the firm grasp of criminal bankers, drug cartels, Zionists, war lords and psychopaths. The next Leader of the Free World might neither be an ...
Russia: Israeli Threat Of Strikes On Iran 'a Mistake'
Post Date: 2011-11-07 18:38:16 by Brian S
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Military action against Iran would be a "very serious mistake fraught with unpredictable consequences", Russia's foreign minister has warned. Sergei Lavrov said diplomacy, not missile strikes, was the only way to solve the Iranian nuclear problem. His comments come after Israeli President Shimon Peres said an attack on Iran was becoming more likely. The UN's atomic watchdog is expected to say this week that Iran is secretly developing a nuclear arms capability. Diplomats say the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report, due for release on Tuesday or Wednesday, will produce compelling evidence that Iran will find hard to dispute. Iran has always insisted that ...
China: Europe induces 'sloth, indolence'
Post Date: 2011-11-07 15:29:58 by jwpegler
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"If you look at the troubles which happened in European countries, this is purely because of the accumulated troubles of the worn out welfare society. I think the labour laws are outdated. The labour laws induce sloth, indolence, rather than hardworking. The incentive system, is totally out of whack. "Why should, for instance, within [the] eurozone some member's people have to work to 65, even longer, whereas in some other countries they are happily retiring at 55, languishing on the beach? This is unfair. The welfare system is good for any society to reduce the gap, to help those who happen to have disadvantages, to enjoy a good life, but a welfare society should not induce ...
Putin To Host China's Wen For Security Talks And Discuss Expanding Their Central Asian Security Alliance To Include Pakistan, Iran
Post Date: 2011-11-06 17:59:50 by Brian S
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao will meet Monday to discuss expanding their loose Central Asian security alliance to include Pakistan and Iran. Putin will host host Wen in his native city of Saint Petersburg almost exactly 10 years after the two countries joined forces with the four ex-Soviet Central Asian republics to form the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). Russia has previously billed the alliance as a regional alternative to NATO and discussed at past meetings the option of including other regional powers in its ranks. "We are talking about Pakistan and Iran, which have applied for membership," Russian foreign ministry ...
US Gives Its Blessing To Muslim Brotherhood's ‘Likely’ Rule In Egypt
Post Date: 2011-11-06 14:31:06 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON - The United States would be "satisfied" if fair parliamentary elections in Egypt produced a Muslim Brotherhood victory, President Barack Obama's pointman for democratic transitions in the Middle East said Friday. "I think the answer is yes, I think we will be satisfied, if it is a free and fair election," the newly appointed special coordinator for Middle East transitions, William Taylor, said when asked about what the US reaction would be if the Islamist party comes out ahead in elections starting this month. "What we need to do is judge people and parties and movements on what they do, not what they're called," Taylor told a forum at the ...
Israel Government, Security Services Websites Down In Suspected Cyber-Attack
Post Date: 2011-11-06 13:49:29 by Brian S
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Attack follows threat by hacking group Anonymous in response to interception of Gaza flotilla; websites of IDF, Mossad and government ministries among crashed websites. By Anshel Pfeffer and Oded Yaron Several Israeli government websites crashed on Sunday in what appeared to be a cyber-attack by hackers. The websites of the IDF, Mossad and the Shin Bet security services were among the sites that went down, as well as several government portals and ministries. The apparent attack comes after the international cabal of hackers known as Anonymous threatened a cyber-attack on the Israeli government’s computers in response to its interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla on Friday. ...
Force Against Iran Would Be Destabilizing: France
Post Date: 2011-11-06 13:39:10 by Brian S
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(Reuters) - Military attacks on Iran's nuclear program could create a "totally destabilizing" situation in the region, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said on Sunday, saying France would instead harden sanctions. "We can still strengthen them (sanctions) to put pressure on Iran and we are going to continue along this path because a military intervention could create a totally destabilizing situation in the region," Juppe told Europe 1 radio. "We must do everything to avoid the irreparable," he said. Last week, President Nicolas Sarkozy criticized what he called Iran's "obsessional desire" to develop nuclear weapons and said France would ...
'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 ...
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