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GOP Sen. Graham: U.S. Should Spend More On Foreign Aid (Egypt is the prize to be won)
Post Date: 2011-08-24 16:59:16 by Brian S
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham on Monday called on the U.S. government to send more money to Middle East countries in turmoil to push them toward democracy. Speaking to the Columbia Rotary Club, Graham — the ranking Republican on a Senate foreign policy subcommittee — said he is working on a $1 billion package of aid for Egypt before that country’s November elections. “Egypt is the prize to be won,” said Graham, R-Seneca. “Foreign aid is a very complicated, controversial topic, particularly when you’re broke. But ... it is good for the American people and the American government to reach out and help those who live in peace with us. ...
Medvedev Hosts N. Korean Leader For Rare Talks
Post Date: 2011-08-24 12:29:20 by Brian S
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AFP - North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Il on Wednesday met President Dmitry Medvedev in Siberia for secrecy-shrouded talks to win Russian energy and food aid for his reclusive state. The summit between Kim, 69, and Medvedev, 45, is the highlight of the North Korean leader's four-day-long train ride through Russia's Far East and Siberia, his third visit to the giant neighbour in the last decade. The meeting opened at the Sosnovy Bor (Pine Forest) garrison outside the city of Ulan Ude some 5,550 kilometres (3,450 miles) east of Moscow where Medvedev had flown earlier in the day. "Thank you that you flew here," Kim told Medvedev as the talks got underway. Medvedev ...
Chisel Ready Jobs Outsourced: Martin Luther King memorial made in China by Chairman Mao's sculptor. MLK looks Chinese
Post Date: 2011-08-24 10:49:58 by Happy Quanzaa
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It is perhaps a fitting tribute to racial co-operation. However, the decision to outsourceto China the carving of a new national memorial to Martin Luther King has raisedeyebrows in the United States. The 30ft-tall statue, which forms the centrepiece of a $120 million (£73 million), four-acre memorial to Dr King, opened to the public on Monday on the National Mall in Washington. It is the only memorial on the Mall that does not honour a president or fallen soldiers. Standing in the shadow of the Washington Monument, the statue shows Dr King emerging from a mountain of Chinese granite with his arms crossed and is called The Stone of Hope. However, there has been controversy over ...
On the Brink Of Another Financial Crisis, Eurozone Crackup
Post Date: 2011-08-24 09:41:10 by Capitalist Eric
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"We believe that the market has now entered a major downtrend. It is a mistake to dismiss the slide we’ve seen to date as mindless and devoid of fundamentals as many strategists maintain. These are not just scary headlines—-they are scary fundamentals.... There will undoubtedly be some more sharp rallies that will be interpreted as new bull markets. In our view, however, the bear market has only begun, and has a long way to go." -- Comstock Partners, "Bear Market Rally Far From Over", Pragmatic Capitalism A toxic combo of poor economic data in the US and a widening credit crunch in the eurozone has sent stocks plunging for a 4th consecutive week. On Friday, ...
Ahmadinejad Says Iran Can Cripple Enemies On Their Ground, Tehran Shows Off New Cruise Missile
Post Date: 2011-08-23 14:42:03 by Brian S
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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s president claimed on Tuesday the country’s military can cripple enemies on their own ground as Tehran put a new Iranian-made cruise missile on display, the latest addition to the nation’s growing arsenal. The state TV reported that the new missile, showcased at a ceremony in Tehran, is designed for sea-based targets, with a range of 124 miles (200 kilometers) and is capable of destroying a warship. The TV said it can travel at low altitudes and has a lighter weight and smaller dimensions. “The best deterrence is that the enemy does not dare to invade,” President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said during the ceremony. As he spoke, the TV showed ...
Biden to visit Japan tsunami zone
Post Date: 2011-08-22 23:37:15 by buckeroo
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United States Vice president Joe Biden was due on Tuesday to visit Japan's tsunami-hit coast, where American forces helped with a large-scale relief effort, as he nears the end of his Asia tour. Biden is the highest-ranking American official to visit the disaster zone where the massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami claimed more than 20,000 lives and sparked the ongoing Fukushima nuclear disaster. The United States, with bases across Japan since World War II, mobilised more than 20,000 troops and some 160 aircraft in disaster relief and recovery operations after Japan's worst peace-time catastrophe. Biden was due to visit the airport of Sendai city, which was swamped by the ...
Rick Perry first to comment - cautiously - on Libya
Post Date: 2011-08-22 16:09:05 by go65
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The Texas governor is first out of the gate with a statement commenting on Muammar Qadhafi's imminent demise, but not taking a position on the overall wisdom in the mission in Libya (and using a spelling of Qadhafi that I have not seen before): "The crumbling of Muammar Ghadafi’s reign, a violent, repressive dictatorship with a history of terrorism, is cause for cautious celebration. "The lasting impact of events in Libya will depend on ensuring rebel factions form a unified, civil government that guarantees personal freedoms, and builds a new relationship with the West where we are allies instead of adversaries." Click for Full Text!
Iran Moves Centrifuges To Underground Site
Post Date: 2011-08-22 12:16:57 by Brian S
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Iran has moved some of its centrifuge machines to an underground enrichment site that offers better protection from possible airstrikes, the country's vice president said Monday. Engineers are "hard at work" preparing the facility in Fordo, which is carved into a mountain to protect it against possible attacks, to house the centrifuges, Fereidoun Abbasi was quoted as saying by state TV. Abbasi, who is also Iran's nuclear chief, did not say how many centrifuges have been moved to Fordo or whether the machines installed are the new, more efficient centrifuges Iran has promised or the old IR-1 types. Uranium enrichment lies at the heart of Iran's dispute with ...
Why is Glenn Beck going to Israel?
Post Date: 2011-08-21 21:25:24 by buckeroo
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In its long slog through history, the Jewish caravan has acquired a lot of improbable and colorful camp followers, from Bulan, king of the Khazars, to Marilyn Monroe and Madonna. Lately, conservative commentator and former Fox News TV personality Glenn Beck has joined their ranks. This week, he plans to set up his tent in the Holy Land for three televised Zionist rallies, dubbed “Restoring Courage,†in Jerusalem and the ancient Mediterranean port city of Caesarea. They are a sequel to the mass Restoring Honor rally at the Lincoln Memorial a year ago. Beck is traveling with letters of commendation from Jewish leaders such as Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman; ...
Fireworks Light Up Cairo Sky After Israeli Flag Removed From Embassy & Replaced With Egyptian Flag
Post Date: 2011-08-21 19:33:16 by Brian S
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CAIRO (AFP) -- A lone protester became a hero to an exultant crowd of Egyptians and many more online by hauling down Israel's flag atop its embassy in Cairo after the border killing of Egyptian policemen. More than 1,000 protesters gathered outside the Israeli embassy early Sunday and let off celebratory fireworks when the man clambered to the top floor of a high-rise housing the mission, replacing the flag with an Egyptian one. Egypt's cabinet said an Israeli statement expressing regret for the deaths of the policemen was not enough, but stopped short of saying if it would recall its envoy from Tel Aviv. Tensions between Israel and Egypt have surged since the deaths on Thursday ...
Russia In Talks To Build More Nuclear Plants In Iran
Post Date: 2011-08-21 19:30:32 by Brian S
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Russia has put forward "proposals" to build new nuclear power plants in Iran after the completion of the Bushehr project, local media reported Sunday quoting the Islamic republic's atomic chief. "We have held negotiations with the Russians regarding the construction of new nuclear power plants. They have put forward some proposals," Fereydoon Abbasi Davani was quoted as saying by Resalat newspaper. "The exchange of ideas and proposals will continue until a clear result is reached," Abbasi Davani added. Russia has built Iran's only nuclear power plant in the southern port city of Bushehr against the backdrop of a series of delays, with Tehran hoping ...
Libyan Rebels Reach Center Of Tripoli, Capture Gadhafi’s Son
Post Date: 2011-08-21 19:18:30 by Brian S
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Libyan rebels moved into the capital city of Tripoli on Sunday and are said to have already reached the center of the city. They also claim to have captured Col. Moammar Gadhafi's son. Sky News correspondent Alex Crawford reported that there is "no sign of any resistance" and that people are "pouring out into the streets in celebration" as the rebel forces advance. "They are going nuts," she continued, "singing and dancing. Even women and children are coming out into the street. This is going to be the biggest party Tripoli has ever seen." "They had been expecting much more resistance but there has been very little," Crawford said of ...
Social Degeneration Ruining America and the West
Post Date: 2011-08-21 16:37:47 by CZ82
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Social Degeneration Ruining America and the West Written on August 20, 2011 by Thomas Sowell The orgies of violent attacks against strangers on the streets — in both England and the United States — are not necessarily just passing episodes. They should be wake-up calls, warning of the continuing degeneration of Western society. As British doctor and author Theodore Dalrymple said, long before these riots broke out, “the good are afraid of the bad and the bad are afraid of nothing.” Not only the trends over the years leading up to these riots but also the squeamish responses to them by officials — on both sides of the Atlantic — reveal the moral dry rot that ...
Libya's Gaddafi scorns rebel "rats", blames France
Post Date: 2011-08-20 20:31:15 by buckeroo
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RABAT | Sat Aug 20, 2011 8:00pm EDT RABAT (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi congratulated his supporters for repelling an attack by rebel "rats" in the capital Tripoli, and accused French President Nicolas Sarkozy of trying to steal the country's oil. Gaddafi made the remarks in a live audio broadcast over state television early on Sunday, adding the rebels were "bent on the destruction of the Libyan people." (Reporting by Souhail Karam; writing by Richard Valdmanis; editing by Michael Roddy) This is the FIRST television/radio announcement in weeks by Gaddafi. To me, it appears to be defensive as the so-called "rebels" are taking Tripoli right ...
Americans Sail Across Atlantic To Commemorate USS Liberty
Post Date: 2011-08-20 19:52:02 by Brian S
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Sailing for publicity against Israeli crimes is becoming more common. Most recently, a retired American professor has sailed across the Atlantic Ocean from his home in Texas to the Mediterranean in memory of the attack on the U.S.S. Liberty by Israeli forces, resulting in the deaths of dozens of Americans. The USS Liberty was an electronic surveillance ship monitoring transmissions off the coast of Egypt during the 6-day war in 1967. On June 8, Israeli air and sea forces attacked the ship, killing or injuring over half of the crew. Israel apologized for the incident, stating it mistook the American ship for an Egyptian one. But many Americans, including surviving crew members of the ...
Nato answers Libya questions
Post Date: 2011-08-20 19:21:54 by buckeroo
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In recent days, Nato has intensified its attacks on targets in the Libya capital, Tripoli. Some believe Nato is overstepping the terms of its mandate - which is to protect civilians in Libya - and is intervening directly in the conflict on the side of the opposition forces. The BBC's Matthew Price questions a Nato spokesman about those claims. Are there still sites of strategic value in Tripoli? All Nato strikes are carried out against legitimate military targets, in full compliance with the relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions 1973 and 1970 and with great care to avoid unnecessary casualties to innocent civilians. We are unable to discuss the strategic advantages for ...
Libya, NATO and the sinister western media
Post Date: 2011-08-20 15:42:14 by buckeroo
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NATO's lies we have seen before. We saw them in Kosovo as they protected Albanian mafia terrorists and controlled the drug trade, we saw them in Iraq with Saddam's non-existent Weapons of Mass Destruction, we saw it again with the invention of a casus belli against Libya which does not exist. But where do the media come into this? As a permanent member of staff of Pravda.Ru, writing for the English version, I usually cover several sections which need material, be these World Events, Economics, Cultural Events, Society or even Sport; as Director and Chief Editor of the Portuguese version, I receive materials from our hundred or so correspondents spread out over the eight ...
Iran Sentences US Hikers To 8 Years ‘For Spying’
Post Date: 2011-08-20 12:52:01 by Brian S
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Iran has sentenced two American hikers to eight years in prison for illegally entering the country and spying for a US intelligence agency, state television said on Saturday. "According to an informed source with the judiciary, Shane Bauer... and... Josh Fattal, the two detained American citizens, have been each sentenced to three years in prison for illegal entry to the Islamic Republic of Iran," the television reported on its website. It further said the two have been "sentenced to five years in prison on charges of espionage for the American intelligence agency," without saying when the verdict had been reached. "The case of Sarah Shourd, who has been freed ...
An Observation on Democracy
Post Date: 2011-08-19 21:32:33 by buckeroo
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An Observation on Democracy Incorrectly attributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler The most interesting observation is how closely the US has followed this scenario. A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the Public Treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the Public Treasury with a result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy always followed by dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: ...
Egyptian-Israeli Tensions Flare After Border Killings
Post Date: 2011-08-19 20:22:28 by Brian S
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By Nidal Almughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Israel struck militants in Gaza and Palestinians fired rockets back on Friday following deadly gun attacks along the desert border with Egypt that have raised tensions between Israel and the new rulers in Cairo. Egypt formally protested and demanded Israel investigate the deaths of three of its security men, who, it said, where killed when Israeli forces hunted for the gunmen behind Thursday's roadside ambushes. In all, more than 20 people have been killed. Eight Israelis perished in the assault along the Egyptian border, and at least seven of the attackers also died as Israeli forces tracked them down along the largely open frontier with Egypt. ...
Distributism, An old idea but a good idea
Post Date: 2011-08-19 18:42:33 by CZ82
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Distributism From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "Distributivism" redirects here. For the algebraic concept, see distributivity. Distributism (also known as distributionism, distributivism) is a third-way economic philosophy formulated by such Catholic thinkers as G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc to apply the principles of Catholic social teaching articulated by the Catholic Church, especially in Pope Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum Novarum[1] and more expansively explained by Pope Pius XI's encyclical Quadragesimo Anno[2] According to distributism, the ownership of the means of production should be spread as widely as possible among the general populace, rather than ...
Putin Denounces American Parasite While Russia Increases Treasuries 1,600%
Post Date: 2011-08-19 18:31:30 by CZ82
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Putin Denounces American Parasite While Russia Increases Treasuries 1,600% By Alena Chechel, Scott Rose and Jack Jordan - Aug 19, 2011 4:29 AM ET . For Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the U.S. is a “parasite” because its rising debt weighs on the global economy. For his government, the same debt is the safest possible investment. Russia, the world’s largest energy producer, has boosted its holdings of U.S. debt by more than 1,600 percent since September 2006, according to U.S. Treasury Department data. Russia used surging commodity prices to build the world’s third- largest reserves pile, boosted in part by return on Treasuries. Putin, 58, who oversaw the ...
No Wait, Historians Now Referring To ‘Bush-Obama Presidencies’ [Bwa-HAHAHAHAHA!!!!]
Post Date: 2011-08-19 16:07:49 by Capitalist Eric
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Ugh, is this how people in Rome felt in the decades between barbarian sackings? You know, those supposedly “quiet” gaps in the Historical Timelines between momentous & terrible events? And are we at the end of one terrible-yet-mundane space between Major Catastrophes — 9/11 and then … what? Or, maybe 9/11 is in the same decade-long spot as the beginning of the Global Economic Collapse/Permanent Climate Change/Japan Radioactively Melts Into the Sea which is then followed by … Global Plague Pandemic? Giant Meteor? Will anyone even be left to produce an elaborate historical timeline for the remaining seven students, in the future? But let’s not get ahead of ...
Get Ready For More Stupid Mideast Violence
Post Date: 2011-08-19 12:54:30 by Brian S
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If memory serves, one of the lessons of Roger Fisher's little book International Conflict for Beginners was "settle conflicts early and often." This isn't always possible, of course, but his basic insight was that unresolved conflicts are dangerous precisely because they provide opportunities that extremists can exploit, they harden perceptions and images on both sides, and most importantly, they can always get worse. So when a promising opportunity to settle a conflict arises, wise leaders should pursue them energetically. I thought of that insight when I heard about the attack in Israel yesterday, which left eight Israelis dead and some thirty wounded. The ...
Egyptians Protest At Israeli Embassy, Call For Ambassador's Expulsion
Post Date: 2011-08-19 12:53:11 by Brian S
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Crowds of protesters gathered outside the Israeli embassy on Friday to express their “rage over the Israeli government’s belligerence.” The protest comes as a response to the killing of an Egyptian security officer and two soldiers during a raid by Israeli forces on armed militants along the Egypt-Israel border on Thursday. The deathtoll rose on Friday afternoon, following the deaths of two Egyptian officers wounded during the conflict. For many of those, present, however, this incident is only the latest in a series of “unacceptable offenses routinely carried out by Israel…against the region.” An initial crowd of dozens assembled outside the embassy shortly ...
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