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Embassy Attack Stokes Israeli Fears Of New Egypt
Post Date: 2011-09-15 13:59:28 by Brian S
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By Linda Gradstein · September 13, 2011 Photos JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Retired Israeli Air Force pilot Uri Dromi remembers the day 34 years ago when Egyptian President Anwar Sadat landed in Israel to tell the Israeli people that he was ready to make peace. Dromi, who had flown missions in the 1967 Six-Day War against Egypt, had been assigned to escort the Egyptian air crew during Sadat’s visit. “I was standing there on the tarmac and suddenly there’s this big airliner with Egyptian markings being escorted by three Israeli jet fighters,” Dromi told JTA. “It turns and lands. The door opens and there stands Anwar Sadat, who until then had been the leader of our ...
3-Year-Olds Branded “Racist,” “Homophobic” Put In Government Database
Post Date: 2011-09-15 13:22:26 by Hondo68
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Kids' future careers jeopardized by committing hate crime of saying the word "gay" Over 30,000 British schoolchildren, some as young as three, have had their names registered on a government database and branded "racist" or "homophobic" for using playground insults, infractions that could impact their future careers. The shocking figures were disclosed after civil liberties group the Manifesto Club made a Freedom of Information Act request which betrayed the fact that kids who used petty jibes are now being treated as thought criminals by education authorities. 34,000 incidents of "racism" in total were reported for the year 2009-2010, with ...
Make No Mistake–Europe is in Big Trouble
Post Date: 2011-09-15 12:26:32 by Capitalist Eric
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Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said yesterday that European states “are going to have to do more” to solve their enormous debt troubles. To that I ask, “more” of what? That can only be “more” money printing. Mark my words, more debt and fiat currency will be the ultimate answer to the European debt problem. It is either that or let the banks and some countries in Europe go under. If Greece was the only country to default and leave the EU, then that would not be all that bad. The real problem is all the other heavily indebted countries that are levels of magnitude more of a problem than little Greece. France24.com reported yesterday, “The Eurozone crisis ...
Deliberate Impoverishment of the Western World .
Post Date: 2011-09-14 18:50:21 by Capitalist Eric
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U.S. poverty totals hit a 50-year high Census Bureau's grim statistics show recession's lingering effects, as young adults move back home and 1 million more Americans go without health insurance ... In a grim portrait of a nation in economic turmoil, the government reported that the number of people living in poverty last year surged to 46.2 million — the most in at least half a century — as 1 million more Americans went without health insurance and household incomes fell sharply. – Los Angeles Times » If you like this article, please subscribe to our daily newsletterDominant Social Theme: These things happen. No reason. Depressions spontaneously occur. They ...
Netanyahu Orders Evacuation Of Israel Embassy In Jordan, Fearing Violent Protests
Post Date: 2011-09-14 18:34:08 by Brian S
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman ordered the early evacuation of Israel's embassy in Jordan on Wednesday, over fears of violent anti-Israel protests similar to those which erupted in Cairo last week. Protocol stipulates that all employees return to Israel every weekend, with the exclusion of one diplomatic representative as well as a security team. On Wednesday, however, it was affirmed that Israel had decided to vacate its Jordanian embassy a day earlier than schedule, following fears of violent protests outside the embassy building, expected to take place on Thursday and throughout the weekend. A senior Foreign Ministry official told Haaretz ...
Eurozone crisis could rip EU apart: officials
Post Date: 2011-09-14 15:40:15 by jwpegler
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The eurozone crisis could wreck the European Union, top EU officials warned on Wednesday as the leaders of Germany and France held talks with Greece to avoid a default and widespread chaos. The pressure rose on all fronts with United States again expressing great concern, with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner saying European states "now recognise they are going to have to do more" to resolve to the crisis. Highlighting the threat to the global economy, Geithner is to exceptionally attend talks between European Union finance ministers and central bankers in Poland on Friday. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Greek Prime Minister George ...
US Sounds Alarm On Threats To Religious Freedom In Post-Revolt Arab Nations
Post Date: 2011-09-13 19:57:17 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON - The Obama administration warned Tuesday of growing religious intolerance and violence in Arab nations undergoing popular revolts that could undermine fragile democratic transitions. While the overthrow of longtime autocratic leaders in the Middle East and North Africa has given millions hope for freedom it has also opened up religious and ethnic minorities to new threats, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said. She urged countries not to "trade one form of repression for another" and to embrace the freedom to worship for all faiths as they embrace political pluralism for the first time in generations. "In the Middle East and North Africa, the ...
Eel removed from man's bladder after entering penis during beauty spa
Post Date: 2011-09-13 19:27:25 by A K A Stone
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An erratic eel wriggled its way up a man's penis and into his bladder following an accident during an unorthodox beauty spa in China. Zhang Nan was bathing with live eels to cleanse his skin when one rogue serpent took a liking to his manhood. Eel swims up penis China removed urethral trauma G. Vezhaventhan Abdominal Ultrasonogram Foreign object: The dead eel is placed next to the surgical tool used to remove it from Zhang Nan's bladder (Picture: CEN) The eel treatment in question is a similar concept to the popular London spas that offer fish pedicures. Thinking that the eels would make him look ten years younger, Nan dived into the water and let them feast upon layers of dead ...
Report: Turkish Warplanes Now Able To Fire At Israeli Targets
Post Date: 2011-09-13 11:33:38 by Brian S
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Ankara's Star Gazete says country's new F-16 radar system modified to recategorize Israeli targets as hostile. Order said to come directly from PM Erdogan's office; naval, submarine radar systems to be changed next. Aviel Magnezi Published: 09.13.11, 11:46 / Israel News Turkey has developed a new radar system for its US-made F-16 fighter jets that will allow them to fire at Israeli targets, Ankara's Star Gazete reported on Tuesday. The orders to modify the system reportedly came directly from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's office. The new radar system – Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) – is a defensive command and control system developed ...
Korean couple let baby starve to death while caring for virtual child
Post Date: 2011-09-13 07:10:13 by Ferret Mike
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An internet-obsessed Korean couple allegedly allowed their infant daughter to starve to death while they cared for their virtual child, police said on Friday. The couple had become obsessed with the online game Prius Kim Yoo-chul, 41, and his partner Choi Mi-sun, 25, fed their three-month-old baby only on visits home between 12-hour sessions at a neighbourhood internet cafe, where they were raising an avatar daughter in a Second-Life-style game called Prius online, police said. Leaving their real daughter at their home in a suburb of Seoul to fend for herself, the pair, who were unemployed, spent hours role-playing in the virtual reality game, which allows users to choose a career ...
Syria Mounts Deadly Raids As Russia Backs Regime
Post Date: 2011-09-12 14:51:48 by Brian S
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(CBS/AP) BEIRUT - Syrian troops mounted deadly new raids against dissent Monday as President Bashar Assad's embattled regime won key support from longtime ally Russia, which said a U.N. resolution on Syria must not contain sanctions. The U.N. said Monday that the death toll has reached at least 2,600 from the government's violent crackdown on protests over the past six months. Although the crackdown has brought widespread international condemnation, Assad's authoritarian regime has the support of Russia and China, permanent members of the United Nations Security Council with veto powers. Special Section: Anger in the Arab World Iran condemns violent Syrian crackdown Wave of ...
France nuclear (waste treatment/storage): Marcoule site blast kills one
Post Date: 2011-09-12 10:56:26 by Hondo68
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A security cordon was set up around the affected area as a precautionOne person has been killed and four injured, one seriously, in a blast at the Marcoule nuclear site in France. There was no risk of a radioactive leak after the blast, caused by a fire near a furnace in the Centraco radioactive waste storage site, said officials. The plant's owner, national electricity provider EDF, said it had been "an industrial accident, not a nuclear accident", which was under control. There are no nuclear reactors at the southern French site. The explosion hit the area at 11:45 local time (09:45 GMT). A security cordon was set up as a precaution. Interior ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry ...
Spartacus star Andy Whitfield, 39, dies in Sydney
Post Date: 2011-09-12 07:42:16 by A K A Stone
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ANDY Whitfield, the 39-year-old star of the cable series Spartacus: Blood and Sand, has died in Sydney. Manager Sam Maydew said Whitfield died yesterday of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Whitfield's wife, Vashti, called her husband a "beautiful young warrior" who died on a "sunny Sydney morning" in the "arms of his loving wife". Whitfield - who was born in Wales and lived in Australia - was a virtual unknown when he was cast as the title hero in Spartacus, a hit original TV series that made waves with its graphic violence and sexuality. Whitfield was preparing for the second season when he was diagnosed 18 months ago. Australian actor Liam McIntyre took over ...
Beyond Cairo, Israel Sensing a Wider Siege
Post Date: 2011-09-11 14:49:15 by Brian S
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JERUSALEM — With its Cairo embassy ransacked, its ambassador to Turkey expelled and the Palestinians seeking statehood recognition at the United Nations, Israel found itself on Saturday increasingly isolated and grappling with a radically transformed Middle East where it believes its options are limited and poor. The diplomatic crisis, in which winds unleashed by the Arab Spring are now casting a chill over the region, was crystallized by the scene of Israeli military jets sweeping into Cairo at dawn on Saturday to evacuate diplomats after the Israeli Embassy had been besieged by thousands of protesters. It was an image that reminded some Israelis of Iran in 1979, when Israel ...
77 Americans Soldiers Wounded In Afghan Truck Bombing
Post Date: 2011-09-11 14:32:54 by Brian S
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Nearly 80 American soldiers were wounded and five Afghans civilians were killed in a Taliban truck bombing targeting an American base in eastern Afghanistan, NATO said Sunday, a stark reminder that the war in Afghanistan still rages 10 years after the Sept. 11 terror attacks against the United States. No U.S. soldiers were killed in Saturday night's bombing, which took place hours after the Taliban vowed to keep fighting U.S. forces in Afghanistan until all American troops leave the country. The insurgent movement also stressed that it had no role in the Sept. 11 attacks. The blast shaved the facades from shops outside Combat Outpost Sayed Abad in Wardak ...
No Government, No Problem - Belgium Celebrates 450 Days Without Government But With Growth
Post Date: 2011-09-10 17:49:46 by Hondo68
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Belgium has not had a government in over 15 months, a record for modern economies. Yet their economy somehow managed to outperform those of the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, Finland, and Switzerland in the most recent quarter. -- It has been 15 months since Belgium last had a government. More than 450 days later, Belgian politics remain stuck in a gridlock after election results meant that no single party received more than 17.4 percent of seats in the Belgian Chamber of Representatives and 19.61 percent in the Belgian Senate. "Technically this can last until the next federal election has to be called in 2014," said political scientist Dave ...
Egyptian Protesters Break Into Israeli Embassy In Cairo As Obama Expresses Concern To Netanyahu
Post Date: 2011-09-09 19:23:51 by Brian S
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Protesters dump Hebrew documents from windows, tear down Israeli flag and bring down large sections of a security wall built following public demands for the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador. Published 01:45 10.09.11 A group of about 30 protesters broke into the Israeli Embassy in Cairo Friday and dumped hundreds of documents out of the windows, Egyptian and Israeli officials said. Meanwhile, the U.S. president spoke with Israel's prime minister about the situation. Hundreds of protesters had been converging on the embassy throughout the afternoon and into the night, tearing down large sections of a security wall outside the 21-story building housing the embassy. Egyptian security ...
Turkey Set To Sign Military Pact With Egypt After Cutting Trade Ties With Israel
Post Date: 2011-09-09 15:53:36 by Brian S
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A military and economic alliance with Egypt is set to be signed by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The deal should be clinched when Erdogan visits Cairo next Monday - the first such visit paid by a Turkish prime minister in 15 years. Under former President Hosni Mubarak, Egypt rejected Turkish overtures; Mubarak viewed Erdogan as an interloper in regions that were under Egypt's, and Saudi Arabia's, influence. The new Egyptian government, however, seems eager to develop economic and strategic ties with Turkey. After keeping mum on the subject of sanctions on Israel for three days, Erdogan has made his position clear: He believes that Israel-Turkey relations are not a ...
israel Wary At "Harsh" Turk Naval Challenge
Post Date: 2011-09-09 13:35:36 by Brian S
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JERUSALEM | Fri Sep 9, 2011 12:56pm EDT (Reuters) - Israel will keep blockading Gaza in the face of Turkey's unprecedented naval challenge and is prepared for escalation though it seeks to calm the waters with its ex-ally, officials said on Friday. Deepening a crisis over Israel's killing last year of nine of their citizens aboard an aid flotilla that tried to reach the Palestinian enclave, the Turks vowed on Thursday to assign warships to escort such convoys in the future. The prospect of a showdown at sea with Turkey, a NATO power and fellow U.S. strategic partner in the region, rattled Israelis already long on edge given Arab political upheaval and Iran's nuclear ...
Ron Paul is right. Military adventurism is a luxury we can no longer afford [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-09-09 11:53:00 by Capitalist Eric
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Ron Paul. Is he "The One"? Ron Paul has got himself into trouble over his suggestion that if the US military stopped air con for its troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, it could save the treasury a whopping $20 billion a year. He remarked in the latest Republican presidential candidate debate in the Ronald Reagan Library: I was astonished! We are spending twenty billion dollars on air conditioning for our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. I would take all that away, use ten billion to pay down the debt, and use the other ten toward FEMA and any other agency that we really need. And if you took that air conditioning away, those troops would come home very quickly, and I’d be ...
Israel’s Growing Isolation—and America’s Decreasing Regional Power
Post Date: 2011-09-09 00:47:05 by Brian S
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The Israeli press is still trying to figure out what to make of Robert Gates’s parting shot at Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. According to Jeffrey Goldberg’s column earlier this the week, Gates thinks that Netanyahu is “ungrateful.” Gates is upset because, while the White House has provided the Israelis with “access to top-quality weapons, assistance developing missile-defense systems, high-level intelligence sharing,” the administration hasn’t gotten what it really wants in exchange—movement on the peace process, according to Goldberg. Of course, the Israelis haven’t gotten what they really want either—action on Iran—and ...
Major Power Outage Knocked Out Electricity To More Than 2 Million People In California, Arizona And Mexico, Taking Two Nuclear Reactors Offline
Post Date: 2011-09-08 22:11:33 by Brian S
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — A major power outage knocked out electricity to more than 2 million people in California, Arizona and Mexico on Thursday, taking two nuclear reactors offline, leaving people sweltering in the late-summer heat and disrupting flights at the San Diego airport. San Diego bore the brunt of the blackout and most of the nation's eighth-largest city was darkened. All outgoing flights from San Diego's Lindbergh Field were grounded and police stations were using generators to accept emergency calls across the area. The trolley system that shuttles thousands of commuters every day was shut down and freeways were clogged at rush hour. Police directed traffic at ...
Is Ron Paul an Antisemite? No
Post Date: 2011-09-08 19:10:59 by Capitalist Eric
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Gay people, it is said, have a radar system (gaydar) which enables them to discern anti homosexual bigotry, even when it is not in your face; when it is not apparent to all. African-Americans rely on blackdar, which, similarly, presumably allows members of this community to ferret out racism no matter where it appears, no matter well hidden. Some of them even see this malady within their own race, and characterize such people as "Oreo cookies." In like manner many of us chosen people are supposed to be able to peer deeply into the souls of the goyim to determine if and to what degree anti-Semitism lurks. I don’t like to brag, but (in all such sentences, the reader is advised ...
China Confirms Gold Price Suppression
Post Date: 2011-09-08 14:18:31 by Capitalist Eric
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In a piece of news that certainly delights GATA, Wikileaks published a cable going back to 2009 in the year that European central banks halted their sales of gold. It said the following: “The U.S. and Europe have always suppressed the rising price of gold. They intend to weaken gold's function as an international reserve currency. They don't want to see other countries turning to gold reserves instead of the U.S. dollar or euro. Therefore, suppressing the price of gold is very beneficial for the U.S. in maintaining the U.S. dollar's role as the international reserve currency. China's increased gold reserves will thus act as a model and lead other countries toward ...
Progressive Tax System Associated With Greater Happiness: Study
Post Date: 2011-09-08 13:40:30 by Brian S
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The more progressive a tax system -- where higher tax brackets have higher tax rates -- the more likely people are to report feeling they live the "best possible life," according to a new study comparing 54 nations. "The more progressive the tax policy is, the happier the citizens are," said University of Virginia psychologist Shigehiro Oishi, the lead author of the study. The study analyzed a total of 59,634 people surveyed by the Gallup Organization in 2007 and found those living in the nations with the most progressive taxation evaluated their own quality of life higher than those living in nations with flatter taxation. That happiness, according to Oishi, was ...
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