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Italian Gov't On Brink Of Collapse...
Post Date: 2011-10-25 12:55:14 by Brian S
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Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right coalition government in Italy appears in danger of collapsing over European Union demands for a demonstration of concrete action on economic reform by Wednesday’s summit of eurozone leaders. The EU ultimatum delivered to Mr Berlusconi in Brussels on Sunday risks breaking his coalition instead of giving it an external impetus to move ahead on measures to cut Italy’s debt and promote economic growth. The ultimatum was delivered as part of efforts to resolve the eurozone sovereign debt crisis, but the Italians’ failure to reach agreement on reform threatens EU leaders’ stated goal of finalising at Wednesday’s summit a ...
Largest Ever EU Rebellion Rocks British PM
Post Date: 2011-10-25 12:53:23 by Brian S
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David Cameron on Monday suffered his largest parliamentary rebellion since becoming prime minister as around 80 Conservative lawmakers defied their leader to vote in favour of holding a referendum on Britain's EU membership. Cameron's government, which is against holding a referendum, in the end won the House of Commons vote 483-111 due to support from the Liberal Democrats -- the Conservatives' euro-friendly junior coalition partners -- and the main opposition Labour Party. But the eurosceptic wing of the Conservative Party delivered Cameron a blow by ignoring whip pressure to vote in favour of a referendum in the biggest show of internal party dissent since he took office in ...
Gaddafi sodomized: Video shows abuse frame by frame (GRAPHIC)
Post Date: 2011-10-25 00:22:18 by A K A Stone
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SIRTE, Libya — An analysis of video obtained by GlobalPost from a rebel fighter who recorded the moment when Col. Muammar Gaddafi was first captured confirms that another rebel fighter, whose identity is unknown, sodomized the former leader as he was being dragged from the drainpipe where he had taken cover. A frame by frame analysis of this exclusive GlobalPost video clearly shows the rebel trying to insert some kind of stick or knife into Gaddafi's rear end. Full coverage: Death of Muammar Gaddafi GlobalPost correspondent Tracey Shelton said there is some question as to whether the instrument was a knife from the end of a gun, which Libyans call a Bicketti, or a utilitiy tool ...
U.S. Ambassador Flees Syria...
Post Date: 2011-10-24 18:39:40 by Brian S
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AMMAN | Mon Oct 24, 2011 6:03pm EDT (Reuters) - The United States said on Monday it had pulled its ambassador out of Syria because of threats to his safety, prompting Syria to follow suit in a worsening of ties already tattered by U.S. opposition to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's efforts to crush anti-government protests. The U.S. envoy, Robert Ford, had antagonized Syria's government with his high-profile support for the demonstrators trying to end 41 years of Assad family rule. Assad supporters attacked the U.S. Embassy and Ford's convoy in recent months. Ford left Syria as a government crackdown on protests and a nascent armed insurgency intensified and as more ...
Warming could exceed safe levels in this lifetime
Post Date: 2011-10-24 14:04:14 by Skip Intro
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(Reuters) - Global temperature rise could exceed "safe" levels of two degrees Celsius in some parts of the world in many of our lifetimes if greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, two research papers published in the journal Nature warned. "Certain levels of climate change are very likely within the lifetimes of many people living now ... unless emissions of greenhouse gases are substantially reduced in the coming decades," said a study on Sunday by academics at the English universities of Reading and Oxford, the UK's Met Office Hadley Center and the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. "Large parts of Eurasia, North Africa and Canada ...
U.N. Report Seen Worsening Fear Over Iran Nuclear Plans
Post Date: 2011-10-24 12:41:07 by Brian S
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VIENNA | Mon Oct 24, 2011 9:20am EDT (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog is expected to publish intelligence soon pointing to military dimensions to Iran's nuclear activities but stopping short of saying explicitly that Tehran is trying to build atom bombs, Western diplomats say. Russian and Chinese reluctance may frustrate any Western bid to seize on next month's report by the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to press for expanded United Nations sanctions on Iran, a major oil producer. Moscow and Beijing signaled concern last week that the timing of the IAEA document could damage any chances for diplomacy to resolve the nuclear row. In contrast, Western envoys ...
Leading U.S. Columnist: Slash Defense Aid To Israel
Post Date: 2011-10-24 12:01:00 by Brian S
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Veteran Washington Post columnist Walter Pincus has urged the U.S. administration to reevaluate the extent of the defense aid that the United States provides to Israel. Pincus, who has been reporting on intelligence, defense and foreign policy for the Washington Post for 45 years, says the change in U.S. policy that he is calling for is a necessity in light of Israel's decision to slash its defense budget by some NIS 3 billion, in keeping with the recommendations of the Trajtenberg Committee. In an article published last week, Pincus writes: "If Israel can reduce its defense spending because of its domestic economic problems, shouldn't the United States - which must cut ...
Libyas new kook leader makes Libya Sharia compliant.....Lifts Gadaffi's ban on Polygamy
Post Date: 2011-10-24 08:50:40 by A K A Stone
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Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the chairman of the National Transitional Council and de fact president, had already declared that Libyan laws in future would have Sharia, the Islamic code, as its "basic source". But that formulation can be interpreted in many ways - it was also the basis of Egypt's largely secular constitution under President Hosni Mubarak, and remains so after his fall. Mr Abdul-Jalil went further, specifically lifting immediately, by decree, one law from Col. Gaddafi's era that he said was in conflict with Sharia - that banning polygamy. In a blow to those who hoped to see Libya's economy integrate further into the western world, he announced that in future ...
El Narco: Meet DEA Agent Daniel
Post Date: 2011-10-24 08:40:44 by A K A Stone
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This is the first of three excerpts from Ioan Grillo's new book, "El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency," released by Bloomsbury Press on Oct. 25. In the book, Grillo interviews an American agent who infiltrates a drug cartel. Turns out, life inside is sometimes just like the movies. Editor's note: Strong language used throughout the excerpt may not be suitable for all readers. “All my life I’ve tried to be the good guy, the guy in the white fucking hat. And for what? For nothing. I'm not becoming like them; I am them.” — Johnny Depp in Donnie Brasco, 1997 When DEA agent Daniel saw the movie “Miami Vice” at a cinema in ...
U.S. pulls out ambassador from Syria
Post Date: 2011-10-24 07:36:40 by A K A Stone
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Reuters) - The United States has pulled its ambassador out of Syria over security concerns after his cultivation of contacts with protesters led to attacks on his embassy and residence by backers of President Bashar al-Assad, diplomats said on Monday.
Robert Ford left Syria over the weekend, the Western diplomats told Reuters, following a series of incidents that resulted in physical damage but no casualties.
"Articles, more inciting against Ford than usual, have appeared in state media recently. He left on Saturday," said one of the diplomats, who like others asked not to be identified due to the sensitivity of the issue.
U.S. embassy officials were not immediately available for ...
Withdrawal of US Troops From Iraq Highly Suspect Think-tank designs for Iran leave only Israeli attack & coaxed provocation for total war on table.
Post Date: 2011-10-23 22:10:25 by A K A Stone
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For ten months the Obama administration has presided over the "Arab Spring," a geopolitical gambit years in the making, and executed simultaneously in multiple nations throughout the Middle East and North Africa in the beginning of 2011. The regional conflagration was stoked by a steady stream of first, denial, even feigned surprise, with covert support for US-backed opposition groups, then more overt support, and finally NATO airstrikes, weapons, training, and special operations forces lent to the rebellion in Libya and weapons and support sent to Syria's militants. These collective efforts stretching from Tunisia and leading up to Iran's doorstep serve a singular agenda ...
Is the US Declaration of Independence illegal?
Post Date: 2011-10-23 21:57:30 by A K A Stone
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Was the Declaration of Independence legal? In Philadelphia, American and British lawyers have debated the legality of America's founding documents. On Tuesday night, while Republican candidates in Nevada were debating such American issues as nuclear waste disposal and the immigration status of Mitt Romney's gardener, American and British lawyers in Philadelphia were taking on a far more fundamental topic. Namely, just what did Thomas Jefferson think he was doing? Some background: during the hot and sweltering summer of 1776, members of the second Continental Congress travelled to Philadelphia to discuss their frustration with royal rule. By 4 July, America's founding ...
Karzai: Afghanistan To Back Pakistan If It Wars With U.S.
Post Date: 2011-10-23 19:25:30 by Brian S
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Afghanistan would support Pakistan in case of military conflict between Pakistan and the United States, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said in an interview to a private Pakistani TV channel broadcast on Saturday. The remarks were in sharp contrast to recent tension between the two neighbors over cross-border raids, and Afghan accusations that Pakistan was involved in killing the chief Afghan peace envoy, former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani, by a suicide bomber on September 20. “God forbid, If ever there is a war between Pakistan and America, Afghanistan will side with Pakistan,” he said in the interview to Geo television. “If Pakistan is ...
World power swings back to America
Post Date: 2011-10-23 19:15:05 by A K A Stone
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The American phoenix is slowly rising again. Within five years or so, the US will be well on its way to self-sufficiency in fuel and energy. Manufacturing will have closed the labour gap with China in a clutch of key industries. The current account might even be in surplus. Assumptions that the Great Republic must inevitably spiral into economic and strategic decline - so like the chatter of the late 1980s, when Japan was in vogue - will seem wildly off the mark by then. Telegraph readers already know about the "shale gas revolution" that has turned America into the world’s number one producer of natural gas, ahead of Russia. Less known is that the technology of ...
David Cameron vows to reclaim EU powers amid looming Tory rebellion
Post Date: 2011-10-23 19:07:42 by A K A Stone
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The Prime Minister is to demand more British control over employment and social laws in return for supporting a new European treaty to shore up the single currency. Although British taxpayers’ money will not be used for the new multi-trillion euro bail-out, it is expected to require a rewriting of EU treaties, which needs Britain’s backing and may prompt a referendum in this country. Mr Cameron’s “repatriation of powers” offer came as the Conservative leadership was making a last-ditch attempt to stop at least 60 Tory MPs voting for a referendum on leaving the European Union in the Commons today. Dozens of MPs were expected to reject the “olive branch” ...
Nicolas Sarkozy tells David Cameron: 'We’re sick of you telling us what to do'
Post Date: 2011-10-23 19:06:05 by A K A Stone
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David Cameron clashed repeatedly with Nicolas Sarkozy today after the French President tried to exclude Britain and non-eurozone countries from a critical Brussels summit to rescue European banks. During two hours of bitter exchanges during a meeting of all 27 EU leaders before a crisis summit of the eurozone’s 17 members on Wednesday, President Sarkozy fought hard to get the Prime Minister barred from talks that would finalise a 100billion euros cash injection into banks. ”We’re sick of you criticising us and telling us what to do. You say you hate the euro, you didn’t want to join and now you want to interfere in our meetings,” the French leader told Mr Cameron, ...
EU bank failures will crash Wall Street — again
Post Date: 2011-10-23 14:32:25 by Capitalist Eric
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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Worst-case scenario’s closing fast: Occupy Wall Street growing. But no political power or allies yet. Feared yes, attacked by GOP proxy tea party. Soon the Occupation will explode into a new American Revolution. When? A string of European bank collapses is dead ahead. And like the Arab Spring, they will trigger an economic disaster for American banks. Yes, coming soon says Martin Weiss in his “7 Major Advance Warnings,” which is “bound to have a life-changing impact on nearly all investors in the U.S. and around the globe.” His new Weiss Ratings warnings are the “most important” in a 40-year career. The ...
Gaddafi's final hours: Nato and the SAS helped rebels drive hunted leader into endgame in a desert drain
Post Date: 2011-10-23 11:44:07 by A K A Stone
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As the sun rose over the shell of Sirte on Thursday, Ben Farmer, the only British newspaper journalist left in the city, found it was immediately apparent that something had changed. Utterly ravaged by months of bombardments, Sirte was a skeleton of a city – a place without food, water or light; a city without citizens. Its streets were turned into rivers by burst pipes, as fighters battled through waist-high swathes of mud brown water, street by bloody street. But as the sun rose over the shell of Sirte on Thursday, it was immediately apparent that something had changed. I had arrived at the rebel position in the western suburb of Zafran in anticipation of another massed assault ...
How did a 33ft whale end up in the middle of a field in East Yorkshire?
Post Date: 2011-10-23 02:13:43 by A K A Stone
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A young whale died after an exceptionally high equinox tide carried it 800 yards from the shoreline to a salt marsh where it then became stranded. The 33ft mammal, thought to be a Sei whale, was discovered in marshes on the north bank of the River Humber near the village of Skeffling. As the tide retreated the whale became stranded before rolling over onto its blowhole, causing it to suffocate. The highest tides of the year occur after the spring and autumn equinox. The Yorkshire Wildlife Trust has since carried out a post-mortem examination on the mammal with the British Zoological Society. Experts who examined the animal said they are 95 per cent certain it is a female Sei whale ...
Moderate Malaysia: Muslims hold anti-Christian rally
Post Date: 2011-10-23 01:49:02 by A K A Stone
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The peaceniks are at it again. And so is the media. Check out how they describe devout Muslims: "Right-wing Malaysian activists." Muslims on Saturday staged a rally against Christians who 'challenge the sovereignty of Islam', amid fears of growing Islamisation in the multicultural nation. -- PHOTO: AP Malaysian Muslims hold anti-conversion rally Straits Times SHAH ALAM, Malaysia (AFP) - Right-wing Malaysian activists on Saturday staged a rally against Christians who 'challenge the sovereignty of Islam', amid fears of growing Islamisation in the multicultural nation. The gathering of about 2,000 people in Selangor state follows allegations of Christian ...
Gaddafi 'Killer': I Shot Him Twice, In Head & In Chest
Post Date: 2011-10-23 01:41:32 by A K A Stone
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Security Council to Demand Yemen’s Saleh to Step Down (Obama's Next Target?)
Post Date: 2011-10-23 01:29:16 by A K A Stone
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The U.N. Security Council will vote Friday on a resolution calling on Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh to immediately stand down and condemning the killings blamed on his government. The proposed resolution, which has the backing of all five permanent members of the Security Council, "strongly condemns" government violence against demonstrators and backs a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) peace plan under which Saleh must hand over power. Protests against Saleh erupted in January and hundreds have since been killed. With the violence worsening, this is the first resolution to be considered by the council. Diplomats said events in Libya, where ousted strongman Moammar ...
Gaddafi Refused To Join ''Sarkozy'''s ''Imperialist'' Mediterranean Union
Post Date: 2011-10-22 21:05:35 by A K A Stone
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Let me make you an offer you can't refuse. We're pleased with all the terrorist actions you carried out in the past, but now Europe's in the OWG bag, we want to move on. From hereon, it's my way or the highway. Libya is also one of only five of Africa's 54 countries that have not been integrated into, which is to say subordinated to, the new U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM). A year after assuming the post of president of the French Republic in 2007, and while his nation held the rotating European Union presidency, Nicolas Sarkozy invited the heads of state of the EU's 27 members and those of 17 non-EU Mediterranean countries to attend a conference in Paris to launch a ...
Officials: Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Dies At New York Hospital
Post Date: 2011-10-22 11:59:03 by Brian S
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(CNN) -- Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud died in New York early Saturday, officials said, raising succession questions in the key oil-producing country. Prince Sultan, the half-brother of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, died "outside the kingdom following an illness," the Saudi royal court said in a statement. Reports in recent years have indicated that Crown Prince Sultan was battling cancer. A burial is scheduled for Tuesday, the Interior Ministry said. Prince Sultan, thought to be in his 80s, was Saudi Arabia's minister of defense, and was one of the top figures in the Saudi kingdom. He's had various medical issues in recent years. In 20 ...
Iraqis Voice Happiness Over U.S. Withdrawal Decision
Post Date: 2011-10-22 11:55:07 by Brian S
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Iraqis voiced happiness on Saturday over President Barack Obama’s declaration that US forces will leave by year-end, but some spoke of concern the pullout could further destabilise their country. The decision to withdraw all remaining soldiers in the country after nearly nine years of war, and the deaths of more than 4,400 US troops and tens of thousands of Iraqis, came after Baghdad and Washington failed to agree to legal immunity for a training mission past 2011. “The day of their departure represents a historic moment and I will be the happiest person with the exit of the occupier from our country,” said Abdulrahman Munshid al-Assi, a leader of the al-Obeid tribe in the ...
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